Subject: Proud of the Forumites.
From: Mammy Blessing
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Date Posted: 12:29:49 09/21/07 ()
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Congratulations to all the APC supporters who have transformed themselves from election warriors to hawkish watchers of Ernest Koroma.
Those SLPP supporters who thought that we were going to be sycophantic toe lickers of Ernest should have another think coming.
The next elections will be in another 1800 days...until then we will try to get value for the country from those we elect.
This does not mean we will be on the sidelines, looking for the new gov to fail or wagging our finger in smug disapproval. Rather we will be pulling for Ernest to succeed with flying colors and we will be suggesting ideas (many of which will be ignored anyway) and looking for opportunities for the country.
If the new rulers misrule or act like insensitive pricks, we will not be sparing in our outrage. Salone first, baby!
We know Ernest cannot even attempt to solve all the seething problems. We just need him to provide uncorrupted leadership..
Subject: POLICE BOSS REFUSED ORDERS FROM PRESO
From: alieu sesay
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Date Posted: 10:17:14 09/21/07 ()
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According Preso: I called him three times with respect to the LOOTING...I called him at 9 am, 12 Noon and 4pm..."
Brima ACHA where were you when the President wanted you to do your JOB and protect the people of sierra Leone?
Subject: Re: POLICE BOSS REFUSED ORDERS FROM PRESO
From: Mammy Blessing
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Date Posted: 11:38:26 09/21/07 ()
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Where did you read that buddy? If so, the prez should start cracking skulls.
The penalty for insurbodination? Fire Brima Acha's butt!
Yes, it is insurbodination because he probably checked his voicemail, heard the prez's pleas and ignored them while attending to his amorous sugar daddy duties.
Subject: Re: POLICE BOSS REFUSED ORDERS FROM PRESO
From: Candid Opinion
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Date Posted: 11:46:24 09/21/07 ()
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And what if he was asleep..?
Or he is not allowed to..?
There can be a thousand variables in play and we are just looking for the most sensational to give the chap a bad name..
Not that he is not a first class ahole.. you dont get to be police chief without been one..
Subject: L@@K===>>> Fellow REGENTONIANS!!!
From: Nah Sabi Talk
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Date Posted: 10:05:16 09/21/07 ()
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Name: Nah Sabi Talk
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Subject: Re: Regentonian Web
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I know of this site... It's run by H. Finley... He has done a wonderful job for us all... But it's not easy to leave all to one man... He has his family and business, we all must try to help and contribute!
And we need a place where we can post live info or message to one another... We are living in such times now!
We need a place to meet and put ideas together for now...
I am suggesting at MYSPACE....
It's a great place for this kind of meeting, well equiped for all, irrespective of time and locat1on with many tools to handle our desires...
I have close to 3,000 views and 1900 friends from all over the world and they can be reached at an instant, on my own private site at MYSPACE...
I have taken the liberty of setting one up as a man that is of less talk and more action.... Now we must all try to go there and put our heads together...
the address is
http://www.myspace.com/regentonian
It's up and running and but needs some final touches which we can all do in time ...
We have to bring in Harold Finley as he is the pioneer...
We the young generation must begin to make a difference for this up coming thanks-giving!
Subject: Re: L@@K===>>> Fellow REGENTONIANS!!!
From: Londoner
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Date Posted: 11:36:55 09/21/07 ()
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That's the spirit of 'dioko'! Thank you Nar Sabi talk. I'll spread the word and of course I'll be there.
Subject: Can women solve Africa's problems?
From: Erica
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Date Posted: 09:40:40 09/21/07 ()
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With the current events in Liberia, some people have suggested that Mrs Ellen Johnson Sirleaf be made president of the country. After all she has previously run for the post and came second.
If this were to happen, she would become the first woman to lead an African country. At the very least it may prevent a power struggle between the two rebel factions in the country.
After what many would consider Charles Taylor's disastrous term at the helm of the country, many Liberians will surely be hoping that their new president will lift them out of conflict and despair, and focus on rebuilding the nation.
Is Mrs Sirleaf, as a woman, more likely to achieve this than her male predecessors?
In the past she has herself run a kind of kitchen for displaced people in Monrovia. Can you imagine her male counter-parts taking such a hands on approach?
Would she spend more money on education and healthcare and less on defence? Would corruption be reduced? Would there be better regional cooperation?
Or since she's been involved in Liberian politics for more than 30 years and even served under an earlier administration, would her tenure just be more of the same?
New era?
How different would Africa be if women held the reigns of power? That's the question we are asking on Africa Live this week.
Africa's female politicians are making increasing waves
For all the years that men have been responsible for running the continent, Africa's epithet remains the same: The land of poverty, wars and disease.
National women's groups are already fighting for laws to be changed for the greater good; laws on marriage, inheritance, traditional practices, education, healthcare, equal representation, the list goes on and on.
But African society remains a largely patriarchal one where male chauvinism is commonplace. Are men ready to part with their dominance? After all, it has been honed over centuries, and the habit has been passed down from one generation to the next.
In an Africa run by women what would be different? How would people's dreams be fulfilled and most importantly when Africa makes the news what would the headlines be?
Subject: Stop the Backwardness
From: Sam
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Date Posted: 09:33:56 09/21/07 ()
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Don't know if backwardness is a word, I am too upset now to look it up. I have been trying for days to reach the Statehouse website and of course it' down. The page simply was not loading for a few days and today it says bandwidth exceed. I can accept this excuse, but I doubt that's the reason it's down.
This is an appeal to EK's people- I know there is someone on here that keeps posting an email address for volunteers@ernestkoroma.org or something like that. This is one website that one would go to for info on the new govt and it is down. Please do a better job this time. Under Kabbah, it was not updated for days. There has to be something happening in th president's circle or in govt on a daily basis that can be added to the website. It simple shows how behind we are when simple things as having a decent looking government website that is updated regularly is not done. I don't want another website, especially one located in a foreign country, to be my first source of what my president/govt is up to.
Now please keep in mind that while the website was not as frequently updated as it should have been, there was one very good thing about it. It was not simply a mouth piece for Kabbah, it was not kabbah.com so please do keep that positive aspect of it going.
Subject: Re: Stop the Backwardness
From: campaign team
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Date Posted: 09:51:14 09/21/07 ()
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somebody is already working on the state website and you will see a daily updated website from next month, but for now you can pass your observation to ernest@ernestkoroma2007.com or volunteer@ernestkoroma.org
Subject: WALAHI- ERNEST KOROMA IS NOT THE REDEEMER AFTER ALL
From: SUBWANALAI
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Date Posted: 09:18:47 09/21/07 ()
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Comrades of the forum, like some of us said during the campaign process, we shall not sit by and allow anyone to further drag our people down the lane of rubbish. Guess what. Barely five days after his swearing-in ceremony, Ernest Koroma is leading a 17 (Yes, I mean seventeen man delegation to tour West African states of his choice. Seventeen? Does this guy think he is the stereotype Team Manager of a football club? Read, courtesey ALLAFRICA.COM
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Liberia: New Sierra Leonean President Ernest Bai Koroma Arrives in Country Friday On a One-Day Working Visit
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The Ministry of Foreign Affairs has announced that the President of the Republic of Sierra Leonean, His Excellency Ernest Bai Koroma, at the head of a 17-man delegation, will on tomorrow, Friday, September 21, 2007, be arriving in Liberia for a one-day official working visit.
The President of Liberia, Her Excellency Madam Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, and an array of government officials will meet President Koroma and delegation on arrival at the Roberts International Airport in Margibi County.
The Sierra Leonean President will be flying to Liberia from the Republic of Guinea, the first stop of a four-nation West African tour.
During the visit, President Sirleaf and her Sierra Leonean counterpart will hold discussions centering on bilateral relations ahd cooperation between Liberia and Sierra Leone, the Mano River Union and sub-regional security, ECOWAS, the AU, and on other matters of international concern.
At the end of the visit, President Koroma will be departing for Burkina Faso, the next stop of his sub-regional tour.
Subject: Re: WALAHI- ERNEST KOROMA IS NOT THE REDEEMER AFTER ALL
From: Alexander J.J. Coker
To: All
Date Posted: 12:24:08 09/21/07 ()
Email Address: alexander.jarrett@giantofmaryland.com
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It is very courteous to make calls to other Heads of State in neighbouring countries and start a dialogue remember Charles Taylor, what did he do to Sierra leone and do not criticize him for taking 17 people with him, Should he go by himself, those days of negative crticisms and tunnel vision thinking is over.
Subject: Re: WALAHI- ERNEST KOROMA IS NOT THE REDEEMER AFTER ALL
From: Mammy Blessing
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Date Posted: 10:59:53 09/21/07 ()
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17 man delegation?
La-i la!
I wonder who is in that delegation.
Seriously though, I think it is okay. Let him enjoy his junket. Personally, I would have liked his first visit to be in Europe and the States to meet with the folks who have the Kaffah. Broko broko Liberia and Burkina Faso? They are so hard-up that they might even ask us for aid!
Subject: Re: WALAHI- ERNEST KOROMA IS NOT THE REDEEMER AFTER ALL
From: alieu sesay
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Date Posted: 10:09:21 09/21/07 ()
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EK=TK...
Our Presidents are all the same. They Think alike...
Whats up with the seventeen man delegation?...
And whats up with ACHA and the President?
As the President, he should have showed us how TOUGH he is by putting a BOOT in the ASS of ACHA for refusing ORDERS..
But Oh yah.. DE-JAVU all over AGAIN
Subject: Re: WALAHI- ERNEST KOROMA IS NOT THE REDEEMER AFTER ALL
From: Bai Bureh
To: All
Date Posted: 09:51:44 09/21/07 ()
Email Address: rastafari_ish@hotmail.com
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So what? Maybe by your standards he is not the redeemer we have been seeking but I think this first move is a step in the right direction. Maybe you are too young or not intelligent enough to know what such a move means.I wonder if you have any idea about the game of chess.
By the way why are you sounding off like a kindergarten? Why don't you wait.Kool man,chill out! If you live in the US go watch some dogfight and feel great.
Subject: Re: WALAHI- ERNEST KOROMA IS NOT THE REDEEMER AFTER ALL
From: M. Alieu Iscandari Esq
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Date Posted: 11:37:54 09/21/07 ()
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I wonder if you have any idea about the game of chess.
I am VERY GOOD at this game my friend.wanna PLAY online?
Subject: Re: WALAHI- ERNEST KOROMA IS NOT THE REDEEMER AFTER ALL
From: Sam
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Date Posted: 09:47:16 09/21/07 ()
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SUBWANALAI. you won't sit by idly? What are you going to do about it?! His choice of countries are interesting though. Liberia and Burkina Faso play major roles in the rebel war. Is he adding Libya to the list soon? Liberia I can understand, but why Burkina Faso, what's the point? He should have toured the length and breath of Sierra Leone to get first hand accounts of the needs of the people, before thinking about foreign trips, unless its to go beg for money. Then again, if Sarkozy can take a vacation in the US no less a few days after taking over, I guess EK can start taking "working" trips too.
Subject: Re: WALAHI- ERNEST KOROMA IS NOT THE REDEEMER AFTER ALL
From: Ishmael Yillah
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Date Posted: 12:33:11 09/21/07 ()
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For everyone!
blaise compoare is the current president of the ECOWAS and Mr. Koroma (not sierra leone)is a new member of the ECOWAS, therefore, it is important for him to tour the ECOWAs countries first before going to any european country. Furthermore, Mr. koroma have toured all parts of sierra leone during campaigning he understands the pain of the people, therefore, it is important for him to tour the whole country again. Finally, the people of sierra leone needs progress not labo-labo from a president that tours around the country and make false claims and promises.
Subject: Re: WALAHI- ERNEST KOROMA IS NOT THE REDEEMER AFTER ALL
From: Cornelius Hamelberg
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Date Posted: 10:14:47 09/21/07 ()
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Keep on guessing....
Begin: “The old order changeth yielding place to new” my dear fellow and we are not talking about mere continuity….
There are old relationships that were established and this is the beginning of the new order…….
You are of course free to speculate to the full extent of your imagination. That’s within the law.
Our leader is an intelligent man on a mission. It doesn’t look like an unplanned or purposeless trip to merely shake hands and hear the word Congratulations - more like necessary and important consultations.
Guinea and Liberia have been watching the Sierra Leone elections with keen interest – not merely about Yenga or worries about the porous Liberia Sierra Leone border, just in case. Both our neighbours must be breathing with a sigh of relief……
Old relationships have to be renewed, assurances given about a new understanding. ….
I’m speculating too but not about “Nightsticks and water cannons, tear gas, padlocks,Molotov cocktails and rocks behind every curtain,False-hearted judges dying in the webs that they spin…”
As Mr. Koroma has made clear on his website, good neighbourliness is a priority and so the visits to Liberia and Guinea are understandable to you. (I'm assuming that when it comes to regional security, there is much that is not understandable to you and I have not observed you questioning any of the Golgotha travels of Messrs. Kabbah and his anointed to far away places like Bangladesh and even further field. Now if he had taken off to London and Brussels which are in everybody’s orbit, you would be talking even more – Atiku Abubakr took off to London in the midst of what then looked like Chaos……
I suspect that you know all about the as yet still unopened indictment don't you?
"No reason to get excited," the thief, he kindly spoke,
"There are many here among us who feel that life is but a joke.”
The end.
Subject: Re: WALAHI- ERNEST KOROMA IS NOT THE REDEEMER AFTER ALL
From: Cornelius Hamelberg
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Date Posted: 09:41:13 09/21/07 ()
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He is the president and you are not.
He has the madate to lead and that is what he is doing and not taking any dictates from you.
He is the head and not your tail.
Subject: Re: WALAHI- ERNEST KOROMA IS NOT THE REDEEMER AFTER ALL
From: SUBWANALAI
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Date Posted: 10:11:13 09/21/07 ()
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My take here is the size of his entourage. Who is going to foot the bil..you..you Cornelius. This is how we started applauding for all those failed leaders of yesteryears. Keep on singin...Doctor Orloh dae?
Subject: Re: WALAHI- ERNEST KOROMA IS NOT THE REDEEMER AFTER ALL
From: Cornelius Hamelberg
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Date Posted: 10:49:05 09/21/07 ()
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I understand your concern.
But a seventeen man delegation, a few bodyguards, ministers to be secretaries who know the substantive issues…? C'mon that's a little dinner party down the road. I’m sure that even you could foot that bill conveniently.
Do you know how many business soul men and women accompanied Bill Clinton to South Africa?
More than 700 (seven hundred)
Pity that we don't have a single plane called Sierra Leone Airways for K & B to have been flying even further afield for the price of one.....
It’s KOL NIDRE in 45 minutes…. And so I must be on my way ….
Have a nice weekend.
Subject: L@@K>>>.......For Mohamed Fofana !!!
From: Nah Sabi Talk
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Date Posted: 09:09:49 09/21/07 ()
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To Nah Sabi Talk
I am shocked to hear this from you. People voted for a positive change and not for a change for hooliganism, intimidation and vengeance.
I don't know how old you are, but this has been the behavior of APC youths since the early years of Siaka Stevens. During the early days of Siaka Stevens, the APC youths matters into their own hands. The open APC youth offices where they drag people to their offices and manhandle them as if they were the law enforcement officers.
Your citing of Los Angeles and New Orleans as an example is incorrect. Nobody as intimidated another person in USA because there was a change from Democrat to Republican or vase versa no matter how suppressed as they are. They rise up to fight for their right but not because there has been a change in political power.
This is not what the people vote for. The APC are letting the president down. We should remember that people have not forgotten the violence days of APC. However, they gave chance to APC because of President Koroma's trust. The youth will make many other Sierra Leoneans who did not vote for APC say, we told you about the violence, but now you seeing for yourself. This is not with APC youths in Sierra Leone. The APC leadership has to step in instantly and set examples to say that this is very undemocratic
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Sorry for the long awaited delay... Had to honor some appointments.
Please try to recover from your shock, me man...
Either I had failed to be more clearer than I was or you misunderstood the essence of my recent posting...
First and foremost, even though it is now cool to proclaim the APC banner, I am stating it for all to know, I am not a member of the APC nor the SLPP period!
I support anyone, irrespective of race, age, political affiliation, education, tribe or class, that is positively contributing to the betterment of my people and country.
I gravitate towards those that have my country at heart and HATE WITH PASSION those that are raping and playing selfish dirty games just to maintain and sustain their pork bellies...
To the issue at hand, I was merely pointing out that the behavior of those people is not out of the ordinary, and you yourself have cited many examples under Siaka Stevens of such behaviors... All that I was trying to say is that, you will not find much of that kind of behaviors perpetrated by those that are well-to-do, educated or are members of the cream of their society... Behaviors like that are more prevalent amongs the despairs than the elites of any society... Leave the suburb and visit any inner city anywhere and you will see that, there is a subculture ... There! People don't think like you and me, it's all about survival, hustling and bustling, getting my own share now... kind of mentality!
So you see my brother, those folks that are running around doing what we are hearing about, may have not even participated in the election, but taking advantage of an opportunity or a loophole at a time when they knew they will get something they otherwise may not have at any other time... People do gain from social and political chaos! People even do become millionaires due to wars.
It's one thing that this guys are doing something that we are all ashamed of, but it's another to say, what they are doing is very strange, out of the ordinary or a unique characteristic of APC youths or any other political party's youths... We must stop these kind of WARRING words!
I honestly do not want to encourage long postings. I don't think that these are the platforms for such...
Subject: Re: L@@K>>>.......For Mohamed Fofana !!!
From: Sabanoh
To: All
Date Posted: 11:34:11 09/21/07 ()
Email Address: Sabanoh007@yahoo.com
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Where were you when HINGA NORMAN was going around killing people with his kamajor friends? Kabba made this Hinga Deputy Minister of Defence and allowed him to carry out all the atrocities for SLPP. At least EK did not send the people out in the streets to kill his opponents. These people are using this as an opportunity to go after the SLPP goons that have been molesting them for the last 10 years.
Subject: Re: L@@K>>>.......For Mohamed Fofana !!!
From: Mohamed Fofana
To: All
Date Posted: 10:52:12 09/21/07 ()
Email Address: mfofana2004@sbcglobal.net
Entered From: at 204.108.96.22
Message:
Thank you my brother. I am with you as you said below.
A. “I support anyone, irrespective of race, age, political affiliation, education, tribe or class that is positively contributing to the betterment of my people and country.”
-We are in the same category as stated above. I have had my experience in supporting parties. When become a party loyalist, you pretend not see the party’s mistakes at all. When you criticize your party for doing wrong, your own members look at you with different eyes, say and do many strange things to you.
I am loyal to my country first. Even though I disagree with most of what John Lee have said in the past, but at least he is one person that criticize his own party as well as others.
B. “All that I was trying to say is that, you will not find much of that kind of behaviors perpetrated by those that are well-to-do, educated or are members of the cream of their society... Behaviors like that are more prevalent amongst the despairs than the elites of any society...”
-That is true. The law enforcement have to be on top of things to tackle this kind of behavior, otherwise, investors and those of us sacrificing to go back home and resettle will be discouraged. That is not good for our beloved country.
C. “It's one thing that this guys are doing something that we are all ashamed of, but it's another to say, what they are doing is very strange, out of the ordinary or a unique characteristic of APC youths or any other political party's youths... We must stop these kinds of WARRING words!”
-My brother, it is not strange at all or out of the ordinary. Now that we know that this kind of behavior is likely to occur, the law enforcement officers have to be on the al3rt. They should not wait to react late; rather they should use preventive measures. That will deter the despaired people from such behavior.
Stay blessed my brother.
Subject: Re: L@@K>>>.......For Mohamed Fofana !!!
From: Nah Sabi Talk
To: All
Date Posted: 11:12:02 09/21/07 ()
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Message:
I think it was a misunderstanding...
More important here...
Man! I went to your project site online.. What a splendid project indeed!
You must have a heart of gold and a conquering lion spirit!
What a blessing for Sierra Leone to call you her Son...
I am proud of you and pray that God will continue to bless and protect you in all your endeavors!
That's what I'm talking about!
Subject: New UNDP ranking
From: Ishmael Yillah
To: All
Date Posted: 07:18:31 09/21/07 ()
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Message:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070920/lf_afp/environmentsocialcountries_070920151835
Subject: Cocorioko are you for peace or destruction in sierra leone?
From: abubakarr jalloh
To: All
Date Posted: 07:14:03 09/21/07 ()
Email Address: lahasaba@yahoo.com
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Message:
The president elect His excellency Ernest Bai Koroma, am sure will not welcome people that are not trying to heal the wounds created by the tense just concluded election. I noticed immediately the editorial describing Mr.Charles Margai, as the baby teeth that tore the SLPP into pieces the youths who were reported to be APC tore down the SLPP party headquaters and went into rampage and shouting slogans in krio " Des Na We Time For Betteh We Sef". I want to believe the youths are not alone in this thinking. Why did the folks at Cocorioko who are so fast in getting information from their correspondents in Freetown failed to condemn such behaviour immediately instead they glorify it by saying it was caused by SLPP supporters. As a member of the peaceful and decent SLPP party I found such allegation by Kabs-Kanu and his team as very insult. Why on earth will SLPP supporters go after their own Ministers, Nigerian, Fula and Mandingo traders ? Does it real make sense to reasonable people. Look my friends at Cocorioko if you are looking to better yourselves please leave the grand old SLPP party out of it. You can continue to tell the stories of the APC, it is your right, but please be decent enough to be a builder of bridges and not a destroyer.
Another instances of complete lack of knowledge of the recent history of Sierra Leone was demonstrated in an article written by one Sherman, who called himself assistant editor of Cocorioko. Mr. Sherman, the desciption of Sierra Leone as a failed state was done by the UN during and immediately after the war. So, ex-president Alhaji Ahmad Tejan Kabba, was right to say he inherited a failed state. No human being is perfect, ex-president Kabba, did inherit a state where law and order was non exsistence but they manage to make Sierra Leoneans able to be law abiding again, that in it self is an achievement. I hope the recent lawlessness of our youths will be addressed with seriousness.
Finally, I am sure Rev. Kabs-Kanu, our current president will appreciate it very much if you and your team will continue to be supportive to the APC party by calling for a National Reconciliation Day of prayer for all Sierra Leoneans. Wherein all of us will meet and exchange well wishes for a better Sierra Leone. The parents of the young man killed during the looting of the SLPP party need people like you MAN OF GOD, to comfort them with prayers or better still raise funds to help them bury their son with dignity .
Subject: Re: Cocorioko are you for peace or destruction in sierra leone?
From: KABS KANU
To: All
Date Posted: 09:33:23 09/21/07 ()
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Message:
JALLOH,
It is easier to criticize others .You are a Sierra Leonean yourself.Did you take a pen and write to the Editor condemning the violence ? Did you write anything appealing for peace and national reconciliation ? I USED TO DO THAT WHEN I DID NOT HAVE A NEWSPAPER. YOU DON'T HAVE TO BE AN EDITOR.
As for our stand with regards to national reconciliation, go to the paper and read our editrial : NOW IT'S TIME FOR NATIONAL RECONCILIATION AND NATIONAL RECONSTRUCTION.
You start the ball rolling about raising funds and we all will cooperate.Sierra Leone belongs to us all. Don't wait for others to do everything.
Subject: Re: Cocorioko are you for peace or destruction in sierra leone?
From: Observer
To: All
Date Posted: 10:55:23 09/21/07 ()
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Why did the folks at Cocorioko ....failed (should be fail)
I found such .... team as very insult. (should be insulting)
Another instances of complete lack of knowledge .... (should be instance)
Kabba, did inherit a state where law and order was non exsistence (should
... but they manage to make Sierra Leoneans (should be managed - tense sequence)
"No human being is perfect", quoting your own words, However isn't your poor knowledge of the English Language, a cause to believe you can't see the forest for the trees and the reason why the likes of you bet on the wrong horse.
