After Raining Mammy Cuss, Citizens Ask: Sahr Jusu is Another Adebayo?

By Samuel A. Fornah
Sierra Leoneans has started asking questions about whether Sierra Leone’s Financial Secretary in the person of Sahr Jusu has metamorphosed into a local Adebayo, similar to the one supposedly living in Holland and using social media to vent all sorts of invectives against government and even opposition members here.
According to a letter written to President Julius Maada Bio by the Managing Editor of Standard Times Newspaper, Mustapha Sesay, he complained the Financial Secretary, Sahr Jusu for using unprintable languages (mammy cuss) against the Managing Editor and staff of the Standard Times for exposing him at an event where he perverted the Civil Service Code by openly taking part in distributing sanitary pads which is a political function and had nothing to do with the official function of the Financial Secretary.
During a telephone call following the publication that exposed his blatant abuse of the Civil Service Code, the Financial Secretary Sahr Jusu rather than accept his fault and plead for forgiveness as he grievously had committed a grave error, resorted to using unprintable words and even asked the Managing Editor to record him and then go anywhere he wants to go.
Sahr Jusu does not seem to realize that he has violated the Civil Service Act and the Civil Service Code, which commits all civil servant in Sierra Leone to refraining from openly supporting or taking part in political events of any nature…in other words, all Civil Servants must abstain from naked politics. However, had Sierra Leone had had a strong democracy and our laws strongly enforced, no matter who the offender or violator is, Sahr Jusu by now should have been reprimanded or relieved of his position.
It is against this background that ordinary citizens are saying that Sierra Leone’s Financial Secretary, Sahr Jusu is a disgrace to Sierra Leone. For a whole Financial Secretary to have the guts to openly attack a media house with unprintable invectives and then challenge that media house to record his cusses and do with it as they please, shows the low level our government officials consider the media. It also shows that our current stock of government officers believe they can engage in matters with matters impunity and get away with impunity.
The Financial Secretary, Sahr Jusu has not only challenged the Standard Times Managing Editor and his staff; he has challenged the media and Sierra Leone and we will not rest until we put him in his place because he is no different from the notorious Adebayo in Holland.