By Chloe Anim Addo
It
is very sad and painful to see lives lost all because of our bad and poor
roads. The rate at which road accidents have increased is very bad, all to the
fact that our roads are not well constructed. Roads in this country does not
last at all, it either last for a year or two then it goes back to the old way
or even worse.
Our
roads instead of leading us to our destination rather leads us to death. The
lives of good citizens and prominent people have been taken away and to talk of
stars like ebony, vibrant fire, Suzy Williams, terry and others. When accidents
arrive all, we do is to talk about it for some time, cry and mourn a little and
then forget about it, still leaving the roads in their bad state. If we do not
solve this issue we will end up loosing more dear lives.
Bad roads in Ghana are greatly caused by
corruption, before the money for construction even gets to the constructer,
everyone the money gets to must remove his or her share then after the
constructer leaving scanty money for the road construction thereby the
constructer does a shoddy work which later on causes great havoc. Bad roads are also as a result of laziness
the laziness of some people show in their work hence doing what will not stress
him or her at all. Another fact is that the appropriate things needed for the
construction which is faced by financial problems which makes the constructer
to use inferior goods for the construction
Lots
of things must be done to help solve the problems of bad roads. We citizens and
our leaders must stand up to fix all damages and also make sure quality goods
and equipment’s are used in constructing the roads. People who are capable of
laying out roads should help be it financial or physical support. We should not
wait for politicians to come and use these roads for their manifestoes but
rather do something about it if we can.
Some
wealthy people and leaders have houses in areas which roads are bad but yet
they do not do anything leaving the roads the way they are because of their
selfishness and greed which must not be so, anyone who has the resources to
help put up a road should do so without waiting for a ruling government to do
so, if lots of people help with our roads these accidents caused by our bad
roads will be minimized and we will have safe roads to drive on.