The recent violent events which saw supporters of the SLPP and APC locking horns glaringly point to the fact that the SLPP is still dissatisfied and reluctant to accept the present political administration as the legitimate elected Government of the populace. However it is a truism that the outcomes of the last parliamentary, presidential and local council elections results are the collective and unanimous voice of the people. The SLPP have on various occasions hatched and perpetrated different forms of chaos and mayhem all aimed at discrediting the APC Government and party just to make the country ungovernable. To lend credence to this argument one can cite the day the Mayor of the Freetown City Council and Councillors were inaugurated at the National Stadium when a lot of insinuations and invectives were used against his Lordship even to the extent of calling him a cocaine Mayor. The recent instance was during the unveiling of the newly refurbished clock tower when the SLPP supporters have the effrontery of shouting all over the place ‘Baa Nya Fakie'.On all two occasions the SLPP supporters personally attacked the Mayor and his office.
APC Calls On SLPP to Refrain From Militarism In Politics
Thursday, 19 March 2009 20:34
The All Peoples Congress has in a statement issued today called on the SLPP to
to move away from their 1967 and 1992 records of military intervention in the politics of Sierra Leone and to accept by their actions and utterances, that the APC on its merit won the 2007 Presidential and Parliamentary Elections. Read the full Release:
As Investigation Progresses: “Alleged Rape Is A Mere Fabrication” - Medico Discloses
Thursday, 19 March 2009 17:00
As condemnation of the alleged rape of five women that were in the SLPP office past Monday during the scuffle between the opposition SLPP and members of the security forces who had gone to their office to keep the peace intensifies, We Yone instituted an investigation to ascertain the veracity of the allegation and was able to speak to one of the medical officers at Rainbow Center to where the Police referred the alleged victims and a nurse at the private clinic at Edwards Street where they are reportedly hospitalized by the leadership of the opposition SLPP, both of whom appealed for anonymity, and it is beginning to surface that the allegation of rape is a mere fabrication by the opposition SLPP to gain public sympathy after another apparent failed strategy to provoke public disorder of a national dimension so as to warrant the intervention of the military and the subsequent overthrow of the APC Government of President Dr. Ernest Bai Koroma.
The view that the allegation of rape is a mere fabrication has also been confirmed by the Police who are finding it difficult to establish circumstantial evidences to justify that indeed rape took place and that the alleged victims were indeed raped.
Competent report informs We Yone that the recent political violence past Friday and Monday was the first of the many strategies the current leadership of the opposition SLPP adopted immediately after their national delegates convention in Kenema to provoke instability to either make the tenure of President Koroma quite unstable or compel President Koroma to include SLPP representatives in a government of inclusion.
This was confirmed by a senior member of the opposition SLPP opposed to the violence the party has adopted as political strategy who also informed We Yone that one of the recent demands made by the SLPP is for their party to be represented in a government of inclusion.
