The Interior Minister, Mohammed Muntaka Mubarak, has revealed that the heavy rains on Monday, June 29, alone produced 169.2 millimetres of rainfall within 24 hours, making it the fourth-highest daily rainfall recorded over the same period.
“Mr. Speaker, by the time we got to the morning, we saw a volume that is the fourth highest that this country has ever seen since 1995. A volume of 169 millimeters of water in a day,” he noted.
The Minister further disclosed that Ghana recorded its highest monthly rainfall since 1995 in June 2026.
Briefing Parliament on Tuesday, June 30, the Minister said the country received a total of 593.2 millimetres of rainfall in June, the highest monthly rainfall ever recorded since systematic records began in 1995.
According to the Minister, previous notable rainfall records include 420.6 millimetres in 2002 and 380.3 millimetres in 2015.
While acknowledging that poor sanitation practices and unregulated development worsened the flooding, Mr. Muntaka stressed that the exceptional volume of rainfall would have placed enormous pressure on drainage systems even under ideal conditions.
“Naturally, it clearly shows that even if we had everything right, the kind of rains that we received in June and yesterday would have necessarily created some overflow and created some problem for us,” he told Parliament.
The Interior Minister also disclosed that government received an alert around midnight before the downpour indicating that rainfall was expected to intensify.
However, he said the scale of the rainfall that eventually occurred could not have been accurately predicted.
His remarks come following Monday’s floods, which have left 12 people dead, displaced 38,802 residents, affected 7,761 households, and caused widespread destruction to homes, businesses and public infrastructure across the Greater Accra Region.
