13th April, 2021
The Commissioner for The National Commission for Social Action (NaCSA), Dr. Sao-Kpato Hannah Isatta Max-Kyne has paid a one-day field visit to the Wilberforce Community as a way of responding to the call of the Wilberforce Community for the rehabilitation of their community center.
The main purpose of the visit was for the Commissioner and team to get a first-hand information and a bird’s eye view of the dilapidated sixty-five-year-old Multi-Purpose Community Center currently utilized by the Wilberforce Primary Municipal School.
Welcoming the Commissioner and team, the Chairman board of trustees for the Wilberforce Community, Mr. Claudius Faulkner, congratulated the commissioner on her new appointment and as the first female Commissioner of NaCSA.
“On behalf of the seven-member board of trustees for the Wilberforce Community, (Allen Square), I want to officially welcome you to our beloved community for which we are very grateful for your quick response to our invitation. We the people of Wilberforce are very appreciative and thankful to NaCSA for the construction of our community health center. Madam Commissioner, this community center that you are inspecting was constructed in 1956 by self-help from the community people. It is currently housing the class six (6) pupils of the Wilberforce Primary Municipal School, who are getting ready for the upcoming NPSE Examinations.” Mr. Faulkner ended.”
Mrs. Adenike Cole, one of the seven-man board of trustees and a woman activist said, she has faith and confidence in the commissioner and her team. Mrs. Cole went on to inform the commissioner that the sixty-five-year-old center has been closed for over twelve years now, and if rehabilitated by NaCSA, they will use the proceeds made out of the rentals of the hall to do some other development within the community. “… we will soon launch the Miss Wilberforce beauty pageant show which during our days, the event will host high caliber of persons within and across the community. But sadly, the event will be hosted at another venue because of the condition of the center.’’
Speaking to cross section of members of the community, Dr. Sao-Kpato Hannah Isatta Max-Kyne appreciated the Wilberforce Community People for recognizing and appreciating NaCSA for its past intervention within the Community noting that the need for a modern community center cannot be overemphasized. She noted that the Commission will look into the demands of the Wilberforce community.
“…your request falls within our mandate for which we are set up for as a commission, and as the flagship programme of His Excellency President Bio is Education, I will put a team of experts and engineers together to come and asses the building and see what it will look like in terms of funding. I pray that it falls within the threshold of our funding as this is not the only structure within the Western Area of the same nature that we are funding.” Dr. Max-Kyne noted.”
“Wilberforce is a neighborhood in Freetown, it is home to the Wilberforce military barracks; one of the largest in the country and the main barracks of the Sierra Leone military. Wilberforce was founded in 1810, and provide accommodation for recaptives and other liberated African slaves who were brought to Freetown.” The Allen squares whose leadership poses the historical background of the village, hosts most of the essential facilities ranging from the community health center (which was renovated by NaCSA), the old dilapidated community center and the primary and junior secondary school and recently host the police post.
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