The re-election of Dr. Chrenor Abass Bundu and Hon. Solomon Sengehpoh Thomas as Speaker and Deputy Speaker of the sixth session in the House of Parliament by the ninety- six Members of Parliament (MPs) that subscribed to their oath of offices past Thursday 13th July, 2023 is just a return leg match in politics and a fulfillment towards the bidding of president Dr. Julius Maada Bio by succumbing the country into a one party system of governance.

Unless few new members among the 96 MPs that took oath may perhaps not know the reason Dr. Chernor Abass Bundu was re-elected. Many Sierra Leoneans are of the strong conviction that the leadership in parliament is too old to steer the ship of many young and agile voices and therefore will be what the APC foreshadowed.

Accordingly so, it is like a dream come true for the one side of the well, the SLPP MPs, to fast track most of their policies against their main contenders and as it has happened they are having the highest majority due to favored electoral results by the ECSL.

Similarly so, what the APC members of parliament in the 5th session stood against is what has come to fruition in the 6th and better heads in the opposition saw as needless to be part of a legislature where their voices for those they are representing are not heard and decisions of the Speaker are taken from orders ‘somewhere else’. And to see that their bidding is done, this parliament witnessed the forceful removal of almost ten APC MPs using the Judiciary.

Furthermore, no two third majority of votes casted by these MPS that led to the re-election of Dr. Chrenor Abass Bundu does not augur well the meaning of a true democratic state even with votes from the fourteen Paramount Chiefs in parliament and the use of the simple majority was just a mere clean sweep for the SLPP. The leadership is not complying with laws that could not favor their political ambition to continue staying in power even beyond 2028 and sources have allegred that president Julius Maada Bio is envisaging how to continue staying in power beyond his threshold limit.

However, the APC leadership having the foreknowledge that there will be nothing in terms of leadership, made them to boycott dreading over being bullied and intimidated as it happened during the Fifth session when the Clerk of Parliament ordered police personnel to match them out.

Conclusively, the Sixth Parliament of the Second Republic of Sierra Leone has now been convened to pass laws for the country’s peace, security and good governance, but the big elephant in the room is whether the 53 APC MPs elected will either subscribe to their oath of office or continue to stay in the mud.