By Alpha Saidu Bangura,

SLPP'S presidential hopeful Hon. USMAN BOIE KAMARA was received in grand style by thousand of SLPP supporters in the U.S.A. Hon. Usman Boie Kamara started his U.S.A. tour in New York where in was warmly received by the SLPP New York chapter chairman, Mr. Mohamed Bangura and a large number of SLPP members. In New York Hon. Boie Kamara assured the people that with his great experience in public service he will put Sierra Leone back on its right footing.

 In the city of brotherly love Philadelphia, PA. The Hon Usman Boie Kamara was given a hero's welcome by the SLPP PA. chairman, Mr. Sam Saidu. Hon. Boie thanked the Pennsylvania chapter for making meaningful contributions to the SLPP back home, he also assured them that if elected, he will continue to push the party and the country forward. At a joint meeting of the Maryland and Virginia chapters of the SLPP, a huge number of SLPP members welcomed Hon. Boie Kamara in grand style. The chairman of SLPP-Maryland chapter Mr. Foday Sesay thanked Hon. Usman Boie Kamara for taking time for his busy schedule to visit his chapter.

Alimamy Jaiah Kai-Kai.

Well, let’s face it. Before the Sierra Leone Presidential and general Election in 2007, I recall, Mr. Ernest Bai Koroma, now our president Ernest Koroma promised change, a positive attitudinal change that got the whole country singing the tune. The people fell for it, and voted for it or did they? The questionable result of that election still hovers around our village farm yards, schools, colleges, restaurants, streets, markets etc. For the average Sierra Leonean, this change has never been positively felt. Instead, they have been subjected to gross human rights abuses, including but not limited to rape, unlawful beatings of citizens by the police and some politicians, suppression of the press, unlawful arrests and detention without charge, harassment of political opponents, and the blatant interference by the executive arm of government in the affairs of the judiciary. Unemployed youth who were promised the world before the elections now face the grim realities of unemployment as the APC government fails to provide jobs for them. The scourge of disaffection is limitless.

August 19, 2010

Raynard Jackson

I am amazed that the controversy surrounding the proposed Muslim mosque and community center in New York City at ground zero is still going strong.  America has turned into a country where if you don’t agree with someone, you are painted as a bad person.  This is exactly what is going on in New York City.

Those who oppose the project have lost the legal battle, but now they are attempting to turn it into a political battle.  I find those in opposition full of hypocrisy, especially those in the Republican Party.

By: Raymond Dele Awoonor-Gordon , United Kingdom

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That President Ernest Bai Koroma has envisioned a dreamland destiny for Sierra Leone is not in any doubt.  Since his assumption of office, he has demonstrated a steady resolve to move the nation forward and in some areas, appreciable progress is visible. One of the problems however, is that his government now appears to be forgetting today, until tomorrow. Some of his men also believe and often play politics with the lives and future of the people and the nation. They are unable to differentiate between when politics ought to stop for the business of governance and the delivery of development to take prime position.

by Kawusu from Bintumani

With barely two years left for countrywide elections, which include presidential elections, some are already calling for a second term for Ernest Koroma.
In a democracy, everyone has a right to free speech. But with the right to free speech comes the responsibility of choosing a leader on the basis of performance, integrity and fitness for office. This means that deciding on who the next president of Sierra Leone should be requires a sense of democratic responsibility that must hold us to a higher standard of critical analysis relative to the performance and integrity of the incumbent, the integrity and fitness for office of his opponents/challengers and the overall trajectory of developments in Sierra Leone.