Subject: BASCO ,WHY A DELAY IN NAMING THE CABINET
From: KAMARA
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Date Posted: 07:39:03 09/29/07 ()
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What's gong on Basco. I know SLPP may have been incompetent but they had named a cabinet at this time during their first victory. Jamaica had their elections after us , they already have a cabinet. Did nt APC have a shadow cabinet during their opposition days. What's taking so long. We had a delayed election process with APC ahead all the time, Could nt they have decided on individuals then?
If it takes so long to name a cabinet, How long will it take to formulate plans for Sierra Leone's recovery?
I understand the president's dilema with the hungry APC fanatics who mistakengly feel taht they were responsible for the party's victory and are thus entitled to the best jobs.
Egg the president to make a move because indecisiveness affects the economy and some of us are losing money and businesses are delaying investments plans in Sierra Leone.
There are few businesses, I know in New Jersey that have had to withold further investment into Sierra Leone pending the new cabinet as they are concerned about the validity of their contracts with the old govt.
Tell your man to get a move on. He is a businessman, he should understand the value of time and money. Sierra Leone is not the most business freindly place in the world. If a foreign company risks i nvesting capital in Sierra Leone , They should be highly encouraged.
Have a good day
Subject: MONKEY WOKE, BABOO EAT
From: Observer of State House
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Date Posted: 06:32:43 09/29/07 ()
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Those in the diaspora who think the APC government is going to consider them for lucrative jobs based on their qualifications or sacrifices for the party are about to be disappointed. I have been in politics and the principle that applies in African politics is Monkey woke baboo eat. Watch this happening. Now all the PH.Ds and cronies of EBK we never knew during the campaign are going to surface.Just wait and see. If you have a job in the U.S, dont start messing with it thinking the new government will reward you because of your services. What happens most times is that after the elections, a new breed of opportunists and kapu-kapu people emerge, and sadly they get the jobs.
Subject: Cabinet
From: Minister to be
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Date Posted: 05:03:25 09/29/07 ()
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I am still waiting for the announcement of appointment of Ministers.I wanted to travel out, but I am hanging on, because I am sure, I will be a Minister, as my name has been mentioned several times is Cocorioko Forum by my well wishers.
Subject: Re: Cabinet
From: Mammy Blessing
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Date Posted: 05:47:22 09/29/07 ()
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Ah, Mister Minister, you faint late! I just checked out the list and sorry to say, you are definitely not in the cabinet. I am very pained by this sad turn because I was one of your boosters. Not to worry my friend. Come 2012, we are definitely gonna vote you in as our president. That way, we get to pick our own cabinet and disappoint people we don't like. And we will kick back, relax and be amazed by the sorry spectacle of full grown men try to outdo each other as the earnestly footlick us. Wait nor mor paddy!
Subject: Re: Cabinet -- Sentence correction.
From: Mammy Blessing
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Date Posted: 05:52:18 09/29/07 ()
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And we will kick back, relax and be amazed by the sorry spectacle of full-grown men trying to outdo each other as they earnestly footlick us.
Subject: PUT UP OR SHUT UP, YE SOUL SEEKERS!
From: SUBWANALAI
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Date Posted: 04:45:38 09/29/07 ()
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FACT: IT IS ON RECORDS (CLOSEST SOURCE: COCORIOKO.COM) THAT I SUPPORTED ERNEST BAI KOROMA AND THE NEW APC/ PMDC FOR A POSITIVE CHANGE IN MY COUNTRY. AND I CAN ASSURE YOU THAT ERNEST KOROMA STILL HAS MY SUPPORT. BUT THAT DOES NOT MEAN I WILL CONTINUE TO BLINDLY GIVE HIM THAT SUPPORT. KNOWING ERNEST KOROMA AS I DO, HE IS SOMEONE WHO DESPISES SYCOPHANCY AND APPRECIATES POSITIVE CRITISIMS. AND THAT IS WHAT SOME OF US SHALL CONTINUE TO PROVIDE, UNLIKE YOU SOUL SEEKERS THAT BELONG TO THE APC OLD SCHOOL; NAMELY AN IMPOSTOR WHO GOES BY THE NAME OF LIE LIE(WELL, SO MUCH FOR YOUR NAME) IN MY LAST POSTING I RAISED FEARS ABOUT HOW THE ECONOMY CONTINUING TO PLUMMET, WHILST WE AWAIT THE ANNOUNCEMENT OF A CABINET. MR. LIE LIE WAS QUICK, LIKE THE OLD APC, TO DEBUNK MY OPINION, ASKING ME TO EXPLAIN(EXPLAINATION MY PANTS). MR. LIE LIE, BRA ENVIABLE AND ALL YE SOUL SEEKERS, HEAR IT NOW FROM THE HORSES MOUTH; H.E.THE PRESIDENT DR. THE RIGHT HON ERNEST BAI KOROMA; OBE; GCR; COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF, MINISTER OF DEFENCE, CHANCELLOR OF THE UNIVERSITY OF SIERRA LEONE...AND... MY OH MY(ARE YOU SATISFIED NOW, YOUR ROYAL HIGHNESS DR. OLU BECKLEY). THE STORY BELOW IS COURTESY OF THE PAPER WE LOVE TO HATE, THEIRS TRULY SYLVIABLYDENTIMES.COM:
"Sierra Leoneans like going to work late," President
In a meeting with religious leaders at his State House office, the president, Hon. Ernest Bai Koroma is reported to have said that he is saddened by the manner and way Sierra Leoneans behave by not taking their works seriously. He said a number of civil servants either don’t go to work regularly or sit idly for the whole day in their work places. He reportedly said that we must change that attitude and go to work regularly with punctuality.
SUBWNALAI NOTES: NO COMMENTS
Subject: Re: PUT UP OR SHUT UP, YE SOUL SEEKERS!
From: Kalos
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Date Posted: 05:59:45 09/29/07 ()
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SUBWANALAI (Mr. Energizer), it is not only our right, but our obligation to highlight and comment on the short comings of EBK. Constructive criticism, as you often do, is healthy for our emerging democracy, any effort to thwart or silence you is a subtle plan to take us to the old days of APC and SLPP regimes. EBK, as promised, is ready to move the country to higher heights of self sufficiency through the rule of law, your right to free speech is paramount for EBK to achieve his goals. Let freedom reign……………..
Subject: BAI BUREH for minister of education, science and technology!
From: Bai Bureh
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Date Posted: 04:06:51 09/29/07 ()
Email Address: rastafari_ish@hotmail.com
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Watch out for the biggest surprise!
Subject: Re: BAI BUREH for minister of education, science and technology!
From: Another guess
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Date Posted: 05:19:10 09/29/07 ()
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I heard that Dr Talabi Lucan's and Shirley Gbujama's names are being considered for the position
Subject: Re: BAI BUREH for minister of education, science and technology!
From: Mammy Blessing
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Date Posted: 05:03:24 09/29/07 ()
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Bai Bureh, you valiant tormentor of the SLPP forum, you have my support and blessing. Take care, bro!
Subject: Re: BAI BUREH for minister of education, science and technology!
From: Bai Bureh
To: All
Date Posted: 06:34:44 09/29/07 ()
Email Address: rastafari_ish@hotmail.com
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Thankx a million buddy.Even if I will not be appointed I will be glad that I have some well-wishers in this forum.
I am praying that age and ministerial experience don't count during the selection.
Subject: ALL THE WAY FROM AMERICA-Culled from standardtimes
From: Bai Bureh
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Date Posted: 04:03:52 09/29/07 ()
Email Address: rastafari_ish@hotmail.com
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A Proposal For a Sierra Leonean/Sierra Leonean Ancestry Coalition
In the Inaugural Speech of President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf delivered on January 16, 2006, she issued a “call upon our colleagues of all political persuasions now in the Diaspora to return home and join us in meeting this exciting challenge of national renewal.” In this, I believe she demonstrated both leadership and vision.
I sincerely, hope that the newly-elected President of Sierra Leone issues the same call to the Diaspora, and makes their return home one in which they can fully participate as citizens.
To this end, I would like to offer the following information: African Americans are increasingly having DNA analysis to identify the country of their ancestral origin. Many have been shown to have a genetic link to Sierra Leone. My own DNA test returned a 100 percent match to the Temne. But knowing this bears no fruit in the absence of a plan for how this information can best be used.
Too many Africans and African Americans believe lies about each other. This is simply because no serious plan has been laid for us to get to know each other. Therefore, I propose a two-pronged "call and response" strategy: (1) a systematic call from Sierra Leone to African Americans of Sierra Leonean ancestry who wish to bring their skills and knowledge to their ancestral home; and (2) a coordinated and systematic response from skilled African Americans of Sierra Leonean ancestry.
We need each other. Sierra Leone needs teachers for its schools, and entrepreneurs to create businesses for the unemployed youth in the country. I am of Sierra Leonean ancestry, no matter how long ago my relative was taken from the country. I have a business degree with a major in business management and entrepreneurship. I have tutored people from many cultures in reading, math, and English as a Second Language. But how sad that all of my skills go to increase the talent bank of a country that already has plenty, while my ancestral country that needs what I have has not invited me to come.
I do not propose yet another NGO. Sierra Leone already has too many of them, and the lasting benefits that some of them have brought are questionable, at best. I am not proposing yet another “just come” who has their own bright ideas, but never asks the people what they actually need. I am proposing a true coalition between the people of Sierra Leone and African Americans of Sierra Leonean ancestry. This coalition will begin with dialogue, in which the Sierra Leonean people will tell us what they need and want, and the African American's responsibility will be to locate that resource in the Diaspora and bring it to Sierra Leone. In return, the members of the coalition will be recognized as people with Sierra Leonean ancestry, and will not be regarded as foreigners.
If any Sierra Leonean is interested in such a coalition with African Americans of Sierra Leonean ancestry, I will await your response and your recommendations for how to proceed.
Lisa M. Bashir
lmbashir@yahoo.com
Subject: KHADIJA SESAY STOP BOOTLICKING ------HAJA AFSATU
From: HONEST MAN
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Date Posted: 04:01:18 09/29/07 ()
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Khdija are you OK.Please wait for your appointment letter from STATE HOUSE. Please stop bootlicking for position.Also i am questioning some of the articles under your name is not of thoughts and words.We know the writer.
Subject: Re: KHADIJA SESAY STOP BOOTLICKING ------HAJA AFSATU
From: panlamp
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Date Posted: 07:24:23 09/29/07 ()
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Honest Man,
I take my hat off to you for this plea to sister Khadija - the UN REP wanna be. She is nothing but a bootlicker going around telling people that she made Earnest Koroma President. Who the hell is she anyway? I read one of her articles a few weeks ago and I said to myself, Self, did she realy wrote this ? because I had her speak a few times and I was a bit not impressed.
So honest man, just between you and I please tell me who writes the articles for her ?
Subject: Re: KHADIJA SESAY STOP BOOTLICKING ------HAJA AFSATU
From: Fat Idiot
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Date Posted: 07:03:59 09/29/07 ()
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What do you expect from a fat ugly idiot like Khadija Sesay
Subject: Re: KHADIJA SESAY STOP BOOTLICKING ------HAJA AFSATU
From: FODAY MANSARAY
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Date Posted: 06:07:56 09/29/07 ()
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Since you are honest what is your name?.Dont hide, come out and say what you just said face to face if you are not a coward.Is that your problem. Please grow up.
Subject: Re: KHADIJA SESAY STOP BOOTLICKING ------HAJA AFSATU
From: Foday Tetehmuteh
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Date Posted: 07:07:33 09/29/07 ()
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Come out and say what? That Khadija is a fat ugly idiot? Whoever wrote that is correct. How ba na yu wef? You need your eyes checked
Subject: MONKEY WORK, BABOON EAT
From: THE CRAB
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Date Posted: 03:07:47 09/29/07 ()
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Mr president,this is not the time for MONKEY WORK,BABOON EAT.This is the time to reward your supporters for their hard works and cash spent.This is the time to empower your supporters,and also surround yourself with,HONEST,TRUSTWORTHY,DEDICATED AND LOYAL PEOPLE.We in NORTH AMERICA are not happy about the episode in the STATE HOUSE.In politics there two types of appointments,political appointment and appointment by merit.
Subject: Victor Foh............MONKEYWORK?
From: Kalos
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Date Posted: 06:23:00 09/29/07 ()
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Mr. president, if most of your appointments are political, do not forget to surround yourself with those that help you to attain your goals. I am not hearing anything about VICTOR FOH, what happened to him, is he going to be influential in your administration? Victor Foh was APC, when APC was not fashionable; he was in the trenches, when others were AWOL; he was not like S.A.T Koroma, he was involved and not afraid of Kabba and Berewa; he suffered humilation, but never wavered. What a guy!!!!!!!!!!!
Subject: Re: Victor Foh............MONKEYWORK?
From: panlamp
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Date Posted: 07:32:02 09/29/07 ()
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VICTOR FOH ? Please......
Well known thief during Sheka's regime ? Oh my God... There we go again the same APC that wrecked our nation up to this age. Please do not even reward him a thing. All the work he has done in recent memories should be his paying back time to this our nation.
Please Mr President please don't confide in him.
Subject: Re: Victor Foh............MONKEYWORK?
From: Special Cut
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Date Posted: 06:56:24 09/29/07 ()
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This time around, appointments will be based on track record and merit. Victor Foe is one of the power houses behind the APC victory but his situation is critical . He has some explanation for the people of Salone. You remember ? and so is that of Tom Obaleh Kargbo
Subject: Re: MONKEY WORK, BABOON EAT
From: Kack Chest Lek Bombali Granat Pikin
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Date Posted: 04:57:54 09/29/07 ()
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"We in NORTH AMERICA are not happy about the episode in the STATE HOUSE.In politics there two types of appointments,political appointment and appointment by merit"
El Crab-O, can you please elaborate? I really don't know what episode you are referring to. Thanks.
Subject: STOP BEEN RUDE TO OUR WOMEN
From: SANTOS MANGA
To: All
Date Posted: 02:54:10 09/29/07 ()
Email Address: santos@aol.com
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Once again I would like to demand respect for our women, including Sylvia. She had killed no one's child. Even the gang that publish cocorioko have their fingers dirty but I hardly read derogatory remarks in their address. In fact, once someone humbly asked on this forum whether there are APC BIG WIGS ON THE COCORIOKO BOARD? THERE WAS NO REPLY FROM THE EDITOR.YOU CAN EXPRESS YOUR OPINION WITHOUT BEEN RUDE.STOP! STOP! STOP!
Subject: Re: STOP BEEN RUDE TO OUR WOMEN
From: Kack Chest Lek Bombali Granat Pikin
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Date Posted: 04:52:29 09/29/07 ()
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Santos Manga, you lecherous old fool! I know you have fallen head over heels for Sylvia Blyden. Bad Boy! Anyway, we wish you luck in your amorous quest.
It is very valiant of you to defend the Salone woman. That is how to get in good with the ladies. Courage is always a turn-on for the chicks. You sly fox! U nar original playa, Servo! Anyway we already respect women on this forum. As for Sylvia, now that I know she molds your foo-foo, I will no longer say the very obvious truth that she is a conniving, contorting hag who desperately tried everything, including amping up tribal hostility, just to get her political sugar daddies in the SLPP elected. And I promise to never, ever, never, evernever call her (teeheehee) gongoli-worworliwor-butt ugly again. Now go spark dae bra, and don't disappoint us!
Subject: SOME LEONETTERS THINK SYLVIA IS GOING RED SO SOON
From: Leonetter
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Date Posted: 00:29:15 09/29/07 ()
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kathos mattai
She has obsession for people in higher office. Check out the history from NPRC, RUF, AFRC and the recently defeated SLPP. She is trying to spread the mat again but it gonna be tough. She is now getting old and can no longer compete with the teenagers. No more juice left to squeeze. The APC radar is monitoring the movement of political concubines that suck on executive nectar and solicit fake government contracts. The suborns of corruption must be stopped pre-emptively before the next palgue hit our reviving democracy
Subject: Re: SOME LEONETTERS THINK SYLVIA IS GOING RED SO SOON
From: Kanfori Sorie Koroma
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Date Posted: 01:06:53 09/29/07 ()
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KATHOS, Sylvia Blyden blant do am, but this time she won't stand a chance. She is our enemy and no way she has become a palace whore under this government. There are no whoremasters in this present State House.
Subject: Re: SOME LEONETTERS THINK SYLVIA IS GOING RED SO SOON
From: Bugsyb
To: All
Date Posted: 04:49:44 09/29/07 ()
Email Address: aburneynic@yahoo.co.uk
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"President Ernest Koroma is tall, handsome, with a ‘leadership jaw’ and a commanding presence. He is happily married to the beautiful and elegant Sia Nyama Koroma from Kono District, Eastern Province of Sierra Leone, ex-pupil of Annie Walsh Memorial school who holds a post-graduate degree in Bio-Chemistry from London University. His matrimonial blend transcends tribal and regional politics. Ernest Bai Koroma and Sia are blessed with two children, Alice and Dankay." Awareness Times. Are you sure APC can resist this type of sycophancy????????????????????????
Subject: Re: SOME LEONETTERS THINK SYLVIA IS GOING RED SO SOON
From: Mammy Blessing
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Date Posted: 05:22:11 09/29/07 ()
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Bugsyb, nar dat Sylvia write? Leadership Jaw! Lord have mercy. This woman never ceases to amaze me. She writes as beautifully as she toadies.
If she can kiss tush so lovingly, can you imagine..OH MY GOD!!! Forumites, I am in love with Sylvia. I don't care whether she looks like something a sick frog just coughed up. I love her. Ee worwor, ar worwor, we go born fine pikin dem!
Subject: WE SAY NO TO GOVERNMENT OF NATIONAL UNITY
From: The True Patriot
To: All
Date Posted: 23:40:36 09/28/07 ()
Email Address: patriot @yahoo.com
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When I see guys go around clamoring for a government of national unity, you should also clamor for an end to our system of the democracy which is based on the party system. Have you ever heard the term Government of National unity in serious democracies like the UK and the USA. Are we trying to say the different parties inside our country don’t have upright people who can steer the vehicle of state in the right direction?
The idea of government of national unity is for countries that are experiencing security problems or are trying to establish a foundation for democracy e.g South Africa in 1995. It is most times used to appease different groups like warring and political factions in countries that are coming from civil war like what happened in Sierra Leone some years ago. This time around we have no use for that because Sierra Leone has proved to the world that we have passed that stage.
Every party in our country has an ideology (correct me if I am wrong) which is quite different from other parties. They have an agenda on how they are going to run the country. People voted for them based on that ideology and agenda. We should now allow them to run the country as they deem fit. Five years from now the people will determine if their way of doing things is the correct one or if they did a good job. If they failed they will then handover the reigns of government to another party. This will ensure that democracy will continue to grow stronger.
I believe that the people making this call for government of national unity are mostly opportunists who are always looking out for ways to join whatever party that is in power. That is why we have seen lot of political prostitutes over the years. These people are not patriotic in any form or version. Their only hope is to continue to gain from whoever is calling the tunes.
We want our democracy to prosper so we are sending a message to our President that we are against such government at this time. He campaigned using the manifesto of the APC. If he does not have people within his party that he thinks are able to run the affairs of state based on that Manifesto then he misled us during his campaign because he led us to believe that the APC was capable of running the country.
This however does not mean that other parties will not benefit in this system. What we want other parties to do is to use their members in parliament to ensure that the APC plays the game within the set rules. Their presence will also remind the APC that should they fail, the opposition is there to take over from them and steer the state in the right direction. This I am sure will put the present government on its toes to deliver on its promises.
Please my brothers and sisters. Let us ensure that democracy is here to stay. The reason why we have not been making progress in our country is this system of people making political prostitutes of themselves by jumping from one party to the next whenever there is a change in government. If a politician knows that he will join whatever government that is in power and continue to benefit, he will not make any effort to do the correct thing if given the opportunity. Let us try to push our country forward and stop this nonsense called government of national unity. NO one has a monopoly over good ideas, so let us allow the APC to run the country in their own way. At the end of the day we will determine if their way is the correct one.
Subject: Re: WE SAY NO TO GOVERNMENT OF NATIONAL UNITY
From: Manso Samura
To: All
Date Posted: 04:49:36 09/29/07 ()
Email Address: mbade378@yahoo.com
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I totally agree with you. Why those who are now clamoring for government of national unity failed to tell the then ruling party (SLPP) to form a government of national unity?
Let's give APC a chance to prove its worth.
Subject: Re: WE SAY NO TO GOVERNMENT OF NATIONAL UNITY
From: FENTHI
To: All
Date Posted: 04:24:46 09/29/07 ()
Email Address: fenthi@hotmail.com
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Message:
Well written ! I only hope that such messages will be read by as many people as possible.All our three main political parties have such an adequate pool of expertise,that they can singly form a competent team to effectively take care of state affairs, without help from outside. They don`t need the other political parties to achieve that. Even when it comes to maintaining a regional, ethnic or tribal balance, all regions and ethnic groups are well qualitatively and quantitatively represented in all these parties. Let sierra leoneans understand that they can also serve their country in the opposition. There is allarmingly too much opportunism in our country.Political opportunists are potential thieves and embezzlers of public funds,this is no secret.
Subject: Sorry.
From: Bamaby Lans Kamara
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Date Posted: 23:31:55 09/28/07 ()
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Good night or good morning?
Subject: Think about it.
From: Bambay Lans Kamara
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Date Posted: 23:13:12 09/28/07 ()
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Mamy Wata
Subject: Scenario: SLPP MIGHT NEVER be elected again
From: babybob
To: All
Date Posted: 19:46:30 09/28/07 ()
Email Address: m9141655@msn.com
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APC and PMDC make a political deal.
PMDC acts as an opposition force within APC to reduce APC's excesses in the benefit of SIERRA LEONE(PMDC Provides objective criticisms. A Fresh-pair of eyes situation). This is called Self-regulation.
PMDC officials MAY be fielded in APC government positions.
Come election time, individuals will be judged by how they performed in various position or how they could articulate themselves better.
APC/PMDC make a Ruling House Agreement.(Like the ones done on Chieftaincies. Only certain Families may rule, but by ROTATION. In this case, The APC Chieftain Ruling House and The PMDC Chieftain Ruling House)
An Oversight Committee is setup containing APC/PMDC officials who will review whether APC/PMDC officials are performing this task of OBJECTIVE CRITICISMS and whether these CRITICISMS are valid in the interest of SIERRA LEONE.
The Ruling House who's currently acting as In-House Opposition will be provided with a budget to take-on external auditors who will be Checking Every Ministry's performance. These checkings will be done quarterly. In order to perform these Quarterly checkings, every Ministry must have documented WORK/JOB Guidelines/procedures. Anyone found not following the guidelines would be given NOTIFICATION OF NON-CONFORMANCE (NNC). Any one given a NNC will be bound to produce a NON-CONFORMANCE REPORT (NCR)wherein the Individual will explain why the guidelines weren't followed and how they plan to fix the situation and prevent it from happening again. The NCR will be forwarded to the OVERSIGHT COMMITEE who will review it and also determine whether the individual needs re-training. Anyone who had got an NNC and has been retrained and gets the same type of NNC during a follow-up Quarterly Check. will be dismissed or probably retrained to work in a lesser capacity. This Checking will be called THE QUARTERLY GOVERNANCE HEALTH CHECK (QGHC).
IF APC/PMDC Ruling House Coalition performs beyond the expection of the populace, and SIERRA LEONE regains its past glories due to this setup of CHECKS-AND-BALANCES then,
SLPP will become a PARLIAMENTARY opposition just to criticize.
Hey, guys don't come down on me......... This is just a SCENARIO to the figment of my IMAGINATION.
Note!!! I DO NOT HAVE ANY POLITICAL AFFILIATION IN SIERRA LEONE AND I WOULD NEVER HAVE. I just have my country at heart. I Love free unbiased thinking.
The same could have been done by the SLPP (could be done by them if they get a chance to get in again).
Subject: Re: Scenario: SLPP MIGHT NEVER be elected again
From: kalos
To: All
Date Posted: 23:04:49 09/28/07 ()
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This is a prescr1ption for a "one party system" that will ultimately ruin our country. The people should not allow president Koroma to even imagine or dream of becoming KING KOROMA. We must discourage any steps that may lead us to a dysfunctional tyrannical form of government.
Subject: Re: Scenario: SLPP MIGHT NEVER be elected again
From: Alie Formeh Kamara
To: All
Date Posted: 05:37:24 09/29/07 ()
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Kalos:
It is not a prescr1ption for a one party system. The author is not talking about a constitutional amendments to effect a one party system.
There would be no reason to change a government that is performing to the satisfaction of most. What the author is saying is that if the coalition of APC/PMDC provide checks and balances on themselves effectively to prevent corruption and to make the government successful, the SLPP can never win in Sierra Leone.
This will probably be true for any government including the SLPP.
To reiterate the word of President Koroma, 'We need results.'
Subject: Re: Scenario: SLPP MIGHT NEVER be elected again
From: Kalos
To: All
Date Posted: 06:35:38 09/29/07 ()
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Alie, thanks for redirecting me. I am ALL for any alliance between APC/PMDC with effectve opposition from the SLPP front. Also, I agree "POSITIVE RESULTS" is the key to the alliance and the "SLPP MIGHT NEVER be elected again" scenerio. In the United States, the economy was not stupid (James Carville), in Sierra Leone, we are not stupid either.
Subject: Re: Scenario: SLPP MIGHT NEVER be elected again
From: babybob
To: All
Date Posted: 23:52:12 09/28/07 ()
Email Address: m9141655@msn.com
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Message:
Kalos,
You're angry at APC. IF SLPP Performs as a very good opposition, then there'll never be a One-Party System per-se.
UK: Labour Party and Conservative Party,
US: Republican Party and Democratic Party
Over the years, none of the independents have ever survived. They come up now and then when election time is nearing, but they never survive.
The contents of what's written in the first statements of the Topic is to try and instill good governance with checks and Ballances.
In the Chieftaincies, don't they do elections?
For me, at the moment I want to see swift results. You would not get swift results if the whole populace is lazying about, not even knowing what their job functions are.
We need to put systems in place to check that everyone is doing their duties according to well documented procedures. So when there are hiccups, within 3months you'll know. And you can fix it or change procedures to make it workable.
THE BOTTOM-LINE is the whole SIERRA LEONE POPULACE needs to be retrained to take their work seriously.
That doesn't get done by Just the Government PARTY FUCTIONARIES.
At the moment, if you go down to an office in a ministry to get one document signed it will take you at least two weeks to get to the Top who should actually sign the document. WHY....... "Put-for-Me"...... "Are-Noh-Kno-Yu"........."The System"......
If the employees of these ministries know that they would be checked independently every three months and those performance will reflect on their earnings, then it will Increase productivity. It will also force the Department Heads to provide relevant training for their staff in accordance with The Oversight Commitee recommendations............ No more, "Me Uncle Nar Minista so ah go geh jab, evin wen ah noh kwalifai".
If you aren't fit for the job, You'll either be booted-out (depending on how unfit you are), retrained to suit the job, or moved to another Section where your skills fit better. This will make the whole nation More productive.
Please remember, It is not an APC/PMDC thing. It is meant to be done by any present-day Coalition Government.
Subject: My President
From: Emmanuel J.M.Stafford
To: All
Date Posted: 18:56:55 09/28/07 ()
Email Address: ejmstafford@yahoo.co.uk
Entered From: 5ac5fb16.bb.sky.com at 90.197.251.22
Message:
My President H.E. Ernest B. Koroma is a very dynamic leader, and i know that his executive is going to be pragmatic. Say what you may, the new cabinet is going to be an APC executive,though there are going to be few PMDC members and some other technocratic Sierra Leoneans who are neither APC/PMDC nor SLPP, the majority of members of the executive will be comming from the APC, AND THAT IS HOW IT SHOULD BE, FOR POLITICS IS all about 'spoils'.
Subject: Re: My President
From: Mammy Blessing
To: All
Date Posted: 19:09:05 09/28/07 ()
Email Address:
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It's not how good the cabinet looks, it's how great it performs. A gov't of high school drop-outs with a moral compass and an altruistic bent is far, far better than a cabinet of Ph.D kapu-kapuers.
If politics is all about the spoils, then we are knee-deep in dudu bro!
Subject: Re: Your President
From: Uncle Blessing
To: All
Date Posted: 22:23:59 09/28/07 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
The people of Sierra Leone deserve the spoil. And you know that.
Uncle Blessing
Subject: ERNEST KOROMA MUST PUT THE COUNTRY FIRST.
From: ALPHA SAIDU BANGURA
To: All
Date Posted: 17:08:53 09/28/07 ()
Email Address: SAIDUBANGSO@AOL.COM
Entered From: c-69-143-242-205.hsd1.md.comcast.net at 69.143.242.205
Message:
As we await Mr.Ernest Koroma to announce his cabinet, I hope he will put aside party patronage, regional and tribal affiliations when nominating people to hold offices.. We need a cabinet that is made up of the most suitable Sierra Leoneans, regardless of where they were born or raised. The president must ensure that he properly examines the past records of every member of his cabinet, to make sure that he appoints people with a clean record and in-built moral values.
I also call on parliament to ascertain the suitability of each nominee by properly checking their backgrounds and past performances before approving their appointments. It will be best for the country if our members of parliament remember that they were elected to represent the people of Sierra Leone.
At this point we can not afford to have the wrong people in sensitive positions. Therefore, I also call on all my fellow Sierra Leoneans to ensure that they appear before the parliamentary committee on public appointments to object to the approval of any nominee with a bad report card.
All of us must be willing to make meaningful contributions to this process. After their appointments we must also monitor their activities to prevent any abuse or misuse of political power.
Please, join me in this fight to salvage our country from the adverse conditions under which our people live.
I pray that Mr. Ernest Bai Koroma puts the interest of Sierra Leone above all other interests as he appoints his cabinet members.
Subject: Re: REFERTO HIM AS PRESIDENT ERNEST KOROMA
From: Olu Beckley
To: All
Date Posted: 19:07:47 09/28/07 ()
Email Address: mariamab@aol.com
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Message:
Saidu,
Please observe protocol and give our president the respect and reverence he deserves. He needs to be addressed by his correct title, and not as Mr. He is President of all Sierra leoneans, no matter which party you may belong to.
Subject: Re: REFERTO HIM AS PRESIDENT ERNEST KOROMA
From: Med
To: All
Date Posted: 04:14:01 09/29/07 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
Olu Beckley
what’s your understanding of protocol, respect and reverence, I conclude that you definitely have no clue of what you are trying to provoke in an informal forum, rather than being a public nuisance, you pretentious flatterer. You and most of us have called Kabba, Berewa and few other men and women dishonorable obnoxious names and look at you now, a double standard bootlicker asking for reverence, reverence your BIGFOOT.
I do support the president, notwithstanding, I will criticize and strongly oppose any wrong move by him or mediocre supporters like you. I’ll supposedly get under your thick skin with every retort to purposefully hitt closer to home, to give you a political balance in a democratic setting.
I can’t help but caution, because I perceive a ‘movement of retention’ at play by APC, its too early to threaten people, you have never heard such worthless statement from any SLPP supporter, what a shame, just one week in power you demand REVERENCE, you will be surprise that the people, I mean majority of Sierra Leonean [that includes me] would make you + your APC party feel uncomfortable if any wrong democratic move is undertaken.
The politics in Sierra Leone has reached another level, out of necessity a fearless one and presidents, leaders have to earn hard their respect, we have unnecessarily bestowed too much honour to those that do not deserve honour, ordinary thieves, xconvicts, wolves in sheep clothing that ended up raping our economy, those that have left the people dying of poverty, hunger and disease, cant you see. Please tell Earnest Koroma that he needs to prove his Excellency the president to the people, we are not in a hurry, we have lived with satanic incarnates before and we are shy….
mr. devils advocate, I advise that you take your worthless suggestion to other bootlickers or people like leather boot; you could have cooperation or perhaps a position as a lifeguard/protocol Officer II.
B rgds,
Med
Subject: Re: ERNEST KOROMA MUST PUT THE COUNTRY FIRST.
From: Manah
To: All
Date Posted: 18:54:35 09/28/07 ()
Email Address:
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Alpha Saidu "turn coat" well done for playing Chameleon politics. A while ago you were attacking the private life of EBK in a very negative way, even going as far as EBK's marital affairs. Here you are , trying to offer rap around services to our PRESIDENT. You are so confused boy. You hypocrite low lifer.
Subject: Re: ERNEST KOROMA MUST PUT THE COUNTRY FIRST.
From: Chez Winakabs Europe
To: All
Date Posted: 19:04:43 09/28/07 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
Politics is not about what you were or who you supported - it is about where one finds himself at the end of the show. ASB has accepted that EBK is the new president of Sierra leone and therefore, irrespective of what he had said, should now support president EBK for a popular effect. he is our president.. Go easy on your brother - the call has been called and we have to now build those broken bridges during the campaign. I believe he has accepted and for national sakes, he is going to show positivity.
Subject: Re: ERNEST KOROMA MUST PUT THE COUNTRY FIRST.
From: Mammy Blessing
To: All
Date Posted: 18:30:29 09/28/07 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
On many occasions have I disagreed with you, but this..I support you 110%. We need good, positive, selfless leaders in position of trust.
The onus is on us all to make sure that our leaders stay honest in the discharge of their duties.
Subject: Re: ERNEST KOROMA MUST PUT THE COUNTRY FIRST.
From: leather boot
To: All
Date Posted: 17:26:48 09/28/07 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
you stupid fool! don't you have any regards for the presidency? next time you address our president as Mr Koroma rather than President Koroma, i will kick your bloody ass!!! get out of here before i blaze. idiot!
Subject: Re: ERNEST KOROMA MUST PUT THE COUNTRY FIRST.
From: Med
To: All
Date Posted: 17:51:18 09/28/07 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
Leather Boot I think you have several of such bloody backsides to kick, if the title Mr, Koroma degrades the president, I assume people like are good for nothing and a disgraced to the presidency, let me hear from, please….
Subject: Re: ERNEST KOROMA MUST PUT THE COUNTRY FIRST.
From: TILOLO
To: All
Date Posted: 17:18:30 09/28/07 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
You would have something to say regardless of whosoever Ernest chooses to be minister,good character or not.Eveyone knows that a major league imbecile like you sees nothing good in Ernest.Prove me wrong.
Subject: Re: ERNEST KOROMA MUST PUT THE COUNTRY FIRST.
From: POLITICAL
To: All
Date Posted: 17:13:31 09/28/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: smtpgateway.azdes.gov at 207.108.136.243
Message:
Let's wait and see
Subject: Re: ERNEST KOROMA MUST PUT THE COUNTRY FIRST.
From: MUSA KAMARA
To: All
Date Posted: 17:12:00 09/28/07 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
You have my support Alpha.
Subject: New APC Cabinet
From: Very reliable source
To: All
Date Posted: 16:58:55 09/28/07 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
Vice President- Charles Margai
Minister of Finance- Hassan Gbessay Kanu
Foreign Minister- Zainab Bangura
Education- Sorie Dumbuya
Lands Minister- Alpha Kanu
Mines Minister - Momoh Konteh
Tourism Minister- Oluniyi Robin-coker
Sports Minister- Philip Neville
Information Minister- Paul Kamara
Health Misister- Victor Foh
Agriculture Minister- Sama Mondeh
Resident Minister East- Sam Sumana
Resident Minister North- Osman Yasaneh
Resident Minister South- Hindolo Trye
More to come ...stay tuned
Subject: Re: New APC Cabinet
From: MUSA KAMARA
To: All
Date Posted: 17:01:47 09/28/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: luna.hypair.net at 194.50.180.4
Message:
Are you sure of the authencity of your posting?
Subject: Re: New APC Cabinet
From: wow
To: All
Date Posted: 17:01:17 09/28/07 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
Sam Sumana is the Resident Minister East...Is he not the VP?
Subject: Re: New APC Cabinet
From: Amadu Kabbah
To: All
Date Posted: 19:10:36 09/28/07 ()
Email Address: amadutkabbah@yahoo.com
Entered From: 46.sub-75-210-123.myvzw.com at 75.210.123.46
Message:
How reliable is very reliable source? I see him as some guy who likes jokes. Sam-Sumana was sworn in by His Excellency as VP. Very reliable source makes him the Resident Minister East in his own Cabinet. Isn't he confused and wants to confused readers who do not follow the trends of events in the country?
Subject: LET ME CORRECT A POLITICAL MISPERCEPTION
From: BRA ENVIABLE
To: All
Date Posted: 15:40:17 09/28/07 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
In a previous posting on this forum, I went on record for expressing reservations about Charles Margai’s suitability for the Finance Ministry in Sierra Leone. A certain respondent tried to overturn my opinion with a foggy perception that should be defogged in this posting.
My opposition to Charles Margai’s march to the Finance Ministry is based on the fact that the PMDC leader do not have the managerial skills needed to balance the books in that ministry. My opponent countered by implying that the Minister of Finance is a mere figurehead towering over the real administrator, the Permanent Secretary. This brother apparently wants to make the point that Charles Margai’s suitability in the Finance Ministry is secondary because as the main factotum, the Permanent Secretary {alone} is enough to rise to the challenges in that ministry.
The Permanent Secretary is the most senior civil servant in any Ministry. This seniority is, however, moored by structural principles to ensure that the Permanent Secretary carries out the policies of his executive boss, the Minister. In other words, a Permanent Secretary does NOT make policy. He carries out formulated policy channeled to him from the peacock seat in the ministry, which is invariably held by the Minister of Finance. Based on this simple political ABC, the Minister of Finance must have the versatility to make the policies needed for an economically healthy nation with a sunny , financial forecast. Despite the inherent scholarliness associated with being a lawyer, the duties of a Finance Minster cannot be performed by Charles Margai’s lawyerly skills. As the nation’s nervous system, the Finance Ministry needs more than a well-primed Permanent Secretary and a lawyer. “Expertise” is the word in this ministry, and transplanting ill-suited professionals to fix screws where buttons are needed is the work of a bull in a china shop. How can any normal country pin the heaviest administrative burden on civil servants while the executive branch luxuriates in idleness? Nar dat make we dae far lek September rain!
