By Gibao Brima

Smoke suffocation, bad odour and related health implications  from Akram dumpsite popularly known as Bomeh, continue to affect local residents as well as passersby in that community.

This situation has become unbearable for them because despite efforts made by the media, civil right and other interested organisations for previous as well as present governments to relocate the refuse site to other areas have yielded no fruit.

The people have continued to make the clarion calls to move the dumpsite to a distance location due to health risks people in that community are exposed to. They have continuously called on the central government to assist them since they claimed the Freetown City Council charged with that responsibility seems to have deliberately turned blind eyes to their concerns to relocate the site

Residents within this environment have time without number expressed their dissatisfaction to this reporter of the presence of the dumping site right in the middle of their dwelling houses.

“Our cries seem to have fallen on deaf ears,” one affected community member stated almost in tears.

The Freetown City Council, they stressed, is not only mandated to relocate the site but supposed to be a key priority under the Transformation of Freetown Project if the Council actually mean business.

“Sadly, we have not seen that happening and we have continued to live in hazard health condition,” another resident fumed.

The people have therefore renewed their call on the government and its partners to protect them from unforeseeable disaster. If the situation remains unresolved, the people have resolved to publish an open letter to the Freetown City Council to see the next step it will take to address the problem ones and for all