EDITORIAL- Pay Heed To Nature; Lest We Perish

The history capital of Cape Coast in Ghana has  experienced the visitation of one of the greatest deluges  in recent time where a near thousand people around the Komenda Edina Eguafo Abirem Municipality, since Saturday, continue to seek shelter in churches, mosques and school blocks after a 7-hour downpour rendered more than 100 houses and some major bridges linking several towns and communities hapless and hopeless following the overflow of some rivers in the region.

One person has been confirmed dead and scores of people trapped in their homes at Amamoma in the Central Region, early reports estmated.

The road from the Elmina Junction to the Ankaful Prisons also became impassable, with the houses nearly submerged and, it was alleged a Prison officer died in his attempt to salvage some item from the angry ravage and, Director-General of the National Disaster Management Organisation NADMO, Nana Agyeman Prempeh, has asked residents to move to higher grounds to ensure their safety.

The Anchor is grieved about the latest of the many earlier warnings of what is ahead; geater rains that are billed by nature to come down in mammoth torrents; we are just in June and expect rains in July and maybe, part of or all August. This may extend further because the keyword here of our accepted ignorance has been “Climate Change”.

The paper also recalls that what happened in Cape Coast of Ghana happened the same time when part of India was also ravaged in similar manner of greater magnitude of casualties. We’ve not lost sight on the floods and so many hurricanes with exotic names like Rita, Andrew, Rose Catherina, Francis etc, etc, in the case of the United States of America and other places beyond Ghana and Africa.

This means the disasters shrouded in nature’s own wisdom and callousness will come, but the riddles remain how we are going to handle these as humans for our own safety or otherwise.

The Anchor will be careful here not to jump into the wagon of the blame game, because the jovial handshake the rains started with, is now reaching the elbow and, therefore, need meticulous thinking, in fact, human-thinking from great thinkers.

The paper fears more of persistency of the rains with hydro-scientists predicting more after pipping into their official “vultures’ ampit”.

But biblically, the paper believes that whatever is happening now had happened before and what we experience currently will happen again and again and again… if this earth remains in place long after generations. Because we were told that on creattion the whole earth was covered by water and The Great Spirit commandered the water to shift and called the dry-space Earth, right?

In anoter analogy, maybe, God promised not to destroy us, the accused, of sodomy, homosexuality, and all the so-called LGBTQ+ including bestiality – where human reduces themselves as low as having carnal knowledge with animals including dogs and cats and snakes and sheep and goat, with the Noah-time 40-day nonstop rains.

It’s interesting to see how dread a 3-hour rains transforms Accra anytime it chooses to scare us, Secondi-Takoradi, Kumasi and now only 7-days in Oguaa; The Anchor would feel sorry, if God one day soon, decides to gift the entire Ghana some far less than the Noah’s time 40 days’; let’s say just 10 days of continued torrents for a farming season. Let’s therefore, pay heed to nature, lest we perish.

Zoomlion/Media Environmental Walk

The Anchor therefore, gives its highest commendation to the nation’s premier waste management company, the Zoomlion Ghana, for its foresight in all things environment and nature, when it partnered the greated tool like the all powerful media over the weekend, to Walk in awareness creation as to the necessity of the caring for the environment bequeathed us by the Odomankuma, Kywediampong Kwame the good God.

It is the Anchor’s wish that although the Zoomlion Ghana would want it as an annual event, it recosider the hardness of our “ears” and make it twice-a-year. But the paper appreciates the tenacity of the Group Chairman of the JOSPONG, Dr. Joseph Siaw Agyapong, for always being a trailblazer, as far as, nature and environment are concerned. This paper salutes you, sir!

Source: theanchorghana