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The bodies of a husband and his wife – army officers – figure among the seven people recovered from flood waters by the National Organization for Disaster Management (NADMO), after the strong Sunday rains.
Staff Sergeant Arthur Jabez, 45, and his wife, 40-year-old Warrant Officer Sarah Kuadzi, were traveling in a military van after a funeral in Tema. their vehicle has caught in flood waters in a suburb of the Adjei-Kojo highway.
The incident occurred at the center of the highway where a gaping hole extends a culvert that transfers water from the northern parts of the Tema to its southwestern part.
Kojo Yankson of Joy News, who has visited the area, said this dangerous place is well known to people familiar with the stretch.
For new users of the stretch, however, it is easy to miss the spot, especially when it is raining and the water is covering the surface of the highway, making the edges undetectable.
During the Sunday incident, Kojo realized that the driver of the military vehicle could not see the edges of the highway as a result of the rains. As he approached the culvert, he slid off the road, plunging the van into the floodwaters under the water. .
According to eyewitnesses, there were four adults – the couple and two others including a baby – in the cab of the van. The bucket of the pickup also had pbadengers.
Alice and Georgina Arhin, both 35 years old, were at the back. Georgina was traveling with the 11-month-old baby, who also died when the truck sank in the floodwaters.
Although all four adults have been found, the baby's body has not been found yet.
Pbadengers in the vehicle's bucket, however, were able to swim to safety.
NADMO said the bodies of three other people washed away by the floodwaters were found.
These deaths bring to 12 the total number of lives lost as a result of flooding in Accra in just one week. A similar rain on April 7 also killed five people.
NADMO is still looking for the bodies of a six-year-old boy and an adult man who were swept away by the floodwaters in Sakaman and Ablekuma, respectively. The bodies of a man who was pushed into the Odaw River around the Kwame Nkrumah interchange and the one of the 11-month-old baby are also in demand.
Meanwhile, government declared to have allocated 197 million ¢ for the drainage of choking pipes and other drainage works in the country.
Addressing the press in a joint interaction between his ministry and the Accra Metropolitan Area's water supply and sanitation projects, Cecelia Dapaah said the contract for work had already been awarded by the Department of Public Works and Housing.
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