READ: "...My only problem with this is that it doesn’t appear this is being done in conformity with any known international standards of street naming..."
OUR COMMENT: Clearly the head (Mahama) ought to have developed a ... read full comment
READ: "...My only problem with this is that it doesn’t appear this is being done in conformity with any known international standards of street naming..."
OUR COMMENT: Clearly the head (Mahama) ought to have developed a better/robust vision/goal that provided provided a semblance of the basic standard/architecture for the numbering and naming of the streets, and the manner the records will be kept. In fact, it also ought to have included drop-dead dates, and annual funding for the entire "order", until completion.
Plainly, as important as this is, we can all chuck it to failure at the top!
Timely essay, we must say.
YIKRA 9 years ago
As has already been discussed, the ignorant are leading the way in every sphere of society.
There is no plan. Just ad-hoc things. Absolutely no plan. No vision, no plan.
As has already been discussed, the ignorant are leading the way in every sphere of society.
There is no plan. Just ad-hoc things. Absolutely no plan. No vision, no plan.
Agyeman, H 9 years ago
I can share your frustration in the lack of street names, post codes, etc.
As far back as 2006, in two articles on Ghanaweb, I had expressed similar sentiments, but in Ghana we never learn to move forward, where it counts. ... read full comment
I can share your frustration in the lack of street names, post codes, etc.
As far back as 2006, in two articles on Ghanaweb, I had expressed similar sentiments, but in Ghana we never learn to move forward, where it counts.
In 2015 AD with google maps and many unemployed youth, each district should be able to mobilise skills to do desktop naming and to merely implement on the field. But in Ghana, as we are wont to do, we all are waiting for some Akwasi Broni to bring some project money so that we can chop.
BlackC 9 years ago
Have you talked to your Ministry of Local government and rural development?
There could be a lack of funds. A district only has so many funds and it is probably going towards sanitation, school blocks, etc. that get the h ... read full comment
Have you talked to your Ministry of Local government and rural development?
There could be a lack of funds. A district only has so many funds and it is probably going towards sanitation, school blocks, etc. that get the higher priority. But, I wouldn't know unless you actually went to the Sunyani office and asked.
The reality of our nation is that we need more public engagement. We can sit around a lament about the way things should have gone, but some of us wasn't around and that doesn't fix the problem we're dealing with today.
Abeeku Mensah 9 years ago
The street naming exercise in Ghana is bound to be a fiasco because, we will try our devil best to conform to some standards without having the faintest idea what makes a street, a drive, a court, circle and all the other nam ... read full comment
The street naming exercise in Ghana is bound to be a fiasco because, we will try our devil best to conform to some standards without having the faintest idea what makes a street, a drive, a court, circle and all the other naming conventions we find in other western nations. We also know darn well that in Ghana there are roads or foot pathways that lead right through compounds of homes thus blocking what was supposed to have been an alley or communal pathway. Would the government be bold to ask those who violated building plans to demolish those illegal structures or once again kowtow to traditions and make exemptions to very such abuse?
Community drawings and plans are essential because it may be used to try out proposed street names on paper, identify every and each structure, road, footpath dead ends and others prior to the actual exercise. Without it we will be engaging in the rather inaccurate acts Ghana Census bureau engages in knowing their numbers are as good as our imaginations.
As a reference point I do remember when Accra suburb of East Legon, Trazzaco and other places were the must-live planned communities and yet one is bound to see street without name and or requisite sign posts/signage today and finding ones way just as bad as finding an address in old neighborhoods. Let us be radical and act without fear of traditions and without favor to have corrections made. It’s the only way going forward.
MARCUS AMPADU 9 years ago
From Nkrumah's administration right to the present Mahama administration, all the governments that ruled our nation have not succeeded in seeing to the planning, organizing, and enforcing the regulations of our cities, towns, ... read full comment
From Nkrumah's administration right to the present Mahama administration, all the governments that ruled our nation have not succeeded in seeing to the planning, organizing, and enforcing the regulations of our cities, towns, and villages. This demarcation exercise should be undertaken by commission made up of regional ministers, Chiefs, MMCE's, DCE's, and city & town planning officers.