Subject: Re: LET ME CORRECT A POLITICAL MISPERCEPTION
From: Bambay Lans Kamara
To: All
Date Posted: 17:21:26 09/28/07 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
Greetings my brothers and sisters. Any one with managerial abilities with a Law degree can serve in that capacity. Hon. Margai is a Lawyer and leader of an opposition that became vibrant and a bone in the neck after a very such period of time. The only people that cannot serve as Finance Ministers are those that lack leadership qualities.
*I always wonder why we tend to live the constitution out when we make guesses, hypothesis and or suggestions? Our guesses, suggestions can only be conceived to be rational when they fall within the fringes of the Laws of the land. We are dealing with a President therefore, we must realize that when he opted to rule Sierra Leone, a country rich in gold and diamonds but went through a turbulent time, we must realize that he had an agenda and that agenda is what he will consider in making decisions about who will be in his cabinet.
I personally would like Hon. Margai to work hands-in-glove with the President but he, Mr. Margai, has a reputation to maintain and people he led to lead. As President Koroma and Hon. Margai are cognizant of this fact, they will work-out modalities to ensure a coherent strategy to be mapped-out whereby, Hon. Margai will play a pivotal role in our national development and cohesion. But Ministerial position is not conceivable as Vice Presidency is absolutely out of the question. Take it from the one who knows and that is not a boast, as exemplified in debates about the war and the elections.
Under one Party Constitution a President can choose from a Sierra Leonean, ellected member but under our current constitution, it is not feasible to appoint Hon. Margai, a member of Parliament, a party leader for ministerial position until he resigns as a party leader, which no sane person would advice particularly at this time.*
Subject: Re: LET ME CORRECT A POLITICAL MISPERCEPTION
From: Bock Jah
To: All
Date Posted: 19:18:45 09/28/07 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
Well said bro section 56(1) and (2) clarifies this
56. (1) There shall be, in addition to the office of Vice-President, such other offices of Ministers and Deputy Ministers as may be established by the President:
Provided that no Member of Parliament shall be appointed a Minister or Deputy Minister.
(2) A person shall not be appointed a Minister or Deputy Minister unless—
a. he is qualified to be elected as a Member of Parliament; and
b. he has not contested and lost as a candidate in the general election immediately preceding his nomination for appointment; and
c. his nomination is approved by Parliament.
Subject: Re: LET ME CORRECT A POLITICAL MISPERCEPTION
From: Mammy Blessing
To: All
Date Posted: 16:39:42 09/28/07 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
The sad reality is that presidents often select ministers, not because of their expertise, but because of their loyalty. And even when the minister is a world-class expert in his portfolio, the good man is often constrained by the whims of the president. Mugabe regularly orders his finance minister to print more paper money even as the poor man wrings his hands at the grotesque inflation. Bobson Sesay thought his duties were primarily to sell town lots as Minister of Lands in Kabba's government, for example.
Bra Enviable, I hope EBK puts the right people in his cabinet.
Subject: Re: LET ME CORRECT A POLITICAL MISPERCEPTION
From: BRA ENVIABLE
To: All
Date Posted: 18:12:56 09/28/07 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
Mammy Blessing, I am with you on the hope {and prayer} that Bra Ernest Koroma could do the right thing by not disappointing the people . Only then will I rejoice over the "new dawn" being talked about.
Subject: Re: LET ME CORRECT A POLITICAL MISPERCEPTION
From: Chez Winakabs Europe
To: All
Date Posted: 16:43:27 09/28/07 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
L’homme qu’il faut a la place qu’il faut. Until such we are at dangers on the crossroads. Greetings my fellow citizen.
Subject: Re: LET ME CORRECT A POLITICAL MISPERCEPTION
From: Mammy Blessing
To: All
Date Posted: 16:46:31 09/28/07 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
Welcome back Chez! I thought you were still recuperating from THE LOSS in merry Sherwood Forest. Good to see you back on the boards, bro.
Subject: Re: LET ME CORRECT A POLITICAL MISPERCEPTION
From: Chez Winakabs Europe
To: All
Date Posted: 18:11:03 09/28/07 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
It was not long to recover. It was inevitable! Thank God we got rid of ourselves. We did it and noone else. thanks and I am glad to be with you guys again.
Subject: Re: LET ME CORRECT A POLITICAL MISPERCEPTION
From: tupid
To: All
Date Posted: 16:12:21 09/28/07 ()
Email Address: sorba_1@yahoo.com
Entered From: at 209.116.81.187
Message:
borbor nor talk more! this na true you don talk. Salone get for begin look for the one dem way qualify na dem field for put ministry na them ade. Mek we nor de put people by popularity.
ten key
Subject: Re: LET ME CORRECT A POLITICAL MISPERCEPTION
From: Bambay Lans Kamara
To: All
Date Posted: 17:17:23 09/28/07 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
Bi tuwa! Greetings my brothers and sisters. I always wonder why we tend to live the constitution out when we make guesses, hypothesis and or suggestions? Our guesses, suggestions can only be conceived to be rational when they fall within the fringes of the Laws of the land. We are dealing with a President therefore, we must realize that when he opted to rule Sierra Leone, a country rich in gold and diamonds but went through a turbulent time, we must realize that he had an agenda and that agenda is what he will consider in making decisions about who will be in his cabinet.
I personally would like Hon. Margai to work hands-in-glove with the President but he, Mr. Margai, has a reputation to maintain and people he led to lead. As President Koroma and Hon. Margai are cognizant of this fact, they will work-out modalities to ensure a coherent strategy to be mapped-out whereby, Hon. Margai will play a pivotal role in our national development and cohesion. But Ministerial position is not conceivable as Vice Presidency is absolutely out of the question. Take it from the one who knows and that is not a boast, as exemplified in debates about the war and the elections.
Under one Party Constitution a President can choose from a Sierra Leonean, ellected member but under our current constitution, it is not feasible to appoint Hon. Margai, a member of Parliament, a party leader for ministerial position until he resigns as a party leader, which no sane person would advice particularly at this time.
Are all these Sierra Leoneans talking or do we have those who have loved Sierra Leone so much that they want to discuss our issues. Condos to you. Is that not how it is said? Oops!
M'bah!
Subject: Re: LET ME CORRECT A POLITICAL MISPERCEPTION
From: Bamaby Lans Kamara
To: All
Date Posted: 22:52:11 09/28/07 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
Bock Jah thanks for that clarification. Let me don't say much so that I do not mess it up. (Smile.)
Mammy Blessing, the sad reality is, as exemplified on this forum, Sierra Leoneans pay much attention to what governments should do, not what they, Sierra Leoneans should do to make governments do what they should do or how we and the government can work hands-in-glove to bring development to Sierra Leone. We must not make governments our targets for exposing their wrongdoings in order to pull-them-down but endeavour to draw their attention to problematic areas that need be addressed, make positive suggestions on ways we see possible solutions and how to effect the necessary solutions for change for the better.
Let us take the current discuss for example; rather than focusing on who should be Ministers, Vice President or what not, we should be discussing problem areas so as to draw the government's attention to these areas of concern, especially when the discuss is majorly Diaspora's composition. This will reflect foreign considerations or expectations if you will, because if we desire changes or the strengthening of certain sectors, the government will see what it will mean for the tourism sector and improve on these areas. We should be the government's eye at home and abroad. They cannot go everywhere in Sierra Leone therefore, do not know somethings that are happening there nor would they go everywhere when they come abroad. What they get is what is reported to them.
Ten chances to one, most government functionaries become turned-off by Sierra Leone news because it is as though they are targets especially, when they see or continue to see misinformation or corroded and misguided assumptions. In fact, it sometimes embolden some of them because they know for fact that we are not current or do not know much about what goes on, in that, they have found misconceptions and gossip-related news that are mostly untrue.
We can effect positive change but that can only happen when our discuss revolve seriousness.
A case in point; when the debate about Dual citizenship was hard pressed on this and many fora, the government's attention was drawn to it and the necessary amendment/s to the Constitution was made that permeated the establishment of dual-citizenship as an accepted condition for us.
As I have said earlier, pending on the mature nature of the discuss, we are capable of influencing the government to doing the right thing.
Whether President Koroma appoints saints to Ministerial Positions or not, if there is no national interest and conscience in national consciousness in both the governed and these Ministers, nothing will be effected in Sierra Leone until we bring patriotism to a flag-high.
We must not underestimate the power of the Internet, to which we must utilize appropriately towards national advantage.
That is the sad reality that we are not innovative and cooperative in our quest for success in Sierra Leone, but not paying attention to ourselves, the reality of what is going on but mostly entrapped in the rumor cage that we get intertwined in spreading them rather finding the hard reality of what goes on.
Brother Chez, welcome. My confidence in you will never shiver.
Subject: Re: LET ME CORRECT A POLITICAL MISPERCEPTION
From: Bock Jah
To: All
Date Posted: 05:14:35 09/29/07 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
Bambay you have said it all as this is one of the most sensible and mature point anyone has highlighted with regards to the appointment of a cabinet and the new Government.I think a lot of people on this forum have been pre-occupied with who ocupies what position.The President has the vested authority to appoint anyone to his cabinet who meets the constitutional rquirement subject to parliamentary approval.When this happens we should not be in haste to criticise appointees but should wait and see how they would perform under President Koroma's leadership.
Subject: Omrie Golley and Two Others: Justice Must Be Done
From: Bambay Lans Kamara
To: All
Date Posted: 15:10:06 09/28/07 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
Omrie Golley and Two Others: Justice Must Be Done
Posted by Allieu Vandi Koroma on Sep 27, 2007, 21:20
The treason trial of Omrie Golley
The Author......Allieu Vandi Koroma
and two others resumed on Thursday, 28th June 2007 at High Court No.2 presided over by Justice Mary Sey from the Republic of the Gambia, eighteen months after the Prosecution opened its case. It could be recalled that Omrie Golley together with Mohamed Bah and David Kai Tongi were arrested in January last year on allegations of planning to overthrow the Government of Sierra Leone and to assassinate Vice President Solomon Berewa. Since the inception of the case in February 2006, there had been series of motions/applications bordering on a wide range of issues including the eligibility of the then presiding Judge, Justice Samuel Ademusu, a contract judge to preside over the matter which temporarily grounded the trial. These procedural difficulties were only settled very recently thus starting the trial again. However, the euphoria that accompanied the restart of proceedings is fast dissipating as the case continues to be adjourned for trivial reasons. The problem is multi-faceted and cannot be laid at the door step of the judiciary alone. The prisons department and the police cannot be exonerated; they all stand to be implicated in the current derailment in the course of justice in this all important trial.
It is gradually becoming a norm for the accused persons not to be brought for trial for preventable reasons principal amongst which are the lack of security forces to convey prisoners to and from the courtroom and the non availability of fuel for prison vehicles. Since the resumption of the case four weeks ago, there have been no less than five adjournments for such reasons. The presiding Magistrate in Freetown’s Court No.3, Bankole Shyllon, on Friday 6th July 2007 said in open court that the Master and Registrar had to plead with the Inspector General of Police to provide fuel for vehicles to bring prisoners to court. According to the Magistrate, “Mr. Acha promised to provide a gallon of petrol for prisoners to be brought to court”. What confounds the SLCMP is how those responsible for the provision of fuel for prison vehicles could continuously fail to provide for such basic and essential requirement and by the same token why do the police fail to provide security for conveying of prisoners to and from the court on daily basis? This administrative malaise only exposes the ineptitude of very important state institutions with its attendant effect on the expeditious administration of justice. Although I must state that these excuses are not peculiar in the case of Golley and the two others alone, however, taking into account the seriousness of the allegations, this matter should be prioritised without prejudice to other cases in the interests of justice.
The disorganisation plaguing the judiciary is sometimes exposed when the accused succeeds to make it to the court. There one problem trails another: the presiding judge is either out of jurisdiction or one of the parties is not present in court. For instance, although the accused did not come to court on the 10th July this year because of, according to the prison officials, lack of police personnel to escort them, even if they had made it, there was not going to be a trial since the judge was, according to court officials, busy making arrangements at the British High Commission to travel abroad. When the accused made an appearance in court on the 17th of same, the presiding judge was out of jurisdiction reportedly attending to family affairs.
The parties to the case do share their own part of the blame in undermining expeditiousness. On the part of the Defence, the lead counsel, Charles Margai, is a politician running for the Presidency in the August 11 elections. He is currently busy traversing the country seeking votes hence giving him little time to concentrate on his lawyer-client responsibilities. For example, when an important issue of screening jurors in the matter came up earlier this month, Mr. Margai, who had applied for the trial to be conducted without a jury but was rejected, was not in court. He was however represented by his colleague. The accused persons were not represented when a medical letter issued by the prison’s doctor concerning their deteriorating health was rejected. The Prosecution on its part is most often overwhelmed by the numerous cases it has to prosecute. Since the lead prosecutor, Oladipo Robin-Mason, cannot be at two places simultaneously, he frequently asks for an adjournment in the most serious of cases where it is judged that he cannot send a representative. Consequently, over 30 adjournments have been sought as a result of judicial inertia.
Judicial expediency has been greatly undermined in the trial under review. Premised on the maxim of innocent until proved guilty by a competent court of law, an accused should be tried within a reasonable time. This right is firmly entrenched in both national and international legislations and suffers no exemptions. According to the European Convention on Human Rights, the reasonable time guarantee runs from the moment that an individual is subject to a charge; but in a case where the charge is delayed, or subsequent charges are added it may be the date of a person’s initial arrest, or the date on which the accused becomes aware that he is being “seriously investigated”. In certain situations, the operative date will be the date of the first interview. In the said case, this entrenched principle is yet to be adhered to. Eighteen months after their arrest and subsequent detention, substantive trial is still far from beginning. The matter has not been treated with the robustness that is characteristic of an all important case like a treason trial. In fact, with the current political atmosphere overshadowing almost all other issues both in the public and private domain and the looming judicial recess, the case risks being left unattended to until after the election dust has settled which would probably be sometime in September.
It must be noted that whatever the allegations are, the accused persons should not be prejudiced against and their rights as embodied in national legislation must be safeguarded. The accused persons, particularly the First Accused, have been constantly complaining about suffering from life threatening conditions with little done to ameliorate their predicaments. In fact on the 23rd July, 2007 the presiding judge rejected a medical letter from Dr. Conte-Coker, the prison’s medical officer, on behalf of the First and Third Accused persons for want of detail explanation on the specifics of ailments. Moreover, with over a dozen prisoners reported to have died in the past eight weeks, the medical complaints by accused persons should be a particular cause for concern.
Justice, it should be remembered is a two-way street: justice for the victim as well as for the accused. Premised on the recognition of protection of human rights, it behoves everyone connected with the justice sector to work assiduously to ensure that justice is done. So far in this trial, all those involved have failed to prove their dedication to the task of upholding justice. If this is the case for such a high profile case, tracked avidly by the media, then the prospect for the vast impoverished and nameless majority is bleak indeed. The SLCMP urges all, particularly the judiciary, the prisons and police to properly network and exert all efforts, to ensure that the justice system live up to its name and that the rule of law at last be solidly embedded in our society.
Subject: MR PRESIDENT,MARGAI VP2 AND AG
From: MUSA KAMARA
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Date Posted: 15:07:27 09/28/07 ()
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His Excellency,President Earnest Bai Koroma, Sierra-Leoneans will applaud you aloud if you entrust the vibrant,discipline Charlie boy with vp2 and Attorney General.It is worthy to have him with you in any aspect of decision or policy making.
Subject: Re: MR PRESIDENT,MARGAI VP2 AND AG
From: KKW
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Date Posted: 16:03:20 09/28/07 ()
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I hope we don't get into VP1 and VP2 again. It doesn't make sense for such a small country. While a VP in theory is the #2 person to the president, in reality he has very little executive authority.
Subject: Re: MR PRESIDENT,MARGAI VP2 AND AG
From: MUSA KAMARA
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Date Posted: 16:10:48 09/28/07 ()
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Having a vp2 is just ceremonial,no extra finances or the like.This is just to strengthen the bond with the co-giant in decision making for the good of our nation
Subject: Re: MR PRESIDENT,MARGAI VP2 AND AG
From: Mammy Blessing
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Date Posted: 15:37:03 09/28/07 ()
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If Charles Margai becomes VP, that means PMDC is effectively coopted into the APC. Not a desirable outcome for Margai.
I prefer that Charles nominates some of his supporters to serve in the cabinet while he remains in friendly, constructive opposition with unfettered access to the Prezy. He can head important projects like electrification, sanitation, mining reform as the need arises. This way he raises his national profile while building up his PMDC. No need to fool around with constitutional questions this early in the game.
Subject: Re: MR PRESIDENT,MARGAI VP2 AND AG
From: MUSA KAMARA
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Date Posted: 15:41:13 09/28/07 ()
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Do you think,merging with the President to put things forward,as Salone is still creeping after the war and the slpp era will hinder him?
Subject: Re: MR PRESIDENT,MARGAI VP2 AND AG
From: Med
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Date Posted: 16:18:35 09/28/07 ()
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Yes, precisely Charles can be more productive as an opposition primarily amidst other executive responsibilities than a direct inclusion into the APC, such inclusion would amount to a political disaster, despite his support for the APC during the runoff, Charles is a political head and an opposition to Earnest. This is politics; it’s possible that the very APC he supported can implicate him.
Subject: Re: MR PRESIDENT,MARGAI VP2 AND AG
From: MUSA KAMARA
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Date Posted: 16:32:37 09/28/07 ()
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To be implicated in what?I think Charles can be part of the government for nation building,at the same time be a vibrant watchdog
Subject: Re: MR PRESIDENT,MARGAI VP2 AND AG
From: Med
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Date Posted: 16:36:16 09/28/07 ()
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If you read the entire phrase properly, you would have realized ‘this is Politics,’ the implication I meant is political elimination, I do not see need further interpret this phrase.
Subject: Re: MR PRESIDENT,MARGAI VP2 AND AG
From: MUSA KAMARA
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Date Posted: 16:53:41 09/28/07 ()
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The phrase was well understood,but its function in the context was my question.It seems as if you have foreseen a possible betrayal, and you are worrying about an imminient implication than a solid team to take the nation forward.
Subject: Re: MR PRESIDENT,MARGAI VP2 AND AG
From: Med
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Date Posted: 17:16:04 09/28/07 ()
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WORRY!!!! Sorry, I don’t need to worry, we have seen political betrayals, seen bigger heads roll before and its recurrence will not bring the world to an end, life continues. Musa, please discourage yourself from the notion that only presidents or ministers do influence change or take the nation forward. Charles can serve the country without an active inclusion into APC.
Subject: Re: MR PRESIDENT,MARGAI VP2 AND AG
From: MUSA KAMARA
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Date Posted: 17:32:49 09/28/07 ()
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Are you sure,he can serve the nation without inclusion?If so how?I do agree with your point on betrayals but let us pause a bit not to put everyone in the same basket.I believe the President will fulfil his obligations.May The ALMIGHTY GOD guide him.
Subject: Re: MR PRESIDENT,MARGAI VP2 AND AG
From: Med
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Date Posted: 18:14:19 09/28/07 ()
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We all pray that the president succeeds, otherwise Sierra Leoneans are now proactive; we won’t wait until 10 years to realize that the president was a vampire, this is democracy, it’s unique when people have different views on issues affecting our country from different stand points. Earnest Koroma is the president of Sierra Leone though not every Sierra Leonean voted him in.
Charles should know better how to serve the nation without messing up his career, he is guy with good instinct, I cannot help but wish all the best.
Subject: Re: MR PRESIDENT,MARGAI VP2 AND AG
From: Mammy Blessing
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Date Posted: 16:15:02 09/28/07 ()
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If he merges (meaning effectively cross-carpeting) so soon after the elections, Margai's credibility will be shot to tatters. He will lose political capital like a supernova flaming out. His PMDC will rebel and SLPP will cluck gleefully: "We told you so Charles is an opportunist".
He will be of greater help to the country if he maintains his huge credibility, not be seen as partisan, and take on important tasks, like reliable electricity, that benefit all constituencies. With unfettered access to his buddy EBK, Margai can indeed become a super VP WITHOUT THE VP TITLE!
A strengthened Margai and PMDC can be of more help to Ernest in the next elections than a cross-carpeting Margai.
I will discuss later how a strong Margai can cut a Machiavellian deal with Ernest Bai Koroma to become Prezy, with the cheering, enthusiastic support of the APC and the North in 2017. It is not far-fetched at all!
Subject: Re: MR PRESIDENT,MARGAI VP2 AND AG
From: MUSA KAMRA
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Date Posted: 16:26:53 09/28/07 ()
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MB,there is sense in the above,but if Margai and co felt marginalized?Merging with the President to close loopholes is imminient for the nation at this initial stage and that doesn't mean, he has to dance to any tune.
Subject: Re: MR PRESIDENT,MARGAI VP2 AND AG
From: Mammy Blessing
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Date Posted: 16:50:33 09/28/07 ()
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Musa, ar go carry on dis discussion later. I need to take a rest. Fast Mornah tiday. Bye for now bro.
Subject: Re: MR PRESIDENT,MARGAI VP2 AND AG
From: Bambay Lans Kamara
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Date Posted: 17:14:51 09/28/07 ()
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Greetings my brothers and sisters. I always wonder why we tend to live the constitution out when we make guesses, hypothesis and or suggestions? Our guesses, suggestions can only be conceived to be rational when they fall within the fringes of the Laws of the land. We are dealing with a President therefore, we must realize that when he opted to rule Sierra Leone, a country rich in gold and diamonds but went through a turbulent time, we must realize that he had an agenda and that agenda is what he will consider in making decisions about who will be in his cabinet.
I personally would like Hon. Margai to work hands-in-glove with the President but he, Mr. Margai, has a reputation to maintain and people he led to lead. As President Koroma and Hon. Margai are cognizant of this fact, they will work-out modalities to ensure a coherent strategy to be mapped-out whereby, Hon. Margai will play a pivotal role in our national development and cohesion. But Ministerial position is not conceivable as Vice Presidency is absolutely out of the question. Take it from the one who knows and that is not a boast, as exemplified in debates about the war and the elections.
Under one Party Constitution a President can choose from a Sierra Leonean, ellected member but under our current constitution, it is not feasible to appoint Hon. Margai, a member of Parliament, a party leader for ministerial position until he resigns as a party leader, which no sane person would advice particularly at this time.
Are all these Sierra Leoneans talking or do we have those who have loved Sierra Leone so much that they want to discuss our issues. Condos to you. Is that not how it is said? Oops!
Subject: Re: MR PRESIDENT,MARGAI VP2 AND AG
From: MUSA KAMARA
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Date Posted: 17:40:10 09/28/07 ()
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I do agree with you Bambay,but evading some remnants of the constitution for the good of our nation wont hurt or harm even an ant.
Subject: Re: MR PRESIDENT,MARGAI VP2 AND AG
From: MUSA KAMARA
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Date Posted: 16:55:53 09/28/07 ()
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Stay well Bro.MB.Deepest regards
Subject: Hi every one!
From: babbybob
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Date Posted: 15:01:27 09/28/07 ()
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Yes you did not know what he was talking about shoot!
Subject: CBS 13 News and Forbes Magazine
From: Bambay Lans Kamara
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Date Posted: 14:58:33 09/28/07 ()
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http://www.forbes.com/lists/2007/53/07celebrities_The-Celebrity-100_NameHTML.html
Click page 1-4 is there any difference?
Bambay in Sacramento one (1) year (4) months. Went to College and graduated in Sierra Leone West Africa, worked in the highest office in Sierra Leone, the President Office, came to New York, received by an Ambassador, let to go to school, completed all but two pre-requisites, lived in Virginia for sisxteen (16)years before invited to Sacramento and the story goes on and on.
How could any one in Sacramento know everything about him if T.V. was not involved? Hey, when did he meet you to tell or show you that he is better than you? Common sense! That thinking is very funny I will not lie. It is very funny.
How can you possible make belief that you are one of these I don't know!
Attack and get the word.
Now determine seriousness.
Not reading over.
Want to see what is funny? Check how human beings would want some one to suffer just to get a kick out of it while this is going on, he can work and go to schoo, has the right given by the government that is what is funny.
Subject: A model for Sierra Leone. Village to Village progressively
From: Saloneboy
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Date Posted: 14:50:50 09/28/07 ()
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http://money.cnn.com/2007/09/26/technology/village_saving_planet.biz2/index.htm?postversion=2007092703
Earnest Koroma.. take note.
There is a revolutionary management style out there.
Father of Invention
Paolo Lugari's 7 secrets for creating creativity.
1. Ban brainstorming meetings: Creativity is spontaneous. Formal meetings are a poor forum for creation. People choke because they show up for a limited time with a narrow agenda. Turn every workday into a continuous, open-ended brainstorming session.
2. Practice da Vinci's code: When your organization tackles a problem or a project, wipe the board clean of all assumptions and prior knowledge. "Leonardo da Vinci expressed it best," Lugari says. "Step one is a tabula rasa."
3. Play nice with others: At Gaviotas, new technologies grow out of a process of tweaks and upgrades, with a variety of contributors adding their own nuts and bolts. "These inventions came out of spontaneous, collective thinking," Lugari says. "We don't like prima donnas."
4. Burn the corporate policy manual: To think freely, you have to act freely. A fanatical dedication to free speech - unencumbered by top-down prohibitions - has produced a Gaviotas mind-set in which unproductive behavior melts away of its own accord.
5. Rule out "degree-itis": There is no hierarchy based on titles; a peasant worker gets the same hearing as a Ph.D. One of the most important revenue streams at Gaviotas - the production of industrial coatings and resins from pine pitch - evolved from an observation made by one of the cooks.
6. Master the art of indiscipline: Big breakthroughs are often the result of people crossing disciplines. Mendel was a priest before he was a biologist; the fuel cell was invented by a lawyer. So rotate your specialists out of their specialties and promote generalists ahead of narrowly focused experts.
7. Trash your Outlook calendar: Give up time-management tricks and devote each hour of every workday to whatever task or inspiration arises spontaneously. If you keep filling your week with scheduled meetings and tasks, you'll snuff out your creative sparks before they have a chance to fly.
Subject: Re: A model for Sierra Leone. Village to Village progressively
From: Chez Winakabs Europe
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Date Posted: 15:59:17 09/28/07 ()
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I do subscribe to all the above save that a state like sierra leone cannot function without a thought through plan of action. A bi-annual plan or long term strategic plan would be more appropriate for our nation considering our present social and economic conditions.
mavericks tend to function well under such a prescr1ption as that which you described. i do the same but you will sometimes find yourself having done nothing. the only consolation is such a situation is your confidence, contentment and inner conviction that you will break through. You are your time and therefore insignificant to all. The government does not have the time - the time belongs to the people and if during a period of five years they are not capable of delivering better conditions - there time will be up and the people will have to go to the polls again to look for someone who has thought through plans for a better nation.
Your prescr1ption will function well if the government set up an independent free thinking body to explore every inspiration or task that arises spontaneously. Such a body will be tasked to come up with blue prints for the government to work on. Such a body should have statutory powers under any government and should function as long as the nation contniue to exist. Their aim should be geared towards providing us with an independent national agenda that every government should include in their policies to deliver on behalf of the nation.
Subject: Re: A model for Sierra Leone. Village to Village progressively
From: Olu Beckley
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Date Posted: 17:31:25 09/28/07 ()
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A strategic plan should be future-oriented. We already have the Sierra Leone Vision 2020 or 2015. A lot of thinking went into that document, and what we might need now is a review of that vision in the light of the existing situation and develop an action plan that will translate the vision into action.
The Ministry of National Planning and Economic development is the Government agency with the manadate to develop, and coordinate policy, and as far as I know, it works on a quinquiennial planning time frame with annual/bi-annual reviews. An “independent free thinking body” could serve as a watchdog, but without a mandate, I wonder what it could achieve! Several community organizations are currently serving this useful purpose. We dont need to reinvent the will.
Subject: Re: A model for Sierra Leone. Village to Village progressively
From: Chez Winakabs Europe
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Date Posted: 18:02:18 09/28/07 ()
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Guess you are correct in syggesting a review of the Vision 2020. However, it would serve well if we have a body of mavericks as saloneboy suggested who will freely have the opportunity and resources to bring out the best our society has to the government. These free and independent thinking lot should be separate from the 'watchdog' team. The body of mavericks should comprise farmers, engineers and inventors, business people, artists, scientists, and educationists.
Community organisations cannot give the nation its needs. They are just a tip of the iceberg. maybe more help by the government to community organisations with realistic projects of national benefits will help them achieve their potentials. At present resources available to these groups cannot meet a realistic budget proposal. Effective monitoring by the charity regulate will also see some credibility and people's confidence in the Third Sector.
Subject: AND THE AG IS?
From: ALIEU SESAY
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Date Posted: 14:27:08 09/28/07 ()
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Reliable sources are saying that jenkins johnston is our new AG in Salone... If this holds, then for the first time in our HISTORY we have a fair and excellent choice for the POSITION.
Subject: Re: AND THE AG IS?
From: Mammy Blessing
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Date Posted: 15:00:34 09/28/07 ()
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Who the blazes is Jenkins Johnston? Is he knave or paragon of good citizenry? Educate us a little, Alieu.
Subject: Where you abbhopeing?
From: Candid Opinion
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Date Posted: 14:42:54 09/28/07 ()
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I was wondering if it had crossed your mind to serve in this capacity..?
If you have, had...please elucidate on why, how.
The question was raised earlier and questions where raised that you might not be qualified for a position with this much gravity. Since you are not a sitting lawyer or judge in salone....
Noto Moko bra.....
Subject: Re: Where you abbhopeing?
From: alieu sesay
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Date Posted: 15:05:04 09/28/07 ()
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Candid? I am not a lawyer and ooh i am not AI....
Subject: Re: Where you abbhopeing?
From: Darn - Candid doesnt understand english.
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Date Posted: 15:09:28 09/28/07 ()
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Me provoking miss smallbit..
But still valid questions..
Just want to know whats in the hearts of men bra..
Subject: Re: Where you abbhopeing?
From: alieu sesay
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Date Posted: 15:10:59 09/28/07 ()
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Enti you know BRA.. This nar you petty
Subject: Re: Where you abbhopeing?
From: nar lie - BRA na BRA..
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Date Posted: 15:12:55 09/28/07 ()
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Noto lek say ah take nar wharf oh.. or saying you do..
But bra nah bra..
You nah bra..
Subject: STOP THIS EAST END PADDLE POLITICS
From: SUBWANALAI
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Date Posted: 14:01:42 09/28/07 ()
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The world has advanced so much so that in developed democracies which Sierra Leone should be imitating, ministers and appointess of states are known days before even the head of state pronounce it; thanks to the Freedom of Information act and the effectiveness of PR teams. But again with the lack of a probing press in our country, what do we expect.
Few minutes ago, I was reading in Patriotic Vanguard that as early as 16:00 hours; Sierra Leone time, citizens were glued to their radios patiently waiting; (like queuing to catch a view of the WAN TEM FOR YEAR- PADDLE), for the announcement of the new cabinet. Such idleness! Whilst all of these happen, the economy continues to plummet.
Subject: Re: STOP THIS EAST END PADDLE POLITICS
From: Lie Lie
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Date Posted: 16:23:13 09/28/07 ()
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Could you please substantiate for the benefit of all how "the economy continues to plummet" in this time of transition?:
Subwanalai, Alhamdulilai, Bisimilai,Astafulai...So so Lai Lie(Lie Lie)Oona lef for LIE bo dis nar Ramadan Season Ya!
Subject: Re: STOP THIS EAST END PADDLE POLITICS
From: BRA ENVIABLE
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Date Posted: 14:21:13 09/28/07 ()
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There is absolutely no “idleness” in the hypertensive wait on the part of citizens to know the country’s new set of leaders. Once the new cabinet assumes a definite political shape, the quality of life in Sierra Leone will largely depend on the decisions taken by the incoming team. Once bitten, twice shy. We have experienced a couple of false dawns in Sierra Leone, and the eagerness to know the new political team under the much-publicized NEW APC should be seen as political al3rtness, not national idleness.
Subject: Re: STOP THIS EAST END PADDLE POLITICS
From: POLITICO
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Date Posted: 19:09:17 09/28/07 ()
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Bra Enviable, is it possible that EBK was not expecting to win and therefore not fully prepared to put a cabinet together? What about he is trying to please to many factions?
Subject: Re: STOP THIS EAST END PADDLE POLITICS
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Date Posted: 19:06:03 09/28/07 ()
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Bra Enviable, is it possible that EBK was not expecting to win and therefore not fully prepared to put a cabinet together? What about he is trying to please to many factions?
Subject: Re: STOP THIS EAST END PADDLE POLITICS
From: SUBWANALAI
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Date Posted: 14:41:14 09/28/07 ()
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Get on with it thou political spinster!
Subject: CLOSE DOWN KROO BAY AND OTHER GHETTOS AND RESETTLE THE PEOPL
From: Lanre
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Date Posted: 13:58:10 09/28/07 ()
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The last time I proposed a human rights debate (re: abolish the death peanalty,)people in this forum did not even debate the issue, but were very quick to jump to the conclusion that "death penalty is good!, death penalty is good!!" - and dwelled on vindictiveness, revenge and the drimbeat blood for blood. Honestly, I was taken aback by that attitude from Sierra Leoneans, however, I was not too surprised - recalling the terrible and wicked acts that were perpetuated by Sierra Leoneans on themselves even before the civil war. Sheki, Momoh, Strasser, Kabba all executed dozens of people. Their security agents randomly brutalized students and masses and steal at will. Therefore, we should stop fooling ourselves that Sierra Leoneans are "friendly and nice people"; this which is not true. Sierra Leoneans are as mean as any other savage-like barbarian that have lived through time. - Look at what our leaders did to the poor people. - Look at what corruption have done to us.
Why don't subsequent governments don't see it fit to close down Kroo Bay, Susan's Bay, Marbaillah, and all the other ghettos around the city and relocate this people. How can others be able to sleep at night with people living with pigs?
I wish this new government will think about a project like that and close all of this ghettos - it is a human rights violation!
Subject: Re: CLOSE DOWN KROO BAY AND OTHER GHETTOS AND RESETTLE THE PEOPL
From: babybob
To: All
Date Posted: 01:38:18 09/29/07 ()
Email Address: m9141655@msn.com
Entered From: at 213.42.21.60
Message:
Lanre,
My response to your Death Penalty issue was that it was a wrong time to bring it up. After we've maintained a fairly civil society where a vast majority of the populace work according to conscience and ethics, then you can bring-on the topic of whether we should abolish it or not based on statistical use of death penalties and crimes comitted.
As far as this topic is concerned, I'm all 100% with you.
Now analyse why Slums exists and how you could limit it existence.
In certain Socio-Political situations you can't always 100% eradicate slums.
You have slums in US, UK, South Africa, certain areas in Squeeky clean Switzerland where drug-addicts and abusers congregate, China, India, Brazil, Australia and so on.
We could advocate for reducing the slums which directly related to poverty and population migration.
You can't only tell a government to shut down the slums without advicing or producing viable solutions to get it done. THEY WON'T LISTEN. THEY WOULD SAY THEY HAVE OTHER PRIORITIES.
I agree that the Ghettos need to be relocated, but we should also provide various viable solutions on how to resettle the ghetto populace and how the Ghetto Real Estate could be developed sustainably.
Subject: Re: CLOSE DOWN KROO BAY AND OTHER GHETTOS AND RESETTLE THE PEOPL
From: Med
To: All
Date Posted: 16:05:57 09/28/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 82.114.66.82
Message:
On death penalty….
Lanre, you may have misunderstood the concept of those of us that were hypothetically in favour of its implementation, as a matter of fact death sentence, though the maximum price is not an exceptional rule; it’s like any other offense with its appropriate penalty upheld by the constitution of Sierra Leone, though the court procedures can be different. Notwithstanding, if certain governments have enjoyed the execution of its application, that fine, my position was that justice should be dispensed equitably, if this same law in the nearest future applies to those that have/would failed to abrogate it, unfortunate, but Justice is a Devine command and should take it's course.
I did not legislate these laws neither have I ever participated in its implementation, so please excuse me as we all support the TRC recommendation to abrogate the cruel and inhuman ‘Death penalty.’ Until let justice prevail, please.
Subject: Re: CLOSE DOWN KROO BAY AND OTHER GHETTOS AND RESETTLE THE PEOPL
From: Mammy Blessing
To: All
Date Posted: 14:55:35 09/28/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: pool-151-202-41-6.ny325.east.verizon.net at 151.202.41.6
Message:
I am all for closing down the ghettoes if and only if, the government first builds housing to relocate the slummers. This costs a pretty penny, as you know, Lanre.
Many African governments deal with their ghetto eyesores by bulldozing them and leaving the people homeless. This cannot be allowed to happen in Salone.
My stance is, build before you bulldoze!
Subject: Re: CLOSE DOWN KROO BAY AND OTHER GHETTOS AND RESETTLE THE PEOPL
From: Basco
To: All
Date Posted: 14:51:50 09/28/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: 82-44-17-83.cable.ubr04.croy.blueyonder.co.uk at 82.44.17.83
Message:
Tejan Kabba once entertained the idea to turning BAY looking towards the sea into office blocks and condominiums. The same to the fishing jetty of MOWHARF. I wonder what happened. This is the problem with Salone prezzies they leave no legacies. Could anyon tell me of a major infrastructural project carried out by Kabba? At least Pops Shek has YOUYI building, National Stadium,Aberdeen, Congo Cross and Juba Bridges as his legacies. I rank Kabba in Momoh's company!!
