-Similar water shortage hit the area last year
By Emmanuel Mafelah, mafelahemmanuel29@gmail.com
BONG COUNTY, Liberia- The lack of safe drinking water growing at an alarming pace, hampering the living conditions of locals in Plemue Town in Yelequelleh District in this central County.
Plemue town has an estimated population of about 800 inhabitants.
In tears, citizens in this area said they are finding it very difficult to have access to safe drinking water, especially during this ongoing dry season.
This www.newspublictrust.com Correspondent, who recently toured the area, said women of the town usually walk for some 30 to 45 minutes in the bushes just to fetch drinking water. He quoted the citizens as saying, this is causing serious health hazard in the town among children and adults.
The Plemue citizens said the lack of save drinking water is just one many hardships facing the town, also citing poor educational facilities. This has resulted into many school-age children engaging in farming and bearing children.
The locals further said that serious shortage of safe drinking water threat to their health as the potential for an outbreak of water borne diseases remain high by the day, thus appealing to authorities to come to their rescue.
In a very sad mood, the citizens also said the inability of their Lawmaker and national government to provide those needed facilities is a clear demonstration that they have been marginalized.
According to them, the absence of these social needs are posing threat to their wellbeing, thereby causing their children to grow uneducated and at the same time barricading their economy gains, as well as causing them an unbearable health disaster, describing it as a total Wickedness upon them as citizens living in that part of the country.
They also believe that their rights to have access to equal opportunity have been violated over several years by Leaders they elect to represent them.
On many occasions, they said they have been seeking assistance from some government officials, including their Lawmaker but to no avail.
Meanwhile, the people of Plemue Town in Yelequelleh District are callings on President George Manneh Weah to direct his government’s “Pro-Poor Agenda for Prosperity and Development” to their aid for the improvement of their living condition.
They also called on their District Representative Edward W. Karfiah, well-meaning Liberian and philanthropist organizations to help provide them safe drinking water and an elementary school in the area, if their children are to contribute to the growth and development of Liberia.