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The Agona West Municipal Directorate of the National Disaster Management Organisation (NADMO) has marked the World Disaster Day with a call on the citizenry to stop felling of trees to avoid climate change.

It also cautioned the public, especially estate developers to desist from putting up buildings on waterways, to prevent flooding and disasters.

The week-long celebrations, took officials of the Directorate to churches, mosques, market places, schools, keep fit clubs, civic organisations, driver’s unions and students bodies to sensitise them on the need to prevent disasters.

Mrs Justina Marigold Assan, the Agona West Municipal Chief Executive expressed regret over the alarming rate at which trees were being fell illegally and affecting the environment.
She said the illegal activities of some unscrupulous people were posing serious threat to the virgin forests, which could lead to climate change and affect the rainfall pattern of the country.

“The painful aspects of it is that these people are only interested in making money at the expense of the State and they have wilfully refused to plant trees to replace those that they cut down,” she said.