Veteran Ghanaian rapper, Reggie Rockstone’s house has now turned a swimming pool after a 50-minute downpour in Accra yesterday, May 29, 2019.
In videos sighted by GhanaCelebrities.com on social media, some Ghanaians residing around the Kwame Nkrumah Circle got affected by the downpour losing some valuables and properties.
Three years after June 3rd this country still floods regularly and worse, people are still losing their lives to the rain.
Monday night a serious downpour hit Accra and flooded the city as usual.
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Pray for what, exactly?
Disclaimer- I don’t believe in prayer. It is a manifestation of a culture that would rather do nothing but prostate at the feet of father almighty. It is symptomatic of a culture that loves public protestations of piousness even when backed up with nothing.
Insanity is cleverly defined as; doing the same thing every time and expecting a different outcome—that’s what happens in Accra and with most Ghanaians.
Accra, the capital of Ghana has been flooding since the 1980s and perhaps even way back, and each year we are served with the usual political theatre, that it’s the last and we would never seen floods again.
Interestingly, Accra is blessed, maybe I should say cursed with the Best Mayor of Africa being in charge and yet, the Accra Metropolitan Chief Executive, Alfred Oko Vanderpuije is unable to do that one thing which will give residents of Accra a deserving peace of mind during the raining season.
Last year, on this same issue, I pointed out the irony in the mayor of the annual flood zone-Accra having been declared the 2015 Best Mayor of Africa when I wrote;
“How the Mayor of a City which is not just prone to flood because of bad planning and management but experiences flood each year that kills hundreds of people was honoured recently as the Best African Mayor is beyond my understanding—a lot of complex but dumb mathematics must have gone into this.
Interestingly, the Mayor prides himself with this award and financed by the taxpayer, he travelled to Angola, slept in a posh hotel and probably drunk bottles of fine wine to accept this empty award. The manifestation of the award is what we are witnessing today—a city flooded like a bathtub, killing innocent dwellers; children, women and men.
Perhaps, it goes beyond the mark of irony, it exposes our deep seated idiocy and far acceptance of mediocrity. Why award the man in charge of a city that flooded in 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014 and now 2015—with people dying each time it happens?”
Beyond the quarters of the man who is in charge of Accra, president- John Dramani Mahama after 2014’s Accra flood said; “I have directed the Finance Minister to release funds immediately for construction of storm drains in Accra. There will be no flooding in Accra again.”
The rains are coming down in full force and already Accra is flooded, leading to the loss of life and property that accompanies this phenomenon every single year. As usual the problems come, authorities go around paying lip service, and then everyone goes back to normal when the rains recede. Nothing is ever done to … Read more
Ghana’s political arena is like one of those ‘choose your own adventure’ novels you read as a kid. You choose from multiple scenarios as the story progresses, and with every wrong choice you go back and choose another option; and you rinse and repeat until you finally get a denouement that’s not as terrible as the ones you’ve already gone through.
Except in Ghana, you never get that perfect ending no matter how many times you go through the same steps.
It’s been raining in Accra all day, which has led to the occasional flooding issue that plagues Accra rearing its ugly head again. It’s been in the news all day, people whose settlements have flooded and have lost property and several other valuables.
Luckily this time, it has not claimed a life yet; but what it has done is put the media focus back on the issue, which in turn puts more pressure on the politicians who then have to make a kind of grandstand to prove how on top of issues they are.
The problem is, and this is why I started with the analogy I used; this happens every single year. The floods come, it claims lives and properties, draws media attention, politicians make some kind of gesture to show how they’re taking the issue seriously; and then it all goes away when the rain stops. Then all you have to do is what for the next round of heavy rains to hit the city and start the cycle up all over again.
