Some women in Appiatse, a Bogoso hamlet where a big explosion evacuated hundreds of people, have expressed their dissatisfaction with the lack of shelter kits that would allow couples to get intimate.
According to the Ghana News Agency, the relocated victims have been forced to live far apart from their spouses, and the absence of intimacy is harming their mental health.
Florence Fosuah, a 40-year-old trader and mother of four, is said to have complained about not being able to have sex since arriving at the Camp.
“Sex is part of marriage so we cannot deny our partners and they cannot deny us either. We plead with the authorities to make available reserve tents to allow couples to have intimacy when the need be.
“We know some people are reported to be doing it in the bushes, particularly at night, but our customs and traditions frown on such social misdeeds with dire consequences,” she told reporters.
Mable Agily, a 24-year-old mother of two from Zebilla in the Upper East Region’s Bawku West District, had similar concerns.
“My husband sleeps metres away from me, preventing me from visiting him in his all-male room in the night as he cannot visit me either.
“That leaves me with my eight-month baby to keep me company as he coughs profusely from the effects of the explosion, particularly at night,” Mable Agily lamented as quoted by the GNA.
Aside from the lack of intimacy, there are concerns about theft in the camp, difficulty maintaining personal hygiene, and room overcrowding.
More than 20 individuals are crammed into a space that should only hold six people.
A room that should hold six people on average is inhabited by more than 20, according to Grace Quansah, a mother of two.
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