'Each year it's getting worse': Sarkodie, Kofi Kinaata, Lydia Forson speak out as floods hit Accra

Some of Ghana's best-known voices weighed in as the rains submerged parts of the capital again, adding celebrity weight to a debate the country has been having for over a decade.

As floodwaters spread across Accra on Monday morning, some of Ghana's biggest names turned to social media, and the range of their responses tracked the national mood almost exactly: part concern, part fatigue, part frustration that the country keeps arriving at the same place every rainy season.

Actress and producer Lydia Forson, long one of the more outspoken public figures on Ghanaian social and political life, went furthest. She first urged people to stay off the roads, writing that it was best to stay home if they could because "the rain is no joke."

In a follow-up post she widened the lens, calling for the country to "come together as a country and make some tough decisions about how to stop these floods," and noting that the situation deteriorates each year. "Children can't dance in the rain anymore, we all run for shelter, even cars aren't safe," she wrote.

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'Each year it's getting worse' Lydia Forson speaks out as floods hit Accra — Credit: X/lydiaforson

Her words landed in the middle of an argument that has dominated Ghanaian discourse this season: whether the floods are a problem of public indiscipline or of governance and engineering.

In London in May, President John Dramani Mahama told a diaspora forum that the flooding in Accra was not an engineering problem but a problem of indiscipline, a framing that drew sharp pushback from planners and commentators who argue the failure is structural.

Musician Kofi Kinaata took a more communal tack, using his platform to check on his audience directly. "Are you safe, is your area flooded? Which area you dey?" he asked under the hashtag #AccraFloods.

Rapper Sarkodie, one of the most followed Ghanaians on the platform, kept it brief but visible, posting simply: "Stay safe out there guys." From an account his size, the reach alone amounts to a public safety nudge.

The interventions echoed the official line of the day. The Interior Ministry has urged the public to stay indoors and avoid all unnecessary movement until conditions improve, with rescue teams deployed across the worst-hit communities.

But the recurring note in the celebrity reaction was less about Monday's rain than about the pattern behind it, eleven years on from the June 3, 2015 disaster that killed more than 150 people, and with the same neighbourhoods underwater again.