The Light Our Street Tonight (LOST) Movement, a social change movement is calling on the government to as a matter of urgency repair faulty streetlights where necessary and fix where they are unavailable across the country.
Convener of the movement, Linda Amoni in an interview with Citi News in Accra on Tuesday said the call was because streetlights were critical in enhancing security in the country.
She underscored that the country had over the years faced a disturbing rate of no street lights in most communities and where they were, they were either not working or under maintained, adding that “Although Ghanaians pay a fee for street lights, most of the highways and neighbourhoods have malfunctioning streetlights.”
Ms Amoni said the situation was also fueling social vices and putting both lives and properties at an extremely high risk.
Ms Amoni said it was for that reason, the LOST (Light Our Streets Tonight) campaign had been initiated by the social movement to help drum home the need for these lights to be provided where they were not available and maintained where faulty.
“This campaign is expected to get the government and other relevant stakeholders ameliorate the situation as soon as possible before more lives are lost on our streets. The campaign will use Facebook to push the agenda. Infographic, videos and pictures showing the severity of this situation will be deployed on the platform to amplify the need for the problem to be addressed,” she added.
But ensuring that this was done, Ms Amoni said demanded all-hands on deck to make the campaign successful and get all duty bearers or persons responsible for the streetlights to do as required of them.
The Convener of the LOST Movement therefore urged all Ghanaians to join the campaign to ensure that what was deserving of Ghanaians were done for them to not only safeguard their lives but improve their living standards.
BY ABIGAIL ARTHUR
