Appiatse to be reconstructed within 12 months – Deputy Lands and Natural Resources Minister

A Deputy Minister for Lands and Natural Resources, Benito Owusu-Bio, has disclosed that the Appiatse community will be reconstructed within 12 months. According to him, the town will be a green, sustainable and model community. He said this at the burial ceremony of seven victims of the Appiatse explosion which was held on Friday, March 11.

He said the situation is sad and hoped it does not reoccur.  The seven victims laid in the state during the burial ceremony were, Ekua Nyame, 80, Isaac Benyin, 45, Isaac Anane 35, Emmanuel Quainoo, 29, Justice Kwesi Takwa 21, Michael Afriyie 19, and 15 months old baby, Ella Baidoo.

Mr Owusu-Bio, who led a government delegation to the burial ceremony, extended the government’s condolences to the bereaved families. He also on behalf of the Ministry and its agencies donated an amount of thirty thousand Ghana cedis to support the burial and funeral rites as well as the bereaved families.

According to the disaster relief committee, four of the other six victims out of the total 13, were laid to rest the previous weekend while the remaining two, namely; Emmanuel Awingura, 24, and Eric Gyimah, 24, will be given a private burial by their families in their home towns in the coming days.

Speaking to Spice 91.9FM, in an interview, the Public Relations Officer of the Appiatse Relief Committee, Thomas Enyan mentioned that, there’s an Educational Endowment Fund established by the FGI to cater for school going children who lost their parents in the explosion.

He, however, called on Ghanaians to continue supporting them with food items amongst other essentials.