BY THOMAS DIXON
232NEWS, FREETOWN —
CTC Mining Company has expressed interest in fixing the Masiaka-Port Loko Road. This comes after a team of engineers from the Sierra Leone Roads Authority visited and assessed the damaged road.
The Team from SLRA was led by the Deputy Director General, Ing. Alfred Jalil Momodu, visited the failed section of the Masiaka – Port Loko Road this past Friday, August 4, 2023 to, among other things, assess the extent of the failure, verify the cause of the failure and proffer solutions to fix the road.
The SLRA team first visited the operations site of the CTC Mining Company whose vehicles had been widely accused of causing the damage, to verify the claims.
After interviewing the Company representatives and weighing one of the loaded trucks at the site, the team found out that the weights of the vehicles, especially when they were fully loaded with bauxite material, were more than the permissable weights that should ply the route.
Also, during a tour along the Masiaka – Port Loko Road, the team dicovered other emerging failures along the road before arriving at the actual failed section that warranted the investigation.
Amicably, the management of CTC Mining Company accepted responsibility for the damage and expressed willingness to bare the cost of fixing the road while SLRA will provide a comprehensive assessment report and cost to fix the failed sections of the road.
It was also agreed the CTC engineers are to team up with the SLRA’s Port Loko District Engineer to do an emergency remedial maintenance on the severely failed section to prevent further deterioration before the actual maintenance works will be done.
