Subject: HOW EBK CAN MAKE AN IMPACT IN THIRTY DAYS!
From: Mammy Blessing
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Date Posted: 07:20:08 10/13/07 ()
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The elections have come and gone. As we roll into the Christmas season, the JCs are getting ready to fly in to showboat, peacock and strut their multi million-dollar-euro stuff, to the hero-worship of fan, kith and kin. However the days before chrismas are anxious ones for a most of our 'homebase' compatriots as they realize that their dreary economic status quo has really not changed at all. It will hit them like a ton of rutile concentrate that, despite the elections, they still can't afford one decent meal for their families, pay school fees, buy presents or get a job. Resentment is bound to grow unless the govt takes one impact problem (out of the myriad) and take a go at it. The issue of electricity should be tops because of its psychological effect (the perpetual blackout has become synonymous with the country's malaise), and its indication of a hopeful future, that things are going to be different now.
ELECTRICITY:
The president recently toured our crappy power stations which have for too long become the shelter of sheep, goats and other slithering animals taking advantage of the quiet surroundings. The president promised to light up Freetown and all twelve district headquarters. I don't think it is rhetoric at all. WE CAN DO IT! This is how:
NACSA, which has wasted about $100 million on about 1000 lousy projects with zero economic effect, still has about $50 million undisbursed cash at hand. That is money that can be used to buy the 2MW provincial generators and the 17MW thermal station for Freetown that could be in place to illuminate Sierra Leone by Christmas. We will get these stations while we continue our bilateral negotiations with the UN and friendly nations. Our development partners will respect us for it because they will see that we mean business; that we are not just going around panhandling like an international 'miskina'.
As for the thievery of electrical cables and wiring, just deploy a squad of cops and soldiers and tag them as the new Electrical Crimes brigade. That will stop the sabotage immediately. Let's get cracking, Mr. President. Let's change rhetoric into reality!
Subject: Re: HOW EBK CAN MAKE AN IMPACT IN THIRTY DAYS!
From: Sam
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Date Posted: 07:40:46 10/13/07 ()
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#2 CLEAN UP FREETOWN
This is the easiest thing that can be done in that it is cheap, foreign expertise and imports are not required and you could say okay, lets start this in three days and be able to. If Freetown gets cleaned up and a way is implemented for it actually stay that way, since there are those that will be dumping their garbage in the streets, all man go collay pan we new president.
Mr. President, of all the challenges you face, duties you have to do for your populace, this is the easiest one. Light will obvioulsy take time, three meals a day for everyone, or chicken in every pot as they say, will take time, schooling and jobs will definitely take time. Cleaning up Freetown? You could have it so that by January, when the holiday makers are returning overseas they are telling everyone how incredibly clean Freetown is and how EK is the best thing to happen to Sierra Leone.
Subject: HAS PROZO CHANGED HIS MIND ON BRA ISCANDRI
From: Koboko
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Date Posted: 06:41:30 10/13/07 ()
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it was rumoured that the president has earmarked Bra Iscandri for the position of Minister of Justice. after taking a look at the ministrial list, Bra Iscandri's name has not featured so far. what happened? could it have been of a change of mind by Prezzo. i hope he is given a chance this time because he is very brilliant and has something to offer.
Subject: SIERRA LEONE'S BLOOD DIAMONDS AND AMERICAN RAPPER
From: MOHAMEDBARIGUE
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Date Posted: 05:16:22 10/13/07 ()
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CNN IS TO SHOW A DOCUMENTARY ON CNN SATURDAY MORNING STARTING AT 7 AM WITH AN AMERICAN RAPPER WHO WENT TO SIERRA LEONE'S DIAMOND MINES TO DO A RAP VIDEO ON BLOOD DIAMONDS . NOT MUCH INFO AT THIS TIME.
Subject: THIS IS SO VERY TRUE
From: reality
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Date Posted: 05:00:09 10/13/07 ()
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Welcome to the S.L.P.P. Forum
Re: Shame
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Posted by Why on October 13, 2007 at 04:49:28:
In Reply to: Re: Shame posted by x on October 13, 2007 at 04:02:20:
"Mannah believes in democracy, he writes objectively and such attributes cannot be taken away from him."
How can you take take away something from Mannah that he does not have?
You head-in-the sand people are the reason why the SLPP was demolished in the elections. You bury your head in the sand and refuse to see reality. So, when Margai broke away, you foolishly boasted he was no threat to the SLPP's victory. Now, you look like the fools you were for saying such nonsense.
But you still haven't learnt your lesson. Here you are agaqin praising a life-long loser like John Mannah who still can't even write english properly, as someone you have learnt a lot from. Do you like learning bad English? Do you like learning how to argue without sense? Do you like learning how to use bad words in public? Do you want to learn how to lie about things you are not?
Then go ahead and "learn" from John Mannah how not to write English and how not to argue, and how to lie about yourself, and how to use bad words in public. But leave me out of it. I don't share your view. I just wish Mannah would go and learn english and how to argue. Most of all, I wish John Mannah would go and learn some good home training so that he would stop trashing our forum with his rude words.
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Subject: Re: THIS IS SO VERY TRUE
From: I like this better
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Date Posted: 05:15:29 10/13/07 ()
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Welcome to the S.L.P.P. Forum
Re: Shame
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Posted by SLPP Veteran on October 13, 2007 at 04:33:38:
In Reply to: Shame posted by John Mannah fan on October 12, 2007 at 18:09:26:
You are right, my brother. The name John is disaster to our party. The two people abroad that made our party to lose the election because of their lack of home training, lack of logic, lack of grammar and lack of self-respect whenever they open their mouth in public are John Mannah and John Leigh. The two people inside Sierra Leone that made our party to lose the election becos of their corruption in Kailahun during the election are John Benjamin and John Karimu.
Of all of them, to my mind, John Mannah suffers the most from low self esteem. That is what makes him to look down upon himself. To cover up his low self-esteem, John Mannah tries to bring everybody down to his level (Pull him Down or PhD).
Because John Mannah don't respect himself, therefore he don't respect others. Don't you see how he use bad language in public? And how he cusses those that are his superiors left and right? The man is so conscious of his poverty that he hates anyone that is not poor like him. Because he is slow in thinking, he don't understand that he is an outlier. So, he thinks that people are like him -- that they want to be a minister in politics to steal money.
I blame our party, too. If our party SLPP did not tolerate people like John Mannah, it would have expelled John Mannah from the party from the first time he made our party look bad to the public. That was when our party should have realized that John Mannah is not all correct in his head.
Is it not a man whose head is not correct that goes around boasting that he is something that everyone knows he is not? That's John Mannah for you. He will not see that he is disgracing himself and our party every time he opens his moutn in public.
So he won't shut his mouth like you asked him to. Only the SLPP can shut him up by expelling him from our party.
Subject: Re: THIS IS SO VERY TRUE
From: Calling Toegondoe Sagbah to the Podium
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Date Posted: 05:24:55 10/13/07 ()
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Re: An Apology and Plea to Debunge and Fellow Forumites
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Posted by Joseph Marrah on October 13, 2007 at 05:12:42:
In Reply to: Re: An Apology and Plea to Debunge and Fellow Forumites posted by Toegondoe Sagbah on October 12, 2007 at 22:59:53:
It takes a man to admit a fault, but it takes a man of integrity to appologize.
Toegondoe,
It takes a man of integrity to speak the truth. Has John Mannah apologized to Mohamed jalloh, the victim of his treacherous and malicious lies?
I hope you will start acting like a man of integrity by stopping this mealy-mouthed talk about Mannah being a man of integrity. Do men of integrity go arround telling lies about soemone they do not know? What man of integrity will make allegations about someone and when asked to prove them, he runs away? You people have to learn to speak the truth for a change. Otherwise, you risk becoming just like John Mannah -- a man so lacking in integrity that he tells lies about those he wishes to be like but can not quite work hard enough to become like them.
So, what does John Mannah do to avoid facing the painful reality that he is not up to the high standards of those he wishes to be like? He tries to pull them down! Do you call such a person like John Mannah a man of integrity? That would just expose you as lacking integrity yourself.
Subject: THIS TIME IT IS NOT EKUTAY BUT TOLONGBO OR TAMARANEH
From: Bai Bureh
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Date Posted: 04:40:52 10/13/07 ()
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The days of EKUTAY were long gone;
When the new APC born.
Now it is TOLONGBO
From Kenema to Songo.
You can leave Freetown for Bo
If you need to eat some freetambo.
It can also be TAMARANEH
When what failed us was WUTETEH.
So let us look to the future
We know it will be a brighter Salone for sure.
Subject: Discount cigarettes on-line
From: Cigarettes on-line
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Date Posted: 03:09:25 10/13/07 ()
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Subject: Re: Discount cigarettes on-line
From: Bai Bureh
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Date Posted: 04:22:12 10/13/07 ()
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While people are struggling so hard to kick the habit you are busy promoting cancerogenics.Please spare us self-destruction.
Subject: Cornelius Hamelberg went Ballistics:Cuss Cuss nor mix
From: Alieu Oil
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Date Posted: 00:40:19 10/13/07 ()
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Ignorant son of bitch, I asked you for your name.
I am somebody else you see Mr. Ignorant Imbecile of many lies.
And which ideas are you talking about?
You don't know what an idea is.... perhaps you don't know the kind of idiot you are and what do you know apart from telling lies?
Subject: RUMOURS, QUESTIONS and COMMENTS
From: Mensa
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Date Posted: 22:23:57 10/12/07 ()
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To start with, we've got to feel free and be prepared to be a bit more tolerant. Some of the questions I may ask are just natural and in fact, they might just as well help us examine the elasticity of tolerance for some of our emerging APC diehards. Frankly, I can afford to be APC, but not a diehard because the word 'diehard' is too close to 'fundamentalist' and both can bring 'terminal' repercussions to someone in the region where I live.
Well, we all hear things about our country, the President and his Cab….
Now, wait a minute! Haven't I heard this 'Cab' thing before?
Oh, yes! It's got to do with the Vice President, Sam Sumana.
You see, what I had in mind, while trying to get a topic of discussion, was the word 'Cabinet'. But then, the caption shouldn't be unnecessarily long. So I decided to cut it short with the word 'Cab'. Funnily, it open up this issue I earlier read in this very forum about the VP being a former 'Cab' driver. [Strictly American VoCab.! – (There you go again, running from one Cab to another!).] But in our normal speak, we say, 'Running from one Taxi to another fighting to make a living'! So, should my caption now end with 'The President and his Cab Driver,' or 'The President and his Former Cab Driver'? Of course, neither! But it tells us one thing: As long as you are in the political spotlight, you should be prepared to be ridiculed. Not defamed though!
Yet, does it sound good to say: 'Running from one cab to another fighting to make a living'? After all, you could be sacked in one cab company and you go search for another.
Well, VP Sumana allegedly came with it! I mean lots of cab money!
No! 'Cab dollars' sounds better. [In my region, we say petrodollars.]
And delivered to the APC stalwarts before the elections.
RUMOUR No. 1: We heard that the money was from a pool of sympathizers who aspire to become potential partners in the development of Sierra Leone.
QUESTIONS: What are the expectations of these sympathizers? Will they remain sincere in their objective to help in the development of Sierra Leone? Are they waiting for Serious Sam to be well established and they surface to milk the returns of their previous investment? Could it have been a one-man show or does our country stand to bleed in future?
COMMENT: If you feel uncomfortable, then forget it. It's just a notable rumour.
RUMOUR No. 2: Just after taking office, President Koroma briefly visited Liberia, Guinea and Burkina Faso. Rumour has it that the real motive for going to these three countries was to block/arrest SLPP former ministers who would attempt to escape prosecution from the impending corruption heat in Sierra Leone.
QUESTIONS: Was there any grand plan for the PMDC leader, Charles Margai, to unleash a campaign of witch-hunting against former SLPP ministers before or after the elections? If yes, then why didn't he get the post of Attorney General? Is he going to be Interior Minister? If no, then forget it. It's just a notable rumour. Is Burkina Faso still important in the sustainance of peace in Sierra Leone?
COMMENT: President Koroma may have impressed a lot by playing his cards close to his chest. He's got to prove that he is his own man. He deliberated omitted Charles Margai in the first release of Ministerial positions to establish the fact that he is in control. Thus, we see the logic behind the two installments of releases! Could be more that two…..who knows!
RUMOUR No. 3: We heard that Hon. Zainab Bangura once worked in the same Insurance Company that the President, Ernest Bai Koroma, was heading.
QUESTIONS: Was it a good relationship? When she eventually left, did she misbehave or was it an amicable parting? Did he appoint her as Foreign Minister because he knows her output or because he wants to prove to her that he harbours no ill feelings and that she has been forgiven, or both?
COMMENT: We love her for being tough. But then, when she happens to find herself working under the same soft-spoken boss, she only has to remember that he is now the president. Perhaps, it will make a difference.
Next issue: There'll be more Essetial Rumours and Comments but on other topics like Oil/petrol discovery in Sierra Leone, the solution to the APC in-fighting, the disappointment of Hon. Abu Bakar Jalloh [Ambassador to Saudi Arabia was his preference] and more. Stay netted. For now, I just need to get some sleep!
Remember though: If you feel uncomfortable, then it's just a notable rumour.
Subject: Re: RUMOURS, QUESTIONS and COMMENTS
From: Somtin Butu!
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Date Posted: 05:20:57 10/13/07 ()
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There are so many rumours about Oil in Sierra Leone. That is something I am dying to get info, any info, about!
Subject: RUMOURS, QUESTIONS and COMMENTS
From: Mensa
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Date Posted: 22:23:06 10/12/07 ()
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To start with, we've got to feel free and be prepared to be a bit more tolerant. Some of the questions I may ask are just natural and in fact, they might just as well help us examine the elasticity of tolerance for some of our emerging APC diehards. Frankly, I can afford to be APC, but not a diehard because the word 'diehard' is too close to 'fundamentalist' and both can bring 'terminal' repercussions to someone in the region where I live.
Well, we all hear things about our country, the President and his Cab….
Now, wait a minute! Haven't I heard this 'Cab' thing before?
Oh, yes! It's got to do with the Vice President, Sam Sumana.
You see, what I had in mind, while trying to get a topic of discussion, was the word 'Cabinet'. But then, the caption shouldn't be unnecessarily long. So I decided to cut it short with the word 'Cab'. Funnily, it open up this issue I earlier read in this very forum about the VP being a former 'Cab' driver. [Strictly American VoCab.! – (There you go again, running from one Cab to another!).] But in our normal speak, we say, 'Running from one Taxi to another fighting to make a living'! So, should my caption now end with 'The President and his Cab Driver,' or 'The President and his Former Cab Driver'? Of course, neither! But it tells us one thing: As long as you are in the political spotlight, you should be prepared to be ridiculed. Not defamed though!
Yet, does it sound good to say: 'Running from one cab to another fighting to make a living'? After all, you could be sacked in one cab company and you go search for another.
Well, VP Sumana allegedly came with it! I mean lots of cab money!
No! 'Cab dollars' sounds better. [In my region, we say petrodollars.]
And delivered to the APC stalwarts before the elections.
RUMOUR No. 1: We heard that the money was from a pool of sympathizers who aspire to become potential partners in the development of Sierra Leone.
QUESTIONS: What are the expectations of these sympathizers? Will they remain sincere in their objective to help in the development of Sierra Leone? Are they waiting for Serious Sam to be well established and they surface to milk the returns of their previous investment? Could it have been a one-man show or does our country stand to bleed in future?
COMMENT: If you feel uncomfortable, then forget it. It's just a notable rumour.
RUMOUR No. 2: Just after taking office, President Koroma briefly visited Liberia, Guinea and Burkina Faso. Rumour has it that the real motive for going to these three countries was to block/arrest SLPP former ministers who would attempt to escape prosecution from the impending corruption heat in Sierra Leone.
QUESTIONS: Was there any grand plan for the PMDC leader, Charles Margai, to unleash a campaign of witch-hunting against former SLPP ministers before or after the elections? If yes, then why didn't he get the post of Attorney General? Is he going to be Interior Minister? If no, then forget it. It's just a notable rumour. Is Burkina Faso still important in the sustainance of peace in Sierra Leone?
COMMENT: President Koroma may have impressed a lot by playing his cards close to his chest. He's got to prove that he is his own man. He deliberated omitted Charles Margai in the first release of Ministerial positions to establish the fact that he is in control. Thus, we see the logic behind the two installments of releases! Could be more that two…..who knows!
RUMOUR No. 3: We heard that Hon. Zainab Bangura once worked in the same Insurance Company that the President, Ernest Bai Koroma, was heading.
QUESTIONS: Was it a good relationship? When she eventually left, did she misbehave or was it an amicable parting? Did he appoint her as Foreign Minister because he knows her output or because he wants to prove to her that he harbours no ill feelings and that she has been forgiven, or both?
COMMENT: We love her for being tough. But then, when she happens to find herself working under the same soft-spoken boss, she only has to remember that he is now the president. Perhaps, it will make a difference.
Next issue: There'll be more Essetial Rumours and Comments but on other topics like Oil/petrol discovery in Sierra Leone, the solution to the APC in-fighting, the disappointment of Hon. Abu Bakar Jalloh [Ambassador of Saudi Arabia was his preference] and more. Stay netted. For now, I just need to get some sleep!
Remember though: If you feel uncomfortable, then it's just a notable rumour.
Subject: Re: RUMOURS, QUESTIONS and COMMENTS
From: news
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Date Posted: 04:45:43 10/13/07 ()
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People who have used to be in the corridor of power, never learn to forget their gains and sordid mind to plunder their nations'wealth.When they lose their priviledges and influence, they conjured evil tactics to scare away those who inherited the sorry State, they pillaged.
How many new appointees can be pointed at and tag him/ner with malfeasance. There is no one. The APC appointment brings hope and nobody will curse these honourable gentlemen.
2007 will ever be recorded as the year that God gives Sierra Leoneans a golden opportunity to move forward with hope and victory.
Our people will stand by those who sing praises to our great people who will puh Sierra Leone forward.
Subject: Re: Additional cabinet
From: Bankie Liba man
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Date Posted: 21:44:39 10/12/07 ()
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Any word on the new cabinet?
Subject: Re: Additional cabinet
From: Alieu Oil
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Date Posted: 23:51:05 10/12/07 ()
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1.Defence - Mr.Palo Conteh
2.Internal Affairs, Local Government and Rural Development - Mr.Dauda Sulaiman Kamara
3.Marine Resources - Dr.Moses Moisa-Kapu
4.Energy and Power - Haja Afsatu Kabbah
5.Tourism and Cultural Affairs - Mr.Hindolo Trye
6.Social Welfare Gender and Childrens Affairs - Mrs.Musu Kandeh
7.Education Youths and Sports - Dr. Minkailu Bah
8.Employment and Social Security - Mr.Minkailu Mansaray
9.Trade and Industry - Mr. Alimamy Koroma
10.Transport and Aviation - Mr. Kemoh Sesay
Subject: To what tribe does Ernest Koroma really belong?
From: Alpha Barrie
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Date Posted: 21:41:12 10/12/07 ()
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There has been some conflicting report at home and abroad about Ernest Koroma in relation to his tribal affiliation. Does anyone know for sure his tribe? If so, please explain in detail.
Subject: Profile: Ernest Bai Koroma, Sierra Leone’s new head of state
From: Bai Bureh
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Date Posted: 02:27:40 10/13/07 ()
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Profile: Ernest Bai Koroma, Sierra Leone’s new head of state
By Mohamed Samura, APA correspondent, Freetown
APA-Freetown (Sierra Leone) Sierra Leone’s newly elected President Ernest Bai Koroma, commonly called Ernest by his closest friends was born on October 2, 1953, in Makeni, capital of the Northern Region, one of eight siblings and the eldest of four boys.
Koroma’s parents are both from the north, his father from the Temne ethic group, the dominant ethic group in the north and the second largest in the country and his mother, a Limba. He was brought up as a Christian in the Muslim dominated northern part of the country.
Koroma attended the Sierra Leone Church Primary School, then the Government Secondary School (for boys) in Magburaka in the Northern Region. He later went to Fourah Bay College, University of Sierra Leone. He graduated in 1976 from Fourah Bay College following which he taught at the St Francis Secondary School in Makeni before joining the Sierra Leone National Insurance Company in 1978. He however moved over to the Reliance Insurance Trust Corporation (Ritcorp) in 1985 and became its Managing Director in 1988, a position he outstandingly held up to March 2002.
Koroma then resigned from Ritcorp to join politics and he was unanimously elected as leader/chairman of the opposition All People’s Congress (APC), and its presidential candidate for the March 2002 presidential elections. He however lost the elections to the ex-President Ahmed Tejan Kabbah, who won by over 60% in the first round. As leader of the APC, Koroma was however hit by a series of court cases against his youthful leadership and relying on the 2002 APC Constitution, he was eventually stripped of the party leadership by the Supreme Court of Sierra Leone in June 2005.
However, he was again re-elected leader of the APC at a national delegates’ conference in September 2005 and went on to become the minority leader in the Sierra Leone Parliament until his election to the presidency this year.
Under his leadership, the APC swept virtually all the seats in the Western Area during the last local government elections of 2004. This was in spite of the fact that some of the old guard of the APC dismissed his leadership as a matter of child’s play. However, President Koroma’s leadership style is a blend of old and new.
An astute business man and a Chartered Insurer, President Koroma is also a Fellow of the West African Insurance Institute (WAICA), an Associate of the Institute of Risk Management in the UK and a Member of the Institute of Directors in the UK. He also holds an unblemished and enviable public service record and spouts himself as a darling of democracy, the rule of law, human rights, good governance and probity, freedom of the press, transparency and accountability. Indeed, his admirers say he is not only a fine gentleman but also the hope for Sierra Leone’s future.
President Koroma, who will turn 54 years old on Tuesday October 2nd, was put forward as presidential candidate by the APC congress as "the democratic hope for Sierra Leone" which they described as "a country at the cross roads of change from the old order to a younger generation of visionary leadership of hope and development".
Koroma is tall, handsome, with a ’leadership jaw’ and a commanding presence. He is happily married to Sia Nyama Koroma from Kono District in the Eastern Province, ex-pupil of Annie Walsh Memorial School who holds a post-graduate degree in Bio-Chemistry from London University. His matrimonial blend transcends tribal and regional politics. They are blessed with two children, Alice and Dankay. He is widely travelled to the world’s leading democracies and beyond. He has vowed to be implacable in fighting corruption. "There will be no sacred cows. Everybody will be under scrutiny", he said in his election manifesto.
Subject: Re: Profile: Ernest Bai Koroma, Sierra Leone’s new head of state
From: SANTOS MANGA
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Date Posted: 04:44:04 10/13/07 ()
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A brother I knew back in makeni told me yesterday that his dad is Loko and mother Limba. He is not Themene. His ethnic identity however, is insignificant. For most of us what is important is that he delivers.
Subject: Re: To what tribe does Ernest Koroma really belong?
From: Bai Bureh
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Date Posted: 02:19:58 10/13/07 ()
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If your father hails from Yonnibana and you were born in Makeni to which tribe do you actually belong? Please do the thinking and figure it out for yourself!
Subject: Re: To what tribe does Ernest Koroma really belong?
From: Amadu Kabbah
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Date Posted: 00:48:29 10/13/07 ()
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If it is so important that you may not want to go without an answer, I think I know his tribe. He is a Sierra Leonean.
Subject: Re: To what tribe does Ernest Koroma really belong?
From: BouBakree
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Date Posted: 21:44:02 10/12/07 ()
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And why is this information so important Sir?
Subject: Candid One, Why Selleth Thy Soul To SLPP ?
From: Fen Plaba
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Date Posted: 21:39:30 10/12/07 ()
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Candid One,
I have noticed that you are one of the most intransigent SLPP ideologues in cyberspace. In posting after posting, you have tried to savage the duly elected president with your corny witticisms that belie your growling resentment at the APC for giving the 'Koboko' to your beloved SLPP, in the Mother of all electoral trouncings. When your incompetent SLPP was making a mockery of good governance and integrity, you were one of the pot-bellied cheerleaders assidiously singing 'bellah' songs for Kabbah and company. For eleven years, you were as silent as a lonely grave as your SLPP kith and kin robbed the country blind. Why are you now howling, like a rabid wolf, at the APC who are barely a month into their mandate? Are you scared that the rising sun is going to succeed massively even as the hobbled SLPP yelps from the green gangrene setting in from their self-inflicted corruption?
Bad hart nor mix O, Mister man. Whether you like it or not, Ernest will succeed and there's not a darn thing you or the other batolistas of the palm tree can do about it!
Subject: SLPP and the Mining Contracts.
From: Kabudu Gen
To: All
Date Posted: 20:46:17 10/12/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 151.202.41.6
Message:
The corrupt mining contracts that the SLPP government signed with shady mob bosses, particularly from the former Soviet bloc, needs to be urgently reviewed. For example, a shadowy refugee from the law, the Romanian criminal Vasile Frank Timis was virtually sold about half of Sierra Leone, to dig, blast and bulldoze for diamonds, as a result of the corrupt contracts he signed with the SLPP government. Timis is the head of Sierra Leone Diamond Company, which is constantly dynamiting the area around Koidu as it tries to crush the Kimberlite dykes. What do the people of Sierra Leone get from this odious business deal? Next to nothing! A measly 1.5% of profits, which equals Zero, after clever Hollywood accounting and under-the-table money exchanges.
President Koroma, please review SLDC’s twenty licenses and toss them out if a whiff of corruption stinks through. We need the money to grow the economy and fund the socioeconomic promises.
http://news.sl/drwebsite/publish/article_200575.shtml
Subject: CABINET UPDATE
From: Newsflash
To: All
Date Posted: 20:10:33 10/12/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: cpe-69-203-69-20.nyc.res.rr.com at 69.203.69.20
Message:
Rev Kabs, please provide Forumites with the updated list of APC Cabinet Ministers. I hear that Haja Afsatu Kabba is Minister of Energy and Hindolo Sumanguru Trye is Minister of Tourism. Is is true?
Subject: Mr President dae in full control bra
From: Law
To: All
Date Posted: 18:10:22 10/12/07 ()
Email Address: delaw80@hotmail.com
Entered From: c-65-96-54-253.hsd1.ma.comcast.net at 65.96.54.253
Message:
Front page posting to the other on cocorioko it is all glory for poyo boy EBK and the good work he is doing. Of course it is cocorioko so what should we expect? goodies about APC for sure. If i should deviant from that and post anything different bra Kabs will either call forum police to delete my writing or thunderbolt vernons will storm with response and name calling like "you SLPPer" etc etc. Honestly EBK is doing a good job especially after having a taste of his first official monthly salary. Like Tejan k did with SLPP, EBKoroma seats and listens attentively to APC folks as they yap and yap in there secret meetings but when he comes out in the open he does the opposite. His first cabinet is a clear example, the opportunists that gave up there jobs, sold their houses and ran to Freetown for a job from Koroma are complainings that he does not listen to advice and the advices are the promises that are yet to be fulfilled. Fanatics like Victor high barb FOH are a little on easy because of the route EBK is taking. There is still hope anyways for these unpatriotic folks because the parastaltals, oversea appointments are yet to come, trust me if EBK continues on the path is he on now and appoint the right people in the right place devoid of party, regional politics and tribal sentiments the first zombies to complain will be the disgruntled APCer's that are runing back and forth from state house everyday, they have nothing left to turn back to so by all means possible EBK should give them a job. I can name five that left The States throwing away there scrubs from the 20 year old nursing home job and are now in suits parading the corners of Freetown as EBK's entourage/special assistants. If it becomes a free for all appointment, i hope cocorioko will be remembered for the propaganda role it played and at least Rev Kabs be considered for a position in The ministry of misinformation please.Koodoos poyo boy EBK, keep up the good work
Subject: Re: Mr President dae in full control bra
From: The Lover
To: All
Date Posted: 22:50:16 10/12/07 ()
Email Address: unikad5@yahoo.com
Entered From: at 82.99.234.220
Message:
Pretty interesting isn't it, reading inputs from two top folks. One revealed as the other enjoyed the sanctuary of anonimity. Yet I happen to love the 'Bra' ending of the postings! Sounds poetic and revealing.
Subject: Re: Mr President dae in full control bra
From: Somtin Butu!
To: All
Date Posted: 20:51:37 10/12/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: pool-151-202-41-6.ny325.east.verizon.net at 151.202.41.6
Message:
You hart warm O, my mans! Nar for take am wasy O. 18,000 more days of warm hart go cook you liver, bra!
Subject: FOR MR. MOHAMED DARIGUE PLEASE
From: krio boy
To: All
Date Posted: 20:01:34 10/12/07 ()
Email Address: krioboy@yahoo.com
Entered From: wnpgmb11dc1-161-174-190.dynamic.mts.net at 142.161.174.190
Message:
I left a call for you after my email to you was returned.Can you please reach back to my since i want more talks on this airline you just mentioned about at cocorioko please?
Subject: Re: FOR MR. MOHAMED DARIGUE PLEASE
From: MOHAMED BARIGUE
To: All
Date Posted: 04:55:02 10/13/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: c-69-143-225-68.hsd1.md.comcast.net at 69.143.225.68
Message:
THE CORRECT EMAIL ADDRESS IS: mohamedbarigue@yahoo.fr or bariguetransitetvoyages@yahoo.com
Subject: Re: Mr President dae in full control bra
From: KABS KANU
To: All
Date Posted: 19:43:53 10/12/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: cache-dtc-ag14.proxy.aol.com at 205.188.117.142
Message:
Miserable .Some Sierra Leoneans perform to get back something in return and you are one of them. I don't perform to get anything back.Otherwise , you would not have had a forum to express yourself . But you nar Salone man . Negativity...That's what defines us, so you nor miss road.
Subject: Re: Mr President dae in full control bra
From: Law
To: All
Date Posted: 19:57:41 10/12/07 ()
Email Address: delaw80@hotmail.com
Entered From: c-65-96-54-253.hsd1.ma.comcast.net at 65.96.54.253
Message:
Kabs Kanu i am a proud SIERRA LEONEAN who prefer not to mortgage his heritage for anything. Reference to your comment "negativity and what defines us as Salone man" i hold my peace on that. My posting was to express my political view, if you do find it challenging there could have been a subtle way to react rather than implicatiing your so called "Salone Man" theory into it. Thanks for the forum and i must say also that you should appreciate me and several others who comment on issues that you find not in your favor, at least we keep you in business. Any bible verse for me to keep my Salone mind at ease with REV????
Subject: Benin 2-Salone 0
From: Olu Beckley
To: All
Date Posted: 16:10:23 10/12/07 ()
Email Address: mariamab@aol.com
Entered From: at 206.113.148.2
Message:
Can someone please confirm these results.
Subject: Re: Benin 2-Salone 0
From: From BBC
To: All
Date Posted: 16:34:52 10/12/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: 228-64-ftth.onsneteindhoven.nl at 88.159.64.228
Message:
Last Updated: Friday, 12 October 2007, 18:33 GMT 19:33 UK
E-mail this to a friend Printable version
Mali and Benin qualify for Ghana
Kanoute's first-half goal sent Mali on their way
Mali and Benin secured places at the 2008 Nations Cup finals with victories in their final Group Nine games on Friday.
Mali were 2-0 winners against Togo in Lome and finish top of the group.
Riots broke out at the Kegue Stadium, with Togo fans angry at the defeat.
Benin beat Sierra Leone in Freetown by the same scoreline, and qualify as one of the three best runners-up.
The results dashed the hopes of Uganda, who finished second in Group Three with 11 points, the same tally as Benin.
But the Squirrels had the better goal difference, and will make their second appearance at the Nations Cup finals next January.
Fans injured in Lome
Freddi Kanoute put Mali ahead towards the end of the first half, converting a cross from Bassala Toure.
Mamadou Diallo sealed the victory in second-half stoppage-time, in a game that Togo had to win if they were to qualify.
Some Togo supporters threw objects onto the pitch after the second goal, and the BBC's Ebow Godwin says that some spectators were injured and taken to hospital.
A crowd of just 5,000 watched Sierra Leone squander chances as they went behind to Benin after 10 minutes through a deflected shot from Oumar Tchomogo.
Tchomogo scored again 20 minutes into the second half, capitalising on a defensive error.
The Leone Stars have failed to win at home since 2003.
Mali will be back at the Nations Cup finals after missing out on the 2006 edition in Egypt.
Subject: RE: NPA
From: Bankie Liber Man
To: All
Date Posted: 15:33:47 10/12/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: gate02c.merckmedco.com at 167.211.190.2
Message:
How about closing the entire NPA power house and invest in newer machines.
Subject: Re: RE: NPA
From: KLA
To: All
Date Posted: 16:06:43 10/12/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 164.82.84.3
Message:
All the government of Sierra Leone has to do is to ask for help in the provision and execution of a Modern POWER Generation regime.
New Power generating machines will be needed. The current rigged up machines could be phased out in stages. If the Government is serious in ending the dark ages of Salone, Mobile industrial Generators could be requested from the wealthier Nations as part of a aid related package.
The GOSL may have to get to the heart of the BUMBUNA delays, noting that with high GOLD and Diamond prices,the incentive to complete this project,could be lost in the quest for wealth by project participants.
The country must think in terms of being a regional POWER GENERATING CENTRE, capable of meeting the Power NEEDS of the MRU.The Aluminum Barons of the globe have thier eyes set on the massive Bauxite deposits of the MRU,and are willing to spend some big bucks on
creating this reality. Electricity capacity is a huge component the creation of Alumina from raw BAUXITE.
This is a simple and obvious piece of advice. The Energy planners of Salone and the MRU, must make use of the internet in executing their plans.
Subject: Plans To Blackmail Cocorioko
From: Sam
To: All
Date Posted: 15:28:03 10/12/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: pool-72-74-223-5.bstnma.east.verizon.net at 72.74.223.5
Message:
Another attentive person already started a thread on this, but I'm doing another one as the related article posted by Cocorioko is very very troublesome. First of Mr. Kanu, you know that I am a very strong supporter of what you are doing and quite appreciative of the fact that you have provided this news outlet for us. It is invaluable. However, your "Plans To Blackmail Cocorioko" article needs to be addressed. I started reading it, and it made you sound like Sylvia Blyden. These are not the types of articles that one reads about in the New York Times or other first class newspapers.
While this is obviously your newspaper, you have a journalistic obligation to understand that you are a public servant so to speak and to act accordingly. This is no longer about you. If someone shows up and threatens you with a gun because of Cocorioko, maybe that's newsworthy, but to start printing every congosah and jealousy attacks aimed at you, you're just swimming in the same pool as Sylvia Blyden.
Second and more importantly, I know Cocorioko actually claims to be partisan. You have that on your website. So to start crowing about being responsible for having removed the last administration, you not only have us questioning your alleged partisanship, but as a "man of God" aren't you begining to commit one or two of Pope Gregory's deadly sins? You taking glory for the change of leadership is an insult to Sierra Leoneans. The percentage of elgible voters who went out and did their civic duty was one of the highest in the world. I think they deserve the credit.
Also, obviously news gets around, but the majority of your readers reside outside SL and did not vote. I'm getting this picture of you running around in NJ telling everyone that will listen that you effected regime change back home. Acting like some of our loud mouthed fellow citizens overseas who thing they are big shots, are wont to act. As you can see, its not a pretty picture so stay humble.
When you're good, you're good and everyone will notice. You don't need to get on a soap box and start turning what is currently a respected newspaper, into your personal tabloid.
Another bit of advice, they have a term back home called pull him down (PhD) syndrome. So attacks will come your way, ignore them. They're a dime a dozen. You pay attention to them, you are wasting time on negative energy.
Lastly, please do not have Cocorioko start overly ingratiating itself to the government. One, it's no different from us calling Blyden a stooge of the SLPP and it obviously just throws your partisanship into the gutter. We Yone (or whichever one was Papa Shaki's newspaper) already exists for that.
Stay True.
Subject: HAPPY EID TO ALL PRACTICING MUSLIMS.
From: MOHAMED BARIGUE
To: All
Date Posted: 15:16:45 10/12/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: c-69-143-225-68.hsd1.md.comcast.net at 69.143.225.68
Message:
Happy Eid to all practicing muslims and plese don't forget to give charity to the needy.
Subject: Re: HAPPY EID TO ALL PRACTICING MUSLIMS.
From: Almamy Razak Tun Seray-Wurie Si
To: All
Date Posted: 16:12:08 10/12/07 ()
Email Address: almamysi@hotmail.com
Entered From: hsl9.cait.osr.columbia.edu at 156.111.18.78
Message:
Thanks and May Allah reward you too. Every muslim (That can afford it) must give Zakatul-Fitri which is a charity/tax specifically for Eid-Ul-Fitri (We call Muduu). The needy must enjoy this day with such donations..
Subject: Re: HAPPY EID TO ALL PRACTICING MUSLIMS.
From: ALPHA SAIDU BANGURA
To: All
Date Posted: 16:37:01 10/12/07 ()
Email Address: SAIDUBANGSO@AOL.COM
Entered From: c-69-143-242-205.hsd1.md.comcast.net at 69.143.242.205
Message:
Eid UL Mubarak to all my Muslim brothers and sisters the world over.
May Allah accept our fasting and continues to surround us with his protection.
RABBANAAA 'AFRIG ALAYNAA SABRANW-WA SABBIT'AQDAAMANAA
WAN-SURNAA'ALAL-QAWMIL-KAA-FIRIIN. AMIN.
Subject: Re: HAPPY EID TO ALL PRACTICING MUSLIMS.
From: Eddie Grant
To: All
Date Posted: 15:24:56 10/12/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 78.146.242.28
Message:
Thanks my brother happy Eid to you too.
Subject: Major (rtd) Mathew S Kamara
From: Mohamed Tayyib-Bah
To: All
Date Posted: 13:06:14 10/12/07 ()
Email Address: tayyibbah@btinternet.com
Entered From: host86-151-65-62.range86-151.btcentralplus.com at 86.151.65.62
Message:
Can someone please send me Mathew's email address or phone number?
Mine is tayyibbah@btinternet.com
Subject: Re: Major (rtd) Mathew S Kamara
From: coincidence
To: All
Date Posted: 14:38:48 10/12/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: ppp-70-248-231-245.dsl.hstntx.swbell.net at 70.248.231.245
Message:
mr. manso,
are your ears deaf? why pick on matthew, what has he done to you. what is your reason for the hate? can you hear the message of president koroma? pls get off this forum, we dont need people like you.
are you jealouus of him? Grow up pls.
