Maada Bio in Holland
Saturday 19 May 2012
By SLV Team
Former Head of State and Flag bearer of the main opposition SLPP Rtd. Brigadier Julius Maada Bio accompanied by high powered delegation from the Netherlands started his tour of continental Europe in France where he spoke briefly to Sierra Leoneans and then moved on to Belgium Brussels.Hundreds of party supporters and sympathizers from neighbouring countries sang party song. Read More
SLPP Strongman Maada Bio tours Continental Europe
Friday 18 May 2012
By SLV Team
Picture News Maada in Belgium and Holland
Report reaching SLV indicates that lots of SLPP party supporters and sympathizers across Europe have come to Eindhoven the Netherlands headquarters of SLPP Continental Europe where Maada Bio on Sunday will deliver a speech on the New Direction for Sierra Leone.
APC: Still Grappling With The Shock of Bio’s UK Visit
Thursday 17 May 2012
By SLV Contributor Yusuf Keketoma San
di, Ba (Hons), Llb (Hons)
As I write this piece, the Rtd. BrigadierJulius Maada Bio is in France and after, he heads to Holland as he continues his official tour of Europe in engaging Western diplomats, Strategic European Governments, International Investors, Business Community and his beloved SLPP members across Europe. Therefore, you would have expected the APC and their spin doctors to have been bowing their heads in a pool.of shame as they see Maada Bio on the world stage – the “human man rights abuser” the APC once claimed would never travel to overseas. Read More
Maada Bio and Ernest Koroma who do you trust? A Rejoinder
Wednesday 16 May 2012
By SLV Contributor KIS Myers
An apology is first of all in place here as readers were promised a weekly comparison between Maada Bio and Ernest Koroma so that readers can sift the grain from the chaff. Circumstances held me at bay and after thinking about what. Read More
Retired Brigadier General Julius Maada Bio’s Redemption Policies For Our Beloved Sierra Leone!
Wednesday 16 May 2012
By SLV Contributor Sheku Lexmond Koroma Publicity and Propaganda Secretary UK/Ireland
I will begin this article by saluting our God given flag bearer Ret. Brig. Gen. Bio. We know that you are a humble man who believes in deeds. When the retired Brigadier General (Mr. J.M. Bio) promised to hand over power peacefully so that democratic elections will be held in 1996, he did stand by his words. He then handed power . Read More
On Silencing APC in Presiding Over Sierra Leone
Wednesday 16 May 2012
By SLV Contributor Bitter-Truth
It is always unethical and therefore morally unacceptable to currently be Jack & Jerk, player & referee, drummer & dancer, complaint & judge, thief and whistleblower or worse more the causer of catastrophic sufferings of a people and mouthpiece of the people. When all indications are that a wickedly barbarous government persistently casts upon its own people the spells of an untold catastrophic evil, it then becomes a moral imperative that any such.Read More
At The Zoo with Sahr Taya Bruno-The-Chimp On The Loose
Wednesday 16 May 2012
By SLV Contributor Taya Sahr
It was a fine Saturday morning; the sun was rising accompanied by cool mountain breeze making me covet a morning stroll to the zoo. I love animals and they tell us a lot about ourselves and our behaviours. I had heard that a friend of mine Kondogbala-the-Zookeeper who was in charge of the zoo for a short while before he left has decided to come back and take over the zoo. So I decided to take advantage of this fine breezy morning to visit my friend.Read More
The ever growing support for Maada Bio will be unleashed in Continental Europe
The SLPP Flagbearer Rtd. Brig. Gen. Julius Maada Bio will visit Continental Europe this coming weekend, starting from the 18th of May. SLPP Continental Europe will host this historic event. Party members and Executives of various Chapters
including: Belgium, France, Germany, Sweden and The Netherlands will come together in the Dutch city of Eindhoven, The Netherlands to receive in their midst Mr. Bio (our brother, gentleman and President in waiting). We perceive his presence in Continental Europe as pillar of our common slogan: "ONE COUNTRY ONE PEOPLE".