When are you guys going to face the reality that SLPP failed the nation out of their own choice? SLPP chose the greed of personal enrichment over the development of the nation - No light, no H20, no infra- developments, "dondo" (the krioman would say). Not even a kitchen. Your ACC could even catch a roach.
Consequently the people who were to serve chose APC/PMDC over them.
In life you get what you reap my friend. Don't expect to catch fish if your bait if you bait is strawberry. SLPP should have learned learn from the mistakes of the the old APC your mistakes, and instead of dancing to, listened to the Lyrics of Emmerson's "Two foot arata" song. The writing was all over the place.
Give Cocorioko a break.
Subject: Re: Cocorioko are you for peace or destruction in sierra leone?
From: abubakarr jalloh
To: All
Date Posted: 11:21:27 09/21/07 ()
Email Address: lahasaba@yahoo.com
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Mr.Mrs. or Miss. Observer, Why are you so afraid to show your real name. I sent my posting which you spent so much time to correct without proof reading because I was rushing to work this morning.However thank you for your correction but that is not a lack of knowledge of the english language as you pointed out. Your likes just cannot handle the truth. I am SLPP and am proud to have been a supporter of SOLO-B.
Subject: Re: Cocorioko are you for peace or destruction in sierra leone?
From: Observer
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Date Posted: 12:18:23 09/21/07 ()
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Democracy is the right to choose your moniker of choice. You are what you post and not who you are. What
proof is there that you are who you posted as?
Being a proud supporter of a party the majority of whom are migrants of old APC and persona nongratae of the new, says a lot about you and co-votaries of your two fut arata moribund party. Had your man been that good, he would not have had to dish handouts from his residence fo votes.
Subject: Re: Cocorioko are you for peace or destruction in sierra leone?
From: Candid Opinion
To: All
Date Posted: 11:29:08 09/21/07 ()
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Entered From: ns.nucleusns2.com at 12.44.12.126
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Jalloh.. You are wasting you time..
F*&ker always going around sitting on shit.. thinking he is better than the shit...
FYI....kaka fly nor betteh pass kaka..
There i said it..
Proff reading.. going about correcting.. with an air of (whatever the f*&k you think you have around you) fart..
How about what do you have to add to the thread..? em?
Silly human..
Subject: Re: Cocorioko are you for peace or destruction in sierra leone?
From: kamara
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Date Posted: 08:33:38 09/21/07 ()
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Abubakar, Cocoriko is a Apc Mouthpiece to the end,. Some of the board members are out lobbying for jobs in Freetiown thinking they were responsible for APC 's victory. Forgetting that the electorate in Sierra Leone voted SLPP out not anyone with a false sense of importance in the diaspora.
The President should step up and put and end to violence instead of galavanting abroad. It is easy to criticise when in the opposition.
What are Sierra leoneans going to do what when the expatriate merchant class lives . We are going end up like Zimbabwe.
God help us
Subject: 100 % Coco rio & Co should be BOLD about APC thuggery.
From: Candid Opinion
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Date Posted: 11:36:03 09/21/07 ()
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Revo....
Where is your allegiance..?
People of salone (APC, SLPP, GREEN, BLACK, FULA, YALONKA) etc.. or just Bra Obai..?
Are you one of those..
eh eh eh eh eh.. emmm...
See no evil | Hear no evil | Talk no Evil
monkeys..?
http://www.thethreemonkeys.com/
Subject: Re: Cocorioko are you for peace or destruction in sierra leone?
From: Cornelius Hamelberg
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Date Posted: 08:24:45 09/21/07 ()
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"As a member of the peaceful and decent SLPP party"
Am I a member of a warlike and tiffy-tiffy & corrupt political conBention?
Subject: Re: Cocorioko are you for peace or destruction in sierra leone?
From: Cornelius Hamelberg
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Date Posted: 08:24:26 09/21/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: c-088472d5.01-32-73746f42.cust.bredbandsbolaget.se at 213.114.132.8
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"As a member of the peaceful and decent SLPP party"
Am I a member of warlike and tiffy-tiffy & corrupt political conBention?
Subject: Basco silent on the violence
From: kamara
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Date Posted: 07:09:50 09/21/07 ()
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Basco, Why are you and cocorioco so so silent on the violence being perpetrated on our people. Tell Ernest We are praying for him. Let him and cancel the trip and put and end to the violence. he as a businessman should know that he can not afford lose investor confidence, which the former SLLP Govt was slowly acheiving.
Let him get rid of those opportunists like Foday Mansaray who have nothing to offer Sierra Leone but are presently busy in Freetown threatening to fire people from their present jobs eventhough they hold no formal appointments in the Govt.
Again tell your thugs up north to quit or else they are going to destroy the new ideas and plans Ernest has for Sierra Leone.
Subject: Re: Basco silent on the violence
From: Basco
To: All
Date Posted: 09:21:25 09/21/07 ()
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I do regret the lose of life and property suffered by SLPP and ordinary citizens. However these things come about after years of abuse. could the looting done after NPRC took over power be laid on the heads of NPRC supporters? Or ditto the AFRC coup.
SLPP had systematically degraded the youths both socially and economically. You guys are lucky individual SLPP ministers ,movers and shakers were not set upon. Next time in power the SLPP I hope will have learnt that trampling on the masses with their Pajeros and Cherokees and villas up at Hill Station will bring a back lash.
kamara I now you see your self as an aristocrat and have nothing in common with the ordinary man in the street but if you ever hold power,you have to try and understand what makes the common man tick. Or else you will loose power quickly like your arrogant SLPP.
Subject: Re: Basco silent on the violence
From: kamara
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Date Posted: 11:32:00 09/21/07 ()
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Aristocrats, may not have anything in common with the ordinary man. That is why they set up founadations to help the poor. Something our leaders need to learn. Set up a fondation and put some of that stolen money in there. If the kleptocratic APC millionaires had set up foundations to help the poor with their looted funds, may be we could have avoided the rebel war. And SLPP ministers ditto.
By the way I sent up a fondation under the name of my late father that handed out scholarships to students at Forouabay college a few years ago. We did it again for other Sierra Leonean organisations this year.
You are right SLPP are elitists but they need to share their wealth with the people through charities and founations.
Take care Basco, Do not keep silent too long because the opposition is vigilant.
Subject: Re: Basco silent on the violence
From: Basco
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Date Posted: 12:00:12 09/21/07 ()
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Well done to you! I have done some charity work for primary schools. Now you could do the same in providing cash for a couple of minor operations a year with doctors for poor people who cannot afford them(something I am going to do). Then we could move onto dentistry. It benefits the patient and doctor.
If everybody does a little bit we could slowly take the burden of the poor man.
Subject: Re: Basco silent on the violence
From: Ishmael Yillah
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Date Posted: 07:34:56 09/21/07 ()
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Mr. Kamara, it is unfortunate that the SLPP building was vandalize in freetown. However, you should also understand that the perpetrators were disgruntle youth, most of them were former rebels, who have watch for years the wealth of the country been stolen by the SLPP politicians. The police was unable to quell the chaos because SLPP had it own private security (kamajors) in the building during the chaos. As the IG stated on focus on Africa, it is also possible that the kamajors started the looted to compensate themselves before the civilians joined them in the looting.
Subject: Re: Basco silent on the violence
From: kamara
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Date Posted: 08:23:39 09/21/07 ()
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Regardless who looted, We want the pesident to take
charge and bring order or else it will drive away investment from sierra leone. Without investment there will be more poor and angry youths. Unfotunately for the new president he has no time for a honeymoon as sierra leonean is plagued by a myriad of problems.
Cancel the trip abroad until the looting and violence has stopped. Hurry up and name a cabinet so the nation can move forward. I would think he would have a list by now with the long election process.
Mr president , remember Sierra leonean electorate is impatient and hungry
Subject: Re: Basco silent on the violence
From: The Truth
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Date Posted: 08:33:53 09/21/07 ()
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even if he name his cabinet now, they cant be approved until the new parliament is sworn in which is scheduled for October.
Ernest is doing all he could just on his own to quell the spate of unrest. he has appealed to the police to step up security; he has appealed to SLPP former ministers to continue with their current position until the new cabinet is sworn. what else do you want him to do. For God's sake, it has only been 4 days since he was sworn in - he can't possibly secure manna from heaven.
Pleasee a break!! All Enest is doing is aking individuals to be patient until he has his team in place.
Taking a one day trip to see his neighbors is not out of context; it is the best stride. Indeed, you should commend Ernest for making strides to meet with SLPP ministers and other SLPP administrative staff in order to appeal for patience.
Subject: The Thorpe Convention is established
From: silent majority
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Date Posted: 06:41:05 09/21/07 ()
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The steadfast Madam Christiana Thorpe has let it be known that she will not accept a ministerial position. I hope that she is able to serve many more terms as our NEC Chairperson.
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culled from standard times....
Unlike her Liberia counterpart, Frances Johnson-Morris who accepted an appointment from President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf to be justice minister, Thorpe said she has no intention of accepting a ministerial appointment from President Koroma.
“No, no, I’m not interested in being a minister. I have a five-year mandate with the electoral commission. I have three more years to go, and once I finish that, I will start thinking of something else,” Thorpe said.
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This is a precedent that I hope will be followed by all future NEC chairpersons.
In the meantime i hope that all attempts to 'attack' the integrity of the electoral system in the just concluded elections are vigorously pursued by the authorities and the perpetrators brought to justice so that so far as political aspirants are concerned, to coin a phrase " The fear of Thorpe is the beginning of wisdom"
Subject: Re: The Thorpe Convention is established
From: HAWA KEBE
To: All
Date Posted: 11:14:57 09/21/07 ()
Email Address: kebehawaya@yahoo.co.uk
Entered From: adsl-75-4-207-23.dsl.irvnca.sbcglobal.net at 75.4.207.23
Message:
YOU ARE THE WOMAN OF THE MOMENENT,CONGRATULATIONA.you belive in hornesty,you are a patriot and a true SIERRA LEONEAN,i hope the new adminstration will follow this great example.THANKS
Subject: Re: The Thorpe Convention is established
From: HAWA Kebe
To: All
Date Posted: 11:04:19 09/21/07 ()
Email Address: kebehawaya@yahoo.com.uk
Entered From: adsl-75-4-207-23.dsl.irvnca.sbcglobal.net at 75.4.207.23
Message:
YOU ARE THE WOMAN OF THE MOMENENT,CONGRATILATIONS,you are a true SIERRA LEONEAN you belive in hornesty you are a PATRIOT and i hope the new adminstration will follow the great example you prove to be .THANKS
Subject: Re: The Thorpe Convention is established
From: Tamba Moiwo
To: All
Date Posted: 06:51:16 09/21/07 ()
Email Address: moiwo@hotmail.co.uk
Entered From: host86-146-133-172.range86-146.btcentralplus.com at 86.146.133.172
Message:
"The fear of Thorpe is the beginning of wisdom"
Well she is NOT. The good Book says the fear of the Lord is the beginning of Wisdom.
Dae woman don descend into carnality bigtime--would you not say so REV Kabs? She left God's way for man's way.The lease said, the better.
If the APC lost these elections ,they would have been jumping around crying she rigged in favour of the incumbent.Mamy Thorpe,nar thankless job you do.Only the good Lord can make recompense.But then what would you know having plunged into the depth of CARNALITY?
Subject: Re: The Thorpe Convention is established
From: Mammy Blessing
To: All
Date Posted: 09:39:58 09/21/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 165.155.200.143
Message:
Tamba, bra blow pan de poor woman. some of the greatest figures in history had a swinging old merry time in the "depth of carnality". Heck I am all for carnality as long as it does not warp your humanity.
Christina Thorpe deserves our respect and admiration for her accomplishments.
I hope she stays on and conducts the next elections in 1800 days.
Subject: Re: The Thorpe Convention is established
From: Margarita
To: All
Date Posted: 07:01:04 09/21/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 208.41.8.154
Message:
"She left God's way for man's way"
Tamba, how do you define God's way? I know serving human beings with your best God given talents is as godly as been a nun. No? The catholics believe that you serve God better by serving maa. She did just that. humanity cants crave for more from her. I am a strong SLPP guy, but I have enormous respect for this illustrous Sierra Leonean daughter. I have never trusted the APC because of their history, and I hope I am wrong this time, but I very much respect the integrity of the process.
Margarita
Subject: SIERRA LEONE ENGINEERS ASSOCIATION
From: Bai Bureh
To: All
Date Posted: 06:10:47 09/21/07 ()
Email Address: rastafari_ish@hotmail.com
Entered From: dator6071.161.gbgsd.se at 62.88.181.216
Message:
Fellow engineers it has been my dream (and I beleive there are also many like me)to have this kind of body back home which think might be of vital importance as far as development is concerned .My objective is to create a kind of interaction among Sierra Leonean engineers both at home and abroad by discussing ideas on how to contribute towards or help build a technologically-advanced or competitive Sierra Leone.
In light of this, I am expecting you to give the idea serious thought and co-operate.I think it is hightime we wake up and start mapping out strategies so as to join the developing world.
Subject: Re: SIERRA LEONE ENGINEERS ASSOCIATION
From: kamara
To: All
Date Posted: 06:51:52 09/21/07 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
khotor bureh, You have good ideas. Why don't you emgineers in the diaspora put your moneys together, form and register a formidable company that could compete in Sierra Leone. Hire the best business professinals and warn them if they steal any money that they will be severely prosecuted.
There is a lot business in Sierra Leone handled by non sierra leoneans,/
Subject: Re: SIERRA LEONE ENGINEERS ASSOCIATION
From: Bai Bureh
To: All
Date Posted: 10:03:55 09/21/07 ()
Email Address: rastafari_ish@hotmail.com
Entered From: master-02.brg.sgsnet.se at 193.11.202.74
Message:
I have all those ideas you have mentioned but I can't go it alone.If I want to include non-Sierra Leoneans I can do so but I want everything to be done by us.I am even envisioning a Salone where we can produce vehicles and machines,where we can design and develop power stations, produce or assemble computers for the average Sierra Leonean's use etc. etc. Now all I need is a coalition of the willing.
Subject: Re: SIERRA LEONE ENGINEERS ASSOCIATION
From: Mohamed Fofana
To: All
Date Posted: 11:23:35 09/21/07 ()
Email Address: mfofana@lausd.net
Entered From: at 204.108.96.22
Message:
Excellent idea. This is what I saw at Gatwick airport, in London. 1. Dream 2. Dare 3. Create 4. Grow 5. Expand.
If this is your dream, please dare to go after it my brother. Then in the process of daring, create something. Once you create, you grow. Then expand as far as you can go. Let it be result oriented. As a science person, let it be practical. All the best.
I love people like you.
Subject: MOHAMED YAYAH SILLAH, ANOTHER PENDULUM-POLITICIAN
From: SUWANALAI
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Date Posted: 05:26:43 09/21/07 ()
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Entered From: at 194.32.41.72
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Friends and Countrymen, please help to analyse this letter by Mohamed Yayah Silla, published by AWARENESTIMES. During the elections, it seems Yayah Sillah has been swinging like the pendulum at my old Granpa's Fireplace. Damned SLPP today, support them tomorrow; and no, it has to be APC. What kind of politicians are these. Friend's, HIKRA(READ):
NATIONAL ALLIANCE DEMOCRATIC PARTY (NADP)
Republic of Sierra Leone
MOTTO: "WITH GOD, ALL THINGS ARE POSSIBLE"
North American Headquarters
P. O. Box 4628, Atlanta, Georgia 30302, USA
September 18, 2007
His Excellency Ernest Bai Koroma
President of the Republic of Sierra Leone
State House, Freetown, Sierra Leone.
Dear President Koroma:
It is with great delight that in the name of the National Alliance Democratic Party (NADP) and in my own name, I extend heartfelt congratulations to you and your gallant political party, the All People’s Congress for your victory in the just ended historic elections in our dear country.
Your election as President of the Republic of Sierra Leone, raises a new hope that with your caliber of leadership and patriotism, Sierra Leone once again may become a shining star in Africa, richer in unity and stability and unmatched in possibilities for greatness.
Although our party is an opposition outside of parliament, I wish to assure you that we will do everything humanly possible to ensure that your administration becomes one of the finest and exemplary in the history of Sierra Leone. I am convinced that your success as leader of our nation will redound to the greater benefit of current and future generations of leaders in our country. It is our collective duty to ensure your success.
May God Almighty anoint you with knowledge and wisdom as you lead Sierra Leone through the tunnel of darkness with your steps of light. May He bless the works of your hands.
Sincerely,
Mohamed Yahya Sillah
Leader and National Chairman, National Alliance Democratic Party (NADP)
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Subject: President Ernest Koroma Must Beware Of Political Chameleon
From: Bonthe Pikin
To: All
Date Posted: 03:29:11 09/21/07 ()
Email Address: bontilaynga@gmail.com
Entered From: 203-167-156-39.dialup.clear.net.nz at 203.167.156.39
Message:
President Ernest Koroma Must Beware Of Political Chameleon
Posted by Emmanuel Komba Saquee on Sep 20, 2007, 17:59
The chameleon’s uniqueness lies in its ability to adapt to the color of any environment it finds itself in. From a layman’s (like me) point of view, this uniqueness is two-fold. Firstly it affords the Chameleon the ability to disguise itself by easily looking like the environment, and secondly it provides protection when once the disguise has been established. What is not visible though is what is going on in the inner thoughts of that chameleon. Rightly put in our lingua franca, “ all condo lae don nar groun, u nor no wus wan en belle dae art” (It is hard to tell which Lizard suffers from stomach ache as they all move with their tummies down). The latter is what really demands some questions: does the chameleon genuinely want to be part of the environment? Is it just seeking temporary protection only to change colors as it moves to the next environment? Has it got any predatory instincts to feed on helpless preys in the environment? Is it there as a spy? Should its slow movement be viewed as weakness or a camouflage to unleash terror? As you read this article I’m sure you will come up with your own questions and answers. I will therefore suggest that we all look back at the post independence political history of Sierra Leone and see how these chameleon-like characteristics have influenced our politics, and how we can embrace or disgrace them.
As the nation dawns a new political era, the defeat of the SLPP, is not really the biggest victory, because the SLPP was in power before and was defeated before. The victory will lie in setting realistic and achievable goals in areas the SLPP failed to perform in, and that will enhance the quality of life of our people. My heart always bleeds when I hear or read our country being referred to as “diamond-rich”, when we realistically have nothing tangible to show for it. It therefore behooves one to ponder: why this irony? Our country is very small to go through the sort of suffering our people have experienced amidst the abundance of human and natural resources. This is what really worries me, especially when you consider a country like Gambia, which is not blessed with any viable natural resource, but manages to make basic amenities available to her citizenry. Most embarrassing was/is when Sierra Leonean university graduates queued/queue like school children for teaching jobs in that country in search of a better standard of living. This is in no way saying its ‘bread and butter’ in Gambia. Though the reasons might seem apparent to many, what still remains a mystery is: why do we continue to languish at the far end of the world’s poverty ladder in the midst of abundance? This is the one single-most important question for our new President His Excellency Ernest Bai Koroma and his team. I would like my readers to please understand that I am not overlooking the war and the impact it had on our country. What I am stressing is that something has been seriously wrong with the way politicians have been running our country and it needs urgent attention.
It is against the above background that I will implore our new President to be very cautious in his approach to implementing his “zero-tolerance” proposition as far as tackling corruption is concerned. There are many political chameleons lurking in the outskirts of the corridors of power, some of whom have already blended colors, and others are patiently waiting to pounce. It is without doubt that since independence, there are individuals who have always had a part to play in every government either for better or for worse; I wonder whether any one’s profile really fits the ‘better’ descr1ption- you could count on his/her experience to move the country forward. It is no secret that during the electioneering campaign there were a lot of complaints about government offices been virtually turned into grave yards, with no available senior local civil servants to carry out the day to day business of government, who rather chose to pledge their allegiances to their godfather (S). Don’t get me wrong; it is definitely all right for civil servants to support a political party of their choice like any other citizen. What is not all right is when they choose to go on the campaign trail and abandon their offices. Be rest assured Mr. President these are going to be the first people to start calling you the ‘Pa’ (that is if you are not already fed up with it). These are the people who don’t go on vacations, and always have their office doors locked when they are not around for fear of somebody else occupying it or discovering some dubious paraphernalia. This is actually one sector of chameleons to check out to see how many times they have changed colors instead of doing government work since independence, and find out whether they still have enough color left to blend into the new system. I am not talking about witch-hunting, but advocating efficiency in realizing the ethics that accompany successful governance.
Another area heavily infested with chameleons is our foreign missions. Our foreign missions have for most of the time been loaded with political appointees, who busy themselves with promoting political party interests rather than putting the country on the map. It didn’t come, as a surprise to me in London when out-gone president Kabba was quick to notice the mounting of the SLPP flag at a meeting for Sierra Leoneans in the Sierra Leone High Commission during one of his visits at the time of his exile in Guinea. The act prompted him to say it was a “Sierra Leonean meeting not an SLPP one”. This was something to have been appropriately dealt with by the then High Commissioner, and not wait for the ‘Pa’ himself. That demonstrates how even in periods of crisis the chameleon fails to see the bigger picture and its mesmerized with blending with the immediate environment. It is of course no secret how certain so-called diplomats were desperate on wreaking havoc in the recently concluded elections instead of being at their missions hosting press conferences, updating the outside world about the democratic progress the nation was making, thereby putting themselves in good standing with the new government and rightly earning their salaries. What should we say about this? – “Those who live by the sword, die by the sword”. Again, its not witch-hunting. I just believe and I’m convinced well- meaning Sierra Leoneans believe that if you don’t do a job you are paid for you deserve to be fired. But again, we are talking about chameleons; never underestimate their strategies to blend.
Please, let us not forget the Chameleons that criss – cross tribes to associate with certain tribal organizations, which wield power in the nation. We all know about the wonderful ‘EKUTAY’, which attracted membership across the nation. By then the APC was very all right as long as an ‘EKUTAY’ chameleon from Kenema could become vice President. This really brings me to a very important question-Who amongst our politicians was not APC in those days? May be Charles Margai, Kai Foday (from kono) … help me name them. I’m sure if they existed they must have led a very quiet life. I also recently learnt from an online article by Karamoh Kabba that ‘TEGLOMA’played a very important role in the Elections prior to the 2007 one, and that it did not happen this time because of the birth of the PMDC.Thank God for that. I am quite sure that some tribal criss-crossing must have taken place during this period. The point I really seek to make is that we have a set of politicians who have got away with murder because of these Chameleon-like characteristics, and who will not stop at anything in their pursuit of recognition and power. There are also those who do not really seem to have any strong convictions about what they stand for. We all saw how certain people shifted their positions on issues when once it became clear that the APC had won the August 11 Elections. How can we trust our nation’s destiny into the hands of these political chameleons that only want to be in the spotlight for selfish reasons and not in the national interest? My advice therefore to His Excellency is, in his bid to form a Government of national unity, he should please watch out for such politicians, and do a color check on them and don’t allow them to camouflage him. I am 100 percent for national reconciliation, and I would even recommend that he visits Kailahun first and make the Yenge issue a priority, but let it not blind him to the fact that there are spoilers out their.
