Ghanaian entertainer Adane Best has shared a harrowing account of a near-death experience during a flooding incident 26 years ago, revealing that a goat indirectly saved his life while he was trying to escape a flood.
He revealed this in an interview with Andy Dosty on Joy Prime on July 1, 2026, when the discussion turned to the flooding incident that gripped Accra on June 29.
Adane Best recounted the ordeal that unfolded during heavy flooding in Chorkor in 1996, where rising floodwaters forced him to flee his home in a desperate search for safety.
“I was staying at Chorkor at the time. Heavy rains caused the area to become flooded, destroying people’s properties. My house got flooded and the waters were rising fast, so I decided to get out of there,” he narrated.
As he stood at the entrance to his home trying to identify a safe route, a goat beside him was doing the same. Both spotted what appeared to be a shallow and passable route, and the goat went first.
What neither of them knew was that an electric wire had snapped from a nearby pole and fallen directly into that path.
“The moment the goat went ahead of me into the water, it got electrocuted and died on the spot. I saw that and quickly took another route,” he said.
According to him, had he gone ahead of the goat, or even alongside it, he would not have survived.
“It was after that I realised that it could have been me if not for that goat. God had used the goat to warn me and save my life,” he said.
Source: Ghanaweb