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THE HIGH COMMISSIONER AND RIGHT-HAND DRIVE VEHICLES

Politicians have always accused the media of quoting them out of context, being sensational, accentuating the negative and all that. Here is a classic case of a politician abandoning his own public position on a matter as simple as banning right-hand drive vehicles from the streets of Sierra Leone. We all saw the TV programme in which the High Commissioner made his views known to the country. His views were widely reported in the local press.

GREEN MOVEMENT VIOLENCE BEGINS IN THE EAST 

The combat headquarters of the Green Movement has been moved to the east of the country. In the week when they 'quietly' turned the sod for the construction of their party office, partisans put on their boxing gloves and attacked each other in the most disgraceful of fashion. It seems now that every little disagreement in that movement ends in a fight.

THE CLUELESS OPPOSITION AND THE IGR REPORT

Look at the way the main opposition party, the SLPP, has been playing around with the IGR report on the coming census. In fact, it's their attitude to the report that has created some good drama for us apart from that disastrous radio appearance by a guy from Statistics Sierra Leone. He was totally unable to land any significant punch on the IGR document. IGR is a credible institution that should be a pride to Sierra Leone. Well done!

UNCLE BOB IS CHAIRMAN OF THE AFRICAN UNION: REALLY?

AGBA KHOLIFA vs. THE TRAFFIC WARDEN: WHERE'S JUSTICE?

On the Road With the Queen of Sierra Leone Football

The queen of Sierra Leone Football has just returned from a trip to Europe. She is no stranger to the place and we cannot even begin to count the air miles she's clocked recently. Well she'd been flying in and out of Sierra Leone long before she took power at the Football Association. But it's fair to say she's done a bit more travelling since she became queen than would normally have been the case. Again, that's probably part of her job.

ACC GEARS UP FOR A FIGHT OVER EBOLA MONEY...HURRAY!

From the outset we've been calling for the ACC to be a bit more engaged in monitoring funds pouring into this country to fight Ebola. We are talking about all funds including those going through government and its agencies and the many civil society groups that have suddenly carved out a space for themselves in the Ebola war. We will be closely following the case of those WFP people and the 259 bags of rice.