June 3,a page in history books of Ghana

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It's obvious that the government deosn't always carry out its responsibilities as required of them. However, if we are always going to  play the blame game. Then I am afraid nothing is ever going to work in this country. Common sense would dictate that an individual must keep his or her environment clean. But here we are, in  a country that has being engulfed in filth in all our major cities with no measures being put in place to curb the menace. It's indeed a very lamentable situation when it comes to waste management systems in Ghana. If you walk down a major street in the ten regional capitals of Ghana and doesn't find any heaps of garbage, then you must be dreaming. June 3rd, 2015 was an explicit consequence of what happens when people become negligent of their responsibilities and the leaders in the society equally shirk their duties. An estimated number of 180 people dying on single day owing not to war but sheer negligence.

In case, you are unaware of the causes of June 3 disaster, then let me brief you. It happened at the Kwame Nkrumah circle interchange. I had rained for hours and as usual the place began to flood. As the level of the flood increased, a fuel station nearby had left it fuel storage open leading to the  leaking of fuels to  commingle with the flood. A man who had decided to smoke threw the cigarette with the fire into the flood and there it began, igniting an explosion one could never think of. This was what the fire service indicated in its report.
Now, taking into consideration the deplorable state of our waste management systems in the country, your guess is as good as mine as to what would cause the flood in the first place. Then comes the carelessness of the workers of the fuel station to properly seal their fuel storage tanks.

This issue is relevant due to various implications that it brings to bare.
 Poor people only become poorer, some die, and a whole lot of implications that one cannot phantom.
If only the people of this country will, for once contribute to the solution of this problem, and if the government will provide the requisite facilities to help manage this waste and control and construct proper drainage system.
But with the nature of politics going on this country, we can only pray that leaders of the country  get the political will to implement policies and effective management regardless of what the mass would say. If it's good, no one with proper conscience would reject anyway.
Heavy rains are natural phenomena we can not prevent, however  flooding is something we can control if effective management are put in place.