First Lady of Sierra Leone, H.E. Dr. Fatima Maada Bio, has delivered a fiery warning against the spread of Kush, describing the drug as a national disaster that is destroying the lives of children and tearing families apart.
She was speaking at the launch of Olive B Academy in Kerry Town where she said “Kush has made many children unmanageable and families hopeless,” stressing that its impact is now felt in every sector of society.
“We will not have Kush in Sierra Leone if somebody senior is not bringing it into this country,” she declared, her voice thick with frustration and grief. She put a symbolic curse on traffickers, saying that the pain innocent families experience should also come to the children of those who profit from the drug. You’re not only taking future of the youth, you are destroying homes where their parents are now helpless as they watch their children who just go on and begin to waste after a while.
Dr. Bio noted with alarm that some of the girls now using the drug outnumber boys, which she said was deeply disturbing. She also criticized stories of Kush dealers having been apprehended at Hastings Police station and then set free the day after: “I want police who are honest” in the fight against this scourge, she added.
“Kush is making millionaires that have no right even walking our street,” she emphasized, calling on the police to “do the right thing” and act to secure a future for Sierra Leone’s youth.
As the ceremony took center stage to celebrate the opening of Olive B Academy a cutting-edge girls’ boarding school with science and robotics labs and digital-driven classrooms First Lady Bio used her time at the podium to hit one of her most forceful notes yet on this devastating Kush crisis.
