Five Parties To Contest August 11 Polls

By Jonathan Leigh. Only five out of the eight registered political parties submitted names of their parliamentary aspirants at the close of the Tuesday deadline. Isaac Curtis-Hooke, National Electoral Commission External Affairs Officer said on Wednesday that of the five, it was the SLPP, APC and PMDC who submitted a full list of 112 aspirants each for all the constituencies. The other two, UNPP and NDA were unable to fill candidates in some parts of the country. The Revolutionary (...) Full story

1. Posted by Morie Mussaffa, on 28 June 2007  at 08h17

   The Patriotic Vanguard has grown to be one of the best news media largely serving Sierra Leonean interests. Its internet service is amongst the best technically organized and presented medium.

   I am glad to be given the opportunity to participate in its information provision and presentation. This piece is a typical example.

   Morie Mussaffa New Jersey, USA

2. on 28 June 2007  at 19h19

   How many political parties do we really need to govern a nation of barely 5.5million inhabitants in this tiny Republic of Sierra Leone? How do we Sierra Leoneans think? Are all poltical zealousness in Sierra Leone borne out of patriotism or just mere personal gains?

   SLPP1 did not succeed, the Juxin-Smith Juntas1 failed us too, but also the elaborate APC couldn’t, while the aggravated NPRC-Millitarism did not either, whereas even the bogous AFRC-Juntas2 had failed us, therein the SLPP2 still trying, so who are those with the magic wand henceforth?

   Who are we as Sierra Leoneans is the question that I will be hopefully able to answer in my lifetime. We are all just greedy souls and that is where our main trouble and all political underdevelopment in that nation do lies.

   May our GOD almighty save the wrecks of this sinking ship that is being filled with all rotten and glotinous ( phds, witchcraft, laziness, jealousy etc) atitudinal norms being highlly enthrenced and fully embedded in us.

   Sierra Leone’s problems do not lie in politics. My fellow countrymen even though it may be very difficult to convince you guys, but please trust me, its the main truth and the only one truth.

   I know my people better than most of my brothers and sisters alike, and Sierra Leone in my thinking is strange nation land invariably. You think!

   Nghor Jeff; the Netherlands