Subject: WHEN IS A MAN EDUCATED?
From: THE VOICE OF PROGRESS
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Date Posted: 09:35:09 10/05/07 ()
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Life’s caprices bring confusion and illogical thoughts to many of us who think
or have the belief that we are educated. It sadden’s me to see that we have lost
our essence and purpose on this earth. We believe going to school, colleges, and
a university is deemed - EDUCATION.
Education is when a man can look out upon the universe, how lucid and lovely, how dark and terrible, with a sense of his own littleness in the great scheme of things, and yet have faith and courage. When a man knows how to make friends and keep them, and above all, when he can keep friends with himself.
The self is a very important part in education. Only by keeping friends with the self can you make friends of others and keep them. That is education!!
When a man can be happy alone and high-minded amid the drudgeries of life. When he can look into a wayside puddle and see something besides mud, and into the face of the most forlorn mortal and see divine.
When he knows how to live, how to love, how to hope, how to pray - is glad to live...and has in his heart a bit of a song.
We can never become enlightened by imagining figures of light but by making the darkness conscious.
So many of us a uneducated mortals.
Subject: WHO IS AN EDUCATED MAN?
From: THE VOICE OF PROGRESS
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Date Posted: 09:12:49 10/05/07 ()
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The Educated Man and the Peasant
By Troy Morash
Once upon a time, there was a young man from Bucharest who had just finished university. He was proud of his knowledge and smarts and so decided to leave the big city and make his way teaching peasants in the countryside.
Immediately he was met with difficulties. He found that people didn't take to kindly to being considered more stupid than he, for he was only twenty two and most of the people that he met were much older. If he was to teach them, he would have to prove that he was smarter. Feeling confident of his powers he made a wager with a peasant. If the peasant couldn't answer the educated man's question then the peasant would have to hand over three Lei. The educated man chuckled to himself, 'This is going to be easy money.' The entire village gathered to witness the quiz. The educated man asked the first question, 'What is the capital of England?'
The peasant answered, 'I don't know. I will give you three Lei.'
'London.' The people gasped; they were impressed. The educated man pocketed the money and asked a second question, 'What moves very fast but doesn't look like it is moving at all?'
The peasant answered, 'I don't know. I will give you three Lei.'
'The earth.' The educated man pocketed the money and asked the third question, 'What goes up in the day and down at night?
The peasant answered, 'I don't know. I will give you three Lei.' The educated man had taken from the peasant a total of nine Lei. Now the peasant was poor and his wife started to cry. However, at his turn, the peasant also wished to ask the educated man a question but if he could not answer it he would have to hand over five thousand Lei to the peasant. The educated man quickly agreed and thought to himself, 'This surely is a fool!'
'What goes in the morning with two legs, at noon with four legs and in the evening with six legs?' There was a long silence and everyone was staring at the educated man. He searched his brain for a long time but to no avail. He did not know the answer and had no choice but to hand over five thousand Lei, which was everything he had. Afterwards the educated man was curious and so asked, 'So what goes in the morning on two legs, at noon with four and in the evening with six?'
The peasant answered, 'I don't know. I will give you three Lei.'
Subject: SLPP NEEDS THIS MAN - HE KANDEH YUMKELLA
From: THE VOICE OF PROGRESS
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Date Posted: 09:05:44 10/05/07 ()
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Dr. Yumkella was born on 5 July 1959 in northern Sierra Leone. He is a former
Minister of Trade, Industry and State Enterprises of the Republic of Sierra
Leone. He has had over 16 years experience in international development,
including 9 years of professional and managerial experience within UNIDO, and
served as the Senior Adviser to the Director-General (he also served as Special
Adviser to the previous Director-General). In addition, he has provided
leadership for various initiatives and managed high-level consultations and
negotiations with Member States of the Organization. Recent responsibilities
include serving for 4 years as Director of the Africa and LDCs Regional Bureau
and UNIDO Representative and Director of the first UNIDO Regional Industrial
Development Center in Nigeria. He has co-authored numerous articles, book
chapters and staff papers on international trade and development issues. Mr.
Yumkella studied agricultural economics in Sierra Leone and in the USA. He did
his Ph.D. in the University of Illinois, USA and worked as Lecuterer at Michigan
State University until 1996.
Subject: Re: SLPP NEEDS THIS MAN - HE KANDEH YUMKELLA
From: Orestia
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Date Posted: 09:48:52 10/05/07 ()
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Another Tejan Kabbah.
Subject: Re: SLPP NEEDS THIS MAN - HE KANDEH YUMKELLA
From: THE VOICE OF PROGRESS
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Date Posted: 10:05:34 10/05/07 ()
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Definitely not! You cannot compare his pedigree with that of the two-faced lying
hypocritical backstabber lowlife and callous Tejan kabba. Kabbah begged his way
to be where he was. kabbah never merited anything. His cunning and the
unseriousness of so many of us made kabba to get to where he saw opening. take
the case of how CP Foray betrayed his president to endorse kabba's application
to the UN agency. Another example is how he used A. H. kabia to champion his
cause for the leadership and used the likes of R E S lagawo to bolster his
chances. he used the lack of serious Sierra leonean minds to mess us up.
Everyone that ever dealt with kabba died with the most profound regrets. Some
thought by helping him with his false personality and presence to achieve
something, he will in turn reward them. In a way I will say he served them
right. He gave them the dose of their medicine. He who harbours a corrupt spirit
will think nothing other than corrupt spirits. They have all gone and our
country is still fighting to heal itself. May God help us.
Subject: Re: SLPP NEEDS THIS MAN - HE KANDEH YUMKELLA
From: SUBWANALAI
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Date Posted: 09:16:56 10/05/07 ()
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I certainly don't know this Kandeh chap, but this is surely a good work done by
the Voice Of Progress. Let's try to track down and present potentials in the
above fashion. It would then be left with those in power to decide. I like his
CV though.
Subject: Re: SLPP NEEDS THIS MAN - HE KANDEH YUMKELLA
From: alieu sesay
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Date Posted: 09:11:27 10/05/07 ()
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Is Kandeh not the current head of UNIDO?
Subject: Re: SLPP NEEDS THIS MAN - HE KANDEH YUMKELLA
From: Ishmael Yillah
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Date Posted: 09:40:49 10/05/07 ()
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Mr. Sesay,
Dr. Kandeh is currently the head of UNIDO and he currently lives in Viena,
Austria.
He is a good man, unlike his older brother, Foday Yumkellah.
Subject: Re: SLPP NEEDS THIS MAN - HE KANDEH YUMKELLA
From: THE VOICE OF PROGRESS
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Date Posted: 09:45:12 10/05/07 ()
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Mr. Yillah, I pray your withdraw your statement. Try to see good in people! No
man is perfect - what makes Foday the bad brother?
Subject: Re: SLPP NEEDS THIS MAN - HE KANDEH YUMKELLA
From: THE VOICE OF PROGRESS
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Date Posted: 09:39:02 10/05/07 ()
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Yes!! he became the UNIDO Director-General in 2005. He is doing fine and well
liked by the UNIDO partnerships.
Subject: slpp mende apc limba
From: mkay
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Date Posted: 08:17:55 10/05/07 ()
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We know the temne were betrayed by not allowing eddy turay and others.But still
the temne voted massively for apc to come to power for a change not for
continuety,all i know is president Ernest bai koroma father came from a village
called YONIBANA a village near MAKENI TOWN and the father is temne by tribe.He
speaks only temne dialect,thats all i know about our president,your president
and my president.Is it a crime for a sierra leonean president to be a limba?
Subject: WILL SOMEONE RING THE ALARUM BELLS FOR MODERATOR
From: SUWANALAI
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Date Posted: 07:52:46 10/05/07 ()
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Mr. Moderator, tribalism is going on right now. Just climb down two ladders
below this post. What you gonna do about that?
Subject: SLPP INTENSIFY SEARCH FOR A NEW LEADER(contd.)
From: Concerned SLPP Man
To: All
Date Posted: 06:20:13 10/05/07 ()
Email Address: Bangura_1@hotmail.de
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Message:
Our Party, the SLPP should drop that unwritten, secret precondition that one
should speak mende or at least be a mende hybrid with another tribe befor he can
be qualified to lead the Party.In short, the SLPP should show clear signs of
clearly moving away from mende tribalism. Here lies the future of the Party.
Subject: Re: SLPP INTENSIFY SEARCH FOR A NEW LEADER(contd.)
From: Candid Opinion
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Date Posted: 09:59:01 10/05/07 ()
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A thread that started with the tone on how SLPP should search for a new leader..
20 threads and replies later.. is ending up on how many bookman from the north
Vs south..?
Derailment.. digression..?
Subject: Re: SLPP INTENSIFY SEARCH FOR A NEW LEADER(contd.)
From: kamara
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Date Posted: 07:53:30 10/05/07 ()
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Stop spreading misimformation, There is no unwritten condition that one should
speak mende to be a SLPP leader. It just happens that the mende are the most
loyal supporters of the party just as limbas are to APC. Loyal members are
highly rewarded and trusted. You do not value opportunist supporters who are
with today and switch tommorrow.
The party's founders were mainly from the North, Bai Farma tas et al.You need to also talk the APC about tribalistic voting exhibited in the North.
Some of us are products of the North and South and can tell a few things about tribalism from both sides. It is not a one tribe disease.
Subject: Re: SLPP INTENSIFY SEARCH FOR A NEW LEADER(contd.)
From: Bai Bureh
To: All
Date Posted: 08:30:19 10/05/07 ()
Email Address: rastafari_ish@hotmail.com
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Message:
Orkama duya cole you boazin.Toap yii anthaba'a?
The man is telling the naked truth and you are still living in denial.Man face it the SLPP is a mende party,it is crystal clear.If you guys don't deal with this mende tribalism problem your party will never rule Salone again.It seems you SLPPers are still living in the past.
Stop defending this evil party and save yourself precious time to solve other problems.
Subject: Re: SLPP INTENSIFY SEARCH FOR A NEW LEADER(contd.)
From: baibureh abu
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Date Posted: 08:34:27 10/05/07 ()
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Is your party-APC an inclusive party? Name all the leaders in the APC-current
and former. See where the trend leads. Also tell us how many total votes
received in te south and east by your party.
Third the evidence of an inclusive party will be seen in the yet to be named Carb-inet.
You kaka rass..
Subject: Re: SLPP INTENSIFY SEARCH FOR A NEW LEADER(contd.)
From: Bai Bureh
To: All
Date Posted: 08:43:54 10/05/07 ()
Email Address: rastafari_ish@hotmail.com
Entered From: dator6071.161.gbgsd.se at 62.88.181.216
Message:
Yeah, the truth hurts do much that you SLPPers are now resorting to
invectives.Keep it up.
Boy I am a northerner born in Kenema and that makes me no stranger to the south
too.You have nothing to tell me about the mendes and the SLPP.Scratch every
mende and you will find an SLPP tribalist.Toopit koat!
Subject: Re: SLPP INTENSIFY SEARCH FOR A NEW LEADER(contd.)
From: baibureh abu
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Date Posted: 08:53:13 10/05/07 ()
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Message:
Answer the question Dummy. Give us the names of all former and current
executives of yoour party and see the one sidedness of the APC...
You were born in KENEMA my a--.
Subject: Re: SLPP INTENSIFY SEARCH FOR A NEW LEADER(contd.)
From: alieu sesay
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Date Posted: 09:00:32 10/05/07 ()
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Born in Kenema? The dude is from Mange Bureh...
Subject: Re: SLPP INTENSIFY SEARCH FOR A NEW LEADER(contd.)
From: Adeyomie
To: All
Date Posted: 06:36:54 10/05/07 ()
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Message:
You got it right there.
Subject: Re: SLPP INTENSIFY SEARCH FOR A NEW LEADER(contd.)
From: Mohamed Serwo Feika
To: All
Date Posted: 07:10:05 10/05/07 ()
Email Address: serwofeika@hotmail.com
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Message:
I don't think there is tribalism within SLPP. To start with in formal President
Kabba's cabinet how many mende Ministers were there? In one region alone in the
North there were five senior Ministers? Or do we talk about tribalism for the
sake of talking.
The reason why some people left to form the PMDC stems from the fact that a lot
of them have suffered far too much under the then APC as young as 20 years to
bring back democracy only for our party to neglect their contributions. Also
Formal President Kabba's crack down on Corruption was geared towards humiliating
South-Easterners and any possible contender to his Office. Or does Formal
President want to tell some of us that there were no corrupt Northerners within
the administration?
Please do not accuse me of tribalism because I am both a Northerner and
Southerner. My mum is a Chief in Kambia Town and during my wedding in December
last year over 200 representatives from Kambia went to grace the occasion.
Subject: Re: SLPP INTENSIFY SEARCH FOR A NEW LEADER(contd.)
From: Stupid
To: All
Date Posted: 07:45:48 10/05/07 ()
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Message:
These fellows know nothing but tribalism. The SLPP government was the most
diverse ever is Sierra Leone. Compare that with JS Momoh's government with 75%
from one region. Some of these northerners are just plain biggots. If you want
position like some Southeasterners, stay in school and get some education. Go to
the universities and colleges and see how many students you have from the
Southeast and compare that with the north. De man den nor dae gree go school.
AKK tried to help them with soviet scholarships but 60% of them failed and ended
up in Washington DC selling ice cream and driving cabs. The others are in Europe
on welfare. Blame yourself and not the Southeasterner
Subject: Re: SLPP INTENSIFY SEARCH FOR A NEW LEADER(contd.)
From: Bai Bureh
To: All
Date Posted: 08:37:58 10/05/07 ()
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Message:
Nitwit,if you think that northerners are not well-educated then you are making
yourself the biggest fool the world has ever known.Abdulai Conteh alone is
enough to take on the whole lot of so-called south-eastern academics.Do I need
to mention the young Dr.Kadie Sesay? Let me stop here for a while. Oops! Who is
running the website that has given you the opportunity to bash northerners? Is
Kabs Kanu a south-easterner?
Subject: Re: SLPP INTENSIFY SEARCH FOR A NEW LEADER(contd.)
From: Shiooooor
To: All
Date Posted: 09:01:52 10/05/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: gov198.ucc.ie at 143.239.91.198
Message:
Is that all? Bo do ya come again
Subject: Re: SLPP INTENSIFY SEARCH FOR A NEW LEADER(contd.)
From: alieu sesay
To: All
Date Posted: 08:55:10 10/05/07 ()
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Message:
Is that all you gat? TWO?...One is an English Professor, the other is a
disgraced politician.. How bah....
Subject: Re: SLPP INTENSIFY SEARCH FOR A NEW LEADER(contd.)
From: Concerned SLPP Man
To: All
Date Posted: 07:39:50 10/05/07 ()
Email Address: Bangura_1@hotmail.com
Entered From: cache-frr-ae04.proxy.aol.com at 195.93.60.132
Message:
Mr. Feika, the point at issue here is (and this is an issue that will ever
continue to affect the SLPP adversely): Can the SLPP be able to select a NON-MENDE
SPEAKING LEADER ? I personnaly don`t think the party is yet ripe to that.
Subject: Re: SLPP INTENSIFY SEARCH FOR A NEW LEADER(contd.)
From: Mohamed Serwo Feika
To: All
Date Posted: 07:53:07 10/05/07 ()
Email Address: serwofeika@hotmail.com
Entered From: at 62.60.98.133
Message:
If there is a possibility of chosen a non-mende speaking leader. Can APC ever
choose a Mende speaking leader? We will waite and see.
Subject: Re: SLPP INTENSIFY SEARCH FOR A NEW LEADER(contd.)
From: Non-Mende
To: All
Date Posted: 07:47:51 10/05/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: gov198.ucc.ie at 143.239.91.198
Message:
Has APC ever had a non-Limba as a leader? Bo oona go sidom saful. Ooona feel say
we the Temne dem fool? Oona wait wetin Margai do SPP small.
Subject: FYI
From: MODERATOR
To: All
Date Posted: 06:01:05 10/05/07 ()
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Message:
We at Cocorioko maintain a log of suspended or banned IPs which requires that
administrators state reasons for actions taken. Apart from helping us keep track
of the nature of the infraction, it serves as instrument to safeguard against
arbitrary action by those who run the forum.
So far, the log contains no record of anyone banned for what they think.
Regarding the issue of party orientation, our archives are public and speak for
themselves. Sierra Leone is the name of my party, and I am here to serve with
passion. Cheers! /Moderator
Subject: Re: FYI
From: SUBWANALAI
To: All
Date Posted: 07:31:02 10/05/07 ()
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Message:
But you will agree with me MR. MODERATOR that you are a CUT THROAT RAT. This is
what you wrote yesterday under the topic "POINTS NOTED MODERATORS". Check it
out:
HIGHWAY-type trouble makers have tried, and failed to bring this forum down.
There will be no challenging, because you will be the one leaving. Check the
archives and you'll know this one is made of steel. Cheers!
SUBWANALAI NOTES: Do you pride yourself of been the Lictor of this forum;
stifling the life out of critics? Be real man
Subject: Re: FYI
From: MODERATOR
To: All
Date Posted: 09:22:04 10/05/07 ()
Message:
Never argue with a fool - people might not know the difference. Cheers!
/Moderator
Subject: Kabbah To Give Account Of His 11 Years in power
From: Researcher
To: All
Date Posted: 05:13:17 10/05/07 ()
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(Culled From Standard Times)
SLPP Patron Wants President Tejan Kabbah To Give Account Of His Eleven Years
Presidency
Posted by on Oct 5, 2007, 02:24
Franklin J. Rogers
Email: franklin.rogers@btinternet.com Tel. 0044-7947 144 519 UK
Alhaji Dr. Ahmed Tejan Kabbah
PRESIDENT
Republic of Sierra Leone
Freetown, Sierra Leone
12th August 2007
Dear President Kabbah
PLEASE GIVE ACCOUNT OF YOUR ELEVEN (11) YEARS PRESIDENCY
On Friday March 29th 1996, you took over the reigns of power from the then NPRC Military Government in Sierra Leone following a successful multi-party and Democratic elections.
It is exactly eleven (11) years since you came to power after winning two (2) successive elections (1996 & 2002).
Sir, you have leave the presidency and I believe that you have always preached good governance and accountability and therefore would now appreciate if you and your government would kindly give us the people of Sierra Leone that which we believe is our right to know and to have which is, a full and complete account of all your achievements for the people of Sierra Leone during your eleven (11) years in Power.
In that report/account, we the people of Sierra Leone would highly appreciate if you could kindly give us the following details:
1 We want to know the total amount of all monies received for the people of Sierra Leone on a yearly basis from Donor Countries and all well wishers abroad in hard currencies such as British Pound Sterling (£), United States Dollar (USD$), Euro (€), etc. etc.
2 We want to know the total amount of all revenues raised in Sierra Leone on a yearly basis as a nation from our Produce, Minerals, Air and Sea Portts PAYE with all other forms of taxes.
3 We want to know on a yearly basis how much of all monies received and raised in revenues for Sierra Leone was spent and for what purpose.
4 We want to know the total Sierra Leone Currency (Leones) that your government met in circulation and how much more was printed by Thomas Dela-Rue of UK and other Security printers abroad and for how much.
5 We want to know what was Sierra Leone total foreign and local reserve when your Government took over the affairs of Sierra Leone and how much total reserve in both foreign currencies and the Leones is your government leaving for the people of Sierra Leone.
6 We want to know Sir, by names, the total number of all Sierra Leoneans arrested, Imprisoned, prosecuted and executed by the State or died in custody, if any and for what crimes committed against the State since you are a man who also claim to believe in human rights one of which is a right to life.
7 Last but not the least, we want to know the full names of all cabinet Ministers, Deputy Ministers, managing Directors and heads of all public institutions that served in your government during your eleven (11) years of Presidency.
Sir, I have no doubt in my mind that your government has been an honest and sincere government that honestly and sincerely worked hard for the people of Sierra Leone during your eleven (11) years of governance and therefore look forward to your very honest, accurate and sincere timely response within the next 30 days as of 13th August 2007.
Your prompt acknowledgment within the next ten (10) days as of 13/8/07 confirming receipt of this letter would highly be appreciated.
Yours sincerely
By email, signature approved.
Franklin J. Rogers
Sierra Leonean & Patron of SLPP
Copies:
The Sierra Leone Civil Society Movements
U. N. Mission in Sierra Leone
Dfid/British High Commission in Sierra Leone
U. S. Embassy in Sierra Leone
European Union Mission in Sierra Leone
SLPP, APC, PMDC & Other Political Parties
The Sierra Leone Print Media (News Papers)
Subject: YOU SEE, NOW THE PEOPLE WANT TO KNOW
From: SUBWANALAI
To: All
Date Posted: 05:40:22 10/05/07 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
The world is enough/ For all of us / So why should one man want it all(Repeat)...
The world should know/ The world should know(Burning Spear)
Subject: COCORIOKO AND THE PERSONAL ATTACKS ON A REVEREND'S PAGE
From: DISGUSTED READER
To: All
Date Posted: 03:17:57 10/05/07 ()
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Entered From: ac8dcf58.ipt.aol.com at 172.141.207.88
Message:
FOR A REVEREND TO PUBLISH SUCH UNSUBSTANTIATED DISGUSTING MATERIALS ON THE
AMBASSADOR SIMPLY BECAUSE SHE IS A RELATION OF SAMA BANYA IS UNCALLED FOR.
REVEREND, AS A CHRISTIAN, PLEASE STOP USING YOUR NEWSPAPER TO DESTROY PEOPLE'S IMAGES.
YOU ARE A DISGRACE TO CHRISTIANITY. SOMEONE HAS TO LET YOU KNOW SINCE YOU ARE IN A BUBBLE. DONT SAY THAT YOU DID NOT WRITE IT. EVERYTHING POSTED BOTH HERE ON THIS FORUM AND ON YOUR WEB PAGE ARE THE RESPONSIBILITY OF YOU.
I HOPE SOMEONE SUES YOU ONE DAY.
Subject: THE BLACK MARKET MONEY SYSTEM IS A FORM OF MONEY LAUNDERING
From: QUEST
To: All
Date Posted: 02:44:51 10/05/07 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
that undermines our central banking system in Sierra Leone. The multiple
exchange rate system in Sierra Leone is also a form of corruption producing
incentive to pay bribes to get scarce foreign exchange at favorable rate's
example, for all the JCS that use the other exchange system instead of the
central banking system, you are actually taking a bribes from the money
Launderers in exchange for favorable rate's .That is the difference in rate's
with the central banking system's This type of activity is calculated to cost
Sierra Leone 10 to 15 percent in-gross domestic product because most of the
moneys is Laundered. The two main beneficiary are high level corrupt officials
and international criminal enterprises who easily launder these foreign
currencies across national borders. In short our central banking system is
broken and needs reform. What do you Say?
Subject: Re: THE BLACK MARKET MONEY SYSTEM IS A FORM OF MONEY
LAUNDERING
From: news flash
To: All
Date Posted: 06:08:07 10/05/07 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
Don'tlisten to this fool .Our banking system is the most unorganized system in
the world.We lack the strength to enforce our own laws on the books.Much as we
want to enforce the laws we must do education to those so called criminals to
enable them to come into the financial system which in turn will increase flow
of cash as well as accountability.In short, we must support enforcement after
education of the impact of non compliance of all who wants to be in the foreign
exchange bussiness like the money remittance.
Case in point. The dollar and pounds sterling dropped in senegal, guninea,gambia
and much of west africa.In sierra leone,the dollar was almost edging le 3000.00.
The central bank has moved to kissy street where the lebanese and fullah's are
the instrument for financial distruction.Those corrupt bankers and traders needs
to be warned as well as educated that we cannot tolerate any longer sabotage of
our economy all in the name of selfishness.Let keep this disscussion going. You
are on the right track.
Subject: Re: THE BLACK MARKET MONEY SYSTEM IS A FORM OF MONEY
LAUNDERING
From: jackal
To: All
Date Posted: 05:35:04 10/05/07 ()
Email Address: dollarbill@gmail.com
Entered From: c-67-173-165-221.hsd1.il.comcast.net at 67.173.165.221
Message:
Your economic analysis is a bit fuzzy. A black market system is actually
beneficial to the economy. Nice try.
Subject: Re: THE BLACK MARKET MONEY SYSTEM IS A FORM OF MONEY
LAUNDERING
From: John B
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Date Posted: 07:25:52 10/05/07 ()
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Message:
Can you tell us how it helps us,besides leading us to more corruption and other
large-scale illigal businesess?
Subject: emmerson sugar meresin
From: Bambay Lans Kamara
To: All
Date Posted: 22:52:00 10/04/07 ()
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Do it!
Subject: Desparado
From: Bambay Lans Kamara
To: All
Date Posted: 22:13:12 10/04/07 ()
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Nor touch am, nor touch am!
Subject: Re: Desparado
From: Londoner
To: All
Date Posted: 08:56:58 10/05/07 ()
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Thanks Bambay! Nice one!
Subject: Do it
From: Bambay Lans Kamara
To: All
Date Posted: 22:06:39 10/04/07 ()
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Do it!
Subject: the number of kilowatt hours consumed per person per year, w
From: freetong pikin
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Date Posted: 21:53:12 10/04/07 ()
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Commentary
By Alfred Munda SamForay, MSET.
It has been fifteen days or so now since Hon. Ernest Bai Koroma was sworn in as the fourth President of the Second Republic. Speculations as to who will serve the President in the Executive Branch are all over the media both domestic as well as international. All last week we were told by those who thought they had inside information on State House affairs that the new cabinet will be announced last Friday. Then again on Monday and neither of these predictions materialized. Meanwhile, the nation’s business is being conducted by ministers from the previous government of President Tejan Kabbah along with their respective Permanent Secretaries and Directors General whose job it is to provide for proper functioning during transition whether from one government to another as in this present case or simply from one minister to another.
There is also a new Parliament with its own executives including the Speaker - who is second in the line of succession - his deputy and other members of the legislative leadership. There is a functioning judiciary despite the absence of a new Chief Justice and an Attorney General and Minister of Justice. In short, there is no power vacuum in the country. So undue anxiety over the appointment or announcement of the new cabinet is in the opinion of this observer highly misplaced. No one is dying in Sierra Leone simply because we don’t know who the next Minister of Health is, neither is the country less secure because we don’t have a new Deputy Minister of Defence. The professional army, police and all other national security apparatus appear to be in place.
Without being an apologetic for the new government of Ernest Bai Koroma, it is my considered view that the priority of the new government should be to fully consider government policies before the men and women who will be administering and implementing those policies are put in place. Sierra Leone is not acutely in need of new leaders - it is in need of new leadership. In addition to whom the next minister or deputy is going to be, Mr. Koroma and his Transition Team should also focus on what that minister or deputy minister is going to be doing once in office.
A case in point is the President’s enthusiasm for sustainable energy for all Sierra Leoneans, not just those few with the money to buy noisy and air polluting private generators. Speaking to the Sierra Leone Institute of Engineers recently, the President spoke of a need to find ways and means to make the nation secure in its domestic energy needs. In particular, he mentioned the very disgraceful statistic on Sierra Leone’s infinitesimal consumption of electrical energy. Those of us in the field of professional engineering know fully well that a country’s development index is measured not on the number of cell phones and private generators in the backyards of a few fortunate citizens, but the number of kilowatt hours consumed per person per year, which the president placed at about 8 compared to Ghana’s 400 or so kilowatt hours per capita. The rest of the world consumes about 1,200 kilowatt-hours of electrical energy per citizen per year. Comparatively, we are not even in the same century or on the same planet as the rest of the global village in terms of energy consumption - hence our chronic and severe poverty and under-development.
Although this seems like too much details for the average citizen, this level of defining the national problem is exactly the kind of thinking a leader should have if he or she wants to demand “results and not too many excuses” from his or her subordinates, as Mr. Koroma has been saying lately. It shows to me, any way, and perhaps to the engineers to whom he was speaking that the President has some fundamental grasp of our energy problems. Our children are not going to make it to the world stage if they continue to study on candles and kerosene lamps. We cannot invite industrialists to Sierra Leone to build factories if they have to bring along their own generators. There are plenty of other places in the world to invest their money and create jobs such as China, India and Mexico with functionally educated workforce and plenty of kilowatt-hours of electricity to run their machines and equipment.
It should, therefore, be the duty of all Sierra Leoneans - those in government and those in the private sector - to consider ways to put our country on the same playing field as our fellow citizens of the world. Our engineers and other technical experts should busy themselves with matters related to sustainable and renewable alternative energy resources such as wind, solar, wave and geothermal in addition to the never-ending Bumbuna Hydro-electric Project. Sierra Leone happens to be blessed by the Almighty with virtually inexhaustible solar energy, an almost perfect locat1on on the earth’s latitude, a strategic locat1on on the Atlantic Ocean and seven rushing rivers to nourish our land. What more can God do for us?
Worrying over who the next Minister of Energy and Power is, will not help us get to where we need to be. Formulating a sound energy policy will. And that should be our collective priority - as well as that of Ernest Bai Koroma and his Transition Team.
Subject: Re: the number of kilowatt hours consumed per person per
year, w
From: Candid Opinion
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Date Posted: 09:35:39 10/05/07 ()
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Message:
Great read..
This bra know what he is talking about..
Subject: They should definately be invetigated - Look elsewhere
From: freetong pikin
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Date Posted: 21:40:17 10/04/07 ()
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Pinochet family arrested in Chile
The widow and five children of Chile's former military ruler, Gen Augusto Pinochet, have been arrested on charges of embezzlement.
They are accused of illegally transferring $27m (£13.2m) to foreign bank accounts during the general's time in power between 1973 and 1990.
A judge ordered 17 other suspects to be held, including aides to Gen Pinochet.
Gen Pinochet died in December 2006 before he could stand trial on charges of corruption and human rights abuses.
More than 3,000 people were killed or "disappeared" during his military rule.
Pablo Rodriguez, the Pinochet family lawyer, said he was "astonished" by the decision, which he called "illegal and abusive".
He expressed confidence the ruling would be reversed on appeal.
Aides implicated
Gen Pinochet's 84-year-old widow, Lucia Hiriart, was taken to hospital with high blood pressure following her arrest.
However, Judge Carlos Cerda said there were "solid indications" the accused had "participated in the misuse of fiscal funds".
Judge Cerda is investigating a case in which Gen Pinochet allegedly hid funds with the help of Washington-based Riggs bank.
Suspects include Gen Pinochet's former personal secretary, Monica Ananias, and his lawyer Gustavo Collao.
At least three retired army generals - Jorge Ballerino, Guillermo Garin and Hector Letelier - were also charged.
Chilean President Michelle Bachelet said she would await the court's decision "with calm".
"No-one in Chile is above the law," she said.
In 2004 a US Senate investigation found hundreds of bank accounts in the name of
Pinochet and his relatives at the bank. He was being investigated for tax
evasion, fraud and embezzlement in relation to those funds.
His immunity from prosecution was stripped in 2000, sparking years of legal wrangling to try to bring him to trial for alleged human rights abuses and tax fraud.
His lawyers said he was unable to defend himself for health reasons.
In 2006, Gen Pinochet died of a heart attack aged 91 while under house arrest.
RIGGS CASE
2004 US probe into Riggs bank found Gen Pinochet held up to $8m in secret
accounts there
Accounts alleged to have been opened in names of his widow, children and
associates
Further investigations found former ruler held some $27m in foreign accounts
Gen Pinochet charged with tax evasion and using false passports to open accounts
abroad
His lawyers say fortune gained legally through savings, donations and accrued
interest
Subject: Re: They should definately be invetigated - Look elsewhere
From: I Agree
To: All
Date Posted: 21:45:54 10/04/07 ()
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We should also blame Tejan Kabbah for not locking up Momoh's wife and Siaka
Stevens children.
Subject: Re: They should definately be invetigated - Look elsewhere
From: Kabudu Gen
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Date Posted: 22:07:38 10/04/07 ()
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Message:
"We should also blame Tejan Kabbah for not locking up Momoh's wife and Siaka
Stevens children."
That's funny! Of course he didn't investigate them because he would have had
to investigate his godfather and political benefactor, Maadaa Bio, who handed
over State House to him. Ee crase? Siyooor!
Now just because Kabba was derelict in his duties does not mean that Ernest
Koroma should. A thorough unbiased investigation would prove once and for all
whether the SLPP are innocents villified by a malicious whispering campaign, or
an uncouth gang of viperous thieves who absconded with $300 million of the
people's money.
This exercise is cleasening for the soul of Salone and will, hopefully, end the
culture of impunity that has left the country a basket case in every positive
paradigm of progress. Let the audit begin!
Subject: Re: They should definately be invetigated - Look elsewhere
From: alieu sesay
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Date Posted: 22:09:35 10/04/07 ()
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Message:
In the spirit of fair play, we hope the investigations go WAY-BACK.. so we will
know who really stole our MONIES...