Subject: Re: Major (rtd) Mathew S Kamara
From: Manso Conteh
To: All
Date Posted: 16:16:02 10/12/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: cache-dtc-ag14.proxy.aol.com at 205.188.117.142
Message:
Thank you for your response Matthew Kamara alias Coincidence. You've done nothing to me, but when a fool like you try to use the press for your selfish motives, I am compelled to respond.
I cannot run away from this forum because I hold a different view. This forum is a melting pot for divergent views.
I do not hate you because I am superior to you in terms of anything. I was with you in the military, and you were not a match for my professional proficiency. I cannot sit quitely when military officers write incoherent articles. It is a disgrace to all officers.
Subject: Re: Major (rtd) Mathew S Kamara
From: coincidence
To: All
Date Posted: 16:25:22 10/12/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: ppp-70-248-231-245.dsl.hstntx.swbell.net at 70.248.231.245
Message:
Manso,
I am no matthew kamara, he doesnt even know me, but when people full of hate like you try to tarnish someone else's character, i do step in.
That is Pride of Life, you are superior to matthew, that means you are a witch. Careful now, so that when you are coming down you will not step on his toe. Remember he that is down fears no fall
As I said, grow up, we dont need people like you. You dont worry, matthew will reply when he finds time, he is such a busy family man. I admire him a lot.
Subject: Re: Major (rtd) Mathew S Kamara
From: Manso Conteh
To: All
Date Posted: 14:21:13 10/12/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: cache-dtc-ag14.proxy.aol.com at 205.188.117.142
Message:
Tayyib-Bah,
I don't think you want to associate yourself with that sycophant (Matthew Kamara), who cannot write a well-organized article. I know him very well; of course, I know the two of you. If he continues to write lop-sided articles, I will have no option but to respond appropriately. He is not a defense specialist. He was a medicocre military officer when he was in the military.
Subject: Re: Major (rtd) Mathew S Kamara
From: coincidence
To: All
Date Posted: 16:28:15 10/12/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: ppp-70-248-231-245.dsl.hstntx.swbell.net at 70.248.231.245
Message:
Jackal, God bless you dear, this makes two of us. Manso has just double word. i dont want to use the appropriate vocab, because he will never understand.
He spoke about superior, the man is a witch.
cocorioko get people like manso off this forum or better still tell him to grow up.
I have told him Matthew will reply him accordingly.
Subject: Re: Major (rtd) Mathew S Kamara
From: jackal
To: All
Date Posted: 15:17:53 10/12/07 ()
Email Address: dollarbill@gmail.com
Entered From: c-67-173-165-221.hsd1.il.comcast.net at 67.173.165.221
Message:
How do you know he is not a defense specialist? What qualifies you as a defense critic? If you can write better than Matthew how about assessing your last sentence..."He was a medicocre military officer when he was in the military."
For the purpose of correction, it is a redundant sentence. Dont call the kettle black dude.
Subject: Re: Major (rtd) Mathew S Kamara
From: taybii
To: All
Date Posted: 13:36:01 10/12/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: ppp-70-248-231-245.dsl.hstntx.swbell.net at 70.248.231.245
Message:
i sent his #, say thanks pls.
Subject: Re: Major (rtd) Mathew S Kamara
From: coincidence
To: All
Date Posted: 13:21:57 10/12/07 ()
Email Address: favor@hotmail.com
Entered From: ppp-70-248-231-245.dsl.hstntx.swbell.net at 70.248.231.245
Message:
his # is 281 565 1123
Subject: Re: Major (rtd) Mathew S Kamara
From: Lawrence Billgreyhood.
To: All
Date Posted: 18:45:26 10/12/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: caintdef.sbc.com at 144.160.130.16
Message:
ORLANGBA (Major (rtd) Mathew S Kamara,) IF YOU DON’T KNOW WHAT YOU WANT TO TALK ABOUT, JUST DON’T POST ANY GARBAGE. YOUR ARTICLE GAVE ME “HEADACHE” I WAS CONFUSE WHEN I STARTED READING IT, AND GOT ENGULFED WITH THE NONSENSE. YOUR ADVICE IS A DISGRACE. I KNOW YOU WANT TO SHOW WHAT YOU CAN DO, BUT THIS BACKFIRES!!! I WAS FOLLOWING ANOTHER OFFICE (CAPTAIN KEN JOSIAH’S) ARTICLE AND I WAS PROUD OF THE MILITARY. AFTER READING YOURS, I DON’T KNOW WHAT TO SAY ABOUT THE MILITARY (IS IT FEW INTELLIGENT GUYS?) TAKE IT EASY BROTHER. I KNOW YOU’RE GIFTED IN OTHER AREAS BUT NOT IN WRITING. NICE TRY!
Subject: Re: Major (rtd) Mathew S Kamara
From: coincidence
To: All
Date Posted: 16:30:05 10/12/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: ppp-70-248-231-245.dsl.hstntx.swbell.net at 70.248.231.245
Message:
This makes three of us now. Manso get off this forum. fool!
you will hear from matthew himself.
Subject: Re: Major (rtd) Mathew S Kamara
From: Capt Yamao Khati
To: All
Date Posted: 15:27:02 10/12/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: ip4da2899b.direct-adsl.nl at 77.162.137.155
Message:
Manso,
Maj Mathew Kamara was one on the finest officers we had in the RSLMF. You are tempted to refer to him as " mediocre " simply because he never held any major NPRC appointment, unlike his mates like Strasser, SAG, BIO et al. As colleagues, we knew why his mates mal-treated him, it had to do with malice, rather than qualification.
Subject: The Cocorioko forum is the best to me
From: Town Crier
To: All
Date Posted: 11:49:24 10/12/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 71.250.218.196
Message:
I think the owners and the Moderator of this forum have been doing well and have failed to receive the praise due them. I have been visiting the SLPP and Awareness Forums as well,but one thing that fascinates me about this forum is the variety it provides.I may not be right but this is my opinion. The folks in the other two forums look tired and boring to me. Their names are insipid and the opinions straightjacket and boring. Here you meet more interesting characters like Subwanalai, Bambay Kamara, Candid Opinion, Patriot, Allieu Iscandari , Sylvester Johnny, Mbalu, Allieu Sesay, Chez Winnakabs, etc .who all provide variety .The topics dealt with by them are diverse and exciting. I will not give this forum for any other .I wish to thank the moderator for maintaining order and cleanliness on the forum. Just thought that you needed my 50cents on a forum that has become addictive to me, if you catch my drift.
Subject: Re: The ..Cease and Desist :)
From: Town Crier (the real one)
To: All
Date Posted: 15:43:42 10/12/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 198.208.251.22
Message:
Cease and desist...
This is an order from the ministry of handles at cocorioko. There is only one and only Town Crier on this forum. All others should desist from the use of that handle, and come up with their own handle.
Be warned..the pa don baranta
Subject: Re: The ..Cease and Desist :)
From: Town Crier
To: All
Date Posted: 15:42:49 10/12/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 198.208.251.22
Message:
Cease and desist...
This is an order from the ministry of handles at cocorioko. There is only one and only Town Crier on this forum. All others should desist from the use of that handle, and come up with their own handle.
Be warned.
Subject: Re: Plans to Balckmail Cocorioko
From: Thomas Mahonney
To: All
Date Posted: 13:38:25 10/12/07 ()
Email Address: thomahonney@yahoo.com
Entered From: library-99.wireless.umass.edu at 128.119.194.99
Message:
I read with trepedition your claim that some news outlets may be planning to blackmail Cocorioko.
As a keen observer, this practice is not new in journalism in Sierra Leonean and perhaps in the murky world of politics. In fact, it has been and still is a common phenomenom in Sierra Leone; one reason well meaning Sierra Leoneans take news reports by some papers with a pinch of salt.
Notwithstanding this fact, you stated in your article that "we and progressive forces in Sierra Leone succeeded in defeating a whole incumbent government"; is this not a tacit admission that Cocorioko is partisan at best? Would such a stance not compromise your sense of fairness and independence in reporting events since your desire is to portray the APC in good light? Is it ethical for journalists to be partisan and how would this impact thier quest for truth?
While there is nothing wrong for journalists to have "vested interest" (whatever that means) in any party or for that matter government as you stated- "We have a special interest in this particular government"- it smacks off sycophancy and chauvinism. Taking such a posture has potential for failure to not see anything negative in a party or goverment of the day eventhough they may exist. This is certainly dangerous for our young democracy, and sadly, it has its roots in the odious days of the APC.
The fact is, Cocorioko needs to declare itself either as a party (APC) newsblog or draw a distinct line between blind political folly or as an independent voice of Sierra Leoneans in the diaspora.
Until then, your reporting will continue to be held suspect. Kudos for the blog!
Thomas Mahonney
Boston, USA
Subject: Re: Plans to Balckmail Cocorioko
From: Saloneman
To: All
Date Posted: 21:31:57 10/12/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: pool-72-74-219-171.bstnma.east.verizon.net at 72.74.219.171
Message:
I was just as shocked when I read the "Plans to Blackmail Cocorioko" article. As soon as I read it, the first impression I got was that Mr. Kanu is beginning to sound a lot like Sylvia Blyden. You've created a wonderful entity here and we appreciate it. Do not turn it into a tabloid and worse, a tabloid about Babs kanu.
You know there is a lot of jealousy unfortunately in SL and as soon as you start making it, there are those that want to target you. Being that these attacks are a dime a dozen, please do not take it so serious that you start reporting everyday that Cocorioko is under attack. That's Sylvia's style. She lets you know that her newspaper is HER newspaper.
As I stated in my other post that mysteriously got deleted, your crowing about being responsible for the change in government is an insult to the Sierra Leoneans who went and did their civic duty. Most of your readers reside outside the country and did not vote, so lets temper the patting on the back.
You claim to be partisan, keep it so. Or if you want to be a mouth piece for the new govt, then state your intentions. Don't start ingratiating yourself to the new govt because that makes you no better than Sylvia Blyden who we all accuse of being a mouth piece for the SLPP.
When I read the blackmail article, I got a mental picture of you running around NJ telling every one who will listen that your powerful newspaper is responsible for bringing in the APC. You know like those loud mouthed of our citizens here and in the UK who like to run around at parties thinking they are big shots. Not a pretty picture as you can see, so stay true. You are a reverend, so try not to get corrupt. You are a journalist, maintain your journalistic integrity. Do not start sucking up the government now. Otherwise, congrats and thanks for the job you've done so far. Let's hope you continue on the right path.
Subject: Re: Plans to Balckmail Cocorioko
From: Saidu Daphay Turay
To: All
Date Posted: 14:40:19 10/12/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: pool-70-108-233-84.washdc.east.verizon.net at 70.108.233.84
Message:
Thomas Mahoney,
The problem with most Sierra leoneans is lack of appreciation and will always want and quest for praises where you are inclined. When Newspapers like Awareness Times and other SLPP's sponsored Newspaper where assasinating characters and reputation of APC members, where were you to have codemned or make a silly statement as you doing to the most liberal newspaper? These insidious attitudes of yours need to stop and try to be more patriotic and supportive of peoples possitive efforts.
Subject: Re: Plans to Balckmail Cocorioko
From: Town Crier
To: All
Date Posted: 15:51:50 10/12/07 ()
Email Address:
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Liberal Paper???????? Is this the same Cocorioko that we talking about???? Bo duya nor make ar choke.
Patriotism has nothing to with blind support of your government and its policies. A true patriot is proud of his country, not his govt.
Speaking of character assasination, the pages and archives of cocorioko are rife with the practice. The bottom line is you cannot claim to be non-partisan and then do everything that points out that you a die hard APC supporter....Cocorioko has essentially morphed into an APC newsletter. It has the readership because people want to know what the APC and its minions are saying, but that doesn't mean they take what is posted as gospel.
Subject: Re: Plans to Balckmail Cocorioko
From: poorman
To: All
Date Posted: 20:49:07 10/12/07 ()
Email Address: unis@yahoo.com
Entered From: pool-72-66-26-251.washdc.fios.verizon.net at 72.66.26.251
Message:
cocorioko nar we yone. you mit yar don mek nor cam . you know the rest; you go kab kanu. a lek way you bit me nar fbc, are still dae colay pa you.
Subject: Re: The Cocorioko forum is the best to me
From: Candid Opinion
To: All
Date Posted: 11:55:38 10/12/07 ()
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Entered From: ns.nucleusns2.com at 12.44.12.126
Message:
True that..
The "Forum"..
Earlier opinion i expressed was about the Newspaper..
We all agree.. the forum is the best out there..
No doubt..
Subject: Re: The Cocorioko forum is the best to me
From: Online Veteran
To: All
Date Posted: 13:05:52 10/12/07 ()
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Entered From: ppp-70-244-79-31.dsl.rcsntx.swbell.net at 70.244.79.31
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THe only with Archives. Shows continuity.
Subject: Can the real John Mannah please stand up!
From: Dehunge
To: All
Date Posted: 11:03:32 10/12/07 ()
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John over the last couple of months i have followed your sparing with various people in cyberspace. I know you John as a charming and affable guy devoid of arrongance. Your great smile was always a welcoming and sincere sign of the great human being that i knew you to be. The John Mannah that i see on these forums is not truly the real guy that i know. I believe that you have allowed yourself to be dragged into being someone other than what you are. You spent a considerable part of your life in East end Freetown a bastion of detribalised themne guys. By all indications you got along well with with guys in Hagan street with little education. In Mount Aureol where i was two years your senior you showed yourself to be a great mixer. That was how you were able to display your leadership skills especially with AISEC. Not once did i see an iota of the tribal sentiments that seem to pervade your commentary on issues about Sierra Leone. I know that it is easy to want to stand up for your ideas. But you will agree with me that your style has drowned out what ever good ideas that you seek to propagate. In other words you have become the issue rather than the honest disagreements you share with people on the political and economic issuesof the day
My advice to you John as a good friend is to back off, take some time off and re-emerge as the real guy that you truly are. I remember Kabs writing an open letter to you when you stopped posting on Cocorioko in which he lauded your articles and invited you to continue submiting them to his newspaper. I may not have agreed with everything you wrote but the articles clearly met the intellectual stardards of a Forabite that one can be proud of. I like people with passion for their ideas, however John, Sierra Leone is a small country, you can practice your politics without alienating a lot of people as you certainly seem to be doing.
Therefore my brother take a deep breath and think about whether this John Mannah who is now coming across as elitist, boastful, arrongant and snubbish of people you consider less educated is the real John Mannah. I know that is not the real John Mannah at least not the one i knew.
Subject: WHY SPEND $983,000 TO REPAIR CHANCERY IN BANJUL?
From: Chapoyumu
To: All
Date Posted: 10:56:28 10/12/07 ()
Email Address: chapo@yahoo.com
Entered From: at 206.113.148.2
Message:
• The construction of Chancery buildings and residences in Ghana. The Ghanaian Government has allocated plots of land for this purpose. Project estimated at US$130,000 for 2008.
• The repairs and maintenance of Chancery buildings - the High Commission in Banjul, The Gambia. Project cost estimated at US$983,218.00 for 2008.
• The repairs of the Chancery building and Ambassador’s residence in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Cost estimated at US$773,339.00 for 2008.
• Development estimate for rehabilitation of buildings including the Chancery’s, Ambassador’s and Deputy Ambassador’s residences and Deputy Ambassador’s residences and other logistical needs for the Sierra Leone Embassy in Washington is estimated at US$497,930 for 2008
Subject: Re: WHY SPEND $983,000 TO REPAIR CHANCERY IN BANJUL?
From: Chez Winakabs Europe
To: All
Date Posted: 12:26:42 10/12/07 ()
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Entered From: host86-138-89-217.range86-138.btcentralplus.com at 86.138.89.217
Message:
I am in support of a modern mission house. Such residences projects who we are. My problem though is where is the mioney coming from? What are in place to attract meaningful and financially beneficial bilateral trade. As our current posotion stands, our overseas missions have not brought in trade for the bbenefit of the country. Most of the trade that is happening is personal trade that only employees of these mission houses benefit. An example is palm oil that was been sold at one time at our High Commision in London (Oxford Street premises). It was a shock to see that.
Subject: Re: WHY SPEND $983,000 TO REPAIR CHANCERY IN BANJUL?
From: Olu Beckley
To: All
Date Posted: 13:08:29 10/12/07 ()
Email Address: mariamab@aol.com
Entered From: at 206.113.148.2
Message:
Why spend $983,000 to repair a chancery in Banjul when you can build a brand new one for less! You've just made the point, if renovated embassies continue to be used as market places for fried fish and "cassada braid" then the return on investment is unjustifiable.
Subject: Re: WHY SPEND $983,000 TO REPAIR CHANCERY IN BANJUL?
From: Chez Winakabs Europe
To: All
Date Posted: 13:17:36 10/12/07 ()
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Entered From: host86-129-192-18.range86-129.btcentralplus.com at 86.129.192.18
Message:
True! True! This is then the time for our Foreign Minister to formualte policies and standards to attract trade for the benefit of the nation. Shakespear once said - costly thy habits upon clothes as thy purse can buy, rich nor gaundy for the apparel proclaims the man. if we are to spend such money on revamping our mission houses we have to do that with the hope in mind that they will surely serve as financially beneficial points.
Subject: Re: WHY SPEND $983,000 TO REPAIR CHANCERY IN BANJUL?
From: KKW
To: All
Date Posted: 13:33:29 10/12/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 204.50.182.249
Message:
Costly thy habit as thy purse can buy, but not expressed in fancy, rich, not gaudy, for the apparell oft proclaims the man.
Sorry couldn't resist - this is a line from a speech I gave almost 25 years ago, but I still remember it verbatim.
Subject: Re: WHY SPEND $983,000 TO REPAIR CHANCERY IN BANJUL?
From: Chez Winakabs Europe
To: All
Date Posted: 13:46:03 10/12/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: host86-129-192-18.range86-129.btcentralplus.com at 86.129.192.18
Message:
Thanks for the verbatim! I learnt this at the Albert Academy - will not tell you when - Omorpeh harding my tailoring teacher taught us about appearance and this quote he often used. Do you still remember which book it was taken from?
Subject: Re: WHY SPEND $983,000 TO REPAIR CHANCERY IN BANJUL?
From: babbob
To: All
Date Posted: 03:46:02 10/13/07 ()
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Entered From: at 213.42.21.60
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Oh old time memories at AA.
Pa Harding taught us Permanent Turn-Up(PTU) and gave us the history behind it and upto this day, I still take my ready-made pants and modify them into PTU.
Subject: Re: WHY SPEND $983,000 TO REPAIR CHANCERY IN BANJUL?
From: Chez Winakabs Europe
To: All
Date Posted: 06:32:46 10/13/07 ()
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Entered From: host86-129-205-203.range86-129.btcentralplus.com at 86.129.205.203
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Still remember who invented the PTU, the red tie and the man who could nopt seat in public for fear of crssing his trousers? Pa harding - a great teacher of fashion. To this day my tailoring is good - the visual side is impeccable. Thank God and tghe opportunity one got to have sat in a class of Pa Harding.
Subject: Re: WHY SPEND $983,000 TO REPAIR CHANCERY IN BANJUL?
From: KKW
To: All
Date Posted: 15:14:41 10/12/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 204.50.182.249
Message:
It is from Hamlet.
Subject: Re: WHY SPEND $983,000 TO REPAIR CHANCERY IN BANJUL?
From: Chez Winakabs Europe
To: All
Date Posted: 15:40:12 10/12/07 ()
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Entered From: host86-129-200-121.range86-129.btcentralplus.com at 86.129.200.121
Message:
Thanks!
Subject: PRESIDENT KOROMA ON BBC
From: THAVARISH
To: All
Date Posted: 10:39:05 10/12/07 ()
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Message:
Check his interview and have your say on his perfomance.
Subject: CHEAP FLIGHTS TO FREETOWN
From: MOHAMED BARIGUE
To: All
Date Posted: 10:08:55 10/12/07 ()
Email Address: mohamedbarigue@yahoo.com
Entered From: c-69-143-225-68.hsd1.md.comcast.net at 69.143.225.68
Message:
On sale here are cheap electronic tickets to Freetown via Air France, by way of Conakry or SN Brussels by way of antwerp to freetown . from any U.S.city
Now available for only $1,300 one month return.
Please call Barigue travel and tours.
Tel: (240)724-6246 Email: mohamedbarigue@yahoo.com
Subject: Re: CHEAP FLIGHTS TO FREETOWN
From: Chez Winakabs Europe
To: All
Date Posted: 13:06:27 10/12/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: host86-129-192-18.range86-129.btcentralplus.com at 86.129.192.18
Message:
Are you a registered and regulated agent for scheduled or chartered flights? Do you have an operators licence to guarantee refunds if something goes wrong? What is the bond in this?
Subject: Re: CHEAP FLIGHTS TO FREETOWN
From: MOHAMED BARIGUE
To: All
Date Posted: 13:17:58 10/12/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: c-69-143-225-68.hsd1.md.comcast.net at 69.143.225.68
Message:
Yes we are. yes we do. $50,000.00 same bond amount required for used car dealers, driving school operators, home improvement specialist.
you can always buy your own travel insurance if you want though and even that is optional.
Subject: Re: CHEAP FLIGHTS TO FREETOWN
From: MOHAMED BARIGUE
To: All
Date Posted: 13:41:45 10/12/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: c-69-143-225-68.hsd1.md.comcast.net at 69.143.225.68
Message:
No one is pulling a prank on you. check the washington post travel section each sunday read the travel section especially the coming and going section and you will gain some enlightenment into the travel industry. By the way , the website is a philosophiiical statement and if you can tell me what it means before scrolling down to the index to see the explanation you win a round trip ticket to Freetown.
Subject: Re: CHEAP FLIGHTS TO FREETOWN
From: Chez Winakabs Europe
To: All
Date Posted: 13:24:27 10/12/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: host86-129-192-18.range86-129.btcentralplus.com at 86.129.192.18
Message:
Thank you sir! Such established information will attract more customers.
I am having trouble entering the website: www.cogo.com
Will continue trying. thanks again.
Subject: Re: CHEAP FLIGHTS TO FREETOWN
From: KRIO
To: All
Date Posted: 13:33:20 10/12/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: 65.107.153.146.ptr.us.xo.net at 65.107.153.146
Message:
The website works alright, but the information is not related to travel insurance....
I hope this GUY i not here playing a PRANK on FOLKS.
Subject: Re: CHEAP FLIGHTS TO FREETOWN
From: ITK
To: All
Date Posted: 11:53:19 10/12/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 38.98.119.16
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Mohamed:
How do you get from Conakry to Freetown? I have traveled on Air France via Dakar. There appear be more options from Dakar to Freetown. What is the comparative cost of flying through Dakar instead of Conakry?
Subject: Re: CHEAP FLIGHTS TO FREETOWN
From: MOHAMED BARIGUE
To: All
Date Posted: 12:32:20 10/12/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: c-69-143-225-68.hsd1.md.comcast.net at 69.143.225.68
Message:
FROM THOSE OF US WHO ARE NOT GOING TO FREETOWN BUT TO SOMEWHEE IN THE NORTH SAY KAMBIA OR PORT LOKO, CONAKRY IS BETTER AND CHEAPER, YOU CAN ALWAYS GO BY ROAD TO FREETOWN OR TAKE A PLANE FOR ONLY $100.00 MORE
Subject: Re: CHEAP FLIGHTS TO FREETOWN
From: KRIO
To: All
Date Posted: 12:36:00 10/12/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: 65.107.153.146.ptr.us.xo.net at 65.107.153.146
Message:
So it is $1300 to Guinea and Not Sierra Leone- Freetown?
Subject: Re: CHEAP FLIGHTS TO FREETOWN
From: MOHAMED BARIGUE
To: All
Date Posted: 12:46:51 10/12/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: c-69-143-225-68.hsd1.md.comcast.net at 69.143.225.68
Message:
IT is $1300 to freetown we pay the $100 ticket for you on paramount airlines or charter you a jeep for same amount to freetown if you want to go by road to Freetown, kambia , port loko, masiaka, moyamba, bo and Kenema
Subject: Re: CHEAP FLIGHTS TO FREETOWN
From: John E. Leigh
To: All
Date Posted: 13:20:28 10/12/07 ()
Email Address: johnernestleigh@yahoo.com
Entered From: cache-mtc-ah10.proxy.aol.com at 64.12.117.202
Message:
Mr. Barigue:
Paramount Airlines was once listed by the main international aviation safety association as a dangerously unsafe airline, one of Africa's worst. It was also grounded by the Sierra Leone authorities as unsafe.
Is this airline now pronounced as certfiably safe?
For your information, I was attracted to yoyr posting because I am a frequent flyer to Freetown and I am always looking for inexpensive plane tickets. Thank you. - JL
Subject: Re: CHEAP FLIGHTS TO FREETOWN
From: Chez Winakabs Europe
To: All
Date Posted: 13:33:11 10/12/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: host86-129-192-18.range86-129.btcentralplus.com at 86.129.192.18
Message:
That's JL the refined diplomat!! How are you my boss? We do not seem to cross each others' paths these days? What is happening these days?
Subject: Re: CHEAP FLIGHTS TO FREETOWN
From: Waraba
To: All
Date Posted: 22:00:28 10/12/07 ()
Email Address: saigobe@lanset.com
Entered From: pool-71-179-99-138.bltmmd.fios.verizon.net at 71.179.99.138
Message:
Ohpoto Chez,
Mr. Leigh is not idle lekkeh you. Mr. Leigh is very busy making material contribution to the improvement of the living conditions of the peipul dem. Therefore there is no way your paths will meet/intersect.
Waraba
Subject: Re: CHEAP FLIGHTS TO FREETOWN
From: Chez Winakabs Europe
To: All
Date Posted: 23:45:23 10/12/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: host86-129-207-163.range86-129.btcentralplus.com at 86.129.207.163
Message:
Misplacing my intentions again. He is on the forum and I was in the same footing on the 'CHEAP FLIGHT' issue. So I am idle just because? Waraba, I threw my corn and I did not call your foul type (oops fowl. I had a reason for extending such diplomatic discourse to JL. You will not understand what is in a man's mind. Profound wisdom is the only skilled helper. JL knows why we cannot "meet/intersect". Let peace reign!!
Subject: Re: CHEAP FLIGHTS TO FREETOWN
From: krio
To: All
Date Posted: 12:56:41 10/12/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: 65.107.153.146.ptr.us.xo.net at 65.107.153.146
Message:
Is this a STAND-BY ticket from US to Freetown on AIR FRANCE?
Subject: Re: CHEAP FLIGHTS TO FREETOWN
From: MOHAMED BARIGUE
To: All
Date Posted: 12:46:35 10/12/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: c-69-143-225-68.hsd1.md.comcast.net at 69.143.225.68
Message:
IT is $1300 to freetown we pay the $100 ticket for you on paramount airlines or charter you a jeep for same amount to freetown if you want to go by road to Freetown, ambia , port loko, masiaka, moyamba, bo and Kenema
Subject: Re: CHEAP FLIGHTS TO FREETOWN
From: Candid Opinion
To: All
Date Posted: 12:49:16 10/12/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: ns.nucleusns2.com at 12.44.12.126
Message:
Post your fine prints..
Disclosures..
I want to know what the catch is..
I believe in not getting anything for free.. and i am not interested in things that are too good to be true..
Subject: Re: CHEAP FLIGHTS TO FREETOWN
From: MOHAMED BARIGUE
To: All
Date Posted: 12:56:25 10/12/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: c-69-143-225-68.hsd1.md.comcast.net at 69.143.225.68
Message:
There is no catch my friend , it is up front price less the trimmings others charge. For example some will say they only sell you British airways for $2,300, plus you have to apply for a visa electronically. Even if you want to go with air morroco which is an air france partner it is the same price $1300. Air morroco now flies to freetown. Make life easy on you and your wallet. Even some may want to sell you aestreus airline from london for so much it is up to you,plus so much more on a US carrier to london for at leats we have done our research and so should you.
Subject: Re: CHEAP FLIGHTS TO FREETOWN
From: Sadam Insane
To: All
Date Posted: 13:50:38 10/12/07 ()
Email Address: sorba_1@yahoo.com
Entered From: at 209.116.81.187
Message:
Are these prices for December? Because I just purchase ticket with another Sierra Leonean for $1800 traveling with air Moroco. But this is for December though? Can you please be more specific on the months and dates.
Thanks
Subject: Re: CHEAP FLIGHTS TO FREETOWN THIS IS FOR REAL
From: MOHAMED BARIGUE
To: All
Date Posted: 14:33:03 10/12/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: c-69-143-225-68.hsd1.md.comcast.net at 69.143.225.68
Message:
I was encouraged by a friend to send a posting to Cocorioko telling the most enlightened Sierra Leonean forum about our unique travel program. Yes Air Morrocco to Freetown is selling for $1,800-$2,000 but it sells for $1,000-$1,300 to Conakry even in December because of the high taxes imposed by our development retarded NRA, that sees any investor as a target for rip off.
The same with SN Brussells charging thousands of dollars for their ticket to Freetown and maybe a thousand less to Conakry same thing because of high government taxes. So we have devised a system that guarantees that you get to freetown without breaking the bank or overcharging your credit card and that is 100% legal and very affordable.
You will like our way of doing this. It is so easy, take the plane to the next city , conakry, then take another plane to freetown or enjoy the country-side by going by road . You avoid high governmenet taxes and high airport taxes as well as a drifting ferry across the Atlantic or an old russian helicopter that may rotate endlessly before crashing. And by the way, Your Honorable Mr. Ambassador Leigh, Paramount is safe to fly, even there is SLOK air to Freetown, don't mind what People are saying Africans are using these flights everyday with no problems and of course life is not guaranteed and tommorro is not promised.
But one thing we can promise you is this, we can fly you to Conakry, help process you through customs and immigration, then we can drive you off to Freetown in a late model air conditioned jeep (we can't wait for the transafrica highway to be completed.) or you can take paramount airlines to freetown all at our expenses.
To many of you Sierra Leoneans who used our services last year, please come to our rescue. Our drivers were driving white Jeeps that got you to freetown in under 6 hours. Some of you even chartered our vehicles for your wedding programs. I don't want to name names but I guess if someone ask for references, I can use your names as references right?
Subject: Re: CHEAP FLIGHTS TO FREETOWN
From: Mohamed Fofana
To: All
Date Posted: 13:38:33 10/12/07 ()
Email Address: mfofana2004@sbcglobal.net
Entered From: at 204.108.68.10
Message:
You said that take off can be from any US city. I live in Los Angeles. If this plane can take me from Los Angeles to Freetown for $1,300, then it is good. Can you confirm for sure that this flight(s) do take off from LAX. If so what is the schedule?
Thanks.
Subject: Re: CHEAP FLIGHTS TO FREETOWN
From: Candid Opinion
To: All
Date Posted: 13:06:32 10/12/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: ns.nucleusns2.com at 12.44.12.126
Message:
So there are no conditions...?
Or you just danced around my question..?
Subject: Re: CHEAP FLIGHTS TO FREETOWN
From: Eddie Grant
To: All
Date Posted: 11:14:20 10/12/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 78.146.242.28
Message:
That's about £650 which is not cheap. There are flight s from London to Freetown for £500.
Subject: Re: CHEAP FLIGHTS TO FREETOWN
From: AMERICAN
To: All
Date Posted: 12:29:50 10/12/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: c-69-143-225-68.hsd1.md.comcast.net at 69.143.225.68
Message:
BUT WHAT I CAN BUY WITH $1000 DOLLARS IN AMERICA ,I CANNOT BUY WITH 1000 POUNDS IN ENGLAND. YOU ALL PAY 1000 POUNDS FOR AN APARTMENT IN LONDON BUT FOR $2000 I WILL BE IN A HOUSE IN WASHINGTON. CURRENCY EXCHANGE AND PURCHASING POWE ARE TWO THINGS. YOU GUYS MAKE LESS MONEY AND SPEND MORE IN ENGLAND. KEEP YOUR HARD EARNED POUNDS TO YOURSELF AND LEAVE ME WITH MY EASILY SPENT DOLLAR
Subject: Re: CHEAP FLIGHTS TO FREETOWN
From: Chez Winakabs Europe
To: All
Date Posted: 13:11:42 10/12/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: host86-129-192-18.range86-129.btcentralplus.com at 86.129.192.18
Message:
You forgot about quality and safety also in the UK! It is an expensive island to live in but it is all worth it. He who survives in the UK for a year has luxury in the US.
Subject: BUT YOUR HOUSES ARE TOO SMALL TO LIVE IN CHEZ
From: okdok
To: All
Date Posted: 20:10:44 10/12/07 ()
Email Address: okdok@yahoo.com
Entered From: wnpgmb11dc1-161-174-190.dynamic.mts.net at 142.161.174.190
Message:
Do you take this buddy?
Subject: Re: BUT YOUR HOUSES ARE TOO SMALL TO LIVE IN CHEZ
From: Chez Winakabs Europe
To: All
Date Posted: 23:48:54 10/12/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: host86-129-207-163.range86-129.btcentralplus.com at 86.129.207.163
Message:
Yes very small if you live in urban areas. Those in the rural have large Victorian types. The Island is not as big as the US and therfore has to meet the demand for space. They are well protected and safety is a paramount issue for the local authorities.
Subject: Re: CHEAP FLIGHTS TO FREETOWN
From: Nar Sabi Talk
To: All
Date Posted: 10:47:59 10/12/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: static-76-160-64-185.dsl.cavtel.net at 76.160.64.185
Message:
Thanks for the info... Cuz people are always looking for better deals to Freetown...
Is this just a one time deal or an ongoing one?
Subject: Re: CHEAP FLIGHTS TO FREETOWN
From: Mr President
To: All
Date Posted: 10:19:33 10/12/07 ()
Email Address: Cottontree1800@gmail.com
Entered From: ip72-192-202-227.dc.dc.cox.net at 72.192.202.227
Message:
Thanks for the information my freind, but this forum is not for
advertisement.
Peace and Love
Subject: CHANGE OF NAME
From: SUBWANALAI
To: All
Date Posted: 09:54:45 10/12/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: host86-141-123-228.range86-141.btcentralplus.com at 86.141.123.228
Message:
BECAUSE I HAVE GOT A DISTORTED SIAMESE TWIN, I SUBWANALAI HEREBY TAKE THIS OATH INFRONT OF AN ACCREDITED JP THAT FROM THIS DAY HENCEFORTH, I WISH TO BE KNOWN AND CALLED BY THE NAME: NAYABINGHI(JAH'S CHILD). ALL "CERTIFIED" DOCUMENTS BEARING MY FORMER NAME REMAIN VALID.
Subject: Re: CHANGE OF NAME
From: Mammy Blessing
To: All
Date Posted: 12:32:01 10/12/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 165.155.200.143
Message:
Nayabinghi- what language is that?
Subject: Re: CHANGE OF NAME
From: KRIO
To: All
Date Posted: 13:01:07 10/12/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: 65.107.153.146.ptr.us.xo.net at 65.107.153.146
Message:
Mammy Blessings it is the Jamba Language( JOE HILL/RASTA).... This person sounds more like the Lawyer...
Subject: QUOTE OF THE YEAR
From: CraseMan-nah
To: All
Date Posted: 09:04:44 10/12/07 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
Welcome to the S.L.P.P. Forum
QUOTE OF THE YEAR
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Posted by DC Cab Driver on October 12, 2007 at 08:51:56:
"The answer, of course, is that you [John Mannah] are mentally disturbed. Not willing to face the reality of your unsatisfactory life, and running out of time to change your pauperous circumstances, at age 50, when most serious people have already reached the zenith of their professions, you started out to study economics through a correspondence course at a third rate college, while continuing to drive a taxi-cab on the streets of Washington D.C. It is your misfortune that, instead of recognizing that you had spent too long driving a taxi-cab to have any chance of reversing your failed life, you saw your correspondence course as an immoral ticket to joining your fellow SLPP looters of the Sierra Leone treasury in a Berewa-led SLPP government. But, as with most things in your life, John Mannah, you failed again.
A sober person would have taken his failure as a signal to avoid immoral quests. But not you, John Mannah. Instead, you regard your latest failure in life as an affront from God, especially when you look, with unnecessary bitterness at the success of other Sierra Leoneans like President Ernest Koroma, Vice President Sam Sumana, and now, Mohamed Jalloh."
Follow Ups:
Subject: Re: QUOTE OF THE YEAR
From: Batman
To: All
Date Posted: 09:34:46 10/12/07 ()
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vERY tRUE.
I remember Krase John Mannah abusing VP Sumana in the very first week after the victorious APC election. Nar man wae nor know say nar him bad hart make ee go alaki tae lakira.
Subject: Did SLPP use Bank Of Sa. Leone funds to finance campaign?
From: Salone Boy
To: All
Date Posted: 09:00:42 10/12/07 ()
Email Address: saloneboy@hotmail.co.uk
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Message:
Is it true that the outgoing SLPP government used Central bank money to the tune of 9 Billion Leones to fund their campaign?? If so just when are they going to repay the money (with interest)??
Can someone please shed some light on this if it is indeed true??
Subject: APPEAL TO COCORIOKO TO RETURN TO THE CENTER
From: Patriot
To: All
Date Posted: 08:55:01 10/12/07 ()
Email Address:
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I have been a regular reader of the Cocorioko Newspaper online and I agree with those who say that it is the best newspaper we have.I say this with no prejudice to the other newspapers.Kabs just has that uniques style of newswriting that others cannot match. What is a dull and boring item on other papers becomes very interesting on Cocorioko.
However, the paper has fallen in standards lately because of its allignment with the APC. It was not a bad idea to help the APC win the elections. I also dislike SLPP and I have respect for Cocorioko for helping to defeat them at the elections.
However, I think it is high time for Cocorioko to retrn back to the centre. They did a good job to defeat SLPP but now they have to return to the center and to the reporting of other stories and providing strong analyses of the country's problems.
We also wish to warn Cocorioko to beware of these politicians .They are not worth losing your credibility over.
I hope Kabs and Foday Mansaray will not ban me for expressing my opinion on this issue . I am saying this not to be a 'beller' to the paper like its detractors but because I am one of those who have been enjoying the paper for its interesting style of news coverage and writing which other papers cannot match. It is not worth losing credibility over our politicians.
