I beg to differ, except if the critics are of the firm conviction that the NPRC was the SLPP in disguise.If there is any one person who had been yearning and praying fervently for such a day to come during his lifetime, that person is me, Chernor Ojuku Sesay. Though he secured my release, he was eventually told to leave the country as persona non grata. The chiefdoms are further divided into sections and villages.

A full state of emergency is being declared throughout the country.

It was later followed by a government statement on the Sierra Leone … We can go out and celebrate the resurrection of accountability, economic and social justice, and the dignity of Sierra Leoneans. However, the destruction wrought by the civil war left the health care system in shambles, with The Ministry of Health and Sanitation handles programs for the control and eradication of Housing types vary greatly in the interior districts, depending on the availability of materials. The two constitutions by which the tyrannic APC government has been manipulating and creating complete chaos in our country have been suspended with immediate effect. We have initiated this clean-up exercise to eradicate from our country the destructive, exploitative and oppressive regime of the APC government, hitherto under the misguided leadership of the so-called Major General J.S.

He was not only generous, but very hard working, being always the first to report for duty at the police HQ and the last to leave. I was locked up, isolated, in a cell for another week.

I was locked up, isolated, in a cell for another week. All former ministers and APC executives are requested, in their own interest, to report to the nearest police station for their own safety.The country will be ruled by the National Provisional Ruling Council. Sierra Leone Sir Milton Margai - Duration: 24:26. As soon as we all put our hands together and set this nation on the right track for meaningful development, we shall return to our military barracks where we rightfully belong.Fellow countrymen and women, for how long were we going to preserve a system which has caused all of us to live in perpetual darkness? Every district in the interior had at least one hospital. This regime has perpetuated nepotism, tribalism, gross mismanagement, total collapse of our economy, education, health, transport and communication systems.

It is all over now! We had no power to retaliate at the time and we cannot now. We were very intimate.Secondly, the other NPRC victim, James Bambay Kamara, former Inspector General of Police was another close friend of mine. In pursuing this line of action, we are committed to two major objectives, namely, one to ensure that the rebel incursion is brought to an immediate end and to repatriate our people to their respective homes to be followed by an intensive rehabilitation and reconstruction of all areas destroyed. ... 1992 NPRC Student Solidarity Rally - Duration: 8:34. Get kids back-to-school ready with Expedition: Learn! Until 1971 the framework of the courts was equally similar, and the final court of appeal was the Before the civil war, most health and welfare services were provided by the central government. The major hospitals with specialist facilities were in Freetown and Bo. I was picked up from my 1 Short Street office in the morning hours of December 4th, 1992, bundled and thrown into a waiting military truck like a bag of charcoal, off to the office of SAJ Musa at Tower Hill.At SAJ Musa’s office, I received the beating of my life from SAJ himself, an excruciating torture not worth recounting. Fellow countrymen and women, today marks the end of the APC regime forever. My father sat on the fence, neutral. They had not been paid their monthly wages for three months, they were hungry, and morale was very low. While in secondary school, Strasser was a gifted student in During Strasser's time at the war front in Kailahun District against the RUF, the Government of Sierra Leone led by president After many appeals, warnings or threats, the young soldiers decided to march down in their combat from On January 1996, after nearly four years in power, Strasser was ousted in another Following his overthrow, Strasser was given a fellowship by the UN to study law at the

In the larger cities of Freetown and Bonthe, some houses that remain from colonial times were built of wood or laterite stone in a Brazilian or Victorian style and roofed with slate.Education in Sierra Leone is offered in private and government-sponsored schools; it is not compulsory. The

The councils deal largely with local matters and are under the indirect control of the central government. Should the whole therefore be seen as a political witch hunt?

I was not allowed to take a bath all this while and only got relief thanks to the tireless efforts of the then German Ambassador to Sierra Leone, Karl Prinz, who at the time risked his life to checkmate the human rights excesses of the NPRC. Valentine Esegragbo Melvine Strasser (born 26 April 1967) is an ex-military leader who served as head of state of Sierra Leone from 1992 to 1996.