Hon. Mohamed Bangura of Karena District, since his refusal to attend a meeting organized by the All People’s Congress (APC) party, National Advisory Committee (NAC) for Members of Parliament, Mayors, Chairpersons and Councillors elect across the sixteen districts in Sierra Leone, breaks silence on his refusal to append his signature to the list of MPs elect, with regards his nonparticipation in the Sixth Parliament of the Second Republic of Sierra Leone.
According to the re-elected opposition MP, who accused his APC party’s National Advisory Committee – NAC of being deceptive, for which he claimed that him in particular and other APC MPs elect refused to sign the list in favour of the party’s planned boycott of governance with the ruling Sierra Leone People’s Party – SLPP.
FORUM as at press time last Saturday 8 July 2023, was reliably informed that Hon. Bangura before his utter defiance and refusal to append his signature to the list of MPs elect, had pleaded with the APC party’s NAC to give the said decision of boycotting governance with the SLPP a second thought. He alleged that his plead with the party was downplayed by the party, as Hon Bangura is being quoted by a Facebook post.
Many party faithfuls continue to describe the actions of Hon Bangura as disgraceful and a complete disregard for the party’s highest decision making body – NAC.
According to document released Friday 30 June 2023, by the APC party, with the names and signatures of the party’s MPs elect, in which Hon Mohamed Bangura whose name was listed at forty-eight, on the list remains blank.
Reliable sources from the APC National Secretariat on 11A Railway Line Brookfields in Freetown Hon Bangura have it that, Bangura is the only MP elect who refused to sign the list of APC MPs.
An audio making rounds on the new media, claimed to have been voiced by the junior brother of Hon Bangura, Osman Oseboy Bangura, attempted at setting the records straight, saying that his elder brother did attend the meeting called by the party.
He alleged that during the meeting, the chairman whose name he stopped short from mentioning in the voice note, addressed the APC MPs elect like children and ordered them not to participate in the business of the Sixth Parliament of the Second Republic of Sierra Leone.
Osman Oseboy Bangura furthered that during the meeting no document was presented to the MPs for their signatories adding that such was never part of the agenda of the meeting.
In a failed attempt to vindicate his elder brother, Oseboy Bangura continued that his elder brother had long left the APC party secretariat when he received a call from the party’s Deputy National Secretary General Hon Osman Adallah Timbo, requesting his return to sign a document. Osman Oseboy Bangura added that upon enquiring the nature of the document, he later learnt that the call was for his elder brother to sign a document restricting all APC MPs’ nonparticipation in any of the businesses of the Sixth Parliament.
He referenced a press statement that had already made the party’s position clear with regards APC MPs elect, and therefore there is no need for individual signatories.
“We will not compromise our family beliefs,” Osman Oseboy Bangura said.
According to him, the national executive of the party is dominated by minority tribes whom he claimed are bent on frustrating the tribe that he said constitute majority votes for the party.
He cited the incumbent Sierra Leone People’s Party (SLPP) as an example of a political party that has respect for tribes that constitute high voting blocks for their party, singling out the Mendes.
Unlike the APC party, the Themnes continue to be subjected to situations that will discourage them to quit the party. Osman Oseboy Bangura reaffirmed his family’s continued commitments to the APC party.
