July 8, 2021
BY PROBLYN JOHN ALPHA
Some Christians and Muslims in Koidu city have cried foul over the ban placed on worship places in the recent presidential proclamation as a response to the new wave of COVID 19.
Those who spoke to A-Z Newspaper expressed dismay that the president has banned congregational worship but allowed trade fares to go on and people allowed to converge to transact business without observing the prescribed preventive measures of social distancing.
According to them, they were not expecting the usual Monday trade fare to hold at the Konomanyi Lorry Park because of the presidential proclamation but they were surprised to see the said trade fare in full session.
They pointed out that the president should have given the churches and mosque terms and conditions of worshipping rather than banning congregational worship which they described as the solution centres to every problem.
Meanwhile, the disaffected Muslims and Christians who spoke to A-Z Newspaper in Kono District, craved on the indulgence of His Excellency the president of the Republic of Sierra Leone president Julius Maada Bio to revisit the ban on congregational worship as the fight against the corona virus can only be won speedily with the intervention of God. The one month 11: pm to 5: am daily curfew has since commenced in Kono District on Monday 5th July, 2021.