Many houses have been flooded and money wasted as a result of the Volta River Authority's (VRA) water leak from the Akosombo Dam.The'scarcity' of food that has ravaged North, South, and Central Tongu has left these displaced citizens homeless.In an effort to lessen their hardship, the Tanker Owners Union has given these impacted residents of Aveyime, Adidome, and Mepe goods valued at GH¢500,000.

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Ignatius Koku Doe, the executive secretary of the Tanker Owners Union, claims that the action was taken to uplift and encourage the group."Our hope is that we have been able to alleviate part of their suffering because in the midst of all these, there will be hunger. People don't have access to food now...

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so we believe that this is a small token that the Tanker Owners Union, as well as, our drivers who are supportive of our job to present to our brothers and sisters, mothers, chiefs, elders and all of North Tongu, Central Tongu and South Tongu," he said.He added that, "We pray that this kind of disasters which we sometimes create on our own...at least, an amount of care should have be taken to avert some of this kind of thing.

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Especially when they have been informed ahead of it."Ignatius Koku Doe urged the government to make sure that organizations were alert to prevent similar tragedies in the future."We want to appeal to government so that they prevail upon all institutions to do their work...we can say that somebody somewhere have not done their part of the work," he stated.

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In the meantime, the villagers received relief supplies including 100 boxes of cooking oil, 600 bags of rice, 60 sardine boxes, and 3,000 packs of water.

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