Finally, to the President himself I would say, you have a very difficult task ahead, and don’t be overwhelmed by the victory. I am pretty sure the SLPP did some positive things, but not enough for the people to trust them with another term. This could rightly be summarized in former British Prime Minister, Tony Blair’s word when he described the nature of development under the SLPP as “painfully slow”. Don’t say you will supply electricity to Liberia when Freetown is still in darkness, or build a bridge across to Lungi, when the ferry you have is not properly functioning, and permitting killer Helicopters to be flying people. You can simply start with initiating “keep the city clean” campaign through the appropriate authority and I bet you the people will enjoy doing it for you. And I plead that you open avenues that will develop the nation’s younger generation so they don’t all end up being “san-san” boys. On the whole, if any Chameleon wants to visit this new environment they should blend with your ideals to push the country forward and don’t allow them to drag you into their own established environment. Mind you, they have been very powerful, and with all his UN experience Tejan Kabba couldn’t handle them. Remember that power actually belongs to the people and not the chiefs or other big guns, and they will be writing your report card in 2012.I’m pretty sure Mr. Berewa has learnt that lesson and you could greatly benefit from his advice on this.
I pray God grants you and your team the wisdom to steer the ship of state safely.
May God continue to bless our land and our people.
Emmanuel Komba Saquee
Subject: COCORIOCO CHANGED IT'S HEADLINE FROM ERNEST KOROMA MEETS -
From: TigerSheik
To: All
Date Posted: 02:42:06 09/21/07 ()
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I want to know why did Cocorioco changed it's headiline, "PRESIDENT KOROMA HOLDS TALKS WITH BRIG. MARDA BIO AND COL. NYUMA". And replaced it with,"MAADA BIO AND TOM NYUMA GO TO STATE HOUSE TO PLEDGE LOYALTY TO APC GOVT".
My good friend( JAMBA SMOKER) was the first to raise this question, Whether it was a right move. my reaction was like hell no! it was definitely a dumb move.
Whether you agree with me or not,i think we have just started seeing decietfulness or is it a mistake by this media to delibrately change it's headline to downplay the damaged already inflicted by meeting these two men at a time which was not appropriate but a time that could have been spent by the President to denounce thuggery and mob justice.
Why is the change to "MAADA BIO AND TOM NYUMA GO TO STATE HOUSE TO PLEDGE LOYALTY TO APC GOVT"? It seems like who ever is responsible is trying to play with the the intellingence of people in this fora.
What message are you sending with your latest Head? Trying to tell us that these guys went to the state house uninvited to pledge their support? See the imperfection of your logic. It's better you keep it real, by sticking to your old head than making fool of yourself.
Subject: Re: COCORIOCO CHANGED IT'S HEADLINE FROM ERNEST KOROMA MEETS -
From: Mammy Blessing
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Date Posted: 05:27:29 09/21/07 ()
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I really believe this to be a non-issue...
Editors make and change decisions based on incoming info all the time..it is their right too, I guess.
If you suspect chicanery or manipulation, simply refuse to be "chicaned" or manipulated.
The reality is that Ernest's legacy will be molded by facts on the ground. Not Cocorioko's headlines.
Subject: Re: COCORIOCO CHANGED IT'S HEADLINE FROM ERNEST KOROMA MEETS -
From: Sam
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Date Posted: 09:17:46 09/21/07 ()
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I love and support this newspaper,and I thank you for making it available. But this is an interesting one. Mr. Kanu, could you please explain the motive? Once a news story has been printed, unless the report was wrong and errors need to be changed, it's not showing journalistic integrity when you change the it.
I haven't delved into the grammatical nuances of both headlines to see whether you all should be giving Cocorioko such a hard time about it, but why change a headline? I have been reading posts about people complaining about being censored here. If you could change a headline, you could certainly block posts you don't like. Caveat - This does not apply to foul language people.
Subject: Re: COCORIOCO CHANGED IT'S HEADLINE FROM ERNEST KOROMA MEETS -
From: gongoli
To: All
Date Posted: 02:51:02 09/21/07 ()
Email Address: gonos@yahoo.com
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Typical of cocorioko......don't forget they are the best....the speak before they think........over to you Assistant Editor in Chief. Talk about Sylvia Blyden, same wine, different bottle.
Subject: RE: For Bambay
From: Mohamed Fofana
To: All
Date Posted: 23:43:43 09/20/07 ()
Email Address: mfofana2004@sbcglobal.net
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You said that your fighting days are over. I don't fight. I reason out with others even if we disagree. Now let me tell you. I don't belong to any political party but I love my country. If you care to, visit my website at www.zaimohfarms.com and click on photos. You will see the project I am working on in Sierra Leone. See the youths I am providing employment for out of my meager salary here. People that have thanked me for providing employment for them so that they can take care of their families.
Some of us don't want to blow our own horns. As a Sierra Leonean, we should sacrifice and go back to develop our country. It is not the big talk that matters. And don’t go back with the hope that government must employ you.
As a matter of fact, I have had a retirement canceling with my employer to take early retirement to go back home. They told me that I have not reached retirement age. I told them that I will then resign. I was told that I can only get my retirement benefit when I am 55. I told them, I don't mind that. That is how serious I am to go back. I have given them 2 to 3 years time limit for my resignation.
Trust me Bambay, when I go back, I will not depend on the government. I want to finish my own project that I started in 2005 and become self employed. Every year since 2005, I sacrificed and save some money. Then go home and invest. I do something little every year until the project is completed.
I studied agriculture at Njala, Animal husbandry in The Netherlands, and soil science in Norway before coming to the USA. Before that I, was a secondary school teacher in Sierra Leone, after graduating in June, 1985. Hence, my project is agriculture based.
Here in the USA, I am a high school science teacher. You will not hear from me anymore Bambay. I will not respond to your postings, even if you respond to mine like you did this time. It's a waste of time. I have to focus on my project in Sierra Leone.
Good night and I wish all the best.
Subject: Iscandari & Sengbe and to All Forumites
From: Albert Moinina (Moses Fakeh)
To: All
Date Posted: 22:11:53 09/20/07 ()
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To say I am impressed by your attitude is an understatement. You have set a very good example for both older and younger.
May I likewise apologise to all those who I may have offended for expressing my strong views about the SLPP. It was nothing personal, but love for SL. Let us move on and contribute to make a better Sa Lone.
My true identity is Moses Fakeh.
Subject: Re: Iscandari & Sengbe and to All Forumites
From: nico
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Date Posted: 09:52:23 09/21/07 ()
Email Address: nicoleconsult@hotmail.com
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Nico equals Yankuba Kai-Samba. I put my country first, sorry folks. But I shall continue to speak out because I believe in what I say and do.
Subject: Re: Iscandari & Sengbe and to All Forumites
From: Mammy Blessing
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Date Posted: 05:16:28 09/21/07 ()
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Moses Fakeh, your posts have always been a good read and I hope you continue with your immense contributions to the discourse in this forum. We all need conciliation in Salone if we are ever going to see a lick of progress. That is why the reports of post poll violence distress me. Those who perpetrate this violence not only damage the gov't, they damage the country.
As for me, I still hold on to all my pseudos until progress actually accompanies our democracy. Besides, I enjoy the occasional cheek as when I blasted the esteemed professor Kelfalla Kallon as an illiterate professor for comparing the old APC to Nazis who wanted to annihilate Mendes. I remember the professor, who I have come to admire, defiantly firing back at intellectual terrorists and brigands he accused of thuggish intimidation.
I occasionally wonder who the fellas behind some of the great ones are: Bra Enviable, Jay, Tamba Moiwo, Candid One, Subwanalai, Bai Bureh, Sorba S, Concern, News, Political, Kamara, Alieu Sesay (Bra ar know say U get boku handle dem),Bonthe Pikin, Nar U Sabi and Bambay Lans Kamara( please, please tell me you are a pseudo!) and so many others. Maybe some of them are neighbours or drink buddies!
Mammy Blessing=Victor Moigua=Max Vandy=Malombo Sweet=Henrietta Vandy.
Subject: Re: Iscandari & Sengbe and to All Forumites
From: alieu sesay
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Date Posted: 08:17:29 09/21/07 ()
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"Alieu Sesay (Bra ar know say U get boku handle dem"
Thats a fact.. But like you, i will stick to some of these handles for now until there is a U-turn in our country's development ladder....
Ar nor want mek APC YOUTHS(45-70) lock me up.
Subject: Re: Iscandari & Sengbe and to All Forumites
From: Albert Moinina
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Date Posted: 06:04:58 09/21/07 ()
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"Mammy Blessing=Victor Moigua=Max Vandy=Malombo Sweet=Henrietta Vandy."
Mammy Blessing you funny. You make ah laf. LOL
Subject: Re: Iscandari & Sengbe and to All Forumites
From: Cornelius Hamelberg
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Date Posted: 06:45:29 09/21/07 ()
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The Patriot Post
Founders' Quote Daily
"I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country."
-- Nathan Hale (before being hanged by the British, 22 September
1776)
Subject: Priorities
From: veeme
To: All
Date Posted: 21:25:23 09/20/07 ()
Email Address: veeme51@yahoo.com
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It is nice to see the list of priorities from everyone's point of view for the new president to take up for our dear country to go forward, but few realities on ground if we look, then short term goals and long term needs should be seperated.
Lights: There are no cables laid from Bunbuna to Freetown yet, which means this is a minimum 18 to 24 months project based on donors funds coming on time.
Water: Guma Valley is supplying water but on a drive around greater Freetown area only, it is visibly shaking to see number of pipes are burst, leaking for if not weeks days together. More than half of Freetown does not have water lines laid at all. Result again 18 to 24 months and for this donor funds has to be initiated as this is not a project on board.
Clean city: Yes, this is short term, there are garbage collection trucks now in city, but equally important is to bring back the saturday cleaning, bring a total ban on plastic (we have a major weakness for plastic shopping bags which is the vital cause of blockage of all sewers in Freetown)and seek from the business community to adopt a street and maintain it.
Food for all: This again is just ONE SEASON goal. Focus on bringing new tractors (make sure to take back all the tractors from SLPP ministers) and the government should give land on lease of 8 or 10 years to anyone who is ready to cultivate strictly rice only. Locate the tractors in various strategic points and let the tractor be available for a minimal amount to farmers for them to start cultivation. Just one single season and the need for imported rice will reduce by half. Any day more practical than the Kabbah theory....
Subject: Re: Priorities
From: Bambay Lans Kamara
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Date Posted: 22:17:51 09/20/07 ()
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What are Sierra Leoneans thinking of doing to help in improving our nation must be our concerns at this point. Why most Sierra Leonean governments fail is because most Sierra Leoneans expect governments to do everything or their expectations is paramounly focused on donor nations.
Here we are, the President has not even fit into his chair yet, parliament has not convened yet we are rushing for miracles.
I think the President has started on a right footing by requesting for an audit because one cannot start a business without knowing the strenght of the economy, what is there and what is not there.
Let us give him a chance and focus on discussing things, we as a people would do to bring change and progress to Sierra Leone.
We have a right to have anticipations but I am of the impression that it is too early and we should spend this time congratulating the President and representatives, welcoming them until they start their job. Timing is very important.
Subject: WATERMELON POLITICS RE-EMERGING?
From: Jay
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Date Posted: 20:28:47 09/20/07 ()
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Are we witnessing the re-emergence of watermelon politcs under President Koroma.Mr.President,we are closely monitoring you,we supported you because of the love for our country and we believe that you have the wherewithal to move Sa Lone forward,but your coziness with those who have destroyed the country is a worrisome sign.
We can have reconcilliation without coziness,those that have looted state finances should be held accountable and those that have served the nation diligently should be commended.
This is just a gentle reminder of the nature of Sa Lone politicians,they go with the flow,yesterday they were GREEN,today they are RED.We are fed up with this type of politics and we are looking for new directions and we need your leadership.
Subject: Proposal : an NYSC for Sierra Leone ( another link)
From: Cornelius Hamelberg
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Date Posted: 17:52:54 09/20/07 ()
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I should like to propose that the government look into the idea of setting up a NATIONAL YOUTH SERVICE in SIERRA LEONE, of the type that we have in Nigeria. It’s a sound idea both the rationale and ideology and the national purpose behind it has proved very successful there, in Nigeria.
In essence, graduates are posted to serve their counties in whatever areas they have qualified - mostly as teachers, engineers, doctors, agriculturalists etc.
They are usually sent to areas other than the areas they were born in or come from. But Nigeria is a VAST country.
In the places I know best in Nigeria, i.e. Port Harcourt, Ahoada, Buguma, Bakana, Bonny, Umoku, Owerri, Aba, Umuahia,( all in the East of Nigeria) I met Youth Corpers from Borno, Kwarra, Ondo, Oyo, Ogun, Bauchi, Plateau, Lagos, Anambra, other States... this was also mostly their first meeting with Igbo people and people from Rivers State.
The most interesting people that I met were from GONGOLA, KANO and KADUNA…..
All the Youth Corpers I met and became friends with were very happy to be serving so far away from their local places of origin, and to be living in culturally exciting environments that were very different from those of their places of origin. Those were voyages of discovery and there were always things to write home about.
They were very much appreciated and often helped in alleviating qualified manpower shortages and the programme has been especially successful in reducing the shortage of teachers throughout the federation.
Of course we have the absurd situation of Freetown town dwellers who they say have “never been beyond Waterloo”…
In Nigeria, some of the Corpers have even fallen in love with members of the opposite sex, in the areas in which they have served, and decided to settle down there or return home with their new partners…
It has helped – considerably – in diminishing prejudices that people from one area have about people of an other area and of fostering a sense of national unity……..
These points can be expanded and embroidered on…. but I guess you get the drift ….
WE could learn more directly from Nigeria as to how the National Youth Corp Service operates.
Subject: Re: Proposal : an NYSC for Sierra Leone ( another link)
From: Lanre
To: All
Date Posted: 20:55:48 09/20/07 ()
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Cornelius,
Thank you my brother. That was well thought. We need an NYSC model for Sa Lone. The education ministry and that of youth and sports can send a working group (or fact finding mission) to Nigeria to understand the NYSC model (I am sure the Federal Government will even be willing to assist SL with the experts - like camp commandants etc.). While in college in Nigeria, new graduates were always very proud to wear the NYSC uniform for service while people will hail them as "government pekin". You seem to have a good memory of Nigeria - I think the Old Gongola State was split up in 1991 to Taraba and Adamawa States. A compulsary NYSC posting will help to buffer the unemployment encountered by young graduates in Sierra Leone. Sierra Leone is much small than Nigeria which will make the NYSC easier to coordinate. I hope Kabs Kanu will help convey this idea to the new government at the right time since they are obviously very busy at this time.
Thanks and keep the ideas flowing...
Subject: Re: Proposal : an NYSC for Sierra Leone ( corrected)
From: Cornelius Hamelberg
To: All
Date Posted: 23:36:03 09/20/07 ()
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Yes indeed Lanre,
I simply have to correct that gross error. You’ll find the correction when you get to it:
Good idea about sending a working group (or fact finding mission) to Nigeria to understand the NYSC model. We have a lot to learn from Nigeria. More regional co-operation and of course they will be delighted to assist in every way they can. We are best brothers. I can also say – and it’s true, I love and feel for Nigeria who by the way are under 17 World Cup champions: FOOTBALL!
Olusegun Obasanjo has been quite succesful in his war against corruption – (you know he has the military spirit). WE can learn much from Nigeria’s EFCC. And the new Government and Professor Henry Joko –Smart will agree that personnel have to be trained to carry out the work of the ACC effectively. Investigators, lawyers etc…
President Umaru Yar’adua is also working impressively in that tradition without any loss of momentum in the anti-Corruption drive.
Yes Gongola was split into Adamawa and Taraba - I haven't been there either but the company of Youth Corper friends I am talking about, was GREAT: longed to live in Kano or Kaduna but was contracted by Rivers state who offered 10& more than the Federal Government and furthermore Madam was all jazzed up about going to the Garden City- which returned to being a Garden City soon after Muhammadu Buhari and Tunde Idiagbon's WAI ( War Against Indiscipline) cleaned up from Mile One Market up, in Port Harcourt....
Are you Nigerian?
There is tremendous goodwill from the International community – even more than there was before: everyone is so IMPRESSED about Sierra Leone being a democratic country in which there was a peaceful transition of power, in the post conflict situation we are in – and it was a transfer of power through the ballot box that restored the APC that was couped in 1992 – back to power because the SLPP needed a rest from tirelessness – and you must admit that Pa Kabbah was a very energetic man going about so much on state business – I doubt that president-in-Ernest, Koroma will deliver as many speeches in as many days – in any case Ernest will not be personally leading delegations to OIC conferences.
People should desist from making silly statements about some incidents of violence on the day that Mr. Koroma was sworn in – as if it was orchestrated by the new government who have every reason to celebrate and not to be spiteful to anyone… such reports can be damaging and do not help those who are in “opposition” in any way whatsoever. So why should they pretend that these street acts are directed by His Excellency?
If anyone should be faulted it should be the Police. It’s their duty to maintain law and order.
Mr. Koroma is going to keep his pledge to combat corruption to the full extent of the LAW.
Yes it is a paradox in Sierra Leone that there is such high unemployment - up to 70% and this must be very frustrating for the youths who have graduated and seemingly have nothing to do.
Subject: Re: Proposal : an NYSC for Sierra Leone ( another link)
From: Cornelius Hamelberg
To: All
Date Posted: 23:22:32 09/20/07 ()
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Yes indeed Lanre,
Good idea about sending a working group (or fact finding mission) to Nigeria to understand the NYSC model. WE have a lot to learn from Nigeria.
Olusegun Obasanjo has been quite succesful in his war against corruption – (you know he has the military spirit). WE can learn much from Nigeria’s EFCC. And the new Government and Professor Henry Joko –Smart will agree that personnel have to be trained to carry out the work of the ACC effectively. Investigators, lawyers etc…
Yes Gongola was split into Adamawa and Taraba - I haven't been there either but the company of Youth Corper friends I am talking about, was GREAT: longed to live in Kano or Kaduna but was contracted by Rivers state who offered 10& more than the Federal Government and furthermore Madam was all jazzed up about going to the Garden City- which returned to being a Garden City soon after Muhammadu Buhari and Tunde Idiagbon's WAI cleaned up from Mile One Market up, in Port Harcourt....
Are you Nigerian?
There is tremendous goodwill from the International community – even more than there was before: everyone is so IMPRESSED about Sierra Leone being a democratic country in which there was a peace transition of power, in the post conflict situation we are in – and it was a transfer of power through the ballot box that restored the APC that was couped in 1992 – back to power because the SLPP needed arrest from tirelessness – and you must admit that Pa Kabbah was a very energetic man going about so much on state business – I doubt that president in Ernest Koroma will deliver as many speeches in as many days – in any case Ernest will not be personally leading delegations to OIC conferences.
People should desist from making silly statements about some incidents of violence on the day that Mr. Koroma was sworn in – as if it was orchestrated by the new government who have every reason to celebrate and not to be spiteful to anyone… such reports can be damaging and do not help those who are in “opposition” in any way whatsoever. SO why should they pretend that these street acts are directed by His Excellency?
If anyone should be faulted it should be the Police. It’s their duty to maintain law and order.
Mr. Koroma is going to keep his pledge to combat corruption to the full extent of the LAW.
Yes it is a paradox in Sierra Leone that there is such high unemployment - up to 70% and this must be very frustrating for the youths who have graduated and seemingly have nothing to do.
Subject: CORNELIUS, ARE YOU GOING HOME TO INITIATE IT?
From: krio boy
To: All
Date Posted: 19:33:48 09/20/07 ()
Email Address: krioboy@yahoo.com
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Message:
You say thing well but i have never seen you with any plan of going down to help your beloved country.Where you chased out of sierra leone by rebels?If yes,all has been over so please go help .
Subject: Re: CORNELIUS, ARE YOU GOING HOME TO INITIATE IT?
From: Cornelius Hamelberg
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Date Posted: 20:08:46 09/20/07 ()
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Message:
Rebels, Sobels, Jelly jells. JLs all are my friends…… and no, I wasn’t chased out of town I left Magburaka on 20th December 1969 and travelled by road through Kailahun, to Liberia, through Liberia and the Ivory Coast to Accra and after many adventures and a few hassles in Abidjan and Takoradi, finally arrived safely at the African Studies Institute at Legon, Ghana on the 2nd of January, 1970.
I was back in Freetown on 27th March 1970 – by air stayed until 8th of April 1970 when I flew returned by Ghana Airways, to Accra……….
The ministry of Education in concert with the other ministries could make an inventory of out manpower requirements and prioritise those needs and can encourage our youths in Sierra Leone and many of our qualified Diaspora people to the possibilities of making valuable contributions in developing mother or fatherland.
I guess that the main problem for some Diaspora folk will be a matter of accommodation.
Sure, I would like to get back to Magburaka and continue where I left off – teaching English although I think that I would much prefer to work at the Boys School and not Mathura where I ( and Hon. Amadu Jalloh – and Marianne Rogers- Wright worked under Ms Jonah……
The best instrumental band is most likely to be born in Magbuaraka since they already have the best guitarist… although freda maitland would like to overtake me in that too and teach me how to play some grammatically and linguistically astounding melodic and rhythmic solos – combined…… the way that he does. In his won rub and dub Hendrix Djludlu and Junior Marvin Eric Gale, Popolipo - Les Scorpios - Nene Chaku-Chaku, Ampadu & Koo Nimo style… maybe his ears will simply fall off- and then we can bury them
Now that the Peace Corps are back in Sierra Leone or on their way – and in Sweden – I’m sure that a similar programme called “Volontär” / Volunteers – similar to the Peace Corps idea – can be arranged with SIERRA LEONE as a host nation. This of course as a result of a negotiated understanding between the Swedish government and the Sierra Leone Government.
There are I’m sure many such programmes in countries like Canada, Norway, Denmark etc….
Subject: Re: CORNELIUS, ARE YOU GOING HOME TO INITIATE IT?
From: Kalos
To: All
Date Posted: 22:01:22 09/20/07 ()
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Message:
Cornelius is somehow difficult to identify, few months ago I was about 60% sure of his identity. I had a heated argument
with him sometime ago and presumptuously called him, "MR ENGLISHMAN", he detested the name-calling. Well, after
few exchanges we agreed on few things and agreed to disagree on others. Krio Boy, I agree with you, with all these
excellent ideas, there is room for him to serve his country.
Subject: Re: CORNELIUS, ARE YOU GOING HOME TO INITIATE IT?
From: Cornelius Hamelberg
To: All
Date Posted: 23:53:42 09/20/07 ()
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Message:
Toubab & Toubabu
I only heard BABU and thought someone was cursing again....
Subject: Re: CORNELIUS, ARE YOU GOING HOME TO INITIATE IT?
From: Cornelius Hamelberg
To: All
Date Posted: 23:50:52 09/20/07 ()
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Message:
Ohporto, Oyibo, Muzungu ,and in Ghana Obroni, Krio boy,
none of then is me
room for you and me
What's wrong with being an honourable Yoruba man?
The national pledge is a sweet taste in the mouth....
the high we exalt thee too
Subject: WONDERFUL AND NOW I KNOW WHERE YOU ARE FROM
From: krio boy
To: All
Date Posted: 20:28:54 09/20/07 ()
Email Address: krioboy@yahoo.com
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Message:
Happy to know now where you came from.I was always trying to ask but not sure you will like that.Your ideas are well grounded and hope you communicate this to KABS KANU for APC to know.
Subject: Re: WONDERFUL AND NOW I KNOW WHERE YOU ARE FROM
From: Cornelius Hamelberg
To: All
Date Posted: 22:05:02 09/20/07 ()
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Message:
Why shouldn't I like that?
About this NYSC idea - well I know the North - have been to Kabala, Fabala, and so on have been through the East through BO and Kenema a few times, but I'm sorry to say that I have never been to the South....
The idea of course - at least in practice in Nigeria transferred to Salone would mean that Northerners have an opportunity of enjoying Southern hospitality and being converted ( “the way to man's heart is through his stomach” and by the time the poor boy discovers that he can no longer survive without the de luxe version of da Jackie Tombo he will be sending a letter to Mary in Kambia that she can do as she likes but he is not coming back and has decided to settle down there in Pujehun forever in the true Graham Greene "Soup Sweet" tradition.