Subject: Re: APPEAL TO COCORIOKO TO RETURN TO THE CENTER
From: FODAY MANSARAY
To: All
Date Posted: 10:43:12 10/12/07 ()
Email Address: FMANSARAY@AOL.COM
Entered From: pool-71-187-64-127.nwrknj.fios.verizon.net at 71.187.64.127
Message:
Rev Kanu and I have always been very realistic. The unfortunate truth was SLPP did a terrible Public Relations Job. Clues……SLPP were always coming from a defensive position.
Elections are over and we are concentrating on nation building efforts. The Views of our forum participants are not the opinion of COCORIOKO or any of its board members.
As Sierra Leone's number one news outlet on the web, we take such constructive criticism very seriously. We will ask our moderator to post another poll which you the reader will be the independent judge as to our performance within the next ninety days. All political parties and stakeholders are welcome to submit articles and suggestions.
Thank You.
Subject: Re: APPEAL TO COCORIOKO TO RETURN TO THE CENTER
From: ITK
To: All
Date Posted: 12:07:25 10/12/07 ()
Email Address:
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Foday:
I agree with Patriot. As I understand his/her posting, he/she is not concerned with the views expressed by participants in the forum. Those views (provided they are not offensive or violate the rules of the forum) cannot and should not be sanitized, censored or otherwise curtailed. This is why I was troubled by your earlier suggestion that "false" postings would subject participants to punitive measures including banning from the forum.
What I believe Patriot is referring to (and I agree with him/her) is the editorial content of Cocorioko. No-one is saying that the paper cannot have a slant or bias-- most papers do. However, what has been lacking and blatantly so at Cocorioko since the end of the elections in Sierra Leone is even an iota of objectivity in both the reporting of news and the editorials.
I don't believe you need a poll to become objective. That is something you either decide to do or not to do. The ball is already in your court.
Subject: Re: APPEAL TO COCORIOKO TO RETURN TO THE CENTER
From: Candid Opinion
To: All
Date Posted: 12:29:32 10/12/07 ()
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"However, what has been lacking and blatantly so at Cocorioko since the end of the elections in Sierra Leone is even an iota of objectivity in both the reporting of news and the editorials." -----ITK
Not only that... even the content..
Natin pass HE, MR Preso, Uncle Sam..
Preso.. Uncle sam.. APC..
Cabinet..
Ok..
But what abotu this..?
http://news.sl/drwebsite/publish/article_20056722.shtml
http://news.sl/drwebsite/publish/article_20056732.shtml
http://awoko.org/index.php?mact=News,cntnt01,detail,0&cntnt01articleid=1206&cntnt01returnid=15
http://awoko.org/index.php?mact=News,cntnt01,detail,0&cntnt01articleid=1201&cntnt01returnid=15
There is more to salone than our new Messiah..
Get that lazy reporter out of statehouse and have him mingle a bit with the people..
Opinions, market women expectations, interview with the mayor.. hard questions.. about our city..
Army chief.. police chief..
Paddys.. kolonko price.. (man get for budget).
etc.....etc..
And once in a while.. Hit Pap Sam something something behend the bahckor...so he realises.. he is an employee.. VP glamour went out with SI koroma.. E geh luck e get siren sef for 250K..price used to be 700K
Subject: Re: APPEAL TO COCORIOKO TO RETURN TO THE CENTER
From: Candid Opinion
To: All
Date Posted: 11:20:23 10/12/07 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
Just bypass the newspaper and come to the forum..
Better yet.. bookmark the forum directly..
No one should force us to read soviet style news.. all things mr president.. lek we nar termite.. (its not all about the queen).
And no.. cocorioko is not the best news outlet online..
Awoko is..
awarenesstimes.
Vanguard
etc.. before cocorioko..
I am even leaning more towards newpeople these days..
Only if they update 3-5 times a week..
Better format.. eye candy..
anyways.. as we all have and are allowed to express opinions..
Thats mine..
Shape up Cabs.. (noto gym ah de talk bot)
Move away from this hwforums and who ever your host is..
Buy HTML for dummies and get a grasp on the basics..
Subject: Re: APPEAL TO COCORIOKO TO RETURN TO THE CENTER
From: Citizen
To: All
Date Posted: 11:35:39 10/12/07 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
I don't agree with you, Patriot, that Cocorioko should abandon its projection of President Koroma's government and move to the centre.The paper, in my opinion, has always been centrist. Why not be honest and say that you want Cocorioko to appease the SLPP by stopping to promote the APC ? That is what this whole thing is about . It's not about journalism.It's about SLPP.If Cocorioko had been promoting SLPP, what would you have said ? PRAISE TO COCORIOKO . And candid opinion was so disingenious .His preference for the New People shows my point. He believes New People is the best for the reason that it is promoting SLPP.So it is clear that this is about APC and SLPP.Cocorioko is being villified by SLPPers.Plain and simple. The paper is great to me.I see nothing wrong with it. I agree with Patriot that it is the best and Kabs should stop being confused by the noise of the SLPP market.
Subject: Re: APPEAL TO COCORIOKO TO RETURN TO THE CENTER
From: Candid Opinion
To: All
Date Posted: 12:45:58 10/12/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: ns.nucleusns2.com at 12.44.12.126
Message:
Citizen,
We differ, i respect that..
And no.. i dont want him to be PRO anyone..
That was my point..
Newpeople is better formated and a better read..
We can solicit secondary opinion on that (No need to argue).
I read, cocorioko.. Newpeople.. awareness times, awoko, vanguard et all.. and apply my own filter and comeup with my own virtual news of the day.. thats how i keep myself informed abotu back home...
"He believes New People is the best for the reason that it is promoting SLPP" ----citizen
And you called me disingenious?
While virtually shoving words down my throat..?
Subject: I don’t believe that Lady (Zainab Bangura) is competent
From: Hon.Philip Tondoneh-SLPP.
To: All
Date Posted: 08:27:07 10/12/07 ()
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A Sierra Leone People’s Party (SLPP) parliamentarian Mr Philip Tondoneh has expressed concern over the linking of the Ministry of Finance with that of Development under the recently announced appointment of cabinet ministers by President Ernest Koroma.
Mr Tondoneh said that though it is a little bit premature to make an assertive statement, because there is a parliamentary appointments Committee, the combination of the Ministry of Finance and the Ministry of Development is a serious concern because these are two major Ministries and need a line of difference between the professionals.
“I would have loved those two Ministries to be separated so that there will be transparency and performance assessment as well as efficiency” he said.
Tondoneh took a jab also on the appointment of the Foreign Minister, saying “personally I don’t believe that Lady (Zainab Bangura) is competent to handle that post, somebody who is a Foreign Affairs person must know the issues, but let’s see what the Appointments Committee will come out with.”
The SLPP Member of Parliament also said that they will have to thoroughly scrutinize the appointees as to whether they have dual citizenship “we have to check also whether they are registered voters, these are our concerns we want to know their status.” he maintained
He however said that “I like and want the cabinet to be purely partisan, as of now, I do not see anything wrong with it”
The MP said that the idea of national inclusion is a donor driven ideology, “pointing out that that ideology affected his party (SLPP) as a lot of people who have joined the party were not loyal to the government and ended up sabotaging it.”
Subject: Re: I don’t believe that Lady (Zainab Bangura) is competent
From: KKW
To: All
Date Posted: 10:33:31 10/12/07 ()
Email Address:
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This is why we have a parliament. Every appointment should be scrutinized and the nominee grilled on how they intend to carry-out their functions. If they are the right person for the job, they should be able to neutralize any doubts coming from parliamentarians. What I like about confirmation hearings is that it allows the people (through elected representatives) to pose questions to the president's appointees. It also creates a record for us to compare what they say they will do with what they actually do in the next four years. Great process.
Subject: Re: I don’t believe that Lady (Zainab Bangura) is competent
From: Mr President
To: All
Date Posted: 10:13:16 10/12/07 ()
Email Address: cottontree1800@gmail.com
Entered From: ip72-192-202-227.dc.dc.cox.net at 72.192.202.227
Message:
I totally agree with you and the honorable that all appointees should be
scrutinized to see whether they have the qualifications/know-how and
competent to perform their job functions. However, I don’t think not
having a dual citizenship or not being a registered voter should be a
roadblock for an appointment.
There are many Sierra Leoneans abroad that are highly qualified with
vast experiences that are willing/ready to relinquish their jobs to back
and help with the rebuilding process. We need to come together as a
nation to rebuild Sierra Leone. As longer as you’re Sierra Leonean by
birth you should be given the opportunity.
Many bloggers have indicated that the constitution state, “if you’re not
a registered voter you should not be appointed or not hold a
ministerial post.” I am not a lawyer neither a constitution expert.
HOW IS THIS LAW/PROVISION BENEFICAIL? WHEN LAST WAS THE
CONSTITUTION REVISED?
Please excuse my ignorance and enlight me.
Peace and Love
Subject: Re: I don’t believe that Lady (Zainab Bangura) is competent
From: Nar Sabi Talk
To: All
Date Posted: 09:35:06 10/12/07 ()
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Message:
Bra! Nar U sabi...
We don put de wan deh way unar feel say sabi, nahtin nor happen...
We wan see A woman, en nor to any kind woman oh!
Nar Madam Zainab Bangura...
U en you Parliamentarian jus get for go lick each other's wound...
Lef Salone gee we ya!
Hush oh,ya!
Subject: Re: I don’t believe that Lady (Zainab Bangura) is competent
From: SUBWANALAI
To: All
Date Posted: 09:47:01 10/12/07 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
Philip Tondoneh is a first timer in parliament. And so what? This is what the change is all about, giving first timers a chance. So, in the same vain, he is the wrong person to cry Zainab Bangura for being a first timer. Could Tondoneh please step back and give the patriotic lady a chance. Or maybe his most recent job (world bank attachment to the former Veep's office)is still doing his brain in. So far so good, of all the appointees, Zainab is the nominee I would rubber stamp any time of the day
Subject: Re: I don’t believe that Lady (Zainab Bangura) is competent
From: nico
To: All
Date Posted: 11:15:19 10/12/07 ()
Email Address: nicoleconsult@hotmail.com
Entered From: 82-35-143-136.cable.ubr03.enfi.blueyonder.co.uk at 82.35.143.136
Message:
I do not see any difficulties for Zainab to excel as foreign minister. I do not know her but I have some knowledge of some of her accomplishment. I attended a conference in London in 1998 as then secretary general of SLPP where Zainab gave a moving speech on the war and the attrocities committed by the AFRC/RUF junta regime. She was part of former president Kabba's entourage to solicit international support for the restoration of democracy in Sierra Leone. Zainab has also established herself in the civil society movement during which she gained requisite international experience and was employed as a UN administrator in Liberia. In contrast, what did momodu koroma did or achieved prior to his appointment as F M by Kabba. Nothing, apart from being Kabba's bag carrier and errand boy. Do not tell me he has a degree because Zainab has that as well. Zainab is more equiped and with the potential to perform well. Live her alone, she is my sweety. Lotta
Subject: WHAT? THIS FORUM IS CHANGING COURSE? OH KNOW! WHY?
From: Mr President
To: All
Date Posted: 07:59:13 10/12/07 ()
Email Address: cottontree1800@gmail.com
Entered From: ip72-192-202-227.dc.dc.cox.net at 72.192.202.227
Message:
We need to redirect this forum to focus on suggestions that will gear
toward to the development/betterment of Sierra Leone. The fact is APC
is in power and the president has elected/appointed his cabinets. We
may disagree or dislike some of his appointees for some reason; some
may even have dirt in their closets, but we need to support them until
they proof otherwise. We need to use our energy, ideologies, and
experiences in a positive way to support Ernest Koroma government in
the rebuilding process. However, if they falter or engaged in any
corrupt behavior or injustice, they should be exposed and be held
accountable.
This forum comprises of many intellects from various disciplines with
vast experiences. I suggest we start tackling the problems of Sierra
Leone by giving suggestions to the president/officials on how to fix/
resolve the many issues the country is facing. The biggest problem that
everyone is talking about is corruption? I would start by asking a
question…
HOW CAN CORRUPTION BE COMBATED WHEN THE AVERAGE MONTHLY
SALARY OF A SIERRA LEONEAN IS APPROXIAMTELY SIXTY US DOLLARS
WITH EMPLOYMENT AT APPROXIMATELY SIXTY FIVE PERCENT?
Your honest views and opinions are welcome – I will assure you that
they will be channeled to the appropriate individual/ministry.
My fellow patriotic Sierra Leoneans lets help rebuild our beloved
country, work together in the name of unity peace and justice for all.
The people of Sierra Leone are suffering, lacking the basis necessities
to sustain life – it is heart rendering.
I have no political affiliations with any party. I am a proponent of
justice and better living conditions for all Sierra Leoneans regardless of
their tribe or economic status.
Subject: Re: WHAT? THIS FORUM IS CHANGING COURSE? OH KNOW! WHY?
From: UK5
To: All
Date Posted: 12:50:36 10/12/07 ()
Email Address: unikad5@yahoo.com
Entered From: at 82.99.234.22
Message:
Very impressive brother. I wish the momentum and good faith be transmitted to those in power. The momentum might be the key, but we are also watching critically. I tend to like the shrewdness of President Koroma. He's creating the image of someone with the curiosity to fix, visiting places of hopeful attraction, and yet talk very little. We are watching and waiting, just to be sure! Saloneman's love for his country can't be underestimated. When the time is ripe, there will be a pool of fruitful ideas to pick from.
Subject: Re: WHAT? THIS FORUM IS CHANGING COURSE? OH KNOW! WHY?
From: KKW
To: All
Date Posted: 10:12:01 10/12/07 ()
Email Address:
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I don't beleive that there is any shortage of ideas that can create a meaningful turnaround in Sierra Leone. The priorities set out by the president on his campaign website and in his address to parliament are clear and can be used to construct action plans for each ministry. The issue with Sierra Leone has always been whether the leadership has the political will to follow through on the chnages that are necessary to spur development and discourage corruption. One thing I do know is that Sierra Leoneans will follow an inspiring leader. This was demonstrated in 1985 when Joseph Momoh initially set a tone by arriving at work at 8.00 am. Virtually the whole civil service followed suit. Of course that lasted for less than a month, but it demonstrates the power of leadership by example. We don't need grand masterplans, we just need great leadership and committment to positive change. Oh and we also need time and patience to get things working again.
Subject: TRANSITION DRAFT REPORT - NOT BAD AS OTHERS THINK
From: Chez Winakabs Europe
To: All
Date Posted: 05:19:34 10/12/07 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
So far so good save for a few typo errors. It enlightened me so much that I will recommend others to read the draft now and prepare for possible debates.
Another thing i noted in the 'Current Status' of the departments touched is the vacant posts that others - so qualified on the forum - may want to look into. There are job and there will be more jobs for qualified people. No stealing my dear - be prepared to serve your nation and not to go and rob them - GROUP FOR JUSTICE WILL BE WAITING and nother group will soon spring - OPERATION CLEAN HANDS. Such a body will help civil servant and other government officials, by way of education through seminars, workshops, training, policies and campaigns. They will be listened to and helped with their problems of not controlling their hands - OPERATION CLEAN HANDS - will cure any illness of kleptomania; it will recomment to the state and its agencies: i) better condirtions for workers ii) better standard of living iii) health and safety at work iv)Welfare security issues, etc etc.
Guys my OPERATION CLEAN HANDS is imaginary. I prray such a body is there to help our myopic kleptomanaics. A thing you do today will be known tomorrow therefore our actions and decisions of today are very important for our future comings and goings.
Subject: Re: TRANSITION DRAFT REPORT - NOT BAD AS OTHERS THINK
From: Erica Adams
To: All
Date Posted: 18:00:11 10/12/07 ()
Email Address: ericamonique82@hotmail.com
Entered From: adsl-074-185-005-235.sip.clt.bellsouth.net at 74.185.5.235
Message:
There were a couple items of concern.
The first was regarding the Ministry of Education around page 110. The report states there are 1.3 Million primary schools. That seems like a high number; especially since there are a reportedly low number of children enrolled in school. What percentage of these schools are actually functioning (properly staffed and equipped)? How many primary age students are in Sierra Leone?
Dept. of Agriculture-Tractors were just given away?
Forrest expenditures were attached to this department even though Forestry is no longer attached to this department.
Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation-I disagree with opening new missions in other countries when the department and missions already open need major overhauls. The ministry needs to be in good working order before any other undertakings. The modernization is key. The department needs modern office equipment, modern modes of communications, and modern transportation for visiting dignitaries.
I had a chance to travel to Pakistan late last year. When you arrive in Islamabad, you don't even know you're in a third world country. The capital of Pakistan is modern and well kept. If you can't make a good presentation of your country in your capital city, you are doomed. If the center of government doesn't have what it needs to function properly, you've got major problems.
Last observation. I have read repeatedly on this forum about the number of trained professions in the country, but I remember reading time and again that there is a need to staff different departments within the government with competent staff. Is this report saying that competent staff was overlooked in favor of placing incompetent people into positions as paybacks or for other reasons not mentioned?
Overall this was a good report. It was disappointing to see that not all that was requested was delivered or it was not delivered in a timely manner.
Subject: Re: TRANSITION DRAFT REPORT - NOT BAD AS OTHERS THINK
From: KKW
To: All
Date Posted: 09:58:58 10/12/07 ()
Email Address:
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I read through the whole document. I am certainly more enlightened about how the public sector works! A lot of work has gone into it, but it is a massive document for one person to absorb. I assume that it will be broken down by Ministry and handed to each incoming minister to draw up a plan of action. My observation (which is sure to draw a lot of fire) is that I find it hard to see where the alleged "millions" could have been looted from such relatively modest ministerial budgets!
Subject: Re: TRANSITION DRAFT REPORT - NOT BAD AS OTHERS THINK
From: So the evidence is not forthcoming?
To: All
Date Posted: 11:02:18 10/12/07 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
"...My observation (which is sure to draw a lot of fire) is that I find it hard to see where the alleged "millions" could have been looted from such relatively modest ministerial budgets! ..."
Please tell that to the LIARS in your party (apc) who defamed the GOP (SLPP) in their propaganda to usurp power through lies to the voters, intimidation, thuggery and violence.
Subject: Re: TRANSITION DRAFT REPORT - NOT BAD AS OTHERS THINK
From: Candid Opinion
To: All
Date Posted: 11:08:21 10/12/07 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
I have wondered the same..
IT may seem SLPP got upstaged..3 footed by petty gossip..
And the number one gossiper and disseminator of cheap talk just happended to be ..?
Who else..
But enti you all know.. call name..nar im get palava..
Who the red cowboy hat fit.. ?
Subject: Re: TRANSITION DRAFT REPORT - NOT BAD AS OTHERS THINK
From: Sadam Insane
To: All
Date Posted: 08:44:13 10/12/07 ()
Email Address: sorba_1@yahoo.com
Entered From: at 209.116.81.187
Message:
Hay thanks. The report is hugh but some of the pages are actually blank. I printed 208 Pages. With a good format can be reduce to may be 180 at best.
Subject: Re: TRANSITION DRAFT REPORT - NOT BAD AS OTHERS THINK
From: Emmanuel Jarrett
To: All
Date Posted: 09:08:48 10/12/07 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
To add to the format issue, I hope the final copy is formatted well. It will be a shame for such report to go out ....it is even a shame on who prepared this document....It should be done professionally...
Subject: Re: TRANSITION DRAFT REPORT - NOT BAD AS OTHERS THINK
From: Chez Winakabs Europe
To: All
Date Posted: 09:12:44 10/12/07 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
Do we know what a draft is? It was not meant for our consumption until the finished product but some sensible guy was able to make us know about it before completion. We should be grateful and construcftively make recommendations - not calling a draft 'shame'.
In constructive criticisms we can progresws. I understood every bit of then document, even with the typo errors. They have started a very good job. I put my country above partisan politics.
Subject: Re: TRANSITION DRAFT REPORT - NOT BAD AS OTHERS THINK
From: Emmanuel Jarrett
To: All
Date Posted: 09:44:28 10/12/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: na6mk2fw01.fidelity.com at 192.223.243.5
Message:
"Do we know what a draft is?" I do know what a draft is...if it is out in the public away from who should be reviewing and making recommendation, it is almost the final copy...
"They have started a very good job. I put my country above partisan politics." You are always coming with this partisan politics crap, I do not belong to any political party and therefore when i do a constructive criticism...
Subject: Re: TRANSITION DRAFT REPORT - NOT BAD AS OTHERS THINK
From: law
To: All
Date Posted: 19:16:41 10/12/07 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
Thanks to whoever made this draft a public document that we all have seen a glimpse of. I stand to share the view of few people for a clear explanation of the ZILLIONS of $$$$$$'s that were alledged stolen from government ministries to fund SLPP's campaign. Please APC substantiate your evidence for corruption and we will join in to press charges otherwise get up from your slumber and put your brain to work because the clock is ticking. Thank you.
Subject: Re: TRANSITION DRAFT REPORT - NOT BAD AS OTHERS THINK
From: Chez Winakabs Europe
To: All
Date Posted: 10:42:00 10/12/07 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
Mr. Jarret, I make it my duty not to labour on issues that we all argue for arguments sake - the leaked draft is not a final work but a draft copy. Thanks and I hope we are all in the understanding that it was aleaked draft that we are opportuned to see.
Subject: Re: TRANSITION DRAFT REPORT - NOT BAD AS OTHERS THINK
From: alieu sesay
To: All
Date Posted: 09:24:56 10/12/07 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
Chez! I went through the Draft and there are a lot of recommendations. The one that caught my eye is the division of the Ministry of Agriculture...
If we are trying to save valuable resources/capital, why is the transition team requesting a new department/probably a ministry?
Subject: COCORIOKO, HERE I COME
From: SUBWANALAI
To: All
Date Posted: 04:56:32 10/12/07 ()
Email Address:
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My appologies to all the decent guys of this forum. I have been away for too long. Guess what, during my trek, I could not but clutch to any thing COCORIOKO. Meanwhile, I was made to understand that some well know nuisance that fits the female gender has been riding on my wings(moniker). But I trust the resoluteness of the ever vigilantes of this forum. Let us all unite to wipe out crudity and disrespect for our values. Wa Salaam!
Subject: Re: COCORIOKO, HERE I COME
From: Mensa
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Date Posted: 08:13:13 10/12/07 ()
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Mensa Messiah would like to take this wonderful opportunity to welcome a dear sister back to the forum after a notable absence. One thing I've always enjoyed about her is her advocacy for Sierra Leone to remain as One Nation. Hate her or love her, the power she exhudes sort of intimadates, quite subconsiously, the surrounding. People that happen to be in the vicinity scream blue murder and she finds herself repelling a barrage of attacks from all angles! Yet, she has proven to be a lone striker and a surviver. She's an enigma so to speak! But when you come to know her well as a person, she's downright mindful of the existence of a living God. She has faith. Perhaps SUBWANALAI might not be the right log-in name to use in a cyber screen that nakedly displays religious violations. She might not be aware, but changing the 'W' to an 'H' in the name could give you one of the Greatest praises for the Almighty in Islam. The good angel in her will definitely help her realize this fact.
Hey, no doubt we stand to enjoy just a bit of temporary fun by engaging in these endless cyber debates. Literally speaking, outlets of idleness they are, these cyber debates! No hard feelings! But whatever we do in sincerity for the sake of God, we definitely reap that reward regardless of our way of life. We should always be hopeful that someday, we shall end up in the path of righteousness.
Subject: Re: COCORIOKO, HERE I COME
From: Patriot
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Date Posted: 09:11:10 10/12/07 ()
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If Subwanalah is who you think he/she is, I have no respect for the character because she is a wicked woman who has no love for our country but what she can reap illegally . You do not know her, my dear.
Subject: Re: COCORIOKO, HERE I COME
From: Mr President
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Date Posted: 05:24:23 10/12/07 ()
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Welcome my freind, you were truely missed...
Subject: Re: COCORIOKO, HERE I COME
From: Mr President
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Date Posted: 05:23:48 10/12/07 ()
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Welcome my freind, you're truely missed...
Subject: TOEGONDON SAGBAH'S ARTICLE
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Date Posted: 04:32:03 10/12/07 ()
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INVESTIGATING CORRUPTION IS NOT A WITCH HUNT
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Posted by Toegondoe Sagbah on October 09, 2007 at 20:27:45:
I am not one of those to start making judgements about the new government, its too early. There is still almost 5 years to go. But I will say one thing to this government. The pervasiveness of corruption in the past government was not just endemic, it was epidemic and the whole country knows about it.
If for whatever reason, this government fails to prosecute the corruption for which the SLPP government was notoriously rooted out of power, it will definitely be one of the reasons, they too may have a problem winning in 2012 because the people will NOT FORGET.
We already know that many of the prominently corrupt SLPP are making daily visits to the State House facilitated by the State House scheduler, a core SLPP. And some of their mouthpieces are already trying to dampen the effects of their corruption on the nation by referring to any investigations as a "WITCH HUNT". That's a fanciful word for "DON"T PROSECUTE". Any semblance of not prosecuting will be considered a recipe for continued corruption.
Forget about those calling any corruption investigation as a WITCH HUNT. IT IS NOT...PERIOD!!! Investigating corruption is a dignified way of upholding our laws and holding those who violated it to be accountable for their deeds.
The millions of dolars, Pounds and Euros that have been pocketed and aggrandizd one way or another must be salvaged for the sake of the country. We are not going to be lucky again to have those monies replaced by the donor countries, that's why we must recoup these ones. Crooked and corrupt politicians must not be allowed to make corruption an acceptable behavior, agenda or tolerable public policy in that country. All it does is prevent the country from progress because the money lost, is simply progress and development lost
If the corrupt embezzlers of the past government were allowed to go free, on what gorunds will you prosecute the next corrupt officials, and the next, and the next and the next, and so on...FOREVER!
Subject: Re: TOEGONDON SAGBAH'S ARTICLE
From: Toegondoe Sagbah
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Date Posted: 12:05:01 10/12/07 ()
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Yes, thank you. I do believe in what I wrote. I hope many other do. Corruption must be tackled, dealt with and defeated. Otherwise it will forever remain our own physical cancer.
Subject: SORIE FOFANA HAS SPOKEN
From: Jan
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Date Posted: 04:22:11 10/12/07 ()
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Sierra Leone: Sorie Fofana Writes to Sheka Tarawallie
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OPEN LETTER TO MR. SHEKA TARAWALLIE
Dear Mr. Tarawallie,
When I arrived here in London, to take up appointment as Information Attaché on 22nd September 2002, I made it a policy not to engage in any slanging match with some media colleagues I consider to be mere detractors.
On this premise, I have deliberately ignored the temptation of having to respond to some of your bile-filled and scurrilous attacks against me published in some newspapers and/or Online publications.
I have decided to respond to your latest article published on the Cocorioko Website on 9th September, 2007 because you deliberately mentioned the name of the Sierra Leone High Commission in London.
It is my duty to respond, in order to inform the public, and, to address the issues you raised against the Sierra Leone High Commission. I know where you are coming from.
You said the High Commission does not even know the number of Sierra Leoneans living in Great Britain. I tell you why? It is because of people like you who come to the UK and refuse to register with the Sierra Leone High Commission inspite of a public notice on our website to that effect.
I hope you are not trying to suggest that we embark on a head count of every Sierra Leonean resident in the UK. Do you expect us to be moving from door to door looking out for Sierra Leoneans to come to the High Commission and register with us? That is just not possible, my dear brother.
On the issue of the slained Zainab Kaloko (May her soul rest in peace), you said we made no attempt to contact the British Police after she was gunned down at a birthday party in London. I don’t wish to blame you because you are completely ignorant about the procedures involved in complaints made by foreign missions.
For the benefit of your readers, let me say that the Deputy High Commissioner, Mr. James Allie and myself visited the bereaved family of the late Zainab Kaloko around Denmark Hill in South-East London, a day after her death, and sympathised with them in the Sierra Leonean way (I hope you understand what I mean by the “Sierra Leonean way”). We assured them of our support and asked them to contact the High Commission whenever the need arose.
On the issue of not making contact with the British Police on the death of the late woman (Zainab Kaloko), you better contact the Desk Officer in charge of Sierra Leone at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office here in London. I need not elaborate.
On the question of the Sierra Leone High Commission Website, we are still in the process of re-designing it to meet new challenges. I wish to encourage our many readers and viewers to continue to be patient with us as we continue to vigorously pursue the process of modernising the entire Chancery, again, to meet new challenges.
Let me advise you, once again, that in your undiminished enthusiasm and desperation to grab a political appointment, you should be very careful not to destroy the image of our dear country. Sierra Leone is the only country some of us have.
Yours sincerely
Sorie Fofana (Mr.)
Information Attaché,
Sierra Leone High Commission (UK)
Subject: Re: SORIE FOFANA HAS SPOKEN
From: Chez Winakabs Europe
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Date Posted: 05:01:23 10/12/07 ()
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WITHOUT PREJUDICE
Pa Sorie, you are still off your trolly. I remember in 2004 when we suggested to you guys that we register all sierra leoneans as it is important for the mission house to show that it is a responsible body.
I even went on, at a gathering a Blackfriars restaurant, to beg the High Commissioner that such was very important and it show that the state cares for it citizens.
I completed my form twice - a form I downloaded from the London High Commission website - but your office failed to communicate with those who completed their forms.
Your lack of diplomatic r5tact makes one wonder - what are you doing there? Are you there to make war with your people who write things against you or you are there to explain what is happening and would happen as activities grogress.
Suchn is undiplomatic:
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You said the High Commission does not even know the number of Sierra Leoneans living in Great Britain. I tell you why? It is because of people like you who come to the UK and refuse to register with the Sierra Leone High Commission inspite of a public notice on our website to that effect.
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A true diplomat or someone with tact would have written differently so as not to provoke other's involvement. i am now involved because of what you wrote - yactless. The writer, Shekito, is a Sierra leonean and has the right to vent out his concerns - your job was to diffuse his statement without inflaming it.
I completed my forms and you did not acknowledge or send out a report to all as to the number of registrants. Did you do that? How many times did I call to check if your office received my form and no one was able to answer me. They will transfer you from one number to another until the line eventually cuts off.
For simplicity's sake - when was the last time you gave information to the registered citizens their total count? never! When was the last time you even wrote to them with a way of including them in cultural activities that an Embassy should organise? Never! You guys need a lot to do to understand the importance of that mission house. Try and visit the Ghana Consulate at Highgate and you will see what they do for children of Ghanaian parentage. Young boys and girls are encouraged to volunteer to clean the Ghana High Commission, Consulate; participate in cultural Ghanaian activities, bi-monthly meetings - a joint review - the information and trade attaches - brief thier citizens and prospective investors as to how the economy is moving. Pa Sorie there is so much that you guys have neglected that should bring financial benefits and glory to our beloved country but your mission house thinks it is the fault of the citizens. It is your job to convince them that you are there representing them and not yourself.
Please send me my registration number or certificate. Another thing you should do right away, instead of coming to a senseless but vain defence, is to check out your facts - visit your site and check if the registration form links aere working.
L'homme qu'il faut a la place qu'il faut.
Subject: Re: SORIE FOFANA HAS SPOKEN
From: SUBWANALAI
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Date Posted: 04:44:27 10/12/07 ()
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Shekito was warned.
Subject: Urgent information needed
From: The Group for Justice
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Date Posted: 03:57:47 10/12/07 ()
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The 'GROUP FOR JUSTICE' is a new association formed in order to enourage all Sierra Leoneans to come together and bring some people to justice for embezzling funds from our country.
We welcome every useful comments and information you would have that will help us trace these rogues and their wealth. Please forward any evidence to the address below.
groupforjustice@hotmail.co.uk
Subject: Re: Urgent information needed
From: Nar Sabi Talk
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Date Posted: 07:02:31 10/12/07 ()
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We need more info about the group, such as members and mission etc, etc...
Subject: Re: Urgent information needed
From: Chez Winakabs Europe
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Date Posted: 04:16:18 10/12/07 ()
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A very wise move. We will lend iour support toi such a perceived credible outfit. Thanks
Subject: Talking to the President
From: Cornelius Hamelberg
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Date Posted: 02:29:10 10/12/07 ()
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On the BBC
Subject: Former Attorney General Tells President Ernest Koroma
From: Standard Times
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Date Posted: 23:37:54 10/11/07 ()
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Former Attorney General Tells President Ernest Koroma “Wanza Will Ridicule Our Ex-Head Of State At The ECOWAS Court”
Posted on Oct 11, 2007, 04:04
When the initial summon landed on the door step of Dr. Alhaji Tejan Kabbah at the presidential lodge, Hill Station through DHL courier service. He sent the writ to the Law Officers Department for legal advice. Rather than advising the former president that there was no legal basis to contest the claims of Mr. Mohammed Wansa, the Plaintiff trading as “D&M IMPEX” AND “VULGA NOVA PHARMACY” the Law Officers Department filed in a defence with the impression that the matter would be an easy ride for the Republic of Sierra Leone as First defendant and His Excellency Alhaji Dr. Ahmad Tejan Kabbah, President of the Republic of Sierra Leone as the Second defendant.
Sadly, recent development in the matter since 5th October, 2007 to date has clearly demonstrated that there is no legal ground to emerge victorious in the matter. In short, both defendants have a bad case that they cannot win and whatever arguments advanced at the ECOWAS Court.
This is evident in a recent letter contained on a government MINUTE PAPER written and signed by Mr. Fred Carew, former Attorney General and Minister of Justice and sent to the current President of the Republic of Sierra Leone, His Excellency Ernest Bai Koroma.
The fourth and fifth paragraphs of Mr. Carew,s letter literally begged the current President to intervene into the matter through what he called “amicable settlement” “My office had already prepared and filed a defence in the said case. Quite frankly H.E I am not sure that our defence can adequately withstand Mr.Wanza, s claim in a court of law and I am afraid that if the trial proceeds the facts contained in the plaint Note of Mr. Wanza, will ridicule our former Head of State and perhaps the state of Sierra Leone itself” Fred Carew wrote, and added “ I will therefore recommend to H.E. that WITHOUT PREJUDICE that attempts be made to invite Mr. Wanza by H.E. with a view to further discuss this matter and maybe reach an amicable settlement.”
Thus, the legal advice of the former Attorney General and Minister of Justice has raised serious concerns among members of the present administration. Some are asking why the former attorney General failed to give his true legal opinion to the 2nd defendant, ex-president Kabbah at the initial stage, but is only doing it now when the SLPP has been kicked out of power “This is intellectual and legal deception at the highest level” A member of the APC government remarked.
It would be recalled that the case of Human Rights Abuse was filed against President Kabbah of the SLPP government as the 2nd defendant and the Republic of Sierra Leone as the 1st defendant.
The 1991 Constitution of Sierra Leone makes provision for the state to be sued and can sue in any court of law, both locally and internationally.
“The action of the Plaintiff should not come as a surprise Sierra Leoneans” A former confidante to the ex-president explained.
Meanwhile, in a related development, the Plaintiff has responded to the defence filed at the ECOWAS Court by the defendants. In addition to the letter of the former Attorney General and Minister of Justice is the Plaintiff’s reaction to the defence published yesterday.
Letter writen by Former Attorney General Fred Carew to Pres Ernest Koroma
Plaintiff’s reply (ECOWAS) 2
IN THE COMMUNITY COURT OF JUSTICE
OF THE ECONOMIC COMMUNITY OF
WEST AFRICAN STATES (ECOWAS)
HOLDEN AT ABUJA, NIGERIA
SUIT No. ECW/CCJ/APP/07/07
BETWEEN:
Mohamed Kamel Wansa
Trading as “D & M Impex”, “Melborne Enterprise” PLAINTIFF / APPLICANT
and “Vulga Nova Pharmacy”
AND
1. The Republic of Sierra Leone
2. Alhaji Dr. Ahmad Tejan-Kabbah, Defendants/RESPONDENTS
Former President of the Republic of
Sierra Leone
PLAINTIFF’S REPLY TO DEFENDANT’S DEFENCE
1. Save and in so far as the same consists of admissions, the Plaintiff joins issue with the first and second Defendants upon their Statement of Defence.
2. The Plaintiff denies that the second Defendant is the current Head of State of the Republic of Sierra Leone, his term as Head of State having expired on 14th August, 2007 in accordance with the provisions of section 46(1) read together with section 49(1) of the Constitution of the Republic of Sierra Leone 1991 (Act No. 6 of 1991).
3. The Plaintiff avers further that following the expiration of the second Defendant’s term as Head of State, there was no law of parliament or any other authority enabling the second Defendant to remain or continue in office beyond 14th August, 2007 as Head of State.
4. The Plaintiff also avers that on 17th September, 2007 Mr. Ernest Bai Koroma was elected as Head of State of the Republic of Sierra Leone in place of the second Defendant who is now a private citizen. The immunity from legal proceedings enjoyed by the second Defendant under section 48(4) of the Sierra Leone Constitution ended on 14th August, 2007 when he ceased to be the President/Head of state of Sierra Leone.
5. In the circumstances the Plaintiff avers and shall contend that the second Defendant does not enjoy diplomatic or/any other immunity from legal proceedings under Sierra Leone Law or under any other Law or convention. The “Geneva Conventions on Diplomatic Immunity” referred to in paragraph 1 of the Defence do not exist. This Honourable Court therefore has the competence to hear and determine this matter against the second Defendant, the subject matter of the suit being simply based on breaches of the Plaintiff’s fundamental rights guaranteed by International Laws, Treaties, customs and conventions with no element of crime whatsoever.
6. Furthermore, the immunity conferred on the second Defendant as President of Sierra Leone under section 48(4) of the constitution is applicable only in the court of Sierra Leone, and whilst he may be entitled as a matter of customary international law to enjoy immunity from suit in any national Court, such immunity is not available to him before international courts of which the ECOWAS Community Court of Justice is one. Reference is made to; inter alia, the decision of the Special Court of Sierra Leone in Prosecutor v. Charles Ghankay Taylor, Case No SCSL-2003-01-1, 31 May 2004 where the principle was enunciated as follows:
“The principle of state immunity derives from the equality of sovereign states and therefore has no relevance to international … tribunals which are not organs of a state but derived their mandate from the international community.”
Reliance is also placed on the judgment of the Supreme Court of Sierra Leone in the case of Issa Hassan Sessay & others V The President of the Special Court & Others, case No. S.C.1/2003, 14 October 2005 which concerned the interpretation of section 48(4) of the Constitution of the Republic of Sierra Leone 1991(Act No.6 of 1991). At page 13 it is stated:
“The next provision of the Constitution to be interpreted is that contained in section 48(4) of the Constitution. It deals with the immunity from civil and criminal process enjoyed by the President for anything done or omitted to be done by him either in his official or private
capacity. Let me hasten to state that a distinction ought to be made between immunity from suit under domestic law on the one hand and under international law on the other hand.
