Farmlands along the Kubore River in the Upper East Region have been completely inundated due to the spillage of the Bagre Dam and recent heavy rainfall in the area.
The annual spillage from the Bagre Dam in Burkina Faso often results in significant damage to farms and properties, particularly affecting the Northern parts of Ghana, including the Upper East and North East regions.
Akudoku Jeremiah, a local farmer in Kubore, told Citi News on Tuesday that the disaster has rendered their months of hard work and effort worthless.
“This Bagre Dam water spillage has come and spoilt all our farms. They don’t inform us early and right now the crops too, it is time for us to harvest them and the water has come and destroyed them.”
“It brings a lot of problems to us especially the food that we have, something we can use to be feeding our family, the water has come and spoilt everything…So we are pleading with the government to come to our aid and help us. If not, we have nowhere to go,” he stated.
