Ken Agyapong, a former Assin Central Member of Parliament, has broken his silence concerning the flooding situation in Ghana, particularly in Accra.
According to Ken Agyapong, Ghana has been flooding since before independence, with 3,000 dead, 700,000 displaced, and $1 billion lost, not due to hurricanes or tsunamis.
He argued that the rains didn’t fail Ghana but Ghana failed itself.
In a post on X, Ken Agyapong wrote, “Ghana has been flooding since before independence.
3,000 dead. 700,000 displaced. $1 billion lost.
Not from hurricanes. Not from tsunamis.
From the gutters, we blocked ourselves. From waterways we built on. From warnings we ignored.
The rain didn’t fail us. We failed ourselves”.
In related news, the Chief Executive Officer of the Financial Intelligence Centre, Kwadwo Twum Boafo, explaining the flooding situation in Accra, has said structures like Villagio should never have been built.
According to Kwadwo Twum Boafo, the site where Villagio used to be located was a whole was a wetland, but was later filled with laterite for structures to be built on the wetland.
Speaking on Metro TV’s Good Morning Ghana, Kwadwo Twum Boafo, explained, “So I’ll give you a prime example. Villagio should never have been built. Because if you are old enough to remember, that whole place was marsh. When I say marshland, I mean a wetland.
And the runoff from the Akuapim Hills used to go there. Then we allowed somebody to come and surcharge the soil when I say surcharge the soil, fill that marsh with laterite so that he could build that structure.”
“So what simply happens now is every time it rains, the runoff… You can’t cheat the runoff. It will still come, and it will flood that side of Accra.”
“Do a simple experiment. Put water in this cup here and put this bottle inside it and see what happens… there’ll be an overflow.”
Kwadwo Twum Boafo further added, “Our relationship with natural greenery areas like the Korle Lagoon is terrible. Who made the decision to turn the Korle Lagoon into a [drain]? … Because you put cement on the embankments, so it’s not semi-permeable anymore. God does not do anything just like that”.
He explains natural drainage, salinity, and osmosis in lagoons, noting that concreting them creates barriers.
He further explained, “We have allowed people to build in wetlands. Go to the Ramsar sites… some of our best people were willing Ramsar sites to their relatives.”
Kwadwo Twum Boafo further explained that the whole of Holland was under the water table, but they were able to engineer the country properly to allow the drainage systems to work.
“Anybody who has been to Holland… Netherlands means the lowlands. The whole of Holland is under the water table. But what happens, they have engineered that country properly to allow for the drainage systems to work”, he added.
See the post below:
Ghana has been flooding since before independence.
— Ken O. Agyapong (@realKenAgyapong) June 7, 2026
3,000 dead. 700,000 displaced. $1 billion lost.
Not from hurricanes. Not from tsunamis.
From gutters we blocked ourselves. From waterways we built on. From warnings we ignored.
The rain didn't fail us. We failed ourselves.
