Parts of the capital, Accra, flooded again on Monday following a heavy shower which started morning around 3:00am.
Commuters and other road users have been left stranded after the heavy rainfall.
Some of the areas affected include; Kwame Nkrumah interchange, Adabraka, Okponglo, part of Weija. The rains also collapsed a bridge at the lakeside.
Ten people from the Central, Volta and the Greater Accra Region, lost their lives in a heavy rain in June this year.
With the onset of rainy season, many homes and offices have lost properties as a result of flood waters rushing into their buildings.
Many have partly blamed the situation on the siting of structures on waterways, and blocking of drainage systems that force rushing flood waters onto the streets and into homes.
Some Ghanaians took to social media to express their concerns and share photos about the flooding.
@benkoku The Okponglo problem pic.twitter.com/pcNLhusKUO
— Diabolic_moi (@asare_benny) October 8, 2018
The year is 2020, I’m listening to #CitiCBS after another heavy downpour. I get a flashback to 2018, my mind takes me there. Recalled the planning issue which is being talked abt now 🤔. I think we are stuck in a planning loop, there’s no implementation. @KojoAB @benkoku
— Atsu Mudey (@RMudey) October 8, 2018
The year is 2020, I’m listening to #CitiCBS after another heavy downpour. I get a flashback to 2018, my mind takes me there. Recalled the planning issue which is being talked abt now 🤔. I think we are stuck in a planning loop, there’s no implementation. @KojoAB @benkoku
— Atsu Mudey (@RMudey) October 8, 2018
Last week, parts of Accra got flooded after a downpour on Monday.
@benkoku Why do we do this to ourselves? The Shiashie bus stop was flooded after the last heavy downpour. Nothing was done to resolve it. Today it is flooded again…..#citicbs
— Jonathan Ntsiful (@JonJilo) October 8, 2018
And in this 21st century , you still find people throwing rubbish in gutters so the rains could carry them away @benkoku. Issa mind problem. 🤦🏾
— Atsu Mudey (@RMudey) October 8, 2018
Some areas including parts of the N1 Highway, Kwame Nkrumah Interchange among others were all affected.
$700 million needed to end flooding
The Works and Housing Minister, Samuel Atta-Akyea, has said it will cost Ghana over $700 million to effectively and permanently deal with the perennial flooding in the Greater Accra Region alone.
According to him Ghana had the technical expertise to deal with the flooding but lacked the funds needed.
He has in the past indicated that the government had put together a road-map to provide a permanent infrastructure solution to the flooding problem.
Experts say the cities flooding challenges is partly due to the poor waste management system in the city as well the uncontrolled building on waterways.
Accra is a flood-prone area but in the last six years, the floods have intensified causing severe damage to human life and property.
In 2015, a flood and fire at the Nkrumah circle caused the deaths of over 200 Ghanaians.
City authorities have failed to fulfill their promises to demolish buildings, clear gutters and storm-drains to end the perennial flooding of the city.
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By: Farida Yusif/citinewsroom.com/Ghana
