Take a shower, water not your enemy

THERE is a saying that goes: ‘cleanliness is next to godliness’.
There are so many filthy-looking street sellers in Kundiawa town who are engaged in some sort of money-generating activity on the streets daily.
These people are earning cold hard cash everyday on the streets.
But they cannot afford to wash their bodies.
How much do you spend to buy a bar of soap?
I am talking about people who sell cooked foods on the streets.
They walk from one end of the town to another carrying their food items and selling them as they walk around.
Those engaged daily in the town’s informal economy need to be told that we have an image to portray to the rest of the world.
Their income-generating activities are appreciated because we all have to survive but what is so repulsive about water and soap that makes these sellers so dirty and unkempt.
The foul odour emanating from their lengthy unwashed body and clothes is an indication that these people do not care about public space and public health.
There is no economic or even moral justification for someone who is actively engaged in a money-generating activity to be so filthy like that.
Have a shower, brush your teeth and wear clean clothes before you walk into town every morning to do your business.
Kundiawa town belongs to all of us.
I am raising this concern for the good of all of us.

Paul Waugla Wii