By Gibao Brima

Residents within the Akram dumping site along Main Bai Bureh Road, Kissy, east of the capital have for a long period become obsessed with the unpleasant smells and other hazards from the dump site.

Mr Allie Kamara a resident of Akram community few meters away from the dumping site told our reporter that the place has not only become an eyesore to Sierra Leoneans but foreign visitors as well. The refuse site is located at a very strategic place regarded by many as a gateway to the city whether from Lungi using Ferry Terminal and the main route from the provinces.

The government’s delibrate refusal to yield to the calls to relocate the site has coninued to pose serious health and other related risks including flooding and fire oubreaks in that community some of which have been fatal.

Its against this backdrop and to prevent further unforeseen disasters that the concerned residents have kept calling on governments to clear the place once and for all without further delay.

They said that there are plenty benefits to be derived if the dumping site could be transformed into a meaningful project like gas project, which they insists will create job

opportunities for particularly unemployed youths, make the environment clean and largely generate the much neeeded revenue for the government like in other countries.

The affected people have vowed they will continue to vent out their anger in peace until their demands are met.