{"id":43294,"date":"2012-06-25T20:18:24","date_gmt":"2012-06-25T20:18:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sierraexpressmedia.com\/?p=43294"},"modified":"2012-06-25T20:18:24","modified_gmt":"2012-06-25T20:18:24","slug":"slpp-chair-blasts-tax-choppers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/?p=43294","title":{"rendered":"SLPP Chair Blasts Tax Choppers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Chairman of the opposition Sierra Leone Peoples Party (SLPP) John Oponjo Benjamin has stated in a press statement issued on Wednesday June 20<sup>th<\/sup> that members of the ruling All Peoples Congress (APC) are guilty of siphoning monies accrued from tax payers pockets.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Mr. Benjamin further described the APC led government of stealing from the coffers of the country in a blatant manner, and accused them further to have squandered all monies they bequeathed in the coffers before they exited power in 2007.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The opposition figure said the ruling system is now maintaining a few sacred cows as their public expenditure is far surpassing the income government accrues which is now creating moles for lots of deficits in the country\u2019s income generating drive.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He claims this is causing the central bank slippages as the cost value of lending and borrowing had cause a shift drip in the legal tender which is currently the result of sky rocketing inflation in the country.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Mr. Benjamin said on to the year 2007 when they were exiting power the economy grew on an average level of 7% percent growth annually, which was the growth toll for sub Saharan countries economic growth level at the time. He noted also that the 35% percent projection of economic growth, the ruling APC is yelling is nothing but mouthwatering claims that are not visible to the ordinary Sierra Leonean.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Mr. Benjamin cited the International Monitoring Fund (IMF) report about the economy of Sierra Leone with a 5% growth in real figure terms damning the 35% the Minister of Finance is purporting.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The SLPP National Chairman and Leader called for a change of order to save the land from sinking in economic quagmire.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Stay with Sierra Express Media, for your trusted place in news!<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<div align=\"center\">\n<hr align=\"center\" size=\"2\" width=\"100%\" \/>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chairman of the opposition Sierra Leone Peoples Party (SLPP) John Oponjo Benjamin has stated in a press statement issued on Wednesday June 20th that members [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":24808,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[692,1],"tags":[880,760],"class_list":["post-43294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","category-uncategorized","tag-corruption","tag-john-benjamin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43294","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=43294"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43294\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}