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This is a good critique for the President. Analysis like this energizes him to do even better. I believe any leader, no matter how prudent and savvy he is , taking on the reins of government from an avariciously incompetent good -for -nothing corrupt administration like the SLPP's will find it hard to meet his goal. There is the unfortunate decision made by his government not to go after those said government functionaries that had dumped the country into the abyss it is now digging the country from. That decision for the Anti-Corruption Commissioner not to retroactively pursue them gives him less latitude to set brighter examples on those officials for those new ones to see and understand that , government money is no body's money but the peoples, and should be used for its intended purposes. That is why they go about spending their ill-gotten money to cause trouble for the president and his government. That is why government agenda goes too stealthily, because the new government is filled with the past government's incompetent and corruptively politicized civil servants and government operatives. This statement:
"Since President Koroma took office in 2007, more than 200 qualified, competent southerners have been fired from public services and replaced by his kinsmen, cronies and party stalwarts with little regard for their competence , experience, or qualifications." is the most abrasive misconception of political norms. Certain appointments in any country's government are political appointments, and any government has to fill those positions with their members, supporters and sympathizers to carry on their development agenda. Those positions were once filled with The APC ONE PARTY OPERATIVES ( which includes all peoples of different political persuasions) till that government was overthrown by a rag-tag military junta (NPRC) that includes John Karimu, J.D. Rogers, John Benjamin (current SLPP Kingpin), Aiah Gbakima etc. These people have had their term and it ended with the thumbing of their ineffective and incompetent SLPP administration.
Too bad to have left them in those places for over a year at the expense of the APC government and the development index. Most of these people were, and most of them are still in their positions, stifling and undermining the development strategies of the APC government in the civil service, para-statals, and our Diplomatic Missions abroad. Do we need to leave them there till next year and we have so many of our people in waiting lines to fill up those places? These people are talking about incompetence and qualifications. The SLPP could boast of having the most over-educated government functionaries in their government, but theirs is the worst government in the 48 years of our country's independence.
The reason being that, when you have bunches of over-educated people whose thinking capacity diminishes to the level of those people with below average intelligence, (you may call it deceptive intelligence) that in itself is a recipe for absolute failure. That was the crux of the problem for their abysmal and dysfunctional abstract governance of 11 (eleven) wasteful years. Yet, you can see them, hear them, read their trashy claims in cyberspace, expatiating about their wonderful deeds done during those awful years that culminated in the electorate giving them the boot in order to give space to a better alternative. Hence, the music lyrics, "degn wan ya we go gee dem notice"
"Sierra Leone stands at the bottom of the UN's Human Development Index with the world's worst official rates of infant maternal mortality, but those statistics are for 2005. This statement vindicated the APC, and absolved the president from the misinformation that had been spewed around by the SLPP's incorrigible mouthpieces and operatives who have been pretentiously blaming those ills to the APC government. Thank GOD, the donors could be able to distinguish the facts from fiction that life in Sierra Leone is even better than the years before and after the civil war. What a great relief and shame to the loafers who thought being in government is just to steal everything that is meant for government development. It's a shame John Karimu and John Benjamin actually blocked the progressive development of the BUMBUNA DAM because of their regional bias and antipathy for the common good of all Sierra Leoneans. The Project itself might have come from a district in the northern region far away from their hamlets in the southeastern region, but the benefits of the project are for the people of Sierra Leone, including those yet unborn. Should those people be left in those offices they have held from dooms day to the present? I don't think so, do you?
When you are in power or in a position where you can help your kith and kin to progress and you failed to do that, but instead, help other people, leaving yours truly suffering, some even dying of poverty and shame like it happened to some of President Tejan Kabba's family, is a cause for debate. Charity begins at home, says the wise men. Deferring from this statement is to say there is no God. Being a president's family does not preclude them from participating in the development process like any citizen as long as they go through the same laws and scrutiny like anybody else. Because you are president, should all your families depend on your meager emoluments? Is this not why leaders in developing countries steal government funds to take care of their families and relatives? It's enough blaming people just to make flimsy political points. If Charles Margai could confirm the act when his wife was given an under the table contract, why the budge?
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