Professor Parrot – Bizarre Thoughts… Foday Sankoh Deserves a Statue

Parrot is a bird with strange and damnable thoughts. This great bird looks at things two-sidedly, not one-sidedly as many Sierra Leoneans do. Many fellow citizens concentrate on the negative sides of Foday Sankoh, neglecting his positive sides.

Parrot is very much aware of the unpleasant fact that Foday Sankoh commanded the committal of unprecedented atrocities including the maiming and killing of Sierra Leoneans and the razing of their houses. However, Foday Sankoh legated several positive things to this nation.

The Positive Sides of Foday Sankoh

1. Foday Sankoh’s war led to the procreation of many dual citizens as the multi-national peacekeepers gave this nation many children. We can now boast of children fathered by Nigerians, Ghanaians, Kenyans, Jordanians and other nationals. These children have dual citizenship; this is a big development.
2. If President Koroma is talking about youth priority today, Sankoh must get the credit because the barbarities perpetrated by the youths during the war have compelled our leaders to treat them with deserved seriousness.
3. Personnel at the headquarters of Criminal Investigation Department in Freetown must be grateful to Foday Sankoh for the new building they are now enjoying. If Foday Sankoh’s rebels had not razed their antiquated former building, they would have been occupying it till this day.
4. All the new school structures right across this nation owe Foday Sankoh a very big gratitude. If Sankoh’s rebels had not burnt all the schools in this republic, there would have been no new schools.
5. Sankoh’s war taught our gallant soldiers the use of sophisticated weapons.
6. If we are enjoying some amount of democracy today, we should thank Sankoh whose rebellion dismantled the old and undemocratic system.
7. Sankoh’s incursion taught us several military vocabularies such as, bombardment, intervention, sanction, embargo, ambush, tactical withdrawal, peace accord and many others.

Therefore, patriotic Parrot is hereby recommending that a statue of Foday Sankoh be erected at the historic cotton tree as a symbol of appreciation for his good and memorable works.

With Joseph Milton Lebbie

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