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Sierra Leone: 7 Villages Deserted at Yenga
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Concord Times (Freetown)
27 March 2008
Posted to the web 26 March 2008
Mohamed Vandi
Kenema
More than one thousands residents are reported to have been forced out of seven villages surrounding the disputed border town of Yenga in the Kailahun district.
Paramount chief of Luawa chiefdom Mohamed Kailondo Banya affirmed this during a visit of Vice President Samuel Sam-Sumana to the chiefdom.
He said seven villages around Yenga have been deserted due to daily threats from the Guinean forces deployed in Yenga.
"Our people are still under Guinean threat. More than one thousand of these residents have deserted their villages for fear of losing their lives," he said.
He said what is frightening them the most are the heavy artillery planted towards their villages which reminded them of a pending war.
Chief Banya called on the government to take the Yenga intimidation as top priority and seek a peaceful resolution to the problem.
He said the people of Kailahun have put their political differences aside and are now prepared to support the All Peoples Congress government.
"On another serious note, our roads in the entire district are in a deplorable condition. This unfortunate development has warranted the increase of transportation cost to Le 30, 000,' he said.
He noted that prices of local commodities have increase because traders cannot afford to transport their goods to urban centers.
He lauded the government for its plan to upgrade the Kenema-Kailahun highway and observed that there are delays in the implementation of the project.
Meanwhile, minister of foreign affairs and international cooperation Zainab Hawa Bangura has always insisted that the long standing relationship between Guinea and Sierra Leone could be jeopardized by the Yenga issue.
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"This government cannot consider any forceful means instead of the peaceful negotiations that are still ongoing. Sierra Leone does not have the military and economic power that guinea has. Besides Guinea helped us a great deal during the war years," she had told a weekly press briefing recently.
this is my comment.I want madam Zainab Bangura as foreign affairs or Mr president to the people of sierraleone that Yenya is parth of SierraLeone.And every knowns that from the origin.Guinean troops basced yanya during to help prevent the RUF from entreing there country.What next? the war is over they should give up the town.X president left office without doing northing.This a new government. en we to let our neighbor around the region mainly the guiean government.But this government want to give yenga town to the guinean because they help us during the war,is there any paper work or black... [Read Full Text]
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