Agbodza Blames Human Activity for Deadly Adaklu-Helekpe Mudslide

Hinzugefügt: 2026-05-26

[00:00:00]At the Minister for Roads and Highways, and Adaklu MP, Kwame Governs Agbodza is warning residents around the Adaklu mountain to stop farming and other activities on the slopes at Adaklu Helekpe in the Volta Region. A mudslide which carried heavy rocks from the 600 m mountain buried at least five houses and nine vehicles. The MP says human activities including deforestation and land cultivation may have worsened the disaster. He's urging residents to protect the mountain's vegetation cover to help prevent future incidents as assessments continue in the affected community.

[00:00:37]Before talking to us about all the potentials.

[00:00:40]But we keep cropping cutting down the trees, burning uh uh the bush around it. Of course, the trees and the the the bushes were holding were holding the the the mud and the soil.

[00:00:57]Once you remove them, the soil is is is is loose. So, I don't have the power to uh uh decree that nobody should crop around the mountain. It is uh something that together with the elders we can discuss. So, that is the way forward.

[00:01:13]I also want to thank the young people in the community who without their swift intervention those two uh lives would have been in in a real peril. And we want to thank them.