As we mourn the death of a great and gracious Monarch who once said " Grief is the price we pay for Love" , let us continue to be guided by her enduring legacy of selfless and endless service and duty to country and a limitless love for humanity. Rest in Peace our Glorious Queen.
The passing away of Queen Elizabeth II marks the end of a remarkable era of serenity and stability not only for the realm and the commonwealth but the world at large.
May her legacy of mutual love, respect and unity endureth forever . Rest in Peace our Queen of true distinction.
The ugly incidents of 10th August 2022 turned out to be one of the most violent and macabre in our countryโs turbulent history perhaps upstaged only by the January 6 1999 rebel armageddon, when RUF rebels laid siege to Freetown in the heat of our countryโs eleven years civil war.
The Public Elections Bill of 2022 is not about which electoral system should be adopted for the 2023 elections, it is simply about womenโsโ enhanced political participation, the secured tenure of electoral commissioners and the resignation period of public official aspirants.
Proportional Representation with its socio- economic, democratic and security benefits is far more preferable for the acceleration of a peaceful democratic polity and the furtherance of national cohesion and our overall development strive into a prosperous and stable nation.
The recent denial of women to peaceful assembly and protest against the punishing and unprecedented global cost of living which has made our country almost unlivable is in direct contravention of their basic rights.
Unfortunately, like governments in Africa, in Sierra Leone, the police have always used section 17 of the Public Order Act 1965 to protect governments from probity and criticism by simply refusing to allow protests in the name of national security.
COVID 19 and the Russia โ Ukraine war is now the convenient excuse for every government, both inept and competent for the poor state of their economies.
For a poor and relatively unstable post war country, I am of the conviction that Sierra Leone cannot afford the divisive, economically burdensome and ethnic violence prone western style constituency-based elections.
Constituency based elections places an undue economic burden on our governmentโs lean treasury. The delimitation of boundaries into constituencies and the disaggregation of populations say in a district by constituencies require enormous resources.
President Trumpโs Legacy will include an acutely divided USA under his watch , reckless and irresponsible governance from the White House, insurrection against and denigration of the citadel of democracy and an era of American insignificance in the world.
President Trump and his ardent supporters continued denial and failure to accept that they woefully lost the just concluded 2020 polls is both unpatriotic and undemocratic and a posture history will surely condemn.
Congratulations to all Americans for using the ballot box to see the end of an unfortunate and embarrassing era; the Trump Presidency will be remembered as a flash in the pan and a humiliating aberration .
With two days to go I call on all progressive and independent American voters to come out in their numbers and vote Trump out of the White House so as to restore sanity, integrity and honour to the office of the President of the Free World.
Democrat Presidential candidate Joe Biden last night spoke from his heart and told Americans the kind of leadership, policies and values the United States need today to once again restore its image and provide global leadership. Itโs now up to the American electorate to decide.
Another day of violence, lawlessness, hate and division in the midst of a deadly pandemic. ALMIGHTY ALLAH direct us to the path of unity, mutual respect and commitment to fight and defeat COVID-19 our invisible enemy No.1.
In Africa, our short term goal in fighting COVID-19 is to continue to strengthen our health care systems and testing capacity; support firms and protect the most vulnerable households to cope with the nagative impact of the pandemic.