Subject: RESPECT OUR SISTERS AND MUCH MORE
From: SANTOS MANGA
To: All
Date Posted: 13:31:47 09/28/07 ()
Email Address: santos@aol.com
Entered From: at 86.156.235.37
Message:
Is Margai's hands clean? This could be asked of most Sierra leoneans. I am only asking and do not need anyone to be rude, which has become the daily bread of most contributors to this forum. In fact most of the guys on this forum DO NOT SHOW RESPECT TO OUR WOMEN. Remember M'balu who wanted to discuss FGM. She was torn apart like she was a terrorist.Sierra leoneans should always try to be civil to one another irrespective of whatever affiliation. Our sisters should be respected.
Subject: Re: RESPECT OUR SISTERS AND MUCH MORE
From: babybob
To: All
Date Posted: 03:04:45 09/29/07 ()
Email Address: m9141655@msn.com
Entered From: at 213.42.21.60
Message:
Would you RESPECT a SISTER who strips naked in public and solicits money for males to have a go at her?
Respect is RELATIVE my brother and it is something that is earned.
Go back and take your time to read what was written before. Are the krio words the SISTER used, vastly used by well respected SISTERS in Public? Do the SIERRA LEONE SOCIETY Respect Who Stay at brothels (Long-Step,........)? The words used are those akin of being used in those areas. ASK A Real KRIO Brother to interprete those words and who uses those types of vocabulary and when.
http://www.hwforums.com/2179/messages/47997.html\
http://www.hwforums.com/2179/messages/48297.html
Does respect go with the above? The forum has a potential of being viewed by over 2 Billion people by virtue of it being an open forum.
Making the FGM procedure safe is one that is up for debate by males. But undergoing FGM or Not is a whole other issue. It is not a process done by the whole country and it is not obligatory. It is a tribal practice.
How about tribal Marks? Would you say it is also barbaric? These are done within lots of tribes across Africa and South America.
How about the South American Native tribes who carry their male genital parts in tubes.... barbaric.....
Here are some questions posed:
http://www.hwforums.com/2179/messages/48318.html
http://www.hwforums.com/2179/messages/48307.html
Subject: Re: RESPECT OUR SISTERS AND MUCH MORE
From: Association of Gays and Transvestites
To: All
Date Posted: 01:49:51 09/29/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: cache-ntc-ad04.proxy.aol.com at 207.200.116.198
Message:
Your sister Mbalu is a Transvestite
Subject: Re: RESPECT OUR SISTERS AND MUCH MORE
From: Eddie Grant
To: All
Date Posted: 14:46:37 09/28/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 89.243.206.173
Message:
Santos,
In as much as I sympathised with women who went through this barbaric practice, I also have my reservations on this topic with regards to Mbalu.
If you follow closely the postings of Mbalu, you will find that Mbalu is an imaginary character and not a real woman. This is clearly justified by her choice of words when discussing the topic. A real woman would have chosen clear and sobbordinate materials to include in this topic.
Mbalu's inconstitencies in her postings further exposes her to ridicule.
I would strongly love to discuss this topic with real women. but when a man tried to impersonate women, the topic will lack that conviction and motivation which is strong enough to draw attention from well meaning Sierra Leonean men.
Though I strongly dispised FGM, I still don't believe that the practice exposes women to HIV/AIDS. This disease spear no one whether you're mutilated or not. Infact, Sierra Leone though the practice is widely spread, it still holds the lowest rate of HIV/AIDS in comparison to other African countries which are more exposed to western contacts.
So I do not believe that the practice is linked to HIV/AIDS.
Subject: Re: RESPECT OUR SISTERS AND MUCH MORE
From: Ishmael Yillah
To: All
Date Posted: 15:03:55 09/28/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: pool-71-191-1-25.washdc.east.verizon.net at 71.191.1.25
Message:
Mr. Grant, young girls are susceptible to the virus if the same knife is use on all the candidates without adequate sterilization.
This is plain common sense!
Subject: Re: RESPECT OUR SISTERS AND MUCH MORE
From: Mbalu
To: All
Date Posted: 14:09:10 09/28/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: eduproxy3.k12.de.us at 167.21.254.13
Message:
Santos Manga,
Thanks for your thoughtful reference to my FGM plight and my quest to have a civil discourse in what I thought was a forum with a few bright heads. Please be rest assured though that I do not feel torn apart by some insensitive peanut headed brothers who are hell bent on trivializing serious issues. Like many people mentioned, we suffer from the PHD (Pull Him/Her Down) syndrom which is also responsible for the many negative assessments of any respectable Sierra Leonean name mentioned for a possible position in the new government. As far as I am concerned, thank to my long time residency in the Bronx, I am THICK SKINNED and will do whatever I set out to do without fear. Nothing scares me....WHAT?
As for your question, I think Margai's hand may not be squicky clean but clean enough that he occupies any position in the new government. There is hardly any Sierra Leonean with squicky clean hands but somebody's got the do the job. Let us have trust in the new President and allow whoever he appoints to prove him or herself fit for the position appointed to. Let us be patient as President Koroma himself has shown patience over the last two weeks.
As for my FGM topic, any thoughtful contribution to a solution is still welcome.
Enjoy the weekend everyone and hopefully the new cabinet will be something worth to pour libation for over this weekend.
Subject: Re: RESPECT OUR SISTERS AND MUCH MORE
From: ishmael K. Yillah
To: All
Date Posted: 13:46:03 09/28/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: pool-71-191-1-25.washdc.east.verizon.net at 71.191.1.25
Message:
Thanks Manga
many people in this forum want sierra leone to move up to the 21st century level in terms of development, but want the inhumane practice of FGM to continue. Most of those forumites do not know the trouble that women go through during birth as a result of the FGM practice. Neither do they know how many innocent young girls are exposed to the HIV virus due to the unsanitary evironment (not practicing universal precaution) of the practice.
God bless sierra leone.
Subject: Re: RESPECT OUR SISTERS AND MUCH MORE
From: Bull Shit
To: All
Date Posted: 14:37:46 09/28/07 ()
Email Address: sorba_1@yahoo.com
Entered From: at 209.116.81.187
Message:
Bull Shit. Kill that topic my friend. You and Mbalu can go to KOOKaka with your bondo business. Who cares about bondo. For you to say people are getting aids because of bondo makes me whant to vomit. Thanks God I didn't go to FBC.
Subject: Re: RESPECT OUR SISTERS AND MUCH MORE
From: Ishmael Yillah
To: All
Date Posted: 14:58:43 09/28/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: pool-71-191-1-25.washdc.east.verizon.net at 71.191.1.25
Message:
Mr. Bull-shit, I did not go to college at FBC, but I will tell you how the HIV virus is spread from one person to another during the bondo procedure.......
If a young woman who is sexually active (perhaps is HIV+)is initiated into the bondo society with a child as young as eight, there is always posibility that the young child would be infected if the same knife is use on them without adequate sterilization.
I know what i am talking about an i have read an article that supports my assertions...
Next time if you don't know what you are talking about, you need to shut-up!!!!!
thanks,
Ishmael Yillah
Subject: Re: RESPECT OUR SISTERS AND MUCH MORE
From: Bull Shit
To: All
Date Posted: 15:11:19 09/28/07 ()
Email Address: Sorba_1@yahoo.com
Entered From: at 209.116.81.187
Message:
Iam sick and tired of you people try to revail what has been known by our people as secrete society. I assumed you are a man and by your name you are a country boy. Why can you respect your elders. Once again you and Mbalu go KOOKAAS. Bondo my foot. Lets talk about things that will help develop the country.
How about moving people from Bay to Low cost housing?
Subject: Re: RESPECT OUR SISTERS AND MUCH MORE
From: Ishmael Yillah
To: All
Date Posted: 16:56:48 09/28/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: pool-71-191-1-25.washdc.east.verizon.net at 71.191.1.25
Message:
I am done with you becuz your are not educated enough
Have a nice weekend!
ishmael Yillah
Subject: My Apology
From: Alieu, Iscandri
To: All
Date Posted: 13:29:52 09/28/07 ()
Email Address: dollarbill@gmail.com
Entered From: c-67-184-114-238.hsd1.il.comcast.net at 67.184.114.238
Message:
Sir,
Accept my apology.
Subject: Re: My Apology
From: jackal
To: All
Date Posted: 13:33:14 09/28/07 ()
Email Address: dollarbill@gmail.com
Entered From: c-67-184-114-238.hsd1.il.comcast.net at 67.184.114.238
Message:
Wrong Post. Jackal is apologizing to ALIEU ISCANDRI
Subject: Re: My Apology
From: M. Alieu Iscandari esq
To: All
Date Posted: 15:36:02 09/28/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: cache-ntc-ad04.proxy.aol.com at 207.200.116.198
Message:
Mr. jackall your apologies are accepted and now lets move on. I have been practicing in the state of California for a while now and most people that know me know what I have been doing for the past twelve or so years. I am a first time california bar passer, and over the years I have been a lawyer I have had experiences in teaching and preparing students to take the bar. I have also served as amentor for Sierra leoneans and other west africans who have used my example to enrole in law school three of whom have finished Law school.
I do not get involved in the so called PHD sydrome that affects so much our own people. I have used my life as a beacon to help the sierra leonean community in the Bay area and almost every sierra leonean in the Bay area or as far away as sacramento which is over 90 miles from me, or who lives in the cities of san Jose, San Francisco Oakland or any of the surrounding cities, does have my HOME number or knows someone who has my home number. This is why I went to law school so that I can contribute positively to my community.
Now that I know that you are a law student your self, I will hold you to the high standard of a colleague in the profession. By this I mean, I will expect you to write what you please and speak for justice and refrain from gutter politics which is what we sierra leoneans are known for.
I have earned the right to be where I am today in life and I will let no one take away from me that which by the grace of God I have so streneously earned.
Stay Blessed Brother.
Subject: Re: My Apology
From: Jalloh
To: All
Date Posted: 23:55:40 09/28/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: adsl-68-75-17-149.dsl.wotnoh.ameritech.net at 68.75.17.149
Message:
Alieu Iscandari esq. I'm taking the LSAT in a couple of months and I must have a 160+. Can you offer some pointers on how to acheive my goal?
Subject: Re: My Apology
From: Jackal
To: All
Date Posted: 17:11:07 09/28/07 ()
Email Address: dollarbill@gmail.com
Entered From: c-24-13-121-79.hsd1.il.comcast.net at 24.13.121.79
Message:
I hope to continue the intellectual discourse on this forum as a tool for constructive change, renewed socio economic social thought.
Subject: Re: My Apology
From: Jackal
To: All
Date Posted: 17:14:32 09/28/07 ()
Email Address: dollarbill@gmail.com
Entered From: c-24-13-121-79.hsd1.il.comcast.net at 24.13.121.79
Message:
I hope to continue the intellectual discourse on this forum as a tool for constructive change, renewed economic and social thought.
Change is dynamic, we are its agents, our collective discourse is the avenue to actualizing the visionary to our self renewal.
Subject: Re: My Apology
From: Jackal
To: All
Date Posted: 17:17:27 09/28/07 ()
Email Address: dollarbill@gmail.com
Entered From: c-24-13-121-79.hsd1.il.comcast.net at 24.13.121.79
Message:
I hope to continue the intellectual discourse on this forum as a tool for constructive change, renewed economic and social thought.
Change is dynamic, we are its agents, our collective discourse is the avenue to actualizing the visions to our self renewal.
Subject: Re: My Apology
From: jackal
To: All
Date Posted: 13:31:46 09/28/07 ()
Email Address: dollarbill@gmail.com
Entered From: c-67-184-114-238.hsd1.il.comcast.net at 67.184.114.238
Message:
Wrong post. It Jackal apologizing to Iscandri.
PEACE!!!!!!!
Subject: If you are not named a minister, nor vex ya
From: Mammy Blessing
To: All
Date Posted: 12:14:51 09/28/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 165.155.200.143
Message:
Six million Sierra Leoneans...not everyone can become a minister. The diasporan brothers and sisters who get the call to serve in the cabinet, I say congrats and selfless, productive service.
For those who wish to serve but are not called up, your selfless ambition is an inspiration to your countrymen. You can still contribute mightily to your country's development by investing your hard earned dollars, euros and pound sterlings in the many sectors of the economy.
And for those of us who would not serve even if we were invited into the inner sanctum, let us continue helping out with ideas, money and the canvassing of corporations and institutions to take a chance on Salone.
Subject: Re: If you are not named a minister, nor vex ya
From: Wishful thinker
To: All
Date Posted: 12:33:20 09/28/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 195.95.130.244
Message:
Still impatiently waiting for the announcement, but no avail.Meanwhile, just toying with the idea of
Charles Margai AG/Justice
Dauda Kamara -Foreign Affairs
I B Kargbo- Information
Francis Gabbidon - Transport
James Sanpha Koroma-Finance & Development
Sheku Tejan Kamara (Dr)- Health
Foday Kallon - Sports
Phillip Neville - Agriculture
Olu Gordon - Education
Julius Spencer-Presidential Affairs
Osman Kamara - Mineral resources
Lloyd During - Works
J B Dauda -Social Welfare and Gender affairs
Osman Yansanneh-Tourism
Subject: Re: My Ideal Cabinet
From: J
To: All
Date Posted: 14:52:24 09/28/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: c-69-140-34-194.hsd1.md.comcast.net at 69.140.34.194
Message:
Blyden Jenkins-Jonston-AG/Justice
Charles Margai-Foreign Affairs
David Tam Baryoh- Information and Broadcasting
?- Transport and Communications
James Sanpha Koroma-Finance & Development
Dr.Johnston Taylor- Health
Ansu Lansana -Youth and Sports
Dr.Sama Mondeh- Agriculture
Sorie Ndigi Dumbuya - Education
Allieu Iscandri-Presidential Affairs
Solomon Samba - Mineral resources
?- Works
Hafsatu Kabba -Social Welfare and Gender affairs
Oluniyi Robbin Coker-Tourism
Dr.Samura Kamara-Economic Development
Chief Benson Suwu-Resident Minister South
Dian Konomanyi- Resident Minister East
Dr.Richard Konteh-Resident Minister North
Hindolo Trye-Minister of Labor
Eric James-Minister of Trade and Industry
Subject: Re: My Ideal Cabinet
From: Idiotic thoughts
To: All
Date Posted: 19:34:38 09/28/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 195.24.201.34
Message:
Eric James- a drug addict, Sanpha Koroma- a gone case, Sama Mondeh- a joke, Jenkins-Joke.You are out of your mind
Subject: Transition Wahala!!!
From: Pa Sorie
To: All
Date Posted: 11:35:34 09/28/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: cpe-24-168-2-173.si.res.rr.com at 24.168.2.173
Message:
Event these past days have higlighted a big flaw in our constitution, with the annoucement of the the election result President Koroma was hastily sworn -in to office. A situation which I belive robbed him of the opportunity of properly organising his team in away that he would have liked. Presenlty, he is running the state of affiars with opposition ministers, those au fait with public administration will agree with that, it is higly improbable for the civil service to take oders from a political appotintee on his way out. Am not entirely sure the Koroma led government will push forward with constitutional review started by the previous administration, but if they do they might want to look into the possibility of putting fixed election dates in the constitution, and fixed dates for the swearing in of any president. I Know this may sound politically heretical especially in Africa, but this will strip the Executive branch of the power to determine election dates (no-more rainy season), allows proper coventions for all parties tto choose their canidates (no-more law suits), and most importantly afford future administration the opportunity preparation.
Subject: If Margai is made Justice Minister,Som Man go Runna way
From: Basco
To: All
Date Posted: 10:11:12 09/28/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: 82-44-17-83.cable.ubr04.croy.blueyonder.co.uk at 82.44.17.83
Message:
All those pilfering Slpp cabinet ministers who are found guilty by the KPMG audit will be hung up to dry by Charlie boy! Would JB and JK wait to see or melt away?
Subject: Re: If Margai is made Justice Minister,Som Man go Runna way
From: Lawyer
To: All
Date Posted: 10:25:43 09/28/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 195.95.130.244
Message:
Do not project an evil image of Margai.He will do all necessary to bring the culprits to justice, but you are creating an impression that he will hand pick people, which is not the case
Subject: Re: If Margai is made Justice Minister,Som Man go Runna way
From: Basco
To: All
Date Posted: 10:27:41 09/28/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: 82-44-17-83.cable.ubr04.croy.blueyonder.co.uk at 82.44.17.83
Message:
No,no,no! Infact I am afraid he could or will do his job too well.
Subject: Re: If Margai is made Justice Minister,Som Man go Runna way
From: nico
To: All
Date Posted: 13:42:41 09/28/07 ()
Email Address: nicoleconsult@hoymail.com
Entered From: host86-147-29-19.range86-147.btcentralplus.com at 86.147.29.19
Message:
This is a fitting appointment. Margai is a personate beliver in the rule of law, indeed this issue was at the fore front of his campaign. Our justice system is a total crap and the judiciary is terribly corrupt and not independent. Margai knows exactly how our judiciary works and how they are easily bought by the public and politicians. His appointment is like a promotion from in-house. I hope he will reform the judiciary and our criminal justice system as this is what the public expect. Those who have been denied justice and their rights trampled on should now have hope for the future.
Subject: Let’s Tackle Corruption Head-on
From: Panlamp
To: All
Date Posted: 07:20:56 09/28/07 ()
Email Address: panlamp2000@yahoo.com
Entered From: usstls-23.savvis.net at 64.242.52.23
Message:
Sax,
Your article on corruption falls way too shot on the menace that creates it. What you did not mention amongst all other aspects is that - how do you say to a government that can not afford to pay a small salary to a laborer or a teacher that has a family of six who is the only bread winner ? You walk up to him and ask for assistance in something that you desperately need, him, thinking that he can scrape a few leones out of you.
Teachers have to surcharge parents for a pupil to have access to an end of term or end of school year report card amongst all other things else. So if your newspaper is on the presidential advisory list please tell the president to look into workers salaries first and let him make sure they are delivered on time especially teachers . I know he will listen especially for teachers because his farther was a teacher at the primary school that I attended in Makeni.
Subject: LEAVE MOMOH ALONE!! STOP THE PULL DOWN CULTURE
From: Gordon
To: All
Date Posted: 07:04:14 09/28/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: c-68-48-106-232.hsd1.va.comcast.net at 68.48.106.232
Message:
I have to warn you diasporans, some of you are already saying that you are being sidelined to the homebase, but why should we take any of you seriously when you find anykind of way to discredit those from the diaspora?
Too much pulldown and negativity exists in general with our national attitude towards progress, we must change this for us to make Sierra Leone competitive again.
One day it's the VP was working in a nursing home, next day it's Momoh is not this and that, the next day it may be Iscandri is this and that or even you who is making negative comments. We should all realize that we are not perfect, and need not be to occupy office of significance.
One thing about Momoh, is that if he is in the room, you will feel his presence in black or white speak. He is ambitious hence he has grand ideas such as making sure he gets SLPP out of power etc., One thing you can say is from that big idea, came the current success of the current APC in line with many others who sought the same.
Bootom line is that he does have the pedigree to function within this transistion team, as he knows the country very well having been there for so long and continouously being stifled to properly establsih his business.
Off course we would hope that he acquits himself well in that position.
We need to be in a positive spirit and embrace new people in our political system.
Subject: SL's New CABINET: Wild Guess?
From: Almamy Razak Tun Seray-Wurie Si
To: All
Date Posted: 06:56:22 09/28/07 ()
Email Address: almamysi@hotmail.com
Entered From: 24hrpc6.cpmc.columbia.edu at 156.111.18.145
Message:
1. Solo Samba
2. Emmanuel Grant
3. Sorie Dumbuya
4.Abdul Serry-Kamal
5. Charles Margai
6. John Karim
7.Sorkoh Kabia
8.Abu Bakarr Jalloh
9.Diana Konomani
10. Bockarie Stevens
11.Zainab Bangura
12.Pat Sowe
13.Balogu Koroma
14. Kawuta Kargbo
15. Hindolo Trye
16.Jenkinston Johnston
17. Fatmata Boie Kamara
18. Isha Dyfan
19. Musu Kandeh
20. Diana Konomani
Subject: Re: SL's New CABINET: Wild Guess?
From: Sabanoh
To: All
Date Posted: 14:48:28 09/28/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: cache-dtc-ag14.proxy.aol.com at 205.188.117.142
Message:
Why Isha Dyfan? She is SLPP. her parents Asmirah and Dr Conteh were the pillars of SLPP in Makeni and recently Isha was collecting funds for Pa Kabba. If Isha is in the cabinet then Blyden also should be included.
Subject: Re: SL's New CABINET: Wild Guess?
From: Query
To: All
Date Posted: 07:21:46 09/28/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 195.95.130.244
Message:
Why Solo Samba????APC government cannot function, if Sanpha Koroma is not included in the Cabinet.
Subject: Re: SL's New CABINET: Wild Guess?
From: Very Idle Alimamy Razak
To: All
Date Posted: 08:43:15 09/28/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 165.155.200.143
Message:
Almamy Razak Tun Seray-Wurie Si, you seem to be a very idle guy with your gossipy speculations about who is what in the cabinet?. At first it was cute but now, it is just downright annoying.
In a few hours, EBK will unfurl his cabinet and we will have ample time for commentary. I find your continuous posting on the subject childish. Calm down, relax, and please don't come down with a coronary.
Subject: Re: SL's New CABINET: Wild Guess?
From: Almamy Razak Tun Seray-Wurie Si
To: All
Date Posted: 11:49:47 09/28/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: h-68-167-40-146.nycmny83.covad.net at 68.167.40.146
Message:
I know you will not give up the "Pull Down" disease
"Oringe Nor Go Bear Banana"
Apples are Apples
Subject: Re: SL's New CABINET: Wild Guess?
From: Very Idle Alimamy Razak
To: All
Date Posted: 12:29:52 09/28/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 165.155.200.143
Message:
Have you heard of the orange-banana Tropicana juice blend? Very tasty, prof. Iam not trying to pull you down. I just find your relentless exuberance and speculation about the cabinet (without any evidence, I dare say) rather puerile and irrational.
Please contain your excitement until EBK reads out the list, especially if you don't have a clue about what's popping in State House.
Hopping around like a jack rabbit only distracts from the adult conversation on this forum.
Subject: Re: SL's New CABINET: Wild Guess?
From: Almamy Razak Tun Seray-Wurie Si
To: All
Date Posted: 14:41:09 09/28/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: h-68-167-40-146.nycmny83.covad.net at 68.167.40.146
Message:
Cup handle,
Does your response tell you are reasonable or just "Bochechen"
Are you not bold enough to reveal your name?
Are you so busy that you have time to respond to an idler?
Subject: Re: SL's New CABINET: Wild Guess?
From: Very Idle Alimamy Razak
To: All
Date Posted: 15:09:14 09/28/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: pool-151-202-41-6.ny325.east.verizon.net at 151.202.41.6
Message:
I was nameless until I read your drivel
And your childish speculations-like a brat who can't wait for christmas to open his present-have inspired a fitting name for me:
Very Idle Alimamy Razak.
I guess your idleness has gotten on to me by osmosis.
Subject: Sycophantic Newspaper Congratulations
From: Reporter
To: All
Date Posted: 06:03:58 09/28/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: m338-mp1.ppphg-17-manc.dial.ntli.net at 80.0.129.82
Message:
The usual raft of sycophantic adverts congratulating Pres. Koroma have started to appear in Awareness Times and, no doubt, other local papers. These sort of adverts also appear frequently as holiday greetings.
Why are parastatals like National Insurance Company allowed to waste taxpayer's money on this stupid "lay belleh" exercise?
State House should issue a press release thanking all and sundry for their goodwill, but advising commercial concerns to donate money intended for such adverts to worthy charities.
Subject: Re: Sycophantic Newspaper Congratulations
From: KKW
To: All
Date Posted: 07:49:55 09/28/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 204.50.182.249
Message:
It is silly, but probably an important revenue dource for the cash-starved media. Catch 22.
Subject: Re: Sycophantic Newspaper Congratulations
From: Reporter
To: All
Date Posted: 08:45:06 09/28/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: m293-mp1.ppphg-10-brnt.dial.ntli.net at 80.2.211.37
Message:
KKW, I understand. But why should parastatals waste taxpayers money in these charades?
If public officials wish to keep their jobs they should perform; not indulge in paying homage. We need to move beyond that sort of relationship.
Subject: Alieu Iscandri - What Law School did you attend?
From: Jackal
To: All
Date Posted: 05:59:41 09/28/07 ()
Email Address: dollarbill@gmail.com
Entered From: c-24-13-121-79.hsd1.il.comcast.net at 24.13.121.79
Message:
12. who signed the mining agreement where the country gets ONLY 3% of the gross produce in taxes?
"3% of gross produce in taxes"? WHAT?
I have access to Lexis and Nexis alumni database but have n't found your name or what Bar you belong to. Did you attend law school at FBC or the US?
Subject: Re: Alieu Iscandri - What Law School did you attend?
From: Thomas
To: All
Date Posted: 08:44:05 09/28/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: cache-ntc-ad04.proxy.aol.com at 207.200.116.198
Message:
Do you really have access to lexis nexis database? Or are you just lying. Maybe you cant find him because you cant spell his name right. Stupid Ass
Subject: Re: Alieu Iscandri - What Law School did you attend?
From: Jackal
To: All
Date Posted: 10:13:47 09/28/07 ()
Email Address: dollarbill@gmail.com
Entered From: c-24-13-121-79.hsd1.il.comcast.net at 24.13.121.79
Message:
No cursing dude. You can either buy access to Lexis and Nexis or gain free access if you are in attending a University. WHY DO YOU TAKE OFFENCE TO MY REQUEST? I need the information on this legal luminary. The quality of the LINE referenced from his writing is causing the doubts.
Subject: Re: Alieu Iscandri - What Law School did you attend?
From: What's Your Problem?
To: All
Date Posted: 06:48:59 09/28/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: f298781.ga.unc.edu at 152.4.31.217
Message:
What's your problem?
Subject: Re: Alieu Iscandri - What Law School did you attend?
From: Jackal
To: All
Date Posted: 07:09:47 09/28/07 ()
Email Address: dollarbill@gmail.com
Entered From: c-24-13-121-79.hsd1.il.comcast.net at 24.13.121.79
Message:
My problem? Idon't have one I had a lot of respect for the guy but common, a Lawyer? Read this again.
12. who signed the mining agreement where the country gets ONLY 3% of the gross produce in taxes?
WHAT THE HECK IS THIS?
Subject: Re: Alieu Iscandri - What Law School did you attend?
From: Bisi
To: All
Date Posted: 08:52:00 09/28/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: cache-ntc-ad04.proxy.aol.com at 207.200.116.198
Message:
so what is your problem with this? Maybe that would get us to the point where yu would get an understanding of what he means by his post.
Subject: Re: Alieu Iscandri - What Law School did you attend?
From: Jackal
To: All
Date Posted: 10:20:44 09/28/07 ()
Email Address: dollarbill@gmail.com
Entered From: c-24-13-121-79.hsd1.il.comcast.net at 24.13.121.79
Message:
That will be nice. That is why I posed the question. If it is an error, I would like to hear from the Lawyer.
What did he mean by "country gets ONLY 3% of the gross produce in taxes?"
My colleagues read this forum and called my attention to it. If nothing else, by time you leave law school you should be a versatile writer and thinker.
Challenge that.
Subject: Re: Alieu Iscandri - What Law School did you attend?
From: nico
To: All
Date Posted: 14:02:08 09/28/07 ()
Email Address: nicoleconsult@hoymail.com
Entered From: host86-147-29-19.range86-147.btcentralplus.com at 86.147.29.19
Message:
"My colleagues read this forum and called my attention to it. If nothing else, by time you leave law school you should be a versatile writer and thinker."
Challenge that.
Please first correct your own rubbish statement above before u correct others.
Subject: Re: Alieu Iscandri - What Law School did you attend?
From: Jackal
To: All
Date Posted: 15:29:06 09/28/07 ()
Email Address: dollarbill@gmail.com
Entered From: c-24-13-121-79.hsd1.il.comcast.net at 24.13.121.79
Message:
Nico,
Please help correct my "Rubbish". I could not spot the flaw(s)you saw.
I have apologized to the Honorable gentleman. I am taking this issue DOWN your alley. I am waiting for your corrections dude.
Subject: Re: Alieu Iscandri - What Law School did you attend?
From: Kalos
To: All
Date Posted: 12:15:02 09/28/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 66.250.191.180
Message:
Jackal, you hastily need a remedial course in basic reading. Remember, to read is “to read and understand”. I hope AI will not validate your non sense by any response.
Subject: Re: Alieu Iscandri - What Law School did you attend?
From: jackal
To: All
Date Posted: 13:17:54 09/28/07 ()
Email Address: dollarbill@gmail.com
Entered From: c-67-184-114-238.hsd1.il.comcast.net at 67.184.114.238
Message:
Please follow up on my contribution to the forum and tell me why I need a reading course. I took the most difficult GRAD school exam... LSAT with a score of 161. That puts me at a 71 percentile nationally.(USA)
Now Kalos, I will pay for you to take the exam and see who really needs a remedial course in reading.
Subject: Jackal, Thanks for the apology
From: kalos
To: All
Date Posted: 18:56:43 09/28/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: pool-71-191-253-17.washdc.fios.verizon.net at 71.191.253.17
Message:
Jackal, I salute you for the thoughtful apology to AI. However, I am reluctant to evaluate you based on your LSAT score; and please do not disclose your IQ score to validate your ability to comprehend, it is irrelevant. The ability to read emanates from "common sense". The great Albert Einstein once said: "Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen." I am not sure of the “prejudices” you lack, but I wish you the best in your endless pursuit of knowledge. Good luck.
Subject: Re: Alieu Iscandri - What Law School did you attend?
From: silent majority
To: All
Date Posted: 10:42:17 09/28/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 195.54.227.249
Message:
Mr Jackal,
since you are pressing the point, perhaps i can help out:
he means 3% of the gross value of any diamond mined is payable to the govt as taxes.
My view, for what it is worth, is that the meaning is clear.
Subject: Re: Alieu Iscandri - What Law School did you attend?
From: jackal
To: All
Date Posted: 13:28:32 09/28/07 ()
Email Address: dollarbill@gmail.com
Entered From: c-67-184-114-238.hsd1.il.comcast.net at 67.184.114.238
Message:
Ok. I am dropping this issue. Alieu, I am sorry. I still hold you in high esteem.
Subject: Re: Alieu Iscandri - What Law School did you attend?
From: Sorba S
To: All
Date Posted: 13:27:18 09/28/07 ()
Email Address: sorba_1@yahoo.com
Entered From: at 209.116.81.187
Message:
I don't think you are right either. If you pay 3% on gross production, then all your expenses are taxed at gross. No company will take that deal. My thought is that the mining company is taxed at 3% on the profit.
Subject: Re: Alieu Iscandri - What Law School did you attend?
From: silent majority
To: All
Date Posted: 02:52:53 09/29/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: cache-los-ae04.proxy.aol.com at 195.93.21.132
Message:
Mr Sorba S
You wrote
'No company will take that deal. My thought is that the mining company is taxed at 3% on the profit.'
With respect you are wrong on two fundamental points:
1. The word gross specifically means that the tax is levied on value BEFORE any costs are accounted for.
This is a specific and deliberate provision in the relevant tax statute.
2. As stated above the 3% tax terms are based on statute so your notion that 'no company will accept it' is a curious one as all miners are bound to accept the current tax regime whether they like it or not.
Subject: Re: Alieu Iscandri - What Law School did you attend?
From: Jackal
To: All
Date Posted: 07:12:48 09/28/07 ()
Email Address: dollarbill@gmail.com
Entered From: c-24-13-121-79.hsd1.il.comcast.net at 24.13.121.79
Message:
My problem? I don't have one. I had a lot of respect for the guy but common, a Lawyer? Read this again.
12. who signed the mining agreement where the country gets ONLY 3% of the gross produce in taxes?
WHAT THE HECK IS THIS?
Subject: Transition
From: Pa Sorie
To: All
Date Posted: 05:59:18 09/28/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: cpe-24-168-2-173.si.res.rr.com at 24.168.2.173
Message:
Event these past days have higlighted a big flaw in our constitution, with the annoucement of the the election result President Koroma was hastily sworn -in to office. A situation which I belive robbed him of the opportunity of properly organising his team in away that he would have liked. Presenlty, he is running the state of affiars with opposition ministers, those au fait with public administration will agree with that, it is higly improbable for the civil service to take oders from a political appotintee on his way out. Am not entirely sure the Koroma led government will push forward with constitutional review started by the previous administration, but if they do they might want to look into the possibility of putting fixed election dates in the constitution, and fixed dates for the swearing in of any president. I Know this may sound politically heretical especially in Africa, but this will strip the Executive branch of the power to determine election dates (no-more rainy season), allows proper coventions for all parties tto choose their canidates (no-more law suits), and most importantly afford future administration the opportunity preparation.
Subject: Re: Transition
From: Bugsyb
To: All
Date Posted: 12:39:32 09/28/07 ()
Email Address: aburneynic@yahoo.co.uk
Entered From: acc92238.ipt.aol.com at 172.201.34.56
Message:
Are you saying that President Koroma didn't think he would win? I think he should have had his Cabinet decided long ago. But then he had the weight of History against him.
Subject: Re: Transition
From: Mammy Blessing
To: All
Date Posted: 09:00:51 09/28/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 165.155.200.143
Message:
Trying to perfect our constitution, working out the kinks, is something that should always go on.
I too think parliament should look at the transition period. Ernest's swearing in, so soon after the elections, was a joke. We gotta fix that.
Subject: REVENGE IS NOT THE WORD BUT PAY BACK
From: John Koroma
To: All
Date Posted: 04:56:18 09/28/07 ()
Email Address: koromajay@yahoo.com
Entered From: at 202.79.51.59
Message:
It is very good to hear that we are bent on a Government of National Unity but not when the SLPP was in power. Let us take a look at the then Government and Cabinet and reflects on how many tribes were includeed. Look at the parastatals, establishments and Permanent Secretaries. All of them where either Mendes or from the South/East. The few Northerners were puppets used to cover up not as Ministers or Deputies but shadows of representations. We will not be happy if fifth columnists from the SLPP are included in the new cabinet as they will seek out to destroy the image of the New Dawn. Put in the back chairs and do your things. God bless the Rising Sun and God our President and people.
Subject: Re: REVENGE IS NOT THE WORD BUT PAY BACK
From: Med
To: All
Date Posted: 05:27:16 09/28/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 82.114.74.96
Message:
Utter rubbish. DOWN WITH TRIBAL HATRED, there are more decent and appropriate ways to lobby jobs from your relative the president; to project tribalism is on a wrong footing.
Name names and not tribes, you xenophobic element, shame on you.
B rgds,
Med.
Subject: Re: REVENGE IS NOT THE WORD BUT PAY BACK
From: Kalos
To: All
Date Posted: 12:59:29 09/28/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 66.250.191.180
Message:
John, what goes around comes around. I do not believe in the axiom, an eye for an eye, but..............
Subject: Re: REVENGE IS NOT THE WORD BUT PAY BACK
From: Mammy Blessing
To: All
Date Posted: 09:35:12 09/28/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 165.155.200.143
Message:
It's the curse of democracy that we have to share space with the cursed tribalists...
We shouldn't expend precious energy being angry at the angry cavemen who want to cave us in tribal burrows, Brother Med..
We should patiently educate the ignorami amongst us that 56% is no ways close to 100%..
That if the winner grabs all the candy, the loser may just lose his cool and start pelting the glasshouse with marbles..
Subject: Re: REVENGE IS NOT THE WORD BUT PAY BACK
From: Med
To: All
Date Posted: 10:19:24 09/28/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 82.114.74.96
Message:
Mammy Blessing, thanks this ‘Koroma’ fellow was just a deadlock.
Subject: Peninsular Road - Chop Chop or No Contract?
From: Albert Moinina
To: All
Date Posted: 02:28:56 09/28/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 213.42.21.153
Message:
I spoke to my dad yesterday and what he told me about the Peninsular Road is very pathetic. What happened to the contract for the construction of the road?
Should we clean Mafanta of san san boys and reserve it for real 'big fishes' to send them on 'diet' because of their Borboh Bellehs in order to keep them 'healthy'?
Ernest and his team, especially the ACC, have to hold all former and present officials accountable. This is not witch-hunting but good governance and accountability to the shareholders.
AWARENESS TIMES NEWS
Sierre Leone Roads Authority kicks-off Tokeh-Lumley Road project
By Abu Bakarr Munu
Jun 13, 2006, 18:06 Email this article
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The signing of the contract for the reconstruction of the Tokeh-Lumley Road, which is the last phase for the completion of the peninsular road project took place last Thursday, 8th June 2006 at the Sierra Leone Roads Authority (SLRA) compound at Kissy in Freetown.
The Director General of SLRA, Mr. I. M. Kebbay in his opening remarks said the project comprises the reconstruction of the final section of the Waterloo-Freetown Peninsular road axis between Tokeh and Lumley with a length of about 21 kilometres and an asphalted width of 7.0 meters with 1.5 metres shoulders. He said the project includes the construction of village access roads and by-passes along the axis with a total length of about 8.0 kilometres as well as the reconstruction and landscaping of the main square at the entrance of Freetown at Lumley.
The Director General went further to say that the segment between Tokeh and Wallace Johnson Bridge will be two lanes whilst that from the Wallace Johnson Bridge to the Lumley police station roundabout will be four lanes. He added that it will also include the provision of off street parking bays.
Mr. Kebbay disclosed that documents were received from nine international contractors for prequalification on May 4th, 2005, and after evaluation, only four contractors were prequalified and invited to submit bids. The bidding documents, he said, were distributed to the four contractors on October 12, 2005.
