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Ghana's newly appointed Audito r-General, Dr Pamela Graham, has called for stronger enforcement of audit findings, warning that public confidence in state institutions depends on holding officials accountable for financial misconduct.
As communities across Greater Accra begin cleaning up after Monday's devastating floods, health authorities are warning that the danger is far from over.
Communities still recovering from Monday's devastating floods are being warned to prepare for another round of heavy rain after the Ghana Meteorological Agency (GMET) issued a fresh weather alert for Greater Accra and several other regions.
The Ghana National Fire Service (GNFS) has revealed the scale of the emergency that unfolded across Greater Accra and Tema over the past three days, rescuing 479 people as firefighters battled devastating floods, multiple fires, a fuel tanker inferno and the collapse of a four-storey building.
President John Dramani Mahama has warned that Accra's flooding crisis is being fuelled by a dangerous combination of climate change, uncontrolled urban development and human negligence, saying the capital can no longer cope with increasingly intense rainfall.
The Interior Minister, Mohammed Muntaka Mubarak, has defended the government's response to the deadly floods that swept through Accra, insisting that no existing drainage system could have prevented the disaster that killed at least nine people.