Floods Displace 200 In Kumasi

From Richard Owusu-Akyaw, Kumasi
Over 200 people in Kumasi were displaced over the weekend following a heavy downpour that lasted two hours Friday night.

Among the areas hit by the floods were Anloga junction, where about 30 houses flooded, Buokrom South Africa estate, Asokore Mampong, Aboabo, Sawaba Adenyase and Atimatim.  Asokore Mampong, the municipal capital, also had its share of the disaster as over 50 houses were flooded.

Alhaji Anyas Abdallah, the Assembly man of Sawaba Adenyase in the Asokore Mampong Municipality, said the rains were not severe and that an excavator had even desilted the main drainage so the flooding came as a surprise to residents.

Abdalah disclosed that a timely intervention of some young men who live around swiftly evacuated affected people from their rooms to put up with neighbors.

He said but for the early detection of the flooding, a different story would have been tool as the flooding occurred in the night. He revealed that over 200 people have been displaced in his electoral area.

Mr. Hopson, the Assembly man for Anloga electoral area, attributed the flooding to choked gutters and poor drainage and location of structures in the area.

Mr. Yaw Agyei, a victim of the flood, who claim to have lost everything appealed to the National Disaster Management Organisation to come their aid. At Atimatim Taabuom, houses were flooded to the window level.

A victim of the floods in the locality, Mr Boakye, indicated that people have built in waterways hence the flooding.