GMet has predicted more rains than usual; flood situation imminent – NADMO Boss

Director General of National Disaster Management Organisation (NADMO), Maj. Rtd. Dr Joseph Bikanyi Kuyon has disclosed that per information his outfit has received from the Ghana Meteorological Service (GMet), flood situations are imminent this rainy season.

This is due to the fact that the Service has predicted more rains than usual for this season.

“First of all, Ghana Meteorological Service makes us understand that we are going to have more than usual rainfall and so that tells us that the situation of flooding may be imminent this year,” he said.

Speaking in an interview on TV3’s Hot Issues, Sunday, April 13, 2025, Dr Joseph Bikanyi Kuyon noted that areas with poor settlement and low-lying areas will be affected by the rainy season.

He explained that NADMO’s preventive measures is focused on these areas and the organsiation is prepared for unforeseen occurrences in such areas.

“We are also monitoring the Hydrological Service report. For instance, they are talking about rising water levels at the Weija dam and so it is giving us that feeling that we need to get very ready for anything or any possibility.

“For rainfall pattern, it will affect low-lying areas and it will also affect settlements that are not well-planned and then we are also looking at even where there is planning and we ourselves through human activity have disturbed the plan, for instance choked drains, buildings in water ways those are the things that would normally influence the flooding. And so, our focus is on those areas where we look at the possibilities of the occurrence,” he emphasised.

The Director General assured that work has commenced to minimize flood situations in Accra during the rainy season.

According to him, as far back as February 13, 2025 NADMO came up with a road map to minimize flooding situations by triggering what he termed “as the anti-flood response emergency plan which requires that all staff of district and regional bodies will trigger their operational plans, that is getting work done. Like I am saying where you are supposed to desilt, you start desilting and where you are supposed to dredge, to start dredging.”

He added: “Work is ongoing to ensure that these things we work to prevent it as much as possible and if it does happen, it should be on smaller scale. We are working as an organization and not waiting for it to happen before we act.”

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