Dr. Sama Banya 6 September 2012 In the early 1970s, President Siaka Stevens did not have a resident minister in any of the three regional headquarters. The Provincial Secretary was both the most senior civil servant and representative of the President who reported to him, through the Permanent Secretary in [Read More]
4 September 2012 “We have transferred billions of Leones to the Kenema city and district council to develop Kenema,” president Koroma said during the opening of the much publicised new Kenema shopping centre last Friday. He was responding to accusations that his government has done very little to invest and [Read More]
Dr. Sama Banya: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 4 September 2012: Kenema and Bo are two eastern and southern cities of Sierra Leone that have been deprived of much needed public funds by president Koroma’s government, in its latest round of local council decentralisation cash transfers, while northern cities and towns get the [Read More]
Dr. Sama Banya 1 September 2012 President Koroma recently lampooned the opposition SLPP’s declared manifesto offering – a ‘New Direction for Sierra Leone’ and its policy objectives as nothing, but a set of theories that cannot be taken seriously by the electorate. He was wrong and November 17 will bear [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 31 August 2012: “Sierra Leone’s councils face collapse under the weight of expectation; and six years since the return of local government many councillors and citizens don’t know how they work”, says a Report conducted for the British Department for International Development in May 2011. Rising poverty [Read More]
Ernest Smith 30 August 2012 As President Koroma remains unmoved by the latest cash for political favour scandal, his Vice President is hoping that the fiasco would go away soon. But international publicity intensifies. In the latest issue of Africa Confidential – the world’s leading fortnightly bulletin on African politics, [Read More]
Raymond Dele Awoonor-Gordon 28 August 2012 Why is blowing the trumpets and beating the drums of our political realities not at the epicentre of political discussions today, less than a hundred days to national polls? When the populace do not even know that they have a right to certain necessities [Read More]
Dr. Sama Banya 28 August 2012 I recall the events of that Wednesday morning, when the continuous sound of gunfire reached me as I sat in my Wilberforce Street surgery (now housing GT bank), awaiting the arrival of my staff and patients. It was later followed by a government statement [Read More]
Dr. Sama Banya 25 August 2012 The ruling “new” All Peoples Congress Party (APC), like its predecessor, has always boasted of ninety-nine ways with which they would win elections. Like I have stated over and over again, violence has always been an integral part of that practice and worked to [Read More]
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