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By Abubakarr Bah Many leaders before him criminalised free speech and used the seditious libel law to jail journalists, civil society activists and political opponents. His predecessor, Ernest Bai Koroma, promised during the 2007 elections that if he was elected President of Sierra Leone, he would repeal the law. He was elected and five years later re-elected which saw him
By Alpha Abu President Julius Maada Bio has set up a high-powered delegation comprising senior security officials to travel to Conakry soon for talks with the Guinean authorities over the disputed border village of Yenga along the Makona River in the Kailahun District of Sierra Leone. It follows a recent incursion by Guinean soldiers into Yenga, which saw them erecting huge
By KABS KANU
SLBC has effectively been turned into a state-controlled and state- promoting media by this half-baked, lawless and Undemocratic President , Maada Bio, after all the laudable efforts of Presidents Ahmad Tejan Kabba and Ernest Bai Koroma and stakeholders to make it an independent, non-political media , serving the interests of the people.
But this is the reward for sitting down and allowing Britain to impose on us a man who has no respect for law, constitution , convention and civilized modes. Maada Bio is the most uncivilized President we have ever had in Sierra Leone. He does whatever he wants and his docile, stoic and unpatriotic people let him get away with everything. No wonder, while other countries are advancing , we are deteriorating in everything.
Kabs Kanu: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 26 January 2021:
First of all, it should be clear to all by now that Guinea has adopted a CRY-BABY attitude over Yenga. Though it is a known fact from African History and the geographical studies of the Mano River basin that Yenga belongs to Sierra Leone, Guinea appears to be adopting an aggressive policy of always using Yenga to articulate their dissatisfaction with Sierra Leone. And whenever they encroach on Yenga, we appease them by crawling under their feet in the name of diplomatic imperatives to coax them to leave.
From my observation, unless the issue of Yenga is resolved diplomatically or through other options and prerogatives, the problem will always resurface like a sore thumb. Whenever the baby cries and he is given a pacifier, he keeps quiet, but only for a while. After some time, the baby will cry again, and it will need another form of pacifier. We cannot go on like that.