The Capital City of Freetown has been engulfed with lawlessness since the New Direction Government came into power some fourteen months ago.
Many Sierra Leoneans voted President Bio and his New Direction government against his military background and not necessarily for his Free Quality Education scheme.
His days at the NPRC were quite rife in the minds of many Sierra Leoneans and it was a popular view that he would radically change things around especially at a time when the country was engulfed with lawlessness and clique violence.
To justify this, a very much energetic President took on lawlessness as one of his three peaceful wars during his inauguration speech.
The President promised to fight lawlessness including two other wars, but alas Sierra Leone is getting lawless as the day goes by.
Indiscipline in Sierra Leone is glaring almost in all sectors, civil servants turn up late for work against Presidential executive orders; Government Ministers cover their vehicle number plates and use government vehicles very late at night against civil service orders, functions are being increasingly held in hotels and other private places, also against Presidential executive orders .The list is endless.
The Police have shifted their constitutional mandate to that of harassing the opposition while thieves and criminality takes center stage.
The robberies at Justice Biobele Georgewill’s residence, and also at the residence of the Presidential Adviser on Infrastructure, Engineer Tambi and the chambers of Magistrate Hannah Bonnie, are all pointers to the fact that the head of our police is rotten and needs to be axed.
The Office of National Security was economical with the truth when it stated that they are declaring MAC-P because the Police was overwhelmed with criminality.
They are not overwhelmed when it comes to manhandling opposition supporters; they are not overwhelmed when it comes to chasing motor bikes and extorting bribes from motorists.
What is very clear is that the Police leadership has lost its focus.
This is making the commitment of the President to fight against lawlessness almost impossible.
We cannot continue using the military in a democratic state to undertake police duties and functions.
We should face the truth that the Police is no longer capable of handling the internal security of Sierra Leone.
The beating or harassment of the Lone Stars Team and their delegation was a disgrace for Sierra Leoneans.
The Police had woefully failed like it had happened in all the incidences mentioned above to execute their mandate, especially against the intelligence that was coming from the first leg of the Quatar 2022 qualifiers in Liberia.
A sober minded Police force should have prepared a stand-by security for the Liberian team and their delegation as soon they arrived in the capital, Freetown.
Even with a MAC-P we still continue to record high spate of lawlessness in the country.
Government is working very much around rebranding the country but the current spate of lawlessness is in no way complementing such moves.
The President is failing the war against lawlessness and poverty while making inroads in the fight against graft.
We have least expected that his ratings in the fight against indiscipline should have taken a very high score against the facts that he is a military battle tested and approved solider and understands the need for discipline to be maintained in any society.