Married couples at Agbotikpo-Sikor camp in the North Tongu district of the Volta region have expressed worry over sharing crowded classrooms and havens after their homes got flooded.
The situation, according to them, is destroying their matrimonial homes as they cannot have intimacy with their partners.
The Akosombo dam spillage in October displaced an estimated 35,857 people in the Volta and other adjoining regions.
Government in an attempt to find a temporary place to accommodate these people made them occupy classrooms and safe havens. People from different households and families had no option than to share the classrooms and safe havens with others.
Life hasn’t returned to normalcy months after the spillage as the people are challenged by having a standard family system. Nuclear family system seems to have been broken as parents have no affability to train and raise their children the way they want.
However, the affected married couples speaking to Onua News during a visit decried confidentiality to have intimacy with their partners.
“We can’t sleep with our partners because we share classrooms with children and the aged who are not family members. And this is hugely affecting our matrimonial homes as our partners keep fighting us for not sleeping with them,” they complained.
They have called on the government to expedite actions to resettle them as their socioeconomic conditions have worsened.
They further indicated that life has been challenging as relief items supplied to camp residents by government, politicians, and non-profit organizations are insufficient.
By Maxwell Otoo OnuaFM|Onuaonline.com
