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The mayor of the southern Mozambican city of Matola, Calisto Cossa, has warned that the municipal council will soon resume the demolition of buildings and other structures built in places that obstruct the drainage of storm waters.
He was speaking to reporters on Tuesday as he visited areas of the city that had been severely hit by torrential rains on Sunday night and Monday morning. Many houses had been flooded, affecting around 5,000 households.
Cossa said that, in most cases, houses and streets were flooded because the water had nowhere to go. This was because structures had been built on top of the natural drainage lines, thus making it impossible for the storm water to flow into the drainage system and down to the sea. This was very clear in the Fomento neighborhood, where Cossa found that a wall had recently been built that blocked the passage of storm waters.
“This comes as a surprise to us”, said Cossa, “since we were here in December cleaning up this place precisely so that we could deal with heavy rains”.
He suspected that the wall had been built clandestinely at night. It would now have to be demolished. “We will have to remove it to ensure that the waters from the neighborhoods of Liberdade, Nkobe and Kilometer 15 can follow their path to the sea”.
“We will have to act immediately to guarantee that the life of citizens returns to normal and to avoid further constraints”, said the Mayor. Intervention by the municipality was required to avoid any further incidents resulting from construction in places where building is forbidden.
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