21 Day Stay At Home

After critical assessment across the Country especially in Ebola affected areas, coupled with the incessant deaths of innocent Sierra Leoneans as a result of the Ebola Virus Disease (EVD), the aforesaid organization hereby by make the following demands to the Government of Sierra Leone (GoSL).

That GoSL enforced a ‘Twenty One Day (21) Stay At Home’ to contain the disease, considered by us as a ‘common enemy.’
That GoSL pay all Government employees for a month and further urge the private sector employees to be paid likewise.
That vehicular movement across the country be banned within the said 21 Days Stay At Home.
That the 21 Day Stay At Home be used to test all suspected cases as well as home visits by nurses to do a tracer test.
That all markets/businesses be closed after 12:00PM (Midday).
That all Muslim and Christian congregations be restricted.
That all Ebola sensitization be well tailored by the Ministry of Health and Sanitation
That adequate Personal Protective Equipment is provided to the Sierra Leone Police, the Armed Forces Security patrol team and the medical staff.

The justification buttressing the aforementioned demand is that the death toll is increasing on a daily basis; no one including our untiring President is safe; Sierra Leoneans in the Diaspora are going through stigmatization coupled with the reality that all sectors are currently experiencing an economic meltdown.

As an organization, we are saddened by the statement of the Director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control (CDC), Tom Frieden, who warned that the Ebola outbreak in West Africa will worsen in coming weeks “significantly.”

Frieden, who just returned from Sierra Leone, Guinea and Liberia, said despite tremendous efforts by health care workers, the number of Ebola cases continues to increase rapidly. The Director who was speaking, Wednesday, 3^rd September, 2014 at the CDC headquarters in Atlanta said the number of cases, now more than 3,000, is expected to increase rapidly in coming weeks.

We consider this as alarming and no longer acceptable.

Therefore, Sierra Leoneans across the country are urgently calling on President Ernest Bai Koroma and his Government to listen to the Voice of the Voiceless Sierra Leoneans; hence the “Voice of the people is the voice of God.”

Signed Elkass Sannoh, National Coordinator, Media Center for Governance Reform (Mcgr)

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