[ 2021-02-18 ]

Youth Association in Sunyani threatens legal action against estate developers
The Sunyani Youth Development Association (SYDA)
has threatened legal action against estate
developers and house owners who have built around
flood-prone areas in the Sunyani Municipality.








According to the Association, it was collaborating
with the Sunyani Traditional Council to ensure
that properties and structures on waterways were
demolished to avert flooding during the rainy
season.

During an inspection visits by the Association to
a number of sources of rivers and streams in the
Municipality, it was gathered that many church
buildings, structures and houses had been built at
unauthorised places, particularly waterways and
the courses of rivers and streams in the
Municipality.

Households around streams such as Nana Bonsu,
Kanesua and Agozo in the Municipality were also
dumping refuse and polluting water sources in the
Municipality.

“This act of lawlessness which is becoming a
canker in the Municipality must be stopped before
the unexpected happens during the rainy season,”
Mr. Michael Asare-Yeboah, the Vice Chairman of the
Association told the Ghana News Agency (GNA) on
Tuesday in Sunyani.

He noted the Tano River, the main source of water
supply to the Municipality, was being polluted
because of the solid and liquid waste being dumped
into rivers and streams in the Municipality that
are tributaries of it (Tano River).

Most vegetable farmers engaged in lettuce,
cabbage, garden egg, carrot and cucumber
production fetched water from some of those rivers
and streams to water their crops and this could
lead to food poisoning, Mr. Asare-Yeboah cited.

“It is also unlawful to construct concrete slabs
to block waterways,” he said and therefore
appealed to the Management of the Sunyani
Municipal Assembly to help check the unpatriotic
and destructive activities of residents and estate
developers who have been polluting the Tano
River.

Mr. Atta Akoto Senior, the President of the
Association also implored the Lands Commission,
the Town and Country Planning Department and the
National Disaster Management Organization to be
proactive to avoid any preventable disaster in the
Municipality.

Efforts made by the GNA to contact one Mr. Oppong,
the Sunyani Municipal Planning Officer was
unsuccessful.

Source - GNA

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