President John Dramani Mahama is holding a closed door National Crisis and Emergency meeting with the security chiefs and some members of his cabinet at the Flagstaff House over Wednesday’s floods and fire that killed over 90 people in Accra.
The Interior Ministry, Defense Ministry, Fire Service, Police, National Disaster Management Organisation (NADMO) are all represented at the meeting.
President Mahama will be briefed on the flood management plan and strategies to be adopted to curb end the perennial floods in the city.
Hundreds of people reportedly lost their lives at the GOIL fuel station in Accra after the station was razed by fire during a heavy downpour that rendered parts of the city inaccessible.
Several homes and businesses were submerged as a result of the flooding.
Meanwhile, President Mahama who visited the GOIL fuel station on Thursday promised that government will adopt drastic measures to stop the floods from occurring again.
“We have to take some measures to avoid this in the future. Often when these measures are drastic, you have a lot of sympathy and pressure not to take these measures. But I think the time has come for us to move houses out of the waterways. The public should understand that it is necessary to take such measures to save everybody else,” he added.
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