Accra’s Flooding Crisis Goes Beyond Drains – Policy Failures Also to Blame – Susan Adu-Amankwah

 Accra’s Flooding Crisis Goes Beyond Drains – Policy Failures Also to Blame – Susan Adu-Amankwah

Executive Secretary of the National Interest Movement, Susan Adu-Amankwah, has said Ghana’s response to flooding in Accra must go beyond the construction of drains and culverts, arguing that the city’s recurring flood crisis is also rooted in weak policy controls, a broken land tenure system, and poor enforcement of planning rules.

Speaking on JoyNews’ Newsfile on Saturday, July 4, during a discussion on the Accra floods, Madam Adu-Amankwah said the country needed a broader and more realistic approach to urban planning, one that reflects how people actually live and behave.

According to her, engineering solutions remain essential, but they must be designed with resilience in mind and should be strong enough to withstand pressure even when residents fail to follow rules.

“The engineering controls must be in place, and modern engineering is not just about drains and culverts,” she said.

“We would want to see what the engineers are coming up with because we want to see proper living dynamic engineering that takes into consideration the type of people who are living there.”

She said urban engineering must be built around the realities of Ghanaian cities, where rapid population growth, weak enforcement, and public indiscipline often place infrastructure under strain.

Source: MyJoyOnline