Member of Parliament for Akuapem North, Sammi Awuku, has said Dennis Miracles Aboagye was taken back to Akuapem North after his home was reportedly affected by the June 29 floods in Accra.
Speaking during an interview with 1957, Mr. Awuku responded to a question about whether he had offered any advice to the Director of Communications for Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia’s campaign team following reports that his residence had been impacted by the flooding.
“I keep advising my brother Miracle that Accra is not his home, Akuapem North is his home. When he got affected, we had to move him back home to Akuapem North,” he said.
He added, “We took him back there, but I told him that Accra, we are all in transit.”
Asked whether Mr. Aboagye’s residence was located in a waterway, Mr. Awuku said that was not the case.
“No, no, he’s not living in the way of the water. But even this university community is not in the way of water, right? Yet they got affected,” he stated.
Mr. Awuku also claimed that the Jubilee House was affected by the heavy rains, saying the extent of flooding can sometimes be difficult to predict.
“Jubilee House was affected, it was flooded. In fact, we’re even lucky that the President was not working at that time. As for rains, you cannot really tell sometimes the angles it will take,” he said.
Ending on a lighter note, the Akuapem North MP said his constituency rallied around Mr. Aboagye following the incident.
“As for Akuapem North, we don’t leave anybody behind. Once one of our citizens got affected, we evacuated him back to the mountains because we overlook Accra,” he said.
