Office of the President has criticised the Hydrometeo-rological Office over its failure to provide warnings in a timelier manner ahead of Wednesday’s flash flooding, which left most of the capital under several inches of water and saw millions in damages.
“Hydromet failed us,” the Government Informa-tion Agency (GINA) quoted Head of the Presidential Secretariat Dr Roger Luncheon as saying at his weekly post-Cabinet press briefing at the Office of the President yesterday, even as the Ministry of Public Works embarked on a major exercise to clear blocked drains in the city, especially in the Lodge, Charlestown, Wortman-ville, Albouystown and Queenstown areas, which was blamed for the flooding.
In light of the flash flooding, questions have been raised about the use of the $550 million Doppler Radar project intended to
