We Don’t Learn Lessons From Our Problems As A Nation.

I write this article to extend my heartfelt condolences to the families of those who lost their lives in the recent Accra flood cum fire disaster. I still cannot sleep without meditating about the agony and pain that this disaster caused to us as a nation. May the good Lord mercifully accept those who passed on to eternity and strengthen their families and friends to contain whatever pain that arises from this tragedy.

The question that I continue to ask is, do we really learn any lessons from such disasters in our country?

Hmmmmm……… I don’t really think we do. We seem to have short memories and I guess we would soon forget of this tragedy and sit comfortably to wait for another one. Why can’t we demonstrate that at least we have a little of intellectual supremacy over animals? We are becoming a laughing stock to the developed countries we run to sort answers to our problems from. What an embarrassing situation we have caused for ourselves.

Flooding disaster in Ghana has a very long historical background and could have given us enough a time to have devised a pragmatic and scientific way of solving the situation. Since 1959, we have always recorded a certain degree of flood disaster every successive year. We have suffered a lot and must act differently to stop any political colorizations. Enough they say is enough. We must let the laws work because disasters are no respecters of a person’s status, class, ethnicity, religion and more. Our attitude towards the environment must be friendly or we risk a more devastating disaster in the near future considering the increasing degrees of our flood disasters year by year. The town and country planning and the Environmental Protection Agencies must nib the bud now. It appears our engineers and technical men have coiled back into their shells perhaps because our laws are so relaxed that, we don’t respect them.

I can remember the insults rained heavily on the mayor of the Accra Metropolitan Assembly for carrying out a demolition exercise not a long time ago. People injected politics by trying to score cheap political propaganda out of it that, the authorities were wicked to the culprits. Today here we are with same people pushing blames to government. Does this not amount to hypocrisy?

Let’s put the blame games aside and work seriously in other to avoid another future tragedy. I also urge the private sector to partner government into fixing the problem. We all must remain committed from today and urge that, we don’t make such commitment an empty talk. You and I must walk our talks now because Ghana is our only beloved nation.

The nation as it stands now is so much clouded with darkness and fear that, we must all be mournful.

May God give us the wisdom and strength to remain resolute and resilient despite our challenging moments.

LONG LIVE GHANA
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