Consulting Engineer and City Planner, Ing. Professor Nii Odartei Mills, has urged government to get a new capital for Ghana due to the poor state of the country’s current capital, Accra.
According to him, the congestion, poor planning and indiscipline makes it prudent to have another capital built from scratch. He was of the view that such a move will ensure a better planned modern city befitting a country like Ghana.
He cited the example of Abuja in Nigeria built in the 1980s which has a good plan which caters for important development issues.
“Let us have a capital that we can be proud of and be able to call it our own. I mean, the rational way of doing that is to move to a place, a quiet virgin where we can actually have a lot of land. I am not going to name any particular place but where we as Ghanaians can be proud,” he told Moro Awudu on Class FM’s Executive Breakfast Show on Wednesday, January 10.
Prof Mills also suggested scattering the location of the various ministries as the current ministries enclave. He said the current system where most of the important governmental agencies converge at one location is not the best.
“We have the ministries all crowded at a particular place. I mean, that is not good for anybody. That was done during the colonial era. Can we apply a little common sense to spread the ministries all over the country? Once you spread it the traffic to Accra will cease,” he explained.
He further indicated that making Accra the cleanest and safest city does not involve only clearing street hawkers but also motor cyclists.
Prof Mills’ comment comes on the heels of a recent decongestion exercise being undertaken by the Accra Metropolitan Assembly (AMA) at the Central Business District of Accra and Kwame Nkrumah Circle as part of efforts to keep the city clean.
He said: “Let’s not concentrate only on clearing the hawkers off the streets or roadsides. What about the motor cyclists? They are so stupid they kill themselves, they kill other people, and they’ve hit my car more than six times. If you are not able to clear Accra of these motor cyclists, then we are doing more harm to ourselves than even removing the hawkers.”
He added: “If you say you are going to make Accra the cleanest city which I think is achievable, but if we don’t put in the necessary tools and inputs that we need to be able to complete the job, then, it will become an event.”
Source: classfmonline.com
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Take it back to it's original place. Where modern Ghana and civilization started, and custodian of Ghana's education history. Thanks to Nkrumah. Every government tries to walk over the Fantis, but one day we shall overcome.
SOME PEOPLE STUDY SO MUCH AND THEN THEY BECOME ***barred word***.S, VOID OF GOD GIVEN WISDOM. WHICH NATION ON THE EARTH HAS ITS VARIOUS MINISTRIES ROUND THEIR NATION. SAY, IN THE USA, ITS VARIOUS MINISTRIES SHOULD BE SPREAD ROUND THEIR VAST 50 STATE COUNTRY. WHAT IS THE WISDOM IN THAT??????????
I support there should be a new national capital like Abuja and then Accra becomes the commercial capital like Lagos. Accra is too congested and the capital has to be moved to another place. Not everyone lives in Abuja because of how it was built,it's purposely for administrative so you need to be a big businessman to ne able to live there, how many people do you hear going to Abuja? They go to Lagos for commercial activities so same must happen here. President Kuffuor had a plan for Bui city in the B/A but I don't think that place is safe ,so we can have it somewhere in the Central or Eastern region where conflicts are rear. In any case, Rome and London have been there since the Roman Empire but the first capital for the Gold Coast was Cape Coast not Accra, it was later brought to Accra when the women of Cape Coast had a naked demonstration against the colonial masters which drove the colonial masters away from Cape Coast castle to Osu castle and thereby made Accra the capital.
Prof eng.........looks like you have issue with motorcycles.......the fact is the elite in society has milked the State well well.....the poor masses that cannot afford the luxury of a car and an airconditioned one.....has no option than okada......where are the buses....effective public transport not even Accra has it.......next time you watch your driving mirror and give them way.........some pay roadworthy and got licence to ride.............
Our problem is weak law enforcement. Whatever law u want to implement in the new capital can be done in Accra and spare us the waste of money
We don't need another capital city! London and Rome are far older than Accra but have they changed capital?
But if we move to a new capital, IS IT NOT the same filthy ppl who will go and stay there? Will they not take the same filth with them? So everytime the filth increases, we have to open a new capital and move there or what???
some article about how every policy in Ghana was designed to fail......new capital my BUTTHOLE......even common BRT ......making busses move in dedicated lanes......two successive governments couldn't make it work......NPP self them bi fake.....kai....ghana politicians
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Thanks Prof.its overdue Accra is very filthy.