Subject: Proud of the Forumites.
From: Mammy Blessing
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Date Posted: 12:29:49 09/21/07 ()
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Congratulations to all the APC supporters who have transformed themselves from election warriors to hawkish watchers of Ernest Koroma.
Those SLPP supporters who thought that we were going to be sycophantic toe lickers of Ernest should have another think coming.
The next elections will be in another 1800 days...until then we will try to get value for the country from those we elect.
This does not mean we will be on the sidelines, looking for the new gov to fail or wagging our finger in smug disapproval. Rather we will be pulling for Ernest to succeed with flying colors and we will be suggesting ideas (many of which will be ignored anyway) and looking for opportunities for the country.
If the new rulers misrule or act like insensitive pricks, we will not be sparing in our outrage. Salone first, baby!
We know Ernest cannot even attempt to solve all the seething problems. We just need him to provide uncorrupted leadership..
Subject: POLICE BOSS REFUSED ORDERS FROM PRESO
From: alieu sesay
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Date Posted: 10:17:14 09/21/07 ()
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According Preso: I called him three times with respect to the LOOTING...I called him at 9 am, 12 Noon and 4pm..."
Brima ACHA where were you when the President wanted you to do your JOB and protect the people of sierra Leone?
Subject: Re: POLICE BOSS REFUSED ORDERS FROM PRESO
From: Mammy Blessing
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Date Posted: 11:38:26 09/21/07 ()
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Where did you read that buddy? If so, the prez should start cracking skulls.
The penalty for insurbodination? Fire Brima Acha's butt!
Yes, it is insurbodination because he probably checked his voicemail, heard the prez's pleas and ignored them while attending to his amorous sugar daddy duties.
Subject: Re: POLICE BOSS REFUSED ORDERS FROM PRESO
From: Candid Opinion
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Date Posted: 11:46:24 09/21/07 ()
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And what if he was asleep..?
Or he is not allowed to..?
There can be a thousand variables in play and we are just looking for the most sensational to give the chap a bad name..
Not that he is not a first class ahole.. you dont get to be police chief without been one..
Subject: L@@K===>>> Fellow REGENTONIANS!!!
From: Nah Sabi Talk
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Date Posted: 10:05:16 09/21/07 ()
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Name: Nah Sabi Talk
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Subject: Re: Regentonian Web
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I know of this site... It's run by H. Finley... He has done a wonderful job for us all... But it's not easy to leave all to one man... He has his family and business, we all must try to help and contribute!
And we need a place where we can post live info or message to one another... We are living in such times now!
We need a place to meet and put ideas together for now...
I am suggesting at MYSPACE....
It's a great place for this kind of meeting, well equiped for all, irrespective of time and locat1on with many tools to handle our desires...
I have close to 3,000 views and 1900 friends from all over the world and they can be reached at an instant, on my own private site at MYSPACE...
I have taken the liberty of setting one up as a man that is of less talk and more action.... Now we must all try to go there and put our heads together...
the address is
http://www.myspace.com/regentonian
It's up and running and but needs some final touches which we can all do in time ...
We have to bring in Harold Finley as he is the pioneer...
We the young generation must begin to make a difference for this up coming thanks-giving!
Subject: Re: L@@K===>>> Fellow REGENTONIANS!!!
From: Londoner
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Date Posted: 11:36:55 09/21/07 ()
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That's the spirit of 'dioko'! Thank you Nar Sabi talk. I'll spread the word and of course I'll be there.
Subject: Can women solve Africa's problems?
From: Erica
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Date Posted: 09:40:40 09/21/07 ()
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With the current events in Liberia, some people have suggested that Mrs Ellen Johnson Sirleaf be made president of the country. After all she has previously run for the post and came second.
If this were to happen, she would become the first woman to lead an African country. At the very least it may prevent a power struggle between the two rebel factions in the country.
After what many would consider Charles Taylor's disastrous term at the helm of the country, many Liberians will surely be hoping that their new president will lift them out of conflict and despair, and focus on rebuilding the nation.
Is Mrs Sirleaf, as a woman, more likely to achieve this than her male predecessors?
In the past she has herself run a kind of kitchen for displaced people in Monrovia. Can you imagine her male counter-parts taking such a hands on approach?
Would she spend more money on education and healthcare and less on defence? Would corruption be reduced? Would there be better regional cooperation?
Or since she's been involved in Liberian politics for more than 30 years and even served under an earlier administration, would her tenure just be more of the same?
New era?
How different would Africa be if women held the reigns of power? That's the question we are asking on Africa Live this week.
Africa's female politicians are making increasing waves
For all the years that men have been responsible for running the continent, Africa's epithet remains the same: The land of poverty, wars and disease.
National women's groups are already fighting for laws to be changed for the greater good; laws on marriage, inheritance, traditional practices, education, healthcare, equal representation, the list goes on and on.
But African society remains a largely patriarchal one where male chauvinism is commonplace. Are men ready to part with their dominance? After all, it has been honed over centuries, and the habit has been passed down from one generation to the next.
In an Africa run by women what would be different? How would people's dreams be fulfilled and most importantly when Africa makes the news what would the headlines be?
Subject: Stop the Backwardness
From: Sam
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Date Posted: 09:33:56 09/21/07 ()
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Don't know if backwardness is a word, I am too upset now to look it up. I have been trying for days to reach the Statehouse website and of course it' down. The page simply was not loading for a few days and today it says bandwidth exceed. I can accept this excuse, but I doubt that's the reason it's down.
This is an appeal to EK's people- I know there is someone on here that keeps posting an email address for volunteers@ernestkoroma.org or something like that. This is one website that one would go to for info on the new govt and it is down. Please do a better job this time. Under Kabbah, it was not updated for days. There has to be something happening in th president's circle or in govt on a daily basis that can be added to the website. It simple shows how behind we are when simple things as having a decent looking government website that is updated regularly is not done. I don't want another website, especially one located in a foreign country, to be my first source of what my president/govt is up to.
Now please keep in mind that while the website was not as frequently updated as it should have been, there was one very good thing about it. It was not simply a mouth piece for Kabbah, it was not kabbah.com so please do keep that positive aspect of it going.
Subject: Re: Stop the Backwardness
From: campaign team
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Date Posted: 09:51:14 09/21/07 ()
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somebody is already working on the state website and you will see a daily updated website from next month, but for now you can pass your observation to ernest@ernestkoroma2007.com or volunteer@ernestkoroma.org
Subject: WALAHI- ERNEST KOROMA IS NOT THE REDEEMER AFTER ALL
From: SUBWANALAI
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Date Posted: 09:18:47 09/21/07 ()
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Comrades of the forum, like some of us said during the campaign process, we shall not sit by and allow anyone to further drag our people down the lane of rubbish. Guess what. Barely five days after his swearing-in ceremony, Ernest Koroma is leading a 17 (Yes, I mean seventeen man delegation to tour West African states of his choice. Seventeen? Does this guy think he is the stereotype Team Manager of a football club? Read, courtesey ALLAFRICA.COM
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Liberia: New Sierra Leonean President Ernest Bai Koroma Arrives in Country Friday On a One-Day Working Visit
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The Ministry of Foreign Affairs has announced that the President of the Republic of Sierra Leonean, His Excellency Ernest Bai Koroma, at the head of a 17-man delegation, will on tomorrow, Friday, September 21, 2007, be arriving in Liberia for a one-day official working visit.
The President of Liberia, Her Excellency Madam Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, and an array of government officials will meet President Koroma and delegation on arrival at the Roberts International Airport in Margibi County.
The Sierra Leonean President will be flying to Liberia from the Republic of Guinea, the first stop of a four-nation West African tour.
During the visit, President Sirleaf and her Sierra Leonean counterpart will hold discussions centering on bilateral relations ahd cooperation between Liberia and Sierra Leone, the Mano River Union and sub-regional security, ECOWAS, the AU, and on other matters of international concern.
At the end of the visit, President Koroma will be departing for Burkina Faso, the next stop of his sub-regional tour.
Subject: Re: WALAHI- ERNEST KOROMA IS NOT THE REDEEMER AFTER ALL
From: Alexander J.J. Coker
To: All
Date Posted: 12:24:08 09/21/07 ()
Email Address: alexander.jarrett@giantofmaryland.com
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It is very courteous to make calls to other Heads of State in neighbouring countries and start a dialogue remember Charles Taylor, what did he do to Sierra leone and do not criticize him for taking 17 people with him, Should he go by himself, those days of negative crticisms and tunnel vision thinking is over.
Subject: Re: WALAHI- ERNEST KOROMA IS NOT THE REDEEMER AFTER ALL
From: Mammy Blessing
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Date Posted: 10:59:53 09/21/07 ()
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17 man delegation?
La-i la!
I wonder who is in that delegation.
Seriously though, I think it is okay. Let him enjoy his junket. Personally, I would have liked his first visit to be in Europe and the States to meet with the folks who have the Kaffah. Broko broko Liberia and Burkina Faso? They are so hard-up that they might even ask us for aid!
Subject: Re: WALAHI- ERNEST KOROMA IS NOT THE REDEEMER AFTER ALL
From: alieu sesay
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Date Posted: 10:09:21 09/21/07 ()
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EK=TK...
Our Presidents are all the same. They Think alike...
Whats up with the seventeen man delegation?...
And whats up with ACHA and the President?
As the President, he should have showed us how TOUGH he is by putting a BOOT in the ASS of ACHA for refusing ORDERS..
But Oh yah.. DE-JAVU all over AGAIN
Subject: Re: WALAHI- ERNEST KOROMA IS NOT THE REDEEMER AFTER ALL
From: Bai Bureh
To: All
Date Posted: 09:51:44 09/21/07 ()
Email Address: rastafari_ish@hotmail.com
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So what? Maybe by your standards he is not the redeemer we have been seeking but I think this first move is a step in the right direction. Maybe you are too young or not intelligent enough to know what such a move means.I wonder if you have any idea about the game of chess.
By the way why are you sounding off like a kindergarten? Why don't you wait.Kool man,chill out! If you live in the US go watch some dogfight and feel great.
Subject: Re: WALAHI- ERNEST KOROMA IS NOT THE REDEEMER AFTER ALL
From: M. Alieu Iscandari Esq
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Date Posted: 11:37:54 09/21/07 ()
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I wonder if you have any idea about the game of chess.
I am VERY GOOD at this game my friend.wanna PLAY online?
Subject: Re: WALAHI- ERNEST KOROMA IS NOT THE REDEEMER AFTER ALL
From: Sam
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Date Posted: 09:47:16 09/21/07 ()
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SUBWANALAI. you won't sit by idly? What are you going to do about it?! His choice of countries are interesting though. Liberia and Burkina Faso play major roles in the rebel war. Is he adding Libya to the list soon? Liberia I can understand, but why Burkina Faso, what's the point? He should have toured the length and breath of Sierra Leone to get first hand accounts of the needs of the people, before thinking about foreign trips, unless its to go beg for money. Then again, if Sarkozy can take a vacation in the US no less a few days after taking over, I guess EK can start taking "working" trips too.
Subject: Re: WALAHI- ERNEST KOROMA IS NOT THE REDEEMER AFTER ALL
From: Ishmael Yillah
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Date Posted: 12:33:11 09/21/07 ()
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For everyone!
blaise compoare is the current president of the ECOWAS and Mr. Koroma (not sierra leone)is a new member of the ECOWAS, therefore, it is important for him to tour the ECOWAs countries first before going to any european country. Furthermore, Mr. koroma have toured all parts of sierra leone during campaigning he understands the pain of the people, therefore, it is important for him to tour the whole country again. Finally, the people of sierra leone needs progress not labo-labo from a president that tours around the country and make false claims and promises.
Subject: Re: WALAHI- ERNEST KOROMA IS NOT THE REDEEMER AFTER ALL
From: Cornelius Hamelberg
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Date Posted: 10:14:47 09/21/07 ()
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Keep on guessing....
Begin: “The old order changeth yielding place to new” my dear fellow and we are not talking about mere continuity….
There are old relationships that were established and this is the beginning of the new order…….
You are of course free to speculate to the full extent of your imagination. That’s within the law.
Our leader is an intelligent man on a mission. It doesn’t look like an unplanned or purposeless trip to merely shake hands and hear the word Congratulations - more like necessary and important consultations.
Guinea and Liberia have been watching the Sierra Leone elections with keen interest – not merely about Yenga or worries about the porous Liberia Sierra Leone border, just in case. Both our neighbours must be breathing with a sigh of relief……
Old relationships have to be renewed, assurances given about a new understanding. ….
I’m speculating too but not about “Nightsticks and water cannons, tear gas, padlocks,Molotov cocktails and rocks behind every curtain,False-hearted judges dying in the webs that they spin…”
As Mr. Koroma has made clear on his website, good neighbourliness is a priority and so the visits to Liberia and Guinea are understandable to you. (I'm assuming that when it comes to regional security, there is much that is not understandable to you and I have not observed you questioning any of the Golgotha travels of Messrs. Kabbah and his anointed to far away places like Bangladesh and even further field. Now if he had taken off to London and Brussels which are in everybody’s orbit, you would be talking even more – Atiku Abubakr took off to London in the midst of what then looked like Chaos……
I suspect that you know all about the as yet still unopened indictment don't you?
"No reason to get excited," the thief, he kindly spoke,
"There are many here among us who feel that life is but a joke.”
The end.
Subject: Re: WALAHI- ERNEST KOROMA IS NOT THE REDEEMER AFTER ALL
From: Cornelius Hamelberg
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Date Posted: 09:41:13 09/21/07 ()
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He is the president and you are not.
He has the madate to lead and that is what he is doing and not taking any dictates from you.
He is the head and not your tail.
Subject: Re: WALAHI- ERNEST KOROMA IS NOT THE REDEEMER AFTER ALL
From: SUBWANALAI
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Date Posted: 10:11:13 09/21/07 ()
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My take here is the size of his entourage. Who is going to foot the bil..you..you Cornelius. This is how we started applauding for all those failed leaders of yesteryears. Keep on singin...Doctor Orloh dae?
Subject: Re: WALAHI- ERNEST KOROMA IS NOT THE REDEEMER AFTER ALL
From: Cornelius Hamelberg
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Date Posted: 10:49:05 09/21/07 ()
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I understand your concern.
But a seventeen man delegation, a few bodyguards, ministers to be secretaries who know the substantive issues…? C'mon that's a little dinner party down the road. I’m sure that even you could foot that bill conveniently.
Do you know how many business soul men and women accompanied Bill Clinton to South Africa?
More than 700 (seven hundred)
Pity that we don't have a single plane called Sierra Leone Airways for K & B to have been flying even further afield for the price of one.....
It’s KOL NIDRE in 45 minutes…. And so I must be on my way ….
Have a nice weekend.
Subject: L@@K>>>.......For Mohamed Fofana !!!
From: Nah Sabi Talk
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Date Posted: 09:09:49 09/21/07 ()
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To Nah Sabi Talk
I am shocked to hear this from you. People voted for a positive change and not for a change for hooliganism, intimidation and vengeance.
I don't know how old you are, but this has been the behavior of APC youths since the early years of Siaka Stevens. During the early days of Siaka Stevens, the APC youths matters into their own hands. The open APC youth offices where they drag people to their offices and manhandle them as if they were the law enforcement officers.
Your citing of Los Angeles and New Orleans as an example is incorrect. Nobody as intimidated another person in USA because there was a change from Democrat to Republican or vase versa no matter how suppressed as they are. They rise up to fight for their right but not because there has been a change in political power.
This is not what the people vote for. The APC are letting the president down. We should remember that people have not forgotten the violence days of APC. However, they gave chance to APC because of President Koroma's trust. The youth will make many other Sierra Leoneans who did not vote for APC say, we told you about the violence, but now you seeing for yourself. This is not with APC youths in Sierra Leone. The APC leadership has to step in instantly and set examples to say that this is very undemocratic
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Sorry for the long awaited delay... Had to honor some appointments.
Please try to recover from your shock, me man...
Either I had failed to be more clearer than I was or you misunderstood the essence of my recent posting...
First and foremost, even though it is now cool to proclaim the APC banner, I am stating it for all to know, I am not a member of the APC nor the SLPP period!
I support anyone, irrespective of race, age, political affiliation, education, tribe or class, that is positively contributing to the betterment of my people and country.
I gravitate towards those that have my country at heart and HATE WITH PASSION those that are raping and playing selfish dirty games just to maintain and sustain their pork bellies...
To the issue at hand, I was merely pointing out that the behavior of those people is not out of the ordinary, and you yourself have cited many examples under Siaka Stevens of such behaviors... All that I was trying to say is that, you will not find much of that kind of behaviors perpetrated by those that are well-to-do, educated or are members of the cream of their society... Behaviors like that are more prevalent amongs the despairs than the elites of any society... Leave the suburb and visit any inner city anywhere and you will see that, there is a subculture ... There! People don't think like you and me, it's all about survival, hustling and bustling, getting my own share now... kind of mentality!
So you see my brother, those folks that are running around doing what we are hearing about, may have not even participated in the election, but taking advantage of an opportunity or a loophole at a time when they knew they will get something they otherwise may not have at any other time... People do gain from social and political chaos! People even do become millionaires due to wars.
It's one thing that this guys are doing something that we are all ashamed of, but it's another to say, what they are doing is very strange, out of the ordinary or a unique characteristic of APC youths or any other political party's youths... We must stop these kind of WARRING words!
I honestly do not want to encourage long postings. I don't think that these are the platforms for such...
Subject: Re: L@@K>>>.......For Mohamed Fofana !!!
From: Sabanoh
To: All
Date Posted: 11:34:11 09/21/07 ()
Email Address: Sabanoh007@yahoo.com
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Where were you when HINGA NORMAN was going around killing people with his kamajor friends? Kabba made this Hinga Deputy Minister of Defence and allowed him to carry out all the atrocities for SLPP. At least EK did not send the people out in the streets to kill his opponents. These people are using this as an opportunity to go after the SLPP goons that have been molesting them for the last 10 years.
Subject: Re: L@@K>>>.......For Mohamed Fofana !!!
From: Mohamed Fofana
To: All
Date Posted: 10:52:12 09/21/07 ()
Email Address: mfofana2004@sbcglobal.net
Entered From: at 204.108.96.22
Message:
Thank you my brother. I am with you as you said below.
A. “I support anyone, irrespective of race, age, political affiliation, education, tribe or class that is positively contributing to the betterment of my people and country.”
-We are in the same category as stated above. I have had my experience in supporting parties. When become a party loyalist, you pretend not see the party’s mistakes at all. When you criticize your party for doing wrong, your own members look at you with different eyes, say and do many strange things to you.
I am loyal to my country first. Even though I disagree with most of what John Lee have said in the past, but at least he is one person that criticize his own party as well as others.
B. “All that I was trying to say is that, you will not find much of that kind of behaviors perpetrated by those that are well-to-do, educated or are members of the cream of their society... Behaviors like that are more prevalent amongst the despairs than the elites of any society...”
-That is true. The law enforcement have to be on top of things to tackle this kind of behavior, otherwise, investors and those of us sacrificing to go back home and resettle will be discouraged. That is not good for our beloved country.
C. “It's one thing that this guys are doing something that we are all ashamed of, but it's another to say, what they are doing is very strange, out of the ordinary or a unique characteristic of APC youths or any other political party's youths... We must stop these kinds of WARRING words!”
-My brother, it is not strange at all or out of the ordinary. Now that we know that this kind of behavior is likely to occur, the law enforcement officers have to be on the al3rt. They should not wait to react late; rather they should use preventive measures. That will deter the despaired people from such behavior.
Stay blessed my brother.
Subject: Re: L@@K>>>.......For Mohamed Fofana !!!
From: Nah Sabi Talk
To: All
Date Posted: 11:12:02 09/21/07 ()
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Message:
I think it was a misunderstanding...
More important here...
Man! I went to your project site online.. What a splendid project indeed!
You must have a heart of gold and a conquering lion spirit!
What a blessing for Sierra Leone to call you her Son...
I am proud of you and pray that God will continue to bless and protect you in all your endeavors!
That's what I'm talking about!
Subject: New UNDP ranking
From: Ishmael Yillah
To: All
Date Posted: 07:18:31 09/21/07 ()
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Message:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070920/lf_afp/environmentsocialcountries_070920151835
Subject: Cocorioko are you for peace or destruction in sierra leone?
From: abubakarr jalloh
To: All
Date Posted: 07:14:03 09/21/07 ()
Email Address: lahasaba@yahoo.com
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Message:
The president elect His excellency Ernest Bai Koroma, am sure will not welcome people that are not trying to heal the wounds created by the tense just concluded election. I noticed immediately the editorial describing Mr.Charles Margai, as the baby teeth that tore the SLPP into pieces the youths who were reported to be APC tore down the SLPP party headquaters and went into rampage and shouting slogans in krio " Des Na We Time For Betteh We Sef". I want to believe the youths are not alone in this thinking. Why did the folks at Cocorioko who are so fast in getting information from their correspondents in Freetown failed to condemn such behaviour immediately instead they glorify it by saying it was caused by SLPP supporters. As a member of the peaceful and decent SLPP party I found such allegation by Kabs-Kanu and his team as very insult. Why on earth will SLPP supporters go after their own Ministers, Nigerian, Fula and Mandingo traders ? Does it real make sense to reasonable people. Look my friends at Cocorioko if you are looking to better yourselves please leave the grand old SLPP party out of it. You can continue to tell the stories of the APC, it is your right, but please be decent enough to be a builder of bridges and not a destroyer.
Another instances of complete lack of knowledge of the recent history of Sierra Leone was demonstrated in an article written by one Sherman, who called himself assistant editor of Cocorioko. Mr. Sherman, the desciption of Sierra Leone as a failed state was done by the UN during and immediately after the war. So, ex-president Alhaji Ahmad Tejan Kabba, was right to say he inherited a failed state. No human being is perfect, ex-president Kabba, did inherit a state where law and order was non exsistence but they manage to make Sierra Leoneans able to be law abiding again, that in it self is an achievement. I hope the recent lawlessness of our youths will be addressed with seriousness.
Finally, I am sure Rev. Kabs-Kanu, our current president will appreciate it very much if you and your team will continue to be supportive to the APC party by calling for a National Reconciliation Day of prayer for all Sierra Leoneans. Wherein all of us will meet and exchange well wishes for a better Sierra Leone. The parents of the young man killed during the looting of the SLPP party need people like you MAN OF GOD, to comfort them with prayers or better still raise funds to help them bury their son with dignity .
Subject: Re: Cocorioko are you for peace or destruction in sierra leone?
From: KABS KANU
To: All
Date Posted: 09:33:23 09/21/07 ()
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Message:
JALLOH,
It is easier to criticize others .You are a Sierra Leonean yourself.Did you take a pen and write to the Editor condemning the violence ? Did you write anything appealing for peace and national reconciliation ? I USED TO DO THAT WHEN I DID NOT HAVE A NEWSPAPER. YOU DON'T HAVE TO BE AN EDITOR.
As for our stand with regards to national reconciliation, go to the paper and read our editrial : NOW IT'S TIME FOR NATIONAL RECONCILIATION AND NATIONAL RECONSTRUCTION.
You start the ball rolling about raising funds and we all will cooperate.Sierra Leone belongs to us all. Don't wait for others to do everything.
Subject: Re: Cocorioko are you for peace or destruction in sierra leone?
From: Observer
To: All
Date Posted: 10:55:23 09/21/07 ()
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Why did the folks at Cocorioko ....failed (should be fail)
I found such .... team as very insult. (should be insulting)
Another instances of complete lack of knowledge .... (should be instance)
Kabba, did inherit a state where law and order was non exsistence (should
... but they manage to make Sierra Leoneans (should be managed - tense sequence)
"No human being is perfect", quoting your own words, However isn't your poor knowledge of the English Language, a cause to believe you can't see the forest for the trees and the reason why the likes of you bet on the wrong horse.
When are you guys going to face the reality that SLPP failed the nation out of their own choice? SLPP chose the greed of personal enrichment over the development of the nation - No light, no H20, no infra- developments, "dondo" (the krioman would say). Not even a kitchen. Your ACC could even catch a roach.
Consequently the people who were to serve chose APC/PMDC over them.
In life you get what you reap my friend. Don't expect to catch fish if your bait if you bait is strawberry. SLPP should have learned learn from the mistakes of the the old APC your mistakes, and instead of dancing to, listened to the Lyrics of Emmerson's "Two foot arata" song. The writing was all over the place.
Give Cocorioko a break.
Subject: Re: Cocorioko are you for peace or destruction in sierra leone?
From: abubakarr jalloh
To: All
Date Posted: 11:21:27 09/21/07 ()
Email Address: lahasaba@yahoo.com
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Mr.Mrs. or Miss. Observer, Why are you so afraid to show your real name. I sent my posting which you spent so much time to correct without proof reading because I was rushing to work this morning.However thank you for your correction but that is not a lack of knowledge of the english language as you pointed out. Your likes just cannot handle the truth. I am SLPP and am proud to have been a supporter of SOLO-B.
Subject: Re: Cocorioko are you for peace or destruction in sierra leone?
From: Observer
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Date Posted: 12:18:23 09/21/07 ()
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Democracy is the right to choose your moniker of choice. You are what you post and not who you are. What
proof is there that you are who you posted as?
Being a proud supporter of a party the majority of whom are migrants of old APC and persona nongratae of the new, says a lot about you and co-votaries of your two fut arata moribund party. Had your man been that good, he would not have had to dish handouts from his residence fo votes.
Subject: Re: Cocorioko are you for peace or destruction in sierra leone?
From: Candid Opinion
To: All
Date Posted: 11:29:08 09/21/07 ()
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Entered From: ns.nucleusns2.com at 12.44.12.126
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Jalloh.. You are wasting you time..
F*&ker always going around sitting on shit.. thinking he is better than the shit...
FYI....kaka fly nor betteh pass kaka..
There i said it..
Proff reading.. going about correcting.. with an air of (whatever the f*&k you think you have around you) fart..
How about what do you have to add to the thread..? em?
Silly human..
Subject: Re: Cocorioko are you for peace or destruction in sierra leone?
From: kamara
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Date Posted: 08:33:38 09/21/07 ()
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Abubakar, Cocoriko is a Apc Mouthpiece to the end,. Some of the board members are out lobbying for jobs in Freetiown thinking they were responsible for APC 's victory. Forgetting that the electorate in Sierra Leone voted SLPP out not anyone with a false sense of importance in the diaspora.
The President should step up and put and end to violence instead of galavanting abroad. It is easy to criticise when in the opposition.
What are Sierra leoneans going to do what when the expatriate merchant class lives . We are going end up like Zimbabwe.
God help us
Subject: 100 % Coco rio & Co should be BOLD about APC thuggery.
From: Candid Opinion
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Date Posted: 11:36:03 09/21/07 ()
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Revo....
Where is your allegiance..?
People of salone (APC, SLPP, GREEN, BLACK, FULA, YALONKA) etc.. or just Bra Obai..?
Are you one of those..
eh eh eh eh eh.. emmm...
See no evil | Hear no evil | Talk no Evil
monkeys..?
http://www.thethreemonkeys.com/
Subject: Re: Cocorioko are you for peace or destruction in sierra leone?
From: Cornelius Hamelberg
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Date Posted: 08:24:45 09/21/07 ()
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"As a member of the peaceful and decent SLPP party"
Am I a member of a warlike and tiffy-tiffy & corrupt political conBention?
Subject: Re: Cocorioko are you for peace or destruction in sierra leone?
From: Cornelius Hamelberg
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Date Posted: 08:24:26 09/21/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: c-088472d5.01-32-73746f42.cust.bredbandsbolaget.se at 213.114.132.8
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"As a member of the peaceful and decent SLPP party"
Am I a member of warlike and tiffy-tiffy & corrupt political conBention?
Subject: Basco silent on the violence
From: kamara
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Date Posted: 07:09:50 09/21/07 ()
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Basco, Why are you and cocorioco so so silent on the violence being perpetrated on our people. Tell Ernest We are praying for him. Let him and cancel the trip and put and end to the violence. he as a businessman should know that he can not afford lose investor confidence, which the former SLLP Govt was slowly acheiving.
Let him get rid of those opportunists like Foday Mansaray who have nothing to offer Sierra Leone but are presently busy in Freetown threatening to fire people from their present jobs eventhough they hold no formal appointments in the Govt.
Again tell your thugs up north to quit or else they are going to destroy the new ideas and plans Ernest has for Sierra Leone.
Subject: Re: Basco silent on the violence
From: Basco
To: All
Date Posted: 09:21:25 09/21/07 ()
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I do regret the lose of life and property suffered by SLPP and ordinary citizens. However these things come about after years of abuse. could the looting done after NPRC took over power be laid on the heads of NPRC supporters? Or ditto the AFRC coup.
SLPP had systematically degraded the youths both socially and economically. You guys are lucky individual SLPP ministers ,movers and shakers were not set upon. Next time in power the SLPP I hope will have learnt that trampling on the masses with their Pajeros and Cherokees and villas up at Hill Station will bring a back lash.
kamara I now you see your self as an aristocrat and have nothing in common with the ordinary man in the street but if you ever hold power,you have to try and understand what makes the common man tick. Or else you will loose power quickly like your arrogant SLPP.
