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The role of the institution of Chieftaincy in the management of local administration and development and in the broader body-politic of Sierra Leone requires a critical unbiased introspection and analysis as to its continued relevance and centrality in the lives of our peoples.
The schisms that have plagued our nation’s socio, political and administrative structures, resulting in the decadent path traversed for so long only seem to continue if we again fail to put forth bold and visionary ideas in establishing local administrative entities separate and apart from the traditional chieftaincy model.
Modern Sierra Leone has more than 4/5ths of her land mass and population under the direct hegemony of Paramount Chiefs, most of whose members are selected and or elected from a very small undemocratic pool of “chieftaincy families”, so designated by the British colonial administration from compliant families, as they sought to pacify the hinterland and protectorate into vassal areas in the 18th and early 19th centuries.
The inordinate concentration of such socio-economic, political and administrative decision making powers in the hands of the Paramount Chiefs has not always been used as a force for good or development in the chiefdoms throughout the country. Rather the institution and its protagonists have allowed themselves to be misused by governing political parties and politicians and as tools for perpetuating their governance especially during elections.
In the period immediately after independence the central government in Freetown sought to utilize and harness for it’s own political supremacy the enormous colonial era powers the Paramount Chiefs enjoyed among their subjects. This resulted in the enactment of laws ensuring that Paramount Chiefs subsequently became unelected members of the Parliament in the period prior to the 1967 elections and the dethronement of those not compliant with the government’s dictates.
This trend in the central role of Chiefs, in ensuring block voting culminated with most parliamentary Paramount Chiefs in the wake of the inconclusive general elections of 1967 declaring for the SLPP party in power at the time, even though the party had clearly lost the majority of the Sierra Leonean electorate.
The role of most Paramount Chiefs in the recent 2007 elections is also highly instructive as chiefs throughout the country were used mostly as surrogates of the ruling SLPP party bent on ensuring its continued rule despite the majority of the electorate having already decided on the need for change of administration.
As an active participant in the recent 2007 elections in the battleground areas of the south and eastern provinces, I witnessed first hand some of the undemocratic tactics used by Chiefs in areas so underdeveloped and neglected that one wondered why so much effort was being made by the chiefs to maintain a government that had essentially abandoned their people to doom and underdevelopment. It was not uncommon for chiefs in places like Sahn Malen, for example, where the Paramount Chief, Brima Victor Sidie Kebbie went to such extent as to even ban gatherings by the opposition PMDC and condoned the burning and pillaging of homes and properties of PMDC members all designed to intimidate and ensure that the SLPP maintained political power or in Bo where Chief Rashid Kamanda-Bongay did all within his power to thwart the citizens genuine aspirations for positive change through intimidation.
The near 30-year reign of PC Kebbie in the Pujehun district for example is a classic study of how most Paramount Chiefs in Sierra Leone have abdicated their roles as catalysts and agents of development and change and why the district remains the least developed in Sierra Leone and by extrapolation the least developed region in the world. As an example, with a functioning palm oil mill located in Sahn Malen and palm oil cultivation hitherto the primary business activity in the region, PC Kebbie has however overseen the complete demise of the palm oil industry in the district, despite the still high demand for the product not only nationally but worldwide. His inability to innovate and attract new investments into the maintenance and production of this very vital jobs and revenue generating infrastructure located in his chiefdom’s headquarter town speaks volumes in the management or lack thereof of local administration in Sierra Leone.
In a move that’ll warm the hearts of the paparazzi the 2010 Winter Olympics are gearing up for what is believed to be the first party space dedicated especially to gay and lesbian athletes reports The New York Times. But not everyone in the LGBT community is convinced that that’s where the party’s at…
Olympic “Houses” – specially designated venues where athletes and their friends and families can socialize – seem to have become de rigeur on the post games party circuit. Hot spots for networking, schmoozing and er, now cruising, getting into one can be an Olympic event in itself apparently! Some even get big name sponsorship – “Holland House” (aka party central) gets it’s backing from Heineken.