Blame Ga South Assembly For Flooding Of Your Private Houses, Leave My Estate Houses Out Of Your Mess—Estate Developer Tell Residents
The Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Medium Dwellings Company Limited, the developer of Beach Drive Estate, the real estate company located at Tuba in Accra, Mr Josiah Arku-Korsah stated this in an interview with Soireenews.com .
Freeman Koryekpor 
IT HAS emerged that the indiscriminate issuance of building permit by the leadership of Ga South Municipal Assembly to thousands of the illegal land developers (squatters) without recourse to spatial planning has been blamed for the cause of flooding incidents in New Mataheko, Ngleshie Amanfro, Kalabule and Tuba Junction areas in the municipality
The Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Medium Dwellings Company Limited, the developer of
Beach Drive Estate, the real estate company located at Tuba in Accra, Mr Josiah Arku-Korsah stated this in an interview with Soireenews.com .
According to him, currently all manner of building structures were built without reference to the master or original plan of these areas such that some fuel filling stations, churches, private schools and stores were on waterways and unauthorized places.
"These days valleys that used to collect water after rain have mostly been filled to allow for the erection of filling stations and these are visible in the town and you wonder who gave them the permits for their siting. If you delve deeper, you will notice that planning officers are included in the permit issuance so we tend to wonder if these officers do really understand spatial planning and proper land use," he stated.
The estate developer, therefore, blamed officers at the Ga South Municipal Assembly in charge of issuing building permits to persons to erect building structures, expressing worry that their attitude was gradually turning the municipality into an area prone to flooding and other disasters.
Mr Arku-Korsah said the alarming situation was more worrying because water ways and authorized places were being filled with sand to make way for the construction of fuel stations, churches, houses and other structures inin the New Mataheko, Ngleshie Amanfro, Kalabule and Tuba Junction areas municipality.
He indicated that the illegal building activities of these squatters have eventually blocked the main gutter from Tuba Hill Top area, which is meant to hold excess volumes of water flow during heavy rains.
According to Ghanaian famous seasoned estate developer, the Ga South Municipal Assembly should be held accountable for perennial floodings in these flood-prone areas in Accra because the Assembly was in league with these private developers to be building houses in the waterways and unauthorized places in these areas.
Mr Korsah explained that the estate developing has not caused any flood in these areas as was being reported by the media which went viral on social media platforms.
He asserted that that the pieces of evidence available to them clearly indicates that the indiscriminate building activities of the illegal land developers with the supreme support of some workers of the Ga South Municipal Assembly have actually caused the perennial floods in these areas when it rains heavily.
Mr Korsah's detailed explanations were in response to current allegations levelled against his company by thousands of residents including landlords and ladies at Kasoa-Kalabule and Tuba Junction of building estate houses to block their waterways.
The residents and landlords have pushed for the demolition of the buildings to end the flooding situation when it rains.
They mentioned that this long unending situation was adversely causing perennial floodings, resulting destruction of lives and properties of people living around Kalabule ,Tuber Junction, Chinese and other areas of Resurrection Power Ministry.
Speaking in an interview with Soireenews.com the residents noted that a couple of months ago when there was a heavy downpour, the flooding water has killed one old woman who happens to be in her room.
The frightening phenomenon, they stressed has angered the residents and opinion leaders in the area to petition the National Disaster Management Organisation (NADMO) boss, Mr. Kwesi Agyemang,Municipal Chief Executive (MCE) of Ga South Municipal Assembly, Mr.Joseph Nyarni Stephen, the Chief of Staff, the Member of Parliament (MP) for the area, Sylvester Tetteh to draw their attention but to no avail.
They said, series of letters has been sent to the Assembly,the office of Sylvester Tetteh, Kwesi Agyemang, Office of the Chief of Staff and the office of the MCE and individual stakeholders but they all turned deaf ears to their plights.
But in a quick response in a press conference held in Accra on Tuesday September 26, 2026, Mr Korsah called on the general public to disregard the media report which went viral on social media platforms to the effect that his estate houses have been causing perennial floods in Ngkeshie Amanfro, Tuba and Kalabule enclaves in the Ga South municipality.
