By Albert Baron Ansu
Whoever opines that the government of President Bio is leading Sierra Leone no where must have a misreading of what is unfolding. Call it a jaundiced mindset that attempts a lopsided rendering of a political stock-taking of the new direction. It is understandable from whence they are coming from the sheath of despair.
There has been Frustration since the APC political hacks regrouped from the doldrums to come forth with twist of narratives about the actions of the government of President Bio. How do you know this?
Too many good things are happening in less than hundred days that signal a political paradigm shift from the Marthorma Friday syndrome that assumed notorious proportions when, regionally skewed appointments in government became a new normal in Sierra Leone under the Agenda for Change and Agenda for Prosperity that were as empty in context of what impact the slogans wrought on our political landscape. The result has been a pack of lies that we had a world best President in Ernest Bai Koroma.
Let us see the good things that are up for us to celebrate. There is significant improvement in the electrification of one of the darkest cities that Freetown was consigned to; no thanks to the APC that had frittered resources in signing patently corrupt contracts with power producing companies that could not solve the perennial problem of light outages. That reality by itself was reason for pathetic economy that President has inherited.
Here we are now with huge savings in the revised contract to generate and distribute power that all and sundry are benefitting from. It is ensuring substantial productive output for institutions and local economies reliant on power. This is a sign of heading to prosperity.
Hate Bio because you are a hireling of the past government. Yes, you have a recipient of huge looted state resources to do their public relations spin with hamfist.
But be frank to point out the disparity in the quality of Sierra Leoneans in government, cutting across regions, enacting the truth of one country, one people.
Relate that to the ethnically imbalanced crop of ministers and deputies from the APC stronghold. This was done whether it means some of those that were there could not perform. Contrast that situation with what we have, men and women who have the intellectual and moral finesse to lead us to somewhere. Things are getting better than where we have been. The journey is arduous considering the tattered vehicle we have to overhaul to get us somewhere.
So how could you say this government is leading us nowhere? It is a sickened mind that has been programmed to see only the dark side of the SLPP. But we have light; and vampires who cannot exist in the brightness of things they cannot see. It is pitiable but we cannot help it!
Hey, respect President Bio that has the political spine to fire even the most cherished minister that falls foul with his New Direction plans. Bio’s nascent political drive latching on high sense of discipline and work ethics is an unprecedented feat.
We are rather going up and up; God being there for all Sierra Leoneans. So we have to change the leadership at the Anti-Corruption. Who does not know that corruption is at an all-time high? How could we explain a situation whereby the former Anti-Corruption boss Fitzgerald Kamara was a friend of the erstwhile President. He even brazenly shed off neutrality to aspire to run for leadership of the APC. It is simple to diagnose; the ACC has been in need of overhaul to be better aligned to the no-business-as usual mantra that President Bio is carving reassuringly. We look forward to a new anti-corruption Czar that is going to have more conviction profile in our context where contract gate and procurement irregularities had become a way of doing things as basis of finding political relevance in funding the then ruling party.
Ok, console thyself that the APC winning a local councils bye election is enough sign that the government is failing. But when you console yourself on this be forthright to validate the result from NEC that saw the trouncing of the Ernest Bai Koroma’s ordained successor sour-graping all over the place that he was cheated. It is defeatist for a ruling party to whining about being cheated. It is an extent of the arrogance that had been elevated to lay-back posturing in the false sense of hope that with the looted money at the disposal of government they were going to bribe the starved masses into voting for them.