SLPP Confirms Failure

2023 Election on the Horizon… SLPP Confirms Failure.

“SLPP Has Failingly Failed With Distinction”

By: Mr. Mark

As the 2023 elections hover on Sierra Leoneans, many citizens have blast the SLPP Administration as one that has “failingly failed woefully with distinction” due to the increasing hardship Sierra Leoneans have been facing since they took up office in 2018. And recently, the SLPP has come out clean to confirm what the people have been saying all along about their failures. 

It will be an understatement to say our economic situation is in shamble leading to Sierra Leoneans living in an impoverished conditions. It is glaringly clear to all and sundry that, the Bionomics has not been working, all their economic policies to cushion hardship on Sierra Leoneans have been futile, due to many known and clear reasons. The untold sufferings of Sierra Leoneans caused by the poor economic policies and blatant bloating of the wage bill by the Bio administration has taken toll on citizens. Not to talk about the increasing rate at which the dollar is plummeting the leones contributing more woes to Sierra Leoneans.

On one of their released campaign T-Shirts, the Sierra Leone People’s Party confirmed that, they have failed as a government, and "Weh Posin Fail Mek e Repeat." This is the inscription on their campaign T-shirt, asserting that, they have failed the people of this country, and are requesting for more time. Observing social media, the responses from Sierra Leoneans have been largely condemning the SLPP for this grave confession. One social media user said, "Do they take us for granted? After they have confessed that, they have failed us, they have the guts to ask us for more time? No,, let someone tell the SLPP that, here in Sierra Leone, there is no space for repeater. When you fail, you leave."

This has been the similar comments coming from Sierra Leoneans since the SLPP released their Campaign T-shirt. Some are saying, since they have confirm their failure, the SLPP deserve an NR (Never Return) to governance. "There is absolutely no room for failure, when you fail and you confirm your failure, you leave and never come back," said Mohammed Bangura

Since they took up office, the “Paopa” administration has had two different Bank Governors and two different Finance Ministers all in the name of addressing “the bad and broken state of the country’s economy we inherit from the APC Administration,” but it seems like they are taking our economy from bad to worst. In 2019 and 2020, this government boast of huge donations, loans and grants received from donor partners and the international community in order to cushion the effect of COVID, but that is yet to reflect on the economic state of the country. I guess the 2019 Auditor General’s Report can explain better why they were not able to point at any major development, as the report clearly summarizes the blatant corruption practices, total disregard for financial policies and gross embezzlement they embark on the moment they were elected.

On Tuesday 18 May 2021, “on the occasion of the State Opening of the Fourth Session of the Fifth Parliament of the Second Republic of Sierra Leone”, he promised Members of Parliament that his SLPP government would “…continue to implement prudent public financial management policies focused on enhancing domestic revenue mobilisation, rationalising expenditures, working towards single digit inflation, maintaining sustainable debt levels, a stable exchange rate, and increasing reserves to support inclusive growth…” But in actuality, the SLPP government has not been applying sensible public financial management policies; they have not been “rationalising expenditures” as could be seen in the over-bloated Wage Bill; they are still unable to work “towards single digit inflation”, and the SLPP government has still not been able to stabilize the “exchange rate” since 2018 to date. Since 2018, in four years, the Bio led SLPP Government has incurred over 30.71 Trillion Leones as debt. Amidst all these, they have not been able to put the economy on a good footing.

“I am confusingly confused about the confused manner in which the Sierra Leone People’s Party (SLPP) government, under the leadership of Julius Maada Bio, is trying to balance the fiscal imbalance of his government through the over-bloating of public spending with a shoe-stringed budget. In simple language: the Commander-in-Chief has been figuratively robbing Peter with the intension of paying Paul!” Mohammed Sankoh (One Drop) lamented in one of his articles.

Maada Bio, since elected as President, has travelled more than any other President the country has produced, and has travelled more than all the President in the continent. According to him and his government, Maada Bio is constantly travelling in order to “wash the image of the country abroad, and to bring in more investors.” This has been the usual rhetoric whenever President Bio leaves the country for another trip, which is now become countless. Sadly and disappointingly, Sierra Leone is yet to receive the so much anticipated and touted influx of investors, especially the “Tapalapa Bakery” investors, the Lungi Bridge investors and so many others, who are yet to find their way to Sierra Leone. 

Headline Credit: One Drop

To be continued………

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