Is President Koroma any Better than Johnny Paul Koroma of AFRC?
Tuesday 15 May 2012
By SLV Contributor Josephine Kargb
How can anyone compare a regime as repressive and as brutal as Johnny Paul Koroma’s AFRC to any democratically elected government? This is the big puzzle on the minds of many, many APC supporters who are faced with the question of defending the record of President Koroma against his counterpart Johnny Paul Koroma of the infamous May 25, 1997. “Is Ernest President Koroma that murderous, cruel and criminal that he can be compared to a regime notorious for killing of thousands of people in one week?” the puzzle continues. Read More
APC Tragedy Continues to Befall Sierra Leone Embassy in China-Records Still Not Set Straight
Tuesday 15 May 2012
By SLV Contributor Alpha Kargbo
This is the first time since his appointment to the office of the Press/Information Attaché in the Embassy of Sierra Leone in China has Pa John Baimba Sesay shifted his parochial focus from characteristic blind praise-singing of the Koroma-led APC (All People’s Congress) government to high-profile highlightment of Chinese investments in Sierra Leone and in the rest of Africa. There are also mentions of prospective areas of mutually beneficial development cooperations between China and Sierra Leone.Read More
Maada bio meets SLPP Continental Europe in France
Monday 7 May 2012
By SLV Team
The Flag bearer of the main opposition SLPP Retired Brigadier Julius Maada Bio Met with a high powered delegation form SLPP continental Europe at his Meridian Hotel in Paris France. The delegation which includes the Continental Europe Chairman Solomon Baimba Mansaray , Finance Secretary Osman Kabba ,Organising Secretary Mohamed C Bah, Chairman SLPP Germany Chapter Mr Philip Bona and the Chairman Belgium Chapter Ibraihim Chernoh Jalloh.Chairman Baimba Mansaray briefed the Retired Brigadier on the activities of the party in Continental Europe and he also maintained. Read More
Maada Bio and Ernest Koroma: A comparative analysis
Friday 4 May 2012
By SLV Contributor K. I. S. MYERS
It is the silly season again in Sierra Leone and it’s diaspora with a crucial election slated to be held in November 2012. While there are different levels of contest in the upcoming elections, namely, presidential, parliamentary and local council elections, the presidential election has elicited the most commentaries and opinions in the press. According to a recent NEC release, eight . Read More
Sierra Leone: The Temnes and the Politics of the All Peoples’ Congress (APC)
Friday 4 May 2012
By SLV Contributor Mohamed Idriss Kanu, PHD (Candidate)
The Temne tribe is the single largest tribe in northern Sierra Leone and also the second largest in the country as a whole. In politics, such is their voting strength that they can easily determine the way the pendulum swings in any keenly fought election between the two major parties, the All Peoples’ Congress (APC) and the Sierra Leone People’s Party (SLPP). Amazing though it may sound, the Temnes have no political party they can call their own. Historically, they have followed leaders, not parties. Once they accept a politician as leader, whether he is real Temne or not, they will follow him wherever he goes . Read More
A Eulogy To Sierra Leone On Her 51st Independence Anniversary
Friday 27 April 2012
By SLV Contributor Yusuf Keketoma Sandi, Ba (Hons), Llb (Hons)
S – So your children are here again Mama Sierra Leone to celebrate your 51st anniversary since your independence from a British Rule in 1961. But what have we got to celebrate mama?
