The article exposed the criminal syndicate in the Hajj Committee and called on the President to act fast and right the wrongs. Few hours later, it appeared as if the President was having a sleepless night when he decided to announce at midnight, the sacking of three members of the Hajj Committee.

Bravo Mr. President, or should I say Kudos Uncle Mr. President for a first step in the right direction. As I stated in my earlier piece, the President’s reaction to the criminal actions of Hajj Committee members was going to inform our judgment as to whether or not he sanctioned such blatant human rights abuses that has the tendency of fueling religious intolerance.

It is now evident that the President never endorsed the actions of the sacked government functionaries. God bless you for that sir. And the President has also proved wrong critics who believe he is slow in his actions. He acted in less than twenty four hours to correct this mess. Promptness at its best.

For me, I had always believed that the President is not slow in his actions. He might be failing or refusing to act on certain things because he actually endorses such actions. Otherwise, why is someone like Logus and Alpha Kahn still in office with all the scandal surrounding them?

Was Alpha Kahn (Photo) not involved in a similar Hajj mess in the past? What about the twelve million dollars – one hundred bus scam of Logus?

Are they not still in office? If Uncle Mr. President never endorsed their actions, then why are they still in government?

This even brings us to the question of why would the President only sack three members of the Hajj Committee, who may have been operating under the direction and actual supervision of the Vice President, who is the most senior member of the Committee?

And it is scary even to think that this VP, whose committee has recorded this scandal, is currently in charge of a committee that has received some ten million dollars on behalf of flood and landslide disaster victims?

Is that money safe anymore with him? Can the VP honourably excuse himself from that committee amid this Hajj fraud, even if the President fails or refuse to sack him?

Come to think of it, was it enough for the President to just instruct the sacked officials to return home and face the consequences of their actions? What if they choose to escape and disappear? And we should all sit down, fold our hands and hope they come back to Sierra Leone?

Mr. President could have done more in my view. What about communicating with the authorities in Saudi to arrest these ‘fake Alhajis’ and extradite them to Sierra Leone?

I trust the Arab police will do a good job to land a couple of ‘knocks’ on the corrupt heads of these guys before handing them over to the Sierra Leonean authorities.

Again, it remains unclear if the President actually sacked these three officials from their actual government positions, or they were just relieved from their duties in the Hajj Committee?

The sacking press release is ambiguous on that aspect, and we need clarification from the office of the President. The press release also failed to state why these guys were sacked.

Were they sacked because they sold Hajj scholarships to foreigners? Did they face the sack because they failed to include the President’s personal nominees for the scholarships?

Were they rendered jobless because they made such huge profit and never reported it to their masters? Are they going to face the law because they sinned against poor Muslims?

Or this was just an attempt (one of the 99 tactics) to excuse them and the government from the bashing limelight, until the tension fades out and they would be re-appointed again as usual? Why exactly were they fired?

Can the President further investigate allegations that these sacked officials connived with a permanent secretary to withdraw some 2.5 Billion Leones from Commercial Bank in the name of allowances for Hajj Committee members?

Mr. President, I think you have more sackings to do.