Editorial

THE STREET-NAMING IS LONG OVERDUE
The Minister of Local Government and Rural Development of Ghana has announced the president’s directives to all the Metropolitan, Municipal and District Assemblies (MMDAs) to, as a social necessity, start a street-naming project at long last. He gives the 18 months deadline period.

The Republic would wish to add its voice to those praising the mutters of the Street-naming project as directed around the country. It has been long overdue and couldn’t have come at a better time.

Ghana has become one murky slum with visitors always seem to be groping when locating an otherwise simple destination – they do not only waste man-hours locating, but they also stressfully waste money and energy, which in the end proves counterproductive.

The Republic believes that, owing to the stuffy vehicular traffic jam situation in the country’s big cities and areas, a situation proving so energy-supping, the citizenry could become better off knowing their destination beforehand.

Some public service sectors that would also benefit a lot from the Street-naming project would be the National Fire Service, as well as the Ambulance service, as well as the police.

This is important because, most of the nation’s recent deaths and destructions of property, through fire could also be traced to the lack of straight-to-the-point location of the distressed.

For these hitches it takes the fire engines and ambulance service personnel called to help in an emergency situation umpteen years to be meandering their way around call destinations which most of the time prove too late.

One aspect also the paper noted the Street-naming venture can help the nation and its citizens, is the boost of the postal system that until today has little good to write home about. Letters and parcels could then be easily and simply dropped in people’s homes and work places.

It is important also to note that as Ghana is increasingly rising to a global investment hub at the dawn of oil discovery and drilling in commercial quantity, the country should as well strive to put its house in other to be able to direct and accommodate informedly its business partners.

The street naming will also help reduce the country’s crime rate, departing from the situation where the police couldn’t easily locate a distressed call area for resolute action.

The Republic believes that the foregone stated among many other benefits that the country could achieve, was that the exercise when successful will also create more employment where more hands would be needed in the relevant sectors like the post, to deliver door-to-door letters and parcels into locations. It will also help in harnessing the country’s needed revenue mobilization.