Subject: “I Inherited a........." says Kabbah, what say ye !!!!!!!!
From: Jackal
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Date Posted: 16:05:35 09/23/07 ()
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“I Inherited a Bankrupt, War-Torn, and Failing State”- Says Ex-President Kabbah.
Methinks not.
On the contrary, Kabbah dug deeper into recession, by inflating a GDP growth of 6.5% against donations and new debt,(Number witheld for confirmation) a number so huge, it brings us back to square one with or without debt forgiveness.
Claiming inheritance of a failed state is good reason to pause and review the economic state of the failed state and compare it to the Kabbah era.
Of the six key indicators economist use to measure the economy, the level of the stock market and interest rates will be deliberately excluded from this comparative analysis, because the Sierra Leone treasury has limited borrowing capacity to consumers and cannot currently run a stock market.
Kabbah’s GDP is projected to have grown 6.5 % over at least 12 months,(2006) that is an average of 0.54% a month. In 1995/96 the GDP averaged over 7% a month.
Consumer Price index can be better gauged by the cost of a bag of rice. Today a bag of rice sells for Le 32000. In 1991 it was Le 12000. It dropped to a stable Le 8000 right through 1996. That is a 75% increase over 10 years.
Between 1991-92, the local currency exchange rate increased 20% to the dollar from Le 431.9 to Le 539. In the next 4 between 1992 to 1996 the exchange rate increased an average of 30% at Le 716.
The Kabbah era; 1997 to 2002 the average rate of exchange was Le 1869, a 62% increase since 1996. From 2002 to 2007 excluding the fourth quarter, the rates increased to an average Le 2897, showing a 35% increase since 2002.
Unemployment numbers could not be computed. However, the last time wages were increased to compensate for the rising cost of living was in 1993. Low wages against increasing cost of consumer goods have put more pressure on the populace in the last 5 years.
Readers are urged to review the economic trend over the last 16 years and render judgment on Kabbah’s excuses.
Subject: Re: “I Inherited a........." says Kabbah, what say ye !!!!!!!!
From: mahawa
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Date Posted: 21:53:26 09/23/07 ()
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Jackal for minister of finance.Boy if you can keep a track of the economy that way, it means you are a level headed,sober minded and interlectually sounded guy.That is so coooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooool
Are you married sir.
Jackal is definately talking about the era in which the NPRC boys were in power.Good job,so basically NPRC set such a high standard even though they were pennyless with no financial support from the international community.The people of Sierra Leone have very good reasons to kick slpp out.
Jackal can you give us more figures
Subject: Re: “I Inherited a........." says Kabbah, what say ye !!!!!!!!
From: Mammy Blessing
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Date Posted: 19:22:07 09/23/07 ()
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Thanks Jackal for a very sobering analysis.
By the way, I think a bag of rice today is a tad more than Le 32,000. It is more like Le 70,000.
Subject: Re: “I Inherited a........." says Kabbah, what say ye !!!!!!!!
From: keke blahima
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Date Posted: 16:11:13 09/23/07 ()
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Wow. Nice one Jackal. What a slice of the Kabbah pie.
Subject: East African Standard - Lesson From S.Leone's Elections
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Date Posted: 15:59:06 09/23/07 ()
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Sierra Leone: Lesson From Country's Elections
East African Standard (Nairobi)
COLUMN
23 September 2007
Posted to the web 23 September 2007
Ndung'u Wainaina
Nairobi
With many of us pre-occupied with the General Election, news about a historic election in Sierra Leone may have escaped our attention.
The country still recovering from a decade-long civil war has entered history books. It is one more country where an opposition candidate has brushed aside the ruling party's flag-bearer to win the presidency. Also the election was - by international standards - free and fair.
Now, 54-year-old Ernest Bai Koroma, leader of the opposition, All Peoples Congress (APC), is the new president of Sierra-Leone after a run-off election.
Koroma was an insurance broker and said he wanted to run the country like a business concern.
Sierra Leone's feat has some precedent in Ghana, where incumbent president John Kuffour defeated the then President Jerry Rawling's vice president to assume power.
This is a signal to other leaders that some critical issues count in elections, other than the so-called incumbency factor.
The election of Koroma renews Sierra Leone's hopes in the principles of democratic governance in the sub-region and shows that free, fair, and transparent elections can be held.
The West African nation of five million people is recovering from a decade-long civil war that ended in 2002. Some 50,000 were killed and thousands of others were maimed by the rebels whose trademark was to
hack off the limbs of their victims.
The country made a grand march towards consolidating the hard won national peace and reconciliation gains. Millions of Sierra Leone voters made their decision and everyone has to respect and uphold it.
Holding successfully second elections after 10 years of a brutal conflict sounded clarity of voice that her citizens want peace and national reconciliation. They want to give democracy a chance. Political leaders have no choice but safeguard jealously this valuable
desire and verdict.
Even outgoing president, Mr Ahmad Tejan Kabbah, and his candidate of choice, Mr Solomon Berewa, and his party accepted the verdict and promised to work with the new regime for the good of the country. The few who attempted to disrupt peace by running to courts to block the announcement of the final results should have thought of giving negotiations the first chance.
I hope their concerns will be addressed properly so that they can also swim in the same boat with the rest of the country.
After the victory, the president-elect has a tough task of holding the nation together. He need not be vindictive but a forward-looking leader with clarity of vision for his country.
The 10-year vicious conflict waged by a heartless militia that committed macabre atrocities must never be allowed to happen again.
President Koroma has to marshal all the energy and deal with corruption, mismanagement and despotic tendencies that have been major source of conflict. Poverty and inequality remain a bane to future of
Sierra Leone.
Probably, few Kenyans might feel the connection to Sierra Leone, but our peacekeeping forces have helped there a lot. The reason for this is because Kenyans believe in peace, democracy and proper management of a
country's resources.
Therefore, I feel sorry and bitter when I see our leaders brutally ripping off public coffers with impunity while poverty and inequality reach alarming and disproportionate levels.
Negative ethnicity and societal conflicts are becoming order of the day. I hope the new leadership in Sierra Leone will not sink this low.
As we celebrate this great peaceful transition in Sierra Leon, let us remember the human suffering that is going on in Burma, Zimbabwe, Somalia, Darfur, Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, Iraq,
Afghanistan, Palestine and Nepal.
Our voice and action is important in securing peace and liberty of individuals living under inhumane conditions.
Sierra Leone should serve as an inspiration to the development of genuine but loyal opposition political parties in Africa.
Bravo Sierra Leone!
http://allafrica.com/stories/200709230019.html
Subject: New Sierra Leone leader to boost regional ties
From: Cornelius Hamelberg
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Date Posted: 14:32:17 09/23/07 ()
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New Sierra Leone leader to boost regional ties
Saliou Samb | Conakry, Guinea
21 September 2007 03:42
Sierra Leone's President Ernest Bai Koroma on Friday embarked on his first foreign trip since taking office this week, heading to neighbouring Guinea and Liberia to promote ties damaged by more than a decade of war.
The former insurance executive was sworn in on Monday within hours of being declared winner of a run-off election, the first in the former British colony since United Nations peacekeepers left after the end of the 1991-2002 civil war.
Poorly controlled borders meant rebels and mercenaries, many of them children, crossed between Sierra Leone, Liberia, Guinea and Côte d'Ivoire during intertwined conflicts in the 1990s, among the most brutal in modern African history.
Koroma's trip aims to bolster cooperation in the region so that such unrest cannot happen again, officials said.
"First we will talk about security. If you have good relations with your neighbours you're halfway there," Koroma's spokesperson Alpha Kanu said as the presidential convoy made its way to Freetown airport amid cheers of support. "It means if anybody wants to invade this country, it will be very difficult."
Sierra Leone's conflict was triggered when rebels attacked from Liberia, already engulfed by its own civil war. Sierra Leone's then-president, Ahmad Tejan Kabbah, accused his Liberian counterpart, Charles Taylor, of backing the insurgents.
Taylor, now on trial at The Hague for war crimes, meanwhile accused Guinea of backing the rebels active on his territory.
Mistrust between the three countries helped keep the intertwined conflicts raging for a decade, costing a quarter of million lives and leaving a region with natural riches including diamonds, timber and iron ore mired in abject poverty.
Economic ties
While the guns have long since fallen silent, Sierra Leone and Liberia remain among the least developed nations in the world. Corruption is rife, infrastructure is in ruins and jobless youths mill on street corners.
Koroma's win comes almost two years after Harvard-trained economist Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf won office in Liberia, becoming Africa's first elected female head of state. Many hope the new leaders will open a fresh chapter in the region's fortunes.
Reviving the Mano River Union, a regional bloc founded in 1973 to encourage economic cooperation, is seen as key to future stability. The union, which takes its name from a river that starts in Guinea and forms the boundary between Liberia and Sierra Leone, fell apart during the wars.
"The three countries have these very porous borders and different ethnic groups straddling the borders, so they are very difficult to police," said Michael Kargbo, a political analyst in Freetown.
"There's a lot of smuggling. If we open up the countries and harmonise our tariffs and try to cooperate, then it will benefit all three," he said.
Koroma met Guinea's President Lansana Conte on the first leg of his one-day tour and was due to travel on to Liberia later.
He was due to discuss with Conte a territorial dispute between Guinea and Sierra Leone over a patch of land alongside the Makona River, occupied by Guinean troops during Sierra Leone's war and claimed by both countries
Subject: Leone Stars to whip benin
From: Bamaby Lans Kamara
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Date Posted: 14:29:14 09/23/07 ()
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If the words of the Sierra Leone national football team coach Jebboh Sherington are anything to go by, The Cranes will end a 30-year wait to play in the African Nations Cup finals.
The Leone Stars coach is determined to get a result against Benin when the West African side visits Freetown for a qualifier on October 12. The Leone Stars are currently bottom of Group 9 of the qualifiers with one point from five games.
They have however run their opponents close in home ties, falling 0-1 to Togo, before holding Mali to a goalless draw. A win or draw for Sierra Leone will ensure Uganda qualifies for the finals in Ghana early next year. Benin need a victory of any kind to qualify for the finals.
A draw in the tie between Togo and Mali in Lome would also see Uganda qualify.
Coach Sherington told a local newspaper Awoko News that they were going to take the Benin qualifier seriously and has already submitted a list of professional players he wants for the test.
“We are hopeful that we will be able to eliminate our Guinea Bissau opponents in the preliminary rounds and to achieve that mark we need to beat Benin first before we take on Guinea Bissau,” Jebboh said.
Another coach on the national team, Brima Dumbuya, told the local press that they were ready to prove a point against Benin.
“As coaches we are not going to relent until the team goes through to the group stages of the World Cup but the most most important thing now is to beat our next challengers Benin,” Dumbuya said.
Fufa vice president in charge of technical affairs Asuman Lubowa said that it was very good that the Leone Stars were taking the match seriously.
“We are keeping our ears on the ground. It's a very important match for both Uganda and even Togo or Mali as a result in this particular match might determine whether Mali or Togo makes it to Ghana in case they draw in Lome,” he said.
The newly elected President of the Republic of Sierra Leone, Mr Ernest Bai Koroma is expected to preside over as Chief guest as the day will coincide with his swearing in ceremony. Uganda last played in the African Nations Cup finals in 1978 and Phillip Omondi was top scorer.
http://www.monitor.co.ug/sports/spt09241.php
Subject: UK salutes Sierra Leone's new President
From: Bamaby Lans Kamara
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Date Posted: 14:25:34 09/23/07 ()
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Freetown, Sierra Leone - The UK Minister for Africa, Mark Malloch Brown, has congratulated Sierra Leone's new President Ernest Bai Koroma on his election and assumption of office.
"I congratulate His Excellency Ernest Bai Koroma on his victory in the Sierra Le one presidential elections and welcome the conclusion of the electoral process,." Malloch Brown said in a statement released here at t he weekend.
He observed the elections were close and keenly contested and commended Sierra L eoneans for having demonstrated that their country, which was in the middle of a bloody civil war just a decade ago, had secured its democracy.
Malloch Brown also hailed the "continued good work" of the National Electoral Co mmission, especially its National Returning Officer and Chairperson, Christiana Thorpe.
"The success of Sierra Leone in conducting a free and fair election is a success for democracy and an excellent example for Africa and the world," he said.
The British official said the challenges now facing Sierra Leone were huge.
"Sierra Leone's new government must work hard to meet its Millennium Development Goals, attract investment and eliminate corruption.
"I can assure the people of Sierra Leone that the UK will continue its longstand ing partnership with all political parties, both government and opposition, to achieve these targets and help the people of Sierra Leone improve their lives," he concluded.
Freetown - 23/09/2007
Panapress
http://www.afriquenligne.fr/news/daily-news/uk-salutes-sierra-leone's-new-president-200709239203/
Subject: How about that people!
From: Bamaby Lans Kamara
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Date Posted: 14:17:44 09/23/07 ()
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Lets Jam for we have been reedeemed.
Subject: Dear Admin
From: Cornelius Hamelberg
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Date Posted: 21:33:37 09/23/07 ()
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Please pardon my asking, but when are the posts for September 16th onwards going to be archived?
There is an urgent need to access some items. The archives contain so much of value in our political history and social dynamics...it’s priceless and any loss is a great loss and if a missing piece is irreplaceable then the jigsaw puzzle cannot be completed.
In the future, these archives will be priceless to researchers, in political and social history…… so please lets preserve our past, and as for those who like making great fools of themselves, because of a false self-estimation, time will tell those who can distinguish between “literature and Linguistics” or between good and bad and those who don’t understand simple and very kind things that are said to them.
Subject: FAITH BASED INITIATIVES WITHIN THE OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT!
From: Olu Beckley
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Date Posted: 13:18:00 09/23/07 ()
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President Bush’s Faith-Based Initiative originated from the simple idea that America's best chance to overcome the nations’s deepest problems is to tackle them from within, by welcoming those community partners who truly know how to change lives and entire communities.
Christian and moslem organizations alike, have a lot of capacity they can bring to addressing the social and economic ills facing Sierra Leone today. Can Sierra Leone's President take the cue from Prseident Bush's compassionate move?
"The indispensable and transforming work of faith-based and other charitable service groups must be encouraged. Government cannot be replaced by charities, but it can and should welcome them as partners. We must heed the growing consensus across America that successful government social programs work in fruitful partnership with community-serving and faith-based organizations."
~ President George W. Bush
Subject: Re: FAITH BASED INITIATIVES WITHIN THE OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT!
From: Erica Adams
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Date Posted: 20:54:34 09/23/07 ()
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Faith and community based organizations in the US are the social safty net for the society. This would be a very good idea for Sierra Leone because organizations on the ground tend to do a much better job than the government. Governments are better at saying what needs to be done, but not very good at the hands on problem solving on the local level. Here in the US, there are some very high estimates on how many services would not be able to exist or would not be able to operate at their current levels without faith based orgs and nonprofits. Even in our local community, the school system has invited the churches to "adopt" the schools and help with the students because they realize they can't do it alone. They are too under funded, the students have too many issues, and they don't have the man power to deal with all the needs.
Subject: Re: FAITH BASED INITIATIVES WITHIN THE OFFICE OF THE PRESIDE
From: An American too
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Date Posted: 17:05:48 09/23/07 ()
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Don't be fooled by the sugar-coated rhetoric of 'compassionate conservatism' Bush uses to justify faith-based initiatives. Though such community partnerships shaped and administered at the local level might be very advantageous in a smaller poorer country like Salone recovering from a long civil war and legacies of colonialsim, in the US, faith-based initiatives are a sinister plot backed by the religious right to undermine the constitutional separation of church and state and further the republican/capitalist agenda of privatization; moralistic language is a sham justification for cutting needed welfare and education programs that serve the poor and working classes. So I would adopt different terminology to disassociate good programs in Salone from such immoral policies promulgated by Bush & Co.
Subject: Re: FAITH BASED INITIATIVES WITHIN THE OFFICE OF THE PRESIDE
From: Olu Beckley
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Date Posted: 19:06:20 09/23/07 ()
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You said, "Though such community partnerships shaped and administered at the local level might be very advantageous in a smaller poorer country like Salone recovering from a long civil war and legacies of colonialsim". That makes my point. If you admit faith based initiatives can be advantageous to Sierra Leonean, that is good enough for me.
Sierra Leoneans are looking for sytems and strategies that have the potential to deliver services, and that is one single point on which we are all in agreement. The political rhetoric is something we'd like to avoid for now.
Subject: Re: FAITH BASED INITIATIVES WITHIN THE OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT!
From: American
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Date Posted: 13:22:24 09/23/07 ()
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No president of Salone who wants to be taken seriously by the rest of the civilized world would emulate President George W. Bush.
Subject: Al Jazeera : Sierra leone's psychiatric hospital
From: Cornelius Hamelberg
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Date Posted: 12:17:21 09/23/07 ()
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I've just watched a most horrifying programme on Al- Jazzera TV. The programme ended at 17000 GMT, about a quarter of an hour ago. Most depressing. It's the story of Sierra Leone’s psychiatric hospital at Kissy and the camera mostly shows patients chained to their beds, and interviews with Dr. Nahim who says ”40% of the population is in need of psychiatric treatment" and that the stench of blood will remain with many, for the rest of their lives.
The reporter repeatedly laments the bad treatment and the barbaric conditions of the hospital observing that chaining of patients was outlawed as early as the eighteenth century… - Mr. Kabbah calls it a modern psychiatric hospital but should any of his best friends or mebers of his family be in need of psychiatric treatment he would surely not send any of his best friends there.
AS the commentator concludes,”Since the war ended in 2002 over $ 1billuion - ONE BILLION dollars has been donated to Sierra Leone and most of it has not gone to where it is needed most - to the people."
