Subject: GLAD TO KNOW MY PROFESSOR IS PART OF THE TRANSITION TEAM
From: Alieu sesay
To: All
Date Posted: 08:37:29 09/26/07 ()
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"The Presidential Transition Team is led and coordinated by the
Vice-President , Mr. Sam Sumana and assisted by the Vice Chairperson , Hon.Haja Olayinka Kabba , the Technical Coordinating Team , which includes
Dr.Lancelot Ayo Lake, Ms.Jannette Eno, Mr. Abu Bangura , Dr.Richard Konteh , Mr. Oluniyi Robin-Coker, Mr. Allie Fornah , Mr. David Tam-Bayoh and Mr.
Momoh Konteh".
Dr Richard Konteh happens to have taught me at NUC. He was our Hall Advisor, Baron's club advisor. An up-right man...
Way to Go BRO.
Subject: Re: GLAD TO KNOW MY PROFESSOR IS PART OF THE TRANSITION TEAM
From: Sorba S
To: All
Date Posted: 08:49:01 09/26/07 ()
Email Address: sorba_1@yahoo.com
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Dr. Lake is a good friend of mine. I went to school with him and he is a credible man.
Subject: PROXY LINK
From: COCORIOKO
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Date Posted: 07:45:41 09/26/07 ()
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Message:
Please use the following link to access Cocorioko until prsent techinical issues are resolved.
Subject: WHO ARE THESE PEOPLE?
From: CURIOSITY
To: All
Date Posted: 02:59:09 09/26/07 ()
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After contributing on this forum for sometime, I am wondering what all of us look like in real life. Who is nice, mean, tall, short, handsome, ugly, fun to be with, etc etc.
I wish it was possible to meet everyone.
What do some people look like? Friendly? Hostile? Etc
Any descr1ption of any one?
I am really curious. Some people sound nice, others angry, some coll-headed, etc etc.
I wish I could meet every borther on this forum face to face. Can anyone willingly tell me what any one looks like in real life?
Just curious!
Subject: Re: WHO ARE THESE PEOPLE?
From: MUSA KAMARA
To: All
Date Posted: 05:53:21 09/26/07 ()
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You had a point and very interesting,but to certain extent it sounds funny and made me to laugh.Do you think someone with crooked features is willing to describe him or herself?I hope folks will respond,I am quite willing.
Subject: WE ARE FACING SERIOUS TECHNICAL PROBLEMS
From: KABS KANU
To: All
Date Posted: 02:38:07 09/26/07 ()
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It would seem like the devil is seriously annoyed for the role we played in springing change in Sierra Leone.Since the party we fought for( In the national interest ) came to power , we have never been the same any more. Very serious technical problems have stalked us. We have not been able to publish through our HOMESTEAD account.We designed a new page over Homestead, using FRONTPAGE. We thought that would have solved our problems but it did not.
We updated the newspaper last night but we have not been able to download it for public viewing.
We regret the state we have fallen into due to these problems.
We want to appeal to I.T Specialists out there who have been enjoying our service to the nation to come to our aid. We need a new state-of-the -art website that will be devoid of problems.
Meanwhile we want to appeal to all our contributors, readers and fans to be patient as we solve the problem.
Subject: Re: WE ARE FACING SERIOUS TECHNICAL PROBLEMS
From: Tamba Moiwo
To: All
Date Posted: 07:16:57 09/26/07 ()
Email Address: moiwo@hotmail.co.uk
Entered From: host86-146-133-172.range86-146.btcentralplus.com at 86.146.133.172
Message:
Dear Editor
Have heard your plea for help and in the best interest of Journalism,I am prepared to assist you in overcoming your technical difficulties.
Will be in New York tommorow.Send me a private mail and number-will work out some lasting solution to your problems.
Election don don-lets work together.Hope to hear from you soon. God bless.
Subject: Yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!
From: Bambay Lans Kamara
To: All
Date Posted: 23:25:39 09/25/07 ()
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Fanta!
Subject: What is PERCEPTION?
From: KALOS
To: All
Date Posted: 23:21:59 09/25/07 ()
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So far what is your perception of his Excellency Ernest Koroma?
Subject: The voice of Africa. "You lied to me!"
From: Bambay Lans Kamara
To: All
Date Posted: 23:20:43 09/25/07 ()
Email Address:
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No place to hide.
Subject: Re: The voice of Africa. "You lied to me!"
From: Monkey babu
To: All
Date Posted: 00:06:20 09/26/07 ()
Email Address: sorba_1@yahoo.com
Entered From: c-68-49-178-95.hsd1.md.comcast.net at 68.49.178.95
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Cool stuff Bambay. Now go to bed boy!!
Subject: True love
From: Bambay Lans Kamara
To: All
Date Posted: 23:18:19 09/25/07 ()
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The difference!
Subject: IF KOROMA LENDS MARGAI THE THRONE FOR A DAY...
From: SUBWANALAI
To: All
Date Posted: 23:10:01 09/25/07 ()
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If Koroma can only lend Margai the throne now:
(1) The Kailahun Two (J&J)will not be parading the streets of Freetown pretending to be important
(2)Kabbah and Bewrewa would have been summoned for "further briefings"
(3)All those Paramount Chiefs who suppressed or tried to disenfranchise their compatriots would have been "kindly" asked(Like Siaka Stevens use to do) to lend their staffs to the state for the time being.
(4) All those police officers who listened to the powers that were, would have realised the capacity of the powers that be.
(5) Maada Bio would have received a "gentle reminder" asking him to explain to the nation what he meant by staging a coup if the SLPP lost.
(6) Tom Nyuma would have been asked to take a lie detector test to clarify his mission at the same hotel Ernest Koroma occupied during the electioneering. And both Maada and Nyuma would have to explain the reasons for the paranoia that caused them to seek assurances from Ernest for their stay in Sierra Leone (Are they Free Born Sierra Leoneans?)
(7)All geriatrics (including Manna Kpaka) would be told that there is no place for them in the new mellinium (NOTE: MARGAI HAD TOLD THEM THAT BEFORE)
(8)People like Sidque Janneh and Joe Demby for plit gron leh ee swella dem because of...you know why.
(9)Margai would have referred the International Community's lie lie to Sorgoh (Ah! Bonjour Foray my friend) in neighbouring Guinea. AND FINALLY...
(10)Before returning the throne, Charles would have asked Ernest Koroma "Why do you like John Benjamin so much...
Sorry brothers of the forum, I was dreaming. POWER NA TING WAE DEN NOR DAE LENT PORSIN
Subject: Re: IF KOROMA LENDS MARGAI THE THRONE FOR A DAY...
From: MUSA KAMARA
To: All
Date Posted: 06:11:58 09/26/07 ()
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I hope the President's diplomatic strategies will soon bear teeth.Reconciliation can as well go along with cash hunting of embezzled funds in foreign banks.
Subject: Re: IF KOROMA LENDS MARGAI THE THRONE FOR A DAY...
From: Joke
To: All
Date Posted: 04:55:36 09/26/07 ()
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Lend power for 1 day???Even if he lends power for 1 hour to anyone, HE Koroma, may never see his office again
Subject: Re: IF KOROMA LENDS MARGAI THE THRONE FOR A DAY...
From: Mansaray MB
To: All
Date Posted: 04:37:30 09/26/07 ()
Email Address: embemans@yahoo.com
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And what would have Margai asked Bobson Sesay and Tejan Wurrie to do? J & J are apparently walking free because of clear conscience. Please recommend or better still, dream again and see all former Ministers who have beat the gun and left SaLone to return now.
TOLONGBO !
Subject: Re: IF KOROMA LENDS MARGAI THE THRONE FOR A DAY...
From: Kalos
To: All
Date Posted: 23:17:33 09/25/07 ()
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I hope it will be better, I am reluctantly agreeing with your take.
Subject: BAMBAY LANS KAMARA. WHO IS HE?
From: SUBWANALAI
To: All
Date Posted: 22:20:14 09/25/07 ()
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At times I find this guy entertaining and at other times annoying. Now, I cannot love nor loathe him. When his compatriots are discussing issues of national interest, then he would just post some ridiculous stuff. I will really love to meet this guy. For now, a descr1ption form those who know him will do. I sicerely hope I am not introduced to an AFLAHUN
Subject: Re: BAMBAY LANS KAMARA. WHO IS HE?
From: Abdul C.
To: All
Date Posted: 22:50:26 09/25/07 ()
Email Address: abdulcole@hotmail.com
Entered From: pool-71-240-142-89.hrbgpa.east.verizon.net at 71.240.142.89
Message:
Looking at his prior postings I would think he is just a jokester!!!
Subject: The larget U.S. Cities are N. Y., L.A. to name a few.
From: Bambay Lans Kamara
To: All
Date Posted: 21:55:11 09/25/07 ()
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officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. It consists of 50 states and a federal district. The conterminous (excluding Alaska and Hawaii) United States stretches across central North America from the Atlantic Ocean on the east to the Pacific Ocean on the west, and from Canada on the north to Mexico and the Gulf of Mexico on the south. The state of Alaska is located in extreme NW North America between the Arctic and Pacific oceans and is bordered by Canada on the east. The state of Hawaii, an island chain, is situated in the E central Pacific Ocean c.2,100 mi (3,400 km) SW of San Francisco. Washington, D.C., is the capital of the United States, and New York is its largest city.
The outlying territories and areas of the United States include: in the Caribbean Basin, Puerto Rico (a commonwealth associated with the United States) and the Virgin Islands of the United States (purchased from Denmark in 1917); in the Pacific Ocean, Guam (ceded by Spain after the Spanish-American War), the Northern Mariana Islands (a commonwealth associated with the United States), American Samoa, Wake Island, and several other islands. The United States also has compacts of free association with the Republic of the Marshall Islands, the Republic of Palau, and the Federated States of Micronesia.
Political Geography
The conterminous United States may be divided into several regions: the New England states (Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Connecticut), the Middle Atlantic states (New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, and West Virginia), the Southeastern states (North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Arkansas, Tennessee, and Kentucky), the states of the Midwest (Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa, and Missouri), the Great Plains states (North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, and Kansas), the Mountain states (Montana, Idaho, Wyoming, Colorado, and Utah), the Southwestern states (Oklahoma, Texas, New Mexico, and Arizona), and the states of the Far West (Washington, Oregon, California, and Nevada).
Alaska is the largest state in area (656,424 sq mi/1,700,578 sq km), and Rhode Island is the smallest (1,545 sq mi/4,003 sq km). California has the largest population (2000 pop. 33,871,648), while Wyoming has the fewest people (2000 pop. 493,782). In the late 20th cent., Nevada, Arizona, Florida, Colorado, Utah, Georgia, and Texas experienced the fastest rates of population growth, while California, Texas, Florida, Georgia, Arizona, and North Carolina gained the greatest number of residents. West Virginia, North Dakota, and the District of Columbia experienced population decreases over the same period. The largest U.S. cities are New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Houston, and Philadelphia. Among the other major cities are Boston, Pittsburgh, Baltimore, Washington, D.C., Richmond, Virginia Beach, Charlotte, Atlanta, Jacksonville, Tampa, Miami, Cleveland, Columbus, Cincinnati, Detroit, Indianapolis, Milwaukee, Minneapolis, Saint Louis, Nashville, Memphis, New Orleans, Kansas City, Oklahoma City, Dallas—Fort Worth, Austin, San Antonio, El Paso, Albuquerque, Denver, Salt Lake City, Phoenix, Tucson, Las Vegas, Seattle, Portland, Sacramento, San Francisco, San Jose, Fresno, Long Beach, San Diego, and Honolulu.
Physical Geography
The conterminous United States may be divided into seven broad physiographic divisions: from east to west, the Atlantic—Gulf Coastal Plain; the Appalachian Highlands; the Interior Plains; the Interior Highlands; the Rocky Mountain System; the Intermontane Region; and the Pacific Mountain System. An eighth division, the Laurentian Uplands, a part of the Canadian Shield, dips into the United States from Canada in the Great Lakes region. It is an area of little local relief, with an irregular drainage system and many lakes, as well as some of the oldest exposed rocks in the United States.
The terrain of the N United States was formed by the great continental ice sheets that covered N North America during the late Cenozoic Era. The southern edge of the ice sheet is roughly traced by a line of terminal moraines extending west from E Long Island and then along the course of the Ohio and Missouri rivers to the Rocky Mts.; land north of this line is covered by glacial material. Alaska and the mountains of NW United States had extensive mountain glaciers and were heavily eroded. Large glacial lakes (see Lake Bonneville under Bonneville Salt Flats; Lahontan, Lake) occupied sections of the Basin and Range province; the Great Salt Lake and the other lakes of this region are remnants of the glacial lakes.
The East and the Gulf Coast
The Atlantic—Gulf Coastal Plain exte
Subject: THE SATANIC FIVE (S5)
From: Aruna sawa
To: All
Date Posted: 21:52:11 09/25/07 ()
Email Address: arunasowa2009@yahoo.co.uk
Entered From: 5ac5c5d5.bb.sky.com at 90.197.197.213
Message:
There is a new group in Sierra Leone called 'the Satanic Five' or 'S5'FOR short. This group is made up of 5 people that were promised very senior positions if Solo B. would have won the elections.
The 5 members of this group are 2 former RUF/AFRC members (Sylvia Blyden and Patric Foya of the cut hand fame) john Benjanin and John Karimu( of the NPRC Junta and later formed the NUP Party) and John Leigh (of toglema the pro-Mende group that was getting support from some terrorist organisations which they used to start the way in Sierra Leone against the then APC government and later paid Sandline to kick out the AFRC}
I shall tell you more about these five sattanic Sierra Leoneans calling themselves 'The S5', THEY WERE THE BRAIN BEHIND THE slpp Reform Group, but they were more sinore than the reform group it self as they control it behind the scene...tonievah.
Subject: Your minister or your light?
From: Kack Chest Lek Bombali Granat Pikin
To: All
Date Posted: 20:32:18 09/25/07 ()
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Message:
It's must-watch TV as greedy men, hungry men, young cubs and old buzzards of the Rising Sun fight over the spoils of victory. Old men who were used to taunts as they "piled" the dusty streets of Freetown are now being given flirtatious smiles by pretty young things young enough to be grand daughters but saucy enough to flash a thong ...
as they zip through Freetown in cool, chauffered Benzes.
As various characters, from different eras, fight over car, office and perk we would like to remind Mr. President not to be distracted by the absurd theater of future Borbor Bellehs and Swegbehs. 99% of government ministers end up disappointing anyway. Electricity on the other hand will never disappoint.
Mr. Prez, I hope that as we speak, your emissaries are crating large generators for emergency delivery to Freetown and the 12 district HQs. I hope your people are talking our petro-buddies into supplying us with the fuel for these machines.
It will be a wonderful thing for the lights to come on in Freetown, Kailahun etc..
It will be a hopeful sign of progress to come and it will wash away the pain of some of your cabinet choices. As far as I am concerned, one light bulb that regularly gives me 5 hours of light a night is worth ten ministers.
Subject: SYLVIA BLYDEN-APC DOES NOT NEED YOUR ADVICE..SHAME ON YOU
From: Bonthe Pikin
To: All
Date Posted: 20:23:23 09/25/07 ()
Email Address: bontilaynga@gmail.com
Entered From: 218-101-100-53.dialup.clear.net.nz at 218.101.100.53
Message:
The APC Leader Should Beware
of maliciously planted News Articles
A seasoned political analyst and observer of local Sierra Leone politics, Alhaji Gbessay Galba Kamara was amongst several Sierra Leoneans who have expressed an urgent need to impress upon President Ernest Koroma a need for him to beware of planted newspaper articles designed to sway public opinion against citizens who might be otherwise useful people in the Koroma cabinet.
A certain local journalist who played an enormous role in ensuring that President Koroma wins the last elections, has been informing many of his friends and relatives that he was going to be appointed a member of the Ernest Koroma cabinet. He has also been informing that he was an inner caucus adviser to President Koroma.
However, of late, sources close to this journalist have revealed that he might not get his wish to become a minister which has now made him to turn his pen against other hardworking citizens who all contributed to the Koroma victory and are now seen working with the President and whom are perceived as probably going to be part of the Presidential team.
Another viewpoint that has been a cause for concern amongst Sierra Leoneans who spoke to this presshouse yesterday is that certain people also lobbying for certain positions might start to plant media articles against their rivals for such positions. One such position for which it is believed someone is going around inciting journalists against his rivals is for the position of Foreign Affairs Minister.
One political strongman now seen around President Koroma is reported to be planting articles in the media against other contenders for the position.
"Ernest Koroma needs to beware of certain caustic articles that are going to start popping up in the media against APC members. These are the same people who caused a lot of press attacks during the now infamous running mate battle in the SLPP," Alhaji Kamara said, adding that it was such press wars that weakened the SLPP.
"You cannot pay journalists to destroy the reputations of others with whom you are in the same team and expect the team to survive. This is what killed SLPP. The press battles on behalf of Kanja Sesay against Bobson Sesay against Kadi Sesay, etc. etc. all weakened the SLPP team," Alhaji Kamara posited. Meanwhile, many Sierra Leoneans have called on Awareness Times to publicly al3rt President Koroma to be on the al3rt for the sudden appearance of such articles aimed at destroying his APC people and be prepared to ignore all such malicious articles as he makes his decision. They also called upon the Parliamentarians who would have to approve the Koroma Cabinet to look at real issues and not be swayed by malicious, highly opinionated articles planted in unscrupulous media houses but to look at real issues when approving or rejecting nominees.
Subject: Re: SYLVIA BLYDEN-APC DOES NOT NEED YOUR ADVICE..SHAME ON YOU
From: Thinker
To: All
Date Posted: 07:06:50 09/26/07 ()
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I think this is a very undemocratic comment.Dr Sylvia, not withstanding her political affiliation, is a Sierra Leonean, and she should have, like every citizen,a say about the Nation and National Affair.
Subject: Re: SYLVIA BLYDEN-APC DOES NOT NEED YOUR ADVICE..SHAME ON YOU
From: Aruna sawa
To: All
Date Posted: 21:22:18 09/25/07 ()
Email Address: arunasowa2009@yahoo.co.uk
Entered From: 5ac5c5d5.bb.sky.com at 90.197.197.213
Message:
Sylvia Blyden is a NINJA, she is finding her way into the APC JUST AS SHE FOUGHT AGAINST THE SLPP bu supporting the AFRC and later 'Give John Benjamin GAMA',hence she was introduced to Berewa and straight away won the contract of creating a web site for the SLPP Government. She manipulated through that web site by sendind series of articles directed for the eyes of Kabba(h) and Berewa(Beriwa/Barrie)by using different names just as she does during the electioneering process.
Subject: LETS TEAR SYLVIA BLYDEN FOR HER BAD VERSES!
From: SUBWANALAI
To: All
Date Posted: 22:36:07 09/25/07 ()
Email Address:
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Call it a witch hunt, or what ever, but yesterday, after reading some piece on this forum posted by another patriotic brother, I now see why Sylvia Blyden was blindly supporting Berewa even to his political grave; and more so why the Anti Corruption Commission should open a file on her. With her business interests(ranging from media to construction; within few years, as the article pointed out), I am convinced in my mind, that she would have evaded taxes, enjoyed customs waver, by virtue of her connections; not to mention fake contracts. This explains why her present jitterines would not allow her to separate between reporting facts and figments of her satanic imaginations. Investigate this vermin now!
Subject: GOVERNMENT OF NATIONAL UNITY
From: Sorba_S
To: All
Date Posted: 20:17:28 09/25/07 ()
Email Address: sorba_1@yahoo.com
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Message:
Mr President we in the diaspora and the people in Sierra Leone are watching you. Since your election into the State House, you have been talking about Government of National Unity. We adore you for that and hope that it works well for you.
Mr President if this is your main goal, why can you include Mr John Leigh and Aliu Iscanderi into your cabinet? These two will watch the rest of your little belleh so that they don't protude into a bobor belleh type. They both have a sound resume or CV amd will not disapoint you. I know these two people very well to be able to recomend them. They are both lawyers as well.
Subject: Re: GOVERNMENT OF NATIONAL UNITY
From: Aruna sawa
To: All
Date Posted: 21:34:14 09/25/07 ()
Email Address: arunasowa2009@yahoo.co.uk
Entered From: 5ac5c5d5.bb.sky.com at 90.197.197.213
Message:
John Leigh, John Karimu, John Benjamin, Sylvia Blyden and Patric Foya (Sa Lone Embassador to Liberia) are all in the same class with Foday Sankoh, Sam Bockarie,and Leutenant Cut-hand, but Issa Sesay is better than THE sATANIC 5 including Babu Blyden/ Sylvia Babu Blyden.
Subject: Re: GOVERNMENT OF NATIONAL UNITY
From: Bonthe Pikin
To: All
Date Posted: 20:20:41 09/25/07 ()
Email Address: bontilaynga@gmail.com
Entered From: 218-101-100-53.dialup.clear.net.nz at 218.101.100.53
Message:
Sorba, sierra leone does not need John Leigh. He is opne of the most unprincipled politicians I have ever seen. Besides, John was against President Koroma's presidency and spent no time in lambasting him, calling him and apc names. He has nothing to offer Sierra LEONE Expect undermine what ever good intentions President Koroma may have. John Leigh is far more useless than sylvia blyden and foday sankoh put together.
Subject: Re: GOVERNMENT OF NATIONAL UNITY
From: Sorba_S
To: All
Date Posted: 20:38:00 09/25/07 ()
Email Address: sorba_1@yahoo.com
Entered From: c-68-49-178-95.hsd1.md.comcast.net at 68.49.178.95
Message:
All politicians are like that Mr Bonthe Pikin. The talk about each other but at the end of the day, they are all friends. I will be supprise if John has not giving Mr President a call tell him he is sorry for what might have been said. Now is the time to work together. How about Aliu? what do you think of him Mr. Bonth Pikin? more fish later
Subject: Re: GOVERNMENT OF NATIONAL UNITY
From: Nar Ttrue
To: All
Date Posted: 20:35:20 09/25/07 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
John Leigh is far more useless than sylvia blyden and foday sankoh put together.
VERY TRUE.
Subject: WOW! Nothing to fight about!
From: Larry
To: All
Date Posted: 20:17:08 09/25/07 ()
Email Address: Bullockhl@aol.com
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Message:
I am pleased to see the same old voices, hashing out the first versions of the history books, as to whom did what to whom, when, and how many times, after this historic election. In addition, already people are second-guessing, and micro-analysing every meeting the new President conducts. However, this is all a sideshow in the slippery slope of history, and, in my humble opinion, sincerely, misses the point regarding the situation in Sierra Leone today.
The question is, for everyone who loves Sierra Leone, whether inside or out of the country, whether citizen or foreigner: how can we come together as individuals and as small groups of sincere people to move the country forward in, however small, real and meaningful ways?
For example, how can we, the people who write in this forum, make a difference for the very youngest sector of the population? How much do we have to raise to eliminate school fees in Sierra Leone? Further, how much would it cost to supply the necessary books and writing materials for the students?
How many jobs can we, in the diaspora, and the international community, stimulate from within the country, to give the young adults the incomes they need to form households?
Beyond arguing with each other, and "grandstanding", and posturing, how can we turn this forum into a dynamic force for the positive changes in Sierra Leone that everyone so sincerely declares they want to see?
For now, the election is over. The APC has some serious work to do. If the SLPP wants to remain relevant, after it's past 10 years of governance, they must step up to the role of responsible and LOYAL opposition.
Leave everthing else to the "gossip" columnists in the newspapers. Forumites have more important matters to attend to. Nah so? If not, give your computer to someone else...
Subject: Pesident Koroma Hanging out with john Ben
From: alieu sesay
To: All
Date Posted: 19:12:35 09/25/07 ()
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Message:
From Awareness Times Newspaper in Freetown
NEWS
President Koroma meets John Benjamin in friendly, closed-door, one-hour session in Sierra Leone
By
Sep 25, 2007, 19:35
Contrary to the report in a local tabloid yesterday that John Benjamin, the Minister of Finance in the erstwhile government had disgracefully fled the country, Awareness Times can authoritatively inform that not only has John Benjamin stayed in Sierra Leone throughout this period, but he held a one hour closed door meeting with President Ernest Koroma at State House yesterday.
This was confirmed to Awareness Times by the Presidential Spokesman, Hon. Alpha Kanu and Mr. John Benjamin himself. Although the contents of what was discussed between the two gentlemen during their meeting was not made public, Hon. Alpha Kanu said that it was not unconnected with President Koroma’s ongoing drive to unify Sierra Leone and get all Sierra Leoneans to feel secured under his leadership.
"President Koroma and Mr. John Benjamin have been personal friends for several long years now and they would be able to use that longstanding friendship to help in the drive to unify Sierra Leone," the Presidential Spokesman said last evening.
For his part, Mr. Benjamin expressed to Awareness Times his "happiness" to reconcile with his long time friend after the just-ended period of electioneering that had seen President Koroma experience some hiccups in Benjamin’s home town of Segbwema during which the SLPP Party office of Benjamin’s SLPP Party, had been set on fire.
It will be recalled that Awareness Times had published a letter calling on friends of the two gentlemen to bring them together. This resulted in several distinguished citizens including Paramount Chiefs and religious leaders to make attempts to reconcile the two.
Subject: Re: Pesident Koroma Hanging out with john Ben
From: POLITICAL
To: All
Date Posted: 21:26:25 09/25/07 ()
Email Address:
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Alieu, JB does not need to flee the country. His meeting with the president is timely and important because he holds the key to our survival. He has to give account of our koppor. He knows if he flee, he has no hiding place. The world does not give assylum to any political cow that destroys his country. I'm talking in general terms.
Subject: Re: Pesident Koroma Hanging out with john Ben
From: Lameeh Gblaah
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Date Posted: 06:52:05 09/26/07 ()
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please folks,
john benjamine and ernest koroma had been friends ever since they were at the FBC. I knew those people at the FBC when I was in the first year John Karimu, John Ben and Ernest Koroma and their friendship but that did not necessarily mean that they should be friends "thick and thin".What I knew when I was working in the civil service in the 70's is that the machinery of the government are the permanent secretries and deputies because they are the proffessionals and they are the ones that can direct any ministers when they assume new offices. That mere fact that this JB been encouraged would let him think that he is indispensable and that the APC government can't do without him niether any other government in the land cos he had been in the public domain since the days of tne NPRC till now. Lets get rid of the Kleptocrats and allow new kids on the block!!
Subject: WHAT ABOUT US?
From: SUBWANALAI
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Date Posted: 20:03:42 09/25/07 ()
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Ernest Koroma cannot really be serious. His brand of reconciliation, is to say the least nonsensical. Should he be hanging out with a rebel like John Benjamin whilst the people of Kailahun, whom he (Johnny "Magoongway" Benjamin)victimised are still leaking their wounds? Would he reconsider so soon his 'friendship' with a terror who way laid and ambushed him just for power? What influence does he think Benjamin have over the people of Kailahun? Would he so soon reconcile with Tommy Nyuma who was purported to have wanted to assassinate him, whilst Leatherboot who suffered injustice for his sake is gradually been sent into oblivion? Will he allow Sylvia Blyden to be his whistle blower-in-chief, whislt journalists who courageously stood by the people are been left in the dark? If Ernest Koroma thinks he is the Mandela; the merciful of Sierra Leone, let him go forth, for he will surely eat the bread of sorrow.
Subject: Re: WHAT ABOUT US?
From: Jackal
To: All
Date Posted: 23:59:51 09/25/07 ()
Email Address: dollarbill@gmail.com
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Tommy Nyuma who was purported to have wanted to assassinate him, whilst Leatherboot who suffered injustice for his sake is gradually been sent into oblivion?
Is this still an issue in dispute? Is your question directed at the execution of extinction of the rule of law.
I feel sorry for Leatherboot BUT the police and the presiding Judge in no way tampared with Leatherboot's constitutional rights.
"If Ernest Koroma thinks he is the Mandela; the merciful of Sierra Leone, let him go forth, for he will surely eat the bread of sorrow."
Your have a strong tone of vindictiveness.
Subject: Re: WHAT ABOUT US?
From: Jackal
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Date Posted: 00:01:33 09/26/07 ()
Email Address: dollarbill@gmail.com
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Tommy Nyuma who was purported to have wanted to assassinate him, whilst Leatherboot who suffered injustice for his sake is gradually been sent into oblivion?
Is this still an issue in dispute? Is your question directed at the execution of extinction or the rule of law.
I feel sorry for Leatherboot BUT the police and the presiding Judge in no way tampared with Leatherboot's constitutional rights.
"If Ernest Koroma thinks he is the Mandela; the merciful of Sierra Leone, let him go forth, for he will surely eat the bread of sorrow."
Your have a strong tone of vindictiveness.
Subject: Re: WHAT ABOUT US?
From: jackal
To: All
Date Posted: 00:03:32 09/26/07 ()
Email Address: dollarbill@gmail.com
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Tommy Nyuma who was purported to have wanted to assassinate him, whilst Leatherboot who suffered injustice for his sake is gradually been sent into oblivion?
Is this still an issue in dispute? Is your question directed at the execution or extinction of the rule of law.
I feel sorry for Leatherboot BUT the police and the presiding Judge in no way tampared with Leatherboot's constitutional rights.
"If Ernest Koroma thinks he is the Mandela; the merciful of Sierra Leone, let him go forth, for he will surely eat the bread of sorrow."
Your have a strong tone of vindictiveness.
Subject: Re: WHAT ABOUT US?
From: M. Alieu Iscandari esq
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Date Posted: 20:27:19 09/25/07 ()
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So what must he do? Grab the erstwhile finance minister and hang him? I dont think that would be right do you? What is wrong about the President meeting with John Benjamin behind close doors? Might he be asking him to give him a report about the state of the economy?The countrys finances?
remember that He promised to run the country like a business and I think that this our first taste of how to run the country like a business. the Incoming CEO seats in close session with the Outgoing CFO to hammer out detaild of the corporations finances. And all you guys do is act as if they went out golfing.
I am begining to like the way my president conducts business. Now you know that I dont give a Rats A&* about John Benjamin and Co, but I do like the manner in which the "last rites" are being performed by this president on the incompetent former Minister and his ministry.
remeber the old krio saying. "take tem kill antch you go see im got"
Subject: Re: WHAT ABOUT US?
From: SMTuray
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Date Posted: 06:28:10 09/26/07 ()
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Alieu,
For a people that are so chronically acustomed to the old way of governance, many Sierra Leoneans will definitely find it difficult to understand the new ( to the rest of the civilized world not unusual ) way. We simply have to appeal for patience. Presisent Koroma has just started a 10-year period of leadership- a results orientated leadership. As I have always maintained, during the first 100 days every sierra leonean will be able to clearly see the direction this government is heading for and likely already see signs of positive results.
Subject: Re: WHAT ABOUT US?
From: Kalos
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Date Posted: 23:00:16 09/25/07 ()
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Alieu, you missed the point. "as if they went out golfing"? It is more than that. "take tem kill antch you go see im got"? John Benjamin is a cow. What time do you need to see the gut of a cow? Albeit, some of us are still hopeful his excellency will ultimately do the right things. Talking about running the country like a business; remember it was a hostile take-over, it requires swift action to reassure the shareholders, that is the people of Sierra Leone. Even the perception of cozy, cozy with these idiots is not sending the right message. SUBWANALIE is absolutely correct in his response. The country is without a foreign minister to reassure the diplomatic world or a finance minister to reassure the financial world, but it is ok to be touting the frienship between the president and John Benjamin? IS THIS THE WAY TO RUN A BUSINESS/COMPANY? The personal talks to reassure some are not doing it, we need action, and we need it to commence now. I am still a believer and in the bandwagon, but...............
Subject: Re: WHAT ABOUT US?
From: M. Alieu Iscandari Esq
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Date Posted: 00:57:33 09/26/07 ()
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Touting the friendship?
I have learned to sieve the grains from the chaff in any awareness times piece. They very well may be friends but I am almost sure that what they were talking about in that closed door meeting, had the least to do with their friendship. Trust me on this one
Subject: Re: WHAT ABOUT US?
From: Kalos
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Date Posted: 05:21:36 09/26/07 ()
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I understand your calmness and assurances, but, perception derails a somehow good intention. Within the core of the people that were in the trenches when it matters have started to express some reservations. I pray and hope your analysis is correct.
Subject: Re: WHAT ABOUT US?
From: SUBWANALAI
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Date Posted: 21:05:07 09/25/07 ()
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Yeah Alieu "tek tem kill antch leh you see im gut", I agreed. But I am convinced that this particular ant's gut is already out. In as much as i appreciate this novelty of this transition, I am firmly of the view that some sensitive ministries, should by now be in the hands of liason officers whilst the ex-ministers should be there to answer questions. Period.
True the president might have met John Benjamin on serious state issues, but that Benjamin and his propaganda agent (Sylvia Blyden) would turn this to a plus is worrying. The signal here is clear. Benjamin is like saying to his crooked contractors "Yup, I told you so. He is my buddy. Have no fear, bring on the kickbacks". Now Alieu, let me leave you with a short story. You will pick the moral out of it.
Once upon a time, Sierra Leone had a president called Siaka, who believed in compensating his loyalists. Siaka had just been sworn in as president. With him was one of his supporters, who could even lay his life for the Pa. Siaka asked him. "Young man, what help do you want from me?" The man said, "Not yet sir, I will tell you when the time comes".
Then Siaka was to tour the diamond-rich Kono. The loyalist told Siaka, that he wanted to be in the convoy. Siaka said why not. When they reached Kono, Siaka was scheduled to address diamond magnates(Lebanese) including, chiefs etc. Then the loyalist turned to Siaka and said, "Pa the time has come for you to help me". Siaka asked how. The loyalist said, at the height of the conference, when we have a full house, I will be seating in the middle of the audience. Just beckon to me and call me to meet you at the high table. When I come to you, just whisper anything into my ear, but please make sure whilst you are speaking in my ears, that you point at some influential lebanese guys in the audience. After that just leave me on my own. Siaka granted the loyalist his will, doing exactly as the latter pleaded. Immediately after the conference so many lebanese descended on the loyalist "Yalla. So yu sabi de Pa". The loyalist proudly said yes. The lebanese asked "So wetin de Pa tell you?" The loyalist replied "De Pa say he dae drev una all na Kono" So the lebanese raised money which they gave the Loyalist to influence him so that he go tell de Pa leh he nor drev dem....Only God knows what John Benjamin will be telling the businessmen in Sierra Leone now.
