BottomLine

By Isaac Massaquoi

I've been waiting for years for Sierra Leone's normally vibrant Civil Society market to come up with a group called CAMPAIGN FOR CLEAN PUBLIC EXAMS or CCPE. They can easily craft out their own mandate in a crowded market where such groups continuously overlap in what they set out to do.

By Isaac Massaquoi

We live in very strange times in Sierra Leone these days. Not even during those 10 years of a horrendous and unnecessary war, characterised by killing and maiming was this nation so despised by the rest of the world. Tell me, how does it feel to wake up every morning to news of your country being isolated in every way possible by the rest of the world?

By Isaac Massaquoi

From all that we've heard so far from our health workers, politicians across West Africa and the UN World Health Organisation, we have to accept that Sierra Leone is firmly in the claws of the Ebola epidemic and it will take a struggle of herculean proportions to free ourselves.

By Isaac Massaquoi

So the police have been reading and listening to the people raising concerns about the problem of dangerous and cheap alcohol flooding this country with the potential to lay the foundation for us becoming a nation of drunkards. May be that's too extreme but unless one deliberately refuses to talk about this, the love for alcohol in Sierra Leone has reached incredibly worrying levels in recent times and we must do something to stem the tide.

By Isaac Massaquoi

May be we should invite Nollywood producers to come to Sierra Leone and shoot a movie on this country's latest experience with some scam masters roaming the world looking for easy preys. It will be an instant blockbuster. We could even use some of the proceeds from that project to compensate the thousands of people who have lost good money to those who came here offering gifts that were simply too good to be real.

By Isaac Massaquoi

By Isaac Massaquoi

We have to admit that Sierra Leone is facing a very serious problem with cheap and dangerous alcohol that is now freely available to anybody who cares. This is not only a Freetown problem. In fact it's more pronounced in remote and viciously poor communities in rural Sierra Leone.