Displaced residents at Sodom and Gomorrah in Accra have started arriving in Tamale Joy News' can confirm.

Over 15 bus load of returnees arrived at the various bus terminals, Joy News' Northern Region correspondent Hashmin Mohammed has reported.

The returnees who have been arriving since Monday are mainly young women, Hashmin indicated.

The residents most of whom fled the Kokomba Nanumba war in the Northern Region to South in the early 90s, were forced to live in squalor for decades at the Old Fadama location in Accra popularly called Sodom and Gomorrah.

The area is located close to the major Odaw drain which is the point of convergence for many of Accra's drains.

The residents have for years been accused of chocking the drain with the filth they create at the settlement causing major floods to happen in the capital

For years, there have been threats to eject or relocate them from the area but the lack of political will meant the decision had to stall.

However after a June 3 fire and flood disaster which claimed over 150 lives the Mayor of Accra Alfred Oko Vanderpuije said it is time for Sodom and Gomorrah to go.

On Saturday, earth moving equipment flattened the area leaving thousands displaced. In anger some of the angry residents went on rampage destroying public property and attacking innocent citizens.

The demolition have left thousands stranded in the open with nowhere to go.

"I don't know where we are going to sleep now. I have two wives, five children and we don't know where to go," one of the stranded residents told Joy News' Kwakye Afreh Nuamah.

When they asked why they did not go back to their hometowns they said there is no work or economic activity for them back home.

A huge number have however returned to the Northern Region.

Hashmin Mohammed reported some of them as saying they were happy to come back home.

They are ready to start life all over again despite losing all their lives savings, some of the returnees said.