THE CASE OF THE CHARCOAL TRUCK PACKED WITH DIAMBA
It was drama on the highway last weekend, (Saturday) witnessed by your very own TWITTER on your behalf. A hit-and-run truck from Bo area loaded with charcoal was involved in a kind of OJ Simpson-type chase. Blue boys were humiliated by the truck driver’s mastery of the hit-and-run game and embarked on a dangerous road exercise that ended in the arrest of the runaway truck – AFZ 842 with the inscription – SIDI MAMBAY CAPITAL HOLDINGS, BO.
SHE CAN’T TOUCH EVEN HER OWN PARTY WITH A 10-FOOT BARGE POLE
Men in grey will soon arrive at the doorstep of Bernadette Lahai, parliamentary leader of the Green Movement. Things are moving so fast that we cannot guarantee she will still be in place by this time next week. And the normally media-loving MP is running away from the microphone – amazing!
CHOOSE YE THIS DAY WHOM THOU WILT SERVE, O Charles Mambu
This ULTIMATUM thing has further exposed why this government finds it very easy to deal with some of our Civil Society groups. We make particular reference to Charles Mambu's appearance on Star Radio on the morning of Tuesday October 8.
WHAT IF THE SLPP WERE THE U.S. REPUBLICANS
Look, let's get a few things clear before we begin: The SLPP and the APC will never be like the Republican or Democratic parties in the US. Parties in Sierra Leone are not constructed with any ideological backbone. They are there to exploit our people's ethnic prejudices against each other, divide the country along regional and ethnic lines and then capture raw state power to control the people and their resources. That's all.
We also note that America is a mature democracy and the people are well-educated.
Supported by: Open Society Initiative for West Africa (OSIWA)
