Years of total neglect and inactivity at the Kumasi Children’s Park located at Amakom, have crippled the facility designed for the relaxation and socialization of children in metropolis and its environs.
The park, built a decade ago, not only encourage socialization but also promotes healthy lifestyle and culture of exercise among children. But lack of maintenance has caused the once vibrant park to the deteriorate,according to Otecnews reporter Emmanuel Asiamah.
Today, portions of the park close to the Customs Division of the Ghana Revenue Authority, have been turned into refuse dump while the Kumasi Metropolitan Assembly looks on helplessly. The development poses health threats to school children and workers around.
Surprisingly, a public place like this does not have waste disposal facilities and a place of convenience; something that has significantly contributed to the indiscriminate waste disposal at park.
The situation at the park has created a congenial atmosphere for criminals in the area, and as expected, the park has now become their safe haven where all sort of criminal activities, particularly smoking of illegal drugs go on
According to Emmanuel Asiamah the “Children’s Park in Kumasi is gradually becoming a mini forest in the heart of Kumasi where robbers lay ambush to unleash terror on innocent people who use the place as thoroughfare”
The pavilion developed at the park for children to relax after physical exercises has also been turned into a centre of worship for some of churches springing up in Kumasi on daily basis. On getting to the place, one is greeted with a banner of a church: ” Power of Light Glory Chapel”
Source: SeanCitygh.com
