"I am a female taxi driver in Freetown . I do pick service and drop off service for school children, old people, traveling to water taxi points, hotel service, I do various GENUINE charter service within Freetown. "
#TaxiDriver
#SierraLeone
#SaloneTwitter
@michellegayle1
They are trying to say its a non white person. I mean no one describes a criminal by saying they are a British person from Derbyshire do they.
Sierra Leoneans living in the UK came out in great numbers in support of the peaceful march to No 10 Downing Street to present the petition. We believe the election results to be rigged. We stand firmly on the side of truth and justice.
#Salone
The current Mayor of
#Freetown
is probably the best we have experienced in
#SierraLeone
since independence. Constraints/ limitations are placed in her way making it difficult to achieve goals but that hasn't stopped her in pressing on! Well done Mayor!
#SaloneTwitter
The youth of
#SierraLeone
speak! Whilst you decide on unholy mergers/alliances their lives are practically impossible to navigate. Hunger homelessness no healthcare zero opportunities etc
#SaloneTwitter
#africanyouth
#health
@BBCAfrica
@krioborbor
Really this isnโt even a story....I have tons of stories of Africans learning to speak fluently all manner of extremely difficult European languages. Working in harsh cold conditions where they were discriminated against but rose up against all the odds stacked against them
All citizens should be able to express their fears concerns doubts and misgivings about their own governments. Freedom of expression is a fundamental human right enshrined in article 19 of the universal declaration of human rights.
#SierraLeone
#SaloneTwitter
#HumanRights
Is the first lady mourning her bodyguard who died under such tragic circumstances in the very recent past ? Heartrending. So so sad.
Rest in peace young lady.
#SierraLeone
#SaloneTwitter
Injustice and wrongdoing must be exposed each and every time it happens. If we don't we lose our humanity. Speak up every single time. Our individual and collective lives depend on it. Today it is someone else tomorrow it might be you.
#SierraLeone
#SaloneTwitter
Women in politics have the hardest time and are subject to the most stringent of conditions despite the evidence that those who have ruined the country or contributed most to its current state of disrepair are men.
@yakisawyerr
#SierraLeoneDecides2023
#SierraLeone
#SaloneTwitter
Senior girls at the Annie Walsh Memorial School in Freetown Sierra Leone ๐ธ๐ฑ in 1979. It was the first girls secondary school in Sub Saharan Africa offering western style education. Established 1849.
#almamater
#SierraLeone
#SaloneTwitter
We want a
#SierraLeone
where people enter into politics to be of service to the nation. Where they are in the main not interested in enrichment of self but service to the nation. We want to see principled politicians who are not mired in corruption.
#SaloneTwitter
Was drafted in to work with burns patients from the explosion on Friday. It's been a time of being led by hardworking dedicated staff at
#connaught
hospital. Total awe!
#SaloneTwitter
#SierraLeone
The president of
#SierraLeone
appears to be saying here that they have given forty billion dollars in cash to Maforki and Marampa.... well well well. If you have time please go to these areas. The levels of poverty beggars belief.
#SaloneTwitter
#AfricanStories
Sierra leone has over ?40 ministerial positions
?29 deputies
Over ?10 other presidential appointments.
Must be leading the world's record on large govns. Yet the govn. has never been able to build a single school or hospital out of its own funds.
#SaloneTwitter
Susan Cole a Sierra Leonean lady had a vision to support her community . She fundraised and built a school a medical centre an orphanage and a playground. Together with her husband and others they have really worked to build a decent community here.
#SaloneTwitter
#Africa
Women being in politics is a bed of thorns. We see how things are. Yesterday I was elected deputy Secretary general of the NGC party in Sierra Leone.
I got 277 votes and my opponent got 38 votes. Thank you to those who participated in the process.
#SierraLeone
#SaloneTwitter
"In a village in Northern Sierra Leone๐ธ๐ฑ, I came across these happy faces and I decided to take a photo of them.
The boys decided to climb a tree in order for me to be able to capture all of them in a single photo.
Koinadugu District, Northern Sierra Leone๐ธ๐ฑ."
Obockay
The last audit omits the offices of the president the vice president and the first lady (who is not an elected official) of
#SierraLeone
Not one opposition person spoke against this. No accountability no checks and balances no opposition no media outrage!
#SaloneTwitter
The traitor Dr Yumkella as he destroys the NGC party for an unholy alliance with President Bio and his SLPP government . The government is wracked with extreme corruption, allegations of extra judicial murders, tribalism, malfeasance, gaslighting destruction of the economy.
Freetown in the 1970's .
What happened since is decay destruction corruption theft mismanagement hatefulness tribalism elections malpractice and theft. You name it ๐
Nostalgia!
#SundayMorning
#SaloneX
Abu Bakarr Jalloh in this book tells of a grueling four years at university in
#SierraLeone
there were no toilets/running water on campus & students had to go out into the forest to defaecate.
#SaloneTwitter
#thursdaymorning
I saw these images on my phone where it is alleged that opposition leader Samura Kamara has been stopped by security forces from entering
#Freetown
at mile 38. Can anyone confirm or deny?
#SaloneTwitter
#SierraLeone
In memory of Ibrahim Bash Taqi who was murdered by President Siaka Stevens. He was a selfless politician and journalist the calibre of which is virtually absent these days from public life. What we have is a rotating group of criminals!
#SierraLeone
#SaloneTwitter
No one in my community celebrates the death of anyone. Certainly not me. We were raised with the fear of God and respect for others. This young lady that passed at such a tender age deserved far more than an early death.
#SierraLeone
#SaloneTwitter
#keepouryoungpeoplealive
Chairman of the special initiative for climate change renewable energy/ food security.
Minister of the environment /climate change.
Minister of agriculture/ food security.
