By Alpha Amadu Jalloh
Earlier it was Moses Mambu and now the emboldened Wusu Dadida Jalloh. Yes, the Political Parties Regulation Commission (PPRC) fined both the All People’s Congress (APC) and the Sierra Leone People’s Party (SLPP) respectively after it was deemed they had flouted the PPRC protocols.
The question now is what consequences will those who are actually provoking war and violence in Sierra Leone face? Or is it that since they are the blue eyed boys of the SLPP nothing will ever befall them? Sierra Leoneans have seen war and violence which have never distinguished who is APC or SLPP. Thus, if after the panic those fools have caused nothing happens to them, now the son of Ebimagbi, Wusu Dadida Jalloh, the loudmouthed spokesperson for the First Lady Fatima Bio, has finally driven the last nail into the coffin. He has openly pronounced what Mrs Fatima Bio appears to have long been expressing through Moses Mambu. Mrs Fatima Bio is now using intimidation as her strategy to seize power within the SLPP and not even through her husband who is deep in the centre of everything while stakeholders sit and watch like children watching Baby Shark on YouTube.
Sierra Leoneans must not be fooled. This is not politics as usual. This is a coordinated and deliberate display of power arrogance, and the First Lady is using her reckless foot soldiers to normalize the language of war, intimidation, and national destabilization. The question now is simple. Why are state authorities silent? Why is the Office of National Security (ONS) silent? Why is the PPRC pretending as if these declarations are mere political jokes? Sierra Leone has bled before and we who lived through it understand what a single careless sentence can do to an entire nation.
Wusu Dadida Jalloh did not mince his words. This was not a slip of the tongue. This was a deliberate, calculated, intentional declaration of hostility. A public threat. A dangerous provocation. And he delivered it with the arrogance of someone who knows he will face no consequences because the system is shielding him. It was the clearest indication yet that Mrs Fatima Bio and her boys seem to have moved from subtle intimidation to open confrontation.
Wusu Dadida Jalloh’s declaration was not an accident. It was rehearsed, polished and delivered with the kind of confidence that only emerges when someone knows that the system will protect them. He did not speak as an individual. He spoke as the mouthpiece of a desperate political agenda driven by the First Lady who has already cloudily announced her intention to take full control of the SLPP after her husband’s term ends. Sierra Leoneans are not children. We know how ambition speaks. We know how intimidation is used as a political tool. We know when insecurity is wrapped in bravado.
The First Lady sits quietly in the background while her boys bark threats across the country. Moses Mambu was the warm up act. Wusu Dadida Jalloh is the main performer. Their coordinated outbursts are not random. They are strategic and meant to test the waters. They are designed to see how far intimidation can go. They are designed to measure the silence of institutions. They are designed to observe just how much fear can be planted in the hearts of ordinary Sierra Leoneans before 2028 arrives.
But let me be very clear. Sierra Leoneans have changed. This is not 1991. This is not 1997. The people have tasted stability, even if flawed, and they will not allow reckless political opportunists to drag this nation backward because someone at State House appears to believe that power is a family inheritance. Sierra Leoneans have said it again and again: We are tired. We are hungry. We are unemployed. We are frustrated. But we are not foolish. Any politician who threatens war against the people must be prepared to face the full wrath of national resistance.
Sierra Leoneans are being jailed daily for possessing Kush and Tramadol while the importers and producers of these deadly substances appear to be walking freely through the streets like kings. The streets are talking. The country is talking. The arrest of poor youths is a political show. The silence on those who are directly linked to the Kush and Tramadol network is the real scandal. And why has nothing been said publicly about the Jos Leijdekjers affair that has dragged Sierra Leone’s name into international shame? Sierra Leoneans are not blind. They know who the untouchables are. They know who is protected. They know who the system shields.
The recent visit to the Kush rehabilitation centre by top government officials was nothing but a performance. Cameras rolled. Speeches were carefully arranged. But Sierra Leoneans are not blind. We know when someone is merely buying time and public sympathy. This was an act, a poorly executed one, to silence advocates speaking for the hundreds of young men dying every week from poison that enters this country with what seems to be with the full knowledge of those in authority.
Sierra Leoneans are now saying enough. The youths are saying enough. The women are saying enough. Even members within the SLPP are whispering enough. How long will a nation continue pretending that the problem is the opposition when the real danger is coming from the very heart of State House?
Let us ask the question boldly. What exactly is Fatima Bio planning? Why are her spokesmen boldly threatening the APC with war? Why is she acting like the SLPP is now her personal property? Did Sierra Leone elect a family dynasty or a President? Where in our Constitution does it state that political power can be transferred from husband to wife?
Sierra Leoneans are not ready for that nonsense. We have one country. We have one future. We have one destiny. And we will not allow anyone to gamble with our lives because they believe State House is a family business.
Let Wusu Dadida Jalloh be reminded. Sierra Leoneans are not afraid. We may be quiet but we are not cowards. When you threaten war you are not threatening the APC or SLPP. You are threatening market women at Dove Cot. You are threatening Okada riders at PZ. You are threatening school pupils in Koidu. You are threatening farmers in Kailahun. You are threatening the future of children in Pujehun and the elderly in Kabala. You are threatening a nation that has already buried too many of its sons.
If anyone thinks Sierra Leoneans will sit quietly while a handful of political toddlers drag this nation into chaos then they have miscalculated gravely. Sierra Leoneans will not start the fight but if it is brought to them they will finish it.
Let this message travel. Let it echo across State House and beyond. Let it vibrate through the corridors of the SLPP headquarters. Let it ring in the ears of Wusu Dadida Jalloh and Moses Mambu. Let it reach the heart of the First Lady.
We are not afraid. We are not intimidated. We are not sleeping. We are watching. We are listening. And above all, we are ready.
Not ready for their war no.
We are ready to resist their madness, resist their intimidation and resist their attempt to turn Sierra Leone into a playground for reckless ambition.