10/ Retweet. Share. Press your country’s foreign ministries to ask tough questions. Sierra Leone deserves better than its current status as a narco-state.
7/ What we the people must demand:
An independent, internationally supervised probe into all alleged ties between Leijdekkers and Sierra Leone’s elite.
Rehabilitation and prevention programs, especially reaching women and vulnerable youth.
6/ The government is complacent when its institutional protections for criminals run deep. The Bio leadership must prove transparently that no one is above the law.
5/ Meanwhile, Sierra Leone faces a synthetic drug epidemic: kush, a mix of opioids and cannabinoids, is ravaging the youth, and not much is being done to save them.
4/ The Immigration Chief Alusine Kanneh was abruptly dismissed after footage surfaced of him accepting a gift from Leijdekkers, undermining public trust in law enforcement.
3/ In a viral image, he sat just two rows behind President Julius Maada Bio at his family's church event, a level of proximity that demands public explanation.
2/ He was convicted in absentia in Europe for mass cocaine trafficking and ordering a murder. Yet he now appears to move freely in elite circles within the Sierra Leone.
1/ There’s mounting evidence that Sierra Leone has become more than a transit zone, a sanctuary for “Bolle Jos,” Johannes Leijdekkers, a convicted European drug lord.
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$200 MILLION donor funds. Children using photocopied textbooks. Schools closed due to teacher strikes. Leaders absent on the scene. This is the story of Sierra Leone's free education scam.
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