Dr. Sama Banya 15 September 2012 Your Excellency, the Thursday, 13 September, 2012, front page of the Awareness times newspaper carried a report of an interview, which its publisher – Sylvia Olayinka Blyden, said you granted her, following the decision at State House on Thursday to return to the 2007 [Read More]
Dr. Sama Banya: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 11 September 2012 The publisher of the Standard Times newspaper is notorious in the profession for his malevolence, character assassination and of course prejudice. He is among the majority of journalists who in recent times have looked at ‘The Truth’ straight in the eye [Read More]
Dr. Sama Banya 8 September 2012 The leadership of the All Peoples Congress (APC) Party has stopped at nothing in order to cling to the Presidency and control the Parliament of tomorrow. And, like I have persistently called attention, they have gone from one dishonourable path to another, in achieving [Read More]
Dr. Sama Banya 6 September 2012 In the early 1970s, President Siaka Stevens did not have a resident minister in any of the three regional headquarters. The Provincial Secretary was both the most senior civil servant and representative of the President who reported to him, through the Permanent Secretary in [Read More]
Dr. Sama Banya: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 4 September 2012: Kenema and Bo are two eastern and southern cities of Sierra Leone that have been deprived of much needed public funds by president Koroma’s government, in its latest round of local council decentralisation cash transfers, while northern cities and towns get the [Read More]
Dr. Sama Banya 1 September 2012 President Koroma recently lampooned the opposition SLPP’s declared manifesto offering – a ‘New Direction for Sierra Leone’ and its policy objectives as nothing, but a set of theories that cannot be taken seriously by the electorate. He was wrong and November 17 will bear [Read More]
Dr. Sama Banya 25 August 2012 The ruling “new” All Peoples Congress Party (APC), like its predecessor, has always boasted of ninety-nine ways with which they would win elections. Like I have stated over and over again, violence has always been an integral part of that practice and worked to [Read More]
Dr. Sama Banya 21 August 2012 A colleague asked me last week whether I now trusted Christiana Thorpe – the chairman of the National Electoral Commission (NEC) to conduct transparent, free, fair and credible elections in Sierra Leone next November. Recently, I announced that I had made up my mind [Read More]
Dr. Sama Banya 20 August 2012 The editor of the Independent Observer quite rightly echoes the sentiments of veteran journalist Clarence Roy-Macaulay, over the Yenga issue. Their concern is understandable, considering the hypocritical jubilation by the APC operatives and the likes of Sahr Mokuwa and Balogun Koroma that the APC [Read More]
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