Subject: Re: Al Jazeera : Sierra leone's psychiatric hospital
From: Mammy Blessing
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Date Posted: 14:29:09 09/23/07 ()
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Cornelius, thanks for bringing another festering national disgrace to this forum's attention. The wretchedness of "Kissy Crase Yard" is so harrowing that I had recurring nightmares after I was given a tour last year. I hope the new gov finds partners to help that Godforsaken place.
So many people who suffer from curable neuroses, as a result of the pressures of everyday life, develop full blown psychosis after been dumped in the Kissy dungeons.
Subject: How Ms Beard became Ms Iscandri
From: Sabanoh
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Date Posted: 11:08:39 09/23/07 ()
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Florence while at Annie Walsh was known as Ms Beard and thought that Pa Beard was her daddy until one day when she was told the real truth---Pa Iscandri is her real dad. "Marrad woman nor dey born bastard pikin". So she changed her name to Iscandri. Wonder if Alieu accepted her to the Iscandri family.
Subject: For Moderator: Why is this post still on the board?
From: Reporter
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Date Posted: 17:59:08 09/23/07 ()
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It clearly offends against all your rules. Please remove ...
Subject: Re: How Ms Beard became Ms Iscandri
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Date Posted: 17:43:50 09/23/07 ()
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How horrible to try to smear someone by disparaging their family members via sexual slander! The word 'bastard,' furthermore, has been socially unacceptable for at least 60 years. What difference does it make how a person was conceived? It is what they do with their own lives that matters.
Subject: Re: How Ms Beard became Ms Iscandri
From: Hassan Kamara
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Date Posted: 14:29:50 09/23/07 ()
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I don't think people should use the forum to exhibit their upbringing. The forum should be use in a constructive manner for the betterment of contributors and other observers. I therefore request that nobody respond to this posting.
Subject: Re: How Ms Beard became Ms Iscandri
From: POLITICO
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Date Posted: 13:52:11 09/23/07 ()
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What about a non-response to SABANOH'S unfiltered garbage?
Subject: Re: How Ms Beard became Ms Iscandri
From: BRA ENVIABLE
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Date Posted: 13:34:13 09/23/07 ()
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What's up with the Alieu Iscandari obsession on this forum? Does the name Alieu Iscandari send emotional paralysis in some of you guys? Why not attack Alieu, or any other forumite, based on their stance on Sierra Leone and the opinions expressed thereafter? When I clash with Alieu during discussions, it is normally ideological, as my opposition to the APC is as strong as Alieu's political support for that {formerly?} never-do-well party of Siaka Stevens.
Classy thinkers participate in ideological clashes. Rat brains take solace in gutter warfare, like the one making people obsessed with Alieu Iscandari. I will rather engage Alieu in ferocious political debates {with me charging at the APC with unrestrained vituperations} than in petty talks about whatever the hell Alieu thinks about a probable sibling. That is Alieu's business, and it takes monumental idleness to make that worthy of discussion. Ay bo. How unu geh low self-esteem so?
Subject: Re: How Ms Beard became Ms Iscandri
From: Mammy Blessing
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Date Posted: 14:11:10 09/23/07 ()
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I doff my heart to you Bra Enviable. Amen to that!
Subject: Re: How Ms Beard became Ms Iscandri
From: eegberi
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Date Posted: 13:22:49 09/23/07 ()
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Why are you using this forum to splash your personal animus against Iscandri, you oaf?
You and the other dirtbag Alpha Saidu Shaitani are beginning to sound like petty little maggots bent on pursuing this strategy of personal destruction.
Discuss something worthwhile that will benefit your country and desist from your calumnies and BAD HART. Moron!
Subject: Re: How Ms Beard became Ms Iscandri
From: THE CRAB
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Date Posted: 11:29:54 09/23/07 ()
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Aipha Saidu is also iiscandari
Subject: Re: How Ms Beard became Ms Iscandri
From: eegberi
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Date Posted: 14:38:20 09/23/07 ()
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Not writing in block letters anymore, eh?
Get a life, you crabby curmudgeon and stop peddling hostile internet gossip!
You too ole for dat.
Subject: Re: How Ms Beard became Ms Iscandri
From: Basco
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Date Posted: 15:17:23 09/23/07 ()
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I think he has crawled into osama' hole!
Subject: VIDEO OF H.E ERNEST KOROMA'S VISIT TO GUINEA
From: mohamed barigue
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Date Posted: 10:53:17 09/23/07 ()
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PLEASE GO TO : www.aminata.com scroll down to africatv and click or go tohttp://africatv.info/video_lire.php?id=9163 happy viewing
Subject: Where are all the Life Savers ?
From: Special Cut
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Date Posted: 08:38:30 09/23/07 ()
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Where are all the Sierra Leonean Health care workers in the US? The Pharmacists, CNAs, MDs, CRNPs, RNs, RTs. PAs, LPNs,PTs,Social workers, Radiology Techs,Medical Administrators,Med Lab Techs, you name them...? Whats the game plan for a nation without a healthcare system? A nation with the highest infant mortality rate. This is our problem and it needs a solution. Come on board and lets chat the way foward.
Subject: Re: Where are all the Life Savers ?
From: Alie Formeh Kamara
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Date Posted: 09:23:25 09/23/07 ()
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Serious medical research and data analysis is needed on an ongoing basis in areas of Freetown and certain areas up country to determine high risk medical areas.
Medical records need evaluation to determine areas of high risk. Where do most sickly people live? Are there particular type of sickness associated with certain areas? If so, are the causes environmental?
The public and policy makers need to know so that it will help them determine what to do.
Here are a few areas of concern:
Kink Jimmy
Bormeh
Congo Market
Red Pump
I would not be surprised to learn that areas around Bormeh may be hazardous for living. If substantiated by research, I would not be surprised if government uses eminent dormain to seize lands in and around those areas and to invest money in order to change the environmental problem so that the area can be used for civic purposes rather than as residential areas.
Subject: i didn't vote for this!
From: Bundu
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Date Posted: 07:13:00 09/23/07 ()
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i am tired of this kind gesture bizness towards slpp crookish ministers and party stalwarts. what is the matter with our president? i think his first priority is to try and recover the loot done by the slpp government and return it to the people for immediate infrastructural development to start. President Koroma dosen't need these people for they are very dishonest and should be mindful of their crookish behaviour. we have so many decent sierra leoneans who can help you move the nation forward. my advise to President Koroma is that the sooner he sets up a commission of enquiry to look into the activities of people like John benjamin, John Karimu, Dr Alpha Wurrie, Tejan Kabbah, Berewa, Prince Harding etc etc the better for his presidency. our president is a very nice man but the fact of the matter is that if he is going to see results he has to forget about being nice to a politically radical person.
Subject: Re: i didn't vote for this!
From: Jackal
To: All
Date Posted: 15:27:23 09/23/07 ()
Email Address: dollarbill@gmail.com
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Bundu your opinion is very strong about hasty changes, but one thing to remember is that the whole transition was done in such a haste that if Koroma is not careful a lot will be swept under the carpet.
If you were the Presdent, or his advisor, you would miss on a lot of classic information from the outgoing government. To hastily replace them without probing what they are handing over is more harmful to Koroma. A classic example is the outgoing President Kabbah. He is not in the country. His whereabouts is unknown. What if he is needed to answer some questions.
The same will applies to a hasty replacement of those ministers. To be honest it is the best administrative step because they will need to explain fuzzy records and numbers. If the replacement takes too long then you will have a point.
The greatest concern and litmus test is the composition of the Koroma first cabinet. It will be a reflection of the immediate and long term political and economic bearing. That was where Momoh failed, that was where Kabbah failed and that is what Koroma should exemplify his niche.....
Subject: Re: i didn't vote for this!
From: Jackal
To: All
Date Posted: 15:31:16 09/23/07 ()
Email Address: dollarbill@gmail.com
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Message:
Bundu your opinion is very strong about hasty changes, but one thing to remember is that the whole transition was done in such a haste that if Koroma is not careful a lot will be swept under the carpet.
If you were the Presdent, or his advisor, you would miss on a lot of classic information from the outgoing government. To hastily replace them without probing what they are handing over is more harmful to Koroma. A classic example is the outgoing President Kabbah. He is not in the country. His whereabouts is unknown. What if he is needed to answer some questions.
The same applies to a hasty replacement of those ministers. To be honest it is the best administrative step because they will need to explain fuzzy records and numbers. If the replacement takes too long then you will have a point.
The greatest concern and litmus test is the composition of the first Koroma cabinet. It will be a reflection of the immediate and long term political and economic bearing. That was where Momoh failed, that was where Kabbah failed and that is where Koroma should exemplify his niche.....
Subject: Re: i didn't vote for this!
From: nico
To: All
Date Posted: 10:46:49 09/23/07 ()
Email Address: nicoleconsult@hotmail.com
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Political appeasement is not acceptable to me , it is one of the strongest reason why I totally distrusts president Kabba administration. I hope President Koroma should realise and act very soon that political recycling and appeasement is frown upon by the voters. There is nothing to fear from rogues, what need to be done now is to set up an enquiry in to how the country's revenues were misspent. I am uncompromising in that view and I expect that a government elected on a change ticket to expediate an enquiry. Anything less will be business as usual. The people did not vote for a change just for them to have the same failed characters hanging around to decide on their future.
Subject: Re: i didn't vote for this!
From: Syl
To: All
Date Posted: 13:24:39 09/23/07 ()
Email Address: sylotte@mts.net
Entered From: wnpgmb01dc2-132-86.dynamic.mts.net at 204.112.132.86
Message:
Thank you for those comments; I feel the same. Mr. Koroma won the elections and should start thinking about serious business than appeasing the SLPP. The failure of the SLPP to deliver the good to the peole of Sierra Leone was the recipe for the demise of the SLPP and is a collective reponsibility. In other words, whoever served in that government sholud take the blame. This is why we have the APC for a try. It might be a good idea but has surely left some us confused and suspecious.
Again, whst is this idea of President Koroma talking about a government of National Unity? Do we have a crisis in Sierra Leone? Kabba should have been the man to think about a government of National Unity in all sense. I may be wrong but I need to be convinced about President Koroma's idea of a government of National unity.
Subject: Re: i didn't vote for this!
From: The guy next door
To: All
Date Posted: 11:42:40 09/23/07 ()
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H.E. Koroma and his team can enforce the existing laws in the books, with his overwhelming support in the legislative house he can quickly develop and adopt policies that will attempt to eradicate corruption going forward.
Only, if an investigation is in progress prior to him taking office, I doubt if he can go back and open an investigation on the dealings of administrators of the former Govt.
Then again, if that is possible I belive the cost of prosecution greatly out weighs the benefits to be derived. He will spend more time polarizing the nation when that time can be spent in taking care of pressing needs. In a case were misapropreation is agregious I support your claim.
Subject: Re: i didn't vote for this!
From: Finda
To: All
Date Posted: 12:52:41 09/23/07 ()
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"Only, if an investigation is in progress prior to him taking office, I doubt if he can go back and open an investigation on the dealings of administrators of the former Govt."
Nonsense.
Have you heard of commissions of enquiry? Were they started before or after the former government had been kicked out of power?
"Then again, if that is possible I belive the cost of prosecution greatly out weighs the benefits to be derived."
Show us the figures for the cost. Then show us the figures for the benefit. Until then, please stop torturing us with your nonsense.
Whether you like it or not, the SLPP crooks will face4 the commission of enquiry into every minstry. That is what I voted for -- accountability. No more Salone go be lek farm, for all kine tiffman lek SLPP for tiff.
Subject: Re: i didn't vote for this!
From: Kamara
To: All
Date Posted: 09:39:44 09/23/07 ()
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Mr Koroma knows the difference between political rhetoric and handling the pressing problems facing Sierra Leone. Should he lynch the SLPP ministers right away, will that make you happy? How about going after the loot of the previous crookish APC ministers also?,
Wake up and face the reality, scapegoating aint going to solve Sierra Leone's problems because Mr Koroma has faced the reality. If only you APC fanatics can also.
SLPP lost because they did not deliver the people ,
not because of the so called support of the APC fanatics in the diaspora and MR Koroma is astute enough to know that his priority is to deliver tangible good to the people eG electricity and water not scapegoating SLpp ministers.
Subject: Re: i didn't vote for this!
From: SLPP
To: All
Date Posted: 15:05:31 09/23/07 ()
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As usual, you fail to see the connection between the exacerbation of Sierra Leone's problems and the looting by the SLPP kleptomaniacs of Sierra Leone's treasury to the tune of over a billion dollars.
So, therefore, nobody expects you to see the conmnection between stopping that disgraceful treason by Sthe LPP cabal -- by teaching them a lesson that crime does not pay -- and solving Sierra Leone's problems that they exercerbated.
Subject: Re: i didn't vote for this!
From: Mammy Blessing
To: All
Date Posted: 14:04:32 09/23/07 ()
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Kamara, this is one time I agree with you.
Rhetoric and a witch hunt will not solve the country's problems. The hurried transition leaves the Prez with no ministers of his own (they have to be confirmed by Tower Hill, remember?) and so he has no choice but ask the SLPP functionaries to continue with their jobs in the interim. By the way, I think it is a wonderful thing to see the two parties working together. The politics of vindictivenes is why Africa is so backward.
Being cozy with the opposition does not mean that those who looted will go scot free. EBK issued a very important executive order last week that should give comfort to opponents of corruption.
He ordered the auditing of all ministries and government agencies by reputable firms like KPMG and others. We will soon learn whether any minister looted his office blind. I hope that sets a precedent for all future govs. This hopefully will give pause to any looter-in-waiting.
Subject: Re: i didn't vote for this!
From: SLPP
To: All
Date Posted: 15:12:17 09/23/07 ()
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Blessing, this is the first time I will disagree with you. Holding the SLPP accountable for their actions on behalf of their employewr (the people of Salone) is not a witch hunt. It is accountability. There is a huge difference between the two.
The SLPP must be held accountable for their tenure which saw Salone wqith no light, no water, no food and no jobs despite more than $2 BILLION in foreign aid given to the people of Salone under the SLPP. Calling that a witch hunt does not make it so.
It is time you saw through the ploy of criminals trying to escape accounting to their employer for monies entrusted to them.
If the SLPP hadclean hands around Salone people's money, they should welcome the opportunity of a commission of inquiry into their activities to vindicate them. When have you see innocent people afraid of a fair tribunal? Only the guilty are afraid.
Subject: Re: i didn't vote for this!
From: ITK
To: All
Date Posted: 16:26:10 09/23/07 ()
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SLPP:
I am sorry, but your posting is riddled with misinformation, faulty reasoning and false dichotomies, not to mention that it is generally incoherent.
First, the new Government can undertake any action it pleases provided it does not violate the constitution. From my reading of the brief statement that was issued regarding the proposed "audit" of Ministries by KPMG, it is unclear as to what precisely is being contemplated. This is obviously uncharted territory, but if President Koroma believes that whatever he specifically has in mind will serve a useful and legitimate purpose, then that's fine by me. I have no qualms whatesoever.
However, I am simply disgusted by individuals such as yourself who have since the end of the elections recklessly bandied about terms (which you clearly do not understand) such as "accountability," "witch hunt," "commission of inquiry," and "tribunal. Perhaps,you should try to emulate the dignity and humility of the still serving SLPP Ministers and Government officials you so cavalierly and maliciously refer to as "criminals". I have heard nary a word from these folks that would tend to discredit or thwart any of the initiatives of the new Government.
And by the way, you may want to make yourself familiar with a basic primer on the present-day dynamics of foreign assistance. Your ludicrous comment on the foreign aid Sierra Leone has received over the years lays bare your superficial understanding of that complex subject matter.
Subject: Re: i didn't vote for this!
From: SLPP
To: All
Date Posted: 17:14:55 09/23/07 ()
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"However, I am simply disgusted by individuals such as yourself who have since the end of the elections recklessly bandied about terms (which you clearly do not understand) such as "accountability," "witch hunt," "commission of inquiry," and "tribunal."
ITK, yours is a true biographical descr1ption of your recklessness and incoherence, indeed! I couldn't have put it better if I had been asked to describe your multiple intellectual and moral deficiencies!
The lesson you have yet to learn is simple enough, even for you, to understand: If you want to be taken seriously, you must first take yourself seriously.
That means, before you make any statemnent of fact, first make sure you understand the meanings of the words you intend to use. Had you done that, you would have spared me the chore of remedying your plainly plumbless ignorance. Let's start your remedial education with the word you misused with reckless abandon -- criminal.
The fact -- and it is a fact -- is that the SLPP cabal you admire in wanton unpatriotism is corrupt. That fact is attested to by multiple credible cources -- the U.N. in May 2006, the G8 in 2005 when it denied the SLPP's government's request for debt forgiveness, for Salone, the European Union in 2005 when it endorsed the E.U. finding of massive corruption by the SLPP regime, and the World Bank in 2005, again for the SLPP cabal's corruption.
Of cou5rse, you would not be expected to know this, given your amply demonstrated inability to understand the words you recklessly use, but corruption is a crime. Therefore, even though no one would expect you to know it given your unreasoning demeanor, a corrupt regime is criminal.
Please have someone simplify for you the conclusion that should have restrained you from your compulsive display of plumbless ignorance: The faithful members of the corrupt SLPP government are therefore themselves corrupt. Being corrupt, therefore, is what makes them criminal.
Now that you know -- or would know had you been capable of understanding what you read -- I hope you would look carefully next time before you leap, head last, into unfamiliar territory. And that includes any and all discussion of foreign aid. Of course, I am assuming, tenuously, that you even know what those words mean.
Subject: Re: i didn't vote for this!
