By Sorieba Sillah @PSL
“Social media has made us all prisoners of an online panoptic on that knows more about us than we do”.
In Sierra Leone nowadays, Social media has transformed politics into a permanent battle for the control of the lies and truth narratives. Are we in an era of a failed state?.
Lies, Propaganda, disinformation, misinformation and deceit has fundamentally been exploited by our unpatriotic politicians and their plebeians who are on the wrong political spectrum, but are busy creating an uneasy mood in our Country as a respite to their chaos ambition.
These unpatriotic politicians of our country are bent on promoting violence and promoting a scenario without truth or mercy. They have created a cesspit of tribal and regional hatred that they should share the guilt.
Our dishonest politicians have normalised Propaganda, lies, and bigotry with the stain of their prejudice that remains with the people and becomes an assault on the truth.
Sierra Leoneans should now come to terms with their Conscience and share the values of mutual respect and understanding.
The ethno- regional hatred created by our selfish and unpatriotic politicians have revealed something shocking and dark with a Sierra Leone atomized by default.
The President of the Republic Rtd. Brigadier Julius Maada Bio should stand firm against these anarchic jokers who are trying to destabilize our Country and cast the New Direction Establishment as a hapless government. The President should defy this charge and preserve Order and discipline.
Looming political lawlessness is a real threat to our Peace and less attention from the government to address the issue. Where is the discipline?. Our country is currently being polluted by the seismic partisan politics which is shifting our concept of patriotism and the axiom of “One People, One Country” is proving elusive more than ever.
We are at a turning point of our Country’s history with a lost hope of Unity and discipline which is a tragic Irony as our politicians that should be our Peace makers are now acting as arsonists, and fanning the flames of Lawlessness and Unrest. It is time we should keep the discipline of our country as our future depends on discipline and Unity.
There are great monumental problems in our politics of Patriotism which is far from inevitable as the Opposition All People’s Congress Party (APC) has forced the New Direction Government of Rtd. Brigadier Julius Maada Bio contends with their hostile behaviour of politics.
For so long President Julius Maada Bio has been accepting the premise of the thesis of lawlessness in our country, and allowing the unpatriotic Opposition politicians to dictate the state of affairs in the Country. It is time for our Politicians to be bolder and braver at rebutting the disinformation and misinformation of political issues.
Our flirtation with Lawlessness in the Country has become a tedious bureaucratic nightmare and led us into a dangerously drug indulge Society of a midlife Crisis of sadistic behaviours that our politicians haven’t recognized what they are doing to the youths of the country.
The New Direction Government of President Julius Maada Bio should restore the line of discipline. Lawlessness should be teased out of our society and not to be a rhetorical boundary of malaise. Lawlessness is a big challenge for the New Direction Government and they should be invigilating the line of responsible government and craving rhetorical potency that will set the parameters of a dissent discipline.
What’s the discipline of President Bio? Is it only the tough talk and no deliverability? The Citizens of Sierra Leone are really concerned about the lawlessness and the government needs to set its own narrative on the rampant lawlessness in the country which must be designed to be indicated with toughness.
Sierra Leoneans are now tired with the partisan politics and the seemingly inability to come together and fight together the lawlessness in the Country. The Opposition APC Party needs to come out of their dark side of their politics and be sincere and pragmatic. They have to give the people of Sierra Leone an effective Opposition rather than engaging in their inward – looking bunfight.
The self – Serving approach by our politicians to the rampant lawlessness in the Country is not helpful. Their partisan difference is fragmenting and lacked a Unifying national Vision for our Country. The nightmare scenario of rampant lawlessness in the Country remains a heart trending that has added to the relentless suffering in the Country.
The big question now is, Will the New Direction Government of President Rtd. Brigadier Julius Maada Bio takes the opportunity to stamp out the rampant lawlessness in the Country? He should keep the focus on public order rather than ignoring it as the politicians and their supporters are highly engaged in disinformation, and misinformation through the misuse of the Social media.
Does our Constitution sanctify lawlessness? Our unpatriotic politicians who are the absolutist instigators of lawlessness should be held responsible for fueling the lawlessness through their proliferation of lies to their ignorant supporters with a perceived partisan calculation of sabotage and hatred.
It is time the New Direction Government should activate a plan to curb the chronic lawlessness in the Country with a broader crackdown that will embrace discipline. Our politicians are the main causes of the lawlessness in our country due to their shuffling of their loyalties and turn it into their facade of rival belongings.
Who will then rescue our country from the lawlessness? The people of Sierra Leone have been suffering from the mutual distrust of our politicians and they have now turned the lawlessness in our country as a monument to their corrupt political status.
Regionalism, tribalism, propaganda, misinformation has been in the midst of Irrationality flooded with nonsense beyond common sense. Our politicians have been continuously pouring false information and Conspiracy theories that they always displayed without knowing what are true or false.
President Julius Maada Bio should forge a politics of national solidarity stoked by the narrative of war against lawlessness which requires collaboration and not hatred or conflict.
Under the New Direction Establishment, the People of Sierra Leone has since incubated and exacerbated with lawlessness to extreme violence, and signals a wider challenge for President Bio with a question of Who and What defines his government in terms of discipline?
By failing to tackle the lawlessness of the country makes president Bio to appear powerless as if the Opposition Grand Old Party are still running the Country from beyond the political grave and mimicking his rhetoric.
Is this the characteristics of the people we call honourables when our Country is Convulsing with anger of lawlessness? , when our government is Operating in a volatile atmosphere, and our law and Order is being threatened by unpatriotic elements of the state.
The notion of our shared national pledge of “I pledge my life and loyalty to my Country Sierra Leone” has never resonated throughout our modern day politics, but instead a vacuum of hatred and animosity emerged, and filled by allegations of partisan cronyism.
The people of Sierra Leone will like to see President Rtd. Brigadier Julius Maada Bio keeping his defining promise modest and ambitious. He should deploy the amplifying power of his office to kick out the lawlessness in the Country. But the big question now, is there anything more Useless than our unpatriotic politicians that have put their political Party above the country?
However, all this conduct requires political courage with a strong moral compass and determination to strike back against the toxic politics of lawlessness. President Julius Maada Bio should stand firm against lawlessness and speak with gritty realism.
But the inconvenient truth is that, our politicians have been dubiously anointed with the mouthpiece of lies, deceit, Propaganda and mischievous hatred and can do anything with nothing. God save us!!.
LONG LIVE THE PEOPLE OF SIERRA LEONE.
!! GOD BLESS US ALL!!
BY: SORIEBA SILLAH @PSL 🇸🇱