By Africa 24 writer
Last time when an old house structure fell down along Kissy Road in Freetown state authorities appeared to be very serious to prevent similar occurrences.
But, honestly, it was just the usual ‘drama’ with police marking the area or controlling traffic congestion, with road authorities visiting the scene where the incident may have occurred, then eyewitnesses would be seen snapping the collapsed building especially in this social media crazy world.
That is all you will get to see. Nothing more, afterwards. No action is expected to be taken by the right authorities like building land permit officials, police and other security officers, road transport officers, municipal or local council officers, State assets or public works authorities.
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supervised by State assets authorities for fear of potential disasters of collapse.
There have been many instances in which some weak buildings within the capital sometimes give way or collapse owing to lack of maintenance by owners of those house structures.
People are paying dues on their houses but those houses don’t get supervised by state public assests officials, regularly.
Sometimes, even when these officials would go around doing some building inspection but hardly are the owners of the houses that have become outdated and almost on the point of collapse are being asked to pay fines or ordered to renovate them at once as a way to prevent serious disasters. Or to prevent huge losses on the very people who own those houses.
Instead the old, weak and derelict house buildings, school buildings, hospital buildings, public office buildings and other State parastatals are often left carelessly posing danger on innocent people.
Sometimes, under these situations, community people around, passengers on vehicles or passers-by, traders, foreigners, students and pupils, are exposed to such risks, causing most often, severe deaths and injuries on these people.
Giving his view of what he thinks what Sierra Leonean government authorities don’t good at doing, a teacher at a public school in the east of Freetown, said: “government authorities simply lack the culture of maintenance.”
“Look at most public buildings in the country, most have shown some serious cracks even the schools we teach they don’t get repaired by the government,”
“It’s something that is really affecting this country [lack of maintenance]…in our school here, as a principal, I sometimes, would have to spend out extra-money from my pocket to re-build up the cracked walls. That is why we are sometimes very insistent on collecting extra-fee charges from pupils to be able to repair the school on the areas that have shown some serious cracks. Because government doesn’t usually respond early or not all to such gravely situations,” the principal said.