About 3.4 million Sierra Leoneans are eligible to vote in the general elections scheduled for today amid growing concerns about political violence and peaceful conduct of elections in the West African country.
With an estimated 8.4 million people, Sierra Leone is a tropical country on the West African coast bordered by the Atlantic Ocean in the south-west, by Liberia in the south-east, and surrounded by Guinea in the north and north-east.
“It promises to be a very tight contest and we might have a run-off,” Amos Davies, a cloth seller, told PREMIUM TIMES Friday afternoon in Freetown, the country’s capital city.In 2018, Mr Bio edged out Mr Kamara in a run-off after both men polled 51.8 per cent and 48 per cent of the total votes, respectively.
In July 2022, Sierra Leone introduced a new set of banknotes by stripping three zeros off the leone in a bid to restore confidence in the local unit. The Bank of Sierra Leone argued that the public’s purchasing power would not be affected by the change. “We his supporters believe he will handle the economy better,” Jalloh Mohamed, an APC stalwart, told PREMIUM TIMES.Although the electioneering campaigns have been fairly peaceful, there have been concerns about political violence in recent days.
“The SLPP’s intention, its goal, prime objective, is not to conduct free, fair, non-violent, and credible elections. Therefore, following, the APC will demand Mr Mohamed Konneh and all electoral commissioners to resign forthwith, to be replaced, to be replaced, by an independent, internationally accredited team of electoral commissioners,” Mr Kamara had said.
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