Ashanti Regional NADMO intensifies flood prevention efforts ahead of rainy season

The Ashanti Regional National Disaster Management Organisation (NADMO) is ramping up its efforts to forestall flooding up of the rainy season.

In 2024, flooding incidents successful the Ashanti Region resulted successful respective lives being lost.

NADMO is present shifting its absorption from catastrophe effect to prevention.

According to a TV3 report, the organisation has identified aggregate flood-prone communities, including Owabe, Aboabo Pelele, Akwatia Line, Sewaba, Aloga Junction, Breman UGC, and Kronom Abuohia.

Regional NADMO Director, Mohammed Nassir Ibrahim, outlined their strategy, stating that; "We are going to beryllium capable to desilt and drain the streams and gutters that are already choked, not conscionable desilt, instrumentality the filth distant truthful that it doesn't spell backmost successful there."

Ibrahim emphasised the value of collaboration, stating; "Also, we are involving our assemblymen, sub-metros, accepted leaders, and each those who matter. So that successful preparedness, we person interaction with each other, and they tin alert america connected what needs to beryllium done erstwhile we don't person the powerfulness to collaborate. When we are empowered, we volition woody with it.

"So, this year, we are hoping and praying that we get the indispensable enactment to wide the streams and gutters, and to adjacent forestall the flooding."

He expressed anticipation for the indispensable enactment to wide the streams and gutters and forestall flooding.

With the rainy play approaching, NADMO officials are moving diligently to minimise the imaginable impacts of flooding.

To heighten their flood mitigation efforts, NADMO unit successful the portion are undergoing intensive grooming successful catastrophe prevention techniques.

"Yes, we are NADMO, we person a work imposed connected america by instrumentality and by the state. But erstwhile the catastrophe strikes, it doesn't prime residents oregon travelers; it affects each of us," the determination manager remarked.

Through nationalist acquisition campaigns, desilting of drains, and assemblage sensitisation programs, NADMO is proactively moving to trim flooding risks.

As the rains gully near, residents successful high-risk areas are besides taking precautions.

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