The verbal murder of ‘Solo-B’
As they say, bad news travels faster than good news. Following the sad news that former vice president of the Republic of Sierra Leone and also leader of the opposition Sierra Leone Peoples Party aspirant in the last 2007 elections Solomon Ekuma Berewa (in photo) has fallen ill, an unrefined news with no iota of truth quickly circulated around the country that the former SLPP leader has died in India whilst undergoing medical treatment.
Sierra Leone, a country whose people largely believes in customs and tradition, are familiar with the consequences of untimely publicizing the death of a chief.
In some typical Themneh and Mende settings, by merely spreading rumours of the death of a chief incurs the wrath of the community.
News about the verbal death of Solomon E. Berewa are all lies and gimmick orchestrated by some heartless Sierra Leoneans making rounds in some news outlets.
Pa. Berewa, we are told, is safe and sound, courtesy by the SLPP Secretariat, responding to medical treatment in India. By willfully killing someone by word of mouth is rather malicious. Who really wants Solo B dead? What has he done to deserve such wicked and malicious thoughts?
Anyway, the unpatriotic wishers and their lies would not warrant panic; After all, everyone is bound to die someday, be you a politician or a common man.
Besides, who is immune to death? Death in itself is a necessary end, as Shakespeare once said. For honorable and virtuous men like Solo-B to pass away should not be seen as a strange phenomenon in the eyes of his political opponents as death is a transition point preparing oneself for eternal journey to the world of reality and accountability.
Had it not been out of deep seated partisan grudge and the callousness of some idle-minded Sierra Leoneans, news like the death of one-time all-hailed leader in this country should not have be a celebrated obituary announcement in our local tabloids.
It was a disappointing thing to learn from the lips of some low-minded patriots wishing the death of Solo-B.
There is a Krio proverb that says “nor put pepeh na u compin en sofot way u nor want na u yone”, meaning, never wish evil for others as the same may befall you one day.
Thus, Sierra Leoneans must be warned that wishing the death of Solo-B would not change the sentimental politics people have used dancing to. Moreover, even if the wished death of Solo-B were to come to reality it would not change the political landscape of this country; neither changes a nation that is geared towards national cohesion and development.
Sierra Leoneans should be thinking of more development oriented programmes rather than killing Solo-B verbally.
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