Perennial floods: Enact laws, introduce flood risk management in schools – KNUST Professor

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Prof. Divine Ahadzie says the nation is now at a crises point with flood hazards.

An expert in housing construction and flood risk management says it is high time Ghanaians accepted flooding as a part of their lives and adapt to it.

Professor Divine Ahadzie, who is head of Centre for Settlements Studies, College of Art and Built Environment at Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), says accepting that flooding is inevitable will lead to the institution of measures to effectively tackle it in the long term.

According to him, the measures that will be instituted will cause people to understand the behavioural attitudes needed to mitigate the worst effects of flooding.

Many parts of the country, particularly Greater Accra and Central and Volta Regions have over…

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