{"id":30540,"date":"2011-10-10T00:07:33","date_gmt":"2011-10-10T04:07:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sierraexpressmedia.com\/?p=30540"},"modified":"2011-10-10T00:07:33","modified_gmt":"2011-10-10T04:07:33","slug":"the-slpp-pmdc-nda-boycotts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/?p=30540","title":{"rendered":"The SLPP, PMDC, NDA Boycotts!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Sierra Leone House of Parliament Friday 7<sup>th<\/sup> was painted red owing to boycott action of opposition political parties &#8211; Sierra Leone People\u2019s Party (SLPP), People\u2019s Movement for Democratic Change Party (PMDC) and National Democratic Alliance (NDA) Party.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The boycotts, as in findings of this press, came shortly after all the forenamed political parties put out a joint statement barely a day to the re-opening of Parliament thus making their positions clear by stating the following as reasons: government\u2019s uncalled for assault on democracy, political violence, police banning of political activities and the non-implementation of the Shears-Moses report.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">To this, also came direct instruction from the leaderships of all the three political parties, telling their respective Parliamentary members to abidingly boycott witnessing the re-opening the House of Parliament.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">It could be recalled that the SLPP Chairman Northern region, Dr. Abass Bundu, at a press meeting, read a joint statement of the SLPP, PMDC and NDA political parties, stating reasons why they\u2019ve resolved boycotting the Parliamentary meeting.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Disclosures have it though that the three political parties have vowed not to participate in any public meeting if the APC Government of President Ernest Bai Koroma did not implement the Shears-Moses report, lift the ban on the political activities, etc.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">At the re-opening of the House of Parliament Friday 7<sup>th<\/sup> President Koroma however told the 99% APC represented forum that his government has made tremendous successes in the area of electricity, infrastructural development- roads construction- and agriculture respectively.<strong><em> <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Stay with Sierra Express Media, for your trusted place in news!<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Sierra Leone House of Parliament Friday 7th was painted red owing to boycott action of opposition political parties &#8211; Sierra Leone People\u2019s Party (SLPP), [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":75801,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[673,692,1],"tags":[10319,6460],"class_list":["post-30540","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-national-news","category-politics","category-uncategorized","tag-boycott-of-parliament","tag-sierra-leone-parliament"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30540","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30540"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30540\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/75801"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}