I have lived to realise that many a time, we work too hard in the verge to finding solutions to very simple problems. Simple problems I call them, because they are better prevented than solved. The most persistent question I ask myself is;‘why is it supposed to happen that way always?’
There are several pandemics across the globe, one of which is our ever living counterpart Malaria. Many have called it a dreadful killer while others see it to be a great foe to humanity. This is not so in my line of sight, I see it as an innocent victim made to suffer the guilt of innocence. Why yell, when it is so close to you? Yesterday, He died from Malaria, Today; she has been attacked by malaria, who knows next what would happen.
Malaria is not a respecter of persons, it comes for you,and it comes for me.Each one of us in the society is a sufferer of its treacherous dealings. Malaria kills mother and kills the child, it kills the man as equally as the woman. Malaria as is made by the society cannot be tamed in anyway or blamed for any of the troubles attributed to it by the society. This is because it is one of the numerous objects of the society, created either consciously or unconsciously.
Sometimes, I feel that the idea of killing a plant from the root is not a part of the beliefs of the ordinary Ghanaian. Millions of Ghana Cedis are used in the purchase of Mosquito nets to be distributed to some thousands of people in the rural areas as well as some of the suburbs of the urban areas. Here, my question is, why go for the leaves when you know that the complete strength and survival of the plant is in its roots.
If I am not wrong, then it stands to mean that at certain times, I am made to believe that Mosquito nets do solve the Malaria problem.Why don’t we rather channel all the energies and the resources at our disposal to first kill the root of the Malaria pandemic which is the negligence of the same society that suffers it?
Is it going to be counted a criminal offense if you picked the empty water sachet that the other man dropped on the way? Or is it now a human right violation to tell the next man to pick-up the litter he has dropped? Is it an offense to call for a communal labour or fora clean-up exercise within the community? What are the town council waiting upon to rise to their task?
I remember in the days of old when every house hold would do everything possible to get their neighbourhood clean and neat. This they’ll do to avoid a summons from the town council for filth and dirt. At the time, gutters were always free of chokes and run freely, weed were not a part of the home environs and mosquito nets were of no use, not even for the little baby. Today, even the fathers find the mosquito net a need to survive.
I seek to know if the civilisation of the twenty-first century has changed the breeding place of mosquitoes from stagnated water bodies and filth. If not so, then I would request in a plea to all and sundry, far and near to come with me into the days of old to pick–up from where we left and faulted, as the adage goes ‘sankofa yenkyire’.
Sankofa
3NITY DIGEST 
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