THE Deputy Eastern Regional Minister, Baba Jamal Mohamed Ahmed, has said that the government would continue to provide infrastructure and social amenities to communities irrespective of their political affiliation.
That, according to him, would ensure even distribution of the national cake.
Baba Jamal made the remark last Monday when he handed over relief items to be distributed to people in about 150 houses whose roofs were ripped off or totally destroyed by a rainstorm at Akyem Gyadam, near Akyem Oda, on March 27, 2010.
The items included 1,000 pieces of sleeping mats, 30 bags of rice, 30 bags of maize, 30 packets of roofing sheets and a large consignment of washing bowls.
Akyem Gyadam is a stronghold of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), so many of the victims did not believe that the government would come to their aid after the disaster.
According to Baba Jamal, members and supporters of all political parties, especially the National Democratic Congress (NDC) and the NPP, were one people who must be treated equally and as such the government would not discriminate against any political opponents.
That, he said, would not only ensure harmony but would also go a long way to accelerate the development of the communities.
The Deputy Regional Minister therefore, called on all political opponents, especially the NPP, to join hands with the NDC in its development programme for the benefit of all Ghanaians.
“We are one people with a common destiny to build a prosperous country. It is only that we belong to different political camps and that should not divide us or make us enemies but rather we should be each other’s keeper because the rainstorm did not discriminate when it struck the town,” Baba Jamal stated.
The Eastern Regional Co-ordinator of the National Disaster Management Organisation (NADMO), Mr Ransford Owusu Boakye, asked members of a committee set up to distribute the items to give priority to the very poor, who under the normal circumstance, would not be able to rebuild or re-roof their buildings.
He also advised the people to plant trees to serve as windbreaks to prevent any such disaster in the future.
The Gyasehene of Gyadam, Nana Boakye Yiadom, who received the items on behalf of the victims, expressed his appreciation to the government for the timely intervention.
He appealed to the government to rehabilitate the access roads to the town, which had been in a deplorable state for years.
The Gyasehene also urged NADMO to undertake a mosquito spraying exercise in the town to get rid of the insects.
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