INCREASE OIL PRODUCTION AFTER BEATING ARGENTINA
The first giant killing of the football World Cup Qatar 2022 took place on Tuesday when Saudi Arabia beat Argentina. By this performance, it’s beginning to look like Messi will not lift the World Cup as a player. Those who have compiled the statistics to show that Messi is greater than PELE of Brazil won’t like what the Saudis did hours ago. We understand that but this Argentina team is not good enough to win this tournament. We are waiting to be proved wrong. The team is too old.
Anyway, our concern today is to talk about how the rest of the world wants to celebrate this Saudi victory. Media people like us like giant killings. So we are very happy for Saudi Arabia. They were a bit nervous in the beginning, going on to concede a penalty and be saved twice by VAR. It was beginning to look like a rout of ignominious proportions but they fought back and produced the unbelievable.
Now, as part of our celebration we plead with KING SALMAN to call an emergency meeting of OPEC with just one agenda – increase oil production by FOUR MILLION barrels a day. When the king acts, the price of crude will FALL and we will also experience a big fall in the price of petrol and diesel at our stations all over the world. How about that?
This has been a good few days for King SALMAN – he has been given immunity from prosecution in America over that small matter at the Saudi embassy in Turkey and now his boys have beaten Argentina. Congrats great King SALMAN. We are waiting to celebrate with you and your people. As you know by cutting TWO MILLION barrels recently, you have forced the price of fuel up and life is becoming unbearable for many around the world.
We thank King SALMAN for reading this and taking action to stop the unnecessary suffering of humanity.
BO CITY CENTER SWIMMING IN GARBAGE
Bo City Council would like to tell the world they were in charge of things in that great city but when we drove along Fenton road last weekend, what we saw told a completely different story. We were left with the impression that as the Mayor and his Councilors approach the end of their time in office, they have lost steam like marathon runners approaching the finish line. For three days we observed a huge mound of rubbish near the central market. By the third day we were beginning to compare Freetown to Bo in terms of the sanitation problem in both cities. Not too long ago Bo city was the cleanest in the whole of Sierra Leone but now they are giving Mayor Buwa Bisieh something to point to when she is rightly accused of failing to clean Freetown.
We tried to understand why the garbage was not quickly collected and taken to a landfill but all the explanations we got from those who should know made zero sense to us. What we have in the City Council is a Mayor, a group of Councilors and a Chief Administrator who all appear to have run out of ideas on what to do with the rubbish problem in the middle of their city. Maybe they need to declare some kind of garbage emergency in Bo City so they can get special power to deal with that situation.
At that point they can do the following:
1. Immediately clear the mound of rubbish on Fenton road and take steps to make it impossible for anybody to deposit rubbish there from now on.
2. Cause the arrest and prosecution of anybody caught defying that regulation
3. Spend a good part of the market dues collected on keeping Bo City clean
4. Put the necessary in place to collect garbage throughout Bo City from homes so as to stop people from taking the desperate measure of pouring filth on the streets just like that.
5. If this is too much to ask for, the Mayor and his Councilors should all simply RESIGN. We are a few months away from elections so we will take whatever until we inject fresh blood into our SECOND CITY.
IS CAMPBELL STREET NOW A PARKING LOT?
Campbell Street on the west side of Freetown is one of the main arteries linking the west to the Central Business District. There is however something disturbing along that road that we want to bring to light here. Campbell Street is now being used as a car and kekeh park. In years past, the street was free of parked cars on both sides as a result people as well as vehicles used the street and went about their business quietly without any hassle. The sidewalks were also for pedestrians and those who ride bicycles. There was enough space to walk without thinking about a car hitting you from the back.
Recently, Campbell Street has become a park for private as well as commercial vehicles. This act is greatly affecting the movement of people and vehicles. From Monday to Saturday the street is jam-packed with kekehs and cars on both sides of the street causing a lot of traffic considering the fact that the street is being used as a two way road.
Is it right for such lawlessness to continue, considering the nature of how important that street is for citizens of the country? Something needs to be done so that the street will regain its lost purpose because it seems the street is being misused.
As a consequence of such practices, one may be forced to think that the name of our capital city “Freetown” is affecting the actions of its people.
Madam Mayor, we see you on social media platforms with the message “Transform Freetown”. How are you implementing that transformation in our beloved land?
If our city is to be transformed then we need to ensure that what is right is done and we do not bend the rules to do the things we know are bad. Campbell Street needs to look as it once was and Freetown needs a good transformation in order to attract visitors and make the citizens feel good about themselves.
KILLING LEOPARDS IN KOINADUGU
When that master hunter killed the leopard in Koindagu in the northern region he was expecting to be roundly congratulated for that heroic feat but he has experienced mixed reactions to his surprise. We understand why he would be disappointed by some of the things popping up on social media.
Here is a man who was contacted to help stop this predatory animal that has been killing cattle and distressing farmers in the area. The guy went in there and killed the leopard. Now the animals and the farmers are safe once again, at least for a while.
Now, when the news of what he did deep in the night appeared on social media, many congratulated but inevitably there were those who complained, saying that he should have sedated the animal and passed it over to a zoo somewhere in the world. We don’t have one in Sierra Leone.
We don’t believe that our master hunter has what it takes to do that. He does not have the material and training to attempt that. In any case, he was there to end the menace of cattle being attacked and killed by the leopard. Those of us sitting in cities posting stuff on social media can go on writing and posting. Maybe we should now urge the authorities and their allies abroad to put the necessary things in place to make it possible for such predators to be sedated and caged next time they appear in those remote parts of our country.
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