CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE BECOMES A DUTY WHEN THE STATE BECOMES LAWLESS AND CORRUPT. I am a proud Sierra Leonean and that is my truest identity. Our people are among the humblest and forward looking people you can find on earth. Their aspirations for government are modest but firm. They simply dont want government to hurt them or take their stuffs. Any government that keeps this faith with Sierra Leoneans will enjoy tranquility during its reigns. unfortunately, President Koroma and his thieving ministers have left their appetite for the nations wealth unrestrained. The government is broken and the system is not just working. Young people are now spending the most part of each day not in schools but at home, and they cant find jobs. Our public healthcare has failed and still lays in decay. Half of the nations population are not sure where their next meal will come from. And just by pondering how so soon President Koroma has plunged us into this mess is too sufficient to make your head spin and your brain whirl. Observing situations keenly back home, and relating it to other places like Tunisia, Egypt, Syria and Libya during the days leading to their uprisings, I know for sure that President Koroma has laid all the foundations necessary for change through nationwide uprising. He can attempt to bottle-up the desire of our people to express their discontent and indignation, but such political miscalculations, like muzzling the Vice President and his key allies, and their unnecessary detention will only churn the feelings of bitterness in the nation. Let me take this opportunity to make it known to President Koroma that Sierra Leoneans can only take it for this long. He MUST cease to do or get involved in anything that will enlarged public discontent or deepen the rage of the ordinary man, otherwise the public anger that is bubbling will soon explode. It will spill into the streets when he will least expect it. In neighboring Burkina Faso we have seen how people poured out into the streets and took back their mandate from Blaise Compaoré to govern them. Gradually, President Koroma has given more Sierra Leoneans the reasons to demand their mandate from him. What remains is that one omission or conduct of President Koroma that will congregate and unite the individual indignations to a common call for change. That which will trigger such outpouring into the streets can be anything, it can be a simple demand of students that they want to go back to school, it might be a small village who will come out because they are tired to bury their dead because of the Ebola virus. It can just be anything. The day that happens, I assure President Koroma that such civil protest will be fierce. It will not be armed, but its energy will be heartfelt and with a powerful intensity that can only be satisfied with his exit from the Presidency.
Posted on: Tue, 04 Nov 2014 21:02:50 +0000
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