Speaking over 98.1 Democracy Radio on Wednesday, 29th September, 2021, the Chairman and Leader of the National Grand Coalition, Dr. Denis Bright accused the ruling SLPP Government of behaving like a cartel that is grabbing every important entity to use to its advantage. He maintained that since the SLPP of President Bio came to power they have been busy making inroads into viable and credible public institutions like the ACC, the NRA, ASSL and several others all in a bidto get these institutions to do their bidding like a lap dog. He warned however that posterity will judge them because there will come a day when the people of this country will decide that enough is enough and vote them out of power. He mentioned that the creation of the CoPPP is not to divert the attention of the people from the real burning issues affecting the livelihood of the economy but to serve as a pressure that would articulate and press forward issues that are for the general good which the current SLPP government is neglecting.   =FEATURE= S/Leonean Elites/US Embassy Should Pay Reparations for Mudslide Tragedy By  J. Hunter Lovine, Rocky Mountain Institute, Colorado, US (1992)  “The problems that we face are complex. Our need is not for simplistic solutions. One of the ingredients or survival, therefore, is flexibility, tolerance of ambiguity, and creativity in facing issues that will unfold. Our need is not so much for specialists (valuable though they can be in providing particular pieces of the puzzle), but, for generalists, who can see the interconnected- Over the past twenty something years, I have used the above quotation about a hundred times in my writings – especially in my professional growing-up years as a fulltime environmentalist in Liberia and Nigeria. I jumped into the then brewing hurricane of environmentalism as a “Generalist” – being the brain/Executive Secretary of the Save My Future Conservation Society (SAMFU) in Liberia in 1987. SAMFU had to compete for international- Sourced funds with largely the Conservation for the Society of Nature of Liberia (SCNL) – whose membership at that time comprised of mainly professional European and American expatriates, and Liberian elite in diverse forms of environmentalism; including an avid bird watcher, the British Ambassador to Liberia in 1989, H.E. Michael Gore, who was the SCNL’s Vice Chairman of SAMFU got sponsorship from the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF)- Internationally, the German Forestry Mission to Liberia collaborated with the Forestry Development Authority of the Republic of Liberia…to produce and publish GREENLOVE magazine in 1989. I was the Editor of the GREENLOVE magazine. In unprecedented cartoon stories I had written (and cartoons done by Liberian cartoon genius, Ronnie Siakor). GREENLOVE magazine showed how issues of the environment are connected to everything else – from creation myth, Poro Society traditional schools to biblical truths, politics to erotic love story… Let’s step out of that time machine of history (In my recent articles on the mudslide disaster, I keep on making references to my history in environmentalism deliberately, so that some narrow-minded elite here would not think I am targeting them for vilification) to …That August 14, 2017, mudslide that buried in mud over 500 people….  Thou shalt not make them into forgettable statistics On September 8, 2017, as I continued in my quest to unravel the mudslide tragedy, I met with Gibril Sesay (popularly known as “Gibo”) in the Mortema area of Regent. Gibo, born on February 2, 1986, at Lungi Town, Kaffu Bullom chiefdom, Port Loko District, is presently in charge of News at Universal Radio FM 98.7, located at “IMATT”, not too far from the mudslide catastrophe. Gibo, who had built a house in the valley where the mudslide rushed down, was one of the survivors – but, he said his 14 year old daughter, Messeh, who was Head Girl of the Sayo Elementary School in the area, was hit by a rock in the avalanche. She died!! Eleven other people in Gibo’s household survived the mudslide tribulation. “It was God that got so many of us to survive. I know many of my neighbours whose entire families were wiped out by the mudslide – some with 16 people in one household”, Gibo said, his 31 years old face solemn, trauma racking his bearded features, not a smile reaching his face in the over one hour I interviewed him, and as he took our video camera man down rocky paths to show us where his house used to be. Gibo said that at about 4:00 a.m. that fateful morning, one of his adult brothers woke up all the other adults in his household, saying, “This type of heavy rain…we should not be sleeping”. Then, about two hours after, “We just saw ourselves covered in mud”, Gibo said. Two of his infant children had to be dragged out of the mud. They were taken to Connaught Hospital downtown, where they were admitted for about a week; his entire family of wife and children have been relocated to the Don Bosco Fambul Home on Fort Street. His brothers and their families who were with him are now homeless. He had a kiosk close to his home – all the goods he would sell daily in the kiosk were carried away by the mud. He has still not been registered by the government or the relief agencies. “There were probably less than fifty survivors of that disaster; now, there appeared to be hundreds being registered; with some of us the real survivors left out…”, Gibo moaned. I have started collecting stories such as Gibo’s. My aim? To ‘bring to life the mudslide deceased’ and to turn a spotlight on the survivors – to let them not be buried in the Graveyard of Statistics. There has always been the propensity of Sierra Leoneans to shed profuse tears over victims of national calamities. Then, forget them. I hope to let Sierra Leoneans know that the issue of environmental degradation in Freetown (and around the country) is