The Akosombo Dam Spillage 2023: A Critique of Disaster Preparedness and Management Col Festus Aboagye (Rtd) Dedicated to all the victims of the error of judgment in the 45-day spillage of the Akosombo Dam and the organisations and individuals who responded spontaneously when the state was slow to respond. [...] Risk Assessment, Emergency Planning, and the Impact of the Flood The devastating consequences of the spillage-induced floods were felt most acutely in Mepe, the epicentre of the flooding, and Battor, Sogakope, Mafi, Adidome, and Ada. [...] At the request of the VRA and NADMO, the Ghana Navy, the Ghana Army (48 Engineer Regiment) and the Marine Police of the GPS were expected to provide boats for evacuation and water transportation. [...] The first was the construction of a bypass road connecting the St Kizito SHTS Safe Haven road to the Battor-Mepe road in the North Tongu District by the VRA as a quick response to the flooding of the main road to the haven to facilitate relief items, drugs, health services and supplies to be delivered to the Mepe community. [...] Given that the moderate-risk seismic classificakon of the Akosombo dam could be crikcal to the dam, the precipitate spillage to save the dam could also have compounded the eastward shift of the mouth of the River Volta.
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