President Nana Akufo-Addo and the Volta River Authority lack an emergency plan which has to do with a technical and hydrological plan in coordination a national preparation to find a lasting solution to the manmade disaster.
The master plan for dredging the Volta River has not received any work for the past seven years under the New Patriotic Party government.
This he believes could have accounted for the spillage which has displaced thousands of livelihoods in the Southern part of the Volta, Eastern, and parts of Northern regions.
The former ambassador to India Hon Sam Pee Yalley, discloses this on Adekye Mu Nsem’s morning show on Ahotor 92.3 FM in Accra hosted by Citizen Kofi Owusu.
He is of the view that it’s long overdue for the government and the technical team from VRA to come out with a master drainage plan to work on the affected areas along the river banks that have been displaced through the spillage.
He decry that, the National Disaster Management Organisation (NADMO) needs an emergency restructuring of human capital and logistics to deliver its role as rescue institution in times of this scale of national disaster.
He further stated that, in his opinion, NADMO should be under the Ghana Armed Forces to be ready at all times in an emergency of this scale.
Hon Sam Pee Yalley reiterated in his sober comments calling on all the people who have suffered from this manmade disaster through technical and engineering competence, to take comfort in the Lord in all their suffering and painful moments they are going through, which will be a thing of the past.
He took on President Nana Akufo-Addo, who should be nationalistic as the father of the state and father of all in taking care of the affected people from the spillage which has nothing to do with politics rather negligence on the part of VRA.
He opined that there is a need for the Ghana Navy to rally around the people suffering from the spillage rather than the funfair and politics the president and his cabinet are playing with the flood disaster.
He uses the platform to appeal to the conscience of the nation and the good people of the land to support the affected people from the spillage to bounce back.
He is of the view that Freda Prempeh the Minister for Works and Sanitation comments were very unfortunate and bizarre, while considering the situation, the affected people suffering from this negligence from VRA was not the cause of the people along the Volta Lake.
Story by: AYM Kukah. E: mail kukahalexander7@gmail.com
