Paramount Queen Mother of Ngleshie Alata, Jamestown
To NGOs, Relief Agencies , International Community, Philanthropists, and All People of Good Will,
With a heavy heart and tears that refuse to dry, I, HRH Naa Affipong IV, Paramount Queen Mother of Ngleshie Alata Traditional Area, come before you today not with royal protocol, but with the raw cry of a mother whose children are drowning in sorrow.
The recent devastating floods have torn through our communities: Mallam, Dansoman Otojor, Weija Tetegu, Oblogo, and surrounding areas, leaving behind a trail of death, destruction, and desperate souls. Homes that once echoed with laughter now stand as hollow graves of memory. Properties built through decades of sweat and sacrifice have been swallowed by raging waters. And worse still, lives ooh precious lives have been snatched from our embrace.
As a mother, I confess to you: I have not slept. My heart is bleeding. My stomach is knotted inside me.
Every night, I close my eyes and see the faces of crying children, wailing women, and weakened aged persons sitting in muddy waters with nowhere to call home. The hunger in their eyes pierces deeper than any spear. The sickness creeping through flooded shelters haunts me more than any ghost.
Our people lack the most basic necessities of human dignity, food to still the crying stomachs of little ones, clean water to quench parched throats, medical care to save the sick and vulnerable, and shelter to protect the elderly and infants from the cold harshness of these perilous nights.
This is not a cry of politics. This is a mother’s raw appeal for survival.
I am calling urgently on all Non-Governmental Organizations and Relief Agencies to move swiftly into the broader flood zones. The government has begun interventions, but the scale of this disaster far exceeds any single effort. We need you to complement, to collaborate, to rush in with supplies, with medical teams, with temporary shelters, with hope.
I also reach out to individual philanthropists, those whose hearts beat with compassion to community support specialists who understand how to rebuild broken spirits, to medical workers, who can heal both body and trauma, and to church groups and faith-based organizations who carry the mandate of mercy and help.
Bring us food. Bring us blankets. Bring us medicine. Bring us the simple dignity of a dry place for a mother to lay her child’s head.
My people are in difficult and perilous times. They must be relieved. They must not be forgotten.
History will remember not the wealth of nations but the compassion of neighbors. Today, I ask you to be that neighbor to Ngleshie Alata township, to every flood-ravaged soul crying out in the darkness.
Let us restore their happiness. Let us rebuild their lives. Let us show them that even after the waters rise, love rises higher.
May God bless every hand that reaches out. And may He comfort those who have lost everything.
With desperate hope and motherly tears,
HRH Naa Affipong IV
Paramount Queen Mother of Ngleshie Alata, Jamestown.
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