And likewise Southerners would be sent to the North, East to Wes, West to East, to North and South - but no one would stay put in his hometown or village.
Some of di Krio bobor dem go begin complain say too mus maskita dae Makeni. ehn some of dem Krio titi dem - dem aristo wan dem, especially dem wan wae no kin lek foh ride poda poda or take dem ole taxi ( can you imagine 3 O' clock in di morning ehn man wan ball, pikin dae say taxi dae smell make we wait for fine taxi wae noh go pwell im perfume... ) dem kind dae dem go go to di permanent Secretary ehn try for bribe am wit im booty make ee noh send am go Zimi…..
But above all some of di Westren area people dem noh go wan for go place way noh get light ehn wata ehn air-conditioning… but di bera dem dae MAKENI! Nah dae dem dae……
You sabi dae SERogesr im “ Babay leff mara”
“When ah call you say you see you moon,
when ah call you see di san …..
You know di wan way say “ Do me Justice?”
“ I don’t like the way you’re holding my -----
And why should you rock me like this…..?
Village life in Ghana and Nigeria is a close to paradise as you can get here on Earth….
About those Corpers, well the guys from Gongola, Borno, Kano, Kaduna were serious people- regaled you about Aminu Kano etc dignified, serious but especially dignified, impressive, honourable, cultured.
Most of the others were drunkards and womanisers or Christian fanatics like my friend TITUS AKANBU my Igbo Youth Corper friend….. He used to put his hand on my head and would be praying until beads of sweat were pouring out of his forehead….
I liked him very much but I simply just do not like the name TITUS.
If I had known that Savannah Bank at number 10 Aba Roda in Port Harcourt would have gone bankrupt with my money inside it, I would have withdrawn it and given it all to Titus.
Aminu Kano
http://www.google.se/search?rlz=1T4GGLJ_en-GBSE234SE234&hl=en&q=AMINU+KANO&meta=lr%3Dlang_en
Subject: A tough fight for President Koroma!
From: Mohamed Fofana
To: All
Date Posted: 17:42:14 09/20/07 ()
Email Address: mfofana2004@sbcglobal.net
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Message:
SLPP had won elections twice. The winners never intimated, harassed or vandalized anybody or property. APC youths did it during Siaka Steven's early years in office. Now APC youths are doing it again. This is why I said that President Koroma and APC have a tough fight ahead. These are the youths that supported you and these are the very youths brutalizing citizens in the country. You have to be bold enough to take action against them.
You win and brutalize people who did not support you? That style is adopted only by APC youths. When you win, you reconcile and move the country forward.
Subject: Re: A tough fight for President Koroma!
From: Bambay Lans Kamara
To: All
Date Posted: 18:28:10 09/20/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: sccinstr194080.scc.losrios.edu at 165.196.194.80
Message:
Mohamed Fofanah, in every civilization there is system set in place for the smooth running of such a civilization. In Sierra Leone, like any other civilization, including the first world democracies, we have the Legislative,the Executive and Judiciary branches of government. To ensure that the rule of Law is effective, most democracies try to maintain Separation of powers. So that the Legislature will not infringe on the functions of the Judiciary, and preventing the Executive from infringing on the powers and or functions of the Legislature.
Your position of apportioning balme to President Koroma and expecting him to take action about vandalisms caused by ordinary Sierra Leoneans is most paramount in dictatorships not democracies. You are asking him to shoulder the responsibilities of the Police and the Judiciary, which is convergently oppose to the Principles of Seperation of Powers/Checks and ballances.
Apparently, you are not very familiar with how democratic governments operate otherwise, you would have never apportion blame for what certain people do, even if they are within the functional wing of the "A.P.C. government.
Your suggestion, had you known democratic principles in a civilization, would have been directed to the Police and the courts, a branch of the Executive and the Judiciary whose duty it is to maintain peace and justice.
You do not see President Bush going around arresting people because he is President of the United States nor do you see Congress persons and members of the Senate arresting and Judging people. Knowing that there is a system put in place, even if they see one in the act of committing a crime, their civic responsibility is to call the Police whose duty it is to apprehend the offender/s.
What you are suggesting is not within the confines of President Koroma's mandate. Even if somebody is to offend him, he has no right under the law to apprehend such a person, except under certain conditions, order than that, he couldn't.
When most people talk about him having a task at hand, they are referring to leading the country forward, amidst the shortfalls that are prevalent in the socio-economic sector. How he can position the judiciary and the Police to ensure that they effect their duties for the maintenance of peace and justice.
Read about Sierra Leone first, about democracies and then come-up with reasonable suggestions. Otherwise, you will continue to make fatal mistakes as you have done in several postings.
Thank you!
Subject: Re: A tough fight for President Koroma!
From: Mohamed Fofna
To: All
Date Posted: 20:59:30 09/20/07 ()
Email Address: fofana2004@sbcglobal.net
Entered From: adsl-69-108-91-14.dsl.irvnca.pacbell.net at 69.108.91.14
Message:
Bambay,
I have come to agree that you do not comprehend what you read, as noticed by some people already. I want interested people read my posting. I did not apportion blame to President Koroma and expecting him to take action about vandalisms caused by ordinary Sierra Leoneans.
Read my posting again and show me where I did that. I said that "he has a tough fight ahead." That is a fact. He has called for calm but yet the thugs are not respecting his call. The police (Law enforcement officers are not acting to arrest the culprits. Is that not an example of a tough fight?
I also said that the same thing happened during the early years of Siaka Steven. Can you dispute that? Can you also dispute the fact that SLPP won twice but never hear of such behaviors?
When someone post something, read and comprehend it and dot not divert people’s attention by jumping
Subject: Re: A tough fight for President Koroma!
From: POLITICO
To: All
Date Posted: 22:10:55 09/20/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: c-98-204-44-243.hsd1.md.comcast.net at 98.204.44.243
Message:
Either way you will continue to be a "cry baby". The thugs out there are mostly SLPP sluggers that are
disappointed of the election outcome. The Sierra Leone police is under the executive, trust me
things will be fine.
Subject: Re: A tough fight for President Koroma!
From: kamara
To: All
Date Posted: 06:58:58 09/21/07 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
Were thugs at mile SLPP. APC are thugs and will not change. I really pray for Ernest as he surrounded by opportunists who have nothing to offer Sierra LEONe. EG , Foday Mansaray is out there threatening to fire people from their jobs.
Subject: Re: A tough fight for President Koroma!
From: Alie Formeh Kamara
To: All
Date Posted: 19:41:12 09/20/07 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
The President has not even nominated members of his cabinet.
On September 25, Parliament will convene for the first time. There would be the swearing in of elected members of parliament. Then elections will be held for the Speaker of the House and the Deputy Speaker of the House. Following which would be a formation of the Committee on Selections.
It would take some time before the Cabinet is formed. Ultimately, the Attorney General is the government's arm for prosecutions.
Subject: Re: A tough fight for President Koroma!
From: Cornelius Hamelberg
To: All
Date Posted: 21:21:43 09/20/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: c-088472d5.01-32-73746f42.cust.bredbandsbolaget.se at 213.114.132.8
Message:
Ali,
Don’t you wish that you were A-G?
A Sierra Leonean surgeon once told me that if the president was his patient then el presidente would discover the meaning of pain on that day. (This was in the early seventies)
I asked him” Wouldn’t you use an anaesthetic?
He looked at me as if I was an idiot – at least one without a medical degree.
As we all know, for the Mandinka man it’s his precious trinity: His money, His woman and His meat!
He cannot easily part from any of the three.
Your money or your life!
Your money or your wife!
Someone else could be demanding, “My money or your life!”
And the Pa could reply with this question, “Is money worth that much to you?”
And if you threaten some guys “Your money or your wife!” they could answer,
“You can have her, but not MY money…”
”the Attorney General is the government's arm for prosecutions."
Oh yes, the attorney general must be sharpening the edge of his sword to slaughter them....
If it’s the AG himself that is owed that $90,000 of impunity without interest for services rendered ( whilst they are busy decorating Sylvia Blyden) and if the AG in question is Hon. Francis, then the debtor should be anointing his neck with an analgesic should be pre-paring that neck for
Subject: Re: A tough fight for President Koroma!
From: Cornelius Hamelberg
To: All
Date Posted: 21:18:19 09/20/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: c-088472d5.01-32-73746f42.cust.bredbandsbolaget.se at 213.114.132.8
Message:
No comment?
Ali,
Don’t you wish that you were A-G?
A Sierra Leonean suregeon once told me that if the president was his patient then el presidente would discover the meaning of pain on that day. ( This was in the early seventies)
I asked him ” Wouldn’t you use an anensthetic?
He looked at me as if I was an idiot – at least one without a medical degree.
As we all know, for the Mandinka man it’s his precious trinity : His money, His woman and His meat!
He cannot esaily part from any of the three.
Your money or your life!
Your money or your wife!
Someone else could be demanding , “My money or your life!”
And the Pa could reply with this question, “Is money worth that much to you?”
And if you threaten some guys “Your money or your wife!” they could answer
“You can have her, but not MY money…”
”the Attorney General is the government's arm for prosecutions."
Oh yes, the attorney general must be sharpening the edge of his sword to slaughter them....
If it’s the AG himself that is owed that $90,000 of impunity without interest for services rendered ( whilst they are busy decorating Sylvia Blyden) and if the AG in question is Hon. Francis, then the debtor should be anointing his neck with an analgesic should be pre-paring for the laughing with imounity time over and now only
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Subject: Re: A tough fight for President Koroma!
From: Cornelius Hamelberg
To: All
Date Posted: 20:54:35 09/20/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: c-088472d5.01-32-73746f42.cust.bredbandsbolaget.se at 213.114.132.8
Message:
Your money or your life?
Your money or your wife?
Someone else could be asking, “My money or your life?”
And the Pa could reply with this question, “Is money worth that much to you?”
And if you ask some guys “Your money or your wife they could answer
“You can have her, but not MY money…”
”the Attorney General is the government's arm for prosecutions."
Oh yes, the attorney general must be sharpening the edge of his sword to slaughter them....
If it’s the AG that is owed that $90,000 of impunity without interest for services rendered ( whilst they are busy decorating Sylvia Blyden) and if the AG is Hon. Francis, then Johnny should be anointing who ever it is that is owing that sum should be pre-paring his neck for the sharp edge of
Subject: Re: A tough fight for President Koroma!
From: Cornelius Hamelberg
To: All
Date Posted: 18:39:59 09/20/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: c-088472d5.01-32-73746f42.cust.bredbandsbolaget.se at 213.114.132.8
Message:
Well said Bamabay.
You are a good teacher of men....
Noh men dem....
Subject: Re: A tough fight for President Koroma!
From: Cornelius Hamelberg
To: All
Date Posted: 19:01:12 09/20/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: c-088472d5.01-32-73746f42.cust.bredbandsbolaget.se at 213.114.132.8
Message:
Be strong, be patient and read the lettering to the morals offered at the very end.
Noh men: ah mean way dem bin dae tiffy-tiffy dem apolo-gisers dem noh bin dae complain.
Di toothless chimpanzee noh bin dae arrest dem ehn throw dem in di jail........
But that meeting with some members of the Intl community, behind closed doors must have told then a thing or two, like Bill Richardson to Mobutu:
”Yes, you've been our crook, but now either you go quietly or we KICK your ass -”and hang you after the Commission of Inquiry etc...
Poor Johnny E Leigh saying this saying that but the central reality for him is still HIS MONEY that his $90,000
Now if it was the APC of 1967-1992 that was overthrown by a military coup , that had owed him this money , that would have been a most central issue , but we all observer that this piddly sum has been on the backburner even as he sang Mr. Berewa’s song.
But no amount of praise –singing has helped him succeed in getting his money back.
It’s once more taking centre stage again as the centrepiece: notice the central SPACE that it occupies in that introduction and here let me help him amplify it by bringing it to your attention (of course if Kabbah or Berewa owed ME that little sum of money, I’d get it back after just ONE phone call- and they’d be happy to give it back (they could keep the interest of course.): Here’s a repeat of the poor brother’s appeal:
” “UNPAID $90,231.81 DEBT
Lastly, the Kabbah government has refused to pay Ambassador a debt of $90,231.81 owed him and has refused to explain matters to him ............................
THE KABBAH GOVERNMENT’S $90,231.81 DEBT TO AMBASSADOR LEIGH
In his Letter of Recall to Ambassador Leigh, President Kabbah promised to pay the Ambassador all his entitlements due him at the end of his six years’ service. Despite repeated reminders couched in very polite and respectful language to President Kabbah, the Minister of Finance and the Minister of Foreign Affairs, the Kabbah Administration has refused to pay Ambassador Leigh the $90,231.81 - in excess of Le 266,000,000 - owed him. Part of this amount is the balance due on the $150,000 Ambassador Leigh spent from private family sources to keep the embassy in Washington open during the interregnum in order to successfully fight the RUF/AFRC coupligans and restore the exiled SLPP Government and the SLPP-led Parliament back to their rightful places in Freetown.
Ambassador Leigh even proposed to President Kabbah in writing that he would be glad to accept payment in Leones or in kind in full settlement of the debt. Ambassador Leigh is yet to receive a response to this generous and kind-hearted proposal. It seems as if the Kabbah Administration has refused to communicate to Ambassador Leigh about the matter. The only response he ever received was from the Finance Minister, Hon. J. B. Dauda, who told him he would not be paid his money because he was recruited from overseas.
Ambassador Leigh explained to the minister that he was (i) hired locally, (ii) commenced his journey from Sierra Leone, and above all (iii) has a Letter of Appointment that set forth his entitlements upon the end of his service. In response, Minister Dauda asked Mr. Leigh to put all this in writing plus the fact that part of the debt was money owed to Mr. Leigh’s family for the cost they incurred in defeating the AFRC/RUF coupligans in an epic diplomatic fight that tremendously benefited Kabbah, Berewa, the rest of his chosen successors and insider group.
CAPRICIOUS REFUSAL TO HONOR A LEGITIMATE DEBT
Ambassador Leigh dutifully complied with Minister Dauda request but received no response. He followed up with several telephone calls and another letter but his appeals fell on deaf ears. To date Ambassador Leigh has yet to receive a penny in entitlements, not to mention the balance due on the $150,000 he spent in helping to get the Kabbah Administration and our 5-Party Parliament back to power in Freetown from exile in Conakry.
In December 2003, Ambassador Leigh was informed by SLPP friends in London that people from the Lodge informed them early that year that the Kabbah Administration will not pay Ambassador Leigh because they fear he will used the payment to contest against their chosen candidates. If such is true, it sends a wrong message to the international community that despotism reigns in Sierra Leone and that the country is not a suitable place to do business because arbitrary conduct by the powerful is part of how business is done in our country and there is no effective mechanism to resolve such wrongheaded decisions.
Not only has the Kabbah Administration failed to pay me the debt owed, they have steadfastly refused to communicate with me in this matter since my meeting with Minister Dauda.
Such conduct also sends the wrong message to our people that not only can our government trample on our lawful rights, top officials are free to show ungratefulness at will and punishment will be one’s reward for faithful and conscientious service to those at the top who personally benefit from the efforts and sacrifices of others.
A MOST LOYAL SLPPER TO DATE
John Ernest Leigh is the most loyal SLPP member who is today aspiring to lead the Party. The others have belonged to other Parties or non-SLPP regimes at various times: APC, NUP, NDC, NPRC, etc. Not Mr. Leigh. He has always been SLPP.
Despite the leadership’s patent unfairness to Ambassador Leigh, he remains deeply loyal to the principles of the Party. Therefore, he never gets angry when deficient leadership attempts to abuse and marginalize him. Rather, he works harder and increases his support to the Party.
After he lost his deposit at the leadership race in Bintumani in 1995, Mr. Leigh gave his full and selfless support to the Party, an effort that after the second ballot had cost him close to $45,000.
After the childish rudeness at Bo in March 2002, Leigh returned to his post in America, called the Party faithful there together, explained the happenings in Bo but requested their continued loyalty and help so the Party will win again in 2002.
The faithful responded. $17,000 was raised. Ambassador brought $12,000 to Freetown in early May 2002 and purchased 40 bags of rice, several liters of cooking oil and two bicycles for each SLPP district campaign team.
After he was recalled, Mr. Leigh continued to work with the Party faithful in North America, to strength the organization, raise funds and put its house in order. When Hilton Fyle tried to blame President Kabbah and condemned the SLPP, Ambassador Leigh went after him and explained the facts to the Sierra Leone public worldwide. Ambassador Leigh is ever on the al3rt to protect the good name of the Party.
After a political rival in May 2005 declined to cooperate with Ambassador Leigh in trying jointly to capture the Party leadership position unless the said rival became the automatic leader of the reform group, the Ambassador continues to leave the door of cooperation open to all those who wish to join forces to clean up our system of governance.
BLOOD DIAMONDS
Prior to relocating from Washington to Boston, Mr. Leigh completed work helping to reform the international trade in diamonds that resulted in the Kimberly Regulations - regulations that today cover the worldwide export trade in rough and uncut diamonds.
BUNCE ISLAND PRESERVATION, INCORPORATED
Presently, Mr. Leigh is serving as President of Bunce Island Preservation, Inc., (BIPI) a private charity group seeking to restore for posterity the Bunce Island Slave Fort in the Sierra Leone River where, for over a century, thousands of captured Sierra Leone rice farmers were held prior to shipment to Charleston and Savannah to develop and enrich the United States.
The story of Bunce Island is the intertwined history of three countries: UK, USA and Sierra Leone as well as that of France and other European countries. Through BIPI, Mr. Leigh intends to foster a new kind of mutually beneficial relationships between the people of those countries and Sierra Leoneans.
FAMILY
Ambassador John Ernest Leigh is married and has three adult children. He and his wife live in the United States but he will relocate to Freetown and Bo shortly. Mrs. Leigh will join him latter
MR. LEIGH’S ASPIRATION
Ambassador Leigh aspires to become the next leader of the Sierra Leone Peoples Party in succession to President Ahmad Tejan Kabbah. He respectfully asks for your support.
His aspiration is based on the fact that he has done more for the Party and the country than any other known aspirant and that of all the present aspirants, Ambassador Leigh has shown by his consistent conduct that he is and has been the MOST LOYAL SLPP ASPIRANT WHO HAS NEVER ABANDONED THE PARTY FOR ANY REASON WHATSOEVER. HIS RECORD ALSO SHOWS THAT HE IS A VERY PATIENT INDIVIDUAL WHO HAS BEEN GENEROUS TO THE PARTY AND THE COUNTRY AND WHOSE LABORS CONTRIBUTED MOST SIGNIFICANTLY IN RETURNING THE PARTY TO POWER (1) IN 1996, (2) FROM THE EXILE IN GUINEA IN 1998. (3) HE ALSO WORKED DILIGENTLY IN THE PARTY’S VICTORY IN 2002.
Ambassador Leigh’s record further demonstrates that he would do the most good to far more people than any other aspirant and that his leadership skills will strengthen the SLPP and bring respect to our country because he is genuinely democratic, loyal, hardworking, generous, fair-minded, public-spirited and loves this our country very much.
Ambassador Leigh respectfully asks all Convention delegates to cast their votes for Party Leader on the basis of MERIT and not on parochialism or sentiments or any other factor.
Please take and eat the money given you for your vote. BUT VOTE YOUR CONSCIENCE.
ELECT AMBASSADOR LEIGH LEADER OF THE SIERRA LEONE PEOPLES PARTY AT THE COMING CONVENTION IN MAKENI. ”
Subject: CHILDREN grow without PERMISSION
From: Almamy Razak Tun Seray-Wurie Si
To: All
Date Posted: 17:57:41 09/20/07 ()
Email Address: almamysi@hotmail.com
Entered From: 24hrpc8.cpmc.columbia.edu at 156.111.18.147
Message:
The saying goes, "Children grow without Permission"
In SL, youths takes advantage of an iota of confusion or lawlessness. This experience is first of its kind and no one must just blame a political party..SL is learning to be democratic and it pains especially for those with some backward mentality (be they a sand sand boy as JL says or a munku book man/woman)..
The earlier President Koroma announces a cabinet the better. For a long time now, SL politics have involved all police, army, navy, civil servants, etc
Cautious welcome (Wait and See) attitude or sabotage..
We must pray and live by democratic principles ourselves..Remember, Ghandhi said, "Be the change you want to see"
Subject: Re: CHILDREN grow without PERMISSION
From: Bambay Lans Kamara
To: All
Date Posted: 22:04:31 09/20/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: sccadmin195198.scc.losrios.edu at 165.196.195.198
Message:
Mohamd Fofanah,
Thank you for your response.
My fighting days are over. But I would like to ask whether your thinking is synonymous with my detractors? If that is the case, my sympathy.
What they thought they would achieve were wishful-thinking because they were focussed at themselves and their solemn understanding of the world; they were focussed at their small goups and tiny communities forgetting that the world is a big world, where there are hyrachies and they are not within these hyrachies. They did not understand that my history started when I was born in Sierra Leone, West Africa, that has continued to the present, which encompases everything I have done within that time frame. They wish to believe that I live in a despotic country instead of a democracy, one of the greatest in the world. Their perception of how the world works vs how these small communities of theirs want to operate, is out of wack but even that they cannot conceptualize. They were of the impression that savagery is gloried in a democracy, which is also wishful-thinking. They wanted to convince me and the people who do not understand, while forgetting that reality, especially at governmental level will always be reality whether them and I like it or not. Their persistence therefore, must be conceived to have come from only onething, ignorance of Africa and Ignorance of the world. Otherwise, they would never have tried, especially when they are being watched by the superiors of the world. It is foolhardy to venture such a scam. Who would blame them? I know I won't.
I am glad you took it back. Your writing is in black and white. Go back and read it and tell me what you were insinuating.
Thank you.
Subject: Proposal: A National Youth Service for SIERRA LEONE
From: Cornelius Hamelberg
To: All
Date Posted: 17:38:33 09/20/07 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
I should like to propose that the government look into the idea of setting up a NATIONAL YOUTH SERVICE in SIERRA LEONE, of the type that we have in Nigeria. It’s a sound idea both the rationale and ideology and the national purpose behind it has proved very successful there, in Nigeria
In essence, graduates are posted to serve their counties in whatever areas they have qualified - mostly as teachers, engineers, doctors, agriculturalist etc.
They are usually sent to areas other than the areas they were born in or come from. But Nigeria is a big country.
In the places I know best in Nigeria, Port Harcourt, Ahoada, Buguma, Bakana, Bonny, Umoku, Owerri, Aba Umuahia,( all in the East of Nigeria) I met Youth Corpers from Borno, Kwarra, Ondo, Oyo, Ogun, Bauchi, Plateau etc... this was also mostly their first meeting with Igbo people and people from Rivers state... all the Youth Corpers I met and became friends with were very happy to be serving so long from their local places of origin, and to living in environments that were very different from those of their places of origin.
They were very much appreciated and often helped in alleviating qualified man power shortages and been especially successful in reducing the shortage of teachers throughout the federation.
Of course we have the absurd situation of Freetown town dwellers who they say have “never been beyond Waterloo”…
In Nigeria, some of the Corpers have even fallen in love with members of the opposite sex, in the areas in which they have served, and decided to settle down their or return home with their new partners…
It has helped – considerably – in di9mishing prejudices that people from one area have about people of an other area and of fostering a sense of national unity……..
These points can be expanded and embroidered on…. but I guess you get the drift ….
WE could learn more dircetly from Nigeria as to how the National Youth Corp Service operates.
