Poor Sylvia, she is just wasting her time, money and energy, as Sheka Tarawallie is very well protected.

You might see it that way but what Sylvia wants is exactly what Ernest Koroma is doing. Everytime, she comes out looking victimised and gets HUGE POPULARITY whilst he comes out looking very bad. I do not understand why Shekito behaved so stupidly in this matter nor why him and his boss do not see how they are playing into clever Sylvia's hands. The money she spends on legal fees is buying her not legal services but HUGE PUBLIC RELATIONS DIVIDEND.

If people spent less time, energy and money attacking the government then maybe the government would have more time to do the job it was elected to do i.e rebuild a war torn country.

Democracy is new to Sierra Leone and with that the capacity of the elected representives which will make mistakes. No government in the world is error free as we are all human. I for one think that the President is doing a fantastic job especially as within the 1st year he has had to deal with the rise of fuel and food prices which people have personally attacked him for which is shocking.

These people should get real and get behind the President and like he said...change your attitude if you want to build a better country for the future.

It really bothers me that since I have heard news of this, no one has yet questioned whether it was the place of the Press Secretary to the President to do something like this. Its makes a mockery of the government!!

I work occasionally with the UK Media, the BBC to be precise and this would be unheard of here. A couple of days ago in the free London Paper, they had printed a picture of Gordon Brown (The UK Prime Minister) with two read horns on his head. It made me think of when Sylvia Blyden was taken to court for doing a similar thing. It is called Freedom of Press. Obviously within reason but do you think the government here are now going to pursue a case against the London Paper? The press can say whatever they like, the government would refute what they see as incorrect but you will never see them bringing the office of the governement into such disrepute.

Sylvia Blyden may have her faults but in what civilised and developed country would the Press Secretary of the Government stoop down to such a scandalous level? Do people not realise that by sending such a defamatory letter to institutions such as the UN etc, he is only presenting a reason for us to be ridiculed and looked upon as unserious?After this, I doubt we would be taken seriously for a very very long time. Not that they have been taking us seriously anyway.

Are we really so fickle and senseless? I read that the President has supported Shekito in his actions and I am praying to God that this is not the case even though I know that the likelihood is that it is true. I mean does the man not have better things to do with his time as Press Secretary? If not, I have just been to the Presidents' website. He can start with that as it is very embarassing and needs a lot of work!

The whole thing is bizarre to me and I have been left wondering what the future holds for our beloved country.

Did Ernest Koroma really file a nolle prosequi and have the matter thrown out of court this morning? LORD HAVE MERCY!!!