Minister for Works and Housing, Honourable Francis Asenso-Boakye has called on Metropolitan, Municipal and District Assemblies to strictly enforce the planning and building regulations to avert flooding and prevent development in waterways.
He also called on the Assemblies to take decisive action urgently to mitigate flooding as Ghana enters the major rainy season.
Addressing the media in Accra, Honourable Asenso-Boakye said the Government has implemented several interventions to increase the Country’s resilience to flooding and a total of 19km drains were constructed over the past three years.
According to him, ¢450million investment was pulled into the drainage system in the last four years to avert flooding across the country and added that, approximately, 1,000km excavators rechanneled and maintained.
“We cannot overlook the negative effects that our subculture of dumping refuse into open drains is having on our efforts to improve community resilience to flooding.
“I hereby admonish every citizen to desist from depositing household solid waste into the drains in the bid to support efforts of the government to maintain drainage capacity”.
Source: Mybrytfmonline.com/Kofi Atakora