Subject: WHY CAN"T KABS KANU GROW UP
From: Cee
To: All
Date Posted: 17:02:40 09/20/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 69.176.196.103
Message:
Look Rev Kabs-Kanu, in case you did not notice, the elections are over. Those who supported SLPP and the APC are now trying to work hands in glove to move the country forward. Your continuous branding and utter obscenities are not helping the country or its image.
I wonder what you want to get from this new government? That is not the way to curry favour. Stop posting divisive and slandering pieces on the opposition. The next election is five years from now. We are all in support of the new government of Sierra Leone, do you notice, of SIERRA LEONE, not only those who were spreading negative/positive propaganda, which was understandable at the time. Can't yo just move on?
I guess you might try to dictatorially block me from further posting and delete my post, but the truth will catch up with you. This is just an appeal, you continue to do the same even on leonenet. Even when pictures are shown that enthusiastic APC supporters ransacked the SLPP office you claimed you had information that it was angry SLPP "thugs" doing that. The president Koroma has since publicly lashed out his supporters for doing that. You are loosing credibility and that will not help you, even for your bloated future ambitions.
You had done a good job in the past years by offering us a platform in the diaspora. Don't ruin all of it because you want to be noticed or given a position in the new government. Ernest Koroma is looking for more fair minded and responsible individuals who are bent on uniting not dividing the country, as you seem to want to do.
Subject: Re: WHY CAN"T KABS KANU GROW UP
From: The People
To: All
Date Posted: 22:31:37 09/20/07 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
Cee, you are an angry black man. I hope Kabs-Kanu will not respond to you nonsense. Go
jump off a high bridge as a sign of protest.
Subject: Re: WHY CAN"T KABS KANU GROW UP
From: Sierra Leonean
To: All
Date Posted: 17:47:26 09/20/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 144.226.173.69
Message:
Cee, I am not sure what your complaining is all about but can you please be specific?
I checked the editorial page at the following link and this is what I read:
Subject: Re: WHY CAN"T KABS KANU GROW UP
From: I Agree
To: All
Date Posted: 17:31:26 09/20/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 208.41.8.154
Message:
I agree. My assumption is that Kabs has now taken over Sylvia Blyden's role. he just cant get enough of that lady. Now Sylvia is in the opposition...well I am not sure. But kabs surely is rooting for this governmentand writing anything he could to be recognized. Above all, he enjoys been accused as a supporter of SLPP and I am sure he is going to print out those criticisms as his evidence when he gets the slightest chance to get close to Ernest in the hope of securing a job. My only contention is that, the standard of the paper has to increase. The grammar constructions have been appalling at best.
Subject: Re: WHY CAN"T KABS KANU GROW UP
From: Kanforie Sorie Koroma
To: All
Date Posted: 19:01:10 09/20/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: host-24-225-188-18.patmedia.net at 24.225.188.18
Message:
Why can't you guys get off the ack of Kabs Kanu ? Didn't he write a very powerful article on national reconciliation and national reconstruction ? I don't see anything that Kabs Kanu is doing wrong. He helped the APC win and they won. Did not your Sylvia Blyden write many articles trying to stir up tribal war ? We will start posting articles on this forum written by your Sylvia Blyden which could have brought war in the country.Leave Kabs alone. I don't see anything he is doing wrong.
Subject: Re: PICKING ON POOR KABS : WHY CAN"T KABS KANU GROW UP
From: Chuks Press
To: All
Date Posted: 19:10:56 09/20/07 ()
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Message:
Poor Kabs Kanu. SLPP people just can't stop picking on him because he changed the dynamism during the campaig. SLPP were flourishing with their lies and propaganda. When Kabs stepped in,he changed everything. Kabs has been doing this since Chuks Press .Remember ? Foday Kallon seemed to be losing to Surie Toure until Kabs took over his propaganda machinery .Then everything changed. Kabs kanu has always been like that.
Subject: Another SLPP person blames Gongorlee for defeat
From: The Nationalst
To: All
Date Posted: 16:49:59 09/20/07 ()
Email Address:
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Gongorlee Sylvia Blyden has been blamed by a second SLPP person for causing the party's defeat. He is John Ernest Leigh ,the one-time ambassador.
Subject: Re: Another SLPP person blames Gongorlee for defeat
From: John E. Leigh
To: All
Date Posted: 09:18:13 09/21/07 ()
Email Address: johnernestleigh@yahoo.com
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Dear The Nationalist:
I did not blame Sylbyana Blyden for SLPP's defeat. I wrote that she was one reason why the people of the Western Area turned against the SLPP.
The real reasons for SLPP's defeat are far more fundamental than the activities of one single opportunistic gongorlee jounalist. I have articulated some of these failures eleswhere in this forum and in several articles over the years both in Cocorioko Front Page and in the SL media.
Anyway, I thank you for your atentiveness to my postings. - JL
Subject: Re: Another SLPP person blames Gongorlee for defeat
From: Pot and Kettle
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Date Posted: 17:24:40 09/20/07 ()
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Isnt it like the post calling the kettle black?
Subject: JOHN LEIGH THE HYPCRITE
From: Bonthe Pikin
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Date Posted: 16:26:48 09/20/07 ()
Email Address: bontilaynga@gmail.com
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You are talking correctly about what I call gongorlee journalism. I believe that she is one reason people in the Western Area turned against the SLPP. Thanks. - JL
Bo John Leigh sidon dae saful. Nor to u en Sylvia bin dae bootlick Berewa, waetin u wan tell we now. JustShut up, no space for your two-tongue blabla in this new dispensation.
Subject: Re: JOHN LEIGH THE HYPCRITE
From: Nationalist
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Date Posted: 16:47:35 09/20/07 ()
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John Leigh is very right.Sylvia Blyden turned people against SLPP.
Subject: Re: JOHN LEIGH THE HYPCRITE
From: Almamy Razak Tun Seray-Wurie Si
To: All
Date Posted: 16:34:04 09/20/07 ()
Email Address: almamysi@hotmail.com
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Leh We tel God tenki Posin dem Lek John Leigh en Som Dem wae don See Di Politiks First Hand.
Pass mark Fit-Yaye Nor Fine Oh!
I think John Leigh told us a number of times that he was supporting Pa Berewa only for SLPP loyalty but truely he is a reformist..that's democracy
Subject: For Sengbe and Others Similarly Situated
From: M. Alieu Iscandari Esq.
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Date Posted: 16:10:12 09/20/07 ()
Email Address: aiscandari@aol.com
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Mr. Koker and others with whom I have had terrible disagreements, I offer this olive branch to you this day and my hand of friendship and brotherhood is hereby extended.
I know that in the past we have been at each others throats while advocating our diferent positions. We have each said to each other things that were unpalatable.
I have forgiven you and I hope you do me. For you sengbe, you have a wealth of knowledge that sierra leone could use and I hoe that you would be more than willing to share that information in the development of sierra leone.
Ernest Koroma has asked for Ideas and I believe that your input would be crucial. Kindly contact the Ernest Koroma for president website and contribute annonymously if thats what you chose to do. Publish your ideas on this site and let us debate its viability and if possible set up some small business concern to implement YOUR ideas.
Please feel free to contact me at the above e mail address. I BELIEVE that we can be constructive.
Stay Blessed
Subject: Re: For Sengbe and Others Similarly Situated
From: Cee
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Date Posted: 17:07:53 09/20/07 ()
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Bravo Alieu, Koker and others. This is what democracy should look like. The elections are over. I urge Kabs Kanu and the entire cocorioko production team to move away from the election frenzy and mud slinging to highlighting issues of development for our country. We are all solidly behind President Koroma to move this nation forward, as a united entity, not APC vs SLPP vs PMDC. It is one Sierra Leone. Thanks again Alieu for this mature move.
Subject: Re: For Sengbe and Others Similarly Situated
From: Sengbe
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Date Posted: 16:40:30 09/20/07 ()
Email Address:
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Dr. Koker holds no grudges except when his late mother is defamed by someone who was maybe 2-years old when she died in an accident. Having said that, Prof. Koker is ready to move on, and help in whatever way he can to bring his mother land out of the dark ages.
Your Secretary-General in the APC is my cousin. We grew up together, and he knows how to reach me should the need arise. There is nothing I cannot do for my motherland, so please rest assured that I will make my thoughts known relative to the way forward for national development under the RED SUN.
The SUN is FREE, and so is MOONLIGHT. So let us exploit SOLAR ENERGY for the sustainable energy needs we desire for the nation in the long term. Bumbuna has not yet materialized since the 80's. We can wait no longer.
A technical exposition of this proposal cannot be undertaken on this forum. It can be done through professional consultancy. I will be ready when they are.
The humility with which you wrote that piece above is very encouraging, and hopefully cooler heads would prevail in the future.
Cheers!!
Subject: Re: For Sengbe and Others Similarly Situated
From: M. Alieu Iscandari Esq
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Date Posted: 16:52:55 09/20/07 ()
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I have been exploiting that option with Mr. Mo Lahai one of my big brothers in the bay area and a lecturer in electronics at San Jose City College. May be you might want to talk to him about that.
Subject: Re: For Sengbe and Others Similarly Situated
From: Cornelius Hamelberg
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Date Posted: 16:38:56 09/20/07 ()
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Well well well, our till death do us die/part SLPP brother Sengbe is probably nursing his bruises and licking his wounds by listening to Fela of my ABEOKUTA TRIBE ( we great boy!):
http://hometown.aol.com/__121b_+/40b2FfFsQmY2umPm5OjTxsfTRXvpqn1AK/sw+YgYc=
Don't worry, he will soon recover and be feeling well again. You may forgive him but knowing Sengbe the way I ( "one han bangle") knows him , he will not be forgiving the people he calls "AKARTAS" in a hurry......
It's easy for you Alieu with all that jollification and jubilation as victor to be extending the olive branch and asking him " Sengbe BIG AXE won't you please come out to play?" even as you savour APC VICTORY. Dr. Koker and professor Konouwah may well think that you are gloating, or pure hypocrisy, although you and I know it isn't so.....
I hope dear Sengbe that this gift from your Yoruba brother will help you along to the Forum
Subject: Re: For Sengbe and Others Similarly Situated
From: Sengbe
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Date Posted: 10:08:50 09/21/07 ()
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Thanks Bra Cornie, for the blue music in that link.
The people have spoken, loud and clear, by their votes. I hear them, and I accept the message in their voices (votes).
While the representatives of the SLPP in governance were trying to solve longterm social, health, and economic problems,as per the dictates of developmental economists, the peoples of the land yearned for instant solutions to the problems they faced in their daily lives. "We" did not hear them well, and in hindsight the social and economic problems that are readily apparent should have been dealt with first and foremost. But a beggar does not have much of a choice, does s/he? They did what they were "told" to do, and the rest is now history.
Hopefully, the APC government will not fall into that imperialistic / neo-colonial trap.
The peoples of the land must be taught to "fish", and fend for themselves to ensure their own personal survivability so that they are not entirely dependent on the government for everything they need for their livelihoods.
If they put litter in their environment, they must be taught that it is their responsibility, and in their best interest, to see to it that the litter/garbage is cleared and put into receptacles that would debar hazards to their own health. You know, simple things like that.
The violence must stop, though. The vindictiveness must stop. Momodu has a right to peacefully reside in Yonibana, and so too for the other cases I have read about.
Ernest and his team are now in charge of governance in that country, let us render them all the help we can muster as ONE PEOPLE, ONE COUNTRY.
Subject: Re: For Sengbe and Others Similarly Situated
From: Liko
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Date Posted: 16:24:10 09/20/07 ()
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That was a great move on your part, Alieu. I hope Sengba would reciprocate, too.
Subject: Re: For Sengbe and Others Similarly Situated
From: Brothers and Sisters
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Date Posted: 16:34:00 09/20/07 ()
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We are like the Gambians. You are always adviced not to separate two Gambians when you see them fighting. For if you do, you will lose your life because both will stop fighting and turn on you for interfering with as they puts it 'a brotherly dispute'. A host of individuals have lost their lives through this misfit because they possesses little knowledge of this particular Gambian tradition. So is the same with us. The politics is over and we are back to square 1: as brothers and sisters. I could still remember: we were brothers and sisters until the elections grew closer and that when all hell turned lose.
Subject: Tarriffs And Trade Quoters
From: Sorba S
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Date Posted: 15:20:08 09/20/07 ()
Email Address: Sorba_1@yahoo.com
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Alright! let stop all the forms and start talking about substance.
What is the new government going to do about the high tarriffs that they levey on shippers at water Quey. Is the government going to allow duty free for investors? How about people who ship vehicles to sell?.
Confusious say " The lessrer the tarriff the better the investors are willing to ship their good" which means lower prices for the consumer. Then again he is not an economics. He might just be fussing.
If I were him, I will say REDUCE THE DAM TARRIFF BRA!
Subject: Re: Tarriffs And Trade Quoters
From: Mohamed Fofana
To: All
Date Posted: 16:28:42 09/20/07 ()
Email Address: mfofana2004@sbcglobal.net
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The fact is that we are bordered by Liberia and Guinea. Liberia has a FREE PORT. Guinea has 5% tariff flat rate for all goods. Sierra Leone is the only country that has higher tariffs that her neighbors. As such, most shippers ship through Liberia and Guinea and then transport to Sierra Leone by land. We are losing big time.
In addition, it is very confusing at customs in Sierra Leone. Every custom officer charge customers at variance. For the same item/good, some will pay more and others less. In either case, shippers always pay higher than the government stated tariff. Why? The tariffs are not BOLDLY DISPLAYED for all to see. Whatever, the custom officer apparently tells you, is what you go by. He might charge you ten times the amount of tariff and you end up begging him to lower it. No matter how he lowers it, the custom officer always pocket a huge sum that will the government will never see.
I suggest that we either have a FREE PORT like Liberia or FLAT RATE like Guinea. Also, at every custom post or office, the exact percentage should be easily made available to all Importers/Exporters, including individuals who ship once on a while
Subject: A Better Economist than Edmund
From: Ronaldino
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Date Posted: 15:10:25 09/20/07 ()
Email Address:
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Dr. Raymond Gilpin
Academic Chair for Defense Economics
Africa Center for Strategic Studies
An experienced development economist, Dr. Gilpin is responsible for overseeing program development and research for the Africa Center in the area of US-African defense economics. Previously, he held positions of responsibility with a number of research and policy-oriented institutions including: Director of International Programs and Senior Analyst at Intellibridge Corporation (now part of the Eurasia Group); Research Director, Central Bank of Sierra Leone; and Senior Economist, African Development Bank Group. He has also worked with the World Bank and United Nations in Africa, Southeast Asia and Washington, D.C.
Dr. Gilpin received his Ph.D. in development economics from Cambridge University and graduated with honors from the University of Sierra Leone. He also earned an Executive Certificate in International Finance from Georgetown University. His research interests include: economic development, public finance and risk analysis, security issues, and political economy. He is currently preparing a publication on Energy and Security in Africa’s Petroleum-Producing Countries with NDU Press.
Did Edmund ever work for International bodies?
Subject: Mrs Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala
From: Almamy Razak Tun Seray-Wurie Si
To: All
Date Posted: 16:30:07 09/20/07 ()
Email Address: almamysi@hotmail.com
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Do you remember Pa Kabbah appointing Late Hon. Thaimu Bangura as Minister of Finance?
*Following were series of Easterners, like J.B. Dauda, Peter Kuyumbeh, and John Benjamin
Nigeria once borrowed a Nigerian Brain from the International Economists' Community. She was later frustrated by interest groups and Pa Obasanjo (Even posted to another ministry)..Mrs Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala
Subject: Re: A Better Economist than Edmund
From: The Truth
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Date Posted: 15:39:45 09/20/07 ()
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Working for international bodies alone does not make you a better economist. Rather, it is your writings, eloquency on the subject, publications and a mastery on the subject matter. Mind you, mastering the subject depends on your areas of interest. Gilpin cannot be a better agricultural economist than some body whose area of interest is agricultural economics. So, economists have wide latitude depending on their areas of interest.
Take Professor Kelfala Kallon whose area of interest is development economics. Despite his political affiliation, he is one of the most prolific research professors in development economics with a Sierra Leone heritage. I do not share the same political affiliation with Kallon, but I have read several of his published articles on economics and they appear very scholarly written.
This is just to show you there is no such thing as the best economist in the language of economics.
Subject: Re: A Better Economist than Edmund
From: Sorba S
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Date Posted: 16:02:22 09/20/07 ()
Email Address: sorba_1@yahoo.com
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WO! WO! WO! I thought Ronaldino is a foot baller. What do you know about economics. You should be Playing ball with Brazil.
LONTA. yes na so a say
Subject: Re: A Better Economist than Edmund
From: Ronaldino
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Date Posted: 16:11:09 09/20/07 ()
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You fellows see the red of ManU and you panic.Manu is not APC. Beckam is a footballer but he is a better business man than you.
Subject: Re: A Better Economist than Edmund
From: Sorba S
To: All
Date Posted: 16:42:38 09/20/07 ()
Email Address: sorba_1@yahoo.com
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Message:
ya! you nor no say a de sell fish. Beckam kick ball wis kam business e no? how for kik ball? se dom ya!
How about Brazilian team. answer bo! nor hide
Subject: Re: A Better Economist than Edmund
From: Sorba S
To: All
Date Posted: 15:25:46 09/20/07 ()
Email Address: sorba_1@yahoo.com
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I know that lanky fellow. I usually see him at the metro. I have listen to him speak. He speaks like creoL boy from the mountain area. HE IS DAM GOOD!!
Subject: Re: A Better Economist than Edmund
From: take tem kill anch
To: All
Date Posted: 15:25:10 09/20/07 ()
Email Address: anch@yahoo.com
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Gilpin is pro-berewa and a strong lobbyist for the falied politician.Watch who you bring into your government Koroma.
Subject: Re: A Better Economist than Edmund
From: Ronaldino
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Date Posted: 15:55:45 09/20/07 ()
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Ah propaganda. The man is not even interested in Salone politics. Do you think he will leave his job in the US to be frustrated by some Salone civil servant?
Nice try though to try and blacken him name.
I know you are benifiting from Edmund koroma's fat Nassit salary. Edddie will be sacked and will become a lecturer. No international bodiy will employ him as he will have SLPP's terrible rule in his CV.
Subject: HAS THE LEBANESE COMMUNITY MET KOROMA?
From: SUBWANALAI
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Date Posted: 15:00:49 09/20/07 ()
Email Address:
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Well, because he is preoccupied with meeting real enemies of the state; plunderers like Bio, Nyuma, Okere, John Benjamin and stupid!, he might as well just have audience with the lebanese, before his honey moon is over.
Guys of the FORUM, like some of us said during the campaign, Ernest Koroma should not take it for granted that he has njolibas(praise singers). For me, I will hold my peace till the first hundred days, after which the gloves will be out. For now, will someone please tell him to rise up from his "belleh ful" dream and do some real work?
Subject: Re: HAS THE LEBANESE COMMUNITY MET KOROMA?
From: Londoner
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Date Posted: 20:12:24 09/20/07 ()
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I'm not sure what you mean by real work but bridge building and reconciliation sounds like real work to me. Especially so against the divisive background of the presidential runoff. Keep the faith man! To my ears, President koroma seems to be making the right noises.
Subject: Get on board
From: Conteh
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Date Posted: 14:45:26 09/20/07 ()
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Don't just sit out there, get on board, send suggestions to ernest@ernestkoroma2007.com or volunteer@ernestkoroma.org
Subject: BREAKING NEWS
From: campaignteam
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Date Posted: 14:28:21 09/20/07 ()
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kindly volunteer to be part of APC government by suggesting how we can move our country forward. send your e-mail to volunteer@ernestkoroma.org, your e-mail will be delivered directly to MR PRESIDENT, you can also visit www.ernestkoroma.org for more info.
Subject: Re: BREAKING NEWS
From: King Niambana
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Date Posted: 14:34:45 09/20/07 ()
Email Address: bonnicky@gmail.com
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Message:
wet ba. na mami kuse u wan mek den sen to dis address
Subject: 40-DAY SERVICE AND RECOGNITION FOR SAMUEL G.E. TUCKER
From: Suna Nallo
To: All
Date Posted: 13:55:55 09/20/07 ()
Email Address: nallos@aol.com
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In Loving Memory of Samuel G. E. Tucker who passed away on Wednesday, August 8, 2007
SERVICE on Sunday, September 23, 2007, 2:00 p.m. at the St. Andrew Apostle Catholic Church, 11600 Kemp Mill Road, Silver Spring, MD 20906
RECEPTION Immediately Following Service at the St. Andrew Ukrainian Orthodox Cathedral (Founders Hall), 15100 New Hampshire Avenue, Silver Spring, MD 20905
FOR MORE INFORMATION, PLEASE VISIT http://samuel-tucker.memory-of.com
Subject: WHATEVER HAPPENS HE WILL BE THERE FOR TWO TERMS
From: Bai Bureh
To: All
Date Posted: 13:53:00 09/20/07 ()
Email Address: rastafari_ish@hotmail.com
Entered From: master-02.brg.sgsnet.se at 193.11.202.74
Message:
Let the detractors play all their dirty tricks, let them think about all the machinations, let them attempt all the sabotage...let them ...let them.
One thing is for sure and that is Ernest Koroma will complete minimum five years and maximum ten years and nothing will stop or change that.
We know who are behind the latest spate of attacks and we are hell-bent on making them face the consequences.Those who think they can tarnish the image of the three-day old govt. and get away with it need to think again and again.
Subject: Re: WHATEVER HAPPENS HE WILL BE THERE FOR TWO TERMS
From: Talk is Cheap
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Date Posted: 14:00:16 09/20/07 ()
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"...We know who are behind the latest spate of attacks and we are hell-bent on making them face the consequences..."
If you already know "them" (the people behind the violence) why did you not stop "them". Why wait for the after effect?
Violence begets violence, and this is not good for this government, and the nation.
Subject: APC MUST BEWARE OF SYLVIA BLYDEN'S TRICKS
From: Kanforie Sorie Koroma
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Date Posted: 13:28:21 09/20/07 ()
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The awreness times editor has always found a way to obtain a tremendous sphere of influence in all the governments that we have had lately. She had influence with the RUF Leader , Foday Sankoh and was his internet publicist. They said she was his parlour wife. Next she had influence with Johnny Paul and again there are rumours she was in love with him.SLPP came. The same thing. She was having affairs with John Benjamin, John Karimu and others. In all this, Sylbana Blyden-Sankoh helped to bring down those governments .After fabricating lies against the APC during the campaign, she will try to come in now that APC has won. Then she will start insulting and annoying people and turning them against the APC. The first major mistake APC will make is if they allow Sylvia to gain access to the government.
Don't trust her .She is a double-tongued viper.
Subject: Re: APC MUST BEWARE OF SYLVIA BLYDEN'S TRICKS
From: John E. Leigh
To: All
Date Posted: 14:35:47 09/20/07 ()
Email Address: johnernestleigh@yahoo.com
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You are talking correctly about what I call gongorlee journalism. I believe that she is one reason people in the Western Area turned against the SLPP. Thanks. - JL
Subject: VIOLENCE MR PRESIDENT - BBC
From: SANTOS MANGA
To: All
Date Posted: 13:10:31 09/20/07 ()
Email Address: santos@aol.com
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Violence spreads in Sierra Leone
A number of attacks are being reported against supporters of Sierra Leone's ex-ruling party in the past 24 hours.
Violence against Sierra Leone People's Party (SLPP) members erupted on Monday as opposition leader Ernest Bai Koroma was sworn-in as the new president.
President Koroma described violence by his supporters as "unfortunate and regrettable" and told police to use all their powers to get those responsible.
President Koroma met ex-cabinet members and promised security and protection.
More attacks
Former Foreign Minister Momodu Koroma said his family was singled out for attack in his home town of Mile 91 and his uncle's house had been burnt to the ground.
Mile 91 has become a base for many former rebel fighters since the end of the decade long war and is the gateway to the southeast, an SLPP stronghold.
