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In Part 1, we said Accra did not flood by accident. That was not a slogan. It was a map. To understand why the city keeps flooding, we must stop looking at water only when it enters our rooms. We must follow it from where it falls, through where it gathers, into where it should pass, and finally to where it should leave. Accra was never supposed to drain through a random patchwork of roadside gutters. The city has an older and deeper water logic. Accra’s drainage system is based on natural watercourses, tributaries, lagoons, wetlands, floodplains, buffers, engineered drains…

By Stanley Asor One week after an international coalition of human rights lawyers filed suit against Ghana at the ECOWAS Court of Justice over the alleged deportation of US-transferred migrants to their countries of origin, the Attorney General’s Office has yet to indicate whether it intends to contest the case a silence that some observers describe as reckless and which could expose the state to significant judgment debt. The lawsuit, filed on 29 June 2026, seeks US$100,000 in compensation for each of the 27 migrants represented part of a larger group of more than 60 individuals whom the United States…

By Prince Ahenkorah The President of the Progressive Youth Federation Ghana, Justice Yeboah, has proposed a series of measures aimed at addressing the persistent flooding that affects parts of Accra during the rainy season. According to him, introducing a national policy on rainwater harvesting for households in the capital and encouraging the planting of grass along drainage systems could significantly reduce the impact of flooding. Speaking on the recurring floods in Accra, Yeboah described the capital as a naturally flood-prone area, explaining that many of its large streams have gradually been converted into drains and gutters, reducing their capacity to…

As GMet clarifies its technical role, questions mount over NPP’s stewardship of $200m flood prevention project By Phillip Antoh The devastating floods that claimed at least 34 lives in Accra on 29 June have reignited scrutiny of the Greater Accra Resilient and Integrated Development (GARID) project – and with it, the competency of the previous New Patriotic Party administration in managing a $200 million World Bank-funded initiative intended to prevent precisely this catastrophe. As the Ghana Meteorological Agency (GMet) moves to distance itself from the project’s financial management, insisting its role is “purely technical,” the broader question remains: how did…

-Over $11.6m Judgment Debt Blows Open Fintech Scandal By Stanley AsorThe High Court has seized the residence of Zeepay founder and CEO Andrew Takyi-Appiah, marking a dramatic escalation in the enforcement of a US$11.6 million judgment debt arising from the misappropriation of client funds. Armed police officers stormed the 11 Kofi Annan Street residence opposite Kwarleyz Hotel in Airport Accra on the morning of Monday 6 July to enforce the seizure, with video footage circulating on social media capturing the property under police besiegement. According to information, luxury cars belonging to Takyi-Appiah have also been attached to the property for…

After Former NAFCO CEO’s Attempt To ‘Abscond’ Fails By Phillip AntohFormer Attorney General Godfred Yeboah Dame has filed a habeas corpus application demanding that the state produce former National Food Buffer Stock Company (NAFCO) CEO Hanan Abdul-Wahab Aludiba before the High Court, setting up a constitutional showdown over the legality of his detention. The application, filed on Monday 6 July under the 1992 Constitution and the Habeas Corpus Act, 1964 (Act 244), follows Aludiba’s arrest by the Bureau of National Intelligence (BNI) on Saturday 4 July at the Accra International Airport just days after the High Court had granted him…

A simmering succession dispute within the Kristo Asafo Mission has erupted into open conflict, with former Member of Parliament Sarah Adwoa Safo formally petitioning the church’s Council of Elders to disqualify her brother, Nana Kwadwo Safo Akofena, from succeeding their late father, Apostle Prof. Emeritus Kwadwo Safo Kantanka. The petition, filed through her lawyer Kwame Boafo Akuffo, raises profound questions about the intersection of family dynamics, constitutional governance, and leadership succession within one of Ghana’s most prominent independent churches. At the heart of the dispute is a constitutional amendment passed in 2024, which Adwoa Safo’s lawyers argue explicitly revoked the…

Files Appeal Challenging Contempt Conviction and Gag OrderBy Gifty BoatengThe Managing Editor of The Herald newspaper, Larry Alans Dogbey, has filed a Notice of Appeal challenging his 7-day imprisonment for contempt, in a case that has become a landmark test of press freedom and judicial authority in Ghana. The 9-page document, filed at the Court of Appeal by his lawyer Peter Okudzeto, cites Kevin Okyere and Springfield Exploration and Production Limited as respondents, with Prime Mark Company Limited and Abdul Razak Bawa named as co-defendants. The appeal seeks to overturn both the contempt conviction and the interlocutory injunction that barred…

…Court Rejects Emergency Bid, Sets Stay Hearing for July 9 but lawyer questions client’s whereabouts By Prince Ahenkorah The High Court in Accra has slapped down an emergency bid by lawyers for alleged romance scam kingpin Frederick Kumi better known as Abu Trica to halt his extradition to the United States over an eye-watering $8 million fraud plot. In a dramatic twist that has left his legal team scrambling, Justice Halimah El-Alawa Abdul Baasit ruled that the emergency ex-parte application simply could not be heard without the Attorney-General being given proper notice. The judge made it crystal clear that extradition…

By Gifty BoatengThe preventable death of a 46-year-old woman at Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital on Sunday has reignited criticism of successive governments’ failure to resolve the teaching hospital’s chronic bed shortage, a crisis that has now claimed multiple lives in recent months. Laila, sister of popular musician Mzbel (Belinda Nana Akua Amoah), was rushed to the premier health facility in critical condition but was turned away because no bed was available. She died hours later, reportedly on the hospital floor. The tragedy follows the February death of 29-year-old engineer Charles Amissah, whose demise after being denied care at three Accra hospitals,…