Yusuf was a student of Fourah Bay College and was yearning for regular power supply at their zone 1 community at Moerabi.
He told our journalist months ago that the absence of electricity at Moerabi community was affecting his studies and many residents who need electricity for several purposes.
“We are not being considered here despite this place is the gateway to Freetown.”
“Masiaka is having light [electricity] but we don’t have; that is a complete disservice to us. Are we not Sierra Leoneans?” he asked.
Yusuf was interviewed at his home at Moerabi which is about 23 miles away from the capital, Freetown.
It is a place just about two miles away from Waterloo town, a very densely populated environment.
Years back, Yusuf, said the community was tiny but now it has expanded in breath and length.
“We have about two sections here but they don’t have power supply. And there are a lot of students here at college and school who dearly need light for study purposes and internet research.
“Today’s education needs the use of internet which helps one to understand a course he/ she is doing. With charging on your phone, you can buy megabyte to fill your phone for the internet in order to search for important information that is related to a particular subject”.
About a thousand live at this community but they are starved with power supply and good roads.
Yusuf is an amputee and so he needs things around him like good social services to aid his learning so that he could be employed and become self-reliant after graduating.
At the time he was speaking to now, things for them at Moerabi have not yet changed. They still remain like they were two years ago. The place is still a dark grave; live there is boring.
There are still machine genreators booths being used as power houses to recharge mobile phones, music Bluetooths and Chinese hand-held lights.
Yusuf and other residents such as business men and women, young girls and boys at the deprived community are lacking vehicles to ply them to and fro the capital and Waterloo-Moerabi.
This is something, Yusuf, had grumbled about back then when interviewed by our journalist around September, 2021.
“We don’t have plenty vehicles in Waterloo to carry us back and forth every day.”
“Most often I miss lectures at Fourah Bay College.”
Yusuf was wishing government to finally fix their innumerable problems ranging from poor roads, absence of electricity and community centres.
And as Sierra Leone’s government keenly expresses plans to ameliorate the stressful condition of public transport among residents within the Western urban and Western rural, Moerabeans may wish to get at least two new government buses to help them get over their every day’s transportation difficulty.