{"id":359430,"date":"2017-10-06T08:39:11","date_gmt":"2017-10-06T08:39:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=359430"},"modified":"2017-10-06T08:39:11","modified_gmt":"2017-10-06T08:39:11","slug":"morning-showers-submerge-accra-immobilize-cars-photos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=359430","title":{"rendered":"Morning showers ‘submerge’ Accra, immobilize cars [Photos]"},"content":{"rendered":"

Many parts of Ghana\u2019s capital, Accra, have been submerged in flood waters, curtailing\u00a0vehicular movement after few hours of rain on Friday morning.<\/p>\n

Most drivers have been forced to make a detour, while others have parked their vehicles due to the pool of flood waters on major highways.<\/p>\n

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Areas such as Teshie-Nungua, Lapaz, Shiashie, Darkuman and Kaneshie have been badly affected.<\/p>\n

The flooding situation has resulted in a gridlock in areas such as Kaneshie, Tetteh Quarshie and Lapaz.<\/p>\n

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Shiashie<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The flood waters have also washed debris and all kinds of filth unto the streets.<\/p>\n

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Odorkor<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The flood raises questions about governments; past and present\u2019s competence to address the problem which has become a perennial one.<\/p>\n

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Following a downpour in February 2017 that wrecked havoc in the area, the Works and Housing Minister, Samuel Atta Akyea, said the country requires $700 million to permanently fix the issue.<\/p>\n

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Tetteh Quarshie<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

But before the amount is raised to commence works to halt the floods, city authorities and the Greater Accra Regional Minister, have contracted a private company to dredge some major drains in the capital to allow water to flow freely whenever it rains.<\/p>\n

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By: Jonas Nyabor\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Many parts of Ghana\u2019s capital, Accra, have been submerged in flood waters, curtailing\u00a0vehicular movement after few hours of rain on Friday morning. Most drivers have been forced to make a detour, while others have parked their vehicles due to the pool of flood waters on major highways. Areas such as Teshie-Nungua, Lapaz, Shiashie, Darkuman and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,11],"tags":[508,491,3],"class_list":["post-359430","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-slider-1","category-top-stories","tag-accra-floods","tag-flooding","tag-ghana-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359430","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=359430"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359430\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=359430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=359430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=359430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}