Subject: Re: Basco silent on the violence
From: kamara
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Date Posted: 11:32:00 09/21/07 ()
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Aristocrats, may not have anything in common with the ordinary man. That is why they set up founadations to help the poor. Something our leaders need to learn. Set up a fondation and put some of that stolen money in there. If the kleptocratic APC millionaires had set up foundations to help the poor with their looted funds, may be we could have avoided the rebel war. And SLPP ministers ditto.
By the way I sent up a fondation under the name of my late father that handed out scholarships to students at Forouabay college a few years ago. We did it again for other Sierra Leonean organisations this year.
You are right SLPP are elitists but they need to share their wealth with the people through charities and founations.
Take care Basco, Do not keep silent too long because the opposition is vigilant.
Subject: Re: Basco silent on the violence
From: Basco
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Date Posted: 12:00:12 09/21/07 ()
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Well done to you! I have done some charity work for primary schools. Now you could do the same in providing cash for a couple of minor operations a year with doctors for poor people who cannot afford them(something I am going to do). Then we could move onto dentistry. It benefits the patient and doctor.
If everybody does a little bit we could slowly take the burden of the poor man.
Subject: Re: Basco silent on the violence
From: Ishmael Yillah
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Date Posted: 07:34:56 09/21/07 ()
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Mr. Kamara, it is unfortunate that the SLPP building was vandalize in freetown. However, you should also understand that the perpetrators were disgruntle youth, most of them were former rebels, who have watch for years the wealth of the country been stolen by the SLPP politicians. The police was unable to quell the chaos because SLPP had it own private security (kamajors) in the building during the chaos. As the IG stated on focus on Africa, it is also possible that the kamajors started the looted to compensate themselves before the civilians joined them in the looting.
Subject: Re: Basco silent on the violence
From: kamara
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Date Posted: 08:23:39 09/21/07 ()
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Regardless who looted, We want the pesident to take
charge and bring order or else it will drive away investment from sierra leone. Without investment there will be more poor and angry youths. Unfotunately for the new president he has no time for a honeymoon as sierra leonean is plagued by a myriad of problems.
Cancel the trip abroad until the looting and violence has stopped. Hurry up and name a cabinet so the nation can move forward. I would think he would have a list by now with the long election process.
Mr president , remember Sierra leonean electorate is impatient and hungry
Subject: Re: Basco silent on the violence
From: The Truth
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Date Posted: 08:33:53 09/21/07 ()
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even if he name his cabinet now, they cant be approved until the new parliament is sworn in which is scheduled for October.
Ernest is doing all he could just on his own to quell the spate of unrest. he has appealed to the police to step up security; he has appealed to SLPP former ministers to continue with their current position until the new cabinet is sworn. what else do you want him to do. For God's sake, it has only been 4 days since he was sworn in - he can't possibly secure manna from heaven.
Pleasee a break!! All Enest is doing is aking individuals to be patient until he has his team in place.
Taking a one day trip to see his neighbors is not out of context; it is the best stride. Indeed, you should commend Ernest for making strides to meet with SLPP ministers and other SLPP administrative staff in order to appeal for patience.
Subject: The Thorpe Convention is established
From: silent majority
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Date Posted: 06:41:05 09/21/07 ()
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The steadfast Madam Christiana Thorpe has let it be known that she will not accept a ministerial position. I hope that she is able to serve many more terms as our NEC Chairperson.
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culled from standard times....
Unlike her Liberia counterpart, Frances Johnson-Morris who accepted an appointment from President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf to be justice minister, Thorpe said she has no intention of accepting a ministerial appointment from President Koroma.
“No, no, I’m not interested in being a minister. I have a five-year mandate with the electoral commission. I have three more years to go, and once I finish that, I will start thinking of something else,” Thorpe said.
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This is a precedent that I hope will be followed by all future NEC chairpersons.
In the meantime i hope that all attempts to 'attack' the integrity of the electoral system in the just concluded elections are vigorously pursued by the authorities and the perpetrators brought to justice so that so far as political aspirants are concerned, to coin a phrase " The fear of Thorpe is the beginning of wisdom"
Subject: Re: The Thorpe Convention is established
From: HAWA KEBE
To: All
Date Posted: 11:14:57 09/21/07 ()
Email Address: kebehawaya@yahoo.co.uk
Entered From: adsl-75-4-207-23.dsl.irvnca.sbcglobal.net at 75.4.207.23
Message:
YOU ARE THE WOMAN OF THE MOMENENT,CONGRATULATIONA.you belive in hornesty,you are a patriot and a true SIERRA LEONEAN,i hope the new adminstration will follow this great example.THANKS
Subject: Re: The Thorpe Convention is established
From: HAWA Kebe
To: All
Date Posted: 11:04:19 09/21/07 ()
Email Address: kebehawaya@yahoo.com.uk
Entered From: adsl-75-4-207-23.dsl.irvnca.sbcglobal.net at 75.4.207.23
Message:
YOU ARE THE WOMAN OF THE MOMENENT,CONGRATILATIONS,you are a true SIERRA LEONEAN you belive in hornesty you are a PATRIOT and i hope the new adminstration will follow the great example you prove to be .THANKS
Subject: Re: The Thorpe Convention is established
From: Tamba Moiwo
To: All
Date Posted: 06:51:16 09/21/07 ()
Email Address: moiwo@hotmail.co.uk
Entered From: host86-146-133-172.range86-146.btcentralplus.com at 86.146.133.172
Message:
"The fear of Thorpe is the beginning of wisdom"
Well she is NOT. The good Book says the fear of the Lord is the beginning of Wisdom.
Dae woman don descend into carnality bigtime--would you not say so REV Kabs? She left God's way for man's way.The lease said, the better.
If the APC lost these elections ,they would have been jumping around crying she rigged in favour of the incumbent.Mamy Thorpe,nar thankless job you do.Only the good Lord can make recompense.But then what would you know having plunged into the depth of CARNALITY?
Subject: Re: The Thorpe Convention is established
From: Mammy Blessing
To: All
Date Posted: 09:39:58 09/21/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 165.155.200.143
Message:
Tamba, bra blow pan de poor woman. some of the greatest figures in history had a swinging old merry time in the "depth of carnality". Heck I am all for carnality as long as it does not warp your humanity.
Christina Thorpe deserves our respect and admiration for her accomplishments.
I hope she stays on and conducts the next elections in 1800 days.
Subject: Re: The Thorpe Convention is established
From: Margarita
To: All
Date Posted: 07:01:04 09/21/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 208.41.8.154
Message:
"She left God's way for man's way"
Tamba, how do you define God's way? I know serving human beings with your best God given talents is as godly as been a nun. No? The catholics believe that you serve God better by serving maa. She did just that. humanity cants crave for more from her. I am a strong SLPP guy, but I have enormous respect for this illustrous Sierra Leonean daughter. I have never trusted the APC because of their history, and I hope I am wrong this time, but I very much respect the integrity of the process.
Margarita
Subject: SIERRA LEONE ENGINEERS ASSOCIATION
From: Bai Bureh
To: All
Date Posted: 06:10:47 09/21/07 ()
Email Address: rastafari_ish@hotmail.com
Entered From: dator6071.161.gbgsd.se at 62.88.181.216
Message:
Fellow engineers it has been my dream (and I beleive there are also many like me)to have this kind of body back home which think might be of vital importance as far as development is concerned .My objective is to create a kind of interaction among Sierra Leonean engineers both at home and abroad by discussing ideas on how to contribute towards or help build a technologically-advanced or competitive Sierra Leone.
In light of this, I am expecting you to give the idea serious thought and co-operate.I think it is hightime we wake up and start mapping out strategies so as to join the developing world.
Subject: Re: SIERRA LEONE ENGINEERS ASSOCIATION
From: kamara
To: All
Date Posted: 06:51:52 09/21/07 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
khotor bureh, You have good ideas. Why don't you emgineers in the diaspora put your moneys together, form and register a formidable company that could compete in Sierra Leone. Hire the best business professinals and warn them if they steal any money that they will be severely prosecuted.
There is a lot business in Sierra Leone handled by non sierra leoneans,/
Subject: Re: SIERRA LEONE ENGINEERS ASSOCIATION
From: Bai Bureh
To: All
Date Posted: 10:03:55 09/21/07 ()
Email Address: rastafari_ish@hotmail.com
Entered From: master-02.brg.sgsnet.se at 193.11.202.74
Message:
I have all those ideas you have mentioned but I can't go it alone.If I want to include non-Sierra Leoneans I can do so but I want everything to be done by us.I am even envisioning a Salone where we can produce vehicles and machines,where we can design and develop power stations, produce or assemble computers for the average Sierra Leonean's use etc. etc. Now all I need is a coalition of the willing.
Subject: Re: SIERRA LEONE ENGINEERS ASSOCIATION
From: Mohamed Fofana
To: All
Date Posted: 11:23:35 09/21/07 ()
Email Address: mfofana@lausd.net
Entered From: at 204.108.96.22
Message:
Excellent idea. This is what I saw at Gatwick airport, in London. 1. Dream 2. Dare 3. Create 4. Grow 5. Expand.
If this is your dream, please dare to go after it my brother. Then in the process of daring, create something. Once you create, you grow. Then expand as far as you can go. Let it be result oriented. As a science person, let it be practical. All the best.
I love people like you.
Subject: MOHAMED YAYAH SILLAH, ANOTHER PENDULUM-POLITICIAN
From: SUWANALAI
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Date Posted: 05:26:43 09/21/07 ()
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Entered From: at 194.32.41.72
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Friends and Countrymen, please help to analyse this letter by Mohamed Yayah Silla, published by AWARENESTIMES. During the elections, it seems Yayah Sillah has been swinging like the pendulum at my old Granpa's Fireplace. Damned SLPP today, support them tomorrow; and no, it has to be APC. What kind of politicians are these. Friend's, HIKRA(READ):
NATIONAL ALLIANCE DEMOCRATIC PARTY (NADP)
Republic of Sierra Leone
MOTTO: "WITH GOD, ALL THINGS ARE POSSIBLE"
North American Headquarters
P. O. Box 4628, Atlanta, Georgia 30302, USA
September 18, 2007
His Excellency Ernest Bai Koroma
President of the Republic of Sierra Leone
State House, Freetown, Sierra Leone.
Dear President Koroma:
It is with great delight that in the name of the National Alliance Democratic Party (NADP) and in my own name, I extend heartfelt congratulations to you and your gallant political party, the All People’s Congress for your victory in the just ended historic elections in our dear country.
Your election as President of the Republic of Sierra Leone, raises a new hope that with your caliber of leadership and patriotism, Sierra Leone once again may become a shining star in Africa, richer in unity and stability and unmatched in possibilities for greatness.
Although our party is an opposition outside of parliament, I wish to assure you that we will do everything humanly possible to ensure that your administration becomes one of the finest and exemplary in the history of Sierra Leone. I am convinced that your success as leader of our nation will redound to the greater benefit of current and future generations of leaders in our country. It is our collective duty to ensure your success.
May God Almighty anoint you with knowledge and wisdom as you lead Sierra Leone through the tunnel of darkness with your steps of light. May He bless the works of your hands.
Sincerely,
Mohamed Yahya Sillah
Leader and National Chairman, National Alliance Democratic Party (NADP)
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Subject: President Ernest Koroma Must Beware Of Political Chameleon
From: Bonthe Pikin
To: All
Date Posted: 03:29:11 09/21/07 ()
Email Address: bontilaynga@gmail.com
Entered From: 203-167-156-39.dialup.clear.net.nz at 203.167.156.39
Message:
President Ernest Koroma Must Beware Of Political Chameleon
Posted by Emmanuel Komba Saquee on Sep 20, 2007, 17:59
The chameleon’s uniqueness lies in its ability to adapt to the color of any environment it finds itself in. From a layman’s (like me) point of view, this uniqueness is two-fold. Firstly it affords the Chameleon the ability to disguise itself by easily looking like the environment, and secondly it provides protection when once the disguise has been established. What is not visible though is what is going on in the inner thoughts of that chameleon. Rightly put in our lingua franca, “ all condo lae don nar groun, u nor no wus wan en belle dae art” (It is hard to tell which Lizard suffers from stomach ache as they all move with their tummies down). The latter is what really demands some questions: does the chameleon genuinely want to be part of the environment? Is it just seeking temporary protection only to change colors as it moves to the next environment? Has it got any predatory instincts to feed on helpless preys in the environment? Is it there as a spy? Should its slow movement be viewed as weakness or a camouflage to unleash terror? As you read this article I’m sure you will come up with your own questions and answers. I will therefore suggest that we all look back at the post independence political history of Sierra Leone and see how these chameleon-like characteristics have influenced our politics, and how we can embrace or disgrace them.
As the nation dawns a new political era, the defeat of the SLPP, is not really the biggest victory, because the SLPP was in power before and was defeated before. The victory will lie in setting realistic and achievable goals in areas the SLPP failed to perform in, and that will enhance the quality of life of our people. My heart always bleeds when I hear or read our country being referred to as “diamond-rich”, when we realistically have nothing tangible to show for it. It therefore behooves one to ponder: why this irony? Our country is very small to go through the sort of suffering our people have experienced amidst the abundance of human and natural resources. This is what really worries me, especially when you consider a country like Gambia, which is not blessed with any viable natural resource, but manages to make basic amenities available to her citizenry. Most embarrassing was/is when Sierra Leonean university graduates queued/queue like school children for teaching jobs in that country in search of a better standard of living. This is in no way saying its ‘bread and butter’ in Gambia. Though the reasons might seem apparent to many, what still remains a mystery is: why do we continue to languish at the far end of the world’s poverty ladder in the midst of abundance? This is the one single-most important question for our new President His Excellency Ernest Bai Koroma and his team. I would like my readers to please understand that I am not overlooking the war and the impact it had on our country. What I am stressing is that something has been seriously wrong with the way politicians have been running our country and it needs urgent attention.
It is against the above background that I will implore our new President to be very cautious in his approach to implementing his “zero-tolerance” proposition as far as tackling corruption is concerned. There are many political chameleons lurking in the outskirts of the corridors of power, some of whom have already blended colors, and others are patiently waiting to pounce. It is without doubt that since independence, there are individuals who have always had a part to play in every government either for better or for worse; I wonder whether any one’s profile really fits the ‘better’ descr1ption- you could count on his/her experience to move the country forward. It is no secret that during the electioneering campaign there were a lot of complaints about government offices been virtually turned into grave yards, with no available senior local civil servants to carry out the day to day business of government, who rather chose to pledge their allegiances to their godfather (S). Don’t get me wrong; it is definitely all right for civil servants to support a political party of their choice like any other citizen. What is not all right is when they choose to go on the campaign trail and abandon their offices. Be rest assured Mr. President these are going to be the first people to start calling you the ‘Pa’ (that is if you are not already fed up with it). These are the people who don’t go on vacations, and always have their office doors locked when they are not around for fear of somebody else occupying it or discovering some dubious paraphernalia. This is actually one sector of chameleons to check out to see how many times they have changed colors instead of doing government work since independence, and find out whether they still have enough color left to blend into the new system. I am not talking about witch-hunting, but advocating efficiency in realizing the ethics that accompany successful governance.
Another area heavily infested with chameleons is our foreign missions. Our foreign missions have for most of the time been loaded with political appointees, who busy themselves with promoting political party interests rather than putting the country on the map. It didn’t come, as a surprise to me in London when out-gone president Kabba was quick to notice the mounting of the SLPP flag at a meeting for Sierra Leoneans in the Sierra Leone High Commission during one of his visits at the time of his exile in Guinea. The act prompted him to say it was a “Sierra Leonean meeting not an SLPP one”. This was something to have been appropriately dealt with by the then High Commissioner, and not wait for the ‘Pa’ himself. That demonstrates how even in periods of crisis the chameleon fails to see the bigger picture and its mesmerized with blending with the immediate environment. It is of course no secret how certain so-called diplomats were desperate on wreaking havoc in the recently concluded elections instead of being at their missions hosting press conferences, updating the outside world about the democratic progress the nation was making, thereby putting themselves in good standing with the new government and rightly earning their salaries. What should we say about this? – “Those who live by the sword, die by the sword”. Again, its not witch-hunting. I just believe and I’m convinced well- meaning Sierra Leoneans believe that if you don’t do a job you are paid for you deserve to be fired. But again, we are talking about chameleons; never underestimate their strategies to blend.
Please, let us not forget the Chameleons that criss – cross tribes to associate with certain tribal organizations, which wield power in the nation. We all know about the wonderful ‘EKUTAY’, which attracted membership across the nation. By then the APC was very all right as long as an ‘EKUTAY’ chameleon from Kenema could become vice President. This really brings me to a very important question-Who amongst our politicians was not APC in those days? May be Charles Margai, Kai Foday (from kono) … help me name them. I’m sure if they existed they must have led a very quiet life. I also recently learnt from an online article by Karamoh Kabba that ‘TEGLOMA’played a very important role in the Elections prior to the 2007 one, and that it did not happen this time because of the birth of the PMDC.Thank God for that. I am quite sure that some tribal criss-crossing must have taken place during this period. The point I really seek to make is that we have a set of politicians who have got away with murder because of these Chameleon-like characteristics, and who will not stop at anything in their pursuit of recognition and power. There are also those who do not really seem to have any strong convictions about what they stand for. We all saw how certain people shifted their positions on issues when once it became clear that the APC had won the August 11 Elections. How can we trust our nation’s destiny into the hands of these political chameleons that only want to be in the spotlight for selfish reasons and not in the national interest? My advice therefore to His Excellency is, in his bid to form a Government of national unity, he should please watch out for such politicians, and do a color check on them and don’t allow them to camouflage him. I am 100 percent for national reconciliation, and I would even recommend that he visits Kailahun first and make the Yenge issue a priority, but let it not blind him to the fact that there are spoilers out their.
Finally, to the President himself I would say, you have a very difficult task ahead, and don’t be overwhelmed by the victory. I am pretty sure the SLPP did some positive things, but not enough for the people to trust them with another term. This could rightly be summarized in former British Prime Minister, Tony Blair’s word when he described the nature of development under the SLPP as “painfully slow”. Don’t say you will supply electricity to Liberia when Freetown is still in darkness, or build a bridge across to Lungi, when the ferry you have is not properly functioning, and permitting killer Helicopters to be flying people. You can simply start with initiating “keep the city clean” campaign through the appropriate authority and I bet you the people will enjoy doing it for you. And I plead that you open avenues that will develop the nation’s younger generation so they don’t all end up being “san-san” boys. On the whole, if any Chameleon wants to visit this new environment they should blend with your ideals to push the country forward and don’t allow them to drag you into their own established environment. Mind you, they have been very powerful, and with all his UN experience Tejan Kabba couldn’t handle them. Remember that power actually belongs to the people and not the chiefs or other big guns, and they will be writing your report card in 2012.I’m pretty sure Mr. Berewa has learnt that lesson and you could greatly benefit from his advice on this.
I pray God grants you and your team the wisdom to steer the ship of state safely.
May God continue to bless our land and our people.
Emmanuel Komba Saquee
Subject: COCORIOCO CHANGED IT'S HEADLINE FROM ERNEST KOROMA MEETS -
From: TigerSheik
To: All
Date Posted: 02:42:06 09/21/07 ()
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I want to know why did Cocorioco changed it's headiline, "PRESIDENT KOROMA HOLDS TALKS WITH BRIG. MARDA BIO AND COL. NYUMA". And replaced it with,"MAADA BIO AND TOM NYUMA GO TO STATE HOUSE TO PLEDGE LOYALTY TO APC GOVT".
My good friend( JAMBA SMOKER) was the first to raise this question, Whether it was a right move. my reaction was like hell no! it was definitely a dumb move.
Whether you agree with me or not,i think we have just started seeing decietfulness or is it a mistake by this media to delibrately change it's headline to downplay the damaged already inflicted by meeting these two men at a time which was not appropriate but a time that could have been spent by the President to denounce thuggery and mob justice.
Why is the change to "MAADA BIO AND TOM NYUMA GO TO STATE HOUSE TO PLEDGE LOYALTY TO APC GOVT"? It seems like who ever is responsible is trying to play with the the intellingence of people in this fora.
What message are you sending with your latest Head? Trying to tell us that these guys went to the state house uninvited to pledge their support? See the imperfection of your logic. It's better you keep it real, by sticking to your old head than making fool of yourself.
Subject: Re: COCORIOCO CHANGED IT'S HEADLINE FROM ERNEST KOROMA MEETS -
From: Mammy Blessing
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Date Posted: 05:27:29 09/21/07 ()
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I really believe this to be a non-issue...
Editors make and change decisions based on incoming info all the time..it is their right too, I guess.
If you suspect chicanery or manipulation, simply refuse to be "chicaned" or manipulated.
The reality is that Ernest's legacy will be molded by facts on the ground. Not Cocorioko's headlines.
Subject: Re: COCORIOCO CHANGED IT'S HEADLINE FROM ERNEST KOROMA MEETS -
From: Sam
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Date Posted: 09:17:46 09/21/07 ()
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I love and support this newspaper,and I thank you for making it available. But this is an interesting one. Mr. Kanu, could you please explain the motive? Once a news story has been printed, unless the report was wrong and errors need to be changed, it's not showing journalistic integrity when you change the it.
I haven't delved into the grammatical nuances of both headlines to see whether you all should be giving Cocorioko such a hard time about it, but why change a headline? I have been reading posts about people complaining about being censored here. If you could change a headline, you could certainly block posts you don't like. Caveat - This does not apply to foul language people.
Subject: Re: COCORIOCO CHANGED IT'S HEADLINE FROM ERNEST KOROMA MEETS -
From: gongoli
To: All
Date Posted: 02:51:02 09/21/07 ()
Email Address: gonos@yahoo.com
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Typical of cocorioko......don't forget they are the best....the speak before they think........over to you Assistant Editor in Chief. Talk about Sylvia Blyden, same wine, different bottle.
Subject: RE: For Bambay
From: Mohamed Fofana
To: All
Date Posted: 23:43:43 09/20/07 ()
Email Address: mfofana2004@sbcglobal.net
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You said that your fighting days are over. I don't fight. I reason out with others even if we disagree. Now let me tell you. I don't belong to any political party but I love my country. If you care to, visit my website at www.zaimohfarms.com and click on photos. You will see the project I am working on in Sierra Leone. See the youths I am providing employment for out of my meager salary here. People that have thanked me for providing employment for them so that they can take care of their families.
Some of us don't want to blow our own horns. As a Sierra Leonean, we should sacrifice and go back to develop our country. It is not the big talk that matters. And don’t go back with the hope that government must employ you.
As a matter of fact, I have had a retirement canceling with my employer to take early retirement to go back home. They told me that I have not reached retirement age. I told them that I will then resign. I was told that I can only get my retirement benefit when I am 55. I told them, I don't mind that. That is how serious I am to go back. I have given them 2 to 3 years time limit for my resignation.
Trust me Bambay, when I go back, I will not depend on the government. I want to finish my own project that I started in 2005 and become self employed. Every year since 2005, I sacrificed and save some money. Then go home and invest. I do something little every year until the project is completed.
I studied agriculture at Njala, Animal husbandry in The Netherlands, and soil science in Norway before coming to the USA. Before that I, was a secondary school teacher in Sierra Leone, after graduating in June, 1985. Hence, my project is agriculture based.
Here in the USA, I am a high school science teacher. You will not hear from me anymore Bambay. I will not respond to your postings, even if you respond to mine like you did this time. It's a waste of time. I have to focus on my project in Sierra Leone.
Good night and I wish all the best.
Subject: Iscandari & Sengbe and to All Forumites
From: Albert Moinina (Moses Fakeh)
To: All
Date Posted: 22:11:53 09/20/07 ()
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To say I am impressed by your attitude is an understatement. You have set a very good example for both older and younger.
May I likewise apologise to all those who I may have offended for expressing my strong views about the SLPP. It was nothing personal, but love for SL. Let us move on and contribute to make a better Sa Lone.
My true identity is Moses Fakeh.
Subject: Re: Iscandari & Sengbe and to All Forumites
From: nico
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Date Posted: 09:52:23 09/21/07 ()
Email Address: nicoleconsult@hotmail.com
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Nico equals Yankuba Kai-Samba. I put my country first, sorry folks. But I shall continue to speak out because I believe in what I say and do.
Subject: Re: Iscandari & Sengbe and to All Forumites
From: Mammy Blessing
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Date Posted: 05:16:28 09/21/07 ()
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Moses Fakeh, your posts have always been a good read and I hope you continue with your immense contributions to the discourse in this forum. We all need conciliation in Salone if we are ever going to see a lick of progress. That is why the reports of post poll violence distress me. Those who perpetrate this violence not only damage the gov't, they damage the country.
As for me, I still hold on to all my pseudos until progress actually accompanies our democracy. Besides, I enjoy the occasional cheek as when I blasted the esteemed professor Kelfalla Kallon as an illiterate professor for comparing the old APC to Nazis who wanted to annihilate Mendes. I remember the professor, who I have come to admire, defiantly firing back at intellectual terrorists and brigands he accused of thuggish intimidation.
I occasionally wonder who the fellas behind some of the great ones are: Bra Enviable, Jay, Tamba Moiwo, Candid One, Subwanalai, Bai Bureh, Sorba S, Concern, News, Political, Kamara, Alieu Sesay (Bra ar know say U get boku handle dem),Bonthe Pikin, Nar U Sabi and Bambay Lans Kamara( please, please tell me you are a pseudo!) and so many others. Maybe some of them are neighbours or drink buddies!
Mammy Blessing=Victor Moigua=Max Vandy=Malombo Sweet=Henrietta Vandy.
Subject: Re: Iscandari & Sengbe and to All Forumites
From: alieu sesay
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Date Posted: 08:17:29 09/21/07 ()
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"Alieu Sesay (Bra ar know say U get boku handle dem"
Thats a fact.. But like you, i will stick to some of these handles for now until there is a U-turn in our country's development ladder....
Ar nor want mek APC YOUTHS(45-70) lock me up.
Subject: Re: Iscandari & Sengbe and to All Forumites
From: Albert Moinina
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Date Posted: 06:04:58 09/21/07 ()
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"Mammy Blessing=Victor Moigua=Max Vandy=Malombo Sweet=Henrietta Vandy."
Mammy Blessing you funny. You make ah laf. LOL
Subject: Re: Iscandari & Sengbe and to All Forumites
From: Cornelius Hamelberg
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Date Posted: 06:45:29 09/21/07 ()
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The Patriot Post
Founders' Quote Daily
"I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country."
-- Nathan Hale (before being hanged by the British, 22 September
1776)
Subject: Priorities
From: veeme
To: All
Date Posted: 21:25:23 09/20/07 ()
Email Address: veeme51@yahoo.com
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It is nice to see the list of priorities from everyone's point of view for the new president to take up for our dear country to go forward, but few realities on ground if we look, then short term goals and long term needs should be seperated.
Lights: There are no cables laid from Bunbuna to Freetown yet, which means this is a minimum 18 to 24 months project based on donors funds coming on time.
Water: Guma Valley is supplying water but on a drive around greater Freetown area only, it is visibly shaking to see number of pipes are burst, leaking for if not weeks days together. More than half of Freetown does not have water lines laid at all. Result again 18 to 24 months and for this donor funds has to be initiated as this is not a project on board.
Clean city: Yes, this is short term, there are garbage collection trucks now in city, but equally important is to bring back the saturday cleaning, bring a total ban on plastic (we have a major weakness for plastic shopping bags which is the vital cause of blockage of all sewers in Freetown)and seek from the business community to adopt a street and maintain it.
Food for all: This again is just ONE SEASON goal. Focus on bringing new tractors (make sure to take back all the tractors from SLPP ministers) and the government should give land on lease of 8 or 10 years to anyone who is ready to cultivate strictly rice only. Locate the tractors in various strategic points and let the tractor be available for a minimal amount to farmers for them to start cultivation. Just one single season and the need for imported rice will reduce by half. Any day more practical than the Kabbah theory....
Subject: Re: Priorities
From: Bambay Lans Kamara
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Date Posted: 22:17:51 09/20/07 ()
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What are Sierra Leoneans thinking of doing to help in improving our nation must be our concerns at this point. Why most Sierra Leonean governments fail is because most Sierra Leoneans expect governments to do everything or their expectations is paramounly focused on donor nations.
Here we are, the President has not even fit into his chair yet, parliament has not convened yet we are rushing for miracles.
I think the President has started on a right footing by requesting for an audit because one cannot start a business without knowing the strenght of the economy, what is there and what is not there.
Let us give him a chance and focus on discussing things, we as a people would do to bring change and progress to Sierra Leone.
We have a right to have anticipations but I am of the impression that it is too early and we should spend this time congratulating the President and representatives, welcoming them until they start their job. Timing is very important.
Subject: WATERMELON POLITICS RE-EMERGING?
From: Jay
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Date Posted: 20:28:47 09/20/07 ()
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Are we witnessing the re-emergence of watermelon politcs under President Koroma.Mr.President,we are closely monitoring you,we supported you because of the love for our country and we believe that you have the wherewithal to move Sa Lone forward,but your coziness with those who have destroyed the country is a worrisome sign.
