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President Julius Maada Bio has apportioned blame on Russia’s war in Ukraine as the cause of the “suffering” and “hardship” in Sierra Leone. He made this revelation in his recent interview with AFP less than two months before the presidential elections.
Sierra Leone is currently ranked the second poorest country in the world with a Gross Domestic Product (GDP) per capita of $472. The country has also been hit hard by higher prices of food and basic goods. A protest over the rising cost of living in August 2022 left at least 27 civilians and six police officers dead.
Bio, who is seeking re-election for a five-years second term in office has promised to make food self-sufficiency his primary focus if re-elected. Undoubtedly, much work needs to be done if this will be realized, with about 81 percent of homes in Sierra Leone being unable to meet their ‘basic food and nutrition needs.’
Speaking in an interview on Wednesday, Bio said the war had wreaked havoc in his country and other places while appealing for an immediate end.
“We are all suffering as a result of the war in Ukraine… For the sake of humanity, for what is happening, let’s end the war,” he said in Freetown.
He also mentioned that without crisis such as the pandemic and war in Ukraine, Sierra Leone would not be facing raging inflation, supply shortages and a sharp drop in its currency’s value against the dollar.
“We have a vested interest in seeing to it that war comes to an end as quickly as possible… especially as a country that has gone through war before — but also (because of) the impact on us,” Bio said.
This is all lies the war in Ukraine has only affected on our flour supply. The main issue is sierra leone cannot feed themselves nor can they export anything in order to have more foreign currency
Really Sierra Leoneans GDP is $472?
Nana… I can’t just believe this 😊🙏
May God save us from this punishment of Wicked Leaders..
If they keep spending on mp, fake projects which doesn’t exists, hiring experts from China and other countries, new cars, flights tickets, building houses for themselves, lawyers to grab people’s lands instead of investing it in agriculture, building local factories, hiring our degree and master graduates, buying lands for mass agricultural production, making every mp and minister wages salary based cutting of th wardrobe and retiring fee then sierraleone will be a better place with these few things I have stated
Former President Bio is just finding excuses by blaming the war in Ukraine for the economic problems of the country. That shows how he lacks knowledge, skills and ideas of how to manage the resources of this county.
Honestly, if he had stopped looting the resources of this country for his personal benefits, the people of Sierra Leone would not have suffered so much.
For Christ’s sake be honest with yourself and the people of this country, you deviate from the angle God directs you to work on. Stop blaming others, you have failed is just because we don’t have a savior.
It is very certain that president have stated the things bugging his rulling towards the country, but again we must not depend absolutely on another country for our survival
Can we all be honest to see and say the truth about hardship in Sierra Leone? In terms of food production, can you ask yourself why the villages also lack basic food? Where are our able young men who initially depended on farming in their communities to make life easy for their families and others? Where are they? Political migration moved them from their communities into cities where they are not fit. What do they do? You know, be honest.
There are many factors leading to the suffering in SL. Now, with political blindness, you cannot see but blame the person trying to put things together.
The people you yearn for, have destroyed the country for over 30 and more years. Bringing it down, from 2007 to 2017, say the truth. The living truth. Compare the status of the country from 1968 to now and say something substantial. Let us be honest and polite in addressing g leaders. You will be a leader one day.
Thanks to you all.
Honestly speaking, this war is really causing trouble globally. Now my suggestion is that H E MAADA BIO, to save his name and character, let him don’t go in for second term as president as this war is his obstacle to developing Sierra Leone. Reason being, his obstacle (Ukraine and Russia war) will continue for the next five years. How will he makes things okay for the Sierra Leoneans citizens if he becomes president again? Definitely, it is impossible. Please prezo allow an other president to step in for the sake of the country.
President Bio and his wife are bent on looting the resources of this county, taking them to the Gambia/ the Banjul. Bio did a similar thing when he took over and was paid to hand over to late President Kabba.. Allah was on the side of Sierra Leoneans ; all what Bio stole and was paid was seized by the people of Ghana. Bio came back with nothing so the same thing is going to happen with him in Banjul. Allah is there to pay back the wicked politicians for the masses.
Today, the same Mende people are ready to vote for him so that he can take state resources to the Gambia.
Former President Ernest Bai Koroma
must have stolen from the government coffers but he invested all in Sierra Leone.
Maada Bio cannot manage resources properly. He stole from the Central Bank of Sierra Leone so much money the Bank Governor had to runway; Bio and his wife stole Le 800 b new money and nobody questions him. The ACC Boss is there to protect him.
A President that submits fake receipts to the Auditor General and of course sack the Auditor General for exposing him.
A President that bribes $68,5m to the public for no reason. This is the only president that should not be audited since Sierra Leone gained it’s Independent in 1961.
This is a president that bribes Journalists, CSO leaders, police to kill innocent people, military officers to kill, Judges to detain innocent people and to pass unfair judgements.
This is the only president that bribes opposition members to fight against their own political party, in the case of Dr. Kelfala Mara, Alfred Peter Conteh’,Colson Turay, Paul Kamara, Victor Foe, Alpha Kanu, Samuel Sam Sumana and others.
This is a president that depends on destroying this Great Nation Sierra Leone. That is to say instead of building the country and helping those who voted him in ,he is desperately ready to kill innocent people. His PAOPA campaign was to take Prompt Action On Poverty Allivation.This campaign promises was not achieved.
Therefore, the people of Sierra Leone will take Prompt Action On Prosecution Against Maada (PAOPAM). That might end dictatorship in this country.
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Russian war have effect many country we understand but us sierraleone is worst why because we failed to put infactstructure in place before Russian and Ukraine war slow development is what effecting us and if Russian war is the cost of it then you most allow others to step up because the war between the two country is yet to finish
The issue of the war affecting everything in Sierra Leone can never be understood by the selfish APC supporters because their only means of survival is through politics so when out of power they become hungry dogs. Therefore what they understand is that they are back to power which will never ever happen in this country. You all will die this time around of hunger and starvation because you will never come close to the presidency of this country.anymore.