Efua Sutherland Children’s Park in ruins

 Once a vibrant recreational hub for children, families, students and tourists, the Efua Sutherland Chil­dren’s Park located at West Ridge in the Greater Accra Region now lies in a state of neglect.

The facility, which was a major site of attraction for school children especially on days of vacation, is now in ruins.

Visitors to the facility are now greeted with obsolete equipment and crumbling infrastructure.

Since 2019, the famous Children’s Park has been left to ‘die.’

This raises serious concerns about the nation’s commitment to preserving such public and monumental spaces.

On a visit to the facility by The Spectator, it observed that equipment mounted on the 14.83-acre playground has rusted and have become death traps, rather than the purpose for which they were mounted for visitors.

Workers were also seen busily weeding the overgrown grass and cleaning the compound.

A source at the Ministry of Gender, Women and Social Protection, the agen­cy with oversight responsibility of the facility disclosed to this Reporter that for now, very few activities were organ­ised on the park.

“It is unfortunate that the facility has turned this way. Very few people come around to make enquiries about it to hold special events. Its current state don’t make it attractive for event organisers again.”

The source added that apart from be­ing unattractive, the state of the equip­ment scares the children away because they fear they might get injured.

 By Linda Abrefi Wadie