Subject: Re: WHAT ABOUT US?
From: M. Alieu Iscandari Esq
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Date Posted: 21:36:01 09/25/07 ()
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Interesting story S and I got the gist of it. But do not UNDERESTIMATE EBK. I have met the man many times and I am almost certain that he will not allow anyone to get the better of him. He realises that he has been placed by god at the helm of the ship of state and that his LEGACY is at stake. He challenged me and allof the others that he has met in my preseb=nce to hold him to his promise of building a better state than he met. I INTEND to hold hm to that. It is too early now to make any conclusions and mere speculation is not good enough for me. Patience is a virtue my friend. Patience I say.
Subject: Re: WHAT ABOUT US?
From: Kamara
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Date Posted: 20:26:12 09/25/07 ()
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I hope you now see the difficulty a president of Sierra Leone faces. You have obsequous individuals and opportunists jockeying for jobs. Who can he trust? Kabba faced the same problems he had APC opportunists and Koroma will have his SLPP opportunists.
My brother , you cant depend on polticians to develop Sierra Leone. It will be Sierra Leonean entrepreneurs who will develop the country by creating jobs for the people. Whether APC, SLPP or PMDC, they will not deliver the ultimate goods. Just pray that we maintain our democracy. That is our saving grace.
Subject: Re: WHAT ABOUT US?
From: Kalos
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Date Posted: 23:14:22 09/25/07 ()
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Kamara, you are right, but we want the goverment to create the atmosphere that is conducive for businesses to excel. Do you remember how Charles Margai came out smoking in endorsing Ernest Koroma? Where is the fire in Ernest? Democracy in Sierra leone will never be a replica of the democracies in the United States and United Kingdom in the next 50 years. We need a very strong leader; we hope Ernest is the answer.
Subject: Re: WHAT ABOUT US?
From: Bangura
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Date Posted: 20:59:17 09/25/07 ()
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I don't see any difficulty a president of Sierra Leone faces.
But I do see the difficulty you face as you try, comically, to equate the new APC government of Prsident Koroma and the failed 10-year SLPP government of President Kabbah.
Subject: Re: WHAT ABOUT US?
From: Money man
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Date Posted: 20:57:30 09/25/07 ()
Email Address: sorba_1@yahoo.com
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So true
Subject: Re: WHAT ABOUT US?
From: Stop Talking to Yourself
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Date Posted: 21:00:20 09/25/07 ()
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It's not good.
Subject: What is Selective Services
From: Bambay Lans Kamara
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Date Posted: 19:04:37 09/25/07 ()
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WHO MUST REGISTER Printer Friendly Version
Almost all male U.S. citizens, and male aliens living in the U.S., who are 18 through 25, are required to register with Selective Service. It's important to know that even though he is registered, a man will not automatically be inducted into the military. In a crisis requiring a draft, men would be called in sequence determined by random lottery number and year of birth. Then, they would be examined for mental, physical and moral fitness by the military before being deferred or exempted from military service or inducted into the Armed Forces.
A chart of who must register is also available.
NON-CITIZENS
Some non-citizens are required to register. Others are not. Noncitizens who are not required to register with Selective Service include men who are in the U.S. on student or visitor visas, and men who are part of a diplomatic or trade mission and their families. Almost all other male noncitizens are required to register, including illegal aliens, legal permanent residents, and refugees. The general rule is that if a male noncitizen takes up residency in the U.S. before his 26th birthday, he must register with Selective Service. For a more detailed list of which non-citizens must register, see Who Must Register - Chart .
DUAL NATIONALS
Dual nationals of the U.S. and another country are required to register, regardless of where they live, because they are U.S. nationals.
See also Aliens and Dual Nationals - Liability for Service
HOSPITALIZED OR INCARCERATED MEN
Young men in hospitals, mental institutions or prisons do not have to register while they are committed. However, they must register within 30 days after being released if they have not yet reached their 26th birthday.
DISABLED MEN
Disabled men who live at home must register with Selective Service if they can reasonably leave their homes and move about independently. A friend or relative may help a disabled man fill out the registration form if he can't do it himself.
Men with disabilities that would disqualify them from military service still must register with Selective Service. Selective Service does not presently have authority to classify men, so even men with obvious handicaps must register now, and if needed, classifications would be determined later.
FULL-TIME MILITARY EXEMPTED FROM REQUIREMENT
Young men serving in the military on full-time active duty do not have to register. Those attending the service academies do not have to register. If a young man leaves the military before turning 26, he must register.
NATIONAL GUARD AND RESERVES
Members of the Reserve and National Guard not on full-time active duty must register.
CONSCIENTIOUS OBJECTORS
Men who would be classified as Conscientious Objectors if they were drafted must also register with Selective Service. If a draft begins and they are called, they would have the opportunity to file a claim for exemption from military service based upon their religious or moral objection to war.
Subject: Re: What is Selective Services
From: Hassan Kamara
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Date Posted: 20:08:13 09/25/07 ()
Email Address: kamson10@hotmail.com
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There are certain benefits you will not receive if you failed to register unless you get a waiver from the SS administration. Therefore, if you are under the category of those that should register regardless of whether you are legal or not please endeavor to do that. I am a victim and i will not want others to fall short
Subject: Re: What is Selective Services
From: Bambay Lans Kamara
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Date Posted: 22:18:27 09/25/07 ()
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Why do people conceal stupidity with negativity?
If one has acted stupid, do not make it plain by covering-up with another stupid act. Food for thought.
Hassan Kamara, sorry about that.
Selective Services do not give waivers. If you entered the country after your twenty-sixth (26th.)birth day, you are regarded exempt. In other words, you are not required to register. That is why when you are in the air plane before you hit the ground, the hostests pick your pasports up. These passports are taken to the branch of the Immigration and Naturalization Services at any major U.S. Airport. They stamp your card, which is your date of entry. In that case the only thing the Selective Services request of you is your stamped pasport to show that you entered the country after your twenty-sixth birth day if they are to write a letter showing that you are exempt from registering for Slective Services. If you are bellow twenty-six and need a letter from them, they will just ask you to register after which they would send a card to you. That is Selective Services Card. This is different from Green Card, the latter being the Permanent Resident Card. That whether you enter America at the age of one (1) to two hundred (200) you are required to have that. That is what makes you legal; that or you are on a student visa or some type of visa. This is why some foreigners think that some Americans either do not know much or do not respect the laws.
I think the former is correct not knowing but ignorance of the law is no excuse.
But after twenty-six your service in the military especially if you have never served before is minimal.
Do not have time to read over.
Subject: Mandella
From: Bambay Lans Kamara
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Date Posted: 18:26:10 09/25/07 ()
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Freedom to the people!
You must know what freedom means because you have never been free.
See the difference between you and those who are actually free and knows what freedom is. When you are not free and have not experienced freedom, you believe in restricting others freedom. Your action which comes as fear is not freedom in itself.
Freedom in the 21st. Century. Freedom!
Subject: The meaning of savage.
From: Bambay Lans Kamara
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Date Posted: 17:58:05 09/25/07 ()
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Message:
Boy, this is good!
This is what I see. Be my guest in analyzing this!
Subject: Re: The meaning of savage.
From: BAMBAY E DO SO
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Date Posted: 18:12:06 09/25/07 ()
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Bambay, please take a break with your one million a minute postings
Subject: WHAT IS A GOVERNMENT OF NATIONAL UNITY?
From: BRA ENVIABLE
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Date Posted: 17:57:12 09/25/07 ()
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As Sierra Leone awaits President Ernest Koroma's cabinet, spots of premonitions linger on the minds of many citizens. Will the President-elect undermine our democracy by dangling a few "fat" jobs in front some SLPP members? What did President Koroma mean when he recently talked about forming a government of national unity? These questions cannot be convincingly answered until President Koroma announces his cabinet.
As a critical watcher of Sierra Leonean politics, I almost felt kittens in my stomach when the soft-spoken President uttered the words "Government of National Unity." My hope is that President Koroma was actually talking about a government that is impressively reflective of Sierra Leone's ethnic make-up. Employing members of the just-relieved SLPP into his cabinet will undermine the quality of our democracy by taking the fangs out of the biggest opposition party in the country. I can only expect President Koroma to remain tethered to integrity by resisting every temptation to cannibalize the opposition.
The APC and SLPP are the oldest parties in Sierra Leone. At least for now, any of these parties can serve as the taproot of our democracy. Any Byzantine politics that seduces SLPP members into President Koroma's new cabinet will leave us with a one-party state dressed in democratic garb. President Koroma can form a Government of National Unity inside the {party} confines of the APC without having to rob Sierra Leone of an opposition party. Unlike the days of warfare when opposition was in the form of armed rebels, President Koroma do not have gun-wielding gladiators to pacify "in the interest of national unity." Please give democracy a chance by making the road impassable for those who run to change party loyalty within the twinkling of an eye.
Subject: Re: WHAT IS A GOVERNMENT OF NATIONAL UNITY?
From: Amadu Kabba
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Date Posted: 19:52:48 09/25/07 ()
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The SLPP butterflies are already hanging with Ernest Koroma. Soon, they will get positions and that will be the end of the SLPP as we know it
Subject: Paradise
From: Bambay Lans Kamara
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Date Posted: 17:03:01 09/25/07 ()
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There is another day for you and me in paradise.
Subject: CHARTERED FLIGHT FOR ERNEST KOROMA'S INAUGURATION
From: Mohamed Barigue
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Date Posted: 17:00:52 09/25/07 ()
Email Address: mohamedbarigue@yahoo.fr
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A CHARTERED FLIGHT IS FILLING UP FAST FOR THE INAUGURATION OF H.E. ERNEST BAI KOROMA LEAVING WASHINGTON OCTOBER 3, 2007 AND RETURNING ON OCTOBER 16TH 2007. TOTAL COST IS $1,500.00 RETURN. PLEASE CONTACT ATLANTIC WEST AIRLINES LTD. 240 -667-2963
OR EMAIL ME : mohamedbarigue@yahoo.fr
Subject: Political Map of THe World.
From: Bambay Lans Kamara
To: All
Date Posted: 16:42:40 09/25/07 ()
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http://www.world-map.nl/maps/political-world-map-2007.gif
In 1991 when I left from State House to Lunge to board this plane for New York John F.Kenedy Airport where I was received by the Ambassador to the United Nations in New York, I thought I had left, never mind, watch the place
Subject: GENERAL MEETING SLPP
From: Mr John Boima
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Date Posted: 16:13:41 09/25/07 ()
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There be a general meeting of the SLPP PARTY washington.The public is invited, please make it a point to attend this very important meeting.agenda plannig of the next freetown city council elections,re group for 2012 general elections.THE ADDRESS FOR THE IS 1234325 RIGGS ROAD MD TELE 301 252 400 110
Subject: Re: GENERAL MEETING SLPP
From: POLITICAL
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Date Posted: 21:29:44 09/25/07 ()
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It is only two minutes ago when we beat the hell out of you and now regroup for 2012? Interesting.
Subject: Re: GENERAL MEETING SLPP
From: Kamara
To: All
Date Posted: 17:40:15 09/25/07 ()
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Good Work folks. Now is the time to begin the vigilant oppsition. Please contact the other SLPP branches in New York and New Jersey. They need to maintain the website and radio.
Subject: Re: GENERAL MEETING SLPP
From: Sylvester Johnny
To: All
Date Posted: 16:49:57 09/25/07 ()
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Message:
Please send teleconference number to syljohnny@hotmail.com
Subject: Re: GENERAL MEETING SLPP
From: Candid Opinion
To: All
Date Posted: 16:22:18 09/25/07 ()
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Is it willfully cryptic..?
Subject: For John leigh
From: Basco
To: All
Date Posted: 16:08:51 09/25/07 ()
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John Leigh please offer your Off shore mining proposals to Prezy Koroma for perusal. I know for certain the off shore oil tender over seen by berewa was flawed big time. The allocat1on of tracts should be re-visited. could you believe a small time Nigerian company won some tracts!
I do believe the Americans or the British/Dutch Companies should be invited to explore and drill. The Spanish company that won most of the tracts will sit on them for ever!
Subject: Re: For John leigh
From: Kamara
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Date Posted: 17:56:18 09/25/07 ()
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Basco, If oil tracts in Sierra Leone were attractive financialy you would not have to search for British and American firms, they would flock to Sierra Leone like they do to Equitorial guinea or Soa Tome. Your govt needs to do a feasibility study evaluating the profitability of these fields. Even the Spanish firm is dragging its feet, you know the prospects are not that great.
Let your govt develop the tourism sector, they will accrue more money from that.Take a look at Gambia.There are many companies interested in Sierra leone tourism.
Subject: IS ERNEST KOROMA A ONE TERM PRESIDENT?
From: THE POLO
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Date Posted: 15:50:38 09/25/07 ()
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IS ERNEST KOROMA A ONE TERM PRESIDENT?
Subject: Re: IS ERNEST KOROMA A ONE TERM PRESIDENT?
From: Med
To: All
Date Posted: 08:51:34 09/26/07 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
My analysis is that, Earnest would be removed internally as head of APC after is first failed five years in State House and APC would loose the 2012 Elections.
Further down, I have carefully read and appreciated the responses to Alieus’ pathetic justification of APCs’ failure to timely present a list of cabinet. The unfortunate truth is that the new APC has no plan of action to guide their decisions or Policy; Earnest is going to largely depend on his inclination + the failed SLPP corrupt strategies/policies to govern if not copy/cut and paste. The president Koroma has often spoken of a ‘business concern’ governance, I wonder if he understands the concept or implication of this phrase in proportion to the political task at hands.
Sierra Leoneans irrespective of political affiliations should stop indulging their leaders’ weakness, which basically influenced the SLPPs’ failure. The APC has started failing and would fail woefully if you idolize Earnest, he is politically weak and needs guidance, that’s why you hear of him privately meeting people of the opposition party, rather than those that have stood with him.
APC has a lesson to learn, the SLPP lead by Kabba was full of cowards, people that could never stand up for the truth, because of simply material gains/positions, they allowed Kabba to micromanage them down into the gutter. These are the same unpatriotic bunch of incompetent people that saw the city engulfed in total blackout with no pipe born water and poor road infrastructures for over a decade and still yearned for power, but nar God go pay them.
Preparedness in politics is the greatest element to successful governance, if APC thinks the five-year mandate is for ever, SLPP just wasted 2 sets of five years and they are still desperate for power.
Subject: Re: IS ERNEST KOROMA A ONE TERM PRESIDENT?
From: POLO PARA
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Date Posted: 16:09:59 09/25/07 ()
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ARE YOU AN IDIOT.?
Subject: Re: REEBUTTAL OF THE DAY -- for The Guy next door
From: Finda
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Date Posted: 15:42:57 09/25/07 ()
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Posted by Finda on September 25, 2007 at 15:41:37:
In Reply to: Re: REBUTTAL OF THE DAY posted by The guy next door on September 25, 2007 at 03:17:11:
"The Judiciary under no cercumstance has the power to abitrarily investigate Ministers or any person. That is not their mandate, they interprete the law after lower courts decisions are challenged, or in this circumstance when matter of constitutionality arise."
Guy, sorry to say, you have confused the issues. The judiciary INCLUDES the lower courts. So, it makes no sense to say, as you did, that "they interprete the law after lower courts decisions are challenged."
That is like saying that your hand will take over the work after your body is tired. That makes no sense because your hand is part of your body -- so if your body is tired, that means your hand is alo tired. It does not exist apart from your body. Similarly, the lower courts do not exist apart from the judiciary!
Sadly, the rest of your post is marred by the same mistake.
Subject: Re: REEBUTTAL OF THE DAY -- for The Guy next door
From: Mistake Correctors.. GET A LIFE
To: All
Date Posted: 16:14:12 09/25/07 ()
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Book.. book.. book.. bok.. bo.b......emptyness
Leave us alone oh.. We fool.. we dey try..
I wonder what this place would have been like with you all..
Eh em eh...(british accent).
Mr Johnson:
Mr K a ma Ra... You think you can prolifocusly out smart me?
Mr Kamara:
Well i abitrarily pompustically will wilfully and ceremoniously attempt to give you a lecture..
arggggggggggggg..
How about.. okay well let me make it clear or set you right..? em..im...
Whats wrong with you pretentious people.. ?
Nah this dey make when unu reach salone unu werr nectie.. pan HOT HOT san just cause unu wan make leck *&*$^$%...
I will be in short trosis.. or stone washed torn jeans and slippers drinking my martini r COLD heineken ..same bar..same glass.. same price..CAUSE I AINT GOT ONE PRE TEN TIUOS bone in my body.
Casada leaf you eat am with you han oh, gold spoon oh..or a stick will come out green on the other end..
Unu lef we ya..
Finda.. Sorry hon.. this is not directed at you per se.. just got the oppotunity to blow mind on your correction thread..
Subject: Re: REEBUTTAL OF THE DAY -- for The Guy next door
From: GO AWAY!
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Date Posted: 17:21:48 09/25/07 ()
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Leave us alone oh.. We fool.. we dey try..
___________________________________________
Us? Did you say us?
Let me ask you. who made you spokesman for us?
GO AWAY, sir.
We are learning from the questions and answers on this website. Go sidom wit you norshi norshi. nobody forces you to read any posting. but don;t fdrag us into your coba yai, coba yase idleness. we like to learn from exchanges on this website.
Subject: Re: REEBUTTAL OF THE DAY -- for The Guy next door
From: Who ask yu Hog ade price - U papa nah butcher?
To: All
Date Posted: 19:41:38 09/25/07 ()
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So he CANT use US.. but you should be able to use WE?
The boy dey blow mind but people just like you.. people who are not forced to read anyone post but have ichy fingers and a matron (unwarranted) complex to correct.
Who made you talk for US?
Subject: Re: REEBUTTAL OF THE DAY -- for The Guy next door
From: Look in the mirror
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Date Posted: 20:51:01 09/25/07 ()
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.. people who are not forced to read anyone post but have ichy fingers and a matron (unwarranted) complex to correct.
--------------------------------------
Is that a confession?
Subject: Re: REEBUTTAL OF THE DAY -- for The Guy next door
From: Morlai Kofti - Me Mirror Broke.
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Date Posted: 22:05:17 09/25/07 ()
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Me correct anyone..? Matron complex..?
You nor soba.. show me one instance of me exibiting that irritating trait.
Going about telling posters they are wrong.. they do not understand english or what they read..?
Show me one.
Subject: Re: REEBUTTAL OF THE DAY -- for The Guy next door
From: Look in the mirror
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Date Posted: 23:01:25 09/25/07 ()
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What good would showing you do? You still wouldn't see.
Remember, there's no cure for the blindness of one who chooses not to see.
Subject: first mistake of President Koroma
From: Kakua
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Date Posted: 15:33:23 09/25/07 ()
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President koroma, no doubt is a very nice and able leader who is capable of moving our nation forward. the people made the right choice in voting him to power and the main reason for that is because people want a total change of the previous system. people didn't vote for President Koroma just for them to see the same crook slpp politicians still parading the corridors of power. most of our people may be illiterates but are wiser than most of us think. people want to see new faces as ministers with a clean track record and not friends who are bent to take us back to where we came from. i am therefore appealing to President Koroma to take action now before it is too late.
Subject: Re: first mistake of President Koroma
From: M. Alieu Iscandari esq
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Date Posted: 18:30:17 09/25/07 ()
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I think that you have misunderstood the position of the president and I would like to further clarify that position if I may. Because no one knew who was going to win the elections, the APC did not have a working cabinet put together. During the period of transition, prior to the President choosing a cabinet and having that cabinet be approved by parliament, it is necessary that the country continue to run as smoothly as it was prior to the elections. It is for this reason that the President has chosen to ask that all of the former ministers in the SLPP be allowed to stay at their offices and man the fort until an APC cabinet is put together. It is as simple as that.
Fret not thyself me bredren. The APC under Ernest Koroma is about to put together a team that sierra leone has never seen before. One that would be accountable to the people who are the share holders of this new entity called the Sierra Leone Corporation INC
Subject: Re: first mistake of President Koroma
From: Tamba Moiwo
To: All
Date Posted: 07:24:52 09/26/07 ()
Email Address: moiwo@hotmail.co.uk
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"the APC did not have a working cabinet put together"
Oh dear!!!
Not even a Shadow Cabinet? Sir, this is the height of imcompetence.There are no excuses.I accept that Parliament has to approve the appointed ministers but to say there was no 'kitchen cabinet' smacks of gross naivety.
Man,qiut playing games with excuses.This is unshamed foolishness.
Subject: Re: first mistake of President Koroma
From: Ibrahim Turay
To: All
Date Posted: 23:00:40 09/25/07 ()
Email Address: imtu71@hotmail.com
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Allieu, I'm a strong admirant of your postings at this forum but I presumed you fell short on this. I basically think your excuse lacks sufficient justification of convincing an individual like myself. Failure to compose a cabinet at this point is an exhibitance of politically pre-mature competency of leadership. We talking about national leadership and therefore, a proactive approach must be applied before even having a thought of contesting. I just believe Ernest had a skeptical perception of victory, otherwise a potential cabinet would have been in place even before the elections.
Subject: Re: first mistake of President Koroma
From: Emmanuel Jarrett
To: All
Date Posted: 20:19:58 09/25/07 ()
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"Because no one knew who was going to win the elections, the APC did not have a working cabinet put together."
Me bra, this is not the excuse that the President and the APC should be giving for failing to have a cabinet. The ordinary SLeonean would appreciate to have a cabinet which should be acting in transition till paliament approves one that is presentated by the President. (But maybe the President was thinking to use the SLPP Ministers as transition which is maybe his plan :))Any serious person running for the most important job in a country should have a cabinent in mind and thought about these folks way before he is elected. So bra, I don't agree with your point here.
Subject: Re: first mistake of President Koroma
From: M. Alieu Iscandari Esq
To: All
Date Posted: 22:09:24 09/25/07 ()
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"a cabinet which should be acting in transition till paliament approves one that is presentated by the President"
Okay Mr. Jarett, lets analyze the issues here. Your position that the president should have had a cabnet in position is unreasonable, in that to have put a cabinet together when he was unsure that he an opposition candidate was going to win the elections, was akin to counting his chickens before they were hatched. But more poignant here is the fact that you are suggesting that he take two steps rather than one which is an uneconomical use of time. You are proposing that the president nominate a transition cabinet, which may or may not be the cabinet that Parliament approves.
I do believe that to use the former SLPP ministers as a transition cabinet is the best idea because it allows for the smooth running of the cogs of government until he can put in place a cabinet which would be presented to parliament and confirmed and then take over from the transition SLPP ministers.
It takes time to make the transition and my best guess is that it will take no more than 60 days for the transition to be completed.
I urge your patience. We need this transition period to get a full and comprehensive report of the "state of the ministries" by the outgoing team and the team of auditors and forensic accountants and auditors that has been commissioned to provide a clearer picture of what the state of the ministries is at the point of transition.
By the way The President is a "serious person" by any objective standard.
Stay Blessed
Subject: Re: first mistake of President Koroma
From: Erica Adams
To: All
Date Posted: 23:00:55 09/25/07 ()
Email Address: ericamonique82@hotmail.com
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I have been perplexed by this entire process because I've never seen anything like it. The President was sworn in on the very day he was announced the winner. I think that was the root of the failure in this transition. The only thing I can compare this to is our democractic system in the US. The election is in November and the inaguration happens in January, so when we have the next election in November 2008 the new president won't start serving in his or her official capacity until January 2009. That is sufficient time to get a cabinet in place. Under what authority would EBK have been operating as as a presidental candidate if he had started interviewing and investigating potential cabinet members? When I heard he had already officially taken office, I wondered if this was a set up. The question is what serious outgoing president who really has a heart for the people would just drop this mess in Koroma's lap? Kabbah spoke of the mess he inherited, but what about the mess he handed over to the incoming president who wasn't even extended the slightest courtesy of a period of transition. Everyone has an orientation when they begin a new job. Some orientations last for weeks and some are even for months. With the way the election process went and the way the new president was just handed power, I think he is making the best out of a bad situation. I don't know why the expectation seems to be that he can turn water into wine, but he has only been president for a matter of days and he really needs the support of everyone. Even if you don't agree with him, I believe he deserves an opportunity to show what he can do. If he shows himself not to be worthy of the support, people can do what we do in democratic societies. Vote him out of office. That's the beauty of it all, it's not a permanent condition.
Subject: Re: first mistake of President Koroma
From: Reporter
To: All
Date Posted: 05:41:49 09/26/07 ()
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QED Erica!
Nothing much to add, except we have to remember the election date was shifted because the old parliament was not dissolved in time to allow the gap set in the constitution to elapse. This meant Pres. Kabbah's mandate expired during the election process ... an unusual and problematic situation.
Lessons for 2012:
1) we must start election plans early
2) the current opposition must put together a 'Shadow' cabinet now to track APC policy and programmes.
Subject: Re: first mistake of President Koroma
From: Sorba S
To: All
Date Posted: 15:50:19 09/25/07 ()
Email Address: sorba_1@yahoo.com
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Message:
That is all good but up till now Koroma has not been able to name one person in his carbinet. What's up with that?. I know one Samora chap is going to be his Finance Minister. This guys was a financial secretary in the SLPP government under JOB.
He has retained all the SLPP ministers so they can help help him go through the difficult times he is facing. Tell him to name his cabinet. SLPP need to start the ball rolling.
Go John Leigh!
Subject: Re: first mistake of President Koroma
From: Kamara
To: All
Date Posted: 17:46:44 09/25/07 ()
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Hey, Jamaica had their elections after us and the new govt from the oposition has already named a cabinet. I would think with the delay in the election results , Ernest had enough time to prepare a cabinet list.
I hope he is more decisive on the pressing issues facing sierra leone.
Subject: Re: first mistake of President Koroma
From: sobra cobra
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Date Posted: 16:15:48 09/25/07 ()
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You have to be patience if you are an aligator trying to catch a fly.It is the SLPP'S obligation to stay through the transition because of all the crap they put
the President through
Subject: LETTER TO PRESIDENT KOROMA
From: GIBRILL
To: All
Date Posted: 14:58:01 09/25/07 ()
Email Address: alfagibrill@aol.com
Entered From: proxy02.houstonisd.org at 166.127.1.212
Message:
I write to congratulate you and the people of Sierra Leone on this great achievement [peaceful and transparent elections]that resulted in you being elected president.May God bless you and we the people of Sierra Leone.
I and all loving sierra leoneans will very much like to see the transformation of our beloved country under your leadership. To achieve that positive acievement, i am suggesting among the miilion options, the following steps:
first that you make it abundantly clear to your cabinet not to see themselves as bosses but as servants of the people. The notion of the ministers or permanent secretaries considering themselves as Gods must give way to a cabinet of servers and doers of the things needed to IMPROVE THE COUNTRY. That will force the masses to emulate them.In other words, the work culture must be changed.
Sierra Leoneans need a strong leader that can curtail corruption in high places. The cabinet and parliamentarians must be acccountable to the masses who elected them to office.Remember that your cabinet and the people will test your strenght and stability. Be firm and tough in fighting corruption;disciplining the police sysytem to discourage bribery;strenghten and widen the powers of the anti-corruption wing of government;give the military a very constructive role to play in the development of the country.
Look into the way foreign exchange is handled in the country. When the bank of Sierra leone was the sole handler of forex at the airport, the country was receiving more forex than when it was handed unto private hands. Diamonds provide a major source of forex for the country. The processing of such diamonds must be closely monitored. As the president, the monopoly of a single diamond cutter and evaluator at the GDO MUST BE CLOSELY EXAMINED.It leaves room for corruption and under evaluation of the gems. Such under evaluation results in less revenue for the government while the evaluator gets a bigger share of the revenue under the table.This practice can be stopped by training more diamond cutters and evaluators and forming a team to evaluate the gems.
In addition to the urgent need for the completion of the bumbuna project; keeping our cities clean and healthy; provision of healthy drinking water and electricity, please consider the revamping of the Lungi international airport a high priority in your agenda.We must upgrade and expand the airport to meet international standards.
It is my fervent believe that the new government will welcome any positive suggestions towards the development of our country.If any of us see an area we can critize, let us do so in a positive manner and provide or suggest solutions to what we are critizing.
Together, we can build a better sierra leone.
Above all, let us pray for the leadership for Godly direction;divine strenght;a spiritually sound mind and good health.
BRING ON THE GOOD STUFF FOR THE BETTERMENT OF SIERRA LEONE. MORE LATER.AND BE BLESS.
Subject: John Leigh A Shabro?
From: Sorba S
To: All
Date Posted: 14:14:49 09/25/07 ()
Email Address: sorba_1@yahoo.co
Entered From: at 209.116.81.187
Message:
John Leigh might be from Freetown but he is in deed a Shabro. No wander he so intellegent. The problem is that he will never became a president because he is too bold and hornest. Let no man fool you; John Leigh would have been a better President that OBai but he join the wrong party and did not watch his mouth. Well! he is a Shabro and that what they stand for honesty and boldness.
NO NEGATIVE RESPONSE PLEASE!!!!!
GO John!!
Subject: Re: John Leigh A Shabro?
From: keke blahima
To: All
Date Posted: 17:34:22 09/25/07 ()
Email Address: epa@gmail.com
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Message:
I think your opinion of John Leigh is well taken, but I refuse to subscribe to it. John Leigh could not have been a better President to Ernest bacause you are measuring or comparing an unknown variable.
Koroma is at his Presidential infancy and, both Koroma and John Leigh own no record to validate your claim.
Even if Koroma ends up been a bad President there is no yardstick to guage what a Leigh Presential performance would be. You are counting how many oranges your trees will produce right before the pollination.
I think based on the records available so far, Leigh would make an effective opposition. His honesty and boldness are traits of an effective opposition. But then, I question his silence and inaction to Kabbahs destruction of a nation to which he is a citizen and a political party to which he bears membership.
Except if he acquisced to it, he should have been the moral mouthpiece within the SLPP to redirect its inefficient leadership.
He should have rebutted Kabbah's claim of inheriting a failed state as an excuse for bad governance. I had predicted this in London in 1996 that Kabbah would fail because he came to office with no economic plan whatsover.
Here is my forecast; SLPP is going into hibernation, structural chaos, financial dysfunctionality and leadership crisis. Quit.
Esse Quam Videri JL. A response from you is in order.
Subject: Re: John Leigh A Shabro?
From: Question
To: All
Date Posted: 15:31:56 09/25/07 ()
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" John Leigh would have been a better President that OBai but he join the wrong party and did not watch his mouth."
Are you saying that John Leigh's mouth can be separated from the rest of his face?
If not, what sense does your statement make when John Leigh is defined by the man, INCLUDING his foul mouth?
Subject: Re: John Leigh A Shabro?
From: sorba S
To: All
Date Posted: 15:40:56 09/25/07 ()
Email Address: sorba_1@yahoo.com
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Message:
He has a big mouth. Some times its put him into trouble a la what happened in the airport in Freetown.
Subject: Re: John Leigh A Shabro?
From: John E. Leigh
To: All
Date Posted: 15:58:44 09/25/07 ()
Email Address: johnernestleigh@yahoo.com
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Message:
Dear sorba S:
Wrong, it was not my mouth!
It was my pen! Rather it was the unauthorized release of my confidential writing the president and three others by some crooked insider, that produced the June 2001 airport scene you might be referring to.
On a recent Lungi-London flight, an Alhaji related to President Kabbah, walked up to me, introduced himself and told me that Kabbah told him and others that he has finally discovered the insider shinanigans against me by crooked elements within the Minerals Ministry; feels bad about about he's handling of it but that he won't be able to face me.
Well, that's life in politics. Thank you. - JL
Subject: Re: John Leigh A Shabro?
From: miner
To: All
Date Posted: 19:28:35 09/25/07 ()
Email Address:
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"On a recent Lungi-London flight, an Alhaji related to President Kabbah, walked up to me, introduced himself and told me that Kabbah told him and others that he has finally discovered the insider shinanigans against me by crooked elements within the Minerals Ministry; feels bad about about he's handling of it but that he won't be able to face me." JL.
Can you elaborate for the benefit of our forumites?
Sierra leoneans are craving a shake of our minerals establishment.
Subject: Re: John Leigh A Shabro?
From: Shembu
To: All
Date Posted: 16:41:08 09/25/07 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
JL,
This is the main reason why I truely LOVE you. Under any circumstance, you will calmly respond to a whole lot of stuff than most people will not. You are a true politician and you truely possess THICK SKIN (a big requirement in politics). You remind me of a controversial student politician in my day at FBC, Babah Kakay.....remember him folks of FBC era 1987-1992. Babah always gets himself out of trouble by calmly facing the student body at Amphi and talking his way out. I remember when himself and a few others were accused of selling us (students) out to Bambay Kamara - boy oh boy!, Babah faced a student body of over 1,000 under 96 degrees heat at Amphi and made it out with everyone being his friend rather than foe.
Please stay in the forum JL, and may be think about cross-carpetting over to the New APC. There is nothing wrong. It is the New APC not the Old one.
Hey JL, stay out of the COLD up there in Concord, Mass.
Subject: Re: John Leigh A Shabro?
From: John E. Leigh
To: All
Date Posted: 16:49:06 09/25/07 ()
Email Address: johnernestleigh@yahoo.com
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Message:
Dear Mr. Shembu:
Your advice: "..... stay out of the COLD up there in Concord, Mass." is, regrettably, unacceptable. Climate warming is bringing to Massachusetts, the climate of Virginia and Maryland.
