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SLAJ's President Speech at Annual Presidential Media Cocktail

SLAJ Speech at Presidential Media Cocktail Radisson Blu 13th Dec. 2019-12-05* Salutations … Good evening all... Let me start by thanking God Almighty for this day. It is so refreshing to see so many smiling journalists in the presence of our esteemed host, His Excellency the President, Dr. Julius Maada Bio. As a matter of fact, this is an informal/social meeting between the first arm of government- THE EXECUTIVE- the CABINET, and the fourth arm- THE FOURTH ESTATE- the MEDIA. Few African leaders, if any at all, have the bravery to romance with their local media as our President has been doing since he became President. And when you consider the backdrop against which he was elected, it is even more daring. His Minister of Information and Communications, who I will take the liberty to describe as the Idiomatic Squealer, was apt in his description of His Excellency when he said at a presser yesterday; and I quote: “He was the most vilified and most castigated flag bearer ...