SLPP & APC Urge to Maintain Peace
Citizens across the country, have urged members of the ruling SLPP party and the main opposition APC party to denounce tension among their members and supporters and preach messages of peace.
These patriots have appealed to both the ruling SLPP party and the main opposition APC party to embark on a nationwide peace march in engaging their members and supporters to desist from any form of violence, adding that, by so doing; it will help to foster national unity across the political, tribal and regional divide. Furthering that, the tension across the country will not in any way create room for development, noting that, it has the tendency to scare investors away.
‘’ We only have one Sierra Leone and despite our political, tribal and regional lineage we are all one and the same people,’’ one Mariatu Sankoh noted, adding that, the inter-marriages alone is enough to help us realize that there are many things that unite us as a nation than those that divide us. Therefore, she appealed to the two giant political parties to work in the interest of the peace and security of the nation than to create unnecessary tension that have the tendency to create more grudges that will tear us apart.
A human rights activist in Kenema, Mr. Thomas Musa has also called for both the SLPP party and the APC party to eradicate the current political tension that is visible in all quarters of society. He also emphasized the need for a nationwide march pass by members of the giant political parties. He further called on members of the media fraternity and the human rights defenders to continue to preach messages of peace across the country. He also appealed to the Inter-Religious Council to engage the two political parties to see need to embrace each other and work in the interest of the country.