The date for the submission of bids was extended twice from November 30, 2005 to December 28, 2005 and to January 27, 2006 the SLRA Director General explained. He said this was due to several requests made by the bidders for extension of bid submission dates beyond the festive seasons.
He disclosed that three out of the four contractors submitted bids that were opened on January 27, 2006 and evaluated.
The bid evaluation report indicated that the prices of all bids submitted were above the available budget.
So in order not to delay the implementation of the project, Mr. Kebbay explained, it was therefore recommended in the evaluation report submitted by the consultant that negotiations be held with the lowest evaluated bidder that would be tailored around the work items in the contract, without having significant delay on the overall implementation of the project, the SLRA Director General maintained.
The bid evaluation report, Mr. Kebbay said was therefore submitted to the Kuwaiti Fund for their review and no objection was made.
The Kuwait Fund gave its no objection to negotiate and award the contract, to the contractor Burhan International Construction Company of Kuwait on May 7, 2006.
The SLRA Director General concluded by saying that in the negotiation, it was agreed that the project scope be grouped into two parts, one which will be a fixed part, will include work items that would be paid for within the allocated budget and two, an optional part that will include work items, as provisional sums, that will be executed when the required funds are secured.
The fixed part of the contract is estimated as US$15,130,854.8 which is within the available budget.
The funds in the financing agreement is US$15,138,810.00 which is slightly above the contract price of the project.
The total provisional sums of the contract is estimated as US$4,701,174.75 for which the government of Sierra Leone would have to request donor assistance, Mr. I.M Kebbay explained.
The Regional Director for the Burhan International Construction Company, Mr. Hussian H. A. Albasri, in his statement, said he is pleased to sign the contract document for and on behalf of Burhan International Construction Company, and extended his congratulations to the government and people of Sierra Leone for what he referred to as quite an achievement.
Mr. Albasri said his company’s presence in Sierra Leone is indicative of their desire to join the people of this country in their development strides. He said their company do not believe in the adage winner takes it all, rather according to him, they believe in sharing, and for this reason it is their policy wherever they are to harness, utilize and develop local resources; human or otherwise.
The Company Regional Director said it is their intention to continue with and apply this policy in Sierra Leone and asked for the cooperation of all at all levels.
The Minister of Works and Technical Maintenance, Dr. Kaizer Boima in his statement said the reconstruction of the Tokeh-Lumley road, which is 21 kilometres is the third and final phase of the 65km peninsular road project, with the first and second phases being the Waterloo- Kent and Kent-Tokeh roads respectively.
Dr. Boima said the Tokeh-Lumley road will ensure a smooth and alternative link to Freetown from the provinces and will also serve as an alternative route from the West of the city to the East end. He noted that despite several warnings by SLRA, there are a number of new houses in the ‘Right of Way’ of the SLRA which are creating problems for government.
The Minister of Finance, John Oponjo Benjamin in his contribution said the signing of the works contract for the reconstruction of the Lumley-Tekeh road is a major milestone in the realization of government’s roads development programme. He said government inherited an infrastructural system that was completely devastated, a situation that was compounded by the civil conflict. He went further to say that plants and equipment belonging to construction companies that were constructing some of the roads and other infrastructural projects across the country were completely destroyed, which resulted in millions of dollars worth of claims which amounted to US$ 30 Million that were honoured by the government of Sierra Leone.
Subject: Re: Peninsular Road - Chop Chop or No Contract?
From: Basco
To: All
Date Posted: 09:57:39 09/28/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: 82-44-17-83.cable.ubr04.croy.blueyonder.co.uk at 82.44.17.83
Message:
I was told that Kebbey bought a house in the UK for cash!
Subject: Re: Peninsular Road - Chop Chop or No Contract?
From: Med
To: All
Date Posted: 09:23:12 09/28/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 82.114.74.96
Message:
The public may not be familiar with this nature/details of contract awarded to the International organization, but I have a grave concern on the compensation policies. I was amazed after reading this article through and left with the question ‘is the government of Sierra Leone an insurance broker, if personal item/s of a private company is/are destroyed, and how does that implicate the government?
This was supposed to have been an international independent indemnified company contracted by the government for a specific purpose and we hear of a USD 30 Million, dashed as a settlement in favour of this auspicious company, it would be interesting to know which policy on finance was engaged + the government’s interest to disburse such fortune.
I assume the money awarded to this company for the job was irrelevant and that the job for sure was never completed, but our faithful government through the then able Minister of finance, John Benjamin had the boldness to justify the disbursement of such a lump sum.
Honestly, apart from corruption + nepotism, I see no major reason why Sierra Leoneans should suffer. Lets focus on the basics, the issue of rice, as a staple food is monopolized, an indigene is never qualified for such a privilege only acclaimed dual NATIONAL, the bankers know why. Fuel, every gallon of this essential liquid purchased is taxed for road maintenance, what SLRA or the relevant institution does with the money and why the roads through out the country can’t be asphalted, I don’t know. Citizens’ honour electricity + meter bills and no electricity given, I recently established that NAP hires private vehicles for official operations and the vehicles are supposedly owned by NPA staff. Guma valley is another disaster.
APC is not faced with an uphill task, I mean not expected to move Mount Everest, but basics like food, water, electricity and good roads should be improved, these are the greatest primary challenges than renewing friendships.
On the other hand there is so much to be investigated, so much corrupt practices were deliberately executed by those in authority, depriving the people. Failure to improve/address on these basic challenges determined SLPP’s tight spot and awaits APCs'decision.
May God save our nation from the greedy and bloody hands of selected few.
Subject: Re: Peninsular Road - Chop Chop or No Contract?
From: Albert Moinina
To: All
Date Posted: 10:52:36 09/28/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 213.42.21.60
Message:
"On the other hand there is so much to be investigated, so much corrupt practices were deliberately executed by those in authority, depriving the people. Failure to improve/address on these basic challenges determined SLPP’s tight spot and awaits APCs'decision."
This is what exactly the Ernest government should embark on in the process of developing the country. We need to set very good examples with our corrupt officials.
Someone commented in Leonnet about the same subject that it is not really clear why the project has stalled.
Subject: Re: Peninsular Road - Chop Chop or No Contract?
From: Lameeh Gblaah
To: All
Date Posted: 13:52:07 09/28/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: cpc3-lewi6-0-0-cust268.bmly.cable.ntl.com at 82.27.201.13
Message:
Hi folks,
I wish to take this opportunity once again to discuss about issues regarding the development of the land that we love"Sierra Leone". I would like to advise some of our comrades to stop insinuating, cos in Britain the A1 motor way was built in a record time of fifteen months a span of one hundred and odd miles. Look in Sierra Leone where labour is very cheap it is now early six years or more since the construction of the peninsular road. Now some of the heads of the roads authority has become millionairs and sending their children to a private schools in sierra leone as well as in the united kingdom. Please look i would'nt call names when i was in sierra leone i placed my SUV for sale and this guy bought this van for $9,000 for his girlfriend. When I had to investigate more about him his yearly salary is not an inch of that money. The reason why the roads authority is so inept is because most of those who are the heads are round pegs and as a result we would like the government to investigate into the activities of the so called heads in coughing out all those money that had been squandered. look at John Benjamin who called himself a minister of Finance he is a disgrace travelling with his girlfriend all over the world and excommunicating his wife to the united states, he went to Britain with the so called girlfriend and this girlfriend was backed by JB to rain words of obuse at a SLPP banquet and brought the party to an abrupt end . I am not surprised at all for JB to have awarded $30,000,000 to the so called Kuwait Construction firm that why the saying goes that "when you pay peanut you will get monkeys".Please lets us also look at the activities of all and sundry for transparency and accountability! I would also want to know what happening to the Mountain by pass road if some body out there has any information please would pass it on. Thanks.
Subject: Is Sylvia Blyden now APC? My newly elected President.
From: Madingo man
To: All
Date Posted: 02:24:01 09/28/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 78.146.202.215
Message:
I thus recommend that my newly elected President, H.E. Ernest Bai Koroma should learn from recent history and only appoint well trusted, purely APC partisans and devoted APC loyalists to sit in that Ministerial Cabinet of his. Reconciliation does not mean bringing a political foe into your inner circle of confidence and unwittingly exposing APC weaknesses to SLPP or PMDC.
Subject: Re: Is Sylvia Blyden now APC? My newly elected President.
From: Non Madingo
To: All
Date Posted: 03:23:18 09/28/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 195.95.130.244
Message:
Were not all Mandingos APC, then switch over to SLPP for 11 years, and now back to SLPP???
Subject: Re: Is Sylvia Blyden now APC? My newly elected President.
From: Apples and Oranges
To: All
Date Posted: 05:56:56 09/28/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: adsl-19-28-148.asm.bellsouth.net at 68.19.28.148
Message:
Is Blyden "all Mandingos?"
Subject: Salone ranks 39th out of 48 African Countries
From: Alieu Oil
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The report card of how former President Tejan Kabbah performed while in office during the years 2000 to 2005 has been released by the Mo Ibrahim foundation which published the Ibrahim index of African governance yesterday Wednesday 25th September 2007.
The 60 year old Sudanese born billionaire Dr Mo Ibrahim who is Chairman of the foundation has pledged to reward African leaders who have demonstrated excellence in African leadership with a five million dollar prize after they leave office.
As a result the board of the Mo Ibrahim foundation selected an eminent group of African academics with whose help the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University developed a new ranking of governance quality in sub-saharan Africa.
The Index published yesterday Wednesday ranks Sierra Leone 39th out of 48 African countries.
The researchers applied 58 separate measurements to each country to elicit scores for five larger categories, which include Safety and Security, Rule of Law, Transparency and Corruption, Participation and Human Rights, Sustainable Economic Opportunity and Human Development.
Sierra Leone scored relatively high marks under Safety and Security (72.0) and Participation and Human Rights (68.4) but scored very poorly under Rule of Law, Transparency and Corruption (35.1) and Sustainable Economic Opportunity (39.4)
The worst score was under Human Development (26.4)
On the whole, ranked 39th Sierra Leone scored 48.3 on the Ibrahim index.
All was not gloom and doom however as the change in rankings showed 2 places between the years 2000 and 2005 which signifies the level of progress that was made by the Tejan Kabbah government.
Mauritius received the highest ranking in the index.
Under Safety and Security, Mauritius was ranked highest while Sudan was ranked lowest. For Rule of Law, Transparency and Corruption Botswana was ranked best while Somalia was ranked worst. On Participation and Human Rights again Mauritius was ranked best with Somalia again ranked worst. For Sustainable Economic Opportunity Seychelles was ranked best while again Somalia was ranked worst. Under Human Development Seychelles was ranked best with Chad ranked worst.
The most improved country was Rwanda while DR Congo dropped back the farthest.
On the whole 27 countries progressed while 21 countries fell back.
Dr Mo Ibrahim founded Celtel which is one of the best Telecommunications network in Africa
Subject: HE IS THE GREATEST
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Date Posted: 22:38:27 09/27/07 ()
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He reigns forever.
Subject: Freedom is your name
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Date Posted: 22:27:27 09/27/07 ()
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WORTHY IS YOUR NAME.
Subject: Wow!
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Subject: Re: Wow!
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Check out one of my favourites: JONAH MOYO
Subject: President Mugabe at 62nd Session of UN General Assembly
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Text of President Robert Mugabe's speech at 62nd Session of UN General Assembly
Statement by His Excellency the President of the Republic of Zimbabwe, Comrade R. G. Mugabe, on the occasion of the 62nd Session of the United Nations General Assembly, New York, 26 September, 2007
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Last updated: 09/27/2007 11:30:13
Your Excellency, President of the 62ndSession of the United Nations General Assembly,
Mr. Srgjan Kerim,
Your Majesties,
Your Excellencies, Heads of State and Government,
Your Excellency the Secretary-General of the United Nations, Mr. Ban Ki-Moon,
Distinguished Delegates,
Ladies and Gentlemen.
Mr. President,
Allow me to congratulate you on your election to preside over this august assembly. We are confident that through your stewardship, issues on this 62nd Session agenda be dealt with in a balanced manner and to the satisfaction of all.
Let me also pay tribute to your predecessor, Madame Sheikha Haya Rashed Al Khalifa, who steered the work of the 61st Session in a very competent and impartial manner.
Her ability to identify the crucial issues facing the world today will be remembered as the hallmark of her presidency.
Mr. President,
We extend our hearty welcome to the new Secretary-General, Mr. Ban Ki-Moon, who has taken up this challenging job requiting dynamism in confronting the global challenges of the 21st Century. Balancing global interests and steering the United Nations in a direction that gives hope to the multitudes of the poor, the sick, the hungry and the marginalized, is indeed a mammoth task. We would like to assure him that Zimbabwe will continue to support an open, transparent and all-inclusive multilateral approach in dealing with these global challenges.
Mr. President,
Climate change is one of the most pressing global issues of our time. Its negative impact is greatest in developing countries, particularly those on the African continent. We believe that if the international community is going to seriously address the challenges of climate change, then we need to get our priorities right. In Zimbabwe, the effects of climate change have become more evident in the past decade as we have witnessed increased and recurrent droughts as well as occasional floods, leading to enormous humanitarian challenges.
Mr. President,
We are for a United Nations that recognises the equality of sovereign nations and peoples whether big or small. We are averse to a body in which the economically and militarily powerful behave like bullies, trampling on the rights of weak and smaller states as sadly happened in Iraq. In the light of these inauspicious developments, this Organisation must surely examine the essence of its authority and the extent of its power when challenged in this manner.
Such challenges to the authority of the UN and its Charter underpin our repeated call for the revitalisation of the United Nations General Assembly, itself the most representative organ of the UN. The General Assembly should be more active in all areas including those of peace and security. The encroachment of some U.N. organs upon the work of the General Assembly is of great concern to us. Thus any process of revitalizing or strengthening of the General Assembly should necessarily avoid eroding the principle of the accountability of all principal and subsidiary organs to the General Assembly.
Mr. President,
Once again we reiterate our position that the Security Council as presently constituted is not democratic. In its present configuration, the Council has shown that it is not in a position to protect the weaker states who find themselves at loggerheads with a marauding super-power. Most importantly, justice demands that any Security Council reform redresses the fact that Africa is the only continent without a permanent seat and veto power in the Security Council. Africa's demands are known and enunciated in the Ezulwini consensus.
Mr. President,
We further call for the U.N. system to refrain from interfering in matters that are clearly the domain of member states and are not a threat to international peace and security. Development at country level should continue to be country-led, and not subject to the whims of powerful donor states.
Mr President,
Zimbabwe won its independence on 18th April, 1980, after a protracted war against British colonial imperialism which denied us human rights and democracy. That colonial system which suppressed and oppressed us enjoyed the support of many countries of the West who were signatories to the UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
Even after 1945, it would appear that the Berlin Conference of 1884, through which Africa was parcelled to colonial European powers, remained stronger than the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. It is therefore clear that for the West, vested economic interests, racial and ethnocentric considerations proved stronger than their adherence to principles of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
The West still negates our sovereignties by way of control of our resources, in the process making us mere chattels in out own lands, mere minders of its trans-national interests. In my own country and other sister states in Southern Africa, the most visible form of this control has been over land despoiled from us at the onset of British colonialism.
That control largely persists, although it stands firmly challenged in Zimbabwe, thereby triggering the current stand-off between us and Britain, supported by her cousin states, most notably the United States and Australia. Mr Bush, Mr. Blair and now Mr Brown's sense of human rights precludes our people's right to their God-given resources, which in their view must be controlled by their kith and kin. I am termed dictator because I have rejected this supremacist view and frustrated the neo-colonialists.
Mr President,
Clearly the history of the struggle for out own national and people's rights is unknown to the president of the United States of America. He thinks the Declaration of Human Rights starts with his last term in office! He thinks she can introduce to us, who bore the brunt of fighting for the freedoms of our peoples, the virtues of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. What rank hypocrisy!
Mr President,
I lost eleven precious years of my life in the jail of a white man whose freedom and well- being I have assured from the first day of Zimbabwe's Independence. I lost a further fifteen years fighting white injustice in my country.
Ian Smith is responsible for the death of well over 50 000 of my people. I bear scars of his tyranny which Britain and America condoned. I meet his victims everyday. Yet he walks free. He farms free. He talks freely, associates freely under a black Government. We taught him democracy. We gave him back his humanity.
He would have faced a different fate here and in Europe if the 50 000 he killed were Europeans. Africa has not called for a Nuremberg trial against the white world which committed heinous crimes against its own humanity. It has not hunted perpetrators of this genocide, many of whom live to this day, nor has it got reparations from those who offended against it. Instead it is Africa which is in the dock, facing trial from the same world that persecuted it for centuries.
Let Mr. Bush read history correctly. Let him realise that both personally and in his representative capacity as the current President of the United States, he stands for this "civilisation" which occupied, which colonised, which incarcerated, which killed. He has much to atone for and very little to lecture us on the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. His hands drip with innocent blood of many nationalities.
He still kills.
He kills in Iraq. He kills in Afghanistan. And this is supposed to be out master on human rights?
He imprisons.
He imprisons and tortures at Guantanamo. He imprisoned and tortured at Abu Ghraib. He has secret torture chambers in Europe. Yes, he imprisons even here in the United States, with his jails carrying more blacks than his universities can ever enroll. He even suspends the provisions of the Universal Declaration on Human Rights. Take Guantanamo for example; at that concentration camp international law does not apply. The national laws of the people there do not apply. Laws of the United States of America do not apply. Only Bush's law applies. Can the international community accept being lectured by this man on the provisions of the universal declaration of human rights? Definitely not!
Mr President, We are alarmed that under his leadership, basic rights of his own people and those of the rest of the world have summarily been rolled back. America is primarily responsible for rewriting core tenets of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. We seem all guilty for 9/11. Mr. Bush thinks he stands above all structures of governance, whether national or international.
At home, he apparently does not need the Congress. Abroad, he does not need the UN, international law and opinion. This forum did not sanction Blair and Bush's misadventures in Iraq. The two rode roughshod over the UN and international opinion. Almighty Bush is now corning back to the UN for a rescue package because his nose is bloodied! Yet he dares lecture us on tyranny. Indeed, he wants us to pray him! We say No to him and encourage him to get out of Iraq. Indeed he should mend his ways before he clambers up the pulpit to deliver pieties of democracy.
Mr President,
The British and the Americans have gone on a relentless campaign of destabilising and vilifying my country. They have sponsored surrogate forces to challenge lawful authority in my country. They seek regime change, placing themselves in the role of the Zimbabwean people in whose collective will democracy places the right to define and change regimes.
Let these sinister governments be told here and now that Zimbabwe will not allow a regime change authored by outsiders. We do not interfere with their own systems in America and Britain. Mr Bush and Mr Brown have no role to play in our national affairs. They are outsiders and mischievous outsiders and should therefore keep out! The colonial sun set a long time ago; in 1980in the case of Zimbabwe, and hence Zimbabwe will never be a colony again. Never!
We do not deserve sanctions. We are Zimbabweans and we know how to deal with our problems. We have done so in the past, well before Bush and Brown were known politically. We have our own regional and continental organizations and communities.
In that vein, I wish to express my country's gratitude to President Thabo Mbeki of South Africa who, on behalf of SADC, successfully facilitated the dialogue between the Ruling Party and the Opposition Parties, which yielded the agreement that has now resulted in the constitutional provisions being finally adopted. Consequently, we will be holding multiple democratic elections in March 2008. Indeed we have always had timeous general and presidential elections since our independence.
Mr. President,
In conclusion, let me stress once more that the strength of the United Nations lies in its universality and impartiality as it implements its mandate to promote peace and security, economic and social development, human rights and international law as outlined in the Charter. Zimbabwe stands ready to play its part in all efforts and programmes aimed at achieving these noble goals.
I thank you.
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Subject: Re: President Mugabe at 62nd Session of UN General Assembly
From: Cornelius Hamelberg
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Date Posted: 21:52:08 09/27/07 ()
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Did you watch Berewa addressing the UN at the 61st session? What do you expect of a coward who runs away from debating his political opponent? Berewa is no fighter. Well, there he was, his rotund eminence at the UN reading his prepared text like a mild CKC school teacher, mumbling his words politely to himself - absolutely lacklustre and absolutely nothing like Jerry J. Rawlings or passionate man of fire and sun Dr. Mugabe as you can hear him speaking here. VOA has cut out the polite opening preamble and gives us
Subject: Re: President Mugabe at 62nd Session of UN General Assembly
From: Cornelius Hamelberg
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Date Posted: 22:55:20 09/27/07 ()
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Programme / time table of nations taking the podium for the GENERAL DEBATE (25 September - 3 October 2007)
http://www.un.org/webcast/ga/62/
Watch Mugabe’s address to the 62nd general Assembly of the United Nations
http://www.newzimbabwe.com/index.html
Subject: Salone 39th out of 48
From: Bambay Lans Kamara
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Date Posted: 20:38:43 09/27/07 ()
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Salone 39th out of 48
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Dr Mo Ibrahim
The report card of how former President Tejan Kabbah performed while in office during the years 2000 to 2005 has been released by the Mo Ibrahim foundation which published the Ibrahim index of African governance yesterday Wednesday 25th September 2007.
The 60 year old Sudanese born billionaire Dr Mo Ibrahim who is Chairman of the foundation has pledged to reward African leaders who have demonstrated excellence in African leadership with a five million dollar prize after they leave office.
As a result the board of the Mo Ibrahim foundation selected an eminent group of African academics with whose help the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University developed a new ranking of governance quality in sub-saharan Africa.
The Index published yesterday Wednesday ranks Sierra Leone 39th out of 48 African countries.
The researchers applied 58 separate measurements to each country to elicit scores for five larger categories, which include Safety and Security, Rule of Law, Transparency and Corruption, Participation and Human Rights, Sustainable Economic Opportunity and Human Development.
Sierra Leone scored relatively high marks under Safety and Security (72.0) and Participation and Human Rights (68.4) but scored very poorly under Rule of Law, Transparency and Corruption (35.1) and Sustainable Economic Opportunity (39.4)
The worst score was under Human Development (26.4)
On the whole, ranked 39th Sierra Leone scored 48.3 on the Ibrahim index.
All was not gloom and doom however as the change in rankings showed 2 places between the years 2000 and 2005 which signifies the level of progress that was made by the Tejan Kabbah government.
Mauritius received the highest ranking in the index.
Under Safety and Security, Mauritius was ranked highest while Sudan was ranked lowest. For Rule of Law, Transparency and Corruption Botswana was ranked best while Somalia was ranked worst. On Participation and Human Rights again Mauritius was ranked best with Somalia again ranked worst. For Sustainable Economic Opportunity Seychelles was ranked best while again Somalia was ranked worst. Under Human Development Seychelles was ranked best with Chad ranked worst.
The most improved country was Rwanda while DR Congo dropped back the farthest.
On the whole 27 countries progressed while 21 countries fell back.
Dr Mo Ibrahim founded Celtel which is one of the best Telecommunications network in Africa.
Subject: The difference between pride and arrogance.
From: Bambay Lans Kamara
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Date Posted: 18:23:17 09/27/07 ()
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proud (proud) Pronunciation Key
adj. proud·er, proud·est
Feeling pleasurable satisfaction over an act, possession, quality, or relationship by which one measures one's stature or self-worth: proud of one's child; proud to serve one's country.
Occasioning or being a reason for pride: "On January 1, 1900, Americans and Europeans greeted the twentieth century in the proud and certain belief that the next hundred years would make all things possible" (W. Bruce Lincoln).
Feeling or showing justifiable self-respect.
Filled with or showing excessive self-esteem.
Of great dignity; honored: a proud name.
Majestic; magnificent: proud alpine peaks.
Spirited. Used of an animal: proud steeds.
1. feeling pleasure or satisfaction over something regarded as highly honorable or creditable to oneself (often fol. by of, an infinitive, or a clause).
2. having, proceeding from, or showing a high opinion of one's own dignity, importance, or superiority.
3. having or showing self-respect or self-esteem.
4. highly gratifying to the feelings or self-esteem: It was a proud day for him when his son entered college.
5. highly honorable or creditable: a proud achievement.
6. stately, majestic, or magnificent: proud cities.
7. of lofty dignity or distinction: a proud name; proud nobles.
8. Chiefly South Midland and Southern U.S. pleased; happy: I'm proud to meet you.
9. full of vigor and spirit: a proud young stallion.
10. Obsolete. brave.
—Idiom11. do one proud, a. to be a source of pride or credit to a person: His conduct in such a difficult situation did him proud.
b. to treat someone or oneself generously or lavishly: You really did us proud with this supper.
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[Origin: bef. 1000; ME; late OE prûd, prût arrogant (c. ON prûthr stately, fine), appar. < VL; cf. OF prud, prod gallant, LL prôde useful, L prôdesse to be of worth]
—Related forms
proudly, adverb
proudness, noun
—Synonyms 1. contented, self-satisfied. 2. overbearing, self-important, disdainful, imperious, presumptuous. Proud, arrogant, haughty imply a consciousness of, or a belief in, one's superiority in some respect. Proud implies sensitiveness, lofty self-respect, or jealous preservation of one's dignity, station, and the like. It may refer to an affectionate admiration of or a justifiable pride concerning someone else: proud of his son. Arrogant applies to insolent or overbearing behavior, arising from an exaggerated belief in one's importance: arrogant rudeness. Haughty implies lofty reserve and confident, often disdainful assumption of superiority over others: the haughty manner of the butler in the play. 6. noble, imposing, splendid.
—Antonyms 1. dissatisfied. 2. humble. 5. dishonorable. 6. mean; impoverished; lowly.
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ar·ro·gant (âr'ə-gənt) Pronunciation Key
adj.
Having or displaying a sense of overbearing self-worth or self-importance.
Marked by or arising from a feeling or assumption of one's superiority toward others: an arrogant contempt for the weak. See Synonyms at proud.
haugh·ty /ˈhɔti/ Pronunciation Key - Show Spelled Pronunciation[haw-tee] Pronunciation Key - Show IPA Pronunciation
–adjective, -ti·er, -ti·est. 1. disdainfully proud; snobbish; scornfully arrogant; supercilious: haughty aristocrats; a haughty salesclerk.
2. Archaic. lofty or noble; exalted.
A Snob:snob /snɒb/ Pronunciation Key - Show Spelled Pronunciation[snob] Pronunciation Key - Show IPA Pronunciation
–noun 1. a person who imitates, cultivates, or slavishly admires social superiors and is condescending or overbearing to others.
2. a person who believes himself or herself an expert or connoisseur in a given field and is condescending toward or disdainful of those who hold other opinions or have different tastes regarding this field: a musical snob.
snob (snŏb) Pronunciation Key
n.
One who tends to patronize, rebuff, or ignore people regarded as social inferiors and imitate, admire, or seek association with people regarded as social superiors.
One who affects an offensive air of self-satisfied superiority in matters of taste or intellect.
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/proud
Subject: Re: The difference between pride and arrogance.
From: Bambay Katakata
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Date Posted: 19:59:51 09/27/07 ()
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Oh, Oh, Oh, Yes Sir, Teacher, Me, me,me!
Bambay is Pride, Lans is Arrogance, and Kamara is Pride and Arrogance!
Subject: MINISTER OF FINANCE: Prediction
From: Almamy Razak Tun Seray-Wurie Si
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Date Posted: 17:47:52 09/27/07 ()
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*Is Kenie Ernest Koroma going to do like Pa Kabbah did for Thaimu Bangura?
*Is Kenie Ernest Koroma going to do like Pa Kabbah did fof the Wise Men from the East? by appointing fellow easterners like Kuyembeh-Karim-Benjamin
Charles Margai=Minister of Finance!
Will Korthor Margai give contracts to his concubine(s) again? Thanks to Solo-B for leaking to the Public
Subject: Re: MINISTER OF FINANCE: Prediction
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Date Posted: 22:36:50 09/27/07 ()
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I believe in technocracy to a very large extent. However, I am not saying that every cabinet minister must be a specialist in his or her field. However, when it specifically comes to managing the finances of a poor country like Sierra Leone, EXPERTISE and INTEGRITY should be the central factors in determining who goes to the Finance Ministry. Margai has little, if any, skills in handling the intricacies involved in managing the finances of a country. His career and academic background do not point to that direction. I am a "Margai-ist" to the core, but I will never recommend giving the Finance Ministry to Charles Margai. President Koroma may need to give Margai a job from a strategic political point of view, but such a move must seriously consider the interest of the nation as well.
As a scholar of Politics and International Relations, putting me in charge of the Health Ministry, for example, will amount to a criminal disservice to Sierra Leone and a willful negation of responsible governance.
For the sake of poor Sierra Leone, President Koroma should employ people based on EXPERTISE and INTEGRITY. Margai is not a financial gymnast, and President Koroma should never think of putting square pegs in round financial holes.
Subject: Re: MINISTER OF FINANCE: Prediction
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Their is no constitutional requirement for a finance minister to have a finance background.Their are technocrats within the finance ministry to handle all the technical issues.
As a minister of government your role is to ensure you implement government policies as head of the ministry.
As a minister you are a manager of people and resources.
As a lawyer with so many years of experience in private practice and in government i see no reason why Charles Maggai should not be qualified to be minister of finance.
Subject: Re: MINISTER OF FINANCE: Prediction
From: Abdul kamara
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Date Posted: 06:37:57 09/28/07 ()
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Their is no constitutional requirement for a finance minister to have a finance background.Their are technocrats within the finance ministry to handle all the technical issues.
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There is no constitional requirement either for a minister to have common sense. But does that mean you should not require a minister to have common sense?
As for technocrats within the ministry of finance, the poor performance of the ministry of finance and the sierra leone economy since independence speak volumes about their "technical competence."
Finally, what you have described as the role of a minister is actually that of the PERMANENT SECRETARY in a ministry -- implementing government policy and managing people (civil servants). That is not a minister's role, primarily.
The role of a minister is to formulate, plan, execute and evaluate policies. The fact that most, if not all, government ministers in Salone have never had the ability to do all of those things -- because they lacked either techincal competence and/or integrity --explains why Salone has been retrogressing instead of developing.
President Ernest Koroma has a stark choice: he can continue the tradition of presidents in Salone over the past 50 years or so of putting square pegs in round holes, or he can break from that failed tradition and put in people with techincal competence and integrity to head his government ministries, as Bra Enviable correctly said yesterday.
Subject: Re: MINISTER OF FINANCE: Prediction
From: Bock Jah
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I think you are digressing from the point.The posting was about whether someone from a non finance background like Charles Maggai is capable of being finance minister that is the reason why i made mention of the fact that there are people in these ministries with the technical knowledge and this does not only apply to the finance ministry.Whether they have integrity or not performing their jobs well is another matter outside this discussion.
Permanent secretaries are professional heads and are responsible for the day to day affairs of the ministry.The minister is the overall boss and would take the blame when things go wrong or be praised when things go well.The civil servants are the people he relies on if he is to succeed and that is the reason why i mentioned that a minister manages resources which includes peolple.Even if a minister has all the qualifications, experience,skills etc is not enough to succeed.
I am not advocating for any particular person to be made minister but wanted to address a widly held notion in our country that certain ministries should have ministers with a particular background or education.
What Sierra Leone lacks are good managers ie people who can mange resources well and succeed.
Subject: Re: MINISTER OF FINANCE: Prediction
From: S.M.Turay
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Date Posted: 05:35:31 09/28/07 ()
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There are still a lot of sierra Leoneans who think that the best finance minister in post-independence Sierra leone has been Dr.Mohamed Sorie Fonah, a medical doctor, a Gynaecologist.
Subject: Re: MINISTER OF FINANCE: Prediction
From: Analyst
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Date Posted: 05:53:08 09/28/07 ()
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I wonder why they think that.
Subject: Re: MINISTER OF FINANCE: Prediction
From: Amadu
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Date Posted: 00:08:25 09/28/07 ()
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Bra Enviable, I doff my hat off to you. you are a man of true integrity. Even though you are a PMDC supporter, you are saying publicly that the PMDC alagba, Charles Margai should not be made minister of finance. That is putting the country's interest above your personal interest -- a very, very rare action in the history of Salone politics.
But the best thing i like about your posting is that you not only said margai should not be minister of finance, but you gace us the reason why. You said "when it specifically comes to managing the finances of a poor country like Sierra Leone, EXPERTISE and INTEGRITY should be the central factors in determining who goes to the Finance Ministry."
I totally agree. If me nar President Koroma, by using standard, I would narrow the field of candidates to a relatively few Salone man dem. There is one man whom I know has both EXPERTISE and INTEGRITY to be be Salone's minister of finance at this critical time -- Mohamed Jalloh, (Moh'm Jalloh, as his friends call him).
I know he would not like for me to say this gbangbaodae, becos on another forum (Salone Discussion) where we both belong, when someone, Morris Ceesay said the same thing last month before the election, Mohamed Jalloh replied that being minister of finance is not his prioriy becos he had already served Salone for more than 10 years and he wants to give other Saloneans a chance to serve their country too.
If Salone wants to protect the people against foreign exploiters, I know nobody who can do it better than Moh'm Jalloh -- the man has been talking about IMF exploitation for almost 30 years. But the APC govt. of Bandele Stevens and Josephine Momoh never listened to the borbor jalloh. On top of that, the SLPP govt. of SLPMB Kabbah never listened either. Now, the IMF has finally admitted what Moh'm Jalloh has been saying -- 25 years later. maybe its time the new APC of Ernest Koroma also finally listened to Moh'm Jalloh even if he does not agree to be the new Salone minister of finance.
Subject: Re: MINISTER OF FINANCE: Prediction
From: No way
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Date Posted: 19:28:51 09/27/07 ()
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Our Minister of Finance-James Sanpha Koroma.Mark my word
Subject: Re: MINISTER OF FINANCE: Prediction
From: Kotormali
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Methinks Edmond Koroma,Dr. Gilpin, Steve Swarray,John Benjamin,Karimu,Solo Samba,Kuyemba,Mohm Jalloh also have a shot.
Who knows, President Koroma may just suprise everyone with either an unknown or a longshot...We'll see
Subject: Re: MINISTER OF FINANCE: Prediction
From: sp
To: All
Date Posted: 19:01:10 09/27/07 ()
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Entered From: ool-457cb4d6.dyn.optonline.net at 69.124.180.214
Message:
WHY ARE YOU SO TRIBALISTIC. EAST WEST NORTH SOUTH WE ARE ALL THE SAME. PLEASE DEFINE A MAN FOR WHO HE IS AND NOT WHERE HE IS FROM. ME PADDI BO BLOW
Subject: SYLVIA BLYDEN IS A WITCH FOR REAL
From: KANFORIE SORIE KOROMA
To: All
Date Posted: 17:20:52 09/27/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: host-24-225-172-126.patmedia.net at 24.225.172.126
Message:
Have you all read the fake doctor Sylvia Blyden's latest advice to the Ernest Koroma ? What is this ugly beast looking for in Sierra Leone ? After destroying SLPP, now she is trying to destroy APC but Inshallahh she will never succeed. Imagine this witch advising Ernest Koroma to form an all APC cabinet and not including any SLPP member there. Doesn't she know that 50% of Ernest Koroma's votes came from the SLPP, via the PMDC ? Most of those who voted for the APC in the South/East were SLPP. Call them PMDC if you like but the votes were protest votes that actually belonged to the SLPP. If these people had wanted to be really tribalistic , they would not have listened to Charles Margai and could have voted for Berewa. Now , imagine a cabinet that is purely Northern and Western that has nothing South/Eastern.
Sylvia Blyden knows what she is doing .She is ill-advising APC to set them up for unpopularity and defeat in 2012. It is the same thing she did to SLPP,by ill-advising them to defeat, that she wants to do to APC. I want you all to read this article and give your views about the ideas expressed in it.
ierra Leone Needs a Pure APC Cabinet
By Sylvia Olayinka Blyden
Sep 27, 2007, 18:41 Email this article
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If media reports are to be believed, sometime tomorrow Friday September 28th 2007, the newly elected President of Sierra Leone, Ernest Bai Koroma will announce his Cabinet to the nation. Many names are already being floated around and press attacks on some of these names are now commonplace.
I want to make a call (albeit might be too late!) for President Koroma to shelve the idea of a Government of National Unity and instead come up with a Cabinet made up of purely APC partisans who will stay loyal to the APC course.
Government of National Unity which means bringing in SLPP partisans and PMDC partisans into Government only serves to weaken democracy in Sierra Leone rather than strengthen it.
Knowing that they might get crumbs from the ruling party table if they play ball, has caused many potential opposition firebrands to become tame lambs on the political scene and when appointed into office by the ruling party, they metamorphose shortly before general elections into fifth columnists who pass on inner core secrets of the ruling party to their own parties at the detriment of the ruling party and to the benefit of their own party.
Hypocrisy and Double-dealing by members of the erstwhile SLPP Government who horse-traded themselves to and fro between PMDC, APC and SLPP served to create a situation where the SLPP crumbled from within. For example, back-stabbing of colleagues through readily available media-houses was one of the favourite past-times of Kabbah’s Government functionaries whilst for whatever reason, the Minister of Information, a supposedly die-hard SLPP partisan became the most mute minister Sierra Leone ever had (Mr. Mumu).
All of this was because the SLPP Government was constituted not of a wholly SLPP make-up that was true to the ideals of the SLPP but it was constituted of a mixed bag of opposing elements forced to co-exist under a so-called National Unity Government with each having his or her own covert and overt agendas.
I thus recommend that my newly elected President, H.E. Ernest Bai Koroma should learn from recent history and only appoint well trusted, purely APC partisans and devoted APC loyalists to sit in that Ministerial Cabinet of his. Reconciliation does not mean bringing a political foe into your inner circle of confidence and unwittingly exposing APC weaknesses to SLPP or PMDC.
Politics is all about survival and in the long run, as the saying goes, an incompetent but loyal Hun is worth a thousand competent but disloyal Huns when survival is under consideration! If Koroma’s APC must not politically fall like Berewa’s SLPP did, then Koroma must put in place adequate strategies for his party’s very survival and one of these measures is to institute a purely APC Cabinet.
