Young Life in Freetown | Voter's Registration Day

As the elections draw closer,  young people in Calaba Town are getting ready to vote on March 7, 2018. This Saturday,  November 25,  many collected their voter registration cards.  I got to meet and talk with a few of them.

They want to vote for people they believe in, people they know can help bring about a better Sierra Leone. One vote is all they have to make that change.

Saya Turay, a 24-year-old hairdresser,  said that she's happy to have acquired the card because she'll be able to vote in her candidate. Her wish is to make the right choice while placing her vote, as she favors someone that she thinks would add more meaning to the lives of young people. "If we the young people are given a chance, then Sierra Leone will be a better place," she said.

Twenty-year-old Idrissa Koroma, a shop assistant, will be voting for the first time in the 2018 general elections. He hopes that his vote is going to help bring in the right person. "The people need someone to dry their tears and not someone that will make them cry again. So I hope that my vote is going to help bring that change," he said.

Sata Kanu is 23. She is a student and she said college expenses are getting bigger by the day. "I just need a government that will consider education as a basic necessity, and allows easy access to it,” she added.

John Cole, a 25-year-old man, said that without the voter's card he doesn't stand a chance of casting his vote.

His hopes for the election?

As a college graduate, these were his words. "More companies and factories are what the graduates want to have our lives improved. A jobless man is of no use to himself,” he ended.

For Young Life in Freetown, I'm Inyilla Borteh Conteh reporting.