Alogboshie Residents Call For Fair Distribution of Flood Relief Items

A week after severe flooding hit parts of the capital Accra, the city still does not look like it used to.

While the initial waters have receded, the crisis is far from over.

Severely hit communities are still cleaning up after the devastating floods that swept through the Greater Accra Region, clearing anything in their way, including buildings, wooden structures, goods, and commodities.

A visit to Alogboshie, a suburb of Accra, revealed yet another devastating scene of the disaster.

Residents are still crying over their losses, and others are picking up what the flood left behind.

An area filled with only wooden structures reported that about eleven of them were swept away by the flood.

One of the structures carried away had a 21-year-old woman and a two-month-old baby in it, who are still missing.

"My 21-year-old daughter and her two-month-old baby were in the wooden structure and taken away; we haven't seen or heard anything about them since. I've been called to the morgue to see some unidentified bodies, but they weren't part," a victim shared.

Another resident, a seamstress, also complained about the inability to work since the floodwaters carried her industrial sewing machine away.

After a week without school, some school children have finally been able to return to school after their parents salvaged their uniforms from the rubble.

One parent told 3 Music TV that her child's schoolbag remains missing, so he has to put her stuff in a plastic bag.

Upon reaching the school with her daughter, they were met with laughter and ridicule due to the bag she carried.

"I was so worried about how my daughter would cope in school with her plastic bag as I turned to leave," she said.

Some parents, however, have not been able to get their wards back to school.

Other residents have described doing a never-ending laundry and cleanup of clothes and household items covered in mud.

Meanwhile, the Member of Parliament for the Constituency, Okaikoi North, Theresa Lardi Awuni, mobilized relief items for the affected residents, which were distributed on Monday, July 6, 2026.

Items including mattresses, bags of rice, oil, clothes, and plastic bowls were among the many things she delivered.

According to some residents, prior to the distribution, their names were taken and marked for the items.

However, they were not given the items when they came and accused the distributors of being unfair towards them.

One of the residents resident who  told 3 Music TV that the distributors reserved the items for people who were not affected rather than the actual victims.

"I heard they were sharing the items, and I rushed there because I wrote down my name, but they didn't give me anything. I saw that some other people who weren't affected by the flood were given the items, and some even received two mattresses," she claimed.

Many more shared her sentiments and are now pleading with the government for fair treatment in the recovery journey.

The residents further called on Non-Governmental Organizations and philanthropists to aid them.