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An indigene of Konike headquarters town, Masingbi, Sorie Conteh, is unhappy about his home town being dark since it was found by their forefathers.
“We have yet to get power supply while Makali has got a dam to supply light to the whole town.”
“Makali has benefitted from the power dam about some years ago, but we don’t have kind-hearted leaders who are born in Masingbi to help bring light in Masingbi,” he explained.
Conteh had attended MCSS at Masingbi few years ago. Now he lives in Waterloo but he wished to see his town being electrified like a closer and bigger town around, Makali.
And he is furious about seeing Makali developing over the years while Masingbi is still crawling in terms of developments.
“Honestly, I haven’t seen much realistic developments happening or had happened in Masingbi town like in other places in Sierra Leone,” he fumed.
During the Civil War between 1992 and 2002, Masingbi played homage to the Syrians from Syria and Lebanese from Lebanon in Asia.
These nationals in Sierra Leone had built some elegant and powerful houses on a street in Masinbi leading to Four Road Street.
That street is called Eight Corner known for Syrians dwellers who often buy the diamonds mined from Kono.
Masingbi was blessed with a cosmopolitan culture of Themnes, Korankos, Mendes, Syrians, Lebanese, and Konos during the turbulent era of the Civil Unrest in Sierra Leone.
Yet, it is still known for its poor growth and little houses then, making it very infamous among other important headquarters provincial towns in the north of Sierra Leone.
“It is expanding now; people are now building houses; we only wish we have light here now,” says Samuel Bangura, a resident there.
While Magburaka, Matotoka, Yele, and Makali are famously known by many Sierra Leoneans and business people including other ethnic groups in the country, Masingbi is still couldn’t be easily identified by most people by one’s mouth-mentioning its name.