Management of the Bagre Dam in Burkina Faso has said they are going to open the reservoir today, Thursday, September 1, 2022 due to the increasing levels of the water.
The National Disaster Management Organisation (NADMO) has began educating residents along the Volta basin in the North East Region to relocate uphill to avoid the devastating effects of the spillage.
Despite NADMO’s education to evacuate persons in areas prone to the imminent flooding, Onua News’ North East Regional Correspondent, Christopher Amoako reports some of the inhabitants don’t want to leave.
He says such announcement and actions are usually made each year but still records casualties due to the peoples’ unwillingness to move.
According to Chris, many are not adhering to the caution because it is a farming season and they are harvesting their produce.
Let alone, some of the residents according to our correspondent even doubt the water could come to where they dwell.
Another cause of the casualties he said is because, the place is a settlement for the farmers who say they don’t have anywhere to go,
Despite announcing the dam will be opened today, the time was not specified.
“Usually it takes some hours before the floods get to Ghana when it is opened, depending on the pressure. The current level of the water is 234.88 metres. Meanwhile, parts of the North East Region got flooded on Saturday during the rainfall because it is a flood prone area,” Amoako disclosed.
By Felix Anim-Appau|Onuaonline.com