From: jallotime
To: All
Date Posted: 20:27:31 09/23/07 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
It must be mohamed jalloh time on the forum. This sob is so full of himself it beats the imagination. And he dares to call himself SLPP.
Subject: Re: i didn't vote for this!
From: Manners Maketh a Man
To: All
Date Posted: 21:10:45 09/23/07 ()
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It would surely beat your imagination because that's all you have -- and a very rude, wild one at that.
Subject: keep the city clean needs morethan garbage collection
From: Special Cut
To: All
Date Posted: 23:28:38 09/22/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: gw1.dc.gov at 164.82.146.3
Message:
Real estate owners in Freetown hould be given 3 years to refurbish and paint their buildings. Broken and mold-infested fences should be replaced.
Investors required to get rid of all scrap pieces of metals in the form of abandoned vehicles, We need a recycling/smelting plant outside of Freetown.
Garrison street,Bombay, Guard street and a host of other market centers need to be relocated to other areas outside of the city center.
Construct the Hill Station-Grafton Bypass and complete the Waterloo-Lumley road. Put a hold on the proposed Hillside bypass road for now and finish up the unfinished.
Contractors needed for those multiple side roads in Freetown which definitely need to be tarred inorder to minimize dust pollution and other health Hazards.
Consider replacing Bomeh with a Dumpsite in tthe outskirts of Freetown. Bomeh is currently synonymous with Kingtom cemetry, Huge trash cans should be well positioned within communities from which trash is picked up and transported to the main dumpsites by trucks.
Freetown needs to be decongested by shifting the population to the Peninsula and also creating job attraction in the provinces.
We do not need a cement factory in Kanikay or soccer academy in Kingtom. Open up the Interior of the country and encourage a population drift from freetown especially for the youth.Too many people in a city that lacks carrying capacity.
After all this Bumbuna will light it up, then we take the remainder from that point onwards.
Subject: Re: keep the city clean needs morethan garbage collection
From: Eddie Grant
To: All
Date Posted: 05:40:22 09/23/07 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
These are very encouraging signs. All your suggestions are highly welcome and appreciated.
Although your suggestions are a sign of good citizen, you still lack that nationwide involvement. This is worrying It's not only you that make suggestions that mainly concentrated in Freetown, but I've come across many others.
I know Freetown is our capital and our heritage it needs to be proud of, but we must also not live out the countryside after all, the provinces if properly utilized could serve as SPINAL CORD of development.
But overall, I still beleive your thoughts arepatriotic.
Stay blessed.
Eddie
Subject: Re: keep the city clean needs morethan garbage collection
From: Special Cut
To: All
Date Posted: 06:14:05 09/23/07 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
I understand your point Eddie. The suggestions I made will be difficult to accomplish if we do not decentralize the country and the key to this is to create ammenities in the provinces that would attract people to seek jobs and a clean environment outside of Freetown.Looking at the bigger picture if we fail to restructure the provincial sector then Freetown will continue to be as it is now.
Subject: Re: keep the city clean needs morethan garbage collection
From: Basco
To: All
Date Posted: 04:30:56 09/23/07 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
If the government could put politicing aside your proposals can easily be implemented in a short period of time. I had passed some of these points to the Mayor but he came back to me complaining that the then SLPP government had refused him an adequate budget and had created some youth scheme to clean the city under stupid Minister Bright of Youths and Sports. I later was made to understand that it was a gate way to 'chap' as the number of youths on the pay role were grossly exagerated!
In the city every sixth street should have two counsil cleaners who sweep and collect roadside garbage which is then collected in the evenings.
Subject: Re: keep the city clean needs morethan garbage collection
From: Democracy Now
To: All
Date Posted: 08:57:12 09/23/07 ()
Email Address: alubless@comcast.net
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Message:
Yes the government's part of keeping the city clean is one thing and the inhabitants part is another. If we rely on governments and it sweepers alone the city will never be clean. A 'nothing on the floor and qutters' policy would be the best. There must be enforceable laws against persons throuwing rubbish at places not designated for that purpose. In some coners of the city you will not find it hard to step on poops or to see an elderly person performing all sort of bathroom ceremonies in the street. It is the laws that keep western streets clean and not public cleaners alone. A culture of cleaningness has to be enforced into the minds of children and the people. Class rooms are littered with trash, campuses the same. APC please let the laws keep our streets clean.
Subject: THE FACE OF COCORIOKO
From: Albert Moinina
To: All
Date Posted: 23:25:07 09/22/07 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
Kabs,
The new look of Cocorioko is very impressive. Congratulations for job well done.
Subject: Re: THE FACE OF COCORIOKO
From: Sabanoh
To: All
Date Posted: 09:01:27 09/23/07 ()
Email Address: Sabanoh007@yahoo.com
Entered From: adsl-75-60-210-114.dsl.wotnoh.sbcglobal.net at 75.60.210.114
Message:
Wilfred Kanu, congrats on the new face on your site. Keep the good works, don't listen to your distractors. They are nothing but sore losers.
Subject: Re: THE FACE OF COCORIOKO
From: tamba moiwo
To: All
Date Posted: 07:48:59 09/23/07 ()
Email Address: moiwo@hotmail.co.uk
Entered From: gateway-303.energis.gsi.gov.uk at 62.25.109.196
Message:
Well, Kabs don get in fors kickback. Engdae bra,there is more where that came from.
Subject: Re: THE FACE OF COCORIOKO
From: KABS KANU
To: All
Date Posted: 09:56:33 09/23/07 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
TAMBA, stop that joke.
Subject: Re: THE FACE OF COCORIOKO
From: Pa Sorie
To: All
Date Posted: 23:26:27 09/22/07 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
Very impressive.....congrats
Subject: Re: THE FACE OF COCORIOKO
From: Cornelius Hamelberg
To: All
Date Posted: 21:57:10 09/23/07 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
Congratulations on the friendly national colours......
By the way, is it true that
Subject: Re: THE FACE OF COCORIOKO
From: Cornelius Hamelberg
To: All
Date Posted: 21:56:54 09/23/07 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
Congraulations on the friendly national colours......
By the way, is it true that
Subject: cocorioko performance issues "Servers"
From: elbakay
To: All
Date Posted: 23:19:51 09/22/07 ()
Email Address: conteh.abu@gmail.com
Entered From: 5ac7c01e.bb.sky.com at 90.199.192.30
Message:
I think you should look for better fonts out there. Moreover, I've seen some publication from you related to virus on this site. Having worked as a UNIX system admin for the Telegraph in optimizing performances on there web site, I would like to make a few recommendation in order to avoid virus into your production environment:
You should have three different environments for your web sites.
- UAT "user’s access test",
- Contingency
- Production "life environment for public access"
All three environments above should have the same configurations and you should start putting new stuff into the UAT and test before moving to contingency and then production.
These environments should have different DNS "domain name service" naming convention.
E.g.
UAT www.cocorioko.uat.com but this is not open to the out side world just for internal testing and the same for contingency www.cocorioko.cong.com also internal.
This will make it easy to detect a virus before reaching the life environment.
My last point is performance issues on your web site:
Are your running statistics against the number of hits per minute for your web site? And Finally a lot of people are accessing this web site and is not fun when the server reaches it max connections Try looking at someone to host the web site cause its growing and you need more virtual servers to avoid performance degrading.
Subject: Mohamed Fofana for Economic Planning and Development
From: Ibrahim Turay
To: All
Date Posted: 19:10:03 09/22/07 ()
Email Address: imtu71@hotmail.com
Entered From: pool-71-161-90-74.cncdnh.east.verizon.net at 71.161.90.74
Message:
I rise to the occasion to nominate Mohamed Fofana as minister of Economic Planning and Development. This fine gentleman has tremendous experience related to development planning and a hugmongious academic merits.
Subject: Re: Mohamed Fofana for Economic Planning and Development
From: noway
To: All
Date Posted: 17:14:35 09/23/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 83.145.64.130
Message:
Sanpha Koroma, period.
Subject: Great , website but make changes
From: Cocorioko fan
To: All
Date Posted: 18:32:41 09/22/07 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
The new website is great but these changes are needed:
1. For those of us with ageing eyes, the fonts must be bigger
2. The colors are too dull.Certainly, the green and blue do not represent our national colours
3. Articles on the side too dull and not noticeable
4.Some broken links need to be fixed.
5.Make the headlines more eye-catching by making them bigger.
Subject: L@@Ks Nice but....
From: Nah Sabi Talk
To: All
Date Posted: 19:18:01 09/22/07 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
Nice, but too similar to that of the Awareness Times' format... There are many, many format out there... So excuse....!
I appreciate creativity...
Subject: President Koroma's Trip
From: Sam
To: All
Date Posted: 17:07:21 09/22/07 ()
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Message:
Does anyone know how the pres is making this trip. What plane is he using, and knowing that we don't have a presidential plane, if he is using one from a SL based airline, is he/the govt reimbursing them?
Subject: Re: President Koroma's Trip
From: M. Alieu Iscandari Esq
To: All
Date Posted: 13:11:45 09/23/07 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
The president was taken on his trip by a UN Turbo Prop Plane.
Subject: IF YOU WERE THE PRESIDENT OF SIERRA LEONE
From: TASCADAY
To: All
Date Posted: 16:17:04 09/22/07 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
On this forum I have read a lot of opinions and ideas from various forumite. By their opinions, we can at least associate them with a number of things.
If you were the president of Sierra Leone, what position will you give each of the following foumite?
1. Alieu Iscandari
2 Mammy Blessing
3 Basco
4 Sengbe
5 Alieu Sesay
6 Bra Enviable
7 Albert Moinina
8 Bai Bureh
9 Knice
10Political
11 Med
12 Mohamed Jalloh
13 Bob Jusu
14 Bambay Lans Kamara
15 Special Cut
and many other foumites. What position will you give them as president of Sierra Leone?
Subject: Re: IF YOU WERE THE PRESIDENT OF SIERRA LEONE
From: FREUD
To: All
Date Posted: 06:26:42 09/23/07 ()
Email Address: smsts33@hotmail.com
Entered From: e181190004.adsl.alicedsl.de at 85.181.190.4
Message:
Fellows,
I have missed Bra NICE all through the Elections. What happened ?
Subject: Re: IF YOU WERE THE PRESIDENT OF SIERRA LEONE
From: Da Man
To: All
Date Posted: 19:58:14 09/22/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 144.226.173.69
Message:
Bra Enviable, secretary of women affairs.
Subject: Re: IF YOU WERE THE PRESIDENT OF SIERRA LEONE
From: Bonthe Pikin
To: All
Date Posted: 19:39:12 09/22/07 ()
Email Address: bontilaynga@gmail.com
Entered From: 203-167-156-179.dialup.clear.net.nz at 203.167.156.179
Message:
Allieu Iscandri, Deputy Minister of Youth and Sport, Sengbe, Propaganda Secretary to President, Mohamed Jalloh, Bank Governor, Bambay, Deputy Propanganda Secretary and Bob Jusu Personal Secretary to Charles Margai. Na Charles Margai e borbor so no problem. Way u say Bob?
Subject: Re: IF YOU WERE THE PRESIDENT OF SIERRA LEONE
From: BRA ENVIABLE
To: All
Date Posted: 18:53:01 09/22/07 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
Alieu Isandari--Attorney-General of Sierra Leone
Sengbe--Minister of Education
Knice---Minister of Interior and Adviser to the President
Mohamed Jalloh--Governor, Bank of Sierra Leone/ Minister of Finance. I will give him one of the two
Mammy Blessing--Sierra Leone's Ambassodor to the U.N/ State House Attache. I will give him one of the two
Subject: Re: IF YOU WERE THE PRESIDENT OF SIERRA LEONE
From: You must be joking
To: All
Date Posted: 19:55:35 09/22/07 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
Senbge... minister of education?
You must be joking right?
Subject: Re: IF YOU WERE THE PRESIDENT OF SIERRA LEONE
From: Jan
To: All
Date Posted: 19:15:25 09/22/07 ()
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I hope Mohamed Jalloh is not the one and only Mohm Jalloh referred to in John Mannah's article. If he is, I would exclude him from the cabinet. Why? According to John Mannah, Mr Jalloh took up a loan to build his house and yet failed to make repayments. It would be a daft thing to allow him to hold a position which he could easily usurp.
Subject: Re: IF YOU WERE THE PRESIDENT OF SIERRA LEONE
From: Check Your Facts
To: All
Date Posted: 12:33:58 09/23/07 ()
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If a crase guy said you were a woman, and you know you are a man, would you believe him? Talk sense, man.
Like the discredited cab-driver, John Mannah, you obviously don't know Mohamed Jalloh. If you did, you would know that his record of performance at SLPMB is as clean as a whistle.
Notice I said his record. That means documentary evidence -- not the envious rants of a correspondence course graduate like John Mannah who defames anyone who opposes the corrupt SLPP that he foolishly saw as his last hope to escape from a failed life as a cab driver in Washington DC.
I worked with Mr. Jalloh at SLPMB. For your information, SLPMB records (again, notice I said records, not rumour) document the fact that Mohamed Jalloh repaid his loan in full. When he left SLPMB, he did not owe anyone a single cent. Neither was he ever involved in any irregularity there. That's Mohamed Jalloh for you -- one of the straightest arrows you would find in Salone or any place else.
How many other Sierra Leoneans can you name who, when placed in positions in Sierra Leone where they could have looted money, refused to do so like Mohamed Jalloh did?
Subject: Re: IF YOU WERE THE PRESIDENT OF SIERRA LEONE
From: Curve
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Date Posted: 20:40:20 09/23/07 ()
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That is a bloody lie. He is as straight as a curved ball thrown by a Yankee pitcher.
Subject: Re: IF YOU WERE THE PRESIDENT OF SIERRA LEONE
From: Dim
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Date Posted: 21:24:11 09/23/07 ()
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What else can we expect from you, being that you are as bright as a moonless night?
Subject: Re: IF YOU WERE THE PRESIDENT OF SIERRA LEONE
From: Mammy Blessing
To: All
Date Posted: 17:54:18 09/22/07 ()
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Sengbe should be the Minister of Sanitation and Health.
He will deploy the resources, manpower and leadership to clean up the Freeton Dorty Box! By the way I will make Sanitation a senior ministry. We better do something drastic about the filth of our capital..
Subject: Re: IF YOU WERE THE PRESIDENT OF SIERRA LEONE
From: alieu sesay
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Date Posted: 17:22:17 09/22/07 ()
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Make AI the Head of the President's Advisory council...
I do not personally like the GUY but he knows what he is doing... He is very composed.
Subject: I keep on trying remix
From: Bambay Lans Kamara
To: All
Date Posted: 15:46:44 09/22/07 ()
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Message:
Just get up!
Subject: DECLARATION OF ASSETS
From: Bugsyb
To: All
Date Posted: 14:44:18 09/22/07 ()
Email Address: aburneynic@yahoo.co.uk
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President Koroma declaring his assets is of very little use if not done every year. In fact all holders of Public Office should have their assets declared every year, otherwise it's like trying to judge the speed of a car by taking a single picture. It would also be interesting to declare their waist size, I am sure that it will be a better measure of those who are working or those who are feeding fat off our people. Looking at the photograph of the Ministers from the last Government meeting President Koroma I found it hard to recognise a few because of the amount of weight they had put on.
Subject: Re: DECLARATION OF ASSETS
From: Ako Mengot
To: All
Date Posted: 06:51:40 09/23/07 ()
Email Address: akmeng@aol.com
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President Koroma should lead by example and I recommend the following as a guide.
Seven Principles of Public Life
Selflessness
Holders of public office should take decisions solely in terms of public interest. They should not do so in order to gain financial or other material benefits for themselves, their family or their friends
Integrity
Holders of public office should not place themselves under any financial or other obligation to outside individuals or organisations that might influence them in performance of their official duties
Objectivity
The carrying out of public business including making public appointments, awarding contracts, or recommending individuals for rewards and benefits, holders of public office should make choices on merit
Accountability
Holders of public office are accountable for their decisions and actions to the public and must submit themselves to whatever scrutiny is appropriate
Openness
Holders of public office should be as open as possible about all decisions and actions they take. they should give reasons for their decisions and restrict information only when the wider public interest clearly demands
Honesty
Holders of public office have a duty to declare any private interests relating to their public duties and to take steps to resolve any conflicts arising in a way that protects the public interest
Leadership
Holders of public office should promote and support these principles by leadership and example.
Lord Nolan - Standards in Public Life, HMSO Cmnd 2850-1 1995
So help him God
Subject: WESLEYAN ELECTED PRESIDENT OF SIERRA LEONE
From: Olu Beckley
To: All
Date Posted: 14:23:09 09/22/07 ()
Email Address: mariamab@aol.com
Entered From: at 206.216.34.251
Message:
http://www.wesleyan.org/ME2/Default.asp
Subject: Re: WESLEYAN ELECTED PRESIDENT OF SIERRA LEONE
From: Saloneboy
To: All
Date Posted: 08:04:04 09/23/07 ()
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It is good to know that Ernest and George Bush are having the same denomination. Thank God, we will benefit from the generosity of the Wesleyan Church.
God bless all Sierra Leoneans
Subject: Re: WESLEYAN ELECTED PRESIDENT OF SIERRA LEONE
From: ALPHA SAIDU BANGURA
To: All
Date Posted: 16:21:46 09/22/07 ()
Email Address: SAIDUBANGSO@AOL.COM
Entered From: ip68-100-188-152.dc.dc.cox.net at 68.100.188.152
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Olu, I pray that Ernest acts like a true believer.
If you believe in God, you must translate your faith into actions.
