Years of total neglect and inactivity at the Kumasi
Children’s Park located at Amakom, have crippled the facility designed
for the relaxation and socialization of children in metropolis and its
environs.
The park, built a decade ago, not only encourage socialization but
also promotes healthy lifestyle and culture of exercise among children.
But lack of maintenance has caused the once vibrant park to the
deteriorate,according to Otecnews reporter Emmanuel Asiamah.
Today, portions of the park close to the Customs Division of the
Ghana Revenue Authority, have been turned into refuse dump while the
Kumasi Metropolitan Assembly looks on helplessly.
The development poses
health threats to school children and workers around.
Surprisingly, a public place like this does not have waste disposal
facilities and a place of convenience; something that has significantly
contributed to the indiscriminate waste disposal at park.
For the residents of the area and nearby Anwiam, Aful-Nkwanta, Fante
New Town, Asafo, and some users of the facility, the Children’s Park has
become the ideal place to defecate whenever nature calls.
Open
defecation has become the order of the day. Diseases loom.
A library facility built 20 years ago at the park is in a deplorable
state.
Developed to encourage reading among school going children and
facilitate research work to promote academic work, the library has now
been abandoned in view of its current state.
Reports say, all playing equipment at the park are now
non-functional; they have completely broken down with remnants left on
the facility.
Weeds have overgrown the library, which has now been taken over by
lotto operators and weavers who are using the facility as their home and
offices at no cost. Grass are growing into shrubs and flower into
trees.
The situation at the park has created a congenial atmosphere for
criminals in the area, and as expected, the park has now become their
safe haven where all sort of criminal activities, particularly smoking
of illegal drugs go on
According to Emmanuel Asiamah the “Children’s Park in Kumasi is
gradually becoming a mini forest in the heart of Kumasi where robbers
lay ambush to unleash terror on innocent people who use the place as
thoroughfare”
The pavilion developed at the park for children to relax after
physical exercises has also been turned into a centre of worship for
some of churches springing up in Kumasi on daily basis. On getting to
the place, one is greeted with a banner of a church: ” Power of Light
Glory Chapel”
Source: Ghana/otecfmghana.com
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