Although water is said to be life, it is a luxury at Bugya in the Walewale in the West Mamprusi district in the North East region of Ghana where indigenes have to put their lives at risk to get it.
They resort to fetching water from a dilapidated well which is worse than a death trap.
Even children have to climb the hanging death trap and stand on it dangerously to fetch water, due to lack of no other alternative.
A Facebook user Victor Gates who shared a photo of the death trap and how the people manage to get water from it pleaded for help from the Ghanaian authorities.
“I wonder if the same God in Europe is the same as the one in Africa...It's sad when I see these things.
Someone should forward this and create awareness of the government to rescue these people. This is Bugya in the Walewale district. Please share to rescue these people,” he captioned the photo.
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Interestingly, politicians have been going there and will go there during the upcoming general elections to campaign but they will either deliberately ignore it or the people themselves would hide and buy bottled water to welcome them.
It would make more sense to attend to the situation now than to wait until lives are lost then politicians will go and shed crocodile tears with the people.