The chairperson of the Coalition of NGOs in Water and
Sanitation (CONIWAS, Mrs Victoria Daaku, has passed away, aged 58.
She is said to have died on the night of Tuesday, January 8
2013, hours after indicating feeling unwell that afternoon.
In a brief note circulated to CONIWAS members Thursday afternoon,
the Coalition’s Secretariat said it was sadly informing “its members and partners of
the Sudden demise of its Chairperson, Mrs. Victoria Daaku, whose death occurred
on Tuesday 8th January 2013.”
The statement, carried by email in the name of Benjamin
Arthur, Executive Secretary of the Coalition, indicated that further arrangement will be communicated later and
prayed for the soul of the departed chair to “Rest in Peace.”
The late Mrs Daaku, was also Programme Director in charge of Food Security at the Adventist
Development and Relief Agency (ADRA), an initiative of the Seventh-day
Adventist church.
She first became CONIWAS chair in 2010 and was re-elected
unopposed at the August 2012 Annual General Meeting (AGM) of the Coalition
which, as usual, formed part of the Mole conference – the topmost and longest
running NGO-led Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) sector forum.
Participants of the 23rd edition of the Mole
Conference, which took place in Tamale last August, would remember her for
delivering a welcome address at the opening of the conference during which she
drew government’s attention that a failure to integrate WASH interventions into
programmes of the Savannah Accelerated Development Authority (SADA) would not
bode well for development in the northern part of Ghana.
She identified that
there was an opportunity in using SADA as a platform to transform WASH service
delivery and improve access. "I hope we will understand the cost of not
working on WASH issues," she remarked.
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