By: WandaKotoku
It was with much amusement coupled with disbelief that I read excerpts in the Exclusive newspaper of a press release by members of the opposition APC in reaction to a recent meeting with His Excellency President Julius Maada Bio at the latter’s invitation which was extended to all political parties including the ruling SLPP.
The reaction was one of expressed anger and frustration only after they had consulted their general membership. There was the familiar grousing of how the country’s hard-won democracy under the APC was being trampled on by the Paopa administration, (at least there was no mention of junta government this time) that people were being sacked left and right, Parliament was being sidelined, etc. etc.
They are quoted as declaring that they would never join an SLPP administration as if President Bio had extended any such invitation to them. That really tickled me, but to cut a long story short, whatever made the APC leadership to delude themselves that the SLPP or President Bio needed their participation in governance?
The SLPP has a surfeit of capable men and women who have already proven in under a year that we are capable of showcasing this country not by words but by positive action and results, witness our record in less than twelve months.
In their last year in power, the APC administration placed a moratorium on recruitment to the public service and then in the same breathe carefully selected 35 men and women of their supporters and employed them into the Foreign service through the backdoor. Oh APC!
I suggest that you look at yourselves in a mirror and see how ridiculously funny you look and sound as you talk about democratic principles or discourtesy. Was President Tejan-Kabbah ever allowed to say a word, never mind read his address at erstwhile President Ernest Bai Koroma’s 2007 inauguration?
Everything these people do or say now is a reflection of their fear of a Nemesis coupled with a determination not to appear before the Commissions of Inquiry. Somebody had better advise them that they are fooling no one. They never thought that there would be repercussions to their eleven years of blatant impunity.
The time to pay is now and there is no way they would wriggle out of the tight corner, except those who have nothing to answer. We are getting tired and impatient.
