More than 7,700 households have been displaced and seven persons remain missing following devastating floods triggered by heavy rainfall on Monday, the Minister for the Interior has told Parliament.

The Minister, Alhaji Muntaka Mohammed-Mubarak, disclosed that Ghana also recorded its highest monthly rainfall on record in June 2026, intensifying the scale of the disaster across parts of the Greater Accra Region.

Presenting a statement in Parliament on Tuesday, June 30, he said the torrential rains disrupted economic and social activities across 18 Metropolitan, Municipal and District Assemblies, affecting thousands of residents.

He explained that 25 communities were impacted, with major effects recorded in Ga East, Ledzokuku, Ayawaso Central, Ga Central, Ga West, Ablekuma North, Ningo-Prampram, Weija Gbawe, Ga South, Adenta, Krowor, Okaikwei South, Okaikwei North, Tema West, Tema Metropolitan, La Dade Kotopon and Kpone Katamanso.

According to him, Krowor recorded the highest displacement with 6,500 people from 1,300 households, while Tema West recorded 3,450 displaced persons from 690 households and three fatalities.

Tema Metropolitan Assembly recorded 3,601 displaced persons from 721 households, while Ayawaso Central recorded 3,021 displaced persons from 605 households, along with one missing person and three deaths.

Ga East reported 2,000 displaced persons from 400 households, six missing persons and five confirmed deaths. Ledzokuku recorded 1,200 displaced persons from 240 households and one death. Weija Gbawe recorded 2,500 displaced persons from 500 households, while Ga South and Adenta recorded 2,100 and 1,850 displaced persons respectively.

“When you put all these numbers together, we have a total of 7,761 households that were displaced with 38,802 individuals affected with seven persons still missing as of this morning,” the Minister told Parliament.

He further revealed that Ghana recorded 593.2 millimetres of rainfall in June 2026, the highest monthly total since rainfall data began being tracked in 1995.

The single rainfall event that triggered Monday’s floods produced 169.2 millimetres of rain within a day, ranking as the fourth highest daily rainfall ever recorded.

He compared the figures with previous extremes, noting that the closest was 420.6 millimetres in 2002 and 380.3 millimetres in 2015.

While acknowledging that human activities such as dumping waste into drains and building on waterways worsened the situation, he stressed that the intensity of the rainfall alone would have overwhelmed drainage systems.

“Even if we had everything right, the kind of rains that we received in June would have necessarily created some overflow and created some problem for us,” he added.