After staying away from the town for almost four years, I had an invitation from my grandmother to come visit her in the town and true to my word I decided to travel to Worawora, a town located in the Biakoye district in the Volta Region of Ghana.
On the journey, I had in my mind that the kind of development happening in Accra is similar to what is happening in the village. This mindset stay on my mind until I got to Peki where a kind of road network that made me revisit the kind of mindset about development in the Volta Region. Knowing that the road network from Hohoe to Jasikan to Worawora is as bad as the forefathers used, the driver thought it wise to go through the Kpando to Abotoase to Worawora route. As the driver decided to take the route, the smiles on the faces of the passengers were one that was clearly for the decision of the driver. But without knowing what was ahead of them, the situation of bad road came to the party when we left Kpando municipality into the Biakoye district . Thinking it won’t happen the car suddenly went through a certain pothole that made everybody to become aware of what is about to happen. It became worse when we got to the Nkonya – Abotoase road where the experience was very bad. The kind of dust on the bad road can make a white shirt in rubber turn brown. This made everybody in car to sit on the edge of their seats until we got to the Abotoase – Worawora road where we felt comfortable due to the good nature of the road. So I finally got to Worawora and the feeling I always had whenever I go there was felt.
On arrival, a phenomenon that got me wondering was seeing Ghanaian female teenagers carrying babies but because it was a festive season, the thoughts of parents giving their babies to their older children came in mind. As lively as the town was a week vacation ended up being two weeks vacation and all the experiences can not be shared here. One may ask so what happened to the children carrying the children? So it went on through the festive period until the time of education came when I released that the virus of teenage pregnancy had spread through the town. So I decided to engage my grandmother who happens to be Nana Abena Safoa Awerewaa, the Queenmother of Worawora in a conversation and she disclosed the traditional council and education officers in the town are trying their possible best to curb it. She also said she is looking to meeting with the DCE and other influential people in the town to find another way of reducing teenage pregnancy in the community drastically.
Talk of education, though the current situation of the Ghanaian educational system, in Worawora , it seemd most of the children in the school going age have the passion to go to school but the time of closing for the public schools in the town was when that will make any concerned person ask what they study at school? Unlike the private schools which ends a days lessons at 3:30pm , the public schools ended a days lesson at 12:30pm and I even witnessed a day a saw junior high school students of one of the public schools pass by my house at a time that was not even 12noon and when I decided to ask questions, the respond I had was “ we have closed”. A statement that left my jaw widely open. Yes open, not because of the time they are going home, but the kind of students going home. I kept asking myself “how can a jhs student close school at 12pm? “. So I decided to pay the town shs a visit and when I got to the place I realised that the infrastructural life of the school has grown to the extent that they had some classrooms abundant knowing not what to do with it but without not withstanding I had a problem with the place the school calls it it’s assembly hall. The room looked like a death trap.
After visiting the Worawora Senior High School which is popularly known as Worasec by people in the area, the interest of visiting other facilities in the town with Dr. Papa Kwasi Nduom’ s facility at the Worawora rice mall being the first but after many discussion with the curator of the place I was not allowed into the facility. Without being discouraged at what happened, I visited the Worawora Police Station, the Worawora government hospital and the site of the construction of the region campus of a medical university.
One significant situation that the town faces is that even though it’s not the district capital for the Biakoye district which comprises Worawora, Apesokudi, Bowiri, Tapa and Nkonya, it has most of the district headquarters of most institutions that were supposed to be at the district’s capital of Nkonya. Examples of such institutions includes the Worawora government hospital, the district police headquarters, Worawora Senior High School and the Worawora rice mail and the Asubonteng Rural. So one may ask how is the commercial life of the town? To be honest, the people in town are very hospitable so the commercial life of the town is one that will be pleasant to any body who will like to engage in any form of commercial activity. But after walking through the principal streets of Worawora I release that there were shops everywhere and because of this reason the demarcated area which was supposed to be the market place had become a place that looked virtually like a cemetery. Nothing really happens at the place and sheds also getting out of shape as the days go by.
One problem that has become a problem of almost every rural community in Ghana is the problem of the availability of proper or good drinking water, so going there I known that the water situation of the town has improved but I was amazed when I saw pipeborne water at various places in the town and in enquiring from some of the natives of the town I learnt that through the initiative of the Omanhemaa, the Gyaasehemaa, the Nkosuohene and other influential individuals from the town they were able to get the Ghana Water company to extend their pipelines to the town. The issue of electricity was also one that was applaudable, no “dumsor”, access to electricity.
After all these one will be wondering what will be the reason why major stakeholders of the town still think of the problems the town all night. In a documented magazine that contains a summary of what the town who traces it’s route to kuntunase is about and it’s future projections, I saw some items that seem to be the dream of the major stakeholders. In the book, it had in it the following;
*Construction of all roads in Worawora
*Construction of another senior high school but this time round a technical and vocational school.
*Construction of an ultramodern sports centre.
*Construction of the town’s assembly grounds to meet modern standards
*Improvement in education especially girl child education
*Expansion of the Worawora government hospital to be able to admit more patients.
and many others.
In as much as the town is not in the public eye, the twi speaking town prouds it’s self as a member of the Asanteman council and will always pay it’s tributes to the Asante kotokohene Otumfuo Osei Tutu and any other Asantehene after him.
Credit: Rescuing Dreams Foundation
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