WHAT’S HAPPENING WITH THE REMAINS OF THE COTTON TREE?
If we can recall well what happened a day or after the famous Cotton Tree in the heart of Freetown collapsed in a heavy rainstorm, we were promised a national conversation to determine what to do next about the section of the tree still standing or any other thing great for that area of our city. In fact even before that official promise was made, Sierra Leoneans were already on social media with ideas of what should be done.
RASTA SENGS STEPS INTO ROW OVER HIGH DATA COST
Rasta Sengs says all the good people of Sierra Leone should be “DATA-WISE”. He stopped short of telling us how we should be using our data but things that whatever we decide to with our data should not include going to social media to complain or to even throw in a bit of salty language in frustration at the rising cost of data. Rasta Sengs also believes we should not gossip around on social media and then complain about the high cost of data.
TOLONGBO RETURNS TO THE BIG HOUSE ON TOWER HILL
The rest of the Tolongbo MPs will be in parliament this week to start representing the people who elected them in June. They will join Mohamed Bangura and Alfred Thompson who defied their party’s boycott call and took their seats. From the press gallery we will observe the body language to get a sense of what to expect when serious issues come before the House – in terms of how debates and votes would go during the life of this parliament.
JULIUS MATTAI, SALONE HIGH PRIEST OF PATRIOTISM
When journalists turned up at that hastily organized government news conference at Radisson Blu the other day they thought it was one of those normal events where the government puts out information to the people through the media but it turned out to be a Julius Mattai show because he quickly convinced us of his hatred for the media. Well, he really hates that part of the media that disagrees with him.
WE MUST AVOID ANOTHER ROUND OF INTERNATIONAL COURT BATTLES
Are we walking into another court battle against another of the few significant foreign investors we have in this country? These days nobody wants to remember the long drawn out and costly legal battle we had with what is now Marampa Mining and the reputational damage that caused us. We are slowly gaining the reputation of a country where the leaders sign one agreement with a company only to revoke it a few years down the line and pass the same assets to other business concerns.
Supported by: Open Society Initiative for West Africa (OSIWA)