We can have reconcilliation without coziness,those that have looted state finances should be held accountable and those that have served the nation diligently should be commended.
This is just a gentle reminder of the nature of Sa Lone politicians,they go with the flow,yesterday they were GREEN,today they are RED.We are fed up with this type of politics and we are looking for new directions and we need your leadership.
Subject: Proposal : an NYSC for Sierra Leone ( another link)
From: Cornelius Hamelberg
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Date Posted: 17:52:54 09/20/07 ()
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I should like to propose that the government look into the idea of setting up a NATIONAL YOUTH SERVICE in SIERRA LEONE, of the type that we have in Nigeria. It’s a sound idea both the rationale and ideology and the national purpose behind it has proved very successful there, in Nigeria.
In essence, graduates are posted to serve their counties in whatever areas they have qualified - mostly as teachers, engineers, doctors, agriculturalists etc.
They are usually sent to areas other than the areas they were born in or come from. But Nigeria is a VAST country.
In the places I know best in Nigeria, i.e. Port Harcourt, Ahoada, Buguma, Bakana, Bonny, Umoku, Owerri, Aba, Umuahia,( all in the East of Nigeria) I met Youth Corpers from Borno, Kwarra, Ondo, Oyo, Ogun, Bauchi, Plateau, Lagos, Anambra, other States... this was also mostly their first meeting with Igbo people and people from Rivers State.
The most interesting people that I met were from GONGOLA, KANO and KADUNA…..
All the Youth Corpers I met and became friends with were very happy to be serving so far away from their local places of origin, and to be living in culturally exciting environments that were very different from those of their places of origin. Those were voyages of discovery and there were always things to write home about.
They were very much appreciated and often helped in alleviating qualified manpower shortages and the programme has been especially successful in reducing the shortage of teachers throughout the federation.
Of course we have the absurd situation of Freetown town dwellers who they say have “never been beyond Waterloo”…
In Nigeria, some of the Corpers have even fallen in love with members of the opposite sex, in the areas in which they have served, and decided to settle down there or return home with their new partners…
It has helped – considerably – in diminishing prejudices that people from one area have about people of an other area and of fostering a sense of national unity……..
These points can be expanded and embroidered on…. but I guess you get the drift ….
WE could learn more directly from Nigeria as to how the National Youth Corp Service operates.
Subject: Re: Proposal : an NYSC for Sierra Leone ( another link)
From: Lanre
To: All
Date Posted: 20:55:48 09/20/07 ()
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Cornelius,
Thank you my brother. That was well thought. We need an NYSC model for Sa Lone. The education ministry and that of youth and sports can send a working group (or fact finding mission) to Nigeria to understand the NYSC model (I am sure the Federal Government will even be willing to assist SL with the experts - like camp commandants etc.). While in college in Nigeria, new graduates were always very proud to wear the NYSC uniform for service while people will hail them as "government pekin". You seem to have a good memory of Nigeria - I think the Old Gongola State was split up in 1991 to Taraba and Adamawa States. A compulsary NYSC posting will help to buffer the unemployment encountered by young graduates in Sierra Leone. Sierra Leone is much small than Nigeria which will make the NYSC easier to coordinate. I hope Kabs Kanu will help convey this idea to the new government at the right time since they are obviously very busy at this time.
Thanks and keep the ideas flowing...
Subject: Re: Proposal : an NYSC for Sierra Leone ( corrected)
From: Cornelius Hamelberg
To: All
Date Posted: 23:36:03 09/20/07 ()
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Yes indeed Lanre,
I simply have to correct that gross error. You’ll find the correction when you get to it:
Good idea about sending a working group (or fact finding mission) to Nigeria to understand the NYSC model. We have a lot to learn from Nigeria. More regional co-operation and of course they will be delighted to assist in every way they can. We are best brothers. I can also say – and it’s true, I love and feel for Nigeria who by the way are under 17 World Cup champions: FOOTBALL!
Olusegun Obasanjo has been quite succesful in his war against corruption – (you know he has the military spirit). WE can learn much from Nigeria’s EFCC. And the new Government and Professor Henry Joko –Smart will agree that personnel have to be trained to carry out the work of the ACC effectively. Investigators, lawyers etc…
President Umaru Yar’adua is also working impressively in that tradition without any loss of momentum in the anti-Corruption drive.
Yes Gongola was split into Adamawa and Taraba - I haven't been there either but the company of Youth Corper friends I am talking about, was GREAT: longed to live in Kano or Kaduna but was contracted by Rivers state who offered 10& more than the Federal Government and furthermore Madam was all jazzed up about going to the Garden City- which returned to being a Garden City soon after Muhammadu Buhari and Tunde Idiagbon's WAI ( War Against Indiscipline) cleaned up from Mile One Market up, in Port Harcourt....
Are you Nigerian?
There is tremendous goodwill from the International community – even more than there was before: everyone is so IMPRESSED about Sierra Leone being a democratic country in which there was a peaceful transition of power, in the post conflict situation we are in – and it was a transfer of power through the ballot box that restored the APC that was couped in 1992 – back to power because the SLPP needed a rest from tirelessness – and you must admit that Pa Kabbah was a very energetic man going about so much on state business – I doubt that president-in-Ernest, Koroma will deliver as many speeches in as many days – in any case Ernest will not be personally leading delegations to OIC conferences.
People should desist from making silly statements about some incidents of violence on the day that Mr. Koroma was sworn in – as if it was orchestrated by the new government who have every reason to celebrate and not to be spiteful to anyone… such reports can be damaging and do not help those who are in “opposition” in any way whatsoever. So why should they pretend that these street acts are directed by His Excellency?
If anyone should be faulted it should be the Police. It’s their duty to maintain law and order.
Mr. Koroma is going to keep his pledge to combat corruption to the full extent of the LAW.
Yes it is a paradox in Sierra Leone that there is such high unemployment - up to 70% and this must be very frustrating for the youths who have graduated and seemingly have nothing to do.
Subject: Re: Proposal : an NYSC for Sierra Leone ( another link)
From: Cornelius Hamelberg
To: All
Date Posted: 23:22:32 09/20/07 ()
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Yes indeed Lanre,
Good idea about sending a working group (or fact finding mission) to Nigeria to understand the NYSC model. WE have a lot to learn from Nigeria.
Olusegun Obasanjo has been quite succesful in his war against corruption – (you know he has the military spirit). WE can learn much from Nigeria’s EFCC. And the new Government and Professor Henry Joko –Smart will agree that personnel have to be trained to carry out the work of the ACC effectively. Investigators, lawyers etc…
Yes Gongola was split into Adamawa and Taraba - I haven't been there either but the company of Youth Corper friends I am talking about, was GREAT: longed to live in Kano or Kaduna but was contracted by Rivers state who offered 10& more than the Federal Government and furthermore Madam was all jazzed up about going to the Garden City- which returned to being a Garden City soon after Muhammadu Buhari and Tunde Idiagbon's WAI cleaned up from Mile One Market up, in Port Harcourt....
Are you Nigerian?
There is tremendous goodwill from the International community – even more than there was before: everyone is so IMPRESSED about Sierra Leone being a democratic country in which there was a peace transition of power, in the post conflict situation we are in – and it was a transfer of power through the ballot box that restored the APC that was couped in 1992 – back to power because the SLPP needed arrest from tirelessness – and you must admit that Pa Kabbah was a very energetic man going about so much on state business – I doubt that president in Ernest Koroma will deliver as many speeches in as many days – in any case Ernest will not be personally leading delegations to OIC conferences.
People should desist from making silly statements about some incidents of violence on the day that Mr. Koroma was sworn in – as if it was orchestrated by the new government who have every reason to celebrate and not to be spiteful to anyone… such reports can be damaging and do not help those who are in “opposition” in any way whatsoever. SO why should they pretend that these street acts are directed by His Excellency?
If anyone should be faulted it should be the Police. It’s their duty to maintain law and order.
Mr. Koroma is going to keep his pledge to combat corruption to the full extent of the LAW.
Yes it is a paradox in Sierra Leone that there is such high unemployment - up to 70% and this must be very frustrating for the youths who have graduated and seemingly have nothing to do.
Subject: CORNELIUS, ARE YOU GOING HOME TO INITIATE IT?
From: krio boy
To: All
Date Posted: 19:33:48 09/20/07 ()
Email Address: krioboy@yahoo.com
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Message:
You say thing well but i have never seen you with any plan of going down to help your beloved country.Where you chased out of sierra leone by rebels?If yes,all has been over so please go help .
Subject: Re: CORNELIUS, ARE YOU GOING HOME TO INITIATE IT?
From: Cornelius Hamelberg
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Date Posted: 20:08:46 09/20/07 ()
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Message:
Rebels, Sobels, Jelly jells. JLs all are my friends…… and no, I wasn’t chased out of town I left Magburaka on 20th December 1969 and travelled by road through Kailahun, to Liberia, through Liberia and the Ivory Coast to Accra and after many adventures and a few hassles in Abidjan and Takoradi, finally arrived safely at the African Studies Institute at Legon, Ghana on the 2nd of January, 1970.
I was back in Freetown on 27th March 1970 – by air stayed until 8th of April 1970 when I flew returned by Ghana Airways, to Accra……….
The ministry of Education in concert with the other ministries could make an inventory of out manpower requirements and prioritise those needs and can encourage our youths in Sierra Leone and many of our qualified Diaspora people to the possibilities of making valuable contributions in developing mother or fatherland.
I guess that the main problem for some Diaspora folk will be a matter of accommodation.
Sure, I would like to get back to Magburaka and continue where I left off – teaching English although I think that I would much prefer to work at the Boys School and not Mathura where I ( and Hon. Amadu Jalloh – and Marianne Rogers- Wright worked under Ms Jonah……
The best instrumental band is most likely to be born in Magbuaraka since they already have the best guitarist… although freda maitland would like to overtake me in that too and teach me how to play some grammatically and linguistically astounding melodic and rhythmic solos – combined…… the way that he does. In his won rub and dub Hendrix Djludlu and Junior Marvin Eric Gale, Popolipo - Les Scorpios - Nene Chaku-Chaku, Ampadu & Koo Nimo style… maybe his ears will simply fall off- and then we can bury them
Now that the Peace Corps are back in Sierra Leone or on their way – and in Sweden – I’m sure that a similar programme called “Volontär” / Volunteers – similar to the Peace Corps idea – can be arranged with SIERRA LEONE as a host nation. This of course as a result of a negotiated understanding between the Swedish government and the Sierra Leone Government.
There are I’m sure many such programmes in countries like Canada, Norway, Denmark etc….
Subject: Re: CORNELIUS, ARE YOU GOING HOME TO INITIATE IT?
From: Kalos
To: All
Date Posted: 22:01:22 09/20/07 ()
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Message:
Cornelius is somehow difficult to identify, few months ago I was about 60% sure of his identity. I had a heated argument
with him sometime ago and presumptuously called him, "MR ENGLISHMAN", he detested the name-calling. Well, after
few exchanges we agreed on few things and agreed to disagree on others. Krio Boy, I agree with you, with all these
excellent ideas, there is room for him to serve his country.
Subject: Re: CORNELIUS, ARE YOU GOING HOME TO INITIATE IT?
From: Cornelius Hamelberg
To: All
Date Posted: 23:53:42 09/20/07 ()
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Message:
Toubab & Toubabu
I only heard BABU and thought someone was cursing again....
Subject: Re: CORNELIUS, ARE YOU GOING HOME TO INITIATE IT?
From: Cornelius Hamelberg
To: All
Date Posted: 23:50:52 09/20/07 ()
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Message:
Ohporto, Oyibo, Muzungu ,and in Ghana Obroni, Krio boy,
none of then is me
room for you and me
What's wrong with being an honourable Yoruba man?
The national pledge is a sweet taste in the mouth....
the high we exalt thee too
Subject: WONDERFUL AND NOW I KNOW WHERE YOU ARE FROM
From: krio boy
To: All
Date Posted: 20:28:54 09/20/07 ()
Email Address: krioboy@yahoo.com
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Message:
Happy to know now where you came from.I was always trying to ask but not sure you will like that.Your ideas are well grounded and hope you communicate this to KABS KANU for APC to know.
Subject: Re: WONDERFUL AND NOW I KNOW WHERE YOU ARE FROM
From: Cornelius Hamelberg
To: All
Date Posted: 22:05:02 09/20/07 ()
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Message:
Why shouldn't I like that?
About this NYSC idea - well I know the North - have been to Kabala, Fabala, and so on have been through the East through BO and Kenema a few times, but I'm sorry to say that I have never been to the South....
The idea of course - at least in practice in Nigeria transferred to Salone would mean that Northerners have an opportunity of enjoying Southern hospitality and being converted ( “the way to man's heart is through his stomach” and by the time the poor boy discovers that he can no longer survive without the de luxe version of da Jackie Tombo he will be sending a letter to Mary in Kambia that she can do as she likes but he is not coming back and has decided to settle down there in Pujehun forever in the true Graham Greene "Soup Sweet" tradition.
And likewise Southerners would be sent to the North, East to Wes, West to East, to North and South - but no one would stay put in his hometown or village.
Some of di Krio bobor dem go begin complain say too mus maskita dae Makeni. ehn some of dem Krio titi dem - dem aristo wan dem, especially dem wan wae no kin lek foh ride poda poda or take dem ole taxi ( can you imagine 3 O' clock in di morning ehn man wan ball, pikin dae say taxi dae smell make we wait for fine taxi wae noh go pwell im perfume... ) dem kind dae dem go go to di permanent Secretary ehn try for bribe am wit im booty make ee noh send am go Zimi…..
But above all some of di Westren area people dem noh go wan for go place way noh get light ehn wata ehn air-conditioning… but di bera dem dae MAKENI! Nah dae dem dae……
You sabi dae SERogesr im “ Babay leff mara”
“When ah call you say you see you moon,
when ah call you see di san …..
You know di wan way say “ Do me Justice?”
“ I don’t like the way you’re holding my -----
And why should you rock me like this…..?
Village life in Ghana and Nigeria is a close to paradise as you can get here on Earth….
About those Corpers, well the guys from Gongola, Borno, Kano, Kaduna were serious people- regaled you about Aminu Kano etc dignified, serious but especially dignified, impressive, honourable, cultured.
Most of the others were drunkards and womanisers or Christian fanatics like my friend TITUS AKANBU my Igbo Youth Corper friend….. He used to put his hand on my head and would be praying until beads of sweat were pouring out of his forehead….
I liked him very much but I simply just do not like the name TITUS.
If I had known that Savannah Bank at number 10 Aba Roda in Port Harcourt would have gone bankrupt with my money inside it, I would have withdrawn it and given it all to Titus.
Aminu Kano
http://www.google.se/search?rlz=1T4GGLJ_en-GBSE234SE234&hl=en&q=AMINU+KANO&meta=lr%3Dlang_en
Subject: A tough fight for President Koroma!
From: Mohamed Fofana
To: All
Date Posted: 17:42:14 09/20/07 ()
Email Address: mfofana2004@sbcglobal.net
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Message:
SLPP had won elections twice. The winners never intimated, harassed or vandalized anybody or property. APC youths did it during Siaka Steven's early years in office. Now APC youths are doing it again. This is why I said that President Koroma and APC have a tough fight ahead. These are the youths that supported you and these are the very youths brutalizing citizens in the country. You have to be bold enough to take action against them.
You win and brutalize people who did not support you? That style is adopted only by APC youths. When you win, you reconcile and move the country forward.
Subject: Re: A tough fight for President Koroma!
From: Bambay Lans Kamara
To: All
Date Posted: 18:28:10 09/20/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: sccinstr194080.scc.losrios.edu at 165.196.194.80
Message:
Mohamed Fofanah, in every civilization there is system set in place for the smooth running of such a civilization. In Sierra Leone, like any other civilization, including the first world democracies, we have the Legislative,the Executive and Judiciary branches of government. To ensure that the rule of Law is effective, most democracies try to maintain Separation of powers. So that the Legislature will not infringe on the functions of the Judiciary, and preventing the Executive from infringing on the powers and or functions of the Legislature.
Your position of apportioning balme to President Koroma and expecting him to take action about vandalisms caused by ordinary Sierra Leoneans is most paramount in dictatorships not democracies. You are asking him to shoulder the responsibilities of the Police and the Judiciary, which is convergently oppose to the Principles of Seperation of Powers/Checks and ballances.
Apparently, you are not very familiar with how democratic governments operate otherwise, you would have never apportion blame for what certain people do, even if they are within the functional wing of the "A.P.C. government.
Your suggestion, had you known democratic principles in a civilization, would have been directed to the Police and the courts, a branch of the Executive and the Judiciary whose duty it is to maintain peace and justice.
You do not see President Bush going around arresting people because he is President of the United States nor do you see Congress persons and members of the Senate arresting and Judging people. Knowing that there is a system put in place, even if they see one in the act of committing a crime, their civic responsibility is to call the Police whose duty it is to apprehend the offender/s.
What you are suggesting is not within the confines of President Koroma's mandate. Even if somebody is to offend him, he has no right under the law to apprehend such a person, except under certain conditions, order than that, he couldn't.
When most people talk about him having a task at hand, they are referring to leading the country forward, amidst the shortfalls that are prevalent in the socio-economic sector. How he can position the judiciary and the Police to ensure that they effect their duties for the maintenance of peace and justice.
Read about Sierra Leone first, about democracies and then come-up with reasonable suggestions. Otherwise, you will continue to make fatal mistakes as you have done in several postings.
Thank you!
Subject: Re: A tough fight for President Koroma!
From: Mohamed Fofna
To: All
Date Posted: 20:59:30 09/20/07 ()
Email Address: fofana2004@sbcglobal.net
Entered From: adsl-69-108-91-14.dsl.irvnca.pacbell.net at 69.108.91.14
Message:
Bambay,
I have come to agree that you do not comprehend what you read, as noticed by some people already. I want interested people read my posting. I did not apportion blame to President Koroma and expecting him to take action about vandalisms caused by ordinary Sierra Leoneans.
Read my posting again and show me where I did that. I said that "he has a tough fight ahead." That is a fact. He has called for calm but yet the thugs are not respecting his call. The police (Law enforcement officers are not acting to arrest the culprits. Is that not an example of a tough fight?
I also said that the same thing happened during the early years of Siaka Steven. Can you dispute that? Can you also dispute the fact that SLPP won twice but never hear of such behaviors?
When someone post something, read and comprehend it and dot not divert people’s attention by jumping
Subject: Re: A tough fight for President Koroma!
From: POLITICO
To: All
Date Posted: 22:10:55 09/20/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: c-98-204-44-243.hsd1.md.comcast.net at 98.204.44.243
Message:
Either way you will continue to be a "cry baby". The thugs out there are mostly SLPP sluggers that are
disappointed of the election outcome. The Sierra Leone police is under the executive, trust me
things will be fine.
Subject: Re: A tough fight for President Koroma!
From: kamara
To: All
Date Posted: 06:58:58 09/21/07 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
Were thugs at mile SLPP. APC are thugs and will not change. I really pray for Ernest as he surrounded by opportunists who have nothing to offer Sierra LEONe. EG , Foday Mansaray is out there threatening to fire people from their jobs.
Subject: Re: A tough fight for President Koroma!
From: Alie Formeh Kamara
To: All
Date Posted: 19:41:12 09/20/07 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
The President has not even nominated members of his cabinet.
On September 25, Parliament will convene for the first time. There would be the swearing in of elected members of parliament. Then elections will be held for the Speaker of the House and the Deputy Speaker of the House. Following which would be a formation of the Committee on Selections.
It would take some time before the Cabinet is formed. Ultimately, the Attorney General is the government's arm for prosecutions.
Subject: Re: A tough fight for President Koroma!
From: Cornelius Hamelberg
To: All
Date Posted: 21:21:43 09/20/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: c-088472d5.01-32-73746f42.cust.bredbandsbolaget.se at 213.114.132.8
Message:
Ali,
Don’t you wish that you were A-G?
A Sierra Leonean surgeon once told me that if the president was his patient then el presidente would discover the meaning of pain on that day. (This was in the early seventies)
I asked him” Wouldn’t you use an anaesthetic?
He looked at me as if I was an idiot – at least one without a medical degree.
As we all know, for the Mandinka man it’s his precious trinity: His money, His woman and His meat!
He cannot easily part from any of the three.
Your money or your life!
Your money or your wife!
Someone else could be demanding, “My money or your life!”
And the Pa could reply with this question, “Is money worth that much to you?”
And if you threaten some guys “Your money or your wife!” they could answer,
“You can have her, but not MY money…”
”the Attorney General is the government's arm for prosecutions."
Oh yes, the attorney general must be sharpening the edge of his sword to slaughter them....
If it’s the AG himself that is owed that $90,000 of impunity without interest for services rendered ( whilst they are busy decorating Sylvia Blyden) and if the AG in question is Hon. Francis, then the debtor should be anointing his neck with an analgesic should be pre-paring that neck for
Subject: Re: A tough fight for President Koroma!
From: Cornelius Hamelberg
To: All
Date Posted: 21:18:19 09/20/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: c-088472d5.01-32-73746f42.cust.bredbandsbolaget.se at 213.114.132.8
Message:
No comment?
Ali,
Don’t you wish that you were A-G?
A Sierra Leonean suregeon once told me that if the president was his patient then el presidente would discover the meaning of pain on that day. ( This was in the early seventies)
I asked him ” Wouldn’t you use an anensthetic?
He looked at me as if I was an idiot – at least one without a medical degree.
As we all know, for the Mandinka man it’s his precious trinity : His money, His woman and His meat!
He cannot esaily part from any of the three.
Your money or your life!
Your money or your wife!
Someone else could be demanding , “My money or your life!”
And the Pa could reply with this question, “Is money worth that much to you?”
And if you threaten some guys “Your money or your wife!” they could answer
“You can have her, but not MY money…”
”the Attorney General is the government's arm for prosecutions."
Oh yes, the attorney general must be sharpening the edge of his sword to slaughter them....
If it’s the AG himself that is owed that $90,000 of impunity without interest for services rendered ( whilst they are busy decorating Sylvia Blyden) and if the AG in question is Hon. Francis, then the debtor should be anointing his neck with an analgesic should be pre-paring for the laughing with imounity time over and now only
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Subject: Re: A tough fight for President Koroma!
From: Cornelius Hamelberg
To: All
Date Posted: 20:54:35 09/20/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: c-088472d5.01-32-73746f42.cust.bredbandsbolaget.se at 213.114.132.8
Message:
Your money or your life?
Your money or your wife?
Someone else could be asking, “My money or your life?”
And the Pa could reply with this question, “Is money worth that much to you?”
And if you ask some guys “Your money or your wife they could answer
“You can have her, but not MY money…”
”the Attorney General is the government's arm for prosecutions."
Oh yes, the attorney general must be sharpening the edge of his sword to slaughter them....
If it’s the AG that is owed that $90,000 of impunity without interest for services rendered ( whilst they are busy decorating Sylvia Blyden) and if the AG is Hon. Francis, then Johnny should be anointing who ever it is that is owing that sum should be pre-paring his neck for the sharp edge of
Subject: Re: A tough fight for President Koroma!
From: Cornelius Hamelberg
To: All
Date Posted: 18:39:59 09/20/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: c-088472d5.01-32-73746f42.cust.bredbandsbolaget.se at 213.114.132.8
Message:
Well said Bamabay.
You are a good teacher of men....
Noh men dem....
Subject: Re: A tough fight for President Koroma!
From: Cornelius Hamelberg
To: All
Date Posted: 19:01:12 09/20/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: c-088472d5.01-32-73746f42.cust.bredbandsbolaget.se at 213.114.132.8
Message:
Be strong, be patient and read the lettering to the morals offered at the very end.
Noh men: ah mean way dem bin dae tiffy-tiffy dem apolo-gisers dem noh bin dae complain.
Di toothless chimpanzee noh bin dae arrest dem ehn throw dem in di jail........
But that meeting with some members of the Intl community, behind closed doors must have told then a thing or two, like Bill Richardson to Mobutu:
”Yes, you've been our crook, but now either you go quietly or we KICK your ass -”and hang you after the Commission of Inquiry etc...
Poor Johnny E Leigh saying this saying that but the central reality for him is still HIS MONEY that his $90,000
Now if it was the APC of 1967-1992 that was overthrown by a military coup , that had owed him this money , that would have been a most central issue , but we all observer that this piddly sum has been on the backburner even as he sang Mr. Berewa’s song.
But no amount of praise –singing has helped him succeed in getting his money back.
It’s once more taking centre stage again as the centrepiece: notice the central SPACE that it occupies in that introduction and here let me help him amplify it by bringing it to your attention (of course if Kabbah or Berewa owed ME that little sum of money, I’d get it back after just ONE phone call- and they’d be happy to give it back (they could keep the interest of course.): Here’s a repeat of the poor brother’s appeal:
” “UNPAID $90,231.81 DEBT
Lastly, the Kabbah government has refused to pay Ambassador a debt of $90,231.81 owed him and has refused to explain matters to him ............................
THE KABBAH GOVERNMENT’S $90,231.81 DEBT TO AMBASSADOR LEIGH
In his Letter of Recall to Ambassador Leigh, President Kabbah promised to pay the Ambassador all his entitlements due him at the end of his six years’ service. Despite repeated reminders couched in very polite and respectful language to President Kabbah, the Minister of Finance and the Minister of Foreign Affairs, the Kabbah Administration has refused to pay Ambassador Leigh the $90,231.81 - in excess of Le 266,000,000 - owed him. Part of this amount is the balance due on the $150,000 Ambassador Leigh spent from private family sources to keep the embassy in Washington open during the interregnum in order to successfully fight the RUF/AFRC coupligans and restore the exiled SLPP Government and the SLPP-led Parliament back to their rightful places in Freetown.
Ambassador Leigh even proposed to President Kabbah in writing that he would be glad to accept payment in Leones or in kind in full settlement of the debt. Ambassador Leigh is yet to receive a response to this generous and kind-hearted proposal. It seems as if the Kabbah Administration has refused to communicate to Ambassador Leigh about the matter. The only response he ever received was from the Finance Minister, Hon. J. B. Dauda, who told him he would not be paid his money because he was recruited from overseas.
Ambassador Leigh explained to the minister that he was (i) hired locally, (ii) commenced his journey from Sierra Leone, and above all (iii) has a Letter of Appointment that set forth his entitlements upon the end of his service. In response, Minister Dauda asked Mr. Leigh to put all this in writing plus the fact that part of the debt was money owed to Mr. Leigh’s family for the cost they incurred in defeating the AFRC/RUF coupligans in an epic diplomatic fight that tremendously benefited Kabbah, Berewa, the rest of his chosen successors and insider group.
CAPRICIOUS REFUSAL TO HONOR A LEGITIMATE DEBT
Ambassador Leigh dutifully complied with Minister Dauda request but received no response. He followed up with several telephone calls and another letter but his appeals fell on deaf ears. To date Ambassador Leigh has yet to receive a penny in entitlements, not to mention the balance due on the $150,000 he spent in helping to get the Kabbah Administration and our 5-Party Parliament back to power in Freetown from exile in Conakry.
In December 2003, Ambassador Leigh was informed by SLPP friends in London that people from the Lodge informed them early that year that the Kabbah Administration will not pay Ambassador Leigh because they fear he will used the payment to contest against their chosen candidates. If such is true, it sends a wrong message to the international community that despotism reigns in Sierra Leone and that the country is not a suitable place to do business because arbitrary conduct by the powerful is part of how business is done in our country and there is no effective mechanism to resolve such wrongheaded decisions.
Not only has the Kabbah Administration failed to pay me the debt owed, they have steadfastly refused to communicate with me in this matter since my meeting with Minister Dauda.
Such conduct also sends the wrong message to our people that not only can our government trample on our lawful rights, top officials are free to show ungratefulness at will and punishment will be one’s reward for faithful and conscientious service to those at the top who personally benefit from the efforts and sacrifices of others.
A MOST LOYAL SLPPER TO DATE
John Ernest Leigh is the most loyal SLPP member who is today aspiring to lead the Party. The others have belonged to other Parties or non-SLPP regimes at various times: APC, NUP, NDC, NPRC, etc. Not Mr. Leigh. He has always been SLPP.
Despite the leadership’s patent unfairness to Ambassador Leigh, he remains deeply loyal to the principles of the Party. Therefore, he never gets angry when deficient leadership attempts to abuse and marginalize him. Rather, he works harder and increases his support to the Party.
After he lost his deposit at the leadership race in Bintumani in 1995, Mr. Leigh gave his full and selfless support to the Party, an effort that after the second ballot had cost him close to $45,000.
After the childish rudeness at Bo in March 2002, Leigh returned to his post in America, called the Party faithful there together, explained the happenings in Bo but requested their continued loyalty and help so the Party will win again in 2002.
The faithful responded. $17,000 was raised. Ambassador brought $12,000 to Freetown in early May 2002 and purchased 40 bags of rice, several liters of cooking oil and two bicycles for each SLPP district campaign team.
