EMPTY PROMISES

Hollow, vague, clueless and purposeless Sir
Sir with due respect I have never in my life time read an inauguration speech as empty as yours. I implore you sir, in your quiet moment go over your speech again many times. You will come to the conclusion that it failed to address the bread and butter issues, which matter to Pa Santigie, Yagbome,  Kenie mambu, and yeah Massa toiling to make ends meet. With due respect sir, I find your speech full of gimmicks and "more" empty promises. Perhaps the contents were designed for foreign consumption – specifically, the mining companies raping our natural resources. That said even they will be laughing at us in their air conditioned offices in Sierra Leone and abroad.  
Let me start with your promise to our youths: how long will our youth continue to hear promises about their stake in society with no deliverance. How long will Sierra Leone youths continue suffering because of the ineptitude of politicians and government officials? Yes their importance is only recognised during elections, when they are used as electoral stooges to commit electoral fraud and before then swell up political rallies – some of them been employed to do the dirty job of the powers that be, by sometimes singing unpalatable languages against respectable citizens of the land.
Sir, I would like to draw your attention to an oversight on your part. In your entire long and “more" speech there is no mention of the word "corruption" - hope I am not reading another speech. Hey! Perhaps corruption has been eradicated and every member of your government has their hands clean. Sir, I was in Sierra Leone few weeks ago and the truth is your speech does not reflect the reality on the ground. The mood of the people is not represented in your speech. Or are you telling your citizens and the world that the recent string of reports of significant economic malpractices are unfounded?  Every nation has concrete plans for development and every leader including you should be seen talking in concrete terms not in abstract. Sir, what are your plans to bring down the sky rocketing prices of staple food products in Sierra Leone. Sir, advice your lackeys’ from jumping around with same old excuses - Sierra Leone is not unique; it is 'global'. Accepted the world is going through turmoil on similar scale as the pre Second World War years. However, a president should be heard stating concrete measures not vague slogans as if he is campaigning for 2017 polls. These are yet far away; and if I read the 1991 Sierra Leone constitution correctly, you sir will not be qualified to run again.
There is no denying the fact that governments across the globe have the machinery to implement policies in the best interest of her citizens. These policies should been seen to be equitably carried out. Importantly, for any policy to succeed it should be sustainable. It is not good saying one thing today and doing something different tomorrow. This brings me to a meeting you held with “stakeholders” in January to address indiscipline in Sierra Leone’s work places and in the streets. To your credit sir you in a sense declared war on indiscipline and whilst in Freetown a vital but chaotic means of transportation – OKADA RIDERS were taken off the streets of Central Freetown. This has an immediate impact on commuting around central Freetown.
Sir, let me confess – apart from extracts posted on the web, I have not bordered reading in full your “Agenda for Posterity”; simply because your “Agenda for Change” brought no meaningful change in the lives of Sierra Leone. I agree change is a relative term – change in your eyes could be different from mine. However, as articulated in a previous article by this author, your agenda for change was full of inconsistencies.