NADMO manages Accra floods with awareness, de-fouling

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The Greater Accra branch of the National Disaster Management Organization said it was using de-inking and public awareness to manage floods in parts of the capital.

According to Archibald Cobbinah, these are temporary measures to manage the situation until the government is able to raise the necessary resources to relocate people living in flood-prone areas and to engage in engineering work. large scope.

Mr. Cobbinah was speaking during the torrential morning dawn rain that swamped parts of Accra.

On the Accra-Kasoa highway, floods have completely flooded the side of the two-lane road connected to Accra, forcing motorists heading to Accra to drive on the other side of the oncoming traffic.

According to Mr. Cobbinah, the effect of Friday's rain was not so devastating because NADMO had put the Accra Meteorological Agency on alert and that the rains had arrived at a time when most motorists sleeping.

NADMO is currently working with the police to manage the traffic jams created by the rains in parts of the city.

However, his operations team is waiting to respond to distress calls.

But addressing the root causes of persistent flooding, the director of the Greater Accra of the National Disaster Management Organization said the problem was partly dependent on his behavior.

According to him, the cities continue to be flooded because the inhabitants throw garbage indiscriminately and empty their garbage cans into gutters and waterways, especially when the rains arrive.

The president agrees with him.

"Beyond resolving infrastructure issues, our attitude towards sanitation must also change, in order to help solve the problem of persistent floods in Accra. The authorities are sparing no effort to solve this problem, "tweeted Nana Akufo-Addo Tuesday.

Although measures have been put in place to prosecute those who engage in these practices, NADMO participates in community outreach programs to educate residents about the negative effects of these attitudes.

This is not everything.

NADMO also participates in de-inking exercises in flood-prone areas such as the Kasoa-Weija-McCarthy Hill enclaves.

The government has allocated 197 million euros for de-inking clogged drains and other drainage works in the country, said the minister of sanitation.

Cecelia Dapaah said the contract for the works had already been awarded by the Ministry of Public Works and Housing, Cecelia Dapaah, who has already signed a contract with the Ministry of Public Works and Housing, told reporters Maxwell Agbagba.

But the boss of NADMO said it was not an end in itself.

According to Cobbinah, the government is mobilizing the capital needed to resettle most people living in flood-prone areas in order to demolish houses along the waterways.

But until this is done, the government will continue to manage the situation by loosening the drains.

Many residents around the Odawna River have been displaced