After he was recalled, Mr. Leigh continued to work with the Party faithful in North America, to strength the organization, raise funds and put its house in order. When Hilton Fyle tried to blame President Kabbah and condemned the SLPP, Ambassador Leigh went after him and explained the facts to the Sierra Leone public worldwide. Ambassador Leigh is ever on the al3rt to protect the good name of the Party.
After a political rival in May 2005 declined to cooperate with Ambassador Leigh in trying jointly to capture the Party leadership position unless the said rival became the automatic leader of the reform group, the Ambassador continues to leave the door of cooperation open to all those who wish to join forces to clean up our system of governance.
BLOOD DIAMONDS
Prior to relocating from Washington to Boston, Mr. Leigh completed work helping to reform the international trade in diamonds that resulted in the Kimberly Regulations - regulations that today cover the worldwide export trade in rough and uncut diamonds.
BUNCE ISLAND PRESERVATION, INCORPORATED
Presently, Mr. Leigh is serving as President of Bunce Island Preservation, Inc., (BIPI) a private charity group seeking to restore for posterity the Bunce Island Slave Fort in the Sierra Leone River where, for over a century, thousands of captured Sierra Leone rice farmers were held prior to shipment to Charleston and Savannah to develop and enrich the United States.
The story of Bunce Island is the intertwined history of three countries: UK, USA and Sierra Leone as well as that of France and other European countries. Through BIPI, Mr. Leigh intends to foster a new kind of mutually beneficial relationships between the people of those countries and Sierra Leoneans.
FAMILY
Ambassador John Ernest Leigh is married and has three adult children. He and his wife live in the United States but he will relocate to Freetown and Bo shortly. Mrs. Leigh will join him latter
MR. LEIGH’S ASPIRATION
Ambassador Leigh aspires to become the next leader of the Sierra Leone Peoples Party in succession to President Ahmad Tejan Kabbah. He respectfully asks for your support.
His aspiration is based on the fact that he has done more for the Party and the country than any other known aspirant and that of all the present aspirants, Ambassador Leigh has shown by his consistent conduct that he is and has been the MOST LOYAL SLPP ASPIRANT WHO HAS NEVER ABANDONED THE PARTY FOR ANY REASON WHATSOEVER. HIS RECORD ALSO SHOWS THAT HE IS A VERY PATIENT INDIVIDUAL WHO HAS BEEN GENEROUS TO THE PARTY AND THE COUNTRY AND WHOSE LABORS CONTRIBUTED MOST SIGNIFICANTLY IN RETURNING THE PARTY TO POWER (1) IN 1996, (2) FROM THE EXILE IN GUINEA IN 1998. (3) HE ALSO WORKED DILIGENTLY IN THE PARTY’S VICTORY IN 2002.
Ambassador Leigh’s record further demonstrates that he would do the most good to far more people than any other aspirant and that his leadership skills will strengthen the SLPP and bring respect to our country because he is genuinely democratic, loyal, hardworking, generous, fair-minded, public-spirited and loves this our country very much.
Ambassador Leigh respectfully asks all Convention delegates to cast their votes for Party Leader on the basis of MERIT and not on parochialism or sentiments or any other factor.
Please take and eat the money given you for your vote. BUT VOTE YOUR CONSCIENCE.
ELECT AMBASSADOR LEIGH LEADER OF THE SIERRA LEONE PEOPLES PARTY AT THE COMING CONVENTION IN MAKENI. ”
Subject: CHILDREN grow without PERMISSION
From: Almamy Razak Tun Seray-Wurie Si
To: All
Date Posted: 17:57:41 09/20/07 ()
Email Address: almamysi@hotmail.com
Entered From: 24hrpc8.cpmc.columbia.edu at 156.111.18.147
Message:
The saying goes, "Children grow without Permission"
In SL, youths takes advantage of an iota of confusion or lawlessness. This experience is first of its kind and no one must just blame a political party..SL is learning to be democratic and it pains especially for those with some backward mentality (be they a sand sand boy as JL says or a munku book man/woman)..
The earlier President Koroma announces a cabinet the better. For a long time now, SL politics have involved all police, army, navy, civil servants, etc
Cautious welcome (Wait and See) attitude or sabotage..
We must pray and live by democratic principles ourselves..Remember, Ghandhi said, "Be the change you want to see"
Subject: Re: CHILDREN grow without PERMISSION
From: Bambay Lans Kamara
To: All
Date Posted: 22:04:31 09/20/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: sccadmin195198.scc.losrios.edu at 165.196.195.198
Message:
Mohamd Fofanah,
Thank you for your response.
My fighting days are over. But I would like to ask whether your thinking is synonymous with my detractors? If that is the case, my sympathy.
What they thought they would achieve were wishful-thinking because they were focussed at themselves and their solemn understanding of the world; they were focussed at their small goups and tiny communities forgetting that the world is a big world, where there are hyrachies and they are not within these hyrachies. They did not understand that my history started when I was born in Sierra Leone, West Africa, that has continued to the present, which encompases everything I have done within that time frame. They wish to believe that I live in a despotic country instead of a democracy, one of the greatest in the world. Their perception of how the world works vs how these small communities of theirs want to operate, is out of wack but even that they cannot conceptualize. They were of the impression that savagery is gloried in a democracy, which is also wishful-thinking. They wanted to convince me and the people who do not understand, while forgetting that reality, especially at governmental level will always be reality whether them and I like it or not. Their persistence therefore, must be conceived to have come from only onething, ignorance of Africa and Ignorance of the world. Otherwise, they would never have tried, especially when they are being watched by the superiors of the world. It is foolhardy to venture such a scam. Who would blame them? I know I won't.
I am glad you took it back. Your writing is in black and white. Go back and read it and tell me what you were insinuating.
Thank you.
Subject: Proposal: A National Youth Service for SIERRA LEONE
From: Cornelius Hamelberg
To: All
Date Posted: 17:38:33 09/20/07 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
I should like to propose that the government look into the idea of setting up a NATIONAL YOUTH SERVICE in SIERRA LEONE, of the type that we have in Nigeria. It’s a sound idea both the rationale and ideology and the national purpose behind it has proved very successful there, in Nigeria
In essence, graduates are posted to serve their counties in whatever areas they have qualified - mostly as teachers, engineers, doctors, agriculturalist etc.
They are usually sent to areas other than the areas they were born in or come from. But Nigeria is a big country.
In the places I know best in Nigeria, Port Harcourt, Ahoada, Buguma, Bakana, Bonny, Umoku, Owerri, Aba Umuahia,( all in the East of Nigeria) I met Youth Corpers from Borno, Kwarra, Ondo, Oyo, Ogun, Bauchi, Plateau etc... this was also mostly their first meeting with Igbo people and people from Rivers state... all the Youth Corpers I met and became friends with were very happy to be serving so long from their local places of origin, and to living in environments that were very different from those of their places of origin.
They were very much appreciated and often helped in alleviating qualified man power shortages and been especially successful in reducing the shortage of teachers throughout the federation.
Of course we have the absurd situation of Freetown town dwellers who they say have “never been beyond Waterloo”…
In Nigeria, some of the Corpers have even fallen in love with members of the opposite sex, in the areas in which they have served, and decided to settle down their or return home with their new partners…
It has helped – considerably – in di9mishing prejudices that people from one area have about people of an other area and of fostering a sense of national unity……..
These points can be expanded and embroidered on…. but I guess you get the drift ….
WE could learn more dircetly from Nigeria as to how the National Youth Corp Service operates.
Subject: WHY CAN"T KABS KANU GROW UP
From: Cee
To: All
Date Posted: 17:02:40 09/20/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 69.176.196.103
Message:
Look Rev Kabs-Kanu, in case you did not notice, the elections are over. Those who supported SLPP and the APC are now trying to work hands in glove to move the country forward. Your continuous branding and utter obscenities are not helping the country or its image.
I wonder what you want to get from this new government? That is not the way to curry favour. Stop posting divisive and slandering pieces on the opposition. The next election is five years from now. We are all in support of the new government of Sierra Leone, do you notice, of SIERRA LEONE, not only those who were spreading negative/positive propaganda, which was understandable at the time. Can't yo just move on?
I guess you might try to dictatorially block me from further posting and delete my post, but the truth will catch up with you. This is just an appeal, you continue to do the same even on leonenet. Even when pictures are shown that enthusiastic APC supporters ransacked the SLPP office you claimed you had information that it was angry SLPP "thugs" doing that. The president Koroma has since publicly lashed out his supporters for doing that. You are loosing credibility and that will not help you, even for your bloated future ambitions.
You had done a good job in the past years by offering us a platform in the diaspora. Don't ruin all of it because you want to be noticed or given a position in the new government. Ernest Koroma is looking for more fair minded and responsible individuals who are bent on uniting not dividing the country, as you seem to want to do.
Subject: Re: WHY CAN"T KABS KANU GROW UP
From: The People
To: All
Date Posted: 22:31:37 09/20/07 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
Cee, you are an angry black man. I hope Kabs-Kanu will not respond to you nonsense. Go
jump off a high bridge as a sign of protest.
Subject: Re: WHY CAN"T KABS KANU GROW UP
From: Sierra Leonean
To: All
Date Posted: 17:47:26 09/20/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 144.226.173.69
Message:
Cee, I am not sure what your complaining is all about but can you please be specific?
I checked the editorial page at the following link and this is what I read:
Subject: Re: WHY CAN"T KABS KANU GROW UP
From: I Agree
To: All
Date Posted: 17:31:26 09/20/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 208.41.8.154
Message:
I agree. My assumption is that Kabs has now taken over Sylvia Blyden's role. he just cant get enough of that lady. Now Sylvia is in the opposition...well I am not sure. But kabs surely is rooting for this governmentand writing anything he could to be recognized. Above all, he enjoys been accused as a supporter of SLPP and I am sure he is going to print out those criticisms as his evidence when he gets the slightest chance to get close to Ernest in the hope of securing a job. My only contention is that, the standard of the paper has to increase. The grammar constructions have been appalling at best.
Subject: Re: WHY CAN"T KABS KANU GROW UP
From: Kanforie Sorie Koroma
To: All
Date Posted: 19:01:10 09/20/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: host-24-225-188-18.patmedia.net at 24.225.188.18
Message:
Why can't you guys get off the ack of Kabs Kanu ? Didn't he write a very powerful article on national reconciliation and national reconstruction ? I don't see anything that Kabs Kanu is doing wrong. He helped the APC win and they won. Did not your Sylvia Blyden write many articles trying to stir up tribal war ? We will start posting articles on this forum written by your Sylvia Blyden which could have brought war in the country.Leave Kabs alone. I don't see anything he is doing wrong.
Subject: Re: PICKING ON POOR KABS : WHY CAN"T KABS KANU GROW UP
From: Chuks Press
To: All
Date Posted: 19:10:56 09/20/07 ()
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Message:
Poor Kabs Kanu. SLPP people just can't stop picking on him because he changed the dynamism during the campaig. SLPP were flourishing with their lies and propaganda. When Kabs stepped in,he changed everything. Kabs has been doing this since Chuks Press .Remember ? Foday Kallon seemed to be losing to Surie Toure until Kabs took over his propaganda machinery .Then everything changed. Kabs kanu has always been like that.
Subject: Another SLPP person blames Gongorlee for defeat
From: The Nationalst
To: All
Date Posted: 16:49:59 09/20/07 ()
Email Address:
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Gongorlee Sylvia Blyden has been blamed by a second SLPP person for causing the party's defeat. He is John Ernest Leigh ,the one-time ambassador.
Subject: Re: Another SLPP person blames Gongorlee for defeat
From: John E. Leigh
To: All
Date Posted: 09:18:13 09/21/07 ()
Email Address: johnernestleigh@yahoo.com
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Dear The Nationalist:
I did not blame Sylbyana Blyden for SLPP's defeat. I wrote that she was one reason why the people of the Western Area turned against the SLPP.
The real reasons for SLPP's defeat are far more fundamental than the activities of one single opportunistic gongorlee jounalist. I have articulated some of these failures eleswhere in this forum and in several articles over the years both in Cocorioko Front Page and in the SL media.
Anyway, I thank you for your atentiveness to my postings. - JL
Subject: Re: Another SLPP person blames Gongorlee for defeat
From: Pot and Kettle
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Date Posted: 17:24:40 09/20/07 ()
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Isnt it like the post calling the kettle black?
Subject: JOHN LEIGH THE HYPCRITE
From: Bonthe Pikin
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Date Posted: 16:26:48 09/20/07 ()
Email Address: bontilaynga@gmail.com
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You are talking correctly about what I call gongorlee journalism. I believe that she is one reason people in the Western Area turned against the SLPP. Thanks. - JL
Bo John Leigh sidon dae saful. Nor to u en Sylvia bin dae bootlick Berewa, waetin u wan tell we now. JustShut up, no space for your two-tongue blabla in this new dispensation.
Subject: Re: JOHN LEIGH THE HYPCRITE
From: Nationalist
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Date Posted: 16:47:35 09/20/07 ()
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John Leigh is very right.Sylvia Blyden turned people against SLPP.
Subject: Re: JOHN LEIGH THE HYPCRITE
From: Almamy Razak Tun Seray-Wurie Si
To: All
Date Posted: 16:34:04 09/20/07 ()
Email Address: almamysi@hotmail.com
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Leh We tel God tenki Posin dem Lek John Leigh en Som Dem wae don See Di Politiks First Hand.
Pass mark Fit-Yaye Nor Fine Oh!
I think John Leigh told us a number of times that he was supporting Pa Berewa only for SLPP loyalty but truely he is a reformist..that's democracy
Subject: For Sengbe and Others Similarly Situated
From: M. Alieu Iscandari Esq.
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Date Posted: 16:10:12 09/20/07 ()
Email Address: aiscandari@aol.com
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Mr. Koker and others with whom I have had terrible disagreements, I offer this olive branch to you this day and my hand of friendship and brotherhood is hereby extended.
I know that in the past we have been at each others throats while advocating our diferent positions. We have each said to each other things that were unpalatable.
I have forgiven you and I hope you do me. For you sengbe, you have a wealth of knowledge that sierra leone could use and I hoe that you would be more than willing to share that information in the development of sierra leone.
Ernest Koroma has asked for Ideas and I believe that your input would be crucial. Kindly contact the Ernest Koroma for president website and contribute annonymously if thats what you chose to do. Publish your ideas on this site and let us debate its viability and if possible set up some small business concern to implement YOUR ideas.
Please feel free to contact me at the above e mail address. I BELIEVE that we can be constructive.
Stay Blessed
Subject: Re: For Sengbe and Others Similarly Situated
From: Cee
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Date Posted: 17:07:53 09/20/07 ()
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Bravo Alieu, Koker and others. This is what democracy should look like. The elections are over. I urge Kabs Kanu and the entire cocorioko production team to move away from the election frenzy and mud slinging to highlighting issues of development for our country. We are all solidly behind President Koroma to move this nation forward, as a united entity, not APC vs SLPP vs PMDC. It is one Sierra Leone. Thanks again Alieu for this mature move.
Subject: Re: For Sengbe and Others Similarly Situated
From: Sengbe
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Date Posted: 16:40:30 09/20/07 ()
Email Address:
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Dr. Koker holds no grudges except when his late mother is defamed by someone who was maybe 2-years old when she died in an accident. Having said that, Prof. Koker is ready to move on, and help in whatever way he can to bring his mother land out of the dark ages.
Your Secretary-General in the APC is my cousin. We grew up together, and he knows how to reach me should the need arise. There is nothing I cannot do for my motherland, so please rest assured that I will make my thoughts known relative to the way forward for national development under the RED SUN.
The SUN is FREE, and so is MOONLIGHT. So let us exploit SOLAR ENERGY for the sustainable energy needs we desire for the nation in the long term. Bumbuna has not yet materialized since the 80's. We can wait no longer.
A technical exposition of this proposal cannot be undertaken on this forum. It can be done through professional consultancy. I will be ready when they are.
The humility with which you wrote that piece above is very encouraging, and hopefully cooler heads would prevail in the future.
Cheers!!
Subject: Re: For Sengbe and Others Similarly Situated
From: M. Alieu Iscandari Esq
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Date Posted: 16:52:55 09/20/07 ()
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I have been exploiting that option with Mr. Mo Lahai one of my big brothers in the bay area and a lecturer in electronics at San Jose City College. May be you might want to talk to him about that.
Subject: Re: For Sengbe and Others Similarly Situated
From: Cornelius Hamelberg
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Date Posted: 16:38:56 09/20/07 ()
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Well well well, our till death do us die/part SLPP brother Sengbe is probably nursing his bruises and licking his wounds by listening to Fela of my ABEOKUTA TRIBE ( we great boy!):
http://hometown.aol.com/__121b_+/40b2FfFsQmY2umPm5OjTxsfTRXvpqn1AK/sw+YgYc=
Don't worry, he will soon recover and be feeling well again. You may forgive him but knowing Sengbe the way I ( "one han bangle") knows him , he will not be forgiving the people he calls "AKARTAS" in a hurry......
It's easy for you Alieu with all that jollification and jubilation as victor to be extending the olive branch and asking him " Sengbe BIG AXE won't you please come out to play?" even as you savour APC VICTORY. Dr. Koker and professor Konouwah may well think that you are gloating, or pure hypocrisy, although you and I know it isn't so.....
I hope dear Sengbe that this gift from your Yoruba brother will help you along to the Forum
Subject: Re: For Sengbe and Others Similarly Situated
From: Sengbe
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Date Posted: 10:08:50 09/21/07 ()
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Thanks Bra Cornie, for the blue music in that link.
The people have spoken, loud and clear, by their votes. I hear them, and I accept the message in their voices (votes).
While the representatives of the SLPP in governance were trying to solve longterm social, health, and economic problems,as per the dictates of developmental economists, the peoples of the land yearned for instant solutions to the problems they faced in their daily lives. "We" did not hear them well, and in hindsight the social and economic problems that are readily apparent should have been dealt with first and foremost. But a beggar does not have much of a choice, does s/he? They did what they were "told" to do, and the rest is now history.
Hopefully, the APC government will not fall into that imperialistic / neo-colonial trap.
The peoples of the land must be taught to "fish", and fend for themselves to ensure their own personal survivability so that they are not entirely dependent on the government for everything they need for their livelihoods.
If they put litter in their environment, they must be taught that it is their responsibility, and in their best interest, to see to it that the litter/garbage is cleared and put into receptacles that would debar hazards to their own health. You know, simple things like that.
The violence must stop, though. The vindictiveness must stop. Momodu has a right to peacefully reside in Yonibana, and so too for the other cases I have read about.
Ernest and his team are now in charge of governance in that country, let us render them all the help we can muster as ONE PEOPLE, ONE COUNTRY.
Subject: Re: For Sengbe and Others Similarly Situated
From: Liko
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Date Posted: 16:24:10 09/20/07 ()
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That was a great move on your part, Alieu. I hope Sengba would reciprocate, too.
Subject: Re: For Sengbe and Others Similarly Situated
From: Brothers and Sisters
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Date Posted: 16:34:00 09/20/07 ()
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We are like the Gambians. You are always adviced not to separate two Gambians when you see them fighting. For if you do, you will lose your life because both will stop fighting and turn on you for interfering with as they puts it 'a brotherly dispute'. A host of individuals have lost their lives through this misfit because they possesses little knowledge of this particular Gambian tradition. So is the same with us. The politics is over and we are back to square 1: as brothers and sisters. I could still remember: we were brothers and sisters until the elections grew closer and that when all hell turned lose.
Subject: Tarriffs And Trade Quoters
From: Sorba S
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Date Posted: 15:20:08 09/20/07 ()
Email Address: Sorba_1@yahoo.com
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Alright! let stop all the forms and start talking about substance.
What is the new government going to do about the high tarriffs that they levey on shippers at water Quey. Is the government going to allow duty free for investors? How about people who ship vehicles to sell?.
Confusious say " The lessrer the tarriff the better the investors are willing to ship their good" which means lower prices for the consumer. Then again he is not an economics. He might just be fussing.
If I were him, I will say REDUCE THE DAM TARRIFF BRA!
Subject: Re: Tarriffs And Trade Quoters
From: Mohamed Fofana
To: All
Date Posted: 16:28:42 09/20/07 ()
Email Address: mfofana2004@sbcglobal.net
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The fact is that we are bordered by Liberia and Guinea. Liberia has a FREE PORT. Guinea has 5% tariff flat rate for all goods. Sierra Leone is the only country that has higher tariffs that her neighbors. As such, most shippers ship through Liberia and Guinea and then transport to Sierra Leone by land. We are losing big time.
In addition, it is very confusing at customs in Sierra Leone. Every custom officer charge customers at variance. For the same item/good, some will pay more and others less. In either case, shippers always pay higher than the government stated tariff. Why? The tariffs are not BOLDLY DISPLAYED for all to see. Whatever, the custom officer apparently tells you, is what you go by. He might charge you ten times the amount of tariff and you end up begging him to lower it. No matter how he lowers it, the custom officer always pocket a huge sum that will the government will never see.
I suggest that we either have a FREE PORT like Liberia or FLAT RATE like Guinea. Also, at every custom post or office, the exact percentage should be easily made available to all Importers/Exporters, including individuals who ship once on a while
Subject: A Better Economist than Edmund
From: Ronaldino
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Date Posted: 15:10:25 09/20/07 ()
Email Address:
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Dr. Raymond Gilpin
Academic Chair for Defense Economics
Africa Center for Strategic Studies
An experienced development economist, Dr. Gilpin is responsible for overseeing program development and research for the Africa Center in the area of US-African defense economics. Previously, he held positions of responsibility with a number of research and policy-oriented institutions including: Director of International Programs and Senior Analyst at Intellibridge Corporation (now part of the Eurasia Group); Research Director, Central Bank of Sierra Leone; and Senior Economist, African Development Bank Group. He has also worked with the World Bank and United Nations in Africa, Southeast Asia and Washington, D.C.
Dr. Gilpin received his Ph.D. in development economics from Cambridge University and graduated with honors from the University of Sierra Leone. He also earned an Executive Certificate in International Finance from Georgetown University. His research interests include: economic development, public finance and risk analysis, security issues, and political economy. He is currently preparing a publication on Energy and Security in Africa’s Petroleum-Producing Countries with NDU Press.
Did Edmund ever work for International bodies?
Subject: Mrs Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala
From: Almamy Razak Tun Seray-Wurie Si
To: All
Date Posted: 16:30:07 09/20/07 ()
Email Address: almamysi@hotmail.com
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Do you remember Pa Kabbah appointing Late Hon. Thaimu Bangura as Minister of Finance?
*Following were series of Easterners, like J.B. Dauda, Peter Kuyumbeh, and John Benjamin
Nigeria once borrowed a Nigerian Brain from the International Economists' Community. She was later frustrated by interest groups and Pa Obasanjo (Even posted to another ministry)..Mrs Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala
Subject: Re: A Better Economist than Edmund
From: The Truth
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Date Posted: 15:39:45 09/20/07 ()
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Working for international bodies alone does not make you a better economist. Rather, it is your writings, eloquency on the subject, publications and a mastery on the subject matter. Mind you, mastering the subject depends on your areas of interest. Gilpin cannot be a better agricultural economist than some body whose area of interest is agricultural economics. So, economists have wide latitude depending on their areas of interest.
Take Professor Kelfala Kallon whose area of interest is development economics. Despite his political affiliation, he is one of the most prolific research professors in development economics with a Sierra Leone heritage. I do not share the same political affiliation with Kallon, but I have read several of his published articles on economics and they appear very scholarly written.
This is just to show you there is no such thing as the best economist in the language of economics.
Subject: Re: A Better Economist than Edmund
From: Sorba S
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Date Posted: 16:02:22 09/20/07 ()
Email Address: sorba_1@yahoo.com
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WO! WO! WO! I thought Ronaldino is a foot baller. What do you know about economics. You should be Playing ball with Brazil.
LONTA. yes na so a say
Subject: Re: A Better Economist than Edmund
From: Ronaldino
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Date Posted: 16:11:09 09/20/07 ()
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You fellows see the red of ManU and you panic.Manu is not APC. Beckam is a footballer but he is a better business man than you.
Subject: Re: A Better Economist than Edmund
From: Sorba S
To: All
Date Posted: 16:42:38 09/20/07 ()
Email Address: sorba_1@yahoo.com
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Message:
ya! you nor no say a de sell fish. Beckam kick ball wis kam business e no? how for kik ball? se dom ya!
How about Brazilian team. answer bo! nor hide
Subject: Re: A Better Economist than Edmund
From: Sorba S
To: All
Date Posted: 15:25:46 09/20/07 ()
Email Address: sorba_1@yahoo.com
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I know that lanky fellow. I usually see him at the metro. I have listen to him speak. He speaks like creoL boy from the mountain area. HE IS DAM GOOD!!
Subject: Re: A Better Economist than Edmund
From: take tem kill anch
To: All
Date Posted: 15:25:10 09/20/07 ()
Email Address: anch@yahoo.com
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Gilpin is pro-berewa and a strong lobbyist for the falied politician.Watch who you bring into your government Koroma.
Subject: Re: A Better Economist than Edmund
From: Ronaldino
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Date Posted: 15:55:45 09/20/07 ()
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Ah propaganda. The man is not even interested in Salone politics. Do you think he will leave his job in the US to be frustrated by some Salone civil servant?
Nice try though to try and blacken him name.
I know you are benifiting from Edmund koroma's fat Nassit salary. Edddie will be sacked and will become a lecturer. No international bodiy will employ him as he will have SLPP's terrible rule in his CV.
Subject: HAS THE LEBANESE COMMUNITY MET KOROMA?
From: SUBWANALAI
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Date Posted: 15:00:49 09/20/07 ()
Email Address:
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Well, because he is preoccupied with meeting real enemies of the state; plunderers like Bio, Nyuma, Okere, John Benjamin and stupid!, he might as well just have audience with the lebanese, before his honey moon is over.
Guys of the FORUM, like some of us said during the campaign, Ernest Koroma should not take it for granted that he has njolibas(praise singers). For me, I will hold my peace till the first hundred days, after which the gloves will be out. For now, will someone please tell him to rise up from his "belleh ful" dream and do some real work?
Subject: Re: HAS THE LEBANESE COMMUNITY MET KOROMA?
From: Londoner
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Date Posted: 20:12:24 09/20/07 ()
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I'm not sure what you mean by real work but bridge building and reconciliation sounds like real work to me. Especially so against the divisive background of the presidential runoff. Keep the faith man! To my ears, President koroma seems to be making the right noises.
Subject: Get on board
From: Conteh
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Date Posted: 14:45:26 09/20/07 ()
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Don't just sit out there, get on board, send suggestions to ernest@ernestkoroma2007.com or volunteer@ernestkoroma.org
Subject: BREAKING NEWS
From: campaignteam
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Date Posted: 14:28:21 09/20/07 ()
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kindly volunteer to be part of APC government by suggesting how we can move our country forward. send your e-mail to volunteer@ernestkoroma.org, your e-mail will be delivered directly to MR PRESIDENT, you can also visit www.ernestkoroma.org for more info.
Subject: Re: BREAKING NEWS
From: King Niambana
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Date Posted: 14:34:45 09/20/07 ()
Email Address: bonnicky@gmail.com
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Message:
wet ba. na mami kuse u wan mek den sen to dis address
Subject: 40-DAY SERVICE AND RECOGNITION FOR SAMUEL G.E. TUCKER
From: Suna Nallo
To: All
Date Posted: 13:55:55 09/20/07 ()
Email Address: nallos@aol.com
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In Loving Memory of Samuel G. E. Tucker who passed away on Wednesday, August 8, 2007
SERVICE on Sunday, September 23, 2007, 2:00 p.m. at the St. Andrew Apostle Catholic Church, 11600 Kemp Mill Road, Silver Spring, MD 20906
RECEPTION Immediately Following Service at the St. Andrew Ukrainian Orthodox Cathedral (Founders Hall), 15100 New Hampshire Avenue, Silver Spring, MD 20905
FOR MORE INFORMATION, PLEASE VISIT http://samuel-tucker.memory-of.com
Subject: WHATEVER HAPPENS HE WILL BE THERE FOR TWO TERMS
From: Bai Bureh
To: All
Date Posted: 13:53:00 09/20/07 ()
Email Address: rastafari_ish@hotmail.com
Entered From: master-02.brg.sgsnet.se at 193.11.202.74
Message:
Let the detractors play all their dirty tricks, let them think about all the machinations, let them attempt all the sabotage...let them ...let them.
One thing is for sure and that is Ernest Koroma will complete minimum five years and maximum ten years and nothing will stop or change that.
We know who are behind the latest spate of attacks and we are hell-bent on making them face the consequences.Those who think they can tarnish the image of the three-day old govt. and get away with it need to think again and again.
Subject: Re: WHATEVER HAPPENS HE WILL BE THERE FOR TWO TERMS
From: Talk is Cheap
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Date Posted: 14:00:16 09/20/07 ()
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"...We know who are behind the latest spate of attacks and we are hell-bent on making them face the consequences..."
If you already know "them" (the people behind the violence) why did you not stop "them". Why wait for the after effect?
Violence begets violence, and this is not good for this government, and the nation.
