Why President Koroma Is Considered The Worst President In The History Of Our Nation, Sierra Leone!!!!! In 2007, Ernest Koroma promised the people of Sierra Leone that, The people of Sierra Leone will see a turning of the country after 36 months of my presidency Ernest Koroma asserted, and therefore called on all present to take the message of hope and vision nationwide for the development of our beloved country Sierra Leone. HAS THE PRESIDENT ACHIEVED HIS GOAL? According to many Sierra Leoneans, President Ernest Bai Koroma has failed his people. Therefore the charges against you are as followed. Count One. That you, President Ernest Bai Koroma, On the 30th of July 2014, you addressed our nation and declared a State of Public Health Emergency “to enable us to take a more robust approach to deal with the Ebola outbreak”. Since then we have lost some of the best humanitarians in our countrys history!!! This extra-ordinary measure was welcomed by some, but considered “too little too late” by me and many others. My fellow Sierra Leoneans, let us examine President Koroma’s actions: · President Koroma acknowledged the loss of life in his Public address on the 30th of July—but he did not apologise for his government’s failings. He did not take personal responsibility for the huge loss of life and the incompetent and inadequate response of his Ministry of Health. · President Koroma, in his speech on the 30th of July, did not adequately address the public’s loss of confidence in his Ministry of Health—this was an opportunity to sack the Minister of Health and take personal command and restore confidence in the Government’s Public Health Emergency response strategy. He failed on both counts. · State of Public Health Emergency declared on 30th July 2014—Ebola outbreak first reported in Sierra Leone in March 2014. Why did they wait this long to deal “robustly” with the most serious type of Public Health Emergency? · The President calls for a “more robust approach” to deal with the Ebola outbreak—was the initial approach by the Government not robust enough? Did they not understand that they were dealing with the most serious type of Public Health Emergency? · The President’s first visit to the epicentre of death and destruction took place towards the end of July—but Ebola has been ravaging our nation since March 2014. Does this not indicate a total lack of empathy for the victims and their families? In a time of national crisis, the President becomes father of the nation, where was he when our people needed him most—A.W.O.L · President Koroma swore an oath to protect ALL the people of Sierra Leone—his most sacred duty. Has he delivered on his promise? · Our country has lived through a cholera epidemic in recent times—what lessons did the government learn from that Public Health Disaster? Was a review conducted into our Public Health Emergency Response capacity? · The President in his public address on the 30th of July said: “We are launching a National Response Plan to inaugurate Phase Two of our fight against the disease”—what was Phase One in the fight against Ebola? How successful was Phase One? I guess we already know the answer to that. · President Koroma also stated that since the beginning of the outbreak his government has mobilised resources to facilitate “awareness raising about the disease by Paramount Chiefs, religious leaders, NGO’s, civil society organisations, musicians, okada riders, market women, the media and ordinary citizens”—with the chaos, rumours and panic which has characterised the Ebola nightmare it is evident that the Government has failed in its AWARENESS CAMPAIGN. What went wrong? What could have been done better? The Government was slow to respond to what is clearly the greatest and most deadly Public Health Emergency Sierra Leone has ever faced. The scourge of Ebola is not a new phenomenon; its devastation in other parts of the continent of Africa is well documented. We were given advance warning with well reported instances of the outbreak in Guinea and Liberia. Our Ministry of Health had sufficient time to draw up an “effective” Containment & Control strategy and yet there is no evidence of any serious efforts to do a risk assessment of the threat Ebola posed to our communities living close to the border with Liberia and Guinea. Indeed, the early months of the Ebola menace were characterised by numerous efforts by the government’s propaganda machine to play down the threat posed to our citizens. This politically motivated strategy helped exacerbate the panic and confusion as citizens slowly began to realise the clear and imminent deadly threat Ebola posed to their lives. When a Government is incompetent, dysfunctional, inefficient and corrupt there is no doubt that it will be incapable of creating or designing innovative and effective solutions to solve the problems our society faces. A broken government lacking discipline and professionalism is simply incapable of providing incentives for its over-bloated bureaucracy to meet critical challenges. We cannot afford to give President Koroma a blank cheque. If we continue to regard scrutiny and accountability as unpatriotic acts, then as a nation we are heading for catastrophe. We must hold our government accountable for what it does, and what it doesn’t do in our name. Even when we are facing our greatest challenge, with more and more people dying, collective unity of purpose (in defeating the Ebola menace) is not mutually exclusive with our patriotic duty to hold our government to account. The Big questions about how this Ebola menace has ravaged our country cannot wait or be deferred to a later date. We need answers now! We need to understand what went wrong now! Tomorrow will be too late; the business of government is always far too busy to set aside a special date. There will always be another event to deal with. If we don’t learn the lessons now, we will inevitably repeat the cycle of unbearable misery again, and again, and again. When the centre can not hold, things will fall apart. It is the lack of moral leadership that has created the frustration, anarchy, insults and infighting that is dividing our country. So if you are not prepared to do your job then it is time for you to go!! Your job is to lead. Your job is to be accountable. Your job is to provide a consistent message for our people. Your job is to provide alternative credible solutions to your failed agenda. A very simple task, if you can not do it, please go!! We have a failure of leadership. Those who have been entrusted with leadership in our country are failing to faithfully exercise discharge their duties. So you are leaving us with nowhere to go but to fight, shout and scream because where the centre can not hold, things fall apart. In the name of God, please find a place in your heart to apologise to the nation for your miserable failure. Thank you. Blamas Finest, The Man Who Conjures Something Out Of Nothing!!!
Posted on: Thu, 18 Sep 2014 10:21:28 +0000
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