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By: Ibrahim Jalloh - (Jallomy) All Peoples' Congress (APC) party has a political history replete with internal shambles and rigid leadership almost to the point of mass exclusion in major and critical decision making processes.  Fashioned along communist tradition, APC over concentrate Power and authority in a small class of political elites with the towering figure of the overall leader and chairman.  In his days, Siaka Stevens was founder, chairman, leader and secretary general of the party. So the breathing space for popular participation in the process of party governance and by extension state governance narrowed and conspicuously restrained.  After the heavy military blow of the NPRC takeover of the reins of power and in the wake of multi party democracy that ushered an era of political pluralism, APC plunged into protracted fragmentation. At a defining moment in its political history, APC had three national offices in Freetown superintended by supposed political giants of th...

By: Ibrahim Jalloh - (Jallomy) Tuesday April 27, 2021 marks 60 years of self rule for the republic and people of Sierra Leone. Today, 60 years ago, on April 27, 1961, Sierra Leone attained independence from Great Britain, the Conial and colonizing power. The moment was hectic with unclassified exuberance. It was the birth of a country and the collective aspirations of Sierra Leoneans were all heaped in a cluster of rejuvenation, fecundity and hope. It was the beginning of an era of self rule, self determination and the symbolic carriage of the destiny of the young nation. The British overlords were less in regret as they knew they were handing over a country with a crisis character ahead of her. Our brothers and sisters occupied all spheres of influence. We became the master and servant of all sectors of state. The real journey started! Successive political leadership structures were implanted and in place. Sir Milton Margai opened the corridors of self rule, stayed on and succumbed to...

By: Ibrahim Jalloh - (Jallomy) Census is deliberate, intentional and purposeful. The institution of state charged with the responsibility to plan, conduct and report on Census is Statistics Sierra Leone. This responsibility is provided for by the Constitution of Sierra Leone. Census is periodic and the Constitution of the land say census should be conducted every ten years but, for the expediences of the processes of state governance, the same Constitution makes provision for the conduct of a Mid Term Census, the application of which today is throwing our small West African state into legislative chaos and anarchy. The previous census was conducted in 2015 under the watch of retired president Ernest Bai Koroma. It was massively funded and monitored by many of our international development partners. The outcomes of that census were contestable and rancourous, to be moderate and to say the least. SLPP was in opposition and they raised the red flag, raised the political dust and their cri...