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Comment on How Foreign Aid Upsets Sierra Leone’s Sovereignty by Amadu M. Kamara
Amadu M. Kamara
Comments for Cocorioko
Before I make my short comment, I would like to make the following pertinent suggestions thusly: a) we should and must call for the decentralization of the Central government to: 1) provincial government, 2: district government and 3) local governments. Also we should decentralize the police into town, city and village and each should be headed by a mayor or whatever a fitting title that might be given to him or her. The details of all this decentralized structure of government should and must be handled by Constitutional experts. This of course will create more jobs and prevent tribalism and regionalism in the country. Now turning to making a brief comment about the status quo in the country, I must advise the young firebrand and hawkish Sierra Leoneans to please organize a plan to stay home, carry out a peaceful nonviolent approach which is to stay home. When I suggest this, I don't mean for you to stay at home per se like being locked up at home. No! I don't mean that. You can still feel free to go about your business but don't pay your taxes. Also try to organize a boycott of the Toll Road, Deep Water and the airport. This way is to try and close almost all the sources of revenues accrued to Bio, which will make him cash-strapped and so will be out of pocket and, therefore, he will not be able to pay himself, let alone pay the army, police, the kamajors, his mende tribal standing militia who are bent in causing mayhem in the North and Northwest. By using this soft and peaceful approach will make us bring down Bio from his high horses without crossing swords with him, and at the same time make him suffer as much as he has made us, or making us suffer or he can br made to suffer more than he has made us suffer. What more could be lethal and destructive to Bio and government without the loss of any Sierra Leonean life. Please stay home and find ways to maintain your livelihood and family. Don't take to the streets in protest. If you do, "you will swear the day and damn the hour" as the goes. Buo will not hold his breath for even a second to unleash the securities on you, to kill some of you. This does not have to happen if we should avoid it, and we have to Avoid it by all means. Remember that all the army are mendes, all the police are mendes and needless to mention the kamajors who are meant to molest a whole lot of you. From the 17 of July and on, please continue to stay home. If we can create fund to which we in the diaspora and those at home can contribute to help you weather the storm of hardship in the country, we will.Even if we contribute, say,
$100 each that will soften the economic hardship. If this is well organized and the news passes around, we might get, say, 5000 to start with, it will be a good start.This means people will stay in their houses comfortably for a much longer time to make Bio wake up to smell the coffee. The securities might even revolt and force Bio out of power. To create this fund, we should kindly ask PKBS Kanu and staff to undertake the responsibility in creating the fund. Mind. You all, we can't afford to see Bio continue to be the illegitimate occupier of our State house on to 2028. No, we can't. That will be a disaster.Please tell the young firebrand men and women to cool down. Let us do it differently this time around. Please! Please!!. May God protect and bless our country, and also bless us all. Amen ( Ameen) to that