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Gov’t urgently needs to improve basic infrastructure for smaller communities

As I travel with the District Chief Executive of the Nadowli-Kaleo District to Kuo-dandaali one of the communities in the district which was recently declared open defecation free, I realized government would really have to do more in bridging the infrastructure needs of these communities.

Date Created : 2/8/2019 5:28:30 AM : Story Author : Ibrahim Muniru/Ghanadistricts.com

At the middle of the journey I nearly asked the car driver to stop and allow me to go back to the district capital. My reasons are that, the road we were using was just a footpath and with thoughts of the number of armed robbery cases recorded in the district, I was terrified.

I also asked myself a question if at all there is a community where we were going? Was it possible we were rather going for hunting and gathering at the valley side?

While I was curios’ to get to the community, I was got busy on my phone to Google to see if I could find Kuo-danddali on the web; but I could make any attempt I realised I could not access the internet any more, all the telecommunications networks could not access my phone .

Finally I saw the driver stopping and when I asked, he told me that was the Kuo-dandaali I was curios’ to see.

I only saw a visible frustrated number of human beings I never thought also exist on earth.

The only meal I ate with them was cooked maize. Electricity they say is nothing to them because they have no hope of getting it anytime soon.

Their source of water is the river; their children can only get to school after 7 kilometers and that has forced them many of them to stop schooling.

But when it is time for politics they come to carry them to the road side to vote and they are sent back packed like ‘caara’a local meal prepared by using beans at the local palace, very delicious and nutritious but when in the pot they are packed like that of the customers of the mortuary fridge, who are only waiting for a mass burial to be announce later by 1st January and they will also finally visit their homes.

I left the community at 5pm and I saw some of the community members already going to bed.

I left the community with a picture of malnourished children and adults in my newly discovered Kuo-danddali. I asked if I could become the MP, the DCE, the President, I would have asked that we make the community the district capital.

Two twin sisters, Kandow Pogzimaa and Kandow Pognaa who were presented with some education materials expressed hope of becoming a professional teacher and nurse respectively, but with the condition there, “is there any hope of them achieving their dreams?” I asked myself.

For me, I think it will only be by the efforts of the community’ Vuoki’ a powerful god in the Sissala land to help these girls achieve their dreams.

Well, when I get closer to Kanton Yussif and Osman Nankpa Deiwia III, they will tell me how ‘Vuoki’ will work to save these children and the frustrated lost hope and malnourished community members.

Access to health facility can only be possible after some NGOs read through this piece and get to support them.

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