A serving Head of State is entitled to absolute immunity from process brought before national courts as well as before the national courts of third States except it has been waived by the State concerned. The Principle was applied by the House of Lords in the Pinochet proceedings (see R v Bow Street Metropolitan Stipendiary Magistrate and others, ex parte Pinochet Ugarte (2002) 1 AC 61; R v Bow Street Metropolitan Stipendiary Magistrate and others, ex parte Pinochet Ugarte (No.2) at (2002) 1AC 119 and R v Bow Street Metropolitan Stipendiary Magistrate and others, ex parte Pinochet Ugarte (No.3) at (2000) 1AC 147) and the Case concerning the Arrest Warrant of 11 April,2000 (Democratic Republic of Congo v Belgium before the International Court of Justice (2002 ICJ Reports). In contrast, where the immunity is claimed by a Head of State before an international court the position to be inferred from decisions of various national courts and international tribunals, and the writings of international jurists is that there exists no a priori entitlement to claim immunity particularly from criminal process involving international crimes.”
In answer to the first paragraph 9 of the Defence, the Plaintiff avers that he has indeed been prevented from pursuing any of his claims in the Courts of Sierra Leone. Having fled from Sierra Leone on 23 March 1997 as a result of fears for his personal safety caused by the second Defendant he has never been in a position safely to return to the country up until the present moment, more so because he was expelled thereafter with the threat, implicit in the express terms of the order whereunder he was expelled, of arrest and detention should he set foot on Sierra Leonean soil. As is demonstrated in the Plaintiff’s narration of facts and the explanations of his claims therein, in particular claims 1, 2 and 8 at least, those claims are such as will require the Plaintiff to attend personally to give evidence in respect of them. An individual’s right to a fair trial/have his case heard necessarily includes the right of access to a Court, in which connection paragraph 161(m) of the Plaintiff’s claim herein is repeated. The Defendants’ acts of depriving the Plaintiff of his Sierra Leonean citizenship and expelling him from Sierra Leone accordingly amount to a violation of his right to a fair trial of his claims guaranteed by Article 7 of the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights which states, in material part, as follows:
“Article 7
1. Every individual shall have the right to have his cause heard. This comprises:
a) The right to an appeal to competent national organs against acts of violating his fundamental rights as recognized and guaranteed by conventions, laws, regulations and customs in force…”
Reliance is also placed on the judgment of the European Court of Human Rights in the case of Golder v. United Kingdom [1975] 1EAHRR524 which concerned Article 6 of the European Convention of Human Rights which is materially identical to Article 7 of the African Charter. At paragraph 35 it is stated:
“… the principle whereby a civil claim must be capable of being submitted to a Judge ranks as one of the universally recognized fundamental principles of law; the same is true of the principle of international law which forbids the denial of justice. Article 6(1) must be read in the light of these principles.
…
It would be inconceivable, in the opinion of the Court, that Article 6(1) should describe in detail the procedural guarantees afforded to parties in a pending law suit and should not first protect that which alone makes it in fact possible to benefit from such guarantees, that is, access to a Court.”
8. Furthermore, the Plaintiff avers and will contend that his expulsion from Sierra Leone by the Defendants without an opportunity to be heard was also a direct violation of his fundamental right under Article 7 of the Charter. In response to the stated reasons for the expulsion given in paragraphs 3, 6, 7 and 8 of the Defence, reliance is placed on the judgment of the European Court of Human Rights in the case of Lupsa v. Romania [2006] 2FCR685, and in particular the comment (at paragraph 38) that:
“… a person subject to a measure based on national security considerations must not be deprived of all guarantees against arbitrariness. He must, among other things, be able to have the measure in question scrutinized by an independent and impartial body competent to review all the relevant questions of fact and law, in order to determine the lawfulness of the measure and punish a possible abuse by the authorities. Before that supervisory body the person concerned must have the benefit of adversarial proceedings in order to present his point of view and refute the arguments of the authorities …”
9. In addition to the violations averred in paragraphs 7 and 8 above, the Plaintiff further avers that the Defendants’ refusal to reverse the deprivation of the Plaintiff’s citizenship and the Order of his expulsion unless he gave up his claims against the government, was entirely arbitrary and yet another flagrant violation of his right under Article 7 of the Charter.
10. As stated in paragraph 7 above the Plaintiff avers that he left Sierra Leone on 23rd March, 1997 and has never returned to that country. When he was deprived of his citizenship and expelled on 31st March,1998 he was outside the country and was never served with either the Deprivation Order or the Expulsion Order contrary to what the Defendants have attempted to portray by their Exhibits TEC1(1-6).
11. In answer to paragraph 7 of the Defendants’ narration of facts which is hereby denied, the Plaintiff states that between 1991 and 1996 he never supplied any military hardware (meaning arms and ammunition) to any government of Sierra Leone either military or civilian, including the NPRC and AFRC governments. In fact during those years the AFRC was not in existence because it came to power only on 27th May, 1997 as admitted by the Defendants in paragraph 25 of their narration of facts.
12. The Plaintiff avers that he never entered into any contracts with the AFRC government throughout its tenure even though both the AFRC and NPRC were de facto and de jure governments of Sierra Leone at different times.
13. From 1991 to April, 1992 the Plaintiff did business with the civilian government of Late Dr. J. S. Momoh and between May 1992 and March, 1996 with the NPRC government when the second Defendant was the Chairman of the Advisory Council of the NPRC government. The NPRC government was recognized world wide by the International Community including the United Nations Organization (U.N.O), the organization of African Unity (O.A.U) (now African Union (A.U)) and the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS). It was on the basis of this international recognition that Captain Valentine Strasser, Head of the NPRC government signed the Revised Treaty of the Economic Community of West African States at Cotonou on 24th July, 1993 as Sierra Leonean Head of State together with the Heads of State of other ECOWAS countries.
(Copy of the relevant pages of the Revised Treaty of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) containing the signatories to the Revised Treaty including the signature of Captain Valentine Strasser, Head of the NPRC on behalf of the Republic of Sierra Leone is hereby pleaded and marked MKW 147 and shall be relied upon in the course of this case)
14. The Plaintiff denies that any of the contracts he entered into with the first Defendant was in anyway irregular or fraudulent as alleged in paragraphs 8 and 20 of the Narration of facts in support of the Defence. The Defendants are required to give particulars of the so called irregularities and fraud and to state clearly the contracts to which they relate as the second Defendant’s Press Release of 3rd March, 1997 (see Exhibit MKW 18 in the Plaintiff’s pleading) relates only to the contract for the procurement of the M.V. “Sharon”, which is only one of eleven of such contracts.
15. Fraud of any descr1ption and in any context being a crime, the Defendants are put not only to strict proof of the alleged fraud but to proof beyond reasonable doubt.
16. The Plaintiff avers that the allegations of irregularities and fraud in paragraphs 8 and 20 of the Defendant’s narration of facts are contradicted and therefore belied by the contents of paragraph 12, 13, 18, 24, 25 and 30 of the said narration.
17. The Defendants are put to strict proof of their allegations in paragraphs 25 and 30 of payments of “huge” sums of money to the Plaintiff for his contracts.
18. The Plaintiff contends that the NPRC was de facto and de jure government of Sierra Leone and the contracts it entered into with the Plaintiff are valid and binding on the Defendants as all assets and liabilities acquired or incurred by that government were inherited by, transferred to and taken over by the Defendants in the normal course of business and in accordance with the norms, practices and conventions of government and international law. Consequently, the Defendants have a duty to honour their legitimate contractual obligations and must not be allowed to resile from or arbitrarily repudiate contracts validly entered into by their predecessors in office.
19. Further, since coming into office, the Defendants have officially and unequivocally accepted liability for payment to the Plaintiff of the monies owed to him under the various contracts involved in this case. Two sets of auditors employed by the Defendants verified and recommended for payment all the Plaintiff’s claims amongst others and the reports of both sets of auditors were accepted and approved by the Cabinet of the second Defendant vide its cabinet conclusions endorsing PKF and Estina Kabia’ reports dated 4th September,2002 and 29th October, 2003 respectively. (see Exhibits MKW 113 and MKW 115 attached to the Plaintiff’s pleading) and in several letters to the International Monetary Fund (IMF) pleaded and attached to the Plaintiff’s pleading, the Defendants assured and made a commitment to the IMF that the debts owed to the Plaintiff as verified and approved by Mrs. Estina Kabia would be securitized or amortized.
In fact the claims of each of the other domestic creditors whose claims relate for contracts awarded by the NPRC government were audited under the IMF programme have been paid apart from those of the Plaintiff.
(Copy of the Summary of the Plaintiff’s claims as approved for payment by Mrs. Estina Kabia is hereby pleaded and marked MKW 148 and shall be relied upon in the course of this case)
It is therefore too late in the day for the Defendants to disown the contracts as irregular illegitimate or fraudulent. Their present attempt to do so is nothing but an after-thought contrived for the purpose of avoiding their contractual obligations. They cannot approbate and reprobate. They are estopped.
20. When on 29th April, 2005 the Defendants wrote to the Plaintiff rejecting his claims on their allegation that the claims were “illegitimate” the Plaintiff wrote in reply on 3rd May,2005 requesting to know the reason for the sudden and unexpected decision and after recounting the history of his futile efforts to have his claims paid he accused the government of flagrant disregard and abuse of his basic human rights and of misreporting to and deceiving the IMF on their professed commitments on the settlements of domestic suppliers’ claims under the PRGF scheme supported by the Fund.
(Copy of the Plaintiff’s letter to the Financial Secretary of the SECOND Defendant dated 3rd May, 2005 is hereby pleaded and marked MKW 149 and shall be relied upon in the course of this case)
21. Of the total part payment made to the Plaintiff in respect of the M.V. “Sharon” 100,000,000 Leones (the equivalent of US $ 101,010.00) was paid on 26th August, 1996 by the administration of the second Defendant which shows clearly that branding the contract as irregular, illegitimate or fraudulent is untenable and unjust. So also is the spirited attempt by the officials of the second Defendant’s administration to rescind or abrogate the M.V. Sharon contract which was met by the recommendations of the Sierra Leone Parliament after due investigation that the contract was valid and the Plaintiff was entitled to his payment (see exhibit 14 in the Plaintiff’s pleading) and the recommendations of the two-man committee set up by the second Defendant to investigate and report to him on how the matter could be resolved.(see exhibit MKW 15 in the Plaintiff’s pleading)
22. The Defendants’ spurious allegation in paragraph 3 of their Defence and paragraphs 2,4,6,7,15,16,21,28 and 29 of their Narration of facts that the Plaintiff was trading or associated with the enemy is equally untenable and is hereby denied. The Defendants did not say who this enemy was and Sierra Leone is not known to have been involved in any war with another State. The country’s civil war was not such a war and none of the parties in that war can be described as “the enemy”.
23. The plaintiff avers that after the Country’s civil war, treason trials were held and those suspected to have been involved on the side of the rebels of the Revolutionary United Front (RUF) were tried and many of them were punished. Throughout those treason trials, not once was the Plaintiff’s name mentioned as a collaborator with the rebels and no evidence of involvement was given against him for which reason he was never tried. Further, when these facts were stated in the application for restoration of the Plaintiff’s citizenship by his lawyer, Mr. Browne-Marke, (see Browne Marke’s letter dated 10th October, 2006) (see Exhibit MKW 24 in the Plaintiff’s pleading) they were not denied by the Defendants. Rather the Defendants were prepared to restore the Plaintiff’s citizenship and revoke his expulsion from the country if he would give up his claims against the government. (see exhibits MKW 25 and MKW 26 in the Plaintiff’s pleading)
24. When the applications for the revocation of the 1998 Deprivations and Expulsions were being considered by the cabinet sub-committee, security checks and investigations were carried out by the Sierra Leone Police on all the applicants including the Plaintiff and in his letter to the Deputy Inspector-General of Police, the National Security Co-coordinator in the office of the President wrote that there was no proof that the applicants had been engaged in subversive activities and/or other dubious and nefarious deal following their expulsion from Sierra Leone.
(Copy of the National Security Co-ordinator’s letter to the Deputy Inspector General of Police dated 24th October, 2006 is hereby pleaded and marked MKW 150 and shall be relied upon in the course of this case)
25. Also in his letter to the chairman, cabinet sub-committee on the review of Expulsion and Deprivation of Citizenship in 1998 dated 30th October, 2006, the Deputy Inspector-General of Police confirmed that there was no “Criminal or Adverse Security record traced against” the Plaintiff and six other applicants expelled and deprived of their citizenship in 1998.
(Copy of the Deputy Inspector-General’s letter dated 30th October, 2006 is hereby pleaded and marked MKW 151 and shall be relied upon in the course of the trial)
The Plaintiff therefore denies the allegations in paragraphs 4, 6, 7, 15, 22 and 29 that he was supplying military hardware to the enemy or engaged in subversive activities.
26. In answer to paragraphs 22, 23, and 24 of the Defendant’s narration of facts, the Plaintiff denies that any of the events occurred when the AFRC government was in power. The persecution of the Plaintiff in the manner narrated in paragraphs 52-54 of the Plaintiff’s pleading was carried out by the second defendant and his government after they succeeded the AFRC government in 1998. The responsibility is therefore, squarely that of the first and second Defendants to compensate the Plaintiff for his losses arising from wrongs done to him through the use of state apparatus and machinery.
27. The Plaintiff denies paragraph 25 of the Defendant’s narration of facts and avers that since he fled from Sierra Leone on 23rd March, 1997 as a result of fear for his personal safety caused by the second Defendant he has never returned to the country up till the present moment, more so because he was expelled therefrom with the implied threat of arrest and detention should he set foot on Sierra Leonean soil.
28. In reply to paragraph 19 of the Defendants’ narration of facts which the Plaintiff denies, the Plaintiff contends that the exercise of the executive power of the State of Sierra Leone vested in the second Defendant by section 51 (3) of the Constitution of Sierra Leone was not meant to be arbitrary but must be guided by a sense of justice and with due regard to the requirements of the rule of law. The second Defendant’s action was clearly an abuse of executive power. Particulars of any justification for the discriminatory rejection of the Plaintiff’s audited and verified claims and the rejection of the Parliamentary Report and recommendations of his two-man committee on the M.V. “Sharon” were not given and the Plaintiff was not afforded the right to challenge the decision which was decisive of his rights to payment in respect of the MV Sharon. This was another violation of the Plaintiff’s rights under Article 7 of the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights, and the comments of the European Court of Human Rights in the case of Lupsa v. Romania quoted in paragraph 8 above are equally on point here, even more so given that there was not even the pretence that the decision was made for reasons of national security. Reliance is also placed on the principle exemplified by the decision of the European Court of Human Rights in Stran Greek Refineries and Stratis v. Greece [1994] 19 EHRR 293 that the intervention of a state authority decisively to ensure that the outcome of a matter directly involving the state is favourable to it, whilst the matter is ongoing, is an unlawful infringement of the right to a fair trial in respect of that matter.
29. In answer to paragraph 6 of the Defence and paragraphs 27and 28 of the Defendants’ narration of facts, the Plaintiff repeats and shall rely on the averments in paragraphs 57-64 of his pleading to the effect that the Deprivation of his citizenship was made arbitrarily maliciously and without regard to the relevant laws and therefore the said deprivation was without any legal basis.
30. Generally in response to both the first and the second Defendants’ purported justifications for their actions depriving the Plaintiff of his rights, the Plaintiff will rely, in addition to the cases already cited herein, on the plethora of authorities in the field of international human rights law policing the activities of organs of the state. These include, but are not limited to, the judgments of the European Court of Human Rights in the further cases of Baumann v. France [2002] 34EHRR44, Albert and le
Compte v. Belgium [1983] ECHR533, de Gouffre de La Pradelle v. France [1992] A253-B and Fayed v. The United Kingdom [1994] EGRRH. All of these authorities further underline the fundamental, and internationally recognized, human right of an individual to require the decisions of any national authority which affect, whether directly or indirectly, his civil rights to be scrutinized by an impartial tribunal in a procedure with full “equality of arms”. The Plaintiff avers and will contend that at every turn he has been deprived of these rights, which has led ultimately to his being deprived of his right to the judicial resolution of his commercial claims for debts owed to him by the first Defendant.
31. On the Defendant’s counterclaim for the sum of US$ 1.4 million, the Plaintiff repeats and shall rely on the averments in paragraphs 34 -39 and paragraphs 81 and 82 of his pleading to the effect that the Defendants were in breach of contract when they refused to pay the balance due on the M.V. “Sharon” and take delivery of same. The Plaintiff repeats that the sum of US$ 1.4 million or any other sum paid on the contract can only be claimed by the Defendants as a set-off by deducting same from the sum of US$ 11,200,000.00 due to the Plaintiff occasioned by the Defendants’ breach of contract.
32. The Plaintiff shall therefore urge the court to dismiss the counter claim with substantial costs for lack of merit.
Dated this 2nd day of October, 2007.
B. J. AKOMOLAFE ESQ.
CHIEF AFE BABALOLA, SAN & CO,
PLAINTIFF’S COUNSEL,
24, MADEIRA STREET,
(EMMANUEL HOUSE)
IMANI ESTATE,
MAITAMA,
ABUJA
NIGERIA.
Plaintiff’s Solicitor’s address for service at the seat of the Court:
CHIEF AFE BABALOLA, SAN & CO.
PLAINTIFF’S COUNSEL,
24, MADEIRA STREET,
(EMMANUEL HOUSE)
IMANI ESTATE,
MAITAMA,
ABUJA
NIGERIA.
Names of persons authorized to accept service:
(1) Chief Afe Babalola Esq. (SAN)
(2) Any of his Staff
Service may also be effected on the Plaintiff’s Solicitors by telefax or other technical means of communication in accordance with Article 33 Rule 2 on facsimile No. (234) 09-7803145,
E-mail: bankoleakomolafe@yahoo.com or abutu_j@yahoo.co.uk and/or (234) 073-453886 and E-mail: uit_nig@yahoo.com.
ADDRESS FOR SERVICE ON THE DEFENDANTS
1. The Republic of Sierra Leone
C/o The Sierra Leone High Commissioner to Nigeria
Plot 308 Mission Road,
Diplomatic Zone, Central Business
District, Area 10, Garki
Abuja.
And/or
The Republic of Sierra Leone
Office of the President
Presidential Lodge
Hill Station
Freetown
Republic of Sierra Leone
Tel: 234-003, 231-518
2. Alhaji Dr. Ahmad Tejan-Kabbah
C/o The Sierra Leone High Commissioner to Nigeria
Plot 308 Mission Road,
Diplomatic Zone, Central Business
District, Area 10, Garki
Abuja.
And/or
Alhaji Dr. Ahmad Tejan-Kabbah
Office of the President
Presidential Lodge
Hill Station
Freetown
Republic of Sierra Leone
Tel: 234-003, 231-518
IN THE COMMUNITY COURT OF JUSTICE
OF THE ECONOMIC COMMUNITY OF
WEST AFRICAN STATES (ECOWAS)
HOLDEN AT ABUJA, NIGERIA
SUIT No. ECW/CCJ/APP/07/07
BETWEEN:
Mohamed Kamel Wansa
Trading as “D & M Impex”, “Melborne Enterprise” PLAINTIFF / APPLICANT
and “Vulga Nova Pharmacy”
AND
1. The Republic of Sierra Leone
2. Alhaji Dr. Ahmad Tejan-Kabbah, Defendants/RESPONDENTS
Former President of the Republic of
Sierra Leone
SCHEDULE LISTING DOCUMENTS RELIED ON BY PLAINTIFF
S/N. EXIBIT NO. PARTICULARS
1 MKW 147 Copy of the relevant pages of the Revised
Treaty of the Economic Community
of West African States (ECOWAS) containing the signatories to the Revised Treaty including the signature of Captain Valentine Strasser, Head of the NPRC on behalf of the Republic of Sierra Leone.
S/N. EXIBIT NO. PARTICULARS
2 MKW 148 Copy of the Summary of the Plaintiff’s
claims as approved for payment by the
Auditor Mrs. Estina Kabia
3 MKW 149 Copy of the Plaintiff’s letter to the
Financial Secretary of the second Defendant dated 3rd May, 2005
4 MKW 150 Copy of the National Security
Co-ordinator’s letter to the Deputy Inspector-General of Police dated 24th October, 2006
5 MKW 151 Copy of the Deputy Inspector-General’s
letter dated 30th October, 2006
IN THE COMMUNITY COURT OF JUSTICE
OF THE ECONOMIC COMMUNITY OF
WEST AFRICAN STATES (ECOWAS)
HOLDEN AT ABUJA, NIGERIA
SUIT No. ECW/CCJ/APP/07/07
BETWEEN:
Mohamed Kamel Wansa
Trading as “D & M Impex”, “Melborne Enterprise” PLAINTIFF / APPLICANT
and “Vulga Nova Pharmacy”
AND
1. The Republic of Sierra Leone
2. Alhaji Dr. Ahmad Tejan-Kabbah, Defendants/RESPONDENTS
Former President of the Republic of
Sierra Leone
CASES REFERRED TO IN THE PLAINTIFF’S REPLY TO DEFENDANT’S DEFENCE
1. PROSECUTOR V CHARLES GHANKAY TAYLOR, CASE NO. SCSL-2003-01-01, 31 MAY, 2004.
2. ISSA HASSAN SESSAY & OTHERS V THE PRESIDENT OF THE SPECIAL COURT & OTHERS, CASE NO. S.C. 1/2003, 14 OCTOBER,2005
3 GOLDER V UNITED KINGDOM (1975) 1EHRR524
4 LUPSA V ROMANIA (2006) 2 FCR 685
5 STAN GREEK REFINERIES AND STRATIS V GREECE (1994) 19EHRR293
6 BAUMANN V FRANCE (2002) 34EHRR44
7 ALBERT AND LE COMPTE V BELGIUM (1983) ECHR533
8 DE GEOUFFRE DE LA PRADELLE V FRANCE (1992) A253-B
9 FAYED V THE UNITED KINGDOM (1994) 18EGRR
Subject: Gosh!
From: Bambay Lans Kamara
To: All
Date Posted: 23:29:11 10/11/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: sccadmin195198.scc.losrios.edu at 165.196.195.198
Message:
Yah!
Subject: All my life
From: Bambay Lans Kamara
To: All
Date Posted: 23:25:41 10/11/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: sccadmin195198.scc.losrios.edu at 165.196.195.198
Message:
Wow!
Subject: Would you?
From: Bambay Lans Kamara
To: All
Date Posted: 22:50:53 10/11/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: sccadmin195198.scc.losrios.edu at 165.196.195.198
Message:
Of course I would.
Subject: Are you with me!
From: Bambay Lans Kamara
To: All
Date Posted: 22:49:06 10/11/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: sccadmin195198.scc.losrios.edu at 165.196.195.198
Message:
Lets jam.
Subject: Ex President Kabba and Presidential Immunity
From: Joseph A.K Sesay
To: All
Date Posted: 22:42:27 10/11/07 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
Examining Presidential Immunity –The Case Before the ECOWAS Court
Posted on Oct 11, 2007, 13:25
Immunity basically exempts Heads of State or Government officials (for the purpose of this article) from prosecutions for alleged crimes committed before a court of law. In Sierra Leone jurisprudence, the 1991 constitution provides for a Presidential immunity. It states that immunity applies to any person holding or performing the functions of the Office of the President. As spelt out in section 48(4), no civil or criminal proceedings can be instituted or continued against him in respect of anything done either by act or omission by him either in official or private capacity. Immunity can also be applicable for unofficial acts or omission for a person holding or performing the functions of the Office of the President. This is to ensure that there is no burden that would hinder the ability of the President to perform his official duties effectively.
However, international courts can exercise jurisdiction over a serving head of state. Some International statutes articulate that Heads of State are not immune from criminal prosecution and can be found individually criminally responsible if there is sufficient evidence that they authorized or perpetrated international crimes. Article 6(2) of the Statute of the Special Court for Sierra Leone (SCSL) provides that “the official position of any accused person, whether as Head of State of Government or a responsible government Official shall not relieve such a person of criminal responsibility…” In 2004 the SCSL rejected a preliminary motion by Charles Taylor requesting that the Court drops his indictment and all consequential orders against him because at the time they were issued he was the President of Liberia during which he enjoyed Presidential immunity. Citing long-established precedent, including the Charters of the Nuremberg and the Tokyo Tribunals, the Statutes of the International Criminal Tribunals for the former Yugoslavia and for Rwanda, the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court and the Special Court’s own Statute, the SCSL ruled that Charles Taylor was not immune from prosecution stating that Heads of State do not enjoy immunity for crimes under international law. Article 27(2) of the Statute of the International Criminal Court (ICC) provides that the Statute “…shall apply equally to all persons without any distinction based on official capacity…” Similarly, Article 7 of the Charter of the International Military Tribunal (Nuremberg Charter), states that “the official position of defendants, whether as Heads of State or responsible official in government shall not bar prosecution.
Currently, there is a case before the Community Court of Justice (CCJ) of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), between Mohamed Kamel Wansa Trading as “D & M Impex”, “Melborne Enterprise” and Vulga Nova Pharmacy” as the Plaintiff and the Republic of Sierra Leone as the First defendant and His Excellency, Alhaji Dr. Ahmad Tejan Kabbah, former President of the Republic of Sierra Leone as the Second defendant. The suit is filed (inter alia) pursuant to Art. 11(1), 9(4), of the Protocol of the CCJ, Art. 2, 5, 7, 12(1) (2) and 14 of the African Charter on Human and People’s Rights, Art. 32 and 33 of the Rules of the CCJ and Section 15, 18, and 27(2) of the 1991 Constitution of the Republic of Sierra Leone. The Plaintiff alleged that his right against discrimination was violated by the First and Second defendants through an outright denial of payment for goods and services supplied to the Government of Sierra Leone (GOSL) and an unlawful and arbitrary expulsion from Sierra Leone for the purpose of denying him his legitimate payment for goods and services supplied to the GOSL. The Court can adjudicate on the matter because the Plaintiff’s applications are pursuant to international instruments such as the African Charter on Human and People’s Rights and the Protocol of the CCJ. It can be argued that the second defendant had Presidential immunity during the time for which the Plaintiff seeks redress as a result no court action can be instituted against him. Furthermore, in the Sierra Leone jurisprudence, certain acts or omission by the State are not justiceable. On the other hand, international instruments take precedence over national Laws and practices. However, for some of the applications pursuant to the 1991 constitution of the Republic of Sierra Leone and the Sierra Leone Citizenship Act, it is likely that the Second defendant can claim Presidential immunity for actions carried out while he was the President. He cannot be liable for prosecution as set out in Sec. 48(4) of the 1991 Constitution of the Republic of Sierra Leone while he is in the discharge of the duties of the office of the President. However, he must convince the court as to why he should be immune from prosecution. This tradition goes back to Spalding v. Vilas (1896). There the Court held: "In exercising the function of his office, the head of an Executive Department, keeping within the limitations of his authority, should not be under any apprehension that the motives that control his official conduct may at any time become the subject of inquiry in a civil suit for damages. It would cripple the proper and effective administration of public affairs as entrusted to the Executive Branch of the government if he were subject to any such restraint." [Spalding v. Vilas 1896 161 U.S. 483 (1896)] The burden must lie with the President to prove why his office mandates his immunity from the law which is the only arbiter of justice.
As regarded by International instruments, the protection of human rights should be a responsibility of any state. Suffice it to say that the Plaintiff’s application pursuant to Art 13(1) and (2) of the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights which states that “Everyone has the right to freedom of movement and residence within the borders of each state” and, “Everyone has the right to leave in any country, including his own, and to return to his country” should be adjudicated. In addition, by virtue of the fact that international instruments take precedence over national laws and practice, it will be little wonder if the Second defendant is held responsible as alleged. If the CCJ upholds this phenomenon, it would send a message to all sitting Heads of State that one cannot use the protection of Presidential immunity to causally violate the Rights of others.
Subject: Cocorioko Idiot Admires John Mannah!
From: Mammy Blessing
To: All
Date Posted: 21:07:09 10/11/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: pool-151-202-41-6.ny325.east.verizon.net at 151.202.41.6
Message:
In one of his copious articles, Dr. John Mannah disparaged Cocorioko as the home of idiots. So I asked one of the resident Cocorioko idiots, who happens to be a very good friend of mine, to declare his admiration for John Mannah in the SLPP forum. The following is my buddy's ode to the incomparable Doctor.
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Posted by John Mannah Fan on October 11, 2007 at 05:39:43:
I am riting to let evrybody knows that John Mannah is the bests interlecsual in the histry of sarra leone. I knose some of you are very yelos of the great John Mannah. Some of you are yuths of Momoh and SSD shaka Probin Stivins from cocorioko whu want to bring don the best interlecsual brains from the contrie of sarra lione. Bot you will all fail lek the agboloh frog in the cat's mot. Sarra leonnans must stop the bad haert for the brains of john Mannah and his economics superioriness. Mohamid yalloh, bai bureh, Amidu bayOh, Moses kpaka, Somtin butU and the odher haterers shuld go jump in Lumliy beachch if they can not admire our next plesedent and the only plesident wit a real true true PHD in the tranga econimix digri, his exselensy the nomba ones plesedent, Dokytor John Mannah. Lonta
Sinsialay,
John Mannah Fanatic!
Plesedent of John Mannah fan Clob all ober the worlds
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In Reply to: JOHN MANNAH FOR PRESIDENT! posted by John Mannah Fan on October 11, 2007 at 05:39:43:
Correcson: Sorry for mistaking the spielin of PLESEDENT. My tupit nephew rote the wrong spelin. It shudint be PRESIDENT. Correct spelin is PLESEDENT. Please forgiv my very tupit nephew.
John Mannah Fanatic
Subject: Re: Cocorioko Idiot Admires John Mannah!
From: Mr President
To: All
Date Posted: 04:28:32 10/12/07 ()
Email Address: cottontree1800@gmail.com
Entered From: ip72-192-202-227.dc.dc.cox.net at 72.192.202.227
Message:
Fan, your posting was difficult to read. However, I was able to make sense
out of it. Who is John Mannah? What was/is his contribution(s) to the
republic of Sierra Leone? Could you please defend his legacy?
Subject: Re: Cocorioko Idiot Admires John Mannah!
From: Answer
To: All
Date Posted: 09:10:28 10/12/07 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
He is a linguistically challenged mende triablist and lie-lie "financial economis" (LOL). He is being driven crazy by the failure of his scheme to plunder the money of the people of Salone on the coat-tail of a corrupt SLPP.
Subject: The APC Party
From: Eku Richards
To: All
Date Posted: 19:17:25 10/11/07 ()
Email Address: jrichards20@cox.net
Entered From: ip72-192-61-24.ri.ri.cox.net at 72.192.61.24
Message:
I have read Cocorioko for some weeks now and all I read is praises for the APC party. I want to say we are all praying for the new government to stamp out corruption and make Sierra Leone a great nation. However it appears many of us are suffering from amnesia because it was not the SLPP did destroyed our country but the one party, non democratic and corrupt rule of the APC party
I know Kabba achieved zero but lets not forget it was because of APC corruption that got us into civil war.
Therefore lets all pray for the new president that God will help him.
Subject: Re: The APC Party
From: John E. Leigh
To: All
Date Posted: 10:47:27 10/12/07 ()
Email Address: johnernestleigh@yahoo.com
Entered From: cache-dtc-ag14.proxy.aol.com at 205.188.117.142
Message:
Mr. Eku Richards:
Please note that President Kabbah achieved much more than zero.
He brought peace to SL during his first term and succeeded in persuading the international community to bankroll SL humantarian calamity. During his second term, he commenced work on building institutions and improving infrastructure nation-wide.
Lungi Airport was renovated superbly. The old colonial secretariate building, destroyed by the AFRC/RUF, was rebuilt. The Bank of Sierra Leone building as well as the law courts were rebuilt and/or renovated. Schools, markets, health clinics, hospitals, waterwells, lorry parks and latrines were either renovated, rebuilt or build anew nationwide.
Next, President Kabbah embarked on infrasturcture development and institution-building. The road from MaSiaka to Makeni was completed with with a hard, smooth, blacktop finish. The hardtop renovation of the road from Bo to MaSiaka had reached Taiama at election time.
Various institutions were being created via detailed legislation and included NASSIT, intended to provide cash substenance for old age destitute citizens and into whose bank account the proceeds of the sale of Libyan-donated rice were deposited to provide it (NASSIT) with the initial capital.
Thus, merely because voters voted out the SLPP does not mean that Kabbah's SLPP Administrations achieved zero while in office. In the future, please try to be fair in your criticisms. Thank you very much. - JL
Subject: Re: The APC Party
From: Kalangba
To: All
Date Posted: 04:36:18 10/12/07 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
when you take the manes of krio people you should at least write like they would. You dont sound like an Ekundayoh Richards.
Subject: WHERE IS ERNEST KOROMA'S "NEW DAWN" TAKING OUR COUNTRY?
From: BRA ENVIABLE
To: All
Date Posted: 19:07:07 10/11/07 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
I am a bit skittish over the fact that Ernest Koroma's "The New Dawn in Sierra Leone" has so far ignored the South-Eastern parts of the country. A cabinet formed with the need for a geographic balance could reduce the long-held feelings of estrangement harbored in the South-East against the APC. Judging by his choice of cabinet Ministers, President Koroma has so far shown that the APC--like the SLPP--cannot submerge ethnic temptations for a composite Sierra Leone wedded to national oneness. Most, if not all, the weighty cabinet posts were either assigned to the West, or simply given to the North, Ekutay style.
What is Ernest Koroma's geographic perception of Sierra Leone? Is he not interested in breaking the ethnic blocs formed by both the SLPP and APC over the years? The SLPP and APC are generally regarded as ethnic-driven parties heavily reliant on South-Eastern and Northern kinships respectively. "A New Dawn in Sierra Leone," as Cocorioko calls it, could have transcended regional folksiness by giving Sierra Leone a regionally balanced cabinet. So far, the new cabinet looks like an exact replica of an Ekutay edifice. Where is this "New Dawn" taking us, me famble dem?
Subject: Re: WHERE IS ERNEST KOROMA'S "NEW DAWN" TAKING OUR COUNTRY?
From: Eddie Grant
To: All
Date Posted: 15:42:30 10/12/07 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
Food for Thought
Under SLPP:
President-Tejan Kabba (South East)
Vice President-Solo Bee(South East)
Minister of Finance-John Benjamin(South East)
Minister of Foreign Affairs-Momodu Koroma(South East)
Minister of Mines-Swarray Deen(South East)
Minister of Transport-Prince Harding(South East)
Minister of Works-Boima(South East)
Minister of Gender Affairs-Gbujama(South East)
Commissioner of Revenue-Karimu(South East)
Minister of Information-Kai Kai (South East)
Minister of Internal Affairs-Egbenda(South East)
Did anyone complain?
Subject: Re: WHERE IS ERNEST KOROMA'S "NEW DAWN" TAKING OUR COUNTRY?
From: John E. Leigh
To: All
Date Posted: 10:25:53 10/12/07 ()
Email Address: johnernestleigh@yahoo.com
Entered From: cache-dtc-ag14.proxy.aol.com at 205.188.117.142
Message:
Dear BRA ENVIABLE:
Please, please allow the New APC government of President Koroma sufficient time to get established securely and demonstrate its capacity to provide good governance for our country. So far, in my view, he is doing just great!
Frankly, whether officials are from this or that tribe or section of the country is not really significant. What matters is whether those appointed to public office have the superior talent/ability to provide and can indeed provide sustainable good governance for our people after years and years of suffering from poor governance.
Presidents Siaka Stevens, Momoh, Kabbah and the NPRC coupists all had officials whose origins reflected national geographic balance; but did they all work effectively all the time to improve the lives of our people sustainably? NO!
So please let's focus on what the new government can deliver to uplift our peoples lives and modernize our backward country, rather than on whether a particular region or tribe has officeholders in President Koroma's newly elected administration. Thank you. - JL
Subject: Re: WHERE IS ERNEST KOROMA'S "NEW DAWN" TAKING OUR COUNTRY?
From: KKW
To: All
Date Posted: 20:03:21 10/11/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: cpe000039fc3f61-cm000039fc3e61.cpe.net.cable.rogers.com at 99.229.75.232
Message:
I may be naive, but there is bound to be a certain amount of "imbalance" in a cabinet selection. Basically a president selects people that he is close to, people he trusts, people that helped finance or worked for his campaign, and people that supported his party. As you have stated in your piece, the APC and SLPP are regionally based parties so it should be expected that the people that fall within theses categories will be disproportionately represented. This is not unusual in politics - during the Clinton years, the FOB's were everywhere. In the Bush II era, the administration resembles the Texas governor's mansion. IMHO, regional balance is achieved through the parliament, who are elected representatives of the people and can protect the interests of their constituents. The president's cabinet should be made up of (hopefully ) competent people that support and can execute the president's agenda, irrespective of their region of origin.
Subject: Re: WHERE IS ERNEST KOROMA'S "NEW DAWN" TAKING OUR COUNTRY?
From: Yayah Kallay
To: All
Date Posted: 02:49:29 10/12/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: adsl-69-108-68-64.dsl.irvnca.pacbell.net at 69.108.68.64
Message:
Latae!
Subject: Re: WHERE IS ERNEST KOROMA'S "NEW DAWN" TAKING OUR COUNTRY?
From: Bambay Lans Kamara
To: All
Date Posted: 22:25:37 10/11/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: sccadmin195198.scc.losrios.edu at 165.196.195.198
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Fellow Sierra Leoneans, are we the tribalists, sectionalists and opportunists or is the President the tribalist and sectionalist?
The reason I asked is that the President has not finished naming his cabinet, we have jumped all over him with accusations that we have not thoroughly investigated and or confirmed to be true yet, we are speaking authoritatively as though we are positively sure of what we are claiming. Ten chances to one, most here do not even know the actual sectional or tribal origins of some of the named Ministers but are basing their suppositions on name recognition, supposed affiliation, baseless stereotyping and the like, without any thorough knowledge of who is who or who has what sectional or tribal affiliations?
