POLITICAL CRAZZYNESS

You PONDER MY THOUGHTS BY                                                                      Andrew Keili                           YVONNE AKI SAWYERR: MAYOR IN A MARE’S NEST “We rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance, and endurance produces character, and character produces hope.” Romans 5:3-4 The wanton attack on the new Mayor of Freetown, Yvonne Aki Sawyerr who had barely settled down to work was indeed surprising. Stories abound as to who did and why. What is certain however is that verbal abuse of the Mayor was followed by her being hit with a stick whilst she was being driven away from her office after a meeting with the Internal Affairs Minister and the top brass of the Police. She had apparently been warned to b...

Culled From   cocorioko Demo-Crazy in Parliament May 9, 2018   Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU   ACTION NEWS , COMMENTARY ,   New Headlines >>>??????? Demo-Crazy in Parliament The attempt to elect a Speaker – second in line for the presidency – and Deputy Speaker during the First Session of the Fifth Parliament of the Second Republic on Tuesday April 24 and Wednesday April 25 can best be described by William Butler Yeat’s poem,  The Second Coming popularized in part by novelist, Albert Chinua Achebe: “ Turning and turning in the widening gyre * The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere * The ceremony of innocence is drowned; The best lack all conviction, * While the worst are full of passionate intensity ”. Lost in the jungle after the bloody food fight in and around Parliament is...