Set up a committee to investigate the ACC in Sierra Leone
In Sierra Leone last week I engaged a very noble senior citizen of the country in a joke. I told him that the country’s anti graft institution was handing over to his government a little over seven hundred million leones; using that occasion as a PR stump to stand on, after it had become exceedingly clear [...]
Afsatu Kabba – Where did it all go wrong?
We often hear people say that the media can make or break! But very often, not much attention is paid to the import of this aphorism either because many do not know or appreciate the functions of the media and their myriad colours, or simply because the media themselves, can easily be misused due [...]
Who Will Tell The President The Truth?
When Ernest Bai Koroma was campaigning for the Presidency in April 2007, he said in Makeni, Bombali district that he hated senior civil servants in Sierra Leone getting heavily involved in national politics. He, actually, was criticizing the heavily banded drones of civil servants that used to constitute the campaign trails of then vice president [...]
The Media and the Fight against Corruption: The Sierra Leone Experience
Being a government minister in today’s Africa is probingly a menacing reality; a reality not of a Hollywood style, but one of fact of living. In Hollywood it’s good to be yourself, but it’s even better to be someone else. Being oneself in a today’s African cabinet is to know that you are among a [...]
Politicized security forces or tribalized national politics; which is which?
Two serious historical blames have often been dished out by several of Sierra Leone’s political discussants against, Siaka Probyn Stevens and Sir Albert Margai; two prominent political leaders of Sierra Leone. While some have accused Siaka Stevens of having militarized the politics of Sierra Leone, others have accused Sir Albert Margai of ever investing in [...]