Our mobile communication industry in Sierra Leone is the most exploitative in Africa. Sierra Leone is the most expensive country to call from India. To call Ghana, Nigeria, Liberia, Congo and other countries in Africa is very cheap and to even call from these countries to other part of the world is also cheap. I reported this matter to my service providers in India; they said the problem lies with the telecommunication industry in my country and NATCOM. I pity our country; poor innocent people are suffering in the hands of wicked and corrupt leaders. The politicians are not even taking this matter seriously, since they are using state resources in the name of monthly running cost to buy top up cards. Frankly speaking Sierra Leone is not attractive to the average Sierra Leonean; it is only attractive to mining companies and politicians. The country is still characterized with poor water supply system; no electricity in the capital Freetown and other part of the country; medical: zero; corruption: excellent; free health care for under five: twenty percent; movement of people from the east and west to central Freetown: Very poor; education: naught; construction of Wilkinson Road and other major roads on the West of Freetown: Very good; cleanliness of the city: poor. The country is full of expired food stuff and fake medicines, no better monitoring facilities. The Sewa Ground Market (Victoria Park), since it was demolished six years ago still remains the same. Bumbuna hydro is still struggling to complete. When I visited the Akosombo Dam in Ghana in 2003, I was told that Kwame Nkrumah took three years and seven months to construct the dam. Do you know that the Akosombo Dam was more difficult to construct than the Bumbuna Dam? In the Akosombo Dam they have to bring in water through irrigation, it was not natural like the Bumbuna Dam. So many multinational mining companies in Sierra Leone causing a lot of environmental hazards, where is the money we are getting from the mining industry going? No Information Communication Technology Policy (ICT) in Sierra Leone and a national ICT policy set out the aims, direction, principles and strategies for the delivery of ICT services. The lack of a coherent ICT policy will definitely contribute to the development of ineffective infrastructure which includes poor mobile communication, internet and poor delivery of government services. Any developing state that wants to achieve the Millennium Development Goals must consider ICT as a priority and without ICT the agenda of prosperity will always yield negative value. I feel sorry for Sierra Leone the land that we love. The poor becomes poorer and the rich becomes richer. I rest my case.
Posted on: Tue, 25 Feb 2014 14:18:41 +0000
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