APC MAYOR CALLS FOR… DIVINE INTERVENTION
Sierra Leone President Ernest Bai Koroma and Mayor of Freetown |
By Abdulrahman Koroma
The mayor
of Freetown City Council, Franklyn Bode Gibson has called on religious leaders
to pray for a nation that might sink in the not too distant future.
He made
this statement last Monday while talking about the rotten ‘bomeh’ chicken that
has flooded the market.
Mayor Gibson blamed the Ministry of Health and
Sanitation for any consumption of the rotten chickens dumped at ‘Bommeh’
dumpsite.
He stated
that they had no knowledge of a 40ft container at the site and that they were not informed by the Health Ministry
neither Massada before dumping the rotten chicken at the Bommeh dust bin.
He
claimed that he only knew about the
story behind the expired chickens through the social media, and that Masada and
the Health Ministry chose the wrong machinery for the process.
“ It is an
insult to use our dumping site without seeking our consent,” the Mayor of
Freetown asserted.
“We learnt
that the dumpers only scraped the surface and dumped the expired chicken
without properly digging the area well. If they would have informed us, we
would have given them proper directives before going on with the exercise” he
averred.
He
asserted that they would not be treating the issue with levity and that the people
who did the whole exercise would be investigated and brought to book.
He added
that health is wealth, and that if a nation must prosper, the health of her
citizen must be ensured. Mayor Gibson noted that he cannot attribute the
attitude of citizens to poverty but a nation whose citizens has refused to
deviate from their bad ways.
Mayor
Gibson pointed out that the manner at which Sierra Leoneans are disseminating
the story on social media is bad and it dents the image of the country. Meanwhile, the ministry of health and
sanitation has issued out a press release making their stance on the dumped
Brazilian expired chickens at the Bumeh dust bin in the eastern part of
Freetown.
The Ministry makes it known to the general
public that the dumped chicken is contaminated and that over 75% of it has been
crushed with mud, human fesses including domestic and industrial wastes from
MASSADA front load machine. The press release further stated that the chicken
has been infested by two types of bacteria- CAMPYLOBACTER and SALMONELLA and that the chicken will let one suffer from
DIARRHEA, CHOLERA and HELMINTHIASIS.
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