Samson Lardy Anyenini, a renowned broadcaster and private legal practitioner, has fumed at Ghana’s successive leadership and authorities following the June 29 devastating floods that have left at least 34 people dead.
According to Samson Lardy, 11 years after the June 3 catastrophe, we are still counting bodies and still writing obituaries for avoidable deaths.
He argued that the June 29 floods spat the refuge we choked our drains with, and days later our Municipal Authorities cannot even coordinate a swift clean-up.
The broadcaster fumed that Ghana’s capital is now a trash-choke graveyard.
Speaking on Newsfile on JoyNews on July 4, 2026, Samson Anyenini stated, “Hello, partisan robots, disconnect now. If your brain is hardwired to defend a political colour while fellow citizens drown and rot in the capital, this is not for you.
It is Saturday morning; the skies have cleared, but the grim reality has only just surfaced. NADMO has now confirmed that the nationwide death toll from Monday’s devastating floods has risen to 34 human souls, with 12 confrimed death right here in Accra”.
He added, “Thirty-four citizens are gone; 11 years after the June 3 catastrophe, we are still counting bodies and still writing obituaries for avoidable deaths. The water has receded, but it has left a sickening monument to our governance failure: massive rotten heaps of rubbish sitting in the middle of our city. The floods aggressively spat back the refuge we choked our drains with, and days later our Municipal Authorities cannot even coordinate a swift clean-up. The capital of Ghana is a trash choke graveyard”.
The broadcaster argued that existing laws already give authorities enough power to prevent such disasters.
Samson Anyenini added, “Don’t let any politician stand on television today with thick empathy or talk about needing new laws. The Criminal and Other Offences Act explicitly criminalises this littering and clogging. The Land Use and Spatial Planning Act and Local and Governance Act give our local authorities absolute power to clear obstructions, demolish lawless structures they allowed to be put on waterways and jail offenders”.
“As we know, the laws are alive on paper. Leadership is dead in practice. Instead of proactive engineering, continuous dredging and ruthless enforcement, we get reactive media stunts during the downpour and absolute silence when it clears”.
Lardy Anyenini stated. “To every president, minister, MMDCE, who has enjoyed the perks of power for the last decade or more, look at the mountain trash and the rising body counts today. Every avoidable death, every ruined livelihood, every disease that breeds in these uncollected heaps is on you,”
Lardy Anyenini dismissed post-disaster responses, asserting that firm enforcement of existing laws is needed rather than temporary relief interventions.
He added, “We don’t need your prayers. We don’t need your post-disaster warehouse distributions. We need you to enforce the law until you find a political backbone to do your jobs.
“You have blood on your hands and trash at your feet, and history will not wash it off,” he added.
His comments follow the Director of Inspectorate at the National Disaster Management Organisation (NADMO), Richard Amo Yartey, confirming that 34 people have died across the country following the devastating floods on Monday, June 29, 2026.
According to Richard Amo Yartey, 12 of the deaths were recorded in Accra, while the remaining 22 fatalities occurred in other flood-affected parts of the country.
The NADMO Director of Inspectorate stated, “The death toll in Accra is 12; across the country is 34, but it could go up. If we did the matching and realised that some of the people missing have been found dead, then the death toll will increase, and those listed as missing will reduce”.
He further disclosed that NADMO officials remain on the ground in affected communities, searching for missing persons while assisting victims.
“As I speak to you now, the warehouse is busy moving supplies to the distressed. Relief is across the country; we are going to send relief everywhere,” he stated.
NADMO further disclosed that the floods affected seven regions and displaced a total of 89,736 people.
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