Minister of energy.
Duplication of roles/duties.
Jobs created as reward.
#SierraLeone
#Salon
Pictures from the Mayor of Freetowns Facebook Post on the fire at Susans Bay. The entire community has been burnt to the ground.
#SierraLeone
#SaloneTwitter
In Sierra Leone a doctors salary is $150 ; teachers salary $50 ; nurse salary $25 accountant salary $35 ; nutritionist to the president of Sierra Leone salary is $2,300 ......
@PresidentBio
@juldehjalloh_vp
does this make sense?
#salonetwitter
#SierraLeone
This is the President of Sierra Leone returning from his Korean trip. Every single one of his numerous trips with his entourage is paid for and fully funded by the people. Sierra Leone remains one of the poorest nations in Africa and the world.
#Africa
Iโm super impressed by Sam Jojo Verge swimming instructor extraordinaire who swam the Sierra Leonean Channel from Banana Island to the mainland. A six hour and thirty minutes swim for charitable causes in
#SierraLeone
#salonetwitter
#swim
๐ธ๐ฑ!
Never ceases to amaze me that governments can find money to buy luxury cars for those in leadership whilst a simple market has to be built for the people with donor funds secured by the EU
#Priorities
Money laundering perhaps can make money "clean" but it won't change the fact it was stolen in the first place.
So is appointing women to a government that didn't win the franchise. Its still not going to make things legitimate.
#AfricaAgainstCorruption
All party members of the SLPP must come out in condemnation of the hateful rhetoric this man is spewing which has the potential to bring chaos enmity and discord into the religiously tolerant communities of
#SierraLeone
#SaloneTwitter
#saynotohate
#sundayvibes
Dictators destroy systems that maintain accountability: audit service/ judiciary
They destabilise democracy so other parties have no voice.
They crush free speech/ expression.
They steal elections.
Corruption/sycophancy flourishes under their watch.
#thursdaymorning
Then they came Lara Taylor Pearce and I did not speak outโ because I was not bothered. Then they came for Yvonne Aki Sawyer I did not speak out because I was not a mayor. Then they came for me and there was no one left to speak for me.
#SierraLeone
#salonetwitter
#speakoutnow
In memory of Ibrahim Bash Taqi who was murdered by President Siaka Stevens. He was a selfless politician and journalist the calibre of which is virtually absent these days from public life. What we have / had is a rotating group of criminals!
#SierraLeone
#SaloneTwitter
@GordonBrown
I was an NHS manager in those days one of my jobs was to manage our local sure start centre. It was one of the most useful things I'd done in my life.
How much money was paid to the government of Sierra Leone for selling 250 acres of pristine beaches to the Chinese for the purpose of destroying the environment for present and future generations ?
#SaloneTwitter
As much as folks think their own political party is the best for Sierra Leone the evidence of 61 years shows otherwise. Neither Samura APC nor Maada Bio SLPP is good for the nation. Unfortunately Sierra Leoneans do not have a better choice.
#SaloneTwitter
#SierraLeone
Resilient: a term politicians use when nationals have
no electricity
no running water
poor to non existent healthcare
substandard education dangerous life threatening environment
extreme poverty
aggressive corruption
Filth/degradation
Curtailed freedoms
#Sunday
This elderly person Alhaji Mohamed Sallieu Thomas of Aberdeen has died aged 100. I thought it was worth sharing with the community as its not everyday you hear of a person getting to 100 before they pass. RIP
#SierraLeone
#salonetwitter
1970's Corruption/ mismanagement.
1980's War corruption/ mismanagement
1990's War corruption/ mismanagement.
2000's onwards Corruption/ mismanagement.
2018 to present day still on the matter.
Pictured is a brand new vehicle of a leader. Cost ยฃ250,000 added to fleet of similar
A $55m (ยฃ39m) deal struck by the government of Sierra Leone with China to build an industrial fishing harbour on 250 acres of beach and protected rainforest has been criticised as โa catastrophic human and ecological disasterโ by conservationists, landowners and rights groups.
A donor aid dependant country with an ever burgeoning ministerial and other appointments list. Some positions sounding like duplication of duties over and over again. More rewards for the party faithful. Another nail in the coffin for the nation.
#SaloneTwitter
@Femi_Sorry
There's plenty of Jews in Israel who are not in favour of Israeli government actions. Jews in the UK are clearly not the same as the Israeli government. Surely people know that.
My dream : That one day all Sierra Leonean women and girls would be educated to the level they want and to be able to make beneficial decisions for themselves and theirโ communities.
#women
#thefutueisfemale
#SaloneTwitter
#fridaymorning
The Altruist Sunscreen has arrived in Freetown! Contact Sierra Leone Association for Persons With Albinism. Spread the word to anyone with albinism in Sierra Leone - Collect free sun screen. No charge at all. Sun protection saves lives
#SaloneTwitter
One has concluded that transparency is absent in the recently concluded elections and ongoing discussions. Corrupt practices are rife. An entire nation unable to conduct credible elections even with significant help is just criminal.
#SierraLeoneDecides2023
#SaloneTwitter
Sierra Leonean women farmers in Northern Sierra Leone.
"Let us celebrate our hardworking female farmers.
Onions production by Haja Sundu Marrah and group in Kabala Koinadugu District."
#SierraLeone
#salonetwitter
Here we are in 2023 still making the same mistakes. Corruption, poverty, murder ,stealing elections , stealing the resources of the nation, abusing human rights , suppression of voices who say no. 40 plus years later nothing has changed for
#SierraLeone
#SaloneTwitter
#Africa
It's sad that a resourceful country like
#SierraLeone
which depends wholly on aid for its survival can add 40 plus new positions to government . How does this benefit the nation as a whole? Further impoverishment !
#Africa