Sierra Leone

What does scrap metal business portend for tomorrow's leaders?

Since the ban on the activities of members of Sierra Leone Scrap Metal Association was lifted few months ago, many children of primary and secondary schools-going age have took to the streets to engage in scrap metal business instead of going to their schools.

Some parents in the area are not happy that their children, who ought to be in their various schools, are always out there on the streets looking for scrap metals.

Fatmata, mother of a primary school child who is engaged in scrap metal business, told the writer that her child stopped going to school in order to make little money in scrap metal business.

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