Concord Times (Freetown)
Ben Samuel Turay
25 November 2008
Freetown — Resident youths of both Banana Island and Kent village in the Freetown Peninsular have come together and resolved to abandon their communities for what they considered as lack of employment opportunities in their areas.
Youth chairman of Banana Island, Emeric Kallie Kamara said they are in a very sorry state as idleness seems to be their only occupation due to the fact that no companies or factories operate in the area to engage the youth. He said this has been troubling them over the years and have now seen reason to relocate elsewhere where their potentials skills can be utilized.
Another youth, Mohamed Bangura said their communities are so poor because of the perennial unemployment problem that has come to characterize the deplorable living condition of the people.
"Banana Island and Kent village are losing most of their young people because the opportunities here are so limited or even non existent. Most of our colleagues have decided to move to other places, like Freetown, where they could be gainfully employed rather than stay here and die in poverty," Bangura said.
A Class 5 pupil of the Rural Education of Community (REC) Primary School at Kent village, Kadiatu Kamara, also expressed her concern as to what the future holds for them the younger ones when they shall have completed school.
"I am a school-going pupil who hopes to get a good job after completing my university education. I will prefer to work here and serve my community if only there are job facilities, but I wonder whether that dream would be realized. I want to appeal to the government and other well-meaning non-governmental organizations to concentrate some of their development programmes here so that we too can live better lives like other communities," Kamara said.
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