A political marketing lecturer at the University of Ghana Business School Dr Kobby Mensah has attributed Sunday’s Kintampo Waterfalls disaster to lack of institutional collaboration in the country.
Twenty-two persons were confirmed dead with several others injured at the popular tourist site after falling trees crashed them on Sunday.
The victims, mostly students of the Wenchi Senior High School who had gone to the site as part of an excursion, suffered the tragic fate as a result of the heavy rainstorm.
It later emerged that the people originally trained as tour guides for the place had been chased away by the Invincible Forces, a vigilante group of the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP) and thus robbing revellers of their much-needed guidance.
Speaking in an interview on Radio Ghana's 'Behind the News', Dr Mensah was of the opinion that if the institutions involved had collaborated effectively, the accident could have been avoided.
“As a country we have a problem when it comes to institutional collaboration. We would think that if your work borders on someone who has……then institutions can collaborate to make them act effectively in our case we did not do that, then I was asking myself who are the authorities there to advise them".
Bemoaning the accident, he stated that the disaster will paint a bad image for our tourism industry.
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