That meant, as a Mende-speaking Southeasterner from Bonthe District, I was serving at one of the highest position in the Northern Province/Temne-speaking dominated APC government, and I dared to be criticising the APC government's use of its apparent principal political weapon: tribalism.
Sociologically and economically, the two major tribal groups/blocks, Mende-speaking Southeasterners and Northwest people... mingle easily, intermarry easily and do business with each other without blinking.
It is Political Tribalism we have in Sierra Leone because it is a way of the two fiercely-competitive tribal/regional groups/blocks - the Mende-speaking Southeasterners and the Temne-speaking-Northerners - having a competitive edge over the other for the best government jobs.
Through unrelenting propaganda, maybe, with the heightened use of social media by Sierra Leoneans, the APC has apparently succeeded in stigmatizing the SLPP and Mende-speaking Southeasterners as being more tribalistic than the APC.
The Mende-speaking Southeastern educated elite who were sacked, marginalized, suppressed in many public sector jobs suffered in SILENCE during the ten years of rule of former President Ernest Bai Koroma - the Temne-speaking-Northern Province educated elite are daily screaming against every real or perceived marginalization or suppression in the public sector with President Maada Bio in power.
