{"id":38460,"date":"2012-04-12T16:07:01","date_gmt":"2012-04-12T16:07:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sierraexpressmedia.com\/?p=38460"},"modified":"2012-04-12T16:07:01","modified_gmt":"2012-04-12T16:07:01","slug":"no-clearance-for-arrie-bio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/?p=38460","title":{"rendered":"No clearance for Arrie Bio"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Reports indicate that the Old Bo Boys Association (OBBA) turned their annual school celebration into a political masquerade. Sources close to this press intimate that OBBA asked the police to issue them a license to pull out a masquerade called \u201cArrie\u201d Bio as part of the exercise process, which sources say was not given the green light by the police.\u00a0 <em>(Photo: A OBBA production presents an Arrie Bio Gbeni<\/em>)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Bo School which was established in 1906, built purposely on the political backdrops of educating the sons of the ruling houses (Chiefs), has today turned its academic establishment to a politically established institution.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The occasion which was supposed to be conducted on a simple academic process was marred with greens and political cultural shows, to demonstrate the ascribed status of being the strongest of hold of the Sierra Leone People\u2019s Party.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Sources further revealed that the presidential flag bearer, Julius Maida Bio was paraded in a grand chiefly ceremonial style in the host of the august gathering, which was intended to humiliate President Koroma.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Sources say students as well as ordinary people constituted themselves into groups putting on attire that pointed to the SLPP.\u00a0 What surprised a cross section of the public was the fact that women were seen as active actors in the male chauvinistic OBBA exercise.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a class=\"highslide\" onclick=\"return vz.expand(this)\" href=\"http:\/\/www.sierraexpressmedia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/A-OBBA-Production-Presents-an-Arrie-Bio-Gbeni.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-38463 aligncenter\" title=\"A OBBA Production Presents an Arrie Bio Gbeni\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sierraexpressmedia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/A-OBBA-Production-Presents-an-Arrie-Bio-Gbeni.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"448\" height=\"336\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>By E Awoteli Cole<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Stay with Sierra Express Media, for your trusted place in news!<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<div align=\"center\">\n<hr align=\"center\" size=\"2\" width=\"100%\" \/>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reports indicate that the Old Bo Boys Association (OBBA) turned their annual school celebration into a political masquerade. Sources close to this press intimate that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":38463,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11448,692,1],"tags":[11851,11852,11853],"class_list":["post-38460","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","category-politics","category-uncategorized","tag-arrie-bio","tag-obba","tag-old-bo-boys-association"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38460","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38460"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38460\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}