Sierra Leone football:
Frank talk with Rodney Michael
As Sierra Leone continues to be absent from the top most football competition of the continent, Saidu Kaye Sesay catches up with one of the country’s football heavyweights, Rodney Michael, for a frank discussion of what and where the country continues to go wrong:
African Sports Monthly (ASM) : Good day Mr. Michael, and welcome to this interview.
Rumours continue to spread that there is acrimony between your camp and the incumbent SLFA. Please clear the air….
Rodney Michael (RM): The truth is that things have remained complex since the elections and in reality my supporters and I still feel cheated. This was buttressed with adequate evidence and admission by those who took active part in the manipulation, in the latter part of 2013 and early 2014 that the entire electoral process was rigged and manipulated; and even the President Isha Johansen was alleged to have admitted in an Executive Meeting that the elections were manipulated in her favour.
However in a meeting at the residence of the Hon Minister of Public and Political Affairs, Hon Kemoh Sesay. in early 2014, a compromise was agreed which
Rodney Michael in photo
BY Saidu Kaye Sesay in London