By Mohamed Kallon

It’s almost over four years now when President Julius Maada Bio told Sierra Leoneans that one of the world’s most popular hip-hop and afro beat musician a Senegalese born, Aliaune Dalama Badara Akon Thiam, popularly known as Akon promised his government a quantum of solar street lights (5000) and 2,500 solar powered traffic lights through his, Akon’s Lighting Africa Project, for several cities nationwide, but the promise seems to remain a sheer dream.

President Maada Bio made public about the donation when he returned home from one of his official trips abroad, an announcement Sierra Leoneans especially his supporters proudly received with great jubilation, given that the gift would have been a great relief to bolster the country’s sickening energy state.

The lofty commitment, according to Akon, was a support for what he described as President Bio’s “impressive leadership” for which the latter expressed gratitude and even extended an invitation to the singer to visit the country.

But since then nobody knows the state of the promised donation whether President Bio made a follow up before his reelection or after to ascertain whether the promise was real or mere prank.

“President Bio would have said something about the issue by now to clear his name, otherwise people will come to the conclusion that the two of them have failed to say the truth and the president will take the blame due to his refusal to break silence on the matter,” an anxious president’s supporter insists.