By Isaac Massaquoi
Towards the end of last year I accompanied my cousin to the main government road transport bus terminal in Freetown. She was returning to Monrovia after three weeks and I had told her on the eve of her departure that she would be on the Express Service, meaning that she could get to Kenema in good time to be able to connect with vehicles plying the Kenema-Gendema road. It’s a journey that even the drivers who undertake it almost every day absolutely dread.
By Isaac Massaquoi
Like with everything else, people get fed up doing the same things all the time. They look for other challenges and try to meet different people, try out other ideas and get involved in projects to bring other perspectives to an issue. So it is with politics.
By Isaac Massaquoi
Please do this for me: next time you approach the Aberdeen Bridge from the Lumley beach end, look to your right just before you enter it, you will see a gated community – it’s fantastically well laid out. It’s the sort of place anybody would desire to live in. Now half way through the bridge, continue looking to your right across the bay and you will see hundreds of shacks protruding into the sea, made possible by the most rudimentary of land reclamation exercises and it’s basically a disaster waiting to happen.
By Isaac Massaquoi
We have a new parliament. As a nation we must congratulate ourselves that inspite of all the partisan bickering, intimidation and violence, we have elected a parliament that must now prove its worth. Our neighbours in Guinea have an elected president but after two years, they still don’t have a parliament. Let’s thank God for little mercies.
By Isaac Massaquoi
Congratulations on your election to this high office, Your Worship Mayor Of Freetown. It’s a solid achievement. And as your humble subject I hope you will enjoy all the goodies that come with it while keeping your eyes firmly on the enormous challenges ahead. I really mean enormous.
Supported by: Open Society Initiative for West Africa (OSIWA)
