Massimiliano Colasuonno Taricone, the Consul of Ghana to Italy and Trasacco Boss, has passionately rebutted claims that the luxury Villaggio apartment complex causes Accra flooding.
The Trasacco Boss was replying to a netizen who claimed the luxury Villaggio apartment is one of the major causes of the flood issue.
The netizen in his post claimed, “If we seriously want to talk about the flood issue, then this building is one of the major causes”.
However, Massimiliano Colasuonno Taricone in his reply argued that Villaggio is not only the vanguard of Accra’s design but a model for how drainage systems should be implemented and managed.
He cited heavy private investments in drainage protection, litter prevention, and monthly cleaning at its low-lying site.
In a post on X, the Trasacco Boss argued, “In the past, I have tried in vain to explain, to nameless, empty headed people like this one, that Villaggio represents not only the vanguard of Accra’s design but also a model for how drainage systems should be implemented and managed.
I have spoken about the funds invested to protect drainage points from littering and, above all, the money we spend monthly to clean them, even though there is a waste collection company that is supposed to do the job”.
He further accused critics of spreading unscientific “urban legends,” scapegoating wealthy developments and politicians instead of addressing personal failures in waste management and environmental respect that worsen floods.
Massimiliano Colasuonno Taricone added, “Since Villaggio sits at the lowest point of the area, it doesn’t take a scientist to understand that without such investment, the water won’t drain away and flooding will occur.
Your problem isn’t a lack of logic, but your inability to grow and improve. Your idiocy lies in spouting urban legends without a shred of scientific evidence; it is convenient to blame politicians and the wealthy rather than acknowledging your own failure to respect the environment.
I would be inclined to let this slide if the matter weren’t so serious, if so many people hadn’t lost their lives. In the past, regarding similar issues, individuals reported for defamation and tracked down by the cybercrime police ended up begging for forgiveness from prison, unable to afford even a halfway decent lawyer or cover the damages they caused.
You may think that by acting this way you are disrespecting me and my family, and you might even revel in that, but in reality, you are distancing the truth from the solution and showing disrespect only to those who have died and lost everything”.
Meanwhile, 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.
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In the past, I have tried in vain to explain, to nameless, empty headed people like this one, that Villaggio represents not only the vanguard of Accra’s design but also a model for how drainage systems should be implemented and managed. I have spoken about the funds invested to… https://t.co/pqBFHkGzGw
— Consul of Ghana to Italy (@consoleghana) July 1, 2026
