Reviving Communal Labour:Youth of Sabon Zongo in perspective

Reviving Communal Labour:Youth of Sabon Zongo in perspective

....And the youth of Sabon Zongo in the Zongo/Langbonto Electoral Area joined the bandwagon.

The youth led by hon.Zomnura Adamu Shaibu the Assembly Man for the area,moved in a combined energy and synergy to clean round the vicinity of a mechanised borehole in the electoral area.

The youth responded promptly to the campaign bearing in mind,the cost of treating diarrheal diseases such as Cholera,and other illness in the range of Typhoid and Dysentery borne out of drinking contaminated water.

The joy in communal toil was unending as the youth chanted sanitation and godliness as they engaged in the communal labour.The vicinity of the machanized borehole was cleared and sprayed and the waterside litters were picked and burnt.

The clean up campaign was aimed at sensitising the local community on the need to keep the environment clean in order to avert diarrheal diseases.

The Assembly Man,hon.Adamu Shaibu who spoke on the sidelines of the exercise emphasized the need for us to revive the seemingly lost spirit of communal labour,adding that,they were motivated by what the youth of Canteen started.He echoed on the need to emulate good examples of others and inculcate the spirit of communal labour in our people.

He further stressed on the need for us as a people to sacrifice our growing spirit of individualism for the spirit of  communism and communal labour.

The youth who joined in the exercise saw it as a complete joy to engage in communal toil, since they were contributing their quota to the development of their community.

It can be recounted that, for the past weeks, the youth of Canteen embarked on series of communal labour and reiterated the need to revive the lost days of communal labour.They encouraged the entire District and beyond on the need to wake up the sleeping days of communal labour.

It is widely held that,Sticks in a bundle are unbreakable and a little rain each day will fill the rivers to overflowing.As Jeff Bridges rightly reiterated,"The way to change the world is through individual responsibility and taking local action in your own community."

Communal labour is when members of a community or an organised group come together to embark on a course of action which inures to the benefit of the entire society.

Partisan politics seem to be a bane on the ability of community members to mobilise such energies for community activities in time past.

Source:Ananpansah AB (Village Writer)