{"id":48151,"date":"2014-09-16T12:49:20","date_gmt":"2014-09-16T12:49:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=48151"},"modified":"2014-09-16T14:19:32","modified_gmt":"2014-09-16T14:19:32","slug":"mo-kye-ndi-attitude-to-cholera","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2014\/09\/mo-kye-ndi-attitude-to-cholera\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Mo kye ndi’ attitude to Cholera"},"content":{"rendered":"
Growing up there was a peculiar football game the young boys in my area (Mamprobi) played called \u201cMo kye ndi\u201d- (share and spend).<\/p>\n
It was the neighbourhood’s version of the Premier league.<\/p>\n
The game usually took place at \u201cIndadfa Park\u201d during vacation or Saturdays.<\/p>\n
In the \u201cMo kye ndi\u201d game a \u201cmanager\u201d had his team and trained and prepared them for their matches. I had the privilege of watching most of the games because my cousin (Nana Anan) was in the best team of the time.<\/p>\n
The game was named \u201cMun kye ndi\u201d because of what happened immediately after the game. The \u201cwinning bonus\u201d which was donated by well-wishers, and friends in the Mamprobi and Sempe neighborhood was shared immediately without any delays.<\/p>\n
The reasons I\u2019m narrating all this is because the way government is dealing with the cholera outbreak reminds me of my childhood days in Mamprobi.<\/p>\n
I have had the opportunity to visit some of the suburbs in Accra that the Ghana Health Service predicted could be badly hit by the cholera epidemic especially with the onset of the rains.<\/p>\n
The Greater Accra Regional Health Directorate has partly attributed the current epidemic to the effects of the shut-down of the Accra Compost Plant.<\/p>\n
The situation left heaps of rubbish in front of people\u2019s homes, major markets, and some scattered on the shoulders of roads in the cities.<\/p>\n
After the warning, one would have naturally expected the Accra Metropolitan Assembly (AMA) as well as other stakeholders to act with speed. Citizens were also expected to practice good hygiene to avoid the disease, but the opposite happened in most cases.<\/p>\n
Residents kept littering, dumping their rubbish in the gutters anytime there was a downpour.<\/p>\n