A senior urban planning expert, Professor Martin Oteng-Ababio, has urged the government to place an immediate ban on unplanned and uncontrolled residential development on hill-tops.
He warned that the country is “sitting on a time bomb waiting to detonate soon”.
He explained that the indiscriminate clearing of vegetation on hills for housing was exposing communities to mudflows, landslides and severe erosion, particularly as rainfall intensifies.
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