Dis na we govment, na we time for enjoy! (This is our government, it time for us to merry). This has been the clamor of supporters of the ruling Sierra Leone Peoples Party (SLPP) government all over the place. It is their conviction that the current administration should give more attention to its membership and supporters before considering the rest of the nation. But the stupidity lies on the myopic perception of what governance is all about. Fanatics in the SLPP find it difficult to differentiate between the Bio SLPP led government and the government of Sierra Leone. Forum wants to make in clearly known to authorities of the present administration, including President Bio that the constitution does not encourage the deliberate interference of politics into government. The SLPP should be matured enough to divorce politics from State Governance thus should also stop referring to the present dispensation as their personal property, as Government is not a property of a political party but the nation. That’s why as soon as a presidential candidate is declared you are no longer regarded as a President of your political party.
They believe that the party is bigger than the State of Sierra Leone and on the same vein cannot make a distinction between the State and the Government. The discriminatory, uncouth, contractual breach and unconstitutional sacking and replacement of our fellow citizens from offices in itself are evident of political witch hunt on the misperception of governance. And if we were to attempt balancing the political equation, it will come out crystal clear that more northerners became the victims of political marginalization in the seemingly SLPP led government. They are allegedly considered a menace to the aspirations of the SLPP. Moreover, northerners are considered as neither subscribers nor sympathizers of the SLPP government which purportedly recognized the magnetism of more south-easterners.
The party’s edifice on Wallace Johnson Street, Freetown is gradually becoming the hub for hoodlums to perpetrate the lewd acts of barbarism. Gangsters of the SLPP feel much protected once they are within the periphery of the SLPP headquarters. These unoccupied supporters have reduced to begging and harassing peaceful citizens using the route adjacent to the edifice. They keep complaining of having no job to make a decent a living, and therefore have resorted to institutionalized begging at the party headquarters with the words, “yu borboh den day oh! How u wan lef u borboh? Lef small tin mek man den buy res.” This has become the common catchphrase of the unoccupied supporters at the party office on Wallace Johnson Street.
But to the greatest dismay, these supporters are energetically fit to engage in either subsistence or commercial farming to meet their basic necessities of life than to keep embarrassing people with uncalled-for requests. Agricultural productivity is low because the able young men and women have all abandoned the farmlands, leaving them in the hands of the old PaPas and old Mamas with the aim at gaining political recognition from party echelons and knowing abundantly that they are incapacitated to be considered for a well placed employment.
This gives credence to the Krio adage which says, neither “Khaki nor do for station master, den potter sae he want long-pangs.” This simply means in the midst of scarce employment opportunity those who are qualified are finding it difficult to secure job and the unqualified are requesting for lucrative jobs.
The result of failure to plan for their youthful and old age has landed them to the present predicament. Even with their darling SLPP in power their issues remain unresolved. They have resorted to alcoholism and other narcotic drugs as worldly solace to a means of quenching their frustrations.
