Sierra Leone Is Closed For Repairs Sierra Leone is no longer open for business because it is closed for badly needed and urgent repairs. If anybody should ask you what is happening in your country, just tell him or her Sierra Leone is closed for repairs. After being open for business soon after Koroma became President, the country is at this time closed for repairs. The nation’s leadership specializes in putting first things last, and doing last things first. Before ringing the opening bell in 2009 to attract financiers, investors, and stakeholders, the nation’s leadership should have made sure that the country’s workforce, have a clean bill of health. It is politically reckless to declare a nation with a crumbling healthcare system and dilapidated medical facilities open for business. The act while materializing as rational is borne out of self-indulgence and complete disregard for the masses in the long run. Now, the last act that was first is now on hold, as the first act that was last is now the order of the day. Sierra Leone is closed for repairs. If you are bringing investors, you need a labor force. If the labor force only has access to substandard medical treatment, commerce could be impaired in case of a medical outbreak. The nation made it through the cholera epidemic before the Elections. Until now, the government has successfully suppressed information on how hundreds of Sierra Leoneans die from viral infections yearly. Operating with the “open for business” thinking, the safeguard of the nation’s mystifying and attractive storefront image has been their sole objective. Ebola, the deadliest of all the viruses destroyed that picture and gave the world the chance to see several things in Sierra Leone. First, people are able to see that the healthcare system in Sierra Leone is worse than what led to the “Black Death” (bubonic plague) in 14th century Europe. In addition, the working population in the nation is unhealthy because there is no access to satisfactory healthcare as was the case with the Europeans during bubonic plague. Ebola took many lives. The virus also forced Ernest Bai Koroma who insisted on running the nation as a business to rethink his priorities. At a snails pace, officials are beginning to give correct information to the world. Freetown has no choice as they powerlessly watch flights leave evacuating investors but no flights land bringing in stakeholders. The gradual isolation (blockade) of Sierra Leone is in progress and even the blind can see its effects on the nation’s economy. Health and sanitation in Sierra Leone is deplorable. Ernest Bai Koroma seems lethargic to cast the footing of a medical structure that is on its last leg. How could he when they are able to chatter flights to the UK, US, India, China, or South Africa when they have an urgent need for medical care? Thats why, the ministry of health and sanitation is in use as the front elevation to squander billions of dollars from investors. Sierra Leone is closed for repairs. No more fooling the world about developments in the country, Sierra Leoneans are not benefiting from the current agenda. Opening Sierra Leone up for business was a hurried pronouncement. The problematic minster of information Alpha Kanu could not say anything of substance in the US. Every time he opens his mouth, it is the broken record, “Sierra Leone is open for business.” We knew they were dreadfully trying to keep the cookie-jar open by falsely repeating to the world, Sierra Leone is ready to excel. At the same time, the minster of transport and aviation was advocating for direct flights from the US to Lungi. Logos argument lacked logic because other than singing the praises of his business guru Ernest Bai Koroma, nothing points toward Sierra Leone’s readiness to enter the major aviation business. Was it not a few months later aviation authorities barred flights to Lungi? Sierra Leone is closed for repairs. Peace Corps have left. The US in addition to other nations has ordered all of their citizens to leave Sierra Leone. Outside the Ebola scare, Sierra Leone is incapable to offer basic medical care in case of a medical emergency. The poor state of the health system in Sierra Leone has led to the pulling out of foreign nationals. As things look, the international community is no longer at the intractable readiness to carry out orders from Ernest Bai Koroma, the capitalist. The agenda for change was incomplete before they went window-shopping for prosperity. Now, they are back to square one because Sierra Leone is closed for repairs. Fix Connaught, all hospitals and clinics across the nation. Do a complete sweep of the health and sanitation agency. Stop playing politics with the people’s wellbeing and clean the nation. President Koroma, the nation’s CEO should insure that Sierra Leoneans get the best care; he should be on the lookout for good quality treatment of Sierra Leoneans and never again put stakeholders before the people. Until the nation meets these and scores of other goals, Sierra Leone will remain CLOSED for repairs.
Posted on: Tue, 26 Aug 2014 07:37:46 +0000
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