Accountability or submergence: Why Ghana's flooding crisis demands radical behavioural and legal shifts
Ghana's flooding crisis demands radical behavioral and legal shifts, according to the article. Every rainy season, streets transform into raging rivers, properties worth millions of Cedis are destroyed, and precious lives are cut short. Personnel from the Ghana National Fire Service are routinely deployed to rescue citizens trapped by rising waters. The devastating floods are largely not acts of God, but direct consequences of human indiscretion, specifically the irresponsible, reckless disposal of solid waste.
There is a pervasive mindset among a section of the citizenry that one can indiscriminately dump refuse into gutters and open drains, assuming a Member of Parliament, a Municipal Chief Executive, or a government task force will eventually clean it up. Gutters are designed to channel water, not to serve as trash cans. True reform will only happen when individuals realize that no one is coming to carry away their self-inflicted filth.
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Ghana's annual flooding crisis, often attributed to natural causes, is increasingly recognized as a direct result of human actions. This ongoing
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