More than 22,000 people and over 2,000 households have been affected by the devastating floods that inundated Adabraka and surrounding communities during the heavy rains on Monday, June 29, 2026, according to the Assembly Member for the Odawna Sahara Electoral Area, Hendrick Noble Kinnah.
Speaking in an interview with Bernard Avle during an assessment of the flood-affected areas, Kinnah described the scale of destruction as unprecedented, saying hundreds of residents had to be rescued while homes, businesses and markets suffered extensive damage.
“Over 300 people were rescued,” he said, adding that the number could increase as emergency responders continue to assess the situation.
Kinnah said preliminary assessments show that more than 2,000 households across Odawna, Asylum Down, Official Town and parts of Osu have been affected.
“The affected households, as I recorded now, are over 2,000,” he said.
“The affected people are over 22,000.”
He noted that the figures remain provisional because some victims have yet to be captured in the ongoing registration exercise.
“As I went to the markets now, some people were reporting to me that they’ve not written their names. So we are still counting,” he said.
Kinnah disclosed that authorities have begun removing flood-damaged goods from the markets to prevent spoiled products from being repackaged and resold to the public.
“We are evacuating the refuse from the markets because we don’t want anybody to repackage anything at the markets for reselling,” he said, adding that trucks had been deployed to transport the waste to designated dumping sites.
He explained that persistent rainfall has slowed clean-up efforts despite recent dredging works carried out in the area.
“We did a dredging about two weeks ago. The next day, it rained, and it’s been continuously raining up to now,” he said. “Collecting the silt has become very difficult because even at the dumpsite the ground is wet and the trucks cannot move.”
According to him, the floods have dealt a severe blow to livelihoods, particularly traders operating at the Odawna market, where large quantities of goods were destroyed.
“The traders, the perishable goods are gone. The rubber market, clothes—it’s made up of mixed markets,” he said.
Kinnah added that the market consists of more than 4,000 shops and stalls, many of which have sustained extensive damage.
Reflecting on the recurring flooding in the area, he said the latest disaster was even worse than previous incidents.
“I was born and bred here, and with this experience, ‘never again’ is not a word to use again,” he said. “Because it happened again, and it was worse.”
He said emergency responders remain engaged in rescue, relief and clean-up operations while authorities continue to assess the full extent of the damage to homes, businesses and public infrastructure.
