Flooding: NADMO calls on Parliament to speed up in passing Bill 30
Mr Owusu, NADMO Deputy Bono Regional Director, advised the public to desist from building on waterways and engaging in other activities including the indiscriminate felling of trees and dumping of rubbish into drains.
Joana Somiah 
The National Disaster Management Organization in Bono Region has called on Parliament to fast track the process of passing the bill that will give them the legal backing to demolish unauthorized structures and structures built on waterways to prevent disasters.
The NADMO Deputy Bono Regional Director, Ernest Kwaku Owusu, noted that it is the District Assemblies that currently have the power to demolish structures, so if the NADMO is given the legal backing it would go a long way in reducing flood disasters in the country.
Mr Owusu was briefing the media on measures put in place by his outfit to avert any disaster in the region during this rainy season since the regional directorate does not have any legal backing to demolish structures on waterways.
The rains have set in and the Ghana Meteorological Service has already warned of intense rainfall accompanied by strong winds this season and the directorate has intensified the education of especially people living in flood-prone areas on disaster prevention, he said.
The Deputy NADMO regional director disclosed that the region recorded a reduction in disasters in the first and second quarters of the year as compared with the same period last year, largely due to the enhanced education carried out in collaboration with Ghana Meteorological Service.
Mr Owusu advised the public to desist from building on waterways and engaging in other activities including the indiscriminate felling of trees and dumping of rubbish into drains.
Nana Ama Asiedu, Bono Region
