297 GAF personnel receive flood relief 

The Ghana Armed Forces (GAF), in collaboration with the National Disaster Management Organisation (NADMO), presented relief items and financial assistance to 297 military personnel and civilian employees affected by the June 29 floods. Lieutenant General William Agyapong, Chief of the Defence Staff, presented the relief items to the beneficiaries at a ceremony held at the Nicholson Stadium, Burma Camp, in Accra on Friday. He stated, "We have met here today to register our sincere concern and also empathise with you on the loss of your valuable properties and the trauma that you went through during and after the June 29 rainfall and the subsequent flooding of many parts of our country."

The support is intended to ease the hardship of personnel and civilian staff whose homes and property were damaged by flooding in Accra and other parts of the country following the heavy rains. The beneficiaries, most of whom reside outside military barracks, received household items, additional uniforms, and financial support jointly provided by GAF and NADMO. Lt. Gen. Agyapong conveyed the sympathies of President John Dramani Mahama, Commander-in-Chief of the Ghana Armed Forces, the Minister for Defence, Dr Cassiel Ato Forson, the Military High Command, and the entire GAF to the victims. He also noted that none of the military barracks experienced flooding due to strict environmental sanitation practices.