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The rains which started around 2:00 pm continued till evening.
It comes a week after President Nana Akufo-Addo inspected progress of work on the dredging of the Odaw River and a storm drain project at Kaneshie 'First Light' in Accra.
Major suburbs including Kaneshie, Abossy Okai, and Awudome, were submerged after the downpour.
Accra has suffered perennial flooding for decades with various regimes.
Successive governments over the years, have sunk millions of cedis into the dredging and desilting of drains.
Surprisingly, the gutters have continued to be opened up, with residents treating them as dumpsites, the end result being flooding whenever there is rainfall in the city.
Government has consistently called for attitudinal change on the part of the citizenry, especially
But it does not matter if they are not covered, they would not have the chance to dump in them, so they would not need to spend millions of dollars on dredging when Such funds could be channeled to other development initiatives.
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