Subject: APC MUST BEWARE OF SYLVIA BLYDEN'S TRICKS
From: Kanforie Sorie Koroma
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Date Posted: 13:28:21 09/20/07 ()
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The awreness times editor has always found a way to obtain a tremendous sphere of influence in all the governments that we have had lately. She had influence with the RUF Leader , Foday Sankoh and was his internet publicist. They said she was his parlour wife. Next she had influence with Johnny Paul and again there are rumours she was in love with him.SLPP came. The same thing. She was having affairs with John Benjamin, John Karimu and others. In all this, Sylbana Blyden-Sankoh helped to bring down those governments .After fabricating lies against the APC during the campaign, she will try to come in now that APC has won. Then she will start insulting and annoying people and turning them against the APC. The first major mistake APC will make is if they allow Sylvia to gain access to the government.
Don't trust her .She is a double-tongued viper.
Subject: Re: APC MUST BEWARE OF SYLVIA BLYDEN'S TRICKS
From: John E. Leigh
To: All
Date Posted: 14:35:47 09/20/07 ()
Email Address: johnernestleigh@yahoo.com
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You are talking correctly about what I call gongorlee journalism. I believe that she is one reason people in the Western Area turned against the SLPP. Thanks. - JL
Subject: VIOLENCE MR PRESIDENT - BBC
From: SANTOS MANGA
To: All
Date Posted: 13:10:31 09/20/07 ()
Email Address: santos@aol.com
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Violence spreads in Sierra Leone
A number of attacks are being reported against supporters of Sierra Leone's ex-ruling party in the past 24 hours.
Violence against Sierra Leone People's Party (SLPP) members erupted on Monday as opposition leader Ernest Bai Koroma was sworn-in as the new president.
President Koroma described violence by his supporters as "unfortunate and regrettable" and told police to use all their powers to get those responsible.
President Koroma met ex-cabinet members and promised security and protection.
More attacks
Former Foreign Minister Momodu Koroma said his family was singled out for attack in his home town of Mile 91 and his uncle's house had been burnt to the ground.
Mile 91 has become a base for many former rebel fighters since the end of the decade long war and is the gateway to the southeast, an SLPP stronghold.
Among the incidents there reported to the BBC's Umaru Fofana in Freetown, a local radio journalist, Hassan Wai Koroma, said he has spent the last couple of days under police protection following attacks on his house by victorious All People's Congress supporters.
Another journalist, James Saidu Koroma, sobbed as he told the BBC by phone that he had come under attack and was chased to the police station where he too took refuge.
Chief Kapr Sanka said his pregnant wife and his children had fled to the bush following threats that he would be attacked.
And the paramount Chief of Biriwa, in the northern Bombali district, also reported that several villages in his chiefdom came under attack last night.
He told our correspondent that he was forced to flee and was speaking from his hideout.
There have also been reports of attacks in the diamond-rich district of Kono, while in the market town of Koquima, shops belonging to members of ex-President Tejan Kabbah's ethnic Mandingo people, have been looted and razed.
On Monday, police fired tear gas at a crowd that ransacked the SLPP offices in Freetown.
At least one person is known to have died in brawls after the president was sworn in on Monday.
Story from BBC NEWS:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/1/hi/world/africa/7004686.stm
Published: 2007/09/20 12:27:54 GMT
© BBC MMVII
Subject: Re: VIOLENCE MR PRESIDENT - BBC
From: NICO
To: All
Date Posted: 14:04:13 09/20/07 ()
Email Address: NICOLECONSULT@HOTMAIL.COM
Entered From: host86-146-110-59.range86-146.btcentralplus.com at 86.146.110.59
Message:
I totally condemn the violence taking place in Sierra Leone against the now opposition SLPP members in the aftermath of the just concluded election. I urged the president elect to be firm and resolute in dealing with anyone who disturb the peace at this trying time.
Subject: Re: VIOLENCE MR PRESIDENT - BBC
From: Cornelius Hamelberg
To: All
Date Posted: 16:17:54 09/20/07 ()
Email Address:
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Much much worse acts / attacks in Iraq and Afghanistan in Gaza and in Pakistan
Such acts whether committed in the past or future by SLPP or APC youths are not only regrettable, they are REPREHENSIBLE, not helpful and at worst a test case for the big stick , fines and imprisonment by which - and only by which - some lawless ones are made to succumb to the rule of law and order in the Republic.
WE all know that justice has an impartial (and beautiful) face.
“Took a stranger to teach me, to look into justice's beautiful face
And to see an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth.
I and I
In creation where one's nature neither honors nor forgives.
I and I
One says to the other, no man sees my face and lives.”
Ever listened to “ Union Sundown “
http://www.bobdylan.com/albums/infidels.html
Subject: Awarenesstimes News
From: Sorba S
To: All
Date Posted: 13:02:10 09/20/07 ()
Email Address: sorba_1@yahoo.com
Entered From: at 209.116.81.187
Message:
Awarenesstimes news is like after the exam kind of news. One always gets it after the exam is over. It alway report news after all other news paper have reported the same thing. Is this the best well read news paper in Sierra leone? if that is the case, BREAKING NEWS.
Subject: Re: Awarenesstimes News
From: Nationalist
To: All
Date Posted: 13:10:55 09/20/07 ()
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Sylvia is trying to gain access to this government but there is no room for him.
Subject: Re: Awarenesstimes News
From: foolulu
To: All
Date Posted: 15:10:10 09/20/07 ()
Email Address: gonad@yahoo.com
Entered From: 79-65-114-98.dynamic.dsl.as9105.com at 79.65.114.98
Message:
Is it him or her?
Subject: Curb the Violence, President Koroma!
From: Mammy Blessing
To: All
Date Posted: 12:41:57 09/20/07 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
Mr. President, nothing scares the heck out of investors like violence and insecurity. The reports of violence now appearing on the BBC and other news outlets will have a chilling effect on the foreign capital the country badly needs.
Sierra Leone still has a well-deserved reputation for medieval barbarism and insecurity and it wouldn't augur well for our development schemes if the beauty of democracy's promise degenerates into illiterate attacks against SLPP supporters.
I know that you didn't sanction those boorish attacks, but you are now the top dog and the buck stops with you. So please take action.
None of that tepid "regrettable and unfortunate" talk, sir. Your denunciation has to be hard hitting, loud and serious. Tell the SOB thugs commiting these crimes that they will be locked up and the keys thrown into the Atlantic; that if an opposition supporter dies as a result of assault, those responsible will be charged with murder and face capital sanction.
Sincerely,
Mammy Blessing.
Subject: Re: Curb the Violence, President Koroma!
From: ITK
To: All
Date Posted: 14:01:42 09/20/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 38.98.119.16
Message:
Fellow Sierra Leoneans:
Regrettably, our worst fears have materialized -- shockingly, before the new Government can even begin to focus on the serious challenges it will face in delivering on promises the APC made to a nation that seemed to buy into its campaign message that it represented "positive change".
I had always held the opinion that delivering the goods would be only one of several (and in fact, not the most daunting) of the immediate challenges the new Government would face. Well, it hasn't taken very long (as if the polarizing election itself, and the incredibly divisive comments by certain APC officials and supporters alike in its aftermath were not a clue) to realize that keeping the nation harmonious and at peace will in fact be the APC's biggest challenge.
Ernest Koroma clearly is a decent man and experienced politician who may very well may turn out to be an effective President of Sierra Leone. What is apparently not clear, given recent developments in the country, is whether there is anything new about the New APC.
Unless these ugly developments are arrested and peace and harmony return, the APC Government will be hard-pressed to achieve the support (domestic and external) it requires to effectively address the chronic problems that have beset our nation for decades.
Subject: Re: Curb the Violence, President Koroma!
From: Candid Opinion
To: All
Date Posted: 12:49:15 09/20/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: ns.nucleusns2.com at 12.44.12.126
Message:
You definately get mammy blessing..
Well said..
Or Korom's you yerri...
Subject: President Ernest Koroma's first mistake
From: KALOS
To: All
Date Posted: 12:31:41 09/20/07 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
I hope his excellency is not underestimating the enormous task ahead of him, by granting audience
to Maada Bio and Tom Nyuma is not reflective of a president trying to put a team to effectively
solve the issues facing our country. Mr. president, every minute wasted will come back to hunt you.
You can communicate to Bio and Nyuma like any other citizen; through your able assistants. There
will be a lot of distractions and nuances; looking at the big picture should be your guidance.
Subject: Re: President Ernest Koroma's first mistake
From: KKW
To: All
Date Posted: 13:09:46 09/20/07 ()
Email Address:
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I disagree. I think it is symbolic to meet with each and everyone of them because like it or not, they have a loyal following in Sierra Leone. The meetings are symbolic and send a message to the followers that Koroma is not the enemy. This is the time to look forward, not backward.
Subject: Re: President Ernest Koroma's first mistake
From: Kalos
To: All
Date Posted: 13:24:03 09/20/07 ()
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Message:
KKW, to a limited extent I can relate with your reasoning. Again, do we
want a president that is busy sending out gestures instead putting a new
government together? Can he meet with the Kamajors next week? What
about the RUF representatives? Idriss Kamara in the US might travel next
week to F/T to meet with his excellency. Is that OK? I heard Strasser is on
his way and he is DEMANDING audience with the president. Is that OK too?
Subject: Re: President Ernest Koroma's first mistake
From: KKW
To: All
Date Posted: 15:34:40 09/20/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 204.50.182.249
Message:
A strong house cannot be built on a shaky foundation. Meeting all these folks is an investment in future stability. Quite frankly, I see it as a message to the (presumably) APC vigilantes currently meting out their view of justice on members of previous administrations. The president may be distancing himself from that sentiment and does not want to be seen as a vindictive witch-hunter. Funnily, this seems quite similar to what happened to APC functionaries immediately after the 1992 coup!
Subject: Re: President Ernest Koroma's first mistake
From: Ibrahim Turay
To: All
Date Posted: 14:41:55 09/20/07 ()
Email Address: imtu71@hotmail.com
Entered From: pool-71-161-90-74.cncdnh.east.verizon.net at 71.161.90.74
Message:
Your hilarious post just made me burst into serious laughter which I'ven't done for decades. Its just funny how you listed other incoming groups as Kamajors/Ruf, Idrissa Kamara. I think Koroma is just scared about Bio and Tom. Don't forget the fact that they were leading coupists.
Subject: Re: President Ernest Koroma's first mistake
From: fact
To: All
Date Posted: 17:50:47 09/20/07 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
no he is not scared, he is warning bio and tom not to try anything funny.
Subject: Re: President Ernest Koroma's first mistake
From: Jackal
To: All
Date Posted: 12:50:46 09/20/07 ()
Email Address: dollarbill@gmail.com
Entered From: c-24-13-121-79.hsd1.il.comcast.net at 24.13.121.79
Message:
Why is a dialogue with Bio and Nyuma a mistake? You have no record of accomplishment to certify you as a Presidential adviser.
Why did n't you advise Kabbah to disband the Kamajohs in 1996/97?
Subject: Re: President Ernest Koroma's first mistake
From: JAMBER SMOKER
To: All
Date Posted: 13:03:58 09/20/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: 93.161-240-81.adsl-dyn.isp.belgacom.be at 81.240.161.93
Message:
That's a good one Jackal! I think you names speak for itself. This brother is trying to mess up big time. I bet you he won't be coming out soon.
Subject: Re: President Ernest Koroma's first mistake
From: POLITICO
To: All
Date Posted: 13:03:05 09/20/07 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
Jackal, you missed the point. Any of us can advise the president, however,
Kalos rightly stated any of his assistants can meet with Tom and Maada.
The president is suppose to be too busy at this time to meet with these
FIGURES.
Subject: Re: President Ernest Koroma's first mistake
From: Jackal
To: All
Date Posted: 15:45:03 09/20/07 ()
Email Address: dollarbill@gmail.com
Entered From: c-24-13-121-79.hsd1.il.comcast.net at 24.13.121.79
Message:
Who is Kalos to dictate to Koroma what schedule he must keep and who he should talk to. If we all should advise the President, there will be not time to govern the country. Koroma will deal with millions of dissenting views.
The President is showing an exemplary leadership by meeting his opposition in person. That is such a dignified way of buying loyalty.
Subject: Re: President Ernest Koroma's first mistake
From: POLITICO
To: All
Date Posted: 13:02:49 09/20/07 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
Jackal, you missed the point. Any of us can advise the president, however,
Kalos rightly stated any of his assistants can meet with Tom and Maada.
The president is suppose to be too busy at this time to meet with these
FIGURES.
Subject: Show us your friends President Koroma
From: The Truth
To: All
Date Posted: 12:27:06 09/20/07 ()
Email Address:
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Show us your friends President Koroma
Opinion - Commentary
Thursday, 20 September 2007
Culled from the Christian Monitor
Winning the election in Sierra Leone should be viewed by the All Peoples’ Congress (APC) as lighter load in comparison to forming a government and directing the affairs of state. The people have high expectations, and sooner rather than later, the APC will have to begin to deliver if they are to retain the support of the people.
The problems facing newly elected President Ernest Bai Koroma are huge and enormous, but they are not insurmountable. He will be judged in the way he set out to address the problems of security, the economy and corruption, the provision of social amenities etc. in the coming weeks, months and years.
Koroma’s first and instant test as president is security. The violence taking place round the country as reported is unacceptable. The President is reported to have described such violence as ‘unfortunate and regrettable’ and told the police to use all their powers to get those responsible. But he must make sure his command is followed through to the letter, which translates that we must see an end to the violence immediately as he has directed.
The source of the violence is not quite clear as some commentators have explained it. For instance, contrary to reports that APC supporters looted and ransacked the headquarter offices of the outgoing Sierra Leone Peoples Party (SLPP) in central Freetown, our reports show that in fact, that violence was perpetrated by supporters of the SLPP who went on the rampage after their leader, Solomon Berewa conceded victory to Koroma. It was a matter of supporters helping themselves to party materials and equipment, as payment for their efforts during the electioneering process.
Also, the skirmishes occurring in other parts of the country especially that reported in former foreign minister Momodu Koroma’s home town of Mile 91 have been attributed to APC supporters. But is it a matter of convenience. Also, can some thought be given to the possibility that the violence at Mile 91 is a deliberate ploy to create the impression of unrest and insecurity in the country? Does the recurring and spreading violence have anything to do with the pardon and release of convicted dangerous criminals by the SLPP in its latter days in a bid to foment such instability?
We do not have the answers to the questions posed above nor do we know the source of the violence that is rearing its ugly head throughout the country. What we know is that the newly elected President must stop it instant. There is an urgent need for President Koroma to stamp his authority on the affairs of state, to prove his character and style of leadership. The opportunity has presented itself with the seeming insecurity in the land. Dealing with the present violence with a firm hand, and immediately will be an unequivocal pointer of what the country should expect from the new leader in the days, months and years ahead.
As indicated earlier, deposing an out of favour, corrupt and inept government is not difficult in comparison to the arduous task of calming and satisfying a long-suffering and deprived population. After tackling the present insecurity President Koroma would have to appoint a cabinet. He has stated that fighting corruption will be top priority for his government. His choice to head the Anti-Corruption Commission and other important public institutions together with his preference of ministers will serve, also, as a pointer of what we must expect from President Ernest Bai Koroma. It is surely a case of show me your friends and I will tell you who you are.
Subject: John Leigh -Any Suggestions for the New Government?
From: Shembu
To: All
Date Posted: 11:27:56 09/20/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: eduproxy3.k12.de.us at 167.21.254.13
Message:
JL,
I read your response from my reaction to your posting yesterday. I wish to say a few things in yet another reaction.
Firstly, I will not claim Margai to be my man as you suggested. I definitely respect and admire him but I was not personally supporting his campaign.
Also, I will agree to the idea of having Charles Margai top a party ticket for the 2012 elections (be it APC or PMDC). As far as the APC ticket is concern, I do see Margai as fit to top it in 2012 only if President Koroma fails the people. However, my gut feeling is that President Koroma is going to perform wonders and releave our people from their present conditions of sub-human standard of living.
I still believe, JL that you need to withdraw some of your harsh statements about Margai as you made them during the heat of the battle and you may not intend to have said some of them. You yourself agreed that you may have fell down to the level of some of your adversaries during those hot moments. I do not want to lose though the main points for which I am currently engaging you. And that is about offering suggestions to the new government.
JL, we will all agree that after the elections, our focus must be on national issues. I therefore implore you and other well meaning forumites to come up with suggestions that will help stir this new government in the right direction. There is the current debate about how to bring back electricity to Freetown and then gradually to major towns in the provinces. I believe a temporary arrangement is needed in the short term until Bumbuna is ready. I also think Kingtom power station should be wiped out. We donot need to continue any repairs to those machines that are as old as a dinosaur. We need a complete overhaul, but how? Over to you Mr. Ambassador. By the way, is Concord getting cold yet? Dress warm and stay well, brother.
Subject: Re: John Leigh -Any Suggestions for the New Government?
From: John E. Leigh
To: All
Date Posted: 14:29:59 09/20/07 ()
Email Address: johnernestleigh@yahoo.com
Entered From: cache-dtc-ag14.proxy.aol.com at 205.188.117.142
Message:
Mr. Shembu:
My apologies for referring to you as a margai man. I should not be so quick in jumping to erroneous conclusions. Sorry!
My point about debating lowlifers inside their turf does not mean that I ever exceeded the truth. Going to that level comes with the territory.
As for some suggestions from me for the new government, these will be presented in 'due course' not right away. Lets first allow the new government to get securely organized before jumping into making suggestions. Who knows, after reviewing their program of governance, I may rightly conclude that any suggestions from me might be superflous. Hence, no point to rush but I honestly assure you that if there are a need for suggestions, I will be delighted to share some of my ideas with the public.
Thanks again for your interest. - JL
Subject: Re: John Leigh -Any Suggestions for the New Government?
From: M. Alieu Iscandari Esq
To: All
Date Posted: 15:40:01 09/20/07 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
I should not be so quick in jumping to erroneous conclusions
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On that basis I am awaiting your apologies.
Subject: Re: John Leigh -Any Suggestions for the New Government?
From: John E. Leigh
To: All
Date Posted: 09:05:01 09/21/07 ()
Email Address: johnernestleigh@yahoo.com
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Message:
JL to Mr. Shembu: "I should not be so quick in jumping to erroneous conclusions."
Atty. Iscandari to JL: "On that basis I am awaiting your apologies."
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I do not owe you an apology for anything. I have stated this elsewhere. The other day, you accused me of breach of trust. I have rejected that untrue allegation. Nevertheless, I invited your proof. You are yet to do so.
Merely repeating your claim without proof is a waste of time. Unless you come up with your proof of my specific breach of your trust as you claimed, I will henceforth ignore your demands for an apology by not responding. I may even decline to open your postings in the future. Sincerely, JL
Subject: Re: John Leigh -Any Suggestions for the New Government?
From: Cornelius Hamelberg
To: All
Date Posted: 14:07:01 09/20/07 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
"There is the current debate about how to bring back electricity to Freetown and then gradually to major towns in the provinces. I believe a temporary arrangement is needed in the short term until Bumbuna is ready. I also think Kingtom power station should be wiped out. We donot need to continue any repairs to those machines that are as old as a dinosaur. We need a complete overhaul, but how?"
Sure, Engineer Leigh as president must have some good opinions about that too and so must Mr.Samuel Tola Neville.....
What advice did he give his SLPP about this problem during all these years?
Should I consult the Oracle of Delphi or Leigh?
Subject: Re: John Leigh -Any Suggestions for the New Government?
From: Cornelius Hamelberg
To: All
Date Posted: 13:40:57 09/20/07 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
You may visit Barack Obama’s website:
http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&q=Barack+Obama+for+president
You may also visit Blair’s, Gordon Brown’s, Umaru Yaradua’s Muhammadu Buhari’s, Thabo Mbeki’s, George Bush’s, Al Gore’s, Jerry J. Rawlings’
Take a tour where you will: Tanzania, Zimbabwe, or Libya.
Let me start by being absolutely fair to Leigh. I shall not ask him what does or did he think of the one he endorsed (Berewa) or the more successful one he envies (Hon. Charles Margai or the one he most feared and wished bad luck ( president Ernest Bai Koroma) So, let me start by being absolutely fair to Leigh what does he think of himself is a fair question, and below, he has answered that question- the answer is his in his own words and the source is his own website entitled “ Change Sierra Leone: John Leigh for President”
He starts of by asking himself this question:
”WHO IS JOHN ERNEST LEIGH?
He then proceeds to answer the question for your edification – and this was all up before the Makeni ConBention:
Ambassador John Ernest Leigh aspires to become the next Leader of the Sierra Leone Peoples Party in succession to President Ahmad Tejan Kabbah. We believe that Ambassador Leigh has done more for the Party and the country than any other aspirant for Party Leader. Those who know him are deeply convinced that Ambassador Leigh, if elected, will do far more for the benefit of most Sierra Leoneans and the SLPP than any other of the aspirants.
Ambassador Leigh has also repeatedly stated that if another Party member, with superior credentials for the Party Leadership than himself, appears on the scene he will gladly step down for that individual. Based on what each of them has done so far for the country and the Party, none of the declared and undeclared aspirants is as qualified as Ambassador John Leigh is for the Party Leadership position ”
FAMILY BACKGROUND (2 Paragraphs)
PC BAIMBA SIDIQUE LINEAGE (4 Paragaphs
MOTHER OFF TO THE HAJJ (2 Paragraphs
FATHER, FREETOWN WESLEYAN METHODIST (2 Paragraphs
THE FOUNDING OF FREETOWN (2 Paragraphs
SCHOOLING (2 paragraphs)
TREND SETTER (5 paragraphs)
UNITED STATES SCHOLARSHIP (3 paragraphs)
”STUDENT LEADER” (1 paragraph)
CHASE MANHATTAN BANK FELLOWSHIP (2 paragraphs)
BANK OF SIERRA LEONE (3 paragraphs)
RETURN TO THE UNITED STATES (2 paragraphs)
FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF NIGERIA (4 paragraphs)
TURNED A MONEY LOSER INTO A WINNER (2 paragraphs)
SECOND MARRIAGE (1 paragraph)
BACK TO THE UNITED STATES: Chairman, President and CEO. (1 paragraph)
OUTSTANDING ALUMNI AWARD (4 Paragraphs
MAKING THE SIERRA LEONE CONSTITUTION (2 Paragraphs
A BAD, SELFISH, UNFAIR CONSTITUTION (3 Paragraphs
MULTI-PARTY POLITICS (2
INITIAL CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE SLPP (8 Paragraphs
BENEFIT TO ALL (3 Paragraphs
AMBASSADORSHIP (7 Paragraphs
SUCCESS BREEDS RESENTMENT (Paragraphs
DEATH SENTENCE (7 Paragraphs
UNPAID $90,231.81 DEBT (1 Paragraph
LEIGH’S MYSTERIOUS RECALL FROM WASHINGTON (4 Paragraphs
PHILOSOPHICAL DIFFERENCES AMIDST SUCCESSION FEARS (3 Paragraphs
THE KABBAH GOVERNMENT’S $90,231.81 DEBT TO AMBASSADOR LEIGH (3 Paragraphs
CAPRICIOUS REFUSAL TO HONOR A LEGITIMATE DEBT (4 Paragraphs
A MOST LOYAL SLPPER TO DATE (7 Paragraphs
BLOOD DIAMONDS (1 Paragraph
FAMILY (1Paragaph
MR. LEIGH’S ASPIRATION (6 Paragraphs
For details you could consult the sources of the above:
http://www.changesierraleone.org/bio.asp
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Yesterday, I wrote that there's a (one) half-Mende man who in his own opinion and estimation is as hot as ice (in his fool’s paradise).
“100% is closer to the 99% loss of support that Johnny E. Leigh the non-entity is calculating for the Honourable BOY PIKIN Charles Francis Margai who is most certainly SOMEBODY.
What Leigh forgets in his estimation of Mr. Margai is that he Leigh himself got ZERO percent in Makeni- and not only that, such is the contempt that Kabbah and Berewa have for him that with impunity, they have seized his alleged bribe/ “loan “/ “contribution”
of $90, 000 that he’s crying about, and refused to give it back to him.
You should be asking him how come that after all these years; he was unable to recover a simple sum like that!
Do you know how many universities there are in the United States?
Do you know how many billionaires there are? (Ask Bambay)
DO you know how many professors there are?
Do you know how many top-notch scientists there are?
Do you know the miracles that Benjamin Netanyahu has performed with Israel’s economy the past couple of years?
Do you know how many successful businessmen there are in USA, Germany, China, Korea, UK, and Sweden? South Africa? Nigeria
Why do you persist in exaggerating the relevance or importance of the absolute failure called Mr. Johnny Leigh?
Do you think he is a big brain or expert - (including "legal brain") or successful in anything – if so what thing?
Do you think that the APC government or indeed the former SLPP government should be in need of any advice from him - the sort of advice that could better be coming from somewhere else? (Ever heard of a guy called Jeffrey Sachs?)
YOU who probably look up to someone like Leigh, would probably want to appoint him National Security adviser to yourself or to the APC government? Or would like him to replace Dr. Condoleezza Rice or Colin Powell in the US?
Sure he is free to - unsolicited - give advice of his own accord, but when you start approaching him like little boy blue
Who has jus lost his shoe?
you are beginning to sound as ridiculous as he does (his last piece of advice was that since the APC had won so many seats, and the PMDC too, we should therefore all vote for Berewa to capture the presidency
Leigh-
How ridiculous can you be?
Perhaps he would like a big fee
For what will predictably come from him.
On the economic front what about asking someone like Ron Campbell?
Leigh lastly, famously said that BOY PIKIN Hon. Charles Francis Margai the leader of the PMDC had lost 99% of his support in the South and South East (because of teaming up with the APC?) How wrong can Leigh be?
This Leigh who say’s that Charles has lost 99% of his support is the same one who got ZERO PERCENT at the SLPP ConBention in Makeni.
AS usual he is good at underestimating and down grading others, whilst overestimating and upgrading himself - so unrealistically beyond recognition.
Having said all that and bearing in mind your humble request of Leigh, I also ask Leigh,
Leigh, what do you have to say?
Please answer Shembu’s question – if indeed you are not Shembu himself or working closely with him.
There are some who take a nom de plume to praise themselves or to ask themselves questions, which they subsequently answer. ( Now if this is done honestly as a self interview, there’s nothing wrong with that – but when people start taking names like “ Lebbie” or “Freud “or “freda maitland” to do their dirty work and monkey- ing around with other handles because they are afraid of using the names that their parents gave them, there’s something inherently wrong about that. Oh if you want to talk about that as resourcefulness there are people with imagination, knowledge and skills that could get you arrested and sent to Guantanamo Bay or flown out of where you are secretly by the CIA…. Don’t doubt it.
But about this type of dishonesty, the last time this was known to occur was when some guy called Johnny was found in the women’s toilet writing on the wall “John has the biggest Sock in the world Girls and you haven’t yet been properly loved, if you haven’t been loved by him”
It’s called advertising.
First question that you should be asking Leigh is how old is he? When was he born?
Everybody celebrated Charles Margai’s 62nd birthday, everybody knows that Solomon Berewa was born on 6th August 69 years ago, but Leigh is still not very transparent or accountable about his won age.
His younger half brother Evelyn ( most modest guy and very handsome) lived opposite me and Akintola Wyse at FBC so Leigh cannot claim to be younger than me because Evelyn himself is older than I am.--- yes Evelyn and my first Cousin Martin Williams, studied Geography and were and I hope still are the best of friends.
Congratulations
http://www.state.gov/r/pa/prs/ps/2007/sep/92450.htm
Subject: Regentonian Web
From: Live Forever
To: All
Date Posted: 11:07:54 09/20/07 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
Regentonians young and old please visit the web site, quite interesting. It was the first to be lunched back in 1995 by a Regentonian, before any other school thought about hosting their site, but as usual it lacked contribution from fellow Regentonians as a medium to communicate and help our school.
Subject: Re: Regentonian Web
From: Nah Sabi Talk
To: All
Date Posted: 09:58:51 09/21/07 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
I know of this site... It's run by H. Finley... He has done a wonderful job for us all... But it's not easy to leave all to one man... He has his family and business, we all must try to help and contribute!
And we need a place where we can post live info or message to one another... We are living in such times now!
We need a place to meet and put ideas together for now...
I am suggesting at MYSPACE....
It's a great place for this kind of meeting, well equiped for all, irrespective of time and locat1on with many tools to handle our desires...
I have close to 3,000 views and 1900 friends from all over the world and they can be reached at an instant, on my own private site at MYSPACE...
I have taken the liberty of setting one up as a man that is of less talk and more action.... Now we must all try to go there and put our heads together...
the address is
http://www.myspace.com/regentonian
It's up and running and but needs some final touches which we can all do in time ...
We have to bring in Harold Finley as he is the pioneer...
We the young generation must begin to make a difference for this up coming thanks-giving!
Subject: APC youths
From: Mohamed Fofana
To: All
Date Posted: 11:02:02 09/20/07 ()
Email Address: mfofana2004@sbcglobal.net
Entered From: at 204.108.96.22
Message:
To Nah Sabi Talk
I am shocked to hear this from you. People voted for a positive change and not for a change for hooliganism, intimidation and vengeance.