Otherwise, in five years time, I might write a similar article like this one advising not Ernest Bai Koroma but another newly elected President of Sierra Leone. #END.
© Copyright by Awareness Times Newspaper in Freetown, Sierra Leone.
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Subject: Re: SYLVIA BLYDEN IS A WITCH FOR REAL
From: Cornelius Hamelberg
To: All
Date Posted: 19:41:45 09/27/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: c-071271d5.01-32-73746f42.cust.bredbandsbolaget.se at 213.113.18.7
Message:
She is indeed what you think she is if she says that there should be no member(s) of PMDC in President Koroma's cabinet. She wishes the APC no good. She would like the PMDC people to desert the APC, but people are not as stupid as she thinks she is. She wants to be the chief adviser in all matters that do not concern her.
Next she will be advising who should be in the next American president’s cabinet.
Does she think that an intelligent person will listen to her?
Who is this Banshee to be taking it upon herself to advice the APC?
Please permit her the freedom to make as much noise as she wishes, but it’s best to ignore her.
Subject: Re: SYLVIA BLYDEN IS A WITCH FOR REAL
From: Cornelius Hamelberg
To: All
Date Posted: 19:40:51 09/27/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: c-071271d5.01-32-73746f42.cust.bredbandsbolaget.se at 213.113.18.7
Message:
She is indeed what you think she is if she says that there should be no member(s) of PMDC in President Koroma's cabinet. She wishes the APC no good. She would like the PMDC people o desert the APC, but people are not as stupid as she thinks she is. She wants to be the chief adviser in all matters that do not concern her.
Next she will be advising who should be in the next American president’s cabinet.
Does she think that an intelligent person will listen to her?
Who is this Banshee to be taking it upon herself to advice the APC?
Please permit her the freedom to make as much noise as she wishes, but it’s best to ignore her.
Subject: Re: SYLVIA BLYDEN IS A WITCH FOR REAL
From: Jay
To: All
Date Posted: 19:05:22 09/27/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 84.54.30.6
Message:
You people make this girl more famous every day with your tantrums.
Subject: Re: SYLVIA BLYDEN IS A WITCH FOR REAL
From: The Real Jay
To: All
Date Posted: 20:34:02 09/27/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: c-69-140-34-194.hsd1.md.comcast.net at 69.140.34.194
Message:
Please stop using my handle.Moderator take note of IP address.
Subject: Re: SYLVIA BLYDEN IS A WITCH FOR REAL
From: KANFORIE SORIE KOROMA
To: All
Date Posted: 20:19:36 09/27/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: host-24-225-172-126.patmedia.net at 24.225.172.126
Message:
Sylvia caused the downfall of SLPP.wE WILL NOT ALLOW HER TO CAUSE THE DOWNFALL OF APC.She must close her stinky ugly mouth and leave APC alone.
Subject: SIA TIYAAMA IN EUROPE
From: FREETOWN BOY
To: All
Date Posted: 16:58:55 09/27/07 ()
Email Address: freetownboy@kpejewest.com
Entered From: 203-167-156-239.dialup.clear.net.nz at 203.167.156.239
Message:
Did I hear someone say Marda Mustapha is currently in Europe as a researcher? Tae Marda cache you. Before Marda left US he stated boldly on LEONENET that he was going to IRELAND for a conference and would be back in US in a week's time. The next thing we heard was that Marda was infront of AWARENESS TIMES with JJ Blood campaigning JARANG JARANG for Berewa. The man even went as far as Kailahun. In Segbwema he teamed up with John Ben and Karimu to block APC/PMDC convoy from going to Kailahun. Late last week he wrote that he was in transit in London from Salone and would be presenting his report on the elections. Where then is he researching in Europe?
Subject: Re: SIA TIYAAMA IN EUROPE
From: Patrick Gebgbay
To: All
Date Posted: 06:46:21 09/28/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: adsl-19-28-148.asm.bellsouth.net at 68.19.28.148
Message:
Tiyama should be among the first people called to testify before ghe commission of enyuiry that Ernest Koroma must institute to examine the vote-rigging in the country.
he can run but he cannot hide.
Subject: Re: SIA TIYAAMA IN EUROPE
From: Jusu of New Zealand
To: All
Date Posted: 06:02:06 09/28/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: gov198.ucc.ie at 143.239.91.198
Message:
Bo you nor go comot behen Marda? Wae porsin pass you ee pass you. Yes Marda was in Freetown and I saw him many times with one Satta Jusu on the beach. Hehehe. Is that why Bob Jusu hates Marda so much that he is spewing nonsense about him. Yes Marda dae Europe right now while Bob Jusu is fighting not to be deported from New Zealand
Subject: STATE HOUSE: Old or New
From: Almamy Razak Tun Seray-Wurie Si
To: All
Date Posted: 16:27:14 09/27/07 ()
Email Address: almamysi@hotmail.com
Entered From: hs02lab05.osr.columbia.edu at 156.111.41.41
Message:
I was wondering which State House the new President works from. Is it the historic State House in the heart of Freetown (Naybar Cotton Tree)or the Gbatekaka State House overlooking Freetown (Naybar SLPP dougou/Hill-Station-Village)
Subject: Re: STATE HOUSE: Old or New
From: THE CRAB
To: All
Date Posted: 16:40:32 09/27/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: ip-207-145-43-5.iad.megapath.net at 207.145.43.5
Message:
THE PRESIDENT IS WORKING FROM THE OLD STATE HOUSE.
Subject: Re: STATE HOUSE: Old or New
From: Almamy Razak Tun Seray-Wurie Si
To: All
Date Posted: 17:00:40 09/27/07 ()
Email Address: almamysi@hotmail.com
Entered From: hs02lab05.osr.columbia.edu at 156.111.41.41
Message:
Tenki Tenki
Thanks..
Subject: WARNING.A WORD TO A WISE IS QUIT SUFFICIENT
From: FODAY MANSARAY
To: All
Date Posted: 16:08:47 09/27/07 ()
Email Address: FMANSARAY@AOL.COM
Entered From: pool-71-187-64-127.nwrknj.fios.verizon.net at 71.187.64.127
Message:
Cocorioko wishes to remind all participants to be mindful of the consequences of posting false information on the forum. The forum is intended for civilized people to chat away there frustrations and at the end hoping on finding a solution.
We are going to be more vigilant and will revoke as well expose anyone catch posting stories that are false, in the interest of those playing by the rules.
Be nice in the month of Ramadan and god will reward.
Thanks to everyone and let’s enjoy the forum.
Subject: Re: WARNING.A WORD TO A WISE IS QUIT SUFFICIENT
From: ITK
To: All
Date Posted: 18:40:27 09/27/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 38.98.119.16
Message:
Foday:
Just curious-- Isn't "false' a rather broad category? Specifically, what process will be undertaken to determine the "truth or falsity" of a posting? And, more importantly, would the proposed action not constitute censorship?
Thank you
Subject: Re: WARNING.A WORD TO A WISE IS QUITE SUFFICIENT
From: foday mansaray
To: All
Date Posted: 14:25:13 09/28/07 ()
Email Address: fmansaray@aol.com
Entered From: pool-71-187-64-127.nwrknj.fios.verizon.net at 71.187.64.127
Message:
Call it sensorship ,spying or enforcing the rules.We must try to take responsibilty for our actions.
Otherwise, we have no choice but to teach people the short comings of democracy.Maybe after that people will realize that freedom has a price and freedom is not free except we play by the rule.
Subject: REPLY OF THE CENTURY
From: Yapo Conteh
To: All
Date Posted: 15:57:15 09/27/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: 65.107.153.146.ptr.us.xo.net at 65.107.153.146
Message:
Posted by Alieu sesay on September 27, 2007 at 08:00:19:
In Reply to: Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) Not BONDO! posted by Mbalu on September 26, 2007 at 22:20:46:
Yes i did say you are a MAN....
Here is why women leave you:
1. Not romantic
2. Small Prick
3. Work too much and not enough time for the Ladies
4. Your pride prevents you from going DOWN on them..they like that you know
5. You are uncircumcised, hence it takes forever for your Prick to come out of the sack, and by the time it does, you have "prematurely released", hence you suffer from premature ejaculation.
6. Heck..You nar OKOBO.. BO you sef.
Subject: Re: REPLY OF THE CENTURY
From: Londoner
To: All
Date Posted: 18:28:40 09/27/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: 82-44-249-162.cable.ubr05.haye.blueyonder.co.uk at 82.44.249.162
Message:
Yapo,
Yours is pure filth! The message is totally obscured! Perhaps the purpose is to display how uncouth you are! Boy oh boy! Mister moderator are you there?
Subject: ELECTION RESULT: Interpreted In Technical Computing Logic
From: Toegondoe Sagbah
To: All
Date Posted: 15:32:19 09/27/07 ()
Email Address: mendemoi@yahoo.com
Entered From: pool-71-168-132-186.cmdnnj.east.verizon.net at 71.168.132.186
Message:
Why do you think SLPP lost?
Why did PMDC lose?
And Why did APC win?
MONEY and PROPAGANDA are the
BREAD and BUTTER or the
HARDWARE and SOFTWARE of politics. They compliment each other.
Having one and not having the other reduces your chances of winning.
Consider the following logical reasoning:
PMDC lost because of SLPP RIGGING (SLPP hardware) and lack of MONEY (election hardware). But PMDC had all the PROPAGANDA (software) they needed to process through the election.
SLPP lost because they were out-RIGGED by APC (APC hardware), even though they had some MONEY (election hardware) too. But they were woefully lacking in PROPAGANDA (election software).
APC won because they were the only ones that seem to have both, though not much of any. They had some MONEY (first Hardware), dealt in some RIGGING (second hardware) and were also smart with the PROPAGANDA (election software), especially by laying low and allowing PMDC and SLPP go at each other, a good propaganda (software) strategy that worked for them.
TOEGONDOE SAGBAH
Subject: Re: ELECTION RESULT: Interpreted In Technical Computing Logic
From: Kamara
To: All
Date Posted: 18:27:07 09/27/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: pool-71-172-31-93.nwrknj.fios.verizon.net at 71.172.31.93
Message:
Here we go again Morie.Face the facts , SLPP lost the elections .
SLPP lost because of the following:
OverConfidence and arrogance of its leaders.
Lack of campaigning among the poor people of Sierra Leone.
Underestimation of the tribal animosity in Sierra Leone politics especially between TEmne/Mende.
Underestimation of resentment of the poor electorate towards SLPP.
Avoidance of public debates
Inability to elucidates its sucessess.
Slpp did not have to rig any elections. The gracefully
accepted defeat although they could have pursued the legal option especially when regional commisioners from the east resigned.
The electorate voted SLPP out not APC or PMDC. I hope the APC /PMDC in the diaspora
can stop flattereing themselves about their input in the elections sucess. The people in Sierra Leone do not value your input.
By the way I am still waiting for the information on Berewa house in the Dominican republic.
Subject: Re: ELECTION RESULT: Interpreted In Technical Computing Logic
From: Toegondoe Sagbah
To: All
Date Posted: 23:44:21 09/27/07 ()
Email Address: mendemoi@yahoo.com
Entered From: pool-71-168-132-186.cmdnnj.east.verizon.net at 71.168.132.186
Message:
Man you can't twist the figures with your biased mind. The public voted APC in over SLPP...PERIOD!
How do you vote a party out? By voting against them and for another party. AND PMDC WAS A BIG FACTOR IN THAT. Unless you just came fom Pluto.
But as usual, SLPP keep making the mistake of NOT recognizing the power of Charles and PMDC. Just like in this Kamara's posting. So they naturally loose!
Subject: Re: ELECTION RESULT: Interpreted In Technical Computing Logic
From: Mammy Blessing
To: All
Date Posted: 15:38:59 09/27/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: pool-151-202-41-6.ny325.east.verizon.net at 151.202.41.6
Message:
Toe, if you get a call from Ernest, as one of Margai's nominees to serve in the cabinet, will you accept?
I think you are as talented as they come and a workhorse who will go all out to get the job done.
What sayeth thou?
Subject: Re: ELECTION RESULT: Interpreted In Technical Computing Logic
From: Toegondoe Sagbah
To: All
Date Posted: 15:47:20 09/27/07 ()
Email Address: mendemoi@yahoo.com
Entered From: pool-71-168-132-186.cmdnnj.east.verizon.net at 71.168.132.186
Message:
I'm flattered, but permit me to make NO COMMENT at this time.
Subject: Re: ELECTION RESULT: Interpreted In Technical Computing Logic
From: Sanda Themne
To: All
Date Posted: 00:48:30 09/28/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: gateway.cyberstar.com at 209.239.66.36
Message:
Toe,
Are you nursing the idea of becoming a Minister?
Just curious...
Subject: Re: ELECTION RESULT: Interpreted In Technical Computing Logic
From: Toegondoe Sagbah
To: All
Date Posted: 10:01:57 09/28/07 ()
Email Address: mendemoi@yahoo.com
Entered From: pool-71-168-132-186.cmdnnj.east.verizon.net at 71.168.132.186
Message:
No. I am simply fighting for better governance in Salone without being an NGO to get paid for it.
Subject: UN Sponsored attack on Awareness Times
From: Erica Adams
To: All
Date Posted: 13:28:11 09/27/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: adsl-66-140-46-116.dsl.rcsntx.swbell.net at 66.140.46.116
Message:
Dear AT staff:
If you all are half the journalist you claim to be, why don't you do a real examination and expose the folks you have accused in this article. Dr. Thrope has had nothing but praises in the media, praises in the online forums, and praises from her fellow countrymen. Dr. B. by contrast has had nothing but comparisons. Comparisons to a baboon, a parlor wife, an opportunist, and a lier. There is a story I also like. It is the one where Jesus talks about "let he who is without sin cast the first stone." Since I know you have personally contributed to the death of my brother-in-law Michael Kalokoh after he suffered living as a refugee in both Guinea and Gambia only to return back to Sierra Leone and have someone like you try to capitalize on our family's hard work. You sent your thugs to beat him, took him to court repeatedly; even though he had documents showing that he was the rightful owner of the property at Lumley. At this time when you are in violation of the city ordinance because you have encroached on our property just as you have on the good citizens of Sierra Leone. You have a lot of nerve trying to expose people on the internet, but it is true that people who live in glass houses should not throw stones. I know you are a shameless person, but God will deal with you. You have blood on your hands and you will not escape His wrath.
Subject: Re: UN Sponsored attack on Awareness Times
From: Erica Adams
To: All
Date Posted: 14:02:56 09/27/07 ()
Email Address: ericamonique82@hotmail.com
Entered From: adsl-074-185-005-235.sip.clt.bellsouth.net at 74.185.5.235
Message:
I didn't post this here, but I will say that what I did post on the AT forum won't make much sense if you don't read the commentary they had posted first. I am providing the link for anyone who is interested.
http://news.sl/drwebsite/publish/article_20056575.shtml
Subject: Inauguration Ceremony Postponed
From: Sorba S
To: All
Date Posted: 13:01:30 09/27/07 ()
Email Address: sorba_1@yahoo.com
Entered From: at 209.116.81.187
Message:
The inauguration ceremony of President Ernest Koroma has been postponed because of the month of Ramadan.
The ceremony, which was supposed to have been held on Friday, September 5 could not be unconnected to the assumption that Muslims, who are currently fasting, should be allowed to celebrate with the new president following his swearing in on September 17 as President of Sierra Leone.
Presidential Spokesman, Alpha Kanu told Concord Times that no date has been fixed yet.
"Four Heads of State are expected to grace the ceremony when a final date would have been reached," he said.
Kanu maintained that neighboring Heads of State and those that have contributed immensely to the country's development would also be invited to witness the occasion.
He disclosed that the State Opening of Parliament would take place on Friday, September 5.
On the issue of President Koroma's new cabinet, Kanu noted that he has no knowledge.
"It is the prerogative of the President to appoint his Cabinet Ministers. I would love to give you the names.
Concord times
Subject: Re: Inauguration Ceremony Postponed
From: Kpanah
To: All
Date Posted: 15:46:04 09/27/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: 65.107.153.146.ptr.us.xo.net at 65.107.153.146
Message:
""It is the prerogative of the President to appoint his Cabinet Ministers. I would love to give you the names.
Concord times"
That says nothing BRA.. Next time state the source of the article....
See Example below:
From Awareness Times Newspaper in Freetown
COMMENTARIES
Sierra Leone Needs a Pure APC Cabinet
By Sylvia Olayinka Blyden
Sep 27, 2007, 18:41
If media reports are to be believed, sometime tomorrow Friday September 28th 2007, the newly elected President of Sierra Leone, Ernest Bai Koroma will announce his Cabinet to the nation. Many names are already being floated around and press attacks on some of these names are now commonplace.
I want to make a call (albeit might be too late!) for President Koroma to shelve the idea of a Government of National Unity and instead come up with a Cabinet made up of purely APC partisans who will stay loyal to the APC course.
Government of National Unity which means bringing in SLPP partisans and PMDC partisans into Government only serves to weaken democracy in Sierra Leone rather than strengthen it.
Knowing that they might get crumbs from the ruling party table if they play ball, has caused many potential opposition firebrands to become tame lambs on the political scene and when appointed into office by the ruling party, they metamorphose shortly before general elections into fifth columnists who pass on inner core secrets of the ruling party to their own parties at the detriment of the ruling party and to the benefit of their own party.
Hypocrisy and Double-dealing by members of the erstwhile SLPP Government who horse-traded themselves to and fro between PMDC, APC and SLPP served to create a situation where the SLPP crumbled from within. For example, back-stabbing of colleagues through readily available media-houses was one of the favourite past-times of Kabbah’s Government functionaries whilst for whatever reason, the Minister of Information, a supposedly die-hard SLPP partisan became the most mute minister Sierra Leone ever had (Mr. Mumu).
All of this was because the SLPP Government was constituted not of a wholly SLPP make-up that was true to the ideals of the SLPP but it was constituted of a mixed bag of opposing elements forced to co-exist under a so-called National Unity Government with each having his or her own covert and overt agendas.
I thus recommend that my newly elected President, H.E. Ernest Bai Koroma should learn from recent history and only appoint well trusted, purely APC partisans and devoted APC loyalists to sit in that Ministerial Cabinet of his. Reconciliation does not mean bringing a political foe into your inner circle of confidence and unwittingly exposing APC weaknesses to SLPP or PMDC.
Politics is all about survival and in the long run, as the saying goes, an incompetent but loyal Hun is worth a thousand competent but disloyal Huns when survival is under consideration! If Koroma’s APC must not politically fall like Berewa’s SLPP did, then Koroma must put in place adequate strategies for his party’s very survival and one of these measures is to institute a purely APC Cabinet.
Otherwise, in five years time, I might write a similar article like this one advising not Ernest Bai Koroma but another newly elected President of Sierra Leone. #END.
© Copyright 2005, Freetown, Sierra Leone.
Subject: Re: Inauguration Ceremony Postponed
From: Eddie Grant
To: All
Date Posted: 15:07:52 09/27/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 89.243.203.155
Message:
But the run-offs were conducted on the 8 September, how comes inaugurations scheduled for before that date?
Please check back your post and make the necessary amendment.
Subject: Re: Inauguration Ceremony Postponed
From: Sorba S
To: All
Date Posted: 15:11:07 09/27/07 ()
Email Address: sorba_1@yahoo.com
Entered From: at 209.116.81.187
Message:
Actually it is not my posting. I quoted Concord times. They are the once that did that blunder.
Subject: Re: Inauguration Ceremony Postponed
From: Kpanah
To: All
Date Posted: 15:21:11 09/27/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: 65.107.153.146.ptr.us.xo.net at 65.107.153.146
Message:
Next time acknowledge them when you post their article....Do not do so after an error/blunder...
Subject: Re: Inauguration Ceremony Postponed
From: Sorba S
To: All
Date Posted: 15:36:50 09/27/07 ()
Email Address: sorba_1@yahoo.com
Entered From: at 209.116.81.187
Message:
If you look at the bottom of the article, you will see concord times. Please put on you glasses.
thanks
Subject: Re: Inauguration Ceremony Postponed
From: Kpanah
To: All
Date Posted: 15:50:06 09/27/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: 65.107.153.146.ptr.us.xo.net at 65.107.153.146
Message:
""It is the prerogative of the President to appoint his Cabinet Ministers. I would love to give you the names.
Concord times"
That says nothing BRA.. Next time state the source of the article....
See Example below:
From Awareness Times Newspaper in Freetown
COMMENTARIES
Sierra Leone Needs a Pure APC Cabinet
By Sylvia Olayinka Blyden
Sep 27, 2007, 18:41
If media reports are to be believed, sometime tomorrow Friday September 28th 2007, the newly elected President of Sierra Leone, Ernest Bai Koroma will announce his Cabinet to the nation. Many names are already being floated around and press attacks on some of these names are now commonplace.
I want to make a call (albeit might be too late!) for President Koroma to shelve the idea of a Government of National Unity and instead come up with a Cabinet made up of purely APC partisans who will stay loyal to the APC course.
Government of National Unity which means bringing in SLPP partisans and PMDC partisans into Government only serves to weaken democracy in Sierra Leone rather than strengthen it.
Knowing that they might get crumbs from the ruling party table if they play ball, has caused many potential opposition firebrands to become tame lambs on the political scene and when appointed into office by the ruling party, they metamorphose shortly before general elections into fifth columnists who pass on inner core secrets of the ruling party to their own parties at the detriment of the ruling party and to the benefit of their own party.
Hypocrisy and Double-dealing by members of the erstwhile SLPP Government who horse-traded themselves to and fro between PMDC, APC and SLPP served to create a situation where the SLPP crumbled from within. For example, back-stabbing of colleagues through readily available media-houses was one of the favourite past-times of Kabbah’s Government functionaries whilst for whatever reason, the Minister of Information, a supposedly die-hard SLPP partisan became the most mute minister Sierra Leone ever had (Mr. Mumu).
All of this was because the SLPP Government was constituted not of a wholly SLPP make-up that was true to the ideals of the SLPP but it was constituted of a mixed bag of opposing elements forced to co-exist under a so-called National Unity Government with each having his or her own covert and overt agendas.
I thus recommend that my newly elected President, H.E. Ernest Bai Koroma should learn from recent history and only appoint well trusted, purely APC partisans and devoted APC loyalists to sit in that Ministerial Cabinet of his. Reconciliation does not mean bringing a political foe into your inner circle of confidence and unwittingly exposing APC weaknesses to SLPP or PMDC.
Politics is all about survival and in the long run, as the saying goes, an incompetent but loyal Hun is worth a thousand competent but disloyal Huns when survival is under consideration! If Koroma’s APC must not politically fall like Berewa’s SLPP did, then Koroma must put in place adequate strategies for his party’s very survival and one of these measures is to institute a purely APC Cabinet.
Otherwise, in five years time, I might write a similar article like this one advising not Ernest Bai Koroma but another newly elected President of Sierra Leone. #END.
© Copyright 2005, Freetown, Sierra Leone.
Subject: Re: Inauguration Ceremony Postponed
From: Sorba S
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Date Posted: 16:18:30 09/27/07 ()
Email Address: sorba_1@yahoo.com
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Bo le we not fet pan this. me no go Fourabay College. I say concord times. na so A say but if you wan fet, me na temne man can nomor.
Subject: Sierra Leoneans should consider going home
From: freetong pikin
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Date Posted: 12:59:15 09/27/07 ()
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ANALYSIS
31 August 2007
Posted to the web 30 August 2007
By Taiye Tuakli-Wosornu
Nairobi
There is a new breed of internationally mobile, young people of
African descent making their mark on the world. They are neither
Africans nor Americans or Europeans for that matter but children of
many worlds. Afropolitans they are, writes TAIYE TUAKLI-WOSORNU
Artiste Akon Thiam: A true Afropolitan, he was born in the US ,
brought up in Senegal and lives in the US .
It is just midnight on a Thursday night at Medicine Bar in London .
Zak, boy-genius DJ, is playing a Fela Kuti remix. The little
downstairs dance floor swells with smiling, sweating men and women
fusing hip-hop dance moves with a funky sort of djembe.
The women sport enormous afro hairstyles, tiny t-shirts and smile to
reveal gaps in their teeth. As for the men, you wouldn't ask where
they are from by the look of the torsos unique to and common on
African coastlines.
The whole scene speaks of a cultural melting pot - kente cloth worn
over low-waisted jeans and 'African Lady' over Ludacris bass lines.
Here London meets Lagos and Durban , Dakar . Even the DJ is a fine
specimen of ethnic fusion with Nigerian and Romanian blood flowing in
his veins as he bobs his head and the crowd dances to 'Sweet Mother'.
Were you to ask any of these beautiful people "where are you from?'"
you would get no single answer. This one was born in Accra , raised in
Toronto and lives in London . That one works in Lagos but grew up in
Houston, Texas. 'Home' for this lot is many things. It can be where
their parents are from; where they go for vacation; where they went
to school; where they see old friends or where they live (or are
living this year).
At home in G-8 cities
Like so many African young people working and living in cities around
the globe, they belong to no single place but feel at home in many.
They are Afropolitans - the newest generation of African emigrants,
in the industrialised world. You'll know them by a funny blend of
London fashion, New York jargon, African ethics and academic success.
Global citizens, their accents are American but some espouse African
values and speak an African language.
Also, there is at least one place on the African continent to which
they tie their sense of self. Now that could be a nation-state, city
or auntie's kitchen. Then there's a city or cities in the eight most
industrialised nations (G-8) which they know like the backs of their
hands, and the various institutions that know them for their famed
focus. Afropolitans are not citizens, but Africans of the world.
It isn't hard to trace their genealogy. It started in the 1960s when
their young, gifted and broke would-be parents left Africa in pursuit
of higher education and happiness abroad.
A study conducted in 1999 estimated that between 1960 and 1975, about
27,000 highly skilled Africans left the continent for the West.
Between 1975 and 1984, the number shot to 40,000 and then doubled
again by 1987, representing about 30 per cent of Africa 's highly
skilled manpower. It is not surprising that the most popular
destinations for these emigrants included Canada , Britain and the
United States. The Cold War Era also produced scholarship
opportunities in Eastern Bloc countries like Poland , former Soviet
Union, Romania and others as well.
Some three decades later, this scattered tribe of pharmacists,
physicists, doctors (and the odd polygamist) has set up camp around
the globe. The caricatures are familiar: The Nigerian physics
professor with faux-coogi sweater; the Kenyan marathonist with long
legs and rolled rs; the heavyset Gambian braiding hair in a house
that smells of burnt Kanekalon and the Somali running a food house in Toronto .
Even those unacquainted with synthetic cultural extensions can
conjure an image of the African immigrant with only the slightest of
pop culture promptings.
Somewhere between the 1988 release of Coming to America and the 2001
crowning of a Nigerian Miss World, the general image of young
Africans in the West changed from the goofy to gorgeous. Leaving off
the painful question of cultural condescension in Coming to America ,
one wonders what happened in the years between Prince Akeem and Queen Agbani?
Earned a string of degrees
One answer is adolescence. The Africans that left the continent
between 1960 and 1975 had children mostly overseas. Some of them were
bred on African shores then shipped to the West for higher education.
Others were born in much colder climates and sent home for cultural
re-indoctrination.
Either way, they spent the 1980s chasing after accolades, eating fufu
at family parties, and listening to adults argue politics.
By the turn of the 20th century (the (last one), they were matching
their parents in the number of degrees acquired and, or, achieving
things their "people" in the grand sense only dreamed of.
This new demographic - dispersed across Brixton, Bethesda , Boston and
Berlin has come of age in the 21st century, redefining what it means
to be African.
Whereas their parents sought safety in traditional professions like
medicine, law, banking and engineering, Afropolitans are branching
into media, politics, music, venture capital, graphic design and so
on. Nor are they shy about expressing their African roots (such as
they are) in their work. Artists such as Keziah Jones, novelist
Chimamanda Achidie - all exemplify what Trace editor, Claude
Gruzintsky, calls the 21st century African.
What distinguishes this lot and its likes (in the West and at home)
is a willingness to complicate Africa - namely, to engage with,
critique, and celebrate the parts of Africa that mean most to them.
Perhaps what most typifies the Afropolitan consciousness is the
refusal to oversimplify -the effort to understand what is ailing in
Africa alongside the desire to honour what is wonderful and unique.
Rather than "essentialising" the geographical entity, Afropolitans
seek to comprehend the cultural complexity, honour the intellectual
and spiritual legacy and sustain their parents' cultures.
For Afropolitans, being African must mean something. The media
portrayal (war, hunger) won't do. Neither will the New World trope of
a bumbling, blue-black doctor. Most Afropolitans grew up aware of
"being from" a blighted place; of having last names from countries
which are linked to corruption. Few of them escaped those nasty
"booty-scratchy" epithets, and fewer still that sense of shame when
visiting their fathers' villages.
Whether they were ashamed of themselves for not knowing more about
their parents' culture, or ashamed of that culture for not being more
"advanced" is not clear. What is manifest is the extent to which the
modern adolescent African is tasked to forge a sense of self from
wildly disparate sources.
You'd never know it looking at those dapper lawyers in global firms,
but most were once supremely self-conscious of being so "in between".
Brown-skinned without a bedrock sense of "blackness," on the one hand
and often teased by African family members for "acting white" on the
other, the baby-Afropolitan can get what I call "lost in transnation".
Ultimately, the Afropolitan must form an identity along at least the
national, racial and cultural dimensions with subtle tensions in
between. While our parents can claim one country as home,
Afropolitans must define their relationship to the places they live
in. How British or American they are (or act) is in part, a matter of
affect. Often unconsciously, and over time, we choose which bits of a
national identity (from passport to pronunciation) to internalise as
central to our personalities. So, too, the way we see our race -
whether black or bi-racial or none of the above, is a question of
politics, rather than pigment. Not all of us claim to be black. Often
this relates to the way we were raised, whether proximate to other
brown people (e.g. black Americans) or removed.
Making sense of themselves
Then there is that deep abyss of culture, ill-defined at best. One
must decide what comprises African culture beyond pepper soup and
filial piety. This can be utterly baffling whether one lives in an
African country or not. But the process is enriching, in that it
expands one's basic perspective on nation and selfhood. If nothing
else, the Afropolitan knows that nothing is neatly black or white;
that to 'be' anything is a matter of being sure of who you are uniquely.
To 'be' Nigerian is to belong to a passionate nation. To be Yoruba is
to be heir to a spiritual depth while to be American is to ascribe to
a cultural breadth. Being British is to pass customs quickly. This is
what it means for me and that is the Afropolitan privilege. The
acceptance of complexity common to most African cultures is not lost
on the Afropolitans. Without that intrinsically multi-dimensional
thinking, they cannot make sense of themselves.
And if it all sounds a little self-congratulatory, what about a
little 'aren't-we-the-damn-coolest people-on-earth?' I say: yes .
It is high time the African stood up. There is nothing perfect in
this formulation; for all our Adjayes and Achidies, there is a brain
drain back home. Most Afropolitans could serve Africa better in
Africa than at Medicine Bar on Thursdays. To be fair, a sizable
number of African professionals are returning; and there is
consciousness among the ones who remain, an acute awareness among
this brood of too-cool-for-schools that there's work to be done.
There are those among us who wonder to the point of weeping: where
next, Africa ? When will the scattered tribes return? When will the
talent repatriate? What lifestyles await young professionals at home?
How to invest in Africa 's future? The prospects can seem grim at
times. The answers aren't forthcoming. But if there was ever a group
who could figure it out, it is this one, unafraid of the questions.
Taiye Tuakli-Wosornu is a Nigerian-Ghanaian writer based in New York
City. This article was written for The LIP magazine. Africa Insight
is an initiative of the Nation Media Group's Africa Media Network Project.
http://allafrica.com/stories/200708301133.html
Subject: Re: Sierra Leoneans should consider going home
From: Londoner
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Date Posted: 18:39:19 09/27/07 ()
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Taiye Tuakli-Worsrnu is a Nigerian-Ghanian writer based in New York City. How ironic!
Subject: APC MINISTERS: Guess Who? Wild Guess?
From: Almamy Razak Tun Seray-Wurie Si
To: All
Date Posted: 12:52:47 09/27/07 ()
Email Address: almamysi@hotmail.com
Entered From: hsl1.cait.osr.columbia.edu at 156.111.18.64
Message:
I think Emmanual Grant, Charles Margai, Dr I.I. Tejan-Jalloh, Dr Sorkoh Kabia, and Dr Columba Blango of PMDC
Also, Edmund Koroma, Insurance Samba, Registrar Dumbuya, Abdul Serry-Kamal, and Lawyer Jenkins-Johnston
Subject: Re: APC MINISTERS: Guess Who? Wild Guess?
From: No Way
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Date Posted: 12:58:08 09/27/07 ()
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You cannot leave out James Sanpha Koroma.He will be the star Minister
Subject: Re: APC MINISTERS: Guess Who? Wild Guess?
From: Tiff oh Tiff - Ex Master tiffmaster gets new appointment
To: All
Date Posted: 13:10:02 09/27/07 ()
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Message:
Isnt sanpha the disgraced EX nbank governor who ran our reserves down to 25 dollar..
Isnt he the munku who has chandeliers hanging by his gate as gate lights..?
How much does a bank governor earn..? Where did he get that kind of money to build a mansion and then top it off with crystal chandeliers as gate lights..
We don begin..
Subject: Re: APC MINISTERS: Guess Who? Wild Guess?
From: Almamy Razak Tun Seray-Wurie Si
To: All
Date Posted: 16:14:09 09/27/07 ()
Email Address: almamysi@hotmail.com
Entered From: hs02lab05.osr.columbia.edu at 156.111.41.41
Message:
Pa Kabbah said sorry to him for it was 'Bad Sababou' that led to him loosing The Bank Governorship.
When I was a sixth form school boy (1988), he already had a nice house at Babadori..I wonder what other house you are talking about...
Subject: Re: APC MINISTERS: Guess Who? Wild Guess?
From: Alieu sesay
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Date Posted: 12:59:27 09/27/07 ()
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Message:
You also cannot leave out Sam Hinga Pieh and Alieu Iscandri... one if not both will make it....Reliable source...
Subject: Re: APC MINISTERS: Guess Who? Wild Guess?
From: THE CRAB
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Date Posted: 13:07:27 09/27/07 ()
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EMMA GRANT FOR MINISTER ----- FIRE ----TIFF MAN CAM BE MINISTER AGAIN.EBK IS HEADING TO FAIL THE PEOPLE.PLEASE PAT SOWE TELL MR PRESIDENT THAT IS A BIG NO NO NO.
Subject: THE IMPOSSIBLE
From: Almamy Razak Tun Seray-Wurie Si
To: All
Date Posted: 16:17:29 09/27/07 ()
Email Address: almamysi@hotmail.com
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There is no way Pres. EBK would exclude a hsand full of old ministers. Remember, SL is still raw, some people are political icons like Charles Margai
Subject: ERNEST, PLEASE DON'T SIDELINE MARGAI!
From: Mammy Blessing
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Date Posted: 11:48:55 09/27/07 ()
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In the just concluded elections, fair-minded Sierra Leoneans will conclude that, although Ernest Koroma won the electoral war, it was the valiant support and got-your-backism of Charles Margai, that won the critical battles in the SouthEast and sealed the deal for Ernest.
Since the elections however, the powerful voice of this great Sierra Leonean has become eerily silent. Charles is nowhere to be seen as APC and SLPP mischief makers from the past walk haughtily around State House, kacking their chests and measuring new office curtains. AKK is smiling wolfishly again and eagerly jumping in photo ops with the president. John Benjamin is also doing his kackchestism, bragging to all and sundry that his new best friend forever is Ernest Koroma!
I support the president's efforts at building coalitions. It is a welcome change from the winner-take-all-ism of the past. However as former enemies suddenly find common ground, it is important that the true friends of yesterday not be sidelined. I hope that Charles Margai is still enjoying the unfettered access and confidence of the president. I hope he is consulted regularly. Charles Margai does not have to be given a hifalutin ministry to be of service to his country. A weekly one-on-one meeting between the two men to discuss ideas and implement schemes will be nice.
Patriots should not be ostracized. They should be encouraged.
I am praying that Margai's current absence is due to a well earned vacation from two years of continuous campaigning.
P.S Candido, thanx again for the Bombali kack chest neologism, bro. Can't stop using it!
Subject: Re: ERNEST, PLEASE DON'T SIDELINE MARGAI!
From: Med
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Date Posted: 15:09:28 09/27/07 ()
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It’s a nice piece, but several assumptions misconstrue the motive of this excellent and outspoken gentleman. He did a good job, to dismantle the corrupt cabal, called SLPP, he stand a chance of a triumphant return…….let him stay clean, his role in Salone politics is uncompromised, he has hard earned his respect and holds a bright future……….Let him KEEPOFF APC politics……..
Subject: Re: ERNEST, PLEASE DON'T SIDELINE MARGAI!
From: Mammy Blessing
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Date Posted: 15:16:56 09/27/07 ()
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Med, I supported the APC/PMDC coalition but your backhanded slap at the APC made me chortle. Very witty, bro.
Subject: Re: ERNEST, PLEASE DON'T SIDELINE MARGAI!
From: Mohamed Barigue
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Date Posted: 14:54:47 09/27/07 ()
Email Address: mohamedbarigue@yahoo.fr
Entered From: c-69-143-225-68.hsd1.md.comcast.net at 69.143.225.68
Message:
Charles Margai has said that if he is not President he will be vice Preisdent either of which I support. At one time I was travelling from Conakry to Kempu and I stumbled upon a PMDC/APC Sensitization meeting in Kambia at Aunty Fatty's hotel where I was staying minding my own business.
If Ernest wants to be succesful, I would advice him to let Charles Margai chose all the ministers in his cabinet or at least 50% of his ministers in the cabinet.
