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Dele Awoonor-Gordon

We are close to the bottom – but Salone shall rise again

May 7, 2019 Abdul Rashid Thomas 4

Raymond Dele Awoonor-Gordon: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 7 May 2019: The only thing worse than collective amnesia is wilful selective amnesia. It is a highly potent concentrated brew of sheer hypocrisy, genetic mediocrity and downright amorality. Our worst can’t bring out our best, obviously one would think. People are not interested [Read More]

Dele Awoonor-Gordon

If nothing has changed then let’s start calling a spade a spade

May 7, 2019 Abdul Rashid Thomas 5

Raymond Dele Awoonor-Gordon: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 7 May 2019: There is a usual angst when it comes to writing about public figures, especially when these figures are politicians who are caught in the eye of the storm. But it is funny that the dogs are out so soon to give [Read More]

Politics & Law

Ministry of Lands is disobeying the law – says Sierra Leone Bar Association

May 6, 2019 Abdul Rashid Thomas 6

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 6 May 2019: As anger grows in Freetown over the SLPP government’s continuing forceful repossession of lands and property owned by Krio families in the capital into State ownership, the country’s Bar Association representing Barristers, has today published a statement condemning the government’s action. The ministry of [Read More]

Politics & Law

Government’s dispossession of Krio ancestral land risks fuelling further marginalisation

May 6, 2019 Abdul Rashid Thomas 9

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 6 May 2019: Last week the editor of the Sierra Leone Telegraph contacted Sierra Leone’s minister of lands – Dr Denis Sandy, about allegations of heavy-handed government grabbing of ancestral land belonging to Krio families in the country’s capital Freetown. Minister Sandy was unapologetic, if not undiplomatic [Read More]

Politics & Law

Krio land dispossession in Freetown – citizens call for president Bio’s intervention

May 6, 2019 Abdul Rashid Thomas 10

Amin Kef: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 6 May 2019: A concerned constitutionalist has spoken about the many complaints made against Sierra Leone’s  Minister of Lands – Dr. Denis Sandy. He said that the fundamental role of any government is the protection and promotion of the rights and liberties of its citizens, [Read More]

Politics & Law

In this game of intolerant politics – who should blink first?

May 4, 2019 Abdul Rashid Thomas 6

Winstanley R. Bankole Johnson: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 4 May 2019: Counting down to our 58th Independence Anniversary, our country stands more polarized in the last twelve months, than ever before. We keep denying it, but that fact continues to be inadvertently acknowledged. And it comes out effortlessly from statements of [Read More]

Politics & Law

Time to call APC’s bluff – enough is enough

May 4, 2019 Abdul Rashid Thomas 12

Puawui – Dr Sama Banya: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 4 May 2019: I have known and been associated with the leadership of the All Peoples Congress (APC) party since 1968 when they decided to hold bye-elections to fill the large number of vacancies all over the country. The vacancies themselves arose [Read More]

Politics & Law

APC government was characterised by divisiveness and exclusion – says president Bio

May 2, 2019 Abdul Rashid Thomas 5

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 2 May 2019: President Julius Maada Bio’s delivery of his televised and radio broadcast state opening of parliament address, was overshadowed today by the spectacular walking out by opposition APC MPs, who are protesting against what they see as the president’s abuse of power. But their walk [Read More]

Politics & Law

Sierra Leone’s democracy at crossroads as opposition APC walks out of parliament  

May 2, 2019 Abdul Rashid Thomas 14

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 2 May 2019: Sierra Leone’s main opposition All People’s Congress Party (APC) members of parliament, today staged a dramatic walk out of the country’s parliament as the president was about to deliver his state opening of parliament address. Dressed in their red communist combatant style beret, the [Read More]

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