AWE Media Sierra Leone

By: Ibrahim Jalloh - (Jallomy)✍🏽 This is PZ area, a place where all conventional standards of behaviour and human conduct are reversed and turned upside down! Bellowing about the epicenter character of Freetown is not enough but understanding the unpardonable resistance to complying with user friendly safety protocols is key to understanding why Freetown is the epicenter for the Coronavirus pandemic. At a desparate moment, one will think Freetown is a city awaiting death. All have been provided: political will, facemasks, Veronica buckets, tonnes of anti bacterial bar and liquid soap, massive social Mobilization, unpacked institutional memory and enormous support from bilaterals and multilaterals. Yet, there are gaping gaps: the culture of denial and resistance to democratic change, the horrific search for political capital in the misery of a nation and a corresponding disengagement by notable national stakeholders. Evidently, we see an organized conversion of the call and enforcement...