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00:00 - Well, thank you for staying with us.
00:02 From the political front,
00:03 we move over to talk about that pathetic situation
00:06 of residents of Bwipe in the Savannah region.
00:10 And we have a statement from the Bwi Power
00:14 that I will be reading, the Bwi Power Authority.
00:16 But just to introduce our guests for now,
00:18 joining the conversation we have Mbomura Mustafa,
00:21 Central Gonja Director of Natmo,
00:24 and also in the fray,
00:25 Isaac Nona, Savannah Regional Correspondent.
00:30 Let me start the conversation off with that press release
00:36 from the Bwi Power Authority,
00:38 debunking stories reported on myjoyonline.com
00:42 and joy99.7fm, supposedly saying that they have taken notice
00:47 of an article published by these platforms
00:49 titled "Flat from Bwi Dam Spillage
00:53 leaves 1,500 residents displaced in Bwipe,"
00:57 purporting that the flood from the Bwi Dam spillage
01:00 had left 1,500 residents displaced in Bwipe,
01:04 situated in the Central Gonja districts
01:06 of the Savannah region.
01:07 Bwi Power Authority wishes to emphatically state
01:10 that we have not been involved in any spillage activity.
01:13 It is important to note that whenever there is the need
01:16 to engage in a spillage,
01:18 comprehensive measures are taken to provide adequate notice
01:22 and education to all communities
01:23 along the downstream river channels and all stakeholders.
01:27 These measures are implemented to ensure the safety of lives
01:30 and property before, during, and after spillage.
01:32 We hereby strongly advise myjoyonline.com
01:36 and joy99.7fm to retract the publication
01:39 and issue an apology through the same medium
01:41 and refrain from making any further defamatory statements
01:45 against the Bwi Power Authority.
01:48 And that is dated the 26th, the day of September, 2023.
01:53 All right, now that we've got that out of the way,
01:57 obviously flooding causing this,
02:00 we'll get to the discussion with our guests,
02:04 but I'll start with Isaac Nnonya.
02:06 Isaac, so what is the latest that you can report
02:10 as far as those displaced are concerned?
02:13 (silence)
02:16 Hello, Isaac, can you hear me?
02:19 - Yes, I can hear you.
02:23 - All right, I was asking,
02:24 what is the latest you can report?
02:26 I know a lot of people have been displaced.
02:30 What is the current status of these people?
02:34 - At the moment, 14 children are at a family school
02:40 for them to be trained.
02:41 And a few have been relocated to join some families
02:45 outside the township.
02:46 Currently, as Danbo said,
02:49 that about 800 people were received yesterday from the tent
02:53 and many of them happened to be children and a woman.
02:56 At the moment, they said they are very worried
02:58 because I will speak, there's not anything like food items
03:01 to feed these people who are staying with them.
03:04 - So basically, these people,
03:10 how have they been able to keep body and soul together?
03:12 What have they been doing?
03:13 - Yes, the few who were able to go there with food items,
03:23 at least I make do with it
03:25 and then I share it with our colleagues.
03:26 We are told between now and tomorrow,
03:29 they will be receiving some food items
03:30 from the Savannah Regional Minister, Sayid Mwazi Jibril.
03:33 Apart from that, you will realize that Ghana Red Cross
03:37 has given some tents
03:38 and they are seeing mobilization to relieve our tents
03:41 in terms of food packages for them.
03:43 But as to when it will come, we don't know.
03:46 Behind me are a number of houses
03:51 that have been flying this, reduced.
03:54 Not going to say that they'll be cleaned out tomorrow
03:56 unless something else happens.
03:58 - I see.
04:02 So this obviously is on the back of the downpour
04:06 a few days ago, right?
04:08 It's the rain that caused the flooding.
04:11 Hello, Isaac.
04:16 All right, let me try to see whether I can get Mbomura Mustafa
04:22 to join the conversation.
04:23 He is Central Gonja Director of NADMO.
04:25 Mbomura, a very good morning to you.
04:27 - Good morning, good morning to our distinguished listeners.
04:30 - Right.
04:31 So I was asking a question of Isaac,
04:33 maybe you can confirm for me.
04:34 It is on the back of the rain a few days ago
04:37 that this has happened, right?
04:39 - Can you please your line is offline.
04:42 - Can you hear me, Mbomura?
04:43 - Can you try to repeat the question again?
04:46 - Can you hear me now, Mbomura?
04:47 - Yes, Mbomura, I can hear you now.
