Cutting the nose to spite the face

“The manner in which the opposition has now taken politics in trying to disparage the country in the eyes of the international community should be cause for concern for any right thinking Sierra Leonean,” said a senior cadre of the All People’s Congress.

The concern is over the fact that the ruling Sierra Leone People’s Party, in making their opposition voice known thanks to a vibrant local press and the internet are making the government uneasy, resulting in fears that their highly proclaimed investor conference in London may backfire.

To the APC, the opposition is not making political life easy for them, and this has already sparked off a serious press counter attack from supporters and sympathizers of the government who claim the SLPP has gone beyond the extreme and is causing more damage than good for the country.

To the APC, the SLPP while serving as the main opposition party, should also be aware of the need for cohesiveness when it comes to the interest of the country.

The just concluded conference in London was to have included the opposition with the expectation that they will join forces, like the days of the Lancaster House Conference, and go with one voice. But as the time for the conference is said to have approached, the APC became jittery in putting the opposition to the pedestal to address the conference and so ditched them at the last minute.

“If we are going to continue having one political party destroying the country’s image because they are not in power, and the same scenario repeats itself when another government finds itself out of government, then the country stagnates,’ one staunch APC member said.

The situation that is now existing in the country could be compared to lobsters or crabs in a bucket, where whenever one crab tries to climb out of the bucket, the others cling to it and draw it back. 

For Sierra Leone, it will continue to be the political struggle of crabs in a bucket, the bottomless pit for which there will be no succor.

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