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Gloria Kani’s Rickety House Floods After Slight Downpour – Watch her Rain Insults on Gov’t

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Gloria Kani, a former actress now ordained as an evangelist of God, has heaped insults and curses of the government of Ghana after her house was flooded by rain. Part of the Ashanti Regional capital -Kumasi was nearly submerged under water after two hours of heavy rains. The evangelists put on social media the sorry … Read more

More Floods: Bunkpurugu In The Northern Region Floods- Killing Three People

We haven’t finished with dealing with the fallout of last week’s floods and we already have another one to deal with. Torrential rains in Bunkpurugu district of the Northern Region last night led to the flooding of the area, leading to the death of three residents. According to myjoyonline: “Three people are said to have … Read more

It Rains, Accra Floods: Time for Another Round of Political Theatre

Ghana Flood
Ghana Flood

 

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.

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