Sampson Deklu, the Bureau of Public Safety’s Technical Lead for Built Environment, has claimed that demolishing structures beside waterways will make some Ghanaians homeless.
Making people homeless in order to solve a problem, he believes, is merely creating a new problem.
He went on to say that the government might have been more vigilant in preventing such structures from being built on waterways.
“We should have been managing the floodwaters by now because the volume of rainwater has increased instead of demolishing structures because floods occur all over the world,” he said.
Mr Sampson asked residents and landowners to avoid building on land that has been designated as a buffer zone to hold water and prevent floods.
Meanwhile, President Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has ordered the demolition of buildings in the Greater Accra region by the Municipal, Metropolitan, and District Assemblies (MMDCEs).
Source: Mybrytnewsroom.com/Solomon Nartey
