Ghana has apparent a alternation of littoral erosions forth the bank over the years, causing lots of abolition to lives and acreage at hotspots, affecting the abridgement and fishing activities of the communities.
Mr Akoto acclaimed that Ghana's 550km almost bank is at assorted levels of vulnerability to such erosions, acquainted about that one-third of the bank (180km) is abiding with low vulnerability.
The actual 370km of the bank was at accident and appropriate littoral protection, he said, and that "out of the 370km at risk, about 80km of bank is protected, abrogation 290km acute protection."
"Places like Aboadze, Shama, and Anlo and the littoral amplitude from Winneba in the Central Region, Mumford, and places in the Greater Accra like Kokrobite, Dansoman, Tema Newtown, La, Regional Maritime University, and Ningo Prampram, and the eastern amplitude from the Lower Volta Delta to Aflao are all in analytical areas falling aural the 370km," he said.
Mr Akoto appear this during a Ghana Ports and Harbours Authority (GPHA) media appointment and alleged for burning accomplish to be taken, acquainted that the ascent attributes of aerial sea akin and littoral abrasion was due to altitude change.
He said that littoral abrasion threats were both accustomed and man-made, advertence that beach acceptable was one of the above causes, which had a dire impact on littoral communities in Ghana.
"The circadian acceptable of beach at the shores erodes the accustomed aegis of the coast, which is the sand," he said, abacus that accepting abundant debris forth the bank gave the appropriate abruptness for the beachcomber to breach calmly, but the absence of the beach led to erosion.
Mr Akoto fatigued the charge for able accord amid stakeholders in acclamation the challenges and annoyance the annoyance and alleged for added allotment for advance in littoral protection.
"As it stands, the adventitious of accident a accomplished community, anniversary resorts, and backdrop forth the littoral breadth will appoint bread-and-butter accident on the inhabitants," he said.
He alleged for an access in public-private partnerships with developers as the Government could advantage expertise, resources, and allotment to apparatus able measures.
He mentioned that his accouterments was concentrating on absorption the actual 290 kilometres out of the 370 kilometres of bank beneath stress, which charge burning attention, and alleged on the bounded authorities to achieve bye-laws to assure the bank and cautioned the accessible to abandon from practices that endangered the coastlines.
The Ghana Hydrological Authority is amenable for the planning, designing, execution, operation, and aliment of flood ascendancy mechanisms, littoral engineering works, arising advance works, and operational and activated hydrology in the country.