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Chamba, a farming community in the Nanumba North Municipality in the Northern Region, is facing an acute water crisis following a rainstorm that hit the area three days ago.
The community of more than 15,000 residents which lies along the Bimbilla-Salaga road depend predominantly on mechanised boreholes for potable water.
However, after the rainstorm, about 16 high tension poles were destroyed, cutting off the Chamba community from electricity supply and disrupting water supply since all the boreholes are run on electricity.
The downpour affected about six adjoining communities and ripped off the roofs of about 100 houses and displaced many residents in the area.
N/R: Six schools shut down in Chamba over violent rainstorm LISTEN
Some of the destroyed schools in Chamba
Six schools out of eight at Chamba in the Nanumba North Municipality of the Northern region, have been shut down indefinitely due rainstorm which destroyed school buildings in the area.
The rainstorm which occurred on Tuesday, February 16, 2021, destroyed roofings of various schools , damaging of learning materials and other valuables.
The Headteacher of the Chamba Primary (A), chief Nachempo Emmanuel told journalists that pupils of the various schools are currently stranded because their school buildings have been destroyed by the rainstorm.
“ All our books , chalks and other learning materials were destroyed and so we will be forced to close down the schools if we don t receive any help because there s no place for them to sit and learn, all the schools have been destroyed and we have no where to go.”
The Defence Minister who doubles as the MP for Bimbilla constituency, Dominic Nitiwul, has revealed that six persons have been badly injured in the Tuesday, February 16, 2021, rainstorm which destroyed roofings of various schools and rendered several persons homeless at Chamba in the Nanumba North Municipality of the Northern region.