Thursday, 15 September 2011

RAIN FALL IN UPPER WEST

It is becoming evident on us that the ecological-system is changing rapidly as a result of greenhouse emissions and pollutions. Governments are making strenuous efforts at cutting greenhouse emission, but is it serious enough to reduce the level at which it has reached?
This issue is having a toll on the underprivileged in society, including me the writer who happens to come from the north-western part of Ghana where there is underdevelopment. It is no secret that the difference between the north and the south is so vast that the northerners have always wished that they could equally have had the opportunity of having the fertile land, forest vegetation and so on and so forth, so that their passion for farming could be realised.
During the early days as we were growing up, between February and March, our farms were cleared and immediately after Easter, the farms were planted and by May/June people could see green vegetation very visibly scattered about everywhere. But now it has changed! This year for instance, the first rains came in around Mid-June there about and started raining seriously in July. But it used to be that by August, people had the opportunity to "chase away hunger" because they had fresh corn, vegetables, and many more which helped them to stand on their feet. Now it is no longer like that and as at July people were still ploughing and planting their farm lands. Even as at August, others were still 'Transplanting' their seedlings.
It is therefore important that people are educated on the importance of "preserving nature" and in trying to do everything possible to reduce pollution, degradation, deforestation and greenhouse emission.
The importation of very very old Vehicles, Computers, TV's, Fridges and even footwear must be seriously looked at and dealt with. In Accra, I live close to a place where whoever it is that I do not know, has piles of used footwear (and it gives a very bad stench), which is burnt periodically for metal hooks and whatever they have been looking for from them, are searched for and collected, at the peril of the lives of those who despite the health hazards the smoke poses to them is ignored, either knowingly or unknowingly. All these contribute to the strange diseases we are suffering from and yet people do not seem to care a hook about anything in anyway.
That is why I have decided to raise this issue on this platform because whatever happens in Accra will eventually transcend itself upnorth and have effect on my people.
Equally, my people should be educated on the essence of preserving nature by doing well not to cut down the trees, do bush burning and anything that cause the aforementioned disasters. And that is why the Paramount Chief of  Nandom will punish anyone caught in bush burning which has been implemented in my village just one kilometer away from the Nandom township (Goziir), where no one ventures into bush burning. This is an event that should be replicated everywhere and enforced. We should encourage people to plant trees and replenish whatever we have destroyed in one way or the other.
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Thanks for reading.

 

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