Sierra Leoneans Are Suffocating Under Low Incomes—The Bio SLPP Administration’s Insulting Comparisons Mask a Brutal Reality
Sierra Leone, Starvation Is Not Culture, Suffocating Under SLPP, VP Juldeh Jalloh Theo Edwards Sierra Leone, Starvation Is Not Culture, Suffocating Under SLPP, VP Juldeh Jalloh Theo Edwards

Sierra Leoneans Are Suffocating Under Low Incomes—The Bio SLPP Administration’s Insulting Comparisons Mask a Brutal Reality

This government has become addicted to comparison as a shield for failure. Instead of confronting the reality of low incomes, chronic unemployment, collapsing purchasing power, and relentless price pressure, it hides behind regional rankings as though citizens should be grateful for being less miserable than someone else.

The tone of this leadership has shifted from negligence to outright contempt. Maada Bio’s own presidential spokesman, Alpha Kanu, has declared that hunger and starvation are part of “African culture.” This is not a policy mistake; it is a moral atrocity. It is a statement that dehumanizes millions, as though suffering is inherent to identity rather than a failure of governance. When those in power normalize starvation as a cultural destiny, they reveal a leadership that does not see citizens as people to be protected, but as disposable subjects to be managed.

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The Arrogance of Power, and the Injustice of the state of the Country we call Sierra Leone at 65
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The Arrogance of Power, and the Injustice of the state of the Country we call Sierra Leone at 65

Conviction, Sentencing, and the Cost of Standing Outside the Political Circle —

The real problem is not just that power exists, but that it is so often exercised with arrogance. Too many leaders behave as though the state belongs to them, when in truth it belongs to the citizens who sustain it. That is the heart of the matter: power without humility becomes oppression, and authority without accountability becomes abuse.

The injustice of the state is visible everywhere. It appears in the gap between the privileged and the poor, in the weakness of institutions that should protect citizens, and in a system where justice can feel selective. For ordinary Sierra Leoneans, the state is often present when it demands obedience, but absent when it should deliver fairness, opportunity, and protection.

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