203 APC members defect to SLPP

Kadie Sesay

By Elkass I.L. Sannoh

SLPP running mate Kadie Sesay

The Koindugu District Vice Chairlady, Madam Iye Bah Jawarah, who resides at 4 Lamina Street in Kabala together with two hundred and two members from the ruling All Peoples Congress (APC), have declared for the opposition Sierra Leone Peoples Party [...]

Voice of the future – Defections galore, healthy for democracy!

Democracy

Barely a day passes without one hearing of one individual or group of people leaving one political party to join the other. In most of the instances, the reasons they give for taking the decision are varied, ranging from marginalization to bullying, from ungratefulness to lack of acknowledgement of efforts of these individuals [...]

What does Maada Bio have to hide? -Part 2

Jarrah Kawusu-Konte

By Jarrah Kawusu-Konte

Jarrah Kawusu-Konte

As I noted in yesterday’s Part One of this piece, the effectiveness of government institutions is almost always impaired where corruption is endemic and when it is allowed to flourish without checks, it is the people who suffer most for lack of clean pipe-borne water, [...]

‘I have not resigned from the SLPP’ – Tom Nyuma says

Tom Nyuma, Chairman, Kailahun District Council

Bampia Bundu

Tom Nyuma, Chairman, Kailahun District Council

The Chairman of the Kailahun District Council, Retired Lieutenant Colonel  Tom Nyuma, has told this paper that he has not yet resigned as a member of the main opposition Sierra Leone Peoples Party (SLPP), even though he had declared for the ruling [...]

Bridging this politics of hate

politics

By Osman Benk Sankoh

It is visibly visible. You can smell it. You can even feel it in the air spreading like tear gas meant to disperse a raucous crowd at the centre of town. And like a typical war game, the key actors have dug in very [...]

Sierra Leone browbeats the almighty UN

HE President Ernest Bai Koroma

By Zainab Kanu

HE President Ernest Bai Koroma

Sierra Leone is regarded as a model of post-conflict reconstruction.

An 11 year civil war that left some 50,000 dead by 2002 was overcome with the help of blue-hated UN  Peacekeepers. In 2007 power changed hands in fair elections for [...]

SLPP Councilor set free

SLPP

By Femi Coker

The Sierra Leone Peoples Party (SLPP) Councilor elect, Mr. Mohamed Kanu Mansaray,  and three others were yesterday  granted bail  by Magistrate Claude Kamanda of Court No. 2 in the sum of one hundred million Leones (Le 100 M)  each with one surety each and [...]

MY VIEW: And the SLPP raises the red flag

redflag

The most recent press release from the SLPP stating that the APC is hiring ex combatants to register at the SLPP strongholds in Kailahun and Pujehun is indeed baffling to say the least.

When I read the release, it sparked off thoughts in my head. Is the SLPP [...]