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TRACE: IF ONLY SLPP CAN TAKE OFF THE MASK

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Hey folks, how are you doing? The news about the cash strapped of the central government made TRACE to think about some of the words of one of Sierra Leone finest musician. Anyway that is not the main topic of today’s TRACE but it is something for you to think about. As usual for TRACE, TRACE is looking at the things that matters in society. The Sierra Leone People’s Party (SLPP), the oldest political party in the country is still in dispute. TRACE took a careful looked at the party which was formed by Sir Milton Margai and Co as a social democratic party. SLPP is one of the two major political parties in Sierra Leone, along with the All People's Congress (APC). The party dominated Sierra Leone's politics from its foundation in 1951 to 1967, when it lost the 1967 Sierra Leone parliamentary election to the main opposition All People's Congress (APC), led by Siaka Stevens. In 1996 the SLPP returned to power when its leader Ahmad Tejan Kabbah won the 1996 Sie