I don't know how old you are, but this has been the behavior of APC youths since the early years of Siaka Stevens. During the early days of Siaka Stevens, the APC youths matters into their own hands. The open APC youth offices where they drag people to their offices and manhandle them as if they were the law enforcement officers.
Your citing of Los Angeles and New Orleans as an example is incorrect. Nobody as intimidated another person in USA because there was a change from Democrat to Republican or vase versa no matter how suppressed as they are. They rise up to fight for their right but not because there has been a change in political power.
This is not what the people vote for. The APC are letting the president down. We should remember that people have not forgotten the violence days of APC. However, they gave chance to APC because of President Koroma's trust. The youth will make many other Sierra Leoneans who did not vote for APC say, we told you about the violence, but now you seeing for yourself. This is not with APC youths in Sierra Leone. The APC leadership has to step in instantly and set examples to say that this is very undemocratic
Subject: Momodu Koroma's Family under attack
From: Sorba S
To: All
Date Posted: 09:31:41 09/20/07 ()
Email Address: sorba_1@yahoo.com
Entered From: at 209.116.81.187
Message:
God help us. APC at its best
Subject: Re: Momodu Koroma's Family under attack
From: Cornelius Hamelberg
To: All
Date Posted: 16:05:24 09/20/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: c-088472d5.01-32-73746f42.cust.bredbandsbolaget.se at 213.114.132.8
Message:
Alieu Iscandari Esq. has the first and last word on this.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/7004686.stm
An alarming/alarmist and rather exaggerated BBC headline. You would think that violence was spreading like wildfire across the country.
Post-elections feuds are not unusual. Some supporters of the victors will tend to deal street justice to some of their former tormentors who may have been protected by people who were formerly in power.
All acts of violence and lawlessness must be condemned and should be dealt with by the Police, which is neither an SLPP nor an APC police force, but a neutral law enforcement agency which is there to protect the life and property of all Sierra Leoneans.
The APC leadership has certainly not ordered such attacks nor are we to assume that the said attacks were out of the blue - they could well be reprisal attacks in retaliation to attacks or oppression suffered previously whilst the perceived oppressors looked the other way.
” Former Foreign Minister Momodu Koroma said his family was singled out for attack in his home town of Mile 91 and his uncle's house had been burnt to the ground.”
This is more than regrettable. The selection and targeting of this family is symbolic as Mr. Momodou Koroma was also the presidential running mate of SLPP’s Solomon Berewa. Mr. Koroma’s uncle should be adequately compensated for his house and the perpetrators of this loathsome act of arson should be brought to justice.
Sierra Leone news updates
http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&ned=us&q=Sierra+leone
Subject: Re: Momodu Koroma's Family under attack
From: kekuda
To: All
Date Posted: 11:46:18 09/20/07 ()
Email Address:
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This is flat out wrong and undemocratic and I believe the APC would not condone such a barbaric act. However, without pointing fingers here, I blame the Kabbah regime for handing over power in a haphazard fashion thereby leaving a huge vacuum to fill. The APC was in no way prepared to take over within a short time. I believe Kabbah should be brought to justice for that. Koroma, despite all his good intentions should have been accorded the courtesy of a transitional period and time to choose and vet his nominees for a smooth flow and most importantly understand the rubrics of the administration. It's hard to believe that Kabbah worked for the U.N. This is outrageous. I hope the APC endeavor to quell this.
Subject: Re: SORBA S , I'M DOWN WITH YOU
From: TigerSheik
To: All
Date Posted: 12:45:51 09/20/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: 93.161-240-81.adsl-dyn.isp.belgacom.be at 81.240.161.93
Message:
Sorba S, i am down with you. I think Kabba did it delibrately handing over power in a haphazard fashion knowing very well what will be the outcome.
Definetly it's going to be chaos. Facing the depravity these people had gone through all this years.What do you expect and or who are you going to blame for their actions today? Is it the APC who took power few days ago? Hell no.
Subject: Re: Momodu Koroma's Family under attack
From: Sorba S
To: All
Date Posted: 12:09:53 09/20/07 ()
Email Address: Sorba_1@yahoo.com
Entered From: at 209.116.81.187
Message:
Well said Bra!
Subject: Re: Momodu Koroma's Family under attack
From: kamara
To: All
Date Posted: 11:32:34 09/20/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 205.148.53.200
Message:
I thought this is the Govt you wanted Sorba. Ernest may have good intentioms for the country but unfortunately the opportunists around the party will unecessarily embarass the party. the rank file APC are new to democray.
Subject: Re: Momodu Koroma's Family under attack
From: Sorba S
To: All
Date Posted: 12:07:59 09/20/07 ()
Email Address: sorba_1@yahoo.com
Entered From: at 209.116.81.187
Message:
Actually no. It is not the government I wanted. I wanted PMDC being a Shebra. But If PMDC was not going to win, Them APC was Prefarable. I still don't like to hear what is going on though. With time it will cool down. This is still a better government in my openion.
Thanks for checking me out though.
Subject: Re: Momodu Koroma's Family under attack
From: Orkaibah
To: All
Date Posted: 10:30:45 09/20/07 ()
Email Address: rastafari_ish@hotmail.com
Entered From: master-02.brg.sgsnet.se at 193.11.202.74
Message:
Boy it is really unfortunate.I don't support these acts however I think it is payback time.Remember 1998 when people were burnt to death because of supporting the junta? WHAT GOES AROUND COMES AROUND.
Subject: Re: Momodu Koroma's Family under attack
From: Sorba S
To: All
Date Posted: 10:36:17 09/20/07 ()
Email Address: sorba_1@yahoo.com
Entered From: at 209.116.81.187
Message:
You are comparing Yams to garrie. This a democratic elected government. The work Junta does not exit in Sierra leone. Quite it.
Subject: Re: Momodu Koroma's Family under attack
From: Barakuda
To: All
Date Posted: 11:34:14 09/20/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: eduproxy3.k12.de.us at 167.21.254.13
Message:
Waitin nar the difference? You get yams gari en casada gari. If you kin make gari from yams den you say "You are comparing Yams to garrie", dat nor make sense oh. Oo sai you comot?
Subject: Re: Momodu Koroma's Family under attack
From: Sorba S
To: All
Date Posted: 12:03:30 09/20/07 ()
Email Address: sorba_1@yahoo.com
Entered From: at 209.116.81.187
Message:
How about orange and apple da go help you? e nor matta wi sai a comot. But for help you out a comot na sa leone. this one e idot prof. you kin understand am
Subject: Re: Momodu Koroma's Family under attack
From: M. Alieu Iscandari esq
To: All
Date Posted: 09:34:42 09/20/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: cache-ntc-ad04.proxy.aol.com at 207.200.116.198
Message:
These are not acts sanctioned by the APC but rather acts of a MOB JuSTICE. It is wrong and I am sure that the APC will make sure that the Police are not hampered in any wany in tpursuing the culprits.
Subject: DEMOCRACY AT ITS BEST
From: KING LOGGY
To: All
Date Posted: 10:01:06 09/20/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: c-69-255-182-17.hsd1.va.comcast.net at 69.255.182.17
Message:
It is interesting to see Alieu Iscandari now having to defend the government in power.
Where is Sengbe when we need him? LOL!
Subject: Re: DEMOCRACY AT ITS BEST
From: Here he is
To: All
Date Posted: 13:07:53 09/20/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 198.85.63.200
Message:
Unu nor see nartin yaite.
Wait until they start their witch-hunt in earnest then you'd believe that lepet nor day change colour.
Memba! Sengbe bin tell unu all.
Bye!!
Subject: Re: DEMOCRACY AT ITS BEST
From: Candid Opinion
To: All
Date Posted: 11:07:57 09/20/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: ns.nucleusns2.com at 12.44.12.126
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I hope the APC can control this before it gets out of hand...
Copycatism and the peer mentality can quickly escalate petty thievery into prime armed robbers and ordinary citizens pay the price...
This is how the security forces in the country quickly degenarate into human rights abuse in the name of law and order.
Subject: BBC News
From: Very confused
To: All
Date Posted: 09:16:44 09/20/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: host81-159-191-229.range81-159.btcentralplus.com at 81.159.191.229
Message:
Please check BBC website, and it says that all former Government Minsiters and their families are under attack.Further many Madingo business people are also being attacked.
I do not want to believe it, if it was not on BBC website.
Can someone confirm this news or deny it???
Subject: `
From: KKW
To: All
Date Posted: 11:16:55 09/20/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 204.50.182.249
Message:
I think this unruly behavior may have been anticipated, hence the speed with which power was transferred. Imagine if this hooliganism started while Kabbah was still President?
The new president is tryong to show the example of reconciliation by visibly interacting with former government officials, but I guess that is not enough for the opportunists that have been waiting for this day.
Subject: Re: BBC News
From: Erica Adams
To: All
Date Posted: 09:51:11 09/20/07 ()
Email Address: ericamonique82@hotmail.com
Entered From: adsl-074-185-005-235.sip.clt.bellsouth.net at 74.185.5.235
Message:
This report is one that should cause us all to spend time in prayer and fasting. It is unfortunate that people are turning this time of change into something ugly.
Subject: Re: BBC News
From: Nah Sabi Talk
To: All
Date Posted: 10:27:23 09/20/07 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
This is not an uncommon behavior of people who have been deprieved and reduced to their basic instinct... We have seen the same behavior in the West even in New Orleans, South Central Los Angeles and many, many more areas where people are basically left to fend for themselves in advert poverty and frustration.
If u plant corn nar corn u go get...
I wish they have maintained their cool as they did for the election, but the facts remain the truth... Many of these folks have been living as basic animals for quite a long time...
It is therefore easy for some of us to point fingers from our comfortable locat1ons somewhere far away from where these folks are, eating and living well and large, yeh!
Having said that, the new government should by all legal means take the neccesary steps to calm and maintain security for all...
But this is not because of APC or nor because they are Sierra Leoneans...
Nuf said
Subject: Re: BBC News
From: Mohamed Fofana
To: All
Date Posted: 10:59:34 09/20/07 ()
Email Address: mfofana2004@sbcglobal.net
Entered From: at 204.108.96.22
Message:
To Nah Sabi Talk
I am shocked to hear this from you. People voted for a positive change and not for a change for hooliganism, intimidation and vengeance.
I don't know how old you are, but this has been the behavior of APC youths since the early years of Siaka Stevens. During the early days of Siaka Stevens, the APC youths matters into their own hands. The open APC youth offices where they drag people to their offices and manhandle them as if they were the law enforcement officers.
Your citing of Los Angeles and New Orleans as an example is incorrect. Nobody as intimidated another person in USA because there was a change from Democrat to Republican or vase versa no matter how suppressed as they are. They rise up to fight for their right but not because there has been a change in political power.
This is not what the people vote for. The APC are letting the president down. We should remember that people have not forgotten the violence days of APC. However, they gave chance to APC because of President Koroma's trust. The youth will make many other Sierra Leoneans who did not vote for APC say, we told you about the violence, but now you seeing for yourself. This is not with APC youths in Sierra Leone. The APC leadership has to step in instantly and set examples to say that this is very undemocratic
Subject: Re: BBC News
From: Erica Adams
To: All
Date Posted: 10:55:40 09/20/07 ()
Email Address: ericamonique82@hotmail.com
Entered From: adsl-074-185-005-235.sip.clt.bellsouth.net at 74.185.5.235
Message:
My statement wasn't a judgement. I had hoped that people would be able to allow the process to go on without any blemish.
Subject: Re: BBC News
From: Sorba S
To: All
Date Posted: 09:26:33 09/20/07 ()
Email Address: sorba_1@yahoo.com
Entered From: at 209.116.81.187
Message:
This is the link
news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/7004686.stm
Subject: Kick out foreigners without no capital from Kono
From: Concern
To: All
Date Posted: 06:11:36 09/20/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: 14-64-ftth.onsneteindhoven.nl at 88.159.64.14
Message:
It pains me to see Kono has foreigners who have no capitalinvestmnet. Thereare many undesirable foreigners in Kono. They have no plan to develop the area. Their ony sure bet is protection of Paramount chiefs, rogue governmnet officials and some of their concubines.
This time, we are going to see that foreigners without any follow up income do not reside in Kono or other maining areas. We are for genuine investors who have capability to develop Kono and use the proceeds of the diamonds to bring essential services into Kono. It will be against the spirit of the Sierra Leonean voters, if this governmnet allows free for all mining in Kono.
This has to be stopped and it is better for the APC to come out with a statement. We do appreciate DFID effort to streamline the mining sector. But please, DFID, ordinary Sierra Leoneans want a new diamond policy that will develop the dregs of society. he new policy arrangement needs to be tied to poverty alleviation of Sierra Leoneans. For far too long, our gems have been used by undesirable foreigners and their backers. We want to see pipe borne water in the rural areas, we want to see tarred roads in mining areas, good hospitals and access to eduaction for all kids.
The greatest thing Ernest koroma will do for his people is to ensure that the mines are capable to generate adequate income to uplift the life of our people No compromise in the mining sector. Please, give back the poor their wealth by streamlining the mining scetor in a constructive manner.
Subject: Re: Kick out foreigners without no capital from Kono
From: We Africans- Refugee's all over the world.
To: All
Date Posted: 09:30:07 09/20/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: ns.nucleusns2.com at 12.44.12.126
Message:
Sometime it irks me to see my fellow Sierra Leoneans who are welcome all over the world.. hardly discriminated against.. given student loans.. poor africans we are..
Encouraged.. given jobs.. promoted.. skiping american and other countrys citizens.. made professors.. allowed merit to take its due course..
Allow Alieu I to be a lawyer..FREE..
Kabs for be a Pastor without prejudice..
And you.. yes you.. You want to buy a car.. social security number is all you need.. No one ask if you papa nah mende..
Want a house..? what is your credit rating is all we care about..
But oh.. when it come to US and OURS..
Lebanese should all be deported..
Indians should be sent back to calcuta
lets try the Idi Amin approach.. Kick all them foreigners out..
These are the new rules of the game..
We are soooooooo pathetic..
Subject: Re: Kick out foreigners without no capital from Kono
From: Sam
To: All
Date Posted: 21:06:55 09/20/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: pool-71-184-33-60.bstnma.east.verizon.net at 71.184.33.60
Message:
When I saw the headline, I clicked on it, so I could post that this assh*LE (forgive my latin) is probably sitting here in America talking bout kicking the foreigners out of Kono. Maybe he should form a club with Mugabe.
Subject: Re: Kick out foreigners without no capital from Kono
From: KLA
To: All
Date Posted: 18:53:11 09/20/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 164.82.85.3
Message:
Indeed,globalisation and the free movement of Capital,humans and ideas across borders,is having its impact on Sierra Leoneans where ever they choose to reside.
Some of us have persistently cautioned Sierra Leoneans as to the Notion of extricating individuals perceived as undesireables from our mining areas.
Where would it end? Let history be our guide.Nazi Germany DEVELOPED UNDER similar guises. The rest as they say,is History. The GERMAN shame of grotesque proportions!!
The problem is not the free lance miners of non Sierra LEONEAN EXTRACTION,BUT THE INABILITY OF THE government and people,to enforce mining regulations that have been in the books for ages.
I do agree that Sierra Leoneans must be the primary benefactors our our mining wealth. There must be a mining regime initiated by the elected members of our parliament, ensuring fair play for all vested parties.
Current studies indicate close to A BILLION DOLLARS worth of Gold reserves under patrs of Salone. Canadian and British mining houses have been at the Apex of these disoveries.
Subject: Re: Kick out foreigners without no capital from Kono
From: Shock
To: All
Date Posted: 11:22:09 09/20/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: host81-159-191-229.range81-159.btcentralplus.com at 81.159.191.229
Message:
Yes indeed, you are pathetic, and you need a psychiatrist.Idi Amins action reduced Ugandans to beggars for years.
Subject: Re: Kick out foreigners without no capital from Kono
From: Candid Opinion
To: All
Date Posted: 11:25:54 09/20/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: ns.nucleusns2.com at 12.44.12.126
Message:
Shock..
How about you stop wasting oxygen.. supply is limited these days you know..with all this global warming.. and all..
What in that post did i not write simple enough..?
Subject: Re: Kick out foreigners without no capital from Kono
From: KKW
To: All
Date Posted: 11:19:38 09/20/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 204.50.182.249
Message:
I could not have said it better! There should be no place for blind xenophobia in Sierra Leone.
Subject: Re: Kick out foreigners without no capital from Kono
From: MUSA KAMARA
To: All
Date Posted: 11:34:47 09/20/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: luna.hypair.net at 194.50.180.4
Message:
It has nothing to do with xenophobia,but to protect the interest of the state and the indigenous people.Do you share the same privileges as a native citizen of the country you are presently residing?What is wrong to protect the interest of our people?What about Botswana,Angola etc where Foreigners are forbidden to mine,is it xenophobic?Dont miss the facts,investors are welcome to create employment and boost up the economy.The issueing of our passports and other vital documents should be strictly monitored.
Subject: Re: Kick out foreigners without no capital from Kono
From: KKW
To: All
Date Posted: 13:21:22 09/20/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 204.50.182.249
Message:
As a matter of fact, I do share the same privileges as native citizens in the country where I reside even though I am a naturalized citizen. Sierra Leone has always been a welcoming country and there is no reason to change that. The foreigners are not the problem.
Subject: Re: Kick out foreigners without no capital from Kono
From: Sorba S
To: All
Date Posted: 10:39:40 09/20/07 ()
Email Address: sorba_1@yahoo.com
Entered From: at 209.116.81.187
Message:
Well said Bra!
Subject: PRESIDENT KOROMA HOLDS TALKS WITH BRIG. MARDA BIO AND COL
From: TigerSheik
To: All
Date Posted: 03:16:43 09/20/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: 123.43-201-80.adsl-dyn.isp.belgacom.be at 80.201.43.123
Message:
I think there are so much important people he could've met with rather than waisting time with these loosers. who could in turn misinterpret the moves as scaring of them not knowing that they are just nonentities in our soceity.
What about the amputees, are they not more imporant? who are victims of the atrocities in result to the stupid actions of these guys?
THANKS VERY MUCH JAMBA SMOKER FOR SHOWING YOUR CONCERN.
MAN DEM DAE FEEL SAY JAMBA SMOKER NOR GET SENSE. RASTA DON ONCE MORE PROVE HIN SEF SAY "JAH RULE".
AH DAE INVITE ALL RASTA DEM NAR DIS FORA FOR KNOCK SOME SENSE PAN SOME FALSE PRETENDERS DEM HEAD.
Subject: Re: PRESIDENT KOROMA HOLDS TALKS WITH BRIG. MARDA BIO AND COL
From: Jackal
To: All
Date Posted: 12:03:04 09/20/07 ()
Email Address: dollarbill@gmail.com
Entered From: c-24-13-121-79.hsd1.il.comcast.net at 24.13.121.79
Message:
Every Sierra Leonean is as important as the President. That is the calling of the term "equality" in the constitution. Those guys are not losers. You are not a loser either, because only a loser knows a loser
I think Koroma should also hold talks with the RUF renegades as well. After all they initiated the CONFLICT OF WHICH WE ALL BECAME VICTIMS.
Koroma's move to talk to Nyuma and Bio is the first of correct step of his administration. It shows Koroma's effort to heal our stiffly divided country.
That is where Kabbah failed. He snubbed the army in favor of kamajohs. That was a national slap in the face of the men in uniform and the tax payers funding thier very existence; and that means you and I. HE MIGHT AS WELL HAVE DISBANDED THE ARMY.
Kabbah's greatest failure started in his first 90 days in office. He sowed the seeds of disunity. It is part of the legacy that was reflected in this elections.
Bravo Koroma. May your advisers live long.!!!!!
Subject: Re: PRESIDENT KOROMA HOLDS TALKS WITH BRIG. MARDA BIO AND
From: POLITICO
To: All
Date Posted: 12:38:06 09/20/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: c-98-204-44-243.hsd1.md.comcast.net at 98.204.44.243
Message:
You are absolutely wrong. Why Maada and Nyuma? What about the Congo
Market traders? The small police traders? President Koroma can delegate
some of these duties to his assistants. Wrong move, but we can deal with
it and move on.
Subject: Re: PRESIDENT KOROMA HOLDS TALKS WITH BRIG. MARDA BIO AND
From: Jackal
To: All
Date Posted: 12:56:16 09/20/07 ()
Email Address: dollarbill@gmail.com
Entered From: c-24-13-121-79.hsd1.il.comcast.net at 24.13.121.79
Message:
Did you say wrong? Show your credentials as an accomplished Presidential adviser. Koromo is healing the wounds of a nation. Peaceful dialogue is fundamental to our economic growth.
Prove me wrong,I await.
Subject: Re: PRESIDENT KOROMA HOLDS TALKS WITH BRIG. MARDA BIO AND
From: POLITICO
To: All
Date Posted: 13:12:35 09/20/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: c-98-204-44-243.hsd1.md.comcast.net at 98.204.44.243
Message:
Here you go again! Take a deep breath and relax. This is not the arena for attacking people and
asking for credentials and/or qualifications. Let us discuss. exchange ideas and hopefully learn
from each other. I am with the bandwagon that believes it was a waste of presidential time to
grant Nyuma and Bio audience at this time. What say you?
Subject: Re: PRESIDENT KOROMA HOLDS TALKS WITH BRIG. MARDA BIO AND
From: Candid Opinion
To: All
Date Posted: 13:23:24 09/20/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: ns.nucleusns2.com at 12.44.12.126
Message:
Politico....
I think you are wrong about "This is not the arena for attacking people and
asking for credentials and/or qualifications. Let us discuss. exchange ideas and hopefully learn
from each other."
Thats majority of what goes on here..
Subject: Re: PRESIDENT KOROMA HOLDS TALKS WITH BRIG. MARDA BIO AND COL
From: Bankie Liber man
To: All
Date Posted: 07:48:15 09/20/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: ppp-69-218-211-235.dsl.wotnoh.ameritech.net at 69.218.211.235
Message:
Gentlemen simmer down and don't get carried away with this meeting. My sources believe if you will, confirm that it was a stern warning and a no nonsense meeting wherein the president laid it down as clear and direct as possible that in as much as they are welcomed in the new dispensation he will not stand idly by and see his program derailed by any of them including Mandereh.
I spoke with Tom's wife yesterday and she complained that Tom is planning on moving to Segbwema to stay out of the public's view as he promised to live a peaceful and non controversial life. I don't know about Marda's plans.
All will be fine. Way to go Mr. Prezzo.
Subject: Re: PRESIDENT KOROMA HOLDS TALKS WITH BRIG. MARDA BIO AND COL
From: Hawa Kebe
To: All
Date Posted: 11:06:30 09/20/07 ()
Email Address: kebehawaya@yahoo.co.uk
Entered From: adsl-75-19-57-161.dsl.irvnca.sbcglobal.net at 75.19.57.161
Message:
It is very good idea that the prisident hold talks with these two,No matter what ethnic group you come from we are all Sierra leoneans ,peace
Subject: Re: PRESIDENT KOROMA HOLDS TALKS WITH BRIG. MARDA BIO AND
From: CarelessTalk
To: All
Date Posted: 13:29:23 09/20/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: c-98-204-44-243.hsd1.md.comcast.net at 98.204.44.243
Message:
Hawa, don't bring regional and ethnic politics in this discuss.
Subject: Should Ernest extend prerogative of mercy to Omrie Golley
From: Ibrahim Turay
To: All
Date Posted: 02:14:40 09/20/07 ()
Email Address: imtu71@hotmail.com
Entered From: pool-71-161-90-74.cncdnh.east.verizon.net at 71.161.90.74
Message:
What do you think? The guy is languishing in prison.
Subject: Re: Should Ernest extend prerogative of mercy to Omrie Golley
From: Sam
To: All
Date Posted: 21:19:30 09/20/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: pool-71-184-33-60.bstnma.east.verizon.net at 71.184.33.60
Message:
There is reconcilliation and there is reconcilliation. I think he was arrested not neccessarily because of what he stands accused of and as such, justice needs to be served, but with that being said, lets not get carried away. The RUF damage to Sierra Leone is permanent. There are still amputees walking round, people who lost everything still struggling, not to mention those who watched loved ones get raped and murdered in front of them. With his overseas basing, Omrie might have been the one arranging for the arms and God knows what. If he was deeply involved with the RUF, let him fry. Part of my displeasure with Kabbah was his attempt at reconcilliation i.e. letting the RUF go scott free. If he is guilty, let him die in jail like his leader. He believed in his cause, he should be willing to die for his cause
Subject: Re: Should Ernest extend prerogative of mercy to Omrie Golle
From: ROBERT PAINE
To: All
Date Posted: 12:16:04 09/20/07 ()
Email Address: painera2003@yahoo.com
Entered From: host176-133-dynamic.55-82-r.retail.telecomitalia.it at 82.55.133.176
Message:
I actually feel this guy should be freed
without delay because he was nothing wrong
but the SLPP only wanted to get him for his former
involvement with the RUF.
Subject: Re: Should Ernest extend prerogative of mercy to Omrie Golley
From: Mammy Blessing
To: All
Date Posted: 04:39:48 09/20/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: pool-71-247-147-219.nycmny.east.verizon.net at 71.247.147.219
Message:
The guy should be brought to prison as soon as possible. A fair verdict should be reached to free or lock him up for good. This charade has gone on for too long. There should be no political games in the dispensation of justice.
Subject: PRESIDENT KOROMA HOLDS TALKS WITH MARDA BIO AND NYUMA
From: Jamba smoker
To: All
Date Posted: 01:05:57 09/20/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: 123.43-201-80.adsl-dyn.isp.belgacom.be at 80.201.43.123
Message:
Is it a right move?
Subject: Re: PRESIDENT KOROMA HOLDS TALKS WITH MARDA BIO AND NYUMA
From: TigerSheik
To: All
Date Posted: 05:18:41 09/20/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: 123.43-201-80.adsl-dyn.isp.belgacom.be at 80.201.43.123
Message:
If even it's a dumb move as some of us see it. We should not doubt the president's ability in his wisdom of taking such action.
Do you remember Paul in the Bible? He was also a thug
like those two.But he was embraced and ecouraged by Jesus Christ to spread the good news.
The perfection of this man's logic has shown he has the wisdom it takes to rule his people.
"A WISE MOVE"
Subject: Re: PRESIDENT KOROMA HOLDS TALKS WITH MARDA BIO AND NYUMA
From: Tonyayei
To: All
Date Posted: 03:30:34 09/20/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: dh112.public.mod.uk at 82.109.66.148
Message:
I do not find anything wrong with the President talking to those guys but discussing any governmental issues with them will not be in the country's best interest. I can say this because Maada Bio is certainly not a role model and so is Nyuma. They had the opportunity to at least uplift the country out of abysmal poverty but what did they do? I'll leave you to figure it out.How could any Sierra Leonean explain the huge wealth amassed by these guys and yet we see them like life savers, not in my name.
President Koroma, you have been overwhelmingly voted for across the country in a more proportionate manner in a truly free and fair election. It is abundantly clear that the people have spoken, ready to embrace positive change and have trusted you with the highest position of the land. I urge you not to disappoint the people because if you do, it will be too high a price to pay. Therefore, mind those you discuss the country's affairs with or they will bury you before you know it. There are thousands of decent Sierra Leoneans home and abroad who only but mean well for the country and you should engage them rather than those ex robbers. Beware! Beware! Our President. I trust you, wish you well, God's guidance and just deliver the positives.
Subject: Re: PRESIDENT KOROMA HOLDS TALKS WITH MARDA BIO AND NYUMA
From: Mammy Blessing
To: All
Date Posted: 04:20:38 09/20/07 ()
Email Address:
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Democracy is always imperilled, not by the the inspired millions who trust the ballot box but by the scheming, nefarious few who plot away in the dark when most honest folks slumber.
Good people and monsters make up our democracy..
And as trolls and ogres, blood-stained though they may be, Nyumah anb Bio deserve an audience with their president. Besides, talking is not capitulation. Makes more sense rapping with your enemies than shooting RPGs at each other across the Liberian border.
EBK's meeting with the Rude Bois does not alarm me.
Subject: Re: PRESIDENT KOROMA HOLDS TALKS WITH MARDA BIO AND NYUMA
From: KING LOGGY
To: All
Date Posted: 08:54:06 09/20/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: c-69-255-182-17.hsd1.va.comcast.net at 69.255.182.17
Message:
COULD NOT HAVE SAID IT ANY BETTER THAN THAT
Subject: Re: PRESIDENT KOROMA HOLDS TALKS WITH MARDA BIO AND NYUMA
From: Candid Opinion
To: All
Date Posted: 09:18:22 09/20/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: ns.nucleusns2.com at 12.44.12.126
Message:
I still cant understand this APC venom for such gallant men..?
They supported the other party.. SO WHAT?
Same as Kabs Kanu, Leslie, Leatherboots..Waju Waju..
Why are thier heads wanted on a stake and ass on a a banda.. is beyond me..
Subject: Re: PRESIDENT KOROMA HOLDS TALKS WITH MARDA BIO AND NYUMA
From: M. Alieu Iscandari Esq.