04:50 - Okay, it appears you're also on the move,
04:52 so you may have to maybe--
04:54 - I'm just getting myself a brief word to try to explain.
04:58 - Good, I think that will enable the conversation.
05:01 All I am asking is for your corroboration.
05:04 So this was basically caused by the rains,
05:07 a few days ago, right?
05:08 This flooding incident.
05:09 - Thank you very much.
05:13 With regard to that is what we still cannot
05:17 authenticate very well.
05:19 Though the Bureau of Authority has the ban
05:21 that they have not failed.
05:24 But in Bupre's instance, we don't have
05:27 a such a thing as expected this year.
05:30 Though yesterday, we were able to know that
05:34 the two rivers where they met at the confluence
05:37 possibly might also cause, contribute to this flood.
05:40 That is per one of the technical men on ground.
05:45 So that is our checks.
05:48 Because the water still coming.
05:50 Yesterday, around five, four to five,
05:53 people left the market to their supply.
05:55 They came to their homes, all their mattresses
05:57 were soaked in the water.
05:59 A good number of people have to be displaced
06:01 in the last few minutes, which is very bad.
06:05 - But that's an interesting scenario.
06:07 That's why I intentionally read the statement
06:09 from the Bwipowa Authority.
06:11 Are you saying as of now, we cannot confirm
06:14 whether it was the rain a few days ago,
06:16 specifically on Friday, or the spillage of the dam,
06:21 which the Bwipowa Authority says it did not conduct
06:24 that led to this, we can't confirm?
06:27 - We just rely on the rain.
06:31 Because we don't have excessive rain as expected.
06:36 This year, Bupe is not recording any massive rain.
06:39 So that is a surprising thing.
06:40 Where the water comes from is our problem.
06:42 - I see.
06:45 Yes, I am.
06:46 - Yes, in Bupe, if you come, you confirm that Bupe
06:49 will not receive the rain as other regions
06:52 or other communities we have across the country.
06:55 But the water keeps coming and destroying a lot of things.
06:59 - So what you're saying is it is implausible
07:03 that the rain caused this.
07:05 There must have been something else, right?
07:08 - Possibly, that is my assertion.
07:10 But from Bupe, as we speak, if we were to have rain
07:13 as we see other communities around,
07:17 Bupe, the destruction that we have been having,
07:19 it will be more.
07:22 If we're having more rain as we see around,
07:26 coupled with the kind of water we are having now,
07:29 the whole of the community in which the flood is happening
07:33 will have been evacuated completely, seriously.
07:37 Because we don't have rain at all in Bupe.
07:41 The clouds will gather, maybe it will just drain
07:45 from 5 to 10 minutes and off.
07:49 So ideally in Bupe itself, we don't receive rain.
07:53 But the water level keeps increasing.
07:55 As it was yesterday, in the evening, around 4 to 5,
07:59 the water level has increased beyond expectation.
08:01 We don't have it today in Bupe.
08:04 - So there is no rain, yet the water keeps increasing.
08:09 - Your water is currently in Bupe,
08:11 and you can confirm and accept the fact that in Bupe,
08:13 there's no rain.
08:14 About four to five days now, we haven't received any rain,
08:16 but the water level keeps increasing.
08:18 - I see, that's an interesting scenario.
08:21 - The water is in Bupe currently.
08:23 And if anybody who is found in Bupe
08:25 and can accept the fact that in Bupe,
08:27 about four to five days now, we have not had any rain.
08:31 But the water keeps increasing,
08:32 and more and more people are being displaced
08:35 from their homes.
08:37 - All right.
08:37 - Your water is currently in Bupe,
08:38 and you can confirm what I'm saying.
08:40 - Okay, so how then do you take this statement
08:43 from the Bwipo authority?
08:46 - I want to clarify that they have not failed.
08:49 But what I was saying, my argument was that last year,
08:53 they did, according to them, they did some testing
08:56 or sealing, but without informing us formally.
08:59 And they came to the community.
09:01 So we were thinking that, hopefully,
09:03 but for the fact that the water that came last year
09:07 will not also go back, you understand that?
09:09 And so, coupled with the little rain that we have,
09:13 I'm also proud that, but I am still surprised
09:16 because Bupe itself, we don't have rain.
09:19 - All right.
09:20 - So what is going on in Bupe
09:21 is just a surprising thing to me.
09:23 - All right, I think we've got that out of the way
09:26 in terms of clarity.
