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TAM BARYOH FREED: SALONE MEDIA PLEASE DON'T CELEBRATE

Ok let's celebrate for a few minutes because we have one of our own back from the hell called Pademba Road Correctional Centre. How we wish that were so – that the central prison was truly a correctional centre! The authorities admit that the place was meant for 300 people but that they now have close to 2,000 people banged up there. The same authorities pride themselves in having a good human rights record. How strange! We are always busy locking people up yet we claim to have an enviable human rights record.

By Allieu Sahid Tunkara

The 30-minute interview I had with the Executive Director of the Constitutional Review Committee, Samuel Coker at the Miatta Conference Center, brought to light crucial information that I would like to share with you.

By Ezekiel Nabieu

By Francis Ben Kaifala

Age has the advantage of wisdom and the disadvantage of tiredness. Both the consideration of the wisdom that age brings and the tiredness that it can lead to are often in the minds of Lawmakers when drafting requirement for positions. Thomas Paine (1737-1809) wrote thus:

“When in countries that are called civilized, we see age going to the workhouse and youth to the gallows, something must be wrong in the system of government”.

By Ezekiel Nabieu

Language has to do with words and their use which differentiates us from the lower animals. “Now the whole earth had one language and few words” (Genesis 11:1). There arose the Tower of Babel when the Lord is reported to have confused the language of all the earth.

By Ezekiel Nabieu

I am inclined to use the word KUDOS that has become a buzz-word for praise. In fact it is an informal word for honour and glory but the tendency for most people is the use of new words in spite of real meanings. In old English let me say: If thou doest well shall thou not be praised? Let us give the devil his due. Like all institutions, the SLBC has its merits and demerits.

By Sheik Bakar Kamara