The well at Brima Touching in Tombo has been a source of water for the people of Hyce Lane, Kasablanka, and the Gbolor area for many years. Generations of families have used it for drinking, cooking, washing, and other daily needs at home. It has long been one of the most important water facilities in that part of the community.
But over time, the well fell into a sorry state. Nobody maintained it properly, and it got worse with each passing year. What was once a reliable water source turned into a waterlogged, rubbish-filled pool of stagnant green water, with algae, plastic bottles, and debris floating on the surface. It had become a mosquito breeding ground sitting right in the middle of a community that depended on it every single day.
The change came when Honourable Amara Momoh Kargbo, Member of Parliament for Western Rural Area, came to donate solar panels to one of the local mosques. While he was there, he passed by the well and saw its condition. It was not the first time he had been to that well. “I used to come here to fetch water for my late mom when she was into fishmongering,” he said. “When I came to donate solar panels and saw the condition of the well, I decided that we must fix it for both the use of the community and safety.”
And he did exactly that. The well was fully rebuilt and properly enclosed. It now has a clean cement platform and tiled steps leading up to a sealed cover. It meets hygienic standards, and residents can now fetch water from it without worrying about their health or the health of their children. The relief in the community is real. The well that their parents and grandparents depended on is clean again, and the daily act of fetching water no longer comes with fear.
Honourable Kargbo’s intervention at Brima Touching fits a broader pattern of constituency service that has defined his tenure as MP. He has donated thirty bags of cement to the National Pentecostal Church at Madina, Tombo, in support of ongoing construction work at the church premises, and was among the dignitaries who attended the commissioning of the second phase of the Western Area–Peninsula Electrification Project at Madina Worreh, an event presided over by the Minister of Energy, Honourable Cyril Arnold Grant. At that occasion, the MP spoke with evident enthusiasm about what electrification means for the peninsula’s fishing and tourism economy, urging residents to channel the new power supply into fish preservation and production as a direct contribution to the government’s Feed Salone agenda. He has collaborated with the Peninsula Big Boyz Organization on fencing the Tombo community football field, and during Ramadan, alongside SLPP East Rural District Chairman Dr. Taylor, he facilitated the distribution of rice, sugar, and other foodstuffs to mosques across the constituency for suhoor and iftar.
Each of these gestures reflects something important about how representation is practised or ought to be practised at the community level. Infrastructure arrives in the headlines when bridges are opened and highways are commissioned. But development also arrives quietly, in the form of a well that no longer breeds mosquitoes, a church that can complete its construction, a football field that children can play in safely. The Brima Touching well, modest as it is, stands as evidence that a representative paying attention to the lived conditions of his people can make a meaningful difference with targeted, personal commitment.
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There is more that he has done that does not always make the headlines. But the rebuilt well at Brima Touching says a great deal on its own. It is the kind of work that does not come from a speech or a press release. It comes from a man who grew up in the community, knows the community, and still walks through it with his eyes open.
