By Dr Doma
Sierra Leone is at breaking point.
Every single day, our youth who are the hope of tomorrow are dying, not from war, not from Ebola, but from a dangerous leaf called Kush.
And those in power are far too quiet.
The Mayor of Freetown, Yvonne Aki-Sawyerr, said it clearly: over 220 bodies have been picked up by the City Council suspected victims of Kush.
That’s 220 young people gone just like that.
Two hundred and twenty families in tears.
Two hundred and twenty dreams wiped away.
And these are only the ones we know about.
So the question is: how many more are we not counting?
How many more youths are wasting away in ghettos and dark corners while we look the other way?
Let’s be honest this is not just a “youth issue.”
This is a national disaster. Kush didn’t fall from the sky.
It is made, it is trafficked, it is sold and it is supplied. And the truth is, people in high places know exactly how it gets here.
So let’s stop pretending.
If you don’t stop the source, the deaths will not stop. Government cannot claim ignorance.
If they are silent, then it means one of three things: they are powerless, they don’t care or they are benefiting.
Whatever the case, Sierra Leone is losing its children.
What makes it worse is the contrast.
Young people in other African countries are building businesses, creating apps, leading protests, shaping their nations.
Our own Gen Z, instead of writing history, is being buried in numbers.
It’s heartbreaking.
This crisis is tearing families apart, destroying communities and slowly killing Sierra Leone’s future. Treating it like “just another issue” is criminal.
The Mayor has raised the alarm, but who is really listening?
Will this be taken seriously, or will it end up like every other ignored warning while the body count rises? Unless there is courage to act to go after the traffickers, expose the networks and cut off the supply, this country will keep losing its youth.
Kush is not just a drug it is a weapon of mass destruction.
And Sierra Leone is losing this war without even fighting back.
The question is simple: how many more young people must die before leaders act like their lives matter?
And if government won’t act fast, then the rest of us must.
Parents must rise.
Civil society must rise. Religious leaders must rise. Communities must rise. This is not just a ghetto problem it is a fight for our very survival.
Silence is no longer an option.
Every day we keep quiet, another young Sierra Leonean is buried.
