Kojo Oppong Nkrumah, the Ranking Member on Parliament’s Economy and Development Committee and Member of Parliament for Ofoase-Ayirebi, has urged the NDC government to stop politicising Accra’s stalled flood mitigation project and focus on bringing relief to flood victims.
According to Oppong Nkrumah, the NDC must stop politicisation and efforts trying to justify that the NPP is to blame for the June 29 floods.
Oppong Nkrumah referenced a quote from former president Akufo-Addo during the COVID pandemic when he told Ghanaians the economy can be brought back to life, but if people die they can’t bring them back to life.
Speaking on Joy FM, Kojo Oppong Nkrumah stated, “I beg you in the name of God, this is what Akufo-Addo meant when he said that we can bring the economy back to life, but if people die you can’t bring them back to life.
I beg my brother Atta Issah, I beg my brother Ato Forson, I beg the NDC government, stop the partisan politicisation and trying to justify that it was the NPP’s fault, please. Even the World Bank report does not support the propaganda that you are doing.
You did propaganda and won power; no problem; now focus on the people and let us find a way in which we can get them relief”.
He added, “ Me as minister of Housing, I went with Zanetor Rawlings to break ground for Odaw bus stop drainage; I did it with Zanetor Rawlings; why haven’t we paid the contractor. You are sitting there talking grammar; pay the contractor; let him finish the work he has started so that the water can flow. It is in front of the old NDC headquarters where Atta Mills used to be.
Pay the contractor; let him get the water flowing so that people don’t have to be hurt and injured and for people to die. Stop the politics that somebody used the money for drainage; if you think there is misapplication of funds, deal with the person”.
Also, 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.
Listen to the audio below:
“I beg you in the name of God… stop the partisan politicisation and trying to justify that it was the NPP’s fault.”
— Joy 99.7 FM (@Joy997FM) July 2, 2026
– Kojo Oppong Nkrumah is urging the NDC government to stop politicising Accra’s stalled flood mitigation project and focus on bringing relief to flood victims.… pic.twitter.com/aWEfDFGNCi
