WAEC INDICTMENTS: WE CHECK OUT THE IMPLICATIONS
The Anti Corruption Commission has indicted an official of the West African Examinations Council WAEC in Freetown accusing him of altering grades in favor of a female candidate who is apparently at large. This case is going to the courts and we will be there to report the courtroom action.
We may be wrong but this is perhaps the first time somebody from inside WAEC has been indicted for allegedly attempting to tamper with exam grades. In the past teachers were arrested for creating so-called Special Rooms where candidates who could come up with the cash were taken and helped to write their exams. Those teachers – well some of them were paraded near the Cotton Tree in broad daylight to shame them out of their bad habit but the ACC received a sound beating in court of public opinion for that tactic.
We are living in a country where complaints are mounting about the fact that the grades candidates are turning up with at Universities have failed to match the performances of their owners in class.
The eye of the country is on this case. Several pairs of eyes from all over the WORLD are on this case and the outcome could have very serious implications for our students seeking to enter universities abroad in particular. Anyway, keep reading Politico for the details.
MACKY SALL AND HIS UNFINISHED BUSINESS AT STATE HOUSE
What is happening on the streets of Senegal is simply a disgrace. It is totally unnecessary. President Macky Sall alone knows why he has decided to plunge his once peaceful and democratic country into the kind of mess the world is watching on TV now. Why does Sall really want another year in that office he has occupied for two terms?
How can this same man be safeguarding democracy and peace in The Gambia and Sierra Leone while destroying the same in his own country?
We believe that postponing the elections by a year was something he planned long ago. This idea that it was as a result of last minute disagreements over the rights of certain candidates to contest and all that is complete rubbish, a smokescreen to make a mockery of himself and those who looked forward to Sall behaving like a decent democrat. This is what we suspect to be the PLAN B to his failed THIRD TERM bid. Sall wants to put a puppet in the State House so that he would continue to play with power in retirement. He believes his man needs more time to be able to compete with the actual front runners in this campaign. Departing Heads of State in Africa are always reluctant to quit. Why?
The world has just been taught a real lesson in what happens when people are determined to achieve a certain objective. Imran Khan has just won an election from his jail cell in Pakistan. He was locked up there to prevent him from running. Even his wife who could easily have taken over the PTI is also in jail.
No matter what Macky Sall does, the people would have the last laugh.
DISGUSTING SCENES AT SALONE FEMALE LEAGUE MATCH
We are waiting to see what Brima and SLFA are going to do about the disgraceful incident at Angola Field that has now gone viral on social media, absolutely shaming Sierra Leone again. If the SLFA stops at issuing one of those bland statements condemning but doing nothing beyond that, they should be ready for those of us who are completely FED UP with bad behavior in football.
The sight of a referee, particularly a female being chased into her dressing room is totally disgusting. The few police officers around did their best to protect the woman but their best was certainly not enough.
We will not allow this particular unprovoked attack to go unpunished.
1. Those who normally argue that football was a game of passion so such irrational behavior should be treated in that context should be ashamed of themselves. We want justice for that lady. Political considerations ahead of 2025 should not come into this.
2. Constant complaints about standards of refereeing do not even begin to explain such criminal behavior. Referees are human. There is no VAR in Sierra Leone so unless people can verifiable prove that the officials cheated under the influence of something, we will continue to dismiss those complaints.
3. For now we will not press certain names home but we should note that those names are around our game. Justice must prevail. SLFA should suspend, fine and even go to the High Court to ban certain hooligans from all their matches across the country. It can be done.
ARREST SOME “CLEAN SALONE” BOYS IMMEDIATELY
What we are about to say here is not true of all the young guys who have decided to make a living by picking up trash from homes across this city to deposit at designated landfill locations. As far we are concerned the majority of them are doing a good job and at the same time earning an honest living. We urge them to continue doing that job in a city where the local authority has almost completely abandoned that responsibility. The FCC’s favorite tactic is to constantly fight with the central government over social media while ignoring their job of keeping Freetown clean.
Last week we published two articles calling the attention of FCC to an utterly embarrassing situation on the road to Fourah Bay College campus. From nowhere a new BORMEH appeared with the consequences for the health and safety of thousands of students who use that road to and from college daily. The FCC refused to talk to us about that. Fourah Bay College was forced to clear the rubbish but as things stand there is no guarantee that rubbish wouldn’t suddenly reappear in that space. No action has been taken to prevent that.
Let’s bring this other scenario to the attention of the FCC. Some of these so-called CLEAN SALONE boys – the criminal elements among them are the ones collecting bags of rubbish from homes and depositing them on our street corners. We have observed this situation for a reasonable period of time and we are confident that we’ve made the correct call at this time.
1. The FCC should properly organize the CLEAN SALONE initiative so the good guys can stand out from the criminal elements collecting rubbish from homes and depositing it on our streets.
2. The push carts they use should be registered and be made to operate in identified zones. They should pay their taxes.
3. Whatever happened to that zonal sanitation thing that the FCC organized in the early days of 2018? Maybe it became a casualty of the big woman’s cable car and overriding love of social media, including Facebook live.
4. By the way, what’s the point of employing media people at FCC if they feel so intimidated by the big woman that they cannot respond to a simple media query about a mound of garbage near a University campus? We know madam ADORES her highly sanitized appearances on selected TV stations but we represent the people who pay the taxes with which she runs the FCC. Why not scrap the FCC media department and use that money to pay your beloved so-called DELIVERY TEAM?
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