As read the 'revealing' story I could not help but kept quietly asking myself: "What is their source?"; even when the author mentioned among other things, that he had practiced journalism for a decade. By the time I finished reading and re-reading his story, I was convinced, not only because they are convincing but also because the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) announced in their 10pm GMT news, a similar story that occurred in Equitorial Guinea, confirming the author's facts. Now I see why sometimes during my return on holiday to my home country, Sierra Leone, some people I don't expect live flabouyant lives. The question of the author in his concluding lines remains. Certainly, corruption is a cancer in that impoverish nation and the is one of the major cause of our 'backwardness'. The newest president in Afirca, Ernest Bai Koroma has pledge and committed himself to dealing with corruption. I am sure he did so in good faith. However, it is evident that he has an herculean task, starting from his very collaborator including his ministers. It is like swimming against against a 'wild' tide. If and only if he succeeds, at least in reducing the enormous rate of that 'terminal disease', corruption, at the end of his five year term of office, he would have done what Nappolean never did.

Victor Chambers, on holiday in Ghana (Resident in Nairobi)