Mohammed Muntaka Mubarak, the Interior Minister, has disclosed that 70 excavators seized from illegal mining operators (galamseyers) will be handed over to the National Disaster Management Organisation (NADMO).
The Minister for the Interior revealed that the excavators will be handed to NADMO to support the nationwide desilting exercise aimed at addressing the flooding challenges across the country.
According to the Minister, the confiscated equipment during anti-galamsey operations will be redeployed for public use to improve drainage systems and reduce the impact of flooding in urban centres, particularly Accra.
Responding to questions on the Floor of Parliament on Wednesday, June 10, the Interior Minister made this known, saying, “Currently, what we are doing is that all the seized excavators from the illegal mining activities – we agreed that about 70 of them should be given to NADMO so that they can take them across the country to do desilting.
“We will do the handover next week so that they can use them to desilt most of the drains, but the bottom line is we should begin to clean our surroundings.”
In related news, Dennis Miracles Aboagye, the Director of Communications for the Bawumia Campaign Team, has said the John Mahama government has no clear-cut roadmap to solve the Accra floods.
The NPP communicator disclosed that Mahama, who has been president before, experienced the most devastating flood disasters this country has seen in its history.
He argued that after the June 3 disaster, Mahama set up a committee, indicating that he was re-engineering Accra, but nothing happened.
Speaking on JoyNews’ AM Show on Monday, Dennis Miracles Aboagye explained, “A country entrusts its resources, freedoms, and rights to a select few so that they can guide the people and lead them towards prosperity, growth, and safety”.
“So when the leaders we have given that responsibility are merely lamenting to us, it becomes a serious problem.”
“They have failed to tell the people of this country what their roadmap is in solving flooding in Accra. A clear-cut roadmap. We are in a hopeless situation. This government should not pretend as if they just came into office and all of a sudden they are realising how Accra is,” he stated.
Dennis Miracles Aboagye added, “Our president has been president before. In fact, one of the most devastating flood disasters this country has seen in its history happened under his presidency during his first term”.
“His Excellency John Dramani Mahama, immediately after the June 3 disaster, set up a committee. In fact, he indicated that he was re-engineering Accra. What happened?” he asked.
He further added, “One of the reasons why a lot of Ghanaians went to vote for His Excellency John Dramani Mahama was because they felt that he would have learned something from the experience he had in the past”.
Eight years in opposition, you come into office with experience. In fact, His Excellency said during the campaign period that we want experience. It was one of his mantras, and a lot of people bought into it.
People were very hopeful. A 1.7 million vote difference speaks a lot. It is a huge mandate”, he observed.
“A president that some people believed in and voted for on the back of your experience, you spend one and a half years out of your few years in office identifying hotspots. That is where the problem is”, he said.
“Tell the people what your roadmap is in ensuring that, moving forward, when it rains for 30 minutes, they will be able to get to their homes. That’s what they want to hear”, he stressed.
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