Appeal for repair of damaged tunnel

RESIDENTS of South McCarthy Hill have appealed to the government to take immediate steps to repair a broken-down tunnel that has led to severe flooding of the area at the least rain showers in recent times.
They feared that the tunnel, which broke down three years ago, had been abandoned, since no effort had been made to repair it.
Their appeal followed last Friday’s rain, which left many homes flooded and caused enormous destruction to properties.
Many residents had to abandon their homes to seek refuge elsewhere.
When the Daily Graphic got to some homes on Saturday morning, many tenants were seen taking the little that they could salvage from the rubble. Others were also trying to drain the water from their rooms.
Mr Owusu Ansah, one of the landlords who spoke to the Daily, said he had lived in the area for the past 12 years and it’s only in the last three years that they began to experience such flooding.
The Chairman of the South McCarthy Hill Residents Association, Nana Asare, also told the Daily Graphic that efforts to get the Municipal Chief Executive (MCEs) and the Member of Parliament (MP) for the constituency, Ms Shirley Ayorkor Botchwey, to help repair the tunnel had not yielded any fuitful result.
Mr Asare observed that the residents also had a role to play in reducing such incidents and called on them to more co-operative in solving the problem.
"As it is predicted that this year's rain is going to be heavy, I am appealing to residents in the locality to come together to help solve the situation," he stated.