heavy downpour in Sawaba, a suburb of Kumasi last Saturday
afternoon.
Mutala Abdalla was dragged away by running water into a big
gutter in the neigbourbood of Sawaba-Ansuru Sunna.
It had been raining and Abdalla had been playing with his
friends. In an effort to get home during the downpour, he
slipped into an uncovered gutter.
The family, with the support of the youth in the area had since
yesterday been searching for the body of Abdalla but to no
avail.
His grieving uncle, Mohammed Fuseini said one other boy who
also fell into the gutter survived.
“The gutter is big and unknown to the children, one of the
slabs covering the gutter to serve as a bridge was weak.
So crossing to the other side, two of them slipped into the
fast-moving water but one managed to hold on tight to a
metal in the gutter and came out
But my nephew, Abdallah was unlucky and washed away”. He
said.
Residents say numerous calls on authorities to construct a
bridge over that big gutter have fallen on deaf ears.
“As for this bridge, we have been complaining for a long. But
the politicians continue to promise us, after we vote for them
they forget about it,” a resident explained worriedly.
Residents are worried over the state of the gutter as the rainy
season approaches.
Mohammed Fuseini has appealed for public support to assist
in finding the body of the boy for the necessary burial rites.