‘I am not APC, I am not SLPP’
By Abdul Fonti
Alhaji Usman Boie Kamara, who contested in 2011 with eighteen other Sierra Leoneans for the Flagbearer position of the Sierra Leone People’s Party (SLPP) has declared that he does not belong to the two major parties in Sierra Leone.
“As it stands now, I don’t belong to SLPP, and I also don’t belong to the APC. Alhaji Usman Boie Kamara is politically neutral,” Boie Kamara disclosed over the weekend while addressing hundreds of family members, friends and supporters in Karena, northern Sierra Leone.
The former SLPP Flagbearer Aspirant made this disclosure in response to the demand of the SLPP Women’s Leader, Isata Jabbie Kabbah (IJK), who insisted that the silence of Usman Boie Kamara did not befit a politician of his stature. IJK emphasized that Boie Kamara has kept the SLPP and several other Sierra Leoneans in the dark for quite sometime now, while pin-pointing that the former aspirant must use the family re-union meeting as a forum to break his silence.
IJK and her husband, former president Ahmad Tejan Kabbah were part of the hundreds of Sierra Leoneans that thronged into Karena from various parts of the country to witness the grand ceremony that was held in honour of Usman Boie Kamara.
After the outburst that seemingly sent shockwaves among the SLPP audience, Boie Kamara went further to assure his people that he will never let them down in terms of his political and personal decisions.
“Whatever political decision I will make, it will definitely be in the interest of my people,” he assured.
Earlier, Boie Kamara was placed in a hammock and escorted amid singing and dancing five miles into Karena. The people of Karena and other supporters from various parts of the country used the forum as an opportunity to assure Boie Kamara that they will always support whatever decision he makes.