Africa 24 news

In a mini-van droving to Waterloo, the outskirt of the capital on Wednesday’s night, a fat man around fifty years old, was so bitter because he was squeezed out in the front seat of the van close to the driver.

The man appeared very angry over the topical issue of government’s buses being stopped to transport passengers to Waterloo from Freetown and verse versa.

The new buses about fifty-nine only move within Freetown- Lumley in the west to Bus Station in the central city and Eastern police in the central to Calaba Town in the east.

The many buses bought by the government from India or China have not been allowed to run between Waterloo and Freetown.

No explanation has been given by the government as to why they must not being allowed to tow passengers from the country’s business, and busiest city, to Waterloo.

Waterloo is a dense community which comprises other important communities like Kissy, Moerabi, Campbell Town, Liberia Refugee camp, Four Mile (Newton).

Apart from these communities where traders are having their permanent residences but usually come to the capital to do their normal businesses, there are other bigger places just metres away from the capital, Freetown.

Such places are Rokel, Yams Farm, Devil Hole , Deep Eye Water, Allen Town.

And they are highly populated communities where office workers too, business people, students who attend schools in Freetown, are living.

And because there are not enough vehicles to take them to work and home, these people are the mostly seriously affected.

They had expected earlier on that with the coming in of more government buses, their constraints on catching vehicles every day will have been speedily addressed by government’s transport ministry.

But that never happened. And so the man’s concerns on a mini-van, on Wednesday February 7, are similarly expressed by many of these dejected residents in places beyond the capital Freetown.