Muktar Usman Muktari-Janguza (JanguzaArewa)

Originally published in the Sierra Leone Telegraph on 18 July 2018. Sierra Leone's Chief Minister and Chairman of the Governance Transition Team Professor David Francis formally hands the GTT report over to President Maada Bio on the 4 th of July. Pic: State House Media and Communications Unit. By Muktar Usman Muktari-Janguza Email: janguza.arewa@gmail.com Twitter: @JanguzaArewa On April 6, 2018, just two days after his swearing in, President Julius Maada Bio followed in the footsteps of his predecessor and established a Governance Transition Team (GTT) with a four-pronged mandate to “serve as focal point for the interface with the out-going APC government”; “conduct an immediate stock-taking exercise”; “submit an overview of the current state of affairs”; and “submit a comprehensive report” on the GTT’s findings. On Wednesday, July 4, the Bio administration released its eagerly awaited GTT report. The explosive catalogue of corr...

Image: BBC On Saturday, 7 th of January, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) announced that after careful deliberation it was acceding to the demands of the National Security Adviser (NSA) and the Service Chiefs to postpone the General Elections for six weeks. The new dates the Commission’s Chairman announced were now to be March 28 (Presidential and Federal Legislative elections) and April 11 (Gubernatorial and State Legislative elections). Much has already been written about the wide-spread suspicion which has greeted the postponement. Remi Adekoya’s article in The Guardian , Karen Attiah’s article in The Washington Post , and Tolu Ogunlesi’s article in the Financial Times , give a good sense of this general scepticism – much of which I share. In this article I instead highlight the implications and impact of the postponement on the country’s economic stability.  Stability Deferred The ebullient glow that once pe...