Bail Baalé

Hailing Baalé

In the beautiful belly of the green mini-city forest was this bustling Baalé. O! Yes! It's Baalé and not the Barley you are thinking of. 

It gracefully flowed along its beautiful course meandering through the lush green wetlands dotted with rich stilt which nourishes plants. 

As late as the 90s through 2015, some Fisher folks still bragged about fishing from Baalé and its tributaries.

Those were the days the visitors hailed River Baalé.

But Baalé didn't dance to the accolades and coyly slid under the bushes and surfaces again and again.

It gaily flowed from the breast of the Gonsé Hills through the laughing valleys of Gbawe, and zero green meadows, then flowing stylishly into the sea. 

Nailing Baalé

Beyond hailing Baalé, the grandchildren of our land tried nailing it by gradually leasing spaces skirting around her, as close as her banks for building projects. With its attractive scenery, a lot of suitors came with their prices, and year-in-year-out, our children hasten the nailing of our beautiful Baalé with pride of these latter-day landlords and landladies. 

They encroached on Baalé's space and disturbed its peace by directing nauseating polluted wastewater into its river course. Occasionally, Baalé responds with ferocious anger and bulldozes its way through the limited spaceless gutter ways they created for her.

Often, Baalé is merciless as it collapses walls, floods houses and draws adults and children to in a way apiece its anger.

Bailing Baalé

Bailing Baalé may sound strange, yet it's an urgent call for all to act today to save our dying rivers.

Bailing Balé is not another buzz for Baalé but a crucial mission to save all rivers in critical condition. 

Bailing Baalé and other rivers near you is a possible agenda to salvage our dying rivers. 

We need to critically plan and think through practical ways to invest and take proper care of our rivers and water bodies.

We must cultivate and prevent further destruction of our water bodies to secure our drinking water. 

We cannot suffocate our rivers by taking all the spaces and putting concrete titles on them.

We cannot continue emptying our solid, liquid, and toxic waste into our water bodies and expect not to be affected. 

We cannot continue building on waterways and expect to be spared the troubles of bleeding Rivers. 

We cannot pollute our water bodies in search of Gold and other minerals and expect God to listen to our prayers. 

We cannot make cosmetic campaigns about our transgressions and abuse of our environment and escape the damning consequences of our uncaring ways. 

You and I should gravely be concerned and act in our small ways.

You and I should take action in our small ways to save our rivers and our environment from a complete disaster. 

Collectively we can reorder our steps and salvage these rivers we are suffocating daily. 

If we equally agree that water is life, then we must safeguard these precious resources before we start singing our vile dirges when disaster comes.  

Let's help reverse this trend.

Greetings 

KYB ✍🏿®27-03-2021