Subject: Re: They should definately be invetigated - Look elsewhere
From: LAM
To: All
Date Posted: 03:05:03 10/05/07 ()
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Who really stole the over TWO BILLION LEONES that the SLPP had to get Debt
relief for. Yes!! We need to know.
Subject: Re: They should definately be invetigated - Look elsewhere
From: CORRECTION
To: All
Date Posted: 03:19:01 10/05/07 ()
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YOU MEAN TWO BILLION DOLLARS?
Subject: Re: They should definately be invetigated - Look elsewhere
From: Erica Adams
To: All
Date Posted: 23:24:20 10/04/07 ()
Email Address: ericamonique82@hotmail.com
Entered From: adsl-074-185-005-235.sip.clt.bellsouth.net at 74.185.5.235
Message:
I don't think anyone is interested in seeing exemptions. If they did it, they
need to be exposed. If there is a way to get the funds back, it needs to be
explored. The article referenced a leader who took office in 1973, the people of
Chile still want their money back. The great thing about money is it won't
spoil.
On a seperate note. I visited with a friend from Gambia yesterday. She told me the Gambians are so excited about what happened in Salone and how the elections played out. There are a lot of eyes on SL right now and this is giving hope to neighboring countries especially. If the country could go through war and have a peaceful transition of power, that alone is impressive to neighboring countries; but if SL becomes a model in the anti-corruption campaign that will spell out a total comeback.
Subject: Re: They should definately be invetigated - Look elsewhere
From: Kabudu Gen
To: All
Date Posted: 22:37:09 10/04/07 ()
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Message:
I agree with you, my brother. An exhaustive investigation of all past govts will
be like a truth and reconciliation commission. The purpose will not be a witch
hunt, which is the mantra of some nervous SLPP apparatchiks. We just need to end
this culture of corruption now, before the next implosion.
By the way, Alieu, are you planning for a leadership position in your party
sometime in the future? I think you should consider it! You and I have brawled
before and will definitely tangle again in the future. But remember that even as
I cuss you and call you enery name including a blue dog, I have tremendous
respect for you...and Candido. Now get outta here and let's do battle, kid!
Cheers!
Kabudu.
Subject: Re: They should definately be invetigated - Look elsewhere
From: Candid Opinion
To: All
Date Posted: 09:31:50 10/05/07 ()
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Message:
kabudu..
I enjoy our dialog.. you are a worthy foe mate..
I applaud your candidity and respect for me and bra alieu. I feel likewise.
Okay let me stop before i plaster you with too much butter.
Subject: Presidential Task Force Exposes Financial Fraud In Several G
From: Bambay Lans Kamara
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Date Posted: 20:06:58 10/04/07 ()
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Presidential Task Force Exposes Financial Fraud In Several Government Ministries
Posted by on Oct 4, 2007, 03:33
It would appear as if it was a game of money drama that punctuated the
operations of the Ministry of Finance since the Africa Information Technology
Holdings boss took over the management of that government outfit. Documentary
evidence from the Ministry of Finance available to this press clearly gives an
insight of the colossal financial predicament that the SLPP led government was
involved in despite previous cancellations of the country’s external debts worth
about $2.6 Billion. The past government has left behind huge debts owned to
national and international agencies worth millions of US Dollars.
The Finance Ministry documents reveal that the government of Sierra Leone owes various companies in the country a total amount of two billion and nine hundred million Leones as well as some US$ 231 million owed to some six countries. Sadly, despite all of these John Benjamin’s computer company, the A.I.T.H is also owed money to the government which its proprietor over the past months had deliberately refused to honour.
“The former Finance Minister may have several questions to answer as soon as government begins serious business”, an inside source said. Also owed huge sums of money, the contract for which is not specified is Bashoon Auto spares on Ecowas street in Freetown.
Presently a 50-man team of the presidential transitional task force is investigating twenty six parastatals and fifteen government ministries and agencies with a view to providing the current government an idea of the mode of operations of the previous government headed by Alhaji Tejan Kabbah by way of financial propriety and human resources in government’s employ.
Already, a source at the Bank of Sierra Leone has revealed to this press that the Governor of the Central Bank Dr. J.D. Rogers, lost his temper when a team of the presidential transitional group asked him to present all contracts of the bank, executed and pending dating back to the last thirty six months. ‘This is too much” He yelled, and went on ‘What do you want from me”? Is it because I financed some aspects of the SLPP campaigns?” he asked.
It would be recalled that President Earnest Bai Koroma had said that the presidential transitional team has only three weeks to give him an idea as to what the previous government left in the country’s coffers, and also for him to know the level of human resource base the government has in its employment. At the Youyi Youyi building, a team of transitional team investigators discovered that three secretaries were using only one type writer, and that a pay voucher from one ministry has 83 people on sick leave while another 35 were on study leave, but all receiving full pay.
At the Sierra Leone Ports Authority, it was discovered that the Ghanaian born General manager, Galley, was forced to ignore payments of proceeds from sales of abandoned items at the Ports as SLPP supporters led by Noah Mansaray and B.S. Kamara; Company Accountant and Secretary respectively pointed out to him that they under political obligation to make huge financial contribution to the campaign fund of the previous ruling government.
Meanwhile, a source at the office of the Ombudsman, lawyer Francis Gabbidon disclosed to the team that his boss is having sleepless nights as he is alleged to have presented documents to investigators not commensurate with the budget allocat1ons made to him over the past years.
Subject: Re: Presidential Task Force Exposes Financial Fraud In
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From: POLITICAL
To: All
Date Posted: 01:25:20 10/05/07 ()
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Message:
Way to go APC. Expose the fraudsters.
Subject: Re: Presidential Task Force Exposes Financial Fraud In
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From: Where
To: All
Date Posted: 03:07:10 10/05/07 ()
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I have not seen any fraudsters being exposed. Just Standard Times with wild
speculations and 83 vacation takers and 53 sick leave.
Subject: MOHS Expresses Concern Over Report On Cholera Outbreak in Si
From: MOHS
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Date Posted: 21:55:45 10/04/07 ()
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MOHS Expresses Concern Over Report On Cholera Outbreak in Sierra Leone
Oct 1, 2007, 17:14
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Freetown, Oct. 1, 07 (MOHS) – The Ministry of Health and Sanitation has expressed concern over the information reported in the Standard Times Newspaper website of 27th September, 2007 captioned “ New cholera outbreak kills 20 in Sierra Leone”.
Dr. Alhassan Sesay Director of Disease Prevention and Control
The Directorate of Disease Prevention and Control in the Ministry of Health and Sanitation would like the general public to know that only nine deaths from a total of 40 cases have been officially reported at the Bramaia and Samu chiefdoms in the Kambia district.
According to report received from the Kambia district Health Management team, the 40 cases of diarrhea and vomiting (cholera) affected 15 males and 25 female adults.
The report in the above web page was not discussed with the relevant authorities of the ministry for clarification.
The Ministry appreciates the good work the press is doing in promoting its activities and appeals to media houses to cross check all information with the appropriate authorities before going to press.
The Ministry would like the public to know that the following actions have already been taken by the District health management team in collaboration with the directorate of disease prevention and control:
- That social mobilisation activities have been intensified
- National and district surveillance activities strengthened
- Health facilities at the concerned areas have been supported with Information Education Communication materials, data collection tools, drugs and other medical supplies for case management and reporting
- The district have also set up an inter – agency taskforce to control the situation
The ministry is also monitoring the situation countrywide.
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Subject: Re: MOHS Expresses Concern Over Report On Cholera Outbreak i
From: Pepper Doctor
To: All
Date Posted: 22:11:14 10/04/07 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
Where are our Pepper Doctors like Dr Olayinka Rebel who used our taxpayers money
for tuition but cannot now serve the
country in kind?.....is it not fair that Sierra Leone demand back it's tuition costs from such questionable actors who now profit
from other ventures?
Subject: Re: MOHS Expresses Concern Over Report On Cholera Outbreak i
From: Candid Opinion
To: All
Date Posted: 08:53:50 10/05/07 ()
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Message:
This is why the direction of the country should be paramount.. not frolics with
ellen and lunch at aso rock..
NAME THIS DARN CABINET lets get eh country moving..
No one at the helm.. no one..
Its been 27 days...and counting..
A boat without a captain is a boat left to the wind.
Subject: Re: Presidential Task Force Exposes Financial Fraud In
Several G
From: Bonafide Citizen
To: All
Date Posted: 21:43:32 10/04/07 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
The likes of Philip Neville will one day pay for his wickedness in this country.
he has destroyed many good people with LIES.
Subject: DIASPORANS PLEDGE TO SUPPORT PRESIDENT ERNEST KOROMA TO THE
From: Bambay Lans Kamara
To: All
Date Posted: 19:11:22 10/04/07 ()
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DIASPORANS PLEDGE TO SUPPORT PRESIDENT ERNEST KOROMA TO THE BEST OF THEIR
ABILITIES AND TO THE LAST DIGIT
Supporters of the All People's Congress ( APC) and Friends of Ernest Bai Koroma yesterday pledged that they will support the new President and new government to the best of their abilities and to the very last digit. They made the pledge when they called COCORIOKO to thank the online newspaper for its Editorial of Tuesday , which responded authoritatively to unfair comments and misrepresentations being made about them by some misguided people in Sierra Leone
The Sierra Leoneans said that the main reason that they supported President Ernest Koroma and the APC during the electioneering campaign was that they wanted a change in Sierra Leone. They said that they recognized the fact that the Sierra Leone People's Party ( SLPP) made a big mess during its tenure and also had no vision or program to develop the country .They said that if they had sat down and allowed the SLPP to return to power, it would have spelt doom for the country.
The diasporans also stated that they saw in President Ernest Koroma a man who had good intentions and the ability to bring a change in Sierra Leone ." Whatever we did to make sure that the APC won the election was to ensure that socio-economic and political changes came to our motherland at last " , said one of the APC supporters .
The diasporans said that their intentions were being wilfully misrepresented by their detractors, some of whom were SLPP supporters frustrated by the elections defeat of their party. They also drew attention to a very mischievious statement in a frustrated pro-SLPP rag that diasporans had spent a long time abroad and had achieved nothing and were cleaners and menial workers. Some of the people who called COCORIOKO said they had PH.D and Masters degrees , while some outlined their entrepenurial achievements.
One man, who refused for his name to be used because he distrusted "Vindictive and jealous Sierra Leoneans", said he has his own nursing home in the United States .Another said he had his own car dealership while a lady said she had a flourishing Cleaning business and hair saloon that employed over 50 workers. Another woman stated that she had put her three children through college, with one being a doctor, the other a lawyer and the youngest an engineer. She bragged that even if she did not work for anybody again, the allowances she will be getting from her kids would make her self-sufficient for the rest of her life.
The Sierra Leoneans said that one thing that people are failing to realise is that it is an act of supreme sacrifice for a diasporan to leave his profession, economic security and business in America or England or Sweden to go and serve a government in Sierra Leone where he will receive a paltry salary that would not even pay his gas and enegy bill , let alone his mortgage.
The diasporans said that they supported the APC from a patriotic standpoint and vowed to continue supporting the government to the last digit. They warned distractors not to dare to attempt anything against the government because they will use all their resources and might to reverse it .." Ernest Koroma is here to stay to fulfill his Presidential mandate to the full . AND WE WILL ENSURE THAT .Whoever does not want to see him in power better get used to it , because we are sure that he will complete his two-term constitutionally-mandated tenure in office.", some of the diasporans bragged .
Meanwhile , diasporans said they were planning a massive show of support for President Koroma at his Inauguration , slated for early November. If all goes well, they plan to charter airplanes to take them to Freetown to provide support for the President during the occasion.
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Subject: Re: DIASPORANS PLEDGE TO SUPPORT PRESIDENT ERNEST KOROMA TO
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From: SLPP Pointers
To: All
Date Posted: 19:28:54 10/04/07 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
Not to talk a lot.
It is time to work a lot.
You have inherited a stable nation with an independent police and a vibrant civil society free to criticise.
You have inherited a nation completely free of all debt to bretton woods and other paris club institutions. All the debt piled up by APC under Shaki and Momoh has been forgiven because of the due diligence of the SLPP under Kabbah
You have inherited a country very stable and economically the fastest growing country in Africa.
Now, it is time to build up Sierra Leone and stop pointing fingers from Poyo Town. Be grateful to the SLPP.
Subject: Re: DIASPORANS PLEDGE TO SUPPORT PRESIDENT ERNEST KOROMA TO
THE
From: Kabudu Gen
To: All
Date Posted: 21:49:41 10/04/07 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
Nice try SLPP Pointers! Debt relief for the poorest African nations had
absolutely nothing to do with the SLPP wrecking crew. Nada! It is essentially
due to the generosity of the industrialized powers, anti-poverty activists like
Bob Geldof and Bono and the intense lobbying of luminaries like Nelson Mandela,
Bill Clinton and Jimmy Carter.
The West was simply made to understand that unless they unload Africa of its
debt, we would be so left back that we would find ourself in an impoverished
galaxy all our own as other countries progress.
What did the SLPP do with the largess bequeathed to them by this amazing
generosity? They ran up the tab and heaped more debt on the country. The audit
reports will attest to the rapacity of the outgoing gov's greed. Seems like it
was a free-for-all as the pack of greedy jackals jumped over each other as they
fought to gobble one last morsel. Aaaargh!
Subject: Re: DIASPORANS PLEDGE TO SUPPORT PRESIDENT ERNEST KOROMA TO
THE
From: circus coming
To: All
Date Posted: 21:57:28 10/04/07 ()
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Message:
If you think so, well explain why they set benchmarks for countries to attain
before they get debt relief. why have so many african nations not been able to
get debt relief and sierra leone coming out of war attained all benchmarks?
you are the guys coming to run this country?
a real circus on the way
Subject: Re: DIASPORANS PLEDGE TO SUPPORT PRESIDENT ERNEST KOROMA TO
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From: Kabudu Gen
To: All
Date Posted: 22:55:47 10/04/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: pool-151-202-41-6.ny325.east.verizon.net at 151.202.41.6
Message:
We attained what benchmarks? Poroh! Please don't make me laugh. I just devoured
a large plate of Towei! The reason we got debt relief, sir, is because Sierra
Leone had been practically adopted as Tony Blair's pet project (and God Bless
him for that). Tony Blair lobbied intensely for that debt relief, not the
economic genius and dexterity of Benchmark Benjamin.
It is in gratitude of that effort that Kabba and his govt made Blair a Paramount
Chief in Mahera, and kept him from crossing over to Freetown where he would have
fainted from the shock of seeing the grimy manifestation of SLPP's 'attained
benchmarks'. Puleeeze!
By the way, enjoy the show as the circus outperforms the SLPP kleptos under the
big tent!
Cheers.
Subject: Re: DIASPORANS PLEDGE TO SUPPORT PRESIDENT ERNEST KOROMA TO
THE
From: Circus Goer
To: All
Date Posted: 03:09:37 10/05/07 ()
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Message:
With what APC inherited from SLPP, they should outperform even Forrest Gump but
we will see. Already Ernest Koroma says Gov't should spend 6 billion leones to
renovate Kabassa Lodge for him to stay. Real Circus coming this way.
Subject: Re: DIASPORANS PLEDGE TO SUPPORT PRESIDENT ERNEST KOROMA TO
THE
From: alieu sesay
To: All
Date Posted: 22:10:41 10/04/07 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
Some of these people do not know ANYTHING about the SO CALLED DEBT RELIEF.
Subject: SLPP INTENSIFY SEARCH FOR A NEW LEADER
From: UNGRATEFUL
To: All
Date Posted: 16:24:44 10/04/07 ()
Email Address: ungrateful@yahoo.com
Entered From: at 206.113.148.2
Message:
SLPP intensify search for a new leader
APPA SOURCE- The African News Source 04/10/2007
Having woefully lost the just concluded presidential election, the now
opposition Sierra Leone People’s Party (SLPP) is reportedly putting tremendous
pressure on certain key party stalwarts to lead the party to the 2012
Presidential and Parliamentary elections. According to Concord Times, former
Finance Minister, John Benjamin, and erstwhile junta leader, Julius Maada Bio,
have been earmarked for the top job. Maada Bio reportedly said since the final
results were announced by the National Electoral Commission, he had been
inundated with calls from party faithful to be their flag bearer, but remarked
that he was studying the political climate; and would take a final decision at
the appropriate time. John Benjamin, who also said he had been approached by
some SLPP chieftains to lead the party, reportedly said he was waiting for the
dust to settle, but agreed that the party needed a strong leadership. Meanwhile,
former SLPP Secretary General, Suliaman Banja Tenja-Sie has said his party was
bracing itself for a convention in December this year, but did not confirm
whether a leader would be appointed.
Subject: Re: SLPP INTENSIFY SEARCH FOR A NEW LEADER
From: SLPP Rambo
To: All
Date Posted: 17:38:45 10/04/07 ()
Email Address: radioblue@gmail.com
Entered From: c-67-173-165-221.hsd1.il.comcast.net at 67.173.165.221
Message:
Compared to Maada Bio, I would prefer a Ken Josiah type leadership because of
his vast political knowledge and corporate experience. He articulated something
in his book about redesigning the civil service and called for a technocratic
leadership. That is what SLPP needs. But I don't know if he is SLPP. Pass on
this message to him if you know him.
Subject: Re: SLPP INTENSIFY SEARCH FOR A NEW LEADER
From: THE VOICE OF PROGRESS
To: All
Date Posted: 02:54:54 10/05/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: host86-148-213-33.range86-148.btcentralplus.com at
86.148.213.33
Message:
For SLPP to win the next general elections, the likes of Dr. Kande Yumkela
should be sought after. He is a true patriot and ardent SLPP loyalist. Any other
name is a recipe for another disaster. Maada Bio should forget about ever trying
to be the leader of the SLPP. We need a leader who has the charisma and match to
win votes all over the country. kande Yumkela is such a man. My choice is Kande
Yumkela - may God touch his heart to come and save us.
Subject: Re: SLPP INTENSIFY SEARCH FOR A NEW LEADER
From: CHIEF BOMBORLAI
To: All
Date Posted: 06:37:35 10/05/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: ip4da2899b.direct-adsl.nl at 77.162.137.155
Message:
John Ben, John Karimu, Maada Bio and Kandeh Yunkela are all products initially
marketed by the NPRC. Like it or not, the NPRC was a mosaic of exemplary Sierra
leoneans.
Step-up your search guys, maybe, just maybe you might be lucky to fill in the void left by Margai.
Subject: Re: SLPP INTENSIFY SEARCH FOR A NEW LEADER
From: Pull Him Downer
To: All
Date Posted: 07:26:51 10/05/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: cpe-69-203-69-20.nyc.res.rr.com at 69.203.69.20
Message:
You call your self chief yet you rush to condemn people because of their
ASSOCIATION in a DEMOCRATIC setting?
Please tell the forum what political crimes Yumkella commited during NPRC rule in your view...
Considering that the good doctor resigned where Kabba and Berewa did not.
Otherwise i see you as just another simple Pull Him Down(PHD) Chieftain!
Subject: Re: SLPP INTENSIFY SEARCH FOR A NEW LEADER
From: SLPP Insider Live
To: All
Date Posted: 04:12:39 10/05/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: gov198.ucc.ie at 143.239.91.198
Message:
Heard from the grape vine Maada Mustapha is thinking of throwing his weight
behind Alie Bangura. He said Alie was one of the few level headed guys during
the run-off. Grapevine siad Maada switched from Kandeh Yumkella becuase Kandeh
comes across as too elitist to lead SLPP.
Subject: Re: SLPP INTENSIFY SEARCH FOR A NEW LEADER
From: Classless
To: All
Date Posted: 07:16:42 10/05/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: cpe-69-203-69-20.nyc.res.rr.com at 69.203.69.20
Message:
If Dr Yumkella is too elitist in your view...Does the war criminal alie bangura
not come across as too ghetto?...
Alie nor get wan class pan im character!
Subject: Re: SLPP INTENSIFY SEARCH FOR A NEW LEADER
From: SLPP Insider Live
To: All
Date Posted: 07:51:42 10/05/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: gov198.ucc.ie at 143.239.91.198
Message:
Who said Alie Bangura is a war criminal? Take a good look at Victor Foh and
Yansaneh and think about what they did with the AFRC. The man can talk the
people's language. Are you scared because SLPP might give a true born Temne the
real chance at leading Sierra Leone? A chance APC has taken away from them twice
as in Eddie Turay and SI Koroma?
Subject: Re: SLPP INTENSIFY SEARCH FOR A NEW LEADER
From: Ken Who?
To: All
Date Posted: 20:17:17 10/04/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: cpe-69-203-69-20.nyc.res.rr.com at 69.203.69.20
Message:
Ken Who?
Of Course Ken Josiah was a soldier but was never a political leader.
officer Josiah reknowned for being Tom Nyuma's able Bodyguard and Junta Batoliner is definately not qualified to even be
considered as a Sierra Leone Leadership Material.
Do ya meke salt lef for praise himself pan soup!
Subject: Re: SLPP INTENSIFY SEARCH FOR A NEW LEADER
From: Capt Yamao Khati
To: All
Date Posted: 06:09:40 10/05/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: ip4da2899b.direct-adsl.nl at 77.162.137.155
Message:
You are absolutely wrong my brother. Ken Josiah and Tom Nyuma went to cadet
academy together and commissioned as officers. It is regimentally impossible for
Ken to have served as Tom's bodyguard. They were simply course-mates, colleagues
or buddies.
Besides, Ken has no interest in politics, unlike Maarda and Tom.
Subject: Re: SLPP INTENSIFY SEARCH FOR A NEW LEADER
From: Mohamed Serwo Feika
To: All
Date Posted: 03:09:35 10/05/07 ()
Email Address: serwofeika@hotmail.com
Entered From: at 62.60.98.133
Message:
I will suggest Dr. J. C. Boima to lead our Noble Party. He is a decent man with
impeccable character. I hope he is interested in Heading our party at this
material time. We need individuals with zest that will help the nation
regardless of background and I find such qualities in Dr. J.C. Boima.
Subject: Re: SLPP INTENSIFY SEARCH FOR A NEW LEADER
From: Kabudu Gen
To: All
Date Posted: 16:50:05 10/04/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: pool-151-202-41-6.ny325.east.verizon.net at 151.202.41.6
Message:
The downward spiral continues if Bio or Benjamin emerges to head the rat pack.
Instead of the SLPP seriously casting its net far and wide for credible leaders
without tar, feather or corruption, they are about to go for people from the
same heap. What a shame! How can the SLPP leader denounce any future APC
corruption when he himself is corruption incarnate?
SLPP diasporans who fulminate vigorously for your party, stand up and be counted
in the leadership battle. Help reengineer a party that is progressive, modern
and so developmentally minded that it will be hard for us, its APC opponents, to
attack it.
When all is said and done, democracy thrives when the opposition is hip!
Subject: Re: SLPP INTENSIFY SEARCH FOR A NEW LEADER
From: Kamara
To: All
Date Posted: 19:21:05 10/04/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: cache-dtc-ag14.proxy.aol.com at 205.188.117.142
Message:
SLPP is coming back strong in 2012, You better believe it. Incompetent APC is a
one term party. They will be booted out by the electorate due to their
incompetence and fighting with Meglomaniac PMDC.
SLPP has a plethora of qualified leaders at home and the diaspora. Not taxi drivers but qualified and experienced professionals.
Subject: Re: SLPP INTENSIFY SEARCH FOR A NEW LEADER
From: Kabudu Gen
To: All
Date Posted: 20:54:06 10/04/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: pool-151-202-41-6.ny325.east.verizon.net at 151.202.41.6
Message:
Kamara, you surely mean to say SLPP will come back strong in 2017! 2012? Ee nor
dae happen Kortor! APC all the way, Taxi drivers et al.
Subject: Re: SLPP INTENSIFY SEARCH FOR A NEW LEADER
From: Candid Opinion
To: All
Date Posted: 08:50:55 10/05/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: ns.nucleusns2.com at 12.44.12.126
Message:
Just pray kortor Obai nor fumble..
And Pap Sam nor become rich all of a sudden..
I heard he is looking for a real estate agent already..
Oops...
I meant internal decorator..
Subject: Re: SLPP INTENSIFY SEARCH FOR A NEW LEADER
From: Non-Partisan Observer
To: All
Date Posted: 17:09:50 10/04/07 ()
Email Address:
Message:
I think the SLPP will be worse chosing NPRC retreaded politicians to fill that
role.
Had Kabbah left Margai and Leigh to sort it out, both
men could have negotiated the leadership and prevented the humpty dumpty
collapse of the entire party.
Like the old APC, SLPP will be going BUSH for a long while.
Subject: What about Amnesty?
From: Erica Adams
To: All
Date Posted: 15:31:34 10/04/07 ()
Email Address: ericamonique82@hotmail.com
Entered From: adsl-074-185-005-235.sip.clt.bellsouth.net at 74.185.5.235
Message:
With all that is rumored to have happened in the past administration, the
process of recovering assets could be a lengthy, costly, and time consuming
process. In an effort to move on quickly and get to the business at hand for the
country, what do you think about amnesty. I'm suggesting this for those who
willingly come forward and turn over ill gained state resources and assist with
the recovery of assets from others who may have taken state resources but did
not come forward. Just a thought. I would hate for this new administration to
spend too much time recovering state resources. Although it's necessary, but
it's also a drain on resources both in terms of time and money; especially if
they have to go through lengthy court proceedings or have to depend on other
countries to help with recovering the resources.
Subject: Re: What about Amnesty?
From: Observer of APC Antics
To: All
Date Posted: 17:49:56 10/04/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: ac8dcf58.ipt.aol.com at 172.141.207.88
Message:
Erica,
Tell your APC to stop wagging the dog and announce the cabinet. Your Transiiton team uncovers 83 staff on leave and 53 on vacation. Is that the corruption?
There is no SLPP Minister afraid of any corruption charge because Tejan Kabbah presided over NO CORRUPTION despite all your APC lies.
So, if you have corruption to PROVE, we give you free hand baby. PROVE IT. Not the Standard Times way but the LEGAL WAY.
Tell Lamina Poyo to announce his cabinet. We are tired of helping him.
Subject: Re: What about Amnesty?
From: poorman
To: All
Date Posted: 02:58:08 10/05/07 ()
Email Address: itarawally@verizon.net
Entered From: pool-72-66-26-251.washdc.fios.verizon.net at 72.66.26.251
Message:
we nor tie u or beg u for stay,u kin lef now. e nor min nar tin to saleone.we
jus want we kupor way you tif.
Subject: Re: What about Amnesty?
From: NAR U SABI
To: All
Date Posted: 04:54:21 10/05/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: host81-154-57-245.range81-154.btcentralplus.com at
81.154.57.245
Message:
NAR U SABI as Sadam Insane keen say NAR SO AH SAY
Subject: Re: What about Amnesty?
From: Erica Adams
To: All
Date Posted: 17:54:11 10/04/07 ()
Email Address: ericamonique82@hotmail.com
Entered From: adsl-074-185-005-235.sip.clt.bellsouth.net at 74.185.5.235
Message:
If you're tired, then resign.
Subject: Re: What about Amnesty?
From: Minister
To: All
Date Posted: 19:24:17 10/04/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: ac8dcf58.ipt.aol.com at 172.141.207.88
Message:
We will hand over officially and then walk away giggling at the Poyo Town team
Subject: Re: What about Amnesty?
From: KING LOGGY
To: All
Date Posted: 15:56:26 10/04/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 144.226.173.69
Message:
Although it's necessary, but
it's also a drain on resources
both in terms of time and money;
especially if they have to go
through lengthy court proceedings
or have to depend on other
countries to help with
recovering the resources.
( Erica Adams)
----------------------------------------
It all involves, whether explicitly or implicitly, weighing the total expected
costs against the total expected benefits from such project.
Do you think there's enough dough out there for the government to make such
investment?
Subject: Re: What about Amnesty?
From: EBOSIO
To: All
Date Posted: 16:21:04 10/04/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: 65.107.195.162.ptr.us.xo.net at 65.107.195.162
Message:
Sometimes, priciples weighs heavier than cost brother. It has got to be known
and accepted that as from this moment onwards, people in position of trust and
national responsibility will have to give account of their stewardship. When you
consider the length, depth, and quantum of destruction done to our society, and
the victims who have had to die untimely death and those who had gone mad
unecessarily, wouldn't you say that the end justifies the means? I would. Out
here in the US, as stated in one of the previous pieces by a brother, personal
stewardship are to be accounted for yearly, virtue of the IRS. Let us show some
semblance of responsibility and earn some trust and respect from the
international community. We have always pride ourselves as being a group of
intelligent people, it's time to prove it.
Subject: Re: What about Amnesty?
From: KING LOGGY
To: All
Date Posted: 16:31:56 10/04/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 144.226.173.69
Message:
"Sometimes, priciples weighs
heavier than cost brother"
(EBOSIO)
Subject: Re: What about Amnesty?
From: Kalos
To: All
Date Posted: 15:44:39 10/04/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 66.250.191.180
Message:
Amnesty can be narrowly applied. Can you imagine amnesty for John Benjamin and
John Karimu?
Subject: Re: What about Amnesty?
From: Erica Adams
To: All
Date Posted: 16:13:23 10/04/07 ()
Email Address: ericamonique82@hotmail.com
Entered From: adsl-074-185-005-235.sip.clt.bellsouth.net at 74.185.5.235
Message:
I agree with what KL said in his post. Do a cost benefit analysis. What's your
ultimate goal? Recovery of assets or prosecution. There are those who have done
far worse and have never been prosecuted. If people come forward with state
assets and you can avoid a long drawn out process of recovery, I think it's
worth it. You know they are people who can never be entrusted with public
resources again and that may be punishment enough. Plus going through the courts
may not always come out in your favor and then you will have double losses;
especially when pursuing assets in other countries.
Subject: Re: What about Amnesty?
From: Kalos
To: All
Date Posted: 16:23:31 10/04/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 151.200.189.180
Message:
AMEM
Subject: Re: What about Amnesty?
From: Alieu sesay
To: All
Date Posted: 15:59:35 10/04/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: 65.107.153.146.ptr.us.xo.net at 65.107.153.146
Message:
Thes two were well off before gettin into poltics.
I will not say same for the other BOBOR BELLEHS including some that are now fighting for positions in the EBK yet to be seen government.
Subject: Re: What about Amnesty?
From: Kalos
To: All
Date Posted: 16:21:50 10/04/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 151.200.189.180
Message:
Alieu, I agree they were well off, the daunting question is why did they allow
their cronies to ruin the financial pillars of SL? Did you know John Karimu was
paid in dollars per month?
Subject: Re: What about Amnesty?
From: Sadam Insane
To: All
Date Posted: 16:31:41 10/04/07 ()
Email Address: sorba_1@yahoo.com
Entered From: at 209.116.81.187
Message:
What was his position? What was the standard pay set by IMF in terms of paying
them as an expatrate? Any body knows?. Paying him in dollars is not the
question, the question is how others were paid that had that position before. We
will soon find out. I remain Insane
Subject: Re: What about Amnesty?
From: kalos
To: All
Date Posted: 17:45:57 10/04/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 32.139.78.140
Message:
$8000.00 per month with commission
Subject: Re: What about Amnesty?
From: Bambay Lans Kamara
To: All
Date Posted: 20:25:42 10/04/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: sccadmin195198.scc.losrios.edu at 165.196.195.198
Message:
Den say mek munku self watch; im nar congosa ee dae pass around or dae try for
mek you know sae ee dae see you. Ah see you oh!
Dem say watch mek you see how civilize people dae do things im dae congosa.
You dae see all dis tem, nah im you timap or you cam for take dee timap?
Subject: TO BRA ENVIABLE
From: KING LOGGY
To: All
Date Posted: 15:21:05 10/04/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 144.226.173.69
Message:
King Loggy C-----------
Head of Immigration.
{Sierra Leonean Passports
are meant for Sierra Leoneans
only. Passport 419ners will
face a maximum jail time 12 yrs}
(Bra E)
---------------------------------------
As head of Immigration, I promise to uphold the this office to the best of my
proven abilities.
