The terrific traffic in Sierra Leone

Sierra Leone is dated to have been facilitated with the motor way for the colonial masters vehicles as well as the railway track, through which we were administered and exploited respectively since the 1940s.
But since then, Sierra Leone capital has become an irony, or an inverse of its name, Freetown, for it is the most tight city in the world, as the african colonialist in the black skins, took the seats of power, from their former colonial masters, counterparts and  economic  neocolonial masters in 1967 (April 27th, in respect of the Day Bai Bureh of Kasse (the famous Temne warrior), launched the hut tax war against governor Cardew in 1898, (the one that declared the protectorate over the hinterland).
None of the, since the first knighted prime minister, Sir Milton Margai (1961-64),  his successor and  brother, Sir Albert Margai, Brigadier Juxon Smith (1967/8), President Siaka P. Stevens (1969-1985), President J.S. Momoh, the father of multiparty and democracy in Sierra Leone (1985-1992).
Among them, the 27 years old Captain Valentine E.M. Strasser (1992 -1996), was the only one among them that attempted to start the making of roads within the capital Freetown, and the only road that leads to and from Freetown, as far as Masiaka. His good work was later ended by the government of Ahmed Tijan Kabba (1996-2007).
Besides that little effort commenced by the Khaki youths, the complementing effort of the Kabba government did not exceed the margin of strasser’s project, from there, Freetown remained to be the most tight capital, with fatal accident from time, ranging from the dropping of 20 and 40 FT containers upon people, as it happened once in the case of duff cut, where five people were smashed to death beneath a container.
So it was on the 31st October, 2008, when at about 1900 hours, Hurrarc’s cost recovery telecenter was smashed with a cripple, Almamy, whose legs were broken, and Daddy Balansama Marah, who narrowly escaped through the window, when there was no time to be late in making a swift try to save the life that would not have been given justice, if it were lost.
These containers can never wait for the congestion to ease, but speed and hurry out their ways to the city center with no care or cautions, for the precious lives of the people because; the merchants want the goods to make profit the next day.
Government and its police will take no action, instead, they will use it as a way of draining money from both the victim and the accused.
Most of the times, other small vehicles lost control and hit the people, for there is very little or no proper space for pedestrians to move along the road sides, as it happened on the 30th August, 2009, at about 22,00 hours, a vehicle at Dan Street left the road, hit and killed a boy, and ended with the breaking of the concrete fence of a pharmacy.

About Hurrarc

HURRARC (Human Rights Respect Awareness Raising Campaigners) is a Sierra Leone NGO based in Freetown. It was founded in 1992, by Sahr GMP Fania together with other refugees from Sierra Leone at the time of the outbreak of the civil war, to document the Human Rights Violations being committed by all parties. HURRARC has been registered as a Community Based Organisation (CBO) with Freetown City Council.