Odd, inconsistent, contradictory and unconstructive fixations the origins and citizenships of aspirants are creeping into the Sierra Leone election campaigns with noises on who was born here, lived there or married elsewhere becoming a tactic to enable suspect agendas.

Some say colonialism and imperialism were enabled through “divide and conquer” after which were the “divide and rule” consolidation and exploitation operations.

Given the abdication of responsibility and thievery that make up the records in government of those now coming up with different classes of Sierra Leonean, I suspect the strategy is to “divide and fool” in order to position themselves for even more “divide and plunder”.

My hope is in the thinking that “you can fool some people sometimes, but you cannot fool all the people all of the time…”

© Othame Kabia