09:28 Now, in terms of those who have been displaced,
09:30 we are looking at about 1,500 people.
09:33 What relief efforts have been brought to bear
09:37 on the ground for these people?
09:39 - Well, we are assessing the situation
09:42 and compiling the reports
09:44 and sharing with our headquarters and other,
09:46 we share with our headquarters,
09:50 through our regional office,
09:51 we share with the assembly,
09:54 we share with member of parliament,
09:55 we share with other benevolent organizations,
09:57 including some factories within Bupe.
10:00 I think that one will be,
10:01 will be addressed soon with the authority
10:04 that we sent with.
10:05 But for now, what we are able to do
10:07 is that Red Cross has been able to assist
10:09 with shelter keys.
10:10 For now, we are, we are, we are, we are,
10:11 we are camping them and we are assisting them
10:14 with a temporary accommodation.
10:16 So with regard to any other relief action that will come,
10:20 that one, our authority,
10:22 higher authority must take on that.
10:24 But for now, we haven't received any,
10:26 from either the assembly or our headquarters
10:29 or any member of parliament.
10:31 So we are still waiting on them.
10:33 But the people need immediate assistance.
10:35 - And that was, that was exactly what I was about
10:37 to get to.
10:38 Some of them don't even have food to eat.
10:40 So they don't have shelter.
10:43 How do you expect them to, to, you know,
10:45 stay alive in these conditions?
10:47 - That, that, that, that is a fact.
10:49 As for that one, it's a fact.
10:51 Because we are with the people,
10:52 we see how stressful they are.
10:54 In fact, they are going through a lot of trauma.
10:57 And indeed, we use your platform to appeal
11:00 to our headquarters and member of parliament
11:03 and all other agencies that got this information
11:06 to quickly mobilize and come to aid of the people.
11:09 - Who is the member of parliament
11:10 for that area specifically?
11:12 - Honorable Abdullah John Jinapoe
11:13 is a member of parliament, the Yato Kusho.
11:16 - The, the minister for lands and natural resources.
11:18 - He is part of Yato Kusho.
11:20 - All right.
11:21 I hear there are attempts to reach him
11:22 to join this conversation.
11:25 So we can find out what he is doing in his capacity.
11:30 Of course, always there is some assistance
11:32 from the members of parliament.
11:33 But, but then what does this mean?
11:35 What next for the people?
11:37 Days, no food, no support, no shelter.
11:41 It is only those who were able to leave
11:43 with a little food who have some sustenance.
11:46 What next for them?
11:47 - That is what we, we, we, we support the people
11:52 because they are now in a trying time.
11:55 And naturally we are not more at a difficult level.
11:58 We support the people and it is good.
12:00 We, we, we all, you all support us
12:03 to share this information to everybody that matters
12:08 that can come to aid of the people
12:11 because they are going through a lot of health.
12:13 For us, because the number that we see
12:16 being displaced is not expected of us.
12:19 We were not expecting that great number.
12:22 And, and as that, even the, the,
12:24 the how to bring them together,
12:25 to accommodate them is a challenge to us
12:27 because today, if we bring all of them together,
12:29 we may not be able to take care of them
12:31 because we haven't had from enough of our big authorities,
12:34 the higher authorities.
12:35 So we are calling on everybody
12:37 and our authorities to come to the aid of these victims.
12:42 - So as it stands now, before I go back to Isaac Nonya,
12:46 as it stands now, you're saying that
12:48 as the Central Gonja Natmo Directorate,
12:52 there's very little you can do for these people.
12:55 Your hands are tied until you hear from HQ.
12:58 - Exactly.
13:01 Hold for me Mbomura, let me bring back Isaac Nonya.
13:04 Isaac, can you hear me?
13:05 - Yes, Benjamin.
13:09 - Great.
13:10 So I'm sure you are privy to that.
13:12 I'm sure you're privy to that statement
13:13 from the Bwipo authority.
13:15 It's interesting because Mbomura says
13:17 there's been no rain in, in, in Bwipo,
13:20 in a number of days,
13:22 yet the water still keeps coming into that area.
13:26 And the Bwipo authority also says
13:28 it has nothing to do with any spillage.
13:31 What can you tell us?
13:34 Is there any update on that
13:36 in terms of the source of this flooding?
13:38 - Yeah.
13:39 Yeah, yeah, Benjamin.
13:41 Your guess is as good as mine
13:43 because somebody somewhere is not telling the truth.
