Sierra Leone Road Safety Authority and the prescient remark about Savage Street Bridge
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Two years ago, an executive director at Sierra Leone Road Safety Authority told everybody who would listen that the Savage Street Bridge was a disaster waiting to happen. “I would like to fix it if I had the mandate,” he reportedly told officials from the Ministry of Finance at public budget hearings held in Freetown. A prescient remark, given that Savage Street Bridge collapsed today. This May, David Panda Noah, described as — one of the brains behind the SLPP election team, which engineered access to the electoral commission’s election database in 2018 — took office as Sierra Leone's Minister of Internal Affairs. No doubt about it, Noah has his work cut out at internal affairs. Y ou can't help but wonder what he c ould have done differently. Or what he would say if Awoko reached out for comment. ( Savage Street Bridge is a disaster waiting to happen, says SLRSA Boss, by Zainab Iyamide Joaque ) Press release from the Sierra Leone Road Safety Authority The board and ma