The parliamentary minority group is demanding that the report of the federal government’s flood management job power be submitted to the Home of Commons for scrutiny.
The decision comes within the wake of latest flooding incidents that submerged a number of communities in Accra, elevating recent issues concerning the effectiveness of measures aimed toward addressing the capital’s perennial flooding challenges.
The minority says a flood job power was established a yr in the past to sort out the issue, however there was little seen enchancment within the flood state of affairs.
“It is a physique assembled from the best echelons of Ghana’s govt construction and introduced to the nation as a decisive intervention in a persistent nationwide drawback. But right here we’re, the identical areas flooded, the identical households displaced, the identical drains full. The creation of the duty power was extensively publicized.”
He added that “Ghanaians have funded this job power by means of their tax {dollars}.”
“They had been promised to result in change, and I imagine they owe a clear clarification of what that really led to.”
In the meantime, former Minister of Works and Housing Kojo Oppong Nkrumah claimed that the annual floods had been because of the failure to launch funds for flood mitigation measures.
Nevertheless, Majority Chief Mahama Ayariga mentioned the flood management job power needs to be given extra time to hold out its mandate.
“I’ve learn concerning the job power that the president has arrange. I do not know if it is an issue that may be solved inside a yr of this job power being arrange. It wants a whole lot of analysis, it wants a whole lot of funding. I imagine it would finally have some success, however we have to give them time.”
