DEATH TRAP BUILDING DISCOVERED AT KISSY ROAD
Consumer Welfare Association, a body responsible for disseminating information concerning goods, services and immovable property has alerted the Freetown City Council Environmental Unit to urgently do something about a building along Kissy Road found to be a death trap.
The building along Kissy Road by Easton Street SALONE TIMES discovered that it was burnt down during the rebel war in 1999.
The President of the Association Haja Kadi Sawyer described the building as a house where criminals and people engaged in immoral acts such as the sale of drugs, prostitution among others have their sanctuary. "The people that go there are our concern and the young men that are destroying their lives with drugs as they are our future leaders," she said.
She said they alerted the Freetown City Council because they are the authority charged with the responsibility of making it known to the law enforcers."
An urgent action needs to be put about that building. 'We want it to be demolished in order to save lives'.
She called on the government not to sit by and wait for another disaster to occur before they act which she said will be too late.
Most of the people SALONE TIMES saw are coal sellers most of whom are women and children at the ground floor of the building.
A trader at the building said the people that are doing business there only spend the day and return to their homes after their business. "I don't allow anybody to sleep there . The only businesses we are doing are coal and board selling and nothing else as you can see," she said
She disclosed that there are plans to demolish the building by the owner come next year. SALONE TIMES learnt that the Freetown City Council Environment Unit is planning to carry out the demolition exercise but a specific date has not been given.
The building along Kissy Road by Easton Street SALONE TIMES discovered that it was burnt down during the rebel war in 1999.
The President of the Association Haja Kadi Sawyer described the building as a house where criminals and people engaged in immoral acts such as the sale of drugs, prostitution among others have their sanctuary. "The people that go there are our concern and the young men that are destroying their lives with drugs as they are our future leaders," she said.
She said they alerted the Freetown City Council because they are the authority charged with the responsibility of making it known to the law enforcers."
An urgent action needs to be put about that building. 'We want it to be demolished in order to save lives'.
She called on the government not to sit by and wait for another disaster to occur before they act which she said will be too late.
Most of the people SALONE TIMES saw are coal sellers most of whom are women and children at the ground floor of the building.
A trader at the building said the people that are doing business there only spend the day and return to their homes after their business. "I don't allow anybody to sleep there . The only businesses we are doing are coal and board selling and nothing else as you can see," she said
She disclosed that there are plans to demolish the building by the owner come next year. SALONE TIMES learnt that the Freetown City Council Environment Unit is planning to carry out the demolition exercise but a specific date has not been given.
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