Sign:
KING LOGGY
Subject: Re: TO BRA ENVIABLE
From: AR SEE YOU O
To: All
Date Posted: 15:44:30 10/04/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: 65.107.195.162.ptr.us.xo.net at 65.107.195.162
Message:
SO YOU NA ORPOTO
Subject: POINT NOTED MODERATORS
From: SUBWANALAI
To: All
Date Posted: 14:48:36 10/04/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 194.32.41.72
Message:
It's now you know, so-called moderators, that people should not write in a
different language on this forum. During electioneering, you saw it been used
here and there but you did not say a word. What I hate is hyocrisy. Our schools
are presently teaching our kids our local languages. What's is wrong with one
writing his language. Hausas, Swahili, Somali etc do that. What's wrong with
that? I challenge you, if you are man enough to re-publish my postings and
higlight where or what in the language used connotes evil. The character I was
writing about: KONDAL speaks Temne, to write in an other language will cause the
story to loose it's ingredients.Besides, I use the character of an interpreter,
who explained in Krio. If you have read my postings, you will see that I have
always used our national languages as I find them appropriate. What's wrong with
that. Better sing me another song. You might as well ban Krio, becoz not
everyone can understand it. Don't try to scapegoatise me as your fall guy; a
tribalist.
Subject: Re: POINT NOTED MODERATORS
From: Candid Opinion
To: All
Date Posted: 14:59:44 10/04/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: ns.nucleusns2.com at 12.44.12.126
Message:
Is the moderator job electable.. or selectable..
Do we need Victor Anjelo for this ..or just thorpe..?
Where can one apply?
Subject: Re: POINT NOTED MODERATORS
From: MODERATOR
To: All
Date Posted: 16:14:07 10/04/07 ()
Email Address:
Message:
The mediocre Sa Lone mentality of "either I get it or
nobody does" will not apply here.
HIGHWAY-type trouble makers have tried their luck and failed to bring this forum down.
There will be no challenging, because you will be the one leaving. Check the archives and you'll know this one is made of steel. Cheers!
/Moderator
Subject: Re: POINT NOTED MODERATORS
From: Candid Opinion
To: All
Date Posted: 16:17:58 10/04/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: ns.nucleusns2.com at 12.44.12.126
Message:
Yeah.. we know.. usai dem tai cow and all it trimmings..
Osaaaaaaaiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii?
I just wanted to be of service.. if the moderating job dey morna you.. leh man help..
But if you say no.. you go dey dey tay you die.. okay..
Subject: Re: POINT NOTED MODERATORS
From: Kabudu Gen
To: All
Date Posted: 17:04:24 10/04/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: pool-151-202-41-6.ny325.east.verizon.net at 151.202.41.6
Message:
Moderator, please don't give the guilotine to Candido! That wily one will delete
me fitty-fatta! Ee sabi write but ee nor objective.
Subject: Re: POINT NOTED MODERATORS
From: MODERATOR
To: All
Date Posted: 16:59:00 10/04/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From:
Message:
Welcome aboard Candid Opinion! It's a tough task, but hey, your help is
appreciated.
Our email is thenewsletter@hotmail.com
Cheers! /Moderator
Subject: Re: POINT NOTED MODERATORS
From: Candid Opinion
To: All
Date Posted: 08:21:11 10/05/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: ns.nucleusns2.com at 12.44.12.126
Message:
Dear Moderator,
After careful consideration and consultation with my fellow SLPP internet
warriors, i have come to the conclusion that thought i may be of service to this
wonderful forum we all call the pote (the junction where we all hang and
exchange hibament).
Been a SLPP supporter and moderator at the same time would be a conflict all our
interests.
It will take away my objectivity and my purposed for participating in this forum in the first place, plus also create an environment where the name moderator looses its luster.
I pray that someone else who leans to your side, would consider stepping up and help moderating this wonderful forum.
I thank you for even the consideration.
Candido.
Subject: Re: POINT NOTED MODERATORS
From: alieu sesay
To: All
Date Posted: 08:30:03 10/05/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: c-75-66-114-24.hsd1.tn.comcast.net at 75.66.114.24
Message:
Candido..Thank you my brother... ar bin fell say den don BUY you OH...
Subject: Re: POINT NOTED MODERATORS
From: Candid Opinion
To: All
Date Posted: 08:45:21 10/05/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: ns.nucleusns2.com at 12.44.12.126
Message:
Not even if nar Eanest sef sef dey pay for the bi-election...
I am not leaving my post.
Subject: Re: POINT NOTED MODERATORS
From: FORREST GUMP
To: All
Date Posted: 05:14:23 10/05/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: host81-154-57-245.range81-154.btcentralplus.com at
81.154.57.245
Message:
Candido, DONT do it, they are trying to shut you up
FORREST
Subject: SCREW IT, LET'S JUST DO IT!
From: SUBWANALAI
To: All
Date Posted: 14:20:23 10/04/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 194.32.41.72
Message:
Special Dedication to Mammy Blessing for vividly taken us throudh the life of a
cabbie.Nice one son. Enjoy the job you do and stay focussed. The day you fail to
have fun in your job, search for new horizons. I have just finished reading
"SCREW IT, LET'S DO IT", a short story by Richard Branson(You know him?). He is
the British rebel billionaire; owner of Virgin Atlantic Airlines etc. His story
is one of courage that hinges on the Never Say Die mentality.
So, what ever you do in life, as long as you enjoy it, just do it. Ex- Togolese
Prime Minister, Koko Kofigo, accepted he was a dishwasher in France, but did
that hinder his political ascendancy? Or like Roy would say :"Jesus Christ was
born in a stable, but did that make him a donkey". So live your life MB, till we
read your part 2. Plenty book without blessing na alaki.
Subject: Re: SCREW IT, LET'S JUST DO IT!
From: Mammy Blessing
To: All
Date Posted: 16:05:51 10/04/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: pool-151-202-41-6.ny325.east.verizon.net at 151.202.41.6
Message:
Thank you Subwanalai! You really are what constitutes the life of the party on
this forum. May your voice never be silenced! Whatever I do, whatever I have
done in my life, constitute what I am, proudly, today. I thank you for your kind
thoughts, my brother. Felicitations!
Subject: WHO IS AFRAID OF KABS KANU?
From: SUBWANALAI
To: All
Date Posted: 13:19:01 10/04/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 194.32.41.72
Message:
Kabs Kanu runs the rules on a common ground called Cocorioko Forum.Fact. As the
editor he has moral, legal and journalistic duties to maintain. But that does
not make him a demi-god, like some of his sycophantic choristers in this forum
would like us to believe. If Kabs and his team want to block IPS or ban people
because of radical positions, it is up to him. I won't push him over the cliff,
but if he decides to jump, I would be there to applaude.
Kabs Kanu and his editorial team should know that you and I built this city(
I.E.We made this forum the lively rendezvous it is today), some of us going on
for sleepless nights. Note: I am not trying to cajole him in to not banning me
or any of the other fort right guys. Indeed, I could not be banned, I think I
have told him that before.In my life, I have never known the refuse bin. As long
as the global village remains awake, I would traverse it day and night to get
into this forum. So, let him don't even think about it.
I know Kabs and his team are playing skillfully, especially so that they are
waiting for the Pa to read his cabinet. DEN NOR WANT LEH PA VEX PAN DEM. But
truth is you've got to tell Pa that this FORUM( I donot mean the front page of
COCORIOKO) is no longer under your control. It belongs to the people, who made
the very Pa. So if UNA EN DE PA DON TIRE, UNA PASS AM. My advise to you Kabs,
don't gain the world and loose your soul.Some of us have had experiences working
with quasi-governmental news organs, so I can understand the pressure you are
undergoing through to satisfy your prinicipals. But tell them we shall not be
moved!
Subject: Re: WHO IS AFRAID OF KABS KANU?
From: Kalos
To: All
Date Posted: 16:05:17 10/04/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 66.250.191.180
Message:
NO ONE should be afraid of Kabs-Kanu. Albeit, he is a fine man that sometimes
come under unfounded vicious attacks from all angles. The good thing is he
maintains his cool and continues to provide us a medium to vent and or express
our opinions. Any news outlet in the free world has a leaning (political);
Cocorioko may be the closest to "neutral" we can get from a news outlet. I hope
he will not try to muzzle any decent or even create the perception.
Subject: The Republic of Sierra Leone- State House Online
From: Olu Beckley
To: All
Date Posted: 13:15:06 10/04/07 ()
Email Address: mariamab@aol.com
Entered From: at 206.113.148.2
Message:
This is the Official Website of the Office of The President of The Republic of
Sierra Leone.
Now that the countdown is over and the old order is no more, can the editor please archive the existing postings and give all Sierra Leoneans a refreshing start! Mind you this site is funded with hard earned tax payer monies.
Subject: Re: The Republic of Sierra Leone- State House Online
From: Almamy Razak Tun Seray-Wurie Si
To: All
Date Posted: 16:30:24 10/04/07 ()
Email Address: almamysi@hotmail.com
Entered From: hsl2.cait.osr.columbia.edu at 156.111.18.71
Message:
Bra Olu,
It depends on whether statehouse.sl was set up from Pa Kabbah's personal bits. I
think Dr Slyvia Blyden did the set up but the Presidential Spokesman is the web
master. When Alhaji Kanji Daramy left there was a Mr M.A. Bah.
Recently, there were two views about was Hill Station State House. One said its
Old S.I.Koroma Lodge and another said its Pa Kabbah's private home but was
funded by Late Sani Abacha.
Since you were or still are Housing Expert, maybe you know better
Subject: Re: The Republic of Sierra Leone- State House Online
From: Olu Beckley
To: All
Date Posted: 17:21:19 10/04/07 ()
Email Address: mariamab@aol.com
Entered From: at 206.113.148.2
Message:
The Presidential estate at Hill Station is not President Kabbah's personal
propety. The former residence of Vice President S.I. Koroma, property of the
government of Sierra Leone was redeveloped using state funds and work on the new
Presiential villa commenced during the days of President Momoh.
Presient Kabbah has always reminded us of his handsome retirement benefits from the UN, and may not need to be offered such a high priced piece of property at the expense of an impoverished state like Sierra leone.
Subject: Re: The Republic of Sierra Leone- State House Online
From: Candid Opinion
To: All
Date Posted: 13:32:31 10/04/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: ns.nucleusns2.com at 12.44.12.126
Message:
Say it aint so....?
So its official..?
THIS is the Official Website of the Office of The President of The Republic of
Sierra Leone. ?
lajila..
We did talk am..
Subject: Re: The Republic of Sierra Leone- State House Online
From: fact
To: All
Date Posted: 20:26:33 10/04/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: cache-ntc-ad04.proxy.aol.com at 207.200.116.198
Message:
I think he means the one in Freetown.
Subject: Why Would Any Patriotic Salonean NOT Want Investigations?
From: Toegondoe Sagbah
To: All
Date Posted: 12:27:44 10/04/07 ()
Email Address: mendemoi@yahoo.com
Entered From: pool-71-168-132-186.cmdnnj.east.verizon.net at
71.168.132.186
Message:
ALL THOSE WHO ARE REFERRING TO GOVERNMENT INVESTIGATIONS AS A "WITCH HUNT" ARE
UNPATRIOTIC. I cannot understand why would anyone oppose to a normal government
investigation to arrive at the honest truth so that the new government will know
what has been handed down to them.
They need to investigate and report to the nation as to what was handed down to them, versus what was "supposed" to have been handed down. Otherwise later on they may be held accountable and left holding the big bag of corruption from their predecessors and it will be too late to say at that time, "this was what we got from the previous government."
WHAT WOULD ANYONE HAVE TO HIDE? If you did nothing wrong, you have nothing to worry about. If you did something wrong, then you have betrayed the public (and private) trust placed in you to be a leader. Hence you should be held accountable for your deeds. This is very simple.
Anyone opposed to the idea of investigations is either inherently corrupt, hence, tolerates corruption, OR he or she is already an accomplice to the corrupt ones. These types of people are not patriotic because their sole objective is to hinder progress, aggrandize public resources, betray the public trust and expect to get away with their bad deeds.
I hope it won't happen or be tolerated by this administration. ALL THOSE WHO
HAVE STOLEN MONEY THAT BELONG TO THE PEOPLE MUST BE HELD ACCOUNTABLE AND
PROSECUTED UNDER THE FULL EXTENT OF THE LAW...PERIOD!
Subject: Re: Why Would Any Patriotic Salonean NOT Want Investigations?
From: Jay
To: All
Date Posted: 17:19:35 10/04/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: c-69-140-34-194.hsd1.md.comcast.net at 69.140.34.194
Message:
When they were looting the economy,was it not witch hunt against 4 million
people.If they know that they are clean,then they have nothing to fear,but all
those who are found wanting should pay for their crimes by either confiscation
of ill gotten resources or lengthy jail terms.This would serve as a deterent
against future looters.
Methinks that the first step in the anti corruption drive starts with an
independent investigation into where the hundreds of millions of aid dollars
went.
Subject: Re: Why Would Any Patriotic Salonean NOT Want Investigations?
From: K
To: All
Date Posted: 19:23:00 10/04/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: ac8dcf58.ipt.aol.com at 172.141.207.88
Message:
It went back into the pockets of the AID givers stupido. The AID from Britain
went to British experts. The AID from EU went to EU experts. From the UN went to
UN experts.
There is no corruption anywhere except in your lying Standard Times. You got a big shock waiting for you all when you search and search and will find Kabbah's stewardship was the best Sierra Leone ever had.
All the AID went back to Europe dummy. Get that into your thick skull.
Subject: Re: Why Would Any Patriotic Salonean NOT Want Investigations?
From: Erica Adams
To: All
Date Posted: 21:27:15 10/04/07 ()
Email Address: ericamonique82@hotmail.com
Entered From: adsl-074-185-005-235.sip.clt.bellsouth.net at 74.185.5.235
Message:
If that's the truth, then there will be a record that reflects that. If someone
gives you millions of dollars, euros, pounds or whatever and you turn around and
give it all back, who is really the stupid one? This is nothing to brag about!
It that's what that adminstration considered good stewardship, God help us all.
Subject: Re: Why Would Any Patriotic Salonean NOT Want Investigations?
From: K
To: All
Date Posted: 21:35:57 10/04/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: ac8dcf58.ipt.aol.com at 172.141.207.88
Message:
Why don't you wait and get your APC selves roundly exposed when you learn where
the millions of dollars went knucklehead. They paid their own expatriates to
come and help us here in Sierra Leone. The help arrived but all in the form of
expatriates. Ha ha ha. That is a good one. APC and International Community to
mix. Ha ha ha. I cannot wait for this saga to unfold Miss Erica. Pass me the
popcorn. The next five years is going to be entertaining.
Subject: Re: Why Would Any Patriotic Salonean NOT Want Investigations?
From: Candid Opinion
To: All
Date Posted: 08:36:14 10/05/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: ns.nucleusns2.com at 12.44.12.126
Message:
Indeed...
Pass the pop corn..
And what ever pap sam is smoking (you cant have those eyes without 2 slings in
the morning).
Moving forward..
Lets declare the assets now oh..
We voted for change.. and change is what we want..
not the same ole.. not the way SLPP used to do it.
We dont want that excuse.. thats what SLPP gave us..
This time there is no rebel war. .no rebels and refgees to resettle.. no john (apc
peggy) paul koroma to deal with..
LETS MOVE THE COUNTRY FORWARD.
DECLARE THE ASSETS
We want to be able to ascertain what went in is what came out. Or even close..
Subject: Re: Why Would Any Patriotic Salonean NOT Want Investigations?
From: Candid Opinion
To: All
Date Posted: 08:43:44 10/05/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: ns.nucleusns2.com at 12.44.12.126
Message:
Oh.. and K...
Welcome..
Subject: Re: Why Would Any Patriotic Salonean NOT Want Investigations?
From: Shembu
To: All
Date Posted: 12:51:50 10/04/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: eduproxy3.k12.de.us at 167.21.254.13
Message:
Toegondoe,
One smells their hands obviously because they know what they had played with. So, to answer your question, because they are really not patriotic. The real patriotic Sierra Leoneans welcome EBK's deliberate and methodical move to restore sanity into our goverment system. SLPP sycophants are the only breed of hominids that are crying fould and using words like "witch hunt". What witch hunt?
If you live in the U.S. or any western country and fail to properly balance your personal books (I mean pay taxes)....what happens? Uncle Sam can even confiscate your house or go after your earnings (wage garnishment).
So be ready to give an account after your term of office, if you are gonna accept a political appointment.
Subject: This is one example we can copy from Nigeria
From: Pa Javombo
To: All
Date Posted: 12:20:15 10/04/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 209.214.214.3
Message:
Nigerian anti-graft war teeters
By Anita Coulson
BBC News
Is this withhunting or just giving back to people what is justly theirs?
The UK aims to repatriate to Nigeria all proceeds of crime seized
Worldwide efforts to bring corrupt Nigerian government officials to justice and
seize their ill-gotten gains, are reportedly being frustrated by political feuds
inside Nigeria.
A series of recent setbacks has led several commentators to question President Umaru Musa Yar'Adua's commitment to tackling the grand corruption that continues to tarnish his country's reputation.
Amid frenzied speculation in the Nigerian press, the actions and motives of Nigeria's Attorney General Michael Aondoakaa are being called into question, not least because of his personal intervention in a corruption case before the courts in London.
On Monday, Judge Goymer at London's Southwark Crown Court lifted an earlier order from August to freeze former Delta state governor James Ibori's $70m (£35m; 8bn naira) assets worldwide, including a Bombardier private jet, on suspicion that the assets were the proceeds of crime.
Mr Ibori's $70m assets were "unfrozen" after a letter from Nigeria
Judge Goymer was persuaded by Mr Ibori's team of lawyers that there was insufficient proof the assets were the proceeds of crime thanks to a letter they obtained from Mr Aondoakaa in August stating that the former Delta state governor had been investigated but not charged, tried or convicted in Nigeria "relating to money laundering or any other offences".
London's Metropolitan Police say the setback is only temporary, their investigations are continuing and Mr Ibori is one of several former Nigerian state governors who remain wanted for questioning in London.
Detective Chief Superintendent Trevor Shepherd told the BBC news website, "We would like to see all of them back in London to prove their innocence."
The Met says that thanks to Britain's robust regulatory regime regarding the
movement of large amounts of cash, the men in question will not be able to
launder or remove large amounts of "dirty" money - but provided they are willing
to show that they acquired the assets legitimately, they could be free to
reclaim their assets.
Dariye case
The development in the Ibori case came on the same day that former governor of Plateau State Joshua Dariye petitioned President Yar'Adua, accusing Nigeria's anti-graft agency, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) of appropriating a large amount of the money seized from him in the UK.
Mr Dariye has petitioned President Yar'Adua over his missing millions
In effect Mr Dariye admitted having more than 770m naira ($6m) in London and claimed that only 29.3m naira ($235,000) had been declared to the federal government by the anti-corruption agency.
Dariye's petition accused the EFCC of "underhand dealing", which they reject saying they assisted the Metropolitan Police with information and evidence to help it in the investigation and prosecution of Chief Dariye over his contravention of UK money laundering laws". The Met confirms this.
"Mr Dariye is currently facing charges in Nigeria for looting the coffers of the Plateau State government," EFCC spokesman Osita Nwajah said.
The Met confirms Mr Dariye is also still wanted in London where he is likely to face money-laundering charges. His accomplice Joyce Oyebanjo was convicted of money laundering and is serving a three-year prison sentence in the UK, but Mr Dariye skipped police bail in 2004 and fled back to Nigeria.
When we arrested him, one Nigerian state governor had a solid gold mobile phone
DCS Trevor Shepherd, Metropolitan Police
Among the assets seized by the Met when they arrested Mr Dariye in October 2004 were $235,000 in cash (repatriated to Nigeria last month), several expensive pens and a solid gold mobile phone.
In May this year the Nigerian government obtained a judgement granting them the $850,000 proceeds from the sale of a London property he owned, and in June they also obtained a judgement in their favour of the $5.7 million (including accumulated interest) seized from Mr Dariye's UK bank accounts.
Britain's role
Given the numbers of corrupt African politicians who divert money to the UK, funding from the Department for International Development (DFID) has been made available to set up a cross-departmental police unit known as the International Corruption Group (ICG).
DFID says the ICG is one of the major components of the government's strategy to reduce corruption in developing countries.
"The UK has a duty to ensure the corruption is stamped out and we are fully committed to helping... through such initiatives as the ICG," Secretary of State Douglas Alexander told the BBC News website.
Under the ICG umbrella there is now close liaison between the Metropolitan Police, the Serious Organised Crimes Agency (Soca), the City of London Police and the Serious Fraud Office (SFO) who between them have the tools to tackle differing types of economic and financial crimes with an international dimension.
Nigeria corruption crusade
UK targets stolen loot
Even though no Nigerian official has yet faced trial in the UK, the Met says the
operation is already a success.
"We are working with the Nigerian authorities to help break the myth of invincibility they (corrupt officials) enjoyed thanks to immunity while in office," said DCS Trevor Shepherd.
And in spite of the desperate measures undertaken by the suspects, who seem to have unlimited funds to deploy in their defence, the Met says there is no escape.
"There is nowhere to run, nowhere to hide," DCS Shepherd said. "Our investigations will continue until there is sufficient evidence to bring them to court. Any Nigerian politicians trying to launder money through London should not be sleeping easily in their beds."
The main obstacle to successful prosecutions appears to be the murky but binding
ties between the corrupt officials of former regimes and the politicians now in
positions of power.
Mr Dariye certainly seems to believe he can count on mercy from President Yar'Adua, as does James Ibori, currently taking refuge in the United States, who reportedly met the president on the fringes of the UN General Assembly in New York last week.
Observers say that Nigeria still has to overcome a culture in which political office is seen as bringing huge rewards and where political allegiances matter more than honour or honesty.
But that culture may be changing as shown by the recent outcry over the $5m
expenditure by the speaker of the National Assembly.
A new generation is questioning whether Nigeria can any longer tolerate the seemingly insatiable greed that has bled billions from what should be one of Africa's richest countries.
The question is whether they yet have enough strength to take on the "old guard" and their vested interests.
Subject: Adventures Of a Taxi Driver (Part 1)
From: Mammy Blessing
To: All
Date Posted: 12:11:36 10/04/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 165.155.200.143
Message:
I rise to defend the profession most forumites like to bash: Cab Driver.
As a card-carrying member of that villified group, I will like to inform my
Cocorioko family that driving a cab is not all that bad. I have been a research
chemist, high school teacher, adjunct professor, dish washer, security guard,
McDonald's hamburger flipper, banquet attendant and floor mopper at various
times of my sojourn abroad, but the job I had the most fun with was that of
Yellow Cab Driver in New York City. Let me give you a peek at my life and times
as a cabbie...
A beautiful gal flagged me at night near Penn Station and three rough looking
fellows emerged from the shadows and jumped in.
"East New York, Brooklyn!", one of them barked. I could have sworn I saw the
glint of metal from his gun under his jacket. As I drove over the Brooklyn
bridge, my heart was racing. I just knew that these guys were going to rob me.
Or worse. One of my thuggish friends grunted, "You cabbies make a lot of money.
My brother is a cabbie and the mo'erfu..ker is always loaded". That was the
opening I needed.
"True, cabbies usually make money, but i am broke fellas. There is a rebel way
in my country and every member of my family was killed last week. I am only
cabbing tonight so I can send money for the funeral". I started sobbing
uncontrollably in Temne.
Those gangsta passengers of mine were really hard-core. They looked at me with
blank expressions, unimpressed and a little bit annoyed. Clearly my strategy was
not working. I decided to lay the marmalade a little thicker.
"Those bastards not only killed my family, they also shot Bingo, my pet dog!".
That did it.
"What? Dem African mo'erfu..kers is crazy! Sorry man. Who will shoot a little
puppy?", the browser with the gun said sympathetically.
"He's lying", a skeptic in the back seat snarled.
"How're you gonna be like that? The man's dog was shot dead and all you wanna do
is rob him? You is crazy son".
By then I was in Flatbush. "Yo, drop us here, son. Take care and keep the
change!", someone said.
I blew out of there like a bat from hell. I opened my hand and nearly choked. my
scary passengers had given me a spanking new $100 bill, the largest tip I ever
received in my life.
Apparently, they were dog lovers. The next day I wired the money to my mother in
Salone.
Tomorrow, in Taxi driver confessions, I will share with you my amorous
adventures with a beautiful passenger from New Zealand!
Cheers,
Mammy!
Taxi Driver-for-life!
Subject: Re: Adventures Of a Taxi Driver (Part 1)
From: BARWOOD TAXI 646
To: All
Date Posted: 19:09:09 10/04/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: c-69-143-225-68.hsd1.md.comcast.net at 69.143.225.68
Message:
I drove a cab whilst I was in college in MD and only fools say you don't gain
any experience.
In driving a cab you gain the folowing experience which can be transferred to any position including a ministers job.
Customer service. Cab drivers are expected to be courteous to customers and to provide excellent customer service hence a nice tip. Great skill even if you have a harvard MBA this is needed.
Map Reading skills. Ask the GI'S STRAYING INTO AL QAEEDA TERRITORY IN IRAQ about this skill or the Bristish soldiers who were captured by the west side boys in Sierra Leone. This skills has now been developed into modern day gigs like the gps, finding directions for idiots.
DEFENSIVE DRIVING SKILLS. I am not even talking about driving during a blizzard where a cabbie with good snow driving skills can easily make $3,000 in 2 days or less. Add $2.00 snow emergency, keep the meter running even if you are stucked in a ditch or waiting for the snow plow, fat tip for showing up to take the customer two blocks home.
LIFE SAVING SKILLS. Only cabbies answer the call of the red cross when they are looking for volunteer or paid drivers during a snow storm.
ACCOUNTING SKILLS- GIVING CORRECT CHANGE AND KEEPING YOUR DAILY DRIVER MANIFEST. Simply put record keeping skills.
I stop so far,
I remain,
Ph.D holder and former cab driver.
Subject: Re: Adventures Of a Taxi Driver (Part 1)
From: Kalos
To: All
Date Posted: 15:34:19 10/04/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 66.250.191.180
Message:
MB, as usual, you are very interesting and trying very hard to articulate and
defend the indefensible. However, you missed the core arguments by most
forumites. Let me join you in the bandwagon; I was a very proud cab driver that
gained enormous experiences during my tenure. It was a great job, but let us
face reality, it was a transitional job for most African students in the United
States. “Waiting Tables” is a transitional job for white college kids as cab
driving is for African students in the western world. Here is my point; most cab
drivers or should I say former cab drivers are well educated. Education without
relative experience is what I generally refer to “BOOK EDUCATION”.
Most forumites will be equally skeptical of any London School of Economics graduate with ten years of “clerical” experience in an investment bank now in line for a top job in the finance ministry. I personally salute you for all your achievements, be assured, you are not the norm most forumites are referencing.
When you consider the advantages of cab driving, you may not want to pursue other avenues that present skilled challenges. MB, let us go back to your cab driving days and be objective with us. Was it a transitional job? Were you in college? Are you still a cab driver? Did you plan for relative experience when you were in college/cabbie?
In my little world, cab driving is a noble profession; I mean it is a dignified transitional job. Again, my hat is off to you for at least your experiences as a cabbie. We are waiting for part II.
Subject: Re: Adventures Of a Taxi Driver (Part 1)
From: leonean
To: All
Date Posted: 13:11:30 10/04/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: 71-215-198-118.mpls.qwest.net at 71.215.198.118
Message:
Hey man that was a good story. You are also a very talented short story writer.
Think you can take that up in your spare time?
Subject: Re: Adventures Of a Taxi Driver (Part 1)
From: Candid Opinion
To: All
Date Posted: 13:31:13 10/04/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: ns.nucleusns2.com at 12.44.12.126
Message:
He should..
As Henrietta Vandy he made me sweat a bit coming up with wit to match..
Subject: Re: Adventures Of a Taxi Driver (Part 1)
From: Sadam Insane
To: All
Date Posted: 12:35:25 10/04/07 ()
Email Address: sorba_1@yahoo.com
Entered From: at 209.116.81.187
Message:
Hay bro insane
Subject: Re: Adventures Of a Taxi Driver (Part 1)
From: Candid Opinion
To: All
Date Posted: 12:22:47 10/04/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: ns.nucleusns2.com at 12.44.12.126
Message:
I feel you son.. .
That was heartening..
Brought me close to water na mi yeye..
Life eh..
Just like lassie.. Bingo might have saved your life..
Subject: Re: Adventures Of a Taxi Driver (Part 1)
From: An Immigrant
To: All
Date Posted: 12:39:09 10/04/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 208.41.8.154
Message:
Great story..though it doesnt work like that all the time. I live in NYC and see
what those cabbies are going through on a daily basis. But your picaresque life
in the West ( cabbie, dish washer, professor, etc etc) speaks volume of your
courage, determination and self-assertiveness that comes with been an immigrant
in America. Usually such people succeed big-time in the West. They buy houses,
raise their kids in the best schools, have a happy family, get good retirement
plan and retire happily. I have lived here for seven years, and each time I am
out of job, my car becomes a jitney. I have to live - its the first law of
nature here)
Looking forward to part II
An immigrant
Subject: DID YOU DELETE MY POSTINGS KABS?
From: SUBWANALAI
To: All
Date Posted: 12:02:52 10/04/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 194.32.41.72
Message:
I'm just curious. I had a posting about two hours ago titled "THE WITCH HUNTER",
which generated some debate, and now it is gone, lek salt insai plasas.. The
samething happened yesterday. I just want to know whether it is done by you or
the operators ('coz there is nothing offensive about it). Or is the printer's
devil at work. Let me know please. If it is actually done by you, then I will
take no offense; indeed, I won't take any prisoner. You owe a responsibility of
editing contents in this medium. It is just bizzare how it is happening. I might
join Bra. Cornelius to drill some hot iron into some one's...(Ah heng bazz)
Subject: Re: DID YOU DELETE MY POSTINGS KABS?
From: MODERATOR
To: All
Date Posted: 14:03:11 10/04/07 ()
Email Address:
Message:
The official language of Sierra Leone is English. Posts laden with content
intelligible only to particular groups or tribes will be deleted.
Charity begins at home. Prior to calling others tribalists we probably should
look at what we can do to narrow down our ethnic divide. Stick to the medium
everyone understands.
It’s a chicken egg question, I know. But cheers!
/Moderator
Subject: Re: DID YOU DELETE MY POSTINGS KABS?
From: ANGEL GABRIEL TO KABS KANU
To: All
Date Posted: 12:11:18 10/04/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: gw1.dc.gov at 164.82.146.3
Message:
Kabs does that all the time.. Kabs is a shrewd guy. He is not transparent.
Yesterday Angel Gabriel prophesied against him (kabs) and Kabs deleted all the
prophecies. I will tell the angel to repeat those prophecies for a second time.
May the corrupt soul of Kab perish is Hell fire for politically twisting the
bible to garner profit. Amen and Amen for ever and for ever.
Subject: Re: DID YOU DELETE MY POSTINGS KABS?
From: KABS KANU
To: All
Date Posted: 12:59:48 10/04/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 71.250.218.196
Message:
May God have mercy on your soul. I deleted no post. The Moderator did. May God's
grace abound more in this sinful forum where people whose SLPP party was
defeated by the APC just won't move on but like cry babies, they want to whine
whole day.
Subject: Re: DID YOU DELETE MY POSTINGS KABS?
From: gongoli
To: All
Date Posted: 13:56:28 10/04/07 ()
Email Address: gonos@yahoo.com
Entered From: 79-66-92-108.dynamic.dsl.as9105.com at 79.66.92.108
Message:
Kabs is hiding behind the moderator. 'May God have mercy on your soul' what
nonsense.......Anyone who disagrees with Cocorioko's point of view is against
APC.......CRAP. If you want to run a newspaper, you have to be ready to take
criticisms.......not behave like a little boy taking away his football in the
playing field because you have not been picked in the team.
APC is the servant of all Sierra Leoneans and not you alone..........I nearly said 'go to hell', but God will have mercy on you
Subject: Re: DID YOU DELETE MY POSTINGS KABS?
From: Believer in God
To: All
Date Posted: 13:50:20 10/04/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: ac8dcf58.ipt.aol.com at 172.141.207.88
Message:
Watch closely. The people crying you down are NOT SLPP
What goes around comes around.
This is a world where there is a God.
Subject: Re: DID YOU DELETE MY POSTINGS KABS?
From: Shembu
To: All
Date Posted: 12:37:34 10/04/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: eduproxy3.k12.de.us at 167.21.254.13
Message:
Guys,
You know, Salone man really sorry. This nonesense of BASHING Kabs in his own forum is really getting out of hand. He did nothing to deserve any of the garbage strewn around by the pathetic folks in this forum. Just a while ago, some other rat alluded to the fact that Kabs is not a true journalist and that Cocorioko is trash! This really amazes me. Apart from Kabs and his Cocorioko, where else does one go to for up to date and accurate online news about S/L? To the New Peole of SLPP (DEAD); to AwareLess Times (Crappy negative personal attack news all the time)?
Please, let us be REAL and try to GROW-UP. And to the funny man talking about Kabbs religion and religious work, you should be ashamed of yourself. This is not supposed to be a jokes forum for commedian-wannabes, it is supposed to be a placed where we all meet and discuss serious issues. Idleness is Salone Man's diseases, and one big reason why we remain as backward as we are.
