December 6, 2021
By: PROBLYN J. ALPHA
The Acting Secretary General of the main opposition All Peoples Congress APC Eastern Region, Momoh Tamba Wusa has said, lack of sensitivity in addressing the needs of citizens is responsible for the suffering and skyrocketing of prices of commodities in the Country.
He made the statement on the programme ‘Day break Kono’ on radio new Song FM 91.3 when hosted to know their take as members of the main opposition party on the visit of President Bio to Kono and the different projects he had commissioned in the district.
Wusa foremost thanked President Bio for his visit to Kono to meet with his people, and to as well commission some of the important projects the APC Political Party secured funds for under the leadership of the former President Dr. Ernest Bai Koroma but was unable to implement them.
He added that, they are happy as members of the main opposition party to see the government in the person of Rtd. Brigadier Julius Maada Bio implementing some of the projects they were unable to achieve; citing examples such as the Kono University of Science and Technology and the Sefadu Mafindor Guinea border road.
“This is what we want to see the present government doing for our people, because government is about continuity. We are also happy to see the handing over of the clock tower and the star Point and the proposed beautification of the City of Koidu”, Wussa maintained.
Speaking on the skyrocketing of prices of commodities in the Country, Momoh Tamba Wussa explained that decision of the government to remove subsidies that were on important commodities such as rice, fuel, oil to name but a few during the regime of the former President Dr. Ernest Bai Koroma cannot be underestimated as one of the main contributing factors for the inflation of prices of basic commodities by Sierra Leoneans.
He further intimated that the then government provided huge sum of subsidies to those communities at their own detriment which helped to uphold price control at that time.
“I know the world is faced with global challenge but the way Sierra Leoneans are suffering cannot be compared to any other West African Countries” he noted.