By Elsie Appiah-Osei
Accra, June 30, GNA — The New Patriotic Party (NPP) Minority Caucus in Parliament has described the June 29 floods in Accra, as the predictable consequence of a government that only talks about preparedness.
The Caucus vowed to pursue accountability for victims.
At a press conference in Parliament House, in Accra, on Tuesday, Mr Alexander Kwamena Afenyo-Markin, the Minority Leader described the flood scenes as “scenes that have become tragically familiar under this administration.”
He said: “Major parts of our national capital were submerged, homes destroyed, lives lost; and citizens stranded in the very city that houses the seat of government. These are not statistics. These are our people.”
He said the human toll must not be reduced to numbers.
He added: “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.”
The Minority Leader, on behalf of the Caucus, pledged 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.”
Mr Afenyo-Markin criticised the government’s anti-flood task force announced last year by President John Dramani Mahama, chaired by Mr Stan Xoese Dogbe, the Deputy Chief of Staff in Charge of Operations, saying: “Yesterday’s flooding is the clearest evidence that this task force produced no meaningful intervention on the ground.
“If serious drainage and flood mitigation infrastructure had been undertaken, the impact of the rains, however heavy, would have been measurably reduced.”
He added that the incident reflected “a pattern, not an accident,” noting that parts of the capital were also inundated weeks earlier when the President was on an official visit to the United Kingdom and Belarus.
The Minority Caucus said it would continue to press for justice for affected traders, artisans and families who “lost everything they spent a lifetime building.”
Monday’s downpour, according to the Minister for the Interior, displaced 7,761 households, affected 38,802 people, and left 12 dead with seven still missing.
He also reported to Parliament that the June 29 2026 rainfall recorded 593.2mm of rain, the highest monthly total since 1995.
GNA
Edited by Benjamin Mensah
Reporter: Elsie Appiah-Osei
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