13:47 - All right, we'll try to--
13:54 - Assuming that at least everybody,
13:55 what are they able to say now?
13:58 (silence)
14:00 All right, Isaac, here's what we're going to do.
14:05 We're going to try to,
14:06 and that is what I thought we would have done by now.
14:08 We're going to try to call you on the phone lines
14:12 so that we can have that interaction without any hitches.
14:15 I appreciate that the connectivity may not be too good
14:20 from where you are connecting with us.
14:24 But Mbomura, very quickly,
14:26 it appears from the little that we've got from Isaac Nnonya
14:29 that he is as surprised as you are.
14:31 And he suggests that someone is not telling the truth.
14:34 - Hello?
14:37 - Mbomura, can you hear me?
14:38 - Yes, I can hear you now.
14:40 - Okay, so I'm saying that
14:41 while we try to reconnect with Isaac Nnonya,
14:44 I am saying that the little we got of him
14:46 before the connectivity issues,
14:48 he is saying that he is as surprised as you are
14:50 and that someone is not telling the truth.
14:54 - Your question is not clear, please.
14:57 - Can you hear me?
14:58 - No, yes, I can hear you.
14:59 - Okay, just hold for me, hold for me.
15:01 Let me go to Isaac.
15:02 I'll come right back to you.
15:03 Isaac, you were making a point
15:05 suggesting that someone wasn't telling the truth.
15:09 - Benjamin, somebody is not telling the truth
15:11 in the sense that the questions are asking.
15:14 It's like that the police authorities killed the people
15:19 and they're content by not the official clear.
15:24 And I did hear the same authority
15:27 contacted five district directors of Namu,
15:31 Gwale, Bute, Banda, and that of Yusafelor
15:36 to submit a budget for them to come around
15:40 to use seven days to certify people
15:42 to stay along the river bank
15:45 because their water level was so high.
15:47 And in that budget was submitted
15:51 and Bui's son has not gotten back to them.
15:54 They're questioning, why, number one,
15:56 why did they come to tell the other,
15:57 anything to submit a budget?
16:01 Had they come to educate the people?
16:03 If no, had they filled the bank,
16:05 they had much longer time.
16:06 So they sent the water over.
16:09 Because as they were listening,
16:12 it was already so normal of this land.
16:14 By the time that their water keeps on increasing,
16:19 we have to see the main market of Bute also being flooded.
16:24 We saw funding, funding in the river.
16:29 So unless official government should come in
16:33 as the regional council suggested,
16:35 they will come in officially to bring Namu
16:38 and then Bui Dam together.
16:39 Because all know that the Black Bonsai shares
16:43 is for Bui Dam.
16:45 While the whole Bonsai around Bute,
16:47 I mean, not going that side,
16:49 shares is for Bandeja.
16:52 So where from this Bote?
16:55 Bui Dam need to come out, have to come again.
16:59 We are not able to fill the water.
17:01 But they need to examine the surface.
17:02 Yesterday, I got a post from Bamboi.
17:05 And somebody told me that the water level was high,
17:11 but only to see that it's moving towards up here.
17:16 So where will that water flow into the Bamboi river?
17:21 Because they see, because they have no resources
17:24 to go bring this here.
17:26 So it's high time that the Black Bonsai
17:31 from the agency and then the Bute authorities
17:35 sit down with government to make sure that
17:39 anytime anything wants to happen,
17:41 they're very clear.
17:42 They need to come together and then do the needful.
17:45 All you know, last year it happened,
17:47 this year it has happened.
17:49 You don't know next year, the second year,
17:51 what will happen, will it be the worst or not.
17:54 I will speak, a lot of people who supposed to be in the swamp
17:57 are gone.
17:57 They are not going to swamp anymore.
17:59 All the swamps are merged.
18:01 When you're asking me to,
18:03 because there's a community that needs to work.
18:06 You're over-affected.
18:07 It has gone beyond the two other communities.
18:11 Get it closer to this junction.
18:12 25 minutes away from the place.
18:17 So where does the water come from?
18:19 Is it rainfall?
18:21 Certainly no.
18:22 - Unless maybe the water is coming from the ground
18:25 or something.
18:27 - As you may come from the ground.
18:29 Where was that water from?
18:32 Was it from the land just image?
18:34 The land just feeling the freedom.
18:37 Was it from that one?
18:38 Because obviously if the ground is like
18:40 from the last year, it's the water.
