A video has surfaced of a poultry farmer at Pantang who allegedly lost more than 1,000 chickens after severe flooding in Greater Accra.
A post shared by a netizen showed a video from Pantang in Greater Accra showing hundreds of dead, mud-covered chickens piled up after severe flooding destroyed a poultry farm.
Reports suggest the owner lost over 1,000 birds.
Some Ghanaians reacting to the development stated, “Hmm
Being born in the wrong country is a problem.
Because in the West, he would be receiving state-sponsored benefits to rebuild immediately because the government understands him and his employees’ livelihoods are on the line”.
One X user added, “The amount of money and property lost in this rainy season, especially among small business owners, those who took loans to invest in their businesses. How will they even recover their losses?”
“Every single year it’s the same story. A little rain, and suddenly we are counting losses. First, it’s flooded roads; now a poultry farmer at Pantang loses over 1,000 chickens. When are we going to fix the poor drainage systems in Greater Accra? Agriculture is already hard enough without predictable disasters destroying investments”, a netizen added.
In related news, the Chief Executive Officer of the Financial Intelligence Centre, Kwadwo Twum Boafo, explaining the flooding situation in Accra, has said structures like Villagio should never have been built.
According to Kwadwo Twum Boafo, the site where Villagio used to be located was a whole was a wetland, but was later filled with laterite for structures to be built on the wetland.
Speaking on Metro TV’s Good Morning Ghana, Kwadwo Twum Boafo, explained, “So I’ll give you a prime example. Villagio should never have been built. Because if you are old enough to remember, that whole place was marsh. When I say marshland, I mean a wetland.
And the runoff from the Akuapim Hills used to go there. Then we allowed somebody to come and surcharge the soil when I say surcharge the soil, fill that marsh with laterite so that he could build that structure.”
“So what simply happens now is every time it rains, the runoff… You can’t cheat the runoff. It will still come, and it will flood that side of Accra.”
“Do a simple experiment. Put water in this cup here and put this bottle inside it and see what happens… there’ll be an overflow.”
Kwadwo Twum Boafo further added, “Our relationship with natural greenery areas like the Korle Lagoon is terrible. Who made the decision to turn the Korle Lagoon into a [drain]? … Because you put cement on the embankments, so it’s not semi-permeable anymore. God does not do anything just like that”.
He explains natural drainage, salinity, and osmosis in lagoons, noting that concreting them creates barriers.
He further explained, “We have allowed people to build in wetlands. Go to the Ramsar sites… some of our best people were willing Ramsar sites to their relatives.”
Kwadwo Twum Boafo further explained that the whole of Holland was under the water table, but they were able to engineer the country properly to allow the drainage systems to work.
“Anybody who has been to Holland… Netherlands means the lowlands. The whole of Holland is under the water table. But what happens, they have engineered that country properly to allow for the drainage systems to work”, he added.
Watch the video below:
A poultry farmer at Pantang lost more than 1,000 chickens after severe flooding in Greater Accra pic.twitter.com/wRmBjcgrjT
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