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RESHUFFLE! RESHUFFLE: “OTHER APPOINTMENTS WILL BE ANNOUNCED IN DUE COURSE”

The dust raised by the recent reshuffling of ministers and civil servants is refusing to settle. And that may not happen for the next few weeks because State House says “other appointments will be announced in due course.”

A REAL DISGRACE IN THE MIDDLE OF KING JIMMY BRIDGE

TOLONGOBO IN CANADA WE ARE NOT AMUSED

So how do we respond to the letter addressed to the Premier of British Columbia in Canada by a man called Ibrahim Kamara, the Secretary General of the APC in that country? We’re compelled to do so because of the seriousness of the allegations he makes, and our knowledge of what is happening in Sierra Leone – thousands of miles away from the good country of Canada. We quote from his letter:

MAMA SALONE AND THE ROTTEN BOMEH CHICKEN SHAME

No matter what we do now some of the rotten imported chicken scooped from the world’s worst landfill site the other day has ended up on the dinner tables of many people in Freetown and beyond. And it’s really not about social class because even the big guys can never be sure their maids bought their chicken from the normal supermarket. Most maids in the country are always looking to make some extra pennies from their masters. Cheap chicken!

WHAT DIANA KONOMANYI SHOULD KNOW ABOUT PRESS RELEASES

Diana, the Princess of Kono, has been flexing her muscles really hard since coming to the Lands Ministry. We have seen demolitions and heard threats of demolitions. When people say THE MORE THINGS CHANGE THE MORE THEY REMAIN THE SAME, this is what they mean. In Green Movement days, demolition of so-called illegal structures was popular with Bobson Sesay running around Freetown in particular.

SATELLITE HOSPITALS AND THE USER-FEE WAHALA

We witnessed an incident at a satellite hospital in Freetown recently that left us thinking about many things – the principal being a big question: HOW MANY SIERRA LEONEANS HAVE DIED BECAUSE THEY CANNOT AFFORD ILLEGAL USER FEES AT OUR HOSPITALS? That’s a genuine research question for a PhD thesis, right? For good reason we are holding back the name of the particular hospital for now. We hope they don’t push us.

OVER DIPLOMAT’S KIDNAP: CRISIS COMMUNICATION IN CRISIS

We appreciate the safe return of our deputy high commissioner, General Nelson-Williams even though we wonder how a General and former head of a whole country’s army was kidnapped by people whom we suspect were hoodlums. We are told no ransom was paid to those criminals who held the man for more than a week. We congratulate his family for being strong at a time when many others would have cracked.