Covid-19 Series : Cleaning Exercise By Ghana Military

The saying, "Turning your lemons into lemonades" readily comes to mind here in this Covid-19 pandemic in Ghana and the world over. Covid-19 has made us mothers and father's of inventions. Necessity is the mother of all inventions indeed. I didn't know that our tailors and seamstresses could sow face mask that hospitals, government and pharmacies always have to import some into the country and we are here complaining of unemployment? It's so sad I must say. So hand sanitizers could be manufactured locally and we were sitting down? Oh so we knew that 'prekese' and salt water could boost our immune system and we were not using it?

So the government knows ways and means by which it can care for it's citizens and all this while we have been doing politics with it and leaving the less privileged hungry? Oh so we know water can be supplied in tankers to places where there is no water and places like Adenta, Madina and our rural areas have been crying of water supply but the government does not mind them? Oh so we know that our children could learn their subjects by being broadcast on television and the government was just sitting there? Ah! So we know that public transport is a necessity and that we could deploy the Ayalolo buses, open the Legon and bank of Ghana hospital to take care of the sick and injured and we were here doing politics with it?

So we know health workers risk their lives everyday and needs to be insured and given further allowances but we turn a deaf ear until they go on strike? So we have enough security personnel who can patrol town and cities in Ghana to check movement and we were not doing same for crime and armed robbery on daily basis and our military officers were just idle and taking salaries in this country? So we know our gutters deserve cleaning and we must practice personal hygiene but we would not until Covid-19? Oh Ghana my motherland, now tell me who is the enemy of our own progress? It is definitely our own selves not the West, IMF, World Bank, China or America, it is our own selves. Africa is the enemy of it's own development. Like cats we careless and wink our eyes lazily at development and like crabs we pull each other down.

My focus of this article however is the military officers that have been tasked to clean the cities that has been locked down and I personally thank God for a time like this. In Ghana some people's  houses and rooms are dirtier than Satan's armpit, they can't observe personal and environmental hygiene. Go to other countries and see their streets, you will think the whole of Ghana is a refuse dump. We over burden our military officers for nothing. Mr. President please allow Military patrol against dirt creation after Covid-19 lockdown. Let them mete out corporal punishment to anyone caught creating filth just for a year and Ghana will be one of the cleanest cities in the world. Some Ghanaians are just too dirty.

Ghana military is doing the job of irresponsible civilians whiles they are lockeddown for Covid-19. It's so annoying, how human beings can generate such filth without conscience for our military who are suppose to be protecting our borders to be doing this. As much I condemn corporal punishment by officers during this lockdown I will please beg the government to continue with the military patrol as is being done now after Covid-19 to really clamp down and punish with cane lashes those who are caught creating filth in town all over Ghana. If such an exercise should continue like I said earlier just for a year, Ghana will be one of the cleanest cities in the world.

I applaud the government for this remarkable effort. I don't know why civilians don't wait for the military to come and clean their behind after they go to toilet but make the environment dirty for responsible military officers to come and clean it for them. I mean you can clean your  own behind nicely but make the town you are living in dirty for government to come and clean it for you? You really deserve lashes from military officers seriously. Some people don't even clean their own houses and rooms so they bring that same attitude to town.

Someone will sit in trotro and throw pure water rubber in the gutter. A trader will sell at a place will not clean the place, return tomorrow to sell again in the filth, distributing sicknesses and diseases. Gone were the days we had Town council to check filth creation in people's houses but now it's a thing of the past. All this things must be introduced and laws on them enforced. People must be fined, prosecuted and jailed if need be for creating filth. Our markets are dirty, our beaches are dirty, gutters are dirty, our streets are dirty even our own rooms are dirty, how can we develop as a country when the little resource we will manage for education and providing social amenities because some citizens are not responsible, we rather use it to clean waste created by irresponsible citizens?

We must be each other's keeper and implement cleanliness in all facets of our lives. In churches and mosques they should not only preach about spiritual cleanliness but physical cleanliness too. God is not a dirty God, God is holy and anything dirty is not of God and unholy. It is said that cleanliness is next to godliness and I concur.