PV Staff
President Bio’s speech at the State Opening of Parliament on Tuesday sounded like a robust response to the heavy downpour of criticisms from the opposition.
The Sierra Leone opposition has for several months now been accusing the current SLPP government, known as Paopa to its supporters, of doing ABSOLUTELY NOTHING since they assumed power in April 2018.
They say the people of Sierra Leone are starving, with the prices of food and other items going up every day and they blame the government for it, just like the way the people of Britain blame Prime Minister Boris Johnson for rising food prices in that country; they say there is no free education in the country, that the health system has broken down. They affirm there is no human rights and free speech, that the new bridges and roads were all the work of the past government, not the current government. They also say nobody should be arrested for insulting or defaming others because it is all part of freedom of speech as they understand it. They accuse public officials of stealing government money and paying themselves huge salaries while the people die of hunger even though that salary structure has been in existence for decades and was implemented by the past government whose party is now the main opposition party.
In his address President Bio presented his government’s record after being in power for only four years. He spoke about widespread changes in the educational, health, sports, human rights and justice sector reforms and other sectors. He spoke of massive rural electrification and improvement in agriculture and fisheries and the road networks initiated by is government. He dilated on reforming the salary structure of all public workers to make it more equitable and just. He also spoke about the Covid-19 pandemic and its effects on the economy not only in Sierra Leone but around the world. His list is long.
Who is speaking the truth? It is now left with people of Sierra Leone to determine.
Click on the link below to read President Bio’s speech:
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