The Executive, Judiciary and the Legislature are the three main arms of Government. They are very important in any political dispensation and without them nobody will be talking about a Government in place and the Democratic process will be in shambles if these arms are not present.
These three arms of Government are to work hand-in-glove for the better of any State be it Sierra Leone or any other part of the World.
But it is no secret that laws are passed in Parliament that are sometimes not in the best interest of the people of that country.
We at Africa24 are not sentimental in putting out issues of national interest.
We always put Mama Salone above all else. The National Civil Registration Act of 2016(No.14 of 2016) was passed into law in the House of Parliament in 2016.
The Act reads as follows: Being an Act to provide for the amendment and consolidation of the Law relating to the compulsory registration of citizens and non-citizen residents in Sierra Leone, to provide for the issuance of identity cards, to provide for the establishment of the National Civil Registration Authority responsible for the registration of births, adoptions, deaths, marriages, divorces and nullities throughout Sierra Leone and to provide for other related matters.
Africa24 will not delve too deep into the Act itself because it is a public document everybody must have read it.
During the days of the All People’s Congress (APC) Party, a similar bill in relation to immigration was passed in Parliament on the Sierra Leone passport where the price was tagged in U.S Dollars.
The opposition by then (SLPP) was not happy about the idea of tagging the passport to the U.S Dollars and it was strongly condemned by the SLPP of that time.
As the saying goes ‘mortal-man nar weather.’ The same SLPP that was condemning the bad act of the APC to have tagged the price of passport in U. S Dollars is the same SLPP that is tagging the price of the National Identity Cards in U.S Dollars.
The Pastor cannot be preaching against one thing and doing the same, all in the name of politics.
From all indications all that the SLPP has been condemning, they have done the worst to say the least about them.
Simply put, we are now foreigners in our own mother land.
How many people will be afforded to pay NLe140 to collect their National Identity Cards taking into consideration the present economic situation affecting the Country.