“What we all want is to live with dignity. This means for me to be able to be proud of who I am – a slum dweller.”
Those are the words of Bright Dzila, a resident of Old Fadama, the largest shantytown in Accra.
[Source: Squattercity.]
December 24th, 2009
The Accra squatter community known as Sodom & Gomorrah has had its fourth fire of the year [on december 22nd, 2009]. This one claimed 2,000 structures, but no lives, Joy Online reports:
http://news.myjoyonline.com/news/200912/39667.asp
The squatters “had difficulty accessing water to bring the fire under control, because some of the [water] pipelines had been disconnected because they had been illegally connected”, the article reports.
This, of course, is a form of official discrimination against these communities. Don’t provide water and don’t allow illegal connections to function either. This policy marks a war of attrition against squatters.
http://squattercity.blogspot.com/2009/12/fire-in-sodom-gomorrah.html
