Published: July 6, 2026
Liberian singer and songwriter Faith Terryson, widely known as Faithvonic, is urging citizens to begin immediate cleanup of drainages and waterways nationwide, warning that the deadly flooding devastating other West African countries could strike Liberia next.
“Liberia is hanging by a thread. These small drainages that we get here and this little water passage that we get here, let’s start preparing to clean it. You don’t need to be in the swamp communities before you do this,” Faithvonic said.
The artist said the effects would be devastating for an underdeveloped nation like Liberia if such a disaster occurred at home.
“We have to put ourselves together, you don’t wait for it to happen because when it happened in Liberia, the way we’re still struggling from the 1990 war, we shouldn’t wait for this one to happen,” she said, adding that flood prevention should be a citizen’s responsibility and not the government’s alone.
Faithvonic also criticized the government’s failure to regulate construction, saying it has allowed residents to build homes along waterways.
“I’m talking about where rain will fall it won’t be easy, water climbing to fences, some people cars swimming. Should that happen to Liberia before we start to clean drainages?” she said.
Her appeal follows floods that killed at least 13 people, injured several others, and left thousands homeless across Ghana’s Greater Accra, Central, and Volta regions after heavy rains on June 28 and June 29. Similar flooding has struck Benin and Togo. Ivory Coast has recorded 59 flood deaths since the start of the rainy season, a toll government spokesman Amadou Coulibaly cited during a cabinet meeting Wednesday.
In Liberia, recent flooding in parts of Montserrado County left thousands homeless after hours of heavy rainfall. The National Disaster Management Agency, through Director Ansu Dulleh, said Tuesday that Liberia risks severe flooding this rainy season and urged residents to prepare.
Faithvonic said a citizen-led drainage cleanup could still spare Liberia from disaster.
“This is away from music, I’m talking about when the whole place gets flooded how people will lose life, sleeping places, jobs,” she said.
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