Democracy puts government in the hands of the people. Whether by voting, peacefully protesting, or exposing government corruption in the press, citizens take charge of their government and are free to criticize their leaders without fear of punishment. #DayOfDemocracy
Jerome Alpha Kamara All Sierra Leonean governments are intolerant of freedom of assembly and expression. But this government takes the cake for intolerance to freedom of speech and assembly. Irony is that most of the individuals in the government lived and worked abroad where they enjoyed the rights they are now denying Sierra Leone.
THEY BROUGHT DEMOCRACY IN AFRICA IN ORDER TO REMOVED COMMUNIST GOVERNMENT, BUT THEY’RE THE SAME PEOPLE DESTROYING DEMOCRACY IN AFRICA BY SUPPORTING THE WRONG LEADERS DUE TO THEIR OWN SELF-INTEREST OR REGIME CHANGE BECAUSE THEY ARE NOT SEEING EYE TO EYE WITH THE LEADERS WHO ARE DOING WELL BUT BECAUSE THEY’RE LOOSING THEIR FRIENDSHIP DUE TO CHINA OR RUSSIA INFLUENCE, EVEN THOUGH THEY ARE DOING WELL FOR THEIR PEOPLE THEY WILL STILL CHANGE THEM, IN THE CASE OF UGANDA PRESIDENT, THEY KNOW HE IS DOING MORE HARM THAN GOOD FOR MAJORITY OVERTHIRTYYEARS IN POWER, BUT BECAUSE OF SELF-INTEREST THEY WILL SUPPORT HIM WITHOUT REGIME CHANGE. IT’S TOO SAD FOR US IN AFRICA.
Citizens are free to criticize their leaders without fear of punishment, peacefully protesting, expose government corruption in the press? Such democracy does not exist in Sierra Leone.
In Sierra Leone we don’t enjoy all of these. Our leaders should know that it’s our constitutional rights to exercise freedom of speech, peaceful protest, right to vote etc but all they know is to bastardise the Constitution. God will surely take happiness from those that are destroying our Mama Salone 
Without a free press, democracy cannot survive. Without freedom of expression, there is no freedom.
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But All this is not practiced in Mama Sierra Leone. why our leaders doing this… No criticism or protests or saying things that would be shame to Corrupt politicians .Hope our leaders(Sierra Leonean) are seeing this caption, and I wonder how they feel reading this!!Not in sierra leone. Our brand of democracy is different.
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The opposite of democracy is manifesting itself in the clothes of democracy in Sierra Leone. Here everyone is afraid to criticize government of the day because you will be arrested and detained without knowing the crime committed.U. S need to take action against our Government.No democracy in sierra Leone. sad countryWithout a free press, democracy cannot survive. Without freedom of expression, there is no freedom.Happy International Day of Democracy to the U.S, the greatest and the freest nation in the world. We , the citizens of Sierra Leone, look on the U.S . as moral guarantors of democracy, human rights, Rule of Law, constitutional governance , peace and stability in the world and in our country. We appreciate the efforts America has made to promote these values around the world. We however enjoin the U.S. to take a more proactive stand in Sierra Leone, where they themselves are witnesses to the truth that democracy is being seriously bastardized by the government of President Maada Bio. There is no democracy in Sierra Leone. No freedom of speech and the press; no freedom of assembly ( You witnessed how many innocent youths were slain recently by government security forces for demonstrating against high cost of living and corruption). You are aware that opposition politician Mohamed Kamarainba Mansaray is slowly dying in prison where he has spent three years in incarceration for a bailable offence. You are aware of the bogus voter registration process going on presently, designed to rig the forthcoming elections. We sincerely hope the U.S. Government will be more proactive than it presently is to stop our country from slipping back into chaos. PUBLISHER, COCORIOKO NEWSPAPER; SECRETARY GENERAL, CONCERNED SIERRA LEONEANS , NEW JERSEY; PUBLIC RELATIONS OFFICER, WOMEN IN ELECTIONS AUDITING AND MONITORING GLOBALLY (WIMAGE), WASHINGTON DC.
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