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THE RAINS ARE HERE: STANDBY FOR THE SAME ISSUES ALL OVER AGAIN

It’s that time of the year again – rain, thunderstorm, flash floods and human suffering. This is now a familiar theme. We love the rain and we thank God that we get a lot of it while our brothers and sisters in other parts of our continent are facing drought. So let’s spare a thought for people in Somalia, Ethiopia and Chad for example.

DO WE HAVE POLICE CHECKPOINTS OR EXTORTION POINTS?

It’s common knowledge that police officers, particularly those at checkpoints on the highways leading to provincial cities collect petty bribes daily. We have to be clear about that from the outset. It’s not because the big guys at headquarters have not tried to do something about it. They have mostly issued ridiculous threats of suspension and dismissal so we are sad to report that illegal collections continue and ordinary people are complaining.

BO RANGERS FINED NLe 60,000 FOR FA CUP FIASCO. REALLY?

We always knew that fines were going to be levied for the crowd trouble that brought the FA Cup final match between Bo Rangers and EE Lions to a premature end just over a week ago but for the SLFA to fine Bo Ranger SIXTY THOUSAND NEW LEONES plus a few more thousands for the behavior of their fans is as crazy as it is unacceptable. How did they arrive at that figure?

SENGEH NEEDS OUR SUPPORT TO FIGHT ELECTRICITY THEFT

We are appealing to all the good people of Sierra Leone to standby Sengs as he leads this fight against people stealing electricity in this country. Right now there are a few people on social media in particular trying to distract the current push against electricity theft by attempting to throw the whole thing into some kind of religious struggle. It is NOT. We will not allow that distraction to succeed.

HOW DO WE GET EDSA OUT OF ITS PRESENT DIFFICULTIES?

We quote below the last line of the statement from the Ministry of Finance, announcing that the government of Sierra Leone had met a key demand of Karpower for the resumption of electricity supply to Freetown. That demand was that the government must pay 17 million US dollars in 48 hours or Freetown would remain in darkness.

TELL THE UK THAT SALONE CAN BE A DEPORTATION CENTER

Rishi Sunak is looking and sounding increasingly confident these days that the first refugee flight will take off from the UK bound for Rwanda in the next TEN WEEKS. It’s been a long battle through the courts and the both houses of parliament. The bill is now heading to the table of KING CHARLES for his signature – a formality.

KNEEL DOWN AND PRAY ON INDEPENDENCE DAY

Sierra Leone is 63 years old on Saturday as an independent nation. Such anniversaries always offer an opportunity for leaders and ordinary people in this land that we love to look back all those years ago and see how much progress we’ve made since this country was handed back to us by the British. We are all doing the same this year. Of course, we have not always universally agreed on how to observe the day – that should be expected.