{"id":219439,"date":"2016-06-03T12:56:00","date_gmt":"2016-06-03T12:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=219439"},"modified":"2016-06-03T12:56:00","modified_gmt":"2016-06-03T12:56:00","slug":"june-3-disaster-govt-will-correct-mistakes-mahama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=219439","title":{"rendered":"June 3 disaster : Gov\u2019t will correct mistakes \u00a0&#8211; Mahama"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>President John Dramani Mahama has given the assurance that government will take effective measures to correct mistakes\u00a0that led to the June 3, 2015 flood and fire disaster, which killed 152 people a year ago.<\/p>\n<p>The disaster devastated many Ghanaians, some of whom lost relatives and friends in the disaster, which has been described as one of the saddest in Ghana\u2019s history.<\/p>\n<p>Commemorating the unfortunate incident on Twitter, the President said government will continue to \u201ccorrect developments that led to the disaster.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>May the souls of those who departed on June 3, 2015 rest in perfect peace. We&#8217;ll continue to correct dev&#8217;ts that led to the disaster.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 John Dramani Mahama (@JDMahama) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JDMahama\/status\/738640009847267328\">June 3, 2016<\/a><\/p>\n<p><script src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" async=\"\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><strong>NADMO still under-resourced<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The President&#8217;s comment comes days after the National Disaster Management Organisation of Ghana (NADMO) <a href=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2016\/06\/01\/june-3-disaster-nadmo-still-under-resourced\/\"><span style=\"color: #666699;\"><strong>said it is still under-resourced<\/strong> <\/span><\/a>to respond to national emergencies like the June 3 disaster.<\/p>\n<p>NADMO had challenges in its quest to\u00a0assist\u00a0some survivors of the disaster\u00a0on time due to lack of funds and\u00a0logistics.<\/p>\n<p>A year after the incident, the Head of Hydro Meteorological Department of NADMO, Sarah Adenko, has told\u00a0<strong>Citi News\u2019<\/strong> Eugenia Tenkorang that\u00a0their\u00a0challenges still persist.<\/p>\n<p>According to her, NADMO officials have on several occasions been compelled to foot bills for most of the logistics needed to carry out their duties effectively from their pockets.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c3rd June came and we didn\u2019t have the relief items and people were expecting us to respond immediately,\u201d she lamented.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor example, we have identified Accra, Western Region and Volta Region as disaster prone and we should by this time be going out to be talking to MMDAs to look at their plans. How would you respond?We should be having simulation exercises but we have not moved out yet. We don\u2019t have fuel, and sometimes we have to go and credit. You have to go to the\u00a0field and work and sometimes you have to use your own vehicle, buy your own fuel because there is no money for the fuel and you want to go out and work. The logistics are not there and this is a big challenge for us.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>By: Marian Ansah\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<br \/>\n <a class=\"twitter-follow-button\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/EfeAnsah\" data-show-count=\"false\">Follow @EfeAnsah<\/a><br \/>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\">\/\/ <![CDATA[\n!function(d,s,id){var js,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s) [0],p=\/^http:\/.test(d.location)?'http':'https';if(!d.getElementById(id)){js=d.createElement(s);js.id=id;js.src=p+':\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js';fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);}}(document, 'script', 'twitter-wjs');\n\/\/ ]]><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President John Dramani Mahama has given the assurance that government will take effective measures to correct mistakes\u00a0that led to the June 3, 2015 flood and fire disaster, which killed 152 people a year ago. The disaster devastated many Ghanaians, some of whom lost relatives and friends in the disaster, which has been described as one [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":219436,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-219439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-slider-1","category-top-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219439","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=219439"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219439\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/219436"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=219439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=219439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=219439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}