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.

Saving our Planet with Collective Efforts

As adventurous as I could be, I visited one of these forest reserves in Ghana.

Specifically the Shai forest reserve on the Dodowa area. One funny thing I thought of as I entered the place was whether there was any animal at all. But I was not discouraged.

I stayed hoping to find at least animal that I could be fascinated with though not much.

But I will take it like that because this is Africa and particularly Ghana where we don’t value such resources  and so we allow poaching and other things to destroy our forest reserves without any attempt to curb it.

I believe if better management is put in place we could do better.

Pictures of some creatures I saw are here.

My Bit of Inspiration

First of all, let me welcome my readers for the 2015 because as it is , this is my first post for the year. Life they say has no remote and so you need to get up and change it yourself.

Last year was like hell no! but we got through it with the help of God.

Today I want to inspire you a bit and urge you to take up whatever challenge that comes your way prudently and tactically.

Since childhood, I have lived in a secluded environment with parents and a few people whom I feel connected with. That being the case, I grew up knowing and believing fully well that my environment is a major contributor to my present behavior.

If you would ask me, I am strange, weird, awkward but am awesome and fun to be with and I love being alone but that doesn’t mean I don’t like friends. I do and in as much as I want them, I chiefly like spending the time alone introspecting.

Hmm!, that’s an introvert, isn’t it. Yes it is.

I always blamed my parents for preventing me from socializing though I didn’t despite it, but I don’t care anymore because am over it and I have come to accept it that I am an introvert.

Accepting who you are depicts that you know yourself and hence nothing will stop you from getting what you desire, want or hope to achieve.

It induces you to move on and stand up whenever you fall, and that’s what tough people are made of; relentless and never give up.

Maybe you are not an introvert but you socialize, have friends ‘lots of them’ and spends most time chit chatting, maybe you are in-between the two but it doesn’t matter.

All I want to say is, accept who you are because you were born to impress no one but your creator.

And always remember to enjoy life because life is too short to let people suck your happiness out.

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