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Well, let’s face it. Before the Sierra Leone Presidential and general Election in 2007, I recall, Mr. Ernest Bai Koroma, now our president Ernest Koroma promised change, a positive attitudinal change that got the whole country singing the tune. The people fell for it, and voted for it or did they? The questionable result of that election still hovers around our village farm yards, schools, colleges, restaurants, streets, markets etc. For the average Sierra Leonean, this change has never been positively felt. Instead, they have been subjected to gross human rights abuses, including but not limited to rape, unlawful beatings of citizens by the police and some politicians, suppression of the press, unlawful arrests and detention without charge, harassment of political opponents, and the blatant interference by the executive arm of government in the affairs of the judiciary. Unemployed youth who were promised the world before the elections now face the grim realities of unemployment as the APC government fails to provide jobs for them. The scourge of disaffection is limitless.

Milla Group one of the leading plastic manufacturing company in the country situated at Fisher Street  along Bai Bureh Road in Freetown has donated relief items to victims of the recent mud slide disaster at the hills of Blackhaul Road community.

The Heads of States of Sierra Leone and Liberia, President Ernest Bai Koroma and Ellen Johnson – Sirleaf, respectively had a one day working visit with Guinea’s Interim President, Gen. Sekkouba Konate in Conakry last Wednesday on the upcoming run-off presidential elections. During the working visit, the two leaders admonished all stakeholders in the election process to ensure a smooth transition to civilian rule.

As the August 31^st 2010 deadline for the payment of registration fees of fifty millions Leones (Le.50, 000,000) for the presidential candidacy of the Sierra Leone People’s Party draws near, interested party members have begun complying in order to meet the cut-off date.