Subject: Re: DID YOU DELETE MY POSTINGS KABS?
From: Pa Javombo
To: All
Date Posted: 12:45:27 10/04/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 209.214.214.3
Message:
Shembu
You couldn't have said it any better.
It was all Hossana for Kabs Kanu yesterday, today
those very people who shouted hossana on top of their voices for Kabbs are the
very people now
wanting three nails and a cross for the Rev.
For these Peters I the cock has crown
Subject: Re: DID YOU DELETE MY POSTINGS KABS?
From: gongoli
To: All
Date Posted: 03:10:32 10/05/07 ()
Email Address: gonos@yahoo.com
Entered From: 79-66-44-173.dynamic.dsl.as9105.com at 79.66.44.173
Message:
Of course Kabs deserves praise for running such a good website and forum.
However, that does not mean that we have to pander to his political or other
views. People think differently and this has to be reflected in the forum. It
was he who said this forum is non partisan. Let it reflect that.
Others might roll over and pander to his wishes, but people like me will not. I don't condone people using the forum to personalise issues, but will encourage different political views. Diversity is strength and the forum as it is might be weaker if Kabs has his way. They (Kabs and 'moderator') really went down in my estimation when they insinuated that they would ban people or introduce registration because people were attacking the APC.....what nonsense. That is gutter journalism.
If they come out and say this is an APC forum and website, then I for one will leave. But as long as it is supposedly non-partisan, I will not be stifled. As I said, before, root out oscenity but people should be able to say what they feel in an intelligent manner.
Subject: Re: DID YOU DELETE MY POSTINGS KABS?
From: Candid Opinion
To: All
Date Posted: 12:19:31 10/04/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: ns.nucleusns2.com at 12.44.12.126
Message:
As a staunch tormentor of Kabs myself..
I take offense to your posts against the reverends personal religious beliefs..
and how he wants to interprete the bible and direction for his own soul..
Though i cannot take away, nor advice you on your rights to post i still think the attacks should be directed at his politics and not his religion..
A candid one..
Subject: Re: DID YOU DELETE MY POSTINGS KABS?
From: SUBWANALAI
To: All
Date Posted: 12:28:40 10/04/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 194.32.41.72
Message:
But politics and religion have become two strange bed fellows today,Candid One.
All I need are answers, and fast. Did you delete my postings Kabs?
Subject: Re: DID YOU DELETE MY POSTINGS KABS?
From: Candid Opinion
To: All
Date Posted: 12:32:24 10/04/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: ns.nucleusns2.com at 12.44.12.126
Message:
Oh..
That was not directed at you Sub..
It was a message to angel gabriel.
I would want to know why your post was deleted too..
I hate soviet era gulag moderation same as you..
Subject: Re: DID YOU DELETE MY POSTINGS KABS?
From: SUBWANALAI
To: All
Date Posted: 12:44:54 10/04/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 194.32.41.72
Message:
Respect Candid. But I still want answers. Did you delete my posting Kabs?
Subject: Re: DID YOU DELETE MY POSTINGS KABS?
From: MODERATOR
To: All
Date Posted: 06:41:14 10/05/07 ()
Message:
Kabs did not delete you posting. I did. Cheers!
/Moderator
Subject: Kudos to VP
From: Sadam Insane
To: All
Date Posted: 11:08:59 10/04/07 ()
Email Address: sorba_1@yahoo.com
Entered From: at 209.116.81.187
Message:
If what I read from Standard times is true, them I say Kudo to Mr VP. I was one
person cretizing him for his sleepy eys. He can see after all. The transition
team is doing fine. You may have been a taxi driver but you were sure carrying a
note book too. Once again Kudos.
Insane
Subject: Re: Kudos to VP...Saddam Insane Has Seen The Light
From: Bush The Saddam Insane Killer
To: All
Date Posted: 12:35:32 10/04/07 ()
Email Address: Ndoklo@yahoo.com
Entered From: pool-71-168-132-186.cmdnnj.east.verizon.net at
71.168.132.186
Message:
I call a spade a spade...both ways.
Saddam Insane seem to have actually changed into a good constructive critique. I
say Kudos to you. Remember I had come down on you earlier for some of your
frivolous remarks.
Keep it up dude. I see some similarities in you in speaking truth to power
"without profanity", though.
Subject: Re: Kudos to VP...Saddam Insane Has Seen The Light
From: Sadam Insane
To: All
Date Posted: 12:47:03 10/04/07 ()
Email Address: sorba_1@yahoo.com
Entered From: at 209.116.81.187
Message:
When I actually said I was not an SLPP, people did not believe me but I was
serious. If APC is doing good, I will be the first one to say it with no
hesitation. But if I see something wrong, I will say it too. That whats make me
a true Sierra leonean. I love my president and I want him to succeed. It will be
for the benefit of all of us.
SLPP has mess that country up for us so all our eyes are now open. Like Emerson
say "if dem eye nor boss one day den go see am". The day don cam.
Subject: Re: Kudos to VP
From: Neville Times
To: All
Date Posted: 11:32:44 10/04/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: ac8dcf58.ipt.aol.com at 172.141.207.88
Message:
Dont believe Standard Times my friends. If you carefully read the articles you
will wonder how you got to even believe a word that ragsheet writes.
Just yesterday, the Bank Governor had fled Sierra Leone and today he is at his desk asking the Transition Team why he was being hounded at his desk and he is also fighting for his friend to be at WAMA office???
Wake up and smell the coffe mister. Standard Times is a joke.
Subject: Re: Kudos to VP
From: Toegondoe Sagbah
To: All
Date Posted: 12:50:17 10/04/07 ()
Email Address: mendemoi@yahoo.com
Entered From: pool-71-168-132-186.cmdnnj.east.verizon.net at
71.168.132.186
Message:
Standard Times is always on the mark for writing the truth without fear. I
remember when they were harassed and Phillip Neville jailed by the Kabba/Berewa
team for writing the truth about Khadafi's rice and blood money.
DID KABBA AND BEREWA EVER TELL THE NATION TO "WHOM OR WHERE" THE RICE WAS SOLD AND WHAT HAPPENED TO BOTH THE RICE MONEY AND THE OTHER BLOOD MONEY? NO!!!
Instead, they jailed the guy and forced him to recant his story by settinp up an unbelievably excessive bail to make sure he doesn't get out of jail before the elections. The guy has a family to feed, so he had to succumb. BUT THAT DOES NOT MEAN HE WAS WRONG, WE ALL KNOW IT.
THANK GOD, THOSE DICTATORS HAVE BEEN KICKED OUT. NOW SANITY HAS BEEN RESTORED INTO THE FREEDOM OF THE PRESS.
Let me ask about Rogers, why did it take him almost 5 days since the story broke before he could come out of hiding and respond? Where was he all that time? Near the Liberian border too, like the other crook who escaped? Perhaps someone reminded Rogers that he cannot hide from such a high profile position, so he must have reversed course and regained sanity to face the people and the law.
Kudos to Standard Times for standing up for the people. Keep it up, we are listening
Subject: Re: Kudos to VP
From: Alieu sesay
To: All
Date Posted: 13:14:17 10/04/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: 65.107.153.146.ptr.us.xo.net at 65.107.153.146
Message:
Toegbondoe are you still lying about this RICE issue?
Why don't you concentrate on the in-fighting that is happening in your APC/PMDC
marriage? We need a Government until now you can't provide us one.
Only a liar like you can defend another liar.
Subject: Re: Kudos to VP
From: Opportunists will soon lick their wounds
To: All
Date Posted: 13:45:35 10/04/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: ac8dcf58.ipt.aol.com at 172.141.207.88
Message:
Alieu and others, Toegondoe Sagbah is a disgrace to humankind. But let us wait
and see as the saga unfolds who will suffer the most. Stay quiet and listen....
Can you hear it? Listen carefully. Can you hear it? The imminent sound of Ernest
Koroma kicking their buttocks... The buttocks of opportunists who all thought
Ernest Koroma coming to power means they have freedom to misbehave. Listen
carefully. Their comeuppance is on the way. Trust me. Stay silent and listen in
the next few days.
Subject: English should not be our national Language
From: Sadam Insane
To: All
Date Posted: 10:37:23 10/04/07 ()
Email Address: sorba_1@yahoo.com
Entered From: at 209.116.81.187
Message:
I am a Sierra Leonean born in the Southwestern part of the country. I grew up in
a remote village with no light, no water supply except the running streams. I
did not grow up speaking english neither do I grew up speaking Creole. I learned
all of these languages when I started school. I remember we were being punished
for not speaking creole in school much more english. English was not in our
vocabulary at that time. Some kids just use to be quiet all day fair of being
punish if they cannot speak creole. I have managed to finished high school and I
have also finished college and now working.
This is all good for me but one thing is still missing out of this achievement
of mine and that is, I cannot communicate with my family back home. I still
speak my language but some of my friends that are drop outs, don't want to hang
with me any more because they thing I might speak english to them and that will
be unfair to them. This is all because of English. What if I cannot speak my
language any more? Do I need an interpreter to communicate with them? Do I have
to stop going to my village? What has speaking english done to Sierra leone? As
far as I know nothing because we are still strugling to get light, we are still
strugling to get water and our city is stilll filthy. How many of us were born
speaking english at home, not that many.
Because of all these, I think eiter Creole, mende or temne should be our
official language. After all Kenya, Tanzania are still progressing even though
swahili is their national language.
I remain Insane. That is insane I am.
na so a say!
Subject: Re: English should not be our national Language
From: fordom nar wata turn fish
To: All
Date Posted: 11:25:24 10/04/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: 82-44-249-162.cable.ubr05.haye.blueyonder.co.uk at
82.44.249.162
Message:
Sadam,
You are joking right? You must be, otherwise I would suggest you go back to
school. Look remember this! The higher you climb the further you will see.
Are you saying that you lost your mother tongue because you managed to learn
some basic English? You make me laugh! Know thy self man! Go find yourself!
Subject: Re: English should not be our national Language
From: Pa Javombo
To: All
Date Posted: 11:24:28 10/04/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 209.214.214.3
Message:
Mohamed,
That's exactly what Somalia did to get a Somali language, or else they' ll still
be speaking Italian.
Subject: Re: English should not be our national Language
From: Mohamed Fofana
To: All
Date Posted: 11:04:32 10/04/07 ()
Email Address: mfofana2004@sbcglobal.net
Entered From: at 204.108.68.10
Message:
Sadam Insane,
Swahili is mixture of Arabic, Bantu and other East African Languages. It is not
made up of just one ethnic group language.
In Sierra Leone, it means that thinker has to sit down to develop the National
Language, taking a bit from all the languages in Sierra Leone and not from just
the four languages that have you mentioned. That team will also have to develop
alphabet for the National Language so that it can be taught at school like
Swahili
Subject: Re: English should not be our national Language
From: Sadam Insane
To: All
Date Posted: 12:29:06 10/04/07 ()
Email Address: sorba_1@yahoo.com
Entered From: at 209.116.81.187
Message:
It does'nt take only cement and sand to build a bridge. It takes metal and other
items to get the bridge completed. So what if you have to combine few languages
to make one. How many of us grew up speaking english by the way? but most of us
grew up speaking creole right? So why is english the national language?
Insane
Subject: A teriible combination!!!
From: Thaduba
To: All
Date Posted: 09:44:12 10/04/07 ()
Email Address: thaduba@yahoo.com
Entered From: at 206.113.148.2
Message:
The renowned Industrialist, Banker and Business mogul Chief Tony and New Jersey
Mortgage Banker and Businessman , Foday Mansaray!
Subject: THE WITCH HUNTER
From: KONDAL (ARIOGBO'S ELDER BROTHER)
To: All
Date Posted: 08:58:51 10/04/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 194.32.41.72
Message:
Because the beneficiaries of plundered government resources cry Witch Hunt each
time they hear the word accountability, I SUBWANALAI have contracted from TASSO,
the services of KONDAL; the elder brother of ARIOGBO. I id this in order to
spare the human faces(Vee Pee and his team) of allegations. It was not easy
getting to this spirit, because he prefers to deal with night witches. But when
I told him about the crimes of some daylight witches(actually some are wizards,
but since their supporters prefer that name, well..) he beacame interested,
grabbing his mirror and hammer and wore his head dress with flames spiralling
upwards. Over to you KONDAL:
KONDAL: AHGBBIIIIIIIIIIIRRRRRRRRRR! GBIP!
INTERPRETER: KONDAL DON VEX
KONDAL: EE MAMU!
INTERPRETER: HE DAE WARN YOU.
KONDAL: TAE NAYSER
INTERPRETER: NOR FRADE
KONDAL: BAYPI MU NONH UHN YEE KAYEE..
INTERPRETER: IF YOU DAE TIFF...
KONDAL: UHN BA MARRI TIKI NAYSER
INTERPRETER: DEN YOU FOR FRADE.
KONDAL:AHGBIIIIIRRRRRRRRRRRRRR! GBIP! J.D.ROGERS?
INTERPRETER: J.D. ROGERS?
KONDAL: KOE AH YOMU BA MOR MUNONH MOR BENSEH AH?
INTERPRETER: WATIN DEN DO YOU BA, WAE MAKE YOU DAE VEX?
KONDAL: WAN YOR KI TEGBEH
INTERPRETER: ME MAN TAKE TEM.
KONDAL: AHGBIRR! M.I.K.BAYOH...UHN PA NKA BLACK BOARD. mUNOR IHN LA BEMPA NKI
FINOH EE?
KONADAL: DA CONTRACT WAE DEM BIN GEE YOU FOR MAKE DEN BLACKBOARD. YOU BIN WOKE
FINE?
KONDAL: HEY WEY(KONDAL RETREATS WITH A SPEED TO COME BACK)
Subject: Re: THE WITCH HUNTER
From: Bai Bureh
To: All
Date Posted: 10:14:26 10/04/07 ()
Email Address: rastafari_ish@hotmail.com
Entered From: dator6071.161.gbgsd.se at 62.88.181.216
Message:
Orlangba tay yeh. Tay yor anminister anfii.Anlom antip ka yerr yerr ka eh
yankrah yahn.Wan tay. Beneh rass KONDAL ang. Karr kaman nkoff nkan soom an tass.
Subject: Re: THE WITCH HUNTER
From: M. Alieu Iscandari Esq
To: All
Date Posted: 09:39:03 10/04/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: cache-ntc-ad04.proxy.aol.com at 207.200.116.198
Message:
Man you just made my day. I have had everyone in my home laughing this morning,
although my kids do not understand but I do understand the
"KONDAL: AHGBBIIIIIIIIIIIRRRRRRRRRR! GBIP!"
Tok me way back to my days at Prince of Wales school when we used to watch
Ariogbo play for days.
Subject: Re: THE WITCH HUNTER
From: Godwin Kwushue
To: All
Date Posted: 09:31:17 10/04/07 ()
Email Address: godwin_kwu@hotmail.com
Entered From: wsip-70-183-105-199.sd.sd.cox.net at 70.183.105.199
Message:
In a democracy it is only the court of law that can place a travel restriction
order on an individual, corruption is bad and should be stamped out, but due
process must be followed to achieve this objective.
No matter where an accused person may run to, government should charge their case to court and and bring it to the notice of Interpol that a case is pending in court againt them and they will be arrested
The point I am trying to make here is Sierralone has seen enough anarchy, order should be the only option today
Subject: Re: THE WITCH HUNTER
From: Med
To: All
Date Posted: 10:01:50 10/04/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 82.114.74.96
Message:
You guys have blown this issue out of proportion. The Administrative
Instruction, which is apparently enforced, clearly stated that those that intend
to leave the country should seek clearance from the IG. As a matter of fact,
under normal circumstances, I mean true Democracy no civil servant should leave
the country unceremoniously/unannounced, which does not and has not infringe the
freedom of movement.
To justify your argument, please tell give a name of one former SLPP Minster/civil servant that has been refused access out of the country by the IG, meaning that he observed all protocols.
It is understood that none has applied for an exit so far and yet every body
is shouting with their passports in their hands.
Subject: Re: THE WITCH HUNTER
From: SUBWANALAI
To: All
Date Posted: 10:00:13 10/04/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 194.32.41.72
Message:
You are right Godwin, only where democracy serves it's useful purpose. But this
is Africa boy, where we need to intersperse democracy with raw power. Do you
know how many Sierra Leoneans the Tejan Kabbah-led government left on travelling
ban, after manipulating the UN system? Was there any recourse to the courts of
law? The SLPP just sat in Conakry, Guinea, after drowning bottles of TON TON
SKOL and came up with the names that added up to the ZOGODA list. Godwin, I hope
you are not lost. Do you understand what I am talking about? It's a deep thing
boy, you won't understand. Except Marcus, Martin, Malcolm, Mandela and
Me(ah!ah!ah!) If you argue that it was for the security of the state, I would
conceed, just like I want you to conceed now that this exercise is for the
economic prosperity of the land. Agreed? What goes around comes around boy. You
can call me vindictive, I have been called worse!
Subject: Re: THE WITCH HUNTER
From: SIK
To: All
Date Posted: 09:55:30 10/04/07 ()
Email Address: sokoroma@hotmail.com
Entered From: lgrt-122.dhcp.umass.edu at 128.119.230.122
Message:
The statement is clear, they are not restricting them to travel but should
follow due process. What is bad about it ? That besides,the president has the
prerogative to enforce discipline in the country. There is no excape route. They
should not be afriad to smell their hands if they did not wrongfully touch our
wealth. ARIOGBO HUNT THEM !!!
Subject: SEE WHY WE MUST NEVER FIGHT AGAIN?
From: BRA ENVIABLE
To: All
Date Posted: 08:46:21 10/04/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: cache-dtc-ag14.proxy.aol.com at 205.188.117.142
Message:
Without even knowing it, Sierra Leoneans have a multitude of reasons for
restraining themselves against malicious disputes. I started a joke about the
assignment of cabinet positions, and hey presto, the name Haroun Boima from
Sombo street in Bo immediately stirred Cousin-like feelings in another Sierra
Leonean in Foulah Tong, Freetown. Sierra Leone is so small that tribal divisions
alone should never serve as an excuse for hateful plots designed to maim. After
all, there is nothing like tribal purity in that small republic.
Every Sierra Leonean has ancestral roots cutting through tribal lines to make an inter-connected individual. Take Kailahun District, for example. Any son of Kailahun claiming to be a "pure" Mende is speaking with a pitiful streak of ignorance. Pendembu, Segbwema and Daru, for example, have deep-seated Madingo roots that have thrived long enough to seep into every tribe in that region. If you are a Kallon, for example, there is a Mandingo relative in your ancestral make-up, buried by the passage of time. A Massaquoi cannot claim ethnic purity, either. There are enough ethnic lines criss-crossing our borders with Liberia to link a Massaquoi with relatives beyond the environs of Kailahun and Kenema. The ethnic threads are too interconnected to be untangled in a short posting like this one.
This is why we need to straighten our politics. Fortunately for us, ethnic animosities in Sierra Leone are quite mild. All we need to do is straighten our politics by refusing to be used by dishonest politicians. Politics everywhere is partisan. However, after a civil war that literally lopped off numerous limbs and extinguished lives, our tribal attachment to politics should be reexamined. If they can use the tribal game to march onto power, dishonest politicians will use it without restraint. Our rational ability to refuse being used is the only safeguard against such political greed. We can NEVER avoid being partisan. However, we have to be intelligent enough to love Sierra Leone more than we love being tribal.
By the mere mention of his name, Haroun Boima, {AKA Mobilization for Reconstruction}, revealed a network of ethnic lines waiting to be seen by those who can see. In a similar manner, one can be APC, SLPP and PMDC, but the greatest sense of belonging should be lodged in being part of a national family called Sierra Leone. Those who cannot see that national family are fools waiting to perish without reason
Subject: Re: SEE WHY WE MUST NEVER FIGHT AGAIN?
From: Rotorata
To: All
Date Posted: 17:17:05 10/04/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: cache-los-ae04.proxy.aol.com at 195.93.21.132
Message:
Kudos to you Bra Enviable with sage like you who need enemies
Subject: Re: SEE WHY WE MUST NEVER FIGHT AGAIN?
From: Mammy Blessing
To: All
Date Posted: 12:29:23 10/04/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 165.155.200.143
Message:
One day, Brother Enviable, we will make sure that you run for president of
Salone and I will be one of those recruiting you. I believe that you are
talented and worthy enough to be prezzy...and I am not just saying this because
you promised to make me an ambassador!
I was in a foul mood yesterday, when I saw your article. Indeed, I was touched
to see the two Alieus (Iscandri and Sesay) who are generally considered
political "enemies" on this forum, find some commonality and ....civility!
Good post.
Subject: Re: SEE WHY WE MUST NEVER FIGHT AGAIN?
From: Bai Bureh
To: All
Date Posted: 10:49:58 10/04/07 ()
Email Address: rastafari_ish@hotmail.com
Entered From: dator6071.161.gbgsd.se at 62.88.181.216
Message:
You mende guys are always excited when you discover a mende connection in
someone.Your excitement was so fierce that you forgot to mention the other side
that is the north.What happens in your part of Salone also happens in the
northern part where people cross from both sides of the border resulting to a
lot of hybrids or remixes.You have not even mentioned the classical example of
Momodu Koroma who was a hybrid product of mende and temne association.
Don't try to be a poet; practice what you say or write.Your post smacks of
moderate tribalism!
Subject: Re: SEE WHY WE MUST NEVER FIGHT AGAIN?
From: Bai Bureh is wrong for that
To: All
Date Posted: 10:54:18 10/04/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: cache-dtc-ag14.proxy.aol.com at 205.188.117.142
Message:
Did Bai Bureh understand what he read? I read the same posting and did not see
what Bai Bureh is talking about. I think the man was using the South east as an
example of how we are all connected. You need to chill, man.
Subject: Re: SEE WHY WE MUST NEVER FIGHT AGAIN?
From: Kailondo
To: All
Date Posted: 11:19:43 10/04/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: gw1.dc.gov at 164.82.146.3
Message:
Don't waste your valuable time on Bai Bureh. He is a tribal parasite. He is a
direct descendant of foday saybana sankoh, the criminal rebel leader who chopped
off limbs to exchange them for sex with mende women. May his soul perish in
hell, in the name of allah,, ameen!
Subject: Re: SEE WHY WE MUST NEVER FIGHT AGAIN?
From: Bai Bureh
To: All
Date Posted: 13:56:49 10/04/07 ()
Email Address: rastafari_ish@hotmail.com
Entered From: master-02.brg.sgsnet.se at 193.11.202.74
Message:
Here is another gbaygbay eater sounding off again.If Foday Sankoh chopped off
limbs then what did the notorious Sam Bockarie alias MASKITA do? Can you
cannibals account for the limbs that were chopped off?
You guysneed to get over the trouncing you received from the APC.You are still reeling from the shock.
Subject: EDDIE GRANT--UR BROTHER HERE!!
From: Eddie Koroma
To: All
Date Posted: 08:35:24 10/04/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: gw1.dc.gov at 164.82.146.3
Message:
Eddie Grant—what’s up?
Do you remember Victoria road and Revenue Lane junction? Do you remember Juju
Caulker? How about Amie Fengeh and Mildred Goodman? Man ! How about Tenneh and
Fanta Baimba? Gotto go man. I gave you too much intelligence.
Subject: Re: EDDIE GRANT--UR BROTHER HERE!!
From: Eddie Grant
To: All
Date Posted: 13:46:11 10/04/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 89.241.4.85
Message:
You never seize to amaze me. A nice try but am no familiar with any of those
you've mentioned.
I know you're trying to be my friend and am equally up for that why don't we exchange details so we can meet.
You made me feel like I've lost a very good friend.
Stay blessed.
Subject: Re: EDDIE GRANT--UR BROTHER HERE!!
From: Eddie Koroma
To: All
Date Posted: 14:44:38 10/04/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: gw1.dc.gov at 164.82.146.3
Message:
Stop being a smart ass my friend! How is your british baby? How is college--have
you fininshed the masters?
Say hi to Manjia (pauline) Swaray and all the rest!
Subject: Sierra Leone speaks at UN
From: Cornelius Hamelberg
To: All
Date Posted: 08:26:24 10/04/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: netloan.solna.se at 194.218.19.220
Message:
Sierra Leone speaks at UN - tune in:
Subject: REVEALED: THE ECONOMY HAS A BLACK HOLE
From: SUBWANALAI
To: All
Date Posted: 05:08:28 10/04/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: host86-141-126-11.range86-141.btcentralplus.com at
86.141.126.11
Message:
Source Standard Times:
Presidential Task Force Exposes Financial Fraud In Several Government
Ministries
Posted by on Oct 4, 2007, 03:33
It would appear as if it was a game of money drama that punctuated the
operations of the Ministry of Finance since the Africa Information Technology
Holdings boss took over the management of that government outfit. Documentary
evidence from the Ministry of Finance available to this press clearly gives an
insight of the colossal financial predicament that the SLPP led government was
involved in despite previous cancellations of the country’s external debts worth
about $2.6 Billion. The past government has left behind huge debts owned to
national and international agencies worth millions of US Dollars.
The Finance Ministry documents reveal that the government of Sierra Leone owes various companies in the country a total amount of two billion and nine hundred million Leones as well as some US$ 231 million owed to some six countries. Sadly, despite all of these John Benjamin’s computer company, the A.I.T.H is also owed money to the government which its proprietor over the past months had deliberately refused to honour.
“The former Finance Minister may have several questions to answer as soon as government begins serious business”, an inside source said. Also owed huge sums of money, the contract for which is not specified is Bashoon Auto spares on Ecowas street in Freetown.
Presently a 50-man team of the presidential transitional task force is investigating twenty six parastatals and fifteen government ministries and agencies with a view to providing the current government an idea of the mode of operations of the previous government headed by Alhaji Tejan Kabbah by way of financial propriety and human resources in government’s employ.
Already, a source at the Bank of Sierra Leone has revealed to this press that the Governor of the Central Bank Dr. J.D. Rogers, lost his temper when a team of the presidential transitional group asked him to present all contracts of the bank, executed and pending dating back to the last thirty six months. ‘This is too much” He yelled, and went on ‘What do you want from me”? Is it because I financed some aspects of the SLPP campaigns?” he asked.
It would be recalled that President Earnest Bai Koroma had said that the presidential transitional team has only three weeks to give him an idea as to what the previous government left in the country’s coffers, and also for him to know the level of human resource base the government has in its employment. At the Youyi Youyi building, a team of transitional team investigators discovered that three secretaries were using only one type writer, and that a pay voucher from one ministry has 83 people on sick leave while another 35 were on study leave, but all receiving full pay.
At the Sierra Leone Ports Authority, it was discovered that the Ghanaian born General manager, Galley, was forced to ignore payments of proceeds from sales of abandoned items at the Ports as SLPP supporters led by Noah Mansaray and B.S. Kamara; Company Accountant and Secretary respectively pointed out to him that they under political obligation to make huge financial contribution to the campaign fund of the previous ruling government.
Meanwhile, a source at the office of the Ombudsman, lawyer Francis Gabbidon disclosed to the team that his boss is having sleepless nights as he is alleged to have presented documents to investigators not commensurate with the budget allocat1ons made to him over the past years.
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Subject: Re: REVEALED: THE ECONOMY HAS A BLACK HOLE
From: Alieu sesay
To: All
Date Posted: 07:52:16 10/04/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: 65.107.153.146.ptr.us.xo.net at 65.107.153.146
Message:
What a sensational BULL. The government owes companies in Sierra Leone for
services rendered/in Progress.. That is obvious.
Bo una Lef we YAH. Form a Government and quit this BOTO BATA.
Subject: Re: REVEALED: THE ECONOMY HAS A BLACK HOLE
From: Tiff-tiff go done!
To: All
Date Posted: 08:43:02 10/04/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 165.155.200.143
Message:
So, tracking corruption and asking for official documents is boto bata, eh Alieu?
what never ceases to amaze me is the partisan spin SLPP activists put on even
the most mundane of things.
It is not a witch hunt. It is an investigation. I hope no SLPP official is found
culpable, that everyone is found innocent! If, however, some officials had a run
on the bank, after realizing that the honey pot was about to be taken away,
egad, let us find out and stanch this awful habit.
Is it responsible for any govt to run up a tab of more than 200 million bucks
after we have been given debt relief? What happened to the money? What projects
were put in place for the people's benefit? Enquiring minds wanna know.
Subject: Re: REVEALED: THE ECONOMY HAS A BLACK HOLE
From: Alieu sesay
To: All
Date Posted: 09:00:23 10/04/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: 65.107.153.146.ptr.us.xo.net at 65.107.153.146
Message:
Bra! You and I know that salone ask for money from anyone and everyone. So debt
relief from G8 does not equate to Zero debt.
Some of that $231 million is what the APC borrowed when they were in Power...
So una try..
Subject: Re: REVEALED: THE ECONOMY HAS A BLACK HOLE
From: poor man
To: All
Date Posted: 20:22:13 10/04/07 ()
Email Address: itarawally@verizon.net
Entered From: pool-72-66-26-251.washdc.fios.verizon.net at 72.66.26.251
Message:
bra please tell us how much money apc borrowed from that $231 million.we wan
know.
Subject: Re: REVEALED: THE ECONOMY HAS A BLACK HOLE
From: alieu sesay
To: All
Date Posted: 09:29:43 10/05/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: c-75-66-114-24.hsd1.tn.comcast.net at 75.66.114.24
Message:
Once they do a thorough investigation we will see. If ten nor provide am, i
will.
Subject: Re: REVEALED: THE ECONOMY HAS A BLACK HOLE
From: SUBWANALAI
To: All
Date Posted: 09:33:28 10/04/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 194.32.41.72
Message:
En indeed we go try. Your type will not sweet tongue neither intimidate anyone
into silence. If you nyams white koba ram. You see everyday day the sufferation
meted upon the poor people of the land, and just because you and your cronies
think you are living big, you attempt to distort the facts. People like you
should be ashamed of such gabbage you post on this forum
Subject: Re: REVEALED: THE ECONOMY HAS A BLACK HOLE
From: Alieu sesay
To: All
Date Posted: 09:35:54 10/04/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: 65.107.153.146.ptr.us.xo.net at 65.107.153.146
Message:
Stick to the facts and you shall be free. Until the Minister of finance is
proven guilty, anything you say is BOLONY..
Subject: Re: REVEALED: THE ECONOMY HAS A BLACK HOLE
From: Eddie Grant
To: All
Date Posted: 13:54:47 10/04/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 89.241.4.85
Message:
Are you worried that the cash given to you would be pursued by the ever
brilliant Transition team.
I could understand your frustration, but also try to understand the country's position. Man, there's no more hiding place for both politicians and their relatives who're involved in mis-appropriating our country's funds.
My advice to you is to prepare to surrender any dosh given to you by those SLPP tiff man dem.
Subject: Re: REVEALED: THE ECONOMY HAS A BLACK HOLE
From: Alieu sesay
To: All
Date Posted: 14:11:34 10/04/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: 65.107.153.146.ptr.us.xo.net at 65.107.153.146
Message:
Grant! I benefited in NO_WAY from the SLPP government. So DROP your first
sentence.
When a Party that has being crying down another can not form a Government, yet they are busy filling up positions in NRA/QUAY with their children who 90% are not qualified for those positions, they are using the investigations to turn our attention from their NEPOTISTIC actions...
We will not be moved, we will continue to fight the good fight and expose all.
Subject: Re: REVEALED: THE ECONOMY HAS A BLACK HOLE
From: poorman
To: All
Date Posted: 20:33:09 10/04/07 ()
Email Address: itarawally@verizon.net
Entered From: pool-72-66-26-251.washdc.fios.verizon.net at 72.66.26.251
Message:
allieu you nar slpp man.doya if you know any apc pikin dae ner position way e
nor fit.leh we know so go make noise en talk tay dem pull am dae. leh we pati
nor get bad name for tumara'
Subject: Re: REVEALED: THE ECONOMY HAS A BLACK HOLE
From: Eddie Grant
To: All
Date Posted: 16:26:44 10/04/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 78.147.6.235
Message:
"We will not be moved, we will continue to fight the good fight and expose all".
Did I sense inconstitency or hypocricy in your stance? One minute you vehemently
opposed to trnasitional investigation and the next minute you you'll fight to
expose wrong doing.
You do you stand my friend? It's impairative for any patriotic Sierra Leonean to applaude any effort to regain syphoned funds depleted from our country's economy.
But when you continuosly defended against the position of those who're tasked to accomplish this mission, then one has no option but to cast serious suspcion over you which sometimes led one to believe you are in one way or the other benefited from those depleted funds.