There was a doctor there who was spearheading the sensitization tour for the PMDC, The ideas he gave were so brilliant I stayed on my bed listening to the meeting for near 2 hours.
I am a business man and not a politician but I was impressed by the ideas the PMDC had. Please Pa Ernest work hand in hand with Charlie Boy for the good of Sierra Leone. God Bless Sierra Leone.
Subject: Re: ERNEST, PLEASE DON'T SIDELINE MARGAI!
From: Amadu Kabbah
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Date Posted: 12:58:54 09/27/07 ()
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Thank God, we have Ernest as President. He is not ungrateful. He knows that Charles is with him we are not seeing them as we used to when the battle was going on. Now that the battle is over, the two men are planning together to make life meaningful for us.
Subject: Re: ERNEST, PLEASE DON'T SIDELINE MARGAI!
From: M. Alieu Iscandari Esq
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Date Posted: 12:33:18 09/27/07 ()
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Charles Margai will NEVER be sidelined by the EBK government. Wait and be patient and you will see how positively tghis all plays out.
Subject: Re: ERNEST, PLEASE DON'T SIDELINE MARGAI!
From: Mammy Blessing
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Date Posted: 13:11:18 09/27/07 ()
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I hope you are right Oremi. I would hate to see this true patriot of the soil ignored while sharks roam around the prezy. It is necessary to sound the alarm before..any inconsideration occurs.
Subject: Re: ERNEST, PLEASE DON'T SIDELINE MARGAI!
From: PMDC
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Date Posted: 10:41:31 09/28/07 ()
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Condo is well connected with EBK and is currently heavily involved in the formation of the cabinet, he was a member of the president's delegation that toured the sub-region last week.
Subject: Re: ERNEST, PLEASE DON'T SIDELINE MARGAI!
From: PMDC
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Date Posted: 10:39:23 09/28/07 ()
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Condo is well connected with EBK, he was an official member of his delegation that toured the sub-region last week.
Subject: WORLD BANK TO TRACE STOLEN MONEY/ASSETS
From: Konkonbay
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Date Posted: 10:42:14 09/27/07 ()
Email Address: KONKO@YAHOO.COM
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World Bank to trace stolen money, assets Posted on 27/09/07
By Tanu Jalloh
World Bank says it will help developing countries trace stolen money, get and send back all assets lost through corrupt practices.
The global corruption watchdog, Transparency International (TI), this week issued a statement welcoming the Stolen Asset Recovery (StAR) Initiative of the World Bank and United Nations to help countries locate and repatriate assets lost through illicit acts.
“This is an important element of the Bank's comprehensive attack on corruption,” it says.
The programme, which will provide resources to help countries locate and repatriate assets lost through illicit acts, is a wake-up call to those who steal and to those who facilitate or harbour stolen assets.
TI further revealed that corruption's drain on resources available to alleviate poverty, disease and illiteracy was profound. This is because the annual cross-border flow of proceeds from criminal activity, corruption and tax evasion is estimated by the StAR report at between US $1 trillion and US $1.6 trillion.
Also bribes received by public officials from developing and transition countries are estimated at US $20 to $40 billion annually. Indeed, these estimates are roughly equivalent to the Bank's total annual lending portfolio.
It could be recalled that TI has long called for action to end safe havens for such funds and to secure their return to their rightful owners.
"Our national chapters around the world actively supported inclusion of strong provisions for this purpose in the UN Convention against Corruption (UNCAC) in order to ensure cooperation between developing and developed countries," it says.
While efforts to get reactions from the National Accountability Group, TI's national chapter in Sierra Leone proved frustrating, Coordinator of Civil Society Alternative Process of Sierra Leone, Fallah Ensa-N'Dayma believes a genuine civil society would always want to lessen such a burden on governments of third world countries.
“The only problem with collaboration is that governments would tend to set up parallel systems that are answerable to them thereby sidelining every genuine effort by civil society groups,” he says. “TI and World Bank, which have leverage over lending portfolios, should create a window for genuine civil society authority. Until then the initiative would suffer some setbacks.”
Meanwhile, World Bank and other donors would be assisting governments with the skills and resources to navigate complex procedures and legal requirements, and support their efforts to implement provisions of the UN convention on corruption especially on budget, expenditure and procurement transparency.
The statement concludes that the StAR initiative is an important development capable of adding a powerful deterrent to those seeking to plunder their nation's wealth and to those who have wilfully or inadvertently provided them safe havens.
The launching of the StAR Initiative have the full support of TI's Chair, Huguette Labelle, World Bank President, Robert Zoellick, United Nations Secretary General, Ban Ki-moon and United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime Executive, Director Antonio Maria Costa.
Subject: Re: WORLD BANK TO TRACE STOLEN MONEY/ASSETS
From: SANTOS MANGA
To: All
Date Posted: 13:49:20 09/27/07 ()
Email Address: santos@aol.com
Entered From: at 86.156.235.37
Message:
The World Bank and IMF, and there Brenton Wood brothers and sisters are themself corrupt. They should probably start the fight at home. That is where charity starts. Check the definition for corruption and you will know what I am talking about.
Subject: Re: WORLD BANK TO TRACE STOLEN MONEY/ASSETS
From: Med
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Date Posted: 12:34:46 09/27/07 ()
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This is a good scheme; I would kindly submit that government Officials to be investigated should include Permanent Secretaries, NPA, SLRA, Ports Authority, City Council, NaCSA, NASSIT, ACC and the Police. These institutions + many many more were/are equally responsible for the state of our impoverish country.
It is obvious that most of these institutions were either conspicuously corrupt or just unpatriotically sabotaged the SLPP governance, depriving the ordinary man. Let these corrupt elements be weeded out, we want clean corrupt free politics.
I could voluntarily avail my time + free info to such a well-meaningful institution.
Subject: Sierra Leone @150 and still climbing now@zero tolerance
From: Cornelius Hamelberg
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Date Posted: 09:55:56 09/27/07 ()
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Please click
Subject: APC CABINET TOMORROW-AI WILL YOU BE AG?
From: Alieu sesay
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Date Posted: 09:19:46 09/27/07 ()
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According to Alpha Khan, we will hear the names of the APC ministers September 28... that will be tomorrow.....
Subject: Re: APC CABINET TOMORROW-AI WILL YOU BE AG?
From: Kalos
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Date Posted: 10:52:54 09/27/07 ()
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AI would be invaluable asset to the current administration as Executive Assistant to the President for policy. The key here is unfettered access to the president; AI is one of the few that will not be afraid to tell his Excellency the truth when it matters and ultimately necessary. When the dust settles, AI will be the right man, at the right place and time.
Subject: Re: APC CABINET TOMORROW-AI WILL YOU BE AG?
From: Olu Beckley
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Date Posted: 11:23:54 09/27/07 ()
Email Address: mariamab@aol.com
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How about the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) for AI? With a solid AG to back him up, and a supportive Parliament to get the ammendments to the Statutes passed, the war against corruption will be more than half won.
Subject: Re: APC CABINET TOMORROW-AI WILL YOU BE AG?
From: M. Alieu Iscandari Esq
To: All
Date Posted: 09:59:36 09/27/07 ()
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Message:
Not intrested in being AG my friend. Notice that I am not in Freetown jockeying for a job. I am right here in California picking my next battle. Check out this next article though it validates my earlier posts that the Government of Tejan Kabba and Berewah in particular, took money in an amount no less than $5000.00 from persons whose family members had been condemned to death by the same Berewah as prosecutor. This was corruption to the max.
http://allafrica.com/stories/200709251028.html
Subject: Re: APC CABINET TOMORROW-AI WILL YOU BE AG?
From: newsman
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Date Posted: 13:02:02 09/27/07 ()
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1998 news.....Stale news..........
Subject: Re: APC CABINET TOMORROW-AI WILL YOU BE AG?
From: Alieu sesay
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Date Posted: 10:10:56 09/27/07 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
"Not intrested in being AG my friend" Hmmm Alieu..That means you have a window...
For the article you mentioned, i do not trust the writer---editor of a local salone newspaper-den too YUKI YUKI.
Subject: Re: APC CABINET TOMORROW-AI WILL YOU BE AG?
From: M. Alieu Iscandari Esq
To: All
Date Posted: 10:48:32 09/27/07 ()
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I dont know what you mean by a window, but I am MORALLY opposed to the death penalty and I would not serve any government in a capacity where I would have to by law uphold the death penalty. As AG I would by law have to uphold the death penalty.
With reagards to the article, I hold the belief that the article has confirmed my suspicions about the fact that the govt of the SLPP under Kabba and particularly Berewah, did collect RANSOME money from the familes of some condemned prisoners in order to save them from the firing squad which is a fate that met many who were unable to come up with the ransome money.
Maybe this new government needs to start an INVESTIGATION into those facts so that the truth would come out. I only hope that if an investigation is instituted it will not be called a WUTCH HUNT by those in the SLPP. In fact these allegations are so dastardly that even the Berewah camp if they are denying it should push for an investigation so that the TRUE facts would come out into the public domain.
Subject: Re: APC CABINET TOMORROW-AI WILL YOU BE AG?
From: Alieu sesay
To: All
Date Posted: 11:12:49 09/27/07 ()
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"I dont know what you mean by a window"
Meaning.. You do not want to be AG but open to other positions as mentioned by KALOS in his post.
I will want to see you in one of these jobs so as to see the man in you.
You have been very VOCAL, now is the time to be PRACTICAL.
Subject: Re: APC CABINET TOMORROW-AI WILL YOU BE AG?
From: M. Alieu Iscandari Esq
To: All
Date Posted: 11:34:14 09/27/07 ()
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I am not actively campaigning for any job in sierra leone because I am quite content with the job I am doing here in California where I am serving my community.
I will however not foreclose any possibilities of any jobs in sierra leone in which I can be of direct service to siera leone. But there are a lot of modalities that have to be put in place for me to accept a job in siera leone. Many people have nominated me for different positions in the government of sierra leone and to those people including you, I say thanks for repositing that degree of faith in me.
You stay blessed my brother, I am off to work.
Subject: For Sake of SERVICE, Alieu Iscandri will serve...........
From: Kalos
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Date Posted: 12:47:10 09/27/07 ()
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AI, never met him....but, based on testimonies by some of his friends from high school to college days and his relentless and fearless advocacy in this medium, some of us are ready and willing to make judgements about his character, integrity, and intelligence. Please continue to leave the window open....we are encouraged when you mentioned the word "service". An Englishman (Douglas Adams) was wrote “TO GIVE REAL SERVICE YOU MUST ADD SOMETHING WHICH CANNOT BE BOUGHT OR MEASURED WITH MONEY, AND THAT IS SINCERITY AND INTEGRITY”. What a fit…………….
Subject: Re: For Sake of SERVICE, Alieu Iscandri will serve...........
From: ALERT - self-aggrandizing - ALERT.. wheew , wheew, wheew
To: All
Date Posted: 13:05:34 09/27/07 ()
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If this kalo is not alieu leh ah ben.
Is Alieu qualified for the AG job MR Kalos?
Isn't been a member of the bar of salone and practice for a couple of years not one of the prerequisite.
Or are we sidestepping rules now because nar we man.
Is immigration law and the fact that he has not even practiced for a week in salone before special cut, and even then he was terminated (shiii-fired)not enough to tell us he is a square peg (even if we like his candor) for a round hole?
Subject: Re: For Sake of SERVICE, Alieu Iscandri will serve...........
From: Kalos
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Date Posted: 16:45:57 09/27/07 ()
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I frequently state a caveat “never met him”, it is absolutely true. I am not sure about AI’s SL Bar standing. He deserves a practical assignment that is relatively more influential and challenging than the AG. It is an open secret; there is no room for argument that he is a well-rounded gentleman that has a lot to offer his country. This afternoon I discussed AI with friends that have not seen nor talk to him for over 20 years; the common theme continues to be he is smart, stubborn, principled, honest and just, but……..”na be troublesome guy, en e nor day fraid”. These words came from eminent friends that are models in all their undertakings.
Subject: Re: For Sake of SERVICE, Alieu Iscandri will serve...........
From: Buya ronko
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Date Posted: 01:51:48 09/29/07 ()
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That's very true of JOKANIE.I VIVIDLY remember him in the days at Muslim congress.Trust me he can perform perfectly in any position of trust assigned to him. He demonstrated that when he was the senior prefect at Muslim Congress school.
I am not campaining for a postion to be offered to him I am just supporting the statement about him being a person of integrety and always ready to help and fight for justice.Na true ee very troublesome
Subject: Re: For Sake of SERVICE, Alieu Iscandri will serve...........
From: Buya ronko
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Date Posted: 01:45:17 09/29/07 ()
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That's very true of JOKANIE.I VIVIDLY remember him in the days at Muslim congress.Trust me he can perform perfectly in any position of trust assigned to him. He demonstrated that when he was the senior prefect at Muslim Congress school.
I am not campaining for a postion to be offered to him I am just supporting the statement about him being a person of integrety and always ready to help and fight for justice.Na true ee very troublesome
Subject: Re: For Sake of SERVICE, Alieu Iscandri will serve...........
From: Dont get it..
To: All
Date Posted: 09:41:42 09/28/07 ()
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Entered From: ns.nucleusns2.com at 12.44.12.126
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So you like him, you saw him 20 years ago and talked last to him about the same time.
He does not practice in the country whose laws he should be able to interprete, hardly ever did, and the only law he has practiced for the past 10-20 years is AMERICAN immigration law.
He is smart, stubborn, principled, honest, troublesome..
And now he is qualified for AG?
I have a squirrel with the same attributes in my backyard, i call him bruno should i sent his resume for IG?
I also have a friend who is smart, stubborn, principled, honest, troublesome, resourceful, and a librarian.
Should i sent her resume for MINES?
I can atest she knows how to dig up stuff, and knows a lot of different rocks.
suck teetth.
Shiooooooooooooooooooooorrrrrrrr.
En una say politics dey change with APC in.
Una lie. una been just want una yone man in. so una kin get some of una other man dem in.
Salone politricks 101 i am begining to realise is simply.THEM or US.
Country? Smonty !!!!
Who cares when there are spoils to be shared.
Subject: Re: For Sake of SERVICE, Alieu Iscandri will serve...........
From: Kalos
To: All
Date Posted: 12:52:03 09/28/07 ()
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Take your time, take deep breath and re-read my posting. I am consistent in stating my views about AI; I did not mention AI for AG. Where did you get that from?
Subject: Re: For Sake of SERVICE, Alieu Iscandri will serve...........
From: Kontha Cowboy
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Date Posted: 12:49:24 09/28/07 ()
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AMERICAN Immigration law is not the ONLY area of practice for the erudite Lawyer my friend. He is a TRIAL lawyer and he heads his own firm. He tries civil as well as criminal cases including Immigration deportation cases and immigration cases with criminal mplications. stop putting people that you dont know down.
I know Alieu I have met with him and he has represented many of my family members in different cases and I know what he can do.
Subject: Re: For Sake of SERVICE, Alieu Iscandri will serve...........
From: NOTO PULL ME DOWN
To: All
Date Posted: 13:03:54 09/28/07 ()
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Entered From: ns.nucleusns2.com at 12.44.12.126
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If i gave that impression.. i am trully sorry.
I have read alieus post.
He seems a personable, well liked and humble individual. Someone i can easily be friends with.
I am not in no way trying to pull him down.
I as a Sierra Leonean do not see how he qualifies for the AG job. and i am wondering why he is been PUSHED or SOLD to us for a sensitive job as AG when he is clearly not qualified.
He will tell you that himself.
Not only would that be an injustice.
It will be a diservice to our nation because the ones who are more qualified and have merit and could have served the nation better would immediately see the opportunity evaporate.
I am just raising questions that should be raised when positions as this are been considered.
AG is not pikin load.
Subject: Re: For Sake of SERVICE, Alieu Iscandri will serve...........
From: jamie
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Date Posted: 15:39:19 09/27/07 ()
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Alieu has never asked for a job or recomended himself for one. I dont know what you are talking about? You dont seem to know what you are talking about.
Subject: Re: For Sake of SERVICE, Alieu Iscandri will serve...........
From: POLITICO
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Date Posted: 16:49:28 09/27/07 ()
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Thanks Jamie. However, this is a free world, we are entitled to freely state our positions. I salute Kalos.
Subject: Re: For Sake of SERVICE, Alieu Iscandri will serve...........
From: Ahmed
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Date Posted: 15:33:52 09/27/07 ()
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I live in the Bay area and I know Alieu Iscandari. I am also a supporter of the SLPP party. I also know that kalos is not Alieu iscandari. I also know that Immigration law is not the only area that iscandari practices in. I also know that he has not expressed any interest publically in any position in sierra leone. I also know that he is not interested in any position as AG of sierra leone and if you toook the time to read what he writes about the fact that he is anti death penalty, you would not have even written your piece which is of itself unimpressive.
How nmany lawyers do you know who you can call at home and will bethere for you. AI is one of those kindda lawyers to the sierra leone community here. You dont have to take my word for it ask people around here.
maybe you should stop saying things about people you do not know. Square pegs in round holes are people like you who speak abot others you know so little about
Subject: Re: For Sake of SERVICE, Alieu Iscandri will serve...........
From: FANGADAMA
To: All
Date Posted: 13:32:39 09/27/07 ()
Email Address: sorba_1@yahoo.com
Entered From: at 209.116.81.187
Message:
How about his brother Abdul Iscanderi. He is smatter than Alieu. He can qualify as a minister of Transportation since he is an engineer.
Subject: Re: For Sake of SERVICE, Alieu Iscandri will serve...........
From: ALERT - self-aggrandizing - ALERT.. wheew , wheew, wheew
To: All
Date Posted: 14:05:39 09/27/07 ()
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Entered From: ns.nucleusns2.com at 12.44.12.126
Message:
Might be.
Don't know the fello, neither do i know anything about him. I thought his brother was a fishing guy at fisheries or tourism.
Don't they have engineers with tropical and local experience who rose up the ranks in the ministry and can be promoted, should i also add DESERVEs the position.?
Subject: Re: For Sake of SERVICE, Alieu Iscandri will serve...........
From: FANGADAMA
To: All
Date Posted: 14:09:43 09/27/07 ()
Email Address: sorba_1@yahoo.com
Entered From: at 209.116.81.187
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I don't know who you are talking about. He has a brother that leaves in Chicago who is level headed than Alieu. He is very popular in the Sierra Leone community. Google him.
Subject: Re: APC CABINET TOMORROW-AI WILL YOU BE AG?
From: Cornelius Hamelberg
To: All
Date Posted: 10:28:00 09/27/07 ()
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Message:
Mr Sesay,
About not trusting the writer, well , this appeared in The Guardian and the accuser is none less than a Roman
Catholic Archbishop!
http://www.guardian.co.uk/aids/story/0,,2177870,00.html?gusrc=rss&feed=networkfront
Subject: Re: APC CABINET TOMORROW-AI WILL YOU BE AG?
From: Cornelius Hamelberg
To: All
Date Posted: 10:21:10 09/27/07 ()
Email Address:
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Mr. Kabbah could never acquiesce to such
Subject: KABS PLEASE PUBLISH MY ARTICLE
From: Alie Formeh Kamara
To: All
Date Posted: 07:41:32 09/27/07 ()
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This is the first of a series of articles I intend to publish on the job hunting at the State House. It is for the benefit of my online forum bodies. I will give you news on the plane and on the ground in Freetown.
Below is the article :
JOB HUNTING AT THE STATE HOUSE
A CURSORY LOOK AT THE POOL OF JOB HUNTERS
By Alie Formeh Kamara
Alie Formeh Kamara
Now that the elections are all over and the APC party is declared the winner a lot of hard work lies ahead for the new government. Among the initial and most urgent work to be done includes the appointments of the new Executive members of the Sierra Leone Government and the appointments of members of Sierra Leone’s diplomatic corps. Then there will be appointments for several parastatals.
As is commonly the case, despite the large number of positions available to be filled, it will be far from enough to satisfy the huge number of applicants positioning themselves for appointment.
Reports reaching Sierra Leone newspapers is that many from the diaspora are already in Freetown and many more are packing and boarding planes departing to Sierra Leone as their destination. They will all be looking for the chance to participate in the new government.
But the largest contingent of applicants for positions in the new government is based at home. Most of them include those who vied for APC party symbols but lost, some of whom may have been promised other jobs as a consolation. There are also APC members who were active in the campaign and offered their services with the hope that it will pay off in the end. Some of them occupied positions as polling agents and some of them did the leg work in the campaign, going from door to door and making public speeches.
The obvious conclusion that can be drawn from the events unfolding is that at the end, only a fraction of the applicants will get positions.
Many job aspirants will be disappointed. But for the reasonable ones they know this to be the case in all situations. Here in New York, I worked for Governor Spitzer’s campaign as were many others but failed to get a political appointment. But I am still a democrat.
One of those from the Diaspora that would be placing their hats in the ring is me. I worked for the APC through my participation online and in fundraisers. I will be leaving on October 3rd for Freetown and arriving on October 4th at Lungi International Airport. I will volunteer to provide Cocorioko with news from my angle about my travel and my experience in the job hunting at the State House. I know that this is going to be tough for the President elect Ernest Bai Koroma and I don’t envy him at all.
Growing up in Sierra Leone, in a political household I knew that there was a fierce competition between party stalwarts at home and those abroad. Those at home looked at members of the Diaspora as opportunists without credit for the party’s victory and yet they seek an advantage or want equal consideration for positions. Many at home probably still hold such views even today.
While I cannot speak for all members from the diaspora and I believe that each person’s case must be looked at individually, I strongly believe that such a view today has far less merit. Without members of the diaspora, neither the APC nor the SLPP would have been able to effectively campaign. All political parties at home needed strong financial backing which was provided mostly by members of the diaspora. That explains why each party made several trips abroad for fund raising.
But finance alone is not enough just as the biblical saying that man cannot live by bread alone. In the present age of global networking the internet assumes a strategic position for global communications including propaganda so that peoples of the world are closer than before. Members of the diaspora are not as far removed from home as before and they do participate in domestic politics via the internet. Most sound challenges to political positions or activities of the SLPP government came from members of the diaspora who are more exposed, more educated and are knowledgeable on the historical development of democracy in the West. And as information reach the internet it quickly proliferate in newspapers at home and are carried allover Sierra Leone.
On the average, members of the diaspora are likely to be better exposed and more trained than their counterpart in Sierra Leone. In fact the argument can be made that they went abroad in search of greener pastures for better training. For some of them, like me, going back to Sierra Leone is the third and final phase of our lives’ journeys. Going back home is seen as an opportunity to use acquired tools for the benefit of Sierra Leone.
It is my hope that education, experience and commitment to the vision of the APC party are the overriding factors in the selection process. To repeat the words of one journalist, the APC government should be aware of political chameleons.
I will endeavor to report on job hunters at the State house when I arrive home. For me, I will return to my job in the event I do not succeed. If I return, I will be back on Cocorioko forum giving my views on issues of interest to Sierra Leone as always.
Long live Sierra Leone and long live the APC.
Subject: Re: KABS PLEASE PUBLISH MY ARTICLE A TRUE PATRIOT
From: PATO
To: All
Date Posted: 13:40:29 09/27/07 ()
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Message:
Mr. Kamara, I have always thought of you as one model of a true Sierra Leonean. From your contributions in this most widely read online newspaper i hold you to high esteam. You have once again demonstrated it on this same media by boldly making your intentions open to every Sierra Leonean,
I wish you the very best of luck and hope President Koroma will consider your application for whatever position you so desire. I strongly believe that with you being in the executive team of President Kodoma
i will begin to see light at the end of the tunnel and hope for a better Sierra Leone.
Subject: Re: KABS PLEASE PUBLISH MY ARTICLE
From: Liko
To: All
Date Posted: 10:34:25 09/27/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: f298781.ga.unc.edu at 152.4.31.217
Message:
I wish you the best of everything, Alie. I knew the effort you marshalled in seeing the success of APC. Indeed, I was with you in one of the gatherings in New Jersey in 2006.
Subject: Re: KABS PLEASE PUBLISH MY ARTICLE
From: Mammy Blessing
To: All
Date Posted: 08:56:55 09/27/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 165.155.200.143
Message:
Alie, I wish you all the best in your job search. Your honesty is refreshing. Some people who are out there hustling for positions pretend they are not interested at all. I hope diasporans who want to work in government should bravely state their case to the president. If you hide your light behind a bushel, nobody is going to give a damn. The old pros , many of whom helped damage the country, are already furiously, cut-throatingly gunning for positions.
My only hope is that those diasporans who eventually serve always have the country's best interests at heart. The sad truth is that most of the damage that was inflicted on the country was done by former diasporans through half-baked ideas or by outright looting of our meager resources.
As for those of us who have no interest in serving in government, we can still help by writing to charitable founndations and corporations for projects that can benefit the country.
Don't wait for Ernest Koroma to electtify your village; get together with your homies and finagle a used generator and maybe $500 for a year's supply of diesel. That should be enough to provide three hours of light at night for a year, around the Barri, allowing traders to sell their orinch, patch granat, roas bif, junks and other free market activities that will improve the local economy.
Subject: Re: KABS PLEASE PUBLISH MY ARTICLE
From: Cornelius Hamelberg
To: All
Date Posted: 09:22:43 09/27/07 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
Does it have to be the president who they must state their case to?
That should keep him bogged down all day.....
"writing to charitable foundations and corporations for projects that can benefit the country."
It all sounds so depressing like John Ernest Leigh's country living on Social welfare whilst he is allegedly busy "having a great social time with the natives of Massachusetts” and still moaning about the meagre $ 91, 000 that he claims the SLPP owes him…..and yet boasting that no person in this world has been more generous to the SLPP than the most qualified to the party leadership and the presidency of Sierra Leone, namely he Mr. Johnny Leigh himself.
Now where is his generosity? Why not waive the 91,000 as sadaka?
Even san san boys are big enough to do more than that without advertising such a little fact.
Principle? Embarrassing the party like that? Washing your dirty linen in public….
What about the principle of generosity?
There is also the principle of obtaining legal redress.
There’s also the sentiments enshrined in the National Anthem
And the commitments men make through the National Pledge.
Time for the big guys to start setting a little bright example of selfless service to the nation.
Ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country - even without being rewarded
Subject: Re: KABS PLEASE PUBLISH MY ARTICLE
From: Mammy Blessing
To: All
Date Posted: 12:24:20 09/27/07 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
Ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country - even without being rewarded
Cornelius, I hope to God that we all live by John F. Kennedy's immortal words of altruism. We could do right by our country.
I know it is depressing going around begging for aid like an international "miskina", but this is one of those humiliating chores we are forced to endure as a result of the selfishness and greed of our leaders.
Grants and donations given by foundations, if targeted properly, can serve as a trigger to begin pulling us by our own bootstraps. They are not meant to make our people suckle from the social security breast forever.
Eventually, we will have dig ourselves out of the hole our leaders have dumped us...we just need a little help and inspired, selfless leadership.
Subject: Re: KABS PLEASE PUBLISH MY ARTICLE
From: Cornelius Hamelberg
To: All
Date Posted: 09:22:00 09/27/07 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
Does it have to be the president who they must state their case to?
That should keep him bogged down all day.....
"writing to charitable foundations and corporations for projects that can benefit the country."
It all sounds so depressing like John Ernest Leigh's country living on Social welfare whilst he is allegedly busy "having a great social time with the natives of Massachusetts” and still moaning about the meagre $ 91, 000 that he claims the SLPP owes him…..and yet boasting that no person in this world has been more generous to the SLPP than the most qualified to the party leadership and the presidency of Sierra Leone, namely he Mr. Johnny Leigh himself.
Now where is his generosity? Why not waive the 91,000 as sadaka?
Even san san boys are big enough to do more than that without advertising such a little fact.
Principle? Embarrassing the party like that? Washing your dirty linen in public….
What about the principle of generosity?
There is also the principle of obtaining legal redress.
There’s also the sentiments enshrined in the National Anthem
And the commitments men make through the National Pledge.
Time for the big guys to start setting a little bright example of selfless service to the nation.
Ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do fot your country - even without being rewarded
Subject: FEMALE GENITAL MUTILATION (FGM) NOT BONDO.
From: MOHAMED BARIGUE
To: All
Date Posted: 06:04:27 09/27/07 ()
Email Address: mohamedbarigue@yahoo.com
Entered From: c-69-143-225-68.hsd1.md.comcast.net at 69.143.225.68
Message:
My wife a Susu girl from Guinea underwent FGM in the hospital and you would not even know it, but Sierra Leonean women living in Guinea are making mockery of the Guinean FGM which is done in hospital rather than in the Bondo Bush where a drunken Soweh batters the clits of our young sisters leaving some bleeding profusely.
I like the Guinean option because it does not leave the sisters in pain. By the way, I noticed when I was a refugee in Guinea that many of the women giving birth were undergoing C-Section as did my wife.
Is there a relationship?
Subject: Re: FEMALE GENITAL MUTILATION (FGM) NOT BONDO.
From: FYI
To: All
Date Posted: 20:37:42 09/27/07 ()
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Message:
I was told by a doctor at Holy Cross Hospital that there is indeed a relationship between FGM and C-Section.
Subject: Re: FEMALE GENITAL MUTILATION (FGM) NOT BONDO.
From: Mohamed Fofana
To: All
Date Posted: 00:16:14 09/28/07 ()
Email Address: mfofana2004@sbcglobal.net
Entered From: adsl-69-108-68-64.dsl.irvnca.pacbell.net at 69.108.68.64
Message:
What can the very doctor say about the many women in the western world that ask for C-sect that have never experienced FGM? Is it due complications? Or Just voluteering to avoid labor pain? Or choice by the woman.
Subject: Re: FEMALE GENITAL MUTILATION (FGM) NOT BONDO.
From: FYI
To: All
Date Posted: 04:23:35 09/28/07 ()
Email Address:
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"What can the very doctor say about the many women in the western world that ask for C-sect that have never experienced FGM? Is it due complications? Or Just voluteering to avoid labor pain? Or choice by the woman."
The key word in your above statement is ASK,that is it is their CHOICE but with some FGM women it is not a CHOICE,it is the only way by which they can deliver.
Subject: Re: FEMALE GENITAL MUTILATION (FGM) NOT BONDO.
From: Mohamed Fofana
To: All
Date Posted: 17:26:05 09/28/07 ()
Email Address: mfofana2004@sbcglobal.net
Entered From: at 204.108.68.10
Message:
"I was told by a doctor at Holy Cross Hospital that there is indeed a relationship between FGM and C-Section."
The question you are arguing has nothing to do with choice. As quoted above, that FGM is indeed related to C- Section is what responded to.
You are not debating choice or the method of FGM. You are condemning it. You may get some headway if you debate the method and that those who are performing the act should be medically trained with modern sterilized equipments.
Subject: Re: FEMALE GENITAL MUTILATION (FGM) NOT BONDO.
From: Mohamed Fofana
To: All
Date Posted: 13:35:02 09/27/07 ()
Email Address: mfofana2004@sbcglobal.net
Entered From: at 204.108.68.10
Message:
I DON'T THINK THERE IS ANY RELATIONSHIP. MANY WOMEN IN THE WESTERN WORLD EASILY GO FOR C- SECT MORE THAN OUR SITERS. REASON, MAY BE AFRAID OF LABOR PAIN. THEY WANT TO BE MEDICATED AND GET THE C-SECT DONE AS QUICKLY AS POSSIBLE. MOST OF THEM VOLUNTERR AND NOT BECAUSE OF COMPLICATIONS AS THE CASE MAY SOMETIMES BE. YET AFTER THE MEDICATION, THERE IS STILL MORE PAIN
Subject: Re: FEMALE GENITAL MUTILATION (FGM) NOT BONDO.
From: Mohamed Fofana
To: All
Date Posted: 13:29:16 09/27/07 ()
Email Address: mfofana2004@sbcglobal.net
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I DON'T THINK THERE IS ANY RELATIONSHIP. MANY WOMEN IN THE WESTERN WORLD EASILY GO C- SECT MORE THAN OUR SITERS. REASON, MAY AFRAID OF LABOR PAIN. THEY WANT TO BE MEDICATED AND C-SECT DONE AS QUICKLY AS POSSIBLE. MOS OF THEM VOLUNTERR AND BECAUSE OF COMPLICATIONS AS THE CASE MAY SOMETIMES BE. YET AFTER THE MEDICATION, THERE IS STILL MORE PAIN
Subject: Re: FEMALE GENITAL MUTILATION (FGM) NOT BONDO.
From: Beola
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Date Posted: 07:24:35 09/27/07 ()
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Don't we have more important issues to discuss on this forum rather than bondo ?
Subject: Re: FEMALE GENITAL MUTILATION (FGM) NOT BONDO.
From: nyanda diamoh
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Date Posted: 08:32:50 09/27/07 ()
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hhahahhahahhahahahhahahhaa
Subject: Re: FEMALE GENITAL MUTILATION (FGM) NOT BONDO.
From: FANDE
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Date Posted: 09:03:15 09/27/07 ()
Email Address: sorba_1@yahoo.com
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Message:
Lets talk about Poroh this time
Subject: Re: FEMALE GENITAL MUTILATION (FGM) NOT BONDO.
From: Med
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Date Posted: 09:09:58 09/27/07 ()
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Great, please initiate the discussion and thanks.
Subject: News reporting
From: Gongoli
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Date Posted: 03:10:02 09/27/07 ()
Email Address: Gonos@yahoo.com
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How come Cocorioko has not given any news coverage on the opening of parliament?
That is what journalism is about.....very soon you will want to claim you were the first to do so......WAKE UP
PLEASE DON'T BAN ME?
Subject: Re: News reporting
From: Gongoli
To: All
Date Posted: 11:00:40 09/27/07 ()
Email Address: Gonos@yahoo.com
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Just to butress my point, check out Awoko for NEWS...about the swearing in of the Speaker.
Sorry oh, Cocorioko.......don't worry, if you ban me, I have many computers to sign on with
Subject: Re: News reporting
From: Parliament reports
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Date Posted: 09:45:41 09/27/07 ()
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Mr Gongoli
check with awoko for details
Subject: Re: News reporting
From: gbao
To: All
Date Posted: 07:16:10 09/27/07 ()
Email Address: gbao@yahoo.com
Entered From: mail.theguinnesspartnership.net at 81.144.200.226
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Nobody has answered the question 'How come Cocorioko has not given any news coverage on the opening of parliament?'
What connection does Sylvia have in this? Did she prevent this paper from reporting the news?
Subject: Re: News reporting
From: Santos Manga
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Date Posted: 07:13:12 09/27/07 ()
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Gongoli I think you hit the nail on the head. Can I also remind the world that on the eve of the run off elections even when both national and the international press were carrying pictures of APC Alpha Kanu and SLPP Berewa embracing for peace, Cocorioko was busy publishing derogatory articles about Kailahun and other places. Kabs you and your gang will fool some people some of the time but 'you will not fool all of them all of the time'. Soon you will be found out. LONTA
Subject: Re: News reporting
From: D.U.M. B-lie-den
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Date Posted: 05:26:09 09/27/07 ()
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THIS IS WWAHT AWARENESS TIMES WROTE IN ITS COMMENTARY: "We also note with derision those trying to sweep under the carpet the fact that the main support base of the SLPP was in mende-land whilst the only persons selected for sack, suspension or removal from the National Elections Office were all mendes and the place most affected by the invalidation of polls was mendeland.
QUESTION: Can Blyden be so stupid? Listen up Worworliwoh: "the only persons selected for sack, suspension or removal from the National Elections Office" WERE THOSE WHO WERE CAUGHT TRYING TO STEAL ELECTION BALLOTS AND STUFFING BALLOT BOXES WITH OVER-VOTING!
Whether they were Mende or Maraka, or Eskimo or Aborigine is totally irrelevant to the fact that they committed FRAUD! And that is why they were disciplined -- not because they were Mende!
Blyden, how low can you sink?
Subject: Re: News reporting
From: NEC
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Date Posted: 19:17:43 09/27/07 ()
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You are forgiven for being ignorant of the suspension of Mohamed Massaquoi and the removal of Vamba Konneh
Subject: Re: News reporting
From: Candy
To: All
Date Posted: 10:54:18 09/27/07 ()
Email Address: Canli@yahoo.com
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What has Sylvia blyden got to do with Cocorioko not reporting the news? You have not made any point other than personally attack the lady. She might not have the same political affiliations you have, but please understand gongoli's question did not mention anyone personally. All he did was ask a simple question.
Even KABS or the MODERATOR have felt it best not to answer.....does that mean they are embarassed by their ineptitude or that they don't have reporters on the ground. Or they only rely on congosa boxes?
Subject: Re: News reporting
From: SANTOS MANGA
To: All
Date Posted: 13:53:34 09/27/07 ()
Email Address: santos@aol.com
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The report what they want to report and it has to reflect their politics.
Subject: Re: News reporting
From: Candy
To: All
Date Posted: 15:03:48 09/27/07 ()
Email Address: Canli@yahoo.com
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I presume you have a small mind to believe that. Don't you believe in objective reporting? Or are you so narrow minded someone has to tell you what to do?
You amaze me
Subject: Re: News reporting
From: Bonthe Pikin
To: All
Date Posted: 05:47:52 09/27/07 ()
Email Address: bontilaynga@gmail.com
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Sylvia is the most dangerous human being on earth. She is so dangerous that she could do anything for survival, the least to ignite tribal war. The good thing that came out of everything she did for SLPP was for them to lose. Believe me God cannot be more kinder to Sierra Leone. An SLPP victory would have seen the likes of Sylvia determining the future of our beloved country. So leh sylvia go lick e wound!
Subject: Re: News reporting
From: Question
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Date Posted: 05:52:27 09/27/07 ()
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What makes her the Most dangerous???Just because she supported SLPP???
