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WILD FIRE HITS ROMAROH VILLAGE, 26 PEOPLE HOMELESS

By: Amadu Wurie Timbo
A wild fire is reported to have left twenty six people homeless at Romaroh village in the Sanda Tendaren Chiefdom, Karene District in the Northern Province of Republic Sierra Leone.

The sad event took place on Thursday 4th February 2021 at about 4:00pm when the community people were busy with their farming activities when the said wild fire makes it way through a nearby bush in to the village.
The cause of the fire incident is not yet known but sources alleged that an unknown cattle-rearer’ is said to have set a fire in one of the nearby bush in order to have fresh grass for his cattle, which is part of their tradition during the dry season.

Frantic efforts were made by community people in order to control the wild fire but to no avail and that all preventive measures were put but unfortunately the fire overcome.

During the fire incident, properties worth million of Leones were destroyed leaving the entire community in a state of dilemma
Pa. Brima Munu, eighty years old man during an interview with this medium burst into tears and said “I am tired with life” noting that he has lost hope and that if humanitarian agencies and government would not come to their rescue, surely their livelihood we become miserable.
Romaroh village is one of the community located in Sanda Tendaren Chiefdom, It is about 8 miles away from Mateboi the chiefdom Headquarter town, majority of the community people are crop farmers.

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