By Alusine A. Sesay
A full shipping container, allegedly packed with Kush leaves and dangerous chemical compounds, has simply disappeared.
Months ago, officials at the Queen Elizabeth II Quay intercepted this container, which was said to be brimming with the very substances currently wreaking havoc among our nation’s youth.
It was hailed as a breakthrough in the fight against the synthetic drug epidemic.
Yet, fast forward several months, and the celebrated seizure has morphed into a mystery.
According to Customs, the container was duly handed over to the Sierra Leone Police for investigation — and that, it seems, was the last anyone ever heard of it.
Since then, radio silence.
No report. No press briefing. Absolutely nothing.
The trail, like the container itself, has gone cold.
The populace is therefore left to ponder, with justifiable vexation:
Where, precisely, is this container?
What did the police discover during their so-called investigation?
Who imported this chemical time bomb into our country?
Was the container destroyed — and if so, where and how?
Were there video recordings, official logs, or procedural documents to prove it?
Where is the procedural documentation?
Or are we, once again, staring down the familiar fog of an official cover-up?
These are not idle curiosities.
At a time when Kush is laying waste to the nation’s youth like a plague, the disappearance of such a vital piece of evidence is alarming.
A plethora of questions thus hang in the air — stubbornly unresolved — while the Kush epidemic continues to cut a devastating swathe through the nation’s youth with the grim efficiency of a pestilence.
Somewhere between the Water Quay docks and the police depot, accountability seems to have gone missing too.
It shows how impunity continues to thrive where transparency should reign.
Sierra Leoneans are owed nothing less than the unvarnished truth — clear answers.