I – In sadness, we recount our history with tears as your children have for far too long being victims of bad governance, an eleven-year campaign of terror and violence, a bunch of greedy politicians and the present state of HARDSHIP;
E – Even ‘the hills and the valleys re-echo our cry’ as thousands of young people face a bleak future without jobs, the scars of poverty visit every household in the land and now your children. Read more
The trauma and predicament of losing power President Ernest Bai Koroma be warned
Tuesday 24 April 2012
By SLV Contributor Bitter-Truth
There is extreme agony in losing power. It is for the fear of this agony, or even because of the predicament it creates, that tyrant rulers all too often choose not to relinquish power to their elected successors. It is only true patriots who are also democratic that come to terms with the agony in losing power. Leaders who rule by tyranny and dictatorship all too often dig in for the last resort; which choice completely contradicts every element of human dignity and honor regarding relinquishing power. It is always better for to live with blames than to choose the last-resort which often terminates rules and lives of tyrant rulers.There are instances. Read More
RANDOM MUSING
Butterfly Politics lifts the Veil of Secrecy from Fakes
Tuesday 24 April 2012
By SLV Contributor Raymond Dele Awoonor-Gordon awogordon@yahoo.co.uk
Forgive me for breaking my promise that I was taking a short break in honour of my brother, the late Olu Gordon. But even he would have been filled with rage as he surveys the political scene and sees the chilling and ruthless determination of some politicians and commentators with cold-blooded contempt for the normal acceptable rules of political warfare, to dictate the pace of events in the run-up to November.I know that it is impossible to shame a person or group who/which appear to enjoy its shame but as far as I know, if you’ve got people who are moving away from you and choosing another path, you do not need your strategic superiority to turn to strategic liability. Read More
Di pa dae wok oh but………………………….
Monday 23 April 2012
By SLV Team
Di pa dae wok oh but 
- There is serious petrol shortage all over the country, it happens almost every month.
- There is no money at the banks after printing so much money.
- There is no water for the people in Freetown for months now.
- After 4 years in power there is still rampant power outage or no power for some areas in Freetown (It is worse now), after spending so much on electricity, the President’s Priority on the Agenda for Change
- Home grown products are more expensive nowadays. Read More
The unstoppable popularity of our flag bearer (Ret. Brigadier Julius Maada Bio)
Monday 23 April 2012
By SLV Contributor Sheku Lexmond Koroma Publicity and Propaganda Secretary UK/Ireland.
My recent visit to our beloved country has left me convinced that our people have fully understood and accepted the new direction vision of our party as the only way forward for our country. What I witnessed there is indicative of a clear victory for SLPP come 2012 election with our collaborative efforts devoid of complacency.Moreover, Sierra Leoneans appreciate the fact that Mr. Bio has a disciplined background and that he is one of the few military leaders who have willing handed power over to a civilian government. They believe Mr. Bio is capable of sanitising. Read More
Greed confuses Usu Boie to charge tribalism against SLPP as much as corruption forces him to side with APC
Monday 23 April 2012
By SLV Contributor Bitter-Truth
Born, bred and educated under the auspices of SLPP (Sierra Leone People’s Party), Usu Boie Kamara gained civil servant appointment in Sierra Leone as a Mining Engineer in 1972 and subsequently rose to the post of Director of Mines in 2008. Boie’s activities in the ministry, especially in relation to how he got to filthily enrich himself, during the span of 1972-2008 is an issue that .Read More
That Slpp Slogan: “Di Pa Dae Wok But Di Mami Nor Dae Cook”
Wednesday 18 April 2012
By SLV Contributor Yusuf Keketoma Sandi, Ba (Hons), Llb (Hons) London
I still would not stop laughing since I first heard about this SLPP slogan. The reason being that in a country where the recent “2012 US Embassy Sierra Leone Investment Climate Statement” estimates that over 72 percent of our population live on less than $1 per day in extreme poverty, you can laugh your head off whenever you hear APC supporters shout “Di Pa Dae Wok”(The President is working). Therefore, in this piece, I will be discussing those bread and butter issues which will illustrate that whilst the APC apologists keep singing “Di Pa Dae Wok”, ordinary families up and down the country continue to struggle at the mercy of hardship, as one of my friends jokingly said. Read More
