Haruna Iddrisu, the Education Minister and Tamale South MP, has slammed the Minority in Parliament over its recent attacks on the government’s handling of the flooding crisis following the June 29 tragedy.
According to Haruna Iddrisu, the NPP, in eight years, failed to resolve flooding in Ghana; how do they expect the NDC government to resolve it in two years?
Haruna Iddrisu further highlighted that Ghanaians expect Parliament to allocate budgetary resources that will deal with the flooding issues.
Speaking on the floor of Parliament on Wednesday, July 1, 2026, Haruna Iddrisu stated, “Yesterday the country witnessed a tragedy of floods. What the Ghanaian people expect this Parliament to do in November and December is to ensure that, in the allocation of budgetary resources, we make adequate provision to deal with these floods”.
“If you didn’t resolve it in four to eight years, why do you expect it to be resolved in two years? But let’s not politicise it. Is Parliament being responsive to the needs of the Ghanaian people? The Ghanaian people are saying save us from floods. Build better housing for us”.
When in November and December, Parliament passes the budget, and you don’t make adequate provision for the Minister for Works, Housing and Water Resources, then it means this Parliament is failing”, he noted.
In related news, the Minority in Parliament has called for the immediate dissolution of the Stan Dogbe-led seven-member presidential task force established to tackle Accra’s perennial flooding.
According to the Minority in Parliament, the June 29 flooding is the clearest evidence that the Stan Dogbe-led flood task force has failed.
They argued that Monday’s devastating floods demonstrate the committee’s failure to deliver meaningful interventions despite more than a year in operation.
The minority caucus also demanded a full parliamentary investigation into the task force’s work, chaired by Deputy Chief of Staff Stan Dogbe, following the flood that killed 12 people.
They also urged the government to implement urgent public health measures to avert disease outbreaks following the floods, which have claimed at least 12 lives.
Speaking to the media during a press conference, Afenyo-Markin stated, “Yesterday’s flooding is the clearest evidence that this task force produced no meaningful intervention on the ground. If serious drainage works, desilting or flood mitigation infrastructure had been undertaken, the impact of the rains, however heavy, would have been measurably reduced”.
“Instead, entire neighbourhoods went underwater, exposing the gap between government rhetoric and government delivery.”
“The Minority is calling on this House to establish a parliamentary committee specifically mandated to investigate the conduct of the flood preparedness task force and the relevant government ministries and agencies in the lead-up to this disaster,” he said.
“Those found responsible for negligence or dereliction of duty must be held accountable,” he stated.
“This is not a presumption of guilt. It is a basic standard of accountability that any institution facing serious questions over its conduct should observe so that the investigation can proceed without interference and so that those under scrutiny are not left to oversee the very response to a crisis their own inaction may have worsened,” he added.
Beyond demands for accountability, the Minority expressed concern over the heightened risk of disease outbreaks in communities affected by the flooding.
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"If you (NPP) didn't resolve it (flooding) in 8 years, why do you expect us (NDC) to resolve it in 2 years? But let's not politicise it." – Haruna Iddrisu, Minister of Education.#ghanawebtv #GhanaWeb pic.twitter.com/4oO7CdmDs2
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