MANY DEATHS, MANY FEARS!

How many more death are we expecting before we act?

How many more people must we lose before we act?

O! How many more people must we allow to waste?

O! How many more fellow Ghanaians must we allow to perish just like that?

Every day we hear sorrowful news of cruel deaths.

Every passing hour, bad news comes in from everywhere.

Every now and then we live with a deadly panicky-smile.

And now it is a very terrible and scary place to live.

Accidents are accidents because they are accidents.

But accidents can be curbed if we avoid accidental accents?

If we are a little bit more careful with accidents of our anxieties;

If we are a bit more responsible in our respective duties;

If we are a little more thoughtful of what we do,

And if we are a little bit obedient to the rhythms of the tides.

Perhaps we should be casting stones to the discomfort in these accidents.

Perhaps we should be tackling the nakedness in our negligence.

Perhaps we should be talking to the Nicodemus glitches in our smartness.

Perhaps we should just be sorry for our failures as acclaimed managers.

Perhaps we should just be shameful in our terrible blame games.

Perhaps we all have to agree that we contributed to the many avoidable deaths one way or the other.

It might be true that we don't value our lives and the lives of others.

It might be true that we don't respect the essence of human lives,

rather than what we might get or gain from others.

It might be true that many more STILL HAVE TO DIE, if we don't stop these negligent attitude and the gross disrespect for our lives.

My deepest condolence to the families of those lost in yesterday's accident on the Kintampo-Tamale Highway. May their rest well with the Lord as we seek to avoid the MANY DEATHS and Kill the MANY FEARS.