By Isaac Massaquoi
In the Claws of Cholera
By Isaac Massaquoi
On Wednesday afternoon, I received the following text message from the Ministry of Health: “Prevent cholera: Always wash hands with soap after using the toilet.” I am quite sure hundreds of thousands of other Sierra Leoneans also received it.
Here they come again
By Isaac Massaquoi
We are getting deeper and deeper into that season again when politicians come out of their “supernatural” forms to become ordinary people once again. These days they are seen all over the place, pretending to be very friendly. They are now visiting old friends they abandoned five years ago; they are visiting densely populated depressed communities, making gestures and engaging in naked bribery just to secure votes. Why do these people believe we can’t see through this ritual façade?
As you stand in the queue
By Isaac Massaquoi
Let’s imagine that today’s date is November 17 2012 and you’ve just bought a copy of Politico newspaper. You will probably be reading while standing in one of the long queues that would have formed outside polling stations all over the country with people waiting to cast their votes. Counting from today we have only one hundred days left. So it is pretty close, isn’t it? On November 17 you will be making a very important decision that we have often treated with levity.
Trye on my mind
By Isaac Massaquoi
Sierra Leone has been hit by high profile deaths in recent times and I am tempted to ask the whole nation to pray for God’s mercy on us. It started with SLPP majority leader Momoh Pujeh, then came the president’s mother, Madam Alice Koroma. On the day she was being laid to rest the congregation at the Wesleyan church in Makeni was stunned to hear that Deputy Speaker of Parliament Chukuma Johnson had died of some kind of a sudden attack.
WADR: Re-focus now or die
By Isaac Massaquoi
The governing board of the West Africa Democracy Radio have what could be the last opportunity to do something radical about a radio station that promised so much but has delivered so little that many people who applauded the idea of setting up a radio station to promote open governance in West Africa of all places are today quietly re-thinking their support for this initiative.
