The ball is now in the court of the people and their hundredth tactic may succeed with their retention of power. In 2007 there was no injunction or disjunction and therefore no disruption of state and private activities. There was a civilized change of guards without rancor.
The APC is reputed to be so unmovable as not to be removed from power by democratic means, but it is a fact that to every rule there is an exception .Whether there will be an exception in the scenario of the 31st election remains to be seen.
In recent times, there has been regime change in our neighboring countries of the Gambia, Ghana and Liberia, but the regime in Sierra Leone deems itself to be allergic to such a change which has been trending. Again the impregnable APC could be an exception to this syndrome. Let it be noted that all things change except the love of change. “The old order changeth yielding place to new …” By Alfred Tennyson.
The power of incumbency cannot be underestimated, which is why there can be justifiable consternation for any government in power to question the activities of their own appointees and accuse them of malpractices. Strange isn’t it?
This brings to the fore the nuisance value of Lawyer Ibrahim Sorie Koroma, who is by all accounts the quintessential proxy of the ruling APC. They cannot hide behind their fingers. They are only being clever by half. “When the rulers of the people disdain the authority of God, the People in turn despise the authority of men”-Pope Benedict XV.
The Police that have their mantra ‘The Force For Good’ cannot be entirely absolved from the ongoing events. Some of them had been known to dance at the announcement of victory for the APC. Others have benefitted from courses in places like Darfur and Somalia for which they sometimes assume that it is a privilege of the APC and not the government.
They wouldn’t realize that any government could have done so as a continuous development from the ragtag situation in which they were before they were rescued by Keith Biddle’s administration. They also benefit from foodstuff inaugurated during the SLPP regime.
“When a judge departs from the letter of the law he becomes a law breaker”’- Francis Bacon. Astute readers could read between the lines to who the innuendo refers.
We have been held hostage as a nation all because of implacable resistance to change. The same factors of public interest that were considered on Monday could have been considered on the previous Saturday, but for the proxy achievements of ulterior motives. The mischief has been endured with disgust.
Thanks and appreciation should go to the redoubtable Chief Electoral Commissioner, N’fa Alie Conteh, who has the Hyde of a hypo. He refused to bend in the face of badgering on all sides by a straw –grasping regime. Unlike his depraved predecessor, he has demonstrated to the world, at large, just what the definition of integrity is. He belongs to the crop of distinguished citizens with new eras in their brains and whom the lust for money could not buy.
Unfortunately, for the superstitious APC, yet another No 7 on which they relied for winning (27th) has been missed. If they lose the race it will be an indication that the number 7 applies only to the year ending which is why the elections should have been held last year.
All the tantrums of the APC operatives these days could be safely described as the last kicks of a dying horse. In our local parlance it is said ‘wen condo wan die e go shake im tail’ (when a lizard is about to die it shakes its tail).
It is rightly said that APC is a family, but Sierra Leone is not the family property of the APC. The APC would do well to accept the fait accompli of the loss of power if it comes to that. Otherwise we wish them happy governance.