\u201cThe commitment to make sure that we remove all obstacles, distill and dredge the Korle and the Odaw to ensure free water flow will continue unabated. That is my assurance to the people of Accra and indeed the whole nation that the people\u2019s capital is ever safe than before\u2026 last week we had three or four days of severe rains and the city was able to withstand the circumstances and the aftermath of the rains\u2026 we will be very steadfast in our monitoring of the environment to ensure that we do not allow people to build in our waterways,\u201c he added.<\/p>\n
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[contextly_sidebar id=”daE0FXgHMHH53qy27Ywg9FPWqspk5V9f”]But days after the Mayor\u2019s comments, Accra recorded another flooding on Thursday leading to the destruction of properties worth thousands of Ghana cedis; but for the intervention of the military<\/strong><\/a><\/span>, some lives would have been lost.<\/p>\n The heavy downpour flooded low-lying\u00a0parts of the capital, including\u00a0Adabraka, Circle, Airport Residential area, Alajo and Teshie Nungua, Odawna among others.<\/p>\n Technically incompetent<\/strong><\/p>\n Speaking on Citi FM<\/strong>\u2019s News analysis programme, TheBig Issue<\/em><\/strong>, Franklin Cudjoe argued that Oko Vanderpuije\u2019s made a \u201ctechnically incompetent\u201d comment hence must be fired.<\/p>\n \u201cThe Accra Mayor should have been sacked or resign by now. It\u2019s not about no people dying. Last year, when these numbers died, this guy came around with a litany of explanations and this time around he was singing praises\u2026this is the resign why I want him to be sacked or resign.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cThose comments were technically incompetent because he had not spoken to his engineers, if he had one. If they had advised him properly he wouldn\u2019t be making those vain glorifying statements. It\u2019s completely absurd to live in a country that is supposed to be one of the best attractors of investment and to have a city that can come to a standstill after few minutes of rain,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n Applaud AMA boss for reducing effect of flooding <\/strong><\/p>\n But Abraham Amaliba, a member of the governing National Democratic Congress\u2019 (NDC) legal team who was also on the show said government and the AMA boss should be applauded for reducing the effect of flooding in the area.<\/p>\n To him, the flooding would have been worse if the Odaw and Korle drains had not been dredged.<\/p>\n He said some 480,000 tonnes of silt have been removed from two water bodies.<\/p>\n \u201cWise Ametepe from the NADMO indicated that this time round the Odaw did not over flow but just that the tributaries running into the Odaw were blocked because of human activities and that caused the flooding.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cLet\u2019s give credit where it is due, we\u2019ve all seen the dredging that is going on at the Odaw River and Korle lagoon, we’ve seen men there working, they are removing the silt. We can only commend what they are doing and say that we need more of that but to make it look like there hasn\u2019t been any work at all and that since June 3 last year we have thrown our hands in despair that is where I want to depart from\u2026we should be crediting people who have ensured that the havoc this time has reduced. We are talking about the AMA\u2026for the dredging and ensuring that the Korle Lagoon is not overflowing,\u201d Amaliba added.<\/p>\n –<\/p>\n By: Godwin A. Allotey\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana![\"Accra](\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/thumb__MG_0295_1024.jpg\")
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