Wednesday, January 25, 2012

The Sentry and the Squatter in the City of Accra

In the city of Accra, at genteel Ridge, at 9 am, a man in hermetic jeans was looking to leak his liquid privy into a drain. I shuddered to see him crook his legs to enable him to sag the seat of the asphyxiating denim for release.

Not quite ten metres away, another man in a white caftan was squatted over the same poor drain, doing similar business. I thought I caught him cast a disgusted glance the way of the standing man as if to ask which lowlife would hang his dispenser out on broad-daylight display.

I was desperate to stop and correct the squatter’s delusion that he was the better man, but I had to hurry to the office to go spend a penny.

9 comments:

  1. lol. the pot calling the kettle black. Or in this instance, the pot calling another pot black.

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    1. Exactly. He thought the problem was degree of exposure and not the fact of exposure itself.

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  2. Methinks you had to attend to a "major event".

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  3. Kwame Mensa-Bonsu26 January, 2012

    If only the Gov't was serious enough to provide the necessary amenities to curb this indiscipline. But alas...not.

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    1. I will hold pee for 3 hours to get to a loo. I don't quite think, in the ordinary, people have an excuse to pee publicly.

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    2. Kwame Mensa-Bonsu27 January, 2012

      So there are loos...didn't know. My bad. But then I can just imagine my fellow citizens ignoring them, just as Gh drivers ignore zebra crossings.

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  4. I dont really think that government has to act before the citizens decide not to pee on the streets they live on.....

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