WHO WILL DELIVER THE NEEDED DELIVERANCE?
The “democracy” we practise, (or PREACH) is a strange one, indeed!
It is more like “an ad hoc arrangement” in a club full of jokers, or a Shylocky hybrid of shady “business deals” sewn together to profit thieves and liars, at the grave expense of credulous “simpletons”!

Shelving the question aside, of whether our political pilferers are just plain greedy, or downright stupid, there should be no doubt that these callous cultists are calculatedly Co-opted into what is clearly a devil’s service, wearing the badge of “politicians”!

Most FOLLOWERS don’t even know what “their Party” stands for, or what their PARTY POLICIES are, (where there is any) on issues that affect all of us so profoundly!
In fact, beyond the blinding “COLOUR OF THE PARTY BANNERS” or the “TRIBE/REGION” of their “PARTY CANDIDATES”, they know absolutely nothing about who those candidates really are, or what they are supposed to be standing for, or falling with!
Sadder still, is the fact that many “supporters” don’t really care to know. Or if they knew, wouldn’t care knowing.

So the Parties, the Politicians, and their bum-kissing psychos have a field day munching the hay and rolling in the sun!
With no one capable of thinking or caring, how the Judiciary nor go turn to a one man’s weapon, against the truth? How Parliament nor go turn to open visa office, for di stamp in lie lie laws wae nor get tail?
HOW MUNKU NOR GO BOSS PAN MATCHES???

Since IGNORANCE is the wheel that keeps the system turning, no wonder these “Alejos” do not make any attempt to EDUCATE their followers on the issues that matter. SELF PRESERVATION, perhaps! For if the voters really knew what they should know, these fraudsters would be frog-marched out of office before they could sign the next cheque to claw the crispy dollar bills!
So ignorance becomes a necessary tool to ensure compliance!
Why would our “Big Men” kill themselves with scrutiny, in the name of “transparency”? Why strangle your own soul for the sake of “accountability”?
Why not simply hire a lousy pagan choir to sing the patronising psalms of “prosperity for all”, and “the throne for the Pa”, while keeping your “sober” dealings in the dark?

To be a “successful Thief”, you need to be a “clever rogue”! This is just one of the damning FACTS of the crooked life lived by the “Ayampis”:
PUBLIC IGNORANCE is PRIVATE INSURANCE!
Kindly refer to the first chapter of “the Bible of the Blighted” (one of the caustic “soda soap” novels I am yet to publish) to see how African dictators have perfected the art of nursing ignorance as a sentry to “cover their backs” while they loot and lie!
Yet they fail to understand that in creating such a perilous pool of people, they are developing a surging torrent that could only head one way- and it’s pointing firmly in their glutinous direction!

Blighted indeed we are! Or have been made to be!
What worse a fate there could be when men who should be kings in their own land are forced to play the lapping dog for a crumb, or flee in droves to bake or beg for loaves, afar? Those who choose to be beggars should not thr

The homeland is like a torture chamber echoing loud with the harrowing cry of the sad and the suffering.

. “Bra betteh dae”? “Man den dae Suck bra!”
These are phrases when uttered by people who should be empowered to produce, cuts one to the bone!
And I am not here talking about your usual “foam on the flow”. These are folks who graduated with the best of the degrees on show, in the one university on which we used to hang our hope and pride-FBC! These are those who stayed in the land to labour on , either out of choice, or lack of it!
Now, they can’t afford to smile at a new fridge, or even dare to shoot a look at a decent pair of shoes, if they have to eat a meal and live.
Among the growing battalion of professional beggars who, daily, roam the streets and lay a forceful siege to all our public spaces, and accost the passerby, don’t be shocked to find that sweet lad who used to whop you in the class with a head that the teacher vowed was designed for “brilliant stars”!

If you live in Sierra Leone, and you happen to be one of the many “unconnected” stragglers, the fear of hell would make no sense to you!

Of course, there are efforts underway. A lot of “effort” from afar! As aid monies and killer-loans meant for vital sectors like our healthcare and education disappear, without trace, multi-million dollar mansions crop up like golden mushrooms on coveted hill-top spots. As emaciated Ebola orphans roam our streets in starving flows, to form a hardened core of the next generation of embittered jobless youths, we watch our famous “Athens” crumble on its solid foundations.

Meanwhile, in the larger society, IDLENESS has become an enforced vocation. Not necessarily adjudicated, but encouragingly acculturated!
Why should we even ask why we have such crazy numbers of “SUPPORTERS” on social media forums, purposely planted there to delight in distractive nuisance?
Even the few that occasionally make pretence to some description of “decency” in discourse are never heard when their voices may help to school their unruly throng.

