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As the political momentum continues to develop in the country, there has been an outpour of political bashing within the rank and file of the ruling All People Congress as to who is fit or unfit to replace President Ernest Bai Koroma. The latest person in line to condemn other candidates in the party is the Minister of Works and Infrastructural Development, Kemo Sesay. He condemned those he referred to as opportunists. In his exclusive interview with a local tabloid, Kemo Sesay reportedly said that some of those who want to be flagbearers in the party only joined the party in 2007. Kemo Sesay implied that many of those fighting for the flagbearership were opportunists who only joined the party after they were offered jobs by President Koroma. He lashed out that some of the people who are now spending lavishly in the party are only doing so because of the gains they envisage. This many people believe that it is a statement against John Bonor Sesay who is a cousin of the President...

By Abdulrahman Koroma Court file has revealed that one of sierra Leone’s Member of Parliament, Mabinty H. Bangura was duped Le100,000,000 (one hundred million Leones) by his step-son. Mabinty H. Bangura, sitting Honorable of Constituency 42 in Kambia District, on Monday 24th July, 2017 testified in court that she entrusted the said money to her step-son for a building project. Hon. Mabinty also stated that the accused person, Ibrahim Kabia was hired as an electrician in the said building project and that the accused was first given the sum of nine hundred thousand Leones (Le 900, 000) to buy electric cables for the electrification of the said building. She stated that the accused was mandated to control whatever goes in and out of the store, and that the accused was also directed to release things to the caretaker whenever work was in progress. Mabinty also narrated that the accused in two occasions received five million Leones from her to buy one hundred bags of cement “but th...

By Abdulrahman Koroma After a local newspaper first published this article on October 2016, a sierra Leonean researcher and academic, John Benjamin Sesay is still in a state of quandary after his life came under threat as a result of his research activities on the Addax Bioenergy Project in Makeni, Sierra Leone. Ever since the story was published, he has still not nurtured the courage to visit his native land. Below is the story that was published in the SALONE TIMES Newspaper on October 10th 2016: Land Rights Campaigner Fears For His Safety If He Returns To Sierra Leone By Abdulrahman Koroma Academic Researcher, Human Rights, Peace and Security Advocate; Benjamin John Sesay is afraid for his safety if he returns to Sierra Leone. Benjamin who specifically focuses his advocacy on the effects of land grabbing on the lives of landowners in Sierra Leone is presently in Sweden contemplating his home coming. Benjamin first visited Sierra Leone in September 2013 and returned to Sweden ...