Your position so far is one of strong party affiliation rather than national interest otherwise no harm will be done to you if the new administration is trying to regain what has been unlawfully taken from us. I'm sure any success by this new government in restoring the pride of the nation will be beneficial not only to me but to everyone including you.
So why not for once be reasonable enough to commend a good move by the present government?
Subject: Re: REVEALED: THE ECONOMY HAS A BLACK HOLE
From: poorman
To: All
Date Posted: 20:41:44 10/04/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: pool-72-66-26-251.washdc.fios.verizon.net at 72.66.26.251
Message:
alieu, good job doya leh we know the apc pikin dem way dae nar position way den
nor for dae. leh den nor gee we bad name for tumara.
Subject: Re: REVEALED: THE ECONOMY HAS A BLACK HOLE
From: Neutral observer
To: All
Date Posted: 05:25:18 10/04/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 82.206.222.36
Message:
Indeed, it is too much for some semi literates to walk into Governor's office,
and demand to see the contracts.If they had some education, they would have
known that the Governor does not keep the contracts, and there are relevant
departments in BOSL dealing with specific issues.This is clearly a witch hunt,
and if they continue this, they will bring down all the National Institutions.
Subject: Re: REVEALED: THE ECONOMY HAS A BLACK HOLE
From: KORKOR
To: All
Date Posted: 08:16:30 10/04/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 194.32.41.72
Message:
Each time they say accountability, the beneficiaries of government's largesse
cry "Witch Hunt". Whatever their dictionary definition of a witch hunt is will
not frustrate the probe that we shall advocate. It is not a witch hunt to
embezzle the people's money and siphon them to foreign banks; it is no witch
hunt to ride fast cars, whilst the people lack basic transportation. If you
think it is not, then I tell you these are the real witches..
Subject: Re: REVEALED: THE ECONOMY HAS A BLACK HOLE
From: Odokoko
To: All
Date Posted: 05:30:05 10/04/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: cache-los-ae04.proxy.aol.com at 195.93.21.132
Message:
The Gorvernor is the Captain of the ship and there is nothing wrong in asking
him to provide details of past contracts. He could easily direct them to the
relevant officer/department rather than protesting vehemently.
Elephant ayde no to pikin load
Subject: Vote for Ms. Africa USA
From: M. Alieu Iscandari Esq
To: All
Date Posted: 04:43:06 10/04/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: cache-ntc-ad04.proxy.aol.com at 207.200.116.198
Message:
http://www.missafricaunitedstates.com/mausa/vote.htm
Subject: No Electricity
From: Albert Moinina
To: All
Date Posted: 04:03:26 10/04/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 213.42.21.60
Message:
No Electricity
No Electricity, no power supply
Charcoal nor firewood would electrify our houses
No electricity, no water supply
Potable water comes through filtration and treatment – en na electricity e need
Flushed toilets? Paddyman, go nah pit latrine
Waste treatment plant, I don’t understand your terminology
Even mobile phone is impossible although nah e dae rain. But how about the
price?
Landline phones depend on electrons and protons - electricity
Forget internet. How about firewood? Nah
Ah get the cold wata!!! Tthank God we have Kabba Tiger. But hey what does it
produce?
NPA becomes Natin Pass Alaki? God bless Emerson
Sa Lone for bette, we need dat tin called electricity
Charcoal, firewood, pan lamp and feh feh lamp are not the answers.
Pa EBK na you we habope pam, do yah nor let we don.
Do yah, do yah en do yah.
Subject: Re: No Electricity
From: Shembu
To: All
Date Posted: 12:06:50 10/04/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: eduproxy3.k12.de.us at 167.21.254.13
Message:
Great Poem Mr. Moinina. Didn't know an engineer can be so poetic and very savvy
at it too. This is a challenge to Tatafway Tumoe(the best Poet that I personally
know).
ar second di motion!
Subject: Re: No Electricity
From: Albert Moinina
To: All
Date Posted: 14:05:27 10/04/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 213.42.21.154
Message:
Shembu, Pa man nor sabie write poem but for the sake of Sa Lone we kin try.
Subject: MUST REMAIN MPs
From: TEE
To: All
Date Posted: 02:47:47 10/04/07 ()
Email Address: arthur_dabest81@yahoo.co.uk
Entered From: 82-45-100-42.cable.ubr08.gill.blueyonder.co.uk at
82.45.100.42
Message:
Mps who wants to me made ministers should be told NO. Before they contested the
election, they knew that once you are a MP, you wont be a minister, and they
made their decision. It will be unconstitutional for them to be made ministers.
Where is the money coming from, to hold by-elections? That is my take comrades,
i don't know how you feel about this whole minister thing.
Subject: Re: MUST REMAIN MPs
From: Candid Opinion
To: All
Date Posted: 09:44:40 10/04/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: ns.nucleusns2.com at 12.44.12.126
Message:
I doubt if any of them have had the constitution read to them..
Subject: Re: MUST REMAIN MPs
From: Dissatisfied
To: All
Date Posted: 05:28:39 10/04/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 82.206.222.36
Message:
PMDC is not satisfied with what is being offered to them.Likewise,APC stalwarts
are unhappy, as they have been marginalised and they are complaining that all
the new entrants into APC have taken over everything.
Subject: Re: MUST REMAIN MPs
From: Med
To: All
Date Posted: 03:47:15 10/04/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 82.114.74.96
Message:
Where is the money coming from, to hold by-elections?
My widest guess on source of funding would be the same source that would
apparently fund a bogus and pointless re-inauguration.
Subject: NW PEOPLE WEBSITE
From: www.thenewpeople.com
To: All
Date Posted: 22:11:55 10/03/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: c-69-143-225-68.hsd1.md.comcast.net at 69.143.225.68
Message:
PLEASE CHECK www.thenewpeople.com
Subject: Re: NW PEOPLE WEBSITE
From: APC Guru
To: All
Date Posted: 08:55:02 10/04/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 167.102.228.16
Message:
If the newly elected President can pay the Transition Team out of his pocket, he
might as well pay to hold bye-elections for his MP's who want to become
ministers.
Subject: Re: NW PEOPLE WEBSITE
From: RAZER
To: All
Date Posted: 00:17:35 10/04/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: 40.33-241-81.adsl-dyn.isp.belgacom.be at 81.241.33.40
Message:
I think we will be joining you soon.
Subject: Re: NW PEOPLE WEBSITE
From: What about it ?
To: All
Date Posted: 23:07:40 10/03/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: aca44cfb.ipt.aol.com at 172.164.76.251
Message:
I have just looked at it. There is no change.Old,stale news since September 30.
Una tell God tenki for Cocorioko which brings you latest news every single day.
Subject: Re: NW PEOPLE WEBSITE
From: GOOD TURN TO BAD
To: All
Date Posted: 00:39:30 10/04/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: c-69-143-225-68.hsd1.md.comcast.net at 69.143.225.68
Message:
SOMEBODY ASKED FOR THE WEBSITE AND SOMEBODY PROVIDED ONLY FOR SOMEBODY TO INSULT
SOMEBODY.
Subject: Hallo, you know who you are.
From: Bambay Lans Kamara
To: All
Date Posted: 22:04:30 10/03/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: sccadmin195198.scc.losrios.edu at 165.196.195.198
Message:
President Ernest Koroma is seen in this picture shaking hands with members of
the Fullah Community in Sierra Leone at State House yesterday. In the far right
hand corner is Mr. Hassan Barrie, who spoke on behalf of the Fullah Community .
President Koroma has assured the Fullahs that they have full protection from
the government .
Web site designed & hosted by Leeroy Wilfred Kabs-Kanu © 2007 at Homestead™
Subject: Prezzo to Announce the Cabinet
From: Sadam Insane
To: All
Date Posted: 21:56:36 10/03/07 ()
Email Address: sorba_1@yahoo.com
Entered From: c-68-49-178-95.hsd1.md.comcast.net at 68.49.178.95
Message:
At last he listen to me and stood up in his feet. Mr president is finally going
to announce his cabinet on Friday. He called me and said and I quot "Mr insane I
am going to make you sane by announcing my cabinet on Friday and my AG is from
Pujehun". I told him I did'nt want to insult him but was merely giving him a
boost. For some of you that were against me, I end of gaining from my insanity.
This is for you FBC graduates that think english instead of performing, please
do me a favor; Next time someone is writing on this forum and have some
gramatical errors or mistakes, leave him alone because that peoson might just be
your close relative or even the president. When some of you start using words
that just you and the dictionary understands the meaning, then your education
from FBC is waisted. Use word that every one can understand. That is what
communication is all about.
I still remain Insane until Friday and therefore insame I am.
Subject: Re: Prezzo to Announce the Cabinet
From: Kabudu Gen
To: All
Date Posted: 22:37:28 10/03/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: pool-151-202-41-6.ny325.east.verizon.net at 151.202.41.6
Message:
I am beginning to take a shine to you Insane One. It really does not matter
whether your English is broko broko lek Gbenjen or as smooth and shiny as John
Leigh's. Most of us were not born with the queen's language. As long as you are
understood, and are confident of your posts, it's cool, my man. We will still
argue over politics and vigorously defend our positions, but as long as there is
no unfair mugging of the president's character, I will be civil. So bust a move,
Sadam Insane. Go on with your bad self!
Subject: Re: Prezzo to Announce the Cabinet
From: Candid Opinion
To: All
Date Posted: 09:35:48 10/04/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: ns.nucleusns2.com at 12.44.12.126
Message:
Indeed.
Insane in the membrane is overtaken even me in candidity.. and left bambay in the dust long time ago..
As another one who do not own a dictionary, i support your position 100%..
Leave us carpenters. annd plumbers and cab drivers alone.. we do menial.. thats our calling.. but we still want to be involved in national politics.
Subject: National Depression Screening Day October 6, 2005 United Sta
From: Bambay Lans Kamara
To: All
Date Posted: 21:52:31 10/03/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: sccadmin195198.scc.losrios.edu at 165.196.195.198
Message:
National Depression Screening Day October 6, 2005 United States & Canada
National Depression Screening Day® began fifteen years ago as the first
nationwide, community-based mental health screening program. Today it is the
largest provider of mental health screening services in the country through its
partnership with thousands of community-based, college and primary care
screening sites. NDSD has expanded in recent years to offer both in-person and
online screening for four of the most common and frequently co-occurring mental
disorders: depression, bipolar disorder, generalized anxiety disorder and
post-traumatic stress disorder. To find where you can locate a screening site,
connect to this link:
http://www.mentalhealthscreening.org/locator/NDSDmap.aspx
In Canada:
http://www.camimh.ca/
World Wide Mental Health Awareness Day October 10, 2005
The World Federation for Mental Health was founded in 1948 to advance, among all peoples and nations, the prevention of mental and emotional disorders, the proper treatment and care of those with such disorders, and the promotion of mental health. With members and contacts in 112 countries on six continents, The WFMH has responded to the international mental health crisis through its role as the only worldwide grassroots advocacy and public education organization in the mental health field.
World Mental Health Day was observed for the first time on October 10, 1992. It was started as an annual activity of The World Federation for Mental Health by the then Deputy Secretary General Richard Hunter of the United States. The day is officially commemorated every year on on October 10th.
The theme of this year’s World Mental Health Day is mental and physical health across the life span, emphasizing the importance of recognizing the inter-dependence of good mental and physical health at every stage of life. Poor physical health, whether in infancy, childhood, adulthood or in the later years of life, can interfere with emotional health and well-being, while serious mental illnesses and disorders such as depression or anxiety often result in neglect of serious physical health issues such as cancer, heart disease, diabetes, arthritis and respiratory illness.
This year’s World Mental Health Day theme stresses the important fact that
there is no health without mental health
Subject: World Federation of Mental Health
From: Bambay Lans Kamara
To: All
Date Posted: 21:47:10 10/03/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: sccadmin195198.scc.losrios.edu at 165.196.195.198
Message:
World Mental Health Day
World Mental Health Day was observed for the first time on 10 October 1992. It
was started as an annual activity of the World Federation for Mental Health by
the then Deputy Secretary General Richard Hunter. The day is officially
commemorated every year on October 10th.
At the beginning the Day had no specific theme. Its aims were general ones of promoting mental health advocacy and educating the public on relevant issues. In the first three years one of the central activities to mark the Day was a two-hour telecast broadcast globally through the US information agency satellite system from studios in Talahassee, Florida. WFMH Board members participated from the studio, with live telephone participation from Australia, Chile, England and Zambia and pre-taped segments from Geneva, Atlanta and Mexico City. In the first such telecast we realized that we were indeed reaching far afield, because there was an unanticipated and unscheduled telephone call-in from Swaziland, where a group of WFMH members had gathered to view to the program. And that year the very first of many feed-back reports came from Peru.
In 1994, at the suggestion of then Secretary General Eugene Brody, a theme for the Day was used for the first time. It was "Improving the Quality of Mental Health Services Throughout the World." Feedback reports were received from 27 countries soon after that campaign, with notable national campaigns in Australia and in England. In many countries WFMH Board members were instrumental in arranging events. Within three years, the Day had become a valuable occasion for interested government departments, organizations and committed individuals to arrange programs to focus on aspects of mental health care.
In 1995 a broad range of international events was reported to the WFMH Secretariat from around the world, ranging from a month-long series of events in Egypt, to a conference held by the French Federation for Mental Health at the Ministry of Health, to a community celebration in the tiny Micronesian Islands in the Pacific. In the United Kingdom, where there was a large national program, we also noted the poignant event at the site of the old London mental hospital which gave us the word "bedlam," where many volunteers, school children and young people with learning difficulties planted spring bulbs. In 1995 we took particular note of the help offered by the Pan American Health Organization. PAHO arranged for the translation of the planning kit material into Spanish, and made 300 copies of the Spanish version available for distribution to its contacts in South America. Inspired by PAHO's initiative, the Federation later arranged for the translation and printing of the planning kit in French and Spanish, and this year for the first time it was made available in Arabic through the interest of the Social Development Office in Kuwait. Since that time, the Federation has chosen a theme to be promoted in its planning kit each year. The themes we have used are:
1996 Women and Mental Health
1997 Children and Mental Health
1998 Mental Health and Human Rights
1999 Mental Health and Ageing
2000-2001 Mental Health and Work
2002 The Effects of Trauma and Violence on Children & Adolescents
2003 Emotional and Behavioural Disorders of Children & Adolescents
2004 The Relationship Between Physical & Mental Health: co-occurring disorders
2005 Mental and Physical Health Across the Life Span
2006 Building Awareness - Reducing Risk: Mental Illness & Suicide
We would like to stress that this isn't simply a one day event. The preparations
go on for months beforehand and this is truly a long-term educational effort. In
some countries the program stretches over several days, or a week, or even in
some cases a month. And in some places preparations for the following year start
almost as soon as the current year's event is over. Reports come to us from
around the world at varying rates throughout the entire year following the 10
October events.
We are well aware of the large national campaigns that take place in
countries ranging from Norway to Australia and New Zealand. But we particularly
like the smaller activities that take place in many countries and show a special
commitment. We like the support in the tiny Pacific island of Palau, where the
government prints a mental health day message on government pay stubs for that
week. We are also amazed to learn about World Mental Health Day banners in
Kathmandu than about the posters in London. We are surprised when the first
report after 10 October arrives from Benin in West Africa. Who would expect to
find a small but varied program of activities in Turkmenistan? And least likely
of all - we were impressed to learn that a committed mental health nurse called
Michael Kamau organizes a whole week of activities and educational events in the
huge Kakuma refugee camp in northern Kenya. It is the small events as well as
the large campaigns that give World Mental Health Day its global reach.
Subject: Sierra Leone to observe World Mental Day. A go burst!
From: Bambay Lans Kamara
To: All
Date Posted: 19:10:41 10/03/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: sccadmin195198.scc.losrios.edu at 165.196.195.198
Message:
Sierra Leone is among the hundred or more member states of the World Health
Organization (WHO) preparing to observe the World Mental Day slated for October
10, this year. Under the theme ‘Building Awareness’ chosen by the World
Federation of Mental Health, the UN health agency has seized the opportunity to
remind the international community of the suffering caused by disability and how
premature deaths have come to constitute a major public health problem.
The Country representative of WHO, Dr. Felicitas Zawara told Awareness Times in an exclusive interview that health professionals in the country should support the services of parents and other actors in the community in identifying mental disorders. She noted that the early detection of this disease should be provided with appropriate care, and constant follow-ups will reduce chronic disability and premature death including suicide. The health specialist further noted that an estimated one million suicide deaths occur each year representing 1.4% of the total global burden of the disease.
According to her, WHO has been funding a project for the compilation of the first national policy on mental health ahead of the formation of modern mental health legislation, as well as a national mental programme which would include a plan of action for short and long term initiatives.
Sierra Leone’s only practicing psychiatrist doctor and consultant, Dr. Edward Nahim said more than 100,000 people are with severe depression in the country needing medical treatment, with over 50,000 psychotic patients, 25,000 to30,000 of which are caused by dangerous drugs intake and 70,000 related to excessive use of alcohol as well as severe infections like malaria.
Dr. Nahim also noted that the first category include traditional health problems that has no boundary, rich or poor and in peace or conflict. The second group, he said, include speaking problems related to conflict and post-conflict contexts with exposure to potential traumatic events. Also is the lack of protective factors to contain these events due to abject poverty, hardship, poor nutrition and physical health problems.
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Subject: Re: Sierra Leone to observe World Mental Day. A go burst!
From: Bambay Lans Kamara
To: All
Date Posted: 21:34:57 10/03/07 ()
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This is why I have been very concerned about especially, the recent pattern of
postings on this forum. Particularly, the materials presented, the hidden
motives and methods adopted to garner support for these hidden agenda. It
appears as though certain contributors are self-absorbed to the point, where
they loose sight of civility, humanity and the feelings of others around them
and in the world particularly, Sierra Leone.
Reading from these postings, it is conceived that most contributors are
hell-bent on reversing the woeful mistakes they have made, and rather than
majestically acknowledging their mistakes, get corrected and move-on, they have
resorted to manipulative tactics in a verge to assassinate the characters of
fellow contributors; not for any profitable reasons, personal or otherwise, but
to see or continue to see the targeted persons’ human rights violated or that
these people be seen as lacking the mental acumen to do what is mentally
superior.
In that vain, and as I have constantly posted websites explaining mental health,
especially socialize Psychopath, in order to warn these propagandists to check
with Psychiatrists as their actions of trying to prove their worthiness at the
expense of others is very, I repeat, very unnatural and is indicative of the
prevalence socialized Psychopathic problems because these actions of
manipulation at the expense of others is disturbing to any decent human beings.
But what is more disturbing is the fact that these propagandist have adversely
continue to neglect these warnings just as a sick human can do, which brings me
to this point of concern.
I am not, and have not been posting these links to make mockery or put any one
down. Rather, it is a desire to educate readers who do not know, about this
disease and the dangers they pose to world population including these suspected
patients whose actions virtually coincides with the symptoms highlighted in
these links. The patterns demonstrated in their actions, especially when they
have tried toothlessly to be perceived as the ones who are key players in the
world, considering their positions in world economy, world politics and world
educational standings is alarming. Failing to realize that whether or not those
they gear these desire to manipulate know or not, knowing that they have not
been numbered in that ranking, and then all the pursuits will be directed
attention to nothing or will produce no positive but sadistic results order than
a significant display of sickness makes become very worried about them.
Disregarding the many warnings and explanations those in authority, those in
enviable positions, both Black and White have made, should be cause for concern.
Nonetheless, all is not lost. There is still room for improvement if these
actions emanate from ignorance, it can be fixed by paying attention to
significant postings and links posted here or pick the right channels on T.V.
radio, read newspapers, travel or ask one who actually knows, refrain from
selecting whom you listen to and realize that in any civilization there are laws
and for these laws to reject any individual, the Rule of Law must be put in
effect. If the law looks away, know that there is something amiss.
Key points to look for are immigration Laws: deportation, the number of prisons
that have hosted even the best of best and that these laws are no respecter of
any mankind regardless of position, fame or wealth.
Another thing to remember is that racism started long ago and many efforts have
been made to reverse it from segregation era, in America, Africa, Europe to name
a few to the point where Blacks and White can make love, use the same bathrooms,
dine in the same restaurants, go to the same schools, which was virtually
impossible some time ago. If the efforts made to make this happen has been
effective, I see no reason why governments can go back on their endeavour to
make the world a better place .
Therefore, if this is not true that you have been sick, then let us assume
responsibility and resume ethically sound discussions in the interest of Sierra
Leone. Let your actions speak for you.
To help you understand about Social Psychopath, I will repost a test, which
after taking it will lead you in the right direction.
I wish you the very best.
Take the test:
Subject: Is the New People site out of stories?
From: POLITICAL
To: All
Date Posted: 18:54:50 10/03/07 ()
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I was thinking this is the time the New People web site to work for the country
as an opposition site. The problem with some of these sites is they are created
for a specific purpose and when that purpose is out of whark, they become
meaningless. The New People should not only be good in attacking people, but
also be good in informing the pubs in a meaningful ways. Cocorioko cannot do
everything for every one. We need more sites for more and competing info.
Subject: Re: Is the New People site out of stories?
From: Kabudu Gen
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Date Posted: 21:20:15 10/03/07 ()
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"The problem with some of these sites is they are created for a specific purpose
and when that purpose is out of whark, they become meaningless."
Political, you said it all. That vapid site was solely created for SLPP
misinformation during the elections. After failing in that venture, all the
denizens have now bailed from that sinking Titanic. JJ Blood has declined to
continue bankrolling it, and so the present sorry state of this SLPP propaganda
mouthpiece.
Just wait and see Sylvia's rag go down with the first calamitous law suit, now
that she doesn't have her SLPP patrons to twist the law for her. Unless she
changes from rapacious and malignant character assassinations and instigation,
she will have to meet her victims in a free and fair court. Huge cash
penalties...Sylvia goes belly up!
Subject: Re: Is the New People site out of stories?
From: Follow up
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Date Posted: 19:56:03 10/03/07 ()
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Message:
Can you provide a like to the site please?
Subject: Re: Is the New People site out of stories?
From: Follow up
To: All
Date Posted: 19:57:46 10/03/07 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
Link that is!
Subject: Sierra Leone's Ernest Koroma to visit Nigeria's Yar'Adua
From: An Awareness Times Report
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Date Posted: 18:30:28 10/03/07 ()
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Sierra Leone's Ernest Koroma to visit Nigeria's Yar'Adua
By Awareness Times
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His Excellency President Ernest Bai Koroma will today Thursday October 4th 2007,
fly out on a visit to Nigeria where he is expected to, alongside the usual
strengthening of ties, also request of his Nigerian counterpart, President Umaru
Yar'Adua, for oil concession that will significantly reduce the price of petrol,
kerosene and diesel-gasoline in Sierra Leone. This was confirmed to Awareness
Times Newspaper by sources at State House who also added that President Koroma
had been first supposed to fly out to Nigeria on October 1st but this was later
shelved and the date postponed to October 4th (today).
Additionally, a diplomatic source informed Agence France Press (AFP) that
President Ernest Koroma upon arrival in Nigeria, will try and negotiate a
preferential oil deal with Nigeria, the world's seventh-largest petroleum
exporter.
"President Koroma will discuss the issue of a special concession from Nigeria to Sierra Leone which would reduce the prices of petroleum products in the country," the diplomat told AFP.
AFP further postulates that a gallon of petrol costs over four dollars (Le12,950) here in Sierra Leone whilst in neighbouring Liberia, it sells for just over three dollars. This reduced Liberia rate is reported to be due to the preferential deal clinched with Nigeria by President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf’s Government.
The ties between Sierra Leone and Nigeria go back a long way and there are reports that the also newly-elected President Yar'Adua of Nigeria who falls in the same age bracket as President Koroma will not shy off offering the petroleum deal if it should be requested for by President Koroma. It is on record that as an Opposition Leader back then, President Koroma was amongst the few Sierra Leonean dignitaries present at the Swearing-In ceremony of President Yar’Adua a few months back. Both the then-President Tejan Kabbah and his Vice President Solomon Berewa could not make the Swearing-In as they were on that same date, busy welcoming Tony Blair to Sierra Leone.
It is believed that Koroma held fruitful talks with Yar'Adua at that time which talks he would now build upon as not the Sierra Leone Opposition leader but the Sierra Leone President.
Despite the recent violence perpetuated by overzealous supporters of Ernest Koroma's All People's Congress (the APC) against the local Nigerian business population, Nigeria has already shown a strong inclination towards supporting the new Government of President Ernest Koroma. Two Nigerian Navy warships NNS Aradu and NNS Nwanba, arrived in Freetown last weekend and the Commanding Officers of the ships, Captains Johnson Olutoyin and Dapo Soneye invited Sierra Leoneans and Nigerians resident in Freetown onboard for series of activities.
Although President Koroma is yet to announce his Cabinet, which has resulted in a serious stalemate in government business, the newly elected President still enjoys a tremendous amount of goodwill from the local populace in the capital city of Freetown which remains a political stronghold of his ruling APC Party.
“If President Koroma can return from Nigeria with a package that will ensure a reduced cost of in the price of a gallon of fuel, even if he delays his Cabinet for another month, his popularity will continue to glide smoothly unabated,” a local political analyst stated upon being told the details of the upcoming Koroma trip.
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Subject: Re: Sierra Leone's Ernest Koroma to visit Nigeria's Yar'Adua
From: Med
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Date Posted: 03:59:47 10/04/07 ()
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“If President Koroma can return from Nigeria with a package that will ensure a
reduced cost of in the price of a gallon of fuel, even if he delays his Cabinet
for another month, his popularity will continue to glide smoothly unabated,” a
local political analyst stated upon being told the details of the upcoming
Koroma trip.
Sierra Leoneans are mostly naïve, I just can’t imagine such an analysis from
supposedly a local political analyst. Nigeria as a nation suffers fuel crises,
price of fuel globally is not determined by the Nigerian government, it’s not
within their competence, such is unfortunate, but we are talking about Africa,
where the foundation is destroyed and maintained by our leaders.
We should wake up to reality, or else we shall forever remain tools, in the
hands of people that think.
Subject: Re: Sierra Leone's Ernest Koroma to visit Nigeria's Yar'Adua
From: Rotorata
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Date Posted: 05:04:27 10/04/07 ()
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I don't intend to comment on the timing of EBK's trip to Nigeria but if he could
obtain a lower price for the purchasing of crude oil from Nigeria then that is
bound to reflect on the price of refined products (i.e. petrol & Kerosene) to
the final consumer. The Kenyan government already has such an agreement with
Nigeria to purchase crude oil at below market price and so does Liberia.
Nigeria's stance is to sell crude oil at reduced prices to some African countries to help cushion the effect of the increasing cost of purchasing oil in the global market, thus contributing to reduction of the balance of payment deficit of these struggling economies
De Tuareg
Subject: Re: Sierra Leone's Ernest Koroma to visit Nigeria's Yar'Adua
From: Med
To: All
Date Posted: 09:37:59 10/04/07 ()
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Rotorata, there are two things you should understand, i) the oil in Nigeria is
managed by foreign companies and not Nigeria ii) the price of oil is neither
determined by Nigeria or these foreign companies. To further enlighten your
understanding, I’ll advise that you read about OPEC, and resubmit your points.
On the other hand, there is a possibility that Nigeria can reduce or temporarily waive export tax, and not the generic ‘cost of refined products’ as asserted. I intentionally mentioned temporarily, so that you can understand the nature of preferential political business at play.
Locally, who manages the affairs of fuel; I mean the hauling to the country,
the state or [Nigerian] business men? I have no clue, again what are the
internal tariffs levied by customs, these are questions that we should answer
before asking for help or let the government reduce tax on fuel if not subside.
Subject: Ernest Koroma to hold talks with Nigerian president
From: freetong pikin
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Date Posted: 18:28:53 10/03/07 ()
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Sierra Leone's new President Ernest Bai Koroma will visit west African
powerhouse Nigeria on Thursday on an official visit, an African diplomatic
source said.
Koroma is due to hold talks with President Umaru Yar'Adua to boost ties between his impoverished country and the regional political giant.
The diplomat said Sierra Leone will try and negotiate a preferential oil deal with Nigeria, the world's seventh-largest petroleum exporter.
"President Koroma will discuss the issue of a special concession from Nigeria to Sierra Leone which would reduce the prices of petroleum products in the country," the source told AFP.
A gallon of petrol costs slightly over four dollars in Sierra Leone, yet its neighbour Liberia sells it for around three dollars thanks to the preferential deal clinched with Nigeria.
Koroma's won a closely-watched vote, seen as a test to determine if the war-wracked country had truly put behind a decade-long civil war which claimed 120,000 lives and left thousands of survivors without limbs.
Nigeria played a key role in helping end Sierra Leone's civil conflict, deploying thousands of troops under an 11,000-strong regional peacekeeping force.
© Copyright IC Publications 2007
Subject: Hey, hey, give me my car!
From: Bambay Lans Kamara
To: All
Date Posted: 17:50:07 10/03/07 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
Oops! Wrong post.
I am sorry for posting this nude celebrity site. I did not know until after I
have posted it. My good!
Subject: The Royal Dutch Airline
From: Bambay Lans Kamara
To: All
Date Posted: 17:40:51 10/03/07 ()
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The Royal Dutch Airline KLM.
Do not forget we live in a technology age, where there are videos and pictures
to tell the real story and many do have these videos particularly most Sierra
Leoneans in the New York, Washingto, Maryland and Virginia areas.
Don't fool yourself because I'm not.
Focus on the result. The end justifies the means. Fight like a soldier and let
the dead berry their dead.
A coward dies many a time before their actual death. The valient taste of death
but once.
Subject: HERE IS MY OWN CABINET
From: BRA ENVIABLE
To: All
Date Posted: 17:32:53 10/03/07 ()
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Message:
Since President Koroma it takes eternity for President Koroma to form a cabinet,
I have formed PART of my own diasporan cabinet. My cabinet is a combination of
diasporan and home-based Sierra Leoneans. Some of my Ministers may be
controversial, but I stand by my appointments until an employee lets me down
through theft, non-performance or acts designed to act against our national
interests. The retention or dismissal of employees will depend on PERFORMANCE,
INTEGRITY and RESPECT for Sierra Leoneans in the execution of daily duties.
Below is a cross-section of my cabinet. More appoints will follow in the months
head.
1. John Leigh—--------------------Vice President. I frequently disagree with
him, but he comes across as being very intelligent. Besides, I am yet to hear
CREDIBLE evidence of corruption against him. More impressive, he is bold,
assertive and last but not least, he knows how to defend our national interest.
He performed much better in Washington than the “Awujor”-making fools sent
overseas as ambassadors.
2. Jeppeh Londoh—---------------Minister of National Reconstruction. This ministry will serve us in post-war reconstruction. Ministries of Works, Transport and Communication have been abolished. This grand Ministry can perform their roles. More Ministries could bleed Sierra Leone dry of cash
3. Sengbe --------------------Minster of Education. He has the experience as
scholar, plus his classroom experience as lecturer
Kabs Kanu-------------Deputy Minister of Education
4- Knice-----------Minister of Interior and Advisor to the President
Lady J-----Minster of Social Welfare and National Rehabilitation. Deals with
providing qualitative life for amputees, raped women and the creation of social
programs to make war victims useful in our society.
Pateh Bah------------------------------------- {Former Student Union President, FBC and later employee, SLGOv. Until he lets me down, I will continue to trust him} Minister of Foreign Affairs
Haroun Boima {Of the Bo Town Fame. --------------------------Former activist, expelled from Mount Aureol by Stevens in 1985} Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs
Retired Brigadier-General Jusu Gottor----------------------------Minister of
Defence
Retired Brig. Gen Modibo Lymon-------------------Army Chief of Staff
KKW----------------Sierra Leone’s Ambassador to Canada
King Loggy C-----------Head of Immigration. {Sierra Leonean Passports are meant for Sierra Leoneans only. Passport 419ners will face a maximum jail time 12 yrs}
Mammy Blessing----------------Sierra Leone’s Ambassador to the United States
Tamba Juana {Former FBC Student, now head of Chancery, SL Embassy, Ethiopia} -----------------He will be my Aide-de-camp {ADC} to the President
Tom Nyuma-----------Head of Presidential Guards, charged with coordinating
security for cabinet Ministers
Mohamed Jalloh {Mohm}----------------------Minister of Finance
Minister of Energy and Power----------------------------Candid Opinion
Alieu Iscandari---Attorney-General and Advisor to the President on Legal and Constitutional Issues.
CPO Bundor {Based in Wellington} He will be sent to England for further training
and promoted to Inspector-General of Police
Sylvia Blyden---------------------------------Minister of Health.
Subject: Re: HERE IS MY OWN CABINET
From: M. Alieu Iscandari Esq
To: All
Date Posted: 20:26:24 10/03/07 ()
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Message:
Haroun Boima
Enviable Did you know that Haroun Boima is my cousin (Blood)?
