RAINSTORM WREAKS HAVOC IN KSI

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A rainstorm that accompanied about a downpour in parts of the Kumasi Metropolis yesterday has caused a substantial destruction to both private and public properties. However, no human casualty has so far been recorded but a number of households have been displaced. 

The rains began at about 6.30 pm and lasted for about one and a half hours accompanied by an unusually strong wind.

 The affected communities include Dadiesoaba, Asokwa, Ahodwo and Kaase. 

A drive from the Asokwa interchange gives a clear sign of the extent of damage wreaked by the rains as countless number of giant bill boards have either completely collapsed or partially destroyed. 

At one of the roadside fitting workshop at Asokwa located along the Interchange and the Ahodwo Roundabout, one of such bill boards had fallen on a salon vehicle brought for repairs. 

At the Ahodwo Roundabout, the destruction caused by falling billboards was more pronounced. 

Prominent among the affected properties is the Ashanti Regional office of the ARB Apex Bank which has been entirely disconnected from the National Grid as result of the destruction of the electricity wiring system to the premises by one of the falling billboards. 

A falling tree has also broken part of its wall. 

The Kumasi Area Manager of the ARB Apex Bank, George Annor, told Ashanti Today that operations of the Bank have been significantly affected by the disaster. 

Properties belonging to the Christians Revival Chapel at Ahodwo were also not spared as the building that houses both the Chapel and the residence of the Pastor have been destroyed thereby temporarily displacing the occupants. 

The Kaase township was the hardest hit by the rains where, but for a swift response by personnel of the Electricity Company in the evening, a sad story would have been reported after the rains as substantial damage was caused to electricity wiring systems within that community.

 In that community, the most seriously affected is the Kaase M/A Junior High School where the entire roof of the Form One Block has not just been ripped off, but part of the ceiling and the block works destroyed as well rendering the classrooms unusable. 

As a temporary measure, the pupils have distributed among the other classes thereby increasing the class sizes creating teaching and learning challenges.

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