As FCC celebrates Municipal week in Grand Style

VP begs for a clean city and not to judge Freetown by its name

The Freetown City Council over the weekend celebrated its annual Municipal week, in both Muslim and Christian way, which took place at the Limba Mosque,Sandas Street, and the Samaria Methodist Church, Waterloo Street in Freetown which was well attended by government and state officials, and Management staff of the city council.

Speaking to invited guest and well wishers who joined the celebration at the mosque, Vice President Alhaji Samuel Sam-Sumana congratulated the FCC for celebrating municipal week. He stressed that for him the celebration is a call for a cleaner city, and begs the people of the city to keep Freetown clean.

The Vice President maintained that if the work of council in terms of cleaning the city together with its working partners is frustrated by individuals who do not want to make Freetown clean, the city the VP noted will lose its beautification and filthiness has the potential to drive away invested.

He also warned that people should not judge Freetown by its name as a free country where law and order, discipline and cleanliness should not prevail and call on everybody to embrace position attitude and change. The city, the Vice President noted, was named Freetown because when slaves returned from Europe and other foreign countries they landed in the city and name it Freetown, and name few countries who also have a place called Freetown, but the people choose to make their countries the best places in the world.

Alhaji Sam-Sumana prayed for those who have sacrificed their life to make Sierra Leone one of the safest city in the world and call on people to be closer to God as there are signs to prosperity on the way for Sierra Leone.

His Worship Mayor Bode Gibson making a statement said that Freetown is the oldest municipality in the in the West Coast of Africa with a country called Sierra Leone that has no hiding place.

The municipal week celebration the Mayor said is also a call to the general public to compliment the effect on city council, especially in the area of ensuring proper sanitation, as the country cannot develop without a clean.

He called on people who are living in Freetown to make the city a project and help rebuild to for a better Sierra Leone.

The Mayor expresses thanks and appreciation to the Limba Mosque for hosting them and to the Vice President for serving as Distinguish Honour.

The celebration was also followed by a grand thanks giving service with the Minister of Defense who represented President Koroma as Distinguish Grand Chief Patron at Samaria church on the 3 of November,2013.

By Zainab Kanu, Strategic Media and Development Communications Unit

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