AWE Media Sierra Leone

10th June, 2020 Good morning everyone. Madam Chair, please permit me to stand on existing protocols. Let me start by thanking the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation and the Ministry Information and Communications for organising this induction training for press attaches recently appointed by the Government of Sierra Leone to work in our various diplomatic missions. Today you begin your journey on a new path. You are now on the road to become Ambassadors of our country. This is a national call to service for the Government and People of Sierra Leone. It is a similar line of duty to journalism but also a very different profession. In journalism you are taught to speak truth to power, to write bluntly and most times in an abrasive manner. In your new profession you will be taught to write and talk differently. For me, today is a sad day. Sad because I will be losing all of you who are among the finest crop of journalists in the country today. However, I am heartened...

By: Ibrahim Jalloh-Jallomy ✍️ Yesterday , Sierra Leone records a thousand and one confirmed cases of COVID- 19. It was serious and descriptive of a future doom.  The structural arrangements and lined up personnel are significantly great for a reversal of the trend. Anecdotally, about 75% of the response structures and personnel are second generation combatant outfits. The IPC measures or Safety protocols introduced five years ago are largely the same as today with noted exception of the face masks and the ban on congregational prayers. The rest are the same. It is a convincing argument that we in Makeni have more face masks and Veronica buckets than the population of the city. The gap is the proper utilization of these items. We sense a broken culture of denial and resistance to change. Worst to note is the existence of a group of Sierra Leoneans wanting to Makeni political capital out of a horrendous national crisis. Equally disturbing is the disengagement of key national stakeholders...

By: Ibrahim Jalloh-Jallomy ✍️Ar Yesterday , Sierra Leone records a thousand and one confirmed cases of COVID- 19. It was serious and descriptive of a future doom.  The structural arrangements and lined up personnel are significantly great for a reversal of the trend. Anecdotally, about 75% of the response structures and personnel are second generation combatant outfits. The IPC measures or Safety protocols introduced five years ago are largely the same as today with noted exception of the face masks and the ban on congregational prayers. The rest are the same. It is a convincing argument that we in Makeni have more face masks and Veronica buckets than the population of the city. The gap is the proper utilization of these items. We sense a broken culture of denial and resistance to change. Worst to note is the existence of a group of Sierra Leoneans wanting to Makeni political capital out of a horrendous national crisis. Equally disturbing is the disengagement of key national stakeholde...