Category: Opinions

As a committed member of the All People’s Congress (APC), I write with deep concern that our party is once again drifting toward the same mistakes that cost us dearly in 2023. With extensions lapsing, court filings surfacing, and regulatory manoeuvres hanging over us, Sierra Leone’s largest opposition party risks sliding into another cycle of paralysis and mistrust.

The successful hosting of the recent ECOWAS Heads of State and Government Summit in Lungi was, by most accounts, a diplomatic achievement for Sierra Leone. It provided the country with an opportunity to showcase itself before regional leaders and reaffirm its commitment to regional cooperation. For that, the government deserves recognition.

Sometimes history doesn’t announce itself with marching bands or dramatic speeches, but with a quiet legal document filed in court, a parliamentary vote, or a political decision whose full meaning only becomes clear with time.

Before dawn had fully broken over Nigeria’s federal capital on Sunday morning, a slender white aircraft sat quietly on the tarmac, its silhouette softened by the pale glow of floodlights still resisting the coming day.

Those of us who are honest know those two policemen deserve their freedom far more than Ernest Bai Koroma does. I repeat: those police officers deserve freedom far more than the former president whom the State assigned them to go and serve.