{"id":76370,"date":"2015-11-10T03:14:08","date_gmt":"2015-11-10T03:14:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sierraexpressmedia.com\/?p=76370"},"modified":"2017-01-28T23:24:11","modified_gmt":"2017-01-28T23:24:11","slug":"checkmate-the-political-beat-gunners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/?p=76370","title":{"rendered":"Checkmate the political beat gunners"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>No one can deny the fact that \u201cthere is a tide in the affairs of men, which taken at the floods, leads on to fortune\u201d and that \u201csuch a full sea\u201d political flag bearer aspirants \u201care afloat\u201d though there is a time for engaging the storm.<\/p>\n<p>What, however, remains a concern, be it patent or latent, President Ernest Bai Koroma and all Sierra Leoneans, is the flagrant disregard for electoral rules and regulations that set time for politicking or political campaigning.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">We can see a lot of men moving all over the country declaring themselves as flag bearer aspirants, contrary to the electoral laws.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The laws of this nation forbid anyone to engage in politicking when the National electoral Commission (NEC) has not declared that it is time for politicking.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">While not denying a citizen the right to vie for any political office, adhering to the rules and regulations governing such activities should be a guiding principle.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Therefore, all those who wish to declare their intentions to the people should wait until the NEC has blown the whistle for political activities to commence.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">This country is known for her stance on the principle of the rule of law, implying that all citizens, especially those vying for political offices, should make it a sacred duty to adhere to the dictates of the said principle.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In this regard, we implore President Koroma to ensure that his \u201cboys\u201d operate within the confines of the laws governing electoral activities of this nation.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Stay with Sierra Express Media, for your trusted place in news!<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No one can deny the fact that \u201cthere is a tide in the affairs of men, which taken at the floods, leads on to fortune\u201d [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":9661,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[858,671],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76370","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-editorial","category-featured"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76370","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\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=76370"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76370\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":80108,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76370\/revisions\/80108"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9661"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=76370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=76370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=76370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}