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President Bio has just returned home from the Dubai Exposition 20, and the primary purpose of his trip was to get investors to come and invest in Sierra Leone.
What was interesting about this trip from other business investment symposium is the that the First Lady Madam Fatima Bio was the Commissioner-General for the EXPO 2020 Dubai.
It would surprise you to know that it was the Commissioner- General, madam Fatima Bio who introduced and welcome President Bio and his entourage.
When President Bio took the podium to address the would be investors, he told them that the event was a teaser that would eventually lead those who were willing to visit the resource-rich West African country,
If I may respectfully ask the President -which investor in his right mind would want to take the risk to come and invest in Sierra Leone now when under his watch he had dismantled the conducive business environment that was left by his predecessor Dr Ernest Bai Koroma.
It is on record that the Bio administration has recorded the highest number of rampant, and unabated corruption compounded by fiscal indiscipline, and this has been corroborated by the recent US Department of State Fiscal Transparency Report 2021.
What is embarrassing about the report is that Sierra Leone not only failed to meet the minimum requirement, but it is evident there has been no progress in addressing the fiscal indiscipline – which implies that Sierra Leone is not serious under the Bio administration, hence a bad image that will scare investors away.
Notwithstanding, I was expecting that by now the President should have called a press conference in order to give a report on the trip because citizens are anxious to know who are the potential investors he succeeded to woo at the Exposition, and what kind of investment the people of Sierra Leone should be expecting. What are area(s) of investment? How many jobs are expected to be created, and what other benefit will follow? Etc.
Without any exaggeration the minimum amount money that could have been spent at the Dubai Expo 2020 by President Bio and his entourage is not less than twenty billion Leones( Le 20,000,000,000) which is equivalent to two million dollars ( $ 2,000,000) that amount alone is enough to build a state of the art hospital in Kamakwie my home town .
Unfortunately, it is the host UAE that benefited from Sierra Leonean tax payers money that our President, and his entourage spent during their stay there: over two thousand jobs were created for the emirate people, the spending power of theSierra Leonean delegation help to bolster the economy of the UAE thereby increased their Gross Domestic Product, also helped the companies that provided services to grow etc.
Finally, this is what President Bio said whilst he was addressing this so called investors that look like accomplishes that were hired to come and plunder the nation in the next one year six months that is left of the Bio presidency.
He told them that he Is seeking patient investors who want to do business that will bring shared benefits in a very good environment, and he concluded by saying that he expect them to come to Sierra Leone
Based on the President concluding statement the President had lost the sales because in marketing : CLOSE is the last part of the sales process, and it is at this point a salesperson must be able to convince the buyer to buy his/her product.
A terrible close means the customer will not buy which demonstrate that the salesperson was not able to make a case to convince the buyer; equally a good close implies the salesperson was able to convince the buyer to get the product.
In the case of President Bio, his close on selling mama Salone at the Dubai expo 20 was terrible, he didn’t live up to the task, he proved that he was incompetent for the job, as a result of his ineptitude no investor will come to Sierra Leone as potential investors were not please with his sales pitch, hence Mr. President you are fire.
You have eighteen months to park and leave statehouse. Until then power must change hands in 2023
