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TRC STANDS BY ITS STATEMENT ON HINGA NORMAN

December 13, 2003 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

PRESS RELEASE BY THE TRC Freetown, Sierra Leone, 03 December 2003 TRC STANDS BY ITS STATEMENT ON HINGA NORMAN The Special Court issued a statement on 3 December 2003 claiming […]

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TRC Response to Hinga Norman’s objections

October 24, 2003 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

IN THE SPECIAL COURT FOR SIERRA LEONE Before: Date: 24 October 2003 Case No. SCSL 2003 – 09 – 1 In the matter of: CHIEF SAMUEL HINGA NORMAN JP Re […]

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Front Page Comment : TREATING NATION’S ECONOMIC SABOTEURS WITH KID GLOVES

October 18, 2003 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

  PRESIDENT KABBAH Sierra Leone, as a nation recovering from war, can never progress socio-economically and politically if the caveat of financial accountability, especially, is not given it’s desired place […]

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Ask not what Gyude Bryant can do for Liberia but what Liberians can do for Liberia to redeem the nation –A call to patriotic citizenry in Liberia

October 17, 2003 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

    –A CALL TO PATRIOTIC CITIZENRY IN LIBERIA Friday October 17, 2003 By Rev.Wilfred Leeroy Kabs-Kanu, Esq, Former Instructor of Educational Psychology MOE/University of Liberia World Bank In-Service Teacher-Training Program, […]

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PRESIDENT KABBAH, THE SKELETON IN THE CUPBOARD AND FREEDOM OF THE PRESS

October 12, 2003 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

  PRESIDENT KABBAH, THE SKELETON IN THE CUPBOARD AND FREEDOM OF THE PRESS PLAYING HARDBALL WITH KABS KANU, Esq Sunday October 12, 2003 When in 1995 the one -time UN […]

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HINGA NORMAN : A LIFE TIME OF POLITICAL CONTROVERSIES … and life on a knife’s edge………

September 16, 2003 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

  HINGA NORMAN : A PLAQUE OF INFAMY OR HEROISM ?  Wilfred Kabs- Kanu looks at a  jolly man whose political lifestyle has embodied controversy so far…..   The name […]

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IDI AMIN , THE REMORSELESS MASS MURDERER WHO ESCAPED JUSTICE

August 17, 2003 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

IDI AMIN  , THE REMORSELESS MASS MURDERER WHO ESCAPED JUSTICE EDITORIAL Sunday August 17, 2003 The death in exile of one of the most repulsive and cruel dictators in world […]

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President Tejan Kabbah’s testimony before the Sierra Leone Truth and Reconciliation Commission ( TRC )

August 5, 2003 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

Mr. Chairman and members of the Commission, I am delighted to have been invited to make a statement at these public hearings of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, particularly on […]

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Ex-President Joseph Momoh : A PROMISING LIFE HIGHJACKED BY PSEUDO-POLITICS

August 3, 2003 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

  Sunday August 3, 2003 Ex-President Joseph Saidu Momoh, who died in Conakry, Guinea today of complications from hypertension, was one of the most promising Sierra Leoneans at Independence in […]

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The lessons of Foday Sankoh’s demise

July 30, 2003 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

Sankoh became an eyesore before he died   The lesson to be learned from the death on Tuesday of Sierra Leone’s voluptuosly-greedy and power -conscious rebel leader, Foday Sankoh, is […]

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  • Sixty-five years after independence, one painful truth remains: we, as a people, have failed Mama Salone.
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