Subject: God-fearing thus fair, honest, and will have confidence
From: Almamy Razak Tun Seray-Wurie Si
To: All
Date Posted: 14:46:19 09/22/07 ()
Email Address: almamysi@hotmail.com
Entered From: ns1.queenslibrary.org at 207.159.196.253
Message:
Am glad to know that Pres. Ernest Koroma comes from God fearing family (third generation)..I heard his mother speak over BBC radio. I hope he will live by the word of God. Remember, Pres Momoh's dreamt of being a Pastor, Pres Kabbah did hajj, etc
Most Sierra leoneans do not take the word of God seriously
Subject: PARAMOUNT CHIEF SELECTIONS IN KONO
From: NAMWENCHE-SAYNANH
To: All
Date Posted: 14:18:49 09/22/07 ()
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Berewa, through Edi Nyallay,commited injustice to the people of Nimikor and Sandoh chiefdoms respectively. In Sandoh, T C Fasurku won the election by a simple majority but was disqualified. In the second rount he was not even given a box. Sheku Fasurku ended up being the only candidate. He went unopposed. The reason for disqualifying T C was that he stole Government money-well, tell that to Kabba, Berewa and co.
In the Nimikor chiefdom, Aiah Bona won because money changed hands between him and Arata Ekuma. Sahr Foa's sister, who happens to be a very good friend of Ekuma,also put a word in for Aiah Bona-Family feud
Voting went on well into the night with electricity going off several times so that Nyally's boys can cast the extra votes they brought for that purpose.
A petition was filed but was not even looked at by the Kabba regime. I am hoping it would be looked at under Koroma so the people can have theit choice
Subject: Re: PARAMOUNT CHIEF SELECTIONS IN KONO
From: Alie Formeh Kamara
To: All
Date Posted: 09:37:09 09/23/07 ()
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My heart goes out to you.
There are complaints like these in many places. It seemed like the SLPP did not care about justice. They hijacked government of the people and for the people to make it theirs.
The people of Biriwa Limba Chiefdom had a piece of the melancholy when a Paramount Chief representing 7% of the people was crowned in Biriwa over the objection of the people. It was a waist of time apealing to the government.
The over confidence of the SLPP party in their ability to rig elections made them oblivious to the bad reputation they had piling up against them.
Hopefully, their loss in this years election will wake them up.
Subject: Re: PARAMOUNT CHIEF SELECTIONS IN KONO
From: M. Alieu Iscandari Esq
To: All
Date Posted: 14:25:58 09/22/07 ()
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Pursuant to the applicable sections of the Electoral Laws of 2000, all elections petitions will be reviewed by an elections petitions court. Justice will be served.
Subject: Alieu Iscandari for Dis Dat and the other
From: M. Alieu Iscandari Esq
To: All
Date Posted: 13:51:15 09/22/07 ()
Email Address:
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Folks I have been unable to stop laughing at the numerous attempts by forumites to darft me into serving in the Government of our President. I appreciate all the good sentiments and thoughts and some of the bad ones too.
I have not been asked by the government to serve in any capacity and if I am I will have to discuss it with my wife and family, and my law partners who would have to take over my case load, prior to accepting any employment with the government.
However to the person called Sabanoh, I say please get to know me first before making any pejorative statements about me. For you I am posting my e mail address which is (aiscandari@aol.com) so that we can chat like two adults and then and only then can you make any conclusions about me. I have been away from sierra leone since 1979, yet you call me an opportunist without any just cause. You make unflattering statements about my father and then by some mysterious illogical manner, link me to those untrue actions that you have ascribed to my father.
You have chosen to be defamatory, when you could just as likely taken the high road and been objective. I have spent most of my professional life providing legal help to my community here in the bay area regardless of tribe or party affiliation.
I advise you to contact people in the Bay are aof California and ask them what kind of man Alieu Iscandari is and they would tell you good things about me that will make you reconsider our biased opinions about me.
Nuf said
Stay Blessed. I am on my way to a funeral this morning.
Subject: Good job
From: swaray
To: All
Date Posted: 13:18:32 09/22/07 ()
Email Address: swaray@hotmail.com
Entered From: c-69-249-160-140.hsd1.pa.comcast.net at 69.249.160.140
Message:
GOOD JOB COL.IDRISS FOR LETTING THE WORLD KNOW THAT A COUPIST LIKE YOU ACCEPT AND RESPECT THE GOOD LEADERSHIP OF PRESIDENT KOROMA.LONG LIVE PRE.KOROMA,LONG LIVE SIERRA LEONE.
Subject: Re: Good job
From: Mammy Blessing
To: All
Date Posted: 17:38:52 09/22/07 ()
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Message:
Is that a back-handed compliment? Wicked.
Subject: What's Up Chez?
From: Mammy Blessing
To: All
Date Posted: 13:17:02 09/22/07 ()
Email Address:
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What's going on Chez? You gave a cursory congrats to the APC after EBK's victory and just schlepped off sullenly into the merry woods of England. The election is over and done with and you have had enough time to lick them wounds, so come on out and play buddy.
Does it appear like I am taking a sly dig at you? Well... Yes! Sorry about that old chap. Seriously though, I miss your provocative posts. No matter the partisan heat, your postings always had patriotism and smarts written all over them. Hope to read you soon my friend.
Subject: Re: What's Up Chez?
From: M. Alieu Iscandari Esq.
To: All
Date Posted: 13:34:46 09/22/07 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
No matter the partisan heat, your postings always had patriotism and smarts written all over them. Hope to read you soon my friend.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Thats Chez mostly objective and PATRIOTIC except when he was talking about his passion for the SLPP and then he would schlepp into an emotional contrbution. Fact is that Chez represented his partys position very eloquently and well. He is a hero in my books. Long Live Chez. (as in Che Guvera)
Subject: For "Shembu" Jalloh
From: Albert Moinina
To: All
Date Posted: 12:29:24 09/22/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 213.42.21.154
Message:
V. Jalloh dah kalo kalo wae dae pa you. Ah no say nah you. Na you na the only person ar kin think of, except ah wrong. Wae Al Hassan. hahahahaha
Bo e tay oh. Ah dae wait for you email.
Subject: Alieu Iscandri for Special Assistant to the President
From: Kalos
To: All
Date Posted: 11:08:07 09/22/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: c-68-33-141-174.hsd1.md.comcast.net at 68.33.141.174
Message:
I have read numerous threads trying to identify a position in the new government that suits Alieu Iscandri's exceptional talents.Alieu is so versatile; he would be an asset in the president's office with unfettered access to his Excellency. SABANOH, I am disappointed at your attempt to baselessly align Alieu to any alleged misdeed by any member of his family. That was a very low blow...Shame on you!!!!!!!!!!
Subject: Re: Alieu Iscandri for Special Assistant to the President
From: Sad Saloneman
To: All
Date Posted: 17:20:27 09/23/07 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
I am very saddened by people's remarks about Alieu's father.He was a nice gentlemab, and was implicated by silly commission, as many other APC members were.Our judiciary is so easily manupilated by governments of the day, but I know for sure, that Abdul Iscandri was a very clean man.I hope Alieu will nto allow to drag himself in this silly debate.Alieu, most of us knew your father, and we do not need anyone to defend him.
Subject: Re: Alieu Iscandri for Special Assistant to the President
From: Sabanoh
To: All
Date Posted: 12:01:52 09/22/07 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
Kalos, Alieu is an opportunist. He is the Jesse Jackson type. Well, you know what they say " like father, like son." I know that he admires his father and he may also want to follow his father in his crooked ways. Ask him what happened to the contract that his father had with PWD at Kissy in around 1998. His bid was the "highest" and you should know who got it. Yes, he did. Now, maybe you can tell us why.
Subject: Re: Alieu Iscandri for Special Assistant to the President
From: ALPHA SAIDU BANGURA
To: All
Date Posted: 16:14:28 09/22/07 ()
Email Address: SAIDUBANGSO@AOL.COM
Entered From: ip68-100-188-152.dc.dc.cox.net at 68.100.188.152
Message:
Once again I want to take this chance to inform everybody on this forum that Alieu Iscandari is unqualified to hold any public office in our country.
Out constitution clearly states that nobody with a criminal record will hold a public office. I am sure that the APC has a lot of people with clean, proven records and in-built moral standing. They do not need Alieu Iscandari. Our country needs role models.
I thank God, I explained my point to Ernest Koroma and he agreed with me.If he wants to bye pass our constitution, I assure him that, I will make sure that he is removed from office by legal means. Far gone the days when our leaders will get away with illegal actions.Nobody is above or under the law.
The people of Sierra Leone worked hard to bring democracy to our country, therefore we will not allow anybody to act outside the laws of the land.
Subject: Re: Alieu Iscandri for Special Assistant to the President
From: Ako Mengot
To: All
Date Posted: 07:01:58 09/23/07 ()
Email Address: akmeng@aol.com
Entered From: acbc1782.ipt.aol.com at 172.188.23.130
Message:
Alpha
I believe you are a devout muslim, and I am sure you are quite familiar with the doctrines of the Holy Koran especially during the month of Ramadam. Please refrain from making false and baseless allegations about others.
My name might not be easily recognised but if you remember the late A E Kome of Independent Memorial Secondary School, then you will walk down memory lane and heed this brotherly advise.
Ramadan Mubarak
Subject: Re: Alieu Iscandri for Special Assistant to the President
From: The guy next door
To: All
Date Posted: 12:14:35 09/23/07 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
Your time can be better spent down at Atlantic city maybe you have a chance of winning. Asking Alpha Saidu to stop his defermation quest is like, expecting a fish to live on land.
What he is doing now, is what he does and have been doing on this forum since thy kingdom come.
He went on to post a congratulatory message after the run-off results were read. How shameful. This man have claim to never support or respect the will of the nation if H.E. Ernest Koroma and the APC were elected; he went on to call all APC supporters SATANIC, Alpha Sadu, made it quiet clear that his religious belive (Islam) will never allow him to recognize any with satanic inclinations. yet, He turned around and posted his message of congrats!to satan, then self appointed himself as a virtual special watch dog for the nation.
Subject: Re:Point of correction.....Alieu Iscandri
From: Bankie Liba man
To: All
Date Posted: 19:58:48 09/22/07 ()
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Message:
At the risk of poking holes into your post I must say that everyone is under the law Alpha Saidu.
Subject: Re: Alieu Iscandri for Special Assistant to the President
From: Sabanoh
To: All
Date Posted: 17:36:07 09/22/07 ()
Email Address: Sabanoh007@yahoo.com
Entered From: adsl-75-60-210-114.dsl.wotnoh.sbcglobal.net at 75.60.210.114
Message:
Exactly, my sentiments. Ernest Koroma does not need Alieu Iscandri. He calls representing Sierra Leonean female clts in divorces only to end up having suspicious relations with some of them community service,WOW. This man is divisive and he will do more harm than good to our Country.
Subject: Re: Alieu Iscandri for Special Assistant to the President
From: M. Alieu Iscandari Esq
To: All
Date Posted: 11:21:46 09/23/07 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
You really do not know me. So you must spend your time more wisely and stop making statements that you cannot back up.
I HAVE NEVER FILED A FAMILY LAW COMPLAINT ON BEHALF OF ANY SIERRA LEONEAAN IN THE BAY AREA. MY RATIONALE IS SIMPLE, I AM A UNITER NOT A DIVIDER. ALTHOUGH I HAVE BEEN ASKED TO BY MANY WITHIN OUR COMMUNITY TO REPRESENT THEM IN DIVORCES AGAINST THEIR SPOUSES, I HAVE NEVER DONE SO. YOU LYING THROUGH YOUR TEETH.
Lets talk about your own contributions to your community? Any to talk about lately? None? Ithought as much.
You are a weak link
G'd bye
Subject: Re: Alieu Iscandri for Special Assistant to the President
From: The guy next door
To: All
Date Posted: 12:25:16 09/23/07 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
Cannot belive you let that get under your skin. What if you filed a a family law complaint? That is part of your service as an attorney to the communitte.
As a lawyer you attempt to seek an amicable settlement. The last resort is court action so to protect the intrest of your client. Can you Imagine if that process was not available what will happen?
Bo me man no waste you time go hep people dem ya.
Subject: Re: Alieu Iscandri for Special Assistant to the President
From: Mammy Blessing
To: All
Date Posted: 17:27:57 09/22/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: pool-71-247-147-219.nycmny.east.verizon.net at 71.247.147.219
Message:
"I explained my point to Ernest Koroma and he agreed with me.If he wants to bye pass our constitution, I assure him that, I will make sure that he is removed from office by legal means."
You are a powerful man, Homes!..
I wish I had that kind of access...or power.
I notice with despair the way you tried to smear my Oremi, Alieu Iscandri. I don't know Alieu from Aloysius and hold no brief for him either.
But Imam Alpha, in this holy month of Ramadan when charity is blessed, don't you think that it is a very Kafri thing to be lobbing innuendoes against people?
By the way, if you live in a glass shelter...
Subject: Re: Alieu Iscandri for Special Assistant to the President
From: Nonsense man
To: All
Date Posted: 13:38:48 09/22/07 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
I know that he admires his father-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
I see nothing wrong with that. Do you similarly admire your own father?
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Alieu is an opportunist. He is the Jesse Jackson type
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How is Alieu an opportunist? In what ways is he "like" Jesse Jackson. Do you really know alieu? Have you ever seen him? Have you ever interacted with him? and Phd syndrme at work?
GO BLOW WIT YOU NONSENSE BRA
Subject: Re: Alieu Iscandri for Special Assistant to the President
From: Kalos
To: All
Date Posted: 13:29:18 09/22/07 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
Here you go again. Your rationale for leveling all those outrageous accusations are again baseless. My hunch is, you have a personal vendetta against Alieu. I don't know the man personally, but I have adequate info about him that is enough to vouch for his talents and ability to apply them credibly.
Subject: Re: Alieu Iscandri for Special Assistant to the President
From: Sayinor
To: All
Date Posted: 12:57:58 09/22/07 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
Ask him what happened to the contract that his father had with PWD at Kissy in around 1998
how would he know what happened to a contract that his father had? Is this something that he is supposed to know? stop maligning people on this forum. It is clear that you do not even know who alieu iscandari is. we who know him know that he is not what you say he is.
Subject: Re: Alieu Iscandri for Special Assistant to the President
From: Pa Javombo
To: All
Date Posted: 12:57:36 09/22/07 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
Sabanoh,
If your dad was a rapist does that mean you are too?
Just a question.
Subject: Re: Alieu Iscandri for Special Assistant to the President
From: Granpa J
To: All
Date Posted: 13:03:06 09/22/07 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
by his warped logic YES.
Subject: Re: Alieu Iscandri for Special Assistant to the President
From: Campala
To: All
Date Posted: 12:35:40 09/22/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: c-68-36-250-3.hsd1.nj.comcast.net at 68.36.250.3
Message:
I cannot advocate for Alieu taking any specific position in the new government, but I know Alieu is a very talented Sierra Leonean from whose service Salone can benefit. It will be up to Alieu to offer his service and for President Koroma to accept.
Subject: Re: Alieu Iscandri for Special Assistant to the President
From: Bugsyb
To: All
Date Posted: 13:45:13 09/22/07 ()
Email Address: aburneynic@yahoo.co.uk
Entered From: accfcf58.ipt.aol.com at 172.207.207.88
Message:
Surely it should be the other way round, the President should request his Services and he should accept.
Subject: Re: Alieu Iscandri for Special Assistant to the President
From: Yase nar Gron
To: All
Date Posted: 14:01:50 09/22/07 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
Bugsby whenever Ernest Koroma use the Phrase "sierra Leone should be run like a business entity for the benefit of its shareholder who are its citizens" this is an Alieu Iscandari idea. He was the first person to make this kind of statement on the forum. Go back and check the archives. The guy is greater than he leads people to believe, albeit mercurial.
We must uplift our bretheren who are in a position to recreate a better sierra leone rather than put them down. I would say that the government should bring him in as a personal repesentative to the president or place him at the helm of the ACC. The guy is fearless. have you forgotten how much people ganged up on him while he was advocating the position of the APC two years or more so ago. Yet his position on behalf of his part has been unflinching. We need people like that who do not bend their beliefs and positions based on the prevailing winds.
I do believe that alieu as a presidential adviser would be unafraid to articulate his position of dissent to the president.
Subject: Re: Alieu Iscandri for Special Assistant to the President
From: Kalos
To: All
Date Posted: 13:19:33 09/22/07 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
Well stated, Campala. Most talented people like Alieu would not like to put themselves out there for this service for fear of been labelled opportunist.
Subject: PRESIDENT ERNEST KOROMA 'S VISIT TO LIBERIA
From: COCORIOKO NEWSPAPER
To: All
Date Posted: 10:24:00 09/22/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: h167-156-253.63.chubb.com at 167.156.63.253
Message:
WE ARE TEMPORARILY USING THIS FORUM TO PUBLISH NEWS. THE DEVIL IS STILL FIGHTING US, USING THE HOPELESS, WORTHLESS HOMESTEAD.TODAY, WE CANNOT UPLOAD THE PAGE TO PUBLISH. I WONDER HOW MUCH MORE WE HAVE TO ENDURE FROM THESE HOMESTEAD DOGS ! ! ! !
ANYWAY, WE WILL USE THIS FORUM. READ WHAT PRESIDENT KOROMA AND PRESIDENT SIRLEAF DISCUSSED IN liberia
(MONROVIA-September 21, 2007): The governments of Liberia and Sierra Leone have pledged to further strengthen the cooperation between the two neighboring countries and have agreed to encourage and foster trade and commerce as well as to work cooperatively towards enhancing the peace-building process in their respective countries, through the promotion of good governance and democracy.
An Executive Mansion release, quoting a Joint Communiqué issued at the end of an official working visit to Liberia by the New Sierra Leonean President, Ernest Bai Koroma, said the two Mano River Union countries also pledged to fully support each other on matters concerning their sovereignty, territorial integrity, stability, peace and development.
