The New Patriotic Party joins in commiserations with the thousands of Ghanaians affected by the floods of June 29, 2026.
Additionally, the party urges the NDC government to stop paying lip service to the urgent flood control needs of the country and act with a sense of seriousness to deal with the situation.
In what is fast becoming a recurring June 3rd moment, Ghanaians are wading through floodwaters on their way to work, watching their livelihoods wash away, and waiting for a government that seems more interested in looking busy than actually solving anything.
Today, June 29, 2026, flooding has hit the N1 Highway, Apenkwa, Achimota, Kaneshie, Weija, Spintex, Darkuman Junction, and the Kwame Nkrumah Interchange. These are not new names.
They are the same communities, the same roads, the same families. Flooded again. Instead of showing seriousness to deal with the situation, the current NDC administration has only offered confusion and PR stunts in response.
Firstly, the obvious confusion under President Mahama’s governance architecture, is worrisome. Under this NDC reset government, flood management has been split between two ministries: the Ministry of Local Government and the Ministry of Works, Housing and Water Resources.
The result is not collaboration. It is a turf war. Two ministers fighting for space, for cameras, for credit while Accra drowns. Neither ministry is functioning at full capacity because neither knows where its mandate ends nor does the other’s begin. That is not an administrative inconvenience. That is dereliction of duty by design.
Secondly, to coordinate this chaos, President Mahama has placed a Deputy Chief of Staff. Stan Dogbe. A presidential staffer with no ministerial authority, no power to compel either ministry to act, and no democratic mandate to lead a national disaster response.
You cannot put a Deputy Chief of Staff over sitting ministers and expect a functional chain of command. It does not work. It has not worked. Accra is paying the price.
Thirdly, in addition to the confusion and undermining of authority, the announced anti flood control measures have either not been implemented or poorly implemented.
It is our understanding that the finance ministry has been slow in releasing the necessary funding for flood mitigation programs in their bid to keep national accounts looking good. The truth is that the NDC has broken the system as part of its reset agenda.
Meanwhile, the President, speaking at a town hall in London, told Ghanaians that flooding is partly their own fault, a product of their indiscipline and poor environmental practices.
We reject that framing entirely! Ghanaians are tired of being told the fight against flooding is a ‘shared responsibility’ every time the rains come. Shared responsibility is not an excuse to avoid accountability.
A government that cannot even decide who is in charge of flood management, let alone fix it, has failed in its most basic duty. It is our considered view that the NDC is not showing leadership. Indeed the government is fiddling with public relations gimmmicks while people suffer.
We call on President Mahama to:
1. Immediately clarify and consolidate the flood management mandate under one accountable ministry. The current split is producing paralysis, not results.
2. Remove the Deputy Chief of Staff from a coordination role he has no authority to enforce and appoint a single, empowered minister to lead.
3. Provide a full public account of the anti-flood task force: what it has done since inception, what the helicopter surveillance flights have achieved, and how the budgets made available to it have been spent.
4. Stop redirecting blame to citizens and take personal responsibility for the governance architecture he designed and that is failing Ghana.
Accra is drowning because the President set up a broken system, staffed it with people who cannot compel each other to act, and then flew to London to tell us it is our fault.
The flooding situation is getting worse and, in all probability, will worsen if government continues with this attitude. Government has to partner the District Assemblies and experts to frontally deal with issues of land use, sanitation management and robust drainage systems among others.
The NPP stands with every family displaced today. We will continue to hold this government and this President accountable. Not seasonally, but consistently.
Justin Kodua Frimpong General Secretary
