SALONE UPDATES: POVERTY SPREADS LIKE WILD FIRE Sierra Leoneans from all works of life, starting from office workers to businesses and the private sector, almost every Sierra Leonean is grumbling and disgruntled due to economic hardship. No wonder the public outcry for the fraudsters to be hanged. Despite recent reports that poverty in Sierra Leone has been reduced by 10%, it is just on paper and is yet to be reflected on the bread and butter of the ordinary man and family. I took a random walk around Victoria Park and PZ areas and one business man confided to me that for the past 5 days he was unable to sell one item from his shop and that things are really bad for them. Another woman told me that had it not been for his children supporting her from the diaspora, they would have literally become beggars on the streets of Freetown. The stories of hardship and abject poverty are endless. The President must stop listening to his praise singers and fake assurances that all is well when nothing is well for the ordinary man in this country. Or else it will come to a point when the people will no long accept this unjustified hardship and poverty.
Posted on: Thu, 04 Jul 2013 08:54:49 +0000
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