17 April, 2008

Chief Gbondima Gbondo (076-671-830)

The promises of the APC are being fast implemented by both the government and the citizens.  The attitudinal change campaign is a grand farce.  Imagine President Ernest Bai Koroma regretting him ever opting for the leadership of Sierra Leone!

President Ernest Bai Koroma is said to understand that governance issues are only campaign, propaganda and advert materials to dish cut to the gullible illiterate and unguarded electorate.

Once in office, the President Ernest Bai Koroma is believed to be appreciating the problems that former President Tejan Kabbah had administered this nation, and he, Ernest Bai Koroma, as President is reportedly asking himself how SLPP managed the perennial crisis and survived.

Take the illegal drivers' strike without the 21 days notification - industrial action cannot be demonstrated like that.  Go to the garbage collection guys who strike by emptying collected garbage on the principal streets of Freetown for government failing to pay them.  Next, the voters who protest to vote in the by-election out of apathy since rising essential commodities prices are stressing them.  And parliamentarians when in attendance in the Honourable House fail to follow their party line.

What is happening?  The answer is offered by one traffic police officer along Sani Abacha Street, who was bribed to allow a delivery van to make a U-turn subsequently congesting traffic flow and was asking pedestrians "watin de happin".

When government contract Ministers paint government quarters one begins to worry whether the APC has not institutionalized lawlessness.

Back to the topic of "attitudinal change" - when the high expectation of salary rise is not realized to the satisfaction of public servants and the lowering cost of living remains a far cry - one gets bordered that lawlessness cannot be evaporated automatically overnight.

This society, guilty of collective lawlessness, is not going to change soon with deteriorating standards in every sector, where government seemingly is incapable to arrest the negative trend.

Government could be willing to arrest lawlessness and make Sierra Leone good, which is an objective assumption; that not withstanding, the ideal environment for lawlessness to vegetable subsists - corruption is here and corresponding with lawlessness and poverty.

The people are suffering with rising essential commodity prices stressing them.  The parliamentarians from the Speaker downwards do not know their take-home salaries, imagine that!

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