After news came out past Friday that a 40 feet truck was at Bomeh trash dumping ground in the east end of Freetown, a truck which was said to belong to SABCO Sardines, I had to dash to the spot to find out what exactly was happening.

Was this a replica of the chicken dump during the APC era, when hunger forced people to run helter shelter at Bomeh to gather rotten chicken to eat at home and sell?

I had to be there.

I was a few metres from Bomeh when I was greeted by this horrible stench which whiff had covered the whole atmosphere.

Upon arrival at Bomeh, I saw this 40 feet SABCO SARDINES truck on which the words ‘Sweetness in every can’ were deceitfully emblazoned.

I was expecting that as those thousands of cartons laid on the smelly Bomeh dump site, people were going to be rushing to them to gather the loot but strangely, the stench from those cartons was so repulsive, people who had gathered, were running the other way.

Thousands of cartons of rotten sardines were dumped but nobody dared to put their fingers on them never mind the so called ‘sweetness in every can’ deceitful slogan.

This was no sweetness but rather the bitterness of an experiment in making sardines, gone wrong.

Horribly wrong!

Citizens must now be asking questions as to how any Tom, Dick or Harry could just easily pitch tent and start manufacturing edible things in this country just like that!

There was much razzmatazz when SABCO SARDINES was launched but look how that supposed sweetness has woefully turned to such bitterness.

As I left Bomeh, I thought to myself, oh how art the sweetness turned so bitter in such a short time.

At what risk to the lives of the lives of innocent citizens?