18:43 Any water coming from that environment would be soaked.
18:47 So the ground is soaked.
18:51 And the last time I used it regarding the relief action.
18:55 No official action, apart from the general records,
18:58 the site is, that's the site,
19:01 the food, family tend to die.
19:03 No food, no water, nothing.
19:06 The other community added,
19:09 the food, food needs to last longer.
19:10 That was added to them.
19:12 It's almost from another one, it's occupied.
19:14 And according to that more,
19:18 as of yesterday, instead of 70, 80,
19:21 yesterday they gathered 100 people.
19:24 And a good number of them were children and pregnant women.
19:36 - Isaac.
19:37 - Denzil, I'm here.
19:38 - Yes, so that's,
19:40 this is a very troubling situation from our end,
19:43 especially because we cannot even determine
19:45 the source of the problem.
19:46 I mean, for starters, it's very problematic.
19:49 The water keeps coming as Mbongra has rightly stated,
19:53 and you can't even tell what the source is.
19:57 And the Bwipo authority is saying,
19:59 we are not responsible and we don't know.
20:02 And it's not raining.
20:03 So it means it cannot be the rain
20:06 over the last five days at least that have caused this.
20:09 And that must be very confusing
20:12 for the people who are stranded and have nothing,
20:15 no assistance as of now,
20:17 because NADMO is also,
20:19 they have their hands tied.
20:21 So how have the people basically been getting by?
20:24 - Benjamin, let me tell you this.
20:26 As of last year's finish,
20:28 the chief of Bwipo, the former Abdullahi Mbongra,
20:31 he might introduce,
20:32 confirmed that the ceiling was from Bwipo.
20:35 That this camera confirmed it was from Bwipo.
20:39 They're not wrong, confirmed.
20:40 But Bwipo came in at the night last year.
20:43 Only for them to come back,
20:45 did the chief confirm that this ceiling.
20:48 Now,
20:49 the chief also told Benjamin Khamon,
20:52 after he had confirmed,
20:54 that we shouldn't pay what he told us earlier on.
20:58 It's obvious that he will be economical with the crew.
21:02 - Okay.
21:02 - They want to keep an eye on people's expenditure.
21:06 Because some of the reasons we spoke to one other council,
21:10 made the same claim.
21:11 That look, this year we will not have no rain.
21:14 This water is from the top.
21:15 Where is that from?
21:16 What do we do?
21:17 That was the obligation he said he gave.
21:20 - Right, so this is a pretty delicate situation.
21:22 We're just hoping that in the coming hours
21:25 and maybe throughout the day,
21:28 we can get some assistance.
21:29 Mbongwa, we're grateful that you were able to join us
21:32 for this conversation.
21:34 And we wish you the very best on that endeavor.
21:36 Mbongwa Mustafa is Central Gondia Director of NADMO.
21:40 And we also had, just a short while ago,
21:42 Isaac Nonya-Savannah, our Savannah regional correspondent.
21:45 So, very interesting commentary from both ends.
21:48 But let's now introduce into the conversation,
21:50 Abdul Rashid Hassan Pelpo,
21:52 member of parliament, WA Central.
21:53 A very good morning to you, sir.
21:56 - Hello, good morning, my brother.
21:58 - I don't know how good the morning is
21:59 on the back of this latest development.
22:01 You represent that caucus, you know,
22:04 pushing for something to be done about this situation.
22:07 How did you receive the news?
22:09 - Well, thank you so much.
22:12 I received this news with a lot of pain and despair.
22:16 The fact that we have this perennial problem
22:19 and we have no answer to it.
22:21 Now we are even arguing whether it is because
22:24 of the Bagri Dam or because of the rain.
22:27 It shows lack of scientific approach to this whole issue.
22:31 And it also shows lack of commitment
22:35 as to what exactly will reduce our yearly food supply.
22:40 You know, it's just not about the people
22:42 who are suffering now.
22:43 It's about the totality of our food stock
22:46 being hampered by situations that we can easily understand
22:51 and control.
22:53 And we seem not to be caring much about it.
22:56 It's a disturbing situation.
22:58 - Now, from where you sit, I mean, it's been a few days now.
23:03 There's no relief support, so to speak, from NADMO.
23:06 They are also sitting and waiting for some goods
23:10 or logistics to come from HQ.
23:13 So Central Gonja NADMO has its hands tied.
23:17 In the meantime, about 1,500 people have been displaced.
23:21 How do you feel about this?
