By Josephine Sesay
Sierra Leone is on its knees, across Bo, Kenema, Kono, and Freetown, a dark shadow has fallen a shadow called Kush, this deadly drug is stealing our youth, breaking our families, and tearing apart the very fabric of our society, what was once a nation full of promise has become a nation in mourning. mothers weep, fathers watch in silence, and a generation is slipping away right before our eyes.
Every day, we walk past young men lying helplessly on our streets bodies bent, minds lost, futures erased, we see them, yet we keep walking, some of us even know those who sell Kush our friends, our neighbors, even our own relatives, we know the faces behind this deadly trade, yet we remain silent because we don’t want enmity, but how long will our fear protect us while the nation dies?
Our silence has become deadly, by keeping quiet, we have become accomplices in the destruction of our own youth, mothers are crying in Bo, fathers are burying their sons in Kenema, families are breaking apart in Kono, the streets of Freetown have become open cemeteries for the living dead, and how many more lives must we lose before we speak up?
Kush has become a booming business run by people who value profit over life, young people, desperate for money or escape, are lured into dealing, distributing, and consuming a poison that kills slowly but surely, it is a trade built on broken lives and shattered dreams.
Those who sell Kush are not just destroying others; they are destroying their own communities, they live among us, yet what they sell is death, we can no longer afford to protect them with our silence, if we truly love our country, we must report them, confront them, and reject their blood money.
Every day, Sierra Leonean mothers wake up with fear in their hearts fear that their sons or daughters may never return home, they have watched their children waste away, begging for help that never comes, their cries echo through our towns and villages, yet too many of us pretend not to hear.
A mother’s pain should be our national alarm, then the women of a nation cry, it means the nation itself is bleeding; we cannot continue to look away.
The government must now act with urgency not just through police operations, but through strong community programs, rehabilitation centers, and real opportunities for our youth, the police, chiefs, and local councils must work hand in hand to track down suppliers and dealers, and we, as citizens, must stop protecting them with our silence.
Kush is not just destroying individuals; it is destroying the soul of Sierra Leone, the future of our nation depends on the choices we make today, if we stay silent, we will lose everything our youth, our peace, our hope.
Copyright –Published in Expo Times News on Wednesday, 29ThOctober 2025 (ExpoTimes News – Expo Media Group (expomediasl.com)