Subject: Re: News reporting
From: Momoh Jibao
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Date Posted: 06:38:53 09/27/07 ()
Email Address: momomomo@yahoo.com
Entered From: at 193.220.2.141
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Not because she was supporting the SLPP but because she was distorting the facts and trying to ignite chaos and ciil war in the country.
Subject: Re: News reporting
From: Ninja Journalist Observer
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Date Posted: 11:55:24 09/27/07 ()
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From NINJA to RUF to AFRC to SLPP.
Talking about slippery slope.
Subject: FRUSTRATED BATOLINERS
From: FREETOWN BOY
To: All
Date Posted: 02:46:39 09/27/07 ()
Email Address: freetownboy@kpejewest.com
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Those who went to campaign in SL for SLPP and failed are the ones writing all sort of nonsense about Momoh Konte and others. Because they live in US and had been promised fat jobs by SLPP so they went blazing. Now that their dreams have collapsed they have resorted to defaming colleagues who are going to benefit from APC administration. One such people is Marda Mustapha alias Sia Tiyaama. He was going to take over from Brima Kargbo as Director of HIV/AIDS Secretariat. Now he is back, frustrated, and his only consolation is to jump on decent and productive people like Momoh Konte. He even went as far as Kailahun and was among the band of looters that barricaded Ernest and Charles from going through Segbwema to Kailahun. But he is going to die with frustration.
Subject: Re: FRUSTRATED BATOLINERS
From: Cornelius Hamelberg
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Date Posted: 08:38:20 09/27/07 ()
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So Marda Mustapha is Sia Tiyaama?
He should be willing to put his knowledge at the service of his one country one people under any administration or does he want to wait until Jesus comes back?
Subject: Re: FRUSTRATED BATOLINERS
From: Ask Dem Ba
To: All
Date Posted: 08:50:35 09/27/07 ()
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Ask those who are obsessed with the lady. So what if Marda is Sia Tiyuma? Do not mind them my brother. Some of the people on this forum are such big losers that they always try to bring others down in their failure. Mek den sidom dae wonda but Marda en AIDS job na Salone...de man dae spark na in discipline wae den dae pan men craise man dem en clean waite man for den living.
Subject: Re: FRUSTRATED BATOLINERS
From: Jealousy
To: All
Date Posted: 07:17:40 09/27/07 ()
Email Address:
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Why don't you leave Marda alone. You have no proof he was/iis Sia Tiyaama. Those who know him will tell you he is a leading AIDS researcher. You should be worried about your cleaning job. Marda is presently in Europe as a research Fellow and hihs job in th eUS is still waiting for him. Are you jealous of the oung man's successes? While you swim in your failed life, Marda is being recognized internationally for his research. Na jealous go kill onna. Dee man nor get oona tem as ee busy dae succeed.
Subject: Re: FRUSTRATED BATOLINERS
From: Taiwo
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Date Posted: 07:11:08 09/27/07 ()
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What is this big deal about picking on folks that live in the Diaspora? The fact remains , we are all Sierra Leoneans and entitled to jobs just like any home base. Always fragmenting stuff.Yesterday, it was Northern Province vs South, Temne vs Mende and now you are trying to set up the Jay Cees vs home base.Is it out of frustration or what ?
Subject: Did SOLO B openingly begged EBK for a Job??
From: Alieu Oil
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Date Posted: 23:07:51 09/26/07 ()
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Surely, dead men don’t count and this must not in any case be forgotten. The political boat, of President Ernest Bai Koroma, has begun navigating through the high tides and waves of the Sierra Leonean periphery.This boat has been noticeably seen moving on the right direction.
There are however, some skepticism over the willingness and satisfaction, of some of the parliamentarians (sailors), of the ruling All People’s Congress Party that had robustly agitated to be given party symbols, before the August 11 Presidential and Parliamentary Elections. There is the feeling amongst some of those technocrats, of the ruling All People’s Congress Party that have now been sworn-in, as Honourable Members of Parliament that, their status should be above being parliamentarians, and instead they are now suggesting that, they should serve as Cabinet Ministers and Head of Commissions of government. There ideas are truly brilliant, but the timeliness, of their aspirations and desires, is what is now very questionable.
Indeed, the Parliamentarians representing the All People’s Congress Party, their constituencies and constituents objectively opted to serve this country, in the best of their abilities and capabilities. Their desires at that time, to serve the country in that capacity was never contested by any Sierra Leonean, neither were it done by members of their party membership. Thus, it was clear that, they were given the necessary support, by their constituents and people of this nation; which was sufficient to have made them understood that, they should have prepared themselves to serve their people, for an uninterrupted five (5) years period. Is that not a reasonable period for patriotic and well-meaning Sierra Leoneans to serve their people? Of course it is, and their original intentions must not be compromised now at all.
Unfortunately, there are some parliamentarians that have chosen to abandon their original calling. They are now aggressively seen lobbying, at the State House, to be appointed as Ministers and Heads of other government institutions. This kin interest now manifested, by already sworn-in parliamentarians, has created a room for dissensions, amongst particularly the political conscious classes of Sierra Leoneans and the wider populace as a whole.
There is now the feeling amongst some supporters, sympathizers and well-wishers of the ruling All People’s Congress Party that, those very over ambitious parliamentarians, of the party that are now fighting and lobbying to get political appointments, were the same party members that were very unsure of the imminent victory, of President Ernest Bai Koroma. Some of those parliamentarians that are presently opting to leave parliament were said to have utilized all kinds of selfish but diabolic means, to be awarded Party Symbols.
Why would they want to quit parliament now, even when they have not officially started their duties? Selfishness is obviously the answer. They had no faith in the leadership of President Koroma, and as a result they tried to save their necks, using every means in their disposal to find an alternative, in the situation were the leadership of the All People’s Congress Party would have lost the Presidential Contest, to the frustrated Solomon Berewa, of the opposition Sierra Leone People’s Party.
Please stop bothering President Koroma. Try to progressively initiate ideas that would certainly bring development to your constituents and always remember that you have a solid five year period, to not only uplift the socio-economic and political standards of your constituents, but also to develop your very capability.
We should note at once that, it is not only the parliamentarians that are desperately lobbying and boot-licking to get political appointments from President Koroma. It would interest Sierra Leoneans to know that, since Solomon Berewa , the former Vice President of the Republic of Sierra Leone, publicly begged, the newly elected President Koroma, for a job, at the Swearing-in Ceremony, at State House, several other seemingly responsible Sierra Leoneans; including the former big fishes of the former government of the destabilized Sierra Leone People’s Party are queuing the State House, on a daily basis, to shower praises on President Koroma, in a bid to win his favour and secure political appointments.
Anyway, unlike the out gone President Kabbah, the Mandingo Chief that likes to be endlessly flattered, with misinformation of his achievements, President Koroma is very firm and cannot be carried away by statements of flattery that have an underlying intention. Probably, the lobbyists must think of mapping out other strategies, for this has already been decoded.
Truly, in the game of politics, one cannot predict, with certainty, the exact and foreseeable moves, of political think-tanks and animals. This is because desperate men are sure to do anything, to achieve their selfish desires and personal gains. Can you imagine that former ministers and senior officials of the outgoing Sierra Leone People’s Party Government are now saying terrible things about their former bosses, to President Koroma and senior members of the ruling All People’s Congress Party, in a bid to gain appointments, in the newly elected government they are not sure of at all? It is even needless to tell President Koroma that, those were the same people that were saying all kinds of unprintable things about him, to the former president and even the ordinary Sierra Leoneans. Thus, their praise songs and unimaginable lies must not be considered at all.
Those men better find employments in day-care centers, where they would be provided with all the opportunities, to tell their lamb tales, to their grand and great-grand children, and not in our state institutions. Besides, Sierra Leoneans sincerely voted for a change of leadership and government, and those former state functionaries must be ignored with their lobbying strategies. It won’t work and we know President Koroma would not compromise the verdict of the people of this nation.
Perhaps importantly, the boys and men of the Diaspora are now proliferating the ruling All People’s Congress Party’s Office and the State House, which is the citadel of the government, of President Ernest Bai Koroma. The group of over ambitious men from the Diaspora, whom have been supporting the leadership and members of the now ruling All People’s Congress Party have certainly stormed the city, to lobby for political appointments from President Ernest Bai Koroma and the ruling All People’s Congress Party. If at all the home based membership of the All People’s Congress Party should be frank about the contributions of their newly arrived Party’s supporters, from the Diaspora, they would be given the reception they deserve. But this reception does not probably means to frivolously distribute state power, just like that, to them.
Apart from the fact that, they are very ignorant of the political developments and trends of the Sierra Leonean settings, most of them are also very uneducated, ineffective and inefficient, to execute state responsibilities. We have heard a handful of them made speeches and discuss issues on the politics of this nation.
Those speeches and issues discussed, by the Diaspora boys, are mostly guilty of naïve miscalculations.
The sailors on the political ship of President Koroma that would obviously be the victims of the foreseeable crash are numerous. Sierra Leoneans are now kin on knowing who would be the survivors. We shall be grateful if sailors willingly disembark before the ship capsizes.
Subject: Re: Did SOLO B openingly begged EBK for a Job??
From: Special Cut
To: All
Date Posted: 07:17:38 09/27/07 ()
Email Address:
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CAN WE PLEASE DISPLAY THE NAMES OF PARLIAMENTARIANS THAT ARE THREATENING TO QUIT BECAUSE THEY CANNOT BECOME MINISTERS ?
Subject: MOMOH KONTE!
From: Amadu Kabbah
To: All
Date Posted: 23:05:44 09/26/07 ()
Email Address: amadutkabbah@yahoo.com
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Power has changed hands and people have taken knives to slaughter their brothers.
I read a few concerns from people on the forum about Momoh Konte. I was tickled and I had to laugh. I had to because people can be too wicked and backward in their minds. One person referred to him as a"dreg-man" in DC and the other refused to believe that Momoh holds a Master Degree in Economics because he said Momoh said so. I saw the two guys as our brothers who will refuse to praise their brothers and sisters when those brothers or sisters stand out to make their contributions towards development.
I must confess that I am not even bothered about how you may think about Momoh; the fact is Momoh is Momoh and he is a Sierra Leonean like you, who means well for the advancement of the country. You could have known Momoh the way you think about him, but that knowledge about him could be deceiving. The Momoh Konte I know is different from what you see him to be.
You can say or think any how about him; but whatever he may have told you some years ago about his educational background are all correct and very accurate.
Momoh Konte could have been with the NPRC boys in 1991 but he did not go their ways they did when he came to the U.S. When he lived with the NPRC, you could have been correct to refer to him then as a "dreg-man." But when he came to Washington DC, he was not. He attended full-time school for four years. He did not work like some of us. So how could he have been a "dreg-man" according to your estimation and evaluation? How does a "dreg-man" appear to you?
Momoh finished sixth form in Ahmadiyya School in Kissy Dock Yard. He came to the US and went to Howard University from where he graduated with a BS Degree in Economics. During that year, Momoh excelled himself and he was on the Dean's List and in America's list of best brains. Ask him he has the proof of it. You will love to see it. He put Sierra Leone on the list that year in Howard.
Upon graduating from Howard University, Momoh went to the University of Toledo (UT) in Toledo, Ohio where he took his Masters Degree also in Economics. UT is one of America's leading schools in the region.
Momoh went back to Sierra Leone and paved way for over 21 Sierra Leoneans who came to the University of Toledo to study in diferent fields- Economics, Engineering, Sociology and Mathematics. Ask Mahmoud Idriss, he will testify to this I am saying about him. They all graduated with Masters Degrees in their fields of study. Today some of these guys are in Sierra Leone working in different Departments whilst a few of them are still in the US continuing their studies.
For me, Momoh is more of a concerned Sierra Leonean than a majority of us, including Solomon Berewa and Pa Kabbah. He had the opportunity to help other people and he made sure he helped them. He was not selfish.
Momoh could be somebody else by your evaluation and assessment, but he has the qualification to be on the President's Transition Team. Leave him to make his contribution.
As a businessman, Momoh started the Siekie Bockarie Development Company in Freetown and employed many people. His plan to start the first indigenous Cellphone company was frustrated by the outgone government. They saw him and his men in the office as APC children. One of the highly placed SLPP big guns said, "you cannot arm your opponent to fight you." There could have been other issues but their unpatriotic contributions towards the young man's business dreams were too distinctly nagetive because he was not SLPP.
Momoh, like most of us, likes to throw his weight around, but he could be ignored for that kind of attitude. That aspect of him is a trait among most young men who achieve greatness in their youthful age.
Momoh was not a "dreg-man" in DC as the other guy put it. Momoh was more or less a millionaire when he studied in Howard and lived in the DC area but he was apronounced millionaire when he studied in Toledo, because he had a business concern that was worth millions.
Momoh is exposed and widely traveled. Refer to him as someone who bluffs and makes his peers and sometimes elders appear little when he comes around them; but on the whole, Momoh is harmless, cool, friendly, hard- working, dependable if you give him an assignment to do, he is result-oriented, thinks ahead and somebody who loves his country. He has manifested these qualities amillion times over. You can only get to know him when you get close to him.
Another thing you may want to know about Momoh is that he is not the Biological son of the late Kawusu-Konte. The late Kawusu-Konte was Momoh's uncle. Momoh's father was not a politician in the light of how you guys are looking at politicians to be. His late father was the Town Chief who was loved by the people of Kabala for his honesty and dedication to duty. The old man was also result-oriented. He didn't want to fail in anything he did. Momoh is the son of that kind of father- a non-failure.
Please let us think that whoever is called to do anything for our beloved country, no matter the nature of what the person is called to do, let us have something good to say about him if there is anything good about him or her. Momoh is another young man who is trying to contribute his quota to national development; he should not be presented to the people as someone who is so low and not capable to do anything worth praising. I have no hesitation to tell you that Momoh is qualified and capable to do that assignment he has been told to do.
I am not asking for your support but it would do us good if we believe that Momoh Konte before this time is going to be different from Momoh Konte in the President's Transition Team.
Subject: Re: MOMOH KONTE!
From: fact
To: All
Date Posted: 11:52:01 09/27/07 ()
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You missed the point. Some people raised questions about him because his name is Momoh Konte, a Temne-sounding name. Many Sierra Leoneans hate Temne people who they think are all illiterate and backward. If his name is Johnson Bankole-Bright nobody will cough. Get over it, guys. Many Temne are well educated, more than some of you will ever be. You fu--ing tribalists.
Subject: Re: MOMOH KONTE!
From: Dombolo
To: All
Date Posted: 03:40:53 09/28/07 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
Your comment only exhibits some form of inferiority complex. No one hates Temnes it is just that some people are uncomfortable when others achieve greatness.
In tilli wan. Or twi tara
Subject: Re: MOMOH KONTE!
From: Amadu Kabbah
To: All
Date Posted: 12:15:46 09/27/07 ()
Email Address: amadutkabbah@yahoo.com
Entered From: at 65.78.170.125
Message:
Thank God you know now that he is not Temne; but even if he were, what is wrong about that? Momoh is a Sierra Leonean by tribe.
Subject: Re: MOMOH KONTE!
From: Backbiter
To: All
Date Posted: 05:32:20 09/27/07 ()
Email Address:
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I like it - una don begin.President has hardly started functioning, and backbitting starts.Bra, keep on awarding P.H.D to other compatriots.
Subject: Re: MOMOH KONTE!
From: Amadu Kabbah
To: All
Date Posted: 12:22:29 09/27/07 ()
Email Address: amadutkabbah@yahoo.com
Entered From: at 65.78.170.125
Message:
I really don't understand what you mean by UNA DON BEGIN. Thank God I am a problem solver. Shembu started the mess about this fine young man and wanted to get somebody to tell him about Momoh, so I had to send him this seemingly detailed info about him. I am not awarding him a PhD. Muana, I want these guys to know that backbitting does not pay. Let them ask if they want to know about this guy.
Subject: Re: MOMOH KONTE!
From: PK Muana
To: All
Date Posted: 05:53:11 09/27/07 ()
Email Address: pkmuana@gmail.com
Entered From: 218-101-100-213.dialup.clear.net.nz at 218.101.100.213
Message:
Bo PK sidon dae. You are jealous because you cannot do what Konte has done for Sierra Leone. Instead of doing scholarly stuff that could reward you tenureship, you spend the rest of the day responding to every posting on this forum and Leonenet. Like your colleague Marda Sia Tiyaama Mustapha, you are frustrated that SLPP lost. Your best job now is to trash everything good in APC members. Na so u go die-a frustrated divorcee.
Subject: Re: MOMOH KONTE!
From: Amadu Kabbah
To: All
Date Posted: 12:45:46 09/27/07 ()
Email Address: amadutkabbah@yahoo.com
Entered From: at 65.78.170.125
Message:
PK, there are times when one should accept realities. If it is true that you are sad because SLPP lost the elections, then you will have to begin to think otherwise because APC will live longer than you are expecting. Think like some good citizen who deserves good for himself and his fellow man. Call things by their actual names and save yourself from becoming frustrated like backbitter is saying. Be cool, pray for APC to rule well because we do not as a nation deserve to be so lowly treated by our leaders. We had put our trust in the SLPP; you too had given them your life to control but they succeeded to transform you into a glorified beggar. Even if it were my father that headed the SLPP and failed the nation like you know it, I will be glad he is replaced. You cannot change anything now becase the people spoke in the favor of APC, like they did in 2002 and 1996 for SLPP. LEH WE ALL BEAR; NAR SO GOD MARK-AM. So let's go God's way and we will have nothing to loose. My brother take heart E DON BE, E DON BE. Throw your support behind the President and see the changes that are to come in our lives.WE GO BETTEH MAH NA SALONE BY GOD POWER. GOD DON GEE W.E THE PRESIDENT WAE WE WANT
Subject: Re: MOMOH KONTE!
From: Erica Adams
To: All
Date Posted: 23:23:09 09/26/07 ()
Email Address: ericamonique82@hotmail.com
Entered From: adsl-074-185-005-235.sip.clt.bellsouth.net at 74.185.5.235
Message:
Thank you for having a kind word about someone who is on the ground trying to make a difference. If you follow the postings on this forum you will become very discouraged because the only people who are good enough (Mother Theresa and Ghandi) are deceased. Whenever a name is thrown out as a potential leader, someone almost always has an unkind remark about the person's work history, parents, or something that makes them unsuitable. If the names being thrown out are the best that sierra Leone has to offer and they are being rejected; it's no wonder the country finds itself in the state it's in. I would love it if instead of the overally critical sentiments that have been expressed on this forum, people would commit to prayer so that God will direct the new President and his transition team as they select a cabinet that will have a heart for the country and its people. That is the ultimate authority we all should be looking to. If we put our faith in HIM, surely HE will not fail us.
Subject: Re: MOMOH KONTE!
From: Amadu Kabbah
To: All
Date Posted: 12:31:38 09/27/07 ()
Email Address: amadutkabbah@yahoo.com
Entered From: at 65.78.170.125
Message:
There are really very few of our compatriots who believe in saying good things about people who are trying to do their best. They actually do not have anything good to offer; they diminish their brothers and hang on to them so that they may not be able to ascend. But little by little, God will weed them out and our coutry will have the glory of God.
Subject: Re: MOMOH KONTE!
From: SUBWANALAI
To: All
Date Posted: 23:22:28 09/26/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 194.32.41.72
Message:
I like your submission bruv. His this guy's surname Konte or Conteh, and secondly is he the proprietor of a newspaper(I can't remember the paper's name) in Freetown?
Subject: Re: MOMOH KONTE!
From: Amadu Kabbah
To: All
Date Posted: 12:26:01 09/27/07 ()
Email Address: amadutkabbah@yahoo.com
Entered From: at 65.78.170.125
Message:
His surname is Konte and owned the Sieki Bockarie Development Company in Freetown, an IT company that employed many young guys. He had started helping young men since long ago. He should be praised and not washed bare like Shembu and Johnny did.
Subject: Re: MOMOH KONTE!
From: Shembu
To: All
Date Posted: 15:27:58 09/27/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: c-68-85-100-34.hsd1.de.comcast.net at 68.85.100.34
Message:
Amadu,
Why do you keep calling my name in this thing. You are mistaken. I am the only Shembu in this forum and I have never said a thing about Mr. Konte because I know nothing about him. If you are sure Shembu said something, then someone falsely used my name.
If someone else out there is my name-sake, please say so. In which case I will start using my full name.
Subject: Thriller
From: Bambay Lans Kamara
To: All
Date Posted: 23:05:14 09/26/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: sccadmin195198.scc.losrios.edu at 165.196.195.198
Message:
Something to think about.
Subject: COMING SOON...........
From: POLITICAL
To: All
Date Posted: 22:56:46 09/26/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: ip70-162-167-106.ph.ph.cox.net at 70.162.167.106
Message:
New Sierra Leone website coming soon.
Subject: Re: COMING SOON...........
From: SONNY MOSES
To: All
Date Posted: 09:03:03 09/27/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: ip-207-145-43-5.iad.megapath.net at 207.145.43.5
Message:
Mr Political,please call me.I got your ID,you are my friend. SONNY MOSES
Subject: Re: COMING SOON...........
From: POLITICAL
To: All
Date Posted: 15:53:16 09/27/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: smtpgateway.azdes.gov at 207.108.136.243
Message:
Phone # please
Subject: Re: COMING SOON...........
From: Amadu Kabbah
To: All
Date Posted: 23:08:35 09/26/07 ()
Email Address: amadutkabbah@yahoo.com
Entered From: at 65.78.170.125
Message:
How soon is soon? We are itching to see it! Thank you in advance.
Subject: Re: COMING SOON...........
From: Demba
To: All
Date Posted: 00:11:59 09/27/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: ip70-162-167-106.ph.ph.cox.net at 70.162.167.106
Message:
Still working on it. Nasoft is designing it for a sierra leonean. About 70% done. My coworkers and I wanted to make sure we take advantage of the new technology so that the owner do not have to struggle in updating his articles manually and the contributors, editors and other users will not have to email articles to the owner like cocorioko and other sites. It is completely database driven with sophisticated security measures. Based on the owner's requirement contributors, editors and other users will go directly to the site and upload articles WITHOUT BEING ABLE TO PUBLISH IT. The administrators or owners is/are the only people that can publish an article after reviewing it and approved. It is just a click of a button. They dont have to change the look and feel of the front page every time they upload an article. It is purely automatic from article update to archives.
Subject: Re: COMING SOON...........
From: KABS KANU
To: All
Date Posted: 01:04:17 09/27/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: aca82336.ipt.aol.com at 172.168.35.54
Message:
COCORIOKO is going to have the same technology shortly. Our great moderator and his I.T team that has been put in place are making it their first project. Wait and see.
Subject: Re: COMING SOON...........
From: POLITICAL
To: All
Date Posted: 15:51:03 09/27/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: smtpgateway.azdes.gov at 207.108.136.243
Message:
Good to hear that. I have been telling you about this for many months now. You're doing great, so you dont need to struggle the way you are. Virus or no virus, you just need the latest technology and pam you go. Thank God, our brothers are in that field. All you need is communication and good rappor. We are all supporting you to succeed.
Subject: MOMOH KONTE!
From: Amadu Kabbah
To: All
Date Posted: 22:56:04 09/26/07 ()
Email Address: amadutkabbah@yahoo.com
Entered From: at 65.78.170.125
Message:
Power has changed hands and people have taken knives to slaughter their brothers.
I read a few concerns from people on the forum about Momoh Konte. I was tickled and I had to laugh. I had to because people can be too wicked and backward in their minds. One person referred to him as a"dreg-man" in DC and the other refused to believe that Momoh holds a Master Degree in Economics because he said Momoh said so. I saw the two guys as our brothers who will refuse to praise their brothers and sisters when those brothers or sisters stand out to make their contributions towards development.
I must confess that I am not even bothered about how you may think about Momoh; the fact is Momoh is Momoh and he is a Sierra Leonean like you, who means well for the advancement of the country. You could have known Momoh the way you think about him, but that knowledge about him could be deceiving. The Momoh Konte I know is different from what you see him to be.
You can say or think any how about him; but whatever he may have told you some years ago aboout his educational background are all correct and very accurate.
Momoh Konte could have been with the NPRC boys in 1991 but he did not go their ways they did when he came to the U.S. When he lived with the NPRC, you could be correct to refer to him then as a "dreg-man." But when he came to Washington DC, he was not. He attended full time school for four years. He did not work like some of us. So how could he have been a "dreg-man" according to your estimation and evaluation? How dose a "dreg-man" appear to you?
Momoh finished sixth form in Ahmadiyya School in Kissy Dock Yard. He came to the US and went to Howard University College from where he graduated with a BS Degree in Economics. During that year, Momoh excelled himself and he was on the Dean's List and in America's list of best brains. Ask him he has the proof of it. You will ove to see it. He put Sierra Leone on the list that year in Howard.
Upon graduating from Howard University, Momoh went to the University of Toledo (UT) in Toledo, Ohio where he took his Masters Degree also in Economics. UT is one of America's leading schools in the region.
Momoh went back to Sierra Leone and paved way for over 21 Sierra Leoneans who came to the University of Toledo to study in diferent fields- Economics, Engineering, Sociology and Mathematics. Ask Mahmoud Idriss, he will testify to this I am saying about him. They all graduated with Masters Degrees in their fields of study. Today some of these guys are in Sierra Leone working in different Departments whilst a few of them are still in the US continuing their studies.
For me, Momoh is more of a concerned Sierra Leonean than a majority of us, including Solomon Berewa and Pa Kabbah. He had the opportunity to help other people and he made sure he helped them. He was not selfish.
Momoh could be somebody else by your evaluation and assessment, but he has the qualification to be on the President's Transition Team. Leave him to make his contribution.
As a businessman, Momoh started the Siekie Bockarie Development Company in Freetown and employed many people. His plan to start the first indigenous Cellphone company was frustrated by the outgone government. They saw him and his men in the office as APC children. One of the highly placed SLPP big guns said, "you cannot arm your opponent to fight you." There could have been other issues but their unpatriotic contributions towards the young man's business dreams was too distinctly nagetive because he was not SLPP.
Momoh, like most of us, likes to throw his weight around, but he could be forgiven for that kind of attitude. That aspect of him is a trait among most young men who achieve greatness in their youthful age.
Momoh was not a "dreg-man" in DC as the other guy put it. Momoh was more or less a millionaire when he studied in Howard and lived in the DC area but he was apronounced millionaire when he studied in Toledo, because he had a business concern that was worth millions.
Momoh is exposed and widely traveled. Refer to him as someone who bluffs and makes his peers and sometimes elders appear little when he comes around them; but on the whole, Momoh is harmless, cool, friendly, hard- working, dependable if you give him an assignment to do, he is result-oriented, thinks ahead and somebody who loves his country. He has manifested these qualities amillion times over. You can only get to know him when you get close to him.
Another thing you may want to know about Momoh is that he is not the Biological son of the late Kawusu-Konte. The late Kawusu-Konte was Momoh's uncle. Momoh's father was not a politician in the light of how you guys are looking at politicians to be. His late father was the Town Chief who was loved by the people of Kabala for his honesty and dedication to duty. The old man was also result-oriented. He didn't want to fail in anything he did. Momoh is the son of that kind of father- a non-failure.
Please let us think that whoever is called to do anything for our beloved country, no matter the nature of what the person is called to do, let us have something good to say about him if there is anything good about him or her. Momoh is another young man who is trying to contribute his quota to national development; he should not be presented to the people as someone who is so low and not capable to do anything worth praising. I have no hesitation to tell you that Momoh is qualified and capable to do that assignment he has been told to do.
I am not asking for your support but it would do us good if we believe that Momoh Konte before this time is going to be different from Momoh Konte in the President's Transition Team.
Subject: what happened to the news cocorioko design?
From: POLITICAL
To: All
Date Posted: 22:38:19 09/26/07 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
Kabs Kanu, what happened to the new cocorioko design? Is it just a test publish for viewers to see or is it more of a work when it come to publishing new article every time because you have to do it manually?
Subject: Re: what happened to the news cocorioko design?
From: KABS KANU
To: All
Date Posted: 01:37:48 09/27/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: aca82336.ipt.aol.com at 172.168.35.54
Message:
It was just a demonstration. Watch out for more.
Subject: Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) Not BONDO!
From: Mbalu
To: All
Date Posted: 22:20:46 09/26/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: c-68-85-100-34.hsd1.de.comcast.net at 68.85.100.34
Message:
Hello all,
It is almost midnight in the East Coast (U.S) and I must now go to bed. Thank you very much to those educated brothers who contributed to my debate on FGM. This has nothing to do with the rest of the BONDO traditions which I went through and respect. Infact I am willing to have my daughter undergo BONDO minus the FGM part of it.
To the illiterate and insensitive brothers like: Babybob, Big Whip Gbodo Babalar, Alieu Sesay (who thinks I am a guy), Alieu Iscandri (who thinks my choice of words dragged the debate to the gutter), and others like them, you do not have to say a word tomorrow on this debate. I plan to take this debate to another level. Please stay on the sidelines and say nothing as well educated and willing brothers and sisters put their thinking minds to a topic we rather shove under the table.
Again, thanks to all of you who kept my hopes of experiencing real sweet love making alive. Thank you and good night from the "Buggie Down Bronx".
Subject: Re: Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) Not BONDO!
From: Eddie Grant
To: All
Date Posted: 07:01:54 09/29/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 78.146.171.79
Message:
Hi Mbalu,
You continue to expose yourself as a man, I always go through your postings and one by one find serious descripancies.
Don't get me wrong, as I do detest the practice.
But let me tell you I'm countryman and I have a vast knowledge of how bondo is applied (not the in-bush ceremony). But your suggestion that you plan to initiate your daughter without the FGM, it casts serious doubt on your being a woman. You claimed to underwent Bondo (SANDY SOCEITY) and that alone signifies that a woman cannot undergo BONDO without being mutilated because you failed to consider this fact when you said your daughter will go bondo minus FGM.
Don't be offended but I strongly believe you're a man.
Subject: Re: Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) Not BONDO!
From: Alieu sesay
To: All
Date Posted: 08:00:19 09/27/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: 65.107.153.146.ptr.us.xo.net at 65.107.153.146
Message:
Yes i did say you are a MAN....
Here is why women leave you:
1. Not romantic
2. Small Prick
3. Work too much and not enough time for the Ladies
4. Your pride prevents you from going DOWN on them..they like that you know
5. You are uncircumcised, hence it takes forever for your Prick to come out of the sack, and by the time it does, you have "prematurely released", hence you suffer from premature ejaculation.
6. Heck..You nar OKOBO.. BO you sef.
Subject: Re: Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) Not BONDO!
From: Mbalu
To: All
Date Posted: 15:36:06 09/27/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: c-68-85-100-34.hsd1.de.comcast.net at 68.85.100.34
Message:
Alieu,
Good afternoon, I am back from work. This posting of yours definitely demonstrates your gross insensitivity. I am not bothered by you feeling that I am a man. It shows you donot know the difference. Probably a peace-corp guy had you for years through your a** hole and finally brought you to America. You must be HOMO if you do not know the difference between man and woman.
All the other trash that you have to say, I ain't gonna waste my time with you. You are a fool, that is why your contribution to your party's campaign resulted in the massive failure you guys suffered.
You probably never had a pussy since a pussy had you. Go get one.......Viagra will surely be helpful for you.
Subject: Re: Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) Not BONDO!
From: Alieu sesay
To: All
Date Posted: 15:53:26 09/27/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: 65.107.153.146.ptr.us.xo.net at 65.107.153.146
Message:
Angry? MAD? Sorry OOH... But you are a DUDE and an OKOBO that i believe.
Subject: Re: Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) Not BONDO!
From: Mbalu
To: All
Date Posted: 16:13:56 09/27/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: c-68-85-100-34.hsd1.de.comcast.net at 68.85.100.34
Message:
Alieu,
Last response to you.
You are plain stupid and insensitive. Becareful you are not a woman beater also, otherwise, your a** will rot in U.S.jails.
My fault, you have no woman to abuse.....you nar chief ballhead, you dae fraid for tok to woman.
Shut up cause you've got nothing to offer, fool!
Subject: Re: Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) Not BONDO!
From: alieu sesay
To: All
Date Posted: 10:08:27 09/28/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: c-75-66-114-24.hsd1.tn.comcast.net at 75.66.114.24
Message:
MR. BONDO is not responsible for your sickness.....Cuss all you want. But no one will fall for your CRAP.
Subject: Re: Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) Not BONDO!
From: babybob
To: All
Date Posted: 23:57:25 09/26/07 ()
Email Address: m9141655@msn.com
Entered From: at 213.42.21.154
Message:
Mbalu,
I said bye in my other post, but you've opened another thread and dragged my noniker in again. So I'm obliged to respond.
Now lets go.
1. You already have your answer to the question aboutyou having low sex-drive due to FGM. You really believe that that's the case "YES MY LOW SEX-DRIVE IS DUE TO MY BEING INITIATED IN THE BONDO SOCIETY". So why bring the topic up for debate?
You wouldn't accept views that You should seek medical advice where they'll try to diagnose the underlying factor, but you want answers from guys here in the Forum who no nothing about your sexual exposure or psyche.
Which brings me to No.2 below.
2. You seem to have an agenda that you should garner support from forum guys in order to ban FGM. You may be in the wrong place to garner that large support from men. Just check the statistics for those wrote for and those who wrote against it.
You lambasted all those who wrote against banning it and let the Women decide woman issues. Is that a debate?
You already have your answer Sista, so why bother? ALL THE MEN SAY "BAN FGM" After me................ BAN FGM, BAN FGM............Again,...... BAN FGM, BAN FGM. End of Debate.
Seriously though, Go seek professional Medical Help for your Low Sex-Drive.
Take care. Me LUV.
Subject: Re: Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) Not BONDO!
From: Mbalu
To: All
Date Posted: 15:42:10 09/27/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: c-68-85-100-34.hsd1.de.comcast.net at 68.85.100.34
Message:
Babybob,
Your response this time is much better. However, just a few points; first the word "no" is opposite for "yes", donot use it when you intend to use the word "know" - I know you went to school in S/L so do not disappoint your teachers like that.
Secondly, I refuse to fall for your therapy suggestion. That is garbage, and I donot need it. Tell me if you would do the FGM on your daughter. If the answer is "NO", then help tell the world that this practice is barbaric and very hurtful to us that are forced to undergo it. Thankyou.
Subject: Re: Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) Not BONDO!
From: babybob
To: All
Date Posted: 17:02:56 09/27/07 ()
Email Address: m9141655@msn.com
Entered From: at 213.42.21.60
Message:
Mbalu,
Just a question, What would me telling the world to ban FGM do in solving your low sex-drive? I mean, you'll still be living with your low sex-drive, Right. But you've been masking all the while that you've got a problem about low sex-drive and you want it solved. Doesn't it seem strange? I'm quite very very sure that If I had low sex-drive, then I would be seeking ways to enhance my sex-drive. I would not be seeking to know whether it was because I got circumcized as dictated by my customs, and if that is the case, then ban male circumcision.
Another note, I WOULD NEVER SAY THAT ANOTHER PERSON's culture is barbaric. There are people doing body piercings all over the world, even to the extent of piercing the same genital part you're talking about. And that is done in the west. Am I in a position to call them BARBARIC?... Hell No.
Subject: Re: Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) Not BONDO!
From: babybob
To: All
Date Posted: 16:33:05 09/27/07 ()
Email Address: m9141655@msn.com
Entered From: at 213.42.21.60
Message:
Mbalu,
Do you know the statement "lapsus lingua", and there's a statement also like "Lapsus calami". So slips to an extent are acceptable in the english language.
In my household, whether my daughter should do FGM or not is up to the mother and her background and what she believes. So I can't answer YES or NO to your question. We share responsibilities in my household. That's why I've been saying that WOMEN'S RITES OF PASSAGE SHOULD BE LEFT TO WOMEN TO DISCUSS. I knew when I was marrying a SIERRA LEONEAN lady that, there's a possibility of Bondo in SIERRA LEONE SOCIETY. If it was meant for me to debate it with my spouse, that would have only come up if I consciously decided to marry a Foreigner who needs to be enlightened about our cultures. The same go for Male societies (Poro, Wonday, Ojeh......... Freemason...), I would have to take that decision.
So Mbalu, please don't bother with this question again with me. As far as I'm concerned, it doesn't bother me a bit. I can always find a way how to satisfy a woman whether She's done FGM or Not. I've tested it, and it doesn't make a damn difference to me. It all depends on the technique used and how curious I am to tell whether my partner is satisfied or not and explore different ways and situations to satisfy her. But that's only me.... I'm ONLY WRITING ABOUT MY PERSONAL EXPERIENCE AND NO ONE ELSE'S.
Subject: Re: Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) Not BONDO!
From: POLITICAL
To: All
Date Posted: 22:50:12 09/26/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: ip70-162-167-106.ph.ph.cox.net at 70.162.167.106
Message:
Mammy Mbalu, let's talk about something serious. Something like how to help people sustain their lives in the country. Genital mutulation isn't a priority in our vocabulary. Remember when the westerners went to Africa in the 5th century. They labelled every African culture "bad and dangerous" and succeeded in convincing the Africans to hate everything they stood for and hail every things the west stand for. The only surviving cultures are again under attack and you are the next embassador. Don't you understand that everything that is black is bad. Even if someone is black skin, he/she is mocked by other African as "blacky"
We are in America and know exactly what these guys are doing. So don't tell us what you dont know. If you do not enjoy sexually, take viagra. It is for both men and women. It will help you.
Subject: Re: Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) Not BONDO!
