THE BIG 5 GAME CHANGER…  Another Facade from The SLPP

By John Sheka Tarawalie

The Sierra Leone Peoples Party (SLPP) is notorious for fabricating lies and manufacturing fake campaign promise. Many Sierra Leoneans, especially the young people, were with the firm conviction that the SLPP’s  2018  People’s Manifesto dubbed the New Direction would lead them to the promise land and ameliorate their suffering, but  ended up to be a facade and the most deceptive political tool in the 21st century.  They also referred to their 2018 manifesto as the bread and butter document as their current Chief Minister who is the architect for the destruction of our economy was all over media houses telling gullible people about them fixing the economy in six months of their reign.  The 2018 SLPP manifesto promised to take Sierra Leone to a totally new direction. Five years later, the SLPP is unable to address a single sentence in the first page  of their manifesto

Even their flagship project called “Free quality education” is not only  dubious and farcical  but the most criminal enterprise to have ever introduced by a political party in Sierra Leone since independent. High school pupils  taking school leaving certificate examination on a yearly basis since 2019 are    making  it  evident that the free education is not only of poor   quality but it is the vehicle that has destroyed our education system. It is only under the SLPP administration of Maada Bio and David Sengeh as Basic Education Minister that a high school pupil offering Liberal Arts subjects will score an A in Mathematics and  Biology and woefully fail their core subjects and those in the sciences will score A in Literature-in- English, and woefully fail Mathematics, Biology and other core subjects. The ironies in public exams are so glaring that, Universities across the country have to conduct enterance exams because they have lost trust in the high school leaving examination which is the West Africa Senior  School Certificate Examination. 

On the 23rd May 2023, the SLPP  launched in Kenema,  an edited version of their 2018 manifesto and called it  “SLPP big 5 Game changer”. How can you promise us “big 5 game changers” when you can’t even deliver in your first term in office? The name is so ridiculous. A wise and reasonable Sierra Leonean will no longer fall for such deceptions. How can they  promise  us to be food sufficient when they squandered $34M rice project in Tomabum?

Going over the “Big 5 Game Changers ” that has already failed, they discussed how to “Feed Salone”  even after siphoning millions of dollars of donor funds meant to cultivate our staple food and Sierra Leoneans  are buying a bag of rice at old Le.700,000 . Many citizens have been suffering in silence waiting to vent their anger in the ballot. Sierra Leone is rated as the third most hungriest nation in the world and they have the temerity to tells us about good sufficiency.

Then they spoke about “Human Capital Development” despite the serial and indiscriminate sacking of people perceived to be Northerners or sympathisers of the now opposition All Peoples Congress (APC). They created the highest unemployment rate in the country as a result of such blind action. How can the citizens of Sierra Leone believe in this human  capital development?

The “Youth Employment Scheme” was mentioned in the already failed “Big 5.” Since the SLPP took office five years ago, a lot of young people have been out in the streets without jobs  which has led many of them to participate in hazardous activities including drug abuse

The topic of “Revamping the Public Service Architecture” was also discussed. Speaking of changing the Public Service architecture when the nation has been divided in the last five years, killing innocent citizens  in non violent protests and locked thousands in prison across the country.

Finally, they discussed “Tech and Infrastructure,” which refers to spending the nation’s money on tools that would be used to find and imprison innocent Sierra Leoneans who will criticize their failed government.

The SLPP will be lying everywhere to get  the votes come  June 24 in order for failed Maada Bio to be reelected. Sierra Leoneans should exercise caution and avoid believing their false promises, especially young people.