Accra floods: Common sense gone awry

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gHANANI bA 7 years ago

YES, YOU ANSWERED THE QUESTION YOU POSED: "IT IS A COCKTAIL OF ALL THREE".
IT IS SAD THAT WE HAVE PLANNING ENGINEERS TRAINED WITH THE TAX PAYERSS MONEY BUT AFTER THEIR TRAINING THEY FAIL TO APPLY THE KNOWLEDGE ACQUIRED.

YES, YOU ANSWERED THE QUESTION YOU POSED: "IT IS A COCKTAIL OF ALL THREE".
IT IS SAD THAT WE HAVE PLANNING ENGINEERS TRAINED WITH THE TAX PAYERSS MONEY BUT AFTER THEIR TRAINING THEY FAIL TO APPLY THE KNOWLEDGE ACQUIRED.
Kwadwo Poku 7 years ago

Dr, You have really educated me. I hope this is shared on many platforms. If you are in Ghana please get yourself on TV and radio and educate Ghanaians on this issue. Very insightful.

Dr, You have really educated me. I hope this is shared on many platforms. If you are in Ghana please get yourself on TV and radio and educate Ghanaians on this issue. Very insightful.
Kwame D. 7 years ago

To God be the glory.

I quickly thought that I was going to enjoy a technocrat (an expert in Land reclamation etc) and this is what I got:

Dr. Akofa Segbefia
Senior Consultant at DoubleVision Media Ltd, Ghana
Media Pro ...
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To God be the glory.

I quickly thought that I was going to enjoy a technocrat (an expert in Land reclamation etc) and this is what I got:

Dr. Akofa Segbefia
Senior Consultant at DoubleVision Media Ltd, Ghana
Media Production
Current 3. DoubleVision Media Ltd

Education : MGU
PHD, Philosophy of Religions
1995 – 1997

Summary
Administrative Manager with Madonna Group, Deputy Editor at the Accra Mail, Head of News at Skyy Power fm & Skyy Digital Television. Lecturer in Journalism, Public Relations at the Trans Africa University College
Kwadwo Poku 7 years ago

Kwame your reasoning is middling at best. The author doesn't have a degree in engineering therefore he is not qualified to comment on floods? Do you need a mental tune up? A pedestrian mind indeed. Kwame your ignorance is mag ...
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Kwame your reasoning is middling at best. The author doesn't have a degree in engineering therefore he is not qualified to comment on floods? Do you need a mental tune up? A pedestrian mind indeed. Kwame your ignorance is magnanimously forgiven.
MARCUS AMPADU 7 years ago

I went back to reread Dr. Akofa Segbefia's piece. I thought it was a classic "phd" - pull him down. This is what I came across:
1. "... and what should have been done by who ..."
2. "Sadly, where I live is perennial in floo ...
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I went back to reread Dr. Akofa Segbefia's piece. I thought it was a classic "phd" - pull him down. This is what I came across:
1. "... and what should have been done by who ..."
2. "Sadly, where I live is perennial in flooding."
3. "Can the urban jungle of Accra...."

Would have preferred "done by whom "
Is perennial in flooding does not convey the idea of Accra having the problem of perennial flooding.
I would hesitate to depict Accra as an urban jungle unless you were being metaphorical.

The garbage struggling for supremacy is not "only plastic waste", the discarded debris consist of all kinds of rubbish.

Kudos for airing ur opinions, but the analyses & solutions to the humongous perennial Accra flooding should be left to our experienced engineers who would one day soon solve this lingering challenge before climate change worsens it, because a large part of Accra plains lie below sea-level.
Ataa Akwei 7 years ago

Unfortunately doc we are guilty of all three. Sad but true

Unfortunately doc we are guilty of all three. Sad but true
Say a prayer for Ghana 7 years ago

What is the point of this writer pointing out what we are not doing to solve our flood problems without offering real solutions but just some band-aid solutions. Look, common sense solutions from every citizen will go a long ...
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What is the point of this writer pointing out what we are not doing to solve our flood problems without offering real solutions but just some band-aid solutions. Look, common sense solutions from every citizen will go a long way but that is a minute fraction of what it will take to resolve this massive problem.

The writer suggested 50 feet deep underground drains without giving a clue as to how we could logistically dig, core drill or hydro-vac that deep in an overcrowded city like Accra. "Why has Accra become so flood prone?" he asked. The simple answer is that because our governments, both at the national, regional and city levels have run our economy into the ground through abject mismanagement and corruption thus preventing us from having the resources to take lasting proactive and preventive measures.

And I hope the politicians aren't going to take what I'm going to say as us giving them a free pass but things could indeed have been a lot worse simply because of the geographical location of Accra being in the plains. And yes 'water tends to find its own level' but only predominantly in the vertical plane. Horizontally, an 'angry' tract of water as in floods will run down houses, cars, trees, rubbish and even sadly, humans!

We have been lucky in a way. For pictures of 'real' floods that have battered the world lately, do a Google search of the word FLOOD.
In the pictures shown, click on the link "images of flood". There...now you know what I mean!
Dessie 7 years ago

Great article;i always being saying that our city engineers are the causes of these flood;And they must be held accountable for our predicament

Great article;i always being saying that our city engineers are the causes of these flood;And they must be held accountable for our predicament
Efo Yao 7 years ago

Thanks so much for educating the reading public. This should be handed over to churches to read to their congregation. It's gospel! And should be treated as such.
Cleanliness is next to Godliness !!

Thanks so much for educating the reading public. This should be handed over to churches to read to their congregation. It's gospel! And should be treated as such.
Cleanliness is next to Godliness !!
Cephas Agbey, USA 7 years ago

Hello Alfred,
Your concerns and observations of the perennial flood situations in Accra is sad and unfortunate.
However, the blame game will continue unless the Government of Ghana is ready and willing to address these iss ...
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Hello Alfred,
Your concerns and observations of the perennial flood situations in Accra is sad and unfortunate.
However, the blame game will continue unless the Government of Ghana is ready and willing to address these issues.
My wife and I had the opportunity to visit with you while in Ghana about two years ago but you had too much on the table.
I will try to send you an email by next week in line with some PERMANENT SOLUTIONS TO THE TRASH AND DUMSOR problems in the country.
I would encourage your attention and feedback to the upcoming mail to your office.
Thank you
Dick bag 7 years ago

Of course they don't have commonsense... They are basically Neanderthals.

Of course they don't have commonsense... They are basically Neanderthals.
owusu joseph 7 years ago

I think we are still in slumber. we will wake up to see all our possessions gone as it happened during the days of Noah. What a state we live in.

I think we are still in slumber. we will wake up to see all our possessions gone as it happened during the days of Noah. What a state we live in.

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