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Political tribalism, state polarization and the fall

By: Ibrahim Jalloh - (Jallomy)✍️ Our beloved country Sierra Leone is going through tested and difficult times on account of several factors that can be traced to politics, the economy and the polarized nature of the state.  We should advised ourselves not to apportion or shift blame on the current state of affairs but we must appraise ourselves with the reality of  what went wrong and what is going wrong. What is happening today with the economy, the politics and the overall governance dynamics of the state is a pointed trajectory of deliberate and intentional governance failures and failings in the remote and distanced past. The economy was dealt with a crushing blow and, some will say,  brutally raped with speed and agonizing rapidity. Governance was narrowed to a private entity and leaders assumed the character of shareholders and all was run as a for - profit enterprise. Politics became an industry, in fact the biggest industry. The tribe and region became political theatres. Poli...