In the mean time, I am having a great SOCIAL time with the natives. Thanks. - JL
Subject: Re: John Leigh A Shabro? ( ?)
From: Cornelius Hamelberg
To: All
Date Posted: 18:22:02 09/25/07 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
Some would bring back stories from Glenmorangie back to Sierra Leone to tell us that it was so cold that when they SPAT, the spittle would freeze before it hit the ground…. And we were impressed….. THAT cold…..
Having a great social time. The (Indians) and you too are no doubt gradually accepting your fate and acclimatizing to the weather conditions of Virginia and Maryland. And if you don’t like it, what about moving back to where you are most at home, so that the global warming can hit you in your home town BO, or is it Bonthe Sherbro?
Having a great social time is one way of keeping warm or,
Noh to make ee wan make pan we so ?
When last did I have a great social time in Sierra Leone and with whom? Tha Millionaire class?
How are the brothers and sisters and San- San boys and girls, men and women doing over there?
Having a GREAT time (of course great) with everyone:
http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&q=+Indians+of+the+Massachusetts+area
And some of this
http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&q=Socializing+in+Massachusetts
Have you seriously thought of running? Senator John Ernest Leigh of Massachusetts, you could then take off to Sierra Leone and be received on such state visits with great pomp and ceremony --- greater pomp ( respect) and ceremony than that of a mere aspirant to the SLPP leadership through the next Makeni Con.
As Senator Leigh you would have a GREAT or GREATER social time, with people of your own kind, will no longer require the vote of san –san boys and girls and other natives of Sierra Leone.
What are the qualifications to run for office in the House of Representatives? In the Senate?
The required qualifications are found in Article 1 of the Constitution:
House of Representatives
• twenty five years of age
• a citizen of the United States for at least 7 years
• at the time of election, be a resident of the state
U.S. Senate
• 30 years of age
• a citizen of the United States for 9 years
• at the time of election, be a resident of the state
Great African Americans
http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&q=Great+African+Americans&meta=
Subject: Re: John Leigh A Shabro?
From: Cornelius Hamelberg
To: All
Date Posted: 18:11:34 09/25/07 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
John Leigh A Shabro or not a Shabro?
Some would bring back stories from Glenmorangie back to Sierra Leone to tell us that it was so cold that when they SPAT, the spittle would freeze before it hit the ground…. And we were impressed….. THAT cold…..
Having a great social time. The Natives and you too are no doubt gradually accepting your fate and acclimatizing to the weather conditions of Virginia and Maryland. And if you don’t like it, what about moving back to where you are most at home, so that the global warming can hit you in your home town BO, or is it Bonthe Sherbro?
Great social time is one way of keeping warm or great social time,
Noh to make ee wan make pan we so ?
When last did I have a great social time in Sierra Leone and with whom? Tha Millionaire class?
How are the brothers and sisters and San- San boys and girls, men and women doing over there?
Having a great time (of course great) with everyone:
http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&q=+Indians+of+the+Massachusetts+area
And some of this
http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&q=Socializing+in+Massachusetts
Have you seriously thought if running? Senator John Ernest Leigh of Massachusetts, you could then take of to Sierra Leone and be received on such state visits with great pomp and ceremony than a mere aspirant to the leadership through the next Makeni Con.
As Senator Leigh you would have a GREAT or GREATER social time, with people of your own kind, will no longer require the vote of san –san boys and girls and other natives of Sierra Leone.
What are the qualifications to run for office in the House of Representatives? In the Senate?
The required qualifications are found in Article 1 of the Constitution:
House of Representatives
• twenty five years of age
• a citizen of the United States for at least 7 years
• at the time of election, be a resident of the state
U.S. Senate
• 30 years of age
• a citizen of the United States for 9 years
• at the time of election, be a resident of the state
Subject: Re: John Leigh A Shabro?
From: Cornelius Hamelberg
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Date Posted: 18:06:40 09/25/07 ()
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Wow!
Subject: Re: John Leigh A Shabro? MY friend please READ THIS !
From: Cornelius Hamelberg
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Date Posted: 15:07:39 09/25/07 ()
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It's about time he re-started the campaign to defeat Berewa and every other mortal man and moral woman in the SLPP, to become the undisputed heavyweight champion of the SLPP since he already has the credentials of the "Louisville Lip" and don't forget he concludes with the advice that some people took:
“Please take and eat the money given you for your vote. BUT VOTE YOUR CONSCIENCE.”
This of course explains why he collapsed and almost passed out outside the hall where the delegates had convened for what he later described in the tragedy he called “The Makeni Con-Bention” with a cast of hundreds and he was cast out without as much as getting a single soul to nominate him let alone somebody to second such a nomination.
John Leigh a "Shabro"? Why speculate when the old horse himself has answered the question of who he thinks he is? You will notice though that the dating of his achievements is a little fuzzy and not sufficiently precise for a CV, considering the considerable space that he allocates to details of his lineage and birth place but no birthdate. What a history!
And because of all that he should be elected leader of the SLPP and president of Sierra Leone?
Subject: Re: John Leigh A Shabro? MY friend please READ THIS !
From: Sorba S
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Date Posted: 15:20:50 09/25/07 ()
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I stand to be corrected. Thank you for your response. I respect people like you. Sober minded peple always give good response with fact and not like some of the low minded APCians we have in this forun. They will all hide when we start to see bad governance with their party. I supported them but now is time to start bringing the old palm tree back. I still think Leigh should run again. GO SLPP!!
Subject: Re: John Leigh A Shabro? MY friend please READ THIS !
From: Cornelius Hamelberg
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Date Posted: 16:21:15 09/25/07 ()
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As a former diplomat who wants to be a politician on his home turf, Mr Leigh should try to build bridges, to cultivate friends and allies and not to create enemies. Mr. Leigh should know.
Can he be forgiven? Yes. I still wish him well.
Before Mr. Leigh got wild and started abusing everybody , especially Hon Charles Margai and that was after thoroughly abusing me, calling a me a drunkard - although I am not - and the past twelve years I have been blessing the wine “Borei pri ha gafen” before drinking it although I may have got very tipsy on Purim festivals. He also called me a “jewboy”, some other horrible names, just because I was defending Hon Charles Margai and disagreeing with Mr. Johnny. He repeatedly called me a asocial welfare parasite etc and addressed me most disrespectfully (although I have never been a beneficiary of the Social Welfare since I a started living here in 1971 – straight from my mother’s in Edgware North London, with whom my wife was staying whilst doing research in the Colonial archives of the British museum - and before that directly from Accra Ghana:
ON 10th November I got a letter from John Leigh some of which I will quote. It was in reply to my letter some of which I will quote. My letter started with:
“ Dear John Ernest Leigh
Thanks for your letter. Appreciate all your efforts and I honestly cannot say that anyone of the potential candidates for the Makeni Convention has worked as diligently as you have in meeting your electorate. It is such assiduous inputs that make all the difference between the genuine and the mediocre - your website attests to that fact and the many occasions on which you have participated on the various forums and tried to iron out misperceptions, media distortions and lies has won my admiration. It would seem that you are the most modern of the potential candidates and leaders, using as you do , the medium that is available to you.
Whilst I also honour the confidentiality of your letter to me I wish that you had written a similar letter making the transparency of your explanation available to the general public. It is after all only truth that can dispel lies and malicious media spin.
One thing still puzzles me: why do you insist on reforming the SLPP from within when, in spite of all that you have done for the party previously and in spite of all your good works as able Ambassador and representative of the people of Sierra Leone, you were subsequently marginalised? It seems that the party does not know how to make the best use of your uncanny abilities, and since you cannot impose yourself or your will or your sense of direction on the party hierarchy, you still have not answered how you intend to proceed…….
………….A united front has the potential of unseating the SLPP especially if a strong anti-corruption wind should unclothe them in the high and secret places where they are most vulnerable. Still, what would be the centre of gravity and ideology of a United Front (apart from the fact that we all want the best of Sierra Leone). “
Some more paragphs and confidentilaities and ….
“Have a good evening Sir.
Sincerely Yours,
Cornelius “
I’ll quote some of Mr. Leigh’s reply:
From: john leigh [johnernestleigh@yahoo.com]
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Subject: Re: Dear John Dear Mr. Hamelberg: My telephone number is below. ...................................................... The whole world is looking at Sierra Leone with admiration and saying,” Jeez the have a democracy! (Yes and its institutions have to be strengthened. They say,” Jeez- the opposition wrested power from the government that had been sitting tight for two mandate periods!” (Yes and now it’s not exactly that the SLPP has crumbled, but for the multiparty democracy to function the SLPP has to work hard – and the new kid on the block is the PMDC) John Leigh should go for it but should not forget the lessons he has already learned that it is not the most most that wins the prize for example none of the presidential aspirants in the US race for the White House is the most most Check him out Dr. Cornel West @ Brown University Feb. 2nd 2007 http://youtube.com/watch?v=HXj3_pjTTwg Subject: Re: John Leigh A Shabro? Message: This of course explains why he collapsed and almost passed out outside the hall where the delegates had convened fro what later he described in the tragedy he called “The Makeni Con-Bention” with a cast of hundreds and he was cast out without as much as getting a single soul to nominate him or let alone somebody to second such a nomination. John Leigh a "Shabro"? Why speculate when the old horse himself has answered the question of who he thinks he is? You will notice though that the dating of his achievements is a little fuzzy and not sufficiently precise for a CV, considering the considerable space that he allocates to details of his lineage and birth place but no birthdate. What a history! And because of all that he should be leader of the SLPP and president of Sierra Leone? Subject: Re: John Leigh A Shabro? Message: Subject: Re: John Leigh A Shabro? Message: Subject: Re: John Leigh A Shabro? Message: Subject: Re: John Leigh A Shabro? Message: Subject: Ernest Koroma inherits Sierra Leone at position 38/48 Message: Subject: Re: Ernest Koroma inherits Sierra Leone at position 38/48 Message: Subject: Bravo to our Navy. Guinean pirates captured Message: But Guinean authorities rejected the piracy charge, saying the men were on a legitimate fisheries protection patrol. British-trained Sierra Leone naval officers interrupted what they portrayed as a high-seas hold-up by armed men in two launches on Sunday, 18 nautical miles off Freetown inside the West African state's 320km economic exclusion zone. They said one of the attacking speedboats escaped north towards Guinea, while the other was seized. The eight men arrested were found with AK-47 automatic rifles and bags of fish, including high-value snapper, taken off the Sierra Leone-licensed vessels. "They are all Guinean pirates," said Daniel Mansaray, commander of the Sierra Leone Armed Forces Maritime Wing. He said the men arrested included two lieutenants of the Guinean armed forces -- one from the navy, another from the army -- and two fisheries inspectors. Guinea's navy said the military personnel were accompanying inspectors from the country's National Fisheries Surveillance Centre (CNSP) on an official patrol. "You can't talk about piracy," Guinean navy operations commander Mohamed Camara said. But he did not explain what the Guineans were doing in Sierra Leone's economic exclusion zone. Sean Brady, a British Royal Navy commander who advises the Sierra Leone Maritime Wing as part of a United Kingdom training mission for the country's armed forces, confirmed the arrests. "There was one boat with the pirates and one boat to take away all the bounty to Conakry. ... It's embarrassing for Guinea," he told Reuters. Lawless shores Piracy and illegal fishing are also rife off the West African coastline, a jigsaw of deltas, swamps, mangrove creeks and islands which are poorly patrolled by regional states. "Sierra Leone waters are pirated all the time and usually they [the pirates] commandeer the catch [of fishing vessels] and take it to Guinea. The fisherman are scared," Mansaray said. "They are getting too bold -- coming right down the coast to pirate and loot these vessels and stealing millions. If it continues, it will discourage people from licensing their vessels here in Sierra Leone," he added. The high-seas incident followed a brief visit to Conakry on Friday by newly elected Sierra Leone President Ernest Bai Koroma, who was making his first foreign trip as head of state. Aides said Koroma had asked Guinean President Lansana Conte and the leaders of Liberia and Burkina Faso for more cooperation to preserve security in a volatile, crime-ridden region that was racked by civil wars for more than a decade. Sierra Leone has only four maritime patrol vessels and two are out of service due to missing parts. The country's single ocean-going patrol vessel was donated by China. - Reuters Subject: Re: Bravo to our Navy. Guinean pirates captured Message: Subject: Re: Bravo to our Navy. Guinean pirates captured Message: Subject: NEWS SPLASH Message: Subject: Re: NEWS SPLASH Message: Subject: Re: NEWS SPLASH Message: Subject: Re: NEWS SPLASH Message: Subject: Re: NEWS SPLASH Message: Subject: Re: NEWS SPLASH Message: Subject: Re: NEWS SPLASH Message: Sir Banja Tejan Sie was Speaker of Parliament even though he was not a sitting MP. The same could be said of Justice Edward Cowan. intilli Subject: Re: NEWS SPLASH Message: Subject: Re: NEWS SPLASH Message: I am not in this world to live up to anybody's expectation neither are you in this world to live up to mine. Lets close this chapter and hope you have blessed day Subject: Re: NEWS SPLASH Message: Was your father or relative a teacher at the Albert Academy, who graduated from FBC and was a friend of Mr. A.E. Komeh who also was an AA teacher? Those two gentlemen came from down the Coast and remained in SL after their degrees. They taught me in school and were excellent teachers. They wrote prolifically on current matters in the public interest in the local press and were quite famous personalities in the Freetown of my days because of their intellectualism and drive. Hope you are related. Thanks. - JL Subject: Re: NEWS SPLASH Message: Subject: Re: NEWS SPLASH Message: Bra, did you look through history archieve or you are just very knowledgeable about the past? Thank you for this piece. Subject: Re: SLPP REFORM Message: Thanks for your concerns and advice. I may be far less active in this forum than before but I am still involved in commenting on matters of public interest elsewhere. Below is my response today to an analysis from my APC friend and fellow Albert Academy Alumni, Attorney Sorie Tarawally, in the AAA Forum regarding the recent SLPP defeat and tangential matters. Thanks again for your kindness. JL "Dear Atty. Tarawally: By all means, please include your friends in this discussion. I am for maximum transparency in all relevant public matters. Thank you very much. I do not believe that the Makeni ConBention was the beginning of the end for the SLPP 2007 election prospects. I believe it began much earlier but the Makeni ConBention was certainly an important cause. SECTION ONE Still others say the seeds of failure are in one man's character: he seemed to have this penchant to have the sole word on every single issue regardless of the facts or logic, including his single-mindedness in dealing with dreaded people such as Col. Khadafy and in determining the line of SLPP succession, etc., regardless of carefully considered opinions within the party, the country and in utter disregard of all the popular protests songs concocted over the years by well-meaning local artists such as Emerson Bockarie, etc. His capacity for deep and endless grudges is said to be without parallel - and so on and on and on. Some say that but for the AFRC May 1997 coup, SLPP under Kabbah would have lost the 2002 elections for he had begun to show his true character by the time Johnny Paul unfortunately struck. His whole leadership was designed to exclude competitive people around him and secure tenure for his chosen dynastic line - and rapaciously protect the same at all costs. SECTION TWO Mr. Wallace Johnson got fed-up with Bright's outrageous anti-provincial xenophobia and resigned from the NCSL, formed or joined another party - the UPP I believe - prior to his death in a motor accident in Accra. He was an MP for a very long time and fiercely independent. The British feared him and locked him up. SECTION THREE You've mentioned the Northern elements who were senior members of the party. The Western Area equivalents were Sanusie Mustapha - SL's first Minister of Finance, HEB John - First Minister of Education and Party Secretary-General, RGO King of Campbell Town (not far from Waterloo) - Minister of this and that, and Dixon-Thomas, MP Regent (Mountain), etc. In fact, it was the Rev. Eldred Jones, a prominent Creole and founder and leader of the Peoples Party, who teamed up with Dr. Milton Margai of the Protectorate Assembly and Dr. Karefa-Smart of the Sierra Leone Organization Society to form the Sierra Leone Peoples Party. SLPP began sliding into becoming a so-called Mendeman Party after the death of Sir Milton in 1964. That's when Sir Albert Margai became the SLPP leader and Dr. John Karefa-Smart, the more senior of the two by far in accomplishments and national acceptance, complained of tribal (Mende) shenanigans that unjustly deprived him of the leadership. He soon split and joined the newly established APC then led by Siaka Stevens, himself a former SLPP Minister who fell out with his colleagues during the SL Independence Conference in London in 1961. I was a small primary school boy in Yonibana, Tonkolili District when Karefa-Smart would carry that constituency with 95% of the popular vote for the SLPP. Dr. Karefa-Smart took this vote-getting power to the APC. The switch to APC by Dr. Karefa-Smart, one of SL's most educated and world-suave personalities and a Medical Doctor with a glamour international background, gave the struggling APC an instant credibility and national popularity. Also helpful to the APC was Sir Albert's foolish policy of deliberately promoting tribal Mendes with newly-minted college degrees but with little or no professional relevant experience or the culture of national service to senior positions in the civil service that were above their level of competence - to the utter annoyance of highly-trained, efficient and established Creoles. For your information, Tejan Kabbah was a prime beneficiary of the favoritism practiced by Sir Albert. He was them married to the Tucker family, a very prominent SLPP Sherbro family. It was thus easy for Stevens, during the 1966 general elections, to derogate the SLPP to voters as a Mendeman Party practicing favoritism and nepotism to destroy our country. Many voters believed him. Hence Western Area voters teamed up with the Northerners and Mende anti-dynastic dissidents to oust the SLPP of Sir Albert from power - an alliance that has been repeated in the 2007 elections. Again 1966 as in 2007, the issue was "dynastic control at all costs". Margai was hell-bent on putting his selected tribal cronies in power regardless of what SLPP rank and file wanted. The dissidents then were nationalistic Mendes who opposed Sir Albert's dictatorial behavior. They all ran as independents for parliament and six won. These six then supported the Stevens' APC, giving them an outright parliamentary majority. In later years, unschooled junior Mende tribalists, not understanding that the term "Mendeman Party" is a term of derogation proudly concluded that the SLPP is indeed a Mendeman's party and that they Mendes can govern and with all leadership positions in Mende hands but with others as their permanent serfs. I have been battling this erroneous “Mendeman Mentality” for quite a while (and will continue to do so). Hence the unity of this year’s tribal voting in the North is completely understandable. But in 1966 Stevens campaigned also on promises to rid SL of corruption and tribalism and to develop our country on a proper footing. People believed him. But he turned out to be, on balance, an evil dictator who ended up wrecking our country. He jailed Dr. Karefa-Smart for no just cause and then constructively expelled him. He then hanged Dr. Mohamed Fornah and Alhaji Ibrahim Taqi in cold blood merely because they were dissenters - and legitimate dissenters were those two gentlemen, indeed. No one spoke out against Steven’s evil deeds, probably out of fear and the need for their daily bread. Today, our country is one of the world's most wretched places with a terrible political culture to boot. Let's hope that the NEW APC will be a lot different from the OLD APC of Stevens and Momoh. I am keenly looking for the proof of this but will be patient and will allow the Administration of President Koroma plenty of honeymoon time – 12 months. With all good wishes! EQV, Subject: Re: SLPP REFORM Message: Subject: Re: SLPP REFORM Message: Subject: Re: NEWS SPLASH Message: Glad to know you benefited from his services at AA Subject: Re: Teacher Mengot Message: Thank you very much and congratulations! Your late father and his friends were good and great educationists and human beings. To this day, I marvel at their dedication and selfless contributions to the people of Sierra Leone. John Greene from Mattru and Roy During and I from Freetown were all classmates at the AA when your father and Mr. Komeh taught us all together there. Those were great days in our country when teachers gave more to pupils than what was given to them by the authorities. I will forever cherish the nuturing we received from your late dad. And congratulations once again for being an offspring from such an execellent human being. Thank you. - JL Subject: Re: NEWS SPLASH Message: Subject: Re: NEWS SPLASH Message: Dr. Chukuma Johnson is elected Deputy Speaker. Momoh Pujeh is elected Minority Leader. - JL Subject: Re: NEWS SPLASH Message: Subject: Re: NEWS SPLASH Message: Subject: Re: NEWS SPLASH Message: Subject: Re: NEWS SPLASH Message: It appears that the parliamentarians from all parties whose interests he must balance in Parliament have almost unanimously endorsed this choice. It would seem that a reputation for integrity, honesty and competence are now 'hard currency' (after votes of course) in the unfolding political landscape. Subject: Re: NEWS SPLASH Message: Subject: Re: NEWS SPLASH Message: Subject: Re: NEWS SPLASH Message: Subject: Re: NEWS SPLASH Message: Subject: Re: NEWS SPLASH Message: Subject: DICTATORSHIP AND CENSORSHIP AT SLPP FORUM Message: Re: Moderator: Why Did You Delete My Posting? [ Follow Ups ] [ Post Followup ] [ SLPP Website Forum ] [ FAQ ] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Posted by Abu Thomas on September 25, 2007 at 07:28:42: In Reply to: Moderator: Why Did You Delete My Posting? posted by Abu Thomas on September 25, 2007 at 07:25:13: : Moderator, please explain why you deleted my posting entitled: "SLPP PRAISED FOR DISCIPLINING "OFFICIAL" that I posted here around 7:30 a.m. today, Sept. 25, 2007. Subject: Re: DICTATORSHIP AND CENSORSHIP AT SLPP FORUM Message: Subject: Re: DICTATORSHIP AND CENSORSHIP AT SLPP FORUM Message: In Reply to: Re: Moderator: Why Did You Delete My Posting? posted by Moderator on September 25, 2007 at 07:34:54: Moderator, thank you for your reply. With all due respect, I do not understand the basis of your judgment -- "This is an article transported from another website and not written by you. I used my judgement that it was unfair to the person being written about since the veracity of its content may be in doubt." 1. Are you saying that if the original author had posted it you would not have deleted it? 2. On waht grounds do you find the contents of the article in doubt? 3. What specific statement(s) in the article do you believ to be in doubt and why do you so believe? 4. Are you you personally guaranteeing that for all the postings on this website that you have not deleted, their veracity is NOT in doubt? I look forward to your continuing prompt reply. Thank you in advance. Follow Ups: Subject: State House Website Message: Subject: WE MUST NEVER FORGET THESE ACTS OF INHUMANITY Message: Subject: Re: WE MUST NEVER FORGET THESE ACTS OF INHUMANITY Message: http://youtube.com/watch?v=HE5Bsvm51CY Subject: APC victory discussed on VOA Message: Subject: Re: APC victory discussed on VOA Message: He is a good freind. Subject: EDDIE TURAY or WHO for SPEAKER ? Message: Subject: Red Red wine Message: Subject: Re: Red Red wine Message: Subject: Re: Red Red wine Message: You might want to believe in what you believe, because this is how certain people think to believe in something even they know and that every one know that something is wrong, they will go ahead a believe in it any way. On the contrary, I am not stupid to believe otherwise when something as Momodu Koroma being Vice President of Sierra Leone. I will not even try to pretend I want to fool somebody or even joke about it because I will be considred not only unserious but crazy. Subject: Pres Koroma praise SLPP run Election the BEST EVER in salone Message: So what say ye all APC naysayer... Obai the great just categorically state that the just concluded election RUN by the SLPP...was so free and fair.. and (hold on...hold on..big word..TRANSPARENT)it left him smiling.. He went on to say.. we all should be grateful and shower blessings on the outgoing administration.. as he himself is constantly doing.. Plus...he also want You all to acknowledge that the standards set by the SLPP will be hard to follow.. but with GOD and COUNTRY by his side.. he will live up to the challenge.. Excellency the President Ernest Bai Koroma has said in Freetown that good governance and the promotion of democratic culture are at the top of the agenda of his government. Mr. Koroma was speaking to commissioner of the National Commission For Democracy at his office in Freetown where he categorically told them that he will encourage the commission to promote modern democratic principles, describing the just concluded parliamentary and presidential polls as the most transparent in the history of democratic elections in Sierra Leone. He referred to the task of taking over from the outgoing Sierra Leone Peoples Party (SLPP) government as a huge challenge but however vowed work to towards development and called on all to stay and work together as a united family. To do so, President Koroma continued, "we must emphasize on making ourselves as good citizens and that every Sierra Leoneans must have respect for the rule of law ;whether loser or winner." Subject: Re: Pres Koroma praise SLPP run Election the BEST EVER in salone Message: If apc’s prayer/dream is to live up to the standards/challenges set by slpp, then ar give-up, honestly I see another five years of misery for Salone people. I am still trying to figure out the relationship between apc and slpp, rather what they share in common… Subject: Re: Pres Koroma praise SLPP run Election the BEST EVER in salone Message: This man has been part and parcel of the governance of our country for the past 5-10 years.. Decisions and statements he makes and will make should be and i will guess is based on that inner working knowledge he has.. We should stop pulling figures and idea's out of thin air.. and trying to telepathically transmit it to the poor man.. He knows what our GDP is, inflaton rate, unemployment, budget, export potential, ministry in desperate need of attention.. He has been part of the political team and played in the same field as the SLPP. ONLY DIFFERENCE IS HE WORE A RED JERSEY. Subject: Re: Pres Koroma praise SLPP run Election the BEST EVER in salone Message: The notion is in the assumption of a national leadership; he has a political responsibility under oat to deliver, that this why sane people are demanding an inquiry into the affairs of the ousted slpp leadership. Earnest is charged with a leadership responsibility and not an apprenticeship. Subject: Re: Pres Koroma praise SLPP run Election the BEST EVER in salone Message: Subject: Re: Pres Koroma praise SLPP run Election the BEST EVER in salone Message: Subject: How many former cabdrivers currently serving in parliament? Message: There are cab drivers from Sierra Leone in the U.S. that Bachelors holders from F.B.C. with degrees in Economics, How many former cabdrivers are currently serving in parliament??? Subject: Re: How many former cabdrivers currently serving in parliament? Message: Subject: Re: How many former cabdrivers currently serving in parliament? Message: Subject: Re: How many former cabdrivers currently serving in parliament? Message: Meeeeee...? Nar delivery en cab me start pan.. would not even consider putting a good man down because of menial job. Subject: Re: How many former cabdrivers currently serving in parliament? Message: Subject: Re: How many former cabdrivers currently serving in parliament? Message: "A man may differ in knowledge but all are equal in the ability to learn. There is no race that is guided by reason that cannot obtain virtue" Remember the Byblical saying "Judge not or ye shall be judged" Subject: Re: How many former cabdrivers currently serving in parliament? Message: Subject: Re: How many former cabdrivers currently serving in parliament? Message: Things fall apart Subject: Re: How many former cabdrivers currently serving in parliament? Message: However, please do not compare your honest rise to the dishonest ploys of the cab drivers who imagine that they are qualified to run a government in Sa Lon when their only experience is driving a cab on the streets of New York or Washington DC. Take for example the Washington DC cab driver, John Mannah. This is a person whose experience in America consists almost entirely of driving a taxi cab in Washington, D.C. At the age of more than 50, when most professionals have reached the zenith of their careers, John Mannah finished a correspondence course graduate at a third rate college which, incredibly, allegedly awarded John Mannah a graduate degree in economics. I say incredibly because the same John Mannah was subsequently exposed by Karamoh Kabba as someone who lacked even the most basic knowledge of elementary economics. Yet, it was on the basis of his correspondence course degree that John Mannah styled himself an economist who should be appointed in a Solomon Berewa-led SLPP government in Sa Lon. Here was a man, John Mannah, who had never worked as an economist in his life describing himself as an economist. Why? In order to finagle a job in an SLPP government! The people of Sa Lon surely would have been the biggest loser had such a calamity come to pass. Fortunately, it didn't happen, despite John Mannah's dishonest ploy in falsely identifying himself as the North America director of communications for the SLPP. To its credit, the SLPP party sanctioned John Mannah for his dishonesty in falsely representing himself to the unsuspecting public as a communications director of the SLPP when he was no such official at all. That is why the next time John Mannah wrote one of his communist-length rambling rants that he imagined made sense at all, or much less contained economics, John Mannah's self-arrogated title as an SLPP official had mysteriously disappeared! Typically dishonest, John Mannah carefully concealed from the victims of his earlier fraud -- his readers -- that he had been forced to It is exactly that kind of blatant dishonesty displayed by John Mannah that makes a case like yours different from those of John Mannah and other cab drivers who flock to politics in Sa Lon in droves in the purely unpatriotic hope of saving themselves from the well-deserved failure that they have made of their lives in America and other countries abroad mainly through their lack of diligence. So, Mengot, by all means feel good about rising from a cleaning job to a top government official. But don't confuse the fruits of your honest labor with the fruits of dishonest labor that cab drivers like John Mannah expect to pick in the fertile ground of corruption that we have long recognized as Sa Lon politics. Subject: Re: How many former cabdrivers currently serving in parliament? Message: Subject: Re: How many former cabdrivers currently serving in parliament? Message: Subject: Re: How many former cabdrivers currently serving in parliament? Message: That is totally irrelevant to predicting the successful performance of a government minister or other official. As you know, the garbage innthe streets of Freetown and mismanagement in the government of Salone were born under the oversight of Ph.Ds in the SLPP and APC governments. Please read my post more carefully. You will find the ral issue that you missed so far. Hint: You will find the critical attribute these cab drivers lack in the following excerpt (look for a word starting with "e" and ending with "e"). "However, please do not compare your honest rise to the dishonest ploys of the cab drivers who imagine that they are qualified to run a government in Sa Lon when their only experience is driving a cab on the streets of New York or Washington DC." Subject: Re: How many former cabdrivers currently serving in parliament? Message: Subject: Re: How many former cabdrivers currently serving in parliament? Message: Tenki, tenki! You meke ar lef tae ar cry! Look watin you write bot John Mannh wae mek ar fordom nar gron wit laf, "When he pompously declared that he had just completed a Ph.D in FINANCIAL ECONOMICS and was planning to open a stock market in SL, Ar laff tay ar piss pan misef!" HAHAHAHAHAHAheeeeehehehehehehe, Waiyooyah, Mi Mama tidae! Subject: Re: How many former cabdrivers currently serving in parliament? Message: Thanks for your acknowledgement I know the Johnson Cole family at Kendall street. I used to visit their family house on errands for my great grandmother - grandma Mabel Carr. Any chance you lived at that address in the 60s and 70s. BTW the name Abioseh could be male or female so I don't want to jump to any conclusions Stay blessed Subject: Re: How many former cabdrivers currently serving in parliament? Message: No, unfortunately, I never lived at Kendall street with my relatives, Walmsley and his younger brothers, Wilmot and Walter. Stay bleesed too, my brother. Subject: Why Ernest should not listen to the International Community Message: Subject: Re: Why Ernest should not listen to the International Community Message: Subject: Re: Why Ernest should not listen to the International Community Message: Subject: Re: Why Ernest should not listen to the International Community Message: The new APC have people who fought tooth and nail for the success of the party. Naturally, these people should be rewarded by allowing them the opportunity to help run the country. Old SLPP officials who did a very good job in their assignments could be used for advice but a New Government MUST have all NEW FACES. I would also not like to see officials from the OLD APC (later Shaki and Momoh cohorts, like Gbessay, Morlai, ET, Abdullai, JBD, etc). Don,t include those round pegs in square holes Professors from FBC/NUC either. I am talking about a math/physics professor as a Foreign Minister (DOOOOOOM!). Subject: Re: Why Ernest should not listen to the International Community Message: Subject: Re: Why Ernest should not listen to the International Community Message: It is good Policy. Subject: Re: Why Ernest should not listen to the International Community Message: Subject: Re: Why Ernest should not listen to the International Community Message: I would rather have an avowed SLPP man on a job position who can do the job competently, than an APC person who is incompetent and cannot perform in theposition to which they are entrusted. what do you think? Subject: Re: Why Ernest should not listen to the International Community Message: Subject: Re: Why Ernest should not listen to the International Community Message: Subject: Re: Why Ernest should not listen to the International Community Message: Subject: Re: Why Ernest should not listen to the International Community Message: Of course if there are members of the old APC party who were honest and competent I see no reason why they should not be rehired or considered for ministerial positions. Similarly, I see not reason why sierra leoneans who are competent memebrs of the opposition parties should not be considered for ministerial positions. If you have been reading my protest writings on this and other forums, I have been very much agaionst the "tribalization" of the civl service. I have objected in very strenous terms to what I have observed as a civil service that is mono tribal under the SLPP IE: mostly comprised of mendes. In the same vein, I will object very strenuosly to the dominance of Northerners, westerners or those deemed to belong to the APC support base from dominating the civil service. It is my belief from my conversations with the President Mr. Koroma, that he will seek to form a government of NATIONAL UNITY. I shall stand on the side of Justice ALL of the time. Subject: Re: Why Ernest should not listen to the International Community Message: I see no reason why diehard APC guy like you should not be called upon rather than contaminating the new APC with corrupt, good for nothing, old bunch of educated fools in the pretext of Politicians. Don’t allow Earnest to take you guys for a ride, learn from SLPP’s mistake, they feared Kabba, who used suspicion to govern. Earnest could be a good leader, but not a matured politician, which is a profession you learn to live. Cheers. Subject: Re: Why Ernest should not listen to the International Community Message: Subject: Re: Why Ernest should not listen to the International Community Message: Yes the new APC will be based on meritocracy not political affiliation. Subject: