July 15, 2021
By: UNCLE SANKARA
Hard liners oppose to President Bio’s leadership have now been left in the cold pondering were next to raise their case and who else will listen to them as President Bio continues to manifest that true leadership, which is not centered on the battle of words rather achievement that gives testimonies to the fact.
If political creativity does not hinder a nation’s development rather supports it to be competitive to other nations of the world, if the prosperity of a nation largely depends on the health of its people to shoulder its responsibilities that lay ahead with physical fitness, joy and jubilation, if health is wealth, thanks to President Bio’s magnitude stance against corruption.
The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) has sung the tune of the President to recover the nation’s wealth stolen to build a diagnostic hospital center, first in history for a future health generation.
On record, the laborious expenditure of seeking medical care elsewhere involves a large cost, return ticket, accommodation, food, transportation, laundry cost, cost of medicine and treatment. One can imagine the millions of dollars Sierra Leoneans will save especially the middle and upper class and those who receive financial rescues to go to countries like Germany, UK, USA, China, India, and Ghana which are very common for those seeking medical care abroad.
The monies recovered by the ACC are now used to construct the Kerry Town diagnostic hospital which will constitute all departments befitting a modern hospital with a locally trained and qualified staff to execute its respective functions. Now, you can ask, had the ACC not been proactive under the leadership of President Bio, how much time would it have cost us to campaign to the donor community to construct a similar hospital now in place? Why was the ACC of yester years so submissive to the taste of political leadership that it never raised all the billions that was stolen in those years which have been recovered?
The wonder goals that President Bio has scored in the definition of good governance is utilizing the country’s own resources for the country’s good. So, had we not had a sacrificial President like President Bio who has turned his back and become deaf to all incomprehensive criticisms, these monies recovered by the ACC, from dishonest persons in civil and public service would have been used incognito for savings in foreign banks, construct expensive houses, drive costly cars and send their off-springs overseas for schooling.
Yes I say, President Maada Bio has turned the re-entry keys to State House 2023 not for magical reasons but for the sense and sensibility he applied in governance. If not, the margin between the Upper and Lower class would have been much broader. A look outside the Rokupr Hospital walls is clearly written “Constructed by the U.K government” and another at Jui by the Chinese government, so which of them could we proudly say was constructed by the Sierra Leone government?
Proof had it that president Bio is determined without a compromise to use the country`s resources that could better be traced from the billions of Leones collected by the National Revenue Authority (NRA). These monies collected by neglected payees to the state is enough to construct the said hospital without dependencies to donors. Probably, the only aid he is expecting to receive from donor countries will be in respect of his meritorious service to the nation without any strings attached. With all these developments in place, who else would say that President Maada Bio will not emerge the winner come the 2023 elections?