加纳 Mahama 总统（图左）在阿克拉易受洪水侵袭地区听取报告
John Dramani Mahama 总统已下令修复加纳首都阿克拉的马尔拉姆交汇处（Mallam Junction）附近的拉姆萨尔（Ramsar）遗址和蓄水盆地。该遗址位于马尔拉姆交汇处立交桥下方，几乎已被砾石填满，并转变为一个平面场地，准备由私营公司凯特克汽车公司（Caitec Motors）占用。Mahama 总统于 4 月 2 日即下令道：“把你在这里存放的所有砾石都移走。自己承担费用，把它运回到你带来的地方。”
总统的命令是在他访问首都一些易受洪水侵袭的地区时，由政府抗洪任务组组长兼副幕僚长 Stan Xoese Dogbe 先生向他汇报后下达的。这次巡视为预期雨季的到来做准备，任务组于此两周前先进行了空中侦察。
这次巡游将总统和他的随行人员带到了其他易受洪水侵袭的地区，包括Achimota、Kaneshie First Light 和 Odawna at Circle。Dogbe 先生解释说，由于对水道的侵占，下游的 Sakaman 和邻近社区的房屋在最小的降雨量下也会被洪水淹没。“总统先生，我们可以清理上游的所有地方，但如果这种淤积继续存在，(这个地区的洪水将继续，甚至可能恶化)。” Stan Dogbe 先生向总统如此报告。为此，Mahama 总统表示，蓄水区的淤积不仅对财产构成威胁，也对人的生命构成威胁。他说，并不是因为政府对商业没有同情心，而是必须毫无畏惧或偏袒地执行环保法规。Mahama 总统批评了 Ga South 市政议会，因为该议会看着一个受限制的地区被砾石填满。“你能想象一下，当这个地方下雨时，它能容纳多少水吗？如果你把它填满，然后说应该有一条排水沟通过，排水沟就不能容纳这么多的水。” Mahama 总统提示道。在 Kaneshie First Light 地区，Mahama 总统敦促承包商在雨季前加快排水工程。他呼吁 Odaw 河的疏浚承包商加快工作进度，以减轻暴雨期间该地区遭受的洪水。Mahama 总统于 3 月 31 日在宰牲节（Eid）祈祷时便警告说，水道和其他未经授权的地方的建筑将被拆除。在那之后的两天，他便进行了本次巡游。
Restore Mallam Ramsar Site …President Orders Caitec Motors
President John Dramani Mahama has ordered the restoration of a ramsar site and a water retention basin at Mallam Junction in Accra.
The site which lies beneath the Mallam Junction Interchange has virtually been filled with gravel and turned into a plane field in readiness for habitation by the private firm, Caitec Motors.
“Remove all (the gravels you have deposited here). Take it back to where you brought it from at your own cost,” President Mahama ordered on Wednesday.
The President’s order followed a briefing given him by the Chairman of Government’s Anti-flooding Task Force and Deputy Chief of Staff, Stan Xoese Dogbe, when he embarked on a working tour of some flood-prone areas in the capital.
The tour was in anticipation of the wet season and comes on the back of an aerial recce by the task force about a fortnight ago.
The tour took the President and his entourage to other flood-prone areas including Achimota, Kaneshie First Light, and Odawna at Circle.
Mr Dogbe explained that as a result of the encroachment on the water course, houses downstream at Sakaman and adjoining communities get flooded at the least downpour.
“Mr President, we can do all the clearing upstream but if this siltation stays, (the flooding around this area will continue and probably worsen),” Stan Dogbe reported to the President.
To this end, President Mahama said the siltation of the water retention area posed a danger not only to properties but human lives.
He said it was not because the Government does not have sympathies for businesses but the environmental by-laws needed to be enforced without fear or favour.
He took a dig at the Ga South Municipal Assembly for looking on for a restricted area to be filled with gravel.
“Can you imagine the volume of water this place alone can hold when it rains? If you fill it up and say there should be a drain passing through, the drain cannot contain the amount of water,” he noted.
At the Kaneshie First Light, President Mahama urged contractors to speed up drainage works ahead of the rainy season.
He called on dredging contractors at the Odaw River to accelerate their work to mitigate flooding the enclave sees during downpours.
President Mahama’s field visit comes two days after he warned at the Eid prayers on Monday that buildings in water ways and other unauthorised places would be pulled down.
来源：加纳时报
文：BY JULIUS YAO PETETSI
翻译：无尽夏
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