There is no letup to unfolding interesting developments on the political realm, the facilitators largely being persons at the helm of the ship of state.
Words they uttered yesterday are at variance with what they are saying today, differences which punctures their integrity.
When our President and Commander-in-Chief who superintends over the affairs of this country speaks, the words make headlines, whichever way these tilt on the scale of integrity. His integrity is measured by the veracity of these words. Any fault line in the integrity of his positions or words will be used to query him.
In Accra, the raining season is a moment of distress for residents because of the rampant flooding of the national capital and its accompanying destruction of property and sometimes fatalities.
The June 3, 2015 killer deluges spanning three days exposed more than any other in recent times, the fallouts attributable to poor urban planning and dearth of enforcement of bylaws. The rains are here again, and the President who was in charge during the 2015 destructive deluges of Accra is at the helm once more.
The most destructive rains so far this year has had people talking and the President’s response is that the problem is not engineering but indiscipline.
We do not disagree with him outright but would be quick to state that both have played roles in the flooding of Accra; the human factor and government’s failings in prioritising infrastructural developments.
When he was an opposition leader in 2024, he was captured blaming a destructive downpour on his predecessor; an engineering problem by implication.
According to him, government had taken a World Bank facility to address the Accra floods but failed to achieve the objective as the nation’s capital continues to witness destructions when the heavens open.
His party, when voted into power, he said, would revert the functions of the Sanitation Ministry to the Local Government Ministry so that the incessant perennial rains would not be as destructive. By implication, the problem of Accra at the time he passed a comment on the subject, was engineering and which had not been fixed by the government after collecting so much from the World Bank.
Today, in 2026, as we are welcomed to a brand new raining season, the now President John Mahama has shifted the post; ‘the problem with Accra flooding is not an engineering one but indiscipline.’
We find it interesting, even funny, that the President would be shifting positions so rampantly. Anyway, politics is about blending truth with lies to achieve a productive amalgam.
In 2025, the President empaneled a committee chaired by the Deputy Chief of Staff Stan Dogbe and supported by others including the Local Government Minister and the National Security Coordinator to stem the tide of flooding in Accra.
The committee is yet to submit its report a year on since its inception.