Are we interested in people that will work effectively with the President to promote his agenda and push the country forward or just any one that is called a Minister hailing from all over the place? I would think that what we should be concerned with is whether or not the mentioned people have the ethics and leadership personalities to work with the President for the betterment of Sierra Leone and not what tribe or section they belong to. Does it matter if all Ministers come from the South but cannot help the Southern people? To kill tribalistic and sectionalistic sentiments, we must deviate from irate assumptions based solely on tribe and section and rather think national.
What we must be thinking is, do the President view these partial Cabinet members to be people who seek the interest of Sierra Leone as a nation not on sectional components, and that working with them will bring national consciousness because of things they have done in the past, ideas they have that are far removed from tribal and or sectional fickleness?
To point to you that you have been very unfair in your assessments is the fact that you did not know or recall that the Vice President is from Kono, which symbolizes the President's inclusive agenda, in that Kono is in the Eastern Province therefore, the East has got a representation. More so, as I mentioned earlier, we do not even know about the sections from which some of the named Ministers hail yet, we continue to categorically claim that they are all from the North and the West. That is an unfair assessment because we do not have any substantial evidence to purport our claims besides we have not assessed their national interest, their leadership personalities and ethical fitness to perform for a better Sierra Leone rather, we base our arguments on tribe and sections, as I said, that we have no proof of..
I am pleading with you to be patient, look forward to a better Sierra Leone by thinking national and stop hopping for your family members to be Ministers, as this was a reason Sierra Leone failed. Most members who were Ministers hailed from constituencies and the same tribe but did not help the people at all, which the President sees a hindrance to the people he cares for therefore, he is looking to put people in positions that will work in the interest of the people not those that will satisfy the people with tribal affiliation or the sectional identification gratification. We are Sierra Leoneans first and we are looking for those who will route Sierra Leone out of the mess she is in whether they are Mendes Temene, Krio o Susu does not matter. What matters is, will they bring Sierra Leone the needs that we urgently want satisfied.
Be patient.
Subject: TRANSITIONAL TEAM REPORT : A DISCLAIMER
From: KABS KANU
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Date Posted: 17:49:08 10/11/07 ()
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TRANSITIONAL TEAM REPORT : A DISCLAIMER
State House wants it to be known that the published Transitional Team Report on this forum is not a finished document or final version of the TT REPORT . This is just a draft version that has not gone through the normal process of scrutiny . The final version will be made available to the public when it is ready.
UNFORTUNATELY, somebody surreptitiously leaked out this discarded version of the TRANSITIONAL TEAM REPORT to Leonenet .
Please ignore and await the final and authorized version.
DISCLAIMER AUTHORIZED BY :
The Technical Coordinating Committee of the Presidential Transition Team
State House
Freetown
Sierra Leone
Subject: Re: TRANSITIONAL TEAM REPORT : A DISCLAIMER
From: Transparency
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Date Posted: 18:05:30 10/11/07 ()
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Rev Kabs do you know how one can obtain details about the membership and credentials of the Presidential Transitional Team?
Subject: Balanced Cabinet
From: Independent Voice
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Date Posted: 17:43:06 10/11/07 ()
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In response to the editorial comment about having a balanced cabinet, it most be noted that the president is limited in his capacity to appoint talent from the diaspora specifically, due to a new clause within the constitution that requires ministerial appointments to go to registered voters only. This requirement puts a number of qualified individuals in the diaspora in a conundrum – as most are not registered to vote in Sierra Leone. I guess we could all appreciate why naming individuals for ministerial positions is taking a while and has not being an easy task for the president.
Subject: Leone Stars For Kabs Kanu
From: Mohammed Kamara
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Date Posted: 17:18:36 10/11/07 ()
Email Address: totti23@hotmail.com
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Rev,
I know you are a great soccer fan, i have a suggestion. I want to appeal to you and the Cocorioko team to have a sports page with emphasis on the Sierra Leone sports arena, especially with our national team the Leone Stars. We have a very crucial game next weekend for the preliminary round of the world cup 2010 elimination.We in the diaspora depends on this medium for news from back home, if a sports page with information on out team will be added, such move will be a great one.
There is a Sierra Leonean that reports for goal.com, Ibrahim Dabo, which i guess will be willing to assist with the reporting if contacted.
Thank you very much.
Subject: APC SUPPORTERS & KOROMA PLEASE REVERSE OWNERSHIP
From: PMDC FANATIC
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Date Posted: 16:52:51 10/11/07 ()
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I left Salone in 1996. The main street running up to the cotton tree was Siaka Steven Street. Now it is Sani Abacha Street. It is a national disgrace to remove the name of the name of a Sierra Leonean in favor of a Nigerian Military Dictator. We have not run out of names or heroes.
Pa Koroma was also a strong advocate for the redemption of Yenga from Guinean troop occupation. I hope it was not a part payment for Kabbah's political restoration.
I'll take a defective Pa Siaka Stevens to a brutal dictator who executed Ken Sarawiwa. I still refer to it as Siaka Steven Street. Kailahun is my hometown and Siaka Stevens is a fellow Alumni of the Albert Academy.
Subject: Re: APC SUPPORTERS & KOROMA PLEASE REVERSE OWNERSHIP
From: KKW
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Date Posted: 20:07:08 10/11/07 ()
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I think it is Kissy Street that was renamed Sani Abacha Street, but I may be wrong.
Subject: Re: APC SUPPORTERS & KOROMA PLEASE REVERSE OWNERSHIP
From: Mohamed Fofana
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Date Posted: 01:44:59 10/12/07 ()
Email Address: mfofana2004@sbcglobal.net
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You are right, it was Kissy Street and not Siaka Steven Street. I know a business at 17 Sani Abacha Street and I was there this past March, 2007.
Subject: Re: APC SUPPORTERS & KOROMA PLEASE REVERSE OWNERSHIP
From: june savage
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Date Posted: 18:32:10 10/11/07 ()
Email Address: ujnal@hotmail.com
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This is how you people spread false news. Siaka Stevens Street still exists. Check your fact well.
Subject: Re: APC SUPPORTERS & KOROMA PLEASE REVERSE OWNERSHIP
From: Yaya Fanusie
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Date Posted: 17:35:55 10/11/07 ()
Email Address: saigobe@lanset.com
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PMDC FANATIC,
The new govt and every Sierra Leonean have to know what is important at this time. And Street name change is not important. Let us spend our time and resources now to create wealth for our people by expanding productivity of food, etc. Let us create jobs for our people. Converstions On Africa(COA)is planning major fundraising activities and events to raise one million dollars to provide grants for loan enterprises owned by Sierra Leone women. visit www.coaforum.com and please contact me so I can brief you on how you could be part of this wonderful drive to expand the businesses owned women in Sierrra Leone. Call me at 301-238-4396
If we collaborate it will happen so fast. WE can make Sierra Leone the financial and tourist capital of africa in the short-run.
Yaya Fanusie-COA
WWW.TOADFACE.COM
Subject: Re: APC SUPPORTERS & KROMA PLEASE REVERSE OWNERSHIP
From: PMDC FANATIC
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Date Posted: 17:49:59 10/11/07 ()
Email Address: dollarbill@gmail.com
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I am a patriot and find it high on my social platter as much as you find raising funds high on your platter.
I think they can be done simultaneoulsy.
Don't use my request to promote your Non profit call. If you ARE not interested in it don't cry it down. It makes you single minded.
Again, I am appealing to APC supporters to advocate the change of Sani Abacha Street o Siaka Steven street and the redemption of Yenga.
Subject: Re: APC SUPPORTERS & KROMA PLEASE REVERSE OWNERSHIP
From: PMDC FANATIC
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Date Posted: 17:49:11 10/11/07 ()
Email Address: epa@gmail.com
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I am a patriot and find it high on my social platter as much as you find raising funds high on your platter.
I think they can be done simultaneoulsy.
Don't use my request to promote your Non profit call. If you ARE not interested in it don't cry it down. It makes you single minded.
Again, I am appealing to APC supporters to advocate the change of Sani Abacha Street o Siaka Steven street and the redemption of Yenga.
Subject: From Standard Times News
From: Mohamed Fofana
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Date Posted: 15:52:19 10/11/07 ()
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MEDIA & SOCIETY
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Mayor Of Freetown Writes...Reviewing That Kasho Wellington SLBS/TV Saga
Posted by Winstanley.R.Bankole. Johnson on Oct 11, 2007, 13:07
I have written a few incisive articles recently but unlike the pre-August 11 days, none has elicited the usual terse, unethical and most times uncalled-for reactions. Those authors are lurked somewhere still licking their wounds, and hoping (God forbid) for evidence of non-performance by the APC to pounce. So it is either that we now have a “King who knows not Joseph” or as we put it in other forum “time and circumstances has restored the genuine”
But that is not what democracy and good governance should be like. Exchanging frank but honest views without malice or recriminations is all part of a nation’s development process, and if it is happening elsewhere I see no reason why Sierra Leone with less than six million people should be any different.
Sierra Leoneans have remained divided for too long and most times for very petty reasons – like politics – when in fact very little difference exists in the agendas of the different political parties we claim to belong to. As I have often said, beyond our National Anthem and National Flag, nothing else unites us as a country. There is neither a battle cry, nor anything else that can stir up nationalistic fervour in the Sierra Leonean - as is common among for example, the Ghanaians.
It was clear from the outcome of the just concluded elections, that the voting pattern assumed tribal, ethnic or regional biases, which certainly does not hold good for our country. So we need to do a lot more to keep us together as a people with undivided destiny, by first doing away with our revengeful “tit-for-tat” culture.
As a matter of fact, I will make bold to recommend that President Bai Koroma should make visiting those areas in which our APC Party performed dismally a matter of Presidential priority, not only to win over potentials for future elections, but also to convince those whose minds had been manipulated to see the APC as a Northern-based party that indeed he is President of the entire Sierra Leone.
For my part, I will by this write-up be extending the olive branch to a man like J.J.Saffa the SLPP Secretary General, (whose face I honestly don’t know), by inviting him to a lunch presently, to show that with the elections long over, everyone is required onboard to take the development of this country forward. Opposition parties in parliament can ensure that through persistent but credible criticisms that will always keep the government on its toes because criticisms they say eliminates complacency.
It is only when we begin to see ourselves as one people with a common cause that we will become more ethical in our judgement of the predicament of others and without prejudice. Which brings me to the SLBS saga of a few days ago, heralding the totally unacceptable and unorthodox exit of the Director pro-tem, Mr. Kahso Wellington. At his upper 60s age, I am sure that was the least kind of ingratitude he ever expected.
In the glare of SLBS TV viewers and eyewitnesses – including his close family members and friends all watching helplessly in utter disbelief, a whole parastatal head - in the line of duty - was roundly molested by his own subordinates, with indictments been read out to him in a make-shit kangaroo court, after which he was bundled away by the Police who in fact were supposed to have offered him protection in the first place.
That sordid episode was to me like corporate governance assuming new and riskier dimensions. And everyone else appears to have seen the funny side of that development – except me of course and for obvious reasons as follows-:
Kasho Wellington, though Acting Head, has since his appointment years ago been directly supervised by a Transition management Team – of which Alhaji. I.B. Kargbo was a member, and all of whom are vicariously liable for his misdemeanours. And wasn’t it odd that Alhaji I.B.Kargbo was readily on hand to “calm” the workers down?
The SLBS is not the only Parastatal in the history of this country to have experienced industrial unrest. Anti-management demonstrations at the SIERRATEL, SALPOST and the Sierra National Airlines to name but a few are frequent and of far worse dimensions than that at the SLBS.
At SIERRATEL, pitched battles culminating in the malicious wounding of Police officers on duty (a serious offence for which continue to stand charged in the Court) were run between the management and staff for days on end. But the police were timely and permanently stationed within the precincts to ensure that Alpha Sesay carried out his duties unruffled and oblivious of the equally same staff appeal against persistent salary delays and generally poor working conditions. He is till there, albeit to the detriment of the country.
At SALPOST, not even the indictable outcomes of a Commission of Inquiry (and its ensuing “White Paper”) could ensure the exit of Kanji Daramy who despite abundant evidence of gross ineptitude has since received a double promotion – first as Presidential Spokesman and later as Chairman of the Telecommunications Commissions.
I am reliably informed that after that disgraceful episode and the ensuing adverse Press reports against him, Kasho Wellington was even prevented from legitimately transacting over his bona-fide Bank Account. Do you now see why well-meaning individuals shy away from political appointments?
I am aghast as to why the government should have supported such an openly discriminatory approach, by insisting that Kaso proceeds immediately on an indefinite leave, purely on the basis of staff uprising. Apart from their actions being out rightly lawless, no group of workers have the right to disgracefully and forcefully evict their institutional head from office. If it were that easy I suppose Parastatals would be changing their Managing Directors on a daily basis.
And I honestly think that Mr. Wellington should be recalled and allowed the right to also be thoroughly investigated prior to a decent but compulsory exit under the same amnesty granted key servants of former President Kabba. After all what is good for geese like Alpha Sesay and kanji Daramy should equally be good for gander “Wellington”. Do I hear someone whispering “double standards”?
Even as he reads this piece, Kaso Wellington himself will no doubt be gob smacked accept that it is coming from me, the man who when he was introduced to in early 2005 as the Mayor of Freetown recklessly retorted “Oh is this the chap?”. And he has shown contempt for me since. Come on Kaso even as boys, Princes Willie and Harry got more respect from their subjects!!
So let me now address the demerits of Kaso that warranted his disgraceful exit. In every sense of each word he was thoroughly a “system man” - arrogant, self-centered, conceited, egoistic, and virtually lacking in every corporate ethics engendering competence, which was why he couldn’t perceive the early warning signals heralding his “crash”.
He served his employers more than the country to his own detriment, and if ever he respected you it was purely on the whims of the government apparatchiks – Berewa or Tejan-Kabbah. Under his regime and on “orders from above”, the Freetown City Council received permanent news black-out, despite repeated appeals by my former Chief Administrator Miss. Sarah. Lewis and verbal promises from Dr. Septimus Kai-Kai for him to do so. That was why my 2006 Mayor’s Christmas message was done in the papers and via the ABC TV network.
He chose rather unwittingly to publicly malign those whom he piggy-backed into a prominence leading to his being awarded a covetous national insignia for “acting” as Managing Director of our national broadcasting house, which position he never trained for during his over 25 years absence from the country.
Like members of the Transition Management Team that supervised Kaso, the past government must equally accept full responsibility for failure to either have timeously arranged for the basic needs or strategic exit of staff, without disrupting “team spirit”. But again Kaso Wellington was not a Manager.
So what are the lessons here to be learnt? Simple! No matter how popular you appear to be, always remember that authority comes from God alone, and that it is only for a limited time. The people who brought you into prominence are merely instruments of God. So never betray your conscience by trying to please them.
On several occasions, Kaso Wellington closed the door on reality, only for him to see it coming back to him through the window, but still he ignored those signals. So by his unwarranted and disgraceful exit, he has finally come to realize that by resisting to become a shining example of corporate ethics, he has simply ended up becoming a horrible lesson to others.
But thankfully, Kaso Wellington has a fall back position. Not in politics, but through the straight and narrow as a repentant disciple of Jesus Christ, living henceforth by the Gospel.
They that hath ears…………let them hear!
Subject: APC VS CHARLES MARGAI
From: SANTOS MANGA
To: All
Date Posted: 15:38:05 10/11/07 ()
Email Address: santos@aol.com
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A TOP APC BIG WIG TOLD ME THEY DO NOT TRUST CHARLES MARGAI. HE ADDED THAT CHARLES HAS WHAT HE LABELLED - "IT HAS TO BE ME AND NOBODY ELSE SYNDROME".
MY SOURCE ASKED TO REMAIN ANONYMOUS.
BROTHER Toegondoe Sagbah (MUS)WHAT'S YOUR TAKE ON THIS?
Subject: Re: APC VS CHARLES MARGAI
From: Bai Bureh
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Date Posted: 15:47:35 10/11/07 ()
Email Address: rastafari_ish@hotmail.com
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Boy are you here to pull guys' legs or get them started? I believe nobody told you this; it is just something you have made up to create a scene.
Subject: Re: APC VS CHARLES MARGAI
From: UK5
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Date Posted: 15:59:28 10/11/07 ()
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Well I guess the guy is here to make an impression big time! Is he trying to drive a wedge between the formidable bondage of APC and Charles Margai? Well, can't give it a thought because its 'credible' rate is just insignificant for now. Future? Can't bet on a long term smooth relationship. Two parties are distinct by identity. Goals and objectives clearly similar at some point: Kick out the SLPP! Now, we'll have to wait and see the strength of the president's leadership. MARGAI WILL ONLY BE AS STRONG AS PRESIDENT KOROMA IS WEAK!
Subject: Re: APC VS CHARLES MARGAI
From: SANTOS MANGA
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Date Posted: 15:52:30 10/11/07 ()
Email Address: santos@aol.com
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THE MOST FEARFUL WORRIOR BAI BUREH, I GOT THIS INFO FROM A RELIABLE SOURCE CLOSE TO THE POWERS THAT BE.
BY THE WAY I USED TO ENJOY YOUR KRIO JOKES. BUT THE INFO ABOVE IS NO JOKE. LET'S GET THE PMDC GUYS TO TELL US MY SOURCE IS WRONG.
Subject: Mannah
From: Observer32
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Date Posted: 14:12:23 10/11/07 ()
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I just found out from the Global Project Realnews archives that the article Mannah is referring to as being ranked 12/85 or thereabout, is not a peer-reviewed article. Professionally, I think this is misleading. This is nothing personal against the man. He seems to be academically accomplished. However, in the context of a debate about economic writings one would have expected a reference to a more scholarly journal not the Awareness Times.
Subject: Re: Mannah
From: Kanforie Sorie Koroma
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Date Posted: 14:25:16 10/11/07 ()
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The guy is just ostentatious and vain. I don't know what that ranking is doing for him.It just shows how pettey he is.And to use Awreness Times as reference is even more bizarre. But did not Gbanabome of Patriotic Vanguard do a similar and even more ridiculous acknowledgement ? These guys are taking pettiness to new levels.
Subject: Re: Mannah
From: Idris
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Date Posted: 14:34:06 10/11/07 ()
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If Mannah is ostentatious and vain to quote you, then Moh'm Jalloh is because he too displays his achievements regularly in this forum. Those who know him will not deny this.
Subject: Re: Mannah
From: Abdul
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Date Posted: 16:27:35 10/11/07 ()
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You are missing an important distinction. Jalloh's achievements are a matter of public record because he was a public offical and he is now a recognized professional with public awards. Those who know him know that he is unassuming, but he does nor take nonsense from anyone.
Subject: APC Is Gunning To Be Formidable In 2012
From: Toegondoe Sagbah
To: All
Date Posted: 12:47:41 10/11/07 ()
Email Address: mendemoi@yahoo.com
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I know that most SLPP feel I criticized the government too much during the past election, I did. But if you read all my articles on the websit provided below, you will find that:
1. The majority of my criticism was about the SLPP providing the basic aminities for the ordinary people.
2. Some more of my criticisms were levied against the undemocratic actions the SLPP utilized at their conventions which culminated in their electing the "wrong" leader.
3. The pervasive and blatant corruption that was abound as if instruments of government property was privately theirs.
Perhaps the most important of those criticisms (the ones about providing the basic amenities), would have superceded every other need for the SLPP to implement, had they CARED ENOUGH to do it...BUT THEY DIDN'T.
ELECTRICITY is, perhaps, the most important of those amenities requested because it affects everyone's life every minute of everyday. The SLPP never listened.
Ernest Koroma seemed to have heard the call. He is now showing a great deal of interest in fulfilling that need. He is, sort of, on tour inspecting and checking out the power stations around the country. His effort alone is a sign of hope. Some of us preached the choir of providing the
If the APC is able to provide the basic necessities for the country during their first term, do you think they will get the amount of criticism that was levied against the SLPP which virtually undermined their ability to stay in power?
I think that if they fulfil these basic needs, there will be little room for criticism. They might be formidable and poised to win another term.
His effort alone is a sign of hope. Some of us preached the choir of providing the basic necessities for the masses to the SLPP government all through its term and all they did was give it deaf ears and bring in a two-week long Moroccan ab(used) generators that lasted 2 weeks, if that long. Then all of a sudden, thieves stole the live wires of the poles.
I tell you what, if the APC is able to provide the basic necessities for the country, do you think they will get the amount of criticism like the one that help bring down the SLPP government?
Subject: Re: APC Is Gunning To Be Formidable In 2012
From: UK5
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Date Posted: 15:46:08 10/11/07 ()
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If I should add a few lines to this piece, the areas of development that could score seriously eye-catching grade points for a ruling government in Sierra Leone are very easy to identify. Visit the markets, talk to the majority, attend one or two civil society gatherings .... people talk about them in the open. In other words, 'Landmark' achiements have all the potentials of making a party formidable. It simplifies the explantory ordeal to the majority of voters come elections.
If Pa Sheki was alive, he only needs to sight Congo Cross bridge, The Siaka Stevens Stadium, the Peninsular Road etc. and challenge the SLPP to draw up their list of landmark achievements. Talk of bringing peace, that was effectively swallowed in the first tenure. Want to use that again in the second coming? The people will undercut your logic with a slang: "After all. even the rebels were tired of fighting!" Peace was imminent. Can Pa Kabbah/SLPP remain insistent on seld-rewarding accorlades! The value will be lost in the process.
You see, the issue of complacency must have been the main factor responsible for the SLPP's battering loss. They miscalulated the LEVEL of awareness among the youth. THERE IS NO MORE DECEPTIVE LAST-MINUTE ELECTION CAMPAIGN THAT WILL BE GOOD ENOUGH TO GAIN VICTORY FOR A FAILED PARTY. So far, President Koroma is on the right track taking positive steps towards the right direction. His greatest test though remains to be seen on how he handles 'renegade soldiers' in his war against corruption - His predecessor failed miserably in this regard! One slight mistake could bring down the reputation he has taken months to build. Check out Yahya jammeh in The Gambia. He has resorted to the idea of rotating ministerial positions [sometimes he fires and reinstate] just to impose his authority as the man in control.
As a mere contributor, it would be better to highlight, in a seperate posting, my opinion on what I think the APC could do to remain in power for another 20 years.
For starters, the APC might want to include in their plans for the near future the reinstating of cafeteria facilites for university students. You will simply kill them off in gratitude! Check it out!
Subject: Re: APC Is Gunning To Be Formidable In 2012
From: Toegondoe Sagbah
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Date Posted: 18:29:15 10/11/07 ()
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You are great Maaannn! Everything you said is like coming from my second head. Let me add to yours too. I referred to what you called "landmark achievements" as "monuments of progress. Take a look at my website, especially at the article where I warnes about not forgetting SLPP' Failings as they went to vote.
Again I am not saying these things to spite SLPP, it was my party. I am saying it to make those diehards start thinking "straight" once again, like the OLD SLPP before Kabba
Subject: Re: APC Is Gunning To Be Formidable In 2012
From: Shembu
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Date Posted: 13:58:23 10/11/07 ()
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And if APC goes all the way to ensure basics like electricity and pipe borne water supply to be a constant thing in the people's lives, then they will live forever as their motto (or former motto)clearly states.
You know, it does not take much to take care of five million people given our abundant natural resources and external help available to us. All we need is a comitted leadership. This new APC administration is taking the right footing in that direction. May Allah guide the President & Co.
Subject: Re: APC Is Gunning To Be Formidable In 2012
From: Toegondoe Sagbah
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Date Posted: 14:47:18 10/11/07 ()
Email Address: mendemoi@yahoo.com
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This is all we have always wanted. Of course, it takes little to appease the Sierra Leonean. But my former SLPP brothers and sisters seemed to have missed that message.
Anyway the former APC motto was "NOW OR NEVER". So, either they please the people now, or else they will never again get the chance.
Subject: Re: APC Is Gunning To Be Formidable In 2012
From: KRIO
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Date Posted: 21:24:06 10/11/07 ()
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What is the new MOTTO? Forward ever, Backward never?
Subject: Re: APC Is Gunning To Be Formidable In 2012
From: Toegondoe Sagbah
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Date Posted: 00:18:13 10/12/07 ()
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It will befitting if it so happens. What would you rather, Backward Forever, Forward Never? That should actualy be the new SLPP motto. That is, the SLPP of New Comers who displaced the Old Timers.
Subject: Re: APC Is Gunning To Be Formidable In 2012
From: MUSA KAMARA
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Date Posted: 13:29:38 10/11/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: luna.hypair.net at 194.50.180.4
Message:
Correct Toegondoe,you have my support.Government and leadership is all about dedication,devotion,responsibility,accountability and above all serving the people.The slpp had no agenda for the nation.
Subject: Re: APC Is Gunning To Be Formidable In 2012
From: Toegondoe Sagbah
To: All
Date Posted: 14:53:31 10/11/07 ()
Email Address: mendemoi@yahoo.com
Entered From: pool-71-168-132-186.cmdnnj.east.verizon.net at 71.168.132.186
Message:
Indeed! May God bless that nation this time around. I was staunch SLPP, now staunch PMDC but my first interest is the nation. And I don't care which government takes away the "SHAME OF OUR NATION" and fixes it. I just want to make sure that when I leave the US and go "HOME", I am not going to "Backwardness".
The last time my wife and I were home for a 6 week vacation, she started getting sick in the 3rd week. I made us leave right away because I could not trust the medical facilities over there.
I tell you, my brother, I will admit that I have been ashamed of the backward seat our nation had been permanently relegated to since 1967.
Subject: Re: APC Is Gunning To Be Formidable In 2012
From: nico
To: All
Date Posted: 15:29:45 10/11/07 ()
Email Address: nicoleconsult@hotmail.com
Entered From: 82-35-143-136.cable.ubr03.enfi.blueyonder.co.uk at 82.35.143.136
Message:
I could not agree with you more toe, Like you I parted company with the SLPP because I was convinced that the party had lost direction and with no serious plan to solve the country's problem. I visit Salone often and I am under enormous pressure overhear to provide all sorts of help including financial to our numerous relatives who cannot accessed basic amenities. With the new government in place, let us hope and pray that our people will see improvement in their lives. That was what we asked for.
Subject: Re: APC Is Gunning To Be Formidable In 2012
From: Toegondoe Sagbah
To: All
Date Posted: 18:31:03 10/11/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: pool-71-168-132-186.cmdnnj.east.verizon.net at 71.168.132.186
Message:
Say it again, my brother
Subject: Re: APC Is Gunning To Be Formidable In 2012
From: BROTHER
To: All
Date Posted: 15:47:08 10/11/07 ()
Email Address: brother@aol.com
Entered From: at 86.156.235.37
Message:
YOU STAND WITH YOUR PARTY AND TRY BY EVERY MEANS NECESSARY TO EFFECT CHANGE. SLPP SUPPORTERS SHOULD TAKE A LEAF FROM THE APC BOOK. WHEN APC FELL, ITS SUPPORTERS STAYED ONBOARD UNTIL THEY BROUGHT IT BACK TO POWER BY HOOK OR CROOK OR WITH THE HELP OF A FORMER ST. JOSEPH SECONDARY SCHOOL MAKENI PRICIPAL.
REMEMBER I DO NOT BELONG TO ANY POLITICAL PARTY.
Subject: Re: APC Is Gunning To Be Formidable In 2012
From: Toegondoe Sagbah
To: All
Date Posted: 18:34:17 10/11/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: pool-71-168-132-186.cmdnnj.east.verizon.net at 71.168.132.186
Message:
Your strategy is well understood. My own way was to make SLPP pay before they could understand. Because they had become too confident and too cocky. Believe me, my brother, if they would have been voted back in, they would have become more than arrogant, they would have bcome virtual dictators.
Subject: Re: APC Is Gunning To Be Formidable In 2012
From: law
To: All
Date Posted: 18:05:54 10/11/07 ()
Email Address: lawlawde80@yahoo.com
Entered From: c-71-233-101-152.hsd1.ma.comcast.net at 71.233.101.152
Message:
FROM ALL THE FUNNY BUT INTERESTING POSTS RELATIVE TO THE TOPIC ABOVE, I RESPECT YOUR STANCE "BROTHER". IF Y'ALL WHO HAVE MADE COMMENTS ABOVE SLPP'S SHORT FALLS WHERE TRUE TRUE PATRIOTS OF THE PARTY, THEN YA SHOULD HAVE STAYED TO INFLUENCE A CHANCE WITHIN THE RANKS AND FILES OF THE PARTY. WITHIN THE UNITED STATES THAT WE ALL LIVE, YOU CAN PROVE ME RIGHT THAT NO MATTER HOW BAD A POLITICAL PARTY LEADER PERFORMS THE MEMBERS WILL ONLY CRITIZE BUT NOT RUN AWAY LIKE POLITICAL PROSTITUTES TO SEEK REFUGE OR RECOGNITION SOME WHERE ELSE. THIS PROSTITUTIONAL CONCEPT AND SELFISH ATTITUDE IS WHAT IS KILLING SIERRA LEONE POLITICS. WE DO RECOGNIZE THE PROBLEMS WITHIN SLPP AND ARE ON COURSE TO BRING A COMPLETE CHANGE TO ITS IMAGE. IF U SEE YOUR SELF AS A TRUE SOLDIER OF THE PARTY THEN COME JOIN THE BANDWAGON OTHERWISE JUST STAY IN YOUR LANE AND FIND SOMETHING TO TALK ABOUT AT THIS APC FORUM PLEASE
Subject: Re: APC Is Gunning To Be Formidable In 2012
From: nico
To: All
Date Posted: 15:38:39 10/12/07 ()
Email Address: nicoleconsult@hotmail.com
Entered From: 82-35-143-136.cable.ubr03.enfi.blueyonder.co.uk at 82.35.143.136
Message:
The SLPP is intolerant to desent, they are master at marginalisation, they do not like their own kind or empower their support base. They like sycophants and flaterers. They attacked their own pedigrees. They did that in 1967 with Kai-Samba and they lost power. They did it with Charles Margai in 2007 and they lost. They are arrogant and lacks the ability to reconcile factions, but believe in elimination.
The APC was seriously divided but koroma ensured that he got all his most adamant opponents on board before he faced the electrorate.
Many of us left the party on sound logical reasons. We did not leave to join the party in government or the winning team like Dr Banya etc, so it is quite wrong to refer to us as political prostitute. I can assure you that the current crops of people who now parades as the SLPP will not win a national election in Sierra Leone. Many of these guys had formed political party of their own and abandoned it to hijacked the leadership of the SLPP when it became clear that their party would not win.
Kabba clearly had problem with historical names in the SLPP and he did everything to undermined them. But Margai showed that he is of substance. I would advise you to direct your anger at Kabba for the SLPP defeat. We did warned. Next time do not wait until your leader take you to the dust bin, you bin him first if he become an electoral liability. Lotta
Subject: Re: APC Is Gunning To Be Formidable In 2012
From: Toegondoe Sagbah
To: All
Date Posted: 18:48:44 10/11/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: pool-71-168-132-186.cmdnnj.east.verizon.net at 71.168.132.186
Message:
My brother, you are talking about political parties that reason. The SLPP lost the capability to reason:
1. Why didn't they do the smallest things the people needed, such as what Koroma is not trying to go in less than a month?
2. Why did they allow ONE MAN (Kabba), to hijack all the parties' principles, aspirations, ideals and character?
3. Where were they when they allowed Kabba to impose an unpopular man like Berewa and an unpopular running mate like Momodu upon the party? Why didn't they protest or rejetc them outright?
4. WHERE WERE THE REST OF THE SLPP WHEN THEY SAW THEIR PARTY BEING HIJACKED BY 1 MAN AND YET DID NOTHING?
DO YOU REALLY BELIEVE THAT STAYING IN IT WOULD HAVE MADE THE DIFFERENCE WHEN NONE OF US WAS MORE POWERFUL THAN KABBA? NO!!!
HE CONTROLLED EVERYTHING INCLUDING BEREWA HIMSELF. AND THESE WERE THE TWO MOST POWERFUL MEN AT THE TOP OF THE PARTY.
WHAT DIFFERENECE WOULD EMPTY VESSELS LIKE US (SIMPLY TALKING IN THE MEDIA), HAVE MADE TO THEM IN THE SLPP?...N-O-T-H-I-N-G !!! brother, NOTHING! The whole SLPP was under the spell of Kabba, and he was not for the good of the party.
That's why some of us had to take another option to effect change. Otherwise that change would have never come as long as Kabba and his cronies controlled the party. Be real, brother! It's only now that they are even realizing that Kabba was no good for SLPP...AFTER THE FACT!
Subject: Dr.Curtis Thomas, we are missing you
From: KABS KANU
To: All
Date Posted: 12:19:14 10/11/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 71.250.218.196
Message:
Where are you ? Please touch base. We love you.
Subject: Re: Dr.Curtis Thomas, we are missing you
From: alieu sesay
To: All
Date Posted: 13:05:17 10/11/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: 65.107.153.146.ptr.us.xo.net at 65.107.153.146
Message:
You need to beg me to comeback.
Subject: Unu Forget Bort John Bull. WHO CAN FIGHT THIS WAR WITH ME?
From: BRA ENVIABLE
To: All
Date Posted: 11:28:46 10/11/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: ln1-66-86or981.gsu.edu at 131.96.89.195
Message:
I have noticed that a saber-swinging war is going on between some intellectual camps determined to prove their mastery of the Queen’s English. Unfortunately, Cocorioko is not the only theater of this Shakespearean battle of wits. I read an entire literature of attacks and counter-attacks on the SLPP forum between some literary gladiators and Brother John Mannah. The war on the SLPP was essentially fought to reveal the {grammatical} chink in John Mannah’s armor. Unfortunately for this man, he kept attacking the academic ability of other contributors just when his postings were begging for grammatical beautification. This brother alienated me after posting a message in which he derided Cocorioko as the safest place for imbeciles. Of course, that was his opinion, and he is entitled to the falsity therein.
Can we fight a slightly different war? How many Sierra Leoneans on this forum can speak more than three languages in our beloved republic? I am throwing down the gauntlet, and I want it to be picked up by a Sierra Leonean linguist. Let me reveal a secret about myself. I can FLUENTLY speak Temne, Fullah, Mende and Kissi. Let us bury the grammatical hatchet by literally fighting a war with Sierra Leonean tongues. Those who can speak Temne, Mende, Fullah and Kissi AT THE SAME TIME, are invited to this linguistic duel.
Subject: Re: Unu Forget Bort John Bull. WHO CAN FIGHT THIS WAR WITH ME?
From: KRIO
To: All
Date Posted: 11:39:34 10/11/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: 65.107.153.146.ptr.us.xo.net at 65.107.153.146
Message:
Bra! Do you have KRIO as part of what you are asking for? Just a question since KRIO is spoken by over 70% of our people.
Subject: Re: Unu Forget Bort John Bull. WHO CAN FIGHT THIS WAR WITH ME?
From: Gladiator
To: All
Date Posted: 11:58:16 10/11/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: cache-mtc-ah10.proxy.aol.com at 64.12.117.202
Message:
Hey Enviable, I can speak Krio (yes, KRIO, that is a language in Salone), Fula and Themene (notice, I don't say, Temne like the John Bull do).
I can speak some Mende (from my Bo School days), but unfotunately, not fluently (but I speak French flurntly) -- Mende mi a mua baye? LOL
So, waht do you want us to do to fight this salone language battle?
Subject: Re: Unu Forget Bort John Bull. WHO CAN FIGHT THIS WAR WITH ME?
From: Mammy Blessing
To: All
Date Posted: 12:38:51 10/11/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 165.155.200.143
Message:
Oh my God, Enviable, you just exposed me as a linguistic fraud! Although I can do gymnastics in English, I just realize that I am an illiterate when it comes to our native languages. There really is no excuse. Apart from Temne and Krio, I can't speak a lick of the other languages. What is really unforgivable is that I was in Bo School for seven years and dated some very lovely Mende damsels. In fact my first girl friend, in Form One, is Mende. I know some of the sweet bedroom endearments and the words for " Let's eat!" That's something you need to know in every language to survive.
I guess I'm gonna try harder to learn some of these beautiful languages again. Thanks for the kick in the pants!
Subject: Re: Unu Forget Bort John Bull. WHO CAN FIGHT THIS WAR WITH ME?
From: BRA ENVIABLE
To: All
Date Posted: 18:10:54 10/11/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: cache-dtc-ag14.proxy.aol.com at 205.188.117.142
Message:
Mammy Blessing, you've got the brains. You can learn and comprehend any language in this world. With determination, you can. Just take am diyeh diyeh. As they say in Temne, "Yor Ki-Tehgbeh." {Take am easy}.
Peace out, Bra
Subject: Re: Unu Forget Bort John Bull. WHO CAN FIGHT THIS WAR WITH ME?
From: Sadame Insane
To: All
Date Posted: 14:38:11 10/11/07 ()
Email Address: sorba_1@yahoo.com
Entered From: at 209.116.81.187
Message:
This is very interesting. The last time I check, I saw all mende boys on this forum. it is now beginning to be infested by all Themne boys. Go to work i say and feed you people.
I can speak all the languages in Sierra Leone depending on what time of the day. I am a true Sierra Leonean. Watch out 1012.
Subject: Re: Unu Forget Bort John Bull. WHO CAN FIGHT THIS WAR WITH ME?
From: alieu sesay
To: All
Date Posted: 13:11:38 10/11/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: 65.107.153.146.ptr.us.xo.net at 65.107.153.146
Message:
I speak mende, temne and krio fluently. I also partially speak limba,fullah,and LOKOH. My Moyamba-Junction connection.
Subject: Sister Needs Help
From: Casca
To: All
Date Posted: 10:55:54 10/11/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 134.113.7.99
Message:
Dear Family & Friends,
On Sunday, October 21, 2007 I will be walking in the National Kidney Foundation’s annual Kidney Walk at the South Street Seaport in New York City, to raise awareness and funds to fight kidney disease and to increase the availability of all organs for transplantation.
While I have made an initial donation, I need everyone’s support to reach my goal of raising $3,000 to benefit the programs and services of the Foundation.
These donations make possible the treatment and care that is necessary to fight kidney disease to those who cannot afford it. Without the education, newsletters and mailings that the National Kidney Foundation implements, I would not have been diagnosed. I also would not receive the care that I needed without the help of the National Kidney Foundation.
There are two ways you can support my efforts to make a difference for everyone living with kidney disease:
• You can make a tax-deductible online donation in my personal homepage at My Personal Link: https://www.kintera.org/faf/donorReg/donorPledge.asp?ievent=224345&lis=1&kntae224345=75C4AF391C9F41FF9659220C2B5DA293&supId=180594218
• You can send a check made payable to:
National Kidney Foundation serving Greater New York
30 East 33rd Street
New York, New York 10016
* if sending a check, please write my name in the memo section!
