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Bagre dam spillage kills 34, two missing
The Deputy NADMO boss, Seji Saji, said the situation was under control and teams were working flat out to reach those affected.
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"In all we have on record 34 deaths and two people missing. The affected people are over 52,000 and we are still assessing the situation," he added.
"All these happened during the time that the river overflowed its banks but the rate of spillage has reduced considerably and fortunately since last week and this week there has not been any heavy rainfall."
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The spillage has also destroyed about 10,000 hectres of farm lands under cultivation according to Dr Sagri Bambangi, a deputy Minister of Agriculture.
“A significant percentage of crops has been affected. We are not happy about the situation. It is not pleasant. The spillage of the Bagre dam we are told is the cause as well as torrential rains over the past two weeks" he said.
The Member of Parliament for Tamale Central Inusah Fuseini, has descried the situation as lamentable. “Everybody along this spillage way is now for himself or herself. That’s lamentable,” he said.
The Bagre dam is located on the White Volta river that begins in Burkina Faso and converges with the Black Volta downstream and feeds into Lake Volta in Ghana.
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