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Day by day, Sierra Leonean consumers, APC, SLPP and PMDC supporters alike, are apparently getting fed up with the APC administration for its seemingly inconsistent role and also its perceived inability to cushion this almost daily uninhibited high cost of living, in short, its inability to control prices. What a shame!
Wisdom is the ability to think and to conclude rightly. This is why it would be prudent to know and realize that a government that is seen to be unable to control prices, or cushion this rather uninhibited high cost of living, could easily be discerned by the governed as not only insensitive to their plight/situation but also stands the very high risk of being voted out in any subsequent presidential and parliamentary elections, to say the very least.
For the competence, lovingness and caringness of a 'good government', is the very first and foremost asset that a nation ought to be proud of.
Hence, when over the affairs of a nation state a government is installed, it's policy, programme, activities must be seen to be circumscribed within a degree appropriate to that governmental responsibility or charge.
Remember ye rulers/governors, that he who seeks sweet things must also be prepared to endure bitterness, just as history is created by the things we leave behind.
Believe it or leave it, this uninhibited high cost of living flame is so heavily charged and heated that homes have been seen to break down and scatter.
Wives have deserted their once dear husbands because they cannot manage any further the what-there-is, that the husbands give out on a daily or weekly or sometimes monthly basis to lift the hand and bring it right up to the 90 degrees angle that it makes with the mouth.
We know of husbands who have unfortunately been seen running away from their once upon-a-time dear wives and children, because they are unable to live up to their role and responsibility as firstly a husband and secondly as a father.
There is the sad story or tale that happened just four days ago at Goderich village, when a fifty-six-year-old husband and father who is a labourer in one of the government ministries housed in the Youyi Building, at Brookfields, in Freetown; ran away or abandoned his fifty-two-year old wife and three children, one of whom, the eldest, so to speak, is an SSS3 pupil in one of the Secondary Schools at Goderich village; the remaining two in JSS3 and 1 respectively, because according to this man in an interview with Peep, he is very deeply ashamed to look his wife and three children in the face with his Le150,000 (one hundredand fifty thousand Leones), monthly salary; and having to pay Le80,000/00 for a room and parlour per month. Peep was able to convince this man to go back home, and so indeed, he did…
It is meet and proper for any government that is indeed worth its SALT, to handle and treat with the utmost seriousness and urgency, this uninhibited high cost of living, if it is to avert and forestall mustering massive and immense unpopularity, like the erstwhile Kabbah political administration/government, who in their persistent and conceited complacency and treating Sierra Leoneans with levity, contempt and somewhat disdain, had been forced to retire ingloriously.
For there is nothing so damaging and injurious to a government's credibility and performance, as delay in taking decisive decisions.
Delay, indeed, can be dangerous.
Hence, a survey has revealed to Peep that the every morning, noon and evening prayers from the mouths of Sierra Leoneans is… "Give Us This Day Our Daily Bread"… Oh Jehovah God!!! |
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