Kasoa, East Legon Hills, Pantang, and other flood-prone areas you shouldn’t rent at

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As devastating floods continue to wreak havoc across parts of Ghana’s capital, Accra, prospective tenants are being urged to conduct thorough checks before renting property in certain flood-prone areas.

Several communities within the city have experienced severe flooding in recent days as the rainy season intensifies across the country, causing widespread destruction and disruption to properties and livelihoods.

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While politicians continue to trade blame over the perennial flooding problem instead of focusing on lasting solutions, residents remain vulnerable to the recurring disaster in Ghana, particularly in Accra.

In this write-up, we highlight some of the areas in Accra that have been severely affected by flooding over the years and continue to face significant risks during heavy rainfall.

See the list below:

  1. Alajo
  2. Nima
  3. Abossey Okai
  4. Odawna / Kwame Nkrumah Circle area
  5. Sakaman / Mataheko
  6. Glefe / Bortianor
  7. Kaneshie Lorry Station area
  8. Sukura / Russia area
  9. Dansoman
  10. Abelemkpe
  11.  Dzorwulu
  12. Airport Residential
  13. Adabraka
  14. Achimota
  15. Bawaleshie / Banana Inn area
  16. Mpoase
  17. East Legon Hills
  18. Ofankor
  19. Tesano
  20. Weija
  21. Agbogbloshie
  22. Santa Maria
  23. Tse Addo
  24. Kasoa
  25. Pantang
  26. Christian Village
  27. Dome
  28. Taifa Junction
  29. Tetegu
  30. Mallam
  31. Tetegu
  32. McCartthHill
  33. Oblogo

Meanwhile, the Accra Metropolitan Assembly has shared a new list of flood-prone areas as the capital region continues to deal with flooding and shared a list of flood-prone areas in a post on Facebook.

Also, President John Dramani Mahama has said the perennial flooding in Ghana’s capital, Greater Accra, is not an engineering problem.

According to John Mahama, the flooding in Accra is just a problem of indiscipline.

Speaking at a Town Hall meeting with Ghanaians in the diaspora on May 31st, 2026, explained, “The flooding in Accra is not an engineering problem. It is just a problem of indiscipline. It’s not an engineering problem; it’s a problem of indiscipline. We have drains, and everybody says ‘why don’t you do sealed drains?’ But the problem is, when we do sealed drains, people drink sachet water, they eat papaya in those styrofoam plastics, and they just dump them anywhere.

And these plastics wash into the drain, and they go and block the drain. And so if you have to unclog the drain, you have to remove all the drain covers and clean it out. You clean it out, and then again in the next three, four, five months, they have clogged again.

But that is not even the major problem. The major problem is the location of Accra. You have the Akuapim Mountain Range, and you have the Atlantic Ocean. Before people came to Accra, you had the Lafa stream, you had the Densu, you had the Sakumo stream, you had the Kole stream, you had the Odo stream — all of them were rainwater that falls in the mountains that flows through to the Atlantic Ocean”.

He further narrated, “Then you come and build a city in the path of those streams. What do you expect the streams to do? And even if you build, leave the courseways. If you come to London, you can see the canals in the city. If you go and build a house in that canal, where will the water go? It will go back into people’s houses.

Unfortunately, our traditional rulers are selling plots in streams. It’s not this ‘Nana nom’ I’m talking about, oh. We have places they call Ramsar sites. These Ramsar sites are wetlands. And they said that migratory birds come from Europe during the winter; they come and spend vacation with us in Africa.

See the post below:

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