Accra Floods: President Mahama chairs emergency security meeting at Flagstaff House

President John Dramani Mahama was chairing a national crisis and emergency meeting at the Flagstaff House, as at the time of filing this report.

According to Graphic Online’s Presidential Correspondent, Kwame Asare-Boadu, the President was being briefed on the situation in Accra following the floods and accompanying fire outbreak that killed over 100 people and destroyed properties.

The meeting, which is aimed at reviewing strategies to prevent future occurrences, was being attended by the country's security chiefs.

The President, who visited the site of the fire disaster site at a Goil filling station at the Kwame Nkrumah Circle, expressed his shock and dismay at the disaster.

“A lot of people have lost their lives. I am at a loss for words to express how I feel, many of them through the floods and then many of them through the fire incident that took place here as the result of the explosion that took place in the filling station located right here”, he said.

“We have to take some measures to be able to avoid this in the future, and often when these moves are started, you have a lot of sympathy and pressure not to take those measures, but I think that the time has come for us to move out of the waterways and the public should understand that… I mean this loss of lives is catastrophic…” he added.