Accra is not ready for heavy rains – Mayor

General News of Monday, March 25, 2019

Source: starrfm.com.gh

2019-03-25

The Accra Metropolitan Assembly's CEO, Mohammed Adjei Sowah, revealed that the capital will not be able to protect lives and property when the rainy season begins.

According to Mr. Adjei Sowah, this is due to the fact that the Korle Lagoon has not been cleared, which makes it smothered and likely to overflow.

Speaking Monday morning in the Starr, Adjei Sowah said his team had contacted the Ministry of Public Works and Housing but had still not received a response.

Despite the work we are currently doing on the construction of these drains if it rains heavily for a few hours, I can not guarantee that there will be a flood or not.

"If it's raining tomorrow, we'll have a challenge, we'll have a challenge along the smell, but many of the areas we deal with … but our capacity we have can not deal with it." smell, "Sowah told Morning Starr host Francis Abban.

The mayor of Accra also attributed the cleanliness of Kigali in Rwanda to the type of governance system practiced in the country.

According to him, the so-called authoritarian and autocratic regime practiced in this country of East Africa facilitates the task of state authorities to ensure order and the state absolute right.

"Rwanda has experienced this level of development because of the kind of governance it has there. There is a certain level of authoritarianism and dictatorship in the level of governance that they have.

"We have taken our democracy as absolute and we do everything we love. That's the difference between Ghana and Rwanda, "he said.