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By Mabinty M. Kamara

Presenting its report on the recently conducted Koinadugu District Council and Ward Bye-elections to the wider civil society membership, the National Elections Watch (NEW) has claimed the Sierra Leone Police (SLP) poorly managed the entire process, leading to chaos at polling centres and the seizure of phones of NEW observers by officers. This prompted the Chairperson of the election observation body Marcella Samba Sesay to issue a 48 hour ultimatum to the SLP to return the phones of the NEW staff.

PRINCIPAL KILLS THE DEATH PENALTY WITH HIS PEN

What a difference THREE years make. The picture below shows the Internal Affairs Minister in King Messi’s government, Palo Rossi the great believer in the death penalty keeping watch as prison officers cleaned and tested the gallows at the central jail in Freetown. He left many people wondering why he had to personally supervise the work. At that time he was involved in running battles with young okada riders in the Central Business District of Freetown.

SOME OKADA BOYS ARE ARMED ROBBERS AND IT’S GETTING SERIOUS

SMILING MAYOR KEMOKAI AT KROO BAY DISASTER ZONE

SLRA THINK AGAIN ABOUT PADEMBA ROAD – MENDS STREET JUNCTION

THE CHIPS ARE DOWN IN LUNGI AND BIG HEADS COULD ROLL

MAYOR KEMOKAI REFUSES TO ACT AGAINST RAMPANT STREET TRADING 

We have to now put our hands up and admit that we have lost control of some of the main streets in Freetown and other major cities to street trading and the criminal behavior accompanying it. Half of Rawdon Street and Back Street in Freetown cannot now be accessed by motorists because they have been taken over by traders. That largely explains the usual gridlock in the Central Business District and high levels of criminal activity in those places.