Beyond drains: Susan Adu-Amankwah prescribes lasting solution to Accra floods

But beyond engineering, Madam Adu-Amankwah said one of the biggest problems feeding the flood crisis is the failure of policy and legal systems, especially in relation to land administration and urban development control.

Executive Secretary of the National Interest Movement, Susan Adu-Amankwah, has said Ghana’s response to flooding in Accra must go beyond the construction of drains and culverts, saying that the city’s recurring flood crisis is also rooted in weak policy controls, a broken land tenure system and poor enforcement of planning rules.“Urban engineering, resilience engineering, you know, so robust that even if the people misbehave, the system can hold,” she said.