By Gibao Brima

In a bid to help prevent  motor accidents, criminals who are engaged in pick pocketing mobile phones snatching and to help in the free movement of people at Jui, the Sierra Leone Police under  the command of Chief Superintendent Allieu Konneh and team has embarked on enforcing  tough measures on people to use the newly constructed over head bridge at Jui.

Talking to the District Traffic Officer at Grafton  Police Station Inspector Mohamed Bangura told Africa 24 that it has been a very difficult task to talk to pedestrians to use the footbridge.

Many said rough words against the police rather than cooperating with the police to use the pedestrian.

Even when it is for their own safety, they don’t want cooperate with the police.

But thanks to God we have a strong and determined Inspector General of police William Fayia Sellu together with a strong operation team. Their intervention has helped us a lot to which  we are grateful. We had been enforcing on the use of the footbridge but we are faced with many challenges, he said.

In a snap interview with Chief Superintendent Allieu Konneh at Jui he told the Africa 24 that police are there to save lives and properties and the life of a single Sierra Leonean which is very much significant to the police.

The footbridge is government’s initiative with support from the international donors to maintain road safety standards.

This development is found in other Africa countries and so people are making use of the facility.

So Sierra Leone should not be an exception.

“We need not to be forcing people for their own life but we have no alternative but to enforce the law.”

Our Inspector General of Police William Fayia Sellu wants to see that people obey the law and we are working in that direction to make sure people obey the law. Dilating further CSP Konneh said it is only when people become  law abiding that can  help such a society to develop.

Mr Conteh, a teacher at Jui told the Africa 24 that it is good that the police have taken up this step in enforcing the law to make sure people use the footpath bridge.

Dilating further Mr Conteh said the footbridge has helped our school going pupils more especially our primary school children as they could now cross homes to their various homes safely.

Equally so, Mr Conteh said if small kids make use of this facility why should we as elders turn blind eyes to this development.