APC Blackmail: Why Usu Boie Kamara will declare for APC or Ernest Bai Koroma
Wednesday 18 April 2012
By SLV Contributor Sidique Mansaray
The rumour mill has been churning non-stop about the political future of Osman Boie Kamara, former flag bearer aspirant of the Sierra Leone People’s Party. It can be remembered that Usu Boie Kamara and seventeen others lost that contest to Maada Bio. However, the conclusion of the contest left a bitter taste in Usu’s mouth for SLPP. People close to Usu Boie Kamara have said the former candidate believes he lost the election because of Tribalism. He is reported as saying that the Southeasterners ganged up against him and that cost him the victory. As such he has left the SLPP party by declaration.Sources close to the SLPP and Usu Boie Kamara say that the SLPP has made numerous attempts to convince.Read More
Road to people-oriented governance and prosperity in Sierra Leone
Tuesday 17 April 2012
By SLV Contributor Bitter-Truth
It is about 51 solid years now since the British colonial government left Sierra Leone to do the business of life on her own; an event that is today widely known as independence. But far from being a just rule, the colonial administration was another systematic savagery of the indigenes of Sierra Leone. This was the start of the destruction of our fate as a nation in name of building a civilized modern world. While the people of this tiny resource-rich nation of Sierra Leone were brutalized by the colonial aliens, the fortunate children of the land who happened to toke after the alien regime. Read more
Ernest Bai Koroma’s “Agenda For Chop” vs “The People’s Agenda For Chop”
Tuesday 10 April 2012
By SLV Contributor Ahmed Sesay
The highly publicised “Million Man March” turned into a less than 10 000 man march. In fact, this was only possible because traders and business men were politely forced to close their shops. What puzzled me was that how can traders who are seriously affected by the battered economy, jump to the streets to thank a leader whose government has failed to create an enabling environment for small businesses to thrive? To say thanks for the hardship?Well, the truth of the matter is that the “Million Man March” backfired and the cheap and deceptive ruling party tried to cover up by paying for soccer fans to watch an international.Read More
Lost in APC Praise-singing, the Press Attaché to Sierra Leone Embassy in China Loses Constructive Job Foresight
Tuesday 10 April 2012
By SLV Contributor Bitter-Truth
John Baimba Sesay, the Press Attaché to the Embassy of Sierra Leone in China, still does not seem to understand his job role or at least not willing to do what is required of his office. In his recent publication in the Sierra Leone Telegraph, Baimba committedly praise-sang the APC (All People’s Party) Government for revenues collected by the Ministry of Marine Resources and Fisheries (MMRF) in Sierra Leone. Based on the fraudulent analysis of what was described as generated income by MMRF. Read More
Electoral Fraud in 2012 Voter Registrations — Is NEC Playing by APC Rules?
Tuesday 10 April 2012
By SLV Contributor Bitter-Truth
The fourth phase of the biometric voter registration for the presidential and general elections in Sierra Leone slated for November 2012 officially closed on the 25th of March 2012 with a total registered vote nationwide of 2,701,299, which is 791,214 (21.62%) less of that in 2007. It is unclear why the actual voter registration numbers for 2007 are hard to come by, but one can still easily work this out from the 2007 vote count and percent turnout tallied by the NEC (National Electoral Commission) Progressive Election Results (NEC-PER) available at http://www.nec-sierraleone.org/. NEC originally projected an average increase of 10% in 2012 voter registration over that in 2007 but actually ended. Read more
As the infighting continues all signs are pointing to an APC exit
Wednesday 4 April 2012
By SLV Team Freetown
The disorganized manner in which the ruling APC party has handle itself, is a clear manifestation of a confused party that is about to lose power. The division within the APC due to the delay and mismanagement in picking a credible running mate that would help president Koroma win the upcoming election after his failed five year term. What a difficult task when such person is hard to find.The uncoordinated and improper response by top government officials including the police boss to people’s genuine. Read More
A Sincere lover caught up in the web of Tradition and Religion
Tuesday 3 April 2012
By SLV Team
