The Director General of the National Disaster Management Organisation (NADMO), Eric Nana Agyemang Prempeh says his outfit is considering moves to demolish some hilltop homes at the Aburi and McCarthy Hills in order to avert a landslide.
According to him, NADMO is concerned that settlements on the Aburi and McCarthy Hills have led to the destruction of some vegetative cover in those areas.
He said the situation, was likely to trigger a landslide as happened in Sierra Leone where a mudslide and flooding disaster led to the death of over 400 people.
Mr Prempeh, who along with other officials of NADMO were on the grounds in Sierra Leone as part of the relief effort, said Ghana has a lot to learn from the sad experience of Sierra Leone.
More than 3,000 people lost their homes in Sierra Leone's mudslide, which killed at least 499 people, with more than 600 still missing.
Source: ClassFMonline.com
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This is interesting. I am not against demolition but I want to know where the authorities were when these buildings sprang up? In this country we look on when bad things are done and later wake up to 'remedy' the situation. It is bad! Go to Sodom and Gomorrah today and see the kind of settlements that are springing along the banks of the Korley lagoon. You will be shocked. The AMA and other authorities look on whilst these things go on. In the end they will be forced to pay compensation to people who shouldn't have been there in the first place.