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The National Disaster Management Organisation (NADMO) has reacted to a viral video showing residents in Asokwa in the Ashanti Region crowding for relief items. 

According to NADMO, the organization with support of its District Disaster Management Committees and the Local Council of Churches has established 18 centers where food is given to widows, the homeless, disabled and vulnerable during this lockdown period. 

The organization noted that the McKweown Pentecost Church at Asokwa is one of the centers but NADMO has not invited the general public to queue for food at the location.

The District Disaster Management Committee has a representative of the Department of Social Welfare that has a database of the vulnerable in each district, hence it is unfortunate that ''our attitude as a people has gotten us to this point where people have rushed to the center because...of free food''. 

Officials of NADMO has admonished beneficiaries of the relief items to stop the mass gatherings at the designated centers and further urged them to strictly adhere to social distancing and all other protocols pertaining to the COVID-19. 

Security personnel at the locality has dispersed the crowd to ensure full compliance with the protocols.

Below is the list of distribution centers in the various districts: