The decision of the main opposition All People’s Congress – APC, restraining their Members of Parliament elect not to participate in the governance structure is causing tears rolling down the chicks of APC-MPs elect. Considering their huge financial involvements in earning the party’s symbols, prior, during and even after the campaigns good number of them are now crying in silence for being deprived of their first ever opportunity to serve as MPs.
An APC MP elect from Port Loko District – name witheld told this writer that as a landowner family, in consultation with family members, he took the family land documents as collateral for a loan in one of the commercial banks and financed his political campaigns in the June 24 polls.
He said a payment plan was developed to guide the payment of the said loan. The APC MP elect looks much worried that the date for the first set of payments is ticking without any clear signs as to whether the APC party will make a rethink and allow them to represent their people and districts.
Considering the huge amount of loan and the occupation of the opposition lawmaker in ordinary life, he confessed,
“I can’t afford to pay the agreed amount as stipulated in the loan payment memorandum signed with the bank”.
And thus charged an angry mood saying,
“I have started consulting with elderly APC party politicians for their advises on the controversial political situation because I cannot afford forfeiting our family lands because of political loyalty”, he said.
By the look of things, the lawmaker in question can no longer continue to jeopardize the future of the unborn family to land access at the expense of political loyalty.
Another APC MP elect in the Western Area Rural District who also sold his private school just and financed his political campaigns, shared a similar sentiment.
As it stands, the lawmaker is in hot water because his current questionable financial status because of his party’s decision not to attend parliament.
Many APC MPs who spoke to FORUMNEWS-SL.COM see themselves as mere victims of a political situation that they didn’t generate, nor hankered for.
Newly elected lawmakers thrown light on the individual financial impact adhering to the party’s stands on the one hand, and its effect on their families in general on the other hand.
From conversations with most of them, it vividly emerged that most of the APC-MPs elect seem captured between the webs of political party loyalty and that of the national constitution.
FORUMNEWS-SL.COM was also intimated that most of the APC-MPs elect are contemplating on their actions and its ramifications if they continue to hold on to their decisions of not making themselves available in of parliament to take oath and get themselves sworn-in to perform their respective constitutional duties.
To be opportune to be elected as MP brings every citizen the opportunity to enjoy one of government lucrative jobs for five considerable years that expose MPs to unimaginable opportunities.
Public discuss weeks back on various traditional and social media platforms have served as eye-openers as to who APC-MPs elect are really in the governance structure of Sierra Leone.
Pressure from citizens in Kono District in the Eastern region are insisting that MPs elect, councillors, chairmen and mayors should go to work.
Minister of Local Government and Community Affairs, Tamba Lamina has recently disclosed to the media that induction ceremonies will soon kick off across the country for elected mayors, chairmen and councillors.
The trillion Dollars question on the lips of many Sierra Leoneans are that is mayors, chairpersons and councillors from the North and Western Area Urban and Rural, consisting largely of opposition strongholds borrow a leaf from APC MPs?
