The unpleasant voice from the megaphone hits the streets of every corner of the Utopian City<\/p>\n
Chanting and eulogizing the development-driven pilot of the Flight to the Utopian City<\/p>\n
<\/strong><\/p>\n Despite the fact that the citizens of the Utopian City now pay taxes that the city<\/p>\n has never known: Sneeze-hard tax, Fart-loud tax, walk-loud tax,<\/p>\n Fat-body tax and many other taxes that should make the city an earthly paradise<\/p>\n Yet the City is a nightmare, a health hazard and a death trap<\/p>\n The bosses boast of bringing development to the Utopian City<\/p>\n And point their corrupt finger at their achievements:<\/p>\n Look at the Utopian Clock Tower at Eastern Police,<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n Look at the market we are building for the business Utopian City<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n Look at the roundabouts we have decorated<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n Look at the utopian beatification of the roundabouts<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n and the utopian Fountains of Hope <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n that the Cotton Tree is now enjoying <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n Wow! the utopian city is so beautiful like the first Daughter of Angel Gabriel<\/p>\n The City is ineffable, they unashamedly claim<\/p>\n <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n But the citizens of the Utopian City ask and ask whether the billions of<\/p>\n Leones\u00a0 their City \u00a0has collected achieved only those few great trivialities<\/p>\n The people of the city are disappointed that the money<\/p>\n they pay to the Utopian \u00a0City are spent on the<\/p>\n development of the Big Bugs of the City<\/p>\n They are angry because their city is the now<\/p>\n One of the dirtiest in the whole world since their city Father fathered the City<\/p>\n The Utopian City uses all unorthodox, sometimes illegal, ways to get<\/p>\n money from even the poor in the guise of taxes<\/p>\n in order to embellish their own pockets and leave the Utopian Citizens \u00a0to bear the brunt<\/p>\n of the rot, squalor, decay, pungent smell, smoky atmosphere and all other related<\/p>\n situations that act as recipe for a reduced life span<\/p>\n When there is little downpour,<\/p>\n go to Kissy Road, Blackhall Road, Eastern Police,<\/p>\n Ferry Junction, Jomo Kenyatta Road,<\/p>\n Mountain Cut, Benjamin Lane, Fourah Bay Road<\/p>\n and all major street s in Freetown<\/p>\n The \u201cundrainaged\u201d Utopian inhabitants are drained in all the rivers of Sierra Leone:<\/p>\n River Moa at Eastern Police<\/p>\n River Sewa at BlackHall Road<\/p>\n Great Scarcies at Jomo Kenyatta Road<\/p>\n Little Scarcies at Ferry Junction<\/p>\n River Teyay at Fourah Bay Road<\/p>\n While the empty hopes of the people of Utopia swim in<\/p>\n These rivers<\/p>\n the tinted jeeps of our leaders drive in them with scornful ease<\/p>\n and wave the plight of their subjects away in absolute abandonment<\/p>\n They say those who do not pay \u201ctheir taxes\u201d are unpatriotic<\/p>\n But why should you pay money when the \u201cTu Fut Aratas\u201d are not patriotic enough<\/p>\n To spend the money to improve the lives of the people who pay it?<\/p>\n Instead they spend the money to improve their own social and economic lives<\/p>\n While the streets are still imbued with all the eye sores they propagated to clear<\/p>\n The barks of the Utopian City are indeed worse than its bites<\/p>\n The drainage in their developmental brains is wholly blocked<\/p>\n No wonder they cannot provide better drainages for the people of the Utopian City<\/p>\n that will drainage their lives into a better future.<\/p>\n Mohamed Kunowah-Tinu Kiellow, Amsterdam, The Netherlands<\/p>\n The author is a Dutch-Sierra Leonean lawyer who recently returned from his beloved Mama Salone after having worked there as a Legal and Policy Adviser.<\/em><\/p>\n Stay with Sierra Express Media, for your trusted place in news!<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n The unpleasant voice from the megaphone hits the streets of every corner of the Utopian City Chanting and eulogizing the development-driven pilot of the Flight 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