The “Serwaa Broni & Sons budget”, Off the Sisaala Roads

The “Serwaa Broni & Sons budget”, Off the Sisaala Roads, The Need for Floating Bridge’s & Sky trains & The Need to File An Urgent Question In Parliament.

I have been an ardent advocate for social justice and equality since I can even remember. Since my days as the first president of Rights of Children’s Club (ROC), somewhere 2005 ( if my memory sets me right), a plan Ghana International + Miidan Educational Trust initiative to raise awareness of the rights & responsibilities of the Ordinary Ghanaian even in as far as the remotest corners of the Sisaala East Municipalilty spearheaded by the former Minister for Gender, Women & child protection, Ms. Otiko Afisa Djaba to my days today as a concerned citizen and not a spectator.

Somehow knowing our rights as a people was so pivotal that it took center stage of almost the normal everyday lives of the ordinary Sisaala man. Today, the effects of all these investments in getting the Sisaala people educated on their rights and responsibilities is a voiceforous, advocative people who will not relent on highlighting the everyday social inequalities that upset the normal lives making it unbearable.

Frustratingly, we are not only battling non-existent roads, we are also struggling to even get fertilizer for our farms to enable us feed our families at least as a result of the super-abnormal prices of the fertilizer that the ordinary farmer can’t afford. Thus, I don’t want to sound as a doomsday prophet, but we are highly likely to face food shortages. The backside to this is that it will affect the bargaining power of the Sisaala people as we may not be able to produce as much cereal as we usually do thus losing an enviable position of power that we clearly don’t have, in demanding some basic amenities that we deserve. I’m just thinking aloud.

As part of my advocacy for better treatment of the Sisaala enclave, knowing the terrain, and clamouring for our roads to be fixed, it is my humble wish that should in case government finally heeds our call to fix our roads, they should consider providing “floating bridges” in some parts of the Sisaala enclave to fix the annual perennial problem of torrential rains washing away our scarce bridges and just maybe in future we can add sky trains too when the MP lobby’s for development.

But mean time, the Sisaala Roads must be fixed. We already are aware of a 12m Sisaala Town roads contract that has come to a halt plus the EU €34m farm access roads. We were grateful to have the roads minister visit the poor state of our roads promising to work on them. Its been sometime since we have heard anything about the these roads contracts. Its seems the budget has failed to capture our roads again.