Residents should use sports to unify community

I READ with interest in the daily newspapers about other suburbs and communities within NCD enjoying and occupying themselves with sports programmes and games to mark the festive period and thought of how our parents, youths and children would do the same within our community at Ensisi Valley.
Since I first moved into this beautiful suburb in the 1990s, we used to have our own sports programmes at this time and it used to be fun and entertaining.
However, the only recreational area we had back then has now been developed into a container storage facility and used for business purposes, hence I wonder how these people came about to own this piece of land which was originally zoned as recreational area thus depriving the community.
I am now calling upon the NCDC land board and our Governor Powes Parkop to intervene and check out this area and find out how they got the title to the piece of land earmarked as recreational zone.
All other suburbs in NCD have their own recreational area except us at Ensisi.
I call upon the long-time residents of the area to stand up together and fight this land grabbing tactics used by this people to deprive the wider community of this very important public facility.
Today you don’t see parents and youths coming together to enjoy sports like before.
Youths are involved in drugs and alcohol and parents are becoming idle, obese and sports less, thus, will be prone to all sorts of lifestyle diseases.
We need to do something now.

Concerned resident
Ensisi Valley, NCD