Basita Michael: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 10 June 2025:
It is becoming increasingly difficult to avoid the conclusion that the APC and SLPP’s creation of new districts is less about development and more about manipulating electoral outcomes.
This trend reflects deeper and more troubling realities, namely:
• Both parties appear to have abandoned any genuine commitment to fair and competitive elections.
• They continue to prioritise political polarisation over the well-being and prosperity of ordinary Sierra Leoneans.
• Lacking the ability or willingness to deliver meaningful change, they instead manipulate demographics and electoral boundaries to secure power.
This constant tampering with the system for electoral advantage is gradually turning elections from a process in which citizens choose their leaders into one where leaders choose their voters.
The SLPP and APC must recognise that undermining democracy in this way sets a dangerous precedent.
Rather than carving out new districts for short-term political gain, they should address the real and pressing challenges Sierra Leoneans face namely poverty, impunity, lack of opportunity, and the growing scourge of drug abuse. It is time to focus on what unites us, not what divides us.
Gerrymandering is the term. It was used by corrupt politicians in the west. I give up on Sierra Leone.
I have come to the conclusion that it is the majority of people who lack intelligence, as such, they elect leaders that reflect themselves.
Excellent appraisal around the intended geographical division around certain geographical areas of the country which the heartless politicians are using as a parameter to manipulating the electoral process in order to achieve electoral victory against the wishes and aspirations of the people however, this act of scamming the electoral process subverting the tripartite recommendations.