General News of Tuesday, 16 June 2020Source: Class FMFlooding: Let's be angry with ourselves, authorities – Charismatic CouncilFile photo of a flooded area after rainsThe Ghana Pentecostal and Charismatic Council has noted that successive governments have failed to deal with the issue of flooding in the country. The group said this could be attributed to the failure on the part of the citizens to demand that dutybearers work to address the problem. Emmanuel T. Barrigah, General Secretary of GPCC, said: “The Ghana Pentecostal and Charismatic Council expresses its deepest condolences to the families of the deceased victims of last Tuesday’s (9 June 2020) Accra flooding. “It is the position of the Council that the perennial Accra flooding is gradually becoming an annual ‘normal’ phenomenon, with governments, over the last three decades, paying lip-service to the problem”, the statement said. Likewise, the Council “calls on all Ghanaians to live up to our civic responsibilities by stopping the indiscriminate littering of the drains with refuse, especially plastic waste”.

Source: GhanaWeb June 16, 2020 12:20 UTC