Close to 1000 people and over 200 vehicles transporting food produce to other parts of the country are stranded at Bazua, the town situated behind the bridge that links Bolgatanga to Bawku.
This is as a result of a combination of the Bagre dam spillage followed by 2 consecutive days of torrential rainfall.
Commenting on the situation, the National President of the Peasant Farmers Association of Ghana referred to the situation as "pathetic" and lamented on its effect on farmers in the area.
Abdul Rahman Mohammed in an interview with JoyBusiness, shared the plight of a fellow farmer whose over 4-acre size farmland had been inundated by water.
“I came across a farmer, Sherif Abugri. He is a peasant farmer, he did 4.5 acres of cowpea and then two days ago he came to find that two of the farms had been covered by the water. So, he decided to cut some pegs and put them there to see whether the water will continue to come or it is reducing. When he came today, he realized that everything was washed out which means that the water was rather increasing not decreasing.”
He also expressed worry about the danger the route poses, revealing the dangers drivers who ply that route endured due to the terrible state of the road coupled with the heavy downpour experienced in the region.
Read also: Bagre dam spillage kills four, dozens displaced in North East Region
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