Oh Accra !
When the Sun rises; the rain will show us how poorly we have planned for its coming as a City.
When the sun rises; the rain will show us how poorly we have dealt with plastic waste as a collective.
When the sun rises; the rain will show us how this city cannot function in its hustle and bustle with rain beyond a certain intensity and duration.
When the sun rises; the rain will show us how we have failed to plan, design, engineer and build infrastructure like a society situate in a flood plane that gets rained on.
When the run rises; we will see flood zones we cannot seem to find ways to engineer to control their submersion.
When the sun rises; we will see tragedy unfold in places they keep recurring just because we went to sleep anytime after it happened last.
When the sun rises; we will see authorities playing their damage control rhetoric that takes precedent over the preventive measures they should have put in place months ago.
When the sun rises; we will see the Déjà vu moments of “Disaster Management” we have become so used to; so numb to.
When the sun rises, the rain will show us; and we shall see:
That we have failed as a City!
When the sun rises; Rain, Floods : Oh Accra !
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© albert nii armah masoperh
Greening Ghana 