• Join my walk team, Samura Family by going to www.kidneywalk.kinter.org and participate in the activities on Sunday, October 21, 2007.
With gratitude and best wishes,
Zainab Samura
Subject: Re: Sister Needs Help
From: Nar Sabi Talk
To: All
Date Posted: 13:18:15 10/11/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: static-76-160-64-185.dsl.cavtel.net at 76.160.64.185
Message:
Please clarify or verify your URL
www.kidneywalk.kinter.org
Thank you...
Subject: Why replace the Bank Governor
From: Sadam Insane
To: All
Date Posted: 10:39:20 10/11/07 ()
Email Address: sorba_1@yahoo.com
Entered From: at 209.116.81.187
Message:
I may be insane, read but can't comprehend, Listen but can't hear, want to talk but my mouth is full of rice, so I have to ask this stupid question and that is, Why would the present government replace the Bank Governor if he has a clean record and is willing to cooperate with them?
Subject: Re: Why replace the Bank Governor
From: Do Me Ar Do You
To: All
Date Posted: 13:08:11 10/11/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: cpe-69-203-69-20.nyc.res.rr.com at 69.203.69.20
Message:
Mr.Insane,
Did Steve Swarray not have a clean record and was willing to participate when he was replaced by SLPP?
C'est la vie mon amie!
Do Me Ar Do You!
Subject: Re: Why replace the Bank Governor
From: SANTOS MANGA
To: All
Date Posted: 16:13:16 10/11/07 ()
Email Address: santos@aol.com
Entered From: at 86.156.235.37
Message:
THE BANK GOVERNOR IS THE MAN WHO SIGNS THE CHEQUES. SO PUT YOUR MAN THERE AND YOUR FAT CHEQUES ARE SIGNED, NO PROBLEM.
Subject: Re: Why replace the Bank Governor
From: Kabudu Gen
To: All
Date Posted: 12:41:47 10/11/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 165.155.200.143
Message:
Maybe, his record is not that clean, Mr. Insane.
Subject: Why we love Cocorioko..She's simply the best
From: Kanforie Sorie Koroma
To: All
Date Posted: 08:48:31 10/11/07 ()
Email Address: ksk@aol.com
Entered From: at 71.250.218.196
Message:
We just can't stop loving Cocorioko because this is the place where we let our burdens go. I wonder what life could have been for some of us without the Cocorioko Forum. This place is addictive.I come here more than 20 times a day. Interestingly, other forums have been set up but none is flourishing like this forum.The SLPP and AWARENESS Forums are dead. We also can't stop loving Cocorioko because it is simply the best. Say what you will, we don't have a newspaper yet of the standard of Cocorioko. You may not like what the paper publishes but you cannot help admitting : There is yet no newspaper like Cocorioko. The paper has defeated its latest rival THE NEW PEOPLE.
Subject: Re: Why we love Cocorioko..She's simply the best
From: Mr. T
To: All
Date Posted: 09:49:49 10/11/07 ()
Email Address: FofanaDonodoni@aol.com
Entered From: adsl-69-108-68-64.dsl.irvnca.pacbell.net at 69.108.68.64
Message:
Most of us love Cocorioko. However, Awareness times Forum does not tolerate the attacks", "name callings", "put downs" profanity" that goes on the Cocorioko forum. If anybody goes with any of the above to Awareness forum, your fellow "forumites" will be the one to tell you that "this is not what we debate here." They will either ignore you to talk to yourself or tell you, this is not the right place for your topic. You even need a password to post anything on that forum. Some people don't like that. We like it. It means that you have to register first and you are assigned a password. That password allows you to post. That is good. If you are not hiding behind anything, why don't you like registration and password to the forum?
At Awarenesstimes for an example, someone might bring up a topic. We will all debate it and suggest solutions to the problem or issue facing the country. When we feel that we have had enough debate, we have a "forumite" that will look at all the good points, summarize it and post the summary for anybody to read. That is what we do. The next thing we are thinking of is to post or email our summaries to other media outlets in and out of the country. So Awareness time forum is alive. We have covered topic such as the trash problem in Freetown, Corruption, and Electricity problem. We came up with some solutions and the summaries are there. Check it out if you want.
Subject: Re: Why we love Cocorioko..She's simply the best
From: Sabanoh
To: All
Date Posted: 13:55:46 10/11/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: cache-mtc-ah10.proxy.aol.com at 64.12.117.202
Message:
Why are u hiding here? Are u MR T on Awareness? Tell us ur name.
Subject: Re: Why we love Cocorioko..She's simply the best
From: Minie
To: All
Date Posted: 09:55:57 10/11/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: cache-mtc-ah10.proxy.aol.com at 64.12.117.202
Message:
No thank you. I will stay with the best forum -- Cocorioko.
Subject: Re: Why we love Cocorioko..She's simply the best
From: AFANGAMA
To: All
Date Posted: 10:24:07 10/11/07 ()
Email Address: sokoroma@hotmail.com
Entered From: lgrt-122.dhcp.umass.edu at 128.119.230.122
Message:
Me too, NO! I don't like that stupid censorship. The Cocorioko forum is fun ! It's like eating the food you like. If you don't know, COCORIOKO IS THERAPEUTIC: IT SOOTHS THE SOUL; IT MAKES YOU LAUGH AND FORGET ABOUT MANY DISTURBING THINGS. The pseudonymes such as SUBANALIE, TALANGBA, ARIOYOGBO, etc are funny. You don't like fun and freedom ? Well, go to hell and kiss the fire!! We are going to Cocorioko forum !!
Subject: Re: Why we love Cocorioko..She's simply the best
From: Somtin Butu!
To: All
Date Posted: 09:29:06 10/11/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 165.155.200.143
Message:
By the way, is the New People still publishing? I thought it has gone the way of the dinosaurs. I am still a fan of the trite wisdom: "You mess with the best, you die like the rest!"
Go Cocorioko! By the way I absolutely support the renaming of Abacha Street as Christiana Thorpe Avenue. I know some opposition supporters are gonna howl with resentment and anger, but fellas, you will appreciate this lady when you it is your turn to win a fair vote and the laws are enforced to protect your ballots.
Subject: Re: Why we love Cocorioko..She's simply the best
From: MC Hammer
To: All
Date Posted: 11:03:00 10/11/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 164.82.144.3
Message:
It goes to show you have a mindset of an idiot. Even though I'm a Cocorioko fan, I still check out what's going on other forums. Your response shows that you are some kind of tribalist comfortable only in the Cocorioko box. There is a saying that 'liquids find their level'. May be this is your level and you are afraid to check other forums because the calibre and language of the participants is superior to yours.
Subject: Governor
From: Newsman
To: All
Date Posted: 08:38:37 10/11/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 83.229.112.2
Message:
The new Governor of Bank of Sierra Leone, will be the brilliant and astute Economist,-Sanpha Koroma.
Subject: Re: Governor
From: KKW
To: All
Date Posted: 10:33:56 10/11/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 204.50.182.249
Message:
Is the tenure of the Central Bank governor tied to the presidential administration? One would think that this is one of the positions that should be independent of political affiliations.
Subject: Re: Governor
From: silent majority
To: All
Date Posted: 11:17:27 10/11/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 195.54.227.249
Message:
Mr KKW,
I think that you must be right about the bank Governors tenure. The same goes for other postions that should be free of political interference such as Anti corruption boss, Chief Justice and judges, NRA boss etc. These positions should not be (and i believe that they are in fact not) subject simply to the presidents pleasure.
If they are to be removed before the end of their tenure the government is bound to demonstrate that the reason for removal is lawful. This is based on the assumption that the government is committed to the rule of law that the government itself has sworn to uphold.
note: this might explain the reported intransigence of Prof Joko Smart.
Subject: Re: Governor
From: Bank
To: All
Date Posted: 09:02:40 10/11/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: cache-dtc-ag14.proxy.aol.com at 205.188.117.142
Message:
Sampha Koproma is neither an economist nor brilliant. Hif he becomes BSL governor he will be returning o the scene of his crime.
Subject: Re: Governor
From: Somtin Butu!
To: All
Date Posted: 09:32:01 10/11/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 165.155.200.143
Message:
Is Sampha Koroma the former boss of Commercial Bank?
Subject: Re: Governor
From: Candid Opinion
To: All
Date Posted: 09:37:25 10/11/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: ns.nucleusns2.com at 12.44.12.126
Message:
I thik sampha should stop forcing himself down our throats on this forum..
For the past 3 weeks.. every day we get a psot about how he is the best guy for the job at Sam Bangura building..
Spare Us Mr Koro..
You had your chance..
Subject: Palestine gets consul in Sierra Leone
From: Mohammed Kamara
To: All
Date Posted: 08:07:06 10/11/07 ()
Email Address: totti23@hotmail.com
Entered From: pool-71-166-130-119.washdc.east.verizon.net at 71.166.130.119
Message:
Palestine gets consulate in Sierra Leone
Reports from diplomatic quarters intimate that the troubled Middle Eastern territory of Palestine has extended diplomatic relations to the government and people of this country. A consulate has reportedly been established for the first time in Sierra Leone by that country headed by a Sierra Leonean born Indian and reputable business magnate, Mr. Hussein Antar. This development now allows the flag of the nation of Palestine to fly high in Sierra Leone.(Awareness Times.
As a student of International Studies i do not think this is a good move by the government of Sierra Leone if it is TRUE. Though some of us sympathize with the Palestinian people but our country should not have any diplomatic relations with them because Palestine is NOT A STATE. I know there are going to be different opinions on this issue but please some of the elders on this forum are very disappointing and end up cursing or attacking people's personalities. Let us discuss the issue and give your own opinion.
Subject: Re: Palestine gets consul in Sierra Leone
From: Spoilers
To: All
Date Posted: 13:19:48 10/11/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: cpe-69-203-69-20.nyc.res.rr.com at 69.203.69.20
Message:
I hope this is not a ploy to outsource terrorism in our native land,considering that the late President Momoh refused to lease
Banana Island to late Yassar Arafat in the mid-eighties for similar purposes.
Oona nor cam pwell Salone again Oh!
Subject: Re: Palestine gets consul in Sierra Leone
From: Diplomat
To: All
Date Posted: 08:36:46 10/11/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 83.229.112.2
Message:
It is not Palestine, but PAKISTAN
Subject: Re: Palestine gets consul in Sierra Leone
From: Mohammed kamara
To: All
Date Posted: 10:26:05 10/11/07 ()
Email Address: totti23@hotmail.com
Entered From: mcstudent.montgomerycollege.edu at 160.253.128.7
Message:
Thank you very much Diplomat, i guess it was an error by Awareness times. TO the other gentle man asking about an Israeli Consul, that will be accepted in the International Community because Israel is a State. The treaty of WEST PHLIA in 1648 which is a cornerstone of Intl systems, clearly states that states should have relations with other recognised states. Taiwan is not an accepted state in the intl system, For example, they do not have a seat at the United Nations,furthermore, if our country establishes a relationship with Taiwan, our cordial bilateral relations with mainland China will be severely damaged, which i believe will lead to cutting off of ties between both countries.
Thank you very much gentlemen.
Subject: Re: Palestine gets consul in Sierra Leone
From: Bai bureh
To: All
Date Posted: 08:34:34 10/11/07 ()
Email Address: rastafari_ish@hotmail.com
Entered From: dator5987.161.gbgsd.se at 62.88.181.132
Message:
So do you prefer an Israeli consul to a Palestinian one? Everybody knows that Palestine does exist but occupied by another group of people who thought that land is theirs.Why do you think such move is unwise?
What would have been your reaction had it been an Israeli consul rather than a Palestinian one?
Will you make the same objection if any country recognizes Taiwan, do business with them instead of mainland China?
Subject: Re: Palestine gets consul in Sierra Leone
From: Nar Sabi Talk
To: All
Date Posted: 08:22:19 10/11/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: static-76-160-64-185.dsl.cavtel.net at 76.160.64.185
Message:
You are quite right, this is a prematured move by our government...
Even the Palestinians are not in one political accord...
Who are we supporting...? Hammas or Fatah?
And what's this new Morality Police in the Gaza now? Why can't this political fools learn from the Talibans...
Nuff said!
Subject: EID MUBARAK! HAPPY PRAY-DAY TO ALL!!
From: Bai Bureh
To: All
Date Posted: 07:34:25 10/11/07 ()
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Wherever you are,in whatever way you celebrate and whoever you are may you recieve the blessings of the Ramadan month.This year's Ramadan and Eid are special in that two remarkable events occured which are presentiments to a brighter Salone.The counting of votes ended in Ramadan and a new regime was born in Ramadan too removing all doubts that the Eid celebration of which the WOOTHPA or WATCHNET is a component will be one to remember for a long long time.
So guys ready your gowns,rappels,'yonthongs',mukays etc. and head for the congregations in open fields and pray for your Salone on Eid day for the day of deliverance is already here!
Subject: Re: EID MUBARAK! HAPPY PRAY-DAY TO ALL!!
From: UK5
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May the Almighty Allah accept our fasting and bless us with bountless blessings of this Holy Month of Ramadan. We pray for peace, stability and prosperity in our beloved Sierra Leone. May the Almighty shower our leadership with the blessings and wisdom required to lead and deliver our nation from the deplorable conditios of poverty and hardship. May the activities of our Muslim Du'ats thrive to revive and cure a sick society. May the corrupt, the looters and thieves in our government offices be transformed with consciencious nationalism. And to all 'clean and qualified' netters that are in position to say Ameen, may we live to witness more and more Ramadans the years to come. Ameen
Subject: Re: EID MUBARAK! HAPPY PRAY-DAY TO ALL!!
From: madsan
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Date Posted: 09:17:07 10/11/07 ()
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Eid Mubarak to you and all muslims worldwide.
Subject: Mosquitoes
From: Malaria
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Date Posted: 06:56:51 10/11/07 ()
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- Friday 28 September 2007.
Dear Editor,
Kindly allow space in your news outlet for an important issue of great concern to many people in Sierra Leone and abroad. I believe public health is extremely important because a healthy nation will produce more and a sick nation will produce less. Let me start with sanitation, which has been neglected by many of our governments. May be they saw the problem and turned away from it or they saw it as unsolvable one so it must not be tampered with in any way.
It is noted that mosquitoes helped saved Sierra Leone from white domination like it happened in Rhodesia and other places, there is a medal in their honor, but these same mosquitoes are now powerful and they have taken power from the elected leaders and servants. They have become so powerful that one can hear sick people groaning everywhere in the country. It is a shame for a quest to be greeted by mosquitoes in the heart of the capital city Freetown, but this is true and it has been that way for long especially during the dry season months.
The mosquitoes are pampered and encouraged to breed everywhere especially in Freetown where sanitation is extremely poor. The brooks, bays and market yards have become the luxury places for mosquitoes, rats, flies and many deadly pests especially during the dry seasons. The odor from these places is devastating and unbearable but human beings dwell with it because it is live with it or quit. How about the sewage in the cities? Those are the worst places because the filth piles up so high that the stagnant waters in them become the swimming pools for mosquitoes, cockroaches and rats. Does it cost much to clean those places and save lives or they are left so more people will die of malaria and other diseases so the population growth will balance? I believe it will cost less and money will be saved for other purposes.
In my next article I will talk about the deadly diseases of measles, cholera, cowpox, amoeboid dysentery and sleeping sickness mostly in the provinces. I find this subject an important issue because one third of the population in the provinces are dying of diseases that are no longer major problems to eradicate if government and the people make constant efforts. It is sad because in many areas people must live with it or die; drink contaminated water from dirty wells and from rivers or die of thirst. This is the time for all concerned Sierra Leoneans to point out some problems to the government so actions will be taken to solve them.
Thank you.
Sorie M. Jawara.
Washington D.C.
O9/28/07.
Subject: Re: Mosquitoes
From: Malaria
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Subject: IS THIS TRUE ABOUT MOH'M JALLOH AT FBC?
From: news
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Date Posted: 05:29:14 10/11/07 ()
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Welcome to the S.L.P.P. Forum
A Lesson in How to Reason -- for John Mannah
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Posted by Amidu Bayoh on October 11, 2007 at 02:56:22:
"While the articles of an interlectual like John Mannah ranks 15 among 82 articles by serious economists on socio-economic global issues, Mohamed Jalloh has never been able to write an article that can pass interlectual muster not to talk about consideration for ranking by a credible international organization." -- John Mannah
John Mannah, my advice to you is to stop disgracing yourself by constantly exposing your ignorance of English. The word "interlectual" does not exist in the English language. So, using it in an English sentence, as you did, not once, but twice in a single sentence, exposes your ignorance of English.
John Mannah, how can you claim to be an intellectual when you can't even correctly spell the word (intellectual)?
You have continued to expose yourself as an barely literate, rude, tribalistic, and malicious fraud who not only lies about his obviously poor education, but about the superior education and stellar achievements of other Sierra Leoneans like Mohamed Jalloh.
John Mannah, whether you like it or not, Mohamed Jalloh is a brilliant man. That is not by his own opinion but by the judgment of the top-notch universities in Africa and America where he studied as an undergraduate and graduate student respectively. For example, at the University of Sierra Leone, Mohamed Jalloh made history by becoming the first Sierra Leonean in the then 150-year history of Fourah Bay College to graduate with a honors degree in economics and accounting. (See the link below)
I was a fellow student of Mohamed Jalloh and it was an open secret that this was because both the Department of Economics and the Department of Accounting at Fourah Bay College had invited Mohamed Jalloh to their respective honors program based on his unprecedented academic performance as the best student in his economics and accounting classes throughout his FBC student days. The solution implemented by the two departments competing for Mohamed Jalloh resulted in Mohamed Jalloh becoming the first S/Leonean in the history of FBC to graduate with a combined honors degree in economics and accounting in 1978.
Is this the accomplished intellectual, whose many international honors include a listing in Marquis' "Who's Who in the World," as well as "Who's Who in Finance," that you -- a Washington, DC cab driver -- want to compare your general degree at FBC with, John Mannah?
Is there no limit to your illogic, John Mannah? How can you expect Mohamed Jalloh's articles, which contend that so-called credible international organizations, particularly the IMF and the World Bank, are not credible to praise those articles as passing their "interlectual muster?" Are you that retarded, John Mannah?
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Subject: Re: IS THIS TRUE ABOUT MOH'M JALLOH AT FBC?
From: Chez Winakabs Europe
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Date Posted: 07:25:14 10/11/07 ()
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News, Mr Bayoh wrote this, "...an barely..". As a continual learner of the Queen's English, i believe and trust that the an and barely do not correspond. My tutor believes it should have been - 'a barely'. Let us stop this nonsense about writers syntax and grammar on the forums. We all know that we write with the minimum time we have and going over what you have written is time consuming. For time's sakes we all tdo err in what our tutors treach us.
Let us engage our ample time on more serious issues than the grammatical exactitudes of others.
Subject: Re: IS THIS TRUE ABOUT MOH'M JALLOH AT FBC?
From: Talk Sense
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Date Posted: 07:47:13 10/11/07 ()
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"Let us engage our ample time on more serious issues than the grammatical exactitudes of others."
Winstoin Kabia:
That is good advice except when the issue of grammar is made a central issue in the discussion.
That is exactly what happened when John Mannah claimed to be a superior expert in English. Let me quote for you what John Mannah wrote in ungrammatical English which, naturally, escaped his comnprehension: "You need to go learn how to construct proper English before coming to talk to superior people about education."
In that case, how can you addrress Mannah's claim to possessing "superior" knowledge of English without examining his "grammatical exactitudes?"
Talk sense, Winston Kabia.
Subject: Re: IS THIS TRUE ABOUT MOH'M JALLOH AT FBC?
From: Chez Winakabs Europe
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Date Posted: 08:08:44 10/11/07 ()
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Why do you have to call my name when you aleready have my pen name? You will never stop!! Check this out: "...addrress Mannah's claim to possessing...". There is something wrong in this extract from your sentence. is that the correct spelling of - address?
Talk sense, you start looking at yourself before you look at others. Forget about this grammar and claim thing - if the man says he has PhD - and he masterly control the English Language - let him be - fools will die for want of wisdom. let me tell you somethign, i sometimes come down to the level of the most illiterates to understand them and they believe we are asll the same and so do i when i am with them. When I visit central europe, i go to the villages and try to push my ideas accommodating those of the indigenes. We all get on well and in our hearts we know who is who.
Talks sense, I want some constructive criticism from you now and not this about grammar and fraudulent claims.
Subject: Re: IS THIS TRUE ABOUT MOH'M JALLOH AT FBC?
From: Talk Sense
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Date Posted: 08:27:38 10/11/07 ()
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"Forget about this grammar and claim thing - if the man says he has PhD - and he masterly control the English Language - let him be ..."
Winsotn Kabia:
But John Manah's his writings prove that he does NOT have "masterly control the English Language!" That is the point you keep missing, when you say "let him be.." Would you let someone be if he has committed fraud? Of course, not (but, again, you might -- since you support a party, the SLPP, that is notorious all over the world for its massive corruption).
Here at Cocorioko, I do not let frauds be. I challenge them to produce evidence of their claim and if they fail to provide it, or if they provide immaterial or non-credible evidence, I draw the appropriate conclusion about their fraudulent claim. That is exactly the process that John Mannah should be subjected to. If he claims that he is an expert in English, when he knows he is not, then it is clear that he has committed fraud.
To you, when someone commits fraud, as Manah has done, we should "let him be." Is it not how Salone was saddled with the worst government in our country's history -- when Tejan Kabbah who had already been found guilty of committing fraud at the Ministry of Trade and banned for life from holding public office in Salone, was "let be" and allowed to go on to repeat his corruption as president of Salone for 10 years of the worst corruption in the history of Salone?
Naturally, being a SLPP supporter, the near-destruction of Salone through fraudulent the fraudulent actions of your SLPP friends and/or fellow members should not be criticized. I beg to differ. As long as John Mannah claims falsely that he is an expert in English, those criticizing him should continue doing so. That would put him on notice that there will be consequences for his words and actions in the public arena -- a lesson that Kabbah was not taught by the people of SL: And look how he, and his like-minded sidekick, Solomon Berewa, your idol, used corruption to enrich themselves and destroyed the quality of life off millions of Saloneans in the process!
Never again, as the people of Salone have spoken. Big, or small, there will be no hiding place for corrupt Saloneans, be they SLPP or friends, or otherwise.
Subject: Re: IS THIS TRUE ABOUT MOH'M JALLOH AT FBC?
From: DO YOU
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Date Posted: 08:48:25 10/11/07 ()
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"But John Manah's his writings prove that he does NOT have "masterly control the English Language!"".
The above is your piece....The first sentence in your reply is gramatically full of CRAP..
Subject: Re: IS THIS TRUE ABOUT MOH'M JALLOH AT FBC?
From: YUK
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Date Posted: 11:20:50 10/11/07 ()
Email Address: yu_kamara@yahoo.com
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OKAY I have been reading and having fun but let me just step in here. Talking about grammatical blunders, Mr./Miss DO YOU, next time you want to quote a sentence with a quotation in it, remember to use single quotation marks for the inner quote and double quotation marks for the outer.
It should be like this: "But John Manah's his writings prove that he does NOT have 'masterly control the English Language!'",
and not this: "But John Manah's his writings prove that he does NOT have "masterly control the English Language!"".
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Subject: Re: IS THIS TRUE ABOUT MOH'M JALLOH AT FBC?
From: ark
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Date Posted: 11:37:19 10/11/07 ()
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probably an omission. Don't you think?
Subject: Re: IS THIS TRUE ABOUT MOH'M JALLOH AT FBC?
From: Manners Maketh a Man
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Date Posted: 08:58:00 10/11/07 ()
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"The first sentence in your reply is gramatically full of CRAP.."
Actually, your sentence above is ungrammatical, but you wouldn't be expected to know that now, would you?
I advise you to read the post earlier explaining the difference between a typo and fundamental ignorance of English grammar. It it does nothing else, it might cure you of your foul language.
Subject: Re: IS THIS TRUE ABOUT MOH'M JALLOH AT FBC?
From: crap..
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Date Posted: 09:05:08 10/11/07 ()
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But John Manah's his writings prove that he does NOT have "masterly control the English Language!"
The above should be corrected before you can correct somebody else....
Subject: Re: IS THIS TRUE ABOUT MOH'M JALLOH AT FBC?
From: Manners Maketh a Man
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Date Posted: 09:12:20 10/11/07 ()
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Actually, you seem to have a problem even understanding what you write.
Check this out: "The above should be corrected before you can correct somebody else.... "
QUESTION: Why, then, did YOU not correct your ungrammatical sentence BEFORE correcting Talk Sense's sentence?
Can you see your failure to follow your own advice as conclusive proof that you don't understand what you write?
Subject: Re: IS THIS TRUE ABOUT MOH'M JALLOH AT FBC?
From: Somtin Butu
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Date Posted: 09:43:34 10/11/07 ()
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Bo School Boy?
Subject: Re: IS THIS TRUE ABOUT MOH'M JALLOH AT FBC?
From: NO
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Date Posted: 10:30:04 10/11/07 ()
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NO!!!
Mohamed Jalloh.
Subject: Re: IS THIS TRUE ABOUT MOH'M JALLOH AT FBC?
From: Manners Maketh a Man
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Date Posted: 09:44:59 10/11/07 ()
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Yes siree!
Subject: Re: IS THIS TRUE ABOUT MOH'M JALLOH AT FBC?
From: Belewa
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Date Posted: 09:24:14 10/11/07 ()
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"Can you see your failure to follow your own advice as conclusive proof that you don't understand what you write? -- Manners Maketh a Man
Nor men di fool SLPP batoliner. He can't even write a single sentence without making a mistake. Look at what he wrote just now, after writing nonsensical English before that -- "The above should be corrected before you can correct somebody else.... "
Is that English? Is "the above" in your sentence referring to "somebody?" What, then, is the reason for adding "else" to "somebody?" The correct sentence you should have used is:
"The above sentence should be corrected before you can correct somebody else's .... "
Pay close attention to beginning phrase and the end of the sentence that corrects your nonsensical sentence and you may yet learn how to write proper English.
Subject: Re: IS THIS TRUE ABOUT MOH'M JALLOH AT FBC?
From: crap
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Date Posted: 09:29:56 10/11/07 ()
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keep on changing names MR IDLER mohdibo worrok.
The fact remains that your sentence is full of CRAP.
Take a look at it again: "But John Manah's his writings prove that he does NOT have "masterly control the English Language!"".
Subject: Re: IS THIS TRUE ABOUT MOH'M JALLOH AT FBC?
From: Belewa
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Date Posted: 09:43:37 10/11/07 ()
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Please stop assassinating the English language. Your latest sentence, like the others before it, is ungrammatical.
You clearly need help to address your multiple neuroses -- tribalism, hallucinations, blindness, rudeness, obsessive-compulsive behavior and a chronic inability to write (or understand) proper English.
Unfortunately for you, I have neither the time nor the expertise to help you. Good luck on your search.
Subject: Re: IS THIS TRUE ABOUT MOH'M JALLOH AT FBC?
From: crap
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Date Posted: 09:17:35 10/11/07 ()
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stop talking to yourself.. using different monikers is a sign of IDLENESS jalloh...get to work.
Subject: Re: IS THIS TRUE ABOUT MOH'M JALLOH AT FBC?
From: Manners Maketh a Man
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Date Posted: 09:29:06 10/11/07 ()
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stick to the issues. spare us your hallucinations. better still, get out a good dictionary and try to learn the meanings of words you use.
And don't forget to read a good primer on English grammar. It could save you from public embarrasment -- at least that resulting from poor grammar, even if not from poor manners.
Subject: Re: IS THIS TRUE ABOUT MOH'M JALLOH AT FBC?
From: crap
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Date Posted: 09:33:31 10/11/07 ()
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But John Manah's his writings prove that he does NOT have "masterly control the English Language!"
The above was your attempt to show off.
Does the sentence make any sense?
Subject: Re: IS THIS TRUE ABOUT MOH'M JALLOH AT FBC?
From: Manners Maketh a Man
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Date Posted: 10:01:16 10/11/07 ()
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Your inability to understand English is seemingly chronic. repeating the same nonsense does not do anything other than confirm your diagnosis as a compulsive-obsessive maniac.
Is it any wonder that you are unable to write a single correct sentence in English after your first porous start? Once you are stuck in ungrammatical writing, you just stay there, repeating the same nonsense over and over again!
Subject: Re: IS THIS TRUE ABOUT MOH'M JALLOH AT FBC?
From: Busted
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Date Posted: 11:41:13 10/11/07 ()
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You are full of S---.
Subject: Re: IS THIS TRUE ABOUT MOH'M JALLOH AT FBC?
From: Manners Maketh a Man
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Date Posted: 12:01:40 10/11/07 ()
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Manners, as we used to say in Bo, maketh a man. You should try cultivating some.
Subject: Re: IS THIS TRUE ABOUT MOH'M JALLOH AT FBC?
From: Candid Opinion
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Date Posted: 09:43:22 10/11/07 ()
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It sure doesnt.. but lets move on..
Especially when this all started with a correction of your correction, been corrected by the correcter..
He will irritate the ficks out of you..
Subject: Re: IS THIS TRUE ABOUT MOH'M JALLOH AT FBC?
From: Chez Winakabs Europe
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Date Posted: 08:42:35 10/11/07 ()
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I concede and will take leave away from the game. Cheers. Was just trying to divert attention to something more serious - but my probe is not working.
Subject: Re: IS THIS TRUE ABOUT MOH'M JALLOH AT FBC?
From: Talk Sense
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Date Posted: 08:50:56 10/11/07 ()
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"Was just trying to divert attention to something more serious - but my probe is not working."
Could that be because what you are "trying to divert attention to" is in fact something that is NOT serious?
My friend, as Emmerson says, those days when SLPP tiffman dem treated Salone like farm, for all kine tiffman, are gone! Now,m we go deal wit dem SLPP tiffman dem! Fraud, theft, and other forms of corruption will be dealt with in the new Salone -- whether you or your fellow SLPP cabal members like it or not!
Subject: Re: IS THIS TRUE ABOUT MOH'M JALLOH AT FBC?
From: Apples to Oranges
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Date Posted: 07:34:55 10/11/07 ()
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Chez, let's not confuse a typo with a fundamental ignorance of English grammar. Bayoh's typo is easily recognizable as such because of his obvious mastery of the English language in the rest of his post. That is in stark contrast to the consecutive, pervasive and clearly fundamental ignorance of English demonstrated by John Manah in his writings.
You are attempting to use a typo by Bayoh to shield John Mannah from his amply demonstrated, fundamental inability to write proper English. In short, yours is a comparison between apples and oranges. There is no comparison, as you should know.
Subject: Re: IS THIS TRUE ABOUT MOH'M JALLOH AT FBC?
From: FBC
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Date Posted: 06:36:46 10/11/07 ()
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"For example, at the University of Sierra Leone, Mohamed Jalloh made history by becoming the first Sierra Leonean in the then 150-year history of Fourah Bay College to graduate with a honors degree in economics and accounting. (See the link below)
I was a fellow student of Mohamed Jalloh and it was an open secret that this was because both the Department of Economics and the Department of Accounting at Fourah Bay College had invited Mohamed Jalloh to their respective honors program based on his unprecedented academic performance as the best student in his economics and accounting classes throughout his FBC student days. The solution implemented by the two departments competing for Mohamed Jalloh resulted in Mohamed Jalloh becoming the first S/Leonean in the history of FBC to graduate with a combined honors degree in economics and accounting in 1978.
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news, i was one class behind Mohamed Jalloh at FBC. I can confirm that all that was said about him is true. there were only two FBC students in the honours accounting class in 1977 -- the other guy was a foreigner (i forget where he came from). There were also three other Sierra leoneans with Mohamed Jalloh in the honours economics class, including one lady, a Gambian called Mary Fowlis.
Mohamed Jalloh was the only one in the 5-person honours class in the entire Facutly of Economics and Social studies honours program that year who was enrolled in both the honours economics and honours accounting program.
Incidentally, Steve swarray, the NPRC's Governor of the Bank of Sierra leone had also been admitted in the honours economics program one year ahead of Mohamed Jalloh, his friend. He had not been invited to the honours accounting program.
As a matter of fact, the new APC minister of Finance, David Carew, who I remember was also a friend of Mohamed Jalloh at FBC, was one or two classes behind Moh'm. I do not remember if Carew became an honours accounting student, but I know that he was not invited to the honours economics class.
I hope that helps.
Subject: Re: IS THIS TRUE ABOUT MOH'M JALLOH AT FBC?
From: Correction
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Date Posted: 07:12:48 10/11/07 ()
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FBC, you made a slight mistake. Mary Fowlis was not a Sierra Leonean. I know you said that in the next sentence, but when you said also that there were three other sierra leoneans, including Mary Fowlis, you gave the impression that she was also Sierra leonean.
The rest of your info is accurate.
Subject: Re: IS THIS TRUE ABOUT MOH'M JALLOH AT FBC?
From: Candid Opinion
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Date Posted: 09:31:03 10/11/07 ()
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Message:
Oh....wasted energy..
A beautiful thread derailed for want of.. " infinity, oblivion "..
Rotorata about who should correct who before correcting who.
What a freak show.
Subject: Re: IS THIS TRUE ABOUT MOH'M JALLOH AT FBC?
From: news
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Date Posted: 09:53:02 10/11/07 ()
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Candid, inded, I was looking forward to learning what these former students and now heavyweights, Mohamed jalloh, Steve Swarray, and the new finance minister, david Carew, were like at FBC.
But, alas, in ademocracy like Cocorioko, you have to allow the freaks to have their sideshow. Let's ignore the roptorata and ask people who knew these guys to tell us about them
Subject: CORRUPT EX MINISTER OF EDUCATION
From: The Group for Justice
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Date Posted: 02:34:50 10/11/07 ()
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CORRUPT EX MINISTER OF EDUCATION
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Subject: CORRUPT EX MINISTER OF EDUCATION
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Alpha Wurie, you were the minister of Education since Kabba took over the country. You left the UK just after you finished your PHD and you went to Sierra Leone with nothing other than your qualifications. You now own a property in the UK worth £1.5 million pounds sterling and not leones. Your family has been jetting around the world like millionaires. In fact you are a millionaire at the expense of the people of sierra Leone.
You even provide scholarship for your son to pursue further studies in the UK when so many Sierra Leoneans who deserved this assistance were not able to get. You were supposed to be the minister for all and not for your family. You drive a current registration number jeep in the UK and you even own another property in Swiss Cottage where only people with vast some of wealth can be found. That property is even worth more than that mentioned above (i.e. is the property in kent). The people of Sierra Leone are no fools even though you have taken them to be.
We now want you to do the decent thing and hand over all the wealth you stole from us. We will continue to give you this publicity until you act positively to our satisfaction. We will also get the Department of Home Office to help shop you to the sitting government in Sierra Leone. Please note that asylum will never be granted to your family because the Geneva Convetion will not protect you.
We therefore call on all Sierra Leoneans to come together and recover from Alpha all the sums stolen from us.
KABS WHAT IS YOUR VIEW ON THIS ISSUE?
Subject: let Make salone
From: Osman Daboh
To: All
Date Posted: 20:48:09 10/11/07 ()
Email Address: Daboh1@hotmail.com
Entered From: c17133.upc-c.chello.nl at 212.187.17.133
Message:
We the Sierra Leonean, We have to make the country wht do you think?, do you think usa and europe will come and make salone no we have to make it let me tell you about european the are helping making there countries, we the sierra leoneans we are damenge the country we have to stop doing bad thing to whour lovly salone pls brother and sister let come together and help make better salone. love you all, one day we will see who is the best ok. peace
Subject: Re: CORRUPT EX MINISTER OF EDUCATION
From: Salone Boy
To: All
Date Posted: 05:53:49 10/11/07 ()
Email Address: Saloneboy@hotmail.co.uk
Entered From: 5ac0eafa.bb.sky.com at 90.192.234.250
Message:
I will be contacting my local MP to see what can be done about these criminals and will be posting the outcome on this forum. Meanwhile if there is any one out there with a legal background and or connections you will be serving your country by offering some advice as to how we can get these guys to pay back what they have stolen and also ensure that they are shipped back to Sa Leone to answer for their crimes.
lastly lets not limit this to Alpha Wurie alone lets expose every TOM, DICK, and HARRY who has stolen our county's money and think they can come to the west and enjoy it!!!!!
Subject: Re: CORRUPT EX MINISTER OF EDUCATION
From: Alimamy Turay
To: All
Date Posted: 18:07:59 10/11/07 ()
Email Address: deltablast@yahoo.com
Entered From: e178096177.adsl.alicedsl.de at 85.178.96.177
Message:
You guys are really idle! Frustration is eating into your nerves. You never did any worthwhile achievement in academia neither are you sure of your future that is why you have embarked on witch hunting!!!! You can never match wits with the likes of Alpha Wurie: Remember I don't know Wurie from Adam but I defend him because your allegations are based on a porous logical foundations. I assure you our government will not settle down for mediocre advice
Subject: Re: CORRUPT EX MINISTER OF EDUCATION
From: The Group for Justice
To: All
Date Posted: 03:15:02 10/12/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: host81-159-187-128.range81-159.btcentralplus.com at 81.159.187.128
Message:
Alimamy, for your information almost all our members are equally educated with quite a number of professionals amonsgt us. Our writings show the calibre of people in our group. We do not believe in personal attack but exposing the truth.
It does not bother us whether you know Alpha or not since this will have no bearing on our articles.
Also our members are independent hence the reason why we are able to write these sort of articles.
Subject: Re: CORRUPT EX MINISTER OF EDUCATION
From: Eddie Grant
To: All
Date Posted: 18:46:53 10/11/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 89.240.205.30
Message:
Are you really Alpha Wurie or a beneficiary?
If you're not, why don't you waite and see.
Subject: Re: CORRUPT EX MINISTER OF EDUCATION
From: badroads
To: All
Date Posted: 12:20:18 10/11/07 ()
Email Address: nicoleconsult@hotmail.com
Entered From: 82-35-143-136.cable.ubr03.enfi.blueyonder.co.uk at 82.35.143.136
Message:
The man in charge of building our roads, Alhaji Kabbey is one of the biggest thief in Sierra Leone. I swear on my life that this guy has two houses I know of with underground car park in London's most expensive area. I was given the address of one of these properties by someone who was bonking his daughter. His son of 22 drives 4 wheels and he once smashed a laptop because it stalled when he was watching porno film.
