Dear Mr. Editor, Please allow me space in your widely read and reputable newspaper Africa24.
I am a regular reader of your newspaper and I like the way you present your stories.
The column I like most is your ‘PAROT’ column which talks about national issues.
Indeed, I fall for the one on Wednesday 28th February 2024, in which the PAROT spoke about the negligent to respond to a mater by the Sierra Leone Association of Journalists (SLAJ).
I want to make my point clear, that I am not in support of any wrong doing, nor am I in support of the individual journalists that did what they did.
My point here is that the Association was to have put out a press release by not necessarily supporting the journalists but to let them know that, they belong to the body.
But SLAJ failed woefully in their responsibility.
I was later informed that senior members of the association went to the CID to get the release of Emanuel, and that was good but it was not enough at the time, a press release will have sents a signal to the world.
I am not making a case for those arrested but I would have loved to see a press release in respect of those detained.
Thank God all those in question are now free-men.
I only hope that, next time, SLAJ will take members’ cases seriously.
Thanks, your passionate follower
Lamin T.Bockarie
Freetown