Regarding the Mano River Union, the two leaders pledged to intensify efforts to consolidate peace and establish security and stability in their respective countries so as to accelerate the reactivation of the Union projects and programs, in order to meet the objectives and goals of the Union, which is to constitute a customs and economic union among member states so as to improve the living standards of their peoples.
Accordingly, the two leaders urged member states to respect fully the Non-aggression and Security Cooperation Treaty, signed in Freetown on November 20, 1986 and the Fifteenth Protocol on the Declaration of the Mano River Union on Defense, Security, Internal and Foreign Affairs, signed in May 2000 in Conakry, and related Treaties.
The two leaders also urged member states as a matter of urgency, to contribute financially to the Secretariat of the Union to enable it to play its role in the implementation of the Union’s decisions, as well as the reactivation of Union institutions, projects and programs.
Presidents Johnson Sirleaf and Koroma welcomed recent moves by African leaders to foster greater integration of the continent, but agreed that in order to guarantee success, the ultimate goal of the continental African Government will have to be pursued through an incremental process by the rationalization of sub-regional economic groupings.
During the visit, President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf and President Ernest Bai Koroma, in an atmosphere of friendship, mutual confidence, and understanding, discussed at length bilateral issues of cooperation between their two countries, matters relating to the Mano River Union and ECOWAS, African development and integration and other international issues.
On bilateral matters, President Johnson Sirleaf extended heartiest congratulations to President Koroma for his recent resounding electoral victory and subsequent swearing-in as Sierra Leone’s President. She highly commended the People of Sierra Leone for the largely peaceful, free and fair manner in which the elections in that country were held.
President Johnson Sirleaf briefed her Sierra Leonean counterpart on the Liberian Government’s peace-building efforts to move the country forward from conditions of war to conditions of peace and socio-economic transformation. In this connection, President Johnson Sirleaf apprised President Koroma of Her Government’s Poverty Reduction Strategy anchored on four pillars: security, economic revitalization, and governance reform and infrastructure development.
Friday’s visit is also in line with the existing policy of the Mano River Union by which regular consultations between and among Presidents of member states and other high-level officials of the Union have been underscored as important confidence and peace building measures to ensure stability within the Mano River basin.
The two leaders exchanged views on a wide range of international issues and agreed to strengthen cooperation in International Affairs and promote the common interests of Liberia and Sierra Leone through North-South dialogue, South-South cooperation, Africa’s development and the need for increased resource flows to the continent to enhance its sustainable development.
The Sierra Leonean President, at the head of a 17-member delegation, arrived in the country on Friday afternoon at the Roberts International Airport. President Koroma and delegation received warm and an enthusiastic welcome by President Sirleaf, officials of the Liberian Government, traditional leaders as well as members of the Sierra Leone Community residing in Liberia.
Friday’s visit, the first by the New Sierra Leonen President since his election and subsequent swearing-in on Monday, was in pursuance of the strong cultural ties and bilateral relations that have historically subsisted between Liberia and Sierra Leone, as well as within the framework of the Mano River Union, of which President Johnson Sirleaf is the current Chair.
President Koroma who departed Liberia Friday afternoon for Burkina Faso, has meanwhile, extended an invitation to President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf to pay an official visit to his country. President Johnson Sirleaf has accepted the invitation. A date of the visit is to be determined through diplomatic channel.
Signed: _________________________
Cyrus Wleh Badio
Press Secretary to the President
Subject: My Bold Prediction for the APC Government
From: Nah Sabi Talk
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Date Posted: 08:47:03 09/22/07 ()
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After all is said and done and the dust has past, there will be more business created by the average man and woman under the APC than the SLPP government.
Mark by words...
Subject: Join the Debate
From: Mohamed Yongawo
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Date Posted: 06:45:49 09/22/07 ()
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Here is the link again.
http://www.thepatrioticvanguard.com/
Subject: Join the Debate
From: Mohamed Yongawo
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Date Posted: 06:36:14 09/22/07 ()
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Please check the link below on The Patriotic Vanguard
http://www.thepatrioticvanguard.com/article.php3?id_article=1804
Subject: Water Quay.
From: Mammy Blessing
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Date Posted: 06:02:47 09/22/07 ()
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Yesterday Mohamed Fofanah and Sorba S started a thread about the corruption at Water Quay, and the possibility of making Freetown a free port. I think this needs to be explored.
Many people have been turned off by the the soulless bribery and extortion that rages at the port. A friend of mine who tried to bring in X-ray and other diagnostic machines had to give up after he was slapped with bloated, predatory 'taxes'. Many local business people travel to Conakty, Monrovia and even Banjul where goods sre cheaper as a direct result of tariffs.
I think the government should look at the possibility of making Freetown a free port, at least for a number of years, to enhance the flow of goods needed for infrastructure development and other sectors. This will have a positive impact on the economy. Sure, there will be a loss of revenue (most of which is already pocketed by corrupt quay officials) but the benefits of such a move will far outweigh the paltry loss.
No gov can command an economy to grow. Freeing Water Quay will help unsuffocate the corrupt, moribund economy and fire up the immagination and enthusiasm of diasporic and local entrepreneurs who really want to put their money where their mouth is.
Making the port free and getting rid of the cumbersome, business-unfriendly bureaucracy will supply much needed oxygen to the economy.
Subject: Re: Water Quay.
From: Sam
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Date Posted: 13:50:57 09/22/07 ()
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Or you can get serious about corruption! It,s easy to track how much goods is flowing through the port, thus how much revenue should be generated, making accountability easy. As far as bribery as with corruption in general, get serious and start chopping some heads. I don't have exact numbers but the ACC seems to have prosecuted and succesfully gotten convictions for less than 10-20 high level corrupt officials in 5 years. If those number were commensurate with our corruption level, we would have the least corrupt country in the world.
Right now, you have a culture, that's why words alone won't do it. If you need to run a few sting operations, maybe for a six month period, the gov brings in some goods either using a "fake" company or small importers that the corrupt employees will want to target, and compile list of those asking for bribes and making life difficult.
End of period, you charge them and give them ten years with free room and board at Pademba Road. You can be nice and put out a strict warning before hand that corruption will no longer be tolerated, direct order from the president, maybe he can tour the place and give the order himself. Then you know anyone with the bozen to still demand bribes after that, can not be redeemed. This way, you don't have to worry about ACC investigations or whether it's a witch hunt. You'll have concrete facts.
The port, if it currently isn't, has the potential to be the biggest or second biggest revenue earner for the gov in the near term(I think it should be privatised long term) so you can't give up that kind of money.
There is no need to do crazy things like making it a free port. SL gov can not afford to come out of pocket to update the port and spend say 10 million on a crane, or building storage for instance if there is no revenue being generated. As you can imagine, it won't be a priority. Also if you made it a free port, while no one can tell you you now have to pay such and such taxes and "surcharges", they still can and will make your life hell with regards to clearing your goods and storing it and only those willing to pay bribes wil get their goods cleared fast.
Another option, if absolutely neccessary, is to "lease" it out to to a foreign firm that pays the gov a percentage of revenues. Pa kabbah already got a Ghanian expatriate running it and for the first time in YEARS, they've turned a profit and paid dividends to the gov. This isn't a miracle or management genius (not to take away from the new manager) as Water Quay can be very profitable and has been, the question is where is the money going?
We also have to remember that the employees are not the only corrupt ones here. Just about everyone getting goods into the country, lies about the value. So everyone needs to check themselves. And as far as your argument for making it a free port - importation of goods that will help the country's infrastructure, there are already pro business laws in place that let you import at little to no taxes, things such as factory eqpt that aid in economic development. These can be easily added to. Using your friend's case as an example, it would make sense that any medical machinery be imported with no taxes. Hopefully, while we would have to make do with used but quality goods, no one will bring discarded stuff such as 50 year old x-ray machines that put out enough radiation to cause cancer every time its used.
Subject: Re: Water Quay.
From: Mammy Blessing
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Date Posted: 19:07:47 09/22/07 ()
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Point well taken Sam. If the port were well run, without the corruption and the government actually received the huge revenues you talked about, we woudn't be talking about free ports, privatization etc. The reality is that that the festering corruption and tax-gouging at Water Quay, that you and I detest, is a turn-off for business.
I was in Freetown when the Ghanaian expatriate head of the docks presented the $600,000 profit from the quay. Nice sum of cash, but no cigar. I believe that a free port will vastly improve the flow of goods and have a salutary bounce on the economy.
Besides, why don't we try it as a temporary measure and evaluate the results? Your idea about privatization of the quay, or leasing it to a reputable organization like Dubai Ports is definitely something worth pursuing. What we cannot afford to do however, is allow the mess at the quay to continue frustrating badly needed business.
Subject: Re: Water Quay.
From: babybob
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Date Posted: 06:41:15 09/22/07 ()
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Mammy Blessing,
You've just brought up something I've been pondering over last night (My Wish List for the Next 2 years)
1. Transparency
2. Transparency
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N. Transparency
The new Gov should facilitate putting all tarifs online and official cost online.
When Diasporans want to go home and invest they should know in advance what is the actual cost including customs clearance for the goods and equipment for the industry they'll like to invest in.
I've gone home few times and shied away from investing due to unscrupulous customs officers who don't deserve my money.
They usually bloat your customs bill, then you find unbearable/uneconomical to foot it, And then they turn around and say well if you could provide this much about half of the cost (which may well be twice/three times the official rates - for them to pocket) then they'll do the rest and clear your goods.
How on earth could a customs duty be more than the price you actally bought the goods?
If the government makes it transparent, then I know how much customs duty costs before I even ship the goods. AND as a true patriotic business person, I'll demand that I get receits which will be accounted for to the Gov Authorities. Win-win situation for me and GOSL.
Hehehehe.......... long way to go, but possible
Subject: Re: Water Quay.
From: Mohaned Fofana
To: All
Date Posted: 08:50:00 09/22/07 ()
Email Address: mfofana2004@sbcglogal.net
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Publishing all tariffs on line is one solution. In addition, we are in competition with Liberia and Guinea. Guinea has 5% flat rate tariff. Liberia has Free Port. Now, either we agree on the 5% like Guinea or Free Port like Liberia or yet we could agree half way between the two and is two and half percent.
Subject: Re: Water Quay.
From: Bugsyb
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Date Posted: 13:56:13 09/22/07 ()
Email Address: aburneynic@yahoo.co.uk
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Excellent Idea! I was always baffled at how it would be cheaper to import goods into the Gambia or Guinea, pay the duties then re-export them to Freetown and also pay(?) the duties, than it would be to import directly into Freetown. A 2.5% flat rate duty would discourage people from under invoicing (especially if it comes with stiff penalties for breach). Also get rid of agencies like SSI, you dont need to pay foreigners to tell you the cost of goods overseas especially now you have the internet.
Subject: Re: Water Quay.
From: Eddie Grant
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Date Posted: 15:37:07 09/22/07 ()
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This is an excellent discussion on the port issue.
Believe it or not this has being an endemic problem in our country. I'm a victim of those unscrupilous custom officers. I started exporting goods to Sierra Leone since last year by containers but guess what, I was charged Le5 million per container but what is actually written on the receipts is just Le3 million. This has contributed to me abandoning the business for the main time realizing the revenue collected here supposed to go to government for national development but instead it goes to people already receiving salaries for the job.
This issue being paramount, should be presented to the newly elected government but how can we do that? I'll be delighted to know how this problem could be taken to government.
I have for many years being asking myself, when can a government of our country be able to address this impediment of our national development as it is evident that some government officials have their hands to it.
Mainwhile, check for information on Christmas sale at Water quay for those goods which were not cleared by the owners because the charges were so exorbitant.
Subject: Re: Water Quay. NRA website
From: Town Crier
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Date Posted: 22:08:07 09/22/07 ()
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www.nationalrevenuesl.org
Subject: SLPP comments on election results
From: JJ Blood
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Date Posted: 01:03:48 09/22/07 ()
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SLPP comments on election results
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The now opposition, the Sierra Leone People’s Party (SLPP) national secretary general, Jacob Jusu Saffa, has commented on the presidential run-off election results.
Speaking to the media on Wednesday at the vandalized SLPP Wallace Johnson Street headquarters, Mr Saffa said most party members were dissatisfied with the results and thought their happiness was stolen, thus also believing that certain members of the international community connived with the National Electoral Commission (NEC) to execute regime change agenda.
Commenting on the results, he said the process of invalidation was dubious as the SLPP could not establish how correct it was that indeed there was over voting in their strongholds.
For the sake of transparency, he went on, the parties should have been informed and recounting undertaken in the presence of both political parties’ agents, rather it was hurriedly done for polling stations with turnouts at 100%.
He charged that there were no significant changes in the results in the few cases where recounting was done but in the unprecedented manner, all remaining figures were inputted throughout the night of Sunday 16 and a press conference hurriedly convened at an unusual time where the APC was declared winner.
Out of the 477 polling stations that were invalidated, Mr Saffa said 426 were from their strongholds but their own tally centre proved that there was 95% voters’ turnout in those stations. “Invalidation therefore disenfranchised nearly 250,000 of SLPP votes, in the interest of peace and development the party accepts the results and recognizes H.E Ernest Bai Koroma as President of the Republic of Sierra Leone,” he concluded
Subject: Re: SLPP comments on election results
From: Bai Bureh
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Date Posted: 04:07:27 09/22/07 ()
Email Address: rastafari_ish@hotmail.com
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The SLPP should get over their election shock and face the real reality.Their time is gone and it is APC's time and chance to rule for ten good years.I know the thought of ten years is difficult for the SLPP to stomach but there is no way out.
What the nation expects from these sore losers is simple:SIT IN THE OPPOSITION FOR TEN YEARS,PLAY YOUR ROLE RESPONSIBLY AND WATCH WHAT SERIOUSNESS IS ALL ABOUT IN A RULING PARTY. It will provide a much-needed learning element to the SLPP.
Subject: Re: SLPP comments on election results
From: ITK
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Date Posted: 11:05:51 09/22/07 ()
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Bai Bureh:
It will take a coalition of intersets to come together in order for the APC to succeed - as we all want it to do. As you should know, if you followed Salone politics the last ten years, the Opposition has an important role to play. You may or may not know this-- despite the SLPP's super-majority in the last Parliament, the APC had its way on many important issues (as it should because it represents part of the coalition of interests I mentioned above), including constituency delimitation, for instance.
I am really disturbed that so much of the sentiments you express in your posting is finding its way into our discussions about how to move our country forward.
Ernest Koroma has been exemplary so far in recognizing what it takes to keep outr nation-state intact, continue post-conflict recovery, and improve the quality of life of the people.
Sadly, I cannot say the same about far too many supporters/sympathisers of the APC. Again, Sierra Leone belongs to us all; all of us, regardless of party affiliation, relgion or ethnic backgound, presumably want what is best for her. Why is it so hard to translate this theory into reality?
Subject: Re: SLPP comments on election results
From: Kalos
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Date Posted: 11:37:02 09/22/07 ()
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ITK, your points are well founded; however, we still need people like Bai Bureh for the purpose preventing one-dimensional dialogues. You appear to be a good team player; Bai Bureh on the other hand is as his name implies, and both of you are viable contributors to the forum
Subject: Re: SLPP comments on election results
From: Patriot
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Date Posted: 11:28:09 09/22/07 ()
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"Again, Sierra Leone belongs to us all; all of us, regardless of party affiliation, relgion or ethnic backgound, presumably want what is best for her."
ITK:
In the total of 10 years that they reduced Salone to the dregs of global society (no light, no water, no food, no hope), didn't the SLPP cabal of unpatriotic looters led by President Kabbah and VP Berewa know that "Sierra Leone belongs to us all; all of us, regardless of party affiliation, relgion or ethnic backgound, presumably want what is best for her?"
Where were you in all those 10 years to warn Kabbah's SLPP that ""Sierra Leone belongs to us all" -- to to them and their fellow looters who sucked the life dry out of millions of Sierra Leoneans?
Why are you SLPPers so unpatriotic?
I say to Ernest Koroma: ACCOUNTABILTY should be the order of the day for the next 5 years. Let the SLPP tiffman dem know that, to paraphrase Dr. Christiana Thorpe: "Never again will corruption go unpunished in Sierra Leone!"
Nobody forced your SLPP looters to plunder the country's treasury. They made their bed, causing untold suffering to millions of Sierra Leoneans for more than a decade. Now, they must lie on that bed. It is time that SLPP looters be taught a lesson -- that crime against the people of Sierra Leone does not pay. Lonta.
Subject: Re: SLPP comments on election results
From: Orshay454
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Date Posted: 13:51:36 09/22/07 ()
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patriot, I agree. the new APC must depart from the old business as usual attitude. Salone people must be made to understand that if you tiff, you will go go jail. Only then will there be tiffing only among the common criminals, instead of among pliticians
Subject: Congratulations and Best Wishes
From: Larry
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Date Posted: 00:21:49 09/22/07 ()
Email Address: Bullockhl@aol.com
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Congratulations to all my Sierra Leonean friends, and Best Wishes to everyone who loves Sierra Leone. A new day has dawned, and now the real work begins. I pray that a spirit of unity and friendship will come over the partisans of all factions and that the common interests of the people will guide the actions and plans of all parties and that to begin with, people throughout the diaspora will reach into Sierra Leone to assist with job creation projects.
Subject: Re: Congratulations and Best Wishes
From: Nah Sabi Talk
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Date Posted: 08:31:39 09/22/07 ()
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Thanks for the warm sentiment, Larry.
Echoes of friendship and appreciation!
The people and country need all the help they can get.
Subject: Are we really a poor nation?
