Here are the facts:

It is not statesman-like for JOB to say that SLPP female members were raped and their radio station banned. The truth is both SLPP and APC radio stations were banned for security reasons. Both stations were guilty of broadcasting inciting materials that could have compromised the peace and stability of the nation. The Bankole-Thompson Commission found no evidence of rape in the spate of youth violence that involved supporters of both SLPP and APC. JOB is trying to discredit the respect due to that independent Commission by making statements contradictory to the outcome of the Commission and the Communiqué to which he was a signatory.

We wish to remind JOB that the President has addressed negative attitude towards our country, towards work, towards ourselves as a national malaise in his inaugural address. The State institution that emanated from that hallmark Presidential proclamation – the Attitudinal and Behavioural Change, is on course. Therefore, it is malicious and uncanny for JOB to allude to attitudinal change by stating that the President needs to change his attitude. Evidently, in his first term and in the first two years in office, this nation has seen major developments than was seen in the two terms combined under SLPP.

It is wishful thinking and a pre-emptive suggestion that thuggery, whether new or old, exists in the present political dispensation. To the greatest extent, the process of electing our traditional rulers has been peaceful so far. JOB has no conclusive evidence of political interference with the process besides his allusion to some baseless, unfounded and irresponsible write-ups in the local media. We expect the minority party Chairman to refer to concrete proof for the public to take him seriously.

With regards to the Bumbuna Falls Hydroelectric project, the Ministry of Energy and Water Resources and the contractors, Salini Costruttori group have published an authoritative document that the project "…reached an estimated 80% degree of completion in May 1997, when they were interrupted by the Civil War in the country." That interruption, according to the report lasted for 7 years. Therefore, the Bumbuna Falls Hydroelectric project was 80% complete by 2004. "Works were resumed in August 2005," the report stated. And we neither know of nor have any record of major construction activities between August 2005 and August 2007. In fact, in that period, the World Bank and the donor partners were not happy with the SLPP who were busy spending public funds on active campaigning. Therefore, SLPP did 0% work on the Bumbuna Falls Hydroelectric project. Their total contribution to the Bumbuna Hydroelectric project is ZERO!!!

JOB has admitted that the ACC is a better institution now than before. This is the sort of honest statement we expect from an opposition leader.

The GST is a country owned programme, which is being implemented by the Executive arm of government. It started under SLPP government and was passed in the House of Parliament by overwhelming support across the political aisles including the Council of Paramount Chiefs. The behaviour of the opposition with regards the GST is like a father who disowns a child because the mother is married to another man. The SLPP have disowned the GST. We want to assure the SLPP leadership that the GST is in the good hands of a better father – it is in the hands of H.E. Dr. Ernest Bai Koroma’s Agenda for Change.

 Warning!!!:

We want to use this opportunity to warn that the days of malicious propaganda and alarmist doomsday conspiracy theories in politics to incite and engender violence in order to forcibly take power are gone.

 Our recommendations to SLPP leadership:

We wish to reiterate our well-meaning advice to the SLPP leadership that the only places to engage in political discourse and debate in post-election periods are the House of Parliament, the district councils, the city councils and town councils.

The streets of our cities, towns and villages are not the arena for permanent electioneering. This will only serve to divert the attention and focus of not only government but the people of Sierra Leone from engaging in gainful enterprise to advance the course of our collective national agenda of development.

Therefore, we emphasise that JOB and the rest of his SLPP leadership team look for an entry point into elections for Parliament, district council, city council and or town council. It is only then that they will earn the legitimate right to react or act and speak on behalf of the people they represent if they are not CSOs or political activists.

When H.E. Ernest Bai Koroma was the leader of the opposition he sought for a seat in Parliament where he articulated the concerns of the people he represented. He did not dance or fight in the streets of the cities, towns and villages of Sierra Leone thereby instigating the people he love through political intrigues and manipulations.