BMT "Ninety Percent of Sierra Leoneans Lie"

I am sorry but I know I have offended you a little when I say: “Ninety Percent of Sierra Leoneans Lie”. But thanks to God, those of you reading this article are part of the ten percent that do not lie.

BMT (Black Mans Time) has ever since being the official time zone of Sierra Leone. No serious known efforts have ever been done to switch to other time zones.
Probably, this is because ninety percent of the population prefer it. It is perfectly in line with their nature.

If you are visiting Sierra Leone for the first time or you are a JC ("Jus cam", referring to Sierra Leoneans just arriving back home), you need a tremendous effort to get use to BMT. BMT is not standardized. As it is now, BMT is very difficult to study. I’ve tried times without number to figure out how this time works but to no avail. To some, BMT is thirty minutes ahead of GMT, to others it is twenty minutes, or more hours ahead of GMT.

If ninety percent love BMT, let’s just standardize it for the sake of convenience. Let’s say, BMT is ten or twenty minutes ahead of GMT. Let’s have an agreement and then abide by it. Simple.

Ninety percent of Sierra Leoneans using BMT is a very serious cause for concern. The percentage is so high that it keeps eating on the remaining ten percent each and every day. This small ten percent finds it very hard to live in a society with its own UNIQUE time zone. This ten percent, which is mainly made up of under-fives , Westerners and JCs, find it very difficult to absorb well in the society. Gradually, they too joined the band wagon, making their population never growing.

Now, as you continue reading this article, accept this hard truth. If you are using BMT, then you are part of the ninety percent. By nature, you are a liar. Have you ever called a meeting and states that it will commence at 1 P.M and you didn’t turn up until 2 P.M? Then you are simply part of the ninety percent.

BMT causes serious harm to our society and majority use it without even thinking of the consequences it has on the society. If one cannot figure out when a meeting will start, how many minutes it will last and when the next meeting is going to start, how can one plan himself well? How can a society be without trust for one another? Call a meeting and state that it will commence at 9 A.M, I bet you, ninety percent of the people will come some minutes after nine. Not because of any unavoidable circumstances, but simply because they did not trust you, nor did they trust that you (the organizers) will be there at the stipulated time. There is absolutely no trust for each other, trust has been broken!

Brethrens, if we want to join the rest of the world, if we want to follow the same trend as others, can we please avoid the UNIQUE time zone? We can either choose to join others or choose to remain UNIQUE, as UNIQUE as we are.