Kofi Ahovi

  The Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Atlantic Catering and Logistics Limited, Maud Lindsay-Gamrat, has supported flood relief efforts in the Greater Accra Region, providing hot meals to communities displaced by torrential rains that have claimed lives and left many homeless. Working in collaboration with the National Disaster Management Organisation (NADMO), Mrs. Lindsay-Gamrat and her team distributed hundreds of hot meals across multiple flood-affected communities over two days, providing immediate relief to displaced households and vulnerable residents. On Tuesday, the intervention focused on Tema West, covering Tema New Town and communities along the Chemu Lagoon, where 500 meals were distributed. On Wednesday, the effort extended to the Klottey Korle constituency and Ablekuma North, with 200 meals delivered as part of a coordinated distribution exercise. When I saw the images of families sitting in floodwater with nowhere to go, we knew we had to act quickly. We reache...

 In the wake of this year's rainy season, Accra, Ghana's capital city, is experiencing severe flooding. This is not an exaggeration. The slightest rainfall now turns the national capital into a disaster zone. For houses built on and along waterways, the least said about them the better. Their residents wake up every morning fearing the next downpour. So far, areas hit hard include Kaneshie Market and its environs, Agbogbloshie, Mallam, Madina, Santa Maria, and many others. What has compounded matters is that the rains have shown no signs of easing. If for anything at all, we should be bracing ourselves for more rains. It is as if the floodgates of heaven have been opened upon Accra and, by extension, Ghana. But here is the question that no one in authority seemed willing to answer honestly until now: Why is this happening after successive years of relative calm? For so many years, it has rained in Accra. Sometimes heavily. Yet the floods have not been this destructive for the p...