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Fear has gripped residents leaving along river banks at Akyem Bososu in the Fanteakwa District of the Eastern Region following consistent invasion of their homes by snakes and dangerous reptiles due to flooding in the area.

Diana Amoako, a 55-year-old farmer, narrating the ordeal of the family to the DAILY HERITAGE explained that, "we are living in fear, snakes and other dangerous animals have been invading our houses anytime there is flood here, flood carries the snakes to our house and rooms, whenever it happens like this, I make sure the children are evacuated first, then we the adults climb the wall while holding sticks to kill the snakes which attempt to enter our rooms. Sometimes we kill as many as ten snakes in our room."

Miss Amoako further explained that, they spend the whole day to wipe out the water that enters their rooms and salvage their property. She said when it happens in the night, the family seeks shelter in a school nearby.

The Fanteakwa district is mostly affected by the annual floods in the Eastern region. Last year, floods displaced over 40 households which rendered over 200 persons homeless.

The District Chief Executive for Fanteakwa, Abass Fuseini Sbaabe, in an interview after leading residents in the Bososu area to desilt the choked river which passes through the community as part of the National Sanitation day exercise on Saturday, revealed that, the district has been provided with grant from DANIDA to construct drains in the flood prone areas to help address the annual flooding in the community.

The Eastern Regional Disaster Management committee led by the Deputy Eastern Regional Minister, Mavis Ama Frimpong and the Eastern Regional Coordinator of the National Disaster Management Organization, have visited the flood prone areas in the district to access the situation on the ground to help inform proactive decisions by the committee to avert any disaster.