The June 29 floods in Accra have been characterised by the New Patriotic Party (NPP) Minority Caucus in Parliament as the inevitable result of a government that merely discusses readiness.
The Caucus pledged to seek victim accountability.
The Minority Leader, Mr. Alexander Kwamena Afenyo-Markin, referred to the flood sights as “scenes that have become tragically familiar under this administration” during a press conference on Tuesday at Parliament House in Accra.
“Major portions of our national capital were submerged, homes were destroyed, lives were lost, and citizens were stranded in the very city that houses the seat of government,” he declared. “These are not statistics. These are our people.”
The human cost, he argued, cannot be quantified.
“Tonight somewhere in this city a mother is sitting by a hospital bed holding the hand of a child she nearly lost… a husband is searching for a wife who has not come home… a father is standing in the wreckage of a shop he built with his own two hands… watching everything he worked for float away.
“We the NPP Minority feel your pain… We hold you in our prayers tonight and in the days to come. But our compassion does not end with words of comfort,” he added.
On behalf of the Caucus, the Minority Leader promised to “use every tool of accountability available…both within the House and beyond it, to ensure that those whose negligence contributed to this disaster answered for it.”
“Yesterday’s flooding is the clearest evidence that this task force produced no meaningful intervention on the ground,” Mr Afenyo-Markin said, criticising the government’s anti-flood task force, which President John Dramani Mahama announced last year and was led by Mr Stan Xoese Dogbe, Deputy Chief of Staff in Charge of Operations.
“If serious drainage and flood mitigation infrastructure had been undertaken, the impact of the rains, however heavy, would have been measurably reduced.”
He went on to say that the incident was “a pattern, not an accident,” pointing out that weeks prior, while the President was on an official tour to Belarus and the United Kingdom, portions of the city had also flooded.
For impacted merchants, craftspeople, and families who “lost everything they spent a lifetime building,” the Minority Caucus declared that it would keep advocating for justice.
The Minister for the Interior claims that Monday’s rain caused 38,802 people to be impacted, 7,761 homes to be moved, 12 fatalities, and seven missing persons.
Additionally, he informed Parliament that 593.2 mm of rain fell on June 29, 2026, the most since 1995.
Source: newsthemegh.com