NACSA takes reparation through
After the ten years brutal war in Sierra Leone, the National Commission for Social Action (NACSA) has finally started the process of giving reparation packages to registered beneficiaries who bear physical and psychological scars of the gruesome war as suggested by the Truth and Reconciliation Commission.
On Tuesday 29th September, 2009 at its Charlotte Street office in central Freetown, one of the Directors at NACSA, Mr. Obai Buya Kamara, told Sierra Express Media that the entire exercise is geared towards providing reparative packages for war victims who he said, are left vulnerable by the ugly print of the ten year savage war.
These categories he said include those seriously affected like amputees, women whose rights were violated by the various factions in the war, and children orphaned by the war, would all be duly registered and given benefits due to them.
The present exercise according to Buya Kamara is based on verification of beneficiaries which he said the final one will ensure that codes are given to each one of them so that they become legally eligible for the various reparation packages.
The NACSA man admitted that they are currently having a lot of problems with some people whom he said laid false claim to the reparation package although they are not victims of the war.
A 50 year old Salamatu Sesay who is one of the numerous beneficiaries expressed that government helps in the way of reparation as it is crucial to their survival, adding that the package has been able to do a lot in the their lives.
Already, the first reparation package has been provided early this year at the National Stadium in Freetown.
Pa Ibrahim Kamara an amputee told Sierra Express Media in an enthusiastic expression that many of them have been benefiting from a lot of training programmes coordinated by NACSA and are now happy that the reparation for war wounded is an added advantage and a complement to their life. “Freetown is not Sierra Leone, so I am calling on NACSA to take the programme to all parts of the country,” Mr. Kamara said.
Kadiatu Turay, a woman who lost her eye sight in a bomb blast told this press that she lost her eye sight in January 1999 during the tussle between the rebels and government forces in the battle for Freetown.
In all, it was revealed that more than 5,000 war affected and wounded are bound to benefit from the process.
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