Despite Sierra Leone’s inflation is the highest within the sub region, politicians in the ruling party are on merrymaking as they canvass people to vote them in for a second term.

The incumbent president Julius Maada Bio was seen recently with a famous politician dancing at a campaign event.

Dr Kandeh Yumkella, who joins Mr Bio as add-on to the ruling party, is helping the president to make inroads in the upcoming elections in Kambia district.

“We should not always fight in politics; we form the alliance to make Sierra Leone better,” Dr  Yumkella, remarked at a campaign address to his people in Kambia district.

Dr Yumkella has worked in overseas, notably as director at United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) and was believed to have been receiving huge dollars.  But back home he is more a smooth-talker than a helper of the poor.

While majority of Sierra Leoneans are hungry, social media captures photos of Dr Kandeh and President Bio dancing at a political event with some money being lavishly thrown at them.

“It’s just telling us who the kinds of politicians are they,” says a citizen.

Most Sierra Leoneans, generally, are unhappy over the current situation on the high currency exchange rate in Sierra Leone.

They are also concerned about the rising inflation which is putting high, prices on goods and services.

Currently, Sierra Leone sits behind other African countries as it is ranked 181 as the least developed nation out of 191 countries in the world, according to 2021-2022 Human Development Report.

In spite of her acclaimed riches of  natural deposits, (diamonds, gold, iron ore, bauxite, rutile, limonite, platinum, chromite, coltan, tantalite, columbite, zircon), according to International Trade Administration Report of 2021 , the people of Sierra Leone are very poor in all aspects of life.

A common Sierra Leone on the street of the capital does not know whether her country mines coltan or whatever and neither the benefits on mine sales reflect on him or her.

Most people in the urban centres do not have easy access to clean pipe-borne water; they don’t have access to good health care services, and without access to good education and access to good food.

And the digital gap among residents in urban places in Sierra Leone is still wide as android phones lately penetrate the country in the past six years.

At present, under a regime change, persistent hardship is affecting plenty Sierra Leoneans. Those who live in the cities face additional burden as electricity bills are being increased while free night calls for customers are being eliminated by Sierra Leone People’s Party’s government, headed by president Julius Maada  Bio.

The government also preys on telecoms with heavy taxes, causing the tariff  on social media data and mobile credits to mount up.

Sierra Leoneans who often surf the internet now suffer the pinch of government’s ‘hawk-eagle’ taxes on telecoms.

The poor Sierra Leoneans would now have to make a bitter choice on either buying mobile data or staying aloof of the  internet.

Sierra Leone is quickly heading for recession. The USD is devaluing the leone as the currency exchange now fluctuates almost every week in tandem with prices on food stuffs and on materials in the market.

USD 100 is now over  Le 2,250, 000 and the dollar  is expected to rise in the coming weeks.

Sierra Leone’s transport fares have become pretty expensive for people with just a few commercial vehicles on the roads, and basic food stuffs increase in prices with high tariffs on mobile calls and among other challenges.

MPs too have lord it over their people as they recently passed an act to enable them to be paid each $ 50,000 as benefits for one who runs just a five-year term.

As all these happen, politicians are not making progress on changing the status of events. But they are doing things that are further exacerbating the suffering on people. And instead of explaining to the people on ways to addressing the inflation and the worsening inflation, they seem to focus on the gains scored over the years.

But the much echoed gains by the government are questioned by Sierra Leoneans if only one is to conduct a sample views on people.