{"id":23909,"date":"2014-06-10T17:31:23","date_gmt":"2014-06-10T17:31:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=23909"},"modified":"2014-06-10T17:31:23","modified_gmt":"2014-06-10T17:31:23","slug":"weija-dam-spillage-floods-glefe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=23909","title":{"rendered":"Weija dam spillage floods Glefe"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hundreds of residents at Glefe in the Ga South Municipality have been rendered homeless due to an unexpected flood.<\/p>\n

The flood was caused by the spillage of the Weija Dam on Monday, June 9.<\/p>\n

A visit to the flooded area showed dirty water that had floating objects from used baby diapers to pure water sachet rubbers.<\/p>\n

While some residents were busily packing their belongings, others frustrated inhabitants are leaving their belongings behind in the flooded rooms.<\/p>\n

\"2014-06-10<\/a>According to the victims, the Bortianor Traditional Council has refused the dredging of the river flowing into the sea near the Bojo Beach until after the Homowo festival is over.<\/p>\n

The residents said they would not allow the exercise to take place till the Homowo celebrations are over.<\/p>\n

Narrating the incident to Citi News<\/strong>, a victim who gave her name as Gifty recalled saying, \u201cwe woke up around five in the morning and we saw the dirty water coming. It wasn\u2019t near us but in no time it had entered our rooms. The pressure with which it was coming was very intense. When it rained last week Thursday the water never even got to this level.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"2014-06-10<\/a>Another victim called Victor Neequaye with his trouser in one hand said: \u201cAs at now I have locked my door and I\u2019m leaving my things behind. I can\u2019t attempt to guard my property and lose my life.\u201d<\/p>\n

He added that \u201cI went for one trouser so I may stay out for three days. I will not come to the room again.\u201d<\/p>\n

Most children have either been taken to friends and families in other areas or are with their parents and did not go to school.<\/p>\n

Little Jeremiah Amoah told Citi News<\/strong> his father is preventing him from going to school because \u201cthe water has come into our house.<\/p>\n

A parent, Yaa Annor also said: \u201cThe way things happened my children couldn\u2019t go to school and so I have taken them to friends at Dansoman Last Stop\u201d.<\/p>\n

According to the residents, though there has been some police presence there has been no relieve items neither has there been any support from NADMO.<\/p>\n

The residents are therefore calling on the appropriate authorities to come to their aid.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere has been some police presence but not NADMO but they come all the time and do nothing.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are pleading to the government to find solutions to this problem because our things are getting soaked and we don\u2019t know what will happen by tomorrow\u201d another resident added.<\/p>\n

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By: Magdalene Larnyoh\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hundreds of residents at Glefe in the Ga South Municipality have been rendered homeless due to an unexpected flood. The flood was caused by the spillage of the Weija Dam on Monday, June 9. A visit to the flooded area showed dirty water that had floating objects from used baby diapers to pure water sachet […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":23911,"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":[],"tags":[38,17],"class_list":["post-23909","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-palaver-newspaper","tag-wassa-akropong"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23909","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\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23909"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23909\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/23911"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}