Sammy Awuku, the Member of Parliament for Akuapem North, has told President John Dramani Mahama that Ghanaians elected him to fix the country’s problems and not tell them the problems, urging him to set aside if he is tired.
According to Sammy Awuku, this is not the time for settings, PR, bloggers, patrolling right and centre because the government want to score political points, arguing that Ghanaians need answers but not a government that will pretend to be solving a problem by just using a chopper to mock our misery.
He detailed that the Mahama administration had no excuse as the previous Akufo-Addo-Bawumia government had already undertaken comprehensive studies into Accra’s flood challenges and initiated several drainage projects.
Speaking on the floor of Parliament on June 30, 2026, Sammy Awuku stated, “Under the previous Mahama government, of which my good friend and brother Felix Kwakye Ofosu was part, on a single night in June 2015, we lost over 150 lives. A single night. Then the Ghanaian people asked them to retire in 2016.
They spent eight years studying what the Akufo-Addo Bawumia government was initiating and implementing gradually.
President Mahama is one of the luckiest presidents; your predecessor left a roadmap of a comprehensive review of Accra flooding situations. Asenso Boakye’s statement clearly enumerates the number of projects initiated under the Akufo-Addo government.
Today, the NDC, which took pride, solace and comfort in politicising every flood situation in Ghana from 2017 to 2024, is today playing the role of Pope John Paul II and behaving as if Ghana only started in 2017,” he stated.
Sammy Awuku added, “Mr Speaker, behind the statistics we see on TV are human lives being lost; people have lost their livelihoods. Somebody might have taken a GH¢2,000 loan. Today, that money is gone.
Press conferences won’t desilt our gutters. Press conferences won’t solve the problems of our poor drainage system,” he said.
Sammi Awuku added that the flood crisis requires decisive leadership rather than public relations exercises, saying, “Mr Speaker, I clearly believe that this is the time we need leadership. Leadership is not a team sport. When you are elected to lead, you lead. This is not the time for settings, PR, bloggers, patrolling right and centre because government want to score political points; we need answers. We don’t need a government that will pretend to be solving a problem by just using a chopper to mock our misery.
“We don’t elect leaders to tell us our problems. We elect leaders to fix our problems,” he stated.
“If President Mahama is tired, he can leave the position for somebody who is ready to lead us to that promised land,” he added.
Meanwhile, Gizella Tetteh-Agbotui, the Deputy Minister for Works, Housing and Water Resources, has announced that the John Mahama government will demolish buildings encroaching on six wetlands in Accra.
She disclosed that the demolition is part of a broader strategy to reduce flooding and restore the capital’s natural drainage system.
Gizella Tetteh-Agbotui detailed that the rapid encroachment on wetlands has increased the speed at which runoff flows into the capital, leaving little capacity to contain excess water.
According to her, the restoration of the wetlands is critical to preventing future flooding, adding that the government is prepared to take difficult but necessary decisions.
Speaking on the floor of Parliament on Tuesday, June 30, Gizella Tetteh-Agbotui stated, “Mr Speaker, we have about six wetlands that have to be restored in Accra alone. The reason we have to do this is that we need spaces where we can hold water. The rivers must be given their room, and the streams must be given their space”.
“So those wetlands that have been encroached upon for those who have encroached and for those who sold the lands, please find a way of getting your money back, because the government is going to take them and use them for the right purpose,” she added.
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