Dr. John Kissi, Chief Executive Officer of the Ghana Hydrological Authority, has said that $5 billion will be required to address the menace of flooding nationwide.

According to him, this amount will be used to comprehensively tackle flooding issues in every city and town across all 16 regions.

He made this known during a session of the Assurance Committee in Parliament on Wednesday, August 28, 2024.

“The work that we’ve done looking at the flood waste challenges across the country we estimate that we need about $5 billion across the country to address comprehensively the flood waste challenges that we have.

“That is looking across every city and every town in every region of the country,” he stated.

The new amount is significantly higher than the budget allocated in 2023 to tackle flooding in the country.

The authority received GH¢92 million to address flooding in 2023, which is substantially less than the amount needed this year.

“In 2023 under the National Flood Control Programme, we received about GH¢92 million to undertake flood mitigation works across the country,” he told the committee.

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