The entire land area of Ayensu is a waterway but now has unlawful settlers including the hostels accommodating University of Cape Coast students. Floods occur at Ayensu at least once a year from excessive rainfall during the rainy season and/ or overflow of water from a dam built on the Kakum River by Brimso Water Works (Water Treatment and Production Company).  The buildings block the water. There are few gutters in Ayensu to channel the water from the floods therefore Amomoma (a nearby neighborhood) also gets flooded. At least 400 people are affected by the flooding. Vehicular movement is almost impossible, the indigenes cannot carry about their daily activities and students have to pass through the floods and wear an extra cloth to lectures. ayensu has become the site of attraction whenever it rains. one can predict the fate of students whenever the rain startbvdrizling. the most painful aspect of it is that some hotels get flooded and students find it difficult to go to lectures even how to go out to buy food becomes a problem for students settlers around ayensu.

hostel managers also don't see the need to ensure that they construct enough drainage systems to ensure that students who rent their facilities are safe and secured. life at ayesu is like living in a jangle for some students. school authorities have also not come to the rescue of their students anytime such an incident happens. as a concerned citizen and a member of the university community, I believe there should be a conscious effort by management to ensure that their students are safe by engaging the hostel owners to do the appropriate thing, and also the municipal should also take interest in ensuring that selfish individual does not raise structures in waterways that may cause flooding during rainy seasons. now I think the only thing to avert this situation is to construct drainage  systems to ensure a smooth flow of water so that the hostels don't get flooded

A creative change should be designed to prevent or reduce the intensity of the flooding on the large number of people affected.

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