There has been mixed feelings amongst citizens of this country on the way forward to end the ugly situation that has become glaring and unbearable to almost all class of people. History tells us that one of the factors that precipitated the eleven year rebel incursion in this country was predicated on bad governance. If this notion is accepted, then, we should be retrospective in our analyses spanning the one party regime as genesis to our woe.

Truly said, if citizens of this nation abhorred the one party government as bad and tyrannical that only existed in the dark days of our country when greater part of our deeds were considered shadowy; highly in deviance with democratic principles, then our lives have never changed.

Realistically, one of the purposes that we fought ourselves as was propounded by the then leader Foday Sankoh of the RUF fighters was to bring change of government of the late President Siaka P. Stevens’ one party state which was described as despotic. Ironically, despite the destruction of thousands of lives and property worth trillions of Leones coupled with untold suffering in every sphere for eleven years, our attitude only changed for the worst.

Regrettably, before the rebel war, there were no rampant merciless killings, rampant prostitution, high rate of armed robbery; rampant drug abuse and acute hunger including many other heinous crime rates that are now on the increase.

Albeit the precarious experience that we went through, many sober minded people from various quarters believe that it would be enough for us to have learnt a bitter lesson to totally deviate from any behaviour that will lead us again to that dangerous path.

In fact, let all of us say God forbid! Even though we are still wallowing in a sea of blindness without recalling those ugly days in our country, yet, we still cherish the fragile peace that we are enjoying as a nation.

The fact of the matter is almost all factors that ignited the war in our country are gradually resurfacing during our democratic days. It is too pathetic to say the least, that if the rebel war did not teach us anything that peace, unity and love are prerequisite tenants of coexistence of any nation that is serious about development then I wonder when will we wake up from our slumber and learn that the instantaneous clamoring of change of leaders of government will never be the plausible solution to our old problems without accepting the silent national advise of former President Ernest Koroma who maintained that change of attitude is one of the ways forward to development.

Those who witnessed the late President Kabbah’s regime can also attest to the fact that his government was purely donor driven propelled by the international partners who had their primary motives to rebuild our country as well as to create a solid foundation for development. But he was frustrated by the same Sierra Leoneans, which is why he described us as ‘‘Salone Man Get Bad Heart’’.

Implicitly, the late Pa Kabba’s outbust connotes similar meaning of Pa Ernest Bai Koroma. The stark reality is that some Sierra Leoneans are currently craving and yearning for another change of government without consideration to advices of our past leaders. The million dollar question is will change of government be sufficed to salvage our problems without change of attitude?