During his inception as a democratically elected President of Sierra Leone, His Excellency Julius Maada Bio instituted a national cleaning exercise every first and last Saturdays in a month, an initiative that received a warm welcome embrace by the general citizenry irrespective of political, regional and ethnical background.

This announcement made by President Julius Maada Bio urged the Ministry of Works and Public Assets, the Ministry of Health and Safety and the Freetown City Council to actively engage in robust cleaning exercises across the four corners of the country in a bid to actualize the President dream of a clean country.

Some well-wishers of the President averred that the President has brought the old to the new meaning that the NPRC junta leader has instituted the every Saturday cleaning as it used to happen during the NPRC days. Some citizens were already cleaning the backyards and front of their surroundings and compounds before the announcement was made likewise others who have thrashed the civics of cleaning their environments viewed the President call as very daunting and challenging bearing in mind that by the time the cleaning ends the day will have long gone by for them to eke out for their daily survival.

But four years down the line our national cleaning exercise got missing among our midst unexplainably to the point that the heap of garbage disposal coupled with unbearable urine smell and contaminated waste are badly affecting the social, physical health and well-being of the country and its citizenry.

Written By Aruna Rashed Toma Bangura (Deputy Editor)