To: All
Date Posted: 15:36:48 09/20/07 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
Actually no one wants their "heads on a stake and their asses on a banda", because of their support for another party. The fact is that these two men you call gallant are actually not so. Many who have been their victims would attest to the truth of this fact.
I think the relevant inquiry would have been, why are these two men so reviled? They are reviled because they commited crimes against humanity and people need closure. The only way they can obtain closure is the truth. I WILL BE ON RECORD TO SAY THAT I AM WILLING TO STIPULATE TO A NON PENALLY PUNITIVE SANCTION. ALTHOUGH I WOULD NOT RULE OUT CIVIL MONETARY DAMAGES WHICH SHOULD BE GOOD ENOUGH.
On meeting the President, I am in full support of attempts at building bridges and TRUST where there was none. It is their right to have audience with the leader of sierra leone. I am sure that these "Gallant" men can be turned around and work for the benefit of sierra leone hand in glove with the present administration.
Clearly, Ernest Koroma has begun to show his mastery at the art of bridging gaps rather than creating Mistrust, that is diplomacy and Trust 101.
Maybe if these Gentle men can openly speak the truth about the murder of Salami Coker and 28 others, and then pay some monetary damages to the families and heirs, agree to a stipulated punishment of sorts then we all can go home happy. They do not need to go to jail, or have their freedom curtailed because of these communal crimes that the NPRC committed.
With Bio though ther is the issue of his very MISGUIDED UTTERANCE during the SLPP debates that his only contribution to the SLPP was to "Overthrow" the APC and that if the APC comes back to power it he will do all he can to overthrow it.
Now that the APC is in power, it is reasonable to expect that that threat would be carried out and any extra security measures put in place would be acceptable
This is going to be interesting. While you guys are screaming like crazy the APC leader in only his second day on the Job is showing his mastery at TRUE leadership.
Subject: Re: PRESIDENT KOROMA HOLDS TALKS WITH MARDA BIO AND NYUMA
From: Ibrahim Turay
To: All
Date Posted: 02:00:53 09/20/07 ()
Email Address: imtu71@hotmail.com
Entered From: pool-71-161-90-74.cncdnh.east.verizon.net at 71.161.90.74
Message:
I don't think so. How could a president invite a U.S. deportee for a presidential meeting??? He has just made him important.
Subject: Re: PRESIDENT KOROMA HOLDS TALKS WITH MARDA BIO AND NYUMA
From: Jackal
To: All
Date Posted: 15:56:56 09/20/07 ()
Email Address: dollarbill@gmail.com
Entered From: c-24-13-121-79.hsd1.il.comcast.net at 24.13.121.79
Message:
Because Sierra Leone is a politically soveriegn nation. The President has the nation's blessing to determine how to manage the ship of State. A US deportee is not a criminal in Sierra Leone. He is simply a
Subject: Re: PRESIDENT KOROMA HOLDS TALKS WITH MARDA BIO AND NYUMA
From: Jackal
To: All
Date Posted: 16:13:02 09/20/07 ()
Email Address: dollarbill@gmail.com
Entered From: c-24-13-121-79.hsd1.il.comcast.net at 24.13.121.79
Message:
Because Sierra Leone is a politically soveriegn nation. The President has the nation's blessing to determine how to manage the ship of State. A US deportee is not a criminal in Sierra Leone. He is simply a victim of America's prejudicial immigration laws
Subject: Re: PRESIDENT KOROMA HOLDS TALKS WITH MARDA BIO AND NYUM
From: POLITICO
To: All
Date Posted: 22:25:21 09/20/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: c-98-204-44-243.hsd1.md.comcast.net at 98.204.44.243
Message:
Can you imagine what led to Tom's deportation? Some of the so-called
NPRC thieves are still living in the US.
Subject: Re: PRESIDENT KOROMA HOLDS TALKS WITH MARDA BIO AND NYUM
From: Jackal
To: All
Date Posted: 23:51:29 09/20/07 ()
Email Address: dollarbill@gmail.com
Entered From: c-24-13-121-79.hsd1.il.comcast.net at 24.13.121.79
Message:
Name the NPRC thieves and what they stole. Remember if you cannot point out what they stole, you are selling ice to Eskimos.
Subject: Re: PRESIDENT KOROMA HOLDS TALKS WITH MARDA BIO AND NYUMA
From: Cornelius Hamelberg
To: All
Date Posted: 01:47:58 09/20/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: c-088472d5.01-32-73746f42.cust.bredbandsbolaget.se at 213.114.132.8
Message:
A VERY SHORT VIEW:
Talking with these two does not mean taking them into his confidence or having unadulterated confidence in whatever loyalty they may pledge, and of course they had better not try anything foolish.
Prez Koroma saved Nyuma's life. He will always be grateful for that.
Prez Koroma’s policy is one of inclusiveness and reconciliation but from this distance my instinct would be caution about Bio, considering the militaristic statements that Bio has made not so long ago (about toppling an APC government) and there is always the DANGER ABOUT SOME GUYS WHO DO NOT HAVE THE BIRD'S EYE VIEW FROM UP THERE TRYING TO BE TOO SMART FOR THEIR OWN GOOD.
Not that the president is about to appoint Bio the minister of defence.
It’s interesting to note the purging of the army of Hundreds of the highest Yoruba officers that has taken place several times in Nigeria’s recent history ………..
Subject: FOR THE SAKE OF PEACE I CONGRATULATE THE APC LEADER.
From: ALPHA SAIDU BANGURA
To: All
Date Posted: 23:24:12 09/19/07 ()
Email Address: SAIDUBANGSO@AOL.COM
Entered From: static-70-21-127-55.res.east.verizon.net at 70.21.127.55
Message:
In the interest of the peace and unity of our beloved country,I congratulate to APC leader, Mr. Ernest Bai Koroma on his election as president of our country.
I pray that God directs him to the right path.
I wish my party, the SLPP better luck next time.
I call on on my fellow country men and women to put the bitterness caused by the elections behind us and put our hands together to push Sierra Leone forward.
I want the membership of the APC to keep in mind that I will be monitoring whatever they do and If they step over the line, I will ensure that corrective measures are taken to prevent any wrong doing.
Subject: Re: FOR THE SAKE OF PEACE I CONGRATULATE THE APC LEADER.
From: Special Cut
To: All
Date Posted: 12:30:37 09/20/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: gw1.dc.gov at 164.82.146.3
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Saidu, please stay in your coocoon and do not congratulate our president. We,ll soon start extracting your rants from the cocorioko archives. Attacking someones personal life with lies is not easily unforgiveable. Tom and Marda were very active on the side of the SLPP but they displayed some maturity. The two cannot be compared to you and Laboh Fofana, liliputians writing childish articles. Your bosses were articulate enough and knew were the cut off point was unlike you two. You are not part of the National reconcilliation.
Subject: Re: FOR THE SAKE OF PEACE I CONGRATULATE THE APC LEADER.
From: Mammy Blessing
To: All
Date Posted: 04:33:04 09/20/07 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
You really are full of yourself...but your partisan rancor should always have a welcome niche in a democracy.
Foe or Supporter, the country we love will fail if we all squabble for a place in the Amen corner.
We will all understand the need for vigilance when the cabinet list shortly emerges.
Some of the names being bandied...
Well they give me the creeps!
Subject: Re: FOR THE SAKE OF PEACE I CONGRATULATE THE APC LEADER.
From: Tonyayei
To: All
Date Posted: 03:58:05 09/20/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: dh112.public.mod.uk at 82.109.66.148
Message:
Why for the sake of peace? Man we should rise above party politics and put the country first. I am SLPP and ever will be but we must as some of us have already done, congratulate the President without any ifs, ands or buts. We have only the SLPP to blame for the lost campaign. The musicians voiced several times without number their concerns about the lack of progress or positive change that the country badly needed but the leaders hopelessly disregarded their cry. Don't get me wrong, very little progress was made but with the unprecidented donor funds, we have nothing to show. Moreover, Kabba et al were never SLPP materials, merely opportunists and we must know this now. By the same token, we must learn to reward our heroes in the SLPP and damn sycophancy.
Long live the Republic of Sierra Leone and woe betide those who mean evil for our Sierra Leone.
Subject: Re: FOR THE SAKE OF PEACE I CONGRATULATE THE APC LEADER.
From: Bonthe Pikin
To: All
Date Posted: 00:29:55 09/20/07 ()
Email Address: bontilaynga@gmail.com
Entered From: 203-167-156-241.dialup.clear.net.nz at 203.167.156.241
Message:
Go sidom yanda with u belful. U nor go monitor die-die SLPP na tranga tranga APC u dae cam monitor. For leh den say U sef don tok. Just go away, we can do better without your congratulatory message. Piss off.
Subject: Re: FOR THE SAKE OF PEACE I CONGRATULATE THE APC LEADER.
From: Razaki
To: All
Date Posted: 05:25:11 09/20/07 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
ehn ehn ehn e betteh sef if nar man of substance dae tok. udat nar dis guy wae tink so much bot imsef bot nar dem berewah dem boy nar america. bo leh dis man skidoff ya en mek man blow. for de sake of us peace, saidu nar natin bot im tink say m nar somtin.
nor body nor dae brasskittle am sef. big dumbeh
Subject: Re: FOR THE SAKE OF PEACE I CONGRATULATE THE APC LEADER.
From: Candid Opinion
To: All
Date Posted: 09:15:07 09/20/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: ns.nucleusns2.com at 12.44.12.126
Message:
Aye we...
I pray GOD grant us enlightenment..
Subject: Fellow Regentonians! We got it!
From: Nah Sabi Talk
To: All
Date Posted: 23:06:15 09/19/07 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
The long battle is now over for the privatization of Sierra Leone Grammar School...
As we celebrate this victory, I hope that we ensure diversity... All tribes as well as for pupils from low income families as well...
Regentonian True!
Let's pursue and forget the things that are behind us...
SHOUT OUT! To Pa Spaine and the current principal Mr. Lasite (my former vice principal)
Subject: Re: Fellow Regentonians! We got it!
From: KKW
To: All
Date Posted: 15:40:06 09/20/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 204.50.182.249
Message:
Floreat Regentonia!! I am joining the "bato" although I have no idea what this victory is supposed to mean!
Subject: Re: Fellow Regentonians! We got it!
From: Regentonian Web
To: All
Date Posted: 10:56:51 09/20/07 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
We do have a web site you know!
Subject: Re: Fellow Regentonians! We got it!
From: Regentonian Web
To: All
Date Posted: 11:00:05 09/20/07 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
Sorry, this link will take you there
Subject: Re: Fellow Regentonians! We got it!
From: Sam
To: All
Date Posted: 23:19:03 09/19/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: pool-72-74-217-244.bstnma.east.verizon.net at 72.74.217.244
Message:
I read about this on that other newspaper's site. Why the comment about ensuring diversity? Was this ever an issue? Na Sabi Talk, Lasite was my VP too, when were you there, what years?
Subject: Re: Fellow Regentonians! We got it!
From: Nah Sabi Talk
To: All
Date Posted: 06:59:16 09/20/07 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
Fellow Regentonian, my utmost pleasure in reading your comment...
Before the government took over the school ( CMS Grammar School days), the practice of diversity was highly selective...
A diplomat's kid, white kid, certain-family names' kid or Creole boy would be more preferable than a poor yet smart "country boy" or even poor Creole boy. I really do not want to focus on things that I know ( either due to my education or having lived in the West for so long) to be ugly.
I asked for diversity at the onset of privatization so there cannot be any perception of such ugliness. Privatization means capitalism and for those of us that studied it, we know how cold it can be for the non players and how sweet it can be for the "affordables"...
I was a pupil and school band member during the latter part of the 70's... I was in class with the likes of Lyndon Thomas, and in band with Andrew Williams, Victor Hasting-Spaine (the then principal's son) just to name but few ...
My experience at the Grammar school is one that I cherished even more than my university years, and as such would hate to think of any deserving child being deprieved for whatever the reason of such a momentous opportunity...
Subject: Re: Fellow Regentonians! We got it!
From: Lameeh Gblaah
To: All
Date Posted: 01:54:31 09/20/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: host217-41-8-182.in-addr.btopenworld.com at 217.41.8.182
Message:
I was over the moon when my sister who's son is attending that school told me about that. The main problem is that we regentonians are never united being the first secondary school in the country our old boys association is in a state of a mess. we have not been doing anything to help the school, i could not rule myself out.I entered that school at the time of the great Otto-Laurie Palmer. I visited the school in 2001 i was ashame of what i saw. no desks , no apparatus in the labs and lack of vission from the students. I would like to thank the members of the NPRC who made sure that we got back our land and demolishing those so called buildings.I am also lifting up my hat to Mr Lasite who fought tenaciously i pursuing the motion of privatisation because the standard of the school was really going down .Live forever !! Grammar schooooool !!!! Please lets call an old boys's meeting in the UK and make some contributions . Look at Bo school, Methodist Girls high school old pupil's association they are all doing fine . Lets us all come together and help.
Subject: Re: Fellow Regentonians! We got it!
From: Nah Sabi Talk
To: All
Date Posted: 07:17:07 09/20/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: static-76-160-64-185.dsl.cavtel.net at 76.160.64.185
Message:
Well said Sir!
"Glory ever... Grammar School"
Under the government's administration, those efforts were not encouraged Sir!
Look at our so-called website site, thanks to H. Finley, but we can do better, my God!
Lifting up my boater hat to you, my Senior Regentonian!
Subject: Re: Fellow Regentonians! We got it!
From: news
To: All
Date Posted: 03:42:27 09/20/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: 14-64-ftth.onsneteindhoven.nl at 88.159.64.14
Message:
It was Alpha Wurie who did many things to frustrate our school to be privatised all these years. He was jealous and thought that SLGS will surpass others when it will be privatised.
The former SLPP governmnet was an enemy of progress and it did everything to stifle progress in our Country.
Siwkw-Dioko. I pursue -to go forward!
Long live Lasite and all past and present members of our great school.
Live for ever, sundered never.
God bless our Grammar school.
Subject: Re: Fellow Regentonians! We got it!
From: TheRegentonian
To: All
Date Posted: 04:47:42 09/20/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: c-68-36-5-19.hsd1.nj.comcast.net at 68.36.5.19
Message:
The problem with the association in North America esp. MD is that its full of old windbags, who aren't giving a chance t the younger alumni. As mush as it pains me to say this, but the POW association is much more dynamic, esp. the Atlanta organization. Maybe younger alumni should stop waiting for power to be handed over to them and try to force regime change or form alternative organizations.
Subject: Re: Fellow Regentonians! We got it!
From: Nah Sabi Talk
To: All
Date Posted: 07:24:35 09/20/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: static-76-160-64-185.dsl.cavtel.net at 76.160.64.185
Message:
Fellow Regentonian,
I feel and share your frustration...
And you've solved it too, "...Maybe younger alumni should stop waiting for power to be handed over to them and try to force regime change or form alternative organizations."
It's not maybe, but when and how?
Subject: Re: Fellow Regentonians! We got it!
From: TheRegentonian
To: All
Date Posted: 10:21:06 09/20/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 199.43.48.131
Message:
We need a few good young men to do this. I live in NJ, but I am quite willing to work with like-minded folk to do this. Do you know of any such folk? We should talk offline.
Subject: Re: Fellow Regentonians! We got it!
From: Lameeh Gblaah
To: All
Date Posted: 09:31:20 09/20/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: cpc3-lewi6-0-0-cust268.bmly.cable.ntl.com at 82.27.201.13
Message:
I knew about that and what was Alpha wurie's motive but he forgot to note that(cotton tree for dom so tay he high pass grass) He had come to be in the cream of the elites and he did so many "dabaroo"to fustrate us where is he now ? He would be catering for people in his so called blood bank lab for blood test. "The battle is not for the strong nor the race for the swift" The end would always justify the means. In every thing we do and evrywhere we go there is something known as hierachy even in heaven.so there would be poor as well as rich families sending their children to school to get educated to help them to aliviate poverty .Please leh we tell Alpha Wurie say he lef pan am!!!!
Subject: OBSERVATIONS FOR FOR JOHN LEIGH
From: Political Commentator
To: All
Date Posted: 21:19:04 09/19/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: adsl-66-140-46-116.dsl.rcsntx.swbell.net at 66.140.46.116
Message:
John Leigh, had members of the SLPP not allowed Kabbah to impose Berewa on the party, SLPP would have won the elections for a third time. Party members should be blamed for not taking Kabbah to the task. Had they done so, young people aspirants would have been had the opportunity to wrestle it out among themselves, just like in the case of Ernest and others within the APC.
The Makeni "conbention" should have set the stage for Kabbah and Berewa to recoil for vibrant aspirants to captain the boat. Instead of learning from mistakes
of the APC, when Shaki handpicked blue-eyed Momoh against the political tide sending both the APC and Mama Sa Lone to an untimely death, he chose to mimic the former.
By doing it à la Shaki, Kabbah hammered the last nail on the SLPP coffin before handing it to Charles Margai for burial. With her lies, false reports, and arrogant bashing of expatriates and foreign dignitaries, self appointed spokesgirl, Ninja Blyden knelled the funeral bell with a carte blanche under the very watch of rationally minded party members like you.
These and a few other shortcomings not excluding tribalism have been the syndromes leading to the SLPP in the limbo it’s now in. Depending on the progress of the mother-child relationship, SLPP will have no choice but move in with the PMDC by the time her daughter celebrates her 5th birthday three years or so from now or decline as a political force.
Subject: Re: OBSERVATIONS FOR FOR JOHN LEIGH
From: John E. Leigh
To: All
Date Posted: 14:11:48 09/20/07 ()
Email Address: johnernestleigh@yahoo.com
Entered From: cache-dtc-ag14.proxy.aol.com at 205.188.117.142
Message:
Mr. P. Commentator:
I agree with you that we SLPP people are responsible for our own defeat.
President Kabbah was determined to impose his will - both the presidendial ticket and the campaign theme of 'continuity' while most party members were adverse to oppose him for very practical reasons.
Presidential power is excessive in SL and alternative opportunities free of politics are extremely scarce in our country. As soon as one falls out of favor with the president, some friends and some relatives abandon him immediately. Those who are able to stand up against him are very few and resented by those who live off the president.
Clearly, we did it to ourselves. We were aware of wrong-headed policies and practices but most people were silent as if hiding a bad secret.
As for SLPP going to PMDC, I doubt it. Already, the Margai switch to APC caused PMDC to loose 99% of its Southeastern support during the second round. During the second round, Berewa won in all the kamajor areas including Mongheri, Chief Norman's hometown and in the san-san boy constituencies in Kono, Bo, Pujehun and Kenema.
Again, it all depends on have effective and democratic the APC governs and how effective the SLPP reorganizes. Let's keep our eyes and ears open in the public interest. Thanks. - JL
Subject: REPLACE SAM SUMANA WITH MARGAI
From: Onliner
To: All
Date Posted: 21:04:05 09/19/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: adsl-66-140-46-116.dsl.rcsntx.swbell.net at 66.140.46.116
Message:
The present vice president, former cab driver should be replaced with Charles Margai. It is stil not late for Ernest to make that move.
Subject: Re: REPLACE SAM SUMANA WITH MARGAI
From: Shembu
To: All
Date Posted: 09:44:25 09/20/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: eduproxy3.k12.de.us at 167.21.254.13
Message:
Onliner,
Stop this stupid pessimism. Your SLPP ambassador to Liberia was a carb driver in NYC for decades. Your so-called spokesman, Fayia Musa aka Victor Raider was a rebel that worked closely with Foday Sankoh and mosquito.
Sam is a young guy with strong educational background, and great business acumen. He went up against much older, much more experienced and educated individuals but came out on top for the position of running mate. It was definitely not an easy exercise to come up with a running mate. He earned what he got. So tell me why he must be replaced.
I tell you what I think. I know his Excellency Koroma will perform very well and live up to the people's expectation. But just in case he falls such of the people's expectations, that will be the time we replace him with Charles Margai for the 2012 battle.
Subject: Re: REPLACE SAM SUMANA WITH MARGAI
From: Special Cut
To: All
Date Posted: 12:50:34 09/20/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: gw1.dc.gov at 164.82.146.3
Message:
If you Know Sam personally, you would not talk about replacement. This is a hard working, down to earth guy with so many good attributes.He is the right man out there, buddy. Wait and see.
Subject: Re: REPLACE SAM SUMANA WITH MARGAI
From: Tonyayei
To: All
Date Posted: 07:54:11 09/20/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: dh112.public.mod.uk at 82.109.66.148
Message:
Leave Sam alone. Do not pull him down because you have won. Nobody on this forum as far as i know came up with this bizarre suggestion prior to election.
Nevermind he was a taxi driver but has developed himself and today thank goodness he is Mr VP. He did not go to prison, robbed or begged on the streets to look after himself or his family. Afterwards we all know the menial jobs we start with in the diaspora before we become what we are except for those "wey born meet am but we nar original borbor pain dem".
Subject: Re: REPLACE SAM SUMANA WITH MARGAI
From: Tonyayei
To: All
Date Posted: 06:55:38 09/20/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: dh112.public.mod.uk at 82.109.66.148
Message:
What position do you think the VP is placed in the hierachy?
Nevertheless, the VP was elected democratically and the constituitionality behind replacing him is probably yet to be amended.
However, C F Margai's alliance with APC was a tactical move for the good of the land and his PMDC's survival in a variety of ways and also to prove to SLPP that he was indeed a formidable factor but not to take up a senior position (not VP)in the cabinet. A whale of Sierra Leoneans especially some SLPPs do see CF as a traitor but i see him as a consequence of SLPPs myopia, which should be reflected on far and deep.
CF is still the leader of PMDC and would be best for him to accept a non-cabinet position should he opt to serve.
Subject: Re: All the worlds a stage
From: M. Alieu Iscandari Esq
To: All
Date Posted: 06:14:16 09/20/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: cache-ntc-ad04.proxy.aol.com at 207.200.116.198
Message:
Yesterday he was a cab driver as you say and he has worked his way up in life and today he is the Vice President of sierra leone and you can only address him as "Mr. Vice President"
Subject: Re: REPLACE SAM SUMANA WITH MARGAI
From: bad man
To: All
Date Posted: 00:20:20 09/20/07 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
this is a suggestion from an slpp destroyer who should be ignored. he is finding a way to discredit the new government.
Subject: Re: REPLACE SAM SUMANA WITH MARGAI...Nooo Way!
From: Toegondoe Sagbah
To: All
Date Posted: 21:54:35 09/19/07 ()
Email Address: mendemoi@yahoo.com
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Charles has his own party. It is called PMDC AND THAT'S WHERE HE WILL REMAIN.
Of course, he can accept a civil service position as a non APC. We don't want any integration of Charles
Subject: Re: REPLACE SAM SUMANA WITH MARGAI...Nooo Way!
From: POLITICO
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Date Posted: 22:14:17 09/19/07 ()
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I don't know which part of the world you live, but today in Sierra Leone, Charles Margai is adored by the north, south, east and west. He
is going to be a driving force in shaping our country for the future. Charles Margai is bigger than PMDC, APC and SLPP.
Subject: Re: REPLACE SAM SUMANA WITH MARGAI
From: Mammy Blessing
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Date Posted: 21:26:24 09/19/07 ()
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I don't think it is constitutionally possible for a president to change VPs like he changes knickers. May I remind you that Sam Sumana was elected by the people also.
It is possible however to utilize Charles' tremendous talents without violating the constitution. How about making him an ombudsman supervising electrification, Bumbuna, making Hastings an international airport, for example. If he is given unfettered access to Ernest, he will be the de facto VP.
Subject: Re: REPLACE SAM SUMANA WITH MARGAI
From: Mammy Blessing
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Date Posted: 22:01:43 09/19/07 ()
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That is something I really want to get an education about. It just does not make sense for a running mate to be dumped after the elections. I am sure that there are constraints. Anyway if there is anyone out there with info about the issue, please post.
Subject: Re: REPLACE SAM SUMANA WITH MARGAI
From: POLITICAL
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Date Posted: 21:51:05 09/19/07 ()
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Are you sure the vp will not be replaced? Tell us more about the constitutionality of the vp.
Subject: WHERE IS ALIEU Iscandri?
From: POLITICO
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Date Posted: 22:20:01 09/19/07 ()
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Legally, what are the possibilities of replacing the VP or creating a
provision for VP2?
Subject: Re: WHERE IS ALIEU Iscandri?
From: M. Alieu Iscandari Esq
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Date Posted: 06:16:45 09/20/07 ()
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If the XN says we can creat such an office then we can other wise it is a divisive issue and at this time of nation building, we do not need that.
Subject: Re: WHERE IS ALIEU Iscandri?
From: Special Cut
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Date Posted: 12:56:27 09/20/07 ()
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Now you start talking about VP2 again just to create many more grazing grounds that you cannot monitor. Sierra Leone is too small for all these pocket offices. Why should we have 2 VPs?
Subject: Re: WHERE IS ALIEU Iscandri?
From: Tamba Moiwo
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Date Posted: 18:07:08 09/20/07 ()
Email Address: moiwo@hotmail.co.uk
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Exactly! APC institutionalised that cancerous phrase 'wusai den tie cow nar dae in dae it'.This engendered in its wake the wanton pillaging of our economy,destruction of our schools,hospitals,banks,financial houses and all that was required for a vibrant and sustainable nation.
Back in the days,there a VP1 &VP2--RIGHT WASTE OF RESOURCES.
Subject: Re: WHERE IS ALIEU Iscandri?
From: Move on Dot Com
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Date Posted: 21:13:49 09/20/07 ()
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You are still living in the PAST. This didnt score you any points in the elections and wouldnt now. Get over it and move with the flow.
Subject: Re: WHERE IS ALIEU Iscandri?
From: Tamba Moiwo
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Date Posted: 07:00:41 09/21/07 ()
Email Address: moiwo@hotmail.co.uk
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IF YOU DO NOT LEARN FROM THE PAST,YOU ARE BOUND TO REPEAT IT.THATS ACAUTIONARY TALE FOR YOU BUDDY..
Subject: Re: WHERE IS ALIEU Iscandri?
From: M. Alieu Iscandari Esq
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Date Posted: 16:14:26 09/20/07 ()
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I agree with you except if the XN says we could and I dont believe that it says so.
Subject: Re: WHERE IS ALIEU Iscandri?
From: Layman
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Date Posted: 05:43:26 09/20/07 ()
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You do not need a legal luminary like Alieu to advise on this.Simple answer- no way, until the constitution in amended.
Subject: Re: WHERE IS ALIEU Iscandri?
From: Sam
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Date Posted: 23:26:20 09/19/07 ()
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Why is this post continuing? EK chose Sumana for his running mate. I understand Margai gave them the winning votes and you have to give PMDC something in return, but dumping Sumana may make me start wondering about EK.
I already have problems with the fact that APC let RUF join them. Do not dump Sumana, there are plenty other posts Margai can occupy and certainly do not create a VP2 position. While we are still excited and hoping that a new party means even more changes for our country, we still have to keep a watchful eye on our new rulers because of the past APC rule which only those who were corrupt beneficiaries would look back on fondly.
Pa Shaki had two VPs (God knows they were both worthless, evil bast#$&s) and if EK starts that wasteful unneccessary nonsense, he is going to have a few people nervous. What next, the type of brutal police chief that reigned under Pa Shaki?
Subject: Re: WHERE IS ALIEU Iscandri?
From: Candid Opinion
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Date Posted: 09:10:42 09/20/07 ()
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Speaker of the house..
Isnt he the #3 man in Gov...Or doe that post go to the majority in parliament..?
I think he deserves to be the 3rd most powerful man in our country.
Subject: Re: WHERE IS ALIEU Iscandri?
From: MUSA KAMARA
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Date Posted: 05:58:39 09/20/07 ()
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If His Excellency President Earnest Bai Koroma decides to nominate Hon.Charles Margai as VP2 will be a positive step as long as it carries the aim of developmennt,reconciliation and unity for our land.At this stage,we need viable,diligent and dedicated Sierra-Leoneans to put our nation on the world stage.As I have been advocating,I support a VP2 and Attorney General position for the Hon.Charles Margai.
Subject: Re: WHERE IS ALIEU Iscandri?
From: Eddie Grant
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Date Posted: 04:30:53 09/20/07 ()
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Can someone for once tell me why anyone is suggesting replacement of VP Sam? Could this be because of his academic ability or his integrety, I'm sure he's been well vetted before accepted into the post.
Subject: Re: WHERE IS ALIEU Iscandri?
From: Candid Opinion
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Date Posted: 09:08:41 09/20/07 ()
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Vetted my foot..
We are so dishonest to ourselves and our nation..
I think this is one of our biggest national failing..
Truth...honesty..calling shit............shit.
Is what will set us all free..
Subject: Re: WHERE IS ALIEU Iscandri?
From: Shembu
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Date Posted: 11:53:44 09/20/07 ()
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Candid,
You just demonstrated that you are very uncandid about your thoughts. What do you mean by "Vetted my foot.."?
Do you think this guy was just hand picked or what? There is a process by which the party leader in consultation with his members came up with a list that eventually narrowed down to one man being chosen. That man happens to be Sammy. Are you guys jealous because this guy is young. Please know that the guy is educated and qualified for the job. Please give him a break and an opportunity to perform his duties instead of prejudging him.
