– BATILO SONGA CALLS ON OPPOSITION
The deputy commissioner at the National Commission for Social Action (NaCSA), Batilo Songa, has called on the opposition and all well-meaning Sierra Leoneans to join President Bio to develop the nation.
Songa made this call to his fellow public workers of the opposition to see reason to come to Parliament and the city councils in the interest of getting the people’s work done and developing the state.
Despite how things have turned out since the 24 June elections results were announced, Songa made the call to the opposition to consider that they were elected to represent the people’s interests, not their party’s, or even their own personal agendas.
It is no gainsaying that with his second term appointments, President Bio means business. By dropping several people from his team and instituting investigations into alleged misuse of donated elections funds, the president is on a different trajectory from his first term, as there are no more sacred cows in his regime. The new appointments were chosen for what they can contribute to the president’s developmental agenda.
The NaCSA deputy commissioner said the president’s new team just needs the rest of the people elected to run the government to come to the Hill and join the president in his national development agenda. The work of government cannot be effectively delivered from one side of the aisle, for which the nation is being shortchanged.
Development is not the work of any single government or party; it requires the combined effort of all in the enclave of government, which is made up of the ruling and opposition parties.
It must be recalled that the president’s second term agenda, “Tok n Do”, which is focused on feeding the nation via intensive investment in agriculture and food production, will require all hands on deck, including the main opposition, All Peoples Congress –APC.
The APC decided to stay out of government citing their refusal to accept the presidential elections result announced by the Electoral Commissioner Mohamed K. Konneh that declared President Bio the winner, which they insist was not the same as was recorded by others involved in the tallying process across the country.
Despite this standoff and in the interest of the people and providing effective representation for the people, the NaCSA commissioner has called on his colleague public servants to set their differences aside and take part in government and join the president on his agenda to develop the state.
