Leicester Road Residents Appeals for Help By Mohamed Bangura Residents in the Leicester Road community area have raised concern about the slow pace of development and the frequent electric shortage in that part of the country. According to some residents, they have been nine months without electricity supply, adding that this is an ugly development which has led to an increase in armed robbery and a fall in businesses relying on electricity. Speaking to this press, several residents disclosed that although electricity is one of their priorities; but pipe-borne water; poor quality of education, no proper monitoring of schools and increase in youth unemployment are also issues which need urgent solutions. Some of the key stakeholders stated that the community cannot run smoothly without electricity and pipe-borne water as the people in this area also have a right to development initiatives and government projects like other communities. The community they added has been in an underdeveloped state for the past thirty (30) years. Presently the state of bad roads, no community centre, no health centre, no police post and lack of youths’ empowerment programmes is an understatement. The latter has resulted to an increase in violence and teenage pregnancy. Meanwhile, youths in the community say for the past ten years there has been no Member of Parliament or councilor that has helped improve the status of the community including the recent one Hassan Bangura who has done nothing to develop the deplorable community since he won the 2012 elections. The whole community has nothing to write home about when it comes to development, the youths lamented. The residents are therefore calling His Excellency President Dr. Ernest Bai Koroma and his government to loot in the way of Leicester and bring development to them in fulfillment of the Agenda for Prosperity.
Posted on: Thu, 30 Jan 2014 16:46:43 +0000
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