Among the incidents there reported to the BBC's Umaru Fofana in Freetown, a local radio journalist, Hassan Wai Koroma, said he has spent the last couple of days under police protection following attacks on his house by victorious All People's Congress supporters.
Another journalist, James Saidu Koroma, sobbed as he told the BBC by phone that he had come under attack and was chased to the police station where he too took refuge.
Chief Kapr Sanka said his pregnant wife and his children had fled to the bush following threats that he would be attacked.
And the paramount Chief of Biriwa, in the northern Bombali district, also reported that several villages in his chiefdom came under attack last night.
He told our correspondent that he was forced to flee and was speaking from his hideout.
There have also been reports of attacks in the diamond-rich district of Kono, while in the market town of Koquima, shops belonging to members of ex-President Tejan Kabbah's ethnic Mandingo people, have been looted and razed.
On Monday, police fired tear gas at a crowd that ransacked the SLPP offices in Freetown.
At least one person is known to have died in brawls after the president was sworn in on Monday.
Story from BBC NEWS:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/1/hi/world/africa/7004686.stm
Published: 2007/09/20 12:27:54 GMT
© BBC MMVII
Subject: Re: VIOLENCE MR PRESIDENT - BBC
From: NICO
To: All
Date Posted: 14:04:13 09/20/07 ()
Email Address: NICOLECONSULT@HOTMAIL.COM
Entered From: host86-146-110-59.range86-146.btcentralplus.com at 86.146.110.59
Message:
I totally condemn the violence taking place in Sierra Leone against the now opposition SLPP members in the aftermath of the just concluded election. I urged the president elect to be firm and resolute in dealing with anyone who disturb the peace at this trying time.
Subject: Re: VIOLENCE MR PRESIDENT - BBC
From: Cornelius Hamelberg
To: All
Date Posted: 16:17:54 09/20/07 ()
Email Address:
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Much much worse acts / attacks in Iraq and Afghanistan in Gaza and in Pakistan
Such acts whether committed in the past or future by SLPP or APC youths are not only regrettable, they are REPREHENSIBLE, not helpful and at worst a test case for the big stick , fines and imprisonment by which - and only by which - some lawless ones are made to succumb to the rule of law and order in the Republic.
WE all know that justice has an impartial (and beautiful) face.
“Took a stranger to teach me, to look into justice's beautiful face
And to see an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth.
I and I
In creation where one's nature neither honors nor forgives.
I and I
One says to the other, no man sees my face and lives.”
Ever listened to “ Union Sundown “
http://www.bobdylan.com/albums/infidels.html
Subject: Awarenesstimes News
From: Sorba S
To: All
Date Posted: 13:02:10 09/20/07 ()
Email Address: sorba_1@yahoo.com
Entered From: at 209.116.81.187
Message:
Awarenesstimes news is like after the exam kind of news. One always gets it after the exam is over. It alway report news after all other news paper have reported the same thing. Is this the best well read news paper in Sierra leone? if that is the case, BREAKING NEWS.
Subject: Re: Awarenesstimes News
From: Nationalist
To: All
Date Posted: 13:10:55 09/20/07 ()
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Sylvia is trying to gain access to this government but there is no room for him.
Subject: Re: Awarenesstimes News
From: foolulu
To: All
Date Posted: 15:10:10 09/20/07 ()
Email Address: gonad@yahoo.com
Entered From: 79-65-114-98.dynamic.dsl.as9105.com at 79.65.114.98
Message:
Is it him or her?
Subject: Curb the Violence, President Koroma!
From: Mammy Blessing
To: All
Date Posted: 12:41:57 09/20/07 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
Mr. President, nothing scares the heck out of investors like violence and insecurity. The reports of violence now appearing on the BBC and other news outlets will have a chilling effect on the foreign capital the country badly needs.
Sierra Leone still has a well-deserved reputation for medieval barbarism and insecurity and it wouldn't augur well for our development schemes if the beauty of democracy's promise degenerates into illiterate attacks against SLPP supporters.
I know that you didn't sanction those boorish attacks, but you are now the top dog and the buck stops with you. So please take action.
None of that tepid "regrettable and unfortunate" talk, sir. Your denunciation has to be hard hitting, loud and serious. Tell the SOB thugs commiting these crimes that they will be locked up and the keys thrown into the Atlantic; that if an opposition supporter dies as a result of assault, those responsible will be charged with murder and face capital sanction.
Sincerely,
Mammy Blessing.
Subject: Re: Curb the Violence, President Koroma!
From: ITK
To: All
Date Posted: 14:01:42 09/20/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 38.98.119.16
Message:
Fellow Sierra Leoneans:
Regrettably, our worst fears have materialized -- shockingly, before the new Government can even begin to focus on the serious challenges it will face in delivering on promises the APC made to a nation that seemed to buy into its campaign message that it represented "positive change".
I had always held the opinion that delivering the goods would be only one of several (and in fact, not the most daunting) of the immediate challenges the new Government would face. Well, it hasn't taken very long (as if the polarizing election itself, and the incredibly divisive comments by certain APC officials and supporters alike in its aftermath were not a clue) to realize that keeping the nation harmonious and at peace will in fact be the APC's biggest challenge.
Ernest Koroma clearly is a decent man and experienced politician who may very well may turn out to be an effective President of Sierra Leone. What is apparently not clear, given recent developments in the country, is whether there is anything new about the New APC.
Unless these ugly developments are arrested and peace and harmony return, the APC Government will be hard-pressed to achieve the support (domestic and external) it requires to effectively address the chronic problems that have beset our nation for decades.
Subject: Re: Curb the Violence, President Koroma!
From: Candid Opinion
To: All
Date Posted: 12:49:15 09/20/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: ns.nucleusns2.com at 12.44.12.126
Message:
You definately get mammy blessing..
Well said..
Or Korom's you yerri...
Subject: President Ernest Koroma's first mistake
From: KALOS
To: All
Date Posted: 12:31:41 09/20/07 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
I hope his excellency is not underestimating the enormous task ahead of him, by granting audience
to Maada Bio and Tom Nyuma is not reflective of a president trying to put a team to effectively
solve the issues facing our country. Mr. president, every minute wasted will come back to hunt you.
You can communicate to Bio and Nyuma like any other citizen; through your able assistants. There
will be a lot of distractions and nuances; looking at the big picture should be your guidance.
Subject: Re: President Ernest Koroma's first mistake
From: KKW
To: All
Date Posted: 13:09:46 09/20/07 ()
Email Address:
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I disagree. I think it is symbolic to meet with each and everyone of them because like it or not, they have a loyal following in Sierra Leone. The meetings are symbolic and send a message to the followers that Koroma is not the enemy. This is the time to look forward, not backward.
Subject: Re: President Ernest Koroma's first mistake
From: Kalos
To: All
Date Posted: 13:24:03 09/20/07 ()
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Message:
KKW, to a limited extent I can relate with your reasoning. Again, do we
want a president that is busy sending out gestures instead putting a new
government together? Can he meet with the Kamajors next week? What
about the RUF representatives? Idriss Kamara in the US might travel next
week to F/T to meet with his excellency. Is that OK? I heard Strasser is on
his way and he is DEMANDING audience with the president. Is that OK too?
Subject: Re: President Ernest Koroma's first mistake
From: KKW
To: All
Date Posted: 15:34:40 09/20/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 204.50.182.249
Message:
A strong house cannot be built on a shaky foundation. Meeting all these folks is an investment in future stability. Quite frankly, I see it as a message to the (presumably) APC vigilantes currently meting out their view of justice on members of previous administrations. The president may be distancing himself from that sentiment and does not want to be seen as a vindictive witch-hunter. Funnily, this seems quite similar to what happened to APC functionaries immediately after the 1992 coup!
Subject: Re: President Ernest Koroma's first mistake
From: Ibrahim Turay
To: All
Date Posted: 14:41:55 09/20/07 ()
Email Address: imtu71@hotmail.com
Entered From: pool-71-161-90-74.cncdnh.east.verizon.net at 71.161.90.74
Message:
Your hilarious post just made me burst into serious laughter which I'ven't done for decades. Its just funny how you listed other incoming groups as Kamajors/Ruf, Idrissa Kamara. I think Koroma is just scared about Bio and Tom. Don't forget the fact that they were leading coupists.
Subject: Re: President Ernest Koroma's first mistake
From: fact
To: All
Date Posted: 17:50:47 09/20/07 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
no he is not scared, he is warning bio and tom not to try anything funny.
Subject: Re: President Ernest Koroma's first mistake
From: Jackal
To: All
Date Posted: 12:50:46 09/20/07 ()
Email Address: dollarbill@gmail.com
Entered From: c-24-13-121-79.hsd1.il.comcast.net at 24.13.121.79
Message:
Why is a dialogue with Bio and Nyuma a mistake? You have no record of accomplishment to certify you as a Presidential adviser.
Why did n't you advise Kabbah to disband the Kamajohs in 1996/97?
Subject: Re: President Ernest Koroma's first mistake
From: JAMBER SMOKER
To: All
Date Posted: 13:03:58 09/20/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: 93.161-240-81.adsl-dyn.isp.belgacom.be at 81.240.161.93
Message:
That's a good one Jackal! I think you names speak for itself. This brother is trying to mess up big time. I bet you he won't be coming out soon.
Subject: Re: President Ernest Koroma's first mistake
From: POLITICO
To: All
Date Posted: 13:03:05 09/20/07 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
Jackal, you missed the point. Any of us can advise the president, however,
Kalos rightly stated any of his assistants can meet with Tom and Maada.
The president is suppose to be too busy at this time to meet with these
FIGURES.
Subject: Re: President Ernest Koroma's first mistake
From: Jackal
To: All
Date Posted: 15:45:03 09/20/07 ()
Email Address: dollarbill@gmail.com
Entered From: c-24-13-121-79.hsd1.il.comcast.net at 24.13.121.79
Message:
Who is Kalos to dictate to Koroma what schedule he must keep and who he should talk to. If we all should advise the President, there will be not time to govern the country. Koroma will deal with millions of dissenting views.
The President is showing an exemplary leadership by meeting his opposition in person. That is such a dignified way of buying loyalty.
Subject: Re: President Ernest Koroma's first mistake
From: POLITICO
To: All
Date Posted: 13:02:49 09/20/07 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
Jackal, you missed the point. Any of us can advise the president, however,
Kalos rightly stated any of his assistants can meet with Tom and Maada.
The president is suppose to be too busy at this time to meet with these
FIGURES.
Subject: Show us your friends President Koroma
From: The Truth
To: All
Date Posted: 12:27:06 09/20/07 ()
Email Address:
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Show us your friends President Koroma
Opinion - Commentary
Thursday, 20 September 2007
Culled from the Christian Monitor
Winning the election in Sierra Leone should be viewed by the All Peoples’ Congress (APC) as lighter load in comparison to forming a government and directing the affairs of state. The people have high expectations, and sooner rather than later, the APC will have to begin to deliver if they are to retain the support of the people.
The problems facing newly elected President Ernest Bai Koroma are huge and enormous, but they are not insurmountable. He will be judged in the way he set out to address the problems of security, the economy and corruption, the provision of social amenities etc. in the coming weeks, months and years.
Koroma’s first and instant test as president is security. The violence taking place round the country as reported is unacceptable. The President is reported to have described such violence as ‘unfortunate and regrettable’ and told the police to use all their powers to get those responsible. But he must make sure his command is followed through to the letter, which translates that we must see an end to the violence immediately as he has directed.
The source of the violence is not quite clear as some commentators have explained it. For instance, contrary to reports that APC supporters looted and ransacked the headquarter offices of the outgoing Sierra Leone Peoples Party (SLPP) in central Freetown, our reports show that in fact, that violence was perpetrated by supporters of the SLPP who went on the rampage after their leader, Solomon Berewa conceded victory to Koroma. It was a matter of supporters helping themselves to party materials and equipment, as payment for their efforts during the electioneering process.
Also, the skirmishes occurring in other parts of the country especially that reported in former foreign minister Momodu Koroma’s home town of Mile 91 have been attributed to APC supporters. But is it a matter of convenience. Also, can some thought be given to the possibility that the violence at Mile 91 is a deliberate ploy to create the impression of unrest and insecurity in the country? Does the recurring and spreading violence have anything to do with the pardon and release of convicted dangerous criminals by the SLPP in its latter days in a bid to foment such instability?
We do not have the answers to the questions posed above nor do we know the source of the violence that is rearing its ugly head throughout the country. What we know is that the newly elected President must stop it instant. There is an urgent need for President Koroma to stamp his authority on the affairs of state, to prove his character and style of leadership. The opportunity has presented itself with the seeming insecurity in the land. Dealing with the present violence with a firm hand, and immediately will be an unequivocal pointer of what the country should expect from the new leader in the days, months and years ahead.
As indicated earlier, deposing an out of favour, corrupt and inept government is not difficult in comparison to the arduous task of calming and satisfying a long-suffering and deprived population. After tackling the present insecurity President Koroma would have to appoint a cabinet. He has stated that fighting corruption will be top priority for his government. His choice to head the Anti-Corruption Commission and other important public institutions together with his preference of ministers will serve, also, as a pointer of what we must expect from President Ernest Bai Koroma. It is surely a case of show me your friends and I will tell you who you are.
Subject: John Leigh -Any Suggestions for the New Government?
From: Shembu
To: All
Date Posted: 11:27:56 09/20/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: eduproxy3.k12.de.us at 167.21.254.13
Message:
JL,
I read your response from my reaction to your posting yesterday. I wish to say a few things in yet another reaction.
Firstly, I will not claim Margai to be my man as you suggested. I definitely respect and admire him but I was not personally supporting his campaign.
Also, I will agree to the idea of having Charles Margai top a party ticket for the 2012 elections (be it APC or PMDC). As far as the APC ticket is concern, I do see Margai as fit to top it in 2012 only if President Koroma fails the people. However, my gut feeling is that President Koroma is going to perform wonders and releave our people from their present conditions of sub-human standard of living.
I still believe, JL that you need to withdraw some of your harsh statements about Margai as you made them during the heat of the battle and you may not intend to have said some of them. You yourself agreed that you may have fell down to the level of some of your adversaries during those hot moments. I do not want to lose though the main points for which I am currently engaging you. And that is about offering suggestions to the new government.
JL, we will all agree that after the elections, our focus must be on national issues. I therefore implore you and other well meaning forumites to come up with suggestions that will help stir this new government in the right direction. There is the current debate about how to bring back electricity to Freetown and then gradually to major towns in the provinces. I believe a temporary arrangement is needed in the short term until Bumbuna is ready. I also think Kingtom power station should be wiped out. We donot need to continue any repairs to those machines that are as old as a dinosaur. We need a complete overhaul, but how? Over to you Mr. Ambassador. By the way, is Concord getting cold yet? Dress warm and stay well, brother.
Subject: Re: John Leigh -Any Suggestions for the New Government?
From: John E. Leigh
To: All
Date Posted: 14:29:59 09/20/07 ()
Email Address: johnernestleigh@yahoo.com
Entered From: cache-dtc-ag14.proxy.aol.com at 205.188.117.142
Message:
Mr. Shembu:
My apologies for referring to you as a margai man. I should not be so quick in jumping to erroneous conclusions. Sorry!
My point about debating lowlifers inside their turf does not mean that I ever exceeded the truth. Going to that level comes with the territory.
As for some suggestions from me for the new government, these will be presented in 'due course' not right away. Lets first allow the new government to get securely organized before jumping into making suggestions. Who knows, after reviewing their program of governance, I may rightly conclude that any suggestions from me might be superflous. Hence, no point to rush but I honestly assure you that if there are a need for suggestions, I will be delighted to share some of my ideas with the public.
Thanks again for your interest. - JL
Subject: Re: John Leigh -Any Suggestions for the New Government?
From: M. Alieu Iscandari Esq
To: All
Date Posted: 15:40:01 09/20/07 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
I should not be so quick in jumping to erroneous conclusions
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On that basis I am awaiting your apologies.
Subject: Re: John Leigh -Any Suggestions for the New Government?
From: John E. Leigh
To: All
Date Posted: 09:05:01 09/21/07 ()
Email Address: johnernestleigh@yahoo.com
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Message:
JL to Mr. Shembu: "I should not be so quick in jumping to erroneous conclusions."
Atty. Iscandari to JL: "On that basis I am awaiting your apologies."
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I do not owe you an apology for anything. I have stated this elsewhere. The other day, you accused me of breach of trust. I have rejected that untrue allegation. Nevertheless, I invited your proof. You are yet to do so.
Merely repeating your claim without proof is a waste of time. Unless you come up with your proof of my specific breach of your trust as you claimed, I will henceforth ignore your demands for an apology by not responding. I may even decline to open your postings in the future. Sincerely, JL
Subject: Re: John Leigh -Any Suggestions for the New Government?
From: Cornelius Hamelberg
To: All
Date Posted: 14:07:01 09/20/07 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
"There is the current debate about how to bring back electricity to Freetown and then gradually to major towns in the provinces. I believe a temporary arrangement is needed in the short term until Bumbuna is ready. I also think Kingtom power station should be wiped out. We donot need to continue any repairs to those machines that are as old as a dinosaur. We need a complete overhaul, but how?"
Sure, Engineer Leigh as president must have some good opinions about that too and so must Mr.Samuel Tola Neville.....
What advice did he give his SLPP about this problem during all these years?
Should I consult the Oracle of Delphi or Leigh?
Subject: Re: John Leigh -Any Suggestions for the New Government?
From: Cornelius Hamelberg
To: All
Date Posted: 13:40:57 09/20/07 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
You may visit Barack Obama’s website:
http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&q=Barack+Obama+for+president
You may also visit Blair’s, Gordon Brown’s, Umaru Yaradua’s Muhammadu Buhari’s, Thabo Mbeki’s, George Bush’s, Al Gore’s, Jerry J. Rawlings’
Take a tour where you will: Tanzania, Zimbabwe, or Libya.
Let me start by being absolutely fair to Leigh. I shall not ask him what does or did he think of the one he endorsed (Berewa) or the more successful one he envies (Hon. Charles Margai or the one he most feared and wished bad luck ( president Ernest Bai Koroma) So, let me start by being absolutely fair to Leigh what does he think of himself is a fair question, and below, he has answered that question- the answer is his in his own words and the source is his own website entitled “ Change Sierra Leone: John Leigh for President”
He starts of by asking himself this question:
”WHO IS JOHN ERNEST LEIGH?
He then proceeds to answer the question for your edification – and this was all up before the Makeni ConBention:
Ambassador John Ernest Leigh aspires to become the next Leader of the Sierra Leone Peoples Party in succession to President Ahmad Tejan Kabbah. We believe that Ambassador Leigh has done more for the Party and the country than any other aspirant for Party Leader. Those who know him are deeply convinced that Ambassador Leigh, if elected, will do far more for the benefit of most Sierra Leoneans and the SLPP than any other of the aspirants.
Ambassador Leigh has also repeatedly stated that if another Party member, with superior credentials for the Party Leadership than himself, appears on the scene he will gladly step down for that individual. Based on what each of them has done so far for the country and the Party, none of the declared and undeclared aspirants is as qualified as Ambassador John Leigh is for the Party Leadership position ”
FAMILY BACKGROUND (2 Paragraphs)
PC BAIMBA SIDIQUE LINEAGE (4 Paragaphs
MOTHER OFF TO THE HAJJ (2 Paragraphs
FATHER, FREETOWN WESLEYAN METHODIST (2 Paragraphs
THE FOUNDING OF FREETOWN (2 Paragraphs
SCHOOLING (2 paragraphs)
TREND SETTER (5 paragraphs)
UNITED STATES SCHOLARSHIP (3 paragraphs)
”STUDENT LEADER” (1 paragraph)
CHASE MANHATTAN BANK FELLOWSHIP (2 paragraphs)
BANK OF SIERRA LEONE (3 paragraphs)
RETURN TO THE UNITED STATES (2 paragraphs)
FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF NIGERIA (4 paragraphs)
TURNED A MONEY LOSER INTO A WINNER (2 paragraphs)
SECOND MARRIAGE (1 paragraph)
BACK TO THE UNITED STATES: Chairman, President and CEO. (1 paragraph)
OUTSTANDING ALUMNI AWARD (4 Paragraphs
MAKING THE SIERRA LEONE CONSTITUTION (2 Paragraphs
A BAD, SELFISH, UNFAIR CONSTITUTION (3 Paragraphs
MULTI-PARTY POLITICS (2
INITIAL CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE SLPP (8 Paragraphs
BENEFIT TO ALL (3 Paragraphs
AMBASSADORSHIP (7 Paragraphs
SUCCESS BREEDS RESENTMENT (Paragraphs
DEATH SENTENCE (7 Paragraphs
UNPAID $90,231.81 DEBT (1 Paragraph
LEIGH’S MYSTERIOUS RECALL FROM WASHINGTON (4 Paragraphs
PHILOSOPHICAL DIFFERENCES AMIDST SUCCESSION FEARS (3 Paragraphs
THE KABBAH GOVERNMENT’S $90,231.81 DEBT TO AMBASSADOR LEIGH (3 Paragraphs
CAPRICIOUS REFUSAL TO HONOR A LEGITIMATE DEBT (4 Paragraphs
A MOST LOYAL SLPPER TO DATE (7 Paragraphs
BLOOD DIAMONDS (1 Paragraph
FAMILY (1Paragaph
MR. LEIGH’S ASPIRATION (6 Paragraphs
For details you could consult the sources of the above:
http://www.changesierraleone.org/bio.asp
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Yesterday, I wrote that there's a (one) half-Mende man who in his own opinion and estimation is as hot as ice (in his fool’s paradise).
“100% is closer to the 99% loss of support that Johnny E. Leigh the non-entity is calculating for the Honourable BOY PIKIN Charles Francis Margai who is most certainly SOMEBODY.
What Leigh forgets in his estimation of Mr. Margai is that he Leigh himself got ZERO percent in Makeni- and not only that, such is the contempt that Kabbah and Berewa have for him that with impunity, they have seized his alleged bribe/ “loan “/ “contribution”
of $90, 000 that he’s crying about, and refused to give it back to him.
You should be asking him how come that after all these years; he was unable to recover a simple sum like that!
Do you know how many universities there are in the United States?
Do you know how many billionaires there are? (Ask Bambay)
DO you know how many professors there are?
Do you know how many top-notch scientists there are?
Do you know the miracles that Benjamin Netanyahu has performed with Israel’s economy the past couple of years?
Do you know how many successful businessmen there are in USA, Germany, China, Korea, UK, and Sweden? South Africa? Nigeria
Why do you persist in exaggerating the relevance or importance of the absolute failure called Mr. Johnny Leigh?
Do you think he is a big brain or expert - (including "legal brain") or successful in anything – if so what thing?
Do you think that the APC government or indeed the former SLPP government should be in need of any advice from him - the sort of advice that could better be coming from somewhere else? (Ever heard of a guy called Jeffrey Sachs?)
YOU who probably look up to someone like Leigh, would probably want to appoint him National Security adviser to yourself or to the APC government? Or would like him to replace Dr. Condoleezza Rice or Colin Powell in the US?
Sure he is free to - unsolicited - give advice of his own accord, but when you start approaching him like little boy blue
Who has jus lost his shoe?
you are beginning to sound as ridiculous as he does (his last piece of advice was that since the APC had won so many seats, and the PMDC too, we should therefore all vote for Berewa to capture the presidency
Leigh-
How ridiculous can you be?
Perhaps he would like a big fee
For what will predictably come from him.
On the economic front what about asking someone like Ron Campbell?
Leigh lastly, famously said that BOY PIKIN Hon. Charles Francis Margai the leader of the PMDC had lost 99% of his support in the South and South East (because of teaming up with the APC?) How wrong can Leigh be?
