Concord Times (Freetown)
27 January 2009
To the majority of Sierra Leoneans who gave the All People's Congress (the party that encapsulated much of the character of the politics of fraction, penetration and contestation experienced under Siaka Stevens and Joseph Momoh from 1968 to 1992) a second chance following the presidential elections of September 2007, it was done in great anticipation and hope for change. Considering the history of ...
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As a child born in Sierra Leone, I felt pain,as a boy growing up in the Diamond area of Tongofield,I felt pain and as a man now I'm still feeling the pain of poverty that most of my Sierra Leonean people are surrounded with. I felt pain, not because it was the worst country to be born in,but due to the fact that the Leaders of the Country at that time caredless for the well-being of the citizens. They allowed corruption to take control of all the good things that could have saved Sierra Leoneans from that mess-brink of untold poverty. My first day in school was the most unpleasant part in my life, that I have today come to notice,imagining myself going to school bear-feeted.Eventhough,footwear,was not part of my Village-growing code of atire.But seeing my fellow students,whose Fathers corrupted the politics of Sierra Leone and helped to wreck the country,were all dressed neat, from head to toe. It was the bound duty of my Parents to provide all those encessentials for me.But,how could they? When ends could not meet.Instead, they were left between the alternatives,as to have a new shoe or I sleep hungry for the day. Ends could not meet because there wasn't any good Governance in the country that could direct the use of the country's resources for the benefit of the people.Every dirty Political Leader followed the stupid slogan"the rich becomes richer and the poor becomes poorer" Also the ends of my parents could not meet because the crook company the British crooks and thieves brought into the country,calling it SLST, was making our people work hard and paying them less wages. This slogan, I'm not prepared to accept it from no political Leader in Sierra Leone,anymore. Koroma, the people put you in power you must listen to their cries day by day. It's not your party banners that put you in power,rather it was the Youths(majority)that put you to the presidency,with the hope that you will deliver the change. Truly, "Government is the problem". May God Bless Sierra Leone.