The district is provided with leaders ranging from the Rural District Council Chairman, who heads the council, Members of Parliament, ward councilors, headmen and women as well as other traditional leaders.
These people are rightly charged with the tasks of providing their various constituencies with the basic social services through tax revenues mobilized by the council as in the case of WARDC.
While the MPs are expected to be regularly undertaking community development programmes as road infrastructure, health, water and power supplies and schools to their people, though little or nothing is being virtually realized in these communities.
These are hardly seen in a district that is in desperate need of pure drinking water and consistent power supplies.
It is the gate way to the city of Freetown, especially when one is coming from the provinces you are unavoidably received and welcome by residents of Waterloo, who can still not boast of punctual electricity supply and safe drinking water.
In their various campaign promises barely three years ago, both the main opposition All People’s Congress (APC) and the governing Sierra Leone People’s Party (SLPP) vowed at different platforms to serve the communities with basic social services including good roads, safe drinking water, community health structures, public transportation, power supplies and upgrade the educational facilities in the district, which are yet to be delivered on. What a collective failures Father government?
Forum Newspaper observes with serious concerns that communities in WARDC as Matainkay and Bobby Warf couldn’t interact well due to poor road network caused by a dilapidated bridge posing as a death trap in those communities, under the ministerial leaderships of Peter Baguku Conteh of the Ministry of Works, Housing and Infrastructure, the Chairmanship of Councilor Kasho, J. Cole and number of MPs, headmen and headwomen.
This is not about who governs where, but as development like love, knows no colour, religion, tribe, creed, region but the general good. It is thus worthy to call on stakeholder in the political divides to close ranks and work constructively for the good of their communities and the entire benefits of the people of WARDC, for lives at Matainkay, Bobby Warf and all other areas at WARDC are equally matter and important as their councilors, MPs, Chairman and other leaders.
Bobby Warf and Makaintay people as legitimate tax payers, and their children, need better roads and bridges to be accessing school, health centers, markets and other social services they duly deserved in their nearby communities should in case they couldn’t find all they need in their communities. Therefore government at which ever level needs to rescue the people of those places from the shackles of underdevelopment and poverty.
Apart from the intermittent power being supplied to Freetown, large sections of WARDC including the district headquarter-Waterloo hardly receive electricity supply even in the midst of allocations and installations of transformers across the country.
It is an open secret that central government allocate resources to cities and district council for development purposes in diverse sectors at that level though they are hardly felt on the ground.
Freetown is not Sierra Leone, taking into account that governance processes in democratic dispensations must be adequately decentralized for the benefits of all and sundry.
Sierra Leoneans everywhere in the country are all equally cratered for in the budget if we were to go by what the country’s financial policy preach to us as a nation, and must therefore realize the goodies of the country through development programmes and projects equitable distributions of resources by the government of the day, irrespective one’s sociopolitical and economic status everybody is proudly entitled to such national resources and privileges as a citizen.
Government should in that regard rise to the challenges posed by lack of electricity, safe drinking water, poor road networks, health facilities, schools the list is long, for which political leaders of all shades were elected to provide.
The more reason these services should be adequately provided by the appropriate authorities and leave the blame games for nonperformers as excuses can hardly feed the people nor develop our communities and country as a whole. To that end we once humbly remind you all of your responsibilities for which you must collectively rise to the challenges and serve your constituents of quit.
