HAND TO HAND COMBAT ON FOURAH BAY COLLEGE CAMPUS
The dust raised by the dismissal of the Court of the University of Sierra Leone by the Minister of Higher Education has still not settled and now we woke up a few days ago to a video of two students in disgraceful hand to hand combat in broad daylight at FBC campus. The video has since gone viral and as usual comments are flying all over the place.
Think about those proud parents who sent their 19 or 20 year old children to study at FBC seeing them fighting on campus. We can only imagine how many calls they would have received from family members and friends from all over the world.
The other day FBC issued a statement indicating they would strictly enforce a dress code befitting their students. This was seen as a signal of the college administration moving to get a grip on what many now call a fall in standards of discipline on the campus. A few weeks after that, 11 students were arrested and detained after tear gas and gun shots to quell rioting on an otherwise quiet night. Riot police are still deployed there.
Now we have this viral video of these two girls in a dog fight only a few yards from the main administrative building on the campus. So what was all this about? We’ve been reading a lot of the comments on social media so far and we find them interesting. Here’s what we think:
1. The fight was about issues brought over from their secondary school. In fact other students were supposed to get involved but the presence of smartphones and the possibility of sanctions from the college deterred them.
2. One of the young women took exception to an unusual closeness between her guy and the other combatant. She wanted to teach her some lessons in HANDS OFF MY GUY.
3. It could also be that it was all about the so-called BLACK and White camps on that campus.
4. Maybe they were tricking out self-defence skills they were taught in preparation for admission to FBC where students are sometimes attacked by small-time criminals on their way to the campus.
THINGS ARE QUIET AGAIN AT NRA
It was quite refreshing to see the new NRA boss in an official media event talking about their revenue projections and targets. Actually, there’s nothing new about that but what we have noticed since that change occurred is that there has also been a 360 degree change in leadership style in the tax office. This is what we are talking about:
1. Yes, she went back to celebrate her return to the tax office with her people but we didn’t see anything that looked like that mile-long convoy of vehicles in a glorious entry to Pujehun town with the big woman waving from side to side to crowds energized for that purpose
2. We have been spared this daily publication of monies collected followed by NRA and arguments about the figures being fake and all that. Nobody likes paying taxes but we are compelled by the law to do so. That’s why we didn’t like to be constantly reminded about what the government was taking from us daily. We also found the controversy around the figures completely avoidable.
3. The new boss doesn’t yet have too many people within the NRA fighting to bring her down. Well, she has just returned as the boss. Maybe we should wait for a few months.
3. Lady Kpaka – Bangura does not have an army of young boys on social media singing her praise all day long and attacking other Sierra Leone for being even slightly critical of the Roman General.
5. We have not yet been told that Lady Kpaka-Bangura is planning to lift her eyes up to State Avenue. That's a complicating factor.
SIERRA LEONEANS SHOULD GROW WHAT THEY EAT
No matter how much we grumble about the cost of a bag of rice, it will keep going up. The people of this country have to make a decision to grow what they eat or continue to depend on other countries where people spend their time working to feed themselves and to make money from agriculture.
They don’t spend all their time talking about politics on the streets, in offices, football stadiums or even cemeteries. Why should we complain about the cost of rice produced in Cambodia and shipped halfway around the world to Sierra Leone? The farmers out there work really hard so they should enjoy the benefit of their labor.
We have seen social media photos of individual farmers or groups of farmers, including military personnel showing off their harvest. That’s the way to go. Cambodia is not a rich country. The farmers in India, China and Pakistan are just like our own farmers. Why should they feed us?
Our politicians would gladly buy bags and bags of imported rice to distribute to supporters who spend several hours a day at so-called ATAYA BASES instead of asking them to go to the bush and grow food. As long as people continue to sell their votes so cheaply, politicians will continue to supply bags of rice. So we can continue to grumble about the cost of a bag of imported rice for as long as we can, the farmers in Cambodia, Pakistan, China and India will continue to work and make money. This is the FEED SALONE time and we continue talking about POLITICS. Kushe yah!
REACTIONS TO THE BAN ON COCO SAMBA
We announced the ban on Coco Samba on our front page the other day and since then we've been trying to gauge public opinion on the issue. So far, we can confidently say that a large number of those that have contacted us are totally against the ban. They want Coco Samba to be legalized because it’s now part of their staple. Our readers said the following:
1. Coco Samba has been around for about THREE years, how come the Pharmacy Board was acting only now?
2. They’ve consumed the herbal drink all this while with no adverse health consequences so what is all this noise and eventual banning of the drink?
3. Why didn’t the Pharmacy Board or Standards Bureau stop Coco Samba from being brought into this country in the first place?
4. In fact, the Pharmacy Board has been bribed by business people jealous of the popularity of Coco Samba.
We have just summarized the main comments sent to us by our readers. Here’s our reply: We trust the Pharmacy Board and we urge ALL SIERRA LEONEANS to respect their conclusions on this Coco Samba drink. There are safe alternatives. We don’t want to have to pick up the bills when people start turning up at public hospitals with complications bordering on the side effects of Coco Samba.
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