Re: Why Ernest should not listen to the International Community Message: Eddy turay.. and Mr. Osman Yansaneh and Dr. Abdul Karim Koroma (AKK) and a few other kleptos where last seen heading towards statehouse with briefcase in hand.. Who are you APC fooling.. Time will tell.. Subject: Re: Why Ernest should not listen to the International Community Message: Subject: Re: Why Ernest should not listen to the International Community Message: Do i need your permission/acknowledgement to assume the same of all APC klepto's. Or are we not all equal under the eyes of God..? Good for the goose and all.. Giving reason, Hon. Edward Turay said that he is one of the longest serving Member of Parliament, in addition to his Curriculum Vitae he said “I know all the parliamentary procedures and they are not new to me” Subject: Re: Why Ernest should not listen to the International Community Message: Subject: Re: Why Ernest should not listen to the International Community Message: We can go round in circles all you want.. "Being the longest serving MP of the APC party,does not mean that he is a kleptomaniac or a member of the OLD APC.Eddie became a MP in 1996." Neither does it not. I did not compare him to anyone.. Subject: Re: Why Ernest should not listen to the International Community Message: "MP in 1996 does not mean he was not a member of the APC kleto party before 1996. And it does not mean after 1996 kleptomania in APC circles was cured" Wrong bra.He was not a registered member until 1992 when your NPRC sponsored group over thrown a legitimate govt.Unlike our former/Ex President ATK who was found WANTING for crimes against the great state of Salone,Eddie Turay has never been call upon to defend himself on crimes against MAMA SALONE.So you see Bra,your party members like the MINORITY LEADER MOMOH PUJEH is the one who needs to be CURED for Kleptomania. "I said they where all seen heading to statehouse with briefcase.." Bra,Eddie Turay is the CAMPAIGN MANAGER for the APC party,and I see nothing wrong in him visiting our President at the STATE HOUSE which Pa Kabbah left to YUBAS to make their home. Subject: Re: Why Ernest should not listen to the International Community Message: FACT: Eddy turay (FULL STOP. FULL STOP) and Mr. Osman Yansaneh and Dr. Abdul Karim Koroma (AKK) and a few other kleptos where last seen heading towards statehouse with briefcase in hand. The assumption that eddy turay is a klepto in conjucntion with a few others is yours.. I merely said Eddy Turay was seen headed to statehouse. Subject: Re: Why Ernest should not listen to the International Community Message: Earnest Koroma should establish a new government, he is expected to lead. The people voted him in, not because he’s popular or apc deserved a better vote, rather people wanted a change. I assume we all know what a change is and what it constitutes. SLPP failed simply because they took the people for granted, any similar move by Earnest Koroma would face the same resistance if not more. Sierra Leone is not a brain drain, let the president make use of those that have stood with him locally, if not, ask him to learn from Kabba’s blunders. Any association with slpp will amount to a political + human relationship disaster. Subject: Re: Why Ernest should not listen to the International Community Message: Subject: Re: Why Ernest should not listen to the International Community Message: Subject: Re: Why Ernest should not listen to the International Community Message: BTW how many APC Ministers were appointed in ATK's government of national unity after the 1996 election? Subject: The Audacity of Imposition vs. Democracy Message: Boston MA Subject: Re: The Audacity of Imposition vs. Democracy Message: None taken, Obureh. Subject: Re: The Audacity of Imposition vs. Democracy Message: Subject: Re: The Audacity of Imposition vs. Democracy Message: Subject: Re: Why Ernest should not listen to the International Community Message: Subject: Re: Why Ernest should not listen to the International Community Message: I notice most times the assumption that Earnest got 100% votes.. Continue kacking that chest.. Subject: Re: Why Ernest should not listen to the International Community Message: Subject: Women in Chemistry. Taught in High school in Sierra Leone Message: About Her Life To call Mae Jemison multitalented is an understatement. Born in Decatur, Alabama, in 1956 and raised in Chicago, she studied chemical engineering as well as African and Afro-American studies as an undergraduate at Stanford University. She went on to medical school at Cornell University. She put her knowledge of medicine and her knowledge of Africa to good use soon after she graduated from Cornell, working as a medical officer with the U.S. Peace Corps in the West African nations of Liberia and Sierra Leone. Subject: Re: Women in Chemistry. Taught in High school in Sierra Leone Message: Subject: Re: Women in Chemistry. Taught in High school in Sierra Leone Message: Subject: SLPP Ministers Last Grab.... Abusing Pres Koroma's Gesture Message: To the astonishment of most Sierra Leoneans, the good will gesture of President Koroma, for those frustrated and mostly corrupt outgoing ministers of erstwhile President Kabbah, seems to have been misconstrued and now being abused by the same. There is now the feeling amongst those so-called ministers that, they are part of the new government, and should continue there old game of corruption. The concern we have is not about their being included, in the new government, it is a matter of the reckless and corrupt practices they are presently embarking on, and the illegality of the status of minister they misuse now. This is a common course for concern and would perhaps be considered as the first significant blunder of our cherished leadership. We have chosen to consider this issue, to be a serious blunder, because of the far reaching effect it would have, on this government, if it is not halted now, as a matter of urgency. Perhaps as a way of expressing our bad feelings for the existence and operations of those same corrupt ministers that were overwhelmingly voted against, by the politically conscious classes of this nation, in both August 11 Presidential and Parliamentary Elections and the September 8 Presidential Run-off Election, we need to make very clear the unconstitutionality and illegality of the continued existence and operations of those ministers. Legally speaking, Section 58(1) (sub-section one) of Act No. 6 of the 1991 Constitution expressly categories diverse but legal means through which the offices of a Minister and a Deputy Minister shall become vacant. The Subsection and ensuring paragraphs read as follows: (1) The office of a Minister or a Deputy Minister shall become vacant – (a) on the expiration of the term of office of the president, or (b) if his appointment is revoked by the president; or (c) if he resigns or retires from office or dies, or (d) if he is elected as speaker or deputy speaker of parliament, or (e) upon the assumption of any other person to the office of president”. Without their simplifications, the provisions of Section 58 (1) paragraphs A-E are self explanatory. In other words they speak for themselves. Notwithstanding the explicit and ambiguous provisions of the aforesaid section, I shall further explain the specific paragraphs that have nullified the continuity and operation of very corrupt out gone Sierra Leone People’s Party’s Ministers. Paragraph A of Section 58 expresses that a Minister and Deputy must cease to operate upon the expiration of the term of the President that appointed them. Why the delay and feet dragging? Have those ministers not witnessed the transfer of their President and Vice President to their residences? Is that not possibly a sufficient move to tell them that, they must not be told to vacate their seats and hand over government’s possessions? In the same direction, Paragraph E of the same section is uncompromising about the fact that, the Ministers and Deputies of a defeated government must pack and go, “upon the assumption of any other person to the office of the President”. The forces of change in this nation do not need to sound a trumpet for your eviction of those positions and state property you now occupy. It is high time you left those offices and occupy the mansions of different versions you have surreptitiously erected, with our tax payers monies and donor funds that were meant for the development of this nation. You rejected former government functionaries must not over stretch the generosity and tolerance of President Koroma, to look you in your faces and ask you to quit government’s institutions. This self eviction must not only be limited to ministers and their deputies, but to those corrupt heads of commissions, and other government institutions. Mr President, we must remind you that, Sierra Leoneans were sick and tired of seeing those corrupt, inefficient and ineffective heads of government institutions that was why they holistically voted for you to effect the change. Their continuing occupation of those state institutions would be a stab in the back of those patriotic and development oriented Sierra Leoneans that chose your leadership and party, as opposed to theirs. What pains Sierra Leoneans the most presently, is the dubious and unproductive activities that are being perpetrated, by those out gone heads, in their various institutions. Last minute corruption is now the last resort of those frustrated political amateurs that have not been officially relieved of their duties to date. There is an ongoing National Drama, in all the institutions of government that is aimed at either correcting the financial books or remitting more monies to foreign accounts for future survivals by former disgruntled employees of the SLPP Government. After being sworn-in as President, of the Republic of Sierra Leone, President Koroma only told Sierra Leoneans to continue their normal duties; and not dictated any specific pace that should be followed in their work places. It has come as a surprise to Sierra Leoneans that, the very lethargic and ineffective former ministers and heads of government institutions are reporting at 7:30 am and returning home at 8:00pm everyday. Their over zealous nature and sudden determination to report earlier for duty and leave late for home have attracted mixed reactions from the politically al3rt group of Sierra Leoneans. Could it be said that they are lobbying to secure their status quo? God forbid! They are loudly aware of their dirty games and it is even hunting them. Thus, the issue of them reporting earlier for duties cannot in anyway be linked to the wishful thought of lobbying; there is more to it. It is needless to waste our time in exploring other possible reasons that have instantaneously spurred very lazy folks like Joe Blell and others to be reporting at an unprecedented time, for work, in their institutions. The obvious reasons are: to fine tune their corrupt practices, entrench traditional witch medicines for potential ministers, and steal the remaining donor funds. Wicked people, your mysteries have been unearthed and it is but inevitably that, you cease from continuing your diabolic acts, or else you know the price for deceit. It was a shock to see Joe Blell and others very late in their offices purporting to do official works; they did not finish under their good for nothing government. The reality for their late night duties is that, it is not easy to falsify all their forged documents, during daytime, thus, they need more time, to shred and replace destroyed documents. There is no need to mention the amount of money the same corrupt beings are presently remitting into their accounts. Can’t you people have pity over Sierra Leoneans? President Koroma should now take the bull by the horn. Those ministers and heads are mere political heads, asking them to stay at home would never frustrate the work of government. Besides, there are permanent secretaries and other heads that were actually doing the official jobs; even though some of them belonged to the corrupt cabal. You must act now or suffer the catastrophic consequences soonest. Subject: Re: SLPP Ministers Last Grab.... Abusing Pres Koroma's Gesture Message: Subject: Re: SLPP Ministers Last Grab.... Abusing Pres Koroma's Gestu Message: Face it, the SLPP is no longer in power, so you cannot hide behind the excuse of being harassed or charged under libel laws if you have evidence and can prove the corrupt practices of the outgoing government and its ministers. A good newspaper will interview witnesses who knew the practices of these so called "corrupt" ministers then, and balance it out with the "new" behaviour of the ministers now. Subject: Emmerson, Borbor Belleh in Minnesota Message: Subject: Re: Emmerson, Borbor Belleh in Minnesota Message: Subject: SYLVIA MAKING IMPORTANCE OF FAILED SLPP MINISTERS Message: Out going ministers caution president Reports from State House intimate that the out going ministers of the defeated SLPP have cautioned the new president, Ernest Bai Koroma against encouraging bad politicians who are currently clamoring around him. They are reported to have expressed their greviances over the spate of harassment and looting of their persons and properties that have ensured in the wake of his elevation. They said they are afraid even for their families as they have become target of APC supporters’ brutality. They pleaded with him to contain his supporters. They also reportedly said that he is a lucky leader as he’s met the stage set for development unlike their past regime who started on nothing. Subject: Gush, you are so beautiful! Message: Subject: Re: Gush, you are so beautiful! Message: Subject: TELL SYLVIA BYLDEN TO STOP THIS RUBBISH Message: Subject: Re: TELL SYLVIA BYLDEN TO STOP THIS RUBBISH Message: Subject: Re: TELL SYLVIA BYLDEN TO STOP THIS RUBBISH Message: Subject: Re: TELL SYLVIA BYLDEN TO STOP THIS RUBBISH Message: Subject: Re: TELL SYLVIA BYLDEN TO STOP THIS RUBBISH Message: Subject: Re: TELL SYLVIA BYLDEN TO STOP THIS RUBBISH Message: Subject: Re: TELL SYLVIA BYLDEN TO STOP THIS RUBBISH Message: A dawgone good newspaper. Subject: Re: TELL SYLVIA BYLDEN TO STOP THIS RUBBISH Message: The lawyer smirked, and said, "Who do you think created the chaos?" Subject: Re: TELL SYLVIA BYLDEN TO STOP THIS RUBBISH Message: Subject: I and I! Message: Subject: Re: I and I! Message: Subject: ANY CONSUMER PROTECTION LAWS ? WHAT ABOUT REINFORCING --- Message: Subject: Re: ANY CONSUMER PROTECTION LAWS ? WHAT ABOUT REINFORCING --- Message: Subject: Re: ANY CONSUMER PROTECTION LAWS ? WHAT ABOUT REINFORCING --- Message: Enforcement and the price to take legal action is the uphill battle... Isnt this where market forces takes it course... Subject: GOOD NIGHT BABU BLYDEN Message: Were it not for the steadfastness of the owners and their drive to prevail, what is now one of Sa Lone's successful media would have been sent down the ocean of oblivion through the paths of sawpit journalism. I recall how this baboon held us at bay, while she terrorised the floors of the forum with mammy cussses and porn. Some would say God does not sleep and that his wrath has befallen BABU BLYDEN. Bravo to the reverend and his team! You prevailed and came right on top!!! LONG LIVE COCORIOKO!!! LONG LIVE COCORIOKO FORUM!! Down with Ninja dirty politics! Your Ninja - RUF story will be told to generations to come so that they will see you for the baboon you are, Sylvia Blyden. Good Night! We will keep the world informed about you. Subject: Re: GOOD NIGHT BABU BLYDEN Message: Subject: Our VP Profle Message: At the height of the civil war in Sierra Leone, Vice President Sam-Sumana was agonized over the near total collapse of the infrastructure of Kono District. In his position as Vice Chairman, Kono-Union Chapter USA, he paid frequent visits to the district and forged a good working relationship with the chiefdom authorities in Kono and Kenema District. He pioneered the construction and repairs of roads in Kono and Kenema districts using funds raised through advocacy and his own personal funds for the betterment of the then inaccessible areas of the Eastern region of the Republic of Sierra Leone. Earlier, the Vice President served as Managing Director of the United Diamond Mining Company, Kodu Town, Kono District, Sierra Leone. With his expertise in the field of diamond mining, he used to introduce environmental friendly and just mining methods in the field bringing development to the people where his company operated. The Honourable Vice President Samuel Sam-Sumana also served as the Regional Manager for C-12 International, a Texas based company engaged in diamond buying in Sierra Leone, Guinea and Liberia. His native ingrained knowledge of the diamond industry made an asset to the company where he oversaw training, recruitment, planning and marketing. He provided advice to the company on the socio-political condition in Sierra Leone, Guinea and Liberia. Honourable Vice President Samuel Sam-Sumana holds a Bachelor of Science (BSC) degree in Management Information System from the Metropolitan State University, Minnesota, USA. Samuel also holds two Diplomas (Diamond Rough Grading, Sorting and Polishing) from the America Institution of Diamond Cutting and Polishing, Deerfield Beach, Florida, USA, and a Diploma (Computer Network Support Specialist) from Knollwood Computer and Business School, St Louis Park, Minnesota, USA. While in the USA, VP Samuel Sam-Sumana worked for Prudential Financial Group as the System Officer of the network support. He provided he strategic management and operational oversight for the Group, providing training and counseling to subordinate staff. At Allina Health Services, the Vice President ran the Network Support System. He provided the same service to Seagate Technologies in the United States of America. The Vice President, Comrade Samuel Sam-Sumana is a member of the "Five-Man Committee" of the All People’s Congress Party; a party with which Samuel has had a life-long association imbibing the populist character of the Party; a key ingredient in VP Samuel Sam-Sumana’s personal make-up. He has contributed reasonably to the APC in the Kono District and beyond with the aim of strengthening the party in the District. The Vice President is a Substantial Contributor to the Kono District Scholarship Board, which underscores his commitment to the betterment of the district in particular and the Republic of Sierra Leone in general. www.awarenesstimes.com Subject: Re: Our VP Profle Message: Subject: Re: Our VP Profle Message: Subject: Re: Our VP Profle Message: My point is not that he dosent have a lot of 2,3 letter joined to his name.. My point is his resume should have been kept a secret.. State secret.. He can out perform all he wants.. the more the better... Subject: Re: Our VP Profle Message: Whether Sam Sumana bought or earned his degree or got it via an ad in The National Enquirer, I believe we should be charitable to the poor man and wish him well. Once again, thanx for the handle. Subject: Re: Our VP Profle Message: Subject: Re: Our VP Profle Message: Subject: Re: Our VP Profle Message: Subject: Re: Our VP Profle Message: Subject: Re: Our VP Profle Message: It is obvious that this is another episode of "Who gee I can qualifyingly say.. that resume is slanted and just based on that.. the man is not qualified for the job regardless of what "partisans" on here says Subject: Re: Our VP Profle Message: Subject: Press Conference today Message: Subject: Re: Press Conference today Message: Subject: Editors of Cocorioko is this TRUE? Message: Subject: Res Editors of Cocorioko is this TRUE? Message: Subject: President Ernest Bai Koroma meets with SLPP ministers Message: Subject: Re: President Ernest Bai Koroma meets with SLPP ministers Message: Subject: Re: President Ernest Bai Koroma meets with SLPP ministers Message: Subject: Re: President Ernest Bai Koroma meets with SLPP ministers Message: Subject: Re: President Ernest Bai Koroma meets with SLPP ministers Message: Subject: Re: President Ernest Bai Koroma meets with SLPP ministers Message: Subject: Re: President Ernest Bai Koroma meets with SLPP ministers Message: Subject: Shembu's Milkshake Message: Subject: Re: Shembu's Milkshake Message: Just email the milkshake to him. He is my buddy e go receive am. Bo V send some to me through me email. Subject: Re: Shembu's Milkshake - Thanks Prof. Message: Thank you and please keep the Sierra Leone Nationalistic Spirit burning. Subject: Be on board Message: Subject: Re: Be on board Message: Subject: Re: Be on board Message: Subject: Re: Be on board Message: Subject: Re: Be on board Message: Bambay! If you have a Degree and are not employed in your field for number of years, your degree will be useless:in the US and in Salone. They might as well go back to school since the ECONOMICS that they studied in the 80s is completely different now. So whether they have it or not the fact that they have not being using it for such a longtime, make them USELESS to our people. Subject: WHITHER EMMERSON AMIDU BOCKARIE? Message: Wherever he is, his contribution towards the silent ballot revolution that took place two weeks ago should not go unnoticed or underestimated.He is truly a patriot. Subject: Re: WHITHER EMMERSON AMIDU BOCKARIE? Message: Subject: Re: WHITHER EMMERSON AMIDU BOCKARIE? Message: Subject: Re: WHITHER EMMERSON AMIDU BOCKARIE? Message: If he was only born a few generation earlier.. his talent should have gone to waste or he would have been a member of the pademba rd choir. Subject: Re: WHITHER EMMERSON AMIDU BOCKARIE? Message: Subject: Re: WHITHER EMMERSON AMIDU BOCKARIE? Message: He will be a member of that choir under the APC if he continues with his ANTI-GOVERNMENT rhymes. But we will not expect the APC to do the same.... So EMERSON.... Subject: Re: WHITHER EMMERSON AMIDU BOCKARIE? Message: Subject: Re: WHITHER EMMERSON AMIDU BOCKARIE? Message: Regardless of if the Kailahun Votes where rigged or not.. DID THE SLPP CREATE THE ENVIRONMENT FOR THIS LEVEL OF FREE SPEECH..? If you can honestly answer that question without bringing in who killed Harry. I am sure the SLPP can only be accused of not prosecuting.. no one has ever said they sanctioned his death.. Both statements are nothing but naked lies mouthed by blind partisans! Well of cause.. Subject: Re: WHITHER EMMERSON AMIDU BOCKARIE? Message: Candido, let us call a spade a spade: Only blind partisans disregard reality such as SLPP's shameful assault on the most fundamental right in a democracy --the right to vote peacefully. Which, of course, is why they are properly identified as blind and partisan. Subject: Re: WHITHER EMMERSON AMIDU BOCKARIE? Message: Subject: Re: WHITHER EMMERSON AMIDU BOCKARIE? Message: Just the ones who think partisandhip should be construed as negative.. Subject: Re: WHITHER EMMERSON AMIDU BOCKARIE? Message: Really? Was that before or after the SLPP terrorized the people of Salone with just the following few examples of its numerous terroristic acts of oppression against the populace: 1. By jailing Paul Kamra for calling Kabbah what he was found to be -- a thief? 2. By condoning its MP, Fatmata Hassan's role in the beating and subsequent death of a journalist Harry Yanbsanneh for writing the truth about SLPP corruption? 3. By condoning the attacks on opposition presidential candidates and their supporters during the election campaign? 4. By trying to disenfranchise the people of Salone through vote-rigging in Kailahun, terrorism against the opposition polling agents, declaring parts of Salone a "no-go area" to equally entitled Saloneans? To say that the "SLPP made it possible for the people of Sierra Leone to express their opinions and openly criticise the Government without fear.... " is like saying that SLPP Kabbah was not banned from holding public office in Salone by the NPRC for stealing Salone money at SLPMB. Both statements are nothing but naked lies mouthed by blind partisans! Subject: Re: WHITHER EMMERSON AMIDU BOCKARIE? Message: I will disagree with your added statement. There is no RELATIONSHIP between the two, there are no similarities. And do not ask me for an evidence... Subject: Re: WHITHER EMMERSON AMIDU BOCKARIE? Message: You replied: "I will disagree with your added statement. There is no RELATIONSHIP between the two, there are no similarities." MY ANSWER: Please provide the evidence you had omitted that makes you think that "There is no RELATIONSHIP between the two, there are no similarities." Subject: Re: WHITHER EMMERSON AMIDU BOCKARIE? Message: Subject: Re: WHITHER EMMERSON AMIDU BOCKARIE? Message: Subject: Re: WHITHER EMMERSON AMIDU BOCKARIE? Message: Subject: Re: WHITHER EMMERSON AMIDU BOCKARIE? Message: Subject: Re: WHITHER EMMERSON AMIDU BOCKARIE? Message: By who? Which government? Subject: Re: WHITHER EMMERSON AMIDU BOCKARIE? Message: In 1997, SLPP President Kabbah and his government ran away and left the people of Salone to fight for democracy against Johnny Paul and his murderous RUF allies. And in 2007, it was the SLPP government itself which the people of Salone had to fight bravely (in Kailahun, etc.) to bring the new democracy that ushered in the new APC. I hope you can now see that the SLPP did NOT bring democracy to Salone, contrary to the wishful thinking of its supporters. On the contrary, democracy was brought to Salone by the brave people of Salone DESPITE the cowardly and corrupt SLPP government's repeated actions in 1997 and 2007 to thwart it. Subject: Re: WHITHER EMMERSON AMIDU BOCKARIE? Message: New Democracy? What is Democracy and What is Freedom? Subject: Re: WHITHER EMMERSON AMIDU BOCKARIE? Message: That of course referred to the democracy-hindering efforts of mainly the SLPP at rigging the Sept. 8 elections. Subject: Re: WHITHER EMMERSON AMIDU BOCKARIE? Message: Ok.. Well FREDOM OF EXPRESSION was encouraged.. Hows that.. is that acceptable.. Subject: Re: WHITHER EMMERSON AMIDU BOCKARIE? Message: It was a killing. Who would ever accept that? Not the family of Yansanneh. Not the SL Association of Journalist. Not any person who cares about truth and justice. Subject: Re: WHITHER EMMERSON AMIDU BOCKARIE? Message: Still besides the point.. DID THE SLPP NATURE AND SUPPORTED FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION? Answer that on this thread.. Subject: Re: WHITHER EMMERSON AMIDU BOCKARIE? Message: As you hopefully now realize, you have a lot to learn. A lot. Subject: Re: WHITHER EMMERSON AMIDU BOCKARIE? Message: Subject: Re: WHITHER EMMERSON AMIDU BOCKARIE? Message: 1. By jailing Paul Kamra for calling Kabbah what he was found to be -- a thief? 2. By condoning its MP, Fatmata Hassan's role in the beating and subsequent death of a journalist Harry Yanbsanneh for writing the truth about SLPP corruption? 3. By condoning the attacks on opposition presidential candidates and their supporters during the election campaign? Etc., etc Subject: VP Credentials Message: Subject: Re: VP Credentials Message: Subject: Re: VP Credentials Message: Subject: Re: VP Credentials Message: About him been drunk, which picture are you refering to? Subject: TIME will TELL Message: Subject: Re: VP Credentials Message: Subject: Re: VP Credentials Message: For goodness sake before any one would attempt to verify the above, why not carefully see if Berewa actually completed his evolution. Is he having a human face, human height, human structure, and how is he really different from Joe, as in the US popular monkey trial in TN state? Subject: Re: VP Credentials Message: Subject: Re: VP Credentials Message: Subject: Re: VP Credentials Message: Subject: Where the Jahanama is Sia Tiyaama? Message: Subject: Re: Where the Jahanama is Sia Tiyaama? Message: You know, Sia is really a good friend and a very decent guy. I ask that we forgive him, like Jesus said, for he did not know what he was doing. My question: where the heck is JC Howard? Subject: Re: Where the Jahanama is Sia Tiyaama? Message: I think I know who you are.Don't talk about your comrades like that(laugh),remember the OMERTA.Would you ever have believed that Sia Tiyaama,Harding Tommy and co would be in the same camp as Hindowa Batillo,Kpanga Lamin and co.Where is Shimo when we need him.They could not coerce Ansu Lansana-big respect to him.Where is the co-ord.It appears as if the house is in disarray.We have to regroup to regain our purpose for Mama Salone. Subject: Re: Where the Jahanama is Sia Tiyaama? Message: Sia Tiyaama was never invited to join the house. Remember, ei bin too mot mot en tok tok. With the quality dem dae.........no body nor ever try for mention am. We still need to regroup. Guru dae tong and boku dae yah nar babylon. My question still! Where the heck is J.C.? Subject: Re: Where the Jahanama is Sia Tiyaama? Message: Subject: Re: Where the Jahanama is Sia Tiyaama? Message: Subject: Election results video Message: It's in Youtube, so its easy to access Subject: Re: Election results video Message: Subject: Re: Election results video Message: Subject: DO NOT CALL ERNEST KOROMA "His Excellency!" Message: Subject: Re: DO NOT CALL ERNEST KOROMA "His Excellency!" Message: Subject: Re: DO NOT CALL ERNEST KOROMA "His Excellency!" Message: Please feel free to accept or not accept the compliment. Strong man versus weak man. Stoopid man versus more intelligent man – according to the Howard Gardner or any other scale – not about dancing in Cocorioko or composing like Mozart or looking as ugly as sin whilst all the women and young ladies are falling like rain for handsome Ernest, the midday sun, the elected one. Now if the official title of an ambassador is plenipotentiary and extraordinary, then why not he? I think that my dear Ghanaian brother Koki Sapathy (a radical Ghanaian of the Ewe Tribe) will be in essential agreement with some of the views that you have expressed. http://www.ghanaunion.se/pages/archives/degrees.html A Nigerian brother - a close brother, is sharpening his pen to rebut some of Kofi’s assertions, I think mostly because my Nigerian Yoruba brother is irritated with some of the deductions and conclusions that people are making about the fact of President Umaru Yar’adua being the first graduate to be the leader of the Great Nigeria. My Yoruba brother is closer to the Confucian dialectic - more of analogy and suggestiveness and less of strict logical deduction as taught to us by the Wild West. He is also a master of Yoruba proverbs that are relevant to any given situation. Ghana and Nigeria have been rivals, since the early colonial days. Nigeria has more graduates than any other African Country. Nigeria has the greater number of graduates and post graduates in the USA about 10% higher than the national average: I read the whole of your posting (quite a normal thing to do). I usually read the whole of your postings. I don’t usually read all of each and every person’s posting. In fact when I pick up a work of fiction and the first two chapters fail to impress or interest me, I usually do not persist and throw such a book away. I have tried without success to read Hesse’s MAGISTER LUDI through since it was given to me in Ghana by Mary- Ellen Shaw ( an exchange student and one of my friends from Macalister college, USA ( She liked Wallace Stevens very much). I will try to read this Hesse book one more time. It’s that in the past there has been a point of identification with Joseph Knecht that I have arrived at which has rendered me unable to proceed further with the book and I have abandoned it in favour of my own very personal reflections. I have arrived at an impasse on three occasions. Lastly in 1973. I’ll see how I relate to the whole thing in 2007. It’s like an engagement with the Torah – not just reading like a detective but also reflecting because it is absolutely engaging to keep the company of the Almighty, through His words to our teacher Moses……. Now back to Sierra Leone. Are you with me? There was something known as voter education and yet in the first round of our presidential and Parliamentary elections, 140, 300 votes were disqualified., we are told because mostly those voters did not make their thumb print within the square provided and so strict are the voting laws in Sierra Leone, that whenever that thumbprint was made outside or over the edges of the square box, then those votes were discounted and declared INVALID. Perhaps we should have adopted the Gambian system that I read about in the BBC news: “Gambians vote with their marbles: The whole population has to be educated about their / OUR HUMAN RIGHTS and CIVIC RESPONSIBILITIES. WE have to employ or implement some of Paulo Freire‘s ideas: http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&q=Paulo+Freire The problem for us is that we are still basically a society with a 70% illiteracy rate – (in which some of the literates still consider some other literates - like me – as also illiterate because after standard six, they are now at thirty years of age in standard seven and that elevates them in their own eyes, into another class of literacy and intelligence – whatever the subject and life experience might be. That’s another offshoot and side-effect of living in or having grown up in a non-reading and on the whole a semi-literate society ( with sudden exposure a man might be blinded by the light) - in Sweden for example, every other person is a writer----- but this observation of the feeling of extraordinary importance that an extra year or two of post graduate study confers on any otherwise mediocre fellow – is one of the problems we face – the joke Sheikh Sadiq of Iraq told me when he appointed me his English teacher - about the doctor who told his patient that he ( the patient) was a dead man - despite the patient’s objection. (The Doctors was wheeling him off to the mortuary despite the patient’s very tearful protestations, and the doctor sealed the matters with these words, “I say you are dead and that means you are dead. No argument about the matter. I am a doctor, do you know more than me?” It’s also the title of Wole Soyinka’s Reith Lectures on the BBC: the problem of brutal dictatorship – even in the Papa Docs of the Academic world. The Climate of fear (and sycophancy). The title of Soyinka’s first lecture “I’m right: you are dead!” I hope that I have not exaggerated - to the point of giving the impression that we have an overabundance of qualified people. On the Al Jazeera TV program about the Kissy Mental Asylum it was observed that there was a single psychiatric doctor – Dr. Nahim who takes time off from his own private practice, to visit the 55 patients at the Mental Asylum, once a week. What was even more distressing was that he said on that TV station, “40% of the population (the Sierra Leone population) is in need of psychiatric treatment.” It leaves you with the unpleasant feeling and suspicions that some of the Sierra Leone men and women – especially those with an exaggerated sense of their own importance (usually based on some papers they are aspiring to or papers that some much more educated white man and woman gave or will them) are indeed in that category of those in need of the kind of psychiatric help that Dr. Nahim would like to offer them. Big deal. Anyone of us here can get a Cambridge PHD – if dedicated to that but not just anyone is a Franco or Nene Tshakou or Madilu….. Time without number, many political commentators have pointed to a crisis in leadership as being the main problem in Africa. Professor Abdul Karim Bangura has adumbrated this view ad nauseum. Our political system is based on a Constitution which Mr. Koroma in taking the oath of office, has sworn to uphold. That’s a prime sign of political maturity of a proposed civilisation with a political system that guarantees a separation of powers, accountability and the rule of law. “Let us suspend this Kingly title until our political system matures to give us leaders with a sense of national direction.” Your meaning/ sense of direction is not very clear, here. What do you mean by “political system matures”? I too can answer the above questions but they are directed to you – to clarify what YOU mean or meant. Of degrees and leadership in Africa Subject: Re: DO NOT CALL ERNEST KOROMA "His Excellency!" Message: Please feel free to accept or not accept the compliment. Strong man versus weak man. Stoopid man versus more intelligent man – according to the Howard Gardner or any other scale – not about dancing in Cocorioko or composing like Mozart or looking as ugly as sin whilst all the and young ladies are falling like rain for handsome Ernest, the midday sun, the elected one. Mow if the official title of an ambassador is plenipotentiary and extraordinary, then why not he? I think that my dear Ghanaian brother Koki Sapathy (a radical Ghanaian of the Ewe Tribe) will be in essential agreement with some of the views that you have expressed. http://www.ghanaunion.se/pages/archives/degrees.html A Nigerian brother - a close brother, is sharpening his pen to rebut some of Kofi’s assertions, I think mostly because my Nigerian Yoruba brother is irritated with some of the deductions and conclusions that people are making about the fact of President Umaru Yar’adua being the first graduate to be the leader of the Great Nigeria. My Yoruba brother is closer to the Confucian dialectic - more of analogy and suggestiveness and less of strict logical deduction as taught to us by the Wild West. He is also a master of Yoruba proverbs that are relevant to any given situation. Ghana and Nigeria have been rivals, since the early colonial days. Nigeria has more graduates than any other African Country. Nigeria has the greater number of graduates and post graduates in the USA about 10% higher than the national average: I read the whole of your posting (quite a normal thing to do). I usually read the whole of your postings. I don’t usually read all of each and every person’s posting. In fact when I pick up a work of fiction and the first two chapters fail to impress or interest me, I usually do not persist and throw such a book away. I have tried without success to read Hesse’s MAGISTER LUDI through since it was given to me in Ghana by Mary- Ellen Shaw ( an exchange student and one of my friends from Macalister college, USA ( She liked Wallace Stevens very much). I will try to read this Hesse book one more time. It’s that in the past there has been a point of identification with Joseph Knecht that I have arrived at which has rendered me unable to proceed further with the book and I have abandoned it in favour of my own very personal reflections. I have arrived at an impasse on three occasions. Lastly in 1973. I’ll see how I relate to the whole thing in 2007. It’s like an engagement with the Torah – not just reading like a detective but also reflecting because it is absolutely engaging to keep the company of the Almighty, through His words to our teacher Moses……. Now back to Sierra Leone. Are you with me? There was something known as voter education and yet in the first round of our presidential and Parliamentary elections, 140, 300 votes were disqualified., we are told because mostly those voters did not make their thumb print within the square provided and so strict are the voting laws in Sierra Leone, that whenever that thumbprint was made outside or over the edges of the square box, then those votes were discounted and declared INVALID. Perhaps we should have adopted the Gambian system that I read about in the BBC news: “Gambians vote with their marbles: The whole population has to be educated about their / OUR HUMAN RIGHTS and CIVIC RESPONSIBILITIES. WE have to employ or implement some of Paulo Freire‘s ideas: http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&q=Paulo+Freire The problem for us is that we are still basically a society with a 70% illiteracy rate – (in which some of the literates still consider some other literates - like me – as also illiterate because after standard six, they are now at thirty years of age in