MIA is MIA
We are looking for volunteers to help us locate our Minister of Internal Affairs. He’s been Missing In Action for months - actually just after three months in that office. In his early days there he went into small communities to talk to people and to assure them that he would put a robust security system in place for the people to sleep at night with both eyes closed. It was a great move at the time because the spate of armed robbery was beginning to cause serious alarm in our big cities. In the New Direction language, the minister HIT THE GROUND RUNNING.
It is against this background that we really can’t now explain why the guy is completely Missing In Action. As we push deeper and deeper into the rainy season armed robbery has predictably picked up across Freetown – a student of FBC has just been shot and killed and weeks later there is no arrest. Before that a lecturer from the same institution had been strangled to death in his flat on that campus. The police have gone quiet after saying investigations were still on. They always say that. This is not a police state but ordinary people are getting fed up with the lawlessness on our streets.
Of major concern now is the number of police checkpoints springing up across the country. We don’t want to get into the sense of whether the checkpoints are for security or something else. What we can say for certain is that police officers are busy collecting money from drivers and the drivers are passing that burden to the ordinary people. The cries are getting louder and louder. Why should there be NINE CHECKPOINTS between Bo and Jendema on the Liberian border? That stretch is less than ONE HUNDRED MILES. Many of these COLLECTION POINTS must be removed NOW.
The search continues for our Minister of Internal Affairs (MIA). So far we think he is busy with one of the following:
1. At home missing his former job at SLRSA. He knows he wasn’t cut for his current job but Principal asked him to take the job.
2. He is so afraid of COVID-19 that he has decided to stay home until WHO declares the war over.
3. He is in his situation room monitoring Freetown on his computer. That’s his idea of being a minister in Sierra Leone.
PUJEHUN MAN ATTEMPTS SUICIDE AFTER GIRLFRIEND SNUB
Just when we thought we’d seen everything God created came a video on social media of a man embarking on the most bizarre enterprise ever imagined. This young guy in Pujehun in the south of the land that we love, stabbed himself with a small crowd looking on because, we’re told, his girlfriend had decided to end their relationship. We understand emergency workers took him to hospital and doctors were able to keep him alive. Now we want to see him in court so we can cover his trial for attempted suicide and whatever else state lawyers charge him with. If he could do that to himself he has the proclivity to kill the woman in question.
It’s not always a good idea to judge people before hearing their own side of a particular story. That’s why we are waiting to go to court and listen. In the meantime let’s try and understand what might have pushed a man, possibly in his twenties to such extreme action.
1. He genuinely loves this girl but it is possible another man has made some inroads into the lady’s heart and she is beginning to slip through the fingers of our suicidal friend.
2. Actually brother Romeo wanted to do this as a way of convincing his girlfriend of his undying love for her.
3. Maybe what we just described above actually happened in his dream and he woke up convincing himself the dream might come true. So why not end the madness on planet earth and return to his maker.
4. He was probably high on Kush. Let’s encourage Dr. Edward Nahim to take some samples.
5. He didn’t plan how he would spend his time in a prison cell or even think about what the lady would be up to during his incarceration.
ANOTHER VIRUS APPEARS IN NEIGHBORING GUINEA: STANDBY SIERRA LEONE
Sierra Leone is on edge again after the highly infectious and deadly Marburg virus was found in that country and it’s the first in West Africa. One person is dead and contact tracing is on right now. All of this is happening in the same area where the Ebola virus struck and eventually engulfed Liberia and Sierra Leone. Guinea is beginning to look like the sick man of Manu River Union.
We are being told by health authorities here that the situation on our side is under complete control. We want to believe them because we can’t do otherwise. Maybe we should take a long term view of that part of our country in terms of doing up the health infrastructure. We should make it robust enough to challenge and quickly suppress any outbreak coming from our neighbors
WILL IT BE FIVE TIMES LUCKY IN ZAMBIA?
King Messi is on assignment in Zambia with the African Union. He is monitoring the hotly contested elections in that country where Hakainde Hichilema, the man who is making his 5th attempt at becoming president of Zambia, has run an effective campaign and is doing well with the crowds. The current president, Edgar Lungu for his part is employing the usual tactics to stay in power – intimidating the opposition and there are tit-for-tat killings. Kenneth Kaunda once said “Zambia shall be free”. Zambia is free but this is turning out very bad in that great country.
Already the continent is bracing up for another rigged election. We are waiting to read King Messi’s report. We wish him very well out there because his performance will reflect on our country.
Long Live Zambia.
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