Another milestone achieved for APC 2010 but no plan for Kono
The recent visit of His Excellency Ernest Bai Koroma to Kailahun in a bid to consolidate peace and end malice between the people of Kailahun and the APC has recorded another milestone in determining the fate of the party come 2012 elections. In consolidating and concretizing this long awarded peace was the commissioning of the Kenema Kailahun road project which has already scored the APC a B + in the campaign exams for 2012. (Photo:Â Kono road network)
In the midst of this exhilarating achievement one wonders why Kono has not been featured in this laudable ‘Agenda for Change’ Kono district is also found in the Eastern axis of this country just as Kailahun, and it is most times been referred to as one of the primary determinant for winning elections in this country and a to a considerable extent has served as the breadbasket of Sierra Leone for a very long time.
But when it comes to matters of national development Kono is always been marginalized and the least considered to the extent that even in the list of development it is not counted. The commissioning of the Kenema Kailahun road has also precipitated the re-opening and the kick-start of the construction of the Kenema –Koindu road. The formal opening of the native administration office in Kailahun by the president’s visit last week are all green lights that signal the fate of the APC come 2012.
The popular idiom always accentuates that “what is good for the goose is also good for the gander†meaning; similar strides must also be made to bring development Kono district in the far east and as such should also be considered for road construction in president Koroma’s Agenda for change’ Scheme. In an earnest effort to meet the president’s call of the ‘agenda for changeâ€; calls have been made by development oriented people and journalists alike to the deplorable road network leading to the diamond ferrous Kono district. But it seems that all the load cries and appeals for good road network for Kono have fallen on deaf ears. What baffles and most times sickens this writer the most is when people refer to Kono as being the “bread basket†of this country, when in actual sense nothing has been done to improve on the development standards of the place and the people.
Obviously the most doubting and frustrating thing about Kono and its people is that they have the votes and to a larger extent determine the political wind of this country; but when time for decision making for development comes to light they always lag behind and take little or no part in implementing them. This is the irony of the politics of this country and a disappointment to the people of Kono. Kono indeed needs development in no smaller terms. Presently, if one is fortunate to visit Kono, you will come to agree with this writer that Kono is yet to heal from the wounds of the brutal rebel war.
Good roads and infrastructures for other places on the east is a milestone indeed in the political history of the APC. But again, it is good for the APC to note that biased and haphazard development can squarely prejudice their chances of winning the 2012 elections. In essence, we cannot talk of development when it is not evenly distributed.
The electorate of this nation should also be mindful that president Koroma is the father for Sierra Leone, and not for a particular region or a class of people. As things unveil themselves under the sun, this writer could vividly remember the president in one of his maiden speeches to students of Fourah Bay College in 2007 when he said that in the new APC, they do not postulate the phrase ‘one people one country,’ when they (SLPP) have vast majority of the Sierra Leonean populace languishing in abject poverty, especially young people. That slogan used by the opposition by then was ironical and ridiculous when examine keenly but is the APC not falling foul in the same measure?
In order to render that assertion in the above as useless and unfounded; His Excellency Ernest Bai Koroma must act promptly to tell the people of Kono that he is not a leader for only Kailahun but for Kono as well; as Kono too is in dare need of development activities just as any other places in Sierra Leone. Â
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