standard seven and that elevates them in their own eyes, into another class of literacy and intelligence – whatever the subject and life experience might be. That’s another offshoot and side-effect of living in or having grown up in a non-reading and on the whole a semi-literate society ( with sudden exposure a man might be blinded by the light) - in Sweden for example, every other person is a writer----- but this observation of the feeling of extraordinary importance that an extra year or two of post graduate study confers on any otherwise mediocre fellow – is one of the problems we face – the joke Sheikh Sadiq of Iraq told me when he appointed me his English teacher - about the doctor who told his patient that he ( the patient) was a dead man - despite the patient’s objection. (The Doctors was wheeling him off to the mortuary despite the patient’s very tearful protestations, and the doctor sealed the matters with these words, “I say you are dead and that means you are dead. No argument about the matter. I am a doctor, do you know more than me?” It’s also the title of Wole Soyinka’s Reith Lectures on the BBC: the problem of brutal dictatorship – even in the Papa Docs of the Academic world. The Climate of fear (and sycophancy). The title of Soyinka’s first lecture “I’m right: you are dead!” I hope that I have not exaggerated - to the point of giving the impression that we have an overabundance of qualified people. On the Al Jazeera TV program about the Kissy Mental Asylum it was observed that there was a single psychiatric doctor – Dr. Nahim who takes time off from his own private practice, to visit the 55 patients at the Mental Asylum, once a week. What was even more distressing was that he said on that TV station, “40% of the population (the Sierra Leone population) is in need of psychiatric treatment.” It leaves you with the unpleasant feeling and suspicions that some of the Sierra Leone men and women – especially those with an exaggerated sense of their own importance (usually based on some papers they are aspiring to or papers that some much more educated white man and woman gave or will them) are indeed in that category of those in need of the kind of psychiatric help that Dr. Nahim would like to offer them. Big deal. Anyone of us here can get a Cambridge PHD – if dedicated to that but not just anyone is a Franco or Nene Tshakou or Madilu….. Time without number, many political commentators have pointed to a crisis in leadership as being the main problem in Africa. Professor Abdul Karim Bangura has adumbrated this view ad nauseum. Our political system is based on a Constitution which Mr. Koroma in taking the oath of office, has sworn to uphold. That’s a prime sign of political maturity of a proposed civilisation with a political system that guarantees a separation of powers, accountability and the rule of law. “Let us suspend this Kingly title until our political system matures to give us leaders with a sense of national direction.” Your meaning/ sense of direction is not very clear, here. What do you mean by “political system matures”? I too can answer the above questions but they are directed to you – to clarify what YOU mean or meant. Of degrees and leadership in Africa Subject: Re: DO NOT CALL ERNEST KOROMA "His Excellency!" Message: Subject: Re: DO NOT CALL ERNEST KOROMA "His Excellency!" Message: Before the flame-throwers chim in, let me state that I have never referred to President Kabbah as "His Excellency" or Dr. Ahmed Tejan Kabbah. He's always been either President Kabbah or Alhaji Tejan Kabbah. At the University of Virginia, from whence I got my doctorate, no one is referred to as Doctor, regardless of the number of doctorates (s)he might have. Hence, I refuse to be addressed as "Doctor". Additionally, the University awards no honorary degrees. Subject: Re: DO NOT CALL ERNEST KOROMA "His Excellency!" Message: You have told us that you 'have never referred to President Kabbah as "His Excellency" or Dr. Ahmed Tejan Kabbah. He's always been either President Kabbah or Alhaji Tejan Kabbah.' That would suggest that you knew all these past years that calling President Kabbah "Your Excellency" was wrong. But you kept quiet about it. My question to you is: Why are you only now speaking in support of depriving the new APC president, Ernest Koroma, of the title of "His Excellency" when you never did so to deprive the SLPP President Kabbah of the same title of "His Excellency?" Subject: Re: DO NOT CALL ERNEST KOROMA "His Excellency!" Message: You do not know whether I have said the same thing with respect to President Kabbah (not necessarily on this forum). Many of the people who were him know my view on this. That I had not stated the same thing on the Cocorioko forum (in which I only started participating only a few months ago) prior to Bra Enviable's piece does not mean that I never held these views. Mr. Koroma, views about the Kabbah are not as monolithic as you seem to think. Perhaps if you only read the last papragraph of my book, "The Political Economy of Corruption in Sierra Leone" (Edwin Mellen press, 2004), you would realize that I do not see President Kabbah as the best thing that ever happened to Sierra Leone. However, given the alternatives we had in the last elections, I believed (and still do) that Solomon Berewa was the best candidate, in spite of his failures especially in the area of corruption abatement -- which I also highlighted in my book. In the interest of Sierra Leone, I hope that history proves me wrong in this case. Regards. Subject: Re: DO NOT CALL ERNEST KOROMA "His Excellency!" ( corrected) Message: http://www.nai.uu.se/press/newsletter/sierra_leone/ (BEGIN VIDEOTAPE) ” ERNEST BAI KOROMA, PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: The number one issue, I believe, will be corruption. And the people of Sierra-Leone are looking forward to a government that will put up a strong fight against corruption, a government that will be more accountable to the people, and a government that will open up and allow Sierra-Leonians to have equal opportunities irrespective of your political convention. JIM CLANCY, CNN CORRRESPONDENT: That's a very general assignment. Dissatisfaction with the government of President Ahmad Tejan Kabbah. At the same time, what are you offering the people? Their concerns are education, their concerns are jobs, their concerns are putting food on their tables and having a roof over their heads. KOROMA: What I believe I will offer to the people of Sierra-Leone is, in the first place, I will come with a real policy of zero tolerance against corruption. If this message goes out and clearly to the Sierra- Leonians, that this is the government that is going to put up a serious fight against corruption, I'm sure the leakages that are responsible for the poor delivery services in the social sector, like education, health and employment situation will be turned around.” In the spirit of hope for progress the spirit in which the people overwhelmingly cast their ballot for Mr. Koroma and also for APC and PMDC parliamentarians in the Sierra Leone parliament, this is not exactly the time of recriminations. Although you provoke it when you write thus: “Solomon Berewa was the best candidate, in spite of his failures especially in the area of corruption abatement” You cannot be aware of the extent of corruption and make such statement unless you think that Mr. Koroma who is untainted by any accusations or evidence of corruption has fallen far below even your conservative estimation of the gang of criminals that looted the Sierra Leone people’s money – and on that programme that is exactly what the commentator on al –Jazeera lamented: that since the war ENDED ( in 2002) over ONE BILLION DOLLARS has been given to the Sierra Leonean people and most of it has gone somewhere else and not to the benefit of the people for that matter. The successive Auditor-General’s reports that have reported astronomical sums of money that have “ disappeared “ from the governments custody did not result in Mr. Berewa’s government instituting a commission or Commission of Inquiry to investigate these “disappearances” and to prosecute those responsible . For you to say that you may be partially excused since "The Political Economy of Corruption in Sierra Leone" (Edwin Mellen press, 2004) obviously does not take into account the real extent of pernicious effects inflicted on the Sierra Leone economy and the destruction of the people’s morale during the period of the books writing and in the period 2004—2007 after it had seen the daylight of publication. And perhaps you would like to attest to the extent in which Mr. Berewa was not involved in the aforementioned corruption, because you were one of the uniquely lone voices that thought CORRUPTION was not an election issue - whereas for the rest us and the international donor community which has sustained the Sierra Leone budgeted economy that is 65% donor driven) CORRUPTION and an UNACCOUNTABLE government is not only a moral question. Yes, enough is enough, and the patience and tolerance of Sierra Leone’s long suffering people had also reached a point of exasperation that is a point beyond return and that is why your Mr. Berewa was ignominiously booted out by the people’s ballot – even after spending vast sums of money – some say using the government treasury as his campaign bank – and you say nothing wrong about that, when he should be in prison because of such criminal practice? Or is the evidence missing? Also “Disappeared? Now, when you insist on your preference for him, do you mean him as an individual or him along with the SLPP’s supportive structure of which he is still the head? Mr. Koroma is at this point morally and physically head and shoulders above you Mr. Berewa and he (Berewa) knows it. Yesterday, in a lighter mood someone had posted some YOU Tube depictions of parliamentary fist fights and what sprang to mind was this which I posted in reply to cheer up one of the deflated SLPPers on our Leonenet Forum: On the far side, chain smoker, known to fall asleep in the ring, weighing in at 70 kilos, stomach trimmed down to just a slight bulge above the belt, but has been practicing some church music most assiduously at the organ, five feet six in training sneakers and 69 years of age, the SLPP heavyweight champion who emerged victorious out of that Makeni ConBention, known to his supporters as da Bomba, sitting in his corner under the Palm Tree: Solo Bee da bomber!!!!!! From the land of blazing Red Sun, robust and fit, standing tall at six feet and three inches, his friends say he is also known as ERNEST in the ring and has been waiting for over eleven years to deliver this one punch that will end it all (he says that’s all that it will take and the KO will come in the second round – and then it will be all over, Ladies and gentlemen in the APC corner APC strong-man Ernest Bai Korma ready to punch “da bomber” Bai-Bai out of the ring!!!!!!! Koroma morally and physically standing head and shoulders above Berewa, http://news.sl/drwebsite/publish/article_20056516.shtml Subject: Re: DO NOT CALL ERNEST KOROMA "His Excellency!" Message: http://www.nai.uu.se/press/newsletter/sierra_leone/ (BEGIN VIDEOTAPE) ” ERNEST BAI KOROMA, PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: The number one issue, I believe, will be corruption. And the people of Sierra-Leone are looking forward to a government that will put up a strong fight against corruption, a government that will be more accountable to the people, and a government that will open up and allow Sierra-Leonians to have equal opportunities irrespective of your political convention. JIM CLANCY, CNN CORRRESPONDENT: That's a very general assignment. Dissatisfaction with the government of President Ahmad Tejan Kabbah. At the same time, what are you offering the people? Their concerns are education, their concerns are jobs, their concerns are putting food on their tables and having a roof over their heads. KOROMA: What I believe I will offer to the people of Sierra-Leone is, in the first place, I will come with a real policy of zero tolerance against corruption. If this message goes out and clearly to the Sierra- Leonians, that this is the government that is going to put up a serious fight against corruption, I'm sure the leakages that are responsible for the poor delivery services in the social sector, like education, health and employment situation will be turned around.” In the spirit of hope for progress the spirit in which the people overwhelmingly cast their ballot for Mr. Koroma and also for APC and PMDC parliamentarians in the Sierra Leone parliament, this is not exactly the time of recriminations. Although you provoke it when you write thus: “Solomon Berewa was the best candidate, in spite of his failures especially in the area of corruption abatement” You cannot be aware of the extent of corruption and make such statement unless you think that Mr. Koroma who is untainted by any accusations or evidence of corruption has fallen far below even your conservative estimation of the gang of criminals that looted the Sierra Leone people’s money – and on that programme that is exactly what the commentator on al –Jazeera lamented: that since the war need ( in 2002) over ONE BILLION DOLLARS has been given to the Sierra Leonean people and most of it has gone somewhere else and not to the benefit of the people for that matter. The successive Auditor-General’s reports that have reported astronomical sums of money that have “ disappeared “ from the governments custody did not result in Mr. Berewa’s government instituting a commission or Commission of Inquiry to investigate these “disappearances” and to prosecute those responsible . For you to say that you may be partially excused since "The Political Economy of Corruption in Sierra Leone" (Edwin Mellen press, 2004) obviously does not take into account the real extent of pernicious effects inflicted on the Sierra Leone economy and the destruction of the people’s morale during the period of the books writing and in the period 2004—2007 after it had seen the daylight of publication. And perhaps you would like to attest to the extent in which Mr. Berewa was not involved in the aforementioned corruption, because you were one of the uniquely lone voices that thought CORRUPTION was not an election issue - whereas for the rest us and the international donor community which has sustained the Sierra Leone budgeted economy that is 65% donor driven) CORRUPTION and an UNACCOUNTABLE government is not only a moral question. Yes, enough is enough, and the patience and tolerance of Sierra Leone’s long suffering people had also reached a point of exasperation that is a point beyond return and that is why your Mr. Berewa was ignominiously booted out by the people’s ballot – even after spending vast sums of money – some say using the government treasury as his campaign bank – and you say nothing wrong about that, when he should be in prison because of such criminal practice? Or is the evidence missing? Also “Disappeared? Now, when you insist on your preference for him, do you mean him as an individual or him along with the SLPP’s supportive structure of which he is still the head? Mr. Koroma is at this point morally and physically head and shoulders above you Mr. Berewa and he (Berewa) knows it. Yesterday, in a lighter mood someone had posted some YOU Tube depictions of parliamentary fist fights and what sprang to mind was this which I posted in reply to cheer up one of the deflated SLPPers on our Leonenet Forum: On the far side, chain smoker, known to fall asleep in the ring, weighing in at 70 kilos, stomach trimmed down to just a slight bulge above the belt, but has been practicing some church music most assiduously at the organ, five feet six in training sneakers and 69 years of age, the SLPP heavyweight champion who emerged victorious out of that Makeni ConBention, known to his supporters as da Bomba, sitting in his corner under the Palm Tree: Solo Bee da bomber!!!!!! From the land of blazing Red Sun, robust and fit, standing tall at six feet and three inches, his friends say he is also known as ERNEST in the ring and has been waiting for over eleven years to deliver this one punch that will end it all (he says that’s all that it will take and the KO will come in the second round – and then it will be all over, Ladies and gentlemen in the APC corner APC strong-man Ernest Bai Korma ready to punch “da bomber” Bai-Bai out of the ring!!!!!!! Koroma morally and physically standing head and shoulders above Berewa, http://news.sl/drwebsite/publish/article_20056516.shtml Subject: Re: DO NOT CALL ERNEST KOROMA "His Excellency!" Message: Kelfala, I appreciate your explanation. However, I don't understand it: You say you support stopping the practice of saying "Your Excellency" because you DON'T think it is wrong. Why then are you supporting stopping it, even there is nothing wrong with it? Makes no sense to me, my friend! Neither does your other explanation: You say you support stopping calling presidents "Your Ecxellencyy' "even before they deliver on their promises." Does that mean that President Kabbah had delivered on his promises because you had not openly called for us to stop calling him "Your Execellency?" I Finally, I don't understand your third claim, either: You imply that you could have called for President Kabbah to be deprived of his "Your Excellency" hero worship but "not necessarily on this forum." Where then, did you make any such call? Having written a book, as you say, would you understand that we would want to obtain the reference information for when, where, and why -- as you imply but only equivocally -- you had ever called upon others to stop calling President Kabbah "Your Excellency?" Why then would you omit such an important reference, chosing instead to cite a book where you do not say we will find your call for President kabbah to be deprived of his title of "Your Excellency"? Subject: Re: DO NOT CALL ERNEST KOROMA "His Excellency!" Message: Subject: Re: DO NOT CALL ERNEST KOROMA "His Excellency!" Message: For some reason, the more pompous-sounding the title, the more screwed up the president is. If I were President Ernest Bai Koroma, I would issue an executive order to be addressed as Mr. President. Subject: Re: DO NOT CALL ERNEST KOROMA "His Excellency!" Message: Subject: Re: DO NOT CALL ERNEST KOROMA "His Excellency!" Message: I praise you for this piece. I also concur with you that addressing him as Mr. President is quite sufficient. I hope some of those around Ernest will start for once to think country first, "COUNTRY FIRST" instead of their selfish need first and put pressure on him to perform and advice him properly. I also hope as he campaign on a grassroot level, he does not forget the people at the grassroot level who voted him into power. All hope my brother. Your Able Servant In Training Dr. Michel Sho-Sawyer Subject: Re: DO NOT CALL ERNEST KOROMA "His Excellency!" Message: Subject: Re: DO NOT CALL ERNEST KOROMA "His Excellency!" Message: Subject: Re: DO NOT CALL ERNEST KOROMA "His Excellency!" Message: Subject: Re: DO NOT CALL ERNEST KOROMA "His Excellency!" Message: Subject: Re: DO NOT CALL ERNEST KOROMA "His Excellency!" Message: Subject: Re: DO NOT CALL ERNEST KOROMA "His Excellency!" Message: Subject: Re: DO NOT CALL ERNEST KOROMA "His Excellency!" Message: Subject: REBUTTAL OF THE DAY Message: In Reply to: Re: i didn't vote for this! posted by The guy next door on September 24, 2007 at 00:16:27: If the present Govt. should find itself investigating the dealings of each and every former Minister we(APC)will never get anything done. That may be true only if the present govt. is comprised only of the judiciary that would be doing the investigation of SLPP ministers. However, those who know that such is not the case would easily recognize that it is pure nonsense to imply, as you did, it is the case. Therefore, it should be clear to you, by now, why your statement quoted above is the product of ignorance about the difference between the judiciary and the rest of the government. It is upon that realization that you should be able to recognize that it is your opinion, not my earlier correction of your thinking, "that is... NONSENSICAL to the nth degree." Long live the PEOPLE OF SIERRA LEONE! Subject: Re: REBUTTAL OF THE DAY Message: The commissions set up by the NRC government inclkuded the Beoku-Betts commission that fingered the failed SLPP president, Tejan Kabbah, as a crook who had looted SLPMB money together with his SLPP bosses. Fact is, the commission baned Tejan Kabbah from holding public office in Sierra Leone. Becos the people of Sierra Leone failed to pay heed to the NRC's ban on Kabbah, that is why he has made them suffer during the SLPP's 10 years of corruption. So, let the commissions of enquiry begin, while the government continues at the same time with its other pressing tasks to correct the damages of the SLPP upon the people. Subject: Re: REBUTTAL OF THE DAY Message: I remember that he brought discipline to the civil service. all of a sudden, no more signing in the morning and disappearing for the rest of the day. No more going to work late. No more "mass mass". Too bad Juxon-Smith he ruled for less than one year. Can President Ernest Koroma become our new Juxon Smith? Subject: Re: REBUTTAL OF THE DAY Message: The people of Sierra Leone and the international community will not tolerate nor accept any unconstitutional venture to thwart the democratic process. The govt has the constitutional right to institute any enquiry including a public investigation to establish accountability. Infact it is a functional imperative for the in-comming govt to promote good governance. Without which, we might as well call for the restoration of the SLPP govt which failed to do any accounting. I am pressing for an independent enquiry because many of us have critised the out going administration for incompetence and public theft. We are confident that in an investigation our critism of the SLPP corruption will proved to be justified Anyone who saw the dreadful report on Al-Jezera news tv yesterday, that depicted the dastardly pitiful states in which mental health patients were subjected to subhuman and inhumane conditions in Freetown, despite million dollers fundings to improve the hospital will support an immediate investigation. Earnest Koroma has a mandate to change Sierra Leone, he cannot do so if he fails to find out what went wrong. I urged for an independent enquiry. SOON Subject: Re: REBUTTAL OF THE DAY Message: I am with you on that, sir! Indeed, like you said, should Ernest Koroma make the mistake of failing to hold the SLPP accountable, he will quickly find his honeymoon over. He would open himself up very quickly to a charge of becoming SLPP in all but name. And that would mean we would direct the same type of intense criticism against him as we did to the kleptomaniac SLPP -- and as we did, much earlier, to the slightly less kleptomaniac APC of Siaka Stevens and Joseph Momoh. As for your reference to the NRC being a military government and the present APC being a civilian government, you appear to misunderstand my point in saying we need a new Juxon Smith. I was referring to the goal -- and obviously not the means -- of bringing accountability to the civil service. That means Ernest should adopt Juxon Smith's goal. Obviously that does not mean adopting the military means to do so. Subject: Re: REBUTTAL OF THE DAY Message: Subject: Re: REBUTTAL OF THE DAY Message: Not true. As in most things in life, kleptomania comes in degrees. Just as one could have a milder cold than someone else, so too was the APC slightly less kleptomaniac than the SLPP. Subject: Re: REBUTTAL OF THE DAY Message: Most of the young generation (18-29)on whose back the APC rode to power will forever be destitute because of the lack of vision and social investment in our country for the past 20 years...IT DID NOT START WITH SLPP. While we drove around in our air conditioned cars on beach rd and drank Johnny Walker 10-15 years ago, the state called salone was festering.. we just did not want to notice.. Subject: Re: REBUTTAL OF THE DAY Message: And who said it started with SLPP? In your understanding, does stating that the APC is slightly less kleptomaniac mean that kleptomania started with the SLPP? I would suggest that you read only what I wrote -- not what you imagine I had written. Subject: Re: REBUTTAL OF THE DAY Message: I said it.. I take offense to your skewed view of our salones socio -political landsacpe past 20 years.. saiki and momoh apc less kleptomanic is an affront... a lack of you civic responsibility to call a spade a spade. Subject: Re: REBUTTAL OF THE DAY Message: And who said you did not say it? No one! Just another example of your failure to understand what you read! Let me help you try to finally understand your error: The issue is not whether or not you said it -- that is not in dispute, even though that fact clearly eludes you, as evident by your irrelevant assertion that ""I did not say you said it.. I said it.. " Rather, the issue in dispute is your implied statement that what I had actually written (that APC of Stevens was slightly less kleptomaniac than the SLPP that followed it) was equivalent to YOUR statement that "the lack of vision and social investment in our country for the past 20 years...IT DID NOT START WITH SLPP." Clearly, my statement that the APC was less kleptomaniac than the SLPP is NOT equivalent to stating that the APC started it -- as you implied. That is a misunderstanding of what I wrote. It is for that reason that I suggested you try to understand only what I wrote, not what you imagined I had written. Subsequently, all you had yo do was say: "Sorry, I misunderstood your statement." Instead, you compound your misunderstanding by omitting to acknowledge your error and rushing into another one -- mistaking your unsubstantiated opinion for a statement of fact ("saiki and momoh apc less kleptomanic is an affront... a lack of you civic responsibility to call a spade a spade."). Hopefully, the next time you write, even if you do not acknowledge your mounting errors, you would try to avoid making claims of fact without presenting us with your purported evidence. Otherwise, one would be justified in ascribing your omission to a lack of seriousness. Subject: Re: REBUTTAL OF THE DAY Message: Tangle yourself in more useless jargon or debate the point you raised.. I have made 2 contributions refuting YOUR CLAIM that the APC was less cleptomanic. Stop hiding behind "plenty talk" and defend your statement or at least make an attempt.. And yes.. Your statement that the "APC was less kleptomaniac than the SLPP" is equivalent to stating that the APC started it. Which rock have you been hiding under..? Subject: Re: REBUTTAL OF THE DAY Message: Subject: Re: REBUTTAL OF THE DAY Message: Subject: Re: REBUTTAL OF THE DAY Message: Oh stuff it.. Its is a know fact that the same way it becomes a problem when the screws are too loose.. So it is a problme also when the screws are too TIGHT.. You choose where you fall.. Subject: Re: REBUTTAL OF THE DAY Message: Remember, the moderator and some other civilized forumites had been obliged to warn you against your rudeness. If you don't know how to debate, don't start debating. Subject: Re: REBUTTAL OF THE DAY Message: Where did he misbehave or acted rude.. ? Pray tell me.. Subject: Re: REBUTTAL OF THE DAY Message: Nonsense. You are proving NRC's point that you do not understand what you read -- or what you write. How does the phrase, "was less," according to you "equate past ..came before .. at the start," as you claim in surprising ignorance? Please tell us -- perhaps you have discovered a hitherto before unheard of dictionary for the dumb! Meanwhile, if I said your intelligence was less than that of a one-day child, does that mean you "came before" the child (i.e. you were born before the one day old child)? Can anyone be that dumb, as you wish to have us believe you are? Subject: Re: REBUTTAL OF THE DAY Message: Or maybe its Ebonics... All this fluff.. for nothing.. embarassing.. Subject: Re: REBUTTAL OF THE DAY Message: As usual, your assumption is yet needless confirmation of your notorious inability to understand anything you read. Therefore, my advice to you is to stay away from Ebonics -- try elementary English, instead. It would be the overdue start of your very long road to understanding what you read. Subject: Re: REBUTTAL OF THE DAY Message: Go back to english class.. Was is used incorrectly in that sentence.. Subject: Re: REBUTTAL OF THE DAY Message: Sorry, Ebonics man, we are not identical. I teach English. Subject: Re: REBUTTAL OF THE DAY Message: And sorry.. if you have children, or a class.. try deh. If you are not goign to be man enough to say.. i made a mistake.. i should have used IS, instead of WAS.. This is all kack chesting.. and i aint impressed.. Defending the indefensible.. Subject: Re: REBUTTAL OF THE DAY Message: continue kacking it.. Say you are sorry or forever hold your tongue.. Ebonics teacher.. Subject: Re: REBUTTAL OF THE DAY Message: Subject: Re: REBUTTAL OF THE DAY Message: continue kacking it.. Say you are sorry or forever hold your tongue.. Ebonics teacher.. Follow Ups: Subject: Re: REBUTTAL OF THE DAY Message: Keep it going for a little longer and you would have a broken record -- the previous record before yours for the length of a refusal to learn! Subject: Re: REBUTTAL OF THE DAY Message: Until you correct that.. You have little to teach my humble self. Subject: Re: REBUTTAL OF THE DAY Message: You people are unbelievable.. And if kleptomania was an issue where the APC and SLPP where mentioned as party does it take a class one education to read the conclusion that the APC would have started it since they came first.. ? Where does the natural laws of deducing and reasoning come in..? You academics bore the &*##^ out of me.. Subject: Re: REBUTTAL OF THE DAY Message: Was it the APC which started ruling Salone? Is there no limit to your ignorance? Subject: Re: REBUTTAL OF THE DAY Message: No one here will enjoin you in taking this to the days of Albert and Milton.. If we are not moving forward...you can move alone.. This thread is fast degenerating into rubbish.. Stuffed chicken, regardless of the kind of stuffing..is still STUFFED chicken.. Lets move on.. Subject: Re: REBUTTAL OF THE DAY Message: The indolent lament of those incurious minds condemned by their own lack of diligence to repeat the lessons of history -- because they refuse to learn from their past mistakes. Fortunately (alas, not for you but for the people of Siera Leone), you will be going on that predictably painful foray alone -- don't expect the people of Salone to join you in a predicatble folly! Subject: Re: REBUTTAL OF THE DAY Message: Does it in anyway relate to the APC WAS LESS kleptomanic than the SLPP..? If not .. then its all air.. hot air for that matter.. Subject: Re: REBUTTAL OF THE DAY Message: Subject: Re: REBUTTAL OF THE DAY Message: BLAH..... If thats not what you want to discuss.. then its all BLAH BLAH BLAH.. blah.. Tata... Subject: Re: REBUTTAL OF THE DAY Message: That failing is you failure to understand that there is a big difference between what I sstated (that the APC was slightly less kleptomaniac than the SLPP) and your misunderstanding of that to mean, as you stated in unacknowledged, repeated error, that the APC STARTED the devasatation of Salone because it "came first." Predicatbley you then proceeded to compound your error by claiming that the phrase "was less" meant "coming first!" That, of course prompted me to ask you the question you also refused to answer. Like I said before -- which you also refused to learn -- people who refuse to learn the lessons of their error-filled history are doomed to repeat their errors. You prove it each and every time you attemnpt to write in response. Subject: Re: REBUTTAL OF THE DAY Message: You are failing the basics same as you assumed i failed in failing to understand my failures.. (what utter crap). Your failing to fail to failure is that you failed to understand that this thread is not bout if i understand you ability to write proper.. IF the apc which CAME BEFORE THE SLPP CAN IN ANY FORM OR DEGREE BE ASSUMED TO BE """LESS"", LOWER, BELOW, NEGATIVE, LEFT of the kleto scale.. I hope you can figure that out.. Dont talk to me with Predicatbley, and compounded, and indolent lament when you do not know your left from you right.. Stupid..is as stupid does should be your signature... Subject: Re: REBUTTAL OF THE DAY Message: To which, as you would say, in unwitting self-diagnosis: "Stupid..is as stupid does should be your signature... " No need to expound on your unintended self-appraisal other than to note, as the good book tells us: "There's none so blind as one who chooses not to see!" Subject: Re: REBUTTAL OF THE DAY Message: If you dont want to shore up your APC vs SLPP kleptoness claim.. bug off..ah tire bo.. This You and Yours aint doing jack for me. Until then.. arividechi.. You sabi type google.com so that makes you an interllect...? Shiiiiiiioooooooooooooooorrrrrrr...steeeeechheeeeeeeesss Subject: Re: REBUTTAL OF THE DAY Message: Subject: Re: REBUTTAL OF THE DAY Message: What say ye.. I debunked the initial assumption you had..(see: past tense.. before, a few days ago).. Anything else is foreplay... fluff..tupeh hiding the bold spot.. or a comb over.. Subject: Re: REBUTTAL OF THE DAY Message: Subject: Re: REBUTTAL OF THE DAY Message: Well we can try.. http://www.thefreedictionary.com/debunked YOu made a false claim that the APC "WAS LESS" klepto than the SLPP.. Ah say nar lie.. big red fat lie.. Since then all you have done is chase your tail like a confused puppy..without addressing the original lie... not even in passing.. While thinking you are doing me a favor by putting an air of false magnanimity around yourself, i call it fart.. Bye.. this fruitless exercise in idleness ran its course. Subject: Re: REBUTTAL OF THE DAY Message: Your problem, sadly, is that you have never shown yourself to be serious. Had you been, you would have been saying, not that "I say so" but that "this is the evidence AND that's why I say so." That assumes, precariously, that you know what that word means! And, that brings us back to your unrelenting problem -- your failure to understand what you read (the cause of your current inescapable predicament). Subject: Re: REBUTTAL OF THE DAY Message: You merely saying it was is the genesis of this diatribe... Universally known, reported and documented not by moi..by renowned press houses local and international.. You made a claim.. DEBUNKED....now defend it with integrity or hold your tongue. Why oh why..this projection of eloquence is beyond me.. Continue chasing your own tail.. Subject: Re: REBUTTAL OF THE DAY Message: That should make it very easy, even for you, to show us the evidence. But you haven't. Should we draw the obvious conclusion from your continuing failure to do so? Subject: Re: REBUTTAL OF THE DAY Message: Funny, I thought that was what I have asked you to do twice -- to no avail! Seems you still don't understand what you read -- time, perhaps, to call in a Good Samaritan to simplify even further for your sole benefit, don't you think? Subject: Re: REBUTTAL OF THE DAY Message: Subject: Re: REBUTTAL OF THE DAY Message: Democracy, no sir, I am not suggesting that at all. What I am saying is that the APC can let the judiciary investigate the SLPP ministers and the heads of the parastatals, such as NASSIT, and NGOs. That way, Ernest Koroma can tackle the other problems facing the country at the same time. Subject: Re: REBUTTAL OF THE DAY Message: Example: A judge, a member of the judiciary can not arrest or issue a citation to a person in commission of a crime in his presence; However, a police officer answerable to the executive will make an arrest, investigate and the bit. Thats his job. Subject: Re: REBUTTAL OF THE DAY Message: Guy, sorry to say, you have confused the issues. The judiciary INCLUDES the lower courts. So, it makes no sense to say, as you did, that "they interprete the law after lower courts decisions are challenged." That is like saying that your hand will take over the work after your body is tired. That makes no sense because your hand is part of your body -- so if your body is tired, that means your hand is alo tired. It does not exist apart from your body. Similarly, the lower courts do not exist apart from the judiciary! Sadly, the rest of your post is marred by the same mistake. Subject: Re: REBUTTAL OF THE DAY Message: Subject: Re: REBUTTAL OF THE DAY Message: Subject: Who says........? Message: Subject: Sam Sumana-WTF?! Message: From the way the "article" lays out, its obvious this is a bio that APC provided. So why couldn't they come up with a better picture? Another concern is that the guy looks like a fat cat, in more ways than one. And as if his fat cat looks weren't enough, I read down the article and come to find out he is a trained diamond grader. Will he keep (personal) business out of politics? Hope so and good luck to them. They are uniquely positioned to garner a reputation as the best rulers Africa's ever produced until they are bested, (Mandela gets his own special, not up for competition acclaim)I hope they take advantage of it.
Date: Nov 10, 2005 23:41
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My apologies for not getting back to you right away. The last ten days had been quite hectic for my family as my oldest daughter got married.
Despite the delay, I would like you to know that I very much appreciate your taking the time to read my e-mail and for replying responsively to the issues I raised.
I start by offering my sympathy to you and Mrs. Hamelberg for the loss of her sister. I join you both in praying that that her husband will find the strength to cope with his most difficult loss and move on with his life. The loss of a close relative is never easy but death is inevitable for each one of us and I will pray for you all to ease the sorrow.
I had written to you personally rather than publiclly bring up the issues raised in my e-mail to you in an internet forum because I was responding only to the specific points you raised.
It occurred to me that the vast majority of the SL public at home and abroad understood and accepted my complaints about the politrics that went on before, during and after Makeni. Many people also understood why my campaign strategy relied on blowing my horn about my 'qualifications' because the real problem in SL is unqualified people occupying offices beyond their level of competence. Hence, the very poor quality of national leadership.
And by 'qualifications' I do not just mean techical qualifications obtained through examinations and evidenced by certificates but valuable, real-life assets acquired through home training, ultruistic good works, a demonstrated record of specific achievements and from interacting successfully with achievers around the world.
As you know book education is not the issue in SL. What is sorely lacking is the cultural underpinning and the relevant profesional and personal experiences to put learned technical knowledge into good use to advance society's interests.
Thus, what use is a first class economist to society if he is an insatiable thief or is one who thrives in lies and/or in doublecrossing he most loyal supporters? What use is a well trained pilot if he is a drunkard or one who is negligent or unreliable?
You next asked me why I insist on reforming the SLPP from within despite the poor leadership of the party. The reason is that I do not make radical decisions or breakaway until I have exhausted every other reasonable opportunities to correct existing wrongs. Also, as a practical matter it is usually preferrable to leave an existing position only after first securing a much better one. In other words, the time is not yet.
