Sodom & Gomorrah on my mind...

A few years ago I had the opportunity to supervise student from the AUCC's Journalists for Human Rights photograph/document the community of Old Fadama for a magazine they were producing. I used the opportunity to do some photography myself. Find the link to some of the pictures I took that day.
(http://www.everyoungjba.org/everyoungjba/index.gallery.php?gid=56)
 My feelings of that day are neither here nor there. The evictions over the weekend has coming for a long time and my overwhelming feeling was that it was going be very difficult to evict the people since the community has been allowed to grow into an uncontrollable size. The mini economy is almost a microcosm of the outside world beyond their walls minus the filth. The dregs of society as one might think of them are easily attracted to each other in a quagmire of filth, squalor and chaos. Perhaps the recent floods have given city authorities the needed power unhindered by political criticism to finally take the hard decisions that will benefit the majority in the city rather than a minority living at the bottom end of societies margins.
Well, so far I have not heard anyone complain from both political divides. I hope the threats of not voting will not deter the City Authorities from doing what they are supposed to do. To clean up our city the way we feel entitled will require some very hard decisions some of which are clearing the city of illegal structures for city to grow in it's own dynamic time.
The people I met there that day were ordinary people going about their business trying to eke out a living to support themselves, their spouses, families, children who are either in Accra or from some far flung parts of the country.
They also had aspirations like all of us, wanted the best for themselves, their families and children. To describe as pawns in a bigger game will be to not understand the issues at play here. As it is, they have out stayed the use and welcome becoming their own worst enemy by how they have treated the land on which their livilihoods vis a vis security depends on.