In An Era of Extreme Weather, Should We Continue Using NADMO As A Golden Sinecure For Ruling Party Apparatchiks?

Interviewed on the Nyankonton Mu Nsem programme at Rainbow Radio 87.5FM, Mr. Seth Osei Kusi, who is the Director of the Ga East Municipal National Disaster Management Organisation (NADMO), after the floods caused by torrential rains on Sunday, May 19, 2025, advised residents of flood-prone communities to move to higher ground when seasonal flooding occurs during the rainy season.

Yes, it's very good advice that residents in such communities should always move to higher ground to protect their lives during heavy downpours - but don't Leviathans also exist to provide emergency assistance to vulnerable demographics when extreme weather events, which are the new normal, occur, abi? Ebeiiii. Yoooooooooo...

In a warming biosphere in which extreme weather is impacting nations such as ours so negatively, on a regular basis, the question that a wise and aspirational African people ought to ponder over is: Hasn't the time now come for critical state organisations and institutions such as NADMO and the Forestry Commission to be merged and transformed into specialist units of the Ghana Armed Forces (GAF), which is one of the few truly capable, world-class resilience-cored institutions in Ghana today?

We must stop using NADMO as a golden sinecure for ruling party apparatchiks when new governments of the day are elected to replace their predecessor administrations after election cycles. Haaba. It's insane and extremely short-sighted, oooo, Ghanafuor. Yoooooooooo. Anansesemkrom Ghana paaaa diy33 - tweaaaaaaaa. This is the AI era in a bankrupted nation that's resetting its national economy is it not, Ghanafour? Let's make NADMO work for society's most vulnerable demographics during emergencies such as flooding. A word to the wise...

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