According to the angry residents who expressed their dissatisfaction to this writer, they have enjoyed several years of beneficial mining activities in the mines spanning back to the days of London Mining Company and later Timis Mining Corporation whom as a result their operations, changed the lives of many of their sons and daughters.
‘’But since SL Mining illegally came in the picture’’, they furthered stated, nothing has absolutely been done in the mines adding that hundreds of million dollars have been invested into the Mine Site which the SL Mining wants to destroy and turned into scrap yard in no time as reports revealing that a court order has been made for the sale of the equipment in order to repay their (GERALD) Creditors as they continue to hold the people of this country to ransom with no good intention for the country.
‘’we will put enough pressure on the government and concerned authorities to revoke the mining license from these crooks that called themselves investors in order to give way to serious and trustworthy investors’’, some of the local authorities stated adding that they will stop at nothing until SL Mining is finally kicked out of Sierra Leone by the government because according to them, Gerald Metals/SL Mining are just here to destroy the country.