The people of Wusuta are in dire need of state intervention to enable them retrieve the bodies of some of their relatives who drowned in the boat accident that occurred on the Volta Lake last Sunday.
That came to light at a durbar last Tuesday, during which the assembly member for the area was confronted to account for contributions made by families for the purchase of premix fuel for local divers to search for the dead bodies.
All the local divers had abandoned the search for dead bodies, while waiting for funds which were not immediately available. They had intensified their search at Avate-Tornu, Kpando-Torkor and Dzorkpo but could not find any dead body, despite rumours that some of the bodies had been seen floating at Avate-Tornu last Tuesday.
Meanwhile, five families have claimed 18 bodies retrieved from the lake following the disaster. They are Pastor Gudu, who lost six relatives; the Tseyi Family, five; the Vincent Cudjoe Family, two; the Killian Tetteh Family, three, and Dovi Avuwada Family, two.
In another development, the Anfoega Police have arrested a fisherman, Kofi Adzen, the sailor of one of the boats involved in the accident, and they are keeping him in police custody at Kpando. It would be recalled that two boats carrying some mourners, who were returning from the funeral of a school pupil at Wusuta in the Kpando District to the Afram Plains encountered a storm.
As a result, the boats capsized and 20 people got drowned while 17 others were rescued by a teacher, Mr Raphael Nanikuma. The boat disaster has left the people of Wusuta-Tornu in a state of confusion as relatives are found in a pensive mood awaiting any news of the recovery of dead bodies from the lake.
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