Stalls at Sani Abacha Street Market Allegedly Vandalized by Sierra Leone Police
By Capitol Times |
12 hours ago |
In the early hours of Friday 12th August 2022, Capitol Times Newspaper received an intelligence of overnight demolition of market stalls at Sani Abacha Street, one of the famous street market in Freetown.
Kargbo, a local trader at Abacha intimidated this medium that they woke up very early this morning to take out their businesses, only to arrived and find their@ stalls completely destroyed by unknown people. She expressed dissatisfaction over the issue.
Meanwhile, the Mayor of Freetown City Council (FCC), Yvonne Aki-Sawyer has refuted Social Media claims of not participating in the demolition of market stalls at Sani Abacha Street in Freetown.
Mayor Aki-Swayer in her tweet post denied that FCC is not responsible and didn’t partake in any overnight operations during the curfew.
“Learnt via photos on social media that market stalls at #Abacha Street Market were destroyed overnight. Have also seen posts that #FCC is responsible. Would like to inform the general public that FCC is not responsible & did not participate this night operation during curfew”, she said.
Bockarie Sama Banya, a popular social media user has urged the Mayor to transform the City to a better position.
He made this called during a replied to the tweet of the Mayor.
“May be you should use this opportunity to transform Freetown in deed and not just words. Under your watch street trading has quadrupled.
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