Subject: Re: HERE IS MY OWN CABINET
From: alieu sesay
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Date Posted: 21:46:12 10/03/07 ()
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Message:
Then you Know Hawanatu and Fatty Boima.. Went to NUC with these two fine ladies.
Subject: Re: HERE IS MY OWN CABINET
From: M. Alieu Iscandari Esq
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Date Posted: 21:50:20 10/03/07 ()
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Message:
They are my cousins. Much younger than me and Haroun and jeneba though.
Subject: Re: HERE IS MY OWN CABINET
From: alieu sesay
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Date Posted: 21:52:39 10/03/07 ()
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Message:
Hawa is much older than me, but i was in the same Class as Fatty-BA Ed.. I
majored in economics.
Ar kin e-mail Hawa onces in a while at her UN email address.
You see how the world small?
Subject: Re: HERE IS MY OWN CABINET
From: M. Alieu Iscandari Esq
To: All
Date Posted: 01:58:47 10/04/07 ()
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Message:
well if Hawa ole pass you then you nar baba but as we kin say nar foulah tong "
Omo kaykayray kee sheree agba" Nar pekin dae turn big man. Nuff respect to you
bra. Hawa nar me lili cousin and proud to say it. The whole family Jeneba, Marda
(Late) Haroun, Hawa and Fatti we are very close knit. Hawa is based in Liberia
with the UN and doing quite fine. This just goes to show that we are all one
people or as my grandmother the late great matriach of the iscandari family "
Granny mariama Ajbabi Iscandari" would say, " de family small but ee big.
We are so interrelated with one another in sierra leone that it behoves us to start thinking GLOBALLY rather than LOCALLY.. iF YOU KNOW WHAT i MEAN.
One love and stay very Blessed.
Subject: Re: HERE IS MY OWN CABINET
From: Kalos
To: All
Date Posted: 08:56:34 10/04/07 ()
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Message:
This is refreshing; you just made my day!!! We need more of these exchanges.
Thanks to both Alieus. Now I know one of the Alieus NAR OKU PIKIN. Great to
know.
Subject: Re: HERE IS MY OWN CABINET
From: Koboko
To: All
Date Posted: 04:45:17 10/04/07 ()
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86.150.99.76
Message:
how are related to Alpha saidu bangura?
Subject: Re: HERE IS MY OWN CABINET
From: BRA ENVIABLE
To: All
Date Posted: 20:34:48 10/03/07 ()
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Message:
Alphaa Alieu, if Haroun is your cousin, then u nar mende man. Besides, u nar me
man for true. Haroun nar me bra, me Agba, en everything. Me nar chunneh for
Haroun. So u nar me possin. Horoun Boima is truly my man!!!!!
Subject: Re: HERE IS MY OWN CABINET- Haroun Boima
From: CHIEF BOMBORLAI
To: All
Date Posted: 06:23:00 10/04/07 ()
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Message:
The name Haroun Boima will always trigger positive emotions in my person. Haroun
Boima will remain my hero for life.
"MASS MOBILIZATION FOR RECONSTRUCTION...." - Haroun Boima
Subject: Re: HERE IS MY OWN CABINET
From: Alieu Iscandari Esq
To: All
Date Posted: 21:51:50 10/03/07 ()
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Message:
Me nar sa Lone man pa en if you nor believe watin ar say ask Haroun normor en ee
go tell you say me nar im bra for all seasons.
Subject: Re: HERE IS MY OWN CABINET
From: BRA ENVIABLE
To: All
Date Posted: 23:15:22 10/03/07 ()
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Message:
Alphaa Alieu, ar believe u, bra. I simply unearthed a Salone family tree by
joking about cabinet posts. Haroun nar me Agba in every way. Haroun's nick name
is "Mobilization for Reconstruction." If we ever meet in Sierra Leone, u owe me
a full cup of Poyo for being Haroun's man and not letting me know.
Peace out, Bra.
Subject: Re: HERE IS MY OWN CABINET
From: Alieu sesay
To: All
Date Posted: 07:46:27 10/04/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: 65.107.153.146.ptr.us.xo.net at 65.107.153.146
Message:
"Vote solidly for haroun Boima"..
Subject: Re: HERE IS MY OWN CABINET
From: Kabudu Gen
To: All
Date Posted: 20:03:26 10/03/07 ()
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Message:
Bra Enviable, I would make Alieu Sesay, Minister of Telecommunications. He seems
to be a bright guy..and Saddam Insane will be Director-General of Kissy Mental
Hospital and his deputy will be Bambay Lans Kamara.
Bai Bureh would be my Minister of Natural Reconstruction since he is a very
talented engineer.
Candid Opinion, minister of energy and power? I think not! It will be a waste of
his tremendous talents. I would make him Minister of Gutters and Garbage
Collection to clean up the horrendous gutters and filth in Freetown and Salone.
That will be a top gov position by the way. Candido will succeed with flying
colors, given his penchant for gutter politics!
Mammy Blessing as ambassador to Washington? Hey! Da man dae nar playa O. Ee go
pass Clinton with ee yone Monica Lewinsky. Nar me paddy, Ar know am well. How ee
worwor so, nar so ee lek woman!
Subject: Re: HERE IS MY OWN CABINET
From: Bai Bureh
To: All
Date Posted: 10:39:41 10/04/07 ()
Email Address: rastafari_ish@hotmail.com
Entered From: dator6071.161.gbgsd.se at 62.88.181.216
Message:
Kabudu thankx for the offer but I still prefer to be the minister of science and
technology because of my dream.
For your info I took my first degree in Asia and others in Europe.All along I
have been a silent spectator to what nationalism and patriotism are all about.I
have seen what development means and how to go about it.I have learned that a
country does not only need western technology to progress or develop; all is
required is appropriate technology.It is important to assess the needs of the
society and design and implement the technical education curriculum to meet
these needs. By so doing we can reduce to a great extent the import of
technology from wherever.
I am longing for that day when we will be producing machines and vehicles in Salone suitable for our needs; when our researchers in science will come up with good outcomes that we ourselves can use in production processes for the benefit of all Saloneans.
If I made minister of science and technology I will spend 70% of funds in promoting science and technology and providing motivation and awareness.
Subject: Re: HERE IS MY OWN CABINET
From: Candid Opinion
To: All
Date Posted: 09:28:49 10/04/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: ns.nucleusns2.com at 12.44.12.126
Message:
Kabudu Gen..
You are turning out to be an hypocrite after all..
YOu play the game that you accuse others of and play it well, sometimes even
better than us..
Classic yellow bellyism.. APC style..
We nor tiff.. we nor kill.. rebel war was kabbahs fault.. etc.. etc.. When
confronted..
Okay okay.. thats old records. .old news.. let tal kabout only past 10 years.
You call people names, call our party leaders and reps names.. Say we are corrupt without evidence, SLPP alagbas to travel fitty-fatta abroad to massage their bank accounts.. etc.. etc..
All i said was i am dissapointed in el PRESO's first 30 days..
And names is what i get from you..
Bad. .wicked.. vicious, toxic and caustic names..
While you go around pushing the vibe that miss blyden has taken over my party.
Just because as a concerned sierra leonean and an employee of the APC she thinks
ekutay is rearing its ugly head at NRA and it is not right..You slam her with
all kinds of vulgarity (no one calls for moderator).
Where is the balance..?
Stop crying when el preso koro is attacked.. he is a public official.. answerable to me.. i pay his salary..
His promise was first 100 days.. we are almost 33% in.
I thought failed promises where pushed over the balcony with SLPP?
Subject: Re: HERE IS MY OWN CABINET
From: Candid Opinion
To: All
Date Posted: 09:07:37 10/04/07 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
I thank you brother Enviable for the kind thoughts..
Unlike my fellow APC parliamentarians who lack decorum of parliamentus and its turning out to be they are the reason why it going to take a while for our country to have a government.. i would have to respectfully decline..
My calling in national service will have to remain at the parliamentary level.
I am a junior member of parliament and this is my first foray into national
politics, i hope to learn, absorb as much from this experience as i possibly
can.
I hope by then i would have proven beyond a reasonable doubt that it is by merit
and hard work a selection of this maginitude should be made.
I will gladly remain in my MP post since thats what the electorate had in mind when they elected me to represent them as thier MP.
Clamouring for cabinet position just because they want to be closer to the gravy is best left to the ministers on the other side of the aisle.
I thank you sir.
CandidO
Subject: Re: HERE IS MY OWN CABINET
From: Bankie Liberman
To: All
Date Posted: 16:57:37 10/04/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: gate02c.merckmedco.com at 167.211.190.2
Message:
Bra you nor get wef or better half. you seem so preoccupied with this. How
productive are you in your profession. Nor me man you passmark.
Subject: Re: HERE IS MY OWN CABINET
From: BRA ENVIABLE
To: All
Date Posted: 20:37:48 10/03/07 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
Kabudu, ar enjoy u choice of ministers. Mammy Blessing nar brainy chap. Ar go
sen am go Washington as ambassador. I will recall him after a year or so to
possibly head the Foreign Ministry.
Subject: Lakers Star Arrested In Georgia DUI Incident
From: Bambay Lans Kamara
To: All
Date Posted: 17:25:29 10/03/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: sccinstr194101.scc.losrios.edu at 165.196.194.101
Message:
Lakers Star Arrested In Georgia DUI Incident.
SLIDESHOW: 10 Sexy Bachelors, 10 Sexy Bachelorettes
Subject: How nar bad heart? U.S. sailor: Don't deport my wife
From: Bambay Lans Kamara
To: All
Date Posted: 17:20:22 10/03/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: sccinstr194101.scc.losrios.edu at 165.196.194.101
Message:
U.S. sailor: Don't deport my wife
JACKSONVILLE, Florida (CNN) -- Eduardo Gonzalez, a petty officer second class
with the U.S. Navy, is about to be deployed overseas for a third time. Making
his deployment even tougher is the fact his wife may not be around when he comes
back.
His wife faces deportation to Guatemala -- her home country that she hasn't seen since 1989. He also doesn't know what would happen to his young son, Eduardo Jr., if that happens.
"I like being in uniform and serving my country, but if she goes back I'm going to have to give it all up and just get out and take care of my son and get a job," he said.
"Defending the country that's trying to kick my family out is a thought that always runs through my mind."
Gonzalez, who works on helicopters that bring cargo, supplies and military personnel in and out of Iraq, testified before a House Judiciary Committee panel last month, detailing his situation and urging officials to consider some sort of policy to deal with cases like his, where military members' families could be deported while they're defending their country overseas. Watch "they're tearing families apart" »
"I want to serve my country 100 percent. But with this issue in the back of my mind, I feel I can't do that," he testified on September 6.
The U.S. military does not have a policy to deal with such cases. Each is handled case-by-case, not by the military, but by immigration authorities. The government doesn't have numbers on how many military members are in predicaments similar to Gonzalez's.
Immigration officials also said marrying a U.S. citizen does not mean the spouse is automatically entitled to U.S. citizenship or permanent legal status.
Lt. Col. Margaret Stock, a member of the U.S. Army Reserves who teaches immigration law at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, New York, said she believes there should be an overall policy dealing with the potential deportation of family members of active duty military members.
"You got to understand. When you're in a combat zone, you need to be focusing all of your energies on fighting the enemy. You can't be worried that your loved ones back home could be shipped off to a foreign country where you're never going to see them again," she said.
Stock also said the government is conflicted about how to treat such cases. On the one hand, the government is supposed to be providing military families with assistance, housing and other forms of benefits while their spouses are overseas. On the other hand, the same government is trying to deport the very same people.
"What's happening right now is, because of the dysfunction and complexity of our immigration laws, we've got people fighting overseas who are facing the impossible situation of having family members facing deportation back home," she said.
In Gonzalez's case, his wife, Mildred, came to the United States with her mother in 1989 when she was 5 years old. They were granted political asylum because of their status as war refugees from Guatemala.
In September 2000, Mildred's mother applied for legalization and included her daughter in that application. Her mother was granted legal status in July 2004, according to Gonzalez.
However, six weeks earlier, Gonzalez and Mildred got married, canceling Mildred's ability to apply for legal status through her mother because she was no longer an unmarried daughter under the age of 21. As a result, her legal status still remains in jeopardy.
A judge in June granted her a one-year extension to remain in the United States. If her legal status does not change by June 8, 2008, she will have 60 days to voluntarily leave the country or face deportation.
That's just fine, according to Mark Krikorian, the executive director of the Center for Immigration Studies, which lobbies for tougher laws on illegal immigration.
"What you're talking about is amnesty for illegal immigrants who have a relative in the armed forces, and that's just outrageous," he said. "What we're talking about here is letting lawbreakers get away with their actions just because they have a relative in the military. ... There's no justification for that kind of policy."
Gonzalez said that type of response is unjustified. "I'm trying to make his country better -- my country better -- and it should be her country too."
Gonzalez himself entered the country legally, crossing the Mexican border with his family when he was about 10. He joined the Navy as a so-called "green-card sailor" and became a U.S. citizen in July 2005. The military does accept some immigrants who aren't U.S. citizens.
"I understand the laws have to be followed and guidelines and a system must be maintained, but on the other token, there are times when the situation is just out of their reach," Gonzalez said.
His wife, Mildred, added, "We didn't come here to break the law. We just want to feel safe and have a home just like everybody else."
U.S. Army Sgt. Emmanuel Woko, a member of the Army's 2nd Brigade, 1st Infantry Division who faces his third tour in Iraq, understands just how Gonzalez and his family feel.His wife and children could be sent back to Nigeria.
"My heart is bleeding on the thought that my wife could be deported back to Nigeria while I am deployed in Iraq," he said. "I am extremely distressed and distracted by the thought."
That's a sentiment echoed by Gonzalez: "We are not asking for anything. We are just asking for our families to stay with us."
Subject: Cocorioko editor reduced to a pathetic sycophant
From: Leonean
To: All
Date Posted: 17:15:08 10/03/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: 71-215-198-118.mpls.qwest.net at 71.215.198.118
Message:
HOW STEEPLY DO THE MIGHTY FALL. THE ONCE GREAT KABS KANU IS SO DESPERATE TO BE
REWARDED THAT HE IS NOW LOSING IT. JUST READ THE SYCOPHANTIC CRAP THAT IS
TODAY'S HEADLINE???
HAPPY BIRTHDAY , HIS EXCELLENCYThe Cocorioko Newspaper Company of Sierra
Leone Limited extend happy birthday greetings to His Excellency the President of
the Republic of Sierra Leone, Mr. Ernest Bai Koroma.
You have come to our beloved nation like a Daniel Come to Redemption . We
believe that you are God-sent to lead our nation out of the morass of
socio-economic and political backwardness .The hard-earned victory you scored at
the polls against all insurmountable odds attest to the presence of the Hand of
God in your election.
As you celebrate your first birthday in office as the Head of State of a nation
capable of achieving greatness , we pray that God's blessings and his guidance
will always be with you as you lead this nation .We pray that the Lord surrounds
you with God-fearing men and women you will help to give you the best suitable
advice to the nation . As a God-fearing man yourself, we pray that you enjoy
many more birthdays and that God blesses you, your wife children and other
members of your family, in all your endeavours.
Subject: Re: Cocorioko editor reduced to a pathetic sycophant
From: Thomas Gogla
To: All
Date Posted: 18:32:28 10/03/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: 0-2pool4-9.nas32.newark2.nj.us.da.qwest.net at 65.131.4.9
Message:
I am an SLPP supporter but very frankly, I see no reason for this obsession with
the COCORIOKO Editor. Kabs Kanu is a very good journalist and Cocorioko is the
best newspaper reporting news on Sierra Leone .I do not agree with you that the
Editor has become a sycophant. If he has , what do we say about Standard Times,
Patriotic Vanguard , New Citizen that are all writing complimentary articles
about the new President ? Let us stop this criticism here, criticism there and
blaming of people. Let us accept our defeat and plan for 2012. We were beaten
because we caused our own defeat. If we had won, don't you think Unity ,
Awareness Times, Democrat , Independent Observer would have been writing the
same thing about Solo B ?
Subject: Re: Cocorioko editor reduced to a pathetic sycophant
From: Best What????????????
To: All
Date Posted: 18:37:17 10/03/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: ac8dcf58.ipt.aol.com at 172.141.207.88
Message:
?????????????????????
Kabs Kanu is a very good journalist and Cocorioko is the best newspaper reporting news on Sierra Leone
????????????????????? are u from outer space or what mister????
Subject: Re: Cocorioko editor reduced to a pathetic sycophant
From: Thomas Gogla
To: All
Date Posted: 18:47:08 10/03/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: 0-2pool4-9.nas32.newark2.nj.us.da.qwest.net at 65.131.4.9
Message:
I am not going to allow my pro-SLPP bias to stop me from telling the truth.You
guys have become pathetic whimps on this forum ,and you are making SLPP look
ugly. Name any newspaper that writes news with such beauty and depth ? Was it
not through the same Cocorioko that we SLPP got the best coverage during Solo
B's sensitization trips to the diaspora ? We lost the elections, yes but it is
not by calling white black that anybody will take us seriously.
Subject: Re: Cocorioko editor reduced to a pathetic sycophant
From: nico
To: All
Date Posted: 06:13:12 10/04/07 ()
Email Address: nicoconsult@hotmail.com
Entered From: host86-146-110-205.range86-146.btcentralplus.com at
86.146.110.205
Message:
Thomas:Thank you for being honest about the SLPP defeat. I think people like you
need to put your views to the SLPP leadership. The SLPP is its own worst enemy.
Here is the oldest political party that has twice given away election on the
plate to the oposition through lack of directions and disunity.
Genuine SLPP supporters have long identified serious weaknesses in the party, one of which is leadership failure.
The SLPP should ensure in the future that they are led by the right leadership and should be bold enough to challenge with the view to replace a leader who becomes an electoral liability and not wait to be led in to a political oblivion. I became a constant critics of the leadership because I seriously believed they would lose the election unless they change their ways. They did not.
I invested a lot of my time and resources in the SLPP, but like well meaning supporters, the sycophants on the ground in Sierra Leone considered us a threat to their position and never listened to us.
Subject: Re: Cocorioko editor reduced to a pathetic sycophant
From: Brabanxx
To: All
Date Posted: 20:49:56 10/03/07 ()
Email Address: Brabanxx@aol.com
Entered From: pool-72-82-215-75.cmdnnj.east.verizon.net at 72.82.215.75
Message:
It is encouraging to note that the SLPP party can boast of men like HE John
Leigh and Thomas Gogla. Despite all the mud slinging in this forum, you guys
have been civil,honest,and down to earth. You've always called a spade a spade
and nothing less. If only we can maintain the type of discourse exemplified by
these gentlemen we'll learn a lot instead of going "Insane"
Subject: Re: Cocorioko editor reduced to a pathetic sycophant
From: OK. You are forgiven
To: All
Date Posted: 18:57:19 10/03/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: ac8dcf58.ipt.aol.com at 172.141.207.88
Message:
Ha ha ha. Good one.
Now I know you are a joker. I thought you were serious before. I did not know you were only joking.
Subject: Re: Cocorioko editor reduced to a pathetic sycophant
From: Tom Gogla
To: All
Date Posted: 19:23:26 10/03/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: aca44cfb.ipt.aol.com at 172.164.76.251
Message:
It is you who is joking. I mean everything I am saying.
Subject: Re: Cocorioko editor reduced to a pathetic sycophant
From: SANTOS MANGA
To: All
Date Posted: 18:27:44 10/03/07 ()
Email Address: santos@aol.com
Entered From: at 86.156.235.37
Message:
I saw this coming long before most people on this forum. If anyone think I am
wrong, ask cocorioko to publish my past postings to this forum. In fact some
direct questions to cocorioko were never answered. Sierra Leone at the end is
bigger than anything. Love our Salone YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
Subject: Re: Cocorioko editor reduced to a pathetic sycophant
From: Bad Heart Leonean
To: All
Date Posted: 18:23:21 10/03/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: pool-151-202-41-6.ny325.east.verizon.net at 151.202.41.6
Message:
Moderator, please take note of the gratuitous personal attacks on people simply
for stating their opinions. We are trying to maintain a modicum of decorum on
this forum, in light of your admonishment for civility on the boards. Please
note that Leonean is beginning to play with matches again.
Leonean, if you do not mend your obnoxious obsession with Kabs, some of us who
admire this good man will retaliate. Stop now or get ready for the intellectual
gbose-gbose you really cannot win, twit!
Subject: Re: Cocorioko editor reduced to a pathetic sycophant
From: Candid Opinion
To: All
Date Posted: 19:21:27 10/03/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: ip68-100-48-137.dc.dc.cox.net at 68.100.48.137
Message:
gratuitous personal attacks -- Bad heart
I know, you have been maintaining your modicum of decorum ....(almost sounds
like an interior design degree) even when words like worworliwor..
Ignoramus, imbecile, parlor wife all used against poeple you did not care about
HERE..
But oh.. now its your man the hibament touch...
Its time to pull the modicums of decoramiums...
Moderator should intervene.
Where is the balance?
Subject: Re: Cocorioko editor reduced to a pathetic sycophant
From: Kabudu Gen
To: All
Date Posted: 20:15:33 10/03/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: pool-151-202-41-6.ny325.east.verizon.net at 151.202.41.6
Message:
I will let this one slide, buddy. We will collide again in another thicket of
the boards, son. I am a Navy Seal, you are a chiefdom N.A. Gbada...you are in
trouble boy!
Subject: Re: Cocorioko editor reduced to a pathetic sycophant
From: Babby Bobby Bab
To: All
Date Posted: 17:27:09 10/03/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: ac8dcf58.ipt.aol.com at 172.141.207.88
Message:
Please forgive him for he know not what he is doing.
He has totally lost it. Now, him and his gang of lovelorn crusaders blames Sylvia Blyden for anything and everything because she still operates the Numero Uno Sierra Leone newspaper.
Go ahead, BAN me Cocorioko.
Subject: Re: Cocorioko editor reduced to a pathetic sycophant
From: source
To: All
Date Posted: 17:25:18 10/03/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: 184-67-ftth.onsneteindhoven.nl at 88.159.67.184
Message:
The editorial is an enlightened piece. Why? It shows that a dying nation has
given their destiny to a Man of high integrity. Even newspapers in the civilised
world glorify the strength of honest politicians.
There is a complimentary editorial in the art of journalism. Even SLPP
antagonists have send echoed their congratulatory messages. What is wrong to
express felicitation to a leader that epitomises change?
Unlike, Cocorioko,Appalled awarenesstimes web is stink with patronage
journalism.
Subject: Re: Cocorioko editor reduced to a pathetic sycophant
From: Thomas Gogla
To: All
Date Posted: 18:41:59 10/03/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: 0-2pool4-9.nas32.newark2.nj.us.da.qwest.net at 65.131.4.9
Message:
Awareness Times is writing what it believes.Cocorioko is writing what it
believes. We have to get off the backs of journalists and allow them to do their
work. Every newspaper has a leaning. In the UK, you have conservative and
liberal newspapers and every one supports the Prime Minister of their
persuasion. I like to read cocorioko, because, to me, it is the best newspaper
.Period. I know the information is heavily APC leaning, but are the
Democrat,Awareness Times, Unity not leaning towards SLPP ?
Subject: Re: Cocorioko editor reduced to a pathetic sycophant
From: Bugsyb
To: All
Date Posted: 02:21:36 10/04/07 ()
Email Address: aburneynic@yahoo.co.uk
Entered From: ac8d8057.ipt.aol.com at 172.141.128.87
Message:
You do not seem to know what the work of a Jounalist's work is. I love reading
Cocorioko but was very disappointed with what was, it pains me to say, a very
psycophantic article. We must move away from this kind of Soviet style
propaganda. If you want to send Birthday Wishes to someone, BUY THEM A CARD!
Subject: It is just an Internet forum; it. History of the Internet.
From: Bambay Lans Kamara
To: All
Date Posted: 17:12:42 10/03/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: sccinstr194101.scc.losrios.edu at 165.196.194.101
Message:
Greetings my brothers and sisters. It has taken many turns but the reason is not
to fool any one, we just did not know period! In this regard therefore, as many
people have been trying to fool others, wishing to find what is wrong, I say to
those, my sympathy. Read about the origins of the Internet, who was involved in
it and continue to leanr because this is just a forum out of billions of forums;
so to try to prove that one person is not intelligent is in itself rubish and
ignorant:
"Three terminals and an ARPA
Advanced Research Projects Agency was renamed to Defense Advanced Research
Projects Agency (DARPA) in 1972. A fundamental pioneer in the call for a global
network, J.C.R. Licklider, articulated the idea in his January 1960 paper,
Man-Computer Symbiosis.
"A network of such [computers], connected to one another by wide-band
communication lines" which provided "the functions of present-day libraries
together with anticipated advances in information storage and retrieval and
[other] symbiotic functions. "—J.C.R. Licklider[1]
In October 1962, Licklider was appointed head of the United States Department of
Defense's DARPA information processing office, and formed an informal group
within DARPA to further computer research. As part of the information processing
office's role, three network terminals had been installed: one for System
Development Corporation in Santa Monica, one for Project Genie at the University
of California, Berkeley and one for the Multics project SHOPPING at the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Licklider's need for
inter-networking would be made evident by the problems this caused.
"For each of these three terminals, I had three different sets of user
commands. So if I was talking online with someone at S.D.C. and I wanted to talk
to someone I knew at Berkeley or M.I.T. about this, I had to get up from the
S.D.C. terminal, go over and log into the other terminal and get in touch with
them.
I said,it's obvious what to do (But I don't want to do it): If you have these
three terminals, there ought to be one terminal that goes anywhere you want to
go where you have interactive computing. That idea is the ARPAnet." -Robert W.
Taylor, co-writer with Licklider of "The Computer as a Communications Device",
in an interview with the New York Times[2]
[edit] Packet Switching
Main article: Packet switching
At the tip of the inter-networking problem lay the issue of connecting separate
physical networks to form one logical network, with much wasted capacity inside
the assorted separate network. During the 1960s, Donald Davies (NPL), Paul Baran
(RAND Corporation), and Leonard Kleinrock (MIT) developed and implemented packet
switching. The notion that the Internet was developed to survive a nuclear
attack has its roots in the early theories developed by RAND, but is an urban
legend, not supported by any Internet Engineering Task Force or other document.
Early networks used for the command and control of nuclear forces were message
switched, not packet-switched, although current strategic military networks are,
indeed, packet-switching and connectionless. Baran's research had approached
packet switching from studies of decentralisation to avoid combat damage
compromising the entire network.[3]
[edit] Networks that led to the Internet
[edit] ARPANET
Main article: ARPANET
Len Kleinrock and the first IMP.[4]Promoted to the head of the information
processing office at DARPA, Robert Taylor intended to realize Licklider's ideas
of an interconnected networking system. Bringing in Larry Roberts from MIT, he
initiated a project to build such a network. The first ARPANET link was
established between the University of California, Los Angeles and the Stanford
Research Institute on 29 November 1969. By 5 December 1969, a 4-node network
was connected by adding the University of Utah and the University of California,
Santa Barbara. Building on ideas developed in ALOHAnet, the ARPANET started in
1972 and was growing rapidly, by 1981 the number of hosts had grown to 213, with
a new host being added approximately every twenty days.[5][6]
ARPANET became the technical core of what would become the Internet, and a primary tool in developing the technologies used. ARPANET development was centered around the Request for Comments (RFC) process, still used today for proposing and distributing Internet Protocols and Systems. RFC 1, entitled "Host Software", was written by Steve Crocker from the University of California, Los Angeles, and published on April 7, 1969. These early years were documented in the 1972 film Computer Networks: The Heralds of Resource Sharing.
International collaborations on ARPANET were sparse. For various political reasons, European developers were concerned with developing the X.25 networks. Notable exceptions were the Norwegian Seismic Array (NORSAR) in 1972, followed in 1973 by Sweden with satellite links to the Tanum Earth Station and University College London.
[edit] X.25 and public access
Main articles: X.25, Bulletin board system, and FidoNet
Following on from ARPA's research, packet switching network standards were
developed by the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) in the form of X.25
and related standards. In 1974, X.25 formed the basis for the SERCnet network
between British academic and research sites, which later became JANET. The
initial ITU Standard on X.25 was approved in March 1976. This standard was based
on the concept of virtual circuits.
The British Post Office, Western Union International and Tymnet collaborated to create the first international packet switched network, referred to as the International Packet Switched Service (IPSS), in 1978. This network grew from Europe and the US to cover Canada, Hong Kong and Australia by 1981. By the 1990s it provided a worldwide networking infrastructure.[7]
Unlike ARPAnet, X.25 was also commonly available for business use. Telenet offered its Telemail electronic mail service, but this was oriented to enterprise use rather than the general email of ARPANET.
The first dial-in public networks used asynchronous TTY terminal protocols to reach a concentrator operated by the public network. Some public networks, such as CompuServe used X.25 to multiplex the terminal sessions into their packet-switched backbones, while others, such as Tymnet, used proprietary protocols. In 1979, CompuServe became the first service to offer electronic mail capabilities and technical support to personal computer users. The company broke new ground again in 1980 as the first to offer real-time chat with its CB Simulator. There were also the America Online (AOL) and Prodigy dial in networks and many bulletin board system (BBS) networks such as FidoNet. FidoNet in particular was popular amongst hobbyist computer users, many of them hackers and amateur radio operators."
Subject: LATEST WAHALA: PMDC APC might fall out over minister posts
From: News Bearer
To: All
Date Posted: 16:50:59 10/03/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: ac8dcf58.ipt.aol.com at 172.141.207.88
Message:
Margai wants 5 Cabinet posts and 5 Deputy Minister posts but Ernest says he will
only offer him 3 Cabinet and 3 deputy minister plus 1 ambassador and a few
overseas embassy positions like press attaches. Goodbye to Sorie Fofana job as
one PMDC is already eyeing it.
Subject: Re: LATEST WAHALA: PMDC APC might fall out over minister
posts
From: POLITICAL
To: All
Date Posted: 18:46:29 10/03/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: smtpgateway.azdes.gov at 207.108.136.243
Message:
Where did you get this info? Did you know there was a deal even before APC/PMDC
announced their alliance for the run-off. This deal never in danger. Guys, stop
blaspheming. I know the next time you write, you will associate the delay in
cabinet appointment to this phony assertions.
Subject: Re: LATEST WAHALA: PMDC APC might fall out over minister
posts
From: SANTOS MANGA
To: All
Date Posted: 18:30:41 10/03/07 ()
Email Address: santos@aol.com
Entered From: at 86.156.235.37
Message:
I AM NOT SURPRISED. ARE YOU?
Subject: Re: LATEST WAHALA: PMDC APC might fall out over minister
posts
From: Kabudu Gen
To: All
Date Posted: 20:21:34 10/03/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: pool-151-202-41-6.ny325.east.verizon.net at 151.202.41.6
Message:
Santos, don't hyperventilate over this falsity spread by the News Bearer. Ain't
gonna be a rupture in the APC/PMDC coalition...only in the ranka hopes of the
SLPP sour grapers.
Subject: Mes Amis
From: Ali Hajji Cheek
To: All
Date Posted: 15:41:26 10/03/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 198.85.63.254
Message:
I'd like to give a big shout-out to my brothers who are now in the opposition
"socking" it to the "pardners" under the red sun on this forum.
Howdy, Saddam Insane!!
Howdy! Candid Opinion.
Howdy, Alieu Sesay!!
Howdy to all the mighty men/women still sitting atop the palm tree socking it to the hombres in the red sun. Please keep the faith, and NEVER give up in the face of adversity especially way tugudu hemor day nar the forum.
Lamina Poyo ehn Medusa cam nar Tong, den tink say nar Poyo bar dem cam to. Dem forget say for run contri nor tan lek for sell insurance, ehn blood diamond to illiterate pipul dem, ehn greedy yankee dem.
Hermorr Poyo nor even know how for form ee yone team taye now. Day baige we nimisa dem for stay ehn hol the fort. Saro pipul, enti unu wan change? Nar now unu feel ahm.
Subject: Re: Mes Amis
From: alieu sesay
To: All
Date Posted: 21:58:38 10/03/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: c-75-66-114-24.hsd1.tn.comcast.net at 75.66.114.24
Message:
We will not stand by while the country RUNS without a Government..
Thanks for compliments BRA
Subject: Re: Mes Amis
From: Kabudu Gen
To: All
Date Posted: 22:48:33 10/03/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: pool-151-202-41-6.ny325.east.verizon.net at 151.202.41.6
Message:
Et tu Alieu?
Much respect to you bra...but please cut the sensational talking points peddled
by the less illuminated in your party.
Cheers!
