By: Ilyasa Baa
Presidential hopeful of the opposition All Peoples Congress party (APC), Dr. Samura Kamara has come under heavy criticism for uttering in Makeni tribal antics against the Mende ethnic group.
The Native Consortium and Research Centre (NCRC) have viewed Dr. Samura’s utterances as a desperate political ventriloquist; unfit for society especially at this point tensions are mounting over politics due to the forthcoming elections.
The Executive Director, NCRC Edmund Abu Jr. has therefore called for the protection of our democracy noting that the media and Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) should step up in their strides to fight for democracy since some politicians are trying to disrupt the peace of the country enjoys since the end of the war.
” It is sad for our democracy for a senior politician who had held positions of trust to behave in the way he did in the name of politics”, the leading economic justice CSO think-tank maintained, adding that no one has the right to provoke any ethnic group because it is not acceptable, he concluded.
In another development, the Ministry of Trade and Industry together with the Petroleum Regulatory Authority (PRA) has been criticized for asserting that the price of fuel in the international market had fallen by 9% which Edmund Abu claims was not the case. He argued that the price fell by 30% which meant that the pump price should have fallen to Le 15 instead of Le 20, he informed Sierra Leoneans via a circulated WhatsApp message.
According to Edmund, under the auspices of the Ministry and PRA, the price increased by 120% whilst in Guinea and Liberia, the increment was by 20% and 30% respectively.