When kabbey travels abroad, his children followed him and slept in very expensive hotels.
Also one of former president Kabba's henchman called fadday, if I spelt it correctly used to remit £1000- one thousand sterlings every month in a uk bank account for over three year period. The guy is a military man, also travel with Kabba. These are credible statement.
What we need to do to get these looted money back to our country is to form a committee with the view of exploring legal avenues in the diasporas UK,USAetc to mount legal suit such as in the case of former president of Zambia Fredick Chaluba and the Gabanese president who is currently facing possible court action for acquiring properties in France and elsewhere by using state funds.
Please note that there are now legal provisions in Europe to get this crooks return the stolen money back from where they stole it from. Our country need these monies urgently to help rebuild the nation. We must never relent as there is no greater service to ones nation than to stop those whose thieving and greed brought untold hardship to our people. Let's be serious with this.
Subject: Re: CORRUPT EX MINISTER OF EDUCATION
From: Group For Justice
To: All
Date Posted: 03:41:41 10/12/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: host81-159-187-128.range81-159.btcentralplus.com at 81.159.187.128
Message:
We welcome any evidence you may have. Please forward to groupforjustice@hotmail.co.uk
Thank you.
Subject: Re: CORRUPT EX MINISTER OF EDUCATION
From: Candid Opinion
To: All
Date Posted: 10:50:57 10/11/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: ns.nucleusns2.com at 12.44.12.126
Message:
Salone Boy..
I would advice against haste or a rush to judgement.
YOu do not want your citizens arrest to turn into vigilante justice or you been charged with Assualt.
When the man HAS BEEN found guilty.. If you bracket am nah peckam.. you have the whole salone cummunities permission to 3 foot him.. and put him in a suitcase, ship tru Robert Claire and write care of:
CID, pademba rd..
Until then.. we might need to post bail for you if you acousted the Wuries or any other peaceful london resident on a London/Kent St.
Its is only when they are declared criminals or fugitives in their own country or commit a crime in Britain that the British Government can act.
Until then, if you are caught taking pictures of the mans house, or demanding the keys to his car (salone property).. it constitute harrassment or stalking..
Subject: Re: CORRUPT EX MINISTER OF EDUCATION
From: Londoner
To: All
Date Posted: 15:05:34 10/11/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: 82-44-249-162.cable.ubr05.haye.blueyonder.co.uk at 82.44.249.162
Message:
Me fambul dem woona cam ooh! Candid Opinion deh kill me with laff!
Subject: Re: CORRUPT EX MINISTER OF EDUCATION
From: Salone Boy
To: All
Date Posted: 12:25:55 10/11/07 ()
Email Address: saloneboy@hotmail.co.uk
Entered From: 5ac573f5.bb.sky.com at 90.197.115.245
Message:
Candid Opinion, that would be a small price to pay for my beloved country; others lost their lives when they dared speak. Besides I will not be short of volunteers to post bail for me:-) LOL
Subject: Re: CORRUPT EX MINISTER OF EDUCATION
From: Idris
To: All
Date Posted: 04:40:04 10/11/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 86.154.97.224
Message:
Kabs wkat have you got to say? We know you are outspoken so let us hear your opinion.
Subject: Re: CORRUPT EX MINISTER OF EDUCATION
From: Tonyayei
To: All
Date Posted: 03:08:00 10/11/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: dh112.public.mod.uk at 82.109.66.148
Message:
This is an excellent piece of work done by the group of justice and i want to on behalf of all well meaning Sierra Leoneans to commend you for this.
Let us put up a united front to expose these robbers, make their lives a living hell and let the UK/EU/US authorities know about their evil deeds.
I honestly believe that these robbers who deprived innocent Sierra Leoneans of a decent living and sending them to their early graves will not go unpunished. God will smite them together with their offsprings and wives or partners.
Please let us present to this forum the pictures of the cars they drive and the houses they purchased with our monies.
God bless our beloved Sierra Leone
Subject: Re: CORRUPT EX MINISTER OF EDUCATION
From: Chez Winakabs Europe
To: All
Date Posted: 03:06:53 10/11/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: host86-134-99-113.range86-134.btcentralplus.com at 86.134.99.113
Message:
Thank you 'The group for Justice'. At last we can all come together from our little corners to fight against the injustice done to our people by the myopic government of kabba.
More pressure will see Alpha Wurie and his likes concede and give back that which belongs to the people of Sierra Leone. I sometimes wonder how these relatives of these daylight robbers feel when they are amongst us in public?
There should be a 'CLEAN YOUR HABNDS CAMPAIGN'.
Subject: Re: CORRUPT EX MINISTER OF EDUCATION
From: john
To: All
Date Posted: 07:42:16 10/11/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 66.23.15.6
Message:
YOU SHOULD SHUT UP AND DON'T SAY A WORD YOU DOUBLE STANDARD IDIOT.ARE YOU NOT THE ONE WHO IS SUPPORTING AND JUSTIFYNG THE RIP-OFF SCHEME OF A CROOKED LEBANESE MAN LIKE WANZA,WHO BOUGHT A ROTTEN SO CALLED FAST BOAT FOR $200,000 AND IS ASKING THE GOVERNMENT OF SIERRA LEONE TO PAY HIM $5,500.000 FOR IT.SHAME.....SHAME YOU EVEN ATTACKED SOMEBODY IN THE FORUM WHO WAS CRITIZING THE DEAL.
Subject: Re: CORRUPT EX MINISTER OF EDUCATION
From: Chez Winakabs Europe
To: All
Date Posted: 08:38:47 10/11/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: host86-132-10-236.range86-132.btcentralplus.com at 86.132.10.236
Message:
You still do not know all the facts - Wanza also supplied a gun boat helicopter and other equipment. I will not descend to your level of telling me to 'SHUT UP' - I will rather use words like 'keep quiet' or something more tactful. John, it is not what a man eats that defines a man but what comes out of the man's mouth. On Wanza, let us give the community court the chance to explore the validity of his claim.
Subject: Re: CORRUPT EX MINISTER OF EDUCATION
From: Pharisee
To: All
Date Posted: 08:46:04 10/11/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: cache-dtc-ag14.proxy.aol.com at 205.188.117.142
Message:
"John, it is not what a man eats that defines a man but what comes out of the man's mouth."
Is this the same Chez who said we should ignore "comes out of [his fellow SLPP member, John Mannah's] mouth?"
Chez, it is clear, as John said, that you are guilty of using double standards -- one for your fellow SLPP members and another for the rest of Sierra Leoneans. That is a shame for a man who claims to have the interest of Sierra Leone at heart.
Subject: Re: CORRUPT EX MINISTER OF EDUCATION
From: Chez Winakabs Europe
To: All
Date Posted: 09:23:11 10/11/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: host86-132-10-236.range86-132.btcentralplus.com at 86.132.10.236
Message:
You misconstrue my statement in respect of John mannah's matter. See my posting to talk sense above:
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Posted by Chez Winakabs Europe on October 11, 2007 at 08:42:35:
In Reply to: Re: IS THIS TRUE ABOUT MOH'M JALLOH AT FBC? posted by Talk Sense on October 11, 2007 at 08:27:38:
I concede and will take leave away from the game. Cheers. Was just trying to divert attention to something more serious - but my probe is not working.
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No one is born perfect - I would love to be a perfect being but alas! I am human - but I try not to get too involved in this sort of 'standards talk' it carries ther undertones of a pull down syndrome.
Follow Ups:
Subject: Re: CORRUPT EX MINISTER OF EDUCATION
From: Pharisee
To: All
Date Posted: 09:57:39 10/11/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: cache-mtc-ah10.proxy.aol.com at 64.12.117.202
Message:
You should read Talk Sense's reply. When someone claims to be superior in English, what is wrong with asking him to prove it through his writings
Subject: Re: CORRUPT EX MINISTER OF EDUCATION
From: Mammy Blessing
To: All
Date Posted: 05:02:10 10/11/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: pool-151-202-41-6.ny325.east.verizon.net at 151.202.41.6
Message:
Thank you, Justice Group, for initiating this idea of exposing the corrupt ones who have misused their government positions for personal enrichment. This should not just be limited to Alpha Wurie, but to all corrupt bureaucrats at home and abroad, everywhere. Let's make this sort of banditry a very expensive proposition for the perpetrators and what better place for exposing these economic crimes than the FORUM OF PATRIOTS, right here at Cocorioko.
Also, let's be proactive with the current crop of politicians and bureaucratic heads of the new govt. If we suspect even a wisp of financial scandal, we owe it to the country to expose it before it's too late. This is not a partisan issue and I hope people will treat it seriously. I don't want the clowns amongst us to start making scurillous defamatory and uncorroborated attacks just to get back at perceived enemies. This will lay to tatters the credibility of the effort and end up being a disservice to an otherwise noble effort.
Subject: Re: CORRUPT EX MINISTER OF EDUCATION
From: ITK
To: All
Date Posted: 17:49:38 10/11/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 38.98.119.16
Message:
"I don't want the clowns amongst us to start making scurillous defamatory and uncorroborated attacks just to get back at perceived enemies. This will lay to tatters the credibility of the effort and end up being a disservice to an otherwise noble effort".
Mammy Blessing:
I think it is already too late. Just about everything I have read on this forum with respect to "alleged" theft or embezzlement by both named and unnamed officials can be encapsulated by your statement above. Let us not kid ourselves; we are not the loyal patriots we are making ourselves out to be; all of this noisy agitation and senseless mouthing of harsh words serves no useful purpose for our country.
I hate to say this, but what I have observed here on this issue only succeeds in reminding me that we are indeed a sad, if not cursed people. Several years ago, I read an account from the mid-18th century that reached the same conclusion about Sierra Leoneans, and declared the then-Sierra Leone a hell on earth. How unfair, I thought, at the time. Now I know better.
Fellow citizens, every day I visit this forum, I find ample evidence to confirm why I have lost faith in the ability of most of us to do what I would refer to as "the right thing;" that is, those things that are neither acts that are prescribed by law or force nor acts that we truly undertake out of "free will". Rather, these are the things one does solely because it is proper or right to do so (namely, actions taken on account of manners). For those of you who attended Bo School, this is what is meant by the motto "Manners Makyth Man" (at least, as envisioned by Bishop Wyekham, who made this motto famous).
It is encouraging, however, Mammy Blessing that you have spoken out against engaging in bad manners (in the context that I have discussed it above). But, as I have said, most of us simply cannot help ourselves when it comes to doing what is right. I only pray that God can help us from ourselves.
Subject: Re: CORRUPT EX MINISTER OF EDUCATION
From: Eddie Grant
To: All
Date Posted: 18:22:08 10/11/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 89.240.205.30
Message:
I'm sorry to say that all you've said amounted to complete BULLSHIT.
If you don't want to get onboard on what well meaning Sierra Leoneans are trying to do perhaps you're a beneficiary of those embbezled funds, then keep off.
You have lost faith in your country so go away and don't try to be enemy of progress. All the people who had shown great interest in this issue, did so with caution and not trying to employ vigilante tactics as you perceived all they're pursuing is, ways and means of reclaiming back what is rightfully belong to our country just for hypocrites like to bombard them with your lack of national interest and understanding.
So my advice is, if you can't contribute meaningful ways of reclaiming back what belongs to us, then don't be an obstacle.
Subject: Re: CORRUPT EX MINISTER OF EDUCATION
From: ITK
To: All
Date Posted: 08:43:10 10/12/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 38.98.119.16
Message:
Eddie Grant:
You should try to emulate Mammy Blessing. Your foul-mouthed outburst and attitude were precisely what he spoke against. But first calm down and familiarize yourself with the motto: Manners Makyth Man". If you cannot engage your perceived opponents in a civil and meaningful way, then I am afraid that you are the obstacle (to the cause you so cavalierly discredit with you kuss kuss and unnecessary rage).
Subject: Re: CORRUPT EX MINISTER OF EDUCATION
From: Eddie Grant
To: All
Date Posted: 09:30:05 10/12/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 78.146.242.28
Message:
I don't see any rage or kuss kuss in my posting rather expressions of disappointment in your attempts to defame others who see it fit to expose those they beleive to be involved in mis-appropriation of our national institutions.
Anyway, the world is full of different creatures, some good and some bad, there's nothing one can do to change that. That good creatures are those who fights for freedom and faireness while the bad ones are those who,s thoughts are bent in vilyfying others when things are about to turn infavour of the deprived.
I will without hesitation include you in the category of the bad creatures for the following reason:
1. People like you who may have benefited in depriving others will never see any good in equal opportunity for all.
2. Once people like you are bent on taking what doesn't belong to you, you'll never feel any remorse even when your actions clearly sends others into their early deaths.
Your dissappointing statements of trying very hard to generalise all Sierra Leoneans as non-peaceful citizens speakes volume of your character.
I don't have enough time to waste with you.
Subject: Re: CORRUPT EX MINISTER OF EDUCATION
From: ITK
To: All
Date Posted: 12:25:22 10/12/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 38.98.119.16
Message:
Eddie Grant:
Obviously I am wasting my time trying to engage you in a civil or fruitful discussion. You post two epistles replete with wanton and unsubstantiated accusations, personal insults, and foul language-- and you have the audacity to talk about character.
Bra, you nor lek Salone pass me. Simmer down, and maybe we can all figure out how best to help her move forward.
Subject: Re: CORRUPT EX MINISTER OF EDUCATION
From: John troway palmine
To: All
Date Posted: 02:42:49 10/11/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: 224-64-ftth.onsneteindhoven.nl at 88.159.64.224
Message:
This is a brilliant exercise to fish out the bad seeds! I wholeheartedly support this move. This needs to be circulated around and photos of the said houses, Alpha Wurie owns in the UK must be published. Alpha Wurie and his wife know how to reap from the poor. Their laboratoty at Charlotte Street is so expensive that many people die because they cannot pay to test their stool, urine or blood there.
Subject: Re: CORRUPT EX MINISTER OF EDUCATION
From: Alimamy Turay
To: All
Date Posted: 05:06:15 10/11/07 ()
Email Address: deltablast@yahoo.com
Entered From: e178096177.adsl.alicedsl.de at 85.178.96.177
Message:
Eventhough Alpha Wurie did not give me scholarship while I was on my way to one of europe's most outstanding universities I have no ill-feeling against him.Thank God! I am succesfully sailing through my Ph.D programme.
But allow me for all necessary purposes to say your piece is mere witch hunting! Alpha is an industrious man! He has an educated and focused wife and had investments even before taking up office in 1996. One principal example of his ventures is RAMSEY in Freetown. For those of you who know, this is the best chemical lab in the country contracted by all high profile NGOs. I am saying that proceeds from this venture are sufficient to buy him assets abroad. But this example serves as a pointer that his family is hardworking! Additionally, he hailed from a wealthy home! Please check his background! Young man, I have been envious of Wurie but really admire him because of his profound success in life. Being envious of him does not mean I should blackmail. I know he was equally corrupt but there is no way Ernest Koroma's regime can stay corrupt. Even your so called Justice group will milk the country once given the opportunity! In all parts of the world there is corruption! yah!!!!
Subject: Re: CORRUPT EX MINISTER OF EDUCATION
From: Eddie Grant
To: All
Date Posted: 18:31:43 10/11/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 89.240.205.30
Message:
So what are you insenuating?
Should he go free because he had investments well before taking post? He has held a public position so will need to provide evidence of how suddenly his investment caterpulted to buying a £1.5million sterling and a lot more. We still need to prove that his current wealth has nothing to do with what he gained from his appointment as a government minister.
Subject: Re: CORRUPT EX MINISTER OF EDUCATION
From: Alimamy Turay
To: All
Date Posted: 19:36:17 10/11/07 ()
Email Address: deltablast@yahoo.com
Entered From: e178096177.adsl.alicedsl.de at 85.178.96.177
Message:
I WILL KEEP DEBUNKING YOUR DETRACTIVE SUGGESTIONS AND WOULD SOON GO OVER THE AIR TO EXPRESS SERIOUSNESS OVER MY PIECE. YOU GUYS ARE UNPROGRESSIVE!!! THE COUNTRY SHOULD MOVE FORWARD AND NOT STAGNANT ON IRRELEVANT ISSUES: WE HAVE NOT SUCCEEDED POWER FROM A SINGLE DICTATORSHIP PARTY. BECAUSE OF UNDER PERFORMANCE SLPP WAS KICKED OUT! SO WE CAME TO WORK! I ASSURE YOU! THERE IS NO TIME FOR COMMISSION YAH!
Subject: Re: CORRUPT EX MINISTER OF EDUCATION
From: Eddie Grant
To: All
Date Posted: 09:40:55 10/12/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 78.146.242.28
Message:
No one is asking for your time. What I don't understand is your attempts to distract the good people from doing good work. I wonder why you can't bear to waite and see where this will lead us to. If you've nothing to worry about, then you have nothing to loose. So be quiet.
Your ranting here indicate that you're a very jittery fellow fearing that this pursuance of accountabilty might expose your evil deeds.
By the way, are you part of the decision making panel in the present government? If no, then don't worry about the government's handling of this whole thing you have no reason to judge. When all the facts have been gathered, they will be relayed to the formidable Transition Team.
Me man, just keep quiet ok!..
Subject: Re: CORRUPT EX MINISTER OF EDUCATION
From: Alimamy Turay
To: All
Date Posted: 05:15:11 10/13/07 ()
Email Address: deltablast@yahoo.com
Entered From: e178096246.adsl.alicedsl.de at 85.178.96.246
Message:
the transition team is not a commision of inquiry. Dont get it wrong!!!
Subject: Re: CORRUPT EX MINISTER OF EDUCATION
From: ITK
To: All
Date Posted: 16:15:30 10/12/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 38.98.119.16
Message:
Eddie Grant:
But this is where you lose me. No-one is questioning your intentions/objectives (as I understand them). However, just from my reading of your last two postings, you don't seem to be practicing what you preach. You ask us not to to be prejudicial about the issue on the table, but you have already hung, drawn and quartered Alpha Wurie and, by your blanket statements,just about anyone else who happens to have served under the SLPP.
You talk about facts, but everything you have expressed about individuals, including Alpha Wurie,on this topic amounts to rank speculation and innuendo.
Man, take it easy. Sierra Leone has a system of laws and precedents to deal with criminal acts, including corruption. More importantly, it has a President who respects the parameters of those laws and precedents. Thus, he does not need Eddie to act as prosecutor,judge and jury on his behalf.
Subject: Re: CORRUPT EX MINISTER OF EDUCATION
From: Eddie Grant
To: All
Date Posted: 16:54:35 10/12/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 78.146.242.28
Message:
"However, just from my reading of your last two postings, you don't seem to be practicing what you preach."
You're completely lost, what am I preaching?
Do you really understand what you read or write?
" No-one is questioning your intentions/objectives"
I'm just trying to point out inconstitencies in your crusade to vindicate those others believed to have involved in appropriating funds.
Like I said earlier, I will not gain any meaningful conversations with you so I refrain from talking to you from this point on.
Good night.
Subject: Re: CORRUPT EX MINISTER OF EDUCATION
From: ITK
To: All
Date Posted: 07:09:25 10/13/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 38.98.119.16
Message:
Eddie Grant:
Trying to understand you is truly exasperating. As an example I will highlight just one of your statements from above:
"I'm just trying to point out inconstitencies in your crusade to vindicate those others believed to have involved in (sic)appropriating funds".
Pray tell, what makes my responses to your prejudicial and speculative statements (such as the one I quote above) a crusade to vindicate anyone? In this one short sentence you provide ample evidence (a two-fer, as a matter of fact)of precisely what I am finding fault with-- (1) you confuse facts/evidence with rumour/speculation, and then proceed to make conclusory statements which are unsupportable; and (2)instead of letting your arguments speak for you, you engage in baseless accusations -- your standard one being if you disagree with my comments on alleged misappropriation under the SLPP, you must, ipso facto, be a beneficiary of the same.
Sorry to inform you pal, the revolution is over and you continue to shout useless slogans. You may want to listen to President Koroma's recent interview on the BBC, and you might just understand why you are only making empty noises on this issue.
Subject: Re: CORRUPT EX MINISTER OF EDUCATION
From: Chez Winakabs Europe
To: All
Date Posted: 07:57:16 10/11/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: host86-132-10-236.range86-132.btcentralplus.com at 86.132.10.236
Message:
Pa Alimamy, you are missing the point here - however enterprising someone can be takes the efforts of a privileged position to gather that which others believe Dr. Wurie has amassed.
What do you mean by -
"I know he was equally corrupt but there is no way Ernest Koroma's regime can stay corrupt".
I believe you are an educated man as no institution will accept you to commence a wisdom programme if you have not the prerequisite. Are you saying Ernest is going to be corrupt or he will not? I believe that one can amass wealth without being corrupt. Profound wisdom comes into play when such happens. i will not tell you the secrets but to help the less unfortunate attain their fullest potential is richness in itself. I just got a brand new range rover given to me by someone I helped in the last ten years who is now a very wealthy character. he thinks I shun him and get angry with me. i accepted the vehicle because it is my kind of drive. I did not ask him but he knew my taste and offered to me a £72,000.00 vehicle. i get palm oil, fish, cassava leavers and other leaves, ogiri from Sierra leone everry month as gifts. if you treat people well you will recive riches in abundance. Not all will recognise you but the few who do will make you a happy man. the reason for the personal narrative is to show you that in this life you can abstain from abusing your office and still achieve greatness tha comes with honourability and nobility with wealth added.
Let the 'Group for Justice' accelerate their efforts and i pray we all support them - I do not believe in witch hunting.
Subject: Re: CORRUPT EX MINISTER OF EDUCATION
From: Tonyayei
To: All
Date Posted: 06:51:50 10/11/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: dh112.public.mod.uk at 82.109.66.148
Message:
Good to know that you are succesfully sailing through your Ph.D programme and truly wish you all the very best of luck. However, the proceeds from RAMSEY may be sufficient to purchase a house in the UK but not to the tune of £ 1.5 Million if this is genuinely what the house cost. I appreciate this is an affluent family but he has been the longest serving Edu. Minister and it seems to me that he must have something under his sleeve for leaving the shores of Sierra Leone unceremoniously. Mind you nobody is envious of his achievements and it is also true that he is hardworking, from a wealthy heritage of affluence and social position and has a focused wife but that mustn't excuse his thieving improprieties.
You sounded a little pessimistic in your last 2 sentences. My brother, you are in Europe and enjoying all the basic amenities which is so lacking in our sweet Sa lone because of the kind of despicable corruption. No form of corruption is justifiable and measures should be put in place to manage it. Let me give you fun: A Nigerian Minister visited the Uk and was invited over for lunch by his British counterpart at his mansion. On arrival the Nigerian Minister was so impressed by the breathtaking view and he hastened to ask how the British Minister funded the project. The Minister smiled pointing to the newly constructed channel tunnel, that project partly funded this. After the visit, the Nigerian Minister invited his counterpart back to Nigeria. On arrival the British Minister was out of breath, struggling to ask how did you fund all of this. The Nigerian laughed as though he had just won a £ 50 million Lotto, pointing to that bridge but there was no bridge. Then the British Minister asked which one? It was a project that he received money for to construct a bridge which he never even laid the foundation for and all of the money was used to fund his lavish life style depriving the nation.
Alpha Wurie is by no means the only robber in Sierra Leone and would love to expose all of them for they have done a gargantuan damage to that nation. What we are doing on this forum is a good start, so that when you point to a bridge, it will be there and doesn't matter what was personnaly gained from constructing it.
Stay well and long live the people of Sierra Leone.
Subject: Re: CORRUPT EX MINISTER OF EDUCATION
From: The Proof is in the Pudding
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Date Posted: 06:46:14 10/11/07 ()
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"But allow me for all necessary purposes to say your piece is mere witch hunting! Alpha is an industrious man!" -- John troway palmine
If "Alpha is an industrious man" then he should have no problem proving it to an APC commission of enquiry. What you call witch hunting, the people of Salone call ACCOUNTABILITY.
I say, let the commissions of enquiry begin now!
Subject: Re: CORRUPT EX MINISTER OF EDUCATION
From: nico
To: All
Date Posted: 12:28:10 10/11/07 ()
Email Address: nicoleconsult@hotmail.com
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I agreed, let the investigation begin now. Those who did not steel, should not be afraid. Rightmanded people should not be intimidated by the charges of witch-hunting. We need accountability, without which there is no need for a responsible government. The people voted for accountability and the rule of law.
Subject: Re: CORRUPT EX MINISTER OF EDUCATION
From: The group for justice
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Date Posted: 06:44:14 10/11/07 ()
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I challenge your assertions for the following reasons:
1. This is no witch-hunt but factual. It is evident that people would claim witch-hunt when things don’t go their way.
2. You cannot tell our members about his wife Mrs Wurie (Mammy Aye) whom they know very well even prior to her marriage to Alpha Wurrie.
3. A good proportion of our members are equally educated and successful so there is no reason for witch-hunt. In fact people like you are even given us the determination to prove to Sierra Leoneans that his wealth is not from Ramsays.
4. Alpha had it all planned by incorporating ‘Ramsay’ in order to enable them to still the wealth of Sierra Leone.
5. We have people who are ready to prove that his accumulation of wealth stems from the fact that he breached his fiduciary duties as a minister of education. So we know what we are talking about.
6. We can also tell you that given the value of the leones over the years the proceeds of that business would not have been enough for them to accumulate such wealth. We would ensure that the time the properties were purchased and Ramsay’s books of accounts be investigated as this will prove our points.
7. We challenge them to produce Ramsay’s accounts and all the documents of his properties for verification to show that such accumulation of wealth did not points to the fact that it w
Subject: Re: CORRUPT EX MINISTER OF EDUCATION
From: Alimamy Turay
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Date Posted: 14:38:58 10/11/07 ()
Email Address: deltablast@yahoo.com
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SO called Group of Justice! Please be advised to concentrate on issues that are developmental now that our party is in power. Remember the APC is faced with an arduous task of propelling the nation to the epitome of development. In my view, your suggestion of a commission of inquiries would drift backward the development plans of HE the president! Let us all focus on how to forge ahead and let sleeping dogs lie. I see you are overly envious of our learned friend Alpha Wurie. By the way fiduciary duties in the context of corporate governance entails loyalty, care and disclosure. There is no way you can say he had not displayed these duties bearing in mind the enrollment rate in schools and colleges. I rather advice all well meaning Sierra Leoneans to slash your unsubstantiated claims. WE HAVE NO TIME FOR WITCH HUNTING YAH!
Subject: Re: CORRUPT EX MINISTER OF EDUCATION
From: The Group for Justice
To: All
Date Posted: 02:52:35 10/12/07 ()
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"By the way fiduciary duties in the context of corporate governance entails loyalty, care and disclosure. There is no way you can say he had not displayed these duties bearing in mind the enrollment rate in schools and colleges. I rather advice all well meaning Sierra Leoneans to slash your unsubstantiated claims"
You have now changed your style of writing by suggesting that we concentrate on "issues that are developmental" instead of bringing this man to justice. Obviously we all want development and this is one way of developing the country. You also mentioned about displaying loyalty, care and disclosure but what you fail to highlight is his 'honesty' which clearly he is in breach of and this is the core of the article.
Subject: Re: CORRUPT EX MINISTER OF EDUCATION
From: The Group for Justice
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Date Posted: 06:47:03 10/11/07 ()
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I challenge your assertions for the following reasons:
1. This is no witch-hunt but factual. It is evident that people would claim witch-hunt when things don’t go their way.
2. You cannot tell our members about his wife Mrs Wurie (Mammy Aye) whom they know very well even prior to her marriage to Alpha Wurrie.
3. A good proportion of our members are equally educated and successful so there is no reason for witch-hunt. In fact people like you are even given us the determination to prove to Sierra Leoneans that his wealth is not from Ramsays.
4. Alpha had it all planned by incorporating ‘Ramsay’ in order to enable them to still the wealth of Sierra Leone.
5. We have people who are ready to prove that his accumulation of wealth stems from the fact that he breached his fiduciary duties as a minister of education. So we know what we are talking about.
6. We can also tell you that given the value of the leones over the years the proceeds of that business would not have been enough for them to accumulate such wealth. We would ensure that the time the properties were purchased and Ramsay’s books of accounts be investigated as this will prove our points.
7. We challenge them to produce Ramsay’s accounts and all the documents of his properties for verification to show that such accumulation of wealth did not points to the fact that it was as a result of breaching his fiduciary position as minister of education.
Subject: Re: CORRUPT EX MINISTER OF EDUCATION
From: Salone boy
To: All
Date Posted: 06:16:27 10/11/07 ()
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RAMSEY IS NOT FOR THE POR. ITS CLIENTS ARE ALL FROM THE RICH. MANY PEOPLE HAVE DIED BECAUSE THEY CANNOT AFFORD TO PAY THE EXORBITANT PRICE, RAMSEY IS CHARGING FOR ITS SERVICES.
AD WURIE GOT HIS MONEY FROM POLITICS. HE WAS ONCE A CHIRMAN FOR SEVERAL PARASTATTALS IN THE COUNTRY DURING THE STEVENS ERA.
TO SAY THAT ALPHA WURIE'S WEALTH IS FROM HIS HARD EARNED LABOUR, THEN YOU SHOULD EQUALLY SAY THAT THE LATE JAMIL SAHID GOT HIS MONEY THROUGH LABOUR.
IT IS ONLY POLITICS THAT HAVE MADE THE WURIES RICH. IT IS NOT POSSIBLE FOR THE WURIE TO AMMASSS GREAT WEALTH FROM RAMSEY AS IT OPERATES IN A DECVELOPING COUNTRIES WHERE THE INCOME OF THE MAJORITY OF THE PEOPLE ARE MEAGRE.
ALIMAMY TURAY IT IS INAPPROPRIATE TO ADMIRE SOMEONE WHO IS A DECEIVER AND A POLITICAL THIEF.
Subject: Re: CORRUPT EX MINISTER OF EDUCATION
From: The Group for Justice
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Date Posted: 02:58:33 10/12/07 ()
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Well said.
Subject: Re: CORRUPT EX MINISTER OF EDUCATION
From: net cop
To: All
Date Posted: 16:15:33 10/11/07 ()
Email Address: netcop@yahoo.com
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I think people need to start posting credible evidence on here. we just make these accusations about people on here. if there is credible evidence that alpha wurie or any politician in salone alive from the start of th ecountry stole form the peoples stashes and they stay here i would be the first to make few phone calls to congress. i am anindependent thinker. not apc or slpp. not republican o rdemocrat neither am i labor or conservative. but i belive in justice as long as the facts and the proof is there.
Subject: Log-in Name: Bai Bureh
From: UK5
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Date Posted: 01:58:43 10/11/07 ()
Email Address: unikad5@yahoo.com
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Please send me an e-mail. If not, you can send me your phone number. Need to contact you in person.
Subject: Re: Log-in Name: Bai Bureh
From: Bai Bureh
To: All
Date Posted: 04:02:15 10/11/07 ()
Email Address: rastafari_ish@hotmail.com
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Ha ha ha! So we have finally found each other out! It is a small world out here.Anyway I hope there are no hard feelings.I knew it was you from day one of your coming to this forum. For me, before I send you the info you requested, let me give you clues so as to help you guess who am I.
1)Calabatown
2)Reggae music
3)Indian movies-Fave hero in those days Amitabh and now Shahrukh Khan
4)Brewah connection
5)Kissy
6)Late Abdul 'coward' connection
7)Temne and muslim
Put these pieces together and make your first guess.
Subject: Re: Log-in Name: Bai Bureh
From: UK5
To: All
Date Posted: 05:15:46 10/11/07 ()
Email Address:
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Know what! I am now in the office with so much work to do, but I just can't think straight. Yet, I know you should be just too close. You must have left out the 'James Hardley Chase' connection. Hi, what can I do? Can't spell out your name in the net, can I. I can risk giving you my e-mail or phone number? Just want to clear this thing out. Sorry man, I heard Abdul die while performing operation. His name lately was Jah Pro! Come on Man! Been so thirsty to jam with original Calaba Town man, just wish you can give it to me straight!
Subject: Re: Log-in Name: Bai Bureh
From: Bai Bureh
To: All
Date Posted: 06:57:28 10/11/07 ()
Email Address: rastafari_ish@hotmail.com
Entered From: dator5987.161.gbgsd.se at 62.88.181.132
Message:
Yeah you are damn right, the James Hadley Chase connection which I left out deliberately so as not to make myself just another sucker by selling out to you! I don't want you to think I have a soft centre! Man so you are still alive! Thanks to Allah! I beleive we last saw each other in 1992 or so at my former place in Kissy.
You can reach me at
ishfa2000@yahoo.com. I am waiting as I am online doing some work too.I am also so excited to interact once again with an old Calabatonian colleague.
Subject: Re: Log-in Name: Bai Bureh
From: Candid Opinion
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Date Posted: 08:53:00 10/11/07 ()
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Ok.. you 2 kabala town pansies can go kiss and make up offline..
What sappyness, this early in the morning.. almost amke me want to reach for snuff..
Subject: Koroma's Sierra Leone: Rising to a Generation of National Ch
From: Kenday S. Kamara
To: All
Date Posted: 01:23:27 10/11/07 ()
Email Address: kkama002@waldenu.edu
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The corruption threat is the defining challenge of President Ernest Bai Koroma's Sierra Leone and is indicative of a range of national realities. It is proverbial to the point of cliché to talk about how much Sierra Leone has been destroyed by customary corruption. Koroma made a dramatic swearing-in vow "to adopt zero tolerance on corruption, after officials declared him the winner of a tense run-off election" (www.wtopnews.com) and it is hoped he is going to take action to follow through with that vow. With the tools of national power Koroma has, what is interesting is not how difficult it could be a challenge for him to address corruption but to what lengths he could use his power and influence to confront corruption.
>>> Read entire article at www.worldpress.org
Subject: Re: Koroma's Sierra Leone: Rising to a Generation of National Ch
From: Cornelius Hamelberg
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Date Posted: 02:00:18 10/11/07 ()
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For those who may experinece some difficulty in downloading Kenday S. Kamara uprising modern management consultant and an emerging specialist in leadership and organizational change:
Sierra Leone: Under NEW leadership/ Management - by Kenday S. Kamara!
http://www.worldpress.org/Africa/2957.cfm
Koroma's Sierra Leone: Rising to a Generation of National Challenges
Kenday S. Kamara, October 10, 2007
Newly elected Sierra Leonean President Ernest Bai Koroma (left) shakes hands with outgoing leader Ahmad Tejan Kabbah on Sept. 17 in Freetown. (Photo: STR / AFP-Getty Images)
Under New Leadership
Over five years after the civil war officially ended, Sierra Leone is as underdeveloped and corrupted as it has been at any point in the last 40 years. But with the new leadership of the democratically elected President Ernest Bai Koroma, Sierra Leoneans and the international community see the dawn of a new beginning for the country.
As the people resoundingly confirmed Koroma as president, Koroma pledged a "zero-tolerance" strategy against corruption—a pledge seen as a marvelous source of confidence and reassurance concerning the future. The European Union's foreign policy chief, Javier Solana, praised the peaceful manner the elections were conducted, assuring continuing EU support for the war-weary West African country. In a press statement, United States government spokesperson Sean McCormark also congratulated the people of Sierra Leone, "the Independent National Electoral Commission, led by Christiana Thorpe, and Sierra Leone's security services for their impartial efforts to ensure that the people could vote free from intimidation in a transparent and fair process" (www.state.gov). On her reaction to the election results, Yasmin Jusu-Sheriff, first vice president of the Mano River Women's Peace Movement, told Voice of America English to Africa Service reporter Joe De Capua "that the elections have brought a renewed sense of hope … [as] everybody in the country was looking forward to a fresh start" (www.voanews.com).
Koroma now has to get to work immediately to begin crafting legislation specifically designed to establish his zero-tolerance strategy against corruption. And as he gets to work, he has to recognize that any successful policy against corruption must be grounded in reality and that much of any government's approach against corruption stems from treating corruption as a treasonable felony against the people that should be dealt with the full penalty of the law governing treasonable offenses.
The dawn of this new era is testimony to the truth that the people who have had increasing doubts about the country's direction under the previous regime of former President Tejan Kabbah and the country's continual underdevelopment and "misuse of aid money" (www.ft.com) after many years the war ended is the one thing that emboldened Sierra Leoneans to vote out the Sierra Leone People's Party (S.L.P.P.). Sierra Leoneans are convinced the country needs new thinking on national development policy and a zero-tolerance strategy that can address corruption and its damaging effects—not around a particular political camp or tribal sympathies but around a shared understanding of how to meet a generation of challenges.
A Generation's Legacy of Heroism
Sierra Leone's challenges today are daunting. They include a generation of widespread corruption, a bungling and incompetent civil service, and partisan political networks made even more menacing by the threat of ethnic confrontations. AIDS and potential new pandemics also threaten the people. It is easy to understand why Sierra Leoneans feel so much emboldened and wound up to reject the S.L.P.P. and former Vice President Solomon Berewa, who squandered gained opportunities following the end of the country's brutal conflict.
Yet although Sierra Leone faces fundamentally different issues today, it has a history of rising to meet even greater challenges. Indeed, Sierra Leoneans need not look to ancient history, but only to the courage and determination of great heroes like Bai Bureh, Alimamy Suluku, Haidara Kontorfilli, Isaac T. A. Wallace-Johnson, Constance Agatha Cummings-John, Eustace Taylor-Cummings, Sir Milton Margai, among others, to see a stark contrast with the irresponsible and catastrophic leadership that defined the stewardship of Kabbah and Berewa. Just over 100 years ago, Sierra Leone was a colony under the British Empire. The outcome of this status was clear. It took away the dignity of all Sierra Leoneans and the country's natural resources were systematically converted to British use.
As such, Bai Bureh resisted the house tax because "he did not believe the Sierra Leonean people had a duty to pay taxes to foreigners, and he wanted all British to return to Britain and let the Sierra Leoneans solve their own problems" (en.wikipedia.org). Alimamy Suluku, the great Limba leader, managed to have his way against the British occupiers in the 1890's through political strategy alone, thus maintaining a thriving Limba territory. Haidara Kontorfilli's charisma as an Islamic religious reformer and an anti-colonialist fed well into the cause of the rural masses. Isaac T. A. Wallace-Johnson's ardent patriotism got him to work untiringly for unity and the rights of the common man. Constance Agatha Cummings-John's " strong commitment to the ideals of justice and fair play [inspired] her active participation in the political struggle for national emancipation" (www.sierra-leone.org). Notable also, was Eustace Taylor-Cummings' "contribution to the medical service as a doctor, to civic duties as mayor, and to fostering education in Sierra Leone" (www.sierra-leone.org). As well, Sir Milton Margai pioneered social welfare and hygiene education in remote areas in the Colonial Medical Service and demonstrated exceptional leadership as Sierra Leone's first prime minister.
