Nana Opare Beye Oman, Chief of Amoadikrom near Coaltar, has appealed to the Suhum Kraboah Coaltar District Assembly to rehabilitate the only water well in the area which got damaged more than five years.
Briefing the Ghana News Agency at Amoadikrom on Tuesday at a meeting with the people, Nana Oman said about 20 people including school children have drowned in the faulty well out of which one person, Kwame Ayigbe of Krabo Kese Primary School had died.
Nana Oman said if the well was not renovated immediately, it would cause havoc, saying that his people were ready to assist with the rehabilitation through communal labour.
He, therefore, appealed to Chief Executive of the assembly to expedite action on the matter.