Ghana:Fallout of Yesterday’s Downpour FLOOD EVERYWHERE!

From theCentral Region through to Greater Accra, many an important road that link the Ashanti Region and the Northern regions, to parts of the Eastern Region have become unmotorable, dotted with deep gullies and craters caused by the incessant downpour yesterday.

Residents of Amanfrom-Toptown and its environs, who are perhaps the hardest hit by the downpour, are wailing over the poor condition of their roads as drivers dread the unavoidable situation of plying their trade on the road.

Some residents of the community are also moving out of the neighbourhood since the situation is becoming unbearable. They blame government for failing to live up to its electoral promise to construct the road.

“When it rains we can’t move my car because a journey that has to take three or five minutes takes twenty minutes and as such we burn fuel. The road hinders our business a lot and as such due to the situation I have not been able to use my car,” Distraught drivers complained

But, MCE of the Ga-South municipality, Jerry Akwei Thompson, has urged residents to be calm “since the situation is a general one within the municipality and as such a long –term solution is being forged to cater for the solution.”

He admitted the poor state of roads, saying “the hard soil has been taken off, and left with the soft surface so anytime it rains the situation worsens".

He revealed that “a contract has been signed to construct a culvert. When that culvert has been completed then we can instruct the roads department to now work on the road.”

The rains which are expected to last till August has caused devastating havoc to many residents in the country and are calling on the authorities to arrest the situation as soon as possible.