Press Release – Akosombo Dam Spillage

The Ghana Meteorological Agency (the Agency) has noted with concern a series of interviews granted by the Public Relations Officer of the Volta River Authority (the Authority), Mr. Samuel Fletcher to the media suggesting that the Agency misled the Authority in the matter of the recent spillage of the Akosombo Dam. This assertion has also been reproduced on several other reputable news and online portals; generating wide commentaries across the political and social divide. We wish to put on record that the comment by the PRO of the VRA is false, unfortunate and a sharp deviation from the existing relationship between the Agency and the Authority. The Ghana Meteorological Agency Act, 2004 (Act 682) mandates GMet to among other things “provide meteorological information, advisories and warnings for the management of energy and water resources to mitigate the socio-economic impacts of disasters such as flood.” Read the full press release here.......Press-Release-1