TRACE: Wrecked ferryboats Turn Dwelling House for fifty people

Hey! How are you guys doing? TRACE, as promised in the previous edition, is still hanging around the Aberdeen Beach where events are unfolding. Aberdeen is a tourist area that has drawn lots of people from all walks of life. 

For about a week now the demolition of make shift structures has been going on by the National Tourist Board and the Ministry of Tourism and Cultural Affairs. TRACE in his wisdom has not relented but stayed along this area to get a clear picture of what is actually going on. 

When asked out of the beach area, some people refused to leave claiming that Government did not give them seed money to start life in the provinces where they came from.
While some are requesting for transportation to return to their former communities outside Freetown.
Those that refused to go, hang around with whatever little belongings they had, just waiting for nightfall. To the dismay of the NTB and team, it was noticed that some people had found alternate residence. Some went on to construct some other make shifts close to the wharf while others occupied wrecked ferries lying waste at the bank of the sea as their abode.
The wrecked ferries could be found by the side of the Aces Nightclub just after the Aberdeen Bridge at Tamba Kuller wharf. Two of the ferries occupied are Yapate fast Ferry and Sheriffa fast ferry.
TRACE was opened mouth when he saw dozens of children emerging from those wrecked ferries. TRACE was almost in tears considering the squalid conditions under which the children have been forced to live. Those children are being made to undergo the unimaginable due to the fact that their parents want to stay in Freetown just for the sake of living in the city.
One of the victims who identified himself as Tejan told TRACE that they have been leaving comfortably in the creek for years now but the demolition has forced them to leave that place. Tejan who is close to his 18 and should be going to school said he has become a professional fisherman. He explained they will go into the wrecked ferry to rest after they had finished fishing for the day. He said before the demolition exercise they have been having running battles with the police who will raid them from time to time. Tejan said despite that they had been enjoying their stay at that ferries. When asked about the tide and waves which normally comes at 18:00 GMT, Tejan said they would swim to reach the ferry when the tide was high. TRACE was thinking about the children at high tide. Tejan said the children are not allow out of the ferry when the tide was high.
A mother of some of the children who identified herself as Isatu said she only occupied the ferry for few days when she realized that there is no place for her to go when the Tourist Board and the police asked them out.
The ferries have been out of used for years now and most of the parts have been removed. It is not conducive for anybody to leave on as there was nothing to make it comfortable. There are lots of rusty irons around and the whole ferry was in ruins.
TRACE was asking how these people came to Freetown just to occupy wrecked ferries as their dwelling house?
As if reading TRACE’s mind, one of the victims said they came through the boat from Lungi. TRACE can recall that it was that very wharf Tamka Kuller where dozens of people died of ebola when the spread of the virus was at its height. TRACE is of the belief that strong leadership demand stronger action. If this is the time for the authority to save lives let them do it now or else the worst will happen. Unfortunately as we go to press, we have just received news that government has put a halt to the demolition exercise. O SALONE!