My own view is that it is going to be extremely difficult to reason with the present party insiders but before I give up, I'd like to have tried everything and not succeed, then look for a new home.
As for Mr. Charles Margai, I believe he is culturally identical to the present SLPP insiders and, in addition, he is personally ambitious for himself, not our country. It seems to me that he does not belong to a group unless he leads! He believes he is automatically entitled to the leadeship position. I also find his techical 'qualifications' insufficient. He therefore cannot lead me under any circumstances. Thus, after helping to create one set of political monsters, I have no intention of helping to create another.
I agree with you that a well organized and led third force has a very strong likelihood of remaking Sierra Leone but it must be a broadly based coalition of responsible people of excellent character from all sections of society and not consists merely of opportunists like those around Margai who are fighting not because they want to advance society's interests but because they are itiching for their own personal share. That's how I see the Margai group. Hence, I do not belong to it.
I also believe that leadership ought to be based on merit and not on tribalism.
In conclusion please note that I, too, would like to be in phone contact with you. Perhaps, working together we can change the world like ……………
Thanks for your attention and for keeping in touch.
Sincerely,
John Leigh
60 Thoreau Street,#176
Concord, MA 01742
Tel: 978 371-2197
Sorba S
Yes, I agree with you that it's time to bring a STRONG PALM TREE into light again.... it has good roots and branches and fruits...... a few bad apples should not destroy what it has taken years to build, nor can such apples ruin a strong nationwide foundation.... but as we all know a tree has to be pruned, cultivated and as an APCer will say, it also needs sunshine and rain.....
The next party leadership process should be transparent, and I guess that it will be with people who have a less controversial past... Mr. Kabbah unfortunately was unable and to some extent unwilling to root out corruption and with determination he could have done that.
I wonder if he is going to get the Mo Ibrahim prize.
From: Cornelius Hamelberg
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Date Posted: 14:59:30 09/25/07 ()
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It's about time he re-started the campaign to defeat Berewa and every other mortal man and moral woman in the SLPP, to become the undisputed heavyweight champion of the PP since he already has the credential of the "Louisville Lip" and don't forget he concludes with the advice that some people took: “Please take and eat the money given you for your vote. BUT VOTE YOUR CONSCIENCE.”
From: READ A BOOK
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Date Posted: 14:36:44 09/25/07 ()
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What a piece of CRAP.... Leigh is not a SHERBRO...and check your spellings man.. Please
From: Sorba S
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Date Posted: 14:45:20 09/25/07 ()
Email Address: sorba_1@yahoo.com
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Next time identified yourself properly so I can deal with you accordingly. Leigh is a sherbro if you don't like it Oh well!
From: gongoli
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Date Posted: 14:49:24 09/25/07 ()
Email Address: gonos@yahoo.com
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This guy can't speak proper English let alone spell. He had an article with negative things about Sierra Leoneans calling them 'imbeciles'. I wonder who the ibecile is now?
From: Sorba S
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Date Posted: 14:40:19 09/25/07 ()
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If he is not them what is he Mr clever? Did'nt hear no negative response? Please don't try it because you might loose.
From: Cornelius Hamelberg
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Date Posted: 14:11:27 09/25/07 ()
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in the Mo Ibrahim Index of African Governance......
From: Cornelius Hamelberg
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Date Posted: 17:29:44 09/25/07 ()
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Position 38 out of 48
From: Reuters news
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Date Posted: 13:24:10 09/25/07 ()
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Sierra Leone arrests Guinean 'pirates'
Katrina Manson | Freetown, Sierra Leone
25 September 2007 08:48
Sierra Leone arrested eight Guineans, including military personnel and fisheries inspectors, whom it accused of carrying out a pirate attack on two locally licensed fishing vessels, officials said on Monday.
International law enforcement officials say Guinea's port capital of Conakry on the former French colony's Atlantic coast is a major staging post and jump-off point for criminal gangs trafficking illegal migrants and drugs bound for Europe.
From: mohamed barigue
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Date Posted: 18:52:36 09/25/07 ()
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There are two sides to a story, I read somewhere that the Guineans were adrfit due to the heavy winds a fortnight ago and sought refuge in the trawler, let us walk softly on this issue my friends.
From: Candid Opinion
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Date Posted: 21:56:18 09/25/07 ()
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Well i think the trawler driver should easily be able to clear this up...since he called in the SOS..
From: BUFORD HWY
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Date Posted: 09:22:22 09/25/07 ()
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I have just recieved a call from Freetown's Parliament Building that the NEW SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE is ABEL STRONGE and his DEPUTY is Attorney CHUKUMA JOHNSON.
From: Almamy Razak Tun Seray-Wurie Si
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Date Posted: 12:11:15 09/25/07 ()
Email Address: almamysi@hotmail.com
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Remember Justice Kutubu and Justice Singer Betts
Both men were legal minds not necessarily MPs
From: Emmanuel J.M.Stafford
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Date Posted: 12:46:13 09/25/07 ()
Email Address: ejmstafford@yahoo.co.uk
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Both justice Abel Strong and Hon. Victor Chukuma Johnson are legally minded personalities. Abel Strong is a justice and Chukuma Johnson is a Justice of the Peace (J.P.).
Indeed, this is a new APC and the future of our Country is Bright. For the APC Mp's to selflessly appointed these two strong and uncompromising personalities, there is no doubt the Country is moving in the right direction.
From: SP
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Date Posted: 12:16:49 09/25/07 ()
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ME PADDY NAR LONDON NAR MONKU. WAS WAITING FOR YOUR CALL
From: Almamy Razak Tun Seray-Wurie Si
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Date Posted: 12:42:00 09/25/07 ()
Email Address: almamysi@hotmail.com
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Ar go Kol Yu....
Our Constitution provides #3 rank for whosoever the Speaker turns out to be.
APC would have beat SLPP if Justice Stronge gets the job. I mean:
*Pa Kabbah-Pa Berewah-Justice Cowan=Numerators
Madingo.Mende-Mende-Mende
*Hemoh Koroma-Kortoh Sumana-Argba Stronge
Temne.Limba-Kono-Krio
From: seydouba
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Date Posted: 10:23:51 09/25/07 ()
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How can Abel Stronge become the New speaker when he was not elected to parliament?I am Perplex by this news
Please explain?
From: Ako Mengot
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Date Posted: 10:56:12 09/25/07 ()
Email Address: akmeng@aol.com
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According to Sierra Leone's constitition, one does not have to be an MP to be appointed Speaker. one of the criteria is that the person appointed must have a legal background.
From: J
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Date Posted: 13:35:58 09/25/07 ()
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Victor Mengot, I will be reponding to your article which informs the world that you are some adviser to Westminster.
From: akomengot
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Date Posted: 14:19:20 09/25/07 ()
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Mr. J or whatever your identity is I did not write an article I was mainly commenting on a statement about US taxi drivers that are aiming to become MPs in Sierra Leone and to state that it is possible that someone can start from a lowly beginning and end up achieving a life time dream. I don't need to announce to the world about my involvement in Westminster. If you do a proper research and look at Hansard from April 1994 - March 1997 ( Transport Select Committee Officials) you will get whatever information you require. I don't know what your interest is my statement because I have since moved on. If you are uncomfortable with what I said then bring it out.
From: John E. Leigh
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Date Posted: 12:33:59 09/25/07 ()
Email Address: johnernestleigh@yahoo.com
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Dear Mr. Mengot:
From: Almamy Razak Tun Seray-Wurie Si
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Date Posted: 12:46:43 09/25/07 ()
Email Address: almamysi@hotmail.com
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Korthor John Leigh,
Thanks for your continuing effort to make our nation better. Your courage is a virtue. Please, please, do not give up on your reformist stance as SL's politics will grow to being policy based rather than ehno-linguistic/regional..
I read your reply to our Veterian Modi Karefa-Smart
Regards,
From: Eddie Grant
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Date Posted: 15:44:51 09/25/07 ()
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Hmmmm, this has been highly constructed.
From: John E. Leigh
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Date Posted: 13:30:08 09/25/07 ()
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Dear Mr. Almamy Razak Tun Seray-Wurie:
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Some say it began with my candid assessment of President Kabbah's Oil Prospecting Policy. Others say it was the crude way he dealt with VP Demby's dismissal. The Kamajor indictments and rough arrests by Prosecutor David Crane's Special Court and compounded by the sudden, unexpected death of the Kamajor chieftain, Sam Hinga Norman, have also been cited as important contributing factors by many people I know and respect.
Whatever and whenever the real beginnings of the SLPP 2007 defeat were, Kabbah's second term was vastly different from his first. 2nd. Term Cabinet meetings have been described as a spectacle whereby an intemperate cat presided over a roomful of trembling mice (or MEEces as my daughter would say when she was in kindergarten).
You mentioned Wallace Johnson. In my view, he was SL's first legitimate socialist-nationalist. He was a political colleague of Nkrumah and Nnamdi Azikewe ("Zik') of Nigeria in the Pan African Students Union in London during pre-Independence days. Wallace Johnson's original party was the National Council of SL with Dr. Bankole Bright. The National Council of SL was a take-off on NCNC - National Council of Nigeria and the Cameroon led by Dr. Azikewe. But Dr. Bright was a rightwing Krio ideologue who had served as Director of Medical Services in Enugu, Nigeria and was then retired to Freetown. It was Bright who incorrectly labeled the SLPP as a protectorate party and said a whole lot of trashy things about provincial people. The SLPP was never solely a provincial party. Please see Section Three Below.
For your information, SLPP was never just a protectorate party. It was a genuine national party at its inception and throughout the leadership of Sir Milton.
JL '58"
From: Lameeh Gblaah
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Date Posted: 16:02:37 09/25/07 ()
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Hi Mate,
I am very well touched by your enlightenment about the SLPP party , that was concised and to the piont. My question that I would like to ask you people is that, I thought that you people saw these things comming but you people failed to yeild. you fully knew that, that SANTIBO KHAT Kabba become the leader of that party by default and yet still you sat dumbfoundedly allowing him to bring the party into disrepute !!! My dear , I wonder why you never looked into that man,s track record and tell your comrades about his misdemeanour. What pains my heart so much is the way that he preaches as if was a saint. Look into his activities before he left for the United Nations , he got that job by fasifying his CV helped by the late C.P Foray. And when he came back he was an adviser to the then NPRC he insighted the overthrow of Strasser. Then he became president he allowed thousand innocent civilians to die just for the lust for power.Kabba! Kabba!! He's got a problem with rice !! Even when people in sierra leone are dying of hunger and stavation this Kabbah fellow sold the rice that was given to feed the nation to some foreign country. Let's give the devil it dues Papa shakie never left us hungry, instead he allowed us to queue for rice at a cheaper price.
Look what he did to you Mr leigh nobody nominated you for any post for that party even though you spent so much money in holding that cobention in makeni. Its a pity it happened that way . Please lets take a retrospect of the country before Kabba assails to power .what was the exchange rate ? what was the cost of the bag of rice ? and what was the minimum wage ? Even though the take home income was low so many people can eat good food for at lease once a day, but now it,s twice or once a week,( mot hush ya wae u master get u go noe).That's why people in the city had decided to let their kitchen as dwelling houses. Now let's try to rebase 2007 price to that of 1996 index, then you would realised that people are now worst off than before and at the end of the day he has the audacity to say that he brought the war to an end . What would Tonny Blair say? Oh Kabba!! "I inherited a pennyless state "where did you get the money to pay those mercenaries that you hired to restore you to power? Is it from your United Nations pension?? You ought to be held for some questioning. Please don't give up hope your time will come hence we,ve give Ernest 12 month honeymoon, many of us have high hopes .Plase Mr president do not make any promises !! We hope that by the will of God all will be well.
From: Basco
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Date Posted: 15:54:01 09/25/07 ()
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The best piece John Leigh has contributed to this forum. It is forthright,honest and educative.
From: Ako Mengot
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Date Posted: 12:44:09 09/25/07 ()
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The late Chief Dr. A D Mengot is my father. My father, A E Kome and E T Egbe were the first cameroonians to study at Fourah Bay College. He taught at the Albert Academy in the 1950s and among his students at the time were John Sorba Green and Roy During.
From: John E. Leigh
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Date Posted: 13:10:06 09/25/07 ()
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Dear Mr. Mengot:
From: Pa Javombo
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Date Posted: 10:13:01 09/25/07 ()
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My information is that Edie Turay is the Deputy speaker.
From: John E. Leigh
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Date Posted: 12:36:36 09/25/07 ()
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Pa Javombo/BUFORD HWY:
From: Med
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Date Posted: 14:19:31 09/25/07 ()
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Honestly SLPP is very corrupt and not serious, they have learnt nothing form their defeat. How could Momoh Pugeh still be in politics after caught with huge amount of blood diamonds, prosecuted by the ACC and later only the devil knew what happened.. again this same guy leads the SLPP opposition, God have mercy.
SLPP will go into political wilderness, I mean forever if meaningful followers do not take control of their party, get rid of these old criminalized blokes they don’t serve the country’s interest let alone the party, learn from your mistakes, check their records yah.
From: BUFORD HWY
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Date Posted: 12:14:46 09/25/07 ()
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I might be wrong,but my source is Hon Eddie Turay is the Majority Leader.
From: Kack Chest Lek Bombali Granat Pikin
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Date Posted: 09:42:27 09/25/07 ()
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These names do not ring a bell. Any info about them?
From: silent majority
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Date Posted: 11:04:29 09/25/07 ()
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My sources tell me Abel Stronge is a highly regarded appellate Judge and has, over the years, carved out a reputation for fairness, competence and above all independence. He is seen as a senior legal figure who is independent and non-partisan and this explains the overwhelming vote of 112 against 8 for his appointment.
From: Kack Chest Lek Bombali Granat Pikin
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Date Posted: 12:22:40 09/25/07 ()
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Thanx for the info brother.
From: M. Alieu Iscandari Esq
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Date Posted: 10:08:06 09/25/07 ()
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Abel Stronge is a seating Judge of the Sierra Leone High Court and one of the most fair and apolitical of all of the judges in sierra Leone.
From: Hassan Kamara
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Date Posted: 10:55:22 09/25/07 ()
Email Address: kamson10@hotmail.com
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I don't think they will him the SPEAKER because he is not a member of PARLIAMENT.
From: Hassan Kamara
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Date Posted: 10:52:57 09/25/07 ()
Email Address: kamson10@hotmail.com
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I don't think they will make him SPEAKER because he is not a member of PARLIAMENT
From: SPK 1
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Date Posted: 11:20:48 09/25/07 ()
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Who says so? Before William Conteh' era was Sir Emile Fashole Luke and others before him Parliamentarians? Were there any changes in the 1991 constitution regarding the eligibility of the Speaker of parliament?
From: Abu Thomas
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Date Posted: 07:32:06 09/25/07 ()
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Welcome to the S.L.P.P. Forum
Follow Ups:
From: gongonli
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Date Posted: 11:55:46 09/25/07 ()
Email Address: gonos@yahoo.com
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Why are you surprised? It happens here too. As long as you don't tow the line....you are out. Salone
From: Abu Thomas
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Date Posted: 08:33:25 09/25/07 ()
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Posted by Abu Thomas on September 25, 2007 at 08:30:18:
From: Boli
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Date Posted: 03:22:16 09/25/07 ()
Email Address: Boli@yahoo.com
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What has happened to the State House website? Am I right in assuming the outgoing government has pulled the plug on it? I would have thought it was the property of the Sierra Leone government and not any political party. I hope there are plans afoot to start it up again as it was a major source of information.
From: m. alieu iscandari esq.
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Date Posted: 01:07:40 09/25/07 ()
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http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=TSDWqBOPw2o&NR=1
From: Cornelius Hamelberg
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Date Posted: 03:11:58 09/25/07 ()
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Yes Alieu
From: Cornelius Hamelberg
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Date Posted: 00:37:02 09/25/07 ()
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and also the role of the opposition and the achievment of Christiana Thorpe and the Electoral Commission
From: Alie Formeh Kamara
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Date Posted: 05:25:01 09/25/07 ()
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Thanks for that piece Cornelius.
Shaka SSali was my classmate at college. He was also my room mate.
We did many things together including operating a radio program at WRPI entitled 'Sauti Za Africa'from 1986 to 1988 and . We were also the Editors of 'The African Talking Drum' in 1979' for the African Community at the Capital District.
He changed his first name from Mike to Shaka.
From: ROBERT PAINE
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Date Posted: 01:42:05 09/25/07 ()
Email Address: painera2003@yahoo.com
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COULD PEOPLE SEND IN SUGGESTIONS TO THIS ?
From: Bambay Lans Kamara
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Date Posted: 23:21:26 09/24/07 ()
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Get me natty baldhead. NATTY BALL HEAD.
From: tolol
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Date Posted: 23:40:30 09/24/07 ()
Email Address: Tolo@yahoo.com
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How dumb can you be to refer to Momodu Koroma as a Vice President, a position he never held. Stop dressing this failed politician in borrowed robes.
From: Bambay Lans Kamara
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Date Posted: 16:21:22 09/25/07 ()
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Tolol, I am dumb enough to know that what is concerning government and the entire world must not be personalized. I am so dumb to realize that a government and the International Community have agencies that can detect wrong doing, and therefore have mechanisms put in place for the way this is done. I am dumb enough to know that bright people of this world know what set-up is when they see one in operation.
I am dumb enough to know that as a civilian if one does anything that is contrary to the law, such a person is not considered bright but is a criminal the same way those behind bars violated the rights of others and are considered criminals.
I am so dumb to realize that no matter how crafty I may be in changing what is factual, I cannot do so at the expense of another individual especially, when the latter suffers from my action just because I wish to fake them. If they suffer on account of my action, just because I wish to fake them to believing that I an important personality or I wish to promote hatred, such an action is considered savagery.
I am so dumb to know that what is true is true and if there is nothing I can do change it pending on the nature and hierarchy at which such a thing is, I will just desists from trying to change it.
I am so dumb to know that we are a social climbing humans and know my place as there are lawmakers, wealthy and the middle class. Not knowing ones place is socialized psychopath.
Last but not least, I will not do wrong to people while the entire world know that what I do is absolutely wrong yet, I feel proud. Doing so makes such a person a mentally retarded person.
Do not have time to read over.
http://www.forbes.com/lists/2007/53/07celebrities_The-Celebrity-100_NameHTML.html
From: Candid Opinion
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Date Posted: 23:13:11 09/24/07 ()
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So it turns out that your own man..
Read on... so you dont say i am a lier..
I am starting to like Obai, maybe i always did..it was just that dreaded APC..
From: Med
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Date Posted: 09:01:36 09/25/07 ()
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Plus...he also want you all to acknowledge that the standards set by the SLPP will be hard to follow.. but with GOD and COUNTRY by his side.. he will live up to the challenge..
Mr. President, this is not a professional statement, such accreditation is impulsive. The WWW knew that slpp administration was the weakest and full of corrupt elements; the people of Sierra Leone had same view thus voted them out. The ousted slpp government is yet to hand over all what it takes to rule, only then you can make such statement, until then, please restrain your emotions, Mr. President and rule by the books, we’re tired of emotional leaders. Sierra Leoneans want these slpp guys to be investigated, they have acknowledged their failure to deliver, let them explain why and where is the money….
From: Candid Opinion
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Date Posted: 10:53:55 09/25/07 ()
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Where is this notion of his highness Obai the great just falling in from the sky coming from..?
From: Med
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Date Posted: 14:47:14 09/25/07 ()
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Where is this notion of his highness Obai the great just falling in from the sky coming from..?
I also do know that Earnest Koroma was an opposition leader and should be better informed about the affairs of the state. Notwithstanding the APC was not a vibrant opposition, not a very good performance record though a minority group and generally much should not be expected from them, if the continue in the same SLPP policy. That’s my opinion.
From: Kack Chest Lek Bombali Granat Pikin
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Date Posted: 23:47:25 09/24/07 ()
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Well Candid, if lepet dae take training..maybe the dreaded APC's bark is now worse than its bite.
I hope it mellows more under Obai (nice name).
As I said before, it is Salone time now till the next election cycle. You know the well-worn expression: In politics, there are no permanent friends or enemies; just permanent interests. The interest here, for me, is the development of Salone. Catch you on the threads later, buddy.
From: Cornelius Hamelberg
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Date Posted: 00:39:16 09/25/07 ()
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There is some agreement and discussion of the subject matter
From: POLITICO
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Date Posted: 22:14:42 09/24/07 ()
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Here is Candid Opinion’s argument in favor of CABDRIVERS
Engineering and so on. Do not take them lightly because most of them have potent reasons why they do what they
do. You have to be in the New York and Wshington metropolis to know. But most of them do not brandish their
education until you get involeved with them in discussion. Who says they cannot be industrous in helping Sierra
Leone move forward? The coat matters not but the man in the coat. We are in a different economic playing field, a
capitalistic democracy. One has to know how that system operates._Bo mek man go fail quick. _
REPLY BY MODIBOH:
"There are cab drivers from Sierra Leone in the U.S. that Bachelors holders from F.B.C. with degrees in Economics"
Bambay! If you have a Degree and are not employed in your field for number of years, your degree will be
useless:in the US and in Salone. They might as well go back to school since the ECONOMICS that they studied in
the 80s is completely different now.
So whether they have it or not the fact that they have not being using it for such a longtime, make them USELESS
to our people._
From: POLITICAL
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Date Posted: 00:53:20 09/25/07 ()
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Just want to forumites know the person who has the handle "POLITICO" is not the same as POLITICAL. These are two different people who does not even know each other. So please don't mistake POLITICO for POLITCAL.
From: Kack Chest Lek Bombali Granat Pikin
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Date Posted: 22:36:59 09/24/07 ()
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I think the post you attributed to Candid was actually authored by the only man with a fan club on this forum, the one and only Bambay Lans Kamara.
From: Candid Opinion
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Date Posted: 22:51:09 09/24/07 ()
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Teng god..
Ah yek fus..
From: Sorba S
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Date Posted: 00:08:11 09/25/07 ()
Email Address: sorba_1@yahoo.com
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Mr VP or the so call chief Sam sumanna was a Kab driver too. Bo we na lef. APC na po man party. you nor need for sabi book for dedae.Next tem me sef de go tenap dane. Right now me na FAWN (Frostrated African with Nurses). As a don frostrate nor mor a de go.
From: Ako Mengot
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Date Posted: 03:22:54 09/25/07 ()
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There is dignity in Labour and we all have to start somewhere in Life. When I arrived in the UK some 20 odd years ago as a student, I followed the trend by being employed as a cleaner. That gave me the courage and determination to succeed and I am proud to say that I eventually served as a Special Adviser to the House of Commons Transport Select committee. I am now using this experience to assist the Government of Kenya in improving transport management systems in their Ministeries and other public bodies, which makes me proud to a Sierra Leonean.
Cicero
From: babu
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Date Posted: 11:59:45 09/25/07 ()
Email Address: babs@yahoo.com
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Blow you horn ya me man.....nobody nor go do am for you...on the other hand......if you yams white.......
From: Ako Mengot
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Date Posted: 12:34:52 09/25/07 ()
Email Address: akmeng@aol.com
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"The lizard that jumps from the iroko tree and landed on his stomach says if no one praises him he will praise himself"
From: Abioseh Johnson-Cole
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Date Posted: 04:43:25 09/25/07 ()
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Mengot, you are a credit to Salone, rising from cleaner to Special Adviser to the House of Commons Transport Select committee. Congratulations.
From: GIBRILL
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Date Posted: 16:00:31 09/25/07 ()
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IF CAB DRIVING IS THE ONLY QUALIFICATION YOU CARRY IN YOUR LIFE, I THINK THAT IS OK. THAT IS HOW THE INDIVIDUAL WANTS TO RUN HIS OR HER LIFE.BUT DO NOT DECEIVE OUR COUNTRY INTO BELIEVING THAT YOU CAN RUN THE AFFAIRS OF A STATE THROUGH EXPERIENCE. BETTER YET, MAKE A HONEST REPRESENTATION TO THE PEOPLE. IF THE PEOPLE VOTE FOR YOU BECAUSE OF WHO YOU ARE, NO ONE WILL ACCUSE OF DECEPTION.HONESTY IS THE BEST POLICY.IT IS TIME WE DROP OFF OUR OLD BAGGAGES OF DISHONESTY AND MANIPULATION. IF WE CANNOT LOVE OURSELVES LET ALONE OUR COUNTRY, THEN WE NEED TO LOVE THE GRAVE. WE MUST STAND FOIRM TO SEE THIS NEW GOVERNMENT SUCCEED OR WE WILL FAIL AS A PEOPLE AND A NATION.ENOUGH WITH DECEPTION FOR POLITICAL AND SELFISH GAINS. WHAT IS WRONG IN TELLING THE PEOPLE THAT "I AM A CAB DRIVER IN WASHINGTON DC. BUT I PUT A LOT OF EFFORT IN IT AND ACHIEVE THE FOLLOWING OR FAILED IN IT. NOW I WANT TO TRY SOMETHING ELSE." AT LEAST THE PEOPLE WILL KNOW THE CANDIDATE THEY ARE VOTING FOR IS HONEST TO THEM.
From: fact
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Date Posted: 11:54:11 09/25/07 ()
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all of these so-called cab drivers have university degrees. so what's your problem? you have people with phds driving cabs in the west.
From: Abioseh Johnson-Cole
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Date Posted: 15:28:58 09/25/07 ()
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The issue is not whether cab drivers have Ph.Ds or not.
From: Kack Chest Lek Bombali Granat Pikin
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Date Posted: 05:09:53 09/25/07 ()
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Not to malign other cab drivers (I actually hacked a yellow cab in New York City for two years) but John Mannah is KRRRAZY! I visited the SLPP forum during the elections and had the misfortune of delving through one of his incoherent verbosities. When he pompously declared that he had just completed a Ph.D in FINANCIAL ECONOMICS and was planning to open a stock market in SL, Ar laff tay ar piss pan misef!
From: Hahaha
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Date Posted: 06:28:16 09/25/07 ()
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Kack Chest:
From: Ako Mengot
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Date Posted: 04:59:13 09/25/07 ()
Email Address: akmeng@aol.com
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Abioseh
From: Abioseh Johnson-Cole
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Date Posted: 06:55:43 09/25/07 ()
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Ako, you are welcome.
From: Kalos
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Date Posted: 21:29:26 09/24/07 ()
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The pressure on President Ernest Koroma is mounting by the minute, hour and day; the International
Community is trying to influence the president to retain some old SLPP ministers in the spirit of an all-
inclusive government and appeasement. I hope the president will continue to stand his ground and
ultimate prevail in appointing cabinet ministers of his choice. Any failure by this government will not
be proportionally distributed; why take the chance and bring in people that you don’t trust in an
effort to be liked by the international community. Our people voted you in to bring change…we
expect a new beginning and so be it.
From: Marah
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Date Posted: 13:17:19 09/25/07 ()
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Are you talking about Alpha Wurie the great womanizer minister, chasing teenage girls all over the place?
You must be out of your senses
From: Diplomatic analyst
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Date Posted: 13:15:27 09/25/07 ()
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He owes a lot to the International community, and he really cannot afford to displease the.Further dont forget, our economy is 75% donor driven
From: Shembu
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Date Posted: 12:11:35 09/25/07 ()
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The New APC government is not a unity government, as such Mr. Koroma is supposed to choose his own qualified people to run things in his government. I was also of the opinion that people like Alpha Wurie who served our country diligently and made a lot of progress should be retained for progressive continuity. I now think differently. This is politics, and the new government should feel free to strategise whichever way they want during their cabinet meetings without hesitation for the presence of a non party member.
From: Special Cut
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Date Posted: 13:35:04 09/25/07 ()
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The former government machinery was ROTTEN and thats why they were voted out. We do not want to see any of them in government positions. Earnest is not going to reward politicians like they use to do in the Momoh-Kabba era. As long as you continued to serve without falling out of favor with Kabba,then it means you were part of the corrupt machine. We are not going to use any old parts to run this new machine. There is nothing wrong with bringing in SLPP supporters to serve but not slpp former officials. No way.
From: M. Alieu Iscandari Esq
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Date Posted: 10:05:57 09/25/07 ()
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We cannot afford to economically ostracize any segment of the nation. Sierra Leone belongs to all of its people and so is its government. The present government must be willing to employ qualified sierra leoneans regardless of their political or party inclinations. This is a government that will use merit and not Party affiliations.
From: Med
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Date Posted: 13:01:49 09/25/07 ()
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Alliu, the subject matter is specific; ‘apc bringing onboard former slpp ministers,’ and not otherwise. If that strategy applies to your apc policy, then you guys have nothing new to deliver, we have heard this before, its implementation and disastrous outcome.
Give us another ‘good Policy’ and not only save our country but the new apc, mind you 5 years is not forever, every day counts +…..
From: M. Alieu Iscandari Esq
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Date Posted: 13:22:04 09/25/07 ()
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Med
Thanks for narrowing the issue to the more discrete issue of bringing back "former slpp ministers". I do not think that that would be the case. I am in support of the President appointing a cabinet of "SIERRA LEONEANS" regardless of their political affilitions. In the final analysis, the issue is going to be whether or not the person appointed would merit the position and whether or not they can competently perform in that position. The appointments do not have to be at the ministerial level they could be in supporting roles.
From: Med
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Date Posted: 13:56:27 09/25/07 ()
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I do believe that most of these slpp ministers were micromanaged, notwithstanding let them be screened, weed the bad guys out, which would be difficult getting any good element out of the rest for a purpose of inclusion.
On the other hand, I do support that fact that APC appoints who ever as long as s/he is not tagged corrupt, irrespective of political affiliation, lets uphold some integrity Bro and put an end to this embezzlement of government funds + recycling of criminalized politicians, they’ve proved good for nothing, I cannot call names now, but certain active politicians should be politically redundant, lets try new sets of breed, know who you bring into your camp and work with people of national interest.
APC should set a precedent, make it a law that all outgoing and incoming governments should declare their assets and face inquiry after service. Let’s make our country a better place for our generations to come, you guys have they opportunity use it, you have our support or face the wildest criticism.
Least I forget ‘Earnest nor declare in yone yet oo, nar for tell am.’
From: Special Cut
To: All
Date Posted: 14:10:04 09/25/07 ()
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Med, what you saying is not feasible. The new government does not have time to seperate the ship from the goat. As long as you served as a minister under the former regime, you are out. This is why the masses voted for EBK otherwise they would have voted for continuity because a good number of Parliamentarians under Berewa never even got the symbol to contest the elections. If the slpp purged itself then why do you want EBK to continue with the trash that berewa's team disposed of. Listen to what Wascaleh is saying to you.
From: Med
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Date Posted: 15:05:44 09/25/07 ()
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SP, you have seemingly failed to understand my position. My postings have not indicated otherwise, again I am absolutely against any inclusion of former APC ministers into the EBK regime, however if EAK deems it appropriate as have been mentioned by most postings today, then I advised a generic screening and I also concluded by saying it would be difficult to get any good element out of the rest for a purpose of inclusion.
Again, I have often registered concern that if EBK should succeed, he should have a new political strategy, only leaders succeed, I mean pacesetters. I hope this serves your understanding or kindly relay my position/massage to Wascaleh.
Cheers.
From: M. Alieu Iscandari Esq
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Date Posted: 18:21:29 09/25/07 ()
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Your position med, presupposes that EVERY member of prior APC cabinets have been corrupt. This is falacious thinking. The truth is that in every government there are those who are corrupt and those who are not. The reason why we blame everyone in the government for corruption, is because the good ones do not report the bad ones and so the the "righteous suffer for the wicked" so to speak.
From: Med
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Date Posted: 05:02:24 09/26/07 ()
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Hold it man, I actually meant ‘SLPP’ and not ‘APC’ could have been an oversight, sorry that you had to brandish such energy. Notwithstanding, you guys would contradict yourselves [APC] if any former [old] APC minister is deemed eligible for any ministerial position under the leadership of the present [new] APC.
From: seydouba
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Date Posted: 10:28:34 09/25/07 ()
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Alieu,
Giving APC' past history...How Merit is merit??.
From: M. Alieu Iscandari Esq.
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Date Posted: 11:06:53 09/25/07 ()
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Seydouba,
The present APC shares nothing with the past APC other than its name. You and others who support the SLPP should get off this horse. The voters did not vote in the APC of the past they voted in a new APC which spoke their hopes and dreams.
From: Candid Opinion
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Date Posted: 11:24:11 09/25/07 ()
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Meanwhile..
If the dads retired the children are just picking up where the old Oga's of APC fame left off..
From: BUFORD HWY
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Date Posted: 12:27:32 09/25/07 ()
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Candido,
Please tell us about EDDIE TURAY's affiliation with the old APC.Was he a MP during the SIAKA STEVENS/MOMOH's reign?
From: Candid Opinion
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Date Posted: 12:36:26 09/25/07 ()
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Does he have to be..?
If all SLPP ministers and MP are assumed to be Crooks without records, reason or good judgement..
http://standardtimespress.net/cgi-bin/artman/publish/article_2075.shtml
From: BUFORD HWY
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Date Posted: 12:59:10 09/25/07 ()
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Bra,
COOL DOWN TIDAE NAR TUESDAY D WEEK GET 3 MORE DAYS FOR MEK U PULL U STRESS OUT.
Being the longest serving MP of the APC party,does not mean that he is a kleptomaniac or a member of the OLD APC.Eddie became a MP in 1996,and the REVIVER of the now APC party,so linking him with the likes of JB DAUDA and other is not truth.
From: Candid Opinion
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Date Posted: 13:18:32 09/25/07 ()
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I am carm fella..
MP in 1996 does not mean he was not a member of the APC kleto party before 1996. And it does not mean after 1996 kleptomania in APC circles was cured.
I said they where all seen heading to statehouse with briefcase..
