
Corruption, Accountablity and Politics in Sierra Leone
"70% of Sierra Leoneans are poor mainly due to corruption. The Truth and Reconciliation Commission report squarely pinned the primary cause of the brutal (...)
"70% of Sierra Leoneans are poor mainly due to corruption. The Truth and Reconciliation Commission report squarely pinned the primary cause of the brutal (...)
"In Freetown, sources close to the Pension Office on Garrison Street, where retired soldiers of the Sierra Leone military often receive their monthly (...)
"The fundamental difference between conventional crime and white collar crime is that white collar crime is not generally associated with violence, except (...)
"At the present time the country is in a critical stage-Sierra Leone is now a country that is engulfed by increasing lawlessness that is more significant (...)
"The SLPP government’s project to devolve and decentralize power proves that Dr. Kandeh is wrong to assume that the state power restructuring SLPP is (...)
By Dr.Abou Bai-Sheka. The Portuguese reached the West African coast in the mid-15th century but Sierra Leone was first sighted in 1446 by a Portuguese (...)
"Now compare Yar’Adua to Berewa, a man whose name has become synonymous with all that is rotten and corrupt in post-war Sierra Leone. Obasanjo was smarter (...)
"There are both institutional and policy dimensions of regime change. At the institutional level, regime change would involve distancing public power from (...)
"At the SLAJ meeting I remember saying that while we were right as a professional body to condemn the AFRC junta take-over and call for the restoration of (...)
"Literacy in this language (English) and the ability to communicate intelligently and intelligibly in it was regarded as the mark of the civilized and (...)
"Politically, Kabbah shoved Berewa down the throat of the SLPP. Berewa is a relative political novice who first gained political visibility as Kabbah’s (...)
"The war in Sierra Leone was not only a domestic tragedy, it went far beyond that. It also tells a disturbing tale about the world in which we live, an (...)