*I AM AFRAID MY COUNTRY IS ON THE WRONG TRAJECTORY*
Sidique Bakarr.(Daddy B)…
Today friends have become enemies. Many who are opponents have become bitter adversaries. We see nothing but hate, hatred, spite, rancor, animosity, venom, resentment, revenge, and vengeance. No mercy no forgiveness. In place of love and compassion we see coercion and terror. Tyranny and Villainy.
Sierra Leone is on the crossroads, our leaders care less about the nature of the peace. Injustice, corruption, hate is thriving in every community. No one to champion peace. Even our local moral guarantors are eavesdropping on the cause of peace. They are only chasing the consolidated funds.
Politics of lies, deceit and coward is taking centre stage. Gullible citezens are not smart to pick the bones from marrow.
Today we celebrate rich people instead of agents of peace.
We adore and worship corrupt individuals instead of our religious leaders.
Instead of asking questions how our leaders are enriching themselves at our own detriment, we are the very ones that defend their loots.
Prostitution, Lesbianism, Homosexuality, drugs peddling is gradually legalising in our societies without serious intervention.
I pray for God intervention…
HERE IS ANOTHER CITIZEN’S LAMENT
WHO WILL DO JUSTICE TO LEADERSHIP IN SIERRA LEONE
By Mahmud Tim Kargbo
Thus, you can see it plain:
Ill guidance is the cause of the ill-fame.
The world has earned, this wicked world of pain.
Bad leadership, not nature, has gone to rot in you.
Dante in The Divine Comedy, Book II, Canto XVI (transl. Clive James)
IN A COUNTRY GROWN CYNICAL about politics, it is easy to forget that the essential purpose of government is justice. And if the leadership of the nation entails that primary responsibility, so too does leadership in the workplace, community, and home. The coincidence of the demise of leadership at every level of society and the flagrant erosion of justice in Sierra Leone at large is a signal reminder of the ancient truth that without justice, there is no leadership.
All the major issues of our day represent violations of justice: dysfunctional democracy, corporate malfeasance, financial crisis, people trafficking, violence, social dysfunction, and middle-class decline. In the workplace, excessive workloads, low wages, insecurity, intimidation, inadequate health and safety measures, disruption, disengagement, disloyalty, distrust, state-planned corruption, and more all reflect the erosion of justice and the failure of leadership.
Inevitably, when honest dialogue is stifled by cynicism, sophistry, and state-protected bootlicking, many people will roll their eyes and ask, “Ah, but what is justice?” Most of them will be unaware that the question has muddled minds since the dawn of civilisation. Yet from the start, while people struggled to define the concept, they all instinctively knew injustice when they saw it, as we all do, in the realities of everyday life in Sierra Leone.
Social-justice Of course, the old disputes over the meaning of justice remain. It’s ironic that hardly anyone today has heard of Thrasymachus, yet many in Sierra Leone will agree with his cynical definition of justice as “nothing but the advantage of the stronger.” Celebrities get away with murder, corporations buy influence and bully employees, politicians are a law unto themselves, and money lets wealthy people do things that would get them into serious trouble if they were poor.
So the ancient controversy endures between those who maintain “might is right”, and those who insist that “right is right”, between the advocates of cynical expediency and those who recognise a moral standard that binds both weak and strong, rich and poor, in Sierra Leone. Tragically, few people today know of Socrates’ defiance of the Sophist’s “might is right” argument or Plato’s classical definition of justice as “suum cuique”, giving to each person what is due to him or her. This dictum explains why injustice involves depriving a person of what belongs to him or her by right. The very essence of justice is a debt that has to be paid.
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