Subject: Re: Mes Amis
From: Alieu sesay
To: All
Date Posted: 07:44:35 10/04/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: 65.107.153.146.ptr.us.xo.net at 65.107.153.146
Message:
Gen! Sensational talking points they MAY be but, they have a right as Sierra
Leoneans to make whatever point they deem fit to make. I have no POWER/authority
to stop someone from speaking their mind...By the way thanks for making me
Minister of Telecommunications.
Subject: The whereabout of Henrietta Vandy
From: Eddid Grant
To: All
Date Posted: 15:28:16 10/03/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 78.146.233.176
Message:
Is Henrietta Vandy also vying for cabinet position? thus her dissappearance cast
some doubt.
Common Henrietta where are you?
I'm feeling flirty.
Subject: Re: The whereabout of Henrietta Vandy
From: Candid Opinion
To: All
Date Posted: 16:12:02 10/03/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: ns.nucleusns2.com at 12.44.12.126
Message:
I thought you where feeling flirty..?
What changed all of a sudden..?
|sound lek eddie murphy|
HE HE HE HE HE
Subject: Re: The whereabout of Henrietta Vandy
From: Eddie Grant
To: All
Date Posted: 16:26:45 10/03/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 78.146.233.176
Message:
A man have evry right to change his mind.
And don't dwell on this topic it'll not bear good fruits. I know where you're heading.
Anyway, Candido take a break from this political tearaway, it's depleting a lot of energy from you lately.
No hard feeling stay blessed.
Subject: Re: The whereabout of Henrietta Vandy
From: Mammy Blessing
To: All
Date Posted: 16:05:54 10/03/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: pool-151-202-41-6.ny325.east.verizon.net at 151.202.41.6
Message:
Sorry Eddid, Henrietta Vandy was a sarcastic moniker I used during the campaign
debates. She is now retired.
Subject: Re: The whereabout of Henrietta Vandy
From: Eddie Grant
To: All
Date Posted: 16:08:17 10/03/07 ()
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So I see I really loved her contribution
Thanks for that and stay blessed.
Subject: Please Tell The Webmaster For The Nation website To UpDate
From: Abdul Bundu Kamara
To: All
Date Posted: 15:24:21 10/03/07 ()
Email Address: bunduka3@yahoo.com
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Message:
I found it very difficult to understand why the StateHouse website which surpose
to be the nation website is still not yet been up-date. Please inform the
webmaster to do up-date upon the new changes we have in the country for people
to know around the world.
Please Mr. Webmaster check yourself and do your work well the era of badboys is
over.
Subject: Re: Please Tell The Webmaster For The Nation website To
UpDate
From: POLITICAL
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Date Posted: 18:48:00 10/03/07 ()
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The website is also going thru a transition.
Subject: U.S. sailor: Don't deport my wife
From: Bambay Lans Kamara
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Date Posted: 14:41:55 10/03/07 ()
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JACKSONVILLE, Florida (CNN) -- Eduardo Gonzalez, a petty officer second class
with the U.S. Navy, is about to be deployed overseas for a third time. Making
his deployment even tougher is the fact his wife may not be around when he comes
back.
His wife faces deportation to Guatemala -- her home country that she hasn't seen since 1989. He also doesn't know what would happen to his young son, Eduardo Jr., if that happens.
"I like being in uniform and serving my country, but if she goes back I'm going to have to give it all up and just get out and take care of my son and get a job," he said.
"Defending the country that's trying to kick my family out is a thought that always runs through my mind."
Gonzalez, who works on helicopters that bring cargo, supplies and military
personnel in and out of Iraq, testified before a House Judiciary Committee panel
last month, detailing his situation and urging officials to consider some sort
of policy to deal with cases like his, where military members' families could be
deported while they're defending their country overseas.
"I want to serve my country 100 percent. But with this issue in the back of my
mind, I feel I can't do that," he testified on September 6.
The U.S. military does not have a policy to deal with such cases. Each is handled case-by-case, not by the military, but by immigration authorities. The government doesn't have numbers on how many military members are in predicaments similar to Gonzalez's.
Immigration officials also said marrying a U.S. citizen does not mean the spouse is automatically entitled to U.S. citizenship or permanent legal status.
Lt. Col. Margaret Stock, a member of the U.S. Army Reserves who teaches immigration law at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, New York, said she believes there should be an overall policy dealing with the potential deportation of family members of active duty military members.
"You got to understand. When you're in a combat zone, you need to be focusing all of your energies on fighting the enemy. You can't be worried that your loved ones back home could be shipped off to a foreign country where you're never going to see them again," she said.
Stock also said the government is conflicted about how to treat such cases. On the one hand, the government is supposed to be providing military families with assistance, housing and other forms of benefits while their spouses are overseas. On the other hand, the same government is trying to deport the very same people.
"What's happening right now is, because of the dysfunction and complexity of our immigration laws, we've got people fighting overseas who are facing the impossible situation of having family members facing deportation back home," she said.
In Gonzalez's case, his wife, Mildred, came to the United States with her mother in 1989 when she was 5 years old. They were granted political asylum because of their status as war refugees from Guatemala.
In September 2000, Mildred's mother applied for legalization and included her daughter in that application. Her mother was granted legal status in July 2004, according to Gonzalez.
However, six weeks earlier, Gonzalez and Mildred got married, canceling Mildred's ability to apply for legal status through her mother because she was no longer an unmarried daughter under the age of 21. As a result, her legal status still remains in jeopardy.
A judge in June granted her a one-year extension to remain in the United States. If her legal status does not change by June 8, 2008, she will have 60 days to voluntarily leave the country or face deportation.
That's just fine, according to Mark Krikorian, the executive director of the Center for Immigration Studies, which lobbies for tougher laws on illegal immigration.
"What you're talking about is amnesty for illegal immigrants who have a relative in the armed forces, and that's just outrageous," he said. "What we're talking about here is letting lawbreakers get away with their actions just because they have a relative in the military. ... There's no justification for that kind of policy."
Gonzalez said that type of response is unjustified. "I'm trying to make his country better -- my country better -- and it should be her country too."
Gonzalez himself entered the country legally, crossing the Mexican border with his family when he was about 10. He joined the Navy as a so-called "green-card sailor" and became a U.S. citizen in July 2005. The military does accept some immigrants who aren't U.S. citizens.
"I understand the laws have to be followed and guidelines and a system must be maintained, but on the other token, there are times when the situation is just out of their reach," Gonzalez said.
His wife, Mildred, added, "We didn't come here to break the law. We just want to feel safe and have a home just like everybody else."
U.S. Army Sgt. Emmanuel Woko, a member of the Army's 2nd Brigade, 1st Infantry Division who faces his third tour in Iraq, understands just how Gonzalez and his family feel. His wife and children could be sent back to Nigeria.
"My heart is bleeding on the thought that my wife could be deported back to Nigeria while I am deployed in Iraq," he said. "I am extremely distressed and distracted by the thought."
That's a sentiment echoed by Gonzalez: "We are not asking for anything. We are just asking for our families to stay with us." E-
Subject: US trains on accountability & governance
From: Bambay Lans Kamara
To: All
Date Posted: 14:32:14 10/03/07 ()
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Sierra Leone has taken part in this months multi regional training program
organized by the Mississippi Consumption International Development sponsored by
the state department of U.S.
This was disclosed to the press by the representative from Kenema who
represented
Sierra Leone Elogima Sam.
He says the training program brought together participants from seventeen
countries in Africa, Middle East, South and Central Africa with the aim of
strengthening the accountability in governance and public sectors.
Mr. Sam said the training covered so many issues such as International efforts
in combating corruption, financial management, and access to public information,
procurement, social justice and judicial conduct.
However Mr. Sam has pleaded with the United States Embassy in Sierra Leone to
link some city councils in the US with the city councils in Sierra Leone.
He says his participation in the program and other colleagues was to take a
front stage in the fight against corruption and social justice in their various
countries or origin.
Subject: NRA workers to be sacked
From: Sadam Insane
To: All
Date Posted: 14:26:03 10/03/07 ()
Email Address: sorba_1@yahoo.com
Entered From: at 209.116.81.187
Message:
As the All Peoples Congress continue their witch hunt against SLPP members,
reports from that reputable institution indicate that many employees stand the
chance of losing their jobs. These workers according to reports are to be
replaced by relatives and supporters of APC stalwarts most of whom do not even
have the acumen but want to work in some of these institutions because their
party is in power. About 68 workers in all are reportedly said to be lined up
for replacement most of whom are either south-easterners or sympathizers of the
opposition SLPP.
Posted by Awarenesstimes.
Subject: Re: NRA workers to be sacked
From: Bonthe Pikin
To: All
Date Posted: 15:54:46 10/03/07 ()
Email Address: bontilaynga@gmail.com
Entered From: 218-101-100-62.dialup.clear.net.nz at 218.101.100.62
Message:
I am terribly sorry for the Editor of Awareness Times because he/she may soon
end up in court defending witch-hunting stories against SLPP members.The
underlined word here is WITCH-HUNT. Does Awareness Times have any evidence of
APC witch-hunting SLPP members? The honeymoon will soon be over and believe me
someone would pay for this recklessness. Nobody has made Sylvia into a mouth
piece for SOUTH-EASTERNERS. ENOUGH IS ENOUGH-WE ARE TIRED OF HER ADVOCACY.
This was the same South-Easterners that she ganged up with RUF/AFRC against. She is on record to have called KABBAH and BEREWA "Dog pikin dem' and SLPP a " useless party full of power hungry thugs".
What she did for SLPP during this elections is enough. We can no longer allow a useless whimp and unprincipled wretch to divide us. Sierra Leone is one country and we are one people. South-Easssterners were much part of APC-I and played a pivotal role in what happended under that regime. APC won because of South-Eastern alliance so the idea of going after SOUTH-EASTERS is just part of SYLVIA's diabolic plan to sow the seed of discord.
Finally, She called NPA a PRESTIGIOUS INSTITUTION. PRESTIGIOUS indeed-I rest my case.
Subject: Re: NRA workers to be sacked
From: Kabudu Gen
To: All
Date Posted: 16:19:36 10/03/07 ()
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Message:
This woman, this witch who has annointed herself the champion and leader of the
SLPP, is a dangerous imbecile who will not rest until she sparks a tribal war in
Sierra Leone. This is not an issue of free speech. It is a case of wilfully
pouring petrol on tribal relations. You fire a bunch ofcorrupt officials and it
is a witch hunt against a region? I know that we support different parties but
no Sierra Leonean will want the country to return to conflict. I hope Sylvia
Wicked gets dragged to court for screaming fire in a crowded movie theater!
Subject: Re: NRA workers to be sacked
From: Candid Opinion
To: All
Date Posted: 16:31:14 10/03/07 ()
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Message:
How about you screeming
'You fire a bunch ofcorrupt officials and it is a witch hunt against a region'
Where should you be tried..?
So we are assuming just because they are from the southeast and working for NRA so therefore corrupt?
Who mentioned bunch of corrupt anywhere.. no one gave a reason for a bunch of southeasterners been fire, sack..no due cause, no independent evaluating..
Until a valid reason is given.. the firing is open to speculations, even wild ones as sylvia's.
We are all alike my brother.. she just reaches more people and irks twice as much.
We should encourage your party to go by the book to mitigate wild imaginations..and not create the impression of witch hunt..
Subject: Re: NRA workers to be sacked
From: Babby Booby Bob
To: All
Date Posted: 16:41:54 10/03/07 ()
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Message:
The attackers have left out a very important part of the Awareness Times report.
It was culled from another local newspaper and brought online:
Awareness Times News Briefs from Sierra Leone
By Awareness Times
Oct 3, 2007, 17:16 Email this article
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NEWS BRIEFS ARE SUMMARIES OF REPORTS CULLED FROM OTHER LOCAL NEWSPAPERS FOR THE
BENEFIT OF OUR ONLINE READERS
"MPs must remain in the House," - H E.
Reports from State House intimate that the president is not happy with the behaviour of certain MPs. These people are said to be lobbying to leave parliament for executive positions. They are lobbying to be appointed for approval to become ministers. The majority leader in parliament is reportedly insisting that the president allows MPs who so wish to become ministers to be nominated for approval by the House.
NRA workers to be sacked
As the All Peoples Congress continue their witch hunt against SLPP members, reports from that reputable institution indicate that many employees stand the chance of losing their jobs. These workers according to reports are to be replaced by relatives and supporters of APC stalwarts most of whom do not even have the acumen but want to work in some of these institutions because their party is in power. About 68 workers in all are reportedly said to be lined up for replacement most of whom are either south-easterners or sympathizers of the opposition SLPP.
APC exonerates Burkina Faso
A pronouncement reportedly made by the APC presidential spokesman purporting that the West African country of Burkina Faso played no part in aiding the former RUF fighters in Sierra Leone has been received with shock and disbelief from a reasonable number of people. The rebel war that started in March 1991 in a small border village of Bomaru in the Kailahun district was propelled by rebel recruits from Burkina Faso. For the spokesman to exonerate that country when victims have barely managed to heal their wounds is viewed as being rather unfortunate and disheartening.
Police in favour of APC supporters’ hooliganism
Report from Waterloo rural western area say a senior police officer who openly boasts as a staunch APC supporter is said to be meddling in court proceeding in that township. The LUC or Local Unit Commander is reported to have taken upon himself to release a remand prisoner without the approval of the magistrate and court officials. This same remand prisoner was charged to court for harassment and intimidation of SLPP sympathizers in that area.
Ballanta Academy observes Int. Day of Music
The International Music Day initiated in 1975 to encourage the promotion of musical art among all sections of society was celebrated on Monday 1st October by the only music academy in Sierra Leone Ballanta Academy. The celebration reportedly started with a procession through the main streets of Freetown followed by cultured music parade and music performances at Liverpool Street. According to the director of the Academy, October 1 was dedicated as international music day by UNESCO as the day to spare time to think about how music is important in our lives.
"Our plane did not crash," Bellview
Contrary to media reports that flight B3-259 owned by Bellview airline crashed at the Lungi international airport, a press release reportedly circulated by that company says the flight in question arrived on Sunday at the airport from Dakar en route to Lagos. When the flight took off however, the captain observed an anomaly which promoted him to return to Lungi for the safety of the passengers. When the anomaly was rectified according to the release, the flight resumed its journey to Lagos and landed safely there.
President urged to give priority to TRC recommendations.
Some civil and independent organizations in the country have reportedly called on the president to give priority to the recommendations contained in the TRC report. According to them, many underling causes of conflict still persist so the TRC recommendations like the protection of human rights, establishment of the rule of law, security services and the promotion of good governance must be implemented in order to consolidate the hard earned peace for Sierra Leonean.
Iranian consulate doles out prizes to competitors.
As part of Ramadan’s activities, the Iranian consulate in Freetown reportedly organized a Quranic recitation competition on the 29th and 30th of September. Many attractive prizes were won by participants from various Islamic Organizations from all over the country. The competition was classified into thirteen categories including memorization of the Quran in full, half and quarter parts; and Krio translation of certain surahs and verses. Many consolation prizes in the form of books, tape recorders and cassettes were also given to participants.
© Copyright by Awareness Times Newspaper in Freetown, Sierra Leone.
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Subject: Re: NRA workers to be sacked
From: Kabudu Gen
To: All
Date Posted: 18:41:21 10/03/07 ()
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Message:
The trademark of rogue propagandists who masquerade as journalists is their
penchant for tossing around uncorroborated sources. All the incendiary diatribes
she has directed against the APC are always credited to 'competent sources at
State House', 'credible sources in the APC', 'reports' etc. She hides behind
these words to spread mischief, the folicsome wench! I think she should be
dragged to court to, at least, prove that her sources are not the same ghosts
that populate the SLPP payrolls.
Those of you who still believe in the goodness of this devilish fiend should
only remember her rebel propaganda work on behalf of her idol, Foday Sankoh.
Subject: Re: NRA workers to be sacked
From: Free Lawyer
To: All
Date Posted: 19:01:12 10/03/07 ()
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Message:
Hey Man,
No one believes anything you guys write against Sylvia Blyden. Foday Sankoh, NINJA, Parlour this, and all that. All you have done over this period is turn an otherwise little known into a celebrity. If you think I am lying, do a genuine popularity survey on Sylvia Blyden and the results will amaze you.
Why not drop the attacks on the lady and move on? Your obsession is well..... least said better!
Lovelorn attackers.
Subject: Re: NRA workers to be sacked
From: Kabudu Gen
To: All
Date Posted: 20:38:10 10/03/07 ()
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Message:
Hehehehehehe! Woryo ya! you crack me up man. I gotta catch my breath. Sylvia
Blyden is popular? Indeed only to misguided SLPPers like yourself who are bereft
of leaders. To the rest of us she is, and I say this very respectfully, a
dirtbag and a slimeball. Her history and politics attest to it. If my exposure
of her cretinism makes her more popular to you SLPP apparatchiks, then get ready
for her popularity to reach strastospheric heights. As she continues in her
wilful character assassination of President Koroma and the APC, so shall some of
us continue to vigorously disagree with her brand of politics. Keep chirping boy
while we expose your heroine for the viper that she really is.
Subject: Re: NRA workers to be sacked
From: Kabudu Gen
To: All
Date Posted: 20:37:31 10/03/07 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
Hehehehehehe! Woryo ya! you crack me up man. I gotta catch my breath. Sylvia
Blyden is popular? Indeed only to misguided SLPPers like yourself who are bereft
of leaders. To the rest of us she is, and I say this respectfully, a dirtbag and
a slimeball. Her history and politics attest to it. If my exposure of her
cretinism makes her more popular to you SLPP apparatchiks, then get ready for
her popularity to reach strastospheric heights. As she continues in her wilful
character assassination of President Koroma and the APC, so shall some of us
continue to vigorously disagree with her brand of politics. Keep chirping boy
while we expose your heroine for the viper that she really is.
Subject: Re: NRA workers to be sacked
From: 'Viper' Admirer
To: All
Date Posted: 10:21:15 10/04/07 ()
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Message:
Sylvia Blyden is popular in all circles. You will soon learn this hard truth.
That is why you have been trying so hard to bring her down for years now and
have been unable to do so.
Subject: Press release from the S.L.P.P.
From: Bambay Lans Kamara
To: All
Date Posted: 14:20:57 10/03/07 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
Press Release from the Sierra Leone People’s Party (SLPP)
By Jacob Jusu Saffa
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Sierra Leone People’s Party (SLPP)
Traveling Restrictions of Government Officials
The Sierra Leone Peoples Party views with dismay the Press Release from the Office of the Vice President compelling Government officials, including those in parastatals and commissions wishing to travel out of the country to obtain security clearance from the Inspector General of Police. Such policy of the new APC Government reminds the people of Sierra Leone of the 24 years of the old APC misrule (1968-1992) when Sierra Leone was virtually a police state, freedom of individuals restricted and there was no respect for the rule of law.
Within a democratic setting, SLPP views this policy as a total violation of the rights of individuals to move as enshrined in Section 18(1) of the 1991 Constitution of Sierra Leone.
The SLPP is concerned that this policy is part of the APC intimidation strategy of the population, particularly SLPP members, and also a sign of ugly things to follow. The decision to make a blank statement of this nature further sends a message contrary to the Presidential pronouncement for national reconciliation and unity. The party also believes that this policy will undermine the spirit of cooperation with the new government and may well be a recipe of reversal of the gains this nation has seen in the protection of the rule of law and individual rights.
The party has no objection to the Government’s decision to bring to book those they suspect might have been involved in impropriety of any nature. We therefore urge the Government to immediately reconsider this policy and take other legal measures to question those who they suspect of impropriety.
One Country One People!
Issued in Freetown by
Jacob Jusu Saffa
National Secretary –General
Subject: Re: Press release from the S.L.P.P.
From: Kabudu Gen
To: All
Date Posted: 21:01:22 10/03/07 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
WAIT A MINUTE!
I thought Awareness Times said EBK was embarassed by that directive issued by
the VP. Was Sylvia Blyden just blowing hot air? Whatever...
Anyway JJ Blood oughta be ashamed of his silly kvetching about this wonderful
directive. What is wrong with telling people under whose stewardship HUNDREDS OF
MILLIONS OF DOLLARS disappeared as rapidly as shrimp fried rice disappears in a
Chinese buffet attended by Sumo wrestlers?
It will be very stupid and irresponsible for the government to allow the SLPP
alagbas to travel fitty-fatta abroad to massage their bank accounts as the
country continues its sufferation. As a matter of fact, stopping corrupt
practices is the very essence of democracy. Go Ernest, It's your Birthday!
Subject: Re: Press release from the S.L.P.P.
From: Bonthe Pikin
To: All
Date Posted: 15:59:51 10/03/07 ()
Email Address: bontilaynga@gmail.com
Entered From: 218-101-100-62.dialup.clear.net.nz at 218.101.100.62
Message:
JJ na frustrated man. He is recovering from the shock of election loss. May be
he should tell us whether SLPP Ministers just left the country like that without
informing Pa Kabbah. Good thing is JJ has never said anything serious since he
became Secretary General.
Subject: AMBER ALERT
From: MODERATOR TO KABS FORUM SECURITY STAFF
To: All
Date Posted: 13:49:23 10/03/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: ppp-68-90-9-181.dsl.rcsntx.swbell.net at 68.90.9.181
Message:
Inorder to prevent the forum from becoming a dumpster,
some users are going to be placed on leave so as to keep decorum. Regrets.
Cheers!
/Moderator
Subject: Re: AMBER ALERT
From: Alieu sesay
To: All
Date Posted: 14:00:50 10/03/07 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
Hmm.. The forum don warm..
Subject: Re: AMBER ALERT
From: MODERATOR
To: All
Date Posted: 14:03:37 10/03/07 ()
Email Address:
Message:
You bet! Cheers!
/Mod
Subject: Re: AMBER ALERT
From: Candid Opinion
To: All
Date Posted: 14:08:23 10/03/07 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
is warm a bad thing.. ?
I thought the traffic is healthy..
Just cut the personals we all should be fine..
Personals.. including on saidu and Miss blyden and me..
Subject: Re: AMBER ALERT
From: Alieu sesay
To: All
Date Posted: 14:13:04 10/03/07 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
Probably the MOd himself is part of these attacks
Subject: Re: AMBER ALERT
From: Kabudu Gen
To: All
Date Posted: 15:11:49 10/03/07 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
We will have decorum when anti-democratic forces in the SLPP give democracy a
chance and allow the new president to exercise his mandate without vile attacks
and vicious muggings. Nobody wants to go blind, but an eye for an eye for these
SLPP propagandists who think ad hominen attacks are an honorable exercise of
free speech. An olive branch should not be slapped wth a ratan,Candido!
Subject: Re: AMBER ALERT
From: Candid Opinion
To: All
Date Posted: 15:16:32 10/03/07 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
This is akin to you pointing innocent people out in front of law courts and
calling them rebels..
When you know darn well all they did was had an argument with you..
Stop yellow bellyness...
If you cant defend HE's 30 record.. dont snipe..
Subject: Re: AMBER ALERT
From: Kabudu Gen
To: All
Date Posted: 16:03:09 10/03/07 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
Well you are a rebel..in rebellion against the democratic will of the people, by
your villanous and unjustified smearing of the elected prez for purely partisan
reasons, and you know it bro.
I remember now, how many people lost their lives during the vengeful,
blazing-guns return from Guinea of the SLPP govermment. I also remember the
frightening scenes when people were killed by SLPP apparatchiks after they have
been tarred as rebels. Anyway, why open up a can of worms? Those who lost their
lives from that politically motivated violence are today with the Good Lord, in
His Bossom. We gotta move on, Candido. Our new govt has lots to do and
accomplish on behalf of all Sierra Leoneans if only you guys, including SLPP
boss Sylvia Blyden, stop your ceaseless character assassination of EBK and give
him oxygen to do his job.
By the way, I do believe that you did not personally lynch anyone or cause the
lynching of innocents by screaming 'REBEL' during a Kamajor stampede.
Let's give peace a chance, Pa!
Subject: HOW ABOUT THOSE POSTING SENSIBLE AND DEBATABLE TOPICS?
From: THAIMU BANGURA
To: All
Date Posted: 13:06:57 10/03/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: cs307imacg4017.gsu.edu at 131.96.237.25
Message:
After talking about those behaving badly, can we also know those who
keep the forum going on with normal issues?
Subject: Re: HOW ABOUT THOSE POSTING SENSIBLE AND DEBATABLE TOPICS?
From: ABDUL KARIM KOROMA
To: All
Date Posted: 13:15:03 10/03/07 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
Saddam Insane is one of those posting sensible and debatable topics
Subject: Re: HOW ABOUT THOSE POSTING SENSIBLE AND DEBATABLE TOPICS?
From: Kabudu Gen
To: All
Date Posted: 15:15:35 10/03/07 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
You are joking, right?
Subject: GUYS BEHAVING BADLY ON DA FORUM
From: SUBWANALAI
To: All
Date Posted: 12:48:03 10/03/07 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
Maybe the long wait for the cabinet has had it's toll on the hitherto gentlemen
of this forum. It all started when Mbalu Mbortu started the debate of taboo: To
cut or not to cut.Gentlemen quickly dismissed him on the grounds of the topic
been forbiden. Well Mbalu, let me admonish you, just in case you are still
finding answers: FOR PUT ELEPHANT BONDO NOR TO IM NA DE TING, NA DE DIGBA WAE
DAE WAPP AM DON.
Next, is a brother who has really gone insane, by the name of Sadame Insane. Sadam's crime is telling Prezo to get up from his "fat arse" and do something. Next time Mr. Insane, just tell the President to "Get Up Stand Up Pan Foot". Period
And to the hitherto respected Brother Cornelius, who wants to drill an hot iron into the part where Sylvia dae feel sweet most. Boy, you nor feel say ogbojo lek da wan dae go broke you iron. Next time you say it Cornie, please be nice.
Subject: Re: GUYS BEHAVING BADLY ON DA FORUM
From: TigerSheik
To: All
Date Posted: 13:33:57 10/03/07 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
Thank you very much bra for your diplomacy in trying to calm things down. I
think Sadam insane has bowed down. At first i thought the brother was COPORAL
GBORIE of AFRC fame resurrected and frustrated.
I believe he is a fine man,he needs encouragement rather than confrontation.
Subject: Re: GUYS BEHAVING BADLY ON DA FORUM
From: Mbalu
To: All
Date Posted: 13:17:43 10/03/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: eduproxy1.k12.de.us at 167.21.254.11
Message:
SUBWANALAI,
I am not sure where you got a last name for me but I never disclosed here in this forum that "Mbortu" was my last name. I am demanding that you withdraw your mental lapse, if it is one or else we can all go down dirty and nasty and backward like other foreign nationals think of us (by the way we act/behave to one another). I expected that you were gonna implore on forumites to tone down their vulgarity based on the title of your posting, instead you resorted to the same garbage.
By the way, no body shut me down and for your information the debate on FGM continues unabated. No man or woman can shut me down. Your statement "FOR PUT ELEPHANT BONDO NOR TO IM NA DE TING, NA DE DIGBA WAE DAE WAPP AM DON" does not convey any sense. I am now really worried about our progress as a people, if the few so-called educated ones living in western countries could afford to behave so unbecoming in a public forum open to any man, woman or child in the whole wide world. We need to all keep cool heads and reshape our debates to something meaningful and worthwhile. Some folks who have only started using cyberspace as a communication tool recently should wake up from their dreams and realize that indeed this is the year 2007 and that they are really talking to people the world over. Get serious and behave as adults - Sierra Leoneans.
SUBWANALAI, I am awaiting your withdrawal or apology, whichever one you choose. Thank you.
Subject: Re: GUYS BEHAVING BADLY ON DA FORUM
From: Sadam Insane
To: All
Date Posted: 13:28:38 10/03/07 ()
Email Address: sorba_1@yahoo.com
Entered From: at 209.116.81.187
Message:
Hay me man Mbortu nor to nice name oh. Mbalu is the only woman we have on this
forum that hangs with us. Let us respect her for that. Hey have you find a man
to accommodate you?. Please if you are a nurse, don't date Africans. They get
frustrated quickly if they don't get sex very often. Nurses work 24hrs around
the clock.
Sadam
Subject: Re: GUYS BEHAVING BADLY ON DA FORUM
From: Sadam Insane
To: All
Date Posted: 13:01:49 10/03/07 ()
Email Address: sorba_1@yahoo.com
Entered From: at 209.116.81.187
Message:
A sorry sir. Mr Prezzo get up on your big elephant foot and do some thing for
the good of the country. I thought people just sit on their behind and do
nothing. My mistake bro.
God bless you
Sadam
Subject: SLPP chap man dem affect we position on the corruption ladde
From: Basco
To: All
Date Posted: 12:35:40 10/03/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: 82-44-17-83.cable.ubr04.croy.blueyonder.co.uk at 82.44.17.83
Message:
The diamond-rich country has this year slipped eight positions on the
Transparency International corruption index to 150 out of 179 countries, from
142 last year. AFP
Tell god tenkey man lek Kanjie don loss power.
Subject: Re: SLPP chap man dem affect we position on the corruption ladde
From: Candid Opinion
To: All
Date Posted: 13:04:16 10/03/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: ns.nucleusns2.com at 12.44.12.126
Message:
Indeed..
Shame on SLPP..
Shame on ex-president kabbah..
This should have been a central focus..
Fight against corruption took a dip..
Shame shame shame..Hopefully Eanest will make this a priority..
Subject: Re: SLPP chap man dem affect we position on the corruption ladde
From: Kabudu Gen
To: All
Date Posted: 15:38:48 10/03/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: pool-151-202-41-6.ny325.east.verizon.net at 151.202.41.6
Message:
For once I agree with you. A crying shame indeed, this corruption business. Now
I pray that you show your patriotism and join all of us in calling for an
independent, impartial enquiry into the criminality of the outgoing SLPP regime.
It makes no sense that the violators of the people's trust be allowed to enjoy
their ill-gotten millions abroad while Sierra Leone burns in misery and penury.
This is not a partisan issue. It is a patriotic Sierra Leonean issue! I will
compromise with you and whole-heartedly support an investigation into the
corruption of past APC governments. If we Sierra Leoneans show bipartisanship on
this matter, we will stop the looting of coffers and give people in Segbwema and
Makeni a chance to start seeing some personal and infrastructural development.
These are the issues we all should be emphasizing, with our collective muscle
and voice, to the new gov instead of some people attempting to strangle the
infant because it burped over a cabinet delay.
Aluta Continua!
Subject: APPOINTMENT FROM STATE HOUSE
From: THE HONEST MAN
To: All
Date Posted: 12:12:07 10/03/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: ip-207-145-43-5.iad.megapath.net at 207.145.43.5
Message:
I am still holding on to my $14.75 job,until my appointment from state house.If
there is no letter from state house,i will hold on to my job and try to look
what the Lord can do for me and my family.
Subject: Re: APPOINTMENT FROM STATE HOUSE
From: Accountant
To: All
Date Posted: 12:15:23 10/03/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 82.206.160.71
Message:
That is nearly Le44,000 per day or Le1.3 million a month.Just about a Minister's
salary, so hold on to your taxi job.for arguments sake, Ministers will have car,
but you have your taxi!!
Subject: Re: APPOINTMENT FROM STATE HOUSE
From: Candid Opinion
To: All
Date Posted: 12:18:38 10/03/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: ns.nucleusns2.com at 12.44.12.126
Message:
You nor count mass mass.. en sweets of office..
How do you think Edward Kargbo built a mansion at spur rd with a pool on the balcony?
He did not steal.. he was given gifts while in office..
And oh.. not to bash cab drivers.. but i hear he was a poda poda driver before been minister.. so you see.. there is hope yet..
Subject: Re: APPOINTMENT FROM STATE HOUSE
From: Sadam Insane
To: All
Date Posted: 12:44:14 10/03/07 ()
Email Address: sorba_1@yahoo.com
Entered From: at 209.116.81.187
Message:
Where did you get the numbers from? This is a matter of public record. They
should be available to all of us.
But lets just say for the sake of argument, that a man is making Le44,000 a day.
That means he is making Le5,500 an hour for a yearly income of Le11,440,000. In
case you raking your brain were my numbers are coming from, it is 5,500 Multiply
by 2080hrs.
How can this people afford to be rich?
Fellows let us forget about APC SLPP for a moment. For all I know these people
are all the same. For example, Solomon Berewa of SLPP today use to be the Lawyer
for APC.
How can these people rip our people like that? The only way to solve the problem
is to monitor the current once. The older once are gone and there is nothing we
can do about it. Since APC is so good this time around, they might help solve
this problem.
Candid and I are watching.
