Kailahun had recorded its own share of positive Coronavirus infection.
Those stiff-necked business women from Nyandehun Mambabu and their greedy corroborators, had ignored every warning and bribed their way out of a locked-down Kailahun district to Freetown – and to a particular store in a normally overpopulated Dovecot market area.
Who was going to come to the aid of countries such as ours when most of the big donors had major economic woes of theirs, including high covid-19 infection and fatality rates, mounting unemployment and the grim prospects of major depressions of their own from the fallout of the Coronavirus pandemic?
How are we going to deal with our own economic woes, such as youth unemployment?
And then the front pages of some of our newspapers carried the headline – “PARLIAMENT RATIFIES 30 MILION UNITED STATES DOLLAR LOAN AGREEMENT with the EXIM Bank of India for the planned Tormah Bum rice development project.”