By Mohamed Mansaray in Kenema
The people of Kambuwabu community in the outskirt of Kenema City are calling on Kenema City Council (KCC) and other Institutions and stakeholders through this medium for their supports in kind or cash for the development of their community and the road leading to Kambuwabu village near Kenema.
In an interview with our correspondent in Kenema who went on a visit to the community at the time of the road maintenance involving the elders of the Community and the youths, Mr. Mohamed Koroma who initiated the self-help project and Mr. Tommy Hotta the operation leader of the project, told me that the work is in progress with no outside support. They work is done as a result of their individual contributions and household contributions collected to engage the youths at work.
When asked if they are getting support from the Kenema City Council, Member of parliament (MP) of the Area and other authorities concerned, the two elderly men and Mr. Paterson Musa who were basically engaged doing the work told me that they have not got any outside support. When I asked for the composition of their committee, they said, Pastor Monya Edie, Mr. Alpha Bah and Mr. Idrisa C. Kamara and the Chief of the Area are their coordinators adding that Fatmata Sesay popularly known as Wudy is their women’s leader in the committee established for the road maintenance and for the development of their community. Those elders told me that the President set in their community if emulated by other communities in Kenema municipality, Kenema City would be one of the best cities in Sierra Leone.
At last, they said that they want supports from philanthropists and other patriotic Sierra Leoneans to come to their aid in order to continue the self-help project they have started. They also pointed to a broken culvert along the road leading to their community from cow yard Section in Kenema as a death trap which needs immediate improvement.” We need money to pay our youths who are physically engaged in the operation and to feed them” they concluded.
