**They Say, Dont Blame President Koroma** There is an old African Proverb, When the crocodile eat their own eggs, what will they not do to the flesh of a frog? IS PRESIDENT KOROMAS GOVERNMENT THE MOST INCOMPETENT IN OUR NATIONS HISTORY? In Ola Rotimis brilliant play, King Odewale uttered the immortal line.... Let No One Blame The Gods And Let No One Blame Powers... With reference to the land that we love, Our Sierra Leone, we are told it is not President Koromas fault for the Ebola but our fault.... meaning me, you and you and you....... Ebola is destroying Sierra Leone but we are urged not to cast blame, not to play politics but to take greater personal responsibility. Ebola keeps on destroying Sierra Leone, but we are told to be patient, to be more United, to pray harder and donate more and more money. Ebola is wiping out our heritage and leaving behind immense pain and suffering......There is no answer but the daily echo chamber spouting out meaningless propaganda. I am more interested in a solution. Confidence that those paid/elected to do a job know what they are doing. President Ernest Koroma swore a solemn oath to protect ALL the citizens of Sierra Leone. President Ernest Koroma has failed in his sacred duty and there must be consequences for him and the APC Political Mafia that surrounds him. We must send a clear message to them: WE DO NOT WANT THE BLOOD RED MISERY YOU HAVE INFLICTED UPON OUR COUNTRY!!!! We deserve better than your record of miserable failure and empty rhetoric……………. What would you do if your Comforter-In-Chief gives a total disregard to his solemn oath? It is time to end the denial and open our eyes; Sierra Leone isn’t working! You can whip up patriotic fervour until your head starts hurting, but calls for unity and “all hands on deck” cannot obscure the cold hard reality: WE ARE NOT GETTING VALUE FOR MONEY OUT OF OUR CURRENT GOVERNMENT!!!!! We have lost many precious lives to EBOLA, many are still dying. We mourn the dead; we offer solidarity with the families and recognise the heroism of those who have died in the line of duty. May God bless their souls eternal! Even in President Koromas home town, MAKENI, we are told Dozens of very sick people sat on the floor in an empty university building in central Sierra Leone. They waited in filthy conditions. With the nearest treatment centre a 16-hour drive away in Kailahun, there is no way to treat the sick, despite the likelihood they are infected with Ebola. According to Osman Bah, the Makeni government hospital director, Ebola cases have spiked in recent weeks. “More than 100, 150 cases, because we have sent 56 patients to Kailahun,” he said. “This morning we have had more than 100-110 patients.” This university complex is being used as a makeshift holding facility because the sick people have nowhere else to go. Highly contagious patients lie in the open. One woman sat on the floor, too sick to stand. Other victims huddled together on beds. One young child was laying alone. They waited and hoped for a space in the next ambulance. Growing numbers of Ebola outbreak hotspots are emerging in new locations across the country. “We get phone calls every day from districts over the whole country, and those districts are absolutely overwhelmed,” said Axelle Vandoornick, a medical field coordinator for Doctors Without Borders. There is no way of telling which patients are Ebola-positive. Despite this, they are kept together. “Ninety-nine percent of the cases that we have isolated are positive of Ebola,” said Bah, the medical director. Medical staff at the containment center have little training or experience dealing with Ebola. Protective equipment is inadequate. One makeshift ward was empty. Beds were filthy. Pill packets sat among piles of clothes left by a departing patient. Twenty-five confirmed Ebola patients left for Borders treatment center in Kailahun one recent night. Four died during the 16-hour journey. Doctors Without Borders’ Vandoornick said numbers are increasing. “Every day we have ambulances arriving and when we open the door there are dead bodies inside the ambulance alongside non-cases potentially,” Vandoornick said. “So that is the first source of contamination.” When two new patients were brought in to the center, one young boy showed symptoms for Ebola. Despite the risk, his mother would not leave his side. “It’s too much,” said Karimo Konteh, an ambulance driver. “Every day I pick up 10, 15, 14, 12 patients, everyday. ...” Vandoornick said some districts have no Ebola treatment facilities of their own. “They dont have [enough] capacity of Ebola centers in their district, so basically they are trying to send their patients to us,” Vandoornick said. Bah, the medical director, said he is not hopeful the situation will improve. “For now the situation is not under control,” he said. “We are hoping it will be better. “But I am afraid, maybe it will get worse.” My fellow Sierra Leoneans, some of us who care deeply about the plight of our people get so frustrated by the lack of moral leadership, that inevitably we use our own initiatives to force the issue and get folks to hear us. We make mistakes, are sometimes too rash and hot-headed but I am only human. I wish I could have confidence in our elected government officials and just sit back and let things play out. But I am not stupid; it is hard to trust a lot of people in our corrupt and morally bankrupt society. Who is looking out for our interests? Who is truly loyal to the people? Blamas Finest, The Man Who Conjures Something Out Of Nothing!!!
Posted on: Mon, 29 Sep 2014 09:21:58 +0000
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