Sierra Leone wallows in hardship as inflation continues to starve homes with hunger as foodstuffs become expensive to buy these days.

The land that we claim to love, Sierra Leone, is home to politicians who don’t love the common man.

Sierra Leoneans are going to the polls June 24 this year. At the height political drama, our politicians are busy talking politics as they sharpen ways to get hold of the throne.

This year’s June 24 election is rife with issues of political interests than talks of national interests.

Politicians in the greener party are opening up ways to solidify a strong force against their opponents, the red guys.

The incumbent Julius Maada Bio has been campaigning across the nation to secure a second term in office.

The ever experienced military leader talks less about the growing hardship and suffering of his people.

Instead, Mr Bio is putting heads together with Dr Kandeh Yumkella, 2018 National Grand Coalition (NGC) presidential candidate, who has deflected to the greener, ruling party, Sierra Leone People’s Party (SLPP).

Yumkella was once director of United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO).

NGC’s hopeful, Mr Yumkella, has dashed the hopes of many Sierra Leoneans, who had rallied behind him in 2018 for his new vision meant to cleanse Sierra Leone’s politics which has, over the years, been dominated by the two major parties, APC and SLPP. He was calling for a rethinking for a better nation. He hails from Kambia, north of Sierra Leone, once APC opposition stronghold but was ruptured by Kandeh Yumkella in 2018 genral elections.

His whirl of oratory swept followers in the country’s main capital Freetown especially with university students who marveled by his slogan ‘Put Salone Fos’, Put Sierra Leone First.

Being an MP, the politician was still loved by some renaissance NGC’s supporters.

But his reunion with Mr Bio, at a time most people wanted him to fearlessly challenge government and talk on people’s hardship and suffering, has crushed starving Sierra Leoneans, who needed positive change in governance than a change from one party to another, ‘cross-carpeting’.

While inflation is gripping hard on people’s livelihoods, NGC’s heads now set to forge alliance with the ruling government, SLPP.

Our political overlords always lord it over common Sierra Leoneans as these politicians prioritize their families and political interests.

Currently, the leone is depreciating in value behind the dollar, causing prices on foodstuffs and goods to become ever expensive.

Mr Bio’s once leveling up politician, Yumkella, during 2018’s elections, is forging alliance with Bio.

Party alliances in Sierra Leone, by tradition, are formed when elections contest go a run-off.

But the fact that alliances are formed, at least just two months before elections, and as the main opposition is still festered with court litigations, it simply means democracy is dying slowly in Sierra Leone.

The red guys of the All People’s Congress, seem not to have a clear vision to the throne.

APC’s presidential hopeful, Samura Kamara, is still being trapped in a messy situation as he tries to rear his head up in a case he is accused of corruption.

And the red guys are bitter over what they refer to as ‘’long-drawn out hearings’’ of which they consider as ‘’derailing tactics’’ being motivated by the government on their leader to clip out his chances from campaigning and possibly win the coming election.

Samura Kamara is unable to effectively persuade voters to back him for his presidential bid. He is expected to be going to court with his battery of lawyers at a time the time for campaign is running out.

While all these happen, the sitting government sits tight on the country’s seat of politics as it conducts its affairs smoothly without let or hindrance.