Probably people like you support the candidacy of Barack (a guy about the same age as Sammy) for USA 2008 presidency. A much bigger and powerful country like USA can give chances to all sorts of people, even Allan Keyes, but an improverished nation as ours is only full of jealous people. I know some of you would like to see JB Dauda, Momoh Pujeh, or some dinosaur like those back in power. We say NEW FACES all the way for the NEW MILLENIUM.
Subject: Re: WHERE IS ALIEU Iscandri?
From: Special Cut
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Date Posted: 13:01:42 09/20/07 ()
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Candid,
You need to change that moniker. I you so academically shorthanded that you need to resort to profanity during simple debates ?
Subject: Re: WHERE IS ALIEU Iscandri?
From: Cut ya put ya..
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Date Posted: 13:20:46 09/20/07 ()
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What has posting in cocorioko got to do with academia?
Why not you try you yone hand on the subject.. ?
I did not notice any profanity..Where is it ?
Subject: Re: WHERE IS ALIEU Iscandri?
From: Candid Opinion
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Date Posted: 12:06:37 09/20/07 ()
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I apologise..
I did not know thats how the APC works..
I assumed this was not consultative and no list was drafted.
I dont know what the process was and in my haste to judge.. i might have mistakenly assumed that there was hardly any process, salone politics and what i read might have come into play...
I read that he just showed up with a briefcase and a blank check, doctored resume and promise of more money where that came from..
If there was and he was vetted.. true true..and he ended up been the best candidate.. i take my erroneous assumption back.
It has little to do with his age.. or the barack factor.. i will support Hillary and not barack, i believe she is a better candidate, much more rounded.
Subject: "Hillary much more rounded"?
From: Kalos
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Date Posted: 12:58:06 09/20/07 ()
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How dare you say Hillary is much more rounded. Rounded in what? You
are buying into the American media falsehood. Barack Obama is smarter
with more experience than Hillary. Take away the Bill Clinton, she is just
another junior senator from New York.
Subject: Re: "Hillary much more rounded"?
From: Candid Opinion
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Date Posted: 13:16:42 09/20/07 ()
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An opposing view...
Yours..
I salute you..
Subject: Re: "Hillary much more rounded"?
From: Kalos
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Date Posted: 13:32:10 09/20/07 ()
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Candid Opinion, what a gentleman!!!! Continue the good job.
Subject: Re: REPLACE SAM SUMANA WITH MARGAI
From: Bambay Lans Kamara
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Date Posted: 22:16:39 09/19/07 ()
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Mr. Samuel Sam-Sumana is currently the Chief Executive Officer of Aries Rehabilitation Construction and Supplies (ARCS) SL Ltd, incorporated under the laws of Sierra Leone. As Chief Executive Officer, Mr. Sam-Sumana has shown his Leadership and Management skills when dealing with people in his employ. He is a motivator and a good listener who seeks solutions to Company problems using innovative methods developed while serving as Vice Chairman Kono-Union Chapter, Minnesota in the United States of America.
At the height of the civil war in Sierra Leone, Sam-Sumana was agonized over the near total collapse of the infrastructure of Kono District. In his position as Vice Chairman, Kono-Union Chapter USA, he paid frequent visits to the district and forged a good working relationship with the chiefdom authorities in Kono and Kenema District. He pioneered the construction and repairs of roads in Kono and Kenema districts using funds raised through advocacy and his own personal funds for the betterment of the then inaccessible areas of the Eastern region of the Republic of Sierra Leone.
Earlier, Mr. Samuel Sam-Sumana served as Managing Director of the United Diamond Mining Company, Kodu Town, Kono District, Sierra Leone. With his expertise in the field of diamond mining, he used to introduce environmental friendly and just mining methods in the field bringing development to the people where his company operated.
Mr. Samuel Sam-Sumana also served as the Regional Manager for C-12 International, a Huston, Texas based company engaged in diamond buying in Sierra Leone, Guinea and Liberia.
His native ingrained knowledge of the diamond industry made an asset to the company where he oversaw training, recruitment, planning and marketing. He provided advice to the company on the socio-political condition in Sierra Leone, Guinea and Liberia.
Samuel Sam-Sumana holds a Bachelor of Science (BSC) degree in Management Information System from the Metropolitan State University, Minnesota, USA. Samuel also holds two Diplomas (Diamond Rough Grading, Sorting and Polishing) from the America Institution of Diamond Cutting and Polishing, Deerfield Beach, Florida, USA, and a Diploma (Computer Network Support Specialist) from Knollwood Computer and Business School, St Louis Park, Minnesota, USA.
While in the USA, Mr. Samuel Sam-Sumana worked for Prudential Financial Group as the System Officer of the network support. He provided the strategic management and operational oversight for the Group, providing training and counseling to subordinate staff. At Allina Health Services, Mr. Samuel Sam- Sumana ran the Network Support System. He provided the same service to Seagate Technologies in the United States of America.
Mr. Samuel Sam-Sumana is a member of the "Five-Man Committee" of the All People’s Congress Party; a party with which Samuel has had a life-long association imbibing the populist character of the Party; a key ingredient in Mr. Samuel Sam-Sumana’s personal make-up. He has contributed reasonably to the APC in the Kono District and beyond with the aim of strengthening the party in the District. Mr. Samuel Sam- Sumana is a Substantial Contributor to the Kono District Scholarship Board, which underscores his commitment to the betterment of the district in particular and the Republic of Sierra Leone in general.
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Subject: Dan Rather sues CBS for $70 million
From: Bambay Lans Kamara
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Date Posted: 19:22:40 09/19/07 ()
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NEW YORK (AP) -- Dan Rather filed a $70 million lawsuit Wednesday against CBS, alleging the network made him a "scapegoat" for a discredited story about President Bush's National Guard service.
The 75-year-old Rather, whose final months were clouded by controversy over the report, says the complaint stems from "CBS' intentional mishandling" of the aftermath of the story.
The lawsuit, filed in State Supreme Court in Manhattan, also names CBS President and CEO Leslie Moonves, Viacom Inc., Viacom Chairman Sumner Redstone and former CBS News President Andrew Heyward. (At the time Viacom Inc. owned CBS. But Viacom and CBS Corp. split into two different companies in January 2006.)
Rather, the former anchorman of the "CBS Evening News," is seeking $20 million in compensatory damages and $50 million in punitive damages.
CBS spokesman Dana McClintock said: "These complaints are old news, and this lawsuit is without merit."
Rather narrated the September 2004 report that claimed President Bush skirted some of his duties during his National Guard service and that a commander felt pressured to sugarcoat Bush's record. Rather maintains the story was true.
But an independent review for the network determined the story was neither fair nor accurate. CBS fired three news executives and a producer for airing it.
Richard Thornburgh -- the former U.S. attorney general who made up the two-man investigative panel with Louis D. Boccardi, the retired chief executive of The Associated Press -- said he was unaware of Rather's lawsuit.
Reached at his home in Washington, he said only: "Our report speaks for itself."
Boccardi was not immediately available for comment.
Issued in January 2005, the 224-page report portrayed Rather as "pushed to the limit" with other stories at the time of the "60 Minutes Wednesday" report. He relied on a trusted producer, and didn't check the story for accuracy or, apparently, even see it before he introduced it on the program, the panel said.
CBS rushed the story on the air and then blindly defended it when holes became apparent, said the panel, which was unable to say conclusively whether memos allegedly disparaging Bush's service were real or fake.
Rather, who couldn't immediately be reached for comment Wednesday, worked at CBS News starting in 1962, then replaced Walter Cronkite in 1981 as "CBS Evening News" anchorman until signing off March 9, 2005.
He always considered himself a reporter first, and the habit of news anchors to travel to the scenes of big stories is largely his legacy. His interview with Saddam Hussein in 2003 was the last given by the Iraqi leader before he was toppled.
With his intense on-air demeanor, Rather also had his detractors, and his broadcast was a distant third in the evening news ratings at the time he stepped down. CBS News' ratings rebounded under short-term successor Bob Schieffer, but they've plummeted under Katie Couric, who took over the broadcast in September 2006.
Subject: Re: Dan Rather sues CBS for $70 million
From: Cornelius Hamelberg
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Date Posted: 21:50:48 09/19/07 ()
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Meanwhile Bambay you would think that Baraka Hussein Obama knows little about Civil Rights Alabama
Subject: Re: Dan Rather sues CBS for $70 million
From: Bambay Lans Kamara
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Date Posted: 23:20:21 09/19/07 ()
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Thanks my friend Cornelius Hamelberg. The leaders of America have tried over the centuries to bring the nation together. This is seen in the American Civil War, the Desegregation and Laws that came with it, we see this in the Civil Right Movement and many other areas. But I guess people needed to see who among the system actually and should actually call the shots before the necessary changes occur finally.
This is why I have no respect for any human who sees America only along domineering racial lines. As we can see, America is at war. Both Black and White go to the warfront, sacrifice their lives to save all of us at home. For that reason alone, it is imperative that people see the tail-end of racism. Those who wish for racial segregation to continue are the true enemies of America, worst than any foreign enemy. Because the foreign enemy wishes to get rid of all if they could. Therefore, their strength will receive a boost when they see disunity in America. America must be thankful that the leaders are brainy to handle their issues far from racial lines. The judiciary system must work with them by looking at America as a nation that has a reputation and many enemies. If the American form of democracy is not nurtured the internal enemies of this nation (those who see things along racial line) will be living a sad legacy for the nation. May God forbid that.
A nation divided shall never stand. There are certain facts that must be said. Sodom and Gomorra, though powerful, fell because of wickedness. Rome was larger and very powerful but it fell because of division. No matter how powerful a nation is, he must not forget that there is no power in disunity.
This is why I laugh so hard when I see especially certain White Americans get angry that an African who has been subjected under every form of injustice from which he still bleeds yet, they try to compare their successes and intelligence with such a person and even get aggravated, with NASA and all the fabulous brains in America, they still angry that such a person knows everything than everyone and will try all they could to prove that such a person does not know everything than every one. I ask myself, where has this one been all these years, in America?
On a more serious note, it is best for Americans to learn about various cultures particularly Blacks and Whites. It is a shame for a nation this powerful, with a rich history to find out that many people do not even know how the governmental or judicial system works, let alone her history. It is apparent that most do not know that California and Virginia are under the same government, there are those who think that President Bush is answerable to Gov. Schwarzenegger or the latter is has authority over them and no one outside California does, let alone knowing that there are fifty states that confederated to form the United States of America. Democracy, the Rule of Law seem like bacteria one ones to see with the nacked eye to most people. This is true for many states including Virginia, where I spent sixteen years. That is a shame.
From my experience, if they know and have been doing what I have seen them do, then the judiciary system needs to be refined because definitely a majority of the people, both Black and White do not trust the judiciary system. This is what they say in their action. More education needs be done but I am not truly, truly proud of what I have seen so far.
See people angry about politics in Sierra Leone when they do not even know the politics of where they live?
Sobothe!
Subject: Re: Dan Rather sues CBS for $70 million
From: Kalos
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Date Posted: 22:24:57 09/19/07 ()
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little surprise when JJ described Obama as "white man". That was not ice.
Subject: Re: Dan Rather sues CBS for $70 million
From: Cornelius Hamelberg
To: All
Date Posted: 23:19:12 09/19/07 ()
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100% is closer to the 99% loss of support that Johnny Leigh the non-entity is calculating for the Honourable BOY PIKIN Charles Francis Margai who is most certainly SOMEBODY.
Jesse J could have said that Hussein Osama was a half-white guy just as Johnny J is only a half-Mende man...and as hot as ice...in his fool’s paradise.
( By the way I notice that yesterday’s discussions have not been archived and I am curious as to what else the one who calls himself "freda maitland " had to say, later this morning after I had gone to bed. The thread was gone when I got to the forum some ten hours later. I am not someone to run away from a discussion - although it’s difficult to discuss philosophical topics with an ignoramus who wants to talk about classics and has only looked up the Analects of Confucius or the odes of Pindarus in his concise Oxford dictionary.
I know the other cowardly aliases that he has used to attack me in Leonenet (where he has considerable sway) and here too. A guided missile will find its way up his you know where one of these days....)
“Ne sutor supra crepidam” (Let the cobbler stick to his last - Pliny the Elder) and more such wit from H T-R but “freda” will never understand or enjoy it.
You thought that Jesse James was ice on Obama?
Subject: E.T. Kamara Surfaces on International Website
From: Researcher
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Date Posted: 19:14:42 09/19/07 ()
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Check This Out.
Subject: Prez. Ernest Koroma Orders Audit of Government Ministries
From: Independent Man
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Date Posted: 18:38:15 09/19/07 ()
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Source: AWOKO WEB SITE (SEPT. 19, 2007)
The newly sworn in President Ernest Bai Koroma has as his second Presidential action (with the first being the swearing in of his deputy, Vice President Sumana) ordered the formation of a transition team.
This was disclosed by his spokesman, Alpha Kanu, at a press conference at the party headquarters Tuesday.
Alpha Kanu told journalists that the transition team which includes the auditing firm KPMG, Parnell Kerr Forster and other auditors, is to “assess and evaluate the status of all ministries and government agencies” before the new administration takes over.
The coming administration he said is appealing to every government employee regardless of his or her affiliation or ethnic origin to remain at his or her post at home and abroad without fear or pressure from anyone.
The Spokesman therefore called on all Ministers and government officials to fully cooperate with the team.
Mr. Kanu stated “nobody is going to just walk away from Ministries, Agencies and departments like that because that creates chaos” He added “You stay there, you work until you are replaced and then you hand over.”
“If there is anything stolen from the Government of Sierra Leone there is an Institution called the Anti Corruption Commission (ACC) which is going to be strengthened and made to be independent so that they could investigate all allegations” he stated.
He maintained that they (APC) “are the government who wants to govern with reason and objectivity and don’t want to use sentiments to govern this country because when you govern on sentiments you would go wrong and create problems.”
Kanu disclosed “we don’t wish to hold the government in static while we wait for his Excellency Ernest Bai Koroma to make his choice of Ministers,” adding that, “President Koroma has decided to put a transition team in place to give him the time and wisdom to choose the right people in the right place who match the ability of the positions.”
The spokesman pointed out that “we must regard the transition period as merely a handing over of baton to the next runner in the democratic marathon” adding that, “the next administration will now handle the baton bearing in mind the efforts of the previous administrations.”
Subject: Let us try things we use to do maybe, that is why.
From: Bambay Lans Kamara
To: All
Date Posted: 18:22:18 09/19/07 ()
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I go burst with laugh!
How long will you be angry? Becareful high blood preasure or heart attack kills.
Is your efort working or are you exposing yourself? Go figure!
Ladies and gentlemen, I was attend to a court today about the mugging committed against me but I received a letter from the Sacramento Police Department indicating that my presence there is optional and that as long as the case has been proven the court will proceed with judgement.
I had to attend school, which is most important to me. So the guys who offended the State of California should be left to the state. My school is very important to me.
Are you still trying. Which Pastor is doing this constant baptimisms?
Ar go burst! What a disgrace.
Can't read over because some don't even understand some simple things are write, due to which they go balistic.
How can you influence people who know that is any one's guess.
Waskaleh
Subject: Vindictive John Leigh
From: BKM - Bureh Kasseh Makonteh
To: All
Date Posted: 17:56:52 09/19/07 ()
Email Address: nnn@nnn.com
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Message:
Don't let Mr Leigh fool you with his nice inglis words. The SLPP proved very vindictive in power. Mr Leigh took great pleasure in pursuing personal vendettas against ex APC government leaders who moved to the USA. He waged a personal war to have them kicked out of the USA, tried his utmost to deny them job opportunities and was even petty enough to request that their family members be refused US visas. He saved his venom for people like Dr Abdulai Conteh, who he perceived as talented and capable enough to become a threat to the SLPP. Of course, he failed miserably, as men like Dr Conteh are so immensely talented that they can flourish even in adversity. Now Mr Leigh, the shoe is on the other foot. BUT, we pray that the APC proves to be better than you; our country does not need more retribution and pain.
Subject: Re: Vindictive John Leigh
From: John E. Leigh
To: All
Date Posted: 13:45:50 09/20/07 ()
Email Address: johnernestleigh@yahoo.com
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Dear Mr. BKM - Bureh Kasseh Makonteh:
Your allegation that "Mr. Leigh took great pleasure in pursuing personal vendettas against ex APC government leaders who moved to the USA. He waged a personal war to have them kicked out of the USA, tried his utmost to deny them job opportunities and was even petty enough to request that their family members be refused US visas" are entirely incorrect.
I admit that I took great pleasure in opposing the AFRC/RUF regime (they were simply too violent and crass)and that I strove hard (very hard indeed and successfully so) to remove the junta and re-instate the APC-drafted and enacted SL 1991 Constitution. However, I had no vendettas against anyone or took things personally.
My job was not a personal vindictive fight against APC, UNPP or renegade SLPP leaders or members. It was an epic fight against violent coupligans and rebels regardless of party.
Some coup leaders were, of course, members of our various political parties but my successful opposition to such people was solely on account of their coup roles and for no other reason. Further, I never went against anyone other that pro-coup operators known to me personally after thorough investigations. And even at that, I overlooked a few of them I knew where hiding in the US and terrified of my work.
Thus talk about my going after APC family members for purely vindictive reasons is not true.
I generously assisted law-abiding all-comers in the embassy regardless of political affiliation, tribe, region of origin, religion, gender, personal friends or educational achievements.
I obtained TPS for all kinds of Sierra Leoneans as long as they were qualified and applied for help. I personally went to a number of immigration jails and successfully freed Sierra Leoneans regardless of their political or ethnic backgrounds.
I debated Dr. Karefa-Smart and Dr. Abass Bundu with respect but also with fierce determination to return the country to constitutionality.
I had nothing personal to do with Dr. Abdulia Conteh at all. And I don't recall ever seeing him even once in DC during the entire six years I was there. But I knew that Dr. Conteh was defence counsel or adviser to an AFRC coup diplomat whose name was on the US list of prohibited immigrants from Sierra Leone.
It was my job to help the US enforce its orders against names on that list and I was highly effective in providing the necessary support to the State Department. And I will do so again and again and again today; I repeat: I will do so again and again and again today if the same circumstances arose today.
I admit that Dr. Conteh is a very smart individual but the State Depart and I succeeded in defeating him in the AFRC diplomat's matter. That diplomat was arrested at Kennedy Airport at my specific request, detained in an area facility, prevented from entering the US and eventually deported or voluntarily departed to either the Gambia or Sierra Leone.
In all this I had nothing personal against Dr. Conteh and his client. I was merely doing the correct thing in furtherance of my determination to evict the coupligans and restore our country to constitutionality. Incidentally, Dr. Conteh was a classmate of my younger brother, Dr. Evelyn Leigh, at the Albert Academy and Evelyn thinks very well of Dr. Conteh. He was doing his job and I was doing mind. APC or SLPP or UNPP was never in my head throughout this encounter - just fighting coupliganism.
In conclusion, I join you in praying that the New APC regimes does far better than the defeated regime of Tejan Kabbah. Thank you. - JL
Subject: Re: Vindictive John Leigh...The Sifting San-san Boy
From: Toegondoe Sagbah
To: All
Date Posted: 21:59:12 09/19/07 ()
Email Address: mendemoi@yahoo.com
Entered From: pool-71-168-152-139.cmdnnj.east.verizon.net at 71.168.152.139
Message:
Fellows,
This guy is the true san-san boy he used to call PMDC supporters. San-san boys get themselves sifting through sand for left-over diamonds. Leigh keeps sifting throug the SLPP looking for an attachment.
He is a nonentity, you guys are making more hay out of him than a horse would.
Subject: Re: Vindictive John Leigh...The Sifting San-san Boy
From: John E. Leigh
To: All
Date Posted: 13:50:57 09/20/07 ()
Email Address: johnernestleigh@yahoo.com
Entered From: cache-dtc-ag14.proxy.aol.com at 205.188.117.142
Message:
Dear Mr. Sagbah:
You are, of course, entitled to your opinion but some people do not mind engaging me when discussin our country's affairs. They know who is a nonenity and who isn't. You don't have to judge for them. Please let them decide for themselves.
Incidentally, san-san boys refused to vote for your man. They voted for SLPP and APC instead.
Subject: Re: Vindictive John Leigh (2)
From: Cornelius Hamelberg
To: All
Date Posted: 19:04:01 09/19/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: c-088472d5.01-32-73746f42.cust.bredbandsbolaget.se at 213.114.132.8
Message:
"He saved his venom for people like Dr Abdulai Conteh"?
If Leigh considers himself a personal enemy of Abdulai Conteh then Leigh is certain-ly my personal enemy and is not in line for forgiveness under any circumstances whatsoever - short of his own repentance and apologies. Perhaps he thinks he is too big to apologise, but not too big to eventually bite the dust....
Subject: Re: Vindictive John Leigh
From: Cornelius Hamelberg
To: All
Date Posted: 18:54:20 09/19/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: c-088472d5.01-32-73746f42.cust.bredbandsbolaget.se at 213.114.132.8
Message:
"He saved his venom for people like Dr Abdulai Conteh"?
If Leigh considers himself a personal enemy of Abdulai Conteh then Leigh is certain-ly my personal enemy and is not line for forgiveness under any circumstances whatsoever - short of his own repentance and apologies. Perhaps he thinks he is too big to apologise, but not too big to eventually bite the dust....
Subject: SCRUTINIZE FOREIGNERS FROM THE MINING AREAS
From: MUSA KAMARA
To: All
Date Posted: 17:02:40 09/19/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: luna.hypair.net at 194.50.180.4
Message:
This will set the stage to combat illegal mining and smuggling of our precious stones.All foriegners should vacate the mining fields.The new government should make it a priority to monitor the economic activities of foreigners in those areas.It is pathetic to say, but this is a fact, Sierra-Leone is the only nation on earth where foreigners owe mining fields.Countries like Botswana,South Africa etc,where legislation strictly prohibit all foreigners from mining activities.All mining is done by companies or joint ventures with the government, which create massive employment for their citizens.Just have a glimpse into the mining areas,you will find an influx of Malians,Guineans etc and the notorious Lebanese engaging in mining and degrading the environment.The new government should act now.This is the time,Sierra-Leoneans should reap the benefits of their natural resources.
Subject: Re: SCRUTINIZE FOREIGNERS FROM THE MINING AREAS
From: Eddie Grant
To: All
Date Posted: 05:06:14 09/20/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 78.146.252.113
Message:
These are the words of a well meaning Sierra Leonean. I strongly supports you on this issue it's time we do something.
I used to work on these mines as part of my school holidays, so I know how difficult it is for those people in the mines now. I became so dissappointed when I discovered that we were strongly being exploited by foreigners the fact that, some of these so-called DEALERS comes to the mining areas to gain an unjust wealth. I called it unjust because, most of them do their dealings illigally without any form of contact with the authority simply because one of their relatives has already obtained a small licence.
One other disturbing fact is, when a local miner finds a gem, these DEALERS would buy it say for example, US$300 from them and sell it for US$15000 just look at the huge difference. We will never be able to reap the benefits of these precious stones if we continiue to allow these people to operate in the mining industry.
My suggestion is that, the governemnt to set up LOCAL BUYING CONSORTIUM to facilitate the buying of these gems from the actual Sierra Leonean workers on the ground and remove all foreign dealer from the mining industries.
Subject: Re: SCRUTINIZE FOREIGNERS FROM THE MINING AREAS
From: concern
To: All
Date Posted: 04:00:52 09/20/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: 14-64-ftth.onsneteindhoven.nl at 88.159.64.14
Message:
Musa, we are desperately waiting to see if Ernest Koroma will effect change in the mining areas. We can;t wait for long to see this happen!!. The ordinary people do not want foreigners to take residence in the mining areas. We know this is not a big ask from the APC not to encourage any foreigners to settle in diamondferous areas.
When Angola laid out strong measures in its mining fields barring Gambians and others from taking advantage of their hospitality, today Angola is developing rapidly. We need to stop this naked thievery and government's connivance to destroy the mining business.
Subject: Re: SCRUTINIZE FOREIGNERS FROM THE MINING AREAS
From: Toegondoe Sagbah
To: All
Date Posted: 22:01:29 09/19/07 ()
Email Address: mendemoi@yahoo.com
Entered From: pool-71-168-152-139.cmdnnj.east.verizon.net at 71.168.152.139
Message:
BRAVO! Did the SLPP ever care about that? Nooooooo
Subject: Re: SCRUTINIZE FOREIGNERS FROM THE MINING AREAS
From: nico
To: All
Date Posted: 07:42:08 09/20/07 ()
Email Address: nicoleconsult@hotmail.com
Entered From: host86-146-110-59.range86-146.btcentralplus.com at 86.146.110.59
Message:
It is imperative that the new president institute a comprehensive policy to protect our wealth. Diamond has always attracted all sorts of foreigners especially from neighbouring countries. This has had serious implication for our immigration control and national identity. One thing the government should consider is to legislate for all foreigners or visitors comming in to Sierra Leone to register with the local authority two weeks after they entered the country. Their registration must be certified by their sponsor or Justices of the peace.
The government should secure a database for all incomming visitors and police should be given power to arrest and deport any visiting foreigners who breach the country's immigration Laws- such as without working permit etc.
Any change of address should also be registered with the transfered local authority. The police should visit the new arrivals to verify they live their. The court should be empowered to recommend deportation of foreign criminals or where his/her continued presence is deemed unconducive to public good.
The Govt should further consider isuing a residency card renewable when their is any change of circumstances.
The govt should consider tightening the country's porous border, enchanced by efficient training of staff and intellence to disrupt and track those involved in clandetine activities to undermine our security and exploit our resources.
There should be a fair but firm control to ensure Sierra Leonean indigenes benefit from their resources whilst at the same time encourages business potential from foreign investors. This, for a start, will create a sense of balance in our country.
Subject: Re: SCRUTINIZE FOREIGNERS FROM THE MINING AREAS
From: MUSA KAMARA
To: All
Date Posted: 11:12:01 09/20/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: luna.hypair.net at 194.50.180.4
Message:
Nico,wise proposals and thanks for buttressing the notion.
Subject: Re: SCRUTINIZE FOREIGNERS FROM THE MINING AREAS
From: Concern
To: All
Date Posted: 07:58:13 09/20/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: 14-64-ftth.onsneteindhoven.nl at 88.159.64.14
Message:
Thank you Nico for a thougtful advice. Our people have suffered for far too long. The new government MUST see that whosoever is coming to reside in Sierra Leone should pay for a residency permit and it is proper to check every year for defaulters.
In the past, we have opened the door to anyone without realsing the implications. Now the voters have given their mandate to a true son of the soil and they in turn want him to treat national issues with utmost concern and respect.
We want all foreigners to be vetted and being forced to pay their residential permit. We won't tolearate and illegal aliens in our Country. In The Gambia many Sierra Leoneans including refugees were sent to Prison because they do not have a resident permit. Our drive isto secure our Country and bing new kind of system in its immigration
Subject: Re: SCRUTINIZE FOREIGNERS FROM THE MINING AREAS
From: kamara
To: All
Date Posted: 19:56:27 09/19/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: pool-71-172-31-93.nwrknj.fios.verizon.net at 71.172.31.93
Message:
Will Sierra Leonean millionaires replace the foreigners in the mining areas. The govt collects taxes from these businesses. who is going to replace the lost revenue. Some of these dealers export up to $ 60,000,000 a year in diamonds alone.
how many indigenous companies make as much as 25% this amount. few , if there is any . Think before you speak, forget about the emotions. We will become like Zimbabwe where the land was taken away from established white farmers and nation is now starving.
Subject: Re: SCRUTINIZE FOREIGNERS FROM THE MINING AREAS
From: Ishmael Yillah
To: All
Date Posted: 20:03:47 09/19/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: pool-71-191-0-118.washdc.east.verizon.net at 71.191.0.118
Message:
Mr. Kamara, you need to read and understand before you post reply. The writer was just trying to state that our minerals are stolen my foreigners and that is the fact.
Subject: Re: SCRUTINIZE FOREIGNERS FROM THE MINING AREAS
From: kamara
To: All
Date Posted: 20:23:08 09/19/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: pool-71-172-31-93.nwrknj.fios.verizon.net at 71.172.31.93
Message:
You, also need to read before you question my reading ability. I do not disagree with Musa's writing. The world is economicaly intertwined. You prevent the foreigners from going into mining areas,they will blacklist and boycott Sierra Leone diamonds. Sierra Leone is not the only place with diamonds. There are much more in russia,Brazil and Canada with less restriction.
They had these same laws in the 1950s and 1960s. Why do you they scrapped.
Subject: Re: SCRUTINIZE FOREIGNERS FROM THE MINING AREAS
From: Eddie Grant
To: All
Date Posted: 05:24:28 09/20/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 78.146.252.113
Message:
I think you totally misunderstood the whole mining thing. Who will boycott our minerals? when Sierra Leones diamonds are rated at the highest quality in the world.
Secondly, you are expressing your opinion as fact but the reality is it's not. If you have spent a