00. Introduction
Nothing is as it was on the road section between Kiri and Penzwa. Passengers using this route swear by them, having regard for the suffering endured reach their destination. Indeed, there is no real way of speaking in this section. Bridges and levees gave way and the road in several places, becomes impractical. Even some fallen tree branches in the middle of the road have yet to be identified. Tufts of wild grass and some creeping vines stormed what is becoming an area without human presence. During this long journey of over 60 km, the 4 x 4 wheel continuously under tension. A real adventure worthy of Rally - Dakar as everywhere throughout the territory of Kiri!
01. Our responsibility first
In view of this situation, we quickly wondered about the responsibility of our leaders
policies and the of our population. The maintenance of paved roads connecting a city to another and allowing people to move freely and a constant traffic of people and their property, we believe the top priority. But we are astonished at the indifference of almost the entire population against what is their civic duty. An attitude of wait and seems to characterize our population over the deterioration of these roads. We are still waiting outside support or that the abbots and religious, native currently working in the extreme north of the Diocese of Inongo, take over from foreign missionaries. So working to turn in favor of the same population, more and more amorphous and irrelevant to what is public property. Some leaders, for their part, will await the appropriate time to campaign by promising wonders, including rehabilitation of roads and bridges.
02. few examples in the past
The Rev. Father Daniel Loodrior is one of the missionaries who had built their
apostolate of maintenance work roads to allow people to move more conveniently from one locality to another, or better from one parish to another. If the river does not mind naturally for navigation, night and day, it is different for our roads. These, due to heavy rains and many wetlands are to maintain a regular basis and with means a lot more consistent. To do this, a golden palm back to Father Daniel L. for his sacrifice in the maintenance of roads. The current state of roads is an unforgivable situation for us natives in terms of the sacrifice made by this missionary for the development of the country. Without roads, there is really no development. How to reach every community, especially the most remote environments, how to free movement of persons and their property, how to promote exchanges between different environments; How to avoid many accidents due to poor condition of roads? how to make accessible all over this vast expanse that is out DR Congo? It all questions we ask ourselves today at a time of profound change in our country and in terms of both funding the provincial government remained unanswered.
03. Bridges and Dams, relay for a harmonious community development
Beyond the fact deplored, What escapes us is the reality that even mean, for
us, a bridge, a causeway or dike in the life of a man. Roads are made to link people and their living environments, promote exchanges between people living at great distances, reducing the distances, and even more, facilitate and enable the accessibility of landlocked community, work to do this, endogenous development first. Bridges and dams mean, in this sense, the effort of man to face all sorts of obstacles strewing his path. Rather than circumvent, the man seeks either release them or even to make them less troublesome for traffic. Some bridges built during the colonial era still stand today. We always admired the genius in this kind of work. Moreover, the very meaning of a life of dedication to serving others and the whole nation.
As part of the apostolate of the underprivileged, it is through these routes that the missionaries have gone not only to find the lost sheep but also shepherds without flocks, alluding here to entire villages living without contact with the Gospel of Christ or a prey to the flood of itinerant preachers. It is through these paths they lost began to meet pygmy tribes. They were able to forge a dialogue with them man to man, felt together with them the desire for freedom and inalienable right to respect, a better life and vitality. It is through these oppressed minorities, free and no prospects that the missionaries have discovered deep as required to ensure the name of Christ and his Gospel of the dignity of these people in contempt. The missionaries began thereby the patient work and time consuming to investigate the pygmies, create schools for pygmies, send some of them to study further, in boarding schools in Inongo at Bokoro at Kutu and even small Seminar Bokoro. Well educated like other children, Pygmy children out of the complex of sub-humans, so they are enabled to devote themselves, in turn, for the development of our country.
04. Conclusion
In conclusion, the current poor state of our roads condemn a portion
important part of our population to isolation both economic and socio-political. Whole villages are sometimes deprived of the necessities of life: salt, soap, oil and other health care. The public authority is in this sense, invited to come to the rescue of this population almost abandoned to itself. If this is indeed the concern of many NGDOs and that of the Church, the issue also deserves to be asked and considered by the members themselves as representatives of the people and as the primary stakeholders in social and cultural.
Abbot Joseph Belep .-
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