June 3 , 2015 Disaster Remembered

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Civil society groups are urging the judiciary to expedite on the cases of survivors of the June 3, 2015 disaster are seeking compensation from Goil, AMA and Government.

The group at a commemorative event on Friday June 3, 2022, noted, the disaster was not an art of God hence justice must be delivered.

The June 3 incident leaves indelible memories on the minds of Ghanaians because of the number of lives lost.

Subsequent floods have also trapped and killed scores in the capital but little has been done to curtail the perennial situation even though government claimed to have sunk four hundred and fifty million cedis into projects and programmes aimed at resolving the issue of flooding.

For survivors of the disaster, government, the national petroleum authority and GOIL have not done anything to reduce their suffering.

Seven years on, a driver, Kassim Suraj is back to the scene where he sustained permanent body disfiguration and also lost his son, wife and brother to the disaster.

The terror of the day flashes his mind as his health continues to deteriorate.

After undergoing surgery for twenty times, this is the best body he could get.

Other survivors are enduring similar ordeal

Chairman for the June 3 disaster victims’ association, Thomas Sekyere is worried that health concerns of the survivors have not been prioritized by the state.

For civil society organization, one Ghana movement justice for the victims has delayed.

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