By Gibao Brima

It is no secret that Sierra Leone Drivers Union (SLDU) is a pressure group seeking the welfare of drivers across Sierra Leone.

But sadly it has taken a twist-outkook over the years due to political interference by both the past and present sitting governments thus making it impossible for the union to discharge their rightful duties to the state.

This equally goes for most pressure groups nationwide to pick a left from this.

And political interference has resulted to political tensions within these pressure groups and organisations.

The Motor Drivers And General Transport Workers Union’s  elections lately is now on a thin-thread as their president Amadu Bah is on the verge to hand over the baton to a successor.

Bah has made his success stories ranging from acquiring a office space for the union secretariat in Western Area, and he had been helping out to release drivers from Pademba Road Prisons and others jailed in other prisons right across the country  with the help of the Legal Aid Board.

Their release was a welcoming story at that material time since it came to light that many drivers are made to go to jail unlawfully with no clear justifications for their staying there by the police.

However, it is time for his honourable exit and give the batton to someone that should see all members as one family for the development of the union.

It is time for the Drivers Union to borrow a new leaf from other unions across the world that act in the interest of their membership drive and not working to pleasing only political parties.

It is crystal clear that all human beings are political animals but in terms of unionism, political ambitions of members should be at the back and they should allow the Union to take  centre stage.

It is time for all members in the union to think twice and vote in a president who could

think positively for the interests of the union and not only for the interests of his political party.