Akufo-Addo is in Glasgow enjoying glass – Bernard Mornah’s reaction to Keta tidal wave

The former National Chairman of the Peoples National Convention (PNC), Mr Bernard Mornah has chastised the president for his seaming silence over the plight of the Keta tidal wave victims.

Speaking on Pan African TV’s current affairs programme, Good Morning Africa on Friday, November 12, he said the president do not care what happens to his own people but have time for others outside .

Speaking on the programme monitored  by GhanaPlus.com,Mr Mornah said while residents of Keta were suffering the ravaging effect of tidal wave,the president was in Scotland city of Glasgow enjoying glass.

 “President Akufo-Addo is currently out of Ghana on COP26, What is he talking about, it is talking about climate change and the devastation climate change has brought on human kind, ” Mr Mornah said.

“What a moment for President Akufo-Addo to have even issued a statement commiserating with the people of Keta to bring it to the fore, effect of climate change that is currently ravaging his own people in Keta. A moment lost, President Akufo-Addo could not and up to now has not issued one word in sympathy with the people of Keta, a part of the country that he is a president. He is in Glasgow enjoying glass; he doesn’t care whether we are submerged, or we are consumed,” Mr Mornah added.

Keta tidal waves

Hundreds of homes in Keta in the Volta Region and its surrounding communities were on Saturday, November 6 washed away with many others submerged in sea water following a tidal wave disaster in the area.

Report said nearly 2,000 people have been misplaced, 3,000 homes washed away and dozens submerged in sea water.

A school and a cemetery in the area were also affected by the tidal waves.

Livelihood has also been greatly affected since last Saturday disaster.

However, the President of Ghana, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo is yet to speak to the development.

So is relief items from the government to the affected victims inadequate.

Tidal wave in the Volta Region

The November 6 tidal wave brings to three, the number of  tidal wave disaster recorded in the Volta Region this year.

It is also the heaviest of all the three recorded this year.

Expect have attributed the development to climate change and also human behavior.

Source: GhanaPlus.com