By Karifa Kello Thoronka
All the roads leading to Alikalia popularly known as Kuranko London in Kalian Chiefdom, Koinadugu district is in a very bad state as many people describe it to be a dead trap. Speaking with one of the sons of the soil in that part of the country, Balla Jalloh, commonly known as Bah he revealed that all the roads leading to Alikalia Town are very dangerous roads and getting worse every day.
He furthered by noting that the use of heavy trucks loaded with timber is one of the main cause for the dilapidated conditions of the roads in Kalian Chiefdom and Koinadugu district at large. Whiles appealing to the Government and to all descendants of Kalian Chiefdom for help, Balla Jalloh mentioned Hon.Daniel Brima Koroma of Constituency 046 for his efforts towards the road maintenance some years ago, maintaining that there is urgent need for good roads in Kalian Chiefdom.
“At times we spend like six hours in a hold up because of broken bridges,” lamented Balla Jalloh.
Karifa Thoronka encouraged the authorities of Kalian Chiefdom to warn the timber traders to avoid the chiefdom as their business is the main cause of bad roads in the chiefdom. He further noted by saying that good roads is the bed rock of development in any society.
The Fleet Monitoring Officer for the National Emergency Medical Service [NEMS] ,Yusuf Manso Jalloh ,expressed his dissatisfaction about the way the timber trucks are destroying the roads in Kalian Chiefdom, saying that it is very difficult for an ambulance to travel from Kabala to Yifin as a result of the bad road network. He appealed to the authorities to pay more attention to the road before the chiefdom starts losing lots of lives in that part of the country as a result of poor road network. Yusuf Manso Jalloh also made mention of the constraints the telecommunication companies are facing in order to transport fuel to their various sites.
