Dear Editor,
Over the year, continuous efforts are being made to restore City Hall building to its original state. Whilst there’s a lot of reasons for doing that to a historical building, I’ve come to the assumption that the building is being consider a breadbasket to fuel friends and cronies under the guise of restoring the building. As long as I could recall, extraordinary money is required to do repairs and when finish, the building is still unsafe. I must say I’m quite surprised to see it cost sixty million dollars to conduct a feasibility study to evil at if the building should be repair and the cost to. Lack of proper maintenance cause that historical building to deteriorate to the state it is in presently all because we don’t know the importance of preserving a historical building. Looking at the condition the building is in, it would be safer and cheaper to tear down the building and build a new one.
Editor, on Wednesday I had cause to enter City Hall compound and I look at the building and wonder what sort of people would allow a historical building like that to reach such a condition, but looking around the compound, I didn’t have to guess. Approximately two weeks ago, people going to pay their Rates and Taxes got directed to another building in the compound because restoration work commence on City Hall. People are directed to sit on chairs that are under the shed and some in the sun. Two boots are in operation and after four-five customers, the cashier would block her windows for 10-15 minutes. There’s staff there to monitor the line system, but conveniently they would disappear and someone who is not in the line would walk to the boot and push their paper in and gets look after. After some two hours, the people got agitated and voicing their concern, which cause the monitors to go and bring the City Police with the idea of intimidation with threats of locking up. I will say this without fear that none of the employee working there have a decent attitude to deal with customers. They all operate as if they are Lord/master. When the people complain of the slothfulness the cashiers threaten to close their boot and see what they can do.
Finally, Editor, the Mayor pass the crowd and just at glacé at them, wave his hand and walk away. One lady called out saying that everyone has to join one line and there’s no provision for elderly or pregnant people. Surprisingly, the mayor didn’t hear or choose to ignore and continue along his way. What is sickening to is directly behind the chairs, there’s a sewerage tank overflowing and from the condition, that have been going in for a very long time. You take one look at the toilet appearance of the toilet nearby and all urges to use it vanish. If people could work comfortably under these conditions with attitudes, no wonder such a historical building ended up in the state it is.
Sincerely.
Sahadeo Bates
