When Today visited the community on Thursday, May 25, 2017 to assess the situation, it observed that river Ayensu, which is the only source of drinking water for a population of over 5,400, was highly contaminated through activities of galamseyers (illegal miners).
Chief of the area, Nana Afriyie Akwah IV, in an interview with Today bemoaned the water situation in the town. He lamented that town. he development has brought untold hardship on residents in the t Flanked by the assemblyman for the area, elders, opinion leaders, unit committee members and the youth, Nii Afriyie Akwah IV asserted that the lives of his people and the adjoining communities were under serious threat as a result of the rate at which diarrhoea was affecting the residents.
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