This Leigh who say’s that Charles has lost 99% of his support is the same one who got ZERO PERCENT at the SLPP ConBention in Makeni.
AS usual he is good at underestimating and down grading others, whilst overestimating and upgrading himself - so unrealistically beyond recognition.
Having said all that and bearing in mind your humble request of Leigh, I also ask Leigh,
Leigh, what do you have to say?
Please answer Shembu’s question – if indeed you are not Shembu himself or working closely with him.
There are some who take a nom de plume to praise themselves or to ask themselves questions, which they subsequently answer. ( Now if this is done honestly as a self interview, there’s nothing wrong with that – but when people start taking names like “ Lebbie” or “Freud “or “freda maitland” to do their dirty work and monkey- ing around with other handles because they are afraid of using the names that their parents gave them, there’s something inherently wrong about that. Oh if you want to talk about that as resourcefulness there are people with imagination, knowledge and skills that could get you arrested and sent to Guantanamo Bay or flown out of where you are secretly by the CIA…. Don’t doubt it.
But about this type of dishonesty, the last time this was known to occur was when some guy called Johnny was found in the women’s toilet writing on the wall “John has the biggest Sock in the world Girls and you haven’t yet been properly loved, if you haven’t been loved by him”
It’s called advertising.
First question that you should be asking Leigh is how old is he? When was he born?
Everybody celebrated Charles Margai’s 62nd birthday, everybody knows that Solomon Berewa was born on 6th August 69 years ago, but Leigh is still not very transparent or accountable about his won age.
His younger half brother Evelyn ( most modest guy and very handsome) lived opposite me and Akintola Wyse at FBC so Leigh cannot claim to be younger than me because Evelyn himself is older than I am.--- yes Evelyn and my first Cousin Martin Williams, studied Geography and were and I hope still are the best of friends.
Congratulations
http://www.state.gov/r/pa/prs/ps/2007/sep/92450.htm
Subject: Regentonian Web
From: Live Forever
To: All
Date Posted: 11:07:54 09/20/07 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
Regentonians young and old please visit the web site, quite interesting. It was the first to be lunched back in 1995 by a Regentonian, before any other school thought about hosting their site, but as usual it lacked contribution from fellow Regentonians as a medium to communicate and help our school.
Subject: Re: Regentonian Web
From: Nah Sabi Talk
To: All
Date Posted: 09:58:51 09/21/07 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
I know of this site... It's run by H. Finley... He has done a wonderful job for us all... But it's not easy to leave all to one man... He has his family and business, we all must try to help and contribute!
And we need a place where we can post live info or message to one another... We are living in such times now!
We need a place to meet and put ideas together for now...
I am suggesting at MYSPACE....
It's a great place for this kind of meeting, well equiped for all, irrespective of time and locat1on with many tools to handle our desires...
I have close to 3,000 views and 1900 friends from all over the world and they can be reached at an instant, on my own private site at MYSPACE...
I have taken the liberty of setting one up as a man that is of less talk and more action.... Now we must all try to go there and put our heads together...
the address is
http://www.myspace.com/regentonian
It's up and running and but needs some final touches which we can all do in time ...
We have to bring in Harold Finley as he is the pioneer...
We the young generation must begin to make a difference for this up coming thanks-giving!
Subject: APC youths
From: Mohamed Fofana
To: All
Date Posted: 11:02:02 09/20/07 ()
Email Address: mfofana2004@sbcglobal.net
Entered From: at 204.108.96.22
Message:
To Nah Sabi Talk
I am shocked to hear this from you. People voted for a positive change and not for a change for hooliganism, intimidation and vengeance.
I don't know how old you are, but this has been the behavior of APC youths since the early years of Siaka Stevens. During the early days of Siaka Stevens, the APC youths matters into their own hands. The open APC youth offices where they drag people to their offices and manhandle them as if they were the law enforcement officers.
Your citing of Los Angeles and New Orleans as an example is incorrect. Nobody as intimidated another person in USA because there was a change from Democrat to Republican or vase versa no matter how suppressed as they are. They rise up to fight for their right but not because there has been a change in political power.
This is not what the people vote for. The APC are letting the president down. We should remember that people have not forgotten the violence days of APC. However, they gave chance to APC because of President Koroma's trust. The youth will make many other Sierra Leoneans who did not vote for APC say, we told you about the violence, but now you seeing for yourself. This is not with APC youths in Sierra Leone. The APC leadership has to step in instantly and set examples to say that this is very undemocratic
Subject: Momodu Koroma's Family under attack
From: Sorba S
To: All
Date Posted: 09:31:41 09/20/07 ()
Email Address: sorba_1@yahoo.com
Entered From: at 209.116.81.187
Message:
God help us. APC at its best
Subject: Re: Momodu Koroma's Family under attack
From: Cornelius Hamelberg
To: All
Date Posted: 16:05:24 09/20/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: c-088472d5.01-32-73746f42.cust.bredbandsbolaget.se at 213.114.132.8
Message:
Alieu Iscandari Esq. has the first and last word on this.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/7004686.stm
An alarming/alarmist and rather exaggerated BBC headline. You would think that violence was spreading like wildfire across the country.
Post-elections feuds are not unusual. Some supporters of the victors will tend to deal street justice to some of their former tormentors who may have been protected by people who were formerly in power.
All acts of violence and lawlessness must be condemned and should be dealt with by the Police, which is neither an SLPP nor an APC police force, but a neutral law enforcement agency which is there to protect the life and property of all Sierra Leoneans.
The APC leadership has certainly not ordered such attacks nor are we to assume that the said attacks were out of the blue - they could well be reprisal attacks in retaliation to attacks or oppression suffered previously whilst the perceived oppressors looked the other way.
” Former Foreign Minister Momodu Koroma said his family was singled out for attack in his home town of Mile 91 and his uncle's house had been burnt to the ground.”
This is more than regrettable. The selection and targeting of this family is symbolic as Mr. Momodou Koroma was also the presidential running mate of SLPP’s Solomon Berewa. Mr. Koroma’s uncle should be adequately compensated for his house and the perpetrators of this loathsome act of arson should be brought to justice.
Sierra Leone news updates
http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&ned=us&q=Sierra+leone
Subject: Re: Momodu Koroma's Family under attack
From: kekuda
To: All
Date Posted: 11:46:18 09/20/07 ()
Email Address:
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This is flat out wrong and undemocratic and I believe the APC would not condone such a barbaric act. However, without pointing fingers here, I blame the Kabbah regime for handing over power in a haphazard fashion thereby leaving a huge vacuum to fill. The APC was in no way prepared to take over within a short time. I believe Kabbah should be brought to justice for that. Koroma, despite all his good intentions should have been accorded the courtesy of a transitional period and time to choose and vet his nominees for a smooth flow and most importantly understand the rubrics of the administration. It's hard to believe that Kabbah worked for the U.N. This is outrageous. I hope the APC endeavor to quell this.
Subject: Re: SORBA S , I'M DOWN WITH YOU
From: TigerSheik
To: All
Date Posted: 12:45:51 09/20/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: 93.161-240-81.adsl-dyn.isp.belgacom.be at 81.240.161.93
Message:
Sorba S, i am down with you. I think Kabba did it delibrately handing over power in a haphazard fashion knowing very well what will be the outcome.
Definetly it's going to be chaos. Facing the depravity these people had gone through all this years.What do you expect and or who are you going to blame for their actions today? Is it the APC who took power few days ago? Hell no.
Subject: Re: Momodu Koroma's Family under attack
From: Sorba S
To: All
Date Posted: 12:09:53 09/20/07 ()
Email Address: Sorba_1@yahoo.com
Entered From: at 209.116.81.187
Message:
Well said Bra!
Subject: Re: Momodu Koroma's Family under attack
From: kamara
To: All
Date Posted: 11:32:34 09/20/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 205.148.53.200
Message:
I thought this is the Govt you wanted Sorba. Ernest may have good intentioms for the country but unfortunately the opportunists around the party will unecessarily embarass the party. the rank file APC are new to democray.
Subject: Re: Momodu Koroma's Family under attack
From: Sorba S
To: All
Date Posted: 12:07:59 09/20/07 ()
Email Address: sorba_1@yahoo.com
Entered From: at 209.116.81.187
Message:
Actually no. It is not the government I wanted. I wanted PMDC being a Shebra. But If PMDC was not going to win, Them APC was Prefarable. I still don't like to hear what is going on though. With time it will cool down. This is still a better government in my openion.
Thanks for checking me out though.
Subject: Re: Momodu Koroma's Family under attack
From: Orkaibah
To: All
Date Posted: 10:30:45 09/20/07 ()
Email Address: rastafari_ish@hotmail.com
Entered From: master-02.brg.sgsnet.se at 193.11.202.74
Message:
Boy it is really unfortunate.I don't support these acts however I think it is payback time.Remember 1998 when people were burnt to death because of supporting the junta? WHAT GOES AROUND COMES AROUND.
Subject: Re: Momodu Koroma's Family under attack
From: Sorba S
To: All
Date Posted: 10:36:17 09/20/07 ()
Email Address: sorba_1@yahoo.com
Entered From: at 209.116.81.187
Message:
You are comparing Yams to garrie. This a democratic elected government. The work Junta does not exit in Sierra leone. Quite it.
Subject: Re: Momodu Koroma's Family under attack
From: Barakuda
To: All
Date Posted: 11:34:14 09/20/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: eduproxy3.k12.de.us at 167.21.254.13
Message:
Waitin nar the difference? You get yams gari en casada gari. If you kin make gari from yams den you say "You are comparing Yams to garrie", dat nor make sense oh. Oo sai you comot?
Subject: Re: Momodu Koroma's Family under attack
From: Sorba S
To: All
Date Posted: 12:03:30 09/20/07 ()
Email Address: sorba_1@yahoo.com
Entered From: at 209.116.81.187
Message:
How about orange and apple da go help you? e nor matta wi sai a comot. But for help you out a comot na sa leone. this one e idot prof. you kin understand am
Subject: Re: Momodu Koroma's Family under attack
From: M. Alieu Iscandari esq
To: All
Date Posted: 09:34:42 09/20/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: cache-ntc-ad04.proxy.aol.com at 207.200.116.198
Message:
These are not acts sanctioned by the APC but rather acts of a MOB JuSTICE. It is wrong and I am sure that the APC will make sure that the Police are not hampered in any wany in tpursuing the culprits.
Subject: DEMOCRACY AT ITS BEST
From: KING LOGGY
To: All
Date Posted: 10:01:06 09/20/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: c-69-255-182-17.hsd1.va.comcast.net at 69.255.182.17
Message:
It is interesting to see Alieu Iscandari now having to defend the government in power.
Where is Sengbe when we need him? LOL!
Subject: Re: DEMOCRACY AT ITS BEST
From: Here he is
To: All
Date Posted: 13:07:53 09/20/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 198.85.63.200
Message:
Unu nor see nartin yaite.
Wait until they start their witch-hunt in earnest then you'd believe that lepet nor day change colour.
Memba! Sengbe bin tell unu all.
Bye!!
Subject: Re: DEMOCRACY AT ITS BEST
From: Candid Opinion
To: All
Date Posted: 11:07:57 09/20/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: ns.nucleusns2.com at 12.44.12.126
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I hope the APC can control this before it gets out of hand...
Copycatism and the peer mentality can quickly escalate petty thievery into prime armed robbers and ordinary citizens pay the price...
This is how the security forces in the country quickly degenarate into human rights abuse in the name of law and order.
Subject: BBC News
From: Very confused
To: All
Date Posted: 09:16:44 09/20/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: host81-159-191-229.range81-159.btcentralplus.com at 81.159.191.229
Message:
Please check BBC website, and it says that all former Government Minsiters and their families are under attack.Further many Madingo business people are also being attacked.
I do not want to believe it, if it was not on BBC website.
Can someone confirm this news or deny it???
Subject: `
From: KKW
To: All
Date Posted: 11:16:55 09/20/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 204.50.182.249
Message:
I think this unruly behavior may have been anticipated, hence the speed with which power was transferred. Imagine if this hooliganism started while Kabbah was still President?
The new president is tryong to show the example of reconciliation by visibly interacting with former government officials, but I guess that is not enough for the opportunists that have been waiting for this day.
Subject: Re: BBC News
From: Erica Adams
To: All
Date Posted: 09:51:11 09/20/07 ()
Email Address: ericamonique82@hotmail.com
Entered From: adsl-074-185-005-235.sip.clt.bellsouth.net at 74.185.5.235
Message:
This report is one that should cause us all to spend time in prayer and fasting. It is unfortunate that people are turning this time of change into something ugly.
Subject: Re: BBC News
From: Nah Sabi Talk
To: All
Date Posted: 10:27:23 09/20/07 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
This is not an uncommon behavior of people who have been deprieved and reduced to their basic instinct... We have seen the same behavior in the West even in New Orleans, South Central Los Angeles and many, many more areas where people are basically left to fend for themselves in advert poverty and frustration.
If u plant corn nar corn u go get...
I wish they have maintained their cool as they did for the election, but the facts remain the truth... Many of these folks have been living as basic animals for quite a long time...
It is therefore easy for some of us to point fingers from our comfortable locat1ons somewhere far away from where these folks are, eating and living well and large, yeh!
Having said that, the new government should by all legal means take the neccesary steps to calm and maintain security for all...
But this is not because of APC or nor because they are Sierra Leoneans...
Nuf said
Subject: Re: BBC News
From: Mohamed Fofana
To: All
Date Posted: 10:59:34 09/20/07 ()
Email Address: mfofana2004@sbcglobal.net
Entered From: at 204.108.96.22
Message:
To Nah Sabi Talk
I am shocked to hear this from you. People voted for a positive change and not for a change for hooliganism, intimidation and vengeance.
I don't know how old you are, but this has been the behavior of APC youths since the early years of Siaka Stevens. During the early days of Siaka Stevens, the APC youths matters into their own hands. The open APC youth offices where they drag people to their offices and manhandle them as if they were the law enforcement officers.
Your citing of Los Angeles and New Orleans as an example is incorrect. Nobody as intimidated another person in USA because there was a change from Democrat to Republican or vase versa no matter how suppressed as they are. They rise up to fight for their right but not because there has been a change in political power.
This is not what the people vote for. The APC are letting the president down. We should remember that people have not forgotten the violence days of APC. However, they gave chance to APC because of President Koroma's trust. The youth will make many other Sierra Leoneans who did not vote for APC say, we told you about the violence, but now you seeing for yourself. This is not with APC youths in Sierra Leone. The APC leadership has to step in instantly and set examples to say that this is very undemocratic
Subject: Re: BBC News
From: Erica Adams
To: All
Date Posted: 10:55:40 09/20/07 ()
Email Address: ericamonique82@hotmail.com
Entered From: adsl-074-185-005-235.sip.clt.bellsouth.net at 74.185.5.235
Message:
My statement wasn't a judgement. I had hoped that people would be able to allow the process to go on without any blemish.
Subject: Re: BBC News
From: Sorba S
To: All
Date Posted: 09:26:33 09/20/07 ()
Email Address: sorba_1@yahoo.com
Entered From: at 209.116.81.187
Message:
This is the link
news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/7004686.stm
Subject: Kick out foreigners without no capital from Kono
From: Concern
To: All
Date Posted: 06:11:36 09/20/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: 14-64-ftth.onsneteindhoven.nl at 88.159.64.14
Message:
It pains me to see Kono has foreigners who have no capitalinvestmnet. Thereare many undesirable foreigners in Kono. They have no plan to develop the area. Their ony sure bet is protection of Paramount chiefs, rogue governmnet officials and some of their concubines.
This time, we are going to see that foreigners without any follow up income do not reside in Kono or other maining areas. We are for genuine investors who have capability to develop Kono and use the proceeds of the diamonds to bring essential services into Kono. It will be against the spirit of the Sierra Leonean voters, if this governmnet allows free for all mining in Kono.
This has to be stopped and it is better for the APC to come out with a statement. We do appreciate DFID effort to streamline the mining sector. But please, DFID, ordinary Sierra Leoneans want a new diamond policy that will develop the dregs of society. he new policy arrangement needs to be tied to poverty alleviation of Sierra Leoneans. For far too long, our gems have been used by undesirable foreigners and their backers. We want to see pipe borne water in the rural areas, we want to see tarred roads in mining areas, good hospitals and access to eduaction for all kids.
The greatest thing Ernest koroma will do for his people is to ensure that the mines are capable to generate adequate income to uplift the life of our people No compromise in the mining sector. Please, give back the poor their wealth by streamlining the mining scetor in a constructive manner.
Subject: Re: Kick out foreigners without no capital from Kono
From: We Africans- Refugee's all over the world.
To: All
Date Posted: 09:30:07 09/20/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: ns.nucleusns2.com at 12.44.12.126
Message:
Sometime it irks me to see my fellow Sierra Leoneans who are welcome all over the world.. hardly discriminated against.. given student loans.. poor africans we are..
Encouraged.. given jobs.. promoted.. skiping american and other countrys citizens.. made professors.. allowed merit to take its due course..
Allow Alieu I to be a lawyer..FREE..
Kabs for be a Pastor without prejudice..
And you.. yes you.. You want to buy a car.. social security number is all you need.. No one ask if you papa nah mende..
Want a house..? what is your credit rating is all we care about..
But oh.. when it come to US and OURS..
Lebanese should all be deported..
Indians should be sent back to calcuta
lets try the Idi Amin approach.. Kick all them foreigners out..
These are the new rules of the game..
We are soooooooo pathetic..
Subject: Re: Kick out foreigners without no capital from Kono
From: Sam
To: All
Date Posted: 21:06:55 09/20/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: pool-71-184-33-60.bstnma.east.verizon.net at 71.184.33.60
Message:
When I saw the headline, I clicked on it, so I could post that this assh*LE (forgive my latin) is probably sitting here in America talking bout kicking the foreigners out of Kono. Maybe he should form a club with Mugabe.
Subject: Re: Kick out foreigners without no capital from Kono
From: KLA
To: All
Date Posted: 18:53:11 09/20/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 164.82.85.3
Message:
Indeed,globalisation and the free movement of Capital,humans and ideas across borders,is having its impact on Sierra Leoneans where ever they choose to reside.
Some of us have persistently cautioned Sierra Leoneans as to the Notion of extricating individuals perceived as undesireables from our mining areas.
Where would it end? Let history be our guide.Nazi Germany DEVELOPED UNDER similar guises. The rest as they say,is History. The GERMAN shame of grotesque proportions!!
The problem is not the free lance miners of non Sierra LEONEAN EXTRACTION,BUT THE INABILITY OF THE government and people,to enforce mining regulations that have been in the books for ages.
I do agree that Sierra Leoneans must be the primary benefactors our our mining wealth. There must be a mining regime initiated by the elected members of our parliament, ensuring fair play for all vested parties.
Current studies indicate close to A BILLION DOLLARS worth of Gold reserves under patrs of Salone. Canadian and British mining houses have been at the Apex of these disoveries.
Subject: Re: Kick out foreigners without no capital from Kono
From: Shock
To: All
Date Posted: 11:22:09 09/20/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: host81-159-191-229.range81-159.btcentralplus.com at 81.159.191.229
Message:
Yes indeed, you are pathetic, and you need a psychiatrist.Idi Amins action reduced Ugandans to beggars for years.
Subject: Re: Kick out foreigners without no capital from Kono
From: Candid Opinion
To: All
Date Posted: 11:25:54 09/20/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: ns.nucleusns2.com at 12.44.12.126
Message:
Shock..
How about you stop wasting oxygen.. supply is limited these days you know..with all this global warming.. and all..
What in that post did i not write simple enough..?
Subject: Re: Kick out foreigners without no capital from Kono
From: KKW
To: All
Date Posted: 11:19:38 09/20/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 204.50.182.249
Message:
I could not have said it better! There should be no place for blind xenophobia in Sierra Leone.
Subject: Re: Kick out foreigners without no capital from Kono
From: MUSA KAMARA
To: All
Date Posted: 11:34:47 09/20/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: luna.hypair.net at 194.50.180.4
Message:
It has nothing to do with xenophobia,but to protect the interest of the state and the indigenous people.Do you share the same privileges as a native citizen of the country you are presently residing?What is wrong to protect the interest of our people?What about Botswana,Angola etc where Foreigners are forbidden to mine,is it xenophobic?Dont miss the facts,investors are welcome to create employment and boost up the economy.The issueing of our passports and other vital documents should be strictly monitored.
Subject: Re: Kick out foreigners without no capital from Kono
From: KKW
To: All
Date Posted: 13:21:22 09/20/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 204.50.182.249
Message:
As a matter of fact, I do share the same privileges as native citizens in the country where I reside even though I am a naturalized citizen. Sierra Leone has always been a welcoming country and there is no reason to change that. The foreigners are not the problem.
Subject: Re: Kick out foreigners without no capital from Kono
From: Sorba S
To: All
Date Posted: 10:39:40 09/20/07 ()
Email Address: sorba_1@yahoo.com
Entered From: at 209.116.81.187
Message:
Well said Bra!
Subject: PRESIDENT KOROMA HOLDS TALKS WITH BRIG. MARDA BIO AND COL
From: TigerSheik
To: All
Date Posted: 03:16:43 09/20/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: 123.43-201-80.adsl-dyn.isp.belgacom.be at 80.201.43.123
Message:
I think there are so much important people he could've met with rather than waisting time with these loosers. who could in turn misinterpret the moves as scaring of them not knowing that they are just nonentities in our soceity.
What about the amputees, are they not more imporant? who are victims of the atrocities in result to the stupid actions of these guys?
THANKS VERY MUCH JAMBA SMOKER FOR SHOWING YOUR CONCERN.
MAN DEM DAE FEEL SAY JAMBA SMOKER NOR GET SENSE. RASTA DON ONCE MORE PROVE HIN SEF SAY "JAH RULE".
AH DAE INVITE ALL RASTA DEM NAR DIS FORA FOR KNOCK SOME SENSE PAN SOME FALSE PRETENDERS DEM HEAD.
Subject: Re: PRESIDENT KOROMA HOLDS TALKS WITH BRIG. MARDA BIO AND COL
From: Jackal
To: All
Date Posted: 12:03:04 09/20/07 ()
Email Address: dollarbill@gmail.com
Entered From: c-24-13-121-79.hsd1.il.comcast.net at 24.13.121.79
Message:
Every Sierra Leonean is as important as the President. That is the calling of the term "equality" in the constitution. Those guys are not losers. You are not a loser either, because only a loser knows a loser
I think Koroma should also hold talks with the RUF renegades as well. After all they initiated the CONFLICT OF WHICH WE ALL BECAME VICTIMS.
Koroma's move to talk to Nyuma and Bio is the first of correct step of his administration. It shows Koroma's effort to heal our stiffly divided country.
That is where Kabbah failed. He snubbed the army in favor of kamajohs. That was a national slap in the face of the men in uniform and the tax payers funding thier very existence; and that means you and I. HE MIGHT AS WELL HAVE DISBANDED THE ARMY.
Kabbah's greatest failure started in his first 90 days in office. He sowed the seeds of disunity. It is part of the legacy that was reflected in this elections.
Bravo Koroma. May your advisers live long.!!!!!
Subject: Re: PRESIDENT KOROMA HOLDS TALKS WITH BRIG. MARDA BIO AND
From: POLITICO
To: All
Date Posted: 12:38:06 09/20/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: c-98-204-44-243.hsd1.md.comcast.net at 98.204.44.243
Message:
You are absolutely wrong. Why Maada and Nyuma? What about the Congo
Market traders? The small police traders? President Koroma can delegate
some of these duties to his assistants. Wrong move, but we can deal with
it and move on.
