*AS FUEL PRICE GOES UP AGAIN, MORE TOUGHER TIMES FOR THE MASSES.*
This fuel increment will worsen the already terrible inflation situation in our country, increase poverty, and kill businesses in a country where we are struggling to attract sober-minded investors to come and invest in our nation. The continuous increase in fuel price under translucent and foggy indices is a product of incompetence and large-scale corruption being perpetrated by a few individuals in the SLPP Paopa government, who are bent on hoodwinking Sierra Leoneans and holding our country to ransom. This SLPP Paopa maladministration has failed to clean the parameters used to hike prices.
Following the announcement of an increment in the pump price of fuel, many Sierra Leoneans have slammed the SLPP Paopa government of Julius Maada Bio for this reckless increment. What kind of country is this? The country is getting harder to live in by the hour. Other nations are reducing the suffering of their citizens, especially during this pandemic period; our impulsive junta government is increasing everything causing more suffering geometrically in all sectors.
Much upright thinking Sierra Leoneans have described the Bio-led Paopa government as insensitive to the plight of Sierra Leoneans, and the masses are already dealing with a myriad of issues such as unemployment, poverty, inflation amid the COVID-19 pandemic. The time ahead would be more challenging for ordinary Sierra Leoneans because this petrol increment would worsen inflation and poverty, as well as lead to the collapse of many businesses. With this latest hike, fuel price has increased by about four times since this SLPP Paopa maladministration took over governance. Income is not growing, yet the cost of living is rising daily. You cannot keep making life difficult for the average Sierra Leonean with no extra provision for them; it’s unfair.
This current economic meltdown in our country is a clear justification that the Bio SLPP Paopa led government had shown that nothing good should be expected from their incompetent administration running our country to the cliff.
When we talk about the current economic meltdown in our country, decent folks like us get irritated because the man (Bio) is doing everything with impunity. Well-meaning Sierra Leoneans are not happy with this sad state of affairs, and they’re unhappy with the kind of the wrong trajectory our country is heading towards. This SLPP Paopa junta government promised to fix the country’s economy in six months, but they’ve refused even to set a single one since it came to office more than three and half years ago (approaching four years now). This SLPP Paopa maladministration is not a thinking one. This fuel increase will add to the already existing problems of the masses. The exchange rate continues to shoot up as our Leones become more useless; a dollar now goes for more than Le.11,200. How would the ordinary Sierra Leoneans cope in this challenging situation? The price of electricity has gone up also. Our poor people are in a severe problem, their purchasing power has further gone down as they’re struggling with hunger and poverty, but the president and his government do not seem to be careful at all.
In these times of high level of poverty and with this global pandemic (COVID-19), it’s not the right time to increase the petrol price if this government is concerned about the plight and suffering of the masses.
Any responsible or reasonable government would have found a better way to go about it. It doesn’t make sense; this Paopa government brings untold hardship to the already suffering people. If this SLPP Paopa government truly cares about the suffering masses, they should have rescinded this price hike because this is a very insensitive decision to take at this point with the oppressed state of our country’s economy.
The fuel price per liter is at Le.12,000. Can you imagine this kind of hardship? This fuel increment will affect everything in our country, making things extremely difficult for people. The general citizenry’s real income would drop further, and the poverty level would increase at a new height. This SLPP Paopa government policy has caused more devastating consequences for Sierra Leoneans than COVID-19.
Thank you, President Bio, for making life miserable for Sierra Leoneans. It will be on record that the SLPP Paopa government of Julius Maada Bio was the most insensitive and heartless administration to the plight of Sierra Leoneans. People can barely survive on two square meals a day. People are suffering. These days under this Paopa maladministration, you cannot wake up to hear good news from this Paopa junta government.
©️Alkay d’Prince
