President Bio Breaks Silence on The Fuel Crisis Issue

President Bio has in an interview with AYV said the appreciation of the dollar as against the depreciation of the leones has made it extremely difficult for his government to get supplies of fuel into the country as and when needed.

“This is not different from what we have been talking, we have to cater for the dollars every month to but everything that we need I’m Sierra Leone “ he said.

While wishing Sierra Leoneans merry Christmas and a happy new year in advance, the President said as Government they are doing all they could to ensure that citizens have a good Christmas holiday celebration.

Speaking on his address at the youth and Diaspora Forum where he called for more investment in young people in the African continent to be able to build their businesses and entrepreneurship, the President acknowledged that access to finance for young people in Sierra Leone has been difficult and needs a collaboration with the private sector.

” we have found it a little difficult. We have to work with the private sector to make sure that our young people who want to venture into doing businesses have access because you can have the most brilliant idea but if you don’t have the money to get started it will only be a dream forever” he added.

He said government understands the need to create jobs and address unemployment, and expand the revenue generation base with young entrepreneurs, adding that young people are very daring, smart and always ready to take risk which is why they need the right education and support to take calculated risk to be able to get involved and move the economy.

“So I was speaking on behalf of them, encouraging them not to despair but also saying that we as government should actually open the access to finance and other things for them to be able to embark on Entrepreneurship” he ended.

Meanwhile, the Petroleum Regulatory Agency (PRA) has announced the arrival of over 12000 metric tonnes of petrol in the country to address the fuel scarcity that the country was faced with ahead of the festive season. Normalcy have returned, the queues have gone with filing stations doing their normal sales.