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“I experience the hell working without salary”- MAF Female Operator Disclosed

By: Amadu Wurie Timbo Popular heavy machinery operator working with the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry (MAF) Madam Hawa Foday has bitterly expressed dismay on the Government of Sierra Leone following her eight years tireless-working period that reflects no salary. The highly focused woman started her working exercise as Machinery operator in 2014 with the ambition to actualize adequate food for the citizenry of Sierra Leone through her selfless efforts in operating heavy-duty machines for large scale farmers, farming in the northern part of Sierra Leone. In an exclusive interview with this medium, Madam Foday revealed that, her decision to join the trade is considered as a better way to complement government effort in achieving the Sustainable Development Goal two (SDG2), which is ‘Zero Hunger’ and either perceived as a better way to realize livelihood for herself and her dependent family. According to her, female gender must not be considered as disability in nation building in...

HEAD TEACHER CRIES FOR GOVERNMENT SCHOOL SUPPORT

By: Amadu Wurie Timbo  The Acting Head Teacher at Royal Academy Primary School, Robine community in Makeni Municipality Abdul Dauda Kamara has desperately called on Government to provide school support to his community school. He made this statement after serving nearly half a decade without receiving school subsidies in a school that has been approved by the Sierra Leone Government through the Ministry of Basic and Senior Secondary School. According to him, the school was earlier established as a community school in 2018, with inspiring supports from Mr. Alhaji Unisa Kuyateh, the Proprietor who had been actively providing stipends to volunteer teachers with fair supply of both Teaching and Learning materials.  He noted that school was later approved in 2019, an event that manifested the end of support from the School Proprietor who believed that Government funding is fair enough for the day-to-day running of the school.  But unfortunately, all appeared as irony towards the process, wh...