Black Monday: COPPP Calls on Sierra Leoneans to Wear Black Today to Oppose SLPP Barbarism
By Abu Shaw in London (22/11/2021)
The Consortium of Progressive Political Parties COPPP has called on all Sierra Leoneans to wear black today to silently protest against the govt misrule.
Today Monday, November 22, 2021, has been declared Black Monday, a specific day chosen by COPPP in solemn observance of the current dastardly state of affairs in Sierra Leone that could rightly be described as pathetic, undemocratic, a nation that is riddled with bad governance, corruption, massive suffering, lack of human rights and the absence of civil liberties thanks largely to President Julius Maada Bio’s failed SLPP government.
COPPP, comprising of thirteen political parties including the main opposition All Peoples Party APC party, has been praised for choosing this historic day which will give the opportunity to all peace-loving Sierra Leoneans to vent out their anger and dissatisfaction against the corrupt SLPP government of President Bio. This is the first time COPPP has demonstrated publicly against the ongoing political and social injustice by calling all citizens to join them in wearing black clothes in protest.
The other political parties that make up COPPP include the National Grand Coalition NGC, the Peoples Movement for Democratic Change PMDC, Coalition 4 Change C4C, the Alliance Democratic Party ADP, the Unity Party UP, and others. The Unity Party leader Mrs Claudius Femi is the chairman for COPPP.
Many other groups and social media activists around the world have joined in the call for all Sierra Leoneans to wear black today and protest silently in their offices, in marketplaces, in the streets, and other places of work to show solidarity for the suffering masses and to tell the inept SLPP government that Enough is Enough. In the COPPP leaflet heralding the Black Monday protest, it notes: “The Consortium of Progressive Political Parties is calling on all Sierra Leoneans to wear black on Monday 22nd November 2021 to let the government and the world know that ‘Wi Don Gainse’. In English, it means ‘We are Fed Up’. The struggle continues unabated.