Fatmata Aminata Freeman (nee Jalloh) was born in the Northern Region of Sierra Leone from a typical traditional family. She felt she was accomplishing her life’s desire when she went ahead and quietly married to one Alithur Freeman in 1999 without the involvement and approval of senior members of her family and especially those from her paternal side. Reports coming from some of her community members indicate that both Fatmata and her husband are bound to face the wrath of some of Fatmata’s traditional members whom are still bitter and continue to view Fatmata’s. Read More
APC Today more an Alien Politicians’ Camp than All People’s Congress
Monday 26 March 2012
By Bitter-Truth
Looking at the strangeness of events today in Sierra Leone under the APC (All People’s Congress) misrule, one cannot help but correctly rebrandish the APC party as “Alien Politicians Camp”. There is nothing in APC activities in the past solid four years of horrific misrule that is people-oriented. All have focused on and controlled by a tiny clique of specialized corrupt leadership whose activities have been completely anti-people. In the face of its unspeakable activities, the APC party no longer deserves to be associated with the definition of “All People’s Congress” in Sierra Leone. There is simply nothing people-oriented in its style of governance today.Read More
Are Nyuma and Strasser Tapped to Finalize a Clandestine APC Coup Against Bio
Monday 26 March 2012
By Bitter-Truth
APC (All People’s Congress) is the master of all gimmicky political tricks in not only Sierra Leone, but in the whole of the world today. APC has a solid history of making up compelling cases against people it considers as a threat to its anti-people governance of the state of Sierra Leone. Under the hands of the APC, Sierra Leone has witnessed the countless brutalization and slaughter of innocent army officers, politicians, civil servants and even ordinary civilians. It is indeed right before our own eyes that we saw APC brutalized and destroyed the lives of decent sons of Sierra Leone ranging from Brig. Lansana to F. M. Minah and hundreds of other innocent sons/daughters of Sierra Leone in between.Read More
RANDOM MUSING
Our Barn of Hypocrisy
Monday 26 March 2012
By Raymond Dele Awoonor-Gordon
awogordon@yahoo.co.uk
An old African saying states that when a child trips, he looks ahead of him to see who is watching; but when an elder falls, he looks behind to see what caused his downfall.
What has crystalised in recent months is the nervousness, wide-ranging concerns and anxiety about the general direction of a society that is coming undone because of our thinly-veiled collective insincerity. As a nation we are fond of using ethno-political and religious sentiments as a ‘fig leaf’ for the very flaws that has kept us perpetually at the bus stop of backwardness.
Treating the disappearance of the Christmas cocaine of 2011, with levity is unfortunate for Sierra Leoneans
Monday 26 March 2012
Saa Mathias Bendu Director of Communication and Outreach
The alarm bells are ringing, sierra Leone, with already mass poverty, though endow with a lot of minerals yet her citizenry lives in abject poverty, and legacy of nihilistic brutal civil war, is under attack and the risk of becoming an epicenters for drug trafficking and crime, of course it is an open secret that corruption is endemic, though there is a lot of nose of empowering the anti –corruption commission.Sierra Leone is currently class by united Nations Office on Drugs and Crime-UNODC as one of the major gateways in west Africa for cocaine trafficking. The most prominent case has been the landing of a private aircraft at the Lungi international Airport in July 2008. Read More
Sierra Leone: Land Deals Beginning to Stir Discontent
Monday 26 March 2012
In southeastern Sierra Leone's Pujehun District, the small village of Kortumahun sits at the edge of orderly rows of hundreds of thousands of bright green palm oil seedlings. Small groups of women weed the pots while men spray fertilizers and pesticides across the nursery.It has been 30 years since large-scale oil palm plantations operated in this chiefdom. But in March 2011, the agro-industrial company Socfin Agriculture Company Ltd., a subsidiary of the Belgian company Bolloré, signed a 50-year land lease with the government of Sierra Leone to produce palm oil on 6,500 hectares of land in Pujehun's Malen chiefdom. Read More
IOM/SLeCAD capacitate farmers in Sierra Leone
Tuesday 20 March 2012
By SLV Freetown Correspondent 
The Sierra Leone Chamber of Agribusiness Development (SLeCAD) in collaboration with IOM Netherlands has concluded a three weeks training in Business Development, Communication Management and Web Management skills for farmer organizations in the Western Area on Thursday 15th March 2012. The trainings were conducted by three resource persons from the Netherlands under the TRQN (Temporary Return of Qualified Nationals) project which is an initiative of IOM. Read more
