“TOK N FAIL”

– Citizens describe “new look PAOPA”

What’s in a name? This is usually asked to signify that names or catchphrases carry significance or meanings that should not be lost on the unsuspecting, or naïve.

Sierra Leoneans that spoke to Daybreak at the start of the weekend have called what they described as “the new look PAOPA” as “Tok n Fail” because they don’t see how the president plans on succeeding with his manifesto promise for this his second term ‘when he couldn’t accomplish what he had promised circa 2018 to 2023?’ they asked rhetorically.

They say since he resurfaced in Sierra Leone in 2007 seeking to be the flagbearer of the SLPP, president Bio has consistently failed the people of Sierra Leone, although he has miraculously been able to accomplish his personal set of objectives ‘albeit at the expense and peace of we the people of Sierra Leone’.

‘The reason why this “tok n do” is going to fail is because the catchphrase does not mean anything to president Bio except as rhetoric. Despite not seeing how they plan on maintaining this second term government of the SLPP “tok n do” will end up failing as the “terminator” and “paopa” failed. “Tok n do” didn’t happen because we still cannot point to anything tangible this regime started and finished that was not a continuity project from the Ernest Bai Koroma regime. We know PAOPA ended up being a disaster. “Tok n do” will finally fail because Mr Bio didn’t win the 24 June elections, although he and his party and supporters, those whose eyes have been bribed shut, are insisting on pointing to the presidential elections results as announced by Commissioner Konneh as their saving grace to continue this openly stolen regime’s mandate,’ said SLPP supporter, Salim Kekura, who said he has been disappointed by how hard his life has been since 2018 to date.

Mr Kekura continued that when the disaggregated elections data from the polling station levels are released, ‘president Bio and vice president Mohamed Juldeh Jalloh will not be the only members of the “tok n do” regime that will end up “failing”’.

Konneh’s tallying of the polling data has not only jeopardised Mr Bio and Juldeh’s second term vision it could also spell the end of the road for many returning and newly elected public servants of Bio’s second term berth. 

‘The dispute over the elections results as tallied by the embattled Electoral Commissioner Mohamed Konneh is not restricted to the presidential results. There is widespread irregularity in how all the elections that took place on 24th June, or the multitier or 444 elections for ward, district, parliamentary and the presidency. We expect after the recount or clarification of the disputed data many of the elected members of parliament and local councils from the Konneh declared SLPP government of Sierra Leone would also be leaving Tower Hill, State House and many government ministries, departments and agencies,’ noted an APC supporter, Foday Tarawallie.

With the international community and elections observers, the main opposition APC and local observers and civil society organisations insisting on their stand that president Bio did not win the presidential elections and in light of the prevailing circumstances in Mali, Burkina Faso, Niger and Guinea, we expect “tok n do” to be just talking as this regime is not expected to survive past the end of the year.

‘If the international community ends up failing us by siding with and endorsing Bio and members of his one-sided House approved government then they should know that we have enough people here at home and abroad that can ensure that president Bio’s stolen second term will not be allowed to succeed using the state’s resources against the end users of such resources,’ a young man who said he does not belong to any political party as ‘only SLPP and APC are responsible for all the troubles that have plagued this country’.

He concluded: ‘There is just too much stacked up against “tok n do” for it to fail, apart from what I had just mentioned above. We also don’t see how they plan on succeeding with the lack of unity in the SLPP, increased policing of the state, runaway drug addiction rate of the youth, government biting the hands that feed by blasting, instead of working with members of the international community, sanctions from the region and world against the regime that will only affect the people, fear of a military coup to reset things, and the like.’

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