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LEICESTER ROAD JUNCTION AND "WORKS YARD" PUNISHMENT

We have to once again call attention to the way the construction companies doing some roads in this country are treating the people. These companies have no respect for the people. In fact they believe they are doing us a favour and we should start our day by worshipping them. For the last week or so, thousands of people between Leicester Road and Gloucester have been put through one of the most horrific experiences of their lives.

GUINEA EBOLA ATTACK THREATENS SALONE BUT HOW HAVE WE RESPONDED?

Our neignbours in the Republic of Guinea are under attack by the dreaded EBOLA virus. Scores of lives have been lost and the prediction as to what will happen in the coming weeks, is not looking good. On this side of the border we can only pray for God to take direct control of the situation and spare the lives of our brothers and sisters in Guinea. some of Guinea's other neighbours have closed their borders but should Sierra Leone do the same? Can we afford that?

BURIED IN PARLIAMENT OR NOT: WOULD KABBAH BE BOTHERED?

In the end the man who restored peace to Sierra Leone and re-established and improved the country's institutions after a brutal and disgraceful civil war, one party dictatorship and military coups that last decades was buried at Kissy Road Cemetery over the weekend. First of all we should all congratulate ourselves as Sierra Leoneans for coming together despite all odds to pay our respect to a fallen HERO.

WELL DONE SO FAR MASADA. BUT WE HAVE SOME CONCERNS

After a really slow start dogged by politically-inspired challenges by an inefficient Freetown Waste Management Company, MASADA is beginning to hit top marks. Well done!

We know that cleaning Freetown is a very difficult job. And with an American-accented manager, we wonder how those illiterate old men doing the actual cleaning are coping. But she knows her stuff and she sounds great on radio. Good work!

PA KABBAH'S  DEATH: WHAT LESSONS FOR US HERE FOR NOW?

Meteorologists have something to say about the rain that hit different parts of the country over the last few days but we beg that they allow us to believe that the ground is being softened up for the remains of the late president to be lowered into Mother Earth.

SO DE PA IS "BUILDING ON THE FOUNDATION LAID BY PA KAKKAH"?

We are very clear now that Pa Kabbah's 10 years in office was not all about some Sierra Leoneans having "a bad heart".  That is the favourite line from the Kabbah years that government officials us to attack their critics - "BAD HEART".

CIVIL SOCIETY ORGANISATIONS AND THAT NOT-SO-HIDDEN HAND

As the parliamentary enquiry into how some civil society groups spent a whopping 51 million Euros in election-related activities in 2012 gets underway, we promise intense wall-to-wall coverage. We expect to hear a lot about per diems, fuel allocations, mobile phone top-up bills and SENSITIZATION workshops plus many more.