From: M. Alieu Iscandari esq
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Date Posted: 22:28:13 09/21/07 ()
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check the link out
Subject: Re: Are we really a poor nation?
From: sid
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Date Posted: 21:02:12 09/22/07 ()
Email Address: rt_22192@yahoo.com
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Good topic, very busy, but let me drop my 2 cent on this topic
YES WE ARE POOR, VERY POOR, but that can change, Let me recommend this, to reduce corruption and enhance transparency and efficiency in the mining industries, Government should hands off all mining, hand it over to two or three reputable mining companies that are listed in NYSE for transparency. 49% -51% shares in favor of SL Government.
No private mining, Companies local operations should hire 80% Sierra Leoneans, no rough diamond export, Train locals to clean and cut hereby increasing value before export, resulting in higher GDP % from Diamonds,
Gains -:
1. Jobs
2. Allowing Sierra Leoneans that can afford it to own a piece of the pie by buying stocks
3. May even lead the first stock exchange in West Africa – S Leoneans in Wall street I know who you are – can get it done
This will allow the government to focus on other revenue sources as TAXES,
Charles Margai, Berewa, Thorpe, Has just given us an opportunity to prove ourselves to the world, a peaceful transfer of power from the incumbent to the opposition, that is huge in the business world, however what Berewa and Kabba has failed to do, we hope Koroma will succeed, tackle corruption in all it forms.
Diamonds and other natural resource will not cut it my brothers, we need investments, we have the human resources better that any country in Africa, even though we a looking at 70% illiteracy rate. We are a culture of educated people with an educational infrastructure that only needs to be revived after so many years of neglect. The world is thirsty for cheap or reasonably cheap labor. With development in tech we don’t have to fly out to do it anymore it can be done at home.
If only the government would get out of the natural resources business and allow the professionals to run it, and start by focusing on the basics, good infrastructure (mainly access roads) cheap and stable electricity supply, clean water supply, and a robust telecommunications systems, however the Kabba government disputed this three years ago stating that (we peple dem nor get for eat u dea tuk bot voice, data, en video).
These are the basic cost of production that investors consider these days before investing in a country.
Bureaucrats at the World Bank and IMF should realize that we are getting wiser. Proposing how wealthy we are because of our natural resources, if only, I have worked with them, all we do is take statistics apply it to principles write reports give advice and get paid lots of money, we don’t care if it is implemented or not as long we a not loaning you money.
Africa has been taken for granted for too long, we have made the IMF and World Bank very profitable and have kept them in business. We should be adapting other practical business models that have worked for countries like Taiwan, Thailand, India and even the UAE which in my view have used its natural resources efficiently than any other oil producing country.
Subject: Re: Are we really a poor nation?
From: Eddie Grant
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Date Posted: 16:02:31 09/22/07 ()
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Musa, as before this issue sholud be elevated to the hierachy of government. This is the only time we have to save our country.
My support for your suggestion of scrutinizing the foreign diamond dealers is intact.
But my question is, how can we take this to the government and let them listen?
Subject: Re: Are we really a poor nation?
From: Bugsyb
To: All
Date Posted: 14:09:19 09/22/07 ()
Email Address: aburneynic@yahoo.co.uk
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Message:
No we are not a Poor Nation, we are broke yes, but have assets many Industrialised Nations would envy. Apart from the Minerals and rich Agricultural land, we also have a depth of human resources (as seen on some of the postings in this Forum) that if harnessed correctly could make Sierra Leone the envy of the Africa.
Subject: Re: Are we really a poor nation?
From: M. Alieu Iscandari Esq
To: All
Date Posted: 01:53:42 09/22/07 ()
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http://minerals.usgs.gov/minerals/pubs/country/2004/slmyb04.pdf
Subject: Re: Are we really a poor nation?
From: Mammy Blessing
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Date Posted: 23:41:59 09/21/07 ()
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Message:
Yep we are poor. Dead broke really. How come?
Light nor dae. Chop nor dae. Wata nor clean. Merecin nor dae. Job nor dae. Economy alaki. We politishan dem greedy and wicked. Den dae use den finga for lick de last plasas nar de pot. As Sheikh Umarr say, we nar intanashonal Miskina... beggar beggar...Kotho donor, gee me money for me pokit...ahem..ar mean for de kontri..
Yes THEY have been telling us that we are potentially blessed with gold, diamonds, bauxite, rutile and even oil around the Bonthe straits for 40 years now, since independence. And for 40 years, we have been setting new world records in poverty, misery and backwardness as foreign skunks, in collusion with corrupt politicians, cart away our wealth.
If our people can't benefit from this vaunted "potential wealth", then let it stay in the ground of our hallowed land until we bequeath it to future generations who can get a better deal for the country. We hope the new government will declare, as soon as possible, an emergency in the mining sector until the entire sorry mess of corrupt contracts and environmental degradation is sorted out. That will be a start.
Subject: Re: Are we really a poor nation?
From: jackal
To: All
Date Posted: 11:32:19 09/22/07 ()
Email Address: dollarbill@gmail.com
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Message:
Another yep we re for a different reason. In economomic terms, we are poor for two strong reasons;
1. As much as we have so much array of mineral resources, we do not have an equitable wealth distribution system. Government collects the bulk of the returns from investments but pays out in the form of public benefits that is of no value to the average man.
2.The average Sierra Leone is economically unproductive. Think of your weekly, monthly or annual wages in the West. Also think of your labor, input and the result you make as an individul on behalf of your company. Compare that to a subsistence farmer or an average postal worker who handles fewer mails. The producion per capita is extremely low. That is not to say Sierra Leonenas are lazy.
3. Government is unproductive. Governments are generally slow when it comes to reacting to crititcal cost effective value added decisions. It takes an averge of 180 days to register a business or buy land in Sierra Leone, but take 22 days in Jamiaca. It takes 7 working days in the USA.
Here is to a brief answer.
Subject: Re: Are we really a poor nation?
From: MUSA KAMARA
To: All
Date Posted: 06:57:45 09/22/07 ()
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You have my support MB as always.Unless the Government lays out swift,decisive measures in the mining region,exploiting our minerals by crooks will continue unabated.The first step,as I have been advocating scrutinize all foreigners from the mining fields.LONTA!!!
Subject: Re: Are we really a poor nation?
From: BRA ENVIABLE
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Date Posted: 22:54:19 09/21/07 ()
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Ar nor see dae link. However, we are considered poor because of several reasons I cannot explain in haste.
Please repost the link. Nar United Nations-related link you dae tork bort?
Subject: All The Violence In The Provinces Are By SLPP
From: Toegondoe Sagbah
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Date Posted: 22:14:28 09/21/07 ()
Email Address: mendemoi@yahoo.com
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I am told that all the pockets of violence in the provinces as reported by Awareness Times are done by disgruntled SLPP supporters. They still don't know that the election is over and that we have a new government now. They are still under the spell of the instructions of their former SLPP bosses.
Its like how they used to burn down PMDC houses in Pujehun and point fingers at PMDC. Did the SLPP police ever prosecuted them...NOOOOOOO!
Just like how Ambassador Patrick Foya fired some shots at PMDC campaign convoy. Was he prosecuted? NOOOOOOO!
Just like how they burnt down PMDC homes in Bo District. Did the then SLPP police prosecute anybody?...NOOOOO!
Just like how the PMDC woman candidate was beaten up in Segbwema, John Ben's backyard. Was anyone held accountable and prosecuted...NOOOOO!
Just like how John Ben and others barricaded Kailahun barring opponents from voting or reaching their polling stations. Was anyone prosecuted?...NOOOOOO!
Just like how they burnt down their own office in Kenema and vandalized the one in Freetown. Was anyone held accountable and prosecuted?...NOOOOO!
Just like how they stuffed the ballots in Kailahun, Kenema, Pujehun and Bo. Were they prosecuted...YEEEESSSS!
Christiana "Joan Of Arc" Thorpes made them pay with 473 invalidated polling stations. Hahahaaaaaaaaaaaa.
CRIME ONLY PAYS UNDER AN SLPP GOVERNMENT, but not under Christiana Thope's authority. And certainly its not going to pay under Koroma's government. So those violent SLPP thugs better quit before its too late.
Subject: Re: All The Violence In The Provinces Are By SLPP
From: ITK
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Date Posted: 10:52:37 09/22/07 ()
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Toegondoe:
I am pleading wth you -- Please let this go. I don't know whether you are motivated by a personal grudge or you are driven by the misguided belief that you are serving some public good. One thing is certain: You are not demonstrating good citizenship (I assume you are part of the wonderful Sierra Leone family).
You asert that the elections are over; but, as evident from your shameful diatribe, you seem unable to subjugate party loyalty/sentiments to the promotion of national unity, solidarity and cohesion. No-one is saying we cannot engage in post-elections analysis or post-mortems; or, as the case may be, bask in the glory of the APC victory, or brood over a very difficult election loss for the SLPP; that is all to be expected.
Togendoe, I hate to say this. I have been appalled by your online contributions since the end of the elections. If I didn't know you better, I would have no qualms including you among those that are referred to derogatively as "enemies from within" because conduct such as yours threatens the viability of our fragile nation more than you obviously realize.
I can only conclude that your conduct stems from some personal grudge, animosity or frustration involving the SLPP or SLPP personalities. I would urge you to put any such issues aside in the interest of your country.
As you have correctly said, the elections are over (and, I might add, the APC--with or without PMDC assistance-- has won. Thus, the bulk of what you express in your posting is not only unecessary but meaningless.
I know you are capable of seeing the light.
Subject: Re: All The Violence In The Provinces Are By SLPP
From: Toegondoe Sagbah
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Date Posted: 13:52:43 09/22/07 ()
Email Address: mendemoi@yahoo.com
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I don't hold grudges, I let it all out. I say it as it is. I call a spade a spade...both ways! And then keep going.
People can act maliciously against others or the society at large, but do not want anyone to talk about their action, even though they CHOSE to be malicious.
They do that which they know is bad, and then expect everyone to shut-up and swallow it like sponge while they continue with their deed. These types of actions have to be challeneged in order for them to be reconsidered or avoided.
The SLPP mouth-piece, Awareness Times, refuses to relent and accept the virtues of the elections. Go to their website and see. The only way to prevent slanted views from becoming the dominant views is by providing contrasting views to them.
They must know that if they chose not to forgive and forget, there will always be a counter response to their enimical propaganda. Just like I did all through the elections. As Charles said very often, there are "no sacred cows" to any action or behavior that is unbecoming.
We cannot allow crooks and corrupt actions to be accepted as the norms of our society. Otherwise society becomes complacent and the less powerful suffer.
If you were tracking my actions in this election, I did refrain from making extreme expressons during the run-off. It was my choice. Yet, others continued unabated with their own viriolic expressions. Sometimes fire just have to be fought with fire for the initial setter to come to their senses.
I shall heed your advice conditionally.
Subject: Re: All The Violence In The Provinces Are By SLPP
From: kamara
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Date Posted: 03:16:26 09/22/07 ()
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There you go again Morie Mussafa. Were the attacks in Mile 91 and Biriwa committed by SLpp or APC thugs.?Look, the elections are over eventhough the incompetent Christian Thorpe bungled them and cowardly declared Koroma the winner.
Stop giving us misinformation, deal with the current issues like thuggery in Freetown and the xenophobic attacks on nigerians traders,
What does the PMDC have to say about the violence and about current President galavanting in West Africa when there is violence and disturbances in his country.
SLPP is in the opposition now, What is APC?PMDC going to end the violence.
Subject: Re: All The Violence In The Provinces Are By SLPP
From: Toegondoe Sagbah
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Date Posted: 14:04:04 09/22/07 ()
Email Address: mendemoi@yahoo.com
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You seee! There you go too. The whole world has praised this lady but YOU call her incompetent. Where did you get that descr1ption from but your biased SLPP-based mentality.
You call mine as misinformation? Waaaoo! I predicted ALL THE RIGGING PROBABILITIES ORCHESTRATD BY THE SLPP AND NOW THE COUNTRY IS GRAPPLING WITH ITS AFTERMATH.
Bro! Your SLPP rigged big time in the election especilly in the Eastern Province and Bo. I was the first to write about it. Then the UNIOSIL personnel present in Kailahun came out declaring that the elections in Kailahun were perfect, when, in fact, they were not. Unfortunately the first election was not as scrutinized as the run-off, that's why SLPP was not caught. Otherwise PMDC would have been in the run-off.
Why Koroma is, as you say, "galavanting in West Africa"? Because he was elected to go to "WORK", right away, and not to go on vacation first or relax when the business of the country has to be done.
By the way, why is Yenga (Salone territory) still under occupation? Because Kabba and Berewa were RELAXED through and through. Hahahaaaaaaaaaaa
Subject: Re: All The Violence In The Provinces Are By SLPP
From: kamara
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Date Posted: 18:03:45 09/22/07 ()
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I call Christiana Thorpe incompetent because she bungled the elections. The donor nations accepted the results and armtwisted Kabba & Berewa in to accepting them because they did not want to give any more money to Sierra Leone.
Koroma was elected to work right away, Yes. He should get to work halting the violence not galavanting in Burkina Faso.
Subject: Re: All The Violence In The Provinces Are By SLPP
From: otoole
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Date Posted: 22:27:42 09/21/07 ()
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Where would they go there is no place to go any more, may be they dont know that yet, sorry.
Subject: Please Bambay, We Can't take It Anymore!
From: Bambay Frenzy!
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Date Posted: 18:51:36 09/21/07 ()
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Bambay, you great proliferator of posts, what is going on? Is it a full moon already? Nine postings in a row. Wow that's a world record!
Please stop. We can't keep up with the frenzy.
Subject: SLPP newspapers
From: Otoole
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Date Posted: 21:45:27 09/21/07 ()
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What happen to the SLPP NEWS PAPERS, I can not go throw with them. Any body know why, i like to read there postings but for some reason i can not get throw, when ever i click i got ygwerjkfheh. I hope they are not runing away.
Subject: WHY I LOVE THE DEATH PENALTY
From: BRA ENVIABLE
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Date Posted: 18:49:12 09/21/07 ()
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The death penalty may be "cruel and unusual punishment," but its pragmatic intents have served society well. Although life taken by a faulty legal procedure can never be revived, the practical benefit of the death penalty has always served as the best form of justice in cases involving abhorrent criminality.
In politics, criminals do not need swords to conduct killing frenzies. In poorly-governed countries like Sierra Leone, a recidivist in office can impoverish thousands of people by a single act of theft. Once a political scoundrel has been tried in an open court and found guilty of stealing hefty sums of money "with intent to impoverish the nation," the death penalty should come handy.
In the history of human existence, every state has argued that treason should be punishable by either death, or an interminably long prison term. The reason? Treason has the injurious effect of undermining national security in ways designed to endanger life and property. Theft on the scale experienced in poor, agrarian countries like Sierra Leone, has the same potential to undermine national security by way of mass poverty. From Siaka Stevens to Mamadi Tejani Kabbah, the state machinery in Sierra Leone has glibly argued that subversives must die. Coup plotters--both contrived and real ones--have been executed in Sierra Leone by successive chief executives. Stevens, Momoh, Strasser, and Kabbah, were all guilty of executing accused plotters after brisk trials. "Economic Coup Plotters", or those who kill the nation through criminal acts of theft, should be given the death penalty after fair trials in open courts.
Subject: Re: WHY I LOVE THE DEATH PENALTY
From: nyanda diamoh
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Date Posted: 09:02:55 09/22/07 ()
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Be it by hanging or by any other means, death is not a punishment but an end. DONT KILL Punish
Subject: Re: THOU SHALL NOT KILL
From: M. Alieu Iscandari Esq.
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Date Posted: 22:10:14 09/21/07 ()
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Bra E, I have been fortunate in my life time to represent a man on death row at San Queintin in California, and to represent a man charged with a capital offence (Murder).
My convictions against the death penalty is quite strong. I was recently helping my son with a college homework assignment and we had a very healthy debateon the issue of the death penalty. He was for it and I was against it. At the last California execution, I took him with me to protest the death penalty at San Queintin and he realised that the deth penalty was wrong. I am glad to report that he now thinks like his dad on that discrete legal and moral issue.
On another note, I am a frontline fighter in the American Justice system which has a tendency to sentence more people of color to the death penalty, than white people or people of european ancestry. Perhaps my greatest reason for my being so opposed to the death penalty is its FINALTY. I am sure you have been in the US long enough to hear about the work of the "Innocence project" which has been sucessful in overturning cases in which the defendants are on death row awaiting execution only to find out after investigation, that either their DNA was not found at the scene, the DNA withheld EXCULPATORY evidence, there was ineffective assistance of counsel, or something that made the verdict of death an UNFAIR verdict. In the sierra leone and for that matter African Context, the Death penalty has been used as weapon for intimidating the political opposition. Taking a brief cursory look at the history of the death penalty in sierra leone we find the following facts to be true:
Juxon Smith was sentenced to death.
Certain people who served the SLPP government of Sir Albert Margai, including Berthan Macauley were sentenced to death for having been members of the opposition.
John Bangura
Ibrahim taqi
Mohamed Sorie Forna
DAVID LANSANA
SALAMI COKER
Bambay Kamara
KULA SAMBA
All of these people including others unnamed were all basically executed after some botched and impartial trials and in some cases none at all, only because they were opposed in some way to the Government of the day.
In the same vein the Wellington Street murder suspects and the Mammy Yoko street murder suspects have been the only real "criminals" who have been executed in sierra leone. It stands to reason that many more have faced the hangmans noose or the bulets of the firing squad in sierra leone over politics than crime.
