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State House deployed dozens of armed Police officers with sub machine guns with the sole aim of intimidating and arresting the supporters of a Student Union elections candidate who they see as an SLPP supporter.

Police prevented over 150 students from voting and openly intimidated male students with beating and 2 female students were  physically and verbally molested by Police who say openly they have been sent to FBC by State House and not by the Inspector General of police. APC believes that if they maintain a stranglehold over students’ union politics, they'll have a major restive force under control.

Life is a survival game, yet it does not always have to be solely about survival. There are times when the processes of survival in life must be interceded with acceptable principles. Here, we do not mean principles that stacks the odds of success in life to the corrupt few, but principles that create an adequate enabling environment for the survival of the masses. For far too long now, life survival game in Sierra Leone has overwhelmingly favored the corrupt few at an untold expense of the masses. In fact, realizing life in Sierra Leone is a persistent nightmare for over 90% of the population.

When I first came to the United States and was the Editor of the New People Newspaper online, one of the first issues I handled was to send the genuine signal to the international community that Sierra Leone is about to be plunged into war once again by this present APC government led by Ernest Bai Koroma. That was about two years now, and by the way things are unfolding,  that country is about to be plunged into the worst kind of illegal trade in the world.

When I first saw a helicopter landing at the Choithram’s Hospital helipad with cocaine, I was alarmed and said it in public at the Police headquarters.

It has been more than two weeks since Maada Bio wrote his now famous Press Release on ‘Re-armament, Deployment and Registration of Ex-combatants in the South and Eastern Provinces’. No doubts, whichever way the APC spin doctors describe it, ‘scare mongering’, ‘sadistic and satanic’ or ‘mischievous’, surely the APC election strategists must have seriously been rattled or politically wounded. However, the subject of this piece was my greatest shock when I read an editorial piece last week from the pro-APC newspaper, The Sierra Leone Daily Mail titled ‘If Inspector General Francis Munu can’t make Maada Bio honour the Police summon then he needs to resign’.

Our President is a man who delights in creating and promulgating sham statements with impunity.  In reflecting on the past elections of 2007, we must not forget that this President wrote a letter to the international community accusing SLPP of having the intention to rig the election. He is now contending that his letter was quite unlike that of our flag bearer saying that it was based on facts. Where are the facts?

This show of blatant lying distinguishes the social club (APC) from a civilized and democratic party like SLPP.

Ahead of this year’s November presidential and parliamentary polls, President Ernest Bai Koroma is reported to have continued to personally indulge in actions that build the strong case for his indictment at the International Criminal Court (ICC) as highest responsibility bearer for the spate of abuses from the political violence occurring for the first time under his regime since the country’s peace transition started with the end of the war in 2002.

In the month of February 2012 alone, it is said that the red party leader has continued to receive and ignore red flags from the international media, academicians, diplomats, donors, civil society and

Very Credible reports reaching this press have confirmed that European and British security experts  conducting an audit of “new” security scanners recently bought for Lungi International Airport have condemned the equipment as sub-standard and inadequate for the very high security standards expected for international aviation security.

The equipment have recently been purchased after a rather controversial procurement process which gave the contract to a close friend of the President, Mr. Con Davies. 

The Martin family knows something about themselves that few if any families will ever learn about their past. They're able to trace their ancestry back hundreds of years to a little girl. Her name was Priscilla. She was 10 years old. Priscilla was kidnapped in Sierra Leone west Africa in 1756, and shipped to Charleston, South Carolina, where she lived her entire life as a slave.

Priscilla's spirit is alive and well in her modern day relatives, the Martins, who live not far from where Priscilla toiled on a plantation. They are believed to be the only African Americans with such a detailed link to the past. And what's even more remarkable is that this centuries old family tree, spreading over at least 7 generations, is documented on paper. For most African American families there is no record of where their ancestors came from, and almost no chance of finding one.