From: Mbalu
To: All
Date Posted: 15:56:12 09/27/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: c-68-85-100-34.hsd1.de.comcast.net at 68.85.100.34
Message:
POLITICAL,
Your name suggests that you may be intelligent but contrary to that, you are uterly dumb. Also, please shed your inferiority complex. No body (at least not me) ever mentioned western culture or whiteman vs. blackman stuff. I am directly talking to you about my experiences and instead of answering my questions you are day dreaming about VIAGRA. You need it Mr. Political, not me. Viagra is for erectile disfunction (aka ED). If I have my "KONK" intact and fail to get aroused, maybe viagra would have been helpful to pump blood to it and facilitate arousal. Have you ever fucked a girl with a "KONK"? I don't think so. Believe me girls who have it erect just like a man. That useful stuff, which I badly miss, stands erect on arousal and you guys will be all so willing to SUCK, LICK or EAT it. Its fun, why not. I donot get that fun, and you are either so insensitive or stupid to recommend VIAGRA. You go take VIAGRA, not me.
Subject: Re: Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) Not BONDO!
From: SUBWANALAI
To: All
Date Posted: 22:34:09 09/26/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 194.32.41.72
Message:
Mbalu, bo stop dis to cut or not to cut business ya na dis forum. Sometem sef you na gborrka. Na so me say.
Subject: Re: Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) Not BONDO!
From: Mbalu
To: All
Date Posted: 16:03:37 09/27/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: c-68-85-100-34.hsd1.de.comcast.net at 68.85.100.34
Message:
SUBWANALAI,
You sound like Soffie. All your postings have the expressions of Soffie. If you are SK, which I think you are, then I will not respond to you. But I will say this; I wish I was a "GBORRRKA". Now I know how pleasant it is to be a "GBORRKA".
Don't be insensitive like the other guys, I expect more from you. By the way, you supported Ernest during the elections and now you are first to closely monitor his activities. Good for you. You seem to be a fine political thinker. You must be one of the "Pa im pikin dem beyen the wall"......beyen Amphi....
Subject: DEMOCRAT AND INDEPENDENT OBSERVER BLACKMAIL COCORIOKO...
From: SUBWANALAI
To: All
Date Posted: 22:12:59 09/26/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 194.32.41.72
Message:
You ain't seen nothing yet Kabs Kanu. Some of us who are witnesses to the shamelesness of our compatriots have been forewarning about the dangers of Ernest Koroma sharing a bed with the real enemies of state for even a day. We all know that Pios and Jonathan Leigh did not only use their so-called independent newspapers to support a failed party like SLPP, but that they (including Frank Kposowa) were at one time the faces of the SLPP website. The guest house under question, were Tom Nyuma was alleged to have tried to assassinate Ernest Koroma is owned by Pious Foray. Does this smell a rat? But now under Ernest Koroma's brand of reconciliation, these opportunists, like Sylvia Blyden are twisting facts to worm their way into the hearts of the new Pa. And guess what? Pious Foray's best friend, Hindolo Trye is APC. Pious' God Father Eric James sympathises with APC. Ex- Sierratel boss Frank Jarret who set Pious back in tarck after the latter's wasteless years as a sourjourner in the US is an APC sympathiser.Even Ernest used to frequent Stop Press restaurant owned by Pious. Can you piece the jig-saw together? You think these guys don't know what they are doing? Very soon, the real revolutionaries would be sidelined. But wae we tok, the likes of Alieu Iscandri are telling us to be patient. Good advice brother, but Ola Rotimi wrote in his play THE GOD'S ARE NOT TO BLAME, and I quote :"Because the farm owner is slow to catch the thief, the thief calls the farm owner thief".
LONG LIVE TURN COATISM!
Subject: Re: DEMOCRAT AND INDEPENDENT OBSERVER BLACKMAIL COCORIOKO...
From: Kotormali
To: All
Date Posted: 13:56:30 09/27/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: cpe-74-66-236-48.nyc.res.rr.com at 74.66.236.48
Message:
Oona too Pass Mark Bo! Even Earnest Bai Koroma will not accept your calling Foray his good friend who just happens to be a supporter of the other party an enemy of the State.
What political crimes are you alleging that Mr.Pee has commited?..Investing Money in Sierra Leone or becoming friendly with Berewa?
Dont you know that zero sum politics no longer obtains in civilized societies, and democracy and it's freedom of association easily explains why Pios Foray is SLPP,John Foray is PMDC and Arabella Foray is APC?
I think that was a cheap shot and that you are just a simple PHD (Pull Him Downer)
Subject: Re: DEMOCRAT AND INDEPENDENT OBSERVER BLACKMAIL COCORIOKO...
From: Candid Opinion
To: All
Date Posted: 14:15:35 09/27/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: ns.nucleusns2.com at 12.44.12.126
Message:
They swarm this place my friend..
They are all over.. chinch tell lie..
You nor for campaign for the other side.. you instantly become salone most wanted.. the notorious (insert name here).
From boootlicker, to tribalist to.. opportunists, to condoner of human rights abuse, to treasury raper..
Subject: Re: DEMOCRAT AND INDEPENDENT OBSERVER BLACKMAIL COCORIOKO...
From: Politician
To: All
Date Posted: 05:35:20 09/27/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 41.205.26.250
Message:
I will not write so many sentences to say all this, suffice to say, WATER MELON POLITICS OF SALONE
Subject: Re: DEMOCRAT AND INDEPENDENT OBSERVER BLACKMAIL COCORIOKO...
From: KABS KANU
To: All
Date Posted: 01:53:05 09/27/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: aca82336.ipt.aol.com at 172.168.35.54
Message:
I want to assure you that President Ernest Koroma is doing a wonderful thing to reconcile with his enemies and prove to them that he is not what he was painted by these people during the campaign.
Also, be assured that President Koroma has people around him--Advisers and aides--who will go all out to ensure that this government does not become a GRAVY PARTY like the SLPP. I understand that Kabbah's "Open-Door policy' made his government a regime of CRONIES and gravy-seekers WHO HELPED TO BRING THE GOVERNMENT DOWN. The APC will be different.
Don't you see how carefully the government is stepping ?
There are some people who were gravy-seekers in the last government who will never be given the chance to enter during the rule of this government.
Some of them made statements and did things that will come back to haunt them and there are members of the public waiting on the wings to remind them about their misdeeds.
Let's all give the President and his team the chance to do their work. Sierra Leone has changed and we all will see lots of changes for which we will thank God.
Subject: Re: DEMOCRAT AND INDEPENDENT OBSERVER BLACKMAIL COCORIOKO...
From: SUBWANALAI
To: All
Date Posted: 22:16:55 09/26/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 194.32.41.72
Message:
FOR DEN BOOKER WASHINGTON DEM...IN THE ABOVE POSTINGS, I USED THE WORD "WASTELESS", INSTEAD OF "WASTEFUL". REGRETS.
Subject: SLPP SPRINGS SUPRISE CROWD OF SUPPORTERS
From: SUBWANALAI
To: All
Date Posted: 21:23:46 09/26/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 194.32.41.72
Message:
"SLPP springs suprise crowd of supporters"- (SOURCE, AWARENESSTIMES)
SUBWANALAI NOTES: "TAY NOW SYLVIA DAE COMPLAIN".
I would best advise WORWORLIWOR to stop provoking the anger of SLPP supporters. After she had chopped Kini Berewa's habope, contributed to the fall of SLPP; courtesey misplaced articles, she is now turned her attention to tormenting poor SLPPers. My advise: Ngor Sylvia gbay- oh
Subject: Re: SLPP SPRINGS SUPRISE CROWD OF SUPPORTERS
From: Kandeh
To: All
Date Posted: 03:13:56 09/27/07 ()
Email Address: YKandeh@aol.com
Entered From: 79-66-42-73.dynamic.dsl.as9105.com at 79.66.42.73
Message:
At least she is reporting the news. This paper (Cocorioko) has not even mentioned the opeing of parliament.....den sidom nar corner dae congosa.
Subject: Wach yu Nayba
From: Uncle Shubu
To: All
Date Posted: 21:11:21 09/26/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: c-76-106-80-14.hsd1.md.comcast.net at 76.106.80.14
Message:
We need to implement a "set up system" inorder to fight corruption in Sierra Leone. This system which will be designed to fake civil servants with "bribes" in exchange for services will help in weeding out a lot of crooks from the system.The unit should be an affiliate of the Anti corruption net. This covert unit should comprise of sierra leoneans from all over the world.
On a different note can anyone tell me whether Bo is a city? If yes, what qualifies it to be one ?
Subject: Re: Wach yu Nayba
From: Med
To: All
Date Posted: 04:24:53 09/27/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 82.114.74.96
Message:
Uncle, kindly direct such question to Freetown, rather than Bo which is apparently composed. If Freetown is qualified to be called a city, then not only Bo but also Makeni, Kono and Kenema to name a few cities are all in the same deepsh!t as Freetown.
Perhaps the APC dominated Freetown municipal council might further enlighten your curiosity.
Subject: Re: Wach yu Nayba
From: Goofy
To: All
Date Posted: 22:20:39 09/26/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: cache-dtc-ag14.proxy.aol.com at 205.188.117.142
Message:
Perhaps we could get Chris Hansen, fro "Dateline NBC" to perform a public service, or volunteers who know how to do it could use their skills to capture the offending individuals on video and post them to "youTube", then report back to this forum, about how to view the show.
Subject: CHARTERED FLIGHT H.E. ERNEST KORMA'S INAUGURATION OCTOBER 17
From: MOHAMED BARIGUE
To: All
Date Posted: 21:04:16 09/26/07 ()
Email Address: mohamedbarigue@yahoo.fr
Entered From: c-69-143-225-68.hsd1.md.comcast.net at 69.143.225.68
Message:
TO ALL THOSE WHOM WE SENT EMAILS SAYING WE DID NOT GET THE REQUIRED NUMBER OF PASSENGER FOR THE CHARTERED TRIP WHICH WAS FOR OCTOBER 3RD 2007, THE POSTPONEMENT OF THE INAUGURATION TO SEPTEMBER 13TH 2007 MIGHT MAKE IT POSSIBLE FOR US TO REACH OUR THRESHOLD. AS OF TODAY WE HAVE HAD 25 INTERESTED PERSONS AND 125 MORE NEEDED TO MAKE THE QUOTA. IF YOU ARE INTERESTED PLEASE CONTACT (240)386-7253 OR EMAIL ME AT mohamedbarigue@yahoo.fr
Subject: Title of songs.
From: Bambay Lans Kamara
To: All
Date Posted: 20:59:29 09/26/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: sccadmin195198.scc.losrios.edu at 165.196.195.198
Message:
Who knows the name of the artists who sang the wife of my boss, keep on trying by a Librian musician, lover boy (Am your lover boy, lover boy, boy, am your boyfrem "thin thin, thin thin, tin tin." That is how it goes.
Cornelius Hamelberg over!
Subject: Re: Title of songs.
From: Seniorman
To: All
Date Posted: 00:01:16 09/28/07 ()
Email Address: kamachie@comcast.net
Entered From: c-24-218-150-136.hsd1.ma.comcast.net at 24.218.150.136
Message:
Sorry I can't help with all but Lover Boy was produced by a Nigerian called Felix Liberty.
Subject: Re: Title of songs.
From: SUBWANALAI
To: All
Date Posted: 21:35:04 09/26/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 194.32.41.72
Message:
Hemoh Bambay, try sleep.Hey Daddy God, wus we yone problem dis na dis forum.This guy is wasting precious space and time. Each time he posts something, outta curiousity, one wants to read it. But as you open am so, na so so tin, tin, tin.Man dem, una leh we try help dis brother ya.Dis nor to for natin.
Subject: BAMBAY FOR PRESIDENT?
From: SUBWANALAI
To: All
Date Posted: 23:27:33 09/26/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 194.32.41.72
Message:
State House go turn Happy Hour and Cinema hall.
By the way Bambay, have they stopped mogging you?
Subject: THREAT TO NATIONAL SECURITY: SABOTAGE AT STATE HOUSE?
From: MOHAMED BARIGUE
To: All
Date Posted: 20:28:23 09/26/07 ()
Email Address: mohamedbarigue@yahoo.fr
Entered From: c-69-143-225-68.hsd1.md.comcast.net at 69.143.225.68
Message:
Am I being over zealous here or is it just me? What happened to the government owned "STATE HOUSE ONLINE " Website? Do you notice that it has refused to recognize the new government and is not posting any news article about our new president even though he officially works from state house? For days now, whenever, I log unto the website it tells me "exceeded bandwith" which has never happened all these years that the SLPP has been using it. This is a threat to national Security. Mr.President and all APC Stalwarts please take note of this and fix the problem.The website should be part of the transition process as well and should be counted as an asset to the government and should be used by the government.
Subject: Re: THREAT TO NATIONAL SECURITY: SABOTAGE AT STATE HOUSE?
From: KABS KANU
To: All
Date Posted: 21:46:33 09/26/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: aca82336.ipt.aol.com at 172.168.35.54
Message:
Another one is coming up within 48 hours.
Subject: Re: THREAT TO NATIONAL SECURITY: SABOTAGE AT STATE HOUSE?
From: Cornelius Hamelberg
To: All
Date Posted: 21:05:02 09/26/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: c-071271d5.01-32-73746f42.cust.bredbandsbolaget.se at 213.113.18.7
Message:
Sabotage?
Why should SLPP or anyone else want to sabotage the continuity of that website?
Perhaps the NEW government should get a new website?
Of cousre we should still have access to documents and entries of the Old website.
Also looking forward to Cocorioko Archives updating the archiving from 15th September 2007
Subject: Re: THREAT TO NATIONAL SECURITY: SABOTAGE AT STATE HOUSE?
From: boli
To: All
Date Posted: 02:57:19 09/27/07 ()
Email Address: boli@yahoo.com
Entered From: 79-66-42-73.dynamic.dsl.as9105.com at 79.66.42.73
Message:
It is coincidental that soon after the new government came in the website went off the air. The website is a GOVERNMENT website and not a PARTY site.
Talk about vindictiveness.
Subject: Re: THREAT TO NATIONAL SECURITY: SABOTAGE AT STATE HOUSE?
From: Cornelius Hamelberg
To: All
Date Posted: 07:31:02 09/27/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: c-071271d5.01-32-73746f42.cust.bredbandsbolaget.se at 213.113.18.7
Message:
No credit being given today
Subject: Re: THREAT TO NATIONAL SECURITY: SABOTAGE AT STATE HOUSE?
From: Reporter
To: All
Date Posted: 03:57:21 09/27/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: m420-mp1.ppphg-02-manc.dial.ntli.net at 80.0.99.164
Message:
I suspect its a question of MONEY rather than sabotage. Don't forget the statehouse website was being maintained by Sylvia Blyden. Depends whether it was a paid contract or free service.
Subject: Re: THREAT TO NATIONAL SECURITY: SABOTAGE AT STATE HOUSE?
From: Cornelius Hamelberg
To: All
Date Posted: 07:28:03 09/27/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: c-071271d5.01-32-73746f42.cust.bredbandsbolaget.se at 213.113.18.7
Message:
Simple and effective
Subject: After the exposure of PMDC spy, new conditions apply
From: Sylvester Johnny
To: All
Date Posted: 20:26:12 09/26/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: host-66-134-72-92.covad.com at 66.134.72.92
Message:
After the exposure of the PMDC spy, I will now need your contact number and state of residence to add members to the SLPP2012CAMPAIGN@yahoogroups.com
See details below
Forwarded Message ---- Subject: Re: After the exposure of PMDC spy, new conditions apply Message: Subject: STANDARD TIMES: Diasporans Under Attack Message: -->"Apart from the fact that, they are very ignorant of the political developments and trends of the Sierra Leonean settings, most of them are also very uneducated, ineffective and inefficient, to execute state responsibilities. We have heard a handful of them made speeches and discuss issues on the politics of this nation. Those speeches and issues discussed, by the Diaspora boys, are mostly guilty of naïve miscalculations.<-- This is inspite of everything the diasporans did in terms of raising funds and engaging in propaganda wars on behalf of almost all the major parties. This is how we are now being observed...TALK ABOUT INGRATITUDE. Anyway for someone talknig about diasporans not being educated, check out his grammar, spelling mistakes, punctuations and the conjugation of certain verbs. Subject: Re: STANDARD TIMES: Diasporans Under Attack Message: Subject: Re: STANDARD TIMES: Diasporans Under Attack Message: Subject: Re: STANDARD TIMES: Diasporans Under Attack Message: Subject: Re: STANDARD TIMES: Diasporans Under Attack Message: Subject: PMDC Exposed Message: Here what the current APC/PMDC is capable of doing. You draw your conclusion. Forwarded Message ---- Subject: Alhaji Ahmad Tejan Kabbah to stand trial? Message: I should think not – because the donors got those guys behind closed doors for over three hours at the point when Berewa was making some noises about an injunction because he feared that after spending so much money to get himself elected, he was now being cheated of the 75% landslide he expected and had been dreaming about, with his eyes open. I do not think so, berceuse as you all noticed, Mr. Kabbah was so pleasant and compliant and you could even say fair-minded and obedient although he has been quoted as having previously said, “I prefer to die now than allow the APC to win the next elections” Still alive Mr. Kabbah? Yes, Ramadan Mubarak and may your stomachs never go to bed hungry…. Well staying alive and not having to dance ja-ma-ma-conni-conni in front of the judges and lawyers at the Special Court in the Hague , could have been part of the deal, and I’ll get to that later. Bill Richardson had talked to Mobutu Seke Seko in Kinshasa during the Leopard’s last days on earth … one good thing about Mobutu is that he was patron of Soukous and also pushed through the indigenisation / Africanisation of people’s names so Seigneur Rochereau became Tabu Ley and Franco became Luambo Makiadi. Mobutu and his wife occupy some front stage and backstage positions in “Congo Colossus – The Life and Legacy of FRANCO & OK JAZZ – by Graeme Ewens” which my son gave me, as a birthday present in 1994 … politics under Mobutu is very much a permanent background of the great Franco’s life and times. At one poin, like John Coltrane, Franco also converted to Islam which does not go very well with the rhythms of the song “boire beaucoup” (To be continued after dinner) As Bobby Seale said, SEIZE THE TIME! Subject: Re: Alhaji Ahmad Tejan Kabbah to stand trial? Message: Subject: another opinion Message: The result from the September 8 Presidential Run-Off Election was an indication that, the reputation of the All People’s Congress Party which was imprisoned has been redeemed and discharged by the very people that had earlier on agitated for its indictment. Sierra Leone has a new President by the name of Ernest Bai Koroma, the leader of the ruling All People’s Congress Party and the First Gentleman of this nation. His appointment as President, has earned him new friends and patrons from within and out of the jurisdiction of Sierra Leone. However, the majority of President Koroma’s new friends are from within, and their friendships seemed to have underlying motives. What is of great interest now, is that hard core supporters and campaign managers of the defeated Solomon Berewa, like John Karimu and John Benjamin have befriended President Koroma. This is a good start, but Mr. President must be advised to be careful with the kinds of friends he makes. After his election, President Koroma is yet to officially appoint his Cabinet and Heads of Commissions that would propel his government forward. Certainly, his action to withhold the appointment of Cabinet Ministers and Heads of Commissions has come as a result of the pressure of lobbying that has engulfed the President and State House. This lobbying has been a common place, amongst the membership of the top brass of the ruling All People’s Congress Party, particularly the Momoh’s Cabal that had allegedly dented, with an unprintable stigmatization the previous APC government. Following the Swearing-in-Ceremony, President Koroma, alongside his Vice President, Sam Sumana commenced their official duties, as first and second gentlemen respectively. They, there and then began reporting at State House for the execution of their duties. But, they are not only people reporting for duties. Other individuals, especially those that had occupied enviable positions in the Momoh’s Administration have joined the President, in reporting on a daily basis, at the State House. They have not only been reporting and sitting alongside President Koroma, but have occupied offices at State House, which they were never given officially. We had categorized these individuals in our earlier publication as “Desperados” but it is perhaps time, to name and advice some of them to desist from those acts of desperation, or else face the wrath of their past misgivings. One individual that is gradually becoming a nuisance at State House is former Personal Assistant to the late Joseph Saidu Momoh in the person of Mr. Osman Yansaneh. Even though he was notorious for foul play in the Momoh’s Administration, Yansaneh has clandestinely entrenched himself in what could be described as a master piece office at State House. He is now always seen in black suit and has a personal guard to his office. Who gave Yansaneh that office? Or does he think this is the same era in which they recklessly administered Sierra Leone? Dr. Abdul Karim Koroma (AKK) is another public figure that has been seen posing at State House and constantly by President Koroma. He was Education Minister and Foreign Affairs Minister under President Siaka Stevens and President Momoh respectively. He achieved almost everything on earth during those two terms and later rewarded the party that made him what he was with the “Agony of A Nation” He joined the out gone Sierra Leone People’s Party Government that indicted, the All People’s Congress Party, for all sorts of corruption, maladministration and mismanagement. He is truly brilliant and could help advice President Koroma on issues of national importance. We have heard that he also has a beautiful office at State House. Who gave that office to him? Sympathetically, Ambassador Dauda Kamara is clamoring to become Foreign Affairs Minister of Sierra Leone. The membership, supporters and sympathizers, of the ruling All People’s Congress Party, are very bitter over the continuous presence of this primitive folk near President Koroma and the State house. We hope he has not taken an office at the State House. If he has done that already, we know that President Koroma would remind him of the dislikes the people have for him; and advice him to limit his operations, to the All People’s Congress Party’s Office. This was the same man that criminally forged the signature of President Momoh and helped in bringing disrepute to the same. The people of this nation would never forgive President Koroma, if he makes an attempt in reposing a ministerial position in this man. There are other individuals whose names are tentatively withheld because the investigations are on going. Those individuals are equally terrible and are now men-in-black working unofficially, at the State House. They were the same individuals that were investigated and found guilty, by different Commissions of Enquiry conducted by Beccles Davies and others to trap corrupt government officials. The people of Sierra Leone do not need to remind President Koroma about his pledge, to introduce a new set of patriotic Sierra Leoneans, whose reputations would not only be enviable in the eyes of Sierra Leoneans, but in those of the International Community as well. Sierra Leoneans voted for a change and not a recycling of corrupt and inefficient politicians. President Koroma would have himself to blame, if he allows those individuals to co-opt him in their very corrupt activities. Mr President, tell those men their duties now or else you would not be able to control this boiling situation, if it gets out of hand. We know you are firm and would act wisely to uphold your integrity. Subject: Re: another opinion Message: Subject: Re: another opinion Message: Subject: Re: another opinion Message: Subject: Re: another opinion Message: Subject: Re: another opinion Message: Subject: Re: another opinion Message: Subject: Why Ernest Koroma WILL FAIL!! Message: Subject: Re: Why Ernest Koroma WILL FAIL!! Message: Subject: Re: Why Ernest Koroma WILL FAIL!! Message: Subject: Re: Why Ernest Koroma WILL FAIL!! Message: an honorable man. he proof end up like many people to see that he is a true Subject: Re: Why Ernest Koroma WILL FAIL!! Message: Subject: Re: Why Ernest Koroma WILL FAIL!! Message: Subject: Re: Why Ernest Koroma WILL FAIL!! Message:
From: Denis Saidu
To: pmdcsl@yahoogroups.com
Cc: pmdcusa@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Wednesday, September 26, 2007 11:17:09 AM
Subject: [pmdcusa] Fwd: [Tegloma Federation] SLPPrebirth SLPP2012CAMPAIGN
I would like us to write to the author of this note requestingsubscr1pt ion to this new SLPP email so that we can get to know (spy) what are their plans. I will not do it because they know me very well. Any one can just write to the guy Syl Johhny convincing him that
From: alieu sesay
To: All
Date Posted: 20:35:48 09/26/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: c-75-66-114-24.hsd1.tn.comcast.net at 75.66.114.24
SYL, i just sent an e-mail requesting membership.
Thanks
From: Toegondoe Sagbah
To: All
Date Posted: 19:40:10 09/26/07 ()
Email Address: mendemoi@yahoo.com
Entered From: pool-71-168-132-186.cmdnnj.east.verizon.net at 71.168.132.186
Here is an excerpt of an article in the Standard Times:
From: No Failures
To: All
Date Posted: 10:23:38 09/27/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: gov198.ucc.ie at 143.239.91.198
Yes the new APC wants nothing to do with failures like you
From: Kamara
To: All
Date Posted: 21:09:30 09/26/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: pool-71-172-31-93.nwrknj.fios.verizon.net at 71.172.31.93
Morie Mussafa, I am glad that you read the article. It will enlighten you in the diaspora who mistakenly feel you were responsible for the defeat of SLPP. The electorate do not feel so and they do not want you opportunists in the diaspora jockeying for jobs which the people in Freetown feel they are entitled to. Tell Foday Mansaray and the others to pack it up and come back to America. The people in Sierra Leone dont want any JCs taking their jobs.
I am still waiting on the information on Berewa's house in the Dominican republic. I was in Punta Cana,the Dominican republic over the weekend. Nobody knows anything about Berewa.
From: Question time
To: All
Date Posted: 05:55:29 09/27/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 41.205.26.250
And also Berewa's health after the stroke he had, and he was admiited at 34, and then flown to Ghana???
From: Mammy Blessing
To: All
Date Posted: 20:26:43 09/26/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: pool-151-202-41-6.ny325.east.verizon.net at 151.202.41.6
Good to read you again, brother Toegondoe. For some crazy reason, some homebase folks think that juscams are spoilt brattish interlopers who have somehow diluted their citizenship by spending too many years abroad. We are soft, lazy, five-meal-a-day, air-conditioned, Apes-rocking, money-bagged nincompoops who haven't suckaired enough. Some of the louts who go home for Christmas probably live up to that stereotype. However the majority of our people appreciate the effort Diasporans are making everyday. We shouldn't worry about the fringe, envious superminority.
From: Sylvester Johnny
To: All
Date Posted: 19:18:55 09/26/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: host-66-134-72-92.covad.com at 66.134.72.92
Hi All,
From: Denis Saidu
To: pmdcsl@yahoogroups.com
Cc: pmdcusa@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Wednesday, September 26, 2007 11:17:09 AM
Subject: [pmdcusa] Fwd: [Tegloma Federation] SLPPrebirth SLPP2012CAMPAIGN
I would like us to write to the author of this note requestingsubscr1pt ion to this new SLPP email so that we can get to know (spy) what are their plans. I will not do it because they know me very well. Any one can just write to the guy Syl Johhny convincing him that
From: Cornelius Hamelberg
To: All
Date Posted: 18:43:04 09/26/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: c-071271d5.01-32-73746f42.cust.bredbandsbolaget.se at 213.113.18.7
Alhaji Ahmad Tejan Kabbah to stand trial?
Talk is cheap and life is sweet at 75, even out of Hill Station
Richardson made it clear to Mr. Seko that it was all over and he had to go…. And as we all know… he went.
Similarly we are to suppose that the donor behind closed doors must have made it clear that the APC was not going to be cheated by any further misuse of Mr. Berewa’s powers of incumbency - and I remember that someone on this forum had written that the toothless chimpanzee had refused to meet with the representatives of the international donor community and I had assured him that’s not like our boy, to refuse to meet with real power or to refuse their requests---- the Special Court that he might have face is one example of something he cannot refuse – if he is indicted since at this point of his life he no longer enjoys the immunity that he used to – no more than his brother Charles McArthur Ghankay Taylor the former president of Liberia…….
on. Yesterday it was SLPP’s time. TODAY it’s the APC !
From: Cornelius Hamelberg
To: All
Date Posted: 21:06:24 09/26/07 ()
Email Address:
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to be continued tomorrow...
From: Abject Reject
To: All
Date Posted: 17:38:45 09/26/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: cache-ntc-ad04.proxy.aol.com at 207.200.116.198
Recklessness of every kind is inimical to national development. Fifteen years ago, the Government and henchmen of the late President Joseph Saidu Momoh were thrown out of government by the National Provisional Ruling Council Junta Boys as a result of terrible allegations levied against that government. Most of which, were baseless and unfounded. There were however, some elements of truth in those accusations, even though they were insignificant and actually blown out of proportion to dent the image of the All People’s Congress party.
From: Bambay Lans Kamara
To: All
Date Posted: 18:33:28 09/26/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: sccinstr194096.scc.losrios.edu at 165.196.194.96
Abject Reject, thank you for this act of desperation foamed out of hate, misinformation and balatant lies levied particularly against Mr. O.F.Yansaneh. I am not deffending this man because he is my brother but moreso because you have falsely accused him of doing wrong while he was at State House. But this attitude of yours came from ignorance of how government works and because you have blatant disrespect for the President's integrity to do what is right.
State House is not a market place, where every Jack and jill would rush to to sell whatever they have. It is an organised office where, any one who goes there on a daily bases, especially close to the President has a succent reason for being there approved by the President. People do not just go there and take offices; they are assigned to offices.
Let me give you a brief background of Mr. O.F.Yansaneh whom I know more than any human being on the face of the earth. Mr. Yansanhe is an asset to Sierra Leone and will be very productive in service to the President and Sierra Leone.
Mr. Yansaneh is a graduant of Fourah Bay University. He lectured at the Freetown Teachers College and taught in High schools in Freetown and other areas of Sierra Leone. He was involved with the education of Peace Corps in Sierra Leone before he teaching in his home town, Kamakwie, where he became Principle of the school. His purpose of going to Kamakwie, was to help his younger ones get education. This is why he left the punp and perjury of the city to give back. I hope a lot of us can learn to give back as people like him did.
When he left Kamakwie he was a Civil Servant, a Senior Administrator at the Ministry of Works. He was appointed to work as Persona Assistant to the Minister of State Presidential Affairs then latter the President saw that he was an asset and appointed him to serve as Personal Assistant to the President. He was the first and last Person the President saw in the office. He served his duties effectively until the government was rudely toppled by the said group. In fact, Strasser who over threw the A.P.C. government was like a family because Mr. Yansaneh invited his father to teach at Kamakwie while he was Principal there. While Strasser was a pupil, each time he vissited Kamakwie, Mr. Yansaneh ussually helped with school fees (tuition) and encouragement to him and his brother because that is the type of guy he is, who values education and whatever it takes to encourage a student to get education, he is there to do just that.
However, after the take over when Strasser invited him to work for his regym, Mr. Yansaneh declined because he does not believe in undemocratic practices 1, and his loyalty to success couldn't allow him him to work for an undemocratic regym.
Mr. Yansaneh occupied an office, where there is no way he could tamper with government funds. He could use his office to promote Sierra Leoneans, many of whom he engineered their immigration to the United States, Britai and elswhere in Europe, particularly Russia. He did not have a ministry nor was he head of any area of government, where he could swindle Sierra Leone money.
Despite his position was key area, where Sierra Leoneans could have bribed him to enable them get any position or even see the President, Mr. Yansaneh is respected by Sierra Leonean functionaries particularly diplomats because he dealth with them professionally and diplomatically and left the decissions on the President to appoint whomever he thought deserved an appointment. I should know because I was the one with him in the office, at home to name a few. In fact, I was the one who use to represent him in big functions where diplomats and the government was involved. So I know for fact that you do not know the same way most people would think that because I worked at State House, I was involved in government misappropriation. I am sure when he use to read that him and his friends use to have a ball.
As we now have a new government, I will admonish you and all those making claims to use journalism in the interest of progress for Sierra Leone and not to use it for wich-hunt.
You do not know anything about Sierra Leone nor do you know how government works. So cool-off.
I cannot read opver I am almost late for work.
From: SUBWANALAI
To: All
Date Posted: 18:46:44 09/26/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 194.32.41.72
Hi Bambay,
How is Marie Yansaneh; your aunt doing
From: Bambay Lans Kamara
To: All
Date Posted: 19:17:27 09/26/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: sccadmin195198.scc.losrios.edu at 165.196.195.198
Actually, she is my siter. I have not contacted any of them for a long time because, they brought me up to fight hard like a man. I read about them and know they are o.k. She won an election and is now a representaive (parliamentarian.)
When I get settled, after I finish these classes I will contact them.
I am pretty sure she is doing abosolutely fine and happy as I am because she won the election and is doing great.
From: SUBWANALAI
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Date Posted: 18:43:48 09/26/07 ()
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Hi Bamabay,
How is Marie Yansaneh; aunt doing? Gotcha! You are merely defending your relative here. Nothing wrong boy, it ingrates that deny theri blood relations.
From: AREA MAN
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Date Posted: 18:42:24 09/26/07 ()
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Bambay, u dae suffer from "feel bad" eh?
U hade nor dae. Betteh go take bench nar craise yard befoe dae craise pass mark pan u?
From: Bambay Lans Kamar
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Date Posted: 19:57:47 09/26/07 ()
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Area Man, you would think that I will get angry but as all Americans and people of world know, most Africans have become dictators who have killed their kinds because, as I studied in Psychology, egocentrism and unatttended anger in their childhood. These are the anger I read in most of you, and think, as the world is thinking, that you must have been sick for so long. one hundred-twenty thousand people, our own kind was killed by people like you therefore, I would not expect much from people like you.
Nonetheless, as our civility are different because I do not believe in attacking people because of simple jealousy, Iget jow is you saying these things because Sierra Leoneans will definately confirm that ther are those among us who wicked and hateful, which is why most Sierra Leoneans have not benefitted from a glorious democracy as America, a land of opportunties, many would rather stand in the way for either women or to call back home so that those back home would think they are more serious. Fortunately, I do believe that those who honestly make it in Sierra Leone without haven to step out of the country are more hard working. This is why I am not surpised that though the entire world turned their attention to me, including the most beautiful, powerful, and influencial, there are those Sierra Leoneans who would rather I eat grass than know of this. But sadly for them, they do not know what they can do to stop it therefore, these are little ways they would like to show their frustrations for failing to stop or convince me otherwise because I have been fortunate in my life to be with politicians and rich people therefore, would know what and what not they would get themselves involved with.
So help the world and I have fun.
Can't read over.
Nar salone sabis dae make munku so.
You want to jam!
From: johny
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Date Posted: 17:12:39 09/26/07 ()
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for starters i hate the SLPP with gusto. I welcome the change in government...but Ernest koroma will FAIL because there are not good enough Sierra Leoneans to go round. Sooner or later his cabinet will be full of RECYCLED MOMOH politicians like the Hassan Gbessay Kanu's. Most MP's, if not all are contractor wolves in Sheep clothing. Politics in Sierra leone is not about serving the populace but self enrichment. Ask any Sierra leonean MP deep down what their motive is and it will come out....money.
And news that these old sharks have started occupying state house is foretaste of what is ahead.
Ernest needs to instill a total revolution of politics in Sierra Leone if he is to succeed. I believe he is a good man at heart, but will he take the bull by the balls or succumb....
From: BRA ENVIABLE
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Date Posted: 17:53:29 09/26/07 ()
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My hope is that Koroma will see reason to avoid hobnobbing with the despicable thieves of the JS Momoh era. The Hassan Gbessay Kanus have nothing new, let alone come forth with developmental plans, for Sierra Leone. They had all the peaceful time and resources to develop Sierra Leone, but the Momoh team failed criminally. Koroma should be mentally fertile enough to chart a NEW way through his NEW APC. If he takes Sierra Leone back to the sterile characters that stunted our national growth during the OLD APC, then he is better unemployed than a presidential character. I can only hope that the gallantly beaming Koroma is intelligent enough to move away from the Gbessay Kanus. The Gbessay Kanus owe us apologies, not another request for the second rape of Sierra Leone.
From: looks
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Date Posted: 09:06:51 09/28/07 ()
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I honestly wish some of you would start thinking before you speak. When the NPRC took over, people like Hassan Gbessay Kanu were all arrested and put in jail for what happened in Sierra Leone during their regime especially during the year of 1990, 91 to the beginning of 92. Gbessay Kanu left government office in 1989 due to the less cooperation he received from Momoh and Bambay. Sierra Leone government lost a huge amount of money during the time Hassan Gbessay Kanu was away from government because he always stopped any illegal transaction. He was the minister that came to finance and discovered that the government has a ghost list. Many of you may not even knwow what that mean but please I urge you to read and asked politicians that known about Gbessay Kanu. Have you guys ever try to understand why Gbessay Kanu left APC? I am a political Science student and I study people like Gbessay Kanu. He left because he cannot change a corrupt group of politicians by himself. He was very upset about what is going on and voiced his opinion to the president but the president refused to listen. Bambay was like the president; he makes every decision for Momoh. Kanu was displeased with despised Bambay because Bombay was stealing from the government. When NPRC took over and arrested the APC politicians, Bambay lived for only few months and was killed due to the amount of illegal things they (NPRC) discovered he was doing. Kanu spoke at the Commission of inquiry and requested that any sierra leonean that have proof of him going against or stealing government fund should come up and have him prosecuted to the fullest of the law. Let me remind you all that Kanu was accused of stealing money and put it in dreams but yet was left untouched by the government driving around the city as an honorable man. People like Hassan Gbessay Kanu who fought for the poor and fight against a group of powerful men; we as citizens of Sierra Leone should pray to have in government. He was found not guilty as charged and he proof to the public how crazy the APC was and how hard it were for him to fight them alone. Please read things about Hassan Gbessay Kanu before you accuse him again and end up like many people to see that he is a true Sierra Leonean that love his country and Citizens. ASK AROUND!
From: looks
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Date Posted: 13:21:58 09/28/07 ()
Email Address: babylooks1@gmail.com
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Kanu was accused of stealing money and put it in dreams.
*Drums...
*A honorable man...
*he proved...
*end up like many people who now see him as a true...
From: sabanoh
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Date Posted: 19:00:46 09/26/07 ()
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My hope is that Ernest does not engage his former teacher,AKK. He should feed him with a long spoon. I would suggest that Ernest does not even ask his opinion. Let us hope for the best for Ernest. My prediction is that he will do much better than Kabba.
From: BRA ENVIABLE
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Date Posted: 19:06:46 09/26/07 ()
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If Ernest makes a positively big change, our country will be the net beneficiary, and I will become his political fan. If he stays away from the "bad crowd," he may do well. If he doesn't, he may likely end up being like the people he replaced.
From: MUSA KAMARA
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Date Posted: 17:22:39 09/26/07 ()
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