I start this brief article today with these two sentences in response to the feeble efforts of the new state propagandists – mostly SLPP members and supporters – who have expressed outrage over a few comments I have posted on my Facebook page in recent days critical of the Bio administration’s handling of the country’s economic crisis.

I do this not as a response to their fruitless attacks designed to silence me, but to signal to these licensed SLPP cyber vigilantes that the grace period – the carte blanche – we gave Maada Bio and his SLPP has expired: it is now time that citizens speak out and hold Bio and his government on account of his electoral promises.

Secondly, key to what these angry SLPP members failed to remember is that, in my opposition to the APC, I openly stated that the two-party dominance that the SLPP/APC have exercised in the Sierra Leonean landscape has to be broken if real national progress is to be witnessed in the country.

Let it be known to all these SLPP supporters that once celebrated and cheered my opposition voice against the APC that the issues on which my opposition to Ernest Koroma were centered have become more amplified and worsened today by Maada Bio in just the two years that he has been in power.

Within just a few months of the SLPP coming to power, some WhatsApp groups controlled by so-called civil activists – mostly southeastern SLPP supporters – deliberately removed me from their groups because I had started saying Bio was heading towards governance disaster from the day he constituted a national transition committee and his first cabinet appointment.