Chief of Kwaprow a suburb of Cape Coast in the Central Region, Nana Kwesi Mensah III together with residents has dredged choke gutters in his community.

The chief out of his funds concurrently had a three-kilometer drainage system constructed in view to see a long-lasting solution to his area's existing flood challenge.

The exercise follows a previous dredging of the area's Kakum River in 2016.

Residents of Kwaprow in appreciation thanked the current NDC Cape Coast North Constituency Chairman, Mr. Kwesi Walker who offered the chief his excavator to embark on the commendable two-day drainage exercise.

Assembly Member for Kwaprow-Akotokyir-UCC New Site Electoral Area, Hon. John Kilson Mensah speaking to Sompa News reporter Eric Annan said, how Kwaprow has over the years suffered in the dreadful hands of flooding should the area experience the slightest rainfall, having repeatedly called on the government's intervention but turned futile.

He uncovered, the UCC community before Nana Kwesi Mensah's enstoolment could only boast of one drainage system. Consequently, the chief's poised decision to dredge the three-kilometer drainage system.

Nana Kwesi Mensah on the other hand called on indigenes of Kwaprow, both local and overseas to come on board with their substance as he recounted there is still more to do in finding lasting solutions to the area's flood issues.

Ekow Mati Menka Hwee, a youth of the community expressing his plea over the exercise employed both well-to-do residents and the University of Cape Coast to come on board to permanently resolve the over 50-year existing menace. As he remarked the project will in tune turn safeguard admitted students of the University in the community during raining season.

Source//Sompaonline.com/Eric Annan