BRUTAL DICTATORS DON’T FEAR PRESS RELEASES AND STATEMENTS
By Kabs Kanu
The biggest mistake people are making is thinking that long, winding press releases will dislodge a brutal dictator.
If you look at the history of the struggle in countries where dictators implanted their heinous grip, redemption did not come from writing press statements. The APC can write press releases from now to Methuselah . Bio and his acolytes would care less. The international community itself would not be moved.
The only force that will defeat a dictator and spark international intervention and bring revolutionary change is people’s power.
The Maada Bio wagon has gone off its wheels and he can no longer listen. Impunity has permeated his spirit. For Bio to have his Police invite Dr. Samura Kamara to the CID to continue to intimidate and cower him over his rights to freedom of expression is a sure sign that he is underrating the depth of public anger and disenchantment over his election robbery. It is a statement action to prove that his animalistic and tyrannical proclivities are untouched by APC’s press releases, which Comrade Moses Ben Kanu rightly describes as taking a press statement to a gunfight.
People’s action is the only answer in Sierra Leone now. All else have failed. Maada Bio has gone deaf like a puff adder to the cries of the people.
We do not need to arm the people. We have not reached that stage of the struggle. Armed struggle is not our option right now unless we are provoked into it. Civil disobedience is all we need in Sierra Leone now to dislodge Maada Bio and give the people what they want.
Bio is a toothless bulldog. He is not as powerful as he thinks. He is a giant with clay feet. He will come down crashing with people’s power. We have seen how he has been wobbling when Adebayor was leading the front.
However, the APC does not want to fight. We are like the cat that wants to eat fish but is afraid to dip its paws into the river to catch them. The cat wants its fish on a silver platter. It will never happen. If the cat must eat fish, it has to act to get it.
Cowards and bullies never yield an inch of ground without a struggle. The concessions of compromise are the concessions of the weak.
Maada Bio is impervious to the evil he has brought to the land. He is uncivilized . Maada Bio is full of impunity. Maada Bio does not care about what the people feel. That is the nature of narcissistic dictators and tyrants.
The APC must change tactics to get Maada Bio to sit up and listen and give Dr. Samura Kamara what he wants and deserves. Bio needs a dose of people’s power and APC have the popular grassroots support , blessings and capacity to give it to him. However, the moral and revolutionary will are not there presently and that is why Bio is prevailing.
Inviting Dr. Samura Kamara to the CID because he calls himself President is the height of provocation. Bio wants to use Dr. Samura Kamara to distract the nation from his international cocaine scandal. APC must get off its hunches and fight back.
Until we get up and start taking Maada Bio on in a protracted struggle for our rights, the prospects for the future are dim. That is my opinion.
I stand accused. What is new ?
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