{"id":221704,"date":"2016-06-12T12:20:53","date_gmt":"2016-06-12T12:20:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=221704"},"modified":"2016-06-12T12:20:53","modified_gmt":"2016-06-12T12:20:53","slug":"ghanas-leaders-lack-the-political-will-to-solve-floods-mp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2016\/06\/ghanas-leaders-lack-the-political-will-to-solve-floods-mp\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghana&#8217;s leaders lack the political will to solve floods \u2013 MP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Member of Parliament for the Ayawaso West Wogon constituency, Emmanuel Agyarko, says that the leaders lack the political will to solve the problem of floods in Accra.<\/p>\n<p>He said this on <strong>Citi FM<\/strong>\u2019s political analysis program, The Big Issue.<\/p>\n<p>According to Mr. Agyarko, \u201cI talk about political will and the desire of those in power to properly prioritise. Between August to December 2012, this country found money internally for the Conti project, yet we go out there and try to borrow four hundred million dollars to solve the drainage problems in Accra.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He added that the money that were put in wasted developmental projects could have been used to fix the problem of the floods.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf part of the money which went into rlg, SUBAH and Zoomlion were applied, we wouldn\u2019t be where we are today.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>On June 3, Ghanaians commemorated the first anniversary of the June 3, 2015 disaster and the mayor of Accra, Alfred Okoe Vanderpuije promised that his outfit was working on making sure that the capital would be safe from floods.<\/p>\n<p>Barely a week after this promise, the capital got flooded again after a few hours of rain.<\/p>\n<p>By: Jeffrey Owuraku Sarpong\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<br \/>\n<a class=\"twitter-follow-button\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ojsarpong\" data-show-count=\"false\">Follow @ojsarpong<\/a><br \/>\n<script>\/\/ <![CDATA[\n!function(d,s,id){var js,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0],p=\/^http:\/.test(d.location)?'http':'https';if(!d.getElementById(id)){js=d.createElement(s);js.id=id;js.src=p+':\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js';fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);}}(document, 'script', 'twitter-wjs');\n\/\/ ]]><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Member of Parliament for the Ayawaso West Wogon constituency, Emmanuel Agyarko, says that the leaders lack the political will to solve the problem of floods in Accra. 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