From: BUFORD HWY
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Date Posted: 20:52:09 09/25/07 ()
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Candido
From: Candid Opinion
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Date Posted: 21:51:53 09/25/07 ()
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So what are we arguing about then..?
Eddy turay.. and Mr. Osman Yansaneh and Dr. Abdul Karim Koroma (AKK) and a few other kleptos where last seen heading towards statehouse with briefcase in hand.
Yansaneh, AKK and other klepto's where also seen headed the same direction.
From: Med
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Date Posted: 08:22:52 09/25/07 ()
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Karlos, I do share the same view on ‘change’ but emphatically disagree with rational behind your story on the ‘international community.’ It is baseless, the slpp tried to cover their failing by projecting similar propaganda and I don’t think apc will do such or succeed if ever they attempt.
From: Kack Chest Lek Bombali Granat Pikin
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Date Posted: 23:28:12 09/24/07 ()
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By all means, EBK must be given a free hand to select his ministers without pressure from anybody. However I fear that some APC supporters are interpreting their man's win as a mandate to give SLPP the middle finger and tell them to go take a hike. I don't want to throw sand in your garri, guys, but If Ernest follows this strategy, his government is bound to fail like so many others in Africa who embraced the winner-takes-all mentality.
Debathifying the SLPP from government is dumb policy for a number of reasons:
1) 44% said no, stubbornly no to APC and enthusiastically yes to SLPP. Wouldn't it make more sense to engage some of them in government in the name of national unity than exiling them to the political wilderness?
2) In a multitribal democracy like ours, we really need to change the rubrics of government if we are to succeed where many others have failed.
Sad fact of life: Most Southeasterners are Mende and SLPP. Most Northwesterners are APC and Temne-Limba-Krio. Unless we elect presidents who are ready to step from their comfort zones and recruit able people from the opposition ranks, their govs will always be viewed as non-inclusive by their political enemies who will then do every thing possible to derail their agenda.
This sucks but it is true. Ernest has already reached out by joining forces with Charles Margai. Now he needs to go all out by reaching out to the SLPP for true national unity. By the way not all SLPPers are corrupt.
Without national unity, all the grandiose plans we propose on this forum will just be empty chatter.
From: Special Cut
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Date Posted: 11:15:20 09/25/07 ()
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Lets don't get too emotional over this issue of who gets in or who will be left out in the wilderness.Salone is such a small state that we do not have any room for isolating anyone based on regional or ethnic identity. The yardstick should be focussed on WHO CAN GET THE JOB DONE based on past record and other variables. What we do not want to see is a recycling of old faces.There are so many competent patriots out there.Get the right peg in the right hole.
Kabba's negative vision was evident when he replaced Harry Will with a Catering officer from NUC in the name of Okere to head the Agricultural ministry. Dr Boima a sound Medical Practitioner was made Minister of works. We donot want this to happen anymore.
From: Ako Mengot
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Date Posted: 03:43:13 09/25/07 ()
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We all know that it is the prerogative of the President to appoint Ministers, but the idea of retaining some SLPP is a bit farfetched and premature at this embryonic stage of the APC administration. It has already been announced that a transitional team is in place and that EBK has ordered an audit of all governemnt ministries. If any of the Ministers come out with a clean bill of health and were competent enough to continue their services to mama Sa Lone then it will be a step in the right direction to retain them as "Sierra leoneans" and not with the label of SLPP Ministers. We don't have a coalition government.
From: Ibrahim Turay
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Date Posted: 01:32:56 09/25/07 ()
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Mr Kack, whether your post is comprised of some elements of credibility or factual lackings,I must attest that I felt compelled to resist acquiring such information at this age of enlightenment without shedding a labastic but yet robustic academic response. I however hope there wouldn't be any offense taken or what so ever but it is high time we acknowledge and implement some clauses of national enlinghtenment in the interest of the nation.The content of your post was absorbed by this author with utmost despair and objectively perceived as an act Neo-colonialism. Should one imply-in-fact that a senseless turmoil must occur in Sierra Leone again for another decade before the west can realize that Sierra Leone is a sovereign state that is astutely governed under the principles of democracy? As it may sound tremendously astonishing to one and all, the people of Sierra Leone have magnificiently demonstrated some form of transitive phenomena of political civilization by expressing an attributal civic duty of democracy under unique circumstances by electing a leader. Therefore, the west must abide by the wish of the people and ultimately respect their decision. The west must refrain from encroaching upon the democractic rights granted by the constitution to the state by allowing the president to form a cabinet of his choice. The president is capable enough to appoint an effeciently agile cabinet without western intervention. Address your issues of foreign policies and embrace and support the people of Sierra Leone. Grant us the autonomy to democtractically function effectively. Long Live Sierra Leone!!!!
Ibrahim Turay
From: Kack Chest Lek Bombali Granat Pikin
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Date Posted: 04:55:22 09/25/07 ()
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"I however hope there wouldn't be any offense taken"
We should have a government that is inclusive, for our own political sanity and not decause of a directive from Westminster or Capitol Hill. The awful truth we must grapple with is that tribe and politics are interwined in SL. Cognizance of that fact and making smart magnanimous decisions about it will help tremendously with the dvelopment we so badly need.
Remember how some govs failed in the past. Momoh's APC gov was widely viewed as a Limba Ekutay clique. Tejan Kabba's admin, despite a 70% mandate, was widely seen (maybe unfairly) as a Southeastern jamboree, thereby earning the ire of the Northwest.
Any gov that wants to succeed in future must not only be inclusive, but BE SEEN to be inclusive. Not for the neocolonialist West, but for peace, development and democracy in our country.
From: Ibrahim Turay
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Date Posted: 22:13:35 09/25/07 ()
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What is "Obureh"?
From: skeptical
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Momoh made JB Dauda and Banya vice president but we still got the RUF. Those people can never be appeased. They want power for themselves. Ernest should be careful or he will become another Momoh.
From: POLITICAL
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I think the best example should be "but If Ernest follows this strategy, his government is bound to fail like the SLPP who embraced the winner-takes-all mentality."
From: Kack am more
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Date Posted: 23:41:11 09/24/07 ()
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Man..
That was enlightening..
I bow my candid hat to you..
He got 56%.. just 6 points above median..
From: Kack Chest Lek Bombali Granat Pikin
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Date Posted: 23:51:18 09/24/07 ()
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Kack am more. lol!
From: Bambay Lans Kamara
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Date Posted: 21:01:08 09/24/07 ()
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Mae Jemison
Mae Jemison dreamed of traveling to space, so she studied science, earning a degree in chemical engineering at Stanford University and a medical degree from Cornell University. In 1992 she was the science mission specialist on the space shuttle Endeavor, becoming the first African American woman in outer space. On the Endeavor, Jemison studied the chemistry and biology of bone growth in microgravity. Today, Jemison is an entrepreneur who applies space-program technology to everyday problems.
Photo courtesy NASA.
In addition to conducting biochemical experiments in space, Jemison starred on an episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation and was named one of People magazine's 50 most beautiful people in the world in 1993.
When she returned to the United States, Jemison practiced medicine for a while but ultimately decided to pursue her childhood dream of becoming an astronaut. She applied to NASA's astronaut training program in 1986 and was accepted. In 1992 she flew aboard the space shuttle Endeavour on mission STS-47, making her the first African American woman in outer space. In orbit she conducted medical, chemical, and biological experiments, including studies of how chicken embryos develop in near-zero gravity or microgravity and of motion sickness in astronauts. She also did materials science experiments that explored how near-weightless conditions can be used to make better alloys.
Her space research with the most immediate application was her study of what happens to bones in near-zero gravity. After long periods in space, an astronaut’s bones can become very weak due to near-weightless conditions—when no stress is placed on the bones by the body’s weight, the body doesn't need to put a lot of nutrients and energy into keeping its bones strong. The weakness is caused by a loss of calcium phosphate, a key component of bones. Jemison's experiments revealed how and why this happens and could help us learn how to prevent it. Her work could also help in the development of treatments for osteoporosis, an earthly disease that makes people’s bones lose calcium phosphate and become weak. This disease is common among elderly women, but it can also strike young people with eating disorders like anorexia.
Jemison later left NASA to go into business. Her company, the Jemison Group, seeks to find real-world applications for high-tech breakthroughs like the ones developed for the space program. Having seen firsthand the poverty that exists in developing nations, she is especially interested in finding inexpensive high-tech ways to help, such as portable, solar-powered, electric generators that can bring electricity to parts of the world where no electric power is available. She is also working on ways to use satellite communications to improve health care in West Africa.
From: Erica Adams
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Date Posted: 21:32:53 09/24/07 ()
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Wow, this is impressive. I knew about her West African connection, but I'm really excited about her work with solar energy. Now that H.E. President Koroma has made his visits with the other leaders in the region, I think Dr. Jemison would be an excellent "ambassador" to Sierra Leone/Liberia because of her past experience in the regional and her current solar interests. I think her influence could do a lot in securing funding for these projects. Solar is a must have for the region because the sun is bondless and it's a much less expensive source of energy for folks who are mostly living off of less than a dollar a day.
One of the things that can not be overlooked in the quest to rebuild is sustainability. One of the failures of the past has been others going in doing the work instead of a true transfer of knowledge. I had an opportunity to go to Pakistan at the end of last year and the most impressive programs I visited were the training programs; especially the train-the-trainer programs. Even the illiterate midwives were being instructed and are now called Trained Birth Attendants. They know how to detect high risk pregnacies, proper sanitation during the childbirth process, and they refer mothers for follow up medical and immunization of infants. This has helped with the maternal and infant mortality rates there. There is so much already out there, but the key is tapping into the best practices around the world and replicating them to meet the needs of Sierra Leone. Thanks for sharing this information. It's truly exciting.
From: Bambay Lans Kamara
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Date Posted: 22:14:50 09/24/07 ()
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"Erica!" In 1992 she was the science mission specialist on the space shuttle Endeavor, becoming the first African American woman in outer space. On the Endeavor, Jemison studied the chemistry and biology of bone growth in microgravity.
"Erica!"
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Date Posted: 19:44:36 09/24/07 ()
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SLPP Ministers Last Grab....Are They Abusing President Koroma's Gesture
Posted by Standard Times Press on Sep 24, 2007, 18:41
It is now irrevocable that, being over magnanimous and diplomatic could definitely be a recipe for self destruction. After being sworn-in as the president of Sierra Leone, President Koroma made history, when he deferred the appointment and announcement of his expected Cabinet Ministers indefinitely, and allowed the substantive ministers (though their tenure has ended) to act as care-takers of the state. Sierra Leoneans welcomed the newly initiated strategy, of President Koroma, and mostly opined that, it was a brilliant exit strategy, for the outgoing government. President Koroma had hoped that, by allowing those outgoing ministers to properly take an honorable exit that would have added more feathers to his hat; and would have also positively contributed to a smooth transition programme, from the erstwhile President Kabbah, to his leadership.
http://standardtimespress.net/cgi-bin/artman/publish/index.shtml
From: GIBRILL
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Date Posted: 13:19:21 09/25/07 ()
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Mr. President, we do realize the tremendous pressure you had during the recently concluded elections. But that is part of being a leader. The people of Sierra Leone needed changes when they elected you to the high office of the president. Do not dig a grave for yourself at this early time. We will not hold the SLPP ministers for any disaster they plung the country into because of your indicision to appoint a cabinet.You as the president will be answerable to the people as to why we have old wine in new bottles. If we wanted those crooks to continue to run the affairs of the country,we could have voted them into office.We as a people have very high hopes to see the country moves to the right direction. The SLPP has done more than enough agaist this country. It is time for you to take over. Do not leave room for the enemies to attack.
From: Town Crier
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Date Posted: 11:38:22 09/25/07 ()
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Prove it. If Standard Times is so aware of the corrupt practices of the SLPP ministers, why don't they come out with evidence of it, so that the "New" APC government can take action on it.
From: Sheku
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Date Posted: 18:35:35 09/24/07 ()
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Hi all, Emmerson was in Minnesota in June. Check out the pictures at www.segbwema.blogspot.com. You may see someone you know, enjoy
From: Nah Sabi Talk
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Date Posted: 19:11:43 09/24/07 ()
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Nice pics...
Hey! I saw one of my old college friends... Back then at the University of Minnesota... I named him "Ray Ben Kay"... Raymond Kamara... Still hanging in that cold place... Nice State and lovely Norwegian people... Missed My farmers' daughters...lol
From: Bonthe Pikin
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Date Posted: 18:13:43 09/24/07 ()
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Sylvia bo go tote Berewa and continue writing thrash. The story doesn't even add up. Failed Ministers advising the President when they are worse than satan.
You are one heck of a disappointment. Are you there?
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From: Bambay Lans Kamara
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Date Posted: 18:11:54 09/24/07 ()
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From Sierra Leone.
From: Cornelius Hamelberg
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Date Posted: 18:19:28 09/24/07 ()
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Like Palm Wine
or as Muctarr Mustapha ("MUssu") used to say lek fine palm ine
From: Bonthe Pikin
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Date Posted: 18:09:19 09/24/07 ()
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She cooks up stories and write what she feels. Who told her President Korona's peace gesture was not sincere? We know she is afraid of her shadow so she is trying to find out whether she would have to pay for the tribal fires she did everything humanly possible to inflame. But believe me Sylvia you will surely have to pay. No more shall we allow your likes to hold our country to ranmsom!
Read below:
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The Presidential Spokesman, Hon. Alpha Kanu has in an exclusive interview with Awareness Times in Freetown yesterday Sunday September 23rd 2007, debunked wild rumours doing the rounds both locally in Sierra Leone and in the Diaspora that the reconciliatory overtures being made by the Ernest Koroma led APC Government were not sincere but were merely a means to lure certain opposition SLPP members into a false sense of security only for them to be later arrested and detained when the ruling All People’s Congress (APC) consolidated itself into power.
Sep 24, 2007, 19:01
From: From Freetown
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Date Posted: 19:02:39 09/24/07 ()
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Awareness Times is the best newspaper in Sierra Leone and the most respected by the common man. The sooner you people on Cocorioko realise that, the better. You think the Presidential Spokesman does not know what he is doing? Or his choice of which newspaper to speak to when he has an important message to relay?
From: Kack Chest Lek Bombali Granat Pikin
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Date Posted: 22:18:26 09/24/07 ()
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After hurriedly answering nature's pressing call over a squat hole in Salone, I realized much to my dismay that there was no toilet tissue available! I had with me a bunch of newspapers I had bought for my perusal. There was only one that was a natural substitute for the missing toilet paper: Sylvia's hideous rag which soon became AWARE of my urgent needs.
From: Bo nar lie
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Date Posted: 20:14:58 09/24/07 ()
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Nobody respects Awareness Times. The newspaper is a loser. Everything the paper writes is false.
From: Bugsyb
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Date Posted: 03:27:34 09/25/07 ()
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What were you expecting? If I studied at the London School of Journalism and after that opened a Medical Surgery do you think it would be any good? Square pegs in round holes syndrome again.
From: Sorbeh
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Date Posted: 07:56:05 09/25/07 ()
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Likewise! If i studied LAW and opened a Newspaper, what do you think it will be?
From: M. Alieu Iscandari Esq
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Date Posted: 11:10:42 09/25/07 ()
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If i studied LAW and opened a Newspaper, what do you think it will be?
From: Bugsyb
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Date Posted: 12:27:19 09/25/07 ()
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A physician, an engineer and a lawyer were arguing about whose profession was the oldest. The surgeon announced, "Remember how God removed a rib from Adam to create Eve? Obviously, medicine is the oldest profession."
The engineer replied, "But before that, God created the heavens and the earth from chaos, in less than a week. You have to admit that was a remarkable feat of engineering, and that makes engineering an older profession than medicine."
From: fact
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Date Posted: 12:12:55 09/25/07 ()
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Not necessarily bro. It will be full of legalese. you have to learn how to write as a journalist. Journalism is a profession. dig?
From: Bambay Lans Kamara
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Date Posted: 17:56:54 09/24/07 ()
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Yes, I and I.
From: awesome
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Date Posted: 18:48:43 09/24/07 ()
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Thanks Bambay for posting the link to that video! Now I join the fan club.
From: TigerSheik
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Date Posted: 16:58:13 09/24/07 ()
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Are there any consumer protection laws out there? What about reinforcing at least one of them. e.g. WARRANTY.
Under a Trade Practices Act, when a consumer purchases goods or services certain conditions and warranties are implied into the transaction. Should in case the goods and services does not perform well as epected.There must be a refund or replacement. These statutory conditions and warranties provide consumers with a basic level of protection for goods and services they purchase.
If this law is in existence i don't beleive it's in
practice. A couple of years back i bought a kaba tiger generator. The only warranty i got was a few minutes test by a shop assistant to prove to me it was working. I decided to make the purchase and after few days it was broken. I wanted to take it back for possible refund or replacement my sister told me such a law does not exist. She told me it's a routine problem, cosumers are facing in their every day life. Buying appliances that will only work for few weeks or months and get broken.
I think it's time the Government reinforce laws that will protect the consumer. Deceptive companies and businesses are delebrately delevering fake goods and services out there reaping the people off, billions of leones.
From: Jackal
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Date Posted: 17:16:59 09/24/07 ()
Email Address: dollarbill@gmail.com
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I support your idea 100%. Consumer protection laws is government's responsibility. The absence thereof leaves the poor consumers at the expense of rogue businesses to exploit the poor.
Please call your Parliamentary representatives and ask them to introduce this bill in parliament. Don't forget to touch on price control.
From: Candid Opinion
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Date Posted: 22:39:28 09/24/07 ()
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If our laws are modeled on the british system, i would assume that there exists a law of this kind already..As in the case almost always in salone..
From: Researcher
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Date Posted: 16:14:04 09/24/07 ()
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I'm reminded of the word babu each time I post at the Cocorioko website. I am, whenever I recall how this place was clogged with multiple spams day and night on the orders of this baboon of a gal.
From: HASSAN BENSON TURAY
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Date Posted: 19:38:59 09/24/07 ()
Email Address: bensonturay@techemail.com
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SYLVIA BLYDEN WAS A JUNTA SUPPORTER AND RECEIVED MONEY FROM JOHNNY PAUL KOROMA TO PROPAGATE NONSENSE ON THE WEB. I KNEW THAT WAS SO BECAUSE I SAW HER DISTRIBUTE THE MONEY TO OTHER COHORTS AROUND WHO WERE ALSO PROPAGATING THE TRASH. I WILL TESTIFY IF CALLED TO DO SO SO THAT WE CAN PUT AN END TO SYLVIA'S MAD RUSH FOR CASH.,
From: Sorba S
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Date Posted: 15:54:05 09/24/07 ()
Email Address: sorba_!@yahoo.com
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I am not trying to discredit our vise presidend because he work hard for the party to be able to get to where he is now. All I am asking is for us to know the guy better. Once again I am not saying because he work in a nursing home means that he is not educated. All I am saying for people to verify credentials a la Shamsu Mustapha with a fake PHD. We need to start verifying people's credentials that are representing us or going to Sierra Leone to obtain high paying jobs.
Once again Thanks for you attention
Si Ti nekenne
Read profile from awarenesstimes
The Honourable Vice President of Sierra Leone, Chief Sahr Samuel Sam-Sumana is a native of Kono District in the Eastern Province of the Republic of Sierra Leone, West Africa. He is the fourth son of the late Chief Sam-Sumana and Haja Sia Hawa Sam-Sumana. He was born on the 7th of April 1962 in Koidu Town, Kono District. He is married with three children.
Hon. Chief Sahr Sam-Sumana
Before becoming the Vice President of Sierra Leone, VP Samuel Sam-Sumana was the Chief Executive Officer of Aries Rehabilitation Construction and Supplies (ARCS) SL Ltd, incorporated under the laws of Sierra Leone. As Chief Executive Officer, VP Sam-Sumana showed his Leadership and Management skills when dealing with people in his employ. He is a motivator and a good listener who seeks solutions to Company problems using innovative methods developed while serving as Vice Chairman Kono-Union Chapter, Minnesota in the United States of America.
From: Kalos
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Date Posted: 21:50:17 09/24/07 ()
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What about his group home/nursing assistant job? Let the man be
himself.
From: Kack Chest Lek Bombali Granat Pikin
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Date Posted: 16:23:02 09/24/07 ()
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I really think Chief Sam Sumana is going to be the best VP ever in Sierra Leone. I know that you wild-eyed SLPP sore losers are going to do everything in your power to embarass this good man. Some of you are so fixated on academic gowns that you can't even comprehend the socioeconomic atrocities your heavily academized SLPP government inflicted on the country.
I really wish that Sam Sumana was the SLPP illiterate of your dreams. That way, he will be surprise the hell out of you when he overperforms.
From: Candid Opinion
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Date Posted: 16:28:15 09/24/07 ()
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Well i dont know if thats the thread starters point..
I hope he is getting paid well.. since thats what he is employed to do.. work for salone.. SLPP oh.. APC.. PMDC oh.. all man.. e dey insie..
En tried gee me credit for me bombali grannat pikin comment.
From: Kack Chest Lek Bombali Granat Pikin
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Date Posted: 16:45:34 09/24/07 ()
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Yes Bra, nar true. Nar U inspire dis handle ya so!
From: POLITICO
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Date Posted: 21:55:08 09/24/07 ()
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I take exception to this statement; I may be poor, but it is not an essential
reason to lie. We will shortly hear from SSS on this issue.
From: Kack Chest Lek Bombali Granat Pikin
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Date Posted: 22:32:27 09/24/07 ()
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How do we really know he lied about his credentials?
Pure speculation, bra.
Some people have been making fun of the tidbit that he worked as a butt wiper in a nursing home. The more reason why we should applaud this fine fellow!
If he could rise from this humble background to reach such dizzying heights in politics and find himself ensconced just a heartbeat away from the presidency, then this man is no scoundrel. He is an inspiration.
About padding his resume..
Those who have never told a lie, cast the first stone..
From: Candid Opinion
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Date Posted: 22:35:14 09/24/07 ()
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True that..
We all padded that essential document once in a while...
But i would be the first to say, not at the national level..
More power to him. i hope he rises up to the challenge..and de-mystify that office for us plumbers and capenters of this world..
From: Sheku
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Date Posted: 01:14:28 09/25/07 ()
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Hey the VP graduated from Metro State University and he was even on their website as one of their prominent alumni. The university's website is www.metrostate.edu.
For your information, I reside in Minnesota
From: Candid Opinion
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Date Posted: 16:00:37 09/24/07 ()
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He should have kept that resume to himself.. and no one would have been the wiser.. it been online opens it up for critic and observation and i am observing that
From: Sorba S
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Date Posted: 16:03:55 09/24/07 ()
Email Address: sorba_1@yahoo.com
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Thank you Mr. Candid Openion.
From: Progress Report
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Date Posted: 15:52:09 09/24/07 ()
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Does anyone know what the press conference called today by EBK was about?
From: KABS KANU
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Date Posted: 18:08:30 09/24/07 ()
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A transition team has been put in place today.COCORIOKO is being updated presently and will bring you all the details pretty soon.
From: James Bona
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Date Posted: 15:09:17 09/24/07 ()
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Look what is being said about members of the African Community Please click on the link: http://mayorlevine.livejournal.com/3493.html
From: SANTOS MANGA
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Date Posted: 15:27:37 09/24/07 ()
Email Address: santos@aol.com
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I GUESS U ARE MAKING REFERENCE TO THE LAST LINK, WHICH SAYS MISTER ALEX IS BACK. HAS COCORIOKO ANYTHING TO DO WITH THIS? OR ANY OF ITS ASSOCIATES? WHO IS MR. FODAY? I WAIT TO HEAR A RESPONSE FROM THE EDITOR.
From: Bambay Lans Kamara
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Date Posted: 14:07:38 09/24/07 ()
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President Ernest Bai Koroma meets with SLPP ministers
From: READ A BOOK
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Date Posted: 14:09:35 09/24/07 ()
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Go study.. Quit posting old news from cocoriocco...
Please!!! Aye Bo
From: Bambay Lans Kamara
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Date Posted: 14:31:11 09/24/07 ()
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Oh you want me to read books now huh! Oh well, things change. I thought that is what I am hated for that I know more than any one in the world? Wallah!
Waskaleh. It is bitting!
Go down memory lane.
From: Bambay Lans Kamara
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Date Posted: 14:35:32 09/24/07 ()
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No I am not going to read so that I fail to bring the whole nonesense to and end. You want them to laugh, get ready. All that efforts to make me fail should not go in vain.
And I love yah, I love yah, and I love yah, because you have to go rainbow!
Sing after me.
All that suffering imposed on me must not go in vain.
Civilized!
From: Thaduba
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Date Posted: 14:33:14 09/24/07 ()
Email Address: Thadu@yahoo.com
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Why is Momodu Koroma still been referred to as the SLPP Vice President. He was never one and will never be. Please ask him to take the pin of the Sierra leone flag off his "thaduba jacket" and put his SLPP pin in his pocket. The order changeth.....
From: Komba
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Date Posted: 15:08:42 09/24/07 ()
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thats what he is, slpp vice president. he has never and will never be vice president of sierra leone. that crook who sold the salone embassy in london.
From: Bambay Lans Kamara
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Date Posted: 17:33:44 09/24/07 ()
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Ladies and gentlemen, calling Mr. Koroma Vice President is protocol, same way President Jimmy Carter, President George Bush Sr., President Bill Clinton, Vice President Al-gore are still refereed by their titles though they no longer serve in those capacities. Nonetheless, it is understood and remains as a fact that they still remain states men that have served the United States under those capacities, same way Vice President Momodu Koroma has served Sierra Leone in the capacity of a Vice President. It is the people who made that choice and the voice of the people must stand.
We must put the attacks to rest as the game is over. The people have spoken, they have elected new leadership that the focus must now be on. We must at this point fold our sleeves, do as the market women have begun doing: contributing towards national development in any Little ways we can.
The S.L.P.P. were and will remain our brothers and sisters (compatriots.) They are not enemies but mere opponents. The people voted them out not because they hated them but because they wanted new people to lead the country to prosperity. The only way be can grow as a nation is when we observe civilized politicking, that involves unity of mind and soul.
Not very many people were this vibrant in opposing the S.L.P.P. until now. I will admonish the President to use this time in solidifying us rather repaying citizens, which I am pretty confident he does not have an iota of revenge in his heart for any one but ostensibly determined to move Sierra Leone forward as a nation rather than diffused entities.
Leadership is a serious business and His Excellency President Earnest Bai Koroma has started on a good footing. Therefore, let us be as serious as he is in giving him the positive support that he needs to move Sierra Leone in the right direction. I am confident that he will not tolerate the alarming disrespect, faking, harassment, incitement and intimidation of fellow Sierra Leoneans regardless of their party affiliations because it is and will be determined by law as a breach of the constitutional rights of those violated. We are not bush men who get angry at any tinny thing or constantly keep people's mishap before them and us. But must be those who would strive to see mankind grow particularly Sierra Leoneans; encourage all to use their creativity, their intellect to grow, better themselves and our beloved nation. We are civilized people and must act as one.
And I thank you.
From: Kelfala M. Kallon
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Date Posted: 14:07:11 09/24/07 ()
Email Address: KelKallon@comcast.net
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Shembu, please provide me with your address so that i can make good on our wager.
From: Albert Moinina
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Date Posted: 23:23:07 09/24/07 ()
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Mr. Kallon,
From: Shembu
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Date Posted: 14:26:26 09/24/07 ()
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Prof.,
Thanks again. I do have your e-mail address and will communicate with you accordingly via e-mail.
From: campaign Team
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Date Posted: 12:40:35 09/24/07 ()
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Be on board, send suggestions on how to develop Sierra Leone to Volunteer@ernestkoroma.org, visit www.ernestkoroma.org for more
From: TAXI DRIVERS ASSOCIATION
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Date Posted: 13:03:06 09/24/07 ()
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We have sent our resume...Hope we can work in the Treasury department
From: Candid Opinion
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Date Posted: 13:51:08 09/24/07 ()
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HEHEHEHEHEH
This is the most hilarious post on this tight ass forum in a few days...
From: Bambay Lans Kamara
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Date Posted: 14:22:07 09/24/07 ()
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There are cab drivers from Sierra Leone in the U.S. that Bachelors holders from F.B.C. with degrees in Economics, Engineering and so on. Do not take them lightly because most of them have potent reasons why they do what they do. You have to be in the New York and Wshington metropolis to know. But most of them do not brandish their education until you get involeved with them in discussion. Who says they cannot be industrous in helping Sierra Leone move forward? The coat matters not but the man in the coat. We are in a different economic playing field, a capitalistic democracy. One has to know how that system operates.
Bo mek man go fail quick.
From: modiboh
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Date Posted: 14:29:37 09/24/07 ()
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"There are cab drivers from Sierra Leone in the U.S. that Bachelors holders from F.B.C. with degrees in Economics"
From: Bai Bureh
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Date Posted: 12:27:54 09/24/07 ()
Email Address: rastafari_ish@hotmail.com
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He discovered and exposed the BORBOH BELLEHS and SWEGBEHS;he identified and publicized the TWO FOOT ARATAS;he constantly reminded the people of Salone about the wonderful phoney promises the SLPP corrupt cabal made to them;he instilled consciousness into the Salone youths.
The lyrics of his songs opened the eyes of the blind,restored the hearing of the deaf and the speech of the dumb.In reality this genius pave the way for SLPP's downfall.I believe it won't be absurd or exaggerative if I dub him the BOB MARLEY of Salone.
His intrepidity in sending out politically- and socially-sensitive messages inspired a lot of singers and emboldened the cowards.
From: Kalos
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Date Posted: 13:02:15 09/24/07 ()
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He is simply, EMMERSON, the Bob Marley legacy carries some attributes you may not want to associate with our legend. The middle and last names are not necessary, just "EMMERSON".
From: Sorba S
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Date Posted: 12:48:42 09/24/07 ()
Email Address: sorba_1@yahoo.com
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He is in London. He should be back this week
From: Candid Opinion
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Date Posted: 12:47:49 09/24/07 ()
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And while doing that..
Ask him also to thank god for the SLPP for creating the enabling environment and thickskin..
From: marlin
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Date Posted: 18:32:03 09/24/07 ()
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Correct me if I am wrong, but wasn't Emerson at one time incarcerated (at Pademba Road) for singing against corruption during the SLPP administration?
From: alieu sesay
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Date Posted: 12:56:49 09/24/07 ()
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"or he would have been a member of the pademba rd choir".
The SLPP made it possible for the people of Sierra Leone to express their opinions and openly criticise the Government without fear....
From: Mohamed A. Kamara
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Date Posted: 16:00:13 09/24/07 ()
Email Address: Saghinosoccerworld@yahoo.com
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Is selective memory getting the better of some compatriots or what? Which government throughout our post colonial history hasn't surpressed its subjects or even massacared those who became formidable opponents. You fellas must be talking about the political course of another country. The main reason why the SLPP did not linger down that path at crunch time, is the realisation by the party's top brass, that the military was not incline to baby-sit them, as is usually the trend when the military is well fed. Unfortunately for the SLPP, soldiers have been feeling the economic squeeze as well. Emmerson has been relatively safe, because his lyrics resonate with what most of our men/women in uniform, will utter behind closed doors. Please let us get off the revisionist crusade, and concentrate on how we must work together, in order to lift our homeland from its current cesspool status. CHEERS.
From: Candid Opinion
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Date Posted: 13:22:38 09/24/07 ()
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Bo call a spade a spade..
We all have our partisanships and biases dont ast like you dont.. Thats Hypocritical.
From: Bundu Largao
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Date Posted: 13:28:41 09/24/07 ()
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"Regardless of the if the Kailahun Votes where riges or not"
From: alieu sesay
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Date Posted: 13:25:20 09/24/07 ()
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Arrh Candid! Did i really say that? Or are you attacking the wrong person...
From: Candid Opinion
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Date Posted: 13:43:11 09/24/07 ()
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Not you fine gentleman..
From: Fact
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Date Posted: 13:07:33 09/24/07 ()
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"The SLPP made it possible for the people of Sierra Leone to express their opinions and openly criticise the Government without fear.... "
From: alieu sesay
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Date Posted: 13:31:19 09/24/07 ()
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"To say that the "SLPP made it possible for the people of Sierra Leone to express their opinions and openly criticise the Government without fear.... " is like saying that SLPP Kabbah was not banned from holding public office in Salone by the NPRC for stealing Salone money at SLPMB".
From: Fact
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Date Posted: 06:59:30 09/25/07 ()
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I wrote: "To say that the "SLPP made it possible for the people of Sierra Leone to express their opinions and openly criticise the Government without fear.... " is like saying that SLPP Kabbah was not banned from holding public office in Salone by the NPRC for stealing Salone money at SLPMB."
From: kamara
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Date Posted: 13:18:57 09/24/07 ()
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no, it was after the brutal APC dictatoship in which people like Sam Bangura, Francis Minah , Ibrahim Taqi and mohommed Forna were killed for no reason
From: Bangura
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Date Posted: 13:24:26 09/24/07 ()
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So how could a terrorist SLPP that condoned the killing of innocent citizens be accused of bringing democracy to Salone?
From: False Prophet
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Date Posted: 13:26:23 09/24/07 ()
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So who brought DEMOCRACY?
From: True Prophet
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Date Posted: 13:30:40 09/24/07 ()
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THE PEOPLE of Salone brought democracy to Sa Lon over their beaten, tortured, and murdered bodies -- just ask Johhny Paul in 1998 and Tejan Kabbah and Solomon Berewa in 2007.
From: False Prophet
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Date Posted: 13:35:02 09/24/07 ()
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"THE PEOPLE of Salone brought democracy to Sa Lon over their beaten, tortured, and murdered bodies...."
From: True Prophet
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Date Posted: 14:11:02 09/24/07 ()
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Certainly not by the SLPP government!
