The Future of our Country, Sierra Leone
Alusine Mansaray
Co-Founder - Jannatu Farms Organization | Agribusiness Manager and Researcher | Agricultural Extension Specialist and Innovator | Climate Smart Agric. Specialist | Educator | Agric. Consultant | Project Management
By: Alhaji Imam Alusine Mansaray
It's over 30 years or so since the genocide in Rwanda. Today, you see sons and daughters of both perpetrators and victims working together to rebuild their nation - A once devastated and broken nation without a future.
However, that country has healed and is now developing faster than you can imagine. Today, it is a shining example in the whole of Africa and a beacon of stability.
We, in Sierra Leone, however, have not been able to heal. We are still suffering from nightmares of the tumultuous past. Some say it's a Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). Attempts at heinous crimes persist of these disorders which have made it difficult if not impossible to rebuild a stable and prosperous nation.
Sierra Leone has relapsed into the ugly things of the past. Transmitting massive official corruption from one generation to the other including malpractices, ethnic populism, tribal divisiveness, personality cultism, and other nasty vices that are being fully normalized - eating into the moral fabrics of our beautiful once culturally bounded society. What’s even more appalling is the regained prominence of tribal politics. North-northwest versus South-East while the masses are being manipulated into this carnage.
Things have to change with a new path and direction. The choices we make together today will determine our future and that of our children. We have to learn to be accountable to each other or one another. If not, I am afraid for the future. People have to speak up now no matter what!
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Even amongst ourselves as common citizens, people allow others to behave in ways that the rules have clearly stated it is not permissible but because of personal interests, they turn a blind eye. If we do not learn to be accountable to each other now, when is that going to happen? Even when we are a homogeneous whole as a country, to be frank, honest, and just with one another is like an elephant passing through the eye of a needle. This hypocrisy is just nauseating and not progressive and productive for our future as a nation.
In all of these, what I see is of critical importance is the moral leadership. In the absence of it, we are doomed. Men of good moral standing, men whose material things are secondary to them, and men with moral fortitude need to stand up and be counted.
Our nation is on the brink of drowning in an Ocean of selfishness, greed, tribalism, nepotism, and inhumane corruption. Our law officials take orders from above and not orders from within. Their judgments do not come from the law books but from the pockets or brown envelopes. This is a country where our spiritual leaders don't quote from scriptures but from common sense to befit who depending on the size of the pockets.
Damn! How sad is it that we are all seated by looking at our beloved country wrecking in front of our eyes due to sycophancy, recklessness, and selfish personal interests?
I pray to God that His goodness and mercy prevail upon us.
An educationist, a leadership mentor, proficient in project development and management, project monitoring and evaluation, and a trainer in different fields.
3 个月I love this part the most "Our law officials take orders from above and not orders from within. Their judgments do not come from the law books but from the pockets or brown envelopes. This is a country where our spiritual leaders don't quote from scriptures but from common sense to befit who depending on the size of the pockets." If the law interpreters would do their job without fear or favour, the country would regain all its lost glory and build on more. We can be the Singapore or Dubai of Africa, considering what we sit on. But ahh yah! Yah Nar Salone!