I remember one of the most celebrated cases in siera leone whie I was child. It was the case of the people of sierra leone versus LANSANA KURUBALAY a gambian who was alleged to have murdered a police officer called GRANT. It was further alleged that he police officer had received a bribe from the accused and then deeptively sought his deportation and continued to taunt him as he ws being deported. The man snapped and killed his tormentor.
He did serve a jail term and was freed by the time I got to fininsh secondary school. I believe that even Murders can be rehablitated and the criminally insane can be placed in sanitariums for healing.
When the state executes someone who is later found to be innocent, then there is no way that the mistake of the justice system can remedy the situation except provide financial remuneration fo rthe heirs of the decedent.
In all of the Abrahamic religions our GOD asks us not to KILL. That is all we need to do and the instruction applies to governments too.
THE DEATH PENALY IS DEAD WRONG BROTHER
Subject: Re: THOU SHALL NOT KILL
From: Med
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Date Posted: 06:31:11 09/22/07 ()
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I think Bra Enviable is talking about ‘retributive justice,' and not necessarily the dispensation of death penalty. Although the death penalty init self is legally, morally and religiously justifiable and cannot be simply abolished on ‘thou shall not kill,’ which I believe refers to unlawful deprivation of life. Some of you activists of death penalty must learn to distinguish between crimes punishable by death and those requiring less severe measures; this would divulge highly disputed propositions regarding crime and punishment. Secondly, if we are talking about justice, then sentiments should be ruled out, because Justice is blindfolded and cannot show unfair partiality.
The SLPP has upheld this form of penalty, deemed cruel for a reason; TRC recommended the abolition of death penalty, SLPP had the absolute prerogative to abolish death either by hanging or firing squad but decided otherwise. As a matter of fact, a legally minded former AG, lately VP and then SLPP presidential candidate justified execution by firing squad as a colonial heritage.
If responsible men and women with children, who had people they supported and family members that loved them were publicly executed like dogs, under the auspices of justice, then again justice cannot discharge unfair partially in any given circumstance.
I fully support the dispensation of justice under the laws of Sierra Leone as had applied to others. Notwithstanding, I sustain any legislative move by the APC administration to abolish the death penalty.
Subject: Re: THOU SHALL NOT KILL
From: BRA ENVIABLE
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Date Posted: 22:48:52 09/21/07 ()
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Alphaa Alieu, Wow. These are the LIBERAL and LEGALESE parts of you. Yu almos konvince me but the effects of 2 foot aratas in Salone are so abysmal that a tough stance needs to be taken against those who wreck a whole nation out of sheer greed.
Ow dee month of Ramadan? Ar hope say u tinap tranga wan lek cotton tree.
Subject: Re: THOU SHALL NOT KILL
From: M. Alieu Iscandari Esq
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Date Posted: 02:11:28 09/22/07 ()
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Bra E, life is a gift from God and taking of life is an abomination of the earth. Yes we do need to take a tough stance against corruption and there are many ways that could occur. Mandatory Prison sentences in excess of 15 years for thefts in excess of certain amounts would be nice. What we could do is make laws that would create a limit after which the punishment would be increased.
For minor amounts of money,I would sugest a first punishment of a short term jail of about 6 months and an order from the court that that person should stand at the cotton tree in a public place with a placard say " I AM A THIEF".
It is my experience that where the punishment is fashioned so that the offending party suffers some form of public humiliation, it is a very effective way of preventing the commisssion of crimes.
we can increase the intensity of the punishment with succeeding offenses and it can escalate all the way up to some jail term andpublic WHIPPING.
I can almost tell you that even public whipping is a whole lot better than a hanging.
The death penalty is not a deterent to crime, because if it were so then there would be no crime in the states where it is enfored. In fact in California for example there is an increase in homicides. But when you punish someone by diminishing their value as a decent member of society in the presenceof the public eye, then it tends to deter the crime.
Subject: Re: WHY I LOVE THE DEATH PENALTY
From: Mammy Blessing
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Date Posted: 19:00:59 09/21/07 ()
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Watch out Bra Enviable. Alieu Iscandri is gonna come down on you like a ton of bricks. He kinda opposes the death penalty.
Subject: Re: WHY I LOVE THE DEATH PENALTY
From: BRA ENVIABLE
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Date Posted: 20:08:31 09/21/07 ()
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Me en Lawyer Alphaa Alieu kin frequently agree to disagree. If some 2 foot arata dem nor die, Salone nor go betteh.
Subject: I want to cry? Should I!
From: Bambay Lans Kamara
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Date Posted: 18:46:57 09/21/07 ()
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Ladies and gentlemen, Alpha Blonde!
Subject: Re: I want to cry? Should I! Dont,t CRY Lans
From: Shembu
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Date Posted: 09:41:44 09/22/07 ()
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Good clips but don't cry brother. Be Happy.
Subject: Re: I want to cry? Should I! Dont,t CRY Lans
From: Bambay Lans Kamara
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Date Posted: 15:39:45 09/22/07 ()
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O.k!
Thank you. If you happy and you know it, clap your hands!
I have too tough exams: Medical Microbiology lecture and Lab, only yesterday did I get the text book therefore, I will not talk much today.
Subject: Jerusalem
From: Bambay Lans Kamara
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Date Posted: 18:35:57 09/21/07 ()
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Unity.
Subject: Re: Jerusalem the Golden
From: Cornelius Hamelberg
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Date Posted: 01:18:12 09/23/07 ()
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Yersushalaiyim
Subject: Re: Jerusalem
From: Cornelius Hamelberg
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Date Posted: 00:56:30 09/23/07 ()
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And Matisyahu too
Subject: Re: Jerusalem if I forget thee
From: Cornelius Hamelberg
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Date Posted: 01:09:05 09/23/07 ()
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Matisyahu
Subject: Gregory!
From: Bambay Lans Kamara
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Date Posted: 18:25:24 09/21/07 ()
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Jamming.
Subject: Elections over, lets Party!
From: Bambay Lans Kamara
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Date Posted: 18:19:37 09/21/07 ()
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I've got you babe!
Subject: These were constructed during the A.P.C. era. Expect more.
From: Bambay Lans Kamara
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Date Posted: 18:09:45 09/21/07 ()
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Elections over, our brothers have met, now is time to go to work.
http://www.visitsierraleone.org/featured_hotels/hotel-bintumani.asp
Subject: Re: These were constructed during the A.P.C. era. Expect more.
From: Bambay Lans Kamara
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Date Posted: 18:16:46 09/21/07 ()
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This is where I usually went Clubbing and watching commedians (commedy shows) the Professionals to be exact, before I left for the U.S. Most Brits, Americans and other foreigners use to be guests here and some of them use to go clubbing here at a club called "Where Else."
Subject: Re: These were constructed during the A.P.C. era. Expect more.
From: Bambay Lans Kamara
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Date Posted: 18:22:26 09/21/07 ()
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It was situated along this beach: "Lumley Beach."
Well, I thank you.
Subject: Women Clean State House
From: Bambay Lans Kamara
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Date Posted: 17:59:19 09/21/07 ()
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Our people know what is best. We are a clean people, a loving people and hardworking people. Bravo to the women of Sierra Leone.
Subject: "Put aside party colours and return to work"
From: Bambay Lans Kamara
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Date Posted: 17:41:04 09/21/07 ()
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Put aside party colours and return to work"
…Pres. Koroma told Ministers
By Joseph Kamanda
President Ernest Bai Koroma has on Wednesday 19th September told all ministers to put aside party colours and return to work.
"Put aside all party colours and go back to your offices and resume work as the elections are now over and the people have taken their decision so politicking is also over .we now need to come together and work hard to move the country forward," said President Koroma.
Speaking during his first meeting with cabinet ministers of the past regime , all of whom were present , with the exception of Education Science and Technology Minister ,Dr. Alpha and Lloyd During of the Energy and Power ministry, Mr. Koroma assured the ministers that the meeting was conveyed to build confidence among all government ministries.
"We are not coming in from a military coup and the business of transition, in which nobody will should be intimidated, should go on" he said and he therefore encouraged the ministers to continue to work as they used to do and live in perfect peace.
President Koroma noted that his is now charged with the full responsibility to protect the lives of every Sierra Leoneans and he reiterated that government officers should do away with their loyalty to political parties and work in the interest of the country. He described the alleged looting at the opposition Sierra Leone Peoples Party office and the killing of one of the party's supporters as unfortunate and assured the ministers that the matter will be pursued and dealt with in accordance with the law.
In respond, Finance Minister John Benjamin on behalf of colleagues, congratulated President Koroma on his presidency and praised him for taking the right direction to address their issues.
Mr. Benjamin requested for an audience to chart a way forward with President Koroma on the transition process in order to create the enabling environment for the opposition SLPP. Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation Minister , Momodu Koroma, also passed on good wishes to the President, saying that he will talk to his people in the provinces to accept the presidency as he described President Koroma's government as a viable alternative for the development of Sierra Leone.
In another development, earlier on Wednesday, Julius Maada Bio and Tom Nuyma paid a courtesy call on President Koroma at his State House office.
The two young men said that they were impressed about the way the transition process is creating the conducive atmosphere for them to stay in the country by providing security for all and sundry. Both Bio and Nuyma disclosed that they were looking forward to work with President Koroma as they were now ready to take the transition message to their people in the provinces.
President Koroma in his response to the visit made by the two men, reassured them of their safety in Sierra Leone and he said they should feel free to go about their normal business.
Subject: DEDICATED SPORTS MINISTER
From: THE HONEST MAN
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Date Posted: 17:35:43 09/21/07 ()
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It is about time,the sports ministry is given to a former LEONE STARS PLAYER to be the minister.There are lots of capable,competent and dedicated former LEONE STAR that can run that ministry deligently and revitalize sports in SIERRA LEONE.The great Pele was a SPORT minister of Brazil and also Maxim of Guinea.Why not LESLIE ALLEN,AKIN NOAH OR BRIMA MAZOLLA KAMARA BE MINISTER OF SPORT IN SIERRA LEONE. ALL WE NEED FROM OUR MINISTERS IS HONESTY AND DEDICATION.
Subject: Re: DEDICATED SPORTS MINISTER
From: THAVARISH
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Date Posted: 20:29:34 09/21/07 ()
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THE HONEST MAN,
The best coaches in the world did not play high level of football during their playing days.Coaches such as JOSE MARINHO,SIR ALEX,ARSENE WENGER, etc etc were not so-call ELITE PLAYERS during their time,but they made GREAT COACHES.My point here is these guys are very good people and players for our National Team,but that should not QUALIFIES them as SPORTS MINISTER.In the same token,I think they can make a very good ADVISERY TEAM to the SPORT MINISTER.What I found HEART rendering is APC EXECUTIVE MEMBERS with the exception of our ERUDITE LAWYER Iscandri,Foday Mansaray,Ahmed Conteh and Unisa Kanu, openly campaigning for cabinet positions when most of them refused to do the duty work during the HEAVY FIGHTING DAYS of the elections,and now using this medium to let the world know who they are.My advise to all APC members is to continue the good work,and forget about the rewards,because the citizens of Salone and his Excellency Ernest Koroma needs us.Winning the elections was the PREAMBLE to our job;delivery to our people is the hardest and I hope and Pray that everybody should listen to the message of the President and work together as one SIERRA LEONE.
Subject: Re: DEDICATED SPORTS MINISTER /Alieu Iscandri for...
From: POLITICO
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Date Posted: 21:48:37 09/21/07 ()
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For sure Alieu Iscandri will be considered to serve his country. It is not just for his persuasive and well reasoned ideas during the challenging days, but he is a well rounded and very thoughtful gentleman. The #1 adviser to Charles Margai just arrived in the United States few hours ago, some of us have decided to feature our Legal Eagle as a true prospect to serve SL. Never met the guy, but it is so easy to recognize his talent and to vouch for his thoroughness through this medium. He may not be asking for any thing, but it is ok to ask for his service. Let us do it./
Subject: Re: DEDICATED SPORTS MINISTER /Alieu Iscandri for...
From: Perth Australia
To: All
Date Posted: 02:01:29 09/22/07 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
alieu iscandari may already be on the A list but fromwhat you know about him, where would he fit? Ministry of justice? Mining? Anti- Corruption? Presidents office?
Everyone knows that he has been true to the cause, but how much income would he have to give up to take position with the government of sa lone.
what do you think? and why is he not in this debate?Is it that he may not be looking to get recruited?
Subject: Re: DEDICATED SPORTS MINISTER /Alieu Iscandri for...
From: Sabanoh
To: All
Date Posted: 06:12:29 09/22/07 ()
Email Address: Sabanoh007@yahoo.com
Entered From: adsl-75-60-210-114.dsl.wotnoh.sbcglobal.net at 75.60.210.114
Message:
If you are promoting Iscandri, you must not have known that his father was ordered by a commission of inquiry to pay back some funds that he embezzled. Do you think Alieu will do better than his father? Well what the hell? Kabba was ordered by the Beoku-Betts Commission to pay back for all the rice that he stole from Rice Corp and he was given a free ride. Send Alieu to Freetown and he would be worst than Keh Keh Leigh.
Subject: Re: DEDICATED SPORTS MINISTER /Alieu Iscandri for...
From: Commission secretary
To: All
Date Posted: 10:13:17 09/22/07 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
You have not been truthful. The truth and the fcts is that we found that he was not in posession of funds in excess of his oficial emmoluments. Our commission did not not make any fines against him. It was the NPRC that chose to make fines of 100 million leones against Mr. Iscandaris father.
Get your facts right
Subject: Re: DEDICATED SPORTS MINISTER /Alieu Iscandri for...
From: Sabanoh
To: All
Date Posted: 11:52:52 09/22/07 ()
Email Address: Sabanoh007@yahoo.com
Entered From: adsl-75-60-210-114.dsl.wotnoh.sbcglobal.net at 75.60.210.114
Message:
So what if it was the NPRC that levied fines against him? He was still found to be in violation of some rules and regulation.They probably uncovered what your commission didn't have the guts to do.
Subject: Re: DEDICATED SPORTS MINISTER /Alieu Iscandri for...
From: Commission Secretary
To: All
Date Posted: 12:55:18 09/22/07 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
They probably uncovered what your commission didn't have the guts to do.
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Well you have aright to your opinion however erroneous its basis. I have told you what I know. Also ATK had an independent judge review the fines against Mr. Iscandaris father and all of it was recersed and all fines that he had been forcd to pay were returned to him. Do you ever read the sierra leone gazette? Its there
Subject: Re: DEDICATED SPORTS MINISTER /Alieu Iscandri for...
From: Sabanoh
To: All
Date Posted: 20:12:41 09/23/07 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
Commission Secretary, You have evidently showed me that you know nothing that happened with the I-Scandal-ri's case. With you as secretary and making all those spelling mistakes, no wonder your commission did not accomplish what it was mandated to do. Kabba was given everything that was taken from him and the warrant of arrest that Sierra Leone issued on him was quashed by Momoh. So does that mean Kabba did not steal from us? Old crooks are always aiding and abetting old crooks. So your commission not doing it's job is a manifestation of crooks doing what they do best,cover their butts. I respect your candid confession that you have told me what you know( which is nothing). Maybe, you should return the meagre salary you earned or the bribe you took to look the other way.
Subject: Re: DEDICATED SPORTS MINISTER /Alieu Iscandri for...
From: THAVARISH
To: All
Date Posted: 23:27:16 09/21/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: c-71-204-124-192.hsd1.ga.comcast.net at 71.204.124.192
Message:
Bra,
The more the merrier.Salone needs you more than THE LAND OF U GO SOBER.I measured the erudite lawyer as an example of someone who fight the FIGHT for what he believes.Call him what you may,but he is a proud Freetownian/Salonean,and does not deter from his message.If I am not mistaking,we have a total of 150 lawyers in Salone with a population of 3mln people.So Bra nar for go back en help we JUSTICE department.For some of us who are LABOURERS,I know for sure I can help with my LABOURER CLEANING SKILLS,Whilst you help maitain the RULE OF LAW.
SO U SEE BRA,ALL MAN GET SOMETIN FOR HELP MAMA SALONE.
Subject: Re: DEDICATED SPORTS MINISTER /Alieu Iscandri for...
From: Kalos
To: All
Date Posted: 11:42:52 09/22/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: c-68-33-141-174.hsd1.md.comcast.net at 68.33.141.174
Message:
Well said, but don't underestimate your God given talents. Any of us can contribute in our little ways to help our Sierra leone. All that is required is to give the best of you abilities and the rest will be fine...........
Subject: Re: DEDICATED SPORTS MINISTER
From: THE HONEST MAN
To: All
Date Posted: 18:20:36 09/21/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: ip-207-145-43-5.iad.megapath.net at 207.145.43.5
Message:
MR.TUN SERAY WURIE. I AM TALKING ABOUT CONST ITUTIONAL NOT SPORTS MINISTER BY THE GUNS
Subject: Re: DEDICATED SPORTS MINISTER
From: Almamy Razak Tun Seray-Wurie Si
To: All
Date Posted: 17:40:57 09/21/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: 24hrpc9.cpmc.columbia.edu at 156.111.18.148
Message:
But Umaru Deen-Sesay did..
Subject: TOLERANCE:Blackpool Vs East End Lions
From: Almamy Razak Tun Seray-Wurie Si
To: All
Date Posted: 17:33:57 09/21/07 ()
Email Address: almamysi@hotmail.com
Entered From: 24hrpc9.cpmc.columbia.edu at 156.111.18.148
Message:
Why the violence?
A*Old Scores settled
B*Cultural ways of expressing emotions
C*The destitute
D*Lack of political education (How democracy works)
E*None of the above
Subject: TIME TO ABOLISH THE DEATH PENALTY IN SIERRA LEONE
From: Lanre
To: All
Date Posted: 16:29:33 09/21/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 216.249.59.199
Message:
As the government of President Koroma begins his tenure, it is time for parliament to urgently review the relevant sections of the consitution and make the necessary amendments to abolish the death penalty in our country.
