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Kwakwani residents deserve better
Dear Editor,
Sometimes I try to remain silent on issues that affect my community, but find it extremely difficult.
I would want to wait for the appropriate forum at the community level to highlight some of these issues and offer ideas of solution.
As a NDC councillor who can stand and object/oppose any decision that is not in the best interest of my community, I am now not invited to meetings when these decisions are made.
But I am exceedingly grateful to be able to understand the words of my deceased grandmother who said “plain speaka nah get bench fuh sid dun” and the Link Show cast of 25&26 for the words of one of their songs “when something wrang and is know yoh know, stan’ up stan up and say it is so”.
I am not prepared to sit idly by and have our leaders/representatives use the residents of Kwakwani for their personal gains and benifits.
The roads in Kwakwani are in the most deplorable state, and this is less than three months after repairs were done using $3 million subvention for 2010.
In the pass, we employed our residents (who we all acknowledge are mostly unemployed) to full potholes and the roads stood up much longer.
Judging from the state of the roads in Kwakwani, it can be said without fear that the Kwakwani community was ripped off with the 2009 NDC subvention.
How these leaders and decision-makers feel when they walk or drive around the community is a challenge to one’s imagination, especially when you know fully well that they are the contributors to the mess.
Will the same old same happen in 2010? I hope and pray that it will not. Residents will have to work together for better.
On another road issue that affects residents is the Kwakwani-Linden road. Millions of dollars are expended each year and when it rains this road becomes a mess, especially around the 20-mile area between Linden and Ituni. This road which damage vehicles (including our ambulance) is a terrible discomfort to the heavily taxed bauxite workers travelling to and from work.
Are those persons associated with the road repairs over the decades not ashamed of their work?
Why after building this road by self help in the 1970s, residents have to endure this kind of hardship in 2010? To travel this 64-mile road it takes about 31/2-4 hours of rough ride and we are not in the heart of the rainy season as yet.
Can someone with a heart hear our plea and give the contract to the contractor that is working on the Kwakwani-Ituni stretch.
J. A. Morian
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