country to get the rude awakening of the fact that we ought to go back and make amends and corrections to our many mistakes in other historic events visited unto the country and its people which have left many negatives and few positives effects on the economic system. Never the less with this development in its germinating form, government should regain control by all means of Oil Refinery, restructuring it to start processing crude Oil once again as an initial starter, while in conjunction creating and floating an Oil company with greater shares owned invite strategic partnerships, create and float share holdings possibilities for citizens, local investors both in the country and in the Diaspora who are interested to invest their money. This should be the starting point for everyone including the people of the country to be comfortable in collaborative participation not selected few as was in the past to many economic projects that may lead to chaos in the future.
With hindsight for instance, what have we done with our gold, diamonds, rutile, iron ore, titanium, coffee and cacao, palm oil, ginger and the fishing industries’ to mention just a few? It has brought us the worst nightmare and misery any nation could pray for not to happen. So what is making us abhorring the myopic thinking that it will be better and different this time without addressing and properly auditing the past predicaments of similar nature in our assets misappropriation? There are many more questions than answers to the equation of wealth and minerals of Sierra Leone that needed to be forensically audited critically for posterity, so that transparency and proper fiscal management and even distribution across board should be the guiding principles and benchmarks.