After a heavy downpour on Thursday 24th June 2021, four people have been washed away by flood water at Bomso in the Oforikrom Municipality of the Ashanti Region of Ghana.
According to the assemblyman of the area who confirmed the incident, a search team will be deployed to search for the missing persons.
Kumasi has experience serious flooding which washed away a baby who was traveling with the parents on Wednesday evening. Aside that videos that have popped up regarding the flood in Kedjetia marketing is heartbreaking.
Osei Asibey, the mayor of Kumasi has said that a technical team of KMA will hold an emergency meeting regarding the recent flood cases in the area.
“This morning the assembly technical and the planning committee will hold an emergency meeting on the development. Since my life in Kumasi, I have [not] seen the city flooding like this before. Currently, we need to put together a serious comprehensive plan, our gutters are too small to carry the floodwaters,” he stated.
For over decades now any time it rains in Ghana it is disastrous as it claims a lot of lives and properties as a result of unplanned towns and cities the country has. Its time for something to be done about it.
