A letter to my Community

Hmmmmmm! Did you ask if I was PROUD? Not at all, not when it has to do with you. Not when you have 
litters all over. At least you gave me pathways I can use for my daily schedules. I have a place I call home, a place I find in your bosom. Even though you give me so much headache. Especially when everybody in this community cares less about you. All we care about is how to make ends meet and get a place to rest without thinking of your future. How Selfish! At times I find it very difficult to describe it as our character or our attitude, when all we do is to litter everywhere. Polythene is our closest pal now, our next of Kin, we dump them anywhere, anytime as soon as we finish using them. Is it because we do not have dustbins at strategic locations? Or its a habit we can’t quit? 

Oooh! My neighbours! Would there ever be a day when we will dispose of polythene properly and make our community polythene free? Eeeebeeeih!!!!!. What at all has the community done to us? Huh!? 

!? Our lorry stations are worst affected, they have become footballs that we kick as we walk through the stations. For the gutters, I pity them every time I see how they struggle to pave way for liquid waste to move. My Community, I sincerely apologize for all these inconveniences. By the way, are we still expecting someone from elsewhere to provide us with dustbins?   Maybe we are waiting for a fiasco. My fellow neighbours, we live in this community and so let’s play the game responsibly. How about we set the rules, led by examples, buy our own dustbins and keep them at strategic places. We can as well be the guards, no mercy for any culprit as we hold each other responsible. Is it our character or should I say our attitude to be nonchalance to such a negative uprising? Do we after all need someone to tell us to keep our community clean, or to clean them every first Saturday of every new month? Aaaaah! Sometimes I just don’t understand. We generate the waste yet someone must tell us when to clean the waste?Rather we eat, sell and live in this filth. So soo amazing!!!

 Our gutters are choked with filth, both liquid and solid waste, whiles these channels were built purposely for liquid waste. We define what these drains must be used for.When are we ever saying NO!!! , to all these bad practices? Huh!? We are all culpable.

So much money is invested in fighting malaria every day and the death tolls per household also keep soaring up. However, we nurture these mosquitoes ourselves in the best of habitat for them. We feed and care for them every day. So why can’t they be happy spending their vacations with us, as we rather kill them using insecticides. Or its just because two wrongs just don't make a right?. Why can't we just shut up and enjoy their way of saying good evening, after all we invited them, we bore them. We rather prefer to fight the very friends we nurtured.  We are ingrates! We rather enjoy their stings and pay for the cure? Imagine what that money could have been used for. What surprises me most is seeing elites litter the environment and causing the community so much harm, they that need to educate the others on the harmful effects of littering are rather victims, ‘smh’, it’s a pity. Is it because the community is deaf and dumb? OOuuchhh!!! Yen Ara Asaase ni. Eeeih! Okukuseku!

In our markets and streets, we have chosen to use pedestrian pathways as stores leaving pedestrians to compete with vehicles for the same road. So why at all was the pedestrian Walkways created? Was for Aesthetics? Some of us claim we are students in the High Schools, Colleges and Universities yet we lead all these practices by helping our parents arrange the items on the walkways, this I think can be done better by all parties. So interesting, how we belittle our Community. I feel so sorry for you. We prefer to play hide and seek with security personnel over that too, and bribing our way out? Oooooh! What a shame!! Let’s bow our heads in Shame. We are all guilty and we know we are yet we rather prefer to Blame someone for not doing his Job as we continue to do what is Wrong, inflicting pain on an innocent community. Indeed, every sector is guilty.
Many of such negative attitudes are exhibited on a daily basis. It is either the kenkey seller who used spoilt pepper mixed with proper ones for her pepper sauce resulting in her clients suffering food poisoning, or the teacher compromised with some students just to pass them. May be the electrician helped in that illegal connection that resulted in that fire outbreak or the accountant just bloated the figures to make more money at the detriment of someone or the engineer just did a shoddy job, may be the port official allowed the inferior goods into the country without thinking of his step mother

’s grandchild of possibly consuming that product. Just May be it was you and you know it could be you. Many things we have done just to punish this ‘mute’ Community. It is time we call it ‘A QUIT’ to correct ourselves and stand up to correct others. Be a game changer Brethren. Make a difference. It all starts from Here. Do the right thing when No ONE IS WATCHING.