23:25 - It's part of the general lukewarm attitude
23:30 of this present situation we have.
23:32 Present governance system.
23:34 We are seeing, you know, anything about planning ahead,
23:39 about development, about issues that can be analyzed
23:42 scientifically and with approaches that can solve
23:45 the problem are relegated to the background.
23:47 Except when they say, oh, there's a load coming,
23:49 then everybody's up and doing and running.
23:52 But that's wrong.
23:53 We need to plan ahead.
23:55 You know that this is a perennial problem.
23:57 You don't need to go to Burkina to say,
23:58 have you opened the dam before?
24:00 You should plan ahead and say that within this period
24:03 and this period, these are likely to happen.
24:05 What are the alternatives we are going to use?
24:06 Then you plan it and let us understand
24:09 exactly what you are doing.
24:11 And then you can approach the situation scientifically
24:13 and with approaches that can, you know,
24:16 relieve the people of this yearly pressure they have.
24:19 They have no such understanding of it.
24:21 And look at NADMO.
24:23 NADMO by this time should have had a satellite view
24:26 be from Ghana, you know,
24:28 view what exactly is happening there.
24:30 And you can report by yourself that, look,
24:32 we have watched the place.
24:33 This is the river line coming from into Ghana.
24:37 Now water is flowing there at this volume.
24:40 Between this time and this time, it will hit Ghana.
24:42 So we need to prepare about it.
24:44 And last year, the experience should have gotten us
24:47 a feeling that this time we would have to prepare
24:52 adequately, provide the needed resources
24:55 because it's likely to happen.
24:56 How come that in the United States?
24:58 I'm just using it as an example,
25:00 not because we are equal to the United States.
25:03 Somebody will call and say,
25:03 "Oh, look, you are using United States.
25:05 We are not equal to them,
25:06 but we are practicing their democracy.
25:08 We are riding their cars.
25:09 We are happy about them,
25:10 but we don't want to practice the things that can help us."
25:12 They are able to project and say that,
25:14 look, at this time, the hurricane will hit this place.
25:19 So the people will be evacuated.
25:21 They will do A, B, C, D.
25:23 You can copy a lot more things that are more expensive
25:27 than just doing a satellite vision and projecting that.
25:31 And then you cannot copy this simple technology.
25:35 Even if you don't have the technology right now,
25:37 it is purchasable.
25:38 We can buy it.
25:39 You can even contract a company to do it for us.
25:44 So we understand that between now and next week,
25:47 flood will be coming to your country.
25:49 You need to graduate.
25:50 You need to plan towards it.
25:52 So I think that it's a disturbing situation
25:57 that a whole people are subjected to this situation
26:01 on perennial basis,
26:03 and we are unable to solve the problem,
26:05 and we are throwing our hands.
26:06 Not more, it's throwing its hands.
26:07 It's just sitting down.
26:08 They are saying there are no resources coming.
26:10 From where?
26:10 We didn't plan for it.
26:12 And if it were to come from government,
26:13 government has not planned for it.
26:15 And government is as helpless as I am here
26:18 and the poor people.
26:20 So what is the use of paying money to them
26:22 and getting them to do all the things they are doing?
26:25 Paying salaries, getting them to ride cars,
26:27 and et cetera, et cetera.
26:29 So we are let down by our own government.
26:32 - Thank you.
26:33 Thank you for joining the conversation,
26:35 Abdul Rashid Hassan Pelpo,
26:37 he is a member of parliament, WA Central.
26:39 Before that, we had Mbomura,
26:41 Mustafa Central, Gonja Director of NADMO,
26:43 joining the conversation,
26:44 and Isaac Nonya, our Savannah regional correspondent.
26:47 Sometimes I ask myself,
26:48 maybe we should shift our political season
26:51 to the rainy season.
26:52 So that voting will happen in that season.
26:56 So that if you've not done the right thing
26:58 and there's flooding and the rest,
27:00 people will not go out and vote.
27:01 Maybe that's one of the ways
27:02 to get our political actors to sit up.
27:06 Because if people are not coming to vote for you,
27:07 maybe you'll think twice.
27:09 These things happen.
27:10 And look at these people, stranded.
27:12 You wouldn't want to be in their shoes.
27:13 Stranded, completely stranded.
27:16 No food, no real accommodation,
27:19 exposed to the elements.
27:21 What a country.
27:23 This is still the AM Show.
27:26 We'll be back with a bit more.
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