Statement by the Acting Vice-Chancellor and Principal, University of Management and Technology (UNIMTECH)
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Statement by the Acting Vice-Chancellor and Principal, University of Management and Technology (UNIMTECH)

This milestone invites us to reflect on our national journey and the vital role education plays in shaping our future.

I also wish for mature democratic relations between our two key political parties, so that even where stark differences arise, tensions will never disrupt the peace and stability that allow our children to go to school and university. Let us emulate countries like Ghana, where politics can become heated but has never ended in violence across decades of national elections. Ghana, which once lagged behind Sierra Leone, is today ahead because it chose stability over strife. May we learn that same lesson and build a prosperous, educated, and united Sierra Leone.

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The Arrogance of Power, and the Injustice of the state of the Country we call Sierra Leone at 65
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The Arrogance of Power, and the Injustice of the state of the Country we call Sierra Leone at 65

Conviction, Sentencing, and the Cost of Standing Outside the Political Circle —

The real problem is not just that power exists, but that it is so often exercised with arrogance. Too many leaders behave as though the state belongs to them, when in truth it belongs to the citizens who sustain it. That is the heart of the matter: power without humility becomes oppression, and authority without accountability becomes abuse.

The injustice of the state is visible everywhere. It appears in the gap between the privileged and the poor, in the weakness of institutions that should protect citizens, and in a system where justice can feel selective. For ordinary Sierra Leoneans, the state is often present when it demands obedience, but absent when it should deliver fairness, opportunity, and protection.

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