Subject: Re: PRESIDENT KOROMA HOLDS TALKS WITH BRIG. MARDA BIO AND
From: Jackal
To: All
Date Posted: 12:56:16 09/20/07 ()
Email Address: dollarbill@gmail.com
Entered From: c-24-13-121-79.hsd1.il.comcast.net at 24.13.121.79
Message:
Did you say wrong? Show your credentials as an accomplished Presidential adviser. Koromo is healing the wounds of a nation. Peaceful dialogue is fundamental to our economic growth.
Prove me wrong,I await.
Subject: Re: PRESIDENT KOROMA HOLDS TALKS WITH BRIG. MARDA BIO AND
From: POLITICO
To: All
Date Posted: 13:12:35 09/20/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: c-98-204-44-243.hsd1.md.comcast.net at 98.204.44.243
Message:
Here you go again! Take a deep breath and relax. This is not the arena for attacking people and
asking for credentials and/or qualifications. Let us discuss. exchange ideas and hopefully learn
from each other. I am with the bandwagon that believes it was a waste of presidential time to
grant Nyuma and Bio audience at this time. What say you?
Subject: Re: PRESIDENT KOROMA HOLDS TALKS WITH BRIG. MARDA BIO AND
From: Candid Opinion
To: All
Date Posted: 13:23:24 09/20/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: ns.nucleusns2.com at 12.44.12.126
Message:
Politico....
I think you are wrong about "This is not the arena for attacking people and
asking for credentials and/or qualifications. Let us discuss. exchange ideas and hopefully learn
from each other."
Thats majority of what goes on here..
Subject: Re: PRESIDENT KOROMA HOLDS TALKS WITH BRIG. MARDA BIO AND COL
From: Bankie Liber man
To: All
Date Posted: 07:48:15 09/20/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: ppp-69-218-211-235.dsl.wotnoh.ameritech.net at 69.218.211.235
Message:
Gentlemen simmer down and don't get carried away with this meeting. My sources believe if you will, confirm that it was a stern warning and a no nonsense meeting wherein the president laid it down as clear and direct as possible that in as much as they are welcomed in the new dispensation he will not stand idly by and see his program derailed by any of them including Mandereh.
I spoke with Tom's wife yesterday and she complained that Tom is planning on moving to Segbwema to stay out of the public's view as he promised to live a peaceful and non controversial life. I don't know about Marda's plans.
All will be fine. Way to go Mr. Prezzo.
Subject: Re: PRESIDENT KOROMA HOLDS TALKS WITH BRIG. MARDA BIO AND COL
From: Hawa Kebe
To: All
Date Posted: 11:06:30 09/20/07 ()
Email Address: kebehawaya@yahoo.co.uk
Entered From: adsl-75-19-57-161.dsl.irvnca.sbcglobal.net at 75.19.57.161
Message:
It is very good idea that the prisident hold talks with these two,No matter what ethnic group you come from we are all Sierra leoneans ,peace
Subject: Re: PRESIDENT KOROMA HOLDS TALKS WITH BRIG. MARDA BIO AND
From: CarelessTalk
To: All
Date Posted: 13:29:23 09/20/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: c-98-204-44-243.hsd1.md.comcast.net at 98.204.44.243
Message:
Hawa, don't bring regional and ethnic politics in this discuss.
Subject: Should Ernest extend prerogative of mercy to Omrie Golley
From: Ibrahim Turay
To: All
Date Posted: 02:14:40 09/20/07 ()
Email Address: imtu71@hotmail.com
Entered From: pool-71-161-90-74.cncdnh.east.verizon.net at 71.161.90.74
Message:
What do you think? The guy is languishing in prison.
Subject: Re: Should Ernest extend prerogative of mercy to Omrie Golley
From: Sam
To: All
Date Posted: 21:19:30 09/20/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: pool-71-184-33-60.bstnma.east.verizon.net at 71.184.33.60
Message:
There is reconcilliation and there is reconcilliation. I think he was arrested not neccessarily because of what he stands accused of and as such, justice needs to be served, but with that being said, lets not get carried away. The RUF damage to Sierra Leone is permanent. There are still amputees walking round, people who lost everything still struggling, not to mention those who watched loved ones get raped and murdered in front of them. With his overseas basing, Omrie might have been the one arranging for the arms and God knows what. If he was deeply involved with the RUF, let him fry. Part of my displeasure with Kabbah was his attempt at reconcilliation i.e. letting the RUF go scott free. If he is guilty, let him die in jail like his leader. He believed in his cause, he should be willing to die for his cause
Subject: Re: Should Ernest extend prerogative of mercy to Omrie Golle
From: ROBERT PAINE
To: All
Date Posted: 12:16:04 09/20/07 ()
Email Address: painera2003@yahoo.com
Entered From: host176-133-dynamic.55-82-r.retail.telecomitalia.it at 82.55.133.176
Message:
I actually feel this guy should be freed
without delay because he was nothing wrong
but the SLPP only wanted to get him for his former
involvement with the RUF.
Subject: Re: Should Ernest extend prerogative of mercy to Omrie Golley
From: Mammy Blessing
To: All
Date Posted: 04:39:48 09/20/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: pool-71-247-147-219.nycmny.east.verizon.net at 71.247.147.219
Message:
The guy should be brought to prison as soon as possible. A fair verdict should be reached to free or lock him up for good. This charade has gone on for too long. There should be no political games in the dispensation of justice.
Subject: PRESIDENT KOROMA HOLDS TALKS WITH MARDA BIO AND NYUMA
From: Jamba smoker
To: All
Date Posted: 01:05:57 09/20/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: 123.43-201-80.adsl-dyn.isp.belgacom.be at 80.201.43.123
Message:
Is it a right move?
Subject: Re: PRESIDENT KOROMA HOLDS TALKS WITH MARDA BIO AND NYUMA
From: TigerSheik
To: All
Date Posted: 05:18:41 09/20/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: 123.43-201-80.adsl-dyn.isp.belgacom.be at 80.201.43.123
Message:
If even it's a dumb move as some of us see it. We should not doubt the president's ability in his wisdom of taking such action.
Do you remember Paul in the Bible? He was also a thug
like those two.But he was embraced and ecouraged by Jesus Christ to spread the good news.
The perfection of this man's logic has shown he has the wisdom it takes to rule his people.
"A WISE MOVE"
Subject: Re: PRESIDENT KOROMA HOLDS TALKS WITH MARDA BIO AND NYUMA
From: Tonyayei
To: All
Date Posted: 03:30:34 09/20/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: dh112.public.mod.uk at 82.109.66.148
Message:
I do not find anything wrong with the President talking to those guys but discussing any governmental issues with them will not be in the country's best interest. I can say this because Maada Bio is certainly not a role model and so is Nyuma. They had the opportunity to at least uplift the country out of abysmal poverty but what did they do? I'll leave you to figure it out.How could any Sierra Leonean explain the huge wealth amassed by these guys and yet we see them like life savers, not in my name.
President Koroma, you have been overwhelmingly voted for across the country in a more proportionate manner in a truly free and fair election. It is abundantly clear that the people have spoken, ready to embrace positive change and have trusted you with the highest position of the land. I urge you not to disappoint the people because if you do, it will be too high a price to pay. Therefore, mind those you discuss the country's affairs with or they will bury you before you know it. There are thousands of decent Sierra Leoneans home and abroad who only but mean well for the country and you should engage them rather than those ex robbers. Beware! Beware! Our President. I trust you, wish you well, God's guidance and just deliver the positives.
Subject: Re: PRESIDENT KOROMA HOLDS TALKS WITH MARDA BIO AND NYUMA
From: Mammy Blessing
To: All
Date Posted: 04:20:38 09/20/07 ()
Email Address:
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Democracy is always imperilled, not by the the inspired millions who trust the ballot box but by the scheming, nefarious few who plot away in the dark when most honest folks slumber.
Good people and monsters make up our democracy..
And as trolls and ogres, blood-stained though they may be, Nyumah anb Bio deserve an audience with their president. Besides, talking is not capitulation. Makes more sense rapping with your enemies than shooting RPGs at each other across the Liberian border.
EBK's meeting with the Rude Bois does not alarm me.
Subject: Re: PRESIDENT KOROMA HOLDS TALKS WITH MARDA BIO AND NYUMA
From: KING LOGGY
To: All
Date Posted: 08:54:06 09/20/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: c-69-255-182-17.hsd1.va.comcast.net at 69.255.182.17
Message:
COULD NOT HAVE SAID IT ANY BETTER THAN THAT
Subject: Re: PRESIDENT KOROMA HOLDS TALKS WITH MARDA BIO AND NYUMA
From: Candid Opinion
To: All
Date Posted: 09:18:22 09/20/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: ns.nucleusns2.com at 12.44.12.126
Message:
I still cant understand this APC venom for such gallant men..?
They supported the other party.. SO WHAT?
Same as Kabs Kanu, Leslie, Leatherboots..Waju Waju..
Why are thier heads wanted on a stake and ass on a a banda.. is beyond me..
Subject: Re: PRESIDENT KOROMA HOLDS TALKS WITH MARDA BIO AND NYUMA
From: M. Alieu Iscandari Esq.
To: All
Date Posted: 15:36:48 09/20/07 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
Actually no one wants their "heads on a stake and their asses on a banda", because of their support for another party. The fact is that these two men you call gallant are actually not so. Many who have been their victims would attest to the truth of this fact.
I think the relevant inquiry would have been, why are these two men so reviled? They are reviled because they commited crimes against humanity and people need closure. The only way they can obtain closure is the truth. I WILL BE ON RECORD TO SAY THAT I AM WILLING TO STIPULATE TO A NON PENALLY PUNITIVE SANCTION. ALTHOUGH I WOULD NOT RULE OUT CIVIL MONETARY DAMAGES WHICH SHOULD BE GOOD ENOUGH.
On meeting the President, I am in full support of attempts at building bridges and TRUST where there was none. It is their right to have audience with the leader of sierra leone. I am sure that these "Gallant" men can be turned around and work for the benefit of sierra leone hand in glove with the present administration.
Clearly, Ernest Koroma has begun to show his mastery at the art of bridging gaps rather than creating Mistrust, that is diplomacy and Trust 101.
Maybe if these Gentle men can openly speak the truth about the murder of Salami Coker and 28 others, and then pay some monetary damages to the families and heirs, agree to a stipulated punishment of sorts then we all can go home happy. They do not need to go to jail, or have their freedom curtailed because of these communal crimes that the NPRC committed.
With Bio though ther is the issue of his very MISGUIDED UTTERANCE during the SLPP debates that his only contribution to the SLPP was to "Overthrow" the APC and that if the APC comes back to power it he will do all he can to overthrow it.
Now that the APC is in power, it is reasonable to expect that that threat would be carried out and any extra security measures put in place would be acceptable
This is going to be interesting. While you guys are screaming like crazy the APC leader in only his second day on the Job is showing his mastery at TRUE leadership.
Subject: Re: PRESIDENT KOROMA HOLDS TALKS WITH MARDA BIO AND NYUMA
From: Ibrahim Turay
To: All
Date Posted: 02:00:53 09/20/07 ()
Email Address: imtu71@hotmail.com
Entered From: pool-71-161-90-74.cncdnh.east.verizon.net at 71.161.90.74
Message:
I don't think so. How could a president invite a U.S. deportee for a presidential meeting??? He has just made him important.
Subject: Re: PRESIDENT KOROMA HOLDS TALKS WITH MARDA BIO AND NYUMA
From: Jackal
To: All
Date Posted: 15:56:56 09/20/07 ()
Email Address: dollarbill@gmail.com
Entered From: c-24-13-121-79.hsd1.il.comcast.net at 24.13.121.79
Message:
Because Sierra Leone is a politically soveriegn nation. The President has the nation's blessing to determine how to manage the ship of State. A US deportee is not a criminal in Sierra Leone. He is simply a
Subject: Re: PRESIDENT KOROMA HOLDS TALKS WITH MARDA BIO AND NYUMA
From: Jackal
To: All
Date Posted: 16:13:02 09/20/07 ()
Email Address: dollarbill@gmail.com
Entered From: c-24-13-121-79.hsd1.il.comcast.net at 24.13.121.79
Message:
Because Sierra Leone is a politically soveriegn nation. The President has the nation's blessing to determine how to manage the ship of State. A US deportee is not a criminal in Sierra Leone. He is simply a victim of America's prejudicial immigration laws
Subject: Re: PRESIDENT KOROMA HOLDS TALKS WITH MARDA BIO AND NYUM
From: POLITICO
To: All
Date Posted: 22:25:21 09/20/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: c-98-204-44-243.hsd1.md.comcast.net at 98.204.44.243
Message:
Can you imagine what led to Tom's deportation? Some of the so-called
NPRC thieves are still living in the US.
Subject: Re: PRESIDENT KOROMA HOLDS TALKS WITH MARDA BIO AND NYUM
From: Jackal
To: All
Date Posted: 23:51:29 09/20/07 ()
Email Address: dollarbill@gmail.com
Entered From: c-24-13-121-79.hsd1.il.comcast.net at 24.13.121.79
Message:
Name the NPRC thieves and what they stole. Remember if you cannot point out what they stole, you are selling ice to Eskimos.
Subject: Re: PRESIDENT KOROMA HOLDS TALKS WITH MARDA BIO AND NYUMA
From: Cornelius Hamelberg
To: All
Date Posted: 01:47:58 09/20/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: c-088472d5.01-32-73746f42.cust.bredbandsbolaget.se at 213.114.132.8
Message:
A VERY SHORT VIEW:
Talking with these two does not mean taking them into his confidence or having unadulterated confidence in whatever loyalty they may pledge, and of course they had better not try anything foolish.
Prez Koroma saved Nyuma's life. He will always be grateful for that.
Prez Koroma’s policy is one of inclusiveness and reconciliation but from this distance my instinct would be caution about Bio, considering the militaristic statements that Bio has made not so long ago (about toppling an APC government) and there is always the DANGER ABOUT SOME GUYS WHO DO NOT HAVE THE BIRD'S EYE VIEW FROM UP THERE TRYING TO BE TOO SMART FOR THEIR OWN GOOD.
Not that the president is about to appoint Bio the minister of defence.
It’s interesting to note the purging of the army of Hundreds of the highest Yoruba officers that has taken place several times in Nigeria’s recent history ………..
Subject: FOR THE SAKE OF PEACE I CONGRATULATE THE APC LEADER.
From: ALPHA SAIDU BANGURA
To: All
Date Posted: 23:24:12 09/19/07 ()
Email Address: SAIDUBANGSO@AOL.COM
Entered From: static-70-21-127-55.res.east.verizon.net at 70.21.127.55
Message:
In the interest of the peace and unity of our beloved country,I congratulate to APC leader, Mr. Ernest Bai Koroma on his election as president of our country.
I pray that God directs him to the right path.
I wish my party, the SLPP better luck next time.
I call on on my fellow country men and women to put the bitterness caused by the elections behind us and put our hands together to push Sierra Leone forward.
I want the membership of the APC to keep in mind that I will be monitoring whatever they do and If they step over the line, I will ensure that corrective measures are taken to prevent any wrong doing.
Subject: Re: FOR THE SAKE OF PEACE I CONGRATULATE THE APC LEADER.
From: Special Cut
To: All
Date Posted: 12:30:37 09/20/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: gw1.dc.gov at 164.82.146.3
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Saidu, please stay in your coocoon and do not congratulate our president. We,ll soon start extracting your rants from the cocorioko archives. Attacking someones personal life with lies is not easily unforgiveable. Tom and Marda were very active on the side of the SLPP but they displayed some maturity. The two cannot be compared to you and Laboh Fofana, liliputians writing childish articles. Your bosses were articulate enough and knew were the cut off point was unlike you two. You are not part of the National reconcilliation.
Subject: Re: FOR THE SAKE OF PEACE I CONGRATULATE THE APC LEADER.
From: Mammy Blessing
To: All
Date Posted: 04:33:04 09/20/07 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
You really are full of yourself...but your partisan rancor should always have a welcome niche in a democracy.
Foe or Supporter, the country we love will fail if we all squabble for a place in the Amen corner.
We will all understand the need for vigilance when the cabinet list shortly emerges.
Some of the names being bandied...
Well they give me the creeps!
Subject: Re: FOR THE SAKE OF PEACE I CONGRATULATE THE APC LEADER.
From: Tonyayei
To: All
Date Posted: 03:58:05 09/20/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: dh112.public.mod.uk at 82.109.66.148
Message:
Why for the sake of peace? Man we should rise above party politics and put the country first. I am SLPP and ever will be but we must as some of us have already done, congratulate the President without any ifs, ands or buts. We have only the SLPP to blame for the lost campaign. The musicians voiced several times without number their concerns about the lack of progress or positive change that the country badly needed but the leaders hopelessly disregarded their cry. Don't get me wrong, very little progress was made but with the unprecidented donor funds, we have nothing to show. Moreover, Kabba et al were never SLPP materials, merely opportunists and we must know this now. By the same token, we must learn to reward our heroes in the SLPP and damn sycophancy.
Long live the Republic of Sierra Leone and woe betide those who mean evil for our Sierra Leone.
Subject: Re: FOR THE SAKE OF PEACE I CONGRATULATE THE APC LEADER.
From: Bonthe Pikin
To: All
Date Posted: 00:29:55 09/20/07 ()
Email Address: bontilaynga@gmail.com
Entered From: 203-167-156-241.dialup.clear.net.nz at 203.167.156.241
Message:
Go sidom yanda with u belful. U nor go monitor die-die SLPP na tranga tranga APC u dae cam monitor. For leh den say U sef don tok. Just go away, we can do better without your congratulatory message. Piss off.
Subject: Re: FOR THE SAKE OF PEACE I CONGRATULATE THE APC LEADER.
From: Razaki
To: All
Date Posted: 05:25:11 09/20/07 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
ehn ehn ehn e betteh sef if nar man of substance dae tok. udat nar dis guy wae tink so much bot imsef bot nar dem berewah dem boy nar america. bo leh dis man skidoff ya en mek man blow. for de sake of us peace, saidu nar natin bot im tink say m nar somtin.
nor body nor dae brasskittle am sef. big dumbeh
Subject: Re: FOR THE SAKE OF PEACE I CONGRATULATE THE APC LEADER.
From: Candid Opinion
To: All
Date Posted: 09:15:07 09/20/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: ns.nucleusns2.com at 12.44.12.126
Message:
Aye we...
I pray GOD grant us enlightenment..
Subject: Fellow Regentonians! We got it!
From: Nah Sabi Talk
To: All
Date Posted: 23:06:15 09/19/07 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
The long battle is now over for the privatization of Sierra Leone Grammar School...
As we celebrate this victory, I hope that we ensure diversity... All tribes as well as for pupils from low income families as well...
Regentonian True!
Let's pursue and forget the things that are behind us...
SHOUT OUT! To Pa Spaine and the current principal Mr. Lasite (my former vice principal)
Subject: Re: Fellow Regentonians! We got it!
From: KKW
To: All
Date Posted: 15:40:06 09/20/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 204.50.182.249
Message:
Floreat Regentonia!! I am joining the "bato" although I have no idea what this victory is supposed to mean!
Subject: Re: Fellow Regentonians! We got it!
From: Regentonian Web
To: All
Date Posted: 10:56:51 09/20/07 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
We do have a web site you know!
Subject: Re: Fellow Regentonians! We got it!
From: Regentonian Web
To: All
Date Posted: 11:00:05 09/20/07 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
Sorry, this link will take you there
Subject: Re: Fellow Regentonians! We got it!
From: Sam
To: All
Date Posted: 23:19:03 09/19/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: pool-72-74-217-244.bstnma.east.verizon.net at 72.74.217.244
Message:
I read about this on that other newspaper's site. Why the comment about ensuring diversity? Was this ever an issue? Na Sabi Talk, Lasite was my VP too, when were you there, what years?
Subject: Re: Fellow Regentonians! We got it!
From: Nah Sabi Talk
To: All
Date Posted: 06:59:16 09/20/07 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
Fellow Regentonian, my utmost pleasure in reading your comment...
Before the government took over the school ( CMS Grammar School days), the practice of diversity was highly selective...
A diplomat's kid, white kid, certain-family names' kid or Creole boy would be more preferable than a poor yet smart "country boy" or even poor Creole boy. I really do not want to focus on things that I know ( either due to my education or having lived in the West for so long) to be ugly.
I asked for diversity at the onset of privatization so there cannot be any perception of such ugliness. Privatization means capitalism and for those of us that studied it, we know how cold it can be for the non players and how sweet it can be for the "affordables"...
I was a pupil and school band member during the latter part of the 70's... I was in class with the likes of Lyndon Thomas, and in band with Andrew Williams, Victor Hasting-Spaine (the then principal's son) just to name but few ...
My experience at the Grammar school is one that I cherished even more than my university years, and as such would hate to think of any deserving child being deprieved for whatever the reason of such a momentous opportunity...
Subject: Re: Fellow Regentonians! We got it!
From: Lameeh Gblaah
To: All
Date Posted: 01:54:31 09/20/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: host217-41-8-182.in-addr.btopenworld.com at 217.41.8.182
Message:
I was over the moon when my sister who's son is attending that school told me about that. The main problem is that we regentonians are never united being the first secondary school in the country our old boys association is in a state of a mess. we have not been doing anything to help the school, i could not rule myself out.I entered that school at the time of the great Otto-Laurie Palmer. I visited the school in 2001 i was ashame of what i saw. no desks , no apparatus in the labs and lack of vission from the students. I would like to thank the members of the NPRC who made sure that we got back our land and demolishing those so called buildings.I am also lifting up my hat to Mr Lasite who fought tenaciously i pursuing the motion of privatisation because the standard of the school was really going down .Live forever !! Grammar schooooool !!!! Please lets call an old boys's meeting in the UK and make some contributions . Look at Bo school, Methodist Girls high school old pupil's association they are all doing fine . Lets us all come together and help.
Subject: Re: Fellow Regentonians! We got it!
From: Nah Sabi Talk
To: All
Date Posted: 07:17:07 09/20/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: static-76-160-64-185.dsl.cavtel.net at 76.160.64.185
Message:
Well said Sir!
"Glory ever... Grammar School"
Under the government's administration, those efforts were not encouraged Sir!
Look at our so-called website site, thanks to H. Finley, but we can do better, my God!
Lifting up my boater hat to you, my Senior Regentonian!
Subject: Re: Fellow Regentonians! We got it!
From: news
To: All
Date Posted: 03:42:27 09/20/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: 14-64-ftth.onsneteindhoven.nl at 88.159.64.14
Message:
It was Alpha Wurie who did many things to frustrate our school to be privatised all these years. He was jealous and thought that SLGS will surpass others when it will be privatised.
The former SLPP governmnet was an enemy of progress and it did everything to stifle progress in our Country.
Siwkw-Dioko. I pursue -to go forward!
Long live Lasite and all past and present members of our great school.
Live for ever, sundered never.
God bless our Grammar school.
Subject: Re: Fellow Regentonians! We got it!
From: TheRegentonian
To: All
Date Posted: 04:47:42 09/20/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: c-68-36-5-19.hsd1.nj.comcast.net at 68.36.5.19
Message:
The problem with the association in North America esp. MD is that its full of old windbags, who aren't giving a chance t the younger alumni. As mush as it pains me to say this, but the POW association is much more dynamic, esp. the Atlanta organization. Maybe younger alumni should stop waiting for power to be handed over to them and try to force regime change or form alternative organizations.
Subject: Re: Fellow Regentonians! We got it!
From: Nah Sabi Talk
To: All
Date Posted: 07:24:35 09/20/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: static-76-160-64-185.dsl.cavtel.net at 76.160.64.185
Message:
Fellow Regentonian,
I feel and share your frustration...
And you've solved it too, "...Maybe younger alumni should stop waiting for power to be handed over to them and try to force regime change or form alternative