Subject: Re: APPOINTMENT FROM STATE HOUSE
From: Basco
To: All
Date Posted: 12:28:28 10/03/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: 82-44-17-83.cable.ubr04.croy.blueyonder.co.uk at 82.44.17.83
Message:
Ar bite say you papa sef bin day tef na en job. A rememba say you bin di go out
with he datta. which means you papa sef na bin big man becos den nor for mek you
divf nar den swimming pool.
Candid en Papa go don be dem SLPP to APC wan party man dem!
Subject: Re: APPOINTMENT FROM STATE HOUSE
From: Candid Opinion
To: All
Date Posted: 13:55:12 10/03/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: ns.nucleusns2.com at 12.44.12.126
Message:
My did was a contractor, he built houses..
He might have built a few for Crooked politicians.. but he himself never held a
public position.
Subject: Re: APPOINTMENT FROM STATE HOUSE
From: Eddie Grant
To: All
Date Posted: 15:24:55 10/03/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 78.146.233.176
Message:
Well as the saying goes: A stranger never lie, if he tells a story you would
better believe it otherwise he would say it happened where I come from. So how
can you prove it?
Candido, I can't despute your claim that your father never hold a public office cos I don't know him.
Subject: Meanwhile this is what the electorate expects-APC allie says
From: Candid Opinion
To: All
Date Posted: 12:00:10 10/03/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: ns.nucleusns2.com at 12.44.12.126
Message:
I have been in contact with many well intentioned Sierra Leoneans at home and in
the diaspora and I have taken part in discussions about the Sierra Leone of our
dreams following Ernest’s victory. The overriding vibrations have been, “Ernest
must deliver and we can’t wait to see this happen.” Many are saying, “the ball
is now in Ernest’s court and from now on, Sierra Leone’s economic revival or
continued decline is entirely his responsibility and that of his government.” I
dismiss this narrow minded view of national development as a truckload of
nonsense. While I totally agree that the role of government is extremely
crucial, leaving out what other key players outside government can contribute is
like telling only half of a nice story.
overriding vibrations, We cant wait..
"The overriding vibrations have been, “Ernest must deliver and we can’t wait to see this happen.” Many are saying" --Patriotic (cough) Vanguard.
"Ernest must deliver and we can’t wait to see this happen.” Many are saying,
“the ball is now in Ernest’s court from now on" - Patriotic (cough) Vanguard.
Ball has since been in your court.. 30 days..almost.
"Sierra Leone’s economic revival or continued decline is entirely his
responsibility and that of his government" - Patriotic (cough) Vanguard.
Buck stops at your desk Mr President.. do not give us excuses like Winston dolittle Johnson for 4 years.
Subject: If you don't support SLPP,you are a devil
From: APC
To: All
Date Posted: 11:56:42 10/03/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 71.250.218.196
Message:
They will give you all kinds of names.
Subject: Re: If you don't support SLPP,you are a devil
From: Candid Opinion - righteuosness is not just words.
To: All
Date Posted: 12:05:10 10/03/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: ns.nucleusns2.com at 12.44.12.126
Message:
It goes both ways my brother..
Its is done all around.. tit for tat.. Goose and gander alike.
Nothing personal.. we all go meet again pan cook out en awoojoh en shake hand like good countrymen..
http://www.hwforums.com/2179/messages/49561.html
Subject: Re: If you don't support SLPP,you are a devil
From: candido Craw-Craw
To: All
Date Posted: 12:34:50 10/03/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 165.155.200.143
Message:
Hell no. Ee nor go happen! After Ernest extended his magnanimity to the SLPP
malgovernators in brotherly love, what did he get in return? Body blows, back
stabs and et tu brute's from their car jacker squads led by you, candido, and
the slimy Sylvia Nastingoh! It is as if you porous brains are of the naive,
simple-minded belief that your unjustifiable attacks against the president will
some how effect regime change by marshalling public opinion against Ernest. No
cooperation from the SLPP but sabotage, sabotage all the way! What moronic
claptrap!
I was one of the supporters of working together with your party until I wised up
to your scheming, two-faced tactics. This govt will succeed in spite of your
obvious political ploys. Walahi, Ernest will succeed whether you, Sylvia and the
entire sorry SLPP crew likes it or not. If you nor lek am, go cratch you
craw-craw!
Subject: Re: If you don't support SLPP,you are a devil
From: Candid Opinion
To: All
Date Posted: 12:58:34 10/03/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: ns.nucleusns2.com at 12.44.12.126
Message:
This attempt to link me with Miss Blyden is unjustified..
As a candid one.. I hold dear the right of miss blyden to say her mind. If
the government of the day find her wanting.. i believe there are laws in salone
that take care of news paper editors, ala libel.
If you are looking for example.. there is no other than phillip (sports minister
in waiting) neville.
HE Eanest Koroma is a public servant, giving him demigod status is your naivty and a character of simple-minds, and thats what i find wanting..
The man has been hired, he has had 30 days. No scheming of mine will affect
his decision..
This is just an excercise in internet jorgonism... if you say my writing will
influence public opinion againsts Eanest.. then you are a bigger fool than you
come across as or maybe you lack respect for the leaders you elected..
For me, just like for you.. salone is all i care about.
APC oh.. SLPP oh.. PMDC oh.. the more things change the more they stay the same.. i am withholding my high hopes until i see progress..in the meantime.. I have internet connection, a laptop.. and i am using it, if e hart you.. congo cross bridge dey.
It has always been the case.
Politics and governement is a rediculous concept.
The govern will have to fend for themselves, the governors can care less.. from
serfdom to queen elizabeth to mobutu...nothing changed..
Subject: Sam Sumana's education is has been proven long before
From: POLITICAL
To: All
Date Posted: 11:06:07 10/03/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: smtpgateway.azdes.gov at 207.108.136.243
Message:
I think we have more important things to discuss in this forum than attacking
one's educational background, which has long been proven to be true by the very
SLPPers and some of them openly confessed in this forum. Now the same idiots are
using different handles to attack and abuse the vp because there is no more work
for them to do. Why don't we just discuss how to rebuild our nation which the
SLPP has destroyed and disunite? Dick Cheney was a college drop out, but the
American people does not care about it. We should ask the very important
question whether Sam Sumana will deliever for the country. That answer is too
early to come by until we allow him to prove himself.
Lonta.
Subject: Re: Sam Sumana's education is has been proven long before
From: Candid Opinion
To: All
Date Posted: 11:32:45 10/03/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: ns.nucleusns2.com at 12.44.12.126
Message:
True, true.. true...
We do have a lot to discuss, considering the state the SLPP left our country.
"Now the same idiots are using different handles to attack and abuse -- Political
Asking for us to stop the attack and abuse, while you are not missing a heartbeat and crave for low blows.
If you stop the personal attacks on our leaders and US.. I will stop..
If you bring a worthwhile topic up for discussion.. and debate.. I will give it a shot..
(Nowadays i use I, dont want to be accused for assuming for US).
Subject: Re: Sam Sumana's education is has been proven long before
From: NAMWENCHE-SAYNANH
To: All
Date Posted: 12:47:40 10/03/07 ()
Email Address: bangua@sbcglobal.net
Entered From: adsl-69-232-210-57.dsl.pltn13.pacbell.net at 69.232.210.57
Message:
DO YOU GUYS REMEMBER AHMADU AHIDJO ? HE ONCE RULLED CAMEROON. HE ONLY ATTAEDED A
PRIMARY SCHOOL YET HE WAS ONE OF THE BEST RULLERS TO EVER RULE A COUNTRY IN
AFRICA. HE HANDED POWER OVER TO HIS MORE EDUCATED VICE, PAUL BIYA. BIYA DID TO
CAMEROON WHAT KABBA AND BEREWA DID TO SIERRA LEONE. KABBA'S GOVERNMENT WAS SO
OPAQUE THAT EVEN THE DONOR COUNTRIES NOTICED.
SIAKAS STEVENS WAS NOT THAT EDUCATED BUT HE WAS WISE ENOUGH TO BUILD A NATIONAL
STADIUM, A MINISTERIAL BUILDING, YUYI, AND GAVE US SOME PAVED ROADS.
WHAT CAN KABBA AND BEREWA SHOW FOR OVER $ 1.6BL OF DONOR FUNDS ? LOOK AT KONO
ROAD FROM MATOTOKA. IT IS NOT DIFFERENT FROM LUMLEY TO MMTC. THEY ARE BOTH
EDUCATED MEN TOO. YOU DON'T HAVE TO BE A BRAIN SURGEON TO BE A GOOD AND SMART
VICE PRESIDENT.
PLEASE LEAVE SAM SUMANA ALONE AND LET HIM DO THE BUSINESS OF THE PEOPLE.
Subject: Re: Sam Sumana's education is has been proven long before
From: Candido Craw-Craw
To: All
Date Posted: 12:18:13 10/03/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 165.155.200.143
Message:
Candido, the problem is that while other SLPPers have, at least in good faith,
accepted the new political reality and decided to give Ernest a brief honeymoon
to get things started, you and the other nincomrasses on this forum have used
subterfuge and calumny to attack El Presidente. You really must be full of
yourself, my boy. What you are doing has nothing to do with free speech and
everything to do with petty politics. You have seized on the delay of cabinet to
join the vile Sylvia Blyden and gang up on the president, spewing all sorts of
vicious lies and propaganda against him with the naive belief that, if you
"damage" him, your rotten SLPP will come back to power . Sidon fine! You
mongrels will never be allowed back to power. Well maybe after 30 years because
the people will continue voting for a progressive party, not the slimeball piss
boys that constitute your hideous party. And by then, dear Candid one, you will
be 78 years old , bitter and useless in your pining for your alaki party.
For now, I will exercise my free speech rights and rub Koto on your Reggae
craw-craw every time you spout your bloody nonsense.
Subject: Re: Sam Sumana's education is has been proven long before
From: Candid Opinion
To: All
Date Posted: 12:26:42 10/03/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: ns.nucleusns2.com at 12.44.12.126
Message:
AS so you should, exercise all you want..But please allow SLPP some kudos for
enhancing that right in contemporary salone..
And dont forget.. you where not the only one born with red nappy.. (silver spoon).
The same right you reserve for yourself and may i say your kind.. is the same right i reserve for me and my kind..
Nothing personal..
And your right to call my side rotten, and disgruntled.. is the same right i
reserve to call your side incompetent. .and devoid of leadership.
So where is our beef.. ? Is it just cause pus runs all over the place and
stinks, this is just you been natural?
Subject: Re: Sam Sumana's education is has been proven long before
From: Cndido Craw-Craw
To: All
Date Posted: 12:41:19 10/03/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 165.155.200.143
Message:
Please don't talk about the APC being incompetent. I really don't wanna laugh. I
got my game face on. Who is more incompetent than your twisted SLPP? Will
continue tonight after my taxi run. Will have a shout out for you to come out
and play when I go home tonight.
Subject: Re: Sam Sumana's education is has been proven long before
From: Candid Opinion
To: All
Date Posted: 12:44:14 10/03/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: ns.nucleusns2.com at 12.44.12.126
Message:
Please do..
Get a proper handle..
Suggestion..
OC Free speech - SSD Internet brigade.
Its been fun.
Subject: Re: Sam Sumana's education is has been proven long before
From: Alieu sesay
To: All
Date Posted: 11:25:19 10/03/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: 65.107.153.146.ptr.us.xo.net at 65.107.153.146
Message:
Political! How was your Job hunting in Sierra Leone?
Subject: Re: Sam Sumana's education is has been proven long before
From: TigerSheik
To: All
Date Posted: 11:17:32 10/03/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: 115.161-240-81.adsl-dyn.isp.belgacom.be at 81.240.161.115
Message:
Thank you very much.
Subject: Discount cigarettes on-line
From: galastore
To: All
Date Posted: 10:53:16 10/03/07 ()
Email Address: galastore_cigs@yahoo.com
Entered From: at 213.145.134.228
Message:
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online.
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Subject: Re: Discount cigarettes on-line
From: petty Trader
To: All
Date Posted: 10:54:38 10/03/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: 65.107.153.146.ptr.us.xo.net at 65.107.153.146
Message:
Una nor get TAFFI? The APC need some.
Subject: MR PRESIDENT-BE CAUTIOUS AND WATCHFUL
From: MUSA KAMARA
To: All
Date Posted: 10:50:12 10/03/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: luna.hypair.net at 194.50.180.4
Message:
First and foremost,I would like to send you my congratulations on your birth
day.May the Almighty God guide and assist in your effort to achieve your goals
and dreams for the nation.Besides,to give you a healthy and long life.Mr
President,it is obvious this is a crucial moment for you to form a team that
will be capable enough to work with.However,it is necessary to side-line
opportunists,syconphants,corrupt and selfish boot-lickers especially from the
failed slpp wing who will do anything to sabotage any good deal for our
nation.The development of our nation is not in their interest as they have
demonstrated during their tenure in office.Therefore,as a word of caution please
have a thorough insight in their activities.
Subject: Re: MR PRESIDENT-BE CAUTIOUS AND WATCHFUL
From: Alieu sesay
To: All
Date Posted: 10:52:36 10/03/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: 65.107.153.146.ptr.us.xo.net at 65.107.153.146
Message:
SLPP is not responsible for your inability to form a GOVERNMENT. The
Business-man is after all not a BUSINESS-MAN. Time is fast running out for you
MR.
Subject: Re: MR PRESIDENT-BE CAUTIOUS AND WATCHFUL
From: MUSA KAMARA
To: All
Date Posted: 11:46:52 10/03/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: luna.hypair.net at 194.50.180.4
Message:
You will see soon the aftermath.They will start vomitting all the stolen money
including the fool Rogers in the central bank.You think this is your ahlaki slpp
unpatriotic scoundrels that have left our economy in a shambolic mess and the
nation on the brink of a failed state.The President and this administration will
do what is necessary and good for the country to bring those criminals to
justice.The days of impunity for state criminals are over,anyone found guilty
will face the full force of the law.
Subject: Re: MR PRESIDENT-BE CAUTIOUS AND WATCHFUL
From: Alieu sesay
To: All
Date Posted: 11:55:55 10/03/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: 65.107.153.146.ptr.us.xo.net at 65.107.153.146
Message:
Incluuding BEN KANU, AKK, VICTOR FOH, you want more?
Subject: Re: MR PRESIDENT-BE CAUTIOUS AND WATCHFUL
From: Candid Opinion
To: All
Date Posted: 11:25:36 10/03/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: ns.nucleusns2.com at 12.44.12.126
Message:
30 days..
29...
28...
27..
26..
Ah say,, call victor foh for me..
24..
Watin gbessay say..? Did we get a reply yet..?
22...sweat....red pockethand..
21..more sweat...lajila.. ah say.. hajj money, call berewa.. see if he lent me some able man dem...
20..ok.. sammy boy.. yeck dem small with some.. leh dem nor cam lef we pan
disgrace..
And so.. the clock ticks.. and the mascarading of political miscalculations are
exposed..
APC it seems after all.. was not expecting, neither preparing to lead our country.
Subject: SLPP ministers used as political guines-pigs by the APC!
From: Bai Bureh
To: All
Date Posted: 10:27:56 10/03/07 ()
Email Address: rastafari_ish@hotmail.com
Entered From: dator6071.161.gbgsd.se at 62.88.181.216
Message:
During the run-up to both rounds of the elections, president Koroma firmly
resolved to stamp out corruption at all levels.But giving a zero tolerance to
corruption will be unfair if the reasons are not found out.After serious
meditation,the idea popped up for the conducting of a quick research before the
new cabinet assumes office.
SUBJECTS
Two groups were formed:
The CONTROL GROUP(the non-corrupt APC politicians including the VP) and the EXPERIMENTAL GROUP or the guinea-pigs(the over-corrupt SLPP ministers and politicians).
HYPOTHESIS:Ministers can be over-corrupt if the head of the government is equally corrupt.
METHOD:Naturalistic observation where it is believed subjects'behaviour is influenced by the environment in which they live.
LIMITATIONS:The population is only sampled from the political circle to save time.
INSTRUMENTS:Neutral and unbiased undercover agents posing as businessmen etc. and interviews.
RESEARCHER:The formidable transition team.
Now one can see why the president asked the corrupt ministers to stay on the job
so as to allow a smooth transition.
What are the findings of this quick research? Now that is the million-dollar question.
I will tell you the results which have started emerging from day one of the
president at State House much later.Stay tuned.
Subject: Re: SLPP ministers used as political guines-pigs by the APC!
From: Bai Bureh Abu
To: All
Date Posted: 10:34:49 10/03/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: 65.107.153.146.ptr.us.xo.net at 65.107.153.146
Message:
Giuinea Pigs? They( APC) do not have the political manpower to run the country.
They are CRYIING for help from all quarters and are being turned down..
Subject: Re: SLPP ministers used as political guines-pigs by the APC!
From: Vagrants Alert
To: All
Date Posted: 11:11:13 10/03/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: ns.nucleusns2.com at 12.44.12.126
Message:
Aye.. we can be guinea pigs too..
send wan SSD for call we normor nah victoria park..
The petty traders association of king jimmy en doff cut can run trade ministry lek that..
Cassette selling boys and news papaer association can run communications..
We haev a few traders that ply the freetong banjul and freetong la guinea
route..
I dont know if that qualifies for foreign affairs.. but since this is an
experiment in rudimentary nonsense.. we can give it a try..
Just hallah oba state house fence.
Osaaaaaaaaaaaaiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii
We will come..
Subject: NEW SHERIFF'S OR COW BOYS IN TOWN?
From: TigerSheik
To: All
Date Posted: 10:18:23 10/03/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: 115.161-240-81.adsl-dyn.isp.belgacom.be at 81.240.161.115
Message:
Please i'm calling on the old guards to restore some decipling here.
Allieu Iscandrie, Mama Blessing, Subwanally, Bra Enviable, kalos and others we
need your immediate assitance to restore some peace and order here. Thanks.
Subject: HON.SAM SUMANA IS A BIG ASSET TO SIERRA LEONE
From: KABS KANU
To: All
Date Posted: 09:53:08 10/03/07 ()
Email Address:
Message:
The Vice-President ,Sam Sumana , is an asset to Sierra Leone, never mind all the
trashy thinhgs being written against him by trashy people.
Sam's response to AWARENESS TIMES shows a man who is in control of himself and a man who is honest with himself. Like his boss, the Presient, EBK Sam Sumana believes in consultation and people's grassroots power. He is going to help APC rule well.
The interview I will conduct with him will help lot to let us know the kind of man he is.
Subject: Re: HON.SAM SUMANA IS A BIG ASSET TO SIERRA LEONE
From: Njai
To: All
Date Posted: 11:25:51 10/03/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: static-70-20-197-79.phil.east.verizon.net at 70.20.197.79
Message:
Rev, I might be wrong but it seems as if you have already made a decision on the
outcome of the proposed interview with the Hon. VP Sam Sumana. I am just taking
your statement as literally as illiterate as I am.
"The Vice-President ,Sam Sumana , is an asset to Sierra Leone, never mind all
the trashy thinhgs being written against him by trashy people.
Sam's response to AWARENESS TIMES shows a man who is in control of himself and a man who is honest with himself. Like his boss, the Presient, EBK Sam Sumana believes in consultation and people's grassroots power. He is going to help APC rule well.
The interview I will conduct with him will help lot to let us know the kind of man he is." Rev Kabs
Subject: Re: HON.SAM SUMANA IS A BIG ASSET TO SIERRA LEONE
From: AYE Kabs..Selling your soul to the devil for an exclusive?
To: All
Date Posted: 10:06:05 10/03/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 74.93.213.177
Message:
I hope this can be recorded and uploaded on youtube with a link from the
cocorioko site..
I hope you ask hard questions REVO, like:
Sir.. there has been a lot of speculation online about your education and
background..
Can you show us and the world the certificates you got from computer training
and diamond grading school.. so we can put that rumor to rest..?
We have heard also that you might have gone to university for a semester..Is it
true?
Sir, we have heard naysayers say.. you are not up to the VP job..? How do you plan to prove them wrong..?
And please dont fax him the questions in advance Kabs, i have heard FOX NEWS does that for bush..
When the Chief Pap Sam Samuna gives an interview to Awareness times.. then we
are talking..
Journalism is always candid when it is a bit hostile..
Sam Samuna and Kabs Kanu sitting in the same room are just old freinds, trench mates, fundraising chums.. regardless if there is a microphone between them.
Thats my candid opinion.
Subject: Re: HON.SAM SUMANA IS A BIG ASSET TO SIERRA LEONE
From: ANGEL GABRIEL TO KABS KANU
To: All
Date Posted: 10:52:07 10/03/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: gw1.dc.gov at 164.82.146.3
Message:
You are right on! Can I ask a question?
Does this Reverend Kabs-Kanu have a church? Or is it that he siphoned the church coffers and now resorted to political bastardization? Oh thou Reverend, thus saith the Lord of Host, thou rebellious Reverend will perish in hell fire if you continue to be blasphemous and use my name to raise fund; saith the Lord. Thou Reverend has chosen to politicize and tribalize my holy name. I the Lord, I am angry. Because of thy ways Reverend Kabs, thou shall surely perish in jahanama fire!
Subject: Re: HON.SAM SUMANA IS A BIG ASSET TO SIERRA LEONE
From: False Prophet
To: All
Date Posted: 10:53:53 10/03/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: 65.107.153.146.ptr.us.xo.net at 65.107.153.146
Message:
He has a virtual church and congregation. He is an online reverend....
Subject: Re: HON.SAM SUMANA IS A BIG ASSET TO SIERRA LEONE
From: Candid Opinion
To: All
Date Posted: 11:05:10 10/03/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: ns.nucleusns2.com at 12.44.12.126
Message:
HEHEHEHEHEHE - Una mean..
Give the man some respect..
Attack his political position.. Not his personal..
As a Reverend i hear he is a true man of God, a community leader in somerset..A
Sierra Leonean at heart.
Its the journalistic side of him thats frayed..
Lets try not to be like them..
Where they can attack john mannah.. (sierra leonean citizen) Sylvia blyden (sierra leonean citizen), Ambassador Leigh (sierra leonean citizen)
But we cant attack HE Obai (sierra leonean citizen), or pap sam his VP
(sierra leonean citizen)..or ben kanu (sierra leonean citizen).. they cry oh its
character assasination..
kabs ban them, moderator.. help.
We cannot call gutter rats, rats and asses.. but they can use words like worwoliwor, and imbecile and dolt and nimcompass and fake degrees..
Oh spin doctors of the APC.. we are here.. as carpentry and plumbly as i am, with my tool belt around my hip and my laptop on my lap, and as not understanding english as i am..
Lets get it on.. vagrants..
oops.. Your mayor said.. not i..
Subject: Re: HON.SAM SUMANA IS A BIG ASSET TO SIERRA LEONE
From: ANGEL GABRIEL TO KABS KANU
To: All
Date Posted: 11:01:05 10/03/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: gw1.dc.gov at 164.82.146.3
Message:
Oh thou online Reverend, you use my name to politicize, divide, squander and
corrupt my appointed king of Sierra Leone, Koroma! As long as I live, saith the
Lord of host, hell fire has been reserved for your soul. Amen and Amen
Subject: Re: HON.SAM SUMANA IS A BIG ASSET TO SIERRA LEONE
From: Sadam Insane
To: All
Date Posted: 11:12:14 10/03/07 ()
Email Address: sorba_1@yahoo.com
Entered From: at 209.116.81.187
Message:
Please give Kabs a break. He may be patician but he has giving all of us in this
forum a chance to express our openions. He does't come at us for any reason. He
is not like the Petty traders who attack us day and night what whatever we say
good or bad.
I think we should stay away from his religious pratice. Let us concentrate on
the development of the country and attack the people that matters. These are the
once spending peoples tax money not Kabs Kanu.
na so me say oh.
Subject: Re: HON.SAM SUMANA IS A BIG ASSET TO SIERRA LEONE
From: mampama mem peti
To: All
Date Posted: 11:23:46 10/03/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: 65.107.153.146.ptr.us.xo.net at 65.107.153.146
Message:
So Insane, you are not Insane after all. You dae baig for Reverend? This nar
wah? The friend of a reverend is satan.. CHAI
Subject: Re: HON.SAM SUMANA IS A BIG ASSET TO SIERRA LEONE
From: Sadam Insane
To: All
Date Posted: 11:35:34 10/03/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 209.116.81.187
Message:
Bra God no to person for play with. Me yone argument no de go yada. I respect
the man for serving the Lord. I don't think anybody should say bad things about
that.
Subject: Re: HON.SAM SUMANA IS A BIG ASSET TO SIERRA LEONE
From: ANGEL GABRIEL TO KABS KANU
To: All
Date Posted: 11:44:25 10/03/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: gw1.dc.gov at 164.82.146.3
Message:
what god does he serve? the god of tribe or money or politics? boh do ya? the
reverend na opportunist and tribalist. ou sai ee pull the Kabs name? e feba some
fake name.
May the angel of the Lord whop the reverend. Amen and Amen!
Subject: Re: HON.SAM SUMANA IS A BIG ASSET TO SIERRA LEONE
From: Somerset man
To: All
Date Posted: 11:54:33 10/03/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 71.250.218.196
Message:
Because he does not support SLPP ?
Subject: Re: HON.SAM SUMANA IS A BIG ASSET TO SIERRA LEONE
From: Somerset man
To: All
Date Posted: 11:37:26 10/03/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 71.250.218.196
Message:
And a good man of God, for that matter.None of them has nothing to charge him
with like unrighteousness.
Subject: Re: HON.SAM SUMANA IS A BIG ASSET TO SIERRA LEONE
From: Somerset man
To: All
Date Posted: 11:33:30 10/03/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 71.250.218.196
Message:
Kabs is my Pastor and he is a good Reverend.He goes around to his members who
are sick or in problem to pray with them. I think you guys are sick. What do you
think of yourselves ? Can't a man express his opinion ?
Subject: Re: HON.SAM SUMANA IS A BIG ASSET TO SIERRA LEONE
From: Candid Opinion
To: All
Date Posted: 11:51:49 10/03/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: ns.nucleusns2.com at 12.44.12.126
Message:
So i hear..
---On the personal side
Very involved in the community...
Prayers, immigration wohala.. etc..
God give him strengh..
---On the political side..
I hear somerset held the biggest fundraiser.. town was painted red.
I hear Kabs him sef sef nar him pick victor foh nah airport... and hold im
suitcase..
Kabs was it heavy..?
Did you look inside..?
Oh ah forget.. he was not a minsiter yet.. ok ok.. well next time he visits.. the true patriot i know you are.. will search his bag...if there is any loot.. dont forget.. thats headline news..cocorioko go sell lek hotcake..
Subject: Re: HON.SAM SUMANA IS A BIG ASSET TO SIERRA LEONE
From: ANGEL GABRIEL TO KABS KANU
To: All
Date Posted: 11:30:56 10/03/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: gw1.dc.gov at 164.82.146.3
Message:
Woe unto Reverend Kabs Kanu who has made my name like unto Sodom and
Gormorrah,for personal gains. As surely as I live, saith the Lord, Reverend Kabs
will be defrocked, disgraced and destoyed, saith Jehovah, who the Reverend makes
a mockery of.
Subject: Re: HON.SAM SUMANA IS A BIG ASSET TO SIERRA LEONE
From: Somerset man
To: All
Date Posted: 11:35:39 10/03/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 71.250.218.196
Message:
Because the man does not support SLPP ? Go take your medicine.
Subject: Re: HON.SAM SUMANA IS A BIG ASSET TO SIERRA LEONE
From: ANGEL GABRIEL TO KABS KANU
To: All
Date Posted: 12:02:08 10/03/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: gw1.dc.gov at 164.82.146.3
Message:
We don't need to take medicine. We will come to Kabs Kanu for him to lay his
poliTRICKAL hands on us!! May be we will fall under his fund-raising hell-fire
power!
Subject: APC is confused.
From: jaff akinson
To: All
Date Posted: 09:52:26 10/03/07 ()
Email Address: jaffakinson@yahoo.co.uk
Entered From: at 211.136.200.134
Message:
Name: jaff akinson
E-Mail: jaffakinson@yahoo.co.uk
Subject: APC is confused.
Body of Message:
Country men i have read several views about the forming of the new cabinet
now. I am not a political analyst but from the look of things ,it seems the APC
government now is really in a confused state of mind. It seems they have so many
people lined up from within and out of sierra leone who are aspiring to be
ministers because they are all saying we contributed towards winning the
election so we should be ministers and how can all of these guys be ministers
impossible. So with all the saying of transition thing is to buy time to talk to
some of these supporters to give up their motives and until that in fighting
over ministerial post is over as they were fighting before the elections up to
the last minute, we will not have a cabinet. It is only unfortunate this time
round that they cannot go to court but by now they should have been before
judges to decide who should be their ministers. At least we must say thanks to
the SLPP ministers for helping the nation going while we are waiting for the
behind the scene courts to decide on our next cabinet. It is because they are
confused to choose between the new comers and the old hands who have already
made offices at state house posing to be what they want to be in the new
government. Let the SLPP guys even though we say they what people call them
today continue to run the country for them while the APC continues to look for
capable people to run the country.
Subject: Re: APC is confused.
From: POLITICAL
To: All
Date Posted: 11:11:36 10/03/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: smtpgateway.azdes.gov at 207.108.136.243
Message:
As you have rightly said from the opening sentence, you are not a political
analyst. So without being professional, sometimes your looks disappoint you. Not
all that shine are gold. So why don't you leave the analysis to the
professionals and do other things that you understand?
Subject: Re: APC is confused.
From: Candid Opinion
To: All
Date Posted: 11:18:22 10/03/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: ns.nucleusns2.com at 12.44.12.126
Message:
And who would those professionals be around here..?
And why should non professionals be mute and devour of opinions..?
What should carpenters and brick layers as us do in he meantime.?
Champion of democracy that you are..
If what not shines is gold then Sam samuna better give me my money back...
Ah nor want brass...
Subject: APC is confused.
From: jaff akinson
To: All
Date Posted: 09:48:05 10/03/07 ()
Email Address: jaffakinson@yahoo.co.uk
Entered From: at 211.136.200.134
Message:
Country men i have read several views about the forming of the new cabinet now.
I am not a political analyst but from the look of things ,it seems the APC
government now is really in a confused state of mind. It seems they have so many
people lined up from within and out of sierra leone who are aspiring to be
ministers because they are all saying we contributed towards winning the
election so we should be ministers and how can all of these guys be ministers
impossible. So with all the saying of transition thing is to buy time to talk to
some of these supporters to give up their motives and until that in fighting
over ministerial post is over as they were fighting before the elections up to
the last minute, we will not have a cabinet. It is only unfortunate this time
round that they cannot go to court but by now they should have been before
judges to decide who should be their ministers. At least we must say thanks to
the SLPP ministers for helping the nation going while we are waiting for the
behind the scene courts to decide on our next cabinet. It is because they are
confused to choose between the new comers and the old hands who have already
made offices at state house posing to be what they want to be in the new
government. Let the SLPP guys even though we say they what people call them
today continue to run the country for them while the APC continues to look for
capable people to run the country.
Subject: Re: APC is confused.
From: Candid Opinion
To: All
Date Posted: 09:56:09 10/03/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: ns.nucleusns2.com at 12.44.12.126
Message:
And thats all we have been saying..
If the party is indecisive, just ask for our help..
We are Sierra Leoneans first before we became SLPP..
Indicipline in the ranks, we all suspected..
Capu capu.. hurray, part 2. numero dos.
T P CAL APC.......Osaiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii
All they have to do is say it..
Yes yes..nah luck we take win this wanya..
We where and are not PREPARED
Neville slpped us with a ghadaffi backstab and that did us plenty damage..
Not send the SSD internet branch to placate us with spin like its better to
take time and get it perfect this time..You en who..?
30 days not a word..? Not even a blot of ink..
30 days..?
Shiooooooooooooorrrrrrr...
Subject: Re: APC is confused.
From: Candid Craw-Craw!
To: All
Date Posted: 11:18:20 10/03/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 165.155.200.143
Message:
So warped brain, are you trying to exact revenge for SLPP's defeat by engaging
in the politics of personal destruction? Get ready to stew in your juices as we
keep you waiting for a hundred days before we name the cabinet. The gratuitous
abuse you heap on people in the name of free speech is gonna boomerang big time.
Hey candido arata, we are your bosses now and there is nothing you can do about
it jack. Scream and sabotage till you pee on yourself, for all I care. If ee
hart you go cratch you craw-craw!
Subject: Re: APC is confused.
From: Sadam Insane
To: All
Date Posted: 10:06:59 10/03/07 ()
Email Address: sorba_1@yahoo.com
Entered From: at 209.116.81.187
Message:
Confused? APC is not confused, APC is incompetent to govern the country. They
are still trying to solve the fighting they had before the election. The
election is over and now Mr President is mending fences. But God de. The people
de watch.
na me yone two cent da wan de.