By Regina Benneh, GNA
Sunyani, July 11, GNA – A section of the Central Business District (CBD) of Sunyani was on Monday flooded following a heavy rainfall which lasted for over three hours.
Some workers and traders, who had then closed from work and market could not move whilst vehicles found it difficult using the road due to the severe flooding.
Among the areas flooded were the road between Twene-Amanfo Senior High/Technical School and the Sunyani Coronation Park, the precincts of the Stanbic Bank and the road in front of the Bank that passes behind the Coronation Park towards the Sunyani High Court area.
Some of the people who wanted to defy the rain and the flood to reach their homes on time found themselves in gutters, leading to some of them sustaining various degrees of injuries.
A number of the affected individuals who spoke to the Ghana News Agency (GNA) appealed to the Sunyani Municipal Assembly to undertake expansion project of most of the gutters in the CBD.
According to them, Sunyani had expanded in size, resulting in increased population, but the sizes of the gutters are « too small » and could not contain the volume of water, whenever there was heavy rainfall in the ‘city’.
Mr. Obeng Baah, the Brong-Ahafo Regional Director of Operations of the National Disaster Management Organisation (NADMO) told the GNA in an interview that, some careless and irresponsible people contributed to the flooding situation because they dump rubbish into the gutters, which blocked the free-flow of water.
He appealed to residents, especially those who use the gutters as refused dumps to desist from such unpatriotic acts, since it puts the lives of other people in danger and advised the public to stay away from flooded.
GNA
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11 July, 18
