Road to Sierra Leone’s development: Changing our thinking and mindset

Mohamed C. Bah – NDA Presidential aspirant

31 July 2012

I will continue to be an advocate for a better Sierra Leone, where everyone enjoys the wealth of our nation. I will continue to introduce the psychological and hidden problems – the one we never discuss openly – about the development of our future.

We always see our circumstances and challenges more or less as logistical inadequacies or intangible economic infrastructures, not the attitude and mindset of how we think or behave as a nation.

The physical deficiencies of what we need or lack are the symptoms and not the fundamental problems.

Our poverty may not be the lack of endowed natural wealth or human resources, but the prevalence of an uncompassionate mind that think so poorly as to deny the very basic welfare of our own citizens.

Thank God, Sierra Leone is not located in the desert, nor lacks the natural resources to build its own prosperous future.

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The unhealthy cost of Sierra Leone’s 2012 elections

31 July 2012

Sierra Leone’s National Electoral Commissioner – Christiana Thorpe is never too far away from controversy. If she is not being accused of rigging votes in favour of the ruling APC party as she was in 2007, she will be accused of administrative manipulation of the voter registration system to favour her pay masters.

But yesterday saw opposition politicians of all colours, reeling at the latest bombshell dropped by the Commissioner.

She has massively raised the registration fees for all candidates contesting the presidential and general elections in November. Is she playing politics, or is she demonstrating her sheer lack of business management skills?

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