The National Disaster Management Organization (NADMO), on Friday donated assorted food items, blankets, mattresses and tents, to households in Sempoa Miensa, a farming community near Koforidua,
where houses were razed down by unknown people in the early hours of Monday.
The items worth GHC 2,000 were to be distributed to all the affected members in the community, who had all their rooms, properties, including monies and food items destroyed in the process.
Throwing more light on the incident, Mr Kwame Akago, Head of the community, said he was hired as a caretaker of the acres of land in that community in 1973 by the landowner, Mr Kofi Buabeng, and had since lived there with other families.
He said recently one of the children of the landowner told him that he had sold the land to investors and therefore he should vacate the place, but he said the father had insisted that the land should not be sold, so he continues to live there.
Mr Akago said months after, in the early hours of Monday when all of them had left for work, a number of armed men invaded the community and pulled their buildings down and set them ablaze.
He said a report was made to the police and some of the culprits were arrested and put before court.
Mr Adu Gyamfi, Municipal NADMO Coordinator, who made the presentation, said they were touched by the plight of the victims, hence the donation, and urged Mr Akago who received the items to distribute them fairly to all the victims.
Earlier, Mr Alex Asamoah, the New Juaben Municipal Chief Executive (MCE), visited the scene and directed NADMO and the Red Cross to erect tents for the victims as a shelter for the time being.