From: False Prophet
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Date Posted: 14:22:18 09/24/07 ()
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"And in 2007, it was the SLPP government itself which the people of Salone had to fight bravely (in Kailahun, etc.) to bring the new democracy that ushered in the new APC"
From: True Prophet
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Date Posted: 15:31:38 09/24/07 ()
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The new democracy is that which Dr. Christiana Thorpe referred to when she said (and I paraphrase): Never again would fraud be a part of elections in Sierra Leone.
From: Candid Opinion
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Date Posted: 14:13:23 09/24/07 ()
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With little dire consequences..
Not saying there where no hiccups..
From: True Prophet
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Date Posted: 15:35:05 09/24/07 ()
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Not okay, sorry: Journalist Yansanneh's death following the beating by SLPP mmember of parliament that was condoned by the SLPP was no hiccup!
From: Candid Opinion
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Date Posted: 15:47:20 09/24/07 ()
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It was condone by the SLPP...?
Definately the first time i am hearing this..
Then we can open another thread to discuss the death of Mr Yansaneh.
From: True Prophet
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Date Posted: 01:58:23 09/25/07 ()
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"It was condone by the SLPP...?
Definately the first time i am hearing this.. "
From: alieu sesay
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Date Posted: 13:32:24 09/24/07 ()
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Nice one...
From: Fact
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Date Posted: 12:53:50 09/24/07 ()
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how did the SLPP create "creating the enabling environment and thickskin.." foir which Emmerson should thank it?
From: Sorba S
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Date Posted: 12:23:22 09/24/07 ()
Email Address: sorba_1@yahoo.com
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Forumites
I read Mr. VP's profile written by Awarenesstimes of his credentials. As somebody mentioned earlier on this forum that the man looks drunk on that picture. Its OK to be drunk but has anybody try to verifiy the credentials highlighted in the newspaper?. To me they seems fake, most especially when the guys was here in the US working at a group home in Maryland. With a BS in Information Technology one should be able to get at least a help Desk Job. Unless if you don't have the proper documentation to work in this country which might be true in his case. Or you are aging. My understanding is that he is only forty five years old. In any case can someone verify to us that he actually went to school in Minisota? Did he graduate? Which year did he graduated?
Thank you all. Lets keep up the good work for the betterment of our country. Sa Lone
From: Sabanoh
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Date Posted: 06:22:53 09/25/07 ()
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What Metropolitan State U? It didn't take long for these people who are of the opinion that this is their time to rule to get out their fake and non traditional college degrees out. This is just the beginning. Please lets check these degrees from these third rate colleges that these fools are buying to impress us. The SLPP had a lot of them in circulation. There was one that called himself "professor" (Kai Kai). Ernest stick to who know best, Ojung, Edmund Koroma,Patrick Swaray, Idrissa Bassey, Ahmed Wurie,Frank Kargbo etc. At least these I can assure you did not attend the "fly by night degree schools".
From: Kalos
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Date Posted: 13:39:02 09/24/07 ()
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SORBA, you started on a very good note, don't allow anyone to lead you to a vulgar path. God knows how many Sierra Leoneans with advanced degrees in the U.S. are out there without any decent job. A BA in information systems without a decent job is not a big deal. Are you looking for Dr. Abdulai Conteh, Dr. Abass Bundu, Dr. Joe Jackson, Dr. AKT, Dr. Sheka Kamara, Lawyer Thaimu Bangura, Lawyer Banda Thomas, Lawyer Minah, Lawyer Abu Kamara,.......? This bunch is what led us to the current mess. There was a wise and schrewed politician called BORBOR KAMARA who coined the phrase "NA PORSON MAKE BOOK, NORTO BOOK MAKE PORSON". He is right. HOWEVER, and however only, if Sam Sumana falsify his resume it is a different ball game. Let me remind you, there is a difference between embelishing your record and falsifying your resume. We are watching and paying attention.
From: Pa javombo
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Date Posted: 13:12:29 09/24/07 ()
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Sorba,
Did you also read about what he has done since leaving the US or even when he was in the US?
The guy may have worked in a nursing home but that may have been a means to an end and not an end to ameans.
I don't know whther you saw this guy in Maryland working in a nursing home but from all what I hear he lived in Minnessotta and Texas before returning to Sierra Leone.
By the way he listed the schools he attended why not google them and strat your investigation? That will be very patriotic of you.
From: Almamy Razak Tun Seray-Wurie Si
To: All
Date Posted: 12:59:15 09/24/07 ()
Email Address: almamysi@hotmail.com
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I do not think he drinks...Remember that religion was a factor for the V-P position. If it is proven that he drinks then muslims will protest...
Sierra Leoneans must stop fooling themselves in God's name. Forty-four is a suitable age for being a muslim leader but if his paper qualification is proven fake then that will hunt him too...
So far, Alhamdulilah, we have a muslim V-P
From: Bai Bureh
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Date Posted: 12:34:45 09/24/07 ()
Email Address: rastafari_ish@hotmail.com
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So what is your problem? Are you trying to fish in troubled waters? By the way do you belong to the BINGO or MAN BABOO group? Even though your group has been soundly beaten by Ernest and Sumana last week you have still not given up.Why don't you try to verify Berewah's snuff-bottle connection?
From: The Cave Man
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Date Posted: 15:13:46 09/24/07 ()
Email Address: alubless@comcast.net
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Why don't you try to verify Berewah's snuff-bottle connection?
From: Sorba S
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Date Posted: 12:46:06 09/24/07 ()
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This is the problem with some of you so call APC my rass. You do not want to face the truth. Anytime someone try to say the truth or is looking for truth, you label that person an SLPP. Look my friend that country belongs to all of us and if you think some rass class will come and mess it up, you think again. No wonder APC business acqumem is a little backet and a pair of shoe in it.
I want to know about the drunkered vice precident. Now if you don't like it, go KooKoo. We are looking for a change and if the VP cannot read or right like SI Koroma was, then something should be done about it.
I stand farm in babalon. Bring it on!
From: Kack Chest Lek Bombali Granat Pikin
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Date Posted: 15:45:46 09/24/07 ()
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Hey hey hey, Watch you mot, bra bi.
From: Candid Opinion
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Date Posted: 15:48:20 09/24/07 ()
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Where is my credit..?
From: Mammy Blessing
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Date Posted: 11:49:47 09/24/07 ()
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No one intrigued or infuriated me, during the election campaign, more than the elusive Sia Tiyaama. Master of the cut-throat, slash and burn school of politics, he raised the hackles of many in the opposition by his knee-to-the-gut judo chops and corrosive zingers. Tiyaama also had this uncanny ability of cooking up outright lies, adding a dash of intellectual respectability in the process and then pouring that hot unappetizing Plasas on Ernest, Charles, or whoever the ire of the moment was.
I have always suspected that Tiyaama was a creation of the SLPP dirty tricks department. No flesh and blood there. Of course, I could be wrong. I have a feeling that the uberpropagandist himself will lie low until 2007 and then dive into the mud again.
Anyway, if there is anyone out there whose government name is Sia Tiyaama or uses it as a cybername, let's hear it from you.
From: Shembu
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Date Posted: 14:41:58 09/24/07 ()
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Sia Tiyaama was recently in Sierra Leone together with buddies of his like Panga Nini, Ross Perot (aka Hindowa), Harding Tommy (home base) etc. He should be back in the U.S. in upstate NY. Its getting really cold up there, so you would have to look closely, cause everyone in dressed in Black North Face Hooded Jackets. But Sia's got to make his bread and butter, so I know he is up there for sure. Hopely he does not teach those kids about blind support for ones political party affiliation.
From: Jay
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Date Posted: 17:25:42 09/24/07 ()
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Shembu:
From: Shembu
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Date Posted: 12:24:10 09/25/07 ()
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Jay,
From: what year?
To: All
Date Posted: 12:41:26 09/24/07 ()
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It is currently 2007, so I guess you mean 2012?
From: Mammy Blessing
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Date Posted: 13:07:12 09/24/07 ()
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Ooops! slip of the pen (key). I meant Sia Tiyaama will resurface during the 2012 campaign.
From: boli
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Date Posted: 11:17:44 09/24/07 ()
Email Address: boli@yahoo.com
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Please see a short video of the election results announcement by Christiana Thorpe
From: Candid Opinion
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Date Posted: 11:53:41 09/24/07 ()
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Was that BRIMA ACHA i see celebrating with the crowd.. ?
From: boli
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Date Posted: 13:12:44 09/24/07 ()
Email Address: boli@yahoo.com
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That definitely made me laugh.
From: BRA ENVIABLE
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Date Posted: 07:41:52 09/24/07 ()
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"His Excellency" is a frequently used phrase in the highest quarters of political power in Africa. From dictators to elected presidents, African heads of government are so fond of this high-sounding phrase that its application has become part of the diplomatic protocol in Africa. Yet, African countries are so uniform in their failed histories that it is now safe to question the use of the phrase "His Excellency." In diplomatic circles, an ambassador or plenipotentiary representing his country away from home, can be called "His Excellency" without necessarily evoking the Godliness that comes with the phrase. After decades of post-colonial failures marked by military coups, wars and bloodbaths in many African countries, the demystification of African leaders must now begin in earnest.
One way to do this is to erase the "Strong Man" syndrome that was firmly stamped on our politics when military rule and civilian autocrats were fashionable in Africa. When feelings of "Excellency" and "Highness" become part of a political system, leaders tend to assume an air of superiority that puts them above the law. As a nation recovering from war and all the evils of misrule, Sierra Leone can begin the demystification of its presidency by NOT referring to the President as "His Excellency."
Do not call Ernest Koroma, or a future State House occupant, "His Excellency." Let us suspend this Kingly title until our political system matures to give us leaders with a sense of national direction. In a country that rewards sycophancy with mindless abandon, being PRESIDENT is enough to make the leader supreme. When Sierra Leone eventually regains its old fame as the Athens of West Africa through responsible governance, "His Excellency" can be dusted off for use in State House. Until then, let our chief executive remain "President Ernest Koroma" of Sierra Leone.
The mysticism that comes with "His Excellency" can be too dangerous in a country with shallow roots in accountability and supremacy of the law. Veritable leaders work hard to earn the respect of their citizens.
Backward Banana Republics create "Excellencies" that must be praised like demigods. Let our head of Government remain "President Ernest Koroma" until he restores basic necessities like clean drinking water and relative security to a nation in distress. Until then, I refuse to mystify the Presidency in my country with that "excellent" title!
From: Fact
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Date Posted: 20:38:35 09/24/07 ()
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Nonsense. Who are you to tell people what to say or call people? Your arrogance is amazing. Go sidon saful before ar lose mi temper.
From: Cornelius Hamelberg
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Date Posted: 13:49:00 09/24/07 ()
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Excellent Bra Enviable,
http://www.nigerianmuse.com/
This is also my note-taking and not merely to you. I usually say exactly what I want to say. In complete freedom.
(Talking about mature political system?)
Gambians are voting for their president with a unique marble system.
Voters enter a booth and pop a clear glass marble into one of three drums representing the candidates, instead of a putting a ballot paper into a box.”
You can read the rest here
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/5369966.stm
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/reith2004/
So that is one dimension of the problem – at the very top of a professional scale and we may extend the analogy to other areas…. Is it a wonder that Freetown still does not have electricity?
We have multi Dr. Monty Joneses and other Agriculturalists and not enough rice to eat.
An overabundance of political scientists and at one time Seven PhD holders and Dr. Joe Jackson in one and the same Sierra Leone government’s cabinet ( nothing near that kind of PhD representation in a Swedish cabinet) and at even that juncture all was not well with Sierra Leone.
Now look at me for example. Do I not have a family, live in my own abode, have three successful children, have love and emotional satisfaction from my marital relationship have aesthetic and cultural interests which I pursue in my leisure time ? How can someone whose eyes are fixated on an Islamic paradise) say that I have WASTED my whole life or that I am jealous of some ugly looking & mediocre monkey who is studying for a PHD? My classmates who I graduated with and who chose to go that way e.g. Sylvester Young and Akintola Wyse got their PhDs in mathematics and History from London and Edinburgh respectively , before they were twenty five years old.
Yet, presumably African leaders – of political parties, countries and governments have been elected on the basis of the leadership and sense of national direction that they offer. This national sense of direction is usually based on a vision/ programmes of development, usually enshrined in the party Manifesto – government five year development plan etc.
Do you mean that president Koroma does not have a sense of national direction – or that that sense of national direction can only be the outcome when “our political system matures?”
That that a leader with that sense of national direction will not appear “until our political system matures”
In that case the following question arises:
http://www.ghanaunion.se/pages/archives/degrees.html
From: Cornelius Hamelberg
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Date Posted: 13:44:42 09/24/07 ()
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Excellent Bra Enviable,
http://www.nigerianmuse.com/
This is also my note-taking and not merely to you. I usually say exactly what I want to say. In complete freedom.
(Talking about mature political system?)
Gambians are voting for their president with a unique marble system.
Voters enter a booth and pop a clear glass marble into one of three drums representing the candidates, instead of a putting a ballot paper into a box.”
You can read the rest here
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/5369966.stm
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/reith2004/
So that is one dimension of the problem – at the very top of a professional scale and we may extend the analogy to other areas…. Is it a wonder that Freetown still does not have electricity?
We have multi Dr. Monty Joneses and other Agriculturalists and not enough rice to eat.
An overabundance of political scientists and at one time Seven PhD holders and Dr. Joe Jackson in one and the same Sierra Leone government’s cabinet ( nothing near that kind of PhD representation in a Swedish cabinet) and at even that juncture all was not well with Sierra Leone.
Now look at me for example. Do I not have a family, live in my own abode, have three successful children, have love and emotional satisfaction from my marital relationship have aesthetic and cultural interests which I pursue in my leisure time ? How can someone whose eyes are fixated on an Islamic paradise) say that I have WASTED my whole life or that I am jealous of some ugly looking & mediocre monkey who is studying for a PHD? My classmates who I graduated with and who chose to go that way e.g. Sylvester Young and Akintola Wyse got their PhDs in mathematics and History from London and Edinburgh respectively , before they were twenty five years old.
Yet, presumably African leaders – of political parties, countries and governments have been elected on the basis of the leadership and sense of national direction that they offer. This national sense of direction is usually based on a vision/ programmes of development, usually enshrined in the party Manifesto – government five year development plan etc.
Do you mean that president Koroma does not have a sense of national direction – or that that sense of national direction can only be the outcome when “our political system matures?”
That that a leader with that sense of national direction will not appear “until our political system matures”
In that case the following question arises:
http://www.ghanaunion.se/pages/archives/degrees.html
From: KKW
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Date Posted: 13:25:56 09/24/07 ()
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I have been itching to make the same recommendation for days, but I hesitated because some people may interprete it as a lack of respect for Ernest Koroma. I hope that he has the humility to heed this message and to decline the DCL (Honoris Causa) that will soon be thrust upon him.
From: Kelfala M. Kallon
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Date Posted: 09:55:45 09/24/07 ()
Email Address: KelKallon@comcast.net
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Bra Enviable, this is another piece for which right-thinking Sierra Leoneans should hold you in high esteem. I have often thought that even the practice of the University of Sierra Leone conferring an obligatory honorary doctorate on our presidents is a tad too sycophantic. Hopefully, President Koroma will have enough courage to resist that "honor".
From: Abu Koroma
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Date Posted: 10:56:49 09/24/07 ()
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Kelfala, let me see if I understand what you are saying:
From: Kelfala M. kallon
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Date Posted: 14:04:58 09/24/07 ()
Email Address: KelKallon@comcast.net
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Mr. Koroma, let me explain this one more time. I did not say that it was wrong to call President Koroma "His Excellency". I supported Bra Enviable's general proposition that we should stop this hero-worship of putting all sorts of accolades on our presidents even before they deliver on their promises.
From: Cornelius Hamelberg
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Date Posted: 15:35:52 09/24/07 ()
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To begin with, I should kindly ask you to read the consents found herein before proceeding to the rest of what I have to say –and about the rest of what I have to say, I will not begin to sing a song if I don’t know the lyrics:
This is a transcr1pt from CNN Aired September 30, 2006 - 12:30:00 ET
http://transcr1pts.cnn.com/TRANscr1ptS/0609/30/i_if.01.html
It seems to me that you turn your face the other way - from this, but no matter in which direction you turn your face, wherever you turn your face – there you will see the suffering people of Sierra Leone, and therefore it is necessary that you try to explain to us why in spite of all these obvious reasons why Berewa is no good, you still prefer him (Berewa) to the people’s choice of Mr. Ernest Bai Koroma.
Here they are at the weighing in just before the elections
From: Cornelius Hamelberg
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Date Posted: 15:29:41 09/24/07 ()
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To begin with, I should kindly ask you to read the consents found herein before proceeding to the rest of what I have to say –and about the rest of what I have to say, I will not begin to sing a song if I don’t know the lyrics:
This is a transcr1pt from CNN Aired September 30, 2006 - 12:30:00 ET
http://transcr1pts.cnn.com/TRANscr1ptS/0609/30/i_if.01.html
It seems to me that you turn your face the other way - from this, but no matter in which direction you turn your face, wherever you turn your face – there you will see the suffering people of Sierra Leone, and therefore it is necessary that you try to explain to us why in spite of all these obvious reasons why Berewa is no good, you still prefer him (Berewa) to the people’s choice of Mr. Ernest Bai Koroma.
Here they are at the weighing in just before the elections
From: Abu Koroma
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Date Posted: 15:25:07 09/24/07 ()
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"Mr. Koroma, let me explain this one more time. I did not say that it was wrong to call President Koroma "His Excellency".
From: Bonthe Pikin
To: All
Date Posted: 10:44:58 09/24/07 ()
Email Address: bontilaynga@gmail.com
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Bo Kelfala sidon dae. Were you not one of those who praised Gbakima's politics of making Berewa a Honorary Doctor? You were one of the booltickers who now want us to believe that he actually meant well for Sierra Leone when he was fighting tooth and nail to see an unprodcutive SLPP with Berewa as leader become President. Nor to you kind we dae listen to. Just remain in your cocoon. We are better without you. Who cares whether you called Kabbah QUEEN ELIZABETH
From: Mammy Blessing
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Date Posted: 09:25:06 09/24/07 ()
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How about just calling him MISTER PRESIDENT?
Y'all remember His Serene Imperial Majesty Jean-Bedel Bokassa and His Majesty and Excellency, the King of Scotland and God-annointed President of Uganda, Idi Amin Dada. Since independence, Africa has produced hundreds of Excellencies of cursed memory and to a man they have all devastated the continent.
I agree with you that it is better that the president excellently flexed his muscles on light, water, chop and jobs than have courtiers screaming YOUR EXCELLENCY in sycophantic rambunctious rhapsodies.
He will be in very good company. The most powerful man in the world, the U.S President, is simply called Mr. President.
From: American too
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Date Posted: 13:08:35 09/24/07 ()
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Interestingly, US presidents were called His Excellency until Teddy Roosevelt; he wanted to downplay his elite background and appear like the common man, he thus began the practice of presidents being called "Mr President."
From: DR. MICHEL SHO-SAWYER
To: All
Date Posted: 08:49:17 09/24/07 ()
Email Address: michel_sawyer@yahoo.com
Entered From: global.life.edu at 72.16.214.206
This is definitely a wake up call that is needed for our people. There are too many of us who are sycophant and always make our presidents demi-god and do not hold them accountable to their deeds.
From: Sylvester Johnny
To: All
Date Posted: 14:29:23 09/24/07 ()
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C'ant you just follow Kelfala's example by just posting as Michel instead of Dr. Michel? This is true of so many Sierra Leoneans across the globe. I am not really sure if titles like ESQ, MD etc at the end of names is meant to show the public how many degrees we have. This is APC government, it is your pocket that speaks louder than your degrees.
BTW, I sent you an email earlier about your project relating to the enhancement education in Sierra Leone. I am working on a similar project for my village.
From: CHIROPRACTOR
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Date Posted: 06:32:38 09/25/07 ()
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P.E Instructors,Bone Massagers are all DOCTORS for us.Medical Doctors such as PEDIATRICIANS,SURGEONS,ONCOLOGISTS and others tend to shy away from their TITLES,but CHIROPRACTORS are quik to call themselves DOCTORS.
From: Politico
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Date Posted: 22:32:16 09/24/07 ()
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Why do you use a "dr" before your name? Don't throw stones if you
live in a glass house.
From: AMADU BAH
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Date Posted: 08:12:23 09/24/07 ()
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That is why I love Cocorioko. More people, more ideas.
From: Bonthe Pikin
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Date Posted: 10:46:42 09/24/07 ()
Email Address: bontilaynga@gmail.com
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Is this PLP Amadu Bah?
From: seydouba
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Date Posted: 09:37:25 09/24/07 ()
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Bra,
Go tell it to Kabs Kanu and co..."Laybellism".
Do not dress EBK in "Borrowed robes"
Lonta
From: Sorba S
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Date Posted: 09:08:38 09/24/07 ()
Email Address: sorba_1@yahoo.com
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BRA
You hit the nail on the head right there. Its high time we start looking for what our leaders can do other than the titles they carry. Cause a title with an empty head is like a coconut without the jelly whatever that means.
From: news
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Date Posted: 06:25:24 09/24/07 ()
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Posted by Fi nda on September 24, 2007 at 04:44:46:
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From: Juxon-Smith
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Date Posted: 08:03:32 09/24/07 ()
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why would anyone say that investigating each and every foprmer slpp ministers would take up all the government's time? Why did Lt. Col. Andrew Juxon-Smith's NRC government successfully investigate the 1961-67 SLPP government and still run the best government Sierra Leone has ever had, in my opinion?
From: NRC
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Date Posted: 09:14:59 09/24/07 ()
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Ah, Juxon Smith's National Reformation council in 1967 0r 1968 in Salone!
From: Nico
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Date Posted: 10:52:18 09/24/07 ()
Email Address: Nicoleconsult@hotmail.com
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No Sir. A big difference which you failed to take in to consideration. The NRC government was a military regime whereas the newly elected government of president koroma is a democratically elected civilian government.
From: NRC
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Date Posted: 11:06:29 09/24/07 ()
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"Earnest Koroma has a mandate to change Sierra Leone, he cannot do so if he fails to find out what went wrong. I urged for an independent enquiry. SOON"
From: JAY
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Date Posted: 18:58:41 09/24/07 ()
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"And that would mean we would direct the same type of intense criticism against him as we did to the kleptomaniac SLPP -- and as we did, much earlier, to the slightly less kleptomaniac APC of Siaka Stevens and Joseph Momoh."
Bra:There is nothing like less kleotomaniaC APC.Kleptomania is kleptomania and there are no varying degrees.The old APC of Siaka Stevens set the basis for kleptomaniac regimes in Sa Lone and successive regimes followed suit.They destroyed the country by following Siaka's mantra of "u sai den ty kow,na dae e day eat".
Let us hope and pray that Ernest would be a different type of leader;the leader that Sa Lonians have been craving for the past 40 years.
From: NRC
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Date Posted: 02:10:13 09/25/07 ()
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"Bra:There is nothing like less kleotomaniaC APC.Kleptomania is kleptomania and there are no varying degrees."
From: Candid Opinion
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Date Posted: 11:47:33 09/24/07 ()
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"And that would mean we would direct the same type of intense criticism against him as we did to the kleptomaniac SLPP -- and as we did, much earlier, to the slightly less kleptomaniac APC of Siaka Stevens and Joseph Momoh."
Where did this come from..
Contemporary knowledge in salone will say otherwise..
The Siaka steven orchestrated and momoh finished destruction of our country is evident for all to see...
From schools to power to health and sanitation degenerated and decomposed under the watchful eyes of Momoh and YES you Mr Juxon Smith.
From: NRC
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Date Posted: 11:57:25 09/24/07 ()
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"Most of the young generation (18-29)on whose back the APC rode to power will forever be destitute because of the lack of vision and social investment in our country for the past 20 years...IT DID NOT START WITH SLPP."
From: Candid Opinion
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Date Posted: 12:01:43 09/24/07 ()
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I did not say you said it..
From: NRC
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Date Posted: 12:47:06 09/24/07 ()
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"I did not say you said it.. I said it.. "
From: Candid Opinion
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Date Posted: 13:08:55 09/24/07 ()
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Try dey..
"WAS LESS" is the key word.. it would equate past.. came before.. at the start..
From: jallotime
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Date Posted: 13:25:06 09/24/07 ()
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Candid Opinion, you are wasting your precious time and effort trying to infuse some sense into the demented mind of mohamed jalloh. That SOB is absolutely stupid. Please leave 'it' alone. Don't waste your time responding to him. He uses all sorts of monikers to expatiate his gross supidity on this forum.
From: sobtime
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Date Posted: 13:33:09 09/24/07 ()
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Even though you don't have any intelligence or manners, there is one thing you do have that more than makes up for your copious deficiencies -- an excess of wild, untrained, imagination
From: Candid Opinion
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Date Posted: 13:37:08 09/24/07 ()
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Your should take your nectie and choke your pompous self..
From: BEHAVE YOURSELF
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Date Posted: 13:41:41 09/24/07 ()
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Behave yourself, Candid Opinion. A lack of intelligence is no excuse for rudeness in a public forum.
From: BZZZZZZZZZZZ BZZZZZZZZZ
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Date Posted: 13:57:38 09/24/07 ()
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Swarm of flies..
I smell something..
Telling the bugeh for choke himself with his pompous nectie was not rude.. is it?
Or his or your screws been too tight?
From: Teacher
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Date Posted: 13:22:05 09/24/07 ()
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"Your statement that the "APC was less kleptomaniac than the SLPP" is equivalent to stating that the APC started it. "WAS LESS" is the key word.. it would equate past.. came before.. at the start." -- Candid Opinion
From: Candid Opinion
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Date Posted: 15:27:46 09/24/07 ()
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Meanwhile, if I said your intelligence was less than that of a one-day child, does that mean you "came before" the child (i.e. you were born before the one day old child)?
I would assume you meant "IS"..
If they did not tech you basics in english.. WAS been the past.. then You need a dumb dictionary not me..
Another stuffed chicken.. nectie wearing emptiness..
From: Teacher
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Date Posted: 07:04:15 09/25/07 ()
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"I would assume you meant "IS".. Or maybe its Ebonics... "
From: Ebonics teacher
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Date Posted: 08:40:46 09/25/07 ()
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Teacher..
Just because you passed basic ebonics does not make you proficient in English english.
Well it is english.. but it is correct if its ebonics..
From: Teacher
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Date Posted: 10:43:17 09/25/07 ()
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I see your inability to understand what you read has now metamorphosed into self-delusion -- your mistaking your error-filled writings for my writing.
From: Candid Opinion
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Date Posted: 11:13:52 09/25/07 ()
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I would say, you need to give your students refunds...
I am in no need of a lesson in ebonics camouflage as english..
From: Candid Opinion
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Date Posted: 15:53:10 09/25/07 ()
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Broken records now eh..
From: Teacher
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Date Posted: 15:33:25 09/25/07 ()
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Proving, once again, that you would never understand what you read!
From: Candid Opinion
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Date Posted: 15:58:14 09/25/07 ()
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Broken records now eh..
From: Teacher
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Date Posted: 17:26:50 09/25/07 ()
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Your refusal to learn from your past is not yet at the magnitude where it would become a record! But it's close, believe me.
From: Candid Opinion
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Date Posted: 19:43:32 09/25/07 ()
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Is is as IS was....
From: Candid Opinion
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Date Posted: 13:30:27 09/24/07 ()
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Do i need to equate anything to make a statement of APC came before the SLPP..
When you get you masters in FLOWERY USELESS ENGLISH" or is there anyhope for laymen like us with only certificates.... ?
From: NRC
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Date Posted: 13:39:35 09/24/07 ()
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Your comprehension problems worsen! As if it is not bad enough that you don't understand what you read, now you prove that you don't even know what you are talking about -- the history of Salone's two parties, the SLPP and APC!
Or, was it the SLPP which started ruling Salone?
Since we know it was the SLPP, how is it possible that the "APC would have started it because they came first?"
From: Candid Opinion
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Date Posted: 14:02:58 09/24/07 ()
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Recent and contemporary my friend..
Lets leave the/your idiocy aside and discuss the APC vs SLPP kleptomaniac variance..
When too many peacocks join the farm.. i guess no eggs will get to market..
From: NRC
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Date Posted: 15:06:08 09/24/07 ()
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"Let's move on."
From: Candid Opinion
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Date Posted: 15:23:05 09/24/07 ()
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Please break it down for me a bit..
I dont understand all that wasted bits and bytes..
From: NRC
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Date Posted: 15:28:29 09/24/07 ()
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Obviously, it relates to your refusal to learn from your mistake. The obvious clue to understanding that simplest of facts is found in your indolent plea: "Let's move on."
From: Cut ya put ya..
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Date Posted: 15:33:14 09/24/07 ()
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BLAH....
BLAh... blah blah blah balh..
Just dont think we derserve to waste each others time.. with you refusing to understand that fluff and blustering and fronting is not going to win the day..
We started discussing the variances of APC/SLPP Kleptoness..
From: NRC
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Date Posted: 07:18:07 09/25/07 ()
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Your refusal to learn from your numerous mistakes guarantees that you will keep making the same mistakes of comprehension that led you to your original failing.
From: Candid Opinion
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Date Posted: 08:51:55 09/25/07 ()
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Same as peacock should learn they are only good as mantle pieces, dead and stuffed..
We established that a while back, you dey try.. this thread was about
Address the thread.. not me..my abilities.. my cohersion, my level of comprehension..
It is basic comprehension were we start and would assume that was less.. would equate before because we KNOW as a fact.. that the APC was before..the SLPP.. that assumption is stagnant.. it is fact..not need to dance around it.. with pretty words..
From: NRC
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Date Posted: 10:38:01 09/25/07 ()
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"Your failing to fail to failure is that you failed to understand that ...."
From: Candid Opinion
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Date Posted: 11:05:58 09/25/07 ()
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Tata bo..
Go sidom lek pa morlai..
Lef me, me yone carpenter tire with nonsense..
I dont want to bring the fly trap out..
Me yace dea hart with you bzzzzzzzzzz bzzzzzzzzzz...
Lets Talk about them and thiers..
From: NRC
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Date Posted: 15:35:07 09/25/07 ()
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Like I said -- with no hope of you ever understanding it: "There's none so blind as one who chooses not to see!"
From: Candid Opinion
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Date Posted: 15:57:25 09/25/07 ()
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Like you did not said..
APC / SLPP who is more klepto..?
Now the gentlemanly think to do is comeback with a counter.. or concede....
From: NRC
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Date Posted: 17:28:52 09/25/07 ()
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debunked? It mus be another word among the long list that you have yet to become acquainted with, meaningwise!
From: Candid Opinion
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Date Posted: 19:53:26 09/25/07 ()
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It aint working. i see right tru it.. and it stinks.
From: NRC
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Date Posted: 20:44:24 09/25/07 ()
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As I told you -- and as you continue predictably to fail to understand -- merely saying my claim is "false" does not make it so. As much as it may appear to you, naturally, to be so, the fact is that serious people do not merely say something is false and expect it to be so thereby.
From: Candid Opinion
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Date Posted: 21:42:34 09/25/07 ()
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Another obfucation..
I do not have to be of the so called "serious people" to assume YOUR claim of "APC been less klepto" IS just that, YOUR CLAIM..neither do i have to bring evidence forward to prove something of which is self evident.
I think the tighening of your nectie is restricting the oxygen supply to your brain..
From: NRC
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Date Posted: 23:05:47 09/25/07 ()
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"Universally known, reported and documented not by moi..by renowned press houses local and international.. "
From: NRC
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Date Posted: 13:12:26 09/24/07 ()
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"Stop hiding behind "plenty talk" and defend your statement or at least make an attempt.. "
From: Democracy Now
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Date Posted: 07:55:10 09/24/07 ()
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Sir, are you implying that the judiciary will cushion the ministers and will not act independently? If this of your belief is exactly what the judiciary is then, my opinion, it is not worth existing. The majority APC can actually appoint judges or set up an independent commission that will screen those ministers thoroughly. Who ever in the judiaciary that wants to keep his job should start to think that the era of SLPP is over and must interpret the law accordingly or they will be corrected. There are more lawyers wainting to occupy their positions so they have to work for the country and not their families or their pockets alone. If that is the only thing APC is going to do before it moves foward then that will be it.
From: Finda
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Date Posted: 08:08:46 09/24/07 ()
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Sir, are you implying that the judiciary will cushion the ministers and will not act independently? If this of your belief is exactly what the judiciary is then, my opinion, it is not worth existing. -- Democracy Now
From: The guy next door
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Date Posted: 03:17:11 09/25/07 ()
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Finda, sorry to butt-in but you are wrong my friend. The Judiciary under no cercumstance has the power to abitrarily investigate Ministers or any person. That is not their mandate, they interprete the law after lower courts decisions are challenged, or in this circumstance when matter of constitutionality arise. It is the responsibility of Hon. EBK and his team to tackle, investigate, and seek procecution again, not the judiciary.
From: Finda
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Date Posted: 15:41:37 09/25/07 ()
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"The Judiciary under no cercumstance has the power to abitrarily investigate Ministers or any person. That is not their mandate, they interprete the law after lower courts decisions are challenged, or in this circumstance when matter of constitutionality arise."
From: Democracy Now
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Date Posted: 08:17:00 09/24/07 ()
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I have to appoligise. I am so sorry and I thank you for getting that piece straight.
From: Finda
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Date Posted: 08:37:57 09/24/07 ()
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Democracy, thank you for being so gracious. I salute you for setting an example for all of us on how to conduct ourselves in a civilized discussion.
From: UK5
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Date Posted: 04:25:48 09/24/07 ()
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Well now my pretty! Who says you can't catch up with the old folks from Africa On Line forum!
From: Sam
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Date Posted: 03:27:15 09/24/07 ()
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Just read a Meet The New VP "article" on that other website. There is a picture of our new VP with his eyes closed, in what appears to be tiredness from being drunk... I am wondering what the hell Statehouse/APC is thinking.
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