PUAWUI..DR. SAMA BANYA

If anyone thinks that the ruling APC would change its ways or listen to constructive criticism, it will be an illusion. They have a set agenda they are pursuing which leaves no room for consultations, compromise or listening to a different opinion which is certainly not part of it. A self-labeled NGO which calls itself by the high sounding name of Environ-Carbon Access has reportedly signed a memorandum with the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Food Security. The Minister has been quoted as hailing it as a breakthrough in the effort to preserve the environment.

PUAWUI..DR. SAMA BANYA

There may have been other important events occurring during the past week but for us in the opposition Sierra Leone Peoples Party SLPP, THE EVENT was the reopening of our rehabilitated and refurbished party headquarters on Wallace Johnson street which as everyone knows was brutally attacked, looted and vandalized on three separate occasions by hoodlums of the ruling APC. The last vicious attack was led by the President’s own security detail, an ex-army man by the unenviable num de plume of Lederboot. Like I stated last Friday the funds for the rehabilitation were provided by the Executive Representative of the Secretary-General of the United Nations ERSG. Seeing Michael Von Schulenburg on Friday I felt remorse that some of his own staff had compared him with the notorious Nazis leader and murderer Adolf Hitler. Incidentally I was to learn later that Schulenburg’s own father had been a victim of Nazis atrocity; perhaps that was why the poor man may have felt the sting of a Hitler label.

PUAWUI…DR. SAMA BANYA

The Japanese obviously committed many atrocities and other war crimes on allied Prisoners of War, especially the British and Americans. The experience of Chinese and the Koreans under Japanese invasion and or occupation is a story of its own. Today America’s strongest ally both politically and economically in the area is Japan. After the war and the establishment of peace there were concerns raised in some circles particularly in Britain that the Japanese must not get away lightly for their actions. One of the strongest opponents of any COMPROMISE  with Japan was Lord Russell of Liverpool. He practically led a crusade against any peace deal. When it became inevitable that peace with the former enemy was not only desirable but necessary, he published a book with the title, “We may forgive but we must never forget.”

By Brima Turay

It has emerged that a group of well trained, educated and intelligent set of criminals (419ers) drawn from various countries across Africa have arrived in Freetown to undertake their criminal activities. The New People has learnt that this set of criminals is tagged “Make Fast Money Before Death (MFMBD).

By Kandeh K. Yumkella

I am sure many of you remember the song “We are all going to our classes, with clean hands and faces …… for learning is better than silver and gold”.   In our household in the 1950s, and 1960s, each kid had to recite this song over and over again to our dad. In reviewing Pan-African cultural nationalism, Ali Mazrui, the political historian, notes that romantic primitivism celebrates what is simple about Africa, it salutes the cattle-herder rather than the castle-builder; on the other hand, romantic gloriana celebrates Africa’s more complex achievements, and salutes the pyramids, empires, kingdoms, inventions and discoveries.  Consistent with the current positive world-cup mania, I prefer the gloriana approach.