The years 2018-2023 have been the worst in the history of the country since independence, because these are the years democracy was set aside to the fullest to the disadvantage of the National Constitution.
These are the years that claimed many lives; the economy was and is still in a very poor condition at the detriment of the people, peace, unity, Freedom and Justice are all at stake.
The years 2018-2023 have been the years that have witnessed a dramatic turn in the democratic process, where Brothers, Sisters, Aunties, Uncles no longer eat together; drink together all in the name of polities.
Every Sierra Leonean was expecting 2018 to date to be the narrow path to democracy, peace and unity because of the background of the present President Julius Maada Bio with his experience in the army. To the many disappointed, he became the worst in the area of discipline, lawlessness and the like.
Nobody is praying for the repeat of another rebel war in Sierra Leone, which treaded the track of tribalism, sectionalism and factionalism.
The years 2018-2023 should have been years of peace, reconciliation and the road map to a good and proper democracy, instead of being years of destruction and high level of tribalism, intimidation, harassment and the like.
In 2018, Sierra Leoneans were yearning for a change but not the one the people have seen now. Everybody knows that democracy is the foundation to unbreakable process; it improves the social, political and economic life of the people and by extension the society at large.
So, the people need it, it is the only hope for a better Sierra Leone. Democracy has no alternative; it is either democracy or no democracy at all.
This time, no amount of sugar-coated words can satisfy the ordinary man or woman on the street. At home and everywhere except everybody treads the path to democracy and nothing more but democracy.
Democracy today, tomorrow and forever!