NDAs Presidential aspirant Mohamed C Bah – a breath of fresh air
The latest Sierra Leonean to join the bid for the Presidency come 2012 is social commentator and community leader of the Sierra Leone community Atlanta, Georgia, Mr. Mohamed C Bah.
NDA presidential aspirant, M.C. Bah was the founding president of the FPU–Georgia which received numerous outstanding humanitarian awards for the shipment of $1 million of prosthetic limbs, used clothing, and books to the amputees in 2006 and the donation of two containers at a value of $2 million of medical supplies from Med Share International, an Atlanta based medical recycle non-profit organization to the two regional hospitals of Bo and Koidu Town, Sierra Leone in 2008.
Bah was also the President of the Sierra Leone Community Association (2007-2009) in which he helped build a kitchen and chimney for the Blind School in Sierra Leone through partnership of the Atlanta Community and Friends of Sierra Leone, an organization of retired Peace Corps from Sierra Leone.
“I decided to run under the NDA because the party is broad based and inclusive,” he told his supporters at his Atlanta residence. “The APC and SLPP have squandered a lot of opportunities to bring Sierra Leone into the 21st century by economic, technological and educational developments,” Bah said. “We need a fresh start, with new ideas, a new vision, a new generation, and a new mentality in our political dynamics,” he continued.
NDA presidential aspirant Bah attributed the poor governance, corruption and the troubled economic conditions in Sierra Leone to the lack of visionary leadership, the loss of national values and the lack of strong commitment to nation building. He commented that the failure of leadership is due to the old mindset where politicians see each other as opposing factions seeking to politically destroy one another. He stated that the forward thinking approach to building institutional capacity, setting leadership standards, respect for each other, demonstrating love for our country and leaving a footprint of legacy have been absent since the Sir Milton Margai era.
In a recent interview with Radio Citizen’s Tam-Bayoh during the Monologue program in Freetown about ‘the way forward, ‘Mohamed C. Bah said, “We have wasted a lot of time on the politics of personality, place and tribe, and we fail to understand that the common enemies are poverty, underdevelopment and lack of opportunity in Sierra Leone. We must address these logistical problems head-on.”
Bah asserted that unless a new politics of reconciliation where strong institutions are built on moral and strategic principles, where accountability and transparency are displayed with a total commitment to national focus, Sierra Leone will remain impoverished with the potential of more cycles of violence.
Bah plans to secure the flagbearership of the NDA at next year’s party convention and contest in the Presidential election in 2012. He is ready to change Sierra Leone through sustainable economic growth and job opportunities, through the private sector and foreign investments, good governance, full restoration of basic utility services, new leadership, improvement in the agricultural sector, boosting of health care delivery and the promotion of quality and affordable education through new vision.
NDA aspirant Bah in a no nonsense manner outlined new reform measures such as a shift from a donor economy to one of market orientation, a legacy driven politics where service to the nation supersedes personal interest, a national approach to development instead of the geo-politics of regions and tribes, a strong agenda for the youth which includes job creation, a viable business sector with lower taxes, and a strong investment in technology, the manufacturing industries and education.
He eloquently described his overarching goal for Sierra Leone, “It is time for a new political thinking and a new economic order that must lift us from almost half a century of poverty and social stagnation,” he concluded.
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