Feature

By Brima Bah

With Sierra Leone football forced to go into administration by a “Normalization Committee”, things could not have got worse. But with the current rigmarole over the elective congress of the Sierra Leone Football Association (SLFA) the glimmers of hope of resuscitating the very fragile game are fast fading away.

 In the midst of the a string of allegations of fraud and bad banking discipline the Sierra Leone Association of Commercial Banks recently elected a new President. The MD of ECOBANK Sierra Leone, Clement Dodoo is saddled with the responsibility to re-railing the reputation of commercial banks which seems to have been knocked off the rail owing to recent scandals. In this interview, he talks to Politico’s Business Editor Tanu Jalloh.

Politico: And why the Association of Sierra Leone Bankers?

By Tilly Barrie

I wouldn’t be able to mind my business with rotten rats under the carpets, sooner or later the stench will become unbearable and as a tax payer I guess I have some privileges without prejudicing anybody or anything.

One needs to speak the truth even if it brings the house down. People are not treating the system with seriousness and are blatantly not covering their “white yams”. Flamboyancy, peacock-style and one-in-town life style is common all over the town.

Money grabbing

By Steven Rogers

On June 30^th 2013, U.S. President Barack Obama spoke at the Johnson Memorial Hall of the University of Cape Town, at the same spot that Robert F. Kennedy delivered his now famous “Ripple of Hope” speech nearly half a century ago. These two American politicians that have inspired the world in so many ways and are separated by so many generations, and world events, have been inseparably allied with the anti-apartheid struggle in South Africa.

By Sallieu T. Kamara

Rainy season at Kroo Bay

I live in Kroo Bay

It has been a terrible night and day

The pitter-patter of the rain

Has brought us so much pain

Our kids can’t go to school

Our rooms look like a pool

Scooping water all night

This is certainly not right

Some say we have been stubborn

Refusing to somewhere else move on

But where else can we afford it?

When to landlords all our savings we’ll forfeit

Resettle us government we are a part of this nation

By Saa Matthias Bendu

There is a fierce dirty war going on in Kono district currently. It is not a war involving military weapons. Rather it is a personality conflict between Vice President Samuel Sam-Sumana and Minister of Local Government Finda Diana Konomanyi. But it is a war that no less atrocious. Both of them are natives of the district. Both are staunch members of the ruling All People's Congress party. And, obviously, both are very senior members of government.