There are two main criminals in Ghana;
teachers and nurses. But now I must add the average Ghanaian to that list. The
average Ghanaian consists of the pharmacists, taxi drivers, caterers, and
builders. These are people who would more likely take decisions to harm another
rather than not. Let’s take builders. Builders or those who work on the construction
sites take decisions on a daily basis to steal materials from the site that
they are paid to develop. But they don’t just steal cement. They steal iron rods.
The iron rods are needed to keep the buildings erect, strong and safe. There is
no building without the rods..it’s only a matter of time until the building
collapses.
It is with a heavy heart that I write this
blog today. Last night I read that an 11 year old boy has lost his life in the
Brong Ahafo Region after his school wall collapsed on him. The title of the
article read, “The Price of Education.” This title is fitting. Not only did
that boy have to worry about his teachers not showing up, lack of materials,
lack of space, but now parents must also worry about walls collapsing on their
children while at school.
Who will answer to this boy’s parents? Or
the parents of the little girl who was hit by lightning while schooling in an
uncompleted building. Or the parents of the children who are waiting for the
contractors to complete the school they were paid to build. There
will be no answers because the “average” Ghanaian does not respect the ones he is
paid to work on behalf of. The parents will get the casual “I beg” and the “authorities”
would have called it a day. The school has continued lessons under the tree. It
has not closed down for reparations and further construction.
This is not the first time this year that a
building collapsed in Ghana. We have all heard of the Melcom Supershop
disaster. That mayhem claimed more than 20 lives. Those numbers may be
even higher since the initial numbers of possible victims was false.
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