As 2022 slowly ebbs away remember that in 2023, we have another opportunity to fix salone through the ballot box.

Don’t make palava with your neighbors or end friendships just because of politics, these relationships are far better than the divisive politics that has not helped Salone for years.

Let the discussion be about corruption, poor health, worsen economic hardship, human rights violations etc. Remember that this is our only country and we need to be peaceful to see development.

The recent audit report exposes how billions that should have been used in the development of this country were siphoned just like that- someone at NMA and the Ministry of Mines is unable to make case for about 3.6 Billion meant for the development of the mining communities.

At the Ministry of Tourism 1.6 billion Leones for the proposed Tourism Village cannot be accounted for while over €40,000 spent on a Presidential Visit to UK has been pocketed. The Freetown City Council is to explain about 540 Million contracts given for the cleaning of the New City Council Building.

August 10 took Sierra Leone back to the dark days and as we await the report, some of us believed that egregious human rights violations were done by the state and at the same time, we will always condemn the killing of law enforcers. We need to have genuine debate about civil protest and other global human right issues.

A genuine deliberation about our economy and public financing models . Even the Minister of Finance talked about the fact that we are creating more offices every other day that are having huge impact on the economy on the backdrop of global recession. Now is the time than ever before that we need a government that will EMPATHIZE with the people.

Let me use this opportunity to wish us all a PROSPEROUS 2023 and may the soul of all those Sierra Leoneans who lost their lives in 2022 including Journalists- Jonathan Leigh, Bill Wager, Christo Johnson, Roy Macauley, Esther, Phillip Neville Rest In Peace.