Samuel Kallon 
By Ragan M. Conteh
The Vice Chairperson of the Bombali District Human Right Committee, Adama B Sesay, says: “in Makeni people stock their wastes in homes due to lack of dumping sites.”
Madam Sesay said some of the dumping sites that people used to deposit their wastes have been closed because those sites are owned by private individuals.
She was speaking at a program on a project titled enhancing CSOs participation in governance and national level policy processes in Sierra Leone.
The program was held at the Hotel Bamoi, Aberdeen in Freetown.
She talked of the need to protect people from environmental disasters. Madam Adama B Sesay said many homes are now using the gutters as dumping grounds, a situation that has resulted to flooding and disasters in Makeni in rainy season.
She revealed that what happened during the rains in Bombali was terrible which posed a significant threats to the the masses.
She pointed out the need for collaboration and actions in preventing disasters by building more dumpsites in the city.
She maintained that before now there were existing dumping sites in but most of those sites but most have been closed.
She called for government’s intervention with help through its councils to mitigate the disasters hanging on the masses.
She recalled a three hours of downpour in Makeni city, Northern Sierra Leone, few months ago, had caused serious flooding in some parts of the city, leaving some properties valued millions of leones destroyed while many people are made homeless.
Major streets like Lower John Street, Molala Road, Magburaka Road, Agriculture Road, Kojo Street, Teko Road, Milton Street, Rogbaneh Road and Savage Square, were among the badly affected.
She blamed the negative effect as a result of climate change caused by deforestation by people.
Bombali School for the Blind Boarding Home was badly affected by the flooding of late.
The Makeni City Council has been embarking on cleaning exercises especially.
Meanwhile, Makeni Council has received three waste management vehicles from the central government as part of its effort to help mitigate flooding and wastes in the town.
Residents have raised their voices calling on the central government through the Local Government and Community Affairs together with other development partners to see need for a support in the district.
