By Isaac Massaquoi
Land that we do not have...
By Isaac Massaquoi
The recent arrest and detention of prominent opposition leader Charles Margai has once again called the nation’s attention to the festering wound that we have continuously covered with plaster hoping we will wake up one morning to find the wound healed. It will never happen.
Relocate Pademba Road Jail and Then What?
By Isaac Massaquoi
There’s no doubt anymore that the Pademba Road jail will be relocated to somewhere beyond Waterloo in the Western Area rural district. The details of the relocation such as a definite spot and a few other issues are still not in the public domain although newspapers have carried pictures and stories of the deputy minister of internal affairs, Sheka Tarawallie, visiting the Pademba Road prison with an official of the company that will probably construct the news prison, andinspecting some possible sites.
Retreating in the face of lawlessness
By Isaac Massaquoi
The annual Inter-Secondary School athletics meeting for this year has been cancelled. The official in charge at the Ministry of Education was on radio last week saying that the schools are not ready and that the Conference of Principals is not quite warm to the idea.
Here comes the rain again
By Isaac Massaquoi
Sierra Leone is in for the wettest rainy season in many years, this year. This statement is not based on any sound meteorological study. Well you may want to ask me how I came to that conclusion. It is informed by the curtain-raiser to this year's rainy season as I have experienced in Bo and Freetown over the last three weeks. In both cities, it poured down like it was late July. Just in case my prediction falls through please understand that I only took a lay man’s approach to weather forecasting.
Lars Olof Mattson's resignation is good riddance!
By Isaac Massaquoi
Who’s with me? Lars Olof Mattson was never in charge of the national football team, Leone Stars despite his official designation as coach.