And it was not just these great heroes who were decisive. In the 1950's, Sierra Leoneans enlisted to work to build roads, schools, and hospitals. Together with the leaders of the new independent Sierra Leone, they built this country's prosperity in the early 1960's and fueled a sense of optimism. Although this period of prosperity was short-lived because upon the death of Prime Minister Milton Margai subsequent governments pursued policies that led the country to an economic impoverishment that matched their moral vacuum, the new leadership of Koroma and the people can draw strength from the great accomplishments of these great heroes to rebuild their country.
A Generation of Challenges
Today, the nation's attention is focused on corruption. All Sierra Leoneans want to see decisive steps taken to end corruption. But using band-aid measures as those presented by a politically predisposed Anticorruption Commission under Kabbah have only presented graver risks to Sierra Leone's sustained development. The persistence of corruption in government and the private sector has continued to wreck the nation. Government corruption has condoned the inefficiency of civil servants. A national disaster could again ensue, perhaps even causing another civil war under far worse circumstances if nothing is seriously done by Koroma's leadership to address this issue of corruption. While there is no guarantee that the new zero-tolerance strategy proclaimed by Koroma himself will be seriously pursued, the fact remains that the stakes are too high and the potential fallout too great to have another president in this war-weary country being soft on corruption and being flexible with a lazy, corrupt, and inefficient civil service that does not do its work.
Many Sierra Leoneans still fail to understand fully the extent of the damaging consequences of corruption, specifically by those public officials who are doing things that deprive the nation and communities of essential services and the progressive development of Sierra Leone. Understandably, the nation tends to shy away from using capital punishment for corruption crimes. People think in terms of the death penalty being seen as "the ultimate cruel, inhuman, and degrading punishment. It violates the right to life. It is irrevocable and can be inflicted on the innocent. It has never been shown to deter crime more effectively than other punishments" (web.amnesty.org). Yet, corruption crimes are catastrophic and are causing the deaths of thousands of Sierra Leoneans, including pregnant women and children, who are starving and are deprived of well-equipped hospitals and good roads and dependable means of land and water transportation. Corruption crimes are more catastrophic than the actions of soldiers such as Brig. Hassan Conteh, Maj. Kula Samba, and Col. Abdul Karim Sesay, who were condemned to die because they served in the junta government of Lt. Col. Johnny Paul Koroma. Unconscionable corruption has one goal: to institutionalize corruption where only the very few would continue to thrive while destroying Sierra Leone as a nation and rather have the majority of the people live in abject poverty. This plan sounds grossly selfish and treasonable, and it is. But it is no more irrational than the policies pursued by Corporal Sankoh's R.U.F. war machine in the 1990's, and Captain Strasser's military overthrow of President Joseph Momoh's regime in April 1994, and Lieutenant Colonel Koroma's junta rule in 1997. And the threat corruption poses against the survival of Sierra Leone as a nation is just as real.
In the current state of affairs in Sierra Leone, the balance of forces is not nearly as close as during Corporal Sankoh's blitz and at the critical points during Captain Strasser and Lieutenant Colonel Koroma's military coups. There is no comparison between the presidential power and influence of the democratically elected Ernest Bai Koroma today and those of the corrupt officials that threaten the survivability of the nation. Perhaps most important is the incredible patience of the people and their unmatched resilience to suffer pain as keenly depicted in Emerson's "Borbor Pain" track in his 2-Foot Arata album that now needs to be appreciated. Today's corruption damages are fundamentally different from those Sierra Leoneans grew used to confronting during Corporal Sankoh, Captain Strasser and Lieutenant Colonel Koroma's onslaughts. Corruption destroys the very essence of nationhood. Corruption systematically distorts the national character reinforcing the stunted development of Sierra Leone. Hospitals and schools are rendered ill equipped and desolate not by rocket-propelled grenades but by government graft. Corrupt officials are protected instead of punished. They scramble for public office not as a strategic need to serve but as an offensive platform for illegally stealing the national assets of the people. The United Nations' secretary general, Ban Ki-moon, recently added his voice to this debate with a disapproving revelation of how much Africa is losing because of corruption stating, "Every year Africa loses $148 billion dollars because of corruption. This was reported by the United Nations Organization and the World Bank, which launched a Joint Stolen Assets Recovery Initiative (STAR) to retrieve the money illegally subtracted from the people. And according to the World Bank, corrupt politicians and administrators in poor countries pocket between $20 and $40 billion dollars; a sum equivalent to 40 percent of the funds these countries receive in aid from developed countries" (www.fides.org).
The corruption threat is the defining challenge of President Ernest Bai Koroma's Sierra Leone and is indicative of a range of national realities. It is proverbial to the point of cliché to talk about how much Sierra Leone has been destroyed by customary corruption. Koroma made a dramatic swearing-in vow "to adopt zero tolerance on corruption, after officials declared him the winner of a tense run-off election" (www.wtopnews.com) and it is hoped he is going to take action to follow through with that vow. With the tools of national power Koroma has, what is interesting is not how difficult it could be a challenge for him to address corruption but to what lengths he could use his power and influence to confront corruption. While the Anticorruption Commission (A.C.C.) is an excellent concept to deal with corruption, its actions against corrupt practices remain undesirable. Even with opportunities provided by the end of the war five years ago, the government of former President Kabbah proved dangerously irresponsible to the point of justifying the military takeover of Lieutenant Colonel Koroma in April 1997. The A.C.C. instrument against national corruption was created not only with the support of foreign development assistance but also with the support of the office of the president. The difficulties of the A.C.C., along with disturbing gaps in Kabbah's leadership, however, are well known. A growing number of experts question whether Sierra Leone has the capacity to meet various national challenges, ranging from poor performing government departments to the widespread acceptance of facilitation payments (bribes) by public officials. And while Kabbah's government has stood incapable in the face of patent corruption in his government and has been unable to address the inefficiencies of the ministries of his cabinet ministers, President Ernest Bai Koroma's vow "to adopt zero tolerance on corruption" has to be seen in actions rather than mere words. This can be possible if Koroma could be that strong president to cleverly use his tools of national power including the "certificate of emergency" leverage over parliament he referred to in an interview with Financial Times West Africa correspondent Mathew Green (www.ft.com) to extend the mandate of the Anticorruption Commission with a top leadership team of "foreign veteran legal expatriates" to establish the supreme independence of the A.C.C. with the ultimate power to investigate and prosecute crimes of corruption as treasonable offenses.
While the thorny issue of corruption dominates political rhetoric, Sierra Leoneans cannot let the resounding victory of Koroma and the new political dynamics drive them to be complacent with the new leadership to repeat mistakes previous presidents have made at perilous moments of mistrust and misgiving about their roles against working to end corruption. In several regimes in the last several decades, following the death of Prime Minister Margai and the end of the civil war in 2002, Sierra Leoneans became left out. Today, among Sierra Leone's main challenges are a broken down civil service and systemic corruption that developed while Sierra Leoneans do not seem to care anymore about what their leaders and their public servants are up to. Whether or not Koroma's zero-tolerance vow is followed through, Sierra Leoneans need to be prepared to deal not only with the great effort against corruption but with a generation of challenges that go far beyond any single leadership or regime.
The people need to engage in a candid debate about what policies and what sacrifices will ensure a zero-corruption Sierra Leone and a prospering nation. As was observed in the All People's Congress (A.P.C.) manifesto used to win the 2007 parliamentary and presidential elections, "In every nation today, the principles of transparency and accountability and the elimination of corrupt practices are generally recognized as indispensable attributes for good governance." An A.P.C. government should therefore work "to ensure the strict adherence to these principles and practices," and if it sincerely subjects itself "to an African Peer Review Mechanism (A.P.R.M.) and any other international benchmarks" as it also stated in its manifesto, the better (apcparty.org). Koroma's A.P.C. thus needs to take further action if Sierra Leone is to be cleansed of corruption and if his leadership is to build a safe nation, with peace, prosperity, freedom, and dignity. Confronting the forces of corruption will be controversial, and Koroma will be strongly resisted because it will require dramatic changes to the corruption status quo. Kabbah's S.L.P.P. has been voted out for being incompetent and inadequate, and the structure that its policies and operations were created to address are no longer supported by the mandate of the people. Koroma cannot therefore remain mired in the inept structure of the rejected S.L.P.P. administration.
Change can be convoluted in and of itself. And it is unusually hard to beckon the will necessary to set a new course in a country that has lived through generations of corrupt regimes. Look at how badly former President Siaka Steven perfected a culture of kleptocracy grounded on his famous political maxim of "oosie den tie cow nar dae ee dae eat gras," meaning by way of condoning corruption that a "cow grazes where it is tied to graze." Former President Momoh was known for "implementing policies that only served to further exacerbate Sierra Leone's economic situation" (www.britannica.com). Corruption in Kabbah's government was even reported to be on a massive scale enough to dwarf corruption in all previous governments. "Government ministers are allowed to run corrupt syndicates in their ministries with impunity the worst examples being the Minister of Lands Bobson Sesay, Minister of Agriculture Dr. Sama Mondeh, and Minister of Finance John Benjamin. They have starved the country of numerous projects by demanding huge bribes up front, by refusing to woo investors maintaining on more than one occasion that they don't invite investors or do not participate in private projects, or tell investors that the projects they plan to execute should be scaled back" (www.peepsierraleone.com).
Change will call for sacrifice from the people. And Sierra Leoneans seem ready for the challenge. "The clear message of Sierra Leoneans to the S.L.P.P. government of President Tejan Kabbah, which spent 10 years in power and have nothing to show for it, except [the personal wealth of] members of the cronies club and the corrupt ministers serving in the government" (www.peepsierraleone.com) speaks volumes about Sierra Leoneans being ready for the challenge.
Revitalizing the Military
First, to maintain a focused presidential leadership in Sierra Leone, President Koroma must immediately begin to work to revitalize the military. A disciplined and well catered for military is, more than anything, necessary to sustain peace and stability. Unfortunately, the army has made repeated attempts to disrupt the democratic process.
Koroma must use this moment both to rebuild the military and to prepare it for nation building programs. Koroma should commit to spending a sizable percent of the G.D.P. on the military. As commander in chief, Koroma must retain and/or recall to duty the very best military leaders and invest in their capacity to succeed in recruiting and training the very best servicemen and women. That also means providing the military with first-rate equipment, incentives, and more training in other critical skills. The military will have to rebuild some capabilities and transform others. Enhancing the military will not be enough. As commander-in-chief, Koroma must also use the military wisely during this peacetime engaging them with nation building programs, and having the military participate in stability and reconstruction operations.
Koroma must also consider officially dismantling the Kamajor militia, taking advantage of the peace dividend from the end of the civil war. Dismantling the Kamajor militia in order to eliminate perceived rivalry with the official national army underpins national stability.
Fixing the Energy Problem
Second, Koroma must work to fix the energy problem. This means making sure that power supplies are not rationed and the country is with power at all times. Sierra Leoneans are using about 27 percent of the energy supply to power the economy. Sierra Leone's economic strength depends on providing a regular supply of electricity to the homes and businesses of Sierra Leoneans—moving past symbolic measures to produce as much energy as Sierra Leoneans use. It should not take time to fix the energy problem. With the right resolve, Koroma's administration could quickly fix Sierra Leoneans' vulnerability to power shutoffs by a poorly managed National Power Authority. At the same time, having a sensible energy supply policy Sierra Leoneans may well be able to help reduce global warming by controlling the greenhouse gas emissions made worse by the use of imported generators known in local parlance as "Kabbah Tigers" seen everywhere in Freetown and in towns and villages.
Regular energy supplies will require technology that is not antiquated. It will also mean increasing the domestic energy production with more oil, more renewable energy sources, and a fuller exploitation of the country's hydropower by the president himself micro managing the ultimate completion of the Bumbuna Hydro project. Privatizing the National Power Authority may be required to have a motivated and capable management staff able to organize additional and alternative sources of energy. Koroma needs to pursue a pioneering energy supply initiative—an energy modernization, so to speak. It will be an initiative to provide a regular supply of electricity on a national scale. It will be good for the economy.
Making Use of Civilian Capabilities
Third, Sierra Leoneans need also to direct their civilian capabilities to contribute to building the infrastructure of their nation and uphold the rule of law and promote cooperation with their democratic leaders. Since the end of the civil conflict, Sierra Leone has created capabilities and structures—such as the Office of National Security, the National Revenue Authority, and the Institutional Reform and Capacity Building Project—to meet the challenges of a nation that has been methodically misled by false political prophets. Koroma can make better use of these structures and Sierra Leone will be better off with bureaucratic boundaries that are undermining civilian effectiveness torn down. Unity among Sierra Leone's national civilian resources is needed where clear leadership and clear line of authority will help to integrate the civilian instruments into coherent, timely, and effective operations. Efficient management of development programs is lacking. As a result, it has been difficult to coordinate the bringing of health care and schools to many areas. And guess where Corporal Sankoh got his ragtag army to wage war against the government of Momoh? Likewise, the reputation of Corporal Sankoh's R.U.F. in the early years of the war should be no surprise given that when he entered Sierra Leone through Liberia he "enjoyed the sympathy of Sierra Leonean migrant workers who have had to migrate to make a living in Liberia some of whom joined [his rebellion] to start what he described as a liberation campaign" (www.sierra-leone.org).
The culture of civilian agencies has to change. Civilian approaches have to be task-based. Joint strategies and joint operations to mobilize all areas of Sierra Leone's national resources are required. Civilian agencies should be organized along common provincial boundaries. Their performance should be evaluated according to their success in promoting sustainable development programs and building the fundamentals of democracy in their respective regions.
Contract for Prosperity and Progress
The challenges Sierra Leone now faces—especially corruption, tribalism, and the lack of development—require national networks of intelligence and law enforcement. Koroma should also look for new ways to strengthen N.G.O. cooperation and partnerships with responsible actors to confront the country's challenges. In no area is presidential leadership more important and more urgently needed than championing the fight against corruption. Today, Sierra Leone is facing a demographic crisis: over half the population there is not educated, and the G.D.P. of the nation remains lower than most countries in Africa. Sierra Leone is over dependent on mineral exploitation with no emphasis placed on large-scale agriculture of commodity products, industrial development, and sustainable investments, and an efficiently coordinated tax and revenue collection regime. A growing population and lack of jobs create fertile ground for rebels against the established order. Undertaking broad development programs will show the new administration's deep understanding that inheriting a war-free country depend on far more than the strength of the military or militia action. The situation Sierra Leone faces today is dramatically different from the one faced in the wake of the rebel war. It therefore requires more political attention and resolve.
Now elected, Ernest Bai Koroma's first acts as president should be to create a national strategy to support the fight against corruption and to push the need to build the infrastructure. It is envisioned that such a national strategy would lead to a "Contract with Sierra Leone for Prosperity and Progress": a strategy of progressive engagement that would assemble resources from wherever and use them to support public schools, microcredit and banking, the rule of law, human rights, basic health care, free-market policies, and national cleaning programs in a modernizing Sierra Leone. Resources could be drawn from public and private institutions and from volunteers and nongovernmental organizations. A critical part of this effort would involve creating new development and economic opportunities. Parliament must give the president the support to move forward with these efforts.
For Koroma to think that by merely closing his eyes and hoping that corruption will go away is not an acceptable solution. Good governance advocacy action alone cannot change the hearts and minds of the most corrupt elements in government and the private sector. In the end, only a strong and uncompromising presidency can defeat these corrupt elements. But Sierra Leoneans must work with the president. The consequences of not supporting him to fight corruption are again simply unacceptable.
Moving Beyond the Failures of the S.L.P.P.
The generation of challenges Sierra Leone faces may seem daunting. Yet confronting challenges had made heroes of historic patriots like Bai Bureh, Haidara Kontorfilli, Isaac T. A. Wallace-Johnson, and Sir Milton Margai. The democratic success and optimism that came out of the Aug. 11 presidential and parliamentary elections and Sept. 8 presidential run-off elections in every way reflect Sierra Leone's legacy or underlying strengths of a people of great resolve. Under Koroma's Sierra Leone, the current generation can match the courage, dedication, and vision of "the greatest generation" that stood up against British colonialism.
Sierra Leone is a unique nation, and there is no substitute for the historic leadership it showed during the fight against colonialism in Africa. The difficulties it faces with corruption and an incompetent civil service under a spoiled S.L.P.P. administration should neither cause Sierra Leoneans to lose faith in the new mandate given to the A.P.C. and its role in the effort to end corruption. The future depends on Sierra Leoneans resolve to move beyond the failures of the S.L.P.P. and unite the people to confront a generation of national challenges. They say evil prevails when good men fail to act. Many Sierra Leoneans seem to be optimistic that in Koroma's Sierra Leone there are a few good men in the born-again A.P.C. to prevail over evil corruption.
Common Leadership for Common Development
At moments of great peril in the last two centuries, leaders such as Bai Bureh, Alimamy Suluku, Bai Sherbro Kpana Lewis, and Haidara Kontorfilli managed both to resist the British colonialists and to inspire opportunity for the next generation. What is more, they ensured that Sierra Leoneans, by courage and resolve, fought their way to independence—that they stood for and fought for the independence and freedoms sought by all nations beyond Sierra Leone.
As Bai Bureh engineered the most remarkable resistance against the British that was ever seen, his courage gave purpose to Sierra Leoneans' struggle against colonialism. Alimamy Suluku held up an enterprising diplomacy to respond to British domination—one that paired diplomatic savoir-faire with leadership brilliance that helped to secure the peace and well-being of his dominion in colonial times. As colonialism crumbled and Sierra Leone achieved effective independent governance, Prime Minister Milton Margai modernized Sierra Leone's administrative doctrine, strengthened its governmental forces, and created a nation geared up for progress. Margai used his selfless character to show people everywhere in the world that Sierra Leone was at its best.
Today, Koroma is again called upon to provide the kind of visionary leadership seen in Sierra Leone's great historical heroes. This century's threats are at least as dangerous as and in some ways more complex than those Sierra Leoneans have confronted in the past. They come from actions by public servants that have crippled the economy on a national scale, and from previous leaderships that responded to pervasive corruption with irresponsible stewardship. They come from rogue private-sector operators who have formed alliances with corrupt government actors, and from the apathy of the people who have challenged both Sierra Leone and the national foundation of liberal democracy. Further, they come from a nation that lacks the will to continue a national cleaning program that can prevent diseases and the spawn of more devastating endemics and deadly pandemics.
To recognize the gravity of these challenges is not to give way to doom and gloom. Rather, it is a call to action. These threats demand a new vision of leadership in the 21st century—a vision that draws from the past but is not bound by rash and outdated thinking. The Kabbah administration, for instance, responded to the unconventional actions of Hinga Norman's Kamajor militia versus the national military with conventional partisan thinking, largely viewing problems between the unofficial Kamajor militia group and the official national army as army incited and principally amenable to solutions partially engineered by the Ministry of Defense under former Deputy Defense Minister Hinga Norman. It was this tragically misguided approach that led the people into another coup d'état that never should have happened and never should have been dealt with by military intervention that caused the deaths of thousands of Sierra Leoneans. In the wake of military intervention that forced Lieutenant Colonel Koroma's junta out of power, the world had also lost trust in the purposes and principles of the Kabbah administration that followed through with despicable vengeance to execute by firing squad 24 junta actors against the pleas of the international community.
After thousands of lives lost and billions of leones spent in a civil conflict and in violent military takeovers, many Sierra Leoneans may be tempted to turn inward and resign to fate. But this is a mistake Sierra Leoneans must not make. The people cannot meet the scars of civil conflict and violent military coups and the threats of corruption alone, and Koroma's presidency cannot meet them without the people. Sierra Leoneans should neither retreat from supporting Koroma nor allow their president to be bullied into submission by the military, the militia, or any corrupt cabal of cabinet ministers such as how Kabbah allowed himself to be bullied. Koroma must be allowed to lead Sierra Leone, by deed and by example.
Such leadership demands that Koroma retrieve the fundamental insight such as that of Bai Bureh, Alimamy Suluku, Bai Sherbro Kpana Lewis, Haidara Kontorfilli, I.T.A. Wallace-Johnson, and Sir Milton Margai with an agenda that is truer now than ever before: the security and well-being of each and every Sierra Leonean depend on a decisive fight against corruption. The mission of Koroma's new administration is to provide national leadership grounded in the understanding that Sierra Leoneans share a common need for development and a common pride.
Moving Beyond Winning Elections
To renew the kind of leadership seen in Prime Minister Margai's Sierra Leone in the early 1960's, Koroma must first deal with corruption decisively and refocus attention on the broader issues of nation building. Corruption was a diversion from the pursuit of broader infrastructural development and nation building programs; and the incompetent prosecution of the fight against corruption by previous regimes compounded the strategic failures of never getting around ending corruption in Sierra Leone in the first place. The scars of war and the scars inflicted by corruption on an endemic scale are seen everywhere in Sierra Leone: in rundown and badly maintained buildings, in neglected roads, in the piles of garbage that lie everywhere, in ill-equipped and filthy hospitals, in badly equipped schools and colleges, in the loss of thousands of children to diseases that could have been avoided, and in the suffering of thousands more Sierra Leoneans from hunger and disease. The time for leadership is now.
Kenday S. Kamara is a native of Sierra Leone, where he attended Fourah Bay College, University of Sierra Leone, 1982-1986. He is a freelance consultant for Global Integrity and a Ph.D. scholar-practitioner in applied management and decision sciences at Walden University, specializing in leadership and organizational change.
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I have been laughing and could not stop laughing at this laughable incident. AWARENESS TIMES,the champion of bogus , lie-lie journalism recommends Patriotic Vanguard to its readers and Gibril is not smart at all to notice that his paper is being dragged in the mud. He goes ahead and writes a news item on it, like it is a big thing.
I am still laughing .
In a move that took completely by surprise the editorial board of this newspaper, Dr. Sylvia Blyden’s Awareness Times on Wednesday October 10 commended us and urged its readers to read the Patriotic Vanguard while it deals with what it described as "logistical problems." Thank you Sylvia for your kind sentiments and we hope AT resolves its problems as quickly as possible.
Gibril Gbanabome Koroma(Editor/Publisher, The Patriotic Vanguard).
We publish below the endorsement from Awareness Times:
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The guy is so eager for cheap praise he did not see the joke.
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Victor, you were right about them and this Kabs Kanu guy was defending Gbanabome and Blyden.Birds of the same feather will always flock together.
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Economy of Sierra Leone
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Economic development has always been hampered by an overdependence on mineral exploitation. Successive governments and the population as a whole have always believed that "diamonds and gold" are sufficient generators of foreign currency earnings and lure for investment. As result large scale agriculture of commodity products, industrial development and sustainable investments have been neglected by governments. The economy could thus be described as one which is "exploitative" and based on the extraction of unsustainable resources or non-reusable assets
[edit] Macro-economic trend
This is a chart of trend of gross domestic product of Sierra Leone at market prices estimated by the International Monetary Fund and EconStats with figures in millions of Sierra Leone Leones.
Year Gross Domestic Product
1965 247
1970 355
1975 572
1980 1,155
1985 4,365
1990 98,386
1995 657,604
2000 1,330,429
Current GDP per capita of Sierra Leone grew 32% in the Sixties reaching a peak growth of 107% in the Seventies. But this proved unsustainable and it consequently shrank by 52% in the Eighties and a further 10% in the Nineties.
Rich in minerals, Sierra Leone has relied on the mining sector in general, and diamonds in particular, for its economic base. In the 1970s and early 1980s, economic growth rate slowed because of a decline in the mining sector. Financially disadvantageous exchange rates and government budget deficits led to sizable balance-of-payments deficits and inflation. Certain policy responses to external factors as well as implementations of aid projects and maintenance have led to a general decline in economic activity and a serious degradation of economic infrastructures. Sierra Leone's short-term prospects depend upon continued adherence to International Monetary Fund programs and continued external assistance.
Although two-thirds of the population engages in subsistence agriculture, and despite the fact that most Sierra Leoneans derive their livelihood from it, agriculture accounts for only 42% of national income. As of 2003, the government was trying to increase food and cash crop production and upgrade small farmer skills. Also, the government works with several foreign donors to operate integrated rural development and agricultural projects.
[edit] External trade and investment
Sierra Leonean exports in 2006Mineral exports remain Sierra Leone's principal foreign exchange earner. Sierra Leone is a major producer of gem-quality diamonds. Though rich in this resource, the country has historically struggled to manage its exploitation and export. Annual production estimates range between $70-$250 million; however, only a fraction of that passes through formal export channels (1999: $1.2 million; 2000: $16 million; 2001: projections $25 million). The balance is smuggled out and has been used to finance rebel activities in the region, money laundering, arms purchases, and financing of other illicit activities, leading some to characterize Sierra Leone's diamonds as a "conflict resource." Recent efforts on the part of the country to improve the management of the export trade have met with some success. In October 2000, a new UN-approved export certification system for exporting diamonds from Sierra Leone was put into place that led to a dramatic increase in legal exports. In 2001, the Government of Sierra Leone created a mining community development fund, which returns a portion of diamond export taxes to diamond mining communities. The fund was created to raise local communities' stake in the legal diamond trade.
Sierra Leone has one of the world's largest deposits of rutile, a titanium ore used as paint pigment and welding rod coatings. Sierra Rutile Limited, wholly owned by Nord Resources of the United States, began commercial mining operations near Bonthe in early 1979. Sierra Rutile was then the largest non-petroleum U.S. investment in West Africa. The export of 88,000 tons realized $75 million for the country in 1990. The company and the Government of Sierra Leone concluded a new agreement on the terms of the company's concession in Sierra Leone in 1990. Rutile and bauxite mining operations were suspended when rebels invaded the mining sites in 1995. Negotiations for reactivation of rutile and bauxite mining are in progress. The U.S. interest in the company has been reduced to 25%.
Since independence, the Government of Sierra Leone has encouraged foreign investment, although the business climate suffers from uncertainty and a shortage of foreign exchange because of civil conflicts. Investors are protected by an agreement that allows for arbitration under the 1965 World Bank Convention. Legislation provides for transfer of interest, dividends, and capital.
Sierra Leone is a member of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS). With Liberia and Guinea, it formed the Mano River Union (MRU) customs union, primarily designed to implement development projects and promote regional economic integration. However, the MRU has so far been inactive because of domestic problems and internal and cross-border conflicts in all three countries. The future of the MRU depends on the ability of its members to deal with the fallout from these internal and regional problems.
Sierra Leone continues to rely on significant amounts of foreign assistance, principally from multilateral donors. The bilateral donors include the United States, Italy, and Germany, the largest being the United Kingdom and the European Union.
GDP: purchasing power parity - $5.012 billion (2005 est.), $2.5 billion (1999 est.)
GDP - real growth rate: 5.5% (2005 est.), -10% (1999 est.)
GDP - per capita: purchasing power parity - $800 (2005 est.), $500 (1999 est.)
GDP - composition by sector:
agriculture: 49%
industry: 31%
services: 21% (2001 est.)
agriculture: 52%
industry: 31%
services: 21% (2001)
Population below poverty line: 68% (1989 est.)
Household income or consumption by percentage share:
lowest 10%: 0.5%
highest 10%: 43.6% (1989)
Distribution of family income - Gini index: 62.9 (1989)
Inflation rate (consumer prices): 1% (2002 est.), 30% (1999 est.)
Labor force: 1.369 million (1981 est.)
note: only about 65,000 wage earners (1985)
Labor force - by occupation: agriculture NA%, industry NA%, services NA%
Unemployment rate: NA%
Budget:
revenues: $96 million
expenditures: $351 million, including capital expenditures of $NA (2000 est.)
revenues: $96 million
expenditures: $150 million, including capital expenditures of $NA (1996 est.)
Industries: mining (diamonds); small-scale manufacturing (beverages, textiles, cigarettes, footwear); petroleum refining
Industrial production growth rate: NA%
Electricity - production: 250.1 GWh (2001), 235 GWh (1998)
Electricity - production by source:
fossil fuel: 100%
hydro: 0%
other: 0% (2001)
nuclear: 0%
fossil fuel: 100%
hydro: 0%
nuclear: 0%
other: 0% (1998)
Electricity - consumption: 232.6 GWh (2001), 219 GWh (1998)
Electricity - exports: 0 kWh (2001, 1998)
Electricity - imports: 0 kWh (2001, 1998)
Oil - consumption: 6,500 barrel/day (1,000 m³/d) 2001
Agriculture - products: rice, coffee, cocoa, palm kernels, palm oil, peanuts; poultry, cattle, sheep, pigs; fish, ginger
Exports: $35 million f.o.b. (2000 est.), $41 million (f.o.b., 1998)
Exports - commodities: diamonds, rutile, cocoa, coffee, fish (1999)
Exports - partners: Greece 32.1%, Belgium 28.2%, US 6.3%, UK 5.9% (2001 est.)
Benelux 49%, Spain 10%, United States 8%, United Kingdom 3% (1997)
Imports: $190 million f.o.b. (2002 est.), $166 million (f.o.b., 1998)
Imports - commodities: foodstuffs, machinery and equipment, fuels and lubricants, chemicals (1995)
Imports - partners: UK 25.3%, Netherlands 10.3%, US 7.9%, Germany 6.3% (2001)
United Kingdom 24%, Côte d'Ivoire 14%, Benelux 10%, United States 8% (1997)
Debt - external: $1.5 billion (2002 est.), $1.15 billion (1998)
Economic aid - recipient: $103 million (2001 est.), $203.7 million (1995)
Currency: 1 leone (Le) = 100 cents
Exchange rates: leones (Le) per US$1 - 2,099.03 (2002), 1,986.15 (2001), 2,092.12 (2000), 1,804.20 (1999), 1,563.62 (1998), 981.48 (1997), 920.73 (1996), 755.22 (1995)
Fiscal year: 1 July - 30 June
[edit] See also
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Subject: PRESIDENT KOROMA MEETS PARAMOUNT CHIEFS AT STATE HOUSE
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His Excellency the president Ernest Bai Koroma Monday told one hundred and forty-nine paramount chiefs during a meeting at State House that he will collaborate with everybody to ensure that there is progress.
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Subject: And what is his?
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Obey the Law; never challenge what go against the Law. If you are not in the Law enforcement do not take the Law into your hands even if you are. Do not imitate another person because they are them and you are you.
The boys who attacked me have been imprisoned.
Second face, rexipusomes.
Da mammy im gold ring wae e gie me before ar cam cost ten thousand dollars man nor see am sef since dem boys fodom pan me.
Subject: SIERRA LEONE PEOPLE'S DEMOCRATIC LEAGUE CONDEMNS CABINET
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SIERRA LEONE PEOPLE'S DEMOCRATIC LEAGUE
P.D.L.
PUBLIC RELEASE STATEMENT:
DAKAR, SENEGAL.
RE: APC CABINET IS TOTAL DEVIATION FROM NATIONAL
ETHOS.
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The Sierra Leone People's Democratic League (PDL) has
read with utter shock, frustration and disappointment
on the composition of members of the President Ernest
Bai Koroma's led Cabinet Ministers in Sierra Leone.
The only conclusion we can draw out of the present
political rumblings that has exposed the underbelly of
the APC clique and the macabre struggle for tribal
domination and control of government machinery and
national coffers in the present political dispensation
is that, Sierra Leone is dangerously moving towards
the dark era of the Akutay (Limba organ) kleptomania.
The foregoing raises the question: what is the problem
with Sierra Leone? What are the primary factors
militating against the country's development and
progress? What must Sierra Leoneans do now to ensure a
reversal of the sorry state affairs? What other steps
Sierra Leoneans must take to produce a leadership that
is not tied to the apron string of neo-colonialism,
settlers-colonialism, imperialist rape and ethnic
hegemony? A leadership that is serious, patriotic,
god-fearing and ready to face the realities of the
situation in the country.
Sierra Leoneans rebelled against the former ruling
SLPP government of the dictator Tejan Kabbah, hoping
that President Ernest Bai Koroma would exhibit a sense
of responsible leadership model, devoid of the
arrogant assumption that a preordained cabal must
exclusively continue to decide on the future direction
of Sierra Leone, once the APC takes control of the
leadership of the country. But their hope and
expectations have become empty dreams with the naming
of a Cabinet that illustrates the so-called "monkey
wrench" hypothesis, to wit, that when a suffering,
frustrated, degraded and dehumanised people are about
to effect a patriotic self-redeeming move, foreign
detractors will use domestic traitors, stooges and
willing tools to stultify the move.
This is the case of the Ernest Bai Koroma's led APC
Cabinet, which is well-arranged to suit the tastes and
designs of Western imperialism. No wonder why Zainab
Bangura and other members of the current cabinet
recently visited London to assure former colonial
Masters, APC loyalty; and why the British reciprocated
with assurances of support to ensure the success of
the so-called APC government. Similar meeting was also
held with the murderer of the Iraqi people at the
White House in Washington. To the PDL, the meeting in
Washington was not unexpected knowing fully the
political game played by the US based National
Democratic Institute (NDI) in the Christiana Thorpe's
illegal elections in Sierra Leone. This comes to the
conclusion that the Ernest Bai Koroma's government is
an extension of US imperialism in Africa.
All these bring to question, President Bai Koroma's
much vaunted national reconciliation, unity and new
dawn in Sierra Leone; and raises question marks across
the country regarding the President intentions.
We, of the Sierra Leone People's Democratic League
therefore, vehemently oppose to the composition of the
current Sierra Leonean Cabinet as a well-wrapped
political vengeance; resurface of APC old politics of
ethnic hatreds, malice and grudges; unjust, anti-peace
and stigmatisation of Sierra Leone's baby democracy.
In our view, we say that Sierra Leone under Ernest Bai
Koroma led APC is heading towards the fatal grip of
neo-colonialism. We see Mr. Koroma as another stooge
of imperialism who is only admired by traitors like
Aung San Suu Kyi of Burma, to work for the
imperialists against his/her people. He therefore
lacks the necessary democratic tutelage for the job of
President and Commander-In-Chief of the Armed Forces
of the Republic of Sierra Leone at this crucial moment
of our nation's history.
The PDL has no agenda or plans that are hostile to the
peace and stability of Sierra Leone. We believe, as
every one does that it is only in peace that Sierra
Leoneans can go about their daily businesses across
the country. It is only in a spirit of patriotism and
love for one another that Sierra Leone can extricate
itself from its current mess. What we say, and will
continue to say is that, the structure of the current
APC Government does not reflect the nation's interest.
On the contrary, it manifests a Northern clique and
exposes further, the Party's greed, deceit,
ethnic-propelled, ethnic-oriented and anti-Sierra
Leone motivated agenda.
As concerned Sierra Leoneans, committed to rid Sierra
Leone's body polity of power usurpers, parasites and
political prostitutes; politics of god-fatherism,
opportunistic individualism, crass individualism,
opulence and immorality, we, of the PDL have resolved
to lead a national campaign for the formation of a
Parallel Government outside the APC Kleptomania, to
rid the system of the scheming emperors and rogues
lurking behind the curtain. It would be the goal of
the proposed Parallel Government to wrest our
democracy.
In respect to this, the PDL has advised its Party
cadres across Sierra Leone to seek the support of like
minded Sierra Leonean individuals and groups, and
God-willing, the proposed Parallel Government would be
put in place soon. The struggle must now intensify to
elevate Sierra Leone's body polity from the gutter of
base rude tribalism, nepotism, intrigue and mafia cult
to that of political decency, progress and dignity.
What we need in Sierra Leone at this crucial moment is
a leader who could champion the struggle for a
complete change of the rotten system or status quo
into real freedom; and for achieving stability,
progress and respect for all Sierra Leoneans in the
comity of nations.
Sierra Leoneans no longer cherished leaders who have
not abandoned the sacred narrow path and make
themselves vampires. The PDL does not recognise a
government in Sierra Leone, which is linked to
imperialist rape in Africa. Besides, the Ernest Bai
Koroma's led government was borne out of fraudulent
and unconstitutional arrangements, and therefore,
cannot be described as democratic.
We conclude by warning APC gurus not to run the
domestic affairs of Sierra Leone as US satellite in
the region.
Senders:
1. Alimamy Bakarr SANKOH
Leader and Chairman of the PDL.
2. Amadu B. BAH
PDL Secretary for Foreign Affairs and International
Solidarity.
Subject: Re: SIERRA LEONE PEOPLE'S DEMOCRATIC LEAGUE CONDEMNS CABINET
From: Detective
To: All
Date Posted: 15:41:03 10/11/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 144.87.143.3
Message:
Wasn't Foday Sankoh's wife a Senegalese living and operating from Dakar?
Subject: Re: SIERRA LEONE PEOPLE'S DEMOCRATIC LEAGUE CONDEMNS CABINET
From: Bai Bureh
To: All
Date Posted: 00:56:37 10/11/07 ()
Email Address: rastafari_ish@hotmail.com
Entered From: master-02.brg.sgsnet.se at 193.11.202.74
Message:
My take on this is:DEAD MEN DON'T COUNT.One wonders where such an obscure and unscruplous group have been hibernating when the people of Salone had been suffering for the past ten years.When all patriotic and sane-thinking saloneans are becoming more proactive,here is a group still living in the past thinking the best for them is to be reactive.Where are their inputs regarding solutions to the Salone problems? What about inputs regarding selection of the right people for ministerial positions? Instead of ranting and raving with such destructive criticism, they could have put their wonderful ideas into the present melting pot for a better Salone.
Subject: Re: SIERRA LEONE PEOPLE'S DEMOCRATIC LEAGUE CONDEMNS CABINET
From: Cornelius Hamelberg
To: All
Date Posted: 21:44:08 10/10/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: c-1e1271d5.01-32-73746f42.cust.bredbandsbolaget.se at 213.113.18.30
Message:
Childish. Unqualified. Rather stupid. Laughable. Hysterical and Absurd. Not to be taken seriously. Will be more explicit later in the day.
Sengbe to lead SLPP to the 2012 attempt to regain POW-er?
You will have to work harder at bagging this: