NADMO must be alert-Addo-Kufuor(Back Page) July 17, 2008

Story: Michael Donkor
THE Minister of the Interior, Dr Kwame Addo-Kufuor, has charged NADMO to intensify its awareness creation and education on the negative consequences of previous floods along the White Volta and its tributaries to avoid similar calamities.
Dr Addo-Kufuor made the call when he paid a working visit to the NADMO headquarters in Accra yesterday.
He said the impending spillage of the Kompienga and Bagre dams in Burkina Faso had the capacity to cause flooding and negatively affect life and property in communities living in the downstream of the White Volta.
He urged NADMO to collaborate with the relevant district assemblies, the Volta River Authority and all the other stakeholders to ensure that all communities living along the White Volta and its tributaries were adequately informed about the impending crisis.
Dr Addo-Kufuor said the government would do all it could to ensure that NADMO was provided with the resources and the equipment it needed to enable it to be efficient and effective.
He said subject to budgetary constraints, their conditions of service would also be regularly reviewed to ensure that NADMO personnel were adequately motivated.
He appealed to the NADMO officials to empathise with victims in times of disaster while carrying out their duties in a professional manner.
The National Co-ordinator of NADMO, DCOP Douglas Akrofi-Asiedu, said NADMO as an emergency response organisation was always prepared to play its role in the event of emergencies.
He, therefore, appealed to the government to adequately resource NADMO to perform its functions creditably.