For a population of around 5 million people, we are too few to continue the death penalty. It is befitting at this time of national reconciliation and forgiveness (as our muslim relations fast and pray for us all) for the people's government to ABOLISH THE DEATH PENALTY.
No country can claim it is civilized when the state continues to execute people. Whatever the crimes people may have committed no one can be justified to deprive another citizen of their life. Evidence from countries without the death penalty - e.g. Canada, UK, France, etc - shows that crime rate is much lower when compared to counties where the death penalty is still employed - such as several states in the USA , e.g. California, Texas, etc.
In our short history as a nation, there have been numerous executions - most of which were conducted under questionable circumstances. Unfortunately, once a life is taken there is no reverse if even there was a mistrial.
In October this year the UN general assemble will call for a ban on the death penalty world wide; while
Amnesty International have been campaigning for the abolution of the death penalty in Sierra Leone and other countries for a long time now - and it is my hope that the hardworking members of this forum will act as the voice of the voiceless and use whatever available means to convey this humble message to the new government of Sierra Leone.
LONG LIVE THE REPUBLIC OF SIERRA LEONE!
GOD BLESS THE REPUBLIC OF SIERRA LEONE!
Subject: Re: TIME TO ABOLISH THE DEATH PENALTY IN SIERRA LEONE
From: babybob
To: All
Date Posted: 16:52:04 09/21/07 ()
Email Address: m9141655@msn.com
Entered From: at 213.42.21.60
Message:
Why People bring somethings up at the wrong time, I just don't get it.
A government just took over a state which is determined as one of the least of least developed and the first thing you advice is change your death penalty? You must be kidding.
As a matter of fact, I believe the present government to put in even harsh measures to deter economic criminals.
Do you know How long the west has been crying over China about their Human Rights issue? They just don't care, but the American still do real business with them and today they are flourishing and the West have gone quite.
The chinese say, "We have 1.2 Billion Chinese, not westerners. We know chinese psyche, not western". China is one of the Safest Countries in the World.
Why is it that China can control and maintain 1.2 Billion people but America cannot control and maintain relative violence-free society?
Cutting it short, I believe the government should put laws that if you steal or embezzle the "Peoples Money", not only YOU will suffer. We will take everything from you and all your immediate relatives and associates, Auction all those belongings in Public in put it in STATE FUNDS. That WILL make everyone think twice first before they even IMAGINE to steal.
Death penalty......... my foot. Hey these are desperate times to put our house in order and remove us from that cesspit of Human Index.
Don't make it even easier for them to loot.
Subject: Rubbish Heaps, Fetid Smells, and Blocked Drains
From: Sengbe
To: All
Date Posted: 14:41:33 09/21/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 198.85.59.203
Message:
The title of this piece aptly describes the Capital City of Freetong, or perhaps, more appropriately, ROKIAMP, now that we are under the Red Sun.
To make the move into a new home, the first item on the agenda that one must neccessarily consider is to ensure that the home is clean, and disinfected before making the move.
President Koroma should be making plans to move on up from Goderich to Hill Station. I am sure ex-President Kabba has the janitors on their toes cleaning the residence he had occupied for the last ten years, so that it would be immaculately clean when the movers arrive in behalf of President Koroma.
But how about the Capital City, Rokiamp?
Who, or what agency is gonna be responsible for clearing the rubbish heaps, deodorizing the fetid smells, and unblocking the clogged drains? Sites and smells that are so prevalent in that city of about two million people.
Surely we cannot put our trust in the FCC that ought to be responsible in serving this function. They have been in existence / power since 2004 after the local government elections were held, and nothing seems to have been done with regards to this issue.
The Municipal government of the FCC is APC-led, as everyone knows, and they have been known to blame their inaction on the "vindictiveness" of the former SLPP-led GoSL. Maybe now that President Koroma of the APC has been duly elected as President of the nation, the APC-led FCC will get on with the task of cleaning the Capital City of Rokiamp before the inauguration ceremonies begin in about a month's time. Let us keep hope alive!!!
Bo! unu sef!! How unu go laydon nar such filth ehn expect foreigner for cam ehn invest nar unu contri? Unu teech the borbor dem for loot, vandalize, rape ehn commit arson but unu nor teech dem for clean usai dem tapp. Eh bo!! Oose kine hygiene dis be ba?
Unu sleep nar dorty, dance nar dorty, cook nar dorty, eat nar dorty, make sweet love nar dorty, maskita day all sai, malaria day all sai, unu nor geh shame?
Unu nor go participate for clean unu yone city?
No?
Why not?
Becus nar the gofment for clean we environment for we.
Nar so?
Yes!
Unu done habhope pan da fallacy day for almost 11-years now, ee nor happin. Why unu still habhope pan dis fallacy ya so ba?
Unu nor go clean unu yone city?
Way ee cam pan politricks all man nar politrickcian, all man wan power even up to the point of being thuggish and violent, but way ee cam pan unu yone health we nor go even see wan night nurse.
Why we tan so ba?
Unu clean unu city for unasef, if for nobody else.
Cleanliness ehn healthiness day next to Godliness.
Let the youth dem fet for them health ehn lef for do the bidding for dem lie-lie politrickcian in violence ehn thuggery.
Na de word dat oh, me fambul dem.
Leh we go clean we capital city, Rokiamp, Sa Lon.
Subject: Re: Rubbish Heaps, Fetid Smells, and Blocked Drains
From: SID
To: All
Date Posted: 17:30:17 09/21/07 ()
Email Address: rt_22192@yahoo.com
Entered From: pool-162-83-107-153.culp.east.verizon.net at 162.83.107.153
Message:
The gov,t needs to play a vital role in cleaning Freetown, as well as the FCC, for you to blame the citizens of Freetown for their plight (dorty) is not fear. You are equating a massive municipal task as simply picking a broom and pan. No we need to start looking beyond weekend individual community cleaning, and start focusing on the structural and civil engineering of the
Western area (Freetown)
1. Set assigned dump areas - two to three square miles apart depending on population density of the area.
2. FCC enforces laws already in books make new laws and codes separating Business areas from residential, abandon vehicles, street traders etc.
3. Encourage recycling “ very good business for scraps export to emerging market like India, china.
4. Back it up with a massive media campaign.
These are just some of the things the government can do with little or no capital to get the ball rolling. Don’t blame the masses; Sierra Leone is last or at the bottom of every economic or social indicator in the world not because of the war or who we are, it is because our leaders are incompetent.
Subject: Re: Rubbish Heaps, Fetid Smells, and Blocked Drains
From: Sorba S
To: All
Date Posted: 16:02:56 09/21/07 ()
Email Address: sorba_1@yahoo.com
Entered From: at 209.116.81.187
Message:
I got the answer to this problem. I am puting moderlities in place. I think I have the where withall to clean Freetown. But let me ask you this question? why do you want someone to clean the city for you when you yourself can contribute to the cleaning of it? Is Freetown not your city? Are you not from Sierra Leone? What kind of contribution can you make for the betterment of your sweet Salone? give ideas please!
Subject: Re: Rubbish Heaps, Fetid Smells, and Blocked Drains
From: Sengbe
To: All
Date Posted: 10:30:44 09/22/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: nc-71-1-210-213.dyn.embarqhsd.net at 71.1.210.213
Message:
The answer to your questions are as follows:
1. I don't want someone to clean the city for me, I want the inhabitants to clean the city for themselves.
2. I do not live in Freetown. I have not lived there for a very long time. I reside in the USA.
3. Yes, I am from S/Leone, but I no longer live there.
4. I will first allow the folks living in that filthy city to contribute in making it clean, and healthy, before I make any contribution in helping out. Our peoples are too lazy, and I am not about to encourage that type of laziness they are so easily inclined to exhibit. You are free to "baby" them if you so desire, not me. I will never throw trash / garbage on the streets where I live. Astafullai!!
Did I answer your questions?
Subject: Re: Rubbish Heaps, Fetid Smells, and Blocked Drains
From: Sam
To: All
Date Posted: 17:28:54 09/21/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: pool-71-184-33-3.bstnma.east.verizon.net at 71.184.33.3
Message:
Remember the problem isn't just cleaning the city, its maintaining it. Half a million people is pushing Freetown to the limits, now we have half the country there. Them upline wan dem wey cam for escape the war, some of them are nasty. People are hanging out of windows now, throwing trash and emptying kaka bokit out the window. Second, people do need places to dump trash and the city needs a collection program in place. Which brings us to the bigger issue. You can't have people putting out their trash cause you know someone will be grabbing the container en next tem you go markit, dem go sell u eat out of your own trash container.
Subject: Albert Moinina aka Moses Fakeh
From: Shembu
To: All
Date Posted: 14:29:00 09/21/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: eduproxy2.k12.de.us at 167.21.254.12
Message:
Fakeh,
Is this Moses Fakeh of St. Francis, Makeni then Boys School Magburaka, then Bo School (form 6), then FBC (briefly) and then The People's Republic of China? If yes, then boboh you sabi hide oh....I heard you are somewhere in Pittsburgh, PA.
This nar you Boys School, Magburaka mathematics study buddy. I ain't taking my veil off as of yet but we need to talk. I guess you can post your e-mail address (enti we don know you now). This nar da fiti yai boboh way been dae wam di kana but get boku sense - if you can guess.
Subject: Re: Albert Moinina aka Moses Fakeh
From: Albert Moinina
To: All
Date Posted: 21:47:56 09/21/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 213.42.21.154
Message:
"This nar da fiti yai boboh way been dae wam di kana but get boku sense - if you can guess."
Bo me nor able guess. Ah nor ever wam "kana".
Email: albert_j27@yahoo.com
Subject: Re: Albert Moinina aka Moses Fakeh
From: Shembu
To: All
Date Posted: 09:21:15 09/22/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: c-68-82-30-239.hsd1.de.comcast.net at 68.82.30.239
Message:
Bo M.O. Fak lef me. Not to Kana nar the main thing we dae tok bot. Ar yeri say you nar pastor now. Since way you bin dae nar Honkong, nar im ar yeri bot you pastor business.
Anyway, I go ask one pan dem Taylor dem from Turay trit for you phone number.
You mean for tell me say way we bin initiate you pan drilling you nor wam small sef? Bo do yah pastor. This nar jus back in the day memorie...........ar nor dae try for make you congregation vex.
Bo ar glady for yeri you anyway. Take am easy.
Subject: PRESS RELEASE FROM SLPP
From: Sylvester Johnny
To: All
Date Posted: 14:21:09 09/21/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: host-66-134-72-65.covad.com at 66.134.72.65
Message:
SIERRA LEONE PEOPLE?S PARTY
PRESS STATEMENT
SLPP, Freetown, September 20 2007 - You would recall that before the August
11, 2007 presidential and parliamentary elections, there were persistent
attacks on the headquarters of the Sierra Leone People?s Party (SLPP). The
attacks were intensified few days before the presidential run-off elections.
Hundreds of APC youths attempted to attack SLPP members and the Unity
Building, SLPP headquarters. These youths were repeatedly repelled by
determined SLPP youths.
The Results of Presidential Run-Off Elections
The final results of the presidential-off was as follows: Ernest Bai Koroma
(APC) 950,407 and Solomon E Berewa 789, 651 (SLPP) representing a difference
of 160,756. Results from 477 polling stations were invalidated on the ground
that voter turnout exceeded 100%. 426 of these (estimated at 89%) were in the
strongholds of the SLPP (Kailahun 90, Kenema 65, Kono 9, Bo 123, Bonthe 2,
Moyamba 24, Pujehun 113) and 51 were in the strongholds of the APC (Bombali
17, Kambia 8, Koinadugu 12, Port Loko 2, Tonkolili 6, Western Rural 1 and
Western Urban 6). For the 426 stations, the SLPP Tally Centre figures
indicate that the SLPP had votes exceeding over 95% in each of the stations.
Invalidation therefore disenfranchised nearly 250,000 of SLPP people.
The process of invalidation was dubious. The SLPP cannot establish how
correct that was. To establish that indeed there was ?over voting? (voter
turnout exceeding 100%) and for the sake of transparency, the Parties should
have been informed and recounting undertaken in the presence of both the APC
and SLPP agents. Unfortunately, this did not happen. Rather, recounting was
hurriedly done for polling stations with voter turnout at 100%. There were no
significant changes in the results in the few cases where recounting was
done. In an unprecedented manner, all the remaining figures were inputted
throughout the night of Sunday 16, 2007. A press briefing was also convened
at an unusual time, 10 a.m on Monday. Hon. Ernest Bai Koroma was declared the
President of the Republic of Sierra Leone and was sworn in later in the
evening on the same day. The SLPP presidential candidate Hon. Solomon Berewa
conceded defeat.
Most Party members are dissatisfied with the results and think their
happiness was stolen. They also firmly believe that certain members of the
international community connived with NEC to execute regime change agenda.
In the interest of peace and development, the Party accepts the results and
recognizes H E Ernest Bai Koroma as president of the Republic of Sierra
Leone. We call on all party members to remain calm and be more determined for
the next Local Council elections. The Party office remains open and party
activities will continue as usual.
Looting of SLPP Office by APC youths
On Monday 17, 2007, few hours after the announcement of the final results of
the presidential elections and the declaration of H E Ernest Bai Koroma as
president, hundreds of APC youths moved towards the SLPP National Secretariat
from different directions. I received several calls when the APC youths
started to mobilize around our office. From my hiding place, I al3rted the
police and there was a deployment of military police and SLP. Unfortunately,
there were more APC youths than the police and the SLPP youths combined.
Under the eyes of the police, these APC youths pelted stones on the Unity
Building and destroyed the window glass, forced their way into the premise
and comprehensively looted all items including computers and accessories,
photocopiers, sewing machines, motorbikes, bicycles, chairs, tables and
personal items belonging to the Secretariat staff and other SLPP members.
Ceilings and electrical fittings including wall sockets and toilet fittings
were all removed. Perhaps more important is the vandalisation of
administrative and financial documents. The Unity Press and the Unity Radio
were all destroyed. Preliminary estimates put the damages to over Le
2,000,000 (two billion leones).
At about 10 a.m on Tuesday September 2007, H E Ernest Bai Koroma invited me
to his office at State House. He instructed the Hon. Vice President Sam
Sumana and the Inspector General of Police, Brima Acha Kamara to go with me
to the office and assess the damage. Together, we went and visited all parts
of the building including the canteen, the Unity Press, Unity Radio, offices
of the organizing secretary, publicity secretary, women?s leader, young
generation leader, trustees, administration and finance, offices of the Party
Leader and Deputy Leader, Chairman, the National Secretary-General and two
store rooms. They saw it all. Hon. Vice President Sam Sumana apologized on
behalf of the APC and promised that all will be done to ensure that the
matter is fully investigated. The Inspector General of Police, Brima Acha
Kamara also promised to do all he can to investigate the matter. He also
informed me that, already arrests have been made and two Senior Police
Officers have been given the responsibility to carry on the investigation. A
Press Release from the Police also confirms that the investigation is in
progress.
Intimidation, Harrassment and Victimisation of SLPP members and supporters
Since Monday 17, 2007, hundreds of our supporters have been intimidated,
harassed and victimized. We have received reports from some of these members
and supporters. The resident of Sidique Brima, outgoing Minister of Local
Government and Community Development was looted by armed youths. A vehicle
owned by Ambasssador Joe Blell, outgoing Minister of Defence was looted.
Houses of Dr Saccoh (outgoing Ambassador to Guinea) and Alex Kargbo (outgoing
Resident Minister, Northern Province) have been destroyed in Kalangba,
Bombali district. Pampana hotel owned be Okere Adams was vandalized yesterday
and vehicles owned by guests, the hotel and the SLPP were destroyed by youths
in Maugbauraka. Members of the ?Tana Group? (fullahs, madingoes, susus,
maracas) in Bo and Kono who supported the SLPP are being persistently
molested, harassed and forced out of their houses. I have also received
reports from several parts Freetown including Portee, Peacock Farm,
Gbendembu, Constituency 104 and 105 of threats, intimidation, harassment of
our People . In addition, Nigeria business men have also come under attack as
the perceived them to be sympathizers of the SLPP. There are many of these
and I will report them to you from time to time.
I thank you all.
Jacob Jusu Saffa
National Secretary-General
Subject: Re: PRESS RELEASE FROM SLPP
From: orlangba
To: All
Date Posted: 14:53:56 09/21/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: usstls-23.savvis.net at 64.242.52.23
Message:
Thank you for that subtle Press Release from all angles Mr. National Secretary-General. My honest opinion as a SLPP sympathiser is this -
If for any strange reason the SLPP would have stick to there guns and proceed with the courts and forced themselves into power the outcome would have honestly been devastating. Scores of lives and property would have been lost a trillion times more than what your press relese is stating. As we are learning to become a democracy it is sad to say that the price will not come easy for most of us.
My Sympathy to all that was affected in this including my brother-in-law who was a friend of the policy makers in that last regime. He is is still at the hospital because he was mobbed by a group of youths. He is still breathing thanks to Allah but he will recover and will join in wishing the country well just like the rest of us. All that has been destroyed is materialistic and can be replaced if the individuals work hard to replace them. As for the lives lost, we will pray for their soles to rest in peace.
We have to unite for this country to be prosperous.
Subject: BREAKING NEWS
From: campaignteam
To: All
Date Posted: 14:07:33 09/21/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 195.166.237.254
Message:
Be on board, contribute to the development of Sierra- Leone by sending suggestions to Volunteer@ernestkoroma.org. your e-mail will be recieved by MR PRESIDENT himself