Mar 19
2009And Now What about the Street Lights?
Filed Under (Home and Society) by Uncle Che on 19-03-2009
Tagged Under : buea, development, street lights
Without the street lights, everyone felt it was OK. The whole city was kind of used to it. No one ever imagined improvements like street lights in the city of Buea so soon. Even when the poles were being planted and the cable works done, most still thought it was just a campaign move against the upcoming elections.
The first time the lights went operational was on the eve of the University of Buea’s Convocation ceremony. Everyone harbored the conception that the street lights were meant just for the convocation ceremony and that they will be put off the next day. It was easy to think like that since the convocation ceremony of the students of the University of Buea has always been the greatest occasion in that small town.
To everyone’s surprise, the street lights were not discontinued as speculated. People started hoping that it was a permanent situation but most believed that after some other public holidays like X-Mas, New Year, 11th February and the mount Cameroon race of hope, the street lights will be history.
Why did people have such conceptions? Is the city council too poor to afford for street lights. Oh, I don’t think that is the appropriate question since they already have them. Are they considered to poor to pay the bills? Maybe not. Is it politically impossible for the Anglophone minority to enjoy such privileges? Is there anything bad about development except meeting up with accompanying responsibilities?
The initial assumptions that the street lights were put in place just for the public holidays may be correct. If so, then why did they allow the lights on several days after the Mountain race and trade fair? That may be difficult answering but logically, they may have added some days of grace just to blindfold the masses. Last night, the street lights went into extinction. I will wait till it is night time. My conclusion on this story will depend on whether they will be on this night or not.
Oh! He he he. This is funny. I can’t imagine when I left the room last night just to discover almost everywhere was dark. It took me quite some time to realize that the darkness was caused by the absence of the street light
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Wow its very hard to live with out street lights. The town i work in does not have any streets lights and it makes it very hard to drive around in bad weather. Also the crime rate is very high there because people can do what ever they want at night because it is pitch black out. Hopefully they will bring back the lights Uncle Che. Have a good one.
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