Few members of parliament from the opposition aisle have raised serious concerns about the manner in which the state owned institutions are operating at the moment.

The Member of Parliament from Koinadugu district, Hon Hamidu H Mansaray, succinctly described the budget to be a sugar coated vibes as that will not yield good dividends for the country.

Hon MP drew the attention of the well in the area of infrastructure, especially the road sector citing his road leading from Makeni to Koinadugu which, he said, needed absolutely attention.

MPs said during the just concluded budget debate that, the state-owned enterprises, are in bad shape: Sierratel, Sierra Leone Airport Authority, Guma Valley, Sierra Leone Lottery, EDSA, etc. They said these public sectors live but struggling to survive. He emboldened his colleagues MPs to do justice to the people.

In other to justify about the paralyses of many Government institutions in Sierra Leone, one of the much trumpeted state company, Sierratel Company has been collapsed and has not been represented during the sub-appropriated budget.

Because of the collapse of the state institutions in Sierra Leone, the MPs said, citizens had expressed concern over the difficulties in doing business and the hard standard of living in the country.

The just concluded sub-appropriation scrutiny, the MPs said, has exposed the inefficiency of most presidential appointees in which most of them absent from accounting for monies allocated to them in 2023.

The Sub-appropriation committees formulated in Parliament are crying foul for what they perceived as defiant nature of government state-owned institutions from giving account of their stewardship.

In one of the Presidential approval in Parliament, the Deputy Leader of Government One in the House of Parliament, Hon Bashiru Silikie, has informed President Bio’s appointees in the Well of Parliament that, “The survival of SLPP in the 2028 general elections rest with you, the ministers”.

Bashiru Silikie said, he hoped the ministers will not disappoint President Bio, the SLPP and the people of Sierra Leone.

According to Bashiru Silikie the business community in Sierra Leone is suffering ‘and other sectors too are suffering’, adding that the people are waiting for the benchmarks for the appointed minister.

He revealed that the future of young people depends on the young ministers appointed by President Bio.

Hon Silikie said the most challenging ministry is Trade, adding that prices of commodities are hiking every day for which he urged Parliament to support the Standards Bureau for effective service delivery.

He also spoke of the security sector, which has been tagged as most corrupt in the world.

“Some of this security only attends three months training and no further training was given to them”, he said.

He urged the newly appointed Minister of Internal Affairs to discipline police officers for them to work within the ambit of the law.

Hon Bashiru reiterated that the Sixth Parliament is not going to be business as usual, adding that the Sixth Parliament is now going to work for the people of Sierra Leone.

In the same vein, the Deputy Speaker of Parliament, Hon Segehpoh Thomas, said the presidential nominees they have before Parliament were all qualified for the positions for which they are appointed.

He said the appointees were chosen from among over seven million Sierra Leoneans, adding that “the nominees are going to work in these public offices to transform the nation”.

He said the nation still faces enormous challenges and therefore he strongly pleaded with the nominees to perform good when they get to their offices.

Segehpoh further said that as a nation they are in a hurry. “If you hear news all over the world you will know that there are problems facing the world”, he added.

He admonished the new nominees to perform outstandingly when they get to their offices and advise parliament to look into the role of civil servants.

“Figures are there that are static for over 60 years. Some civil servants are going to their offices and spend the whole day doing nothing. And it has now become worse in today’s presence of social media. As a nation let us learn to do things differently”, he advised Sierra Leoneans.