Rains Coming Soon, Floods to Set In

The raining season would soon set in accompanied by floods in Accra and other parts of the country.

Flooding has become an annual occurrence in Accra and despite the several lives, homes and investments that gets destroyed with each year’s floods, the situation has not been brought under control.

We talk about the situation each year, agree on the causes and what can be done to prevent it, then go to sleep until the next year when the floods set in again.

It is significant to note the team of supposed ‘experts’ and radio panelists that do the post-flood analysis each have not changed over the years. It is the political players that have been rotated and done some dancing chairs depending on which party is in government.

As a people, we have not acted decisively and wisely in this particular matter.

What we have mastered and done with some outstanding success is to play the blame game with one political party blaming the other for failing to take action.

We go back and forth fingering ourselves until the rains set in again and cause some havoc. Then we pause to make some analysis and then return to the political blame game.

THE PUBLISHER is calling for a stop of the routine nonsense.

We want to see a clear leadership characterized by decisive actions irrespective of whose toes gets stepped on.

We cannot continue this way. It smacks of irresponsibility. It is shameful. It is an avoidable disaster we wait to endure each year. It has to stop.

Choked drains have remained a major cause of floods in Accra.  Drains, by themselves, do not get choked. It is human beings that get them choked by dumbing all sorts of materials in them.

We are calling on a whole revolution for a national reorientation on the human activities that have remained the cause of flooding.

We believe that this education has not done down well enough. No matter how hard the city authorities try to solve the challenge, city dwellers ought to be a but responsible else very little or nothing much would be achieved.