2012 Elections: Those political opportunists and vested interests versus our suffering people
Tuesday 20 March 2012
By Yusuf Keketoma Sandi BA (Hons), LLB (Hons) London
As we draw closer to the elections, it has become more obvious that our elections will be fought out between two opposing sets of people. On the one side, there are those political opportunists, the vested interests and the APC apologists who believe that as long as they drive big cars, loot from the state coffers to build mansions, network their relatives and friends with top jobs then the Agenda For Change is working. On the other side, there are those 70% of unemployed young people; millions of families struggling to feed on a meal a day; and thousands of qualified men and women whose names or backgrounds have made the APC to throw them out of offices or denied them jobs.Read More
Tom Nyuma’s Switch to APC a Blessing in Disguise for SLPP
Tuesday 20 March 2012
By Bitter-Truth
It is truly a blessing in disguise that Tom Nyuma left the opposition SLPP (Sierra Leone People’s Party). Looking closely into this guy, it is easy to note that Tom has a serious ability problem; a factor that led to his deportation from the United States of America (USA) in 2007. Tom’s only proven ability is his marriage with the gun. No wonder the NPRC (National Provisional Ruling Council) junta kept him in the role of the gun right throughout. While Tom can still be commended for then fighting on the side of the people, he has since fallen from grace to disgrace. Since his hasty retirement from the Sierra Leone army as a Lieutenant Colonel, one episode after the other has kept this troubled guy in constant frustration. Read More
Why Sierra Leoneans should vote SLPP
Tuesday 20 March 2012
By Austin Thomas
The registration for the coming elections are underway and there has been lots of controversies about the ruling party APC ferrying people from neigbouring Guinea and Liberia to register in the South and East of the country. Journalists have investigated the matter and the story is correct. There are stories of the APC secretly buying arms and ammunition to arm their supporters so they can cause havoc during the process, especially in the South and East of the opposition stronghold.The Internal Affairs minister is also reported to have gone to Bo city and register there for the elections, which means that it is indeed true that the APC. Read more
Excerpt from all UN agencies Daily Report in Sierra Leone
Tuesday 20 March 2012
By SLV Political Analyst
The Awoko newspaper quotes President Ernest Bai Koroma as saying this week that "Sierra Leone is on the verge of becoming an oil producing nation". Reactions have been mixed about this presidential utterance. While citizens largely loyal to the regime in power are enthusiastic and hopeful about this disclosure, most in civil society, the critical mass and opposition are skeptical on the grounds that benefits from the extractives in general under the current APC regime of Ernest Bai Koroma have been farfetched for the country as a whole; and that this going to be even more gloomy for oil based communities in opposition areas whose parliamentary representatives were part of the recent dramatic boycott of the oil bill in parliament.Read More
Trouble still looms for President Ernest Bai Koroma in picking his running mate
Thursday 15 March 2012
By SLV Team Freetown
As the spending continues by the leadership of the APC in executing one of its 99 tactics of winning elections by swelling the number of voters in the north and East of the country, reality is sinking in that the tactic of ferrying people from across the borders of Guinea and Liberia to register in Sierra Leone is not enough to ensure victory and the party is now in dilemma.Sources close to state house told this media house that the Ernest Bai Koroma administration is in a confused state at the moment as the expected number of registered voters in Kono district is still far from their projected number to pick a running mate from Kono. The President is keen on having a. Read more
Mohamed Bangura Not credible enough to lead UDM
Thursday 15 March 2012
By SLV Team Freetown
Delegates for the United Democratic Movement Convention UDM which is slated for 16th and 17th March 2012 in Bo are determined to remove their interim leader Mohamed Bangura, who they say has mortgaged their party to the APC.Mohamed Bangura has clearly manifested working for the APC. He was caught on tape confessing that he receives huge good will and financial support from President Ernest Bai Koroma and also the recent revelation by Concord Times which confirms that he was part of the APC delegation that attended the UN summit in New York.Read More