Soft drinks were sold at one thousand leones, the same price as it is sold in clubs in Freetown. The money to patronize their own pub has no other source to come from but from passengers that ply the route and some other dubious sources. The police that ply the route on their British-supplied Land Rovers, are alleged to be extorting Le. 5,000 from drivers. If true, all of these come from the passengers, either directly or indirectly. But again, not quite.
Traders pay taxes that they recoup from the consumers.
Those living behind rebel lines should know why the costs of their stuffs are so astronomical. He argued that it would have been improbable for his men to be taking money from drivers yet referring the number of cases aforementioned. Our last, but most important ceremony at Lunsar was the obvious. Having exhausted ourselves so much, it was time to feed and to food. The peacekeepers told us just that.