NADMO BILL AWAITS PRESIDENTIAL ASSENT-INTERIOR MINISTER

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The National Disaster Management Organization, NADMO, bill has been passed by Parliament and is awaiting Assent by President John Mahama to eventually become a law. 

 The law will subsequently empower government to reposition the Organization and adequately resource it with logistics to become more proactive in the discharge of its mandate. 

The Minister for the Interior, Prosper Bani, disclosed this in Kumasi at a meeting with Coordinators of NADMO in the Ashanti region as part of his two-day working visit to the region. 

Before the meeting, the Interior Minister inspected the disaster readiness of the Ashanti Regional Emergency Operation Centre. 

Mr. Bani admitted that the Organization has some operational challenges that negatively affect its optimal performance and that his ministry is working hard to address some of them, especially the provision of vehicles. 

The staff can still do better with what is available to them. What is required is an effective inter-sectoral collaboration particularly in the areas of weather forecast and community engagements. 

Mr. Bani recommended to the NADMO staff to collaborate well with the University of Energy and Natural Resources in Sunyani, the Meteorological Agency and the media for accurate prediction and dissemination of weather conditions to the public to prepare the people for their routine socio-economic activities.   

The Ashanti Regional NADMO Coordinator, Kwaku Aninkora-Sie reported that 15 persons were trapped to death last year in abandoned galamsey pits particularly in the Amansie West district. 

Also, 282 persons were internally displaced in the Kwadaso Sub-Metro following a demolition exercise carried out by the authorities last June. 

At another meeting with staff of the Ghana Immigration Service and Narcotics Control Board, the Interior Minister said the new law passed recently by Parliament to enable the Immigration Service staff to carry arms as well as re-designation of the Immigration staff should be a source of motivation for them to deliver to their optimal best.

 He told them also not to always see the acquisition of Visas by immigrant as enough reason to allow such persons legal permit to enter or work in the country. 

They should also show interest in the conduct or behaviour of foreigners desiring to enter Ghana and take the appropriate decisions. 

 The regional office of Immigration Service last year alone generated about one-point-two million Ghana Cedis from its operations. 

In the first half of this year, a total of 898 thousand, 936 Ghana Cedis has been collected.

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