Category: Opinions

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.

Political legacies are rarely forged in moments of triumph. More often, they are defined by the choices leaders make when convention offers the safer path.

The Presidential Town Hall in Makeni may prove to be one of those moments.