NADMO reports that 20 people have been rescued from floods caused by Tuesday's rain.
Flood victims from Dansoman, Odorkor, and Dzowulu are rescued by NADMO.
The majority of Accra's towns have flooded – NADMO
Accra has been left in ruins after heavy rains caused severe flooding overnight.
According to the National Disaster Management Organization (NADMO), at least 20 people have been rescued from floods in Accra caused by heavy rains from Monday, May 23 to Tuesday, May 24.
According to NADMO, the majority of the victims rescued were from Dansoman, Odorkor, and Dzowulu, according to 3news.com.
Archibold Cobbina, the Greater Accra Regional NADMO Director, stated in an interview on 3FM that the organization is only rescuing flood victims and has not begun distributing relief items.
"Many areas have been flooded." Areas such as Ledzokuku, Tema, Sakaman, parts of Spintex Road, Odorkor, Circle, Kaneshie First Light, and others... About twenty people have been rescued in the areas of Dansoman, Odorkor, and Dzowulu, but others are still being rescued in other parts of the country," he said.
Furthermore, the NADMO regional director stated that they have observed a worrying trend of Ghanaians dumping their garbage into the rain, which is one of the main reasons the city floods whenever it rains.
"... when it starts raining, people bring out their garbage and dump it in the raining waters... "At Sakaman, people have dumped trash right in the middle of the road," he added.
Heavy rains poured from the evening of Monday, May 23, 2022, to the early hours of Tuesday morning, destroying various parts of Ghana's capital.
After only a few hours of rain on Monday evening, parts of the capital were flooded, and videos of cars submerged in water, kiosks floating atop floodwaters, and roads flooded had taken over social media platforms.
After more than 7 hours of rain, one would be lucky to wake up in a house with no flooded rooms, a shop with its contents still intact, an office with no water in its compound, a market stall with no ruined goods, or a road not covered by floods if driving or in a vehicle.
There were signs of devastation everywhere, from uprooted trees to cars being crashed, tarred roads being destroyed, and wooden structures being carried away.
Flooding has also caused heavy vehicular traffic in some areas of Accra.
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