SIERRA LEONE APC GOVERNMENT IS USING COLONIAL ERA LAWS TO JAIL JOURNALISTS.


To cover for their dictatorial ruling Sierra Leone government leaders are paging the colonial era laws to intimidate and jail journalist, the crime seditious libel was used by the British Crown to stifle political opponents and consolidate power in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.
why is this law  so popular in Sierra Leone at the second term of President Ernest Koroma? one will wonder if this is the smoke and the fire is behind. The arrest of popular journalist of Monologue fame David Tam Bayoh is making Sierra Leoneans scratch their heads and coming to  terms with what is going on around them.

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