41 BUILDINGS DAMAGED AT JASIKAN (PAGE 39, MARCH 15, 2010)

A RAINSTORM last Sunday damaged 41 buildings at Jasikan and some surrounding communities in the Volta Region.
The worst affected buildings were the Jasikan College of Education and the Nuruyyah Islamic Junior High School also at Jasikan, which had its roofs being ripped off.
According to the School Management Committee Chairman of the Nuruyyah Islamic JHS, Mr Salisu Mohammed, the three-classroom block and its office were so badly damaged that the 88 pupils had no place to attend classes.
He said the disaster also destroyed the school’s textbooks, exercise books, registers and other teaching and learning materials.
Mr Salisu appealed to the government for immediate assistance to enable the pupils, especially the final-years’ to attend classes.
The Jasikan District Co-ordinator of the National Disaster Management Organisation (NADMO), Mr John Opoku, told the Daily Graphic that 472 people were rendered homeless by the storm.