The result is that we are fed with utterly shallow materials churned out by people who want to force everyone else to join them in subscribing to totally misleading propaganda!

They consider their “leaders” as little tin gods that must be worshiped by all and questioned by non.
If you dare to differ, you are not faced with rational convincing arguments to rebut your stand, or convince you otherwise, but instead you are more than likely to be confronted with the basest forms of baseless “arguments”.
That is, if you don’t get drowned in the crudest colours of cascading insults!
In fact, the last “tool” is the “weapon” of choice for the emptiest of these “supporters” , most of whom should actually be in school learning everything from SPELLINGS to MANNERS!

I believe that this country will only begin to flicker a rational way out of our current manufactured DARKNESS when we begin to have proper leaders not shady dealers!
Leaders who would understand that EDUCATION is not a threat to their interests, but a blessing for all!
Leaders who would understand that the Judiciary is not a pawn in some game called “justice”!
And that Parliament is not a house of glorified collaborators put together to collect cash to sell their tongues!

Perhaps, most importantly, we need a majority that does not merely stand and VOTE, but a majority that starts to ask the “VOTED FOR” the real hard questions!
But how can they when they are intimidated by the counterfeit bling of those dancing in the bubble, and by a level of suffocating ignorance that is heavier than a grave slab?

At the moment, the one thing that is consuming all our souls is that thing we love to call “politics”! Whatever that monster is,it seems to be swallowing our seconds and our souls with the singular determination of a deranged sniper employed by a profiteering slaughterhouse.
Like zombies to the hill, we line up our own for this ritual of the doomed!

To keep the recycling circus in chained motion, there is always a truckload of PEOPLE QUEING UP TO BE CROWNED AS PRESIDENT; but hardly a courageous discerning DRIVER with a correct VISION or CLEAR ROAD MAP as to where we should really be heading as a nation!

Ask the person you claim is fit to lead us: WHERE DO YOU WANT TO LEAD US TO?
What is your take on the TYPE of EDUCATION we presently parade, and the STATE it is in?
What ideas do you have for our moribund HEALTHCARE SYSTEM, and how do we ensure a better healthier system?
Do you think it is wiser, and more nationally profitable to bring back the RAILWAY or should we simply allow the “CONTRACTOR” driven “ROAD PROJECTS” to bleed the public into piling up more LOANS for private benefits?
Is EXPORTING our unprocessed MINERALS and raw CASH CROPS a meaningful pathway to development? HOW can we add real value to our products and make our economy ATTRACTIVE?
How do we get our YOUTHS out of such a tragic hole of mass unemployment that makes them so vulnerable to greedy politicians who give them crumbs so that they can continue to waste away their time (and their lives) on social media forums fretting and cussing while their “idols” milk the state?

Any question that may be construed as “critical” about the seekers of power stands the risk of inviting threats from
those who have thoroughly convinced themselves (or have been convinced by the roast-rat reality of prevailing happenings) that their earthly “progress” inextricably depends on the immaculate “sale” of their dirty political patrons!

Clearly, our country needs a lot of CIVIC EDUCATION (some, for very good reasons, prefer the word “civic redemption”) to make the population understand, and appreciate, their RIGHTS and their RESPONSIBILITIES, as well as to know the mandatory FUNCTIONS of Government agencies and the sworn DUTIES of elected officers! DUTIES that have nothing to do with pocketing “percentage cuts” from exploitative foreign interests or flying the flag of falsehood on multi-million dollar cars!

Generally speaking, our understanding of “Democracy” is so infantile, so disgustingly gladiatorial, it is reduced to a “wrestling contest” for coronating Flagbearers; “voting” for vainglorious vampires; pinning after them; and then “fighting to protect” the, largely, fraudulently installed “thieves” with noisy clapping and whatever else we may have left in us!

Sadly, there is NOTHING so democratic about our “democracy” other than standing in lengthy lines, under pouring rain or scorching Sun to cast ballots that are hardly ever actually counted!

And after that, what?

We all know WHAT:
We go to sleep and allow the “rats” to graze at ease, HOPING they leave some of their foul droppings on the golden plate, for our taking. We continue to fight off any “noise” that may tend to “disturb” the decorum of the HONOURABLE dinners!

We must work together to change that WHAT!
For it is a recycling reality that is long overdue for a complete overhaul!

Until then, it would seem that IGNORANCE and ARROGANCE will continue to rule the roost (in a changing kaleidoscope of a two-COLOURED stripe) which will skid our nation deeper and deeper into the darkness of doom, where the devil dwells and reigns supreme!

However bitter we may be, WE ARE BETTER THAN THAT!
Far better, I should hope!!!