He stressed that the residents of these areas who were peddling falsehood against him that his company built its estate houses to block their waterways hence causing floodings in their private houses got it wrong, saying that he followed due layout planning processes before he builds his estate houses in the area.
However, in a fact finding mission to the area on Tuesday September 26, 2023, the journalists can report that the building structures of the estate houses of the company in the area were built on the properly designed layout plan since the developer has considered a relevant building master or original plan policies of the country.
The journalists can justified in their reportage corroborated with the genuine and legal land title documents from the Lands Commission of Ghana that the estate developer has been the first person to settle on the said land at Tuba junction of Ngleshie Amanfro, Accra and that his company cannot be blamed for causing floods in these areas.
Mr Korsah explained that he has legally acquired the said land through the lease from the government of Ghana of where the Beach Drive Estate affordable houses were built after he struggled with many family members in the areas in Accra including New Mataheko, Ngleshie Amanfro, Tuba and Weija.
He indicated that eventually the government of Ghana saw that the development was visibly "so the government leased the land to him to build the estate affordable houses for the people.
He asserted that he started developing the land in the area since 2000, according to the layout being approved by the Town and Country Planning Department.
He pointed out that prior to the starting of the construction of the affordable houses on the land, all the relevant state building regulatory authorities including Ghana Hydrological Authority (HYDRO) Hydro came to the site at Tuba junction to the assess the project to ensure that the development would not cause any inconvenience in the future.
"And all these proper due diligences were legally and lawfully done by the state authorities. So l would like to use this medium to state that since we have built and finally staying here in Tuba junction at Ngleshie Amanfro, we had never experienced any flood when it rains heavily.
"...we have started experiencing serious floodings when the Ga South Municipal Assembly was established. These problems have all started when Ga South Municipal Assembly started issuing indiscriminate building permits to the illegal people to build in the various authorized places and waterways," Mr Korsah angrily stated.
He indicated that the Assembly only issued building permits to these squatters without technical supervision, stressing that these illegalities being exhibited by the leaders (planning officers) of the Ga South Municipal Assembly have brought all these flooding in these areas when its rains heavily.
"My lawyer has written to the Assembly and residents and advised them not to temper with the properties of the estate but when we go home, some workers from the Ga South Municipal Assembly and squatters/ residents in these areas have unlawfully entered into the estate and broken the estate fence wall to create illegal ways for water to pass through to the houses of the estate the company has built for its cherished clients.
He said those who are complaining of the floods in their private houses came to see him and pleaded with him to construct the draining system to pass through the estates to help addressing the annual floods being experienced in these areas.
Aside their personal visit to him, Mr Korsah pointed out that some of these residents in the persons of Pastor Edmund Quartey, Mrs. Lucy Ampratwum, Mr Samuel Nortey, Mr Roland Johnson Awherim and Mr Kofi Okofo Dartey on behalf of the Concern Landlords and Residents of New Mataheko, Ngleshie Amanfro, Kalabule junction areas wrote a letter to him with reference to the same matter.
"So we agreed that the concern residents should wait for the rainy season to end but they refused. They had not done it but they forced their way into the estate to break the fence wall to illegally open the place which situation has caused serious floods in the estate, affecting about fifteen (15) houses and that my tenants cannot occupied these houses again.
"Parts of the estate houses got flooded as a result of these illegalities of the residents being supported by some top workers of the Ga South Municipal Assembly," he told journalists.
"Those we have given small road access to private houses around the premises of the estate had all turned against us by accusing us that we had rather caused floods in their areas by blocking access waterways. These mischievous attitudes of these residents are bad, unfortunate and unacceptable.
The illegalities on the part of the Assembly, the estate developer lamented has adversely caused financial difficulties to the company since some of the occupants of the estate houses have vacated their houses as a result of floods disaster which had rocked the estate.
"If l have rented the houses to some people and because of the floods they refused to come and occupy the building, is not financial constraint to the company," he asked journalists.
Per the company development, Mr Korsah explained that it is properly planned with access drains and gutters.
"With the proper drainage done in the area of our affordable houses was to accommodate only water from the estate, so any external storm of water will cause a disaster to our people who had bought the houses from us," he explained.
He revealed that all these residents who are claiming that they have the properties around had not even have genuine and legal land title documents covering their lands because this particular place is belongs to government of Ghana.
The estate developer who double as the former employee of the Bank of Ghana (BoG) minced no words when he accused the Ga South Assembly for not having a well designed Master Building or Original Plan of these areas in the Ga State.
"The Ga South Municipal Assembly has no Master or Original Land Plan for these areas within the Ga State, so l wonder why the Assembly still issues indiscriminate building permits to the people in these areas of the municipality to build houses.So it is the time for the central government through the Ministry of Lands and Natural Resources to wake up it slumber to check these illegalities and transactions of the Assembly," the seasoned estate developer further advised.
According to him, the master or original land Plan is prerequisite of getting building permits to build a house.
"I wonder why the Ga South Municipality Assembly could issued building permits to these squatters and the Ghana Water Company Limited (GWCL) and Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) would gave these squatters utility facilities.
"Because these areas in Ga South Municipality are not planned. So you could see how the electricity poles have also indiscriminately erected. What lam saying is that all these illegalities are causing a lot of problems in our estate houses but the state authorities sat unconcerned," the seasoned estate developer fumed.
He disclosed that his estate has contained about seven hundred and fifty (750) houses and that the occupants are legitimately people who have the grands from the government of Ghana through the Lands Commission.
"So if anybody are staying outside and said that our estate houses had caused serous floodings to private houses, it is their lack of knowledge of putting houses into areas which had not under the supervision of the Ga South Assembly that has caused the floods to their houses," Mr Korsah stressed.
"In fact if these illegal developers in these areas in the Ga South Municipality have any problem, it is better they should channel their problems to their grantors and the Ga South Municipal Assembly who illegally permitted them without doing due diligences of knowing that the people had have good title to their lands.
"I don't blame them too because it is clearly shows that because of the Assembly Internal Generated Fund (IGF), they were doing these transactions or things to pave ways for them to have money to ran administrative affairs of the Assembly," he noted.
"But lam sounding a strong warning to them that the Medium Dwelling Estate Company, Beach Drive Estate and my name, Mr Korsah should not be subjected to any confusion about the floodings situation in their areas," he warned.
He disclosed that "We have even decided that very soon all the exit points that we have considered people to use to the premises of the estate, we are going to take authority from the court and closed all of them."
He added that their people are individual personalities who are tenants of the government of Ghana, saying that they didn't want the central government to be subjected to any disgrace.
He maintained that"one should understand that the government will not grant or lease a land located at the waterlogged areas to the persons to develop for estate for human beings to occupy or live in so that assertion to be rolled out."
According to Mr Korsah, all that was needed now is for leadership of Ga South Municipal Assembly to stop their illegalities in regard of issuing permits to squatters/illegal land developers to build in the authorised places and waterways in these aforementioned areas in the Municipality.
"It is the high time for the Ministry of Local Government and Local Development to ensure that the Ga South Municipal Assembly do it work properly. Because pieces of the evidence available in the Assembly showed that the workers in the Planning Department of the Ga South Assembly only grant building permits to people without to ensuring that where they are buildings are good or not good," he added.
Mr Korsah stressed that he ever ready to face anybody from the Ga South Municipal Assembly who may disgraced with what he was saying about the illegalities that the Assembly top officers have penpetrated in connection to the land permit transactions of the Assembly.
He further stressed that the Assembly did not followed the master of the whole areas before issuing out various building permits to these private land developers to build their houses indiscriminately.
"So if the Assembly is doing the right things and ensured that it devised measures to meet the leadership of Beach Drive Estate, the Assembly should have taken out our well and designed layout of these areas and developed on the layout of the other areas which had not have proper layout.
He said in the oldest days the Town and Country Planning Department would ensure that they would be a shamed there before building permits are issued to the land developers.
He suggested that it is a high time for the central government to allow the Town and Country Department to take the responsibility of issuing building permits to land developers because the Assembly did not have the real experts to discharge this important duty effectively and efficiently.
He accused the Assembly for corrupting the permit issuance system in the municipality.
He suggested that it is a high time for the central government to allow the Town and Country Department to take responsibilities of issuing building permits to the land developers because the Assembly did not have the real experts to discharge this duty effectively and efficiently.