In this modern age, we have to have names for our streets, roads, even paths, and addresses, and some form zonal codes.
This will make it easier to locate where one is going to, or where to send information or parcels to.
Nkrumah Circle or 37 Hospital junction or Mataheko police station will be familiar to just those who know the locations.
Well done Bro Twumasi-Fofie
Odurose 9 years ago
This is one of the very few articles which make my daily trips to Ghanaweb mandatory and very worthwhile. Thank you Mr Twumasi-Fofie for an excellent piece.
When it comes to street, road, avenue etc. naming, you are right, ... read full comment
This is one of the very few articles which make my daily trips to Ghanaweb mandatory and very worthwhile. Thank you Mr Twumasi-Fofie for an excellent piece.
When it comes to street, road, avenue etc. naming, you are right, earlier generations of Ghanaians did far better than our present generation. I remember as a primary school boy in the 1950s the house I lived in had a Hse/No A32 in my village. It still does but the village, now a town, does not have the streets and roads that have come up since then named or indeed numbered.
The villain of this state of affairs is the Post Office Box system which has been massively adopted in post-independence Ghana such that people use their P O Box number instead of the home address in all documents and correspondence. This has disastrous consequences for tracing people or sending parcels by DHL and similar organisations. Your article is timely and one hopes the Presidential order will not go the way so many initiatives in Ghanaian national life have gone. Again Bravo for your good work.
Anomaba 9 years ago
What a nice article!
Any presidential directive for street naming normally should include a white paper containing technical information or guidelines or standards for carrying out that exercise.
We must avoid making an ... read full comment
What a nice article!
Any presidential directive for street naming normally should include a white paper containing technical information or guidelines or standards for carrying out that exercise.
We must avoid making any district or town or village authority come up with their own “nomenclature” for naming roads and/or streets. As the writer rightly points outs, if we are even unable to comply with international standards, the street naming exercise should as minimum, be consisting with a nationally set “code of practice”. The essence of this should be to enable the assignment of unique geographical information for a particular address.
I believe the president would also task someone to review the “Street Names” before they become fully applicable.
This writer has foresight. Let us take cues from his thoughts and adopt zero tolerance for mistakes on this occasion.
READ: "...My only problem with this is that it doesn’t appear this is being done in conformity with any known international standards of street naming..."
OUR COMMENT: Clearly the head (Mahama) ought to have developed a ...
read full comment
As has already been discussed, the ignorant are leading the way in every sphere of society.
There is no plan. Just ad-hoc things. Absolutely no plan. No vision, no plan.
I can share your frustration in the lack of street names, post codes, etc.
As far back as 2006, in two articles on Ghanaweb, I had expressed similar sentiments, but in Ghana we never learn to move forward, where it counts. ...
read full comment
Have you talked to your Ministry of Local government and rural development?
There could be a lack of funds. A district only has so many funds and it is probably going towards sanitation, school blocks, etc. that get the h ...
read full comment
The street naming exercise in Ghana is bound to be a fiasco because, we will try our devil best to conform to some standards without having the faintest idea what makes a street, a drive, a court, circle and all the other nam ...
read full comment
From Nkrumah's administration right to the present Mahama administration, all the governments that ruled our nation have not succeeded in seeing to the planning, organizing, and enforcing the regulations of our cities, towns, ...
read full comment
This is one of the very few articles which make my daily trips to Ghanaweb mandatory and very worthwhile. Thank you Mr Twumasi-Fofie for an excellent piece.
When it comes to street, road, avenue etc. naming, you are right, ...
read full comment
What a nice article!
Any presidential directive for street naming normally should include a white paper containing technical information or guidelines or standards for carrying out that exercise.
We must avoid making an ...
read full comment