By Isaac Massaquoi
In this column last week, I raised a number of issues and asked questions about the extent to which ordinary Sierra Leoneans feel safe as they go about fending for their families and even within their homes when they retire for the evening.
By Isaac Massaquoi
This time last week Sierra Leone was in still in shock following the tragic death of Dr. Anthony Soyei in a road accident just outside Bo town. Anthony was a man with a bright future ahead of him. A week before his 50th birthday, he met what we must call an untimely death and we should make no mistake, this is a very big loss to his family, his friends and the country.
By Isaac Massaquoi
In less than a month from now, the mercurial and idiosyncratic former Liberian president, Charles Taylor will take up residence in Belmarsh prison, South London to spend the rest of his tragic life. He probably wouldn’t get a life sentence, but forty years which is a real possibility will represent a life sentence for the sixty-four year old. His life could be summed up in this way: here was a man who gained the whole world but will now lose his own soul.
Sierra Leone is to deploy a battalion of troops to Somalia in June. The militant group Al-Shabab have warned them not to step foot on the soil of their country threatening dire consequences. So should or shouldn't Sierra Leone send troops to the war-torn country? Following are two articles arguing for and against the deployment. Further down you will read an argument by Tanu Jalloh in favour of the troop deployment. But first Isaac Massaquoi argues on why sending our troops there is ill-advised.
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