GHANAIANS MUST CHANGE THEIR ATTITUDE TO SAVE MASS DESTRUCTION- SAYS CHARWAY.

Looking at the mass destruction that has bedeviled our country most especially our capital cities, Charway John Nii ( a student activist of the university of Ghana and the president of Global Volunteers Group) admonished Ghanaians to change their attitude to help curb future mass damages.

The hundreds of people who have died out of the heavy downpour of rain in our country has placed the entire country in sorrows. A lot of statesmen and stakeholders have shared great concerns and Charway John Nii have added his voice to the national and international voices aimed at sharing in the sorrows of the bereaved and also looking at the way forward. Seeing the images of the dead bodies in a country like Ghana whose independence started 1957 due to downpour of rain and not a catastrophic occurrence like a quake or tsunami, one will then ask: " what went wrong?" Is it the fault of our leaders for such a disaster? Or it is the fault of the citizens.

Indeed no one will dispute the fact that the government has a role to place in ensuring that such damages and future ones are curbed. The government has the responsibility of providing the drainage such as gutters and all that is needed to help save our community.

Indeed the government has paid his dues in this provision such the national sanitation programme and others but it must never be forgotten that much of the responsibilities lies in the hands of the citizenry. It is also no issue that the drainage available is not enough but should they have been kept and maintained, the rate of destruction would have been minimal or negligible.

Frequent dumping of refuse into gutters, rivers and all drainage basins facilities is the cause of our problems as country. More often than not, people engage themselves in all forms of activities of which little is their knowledge on who bears the consequences. "No one is happy and will ever be happy for the loss of lives but this is a wake up call for all Ghanaians to show concern about all that affects them to ensure that all our problems are rectified to it highest limit. We as good citizens must fully get ourselves involved in all national programmes including that of the national sanitation and all sanitation programmes organised by NGOs, political parties, pressure groups, etc and it is only through these engagements that we will get the needed results.

God bless the youth of Ghana,

God bless our homeland Ghana and make it great and strong.

CHARWAY JOHN NII

GLOBAL VOLUNTEERS GROUP (PRESIDENT)

0542348709.