{"id":606156,"date":"2019-04-08T20:32:12","date_gmt":"2019-04-08T20:32:12","guid":{"rendered":"<br><div>\n<p class=\"floatLeft\">General News of Monday,  8 April 2019<\/p>\n<p class=\"floatRight\"><strong>Source: <\/strong>classfmonline.com<\/p>\n2019-04-08\n\n<div class=\"article-left\">\n<p class=\"article-image\"><img src=\"https:\/\/cdn.ghana-mma.com\/2019\/04\/73254"},"modified":"2019-04-08T20:32:12","modified_gmt":"2019-04-08T20:32:12","slug":"tackling-floods-must-be-national-exercise-oko-vanderpuije","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/04\/08\/tackling-floods-must-be-national-exercise-oko-vanderpuije\/","title":{"rendered":"Tackling floods must be national exercise \u2013 Oko Vanderpuije"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"floatLeft\">General News of Monday,  8 April 2019<\/p>\n<p class=\"floatRight\"><strong>Source: <\/strong>classfmonline.com<\/p>\n<p>2019-04-08<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-left\">\n<p class=\"article-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.ghanamma.com\/2019\/04\/73254092.295.jpg\" alt=\"Oko Vanderpuije NBBMBAA Investors\" title=\"Oko Vanderpuije NBBMBAA Investors\" width=\"295\" height=\"203\" \/><span class=\"image_caption\"><span>Member of Parliament for Ablekuma South constituency, Alfred Okoe Vanderpuije<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"clear:right\"> The Member of Parliament for Ablekuma South constituency, Dr Alfred Okoe Vanderpuije, is advocating a national approach to tackling the perennial floods which kill and destroy property in Accra.<\/p>\n<p>The former mayor of Accra is of the view that \u201cthe national budget must create space for needed works to be done in the capital city\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>He told Class91.3FM on Monday, 8 April 2019 that the revenue of the AMA and other districts \u201ccan supplement\u201d what will be provided from the budget.<\/p>\n<p>He suggested that activities such as desilting drains, stopping constructions in waterways, preventing the dumping of refuse in open drains and the building of more drains should not be left only to the assemblies alone.<\/p>\n<p>The MP\u2019s comments follow the deaths of six persons after a heavy downpour on Sunday in Accra.<\/p>\n<p>The former AMA boss pointed out that authorities should have ensured the desilting of major drains in the capital by now in anticipation of the floods a few months to the major rainy season.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf anybody from NADMO is telling you that they have engaged in desilting the drains, they should publish it and let us know. I personally haven\u2019t seen any area in Accra or its environs being desilted. I haven\u2019t seen it,\u201d he told Benjamin Akakpo on the Executive Breakfast Show.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a style=\"display:none\" rel=\"follow\" href=\"http:\/\/megatheme.ir\/\" title=\"\u0642\u0627\u0644\u0628 \u0648\u0631\u062f\u067e\u0631\u0633\">\u0642\u0627\u0644\u0628 \u0648\u0631\u062f\u067e\u0631\u0633<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>General News of Monday, 8 April 2019 Source: classfmonline.com 2019-04-08 Member of Parliament for Ablekuma South constituency, Alfred Okoe Vanderpuije The Member of Parliament for Ablekuma South constituency, Dr Alfred Okoe Vanderpuije, is advocating a national approach to tackling the perennial floods which kill and destroy property in Accra. 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