Support John Leigh: Take Sierra Leone Back to Her Roots

By tribe, my father is Fulah and mother - Creole. My two sisters are mende and temne both of whom are married to greatly affectionate Loko and Kuranko husbands. My three brothers are mende, kroo, and susu. My uncle is kono, but happened to be born in Koinadugu where he married a beautiful madingo woman with whom he was blessed with two lovely Kissi childreen - a boy and girl. My two aunts are sherbro, one of whom is married to a hansdome vai guy who is a very talented musician. The other aunt migrated to another part of the country where she adopted the yalunka language and culture as her own. My name is Sierra Leone.

Our ancestors spent the last five decades dismantling functional colonial legacies only to replace them with functionless institutions. They bastardized what was used to be good governance, bannalised our social and cultural heritage, and chased competent and capable administrators and technocrats out of the country only to be replaced by grossly incompetent and inept crooks.

Please take time out and look at thr picture on the top right corner of this petition. Does the picture there remind you of the glory days of our once beautiful country?

If it does, then join this campaign to return Sierra Leone to what it used to be. We used to have nicely paved roads, 24/7 electricity, People were well rewarded for work done. Our good schools used to be the envy of West Africa. We used to pride ourselves in our standardised taxi cab systems, rail roads, double decker buses, and not the okardas of today. Corruption and bribery were epidemics everyone ran away from, Remember how it used to cost 100 quid for a return flight to London?

Fellow brothers and sisters, your help is needed to re-invent the wheel and put Mother Sa Lone on the track of suvccess again. Our nation has for long been abandoned on the curb of the global highway and left to rot.

Those born during the early years of independence know the kind of quality of lifestyle our people enjoyed, and this is what we want to bring back to them.

Listen to the music coming from Sierra Leone and you can see for yourselves how our youths have progressed in their thinking. This unfortunately is a far cry from what we the elders have done. We have continued to take the country down the same path of lies and false promises that brought us to where the nation is today. Our youths are hurting and looking up to us for inspiration. Saying no to this call is not a choice.

It is time we changed our inner thinking. It is no miracle that one of our own has volunteered to lead our nation to those glorious heights again. His name is John Leigh, As Sierra Leone's one time ambassador to the U.S, John Leigh was our nation's lone face and voice during the dog days when the AFRC/RUF concubine unleashed brutal terror on our innocent brothers and sisters.

Today, John Leigh is asking for your support for him to revolutionize our political system and put it at par with the global order. He will revamp the old unicameral legislative process into bicameral legislative branches and restore the separation of powers between the executive, legislative and judicial branches of government.

Under President Leigh, political power and economic resources will be much more decentralized giving our local governments vested authority to make laws consistent with the social and economic development of our entire nation. This will encourage the proper modernization of all interior communities long neglected by previous governments.

President Leigh will work with the international community and Sierra Leone diaspora to help bring foreign investments and state-of-the-art technology to Sierra Leone thereby creating employment opportunities, expand food production and generate reliable revenues to enable the government in providing improved public services for the entire population.

Creating wealth for the people and promoting justice, development and the peaceful co-existence among our people will be top priorities under President Leigh. Please join me today in helping to make sure these ideas are actualized beginning 2012.