Letter to the Managing Editor
Dear Sir,
In Praise of the APC
After all your publicity, on behalf of the Sierra Leone People’s Party (SLPP), it must have come as a shock to read in your newspaper of April 16th an item titled “Why was there too much trumpeting on external debt throughout the campaign?”
Whether by design or coincidence, it was published in the same issue that the full text of the opening remarks by the President, at the joint IMF and Ministry of Finance and Economic Development high level Forum on Economic Policy Priorities Conference Hall, State House, and Freetown, was published. It was also the day on which the debt crisis of Sierra Leone was published in many newspapers.
The thrust of the news item was that Sierra Leone was not among the 20 most indebted countries in Africa. The first sentence of the item stated that Sierra Leone is far away from these countries.
In his or her un-patroitism, the writer did not stop to think that owing to our abundance of minerals and natural resources, Sierra Leone should be among the top 20 countries instead of gloating just because Sierra Leone rose above the last 20 out of 193 countries in the world. The writer should have stated the exact position of Sierra Leone in this survey.
Your newspaper is the only one that has sided with the APC on this issue. Even the pro-APC newspapers know that there is nothing to write home about even if Sierra Leone is not among the bottom 20.
Alhassan Karim -Freetown
Editors Note: This item is one of those that can be slipped in by moles escaping the eyes of a busy editor. It is not our editorial policy to be supporting the failed policy of the fallen APC. We regret it.