{"id":78646,"date":"2016-06-11T19:30:16","date_gmt":"2016-06-11T19:30:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sierraexpressmedia.com\/?p=78646"},"modified":"2016-06-11T19:30:16","modified_gmt":"2016-06-11T19:30:16","slug":"fcc-takes-bye-laws-to-school-market-communities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/?p=78646","title":{"rendered":"FCC takes bye-laws to school, market communities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Deputy Mayor of Freetown City Council (FCC), Her Worship Mammah Mary Jaiah, has disclosed that the council has taken bye-laws sensitization drive to various schools and market communities in the municipality.\u00a0 (Photo: <em>Deputy Mayor, Mammah Mary Jaiah)<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">She emphasized that the sensitization drive is aimed at ensuring that everybody knows about the nitty-gritty of the bye-laws especially the rules and regulations on improving the sanitary system in Freetown.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Deputy Mayor conceded that the council would not succeed in keeping the capital city clean without the willingness of the people.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Mammah Mary Jaiah intimated that the bye-laws emphasize that no child shall be employed or go to cinema, theatre, discotheque, dance hall or nightclub except in connection with a performance dealing entirely with children.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">She furthered that no child to sell or deliver alcohol, wood, coal, fuel oil, noting that the bye-laws also highlights that a child must not be spotted in a commercial kitchen or collecting refuse.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Deputy Mayor also highlighted that a child must not be part of an employment involving harmful exposure to physical, biological or chemical agents, adding that a child must not be found in a slaughter house or any butcher shop or other premises connected with the killing of livestock, butchery or the preparation of carcasses or meat for sale, among others.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The bye-laws further stated that the council shall not grant a street trader\u2019s licence to any child if it has reason to believe that the employment of the child in street trading would be prejudicial to his\/her health, welfare or ability to take full advantage of his\/her education or the child\u2019s street trader\u2019s license has previously been revoked, Mammah Mary Jaiah disclosed.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">She furthered that the council may suspend or revoke a street trader\u2019s license if it has reason to believe that the holder\u2019s continued employment in street trading would be prejudicial to his\/her health, welfare or ability to take full advantage of his\/her education or if the holder has been convicted of any offence connected to street trading.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Deputy Mayor therefore called on all nationals and non-nationals to be law abiding for the successful transformation of the country.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">She emphasized the Mayor\u2019s determination to see Freetown becomes a clean capital city like other capital cities in the world through the full enforcement of the bye-laws.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Stay with Sierra Express Media, for your trusted place in news!<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Deputy Mayor of Freetown City Council (FCC), Her Worship Mammah Mary Jaiah, has disclosed that the council has taken bye-laws sensitization drive to various 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