Someone once said it’s difficult for Sierra Leone to complete one whole calendar year without recording or addressing a serious national tragedy. Nothing strange here. That makes it a normal country. The good, the bad, and the ugly is what make life a normal journey; leaving the two extremes to be hell and paradise.

The country has a popular saying to glamorize this. Life nah fodon en grap.

Life nah fodon en grap so thrilled former America ambassador to Sierra Leone, Mrs. Laureli Peters that she said, at the end of her Tour of Duty, it was the finest souvenir she was taking back home to the United States.

Notable calamities befallen Sierra Leone in her recent history will include a devastating eleven-year war, an Ebola onslaught, a crippling mudslide, her share of the global Corona Virus Disease, a petrol fire tragedy and now there’s the highly addictive Kush drug taking its toll on, mainly, the youth.

Victims and, especially, their parents and dear ones are of the opinion that the Kush calamity even surpasses all the previous disasters by its capacity to kill, deform, destroy the present and future of the victims and handicap the nation’s human capital and labour force.

So grave it was that President Julius Maada Bio was quoted saying in a State House press release of 30^th October 2025, “the Kush crisis represents one of the gravest threats to Sierra Leone’s social stability, public health, and national security.”

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