11/06/2025
ADA IS DYING OF THIRST — AND I’M DONE BEING POLITE
By Mershack Kabu Aklie ()
Youth Advocate | Environmental & Cultural Activist | Eyes of Hope Foundation
Let’s stop pretending.
Ada is not “developing.” Ada is drowning in neglect and thirsting in silence.
We are the land of rivers, yet our children dig the earth for water.
We are surrounded by rivers lagoons and the sea, yet mothers cook with mud.
We sing songs of festivals, yet our toilets are the open beaches where our children play.
Tell me — what progress is this?
How do we boast of “projects” when people fetch water beside faeces?
How do our leaders cut ribbons while our children dig holes?
This is not politics anymore. This is betrayal dressed as governance.
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THE CURSE OF SILENCE
Every generation inherits something — wealth, wisdom, or wounds.
Ours inherited silence.
And silence is killing us faster than cholera ever could.
Look at Totopey — the children wake at sunrise not for school, but for survival.
They dig into the sand, waiting for brown water to rise from the ground like a ghost of what used to be life.
They drink it.
They share it with goats.
And somehow, they still smile.
That’s the spirit of Ada — strong enough to survive, yet broken enough to be ignored.
But me? I’m done being silent.
I am not here to please politicians or pamper cowards.
If truth makes you uncomfortable, maybe you’re the reason Ada is suffering.
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THE SEA DEFENCE SCAM
They said the Ada Sea Defence Project would bring hope.
Instead, it brought chaos, displacement, and deceit.
Millions of euros gone — and yet not a single borehole for the people whose homes were taken.
The sea took our land; the government took our trust.
The Kasseh–Ada Foah road is still bleeding dust, the markets still rot, and the youth still roam without direction.
And when we speak, they call it “opposition.”
No. This is not opposition — this is accountability.
This is not rebellion — this is revival.
You cannot call yourself a leader if your people drink from mud.
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THE MORAL FAILURE
Leadership is not about handshakes and headlines.
Leadership is standing in the mud with your people until the water flows clean.
But our leaders don’t lead — they wait for cameras.
Our chiefs don’t defend — they shake hands with politicians who sell the land for photo ops.
And our youth? Many have become pawns — shouting for parties that will never fill their buckets.
Ada has become a cautionary tale of loyalty abused.
Thirty years of devotion to one political color, and what do we have?
Dry taps.
Dirty water.
And the slow death of dignity.
You cannot build a modern Ada on the bones of thirsty children.
You cannot call it development when mothers fetch water from gutters.
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THE SPIRITUAL TRUTH
We have not just polluted our land — we have insulted our ancestors.
Because to an African, water is not a resource — it is a spirit.
When we defile it, we defile the covenant between the living and the dead.
The ancestors gave us rivers, and we gave them sewage.
They gave us rain, and we gave them silence.
Do you see why nothing is moving?
Because the land is angry.
The water is angry.
The spirits are tired of our excuses.
This is not superstition — this is spiritual science.
Every drop of dirty water is a curse waiting for confession.
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THE AWAKENING
I am not writing this for pity. I am writing this as prophecy.
Ada will rise again — not through politics, but through people.
Not through slogans, but through sweat.
We will build our own wells.
We will clean our own beaches.
We will call on the spirits of the river, the lagoon, the sea and the ancestors to guide us.
Because when the leaders fail, the land itself becomes the leader.
Our youth will organize.
Our mothers will protest.
Our elders will speak again — not with fear, but with fire.
The world will hear us.
And when that happens, no amount of propaganda will drown our truth.
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THE NEW COVENANT
This is not just about water — this is about dignity.
It is about taking back our identity as people of wisdom, water, and wonder.
So here is the covenant we make with our ancestors and with our children:
• We will no longer drink shame.
• We will no longer beg for what is ours.
• We will no longer worship leaders who watch us suffer.
• We will restore Ada — with our hands, our voice, and our spirit.
Because when the people wake up, corruption trembles.
And Ada is waking up.
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ADA DOESN’T NEED PITY — ADA NEEDS PERFORMANCE.
THE SEA MAY BE RISING, BUT SO ARE WE.
THE SPIRIT OF OUR ANCESTORS IS WATCHING — AND THIS TIME, THEY WILL NOT FORGIVE SILENCE.
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