NADMO Director Senses Danger This Year . . . Warns Of Dire Consequences After Tuesday's Downpour

Some parts of Accra have been flooded following Tuesday's early morning downpour.

This has left many people around the Kwame Nkrumah Circle Interchange, Alajo, Odaw, Avenor, Dansoman, Sowutuom among others displaced.

Speaking in an interview on Peace FM's morning show 'Kokrokoo', Mr. Evans Anakwah, Director in-charge of floods at the National Disaster Management Organisation (NADMO) said a lot of the drains in Accra have not been dredged hence the slightest downpour causes floods.

"I am sensing danger this year . . . to be honest this year we have not been able to dredge the drains . . . we are going to encounter a lot of challenges this year," he sadly said, attributing it to the failure to get dredging machines.

He further described the damage caused by Tuesday's downpour as terrible and urged authorities to embark on an emergency dredging and desilt all the choked gutters.

He urged that the kiosk and containers around the drain and desilt the drain especially the one at Alajo otherwise there will be trouble.

Asamoah Gyan's mansion and other buildings

Mr Anakwah has reiterated calls for authorities to stop the construction of houses on the cliff close to Asamoah Gyan's mansion at Weija.

He said the collapse of the cliff will have dire consequences and could block one side of the road.

"I have repeatedly said it but to no avail . . . I don't have that authority to demolish," he painfully told Kwami Sefa Kayi on Tuesday morning.

According to him NADMO do not have the mandate to demolish any building.

" . . If we want demolish we have to go through the Metropolitan, Municaipal and District Assemblies to liaise with them (they have that mandate) unless there is a disaster that has entrapped someone just to save life and properties, aside that you cannot go and demolish, we don't have that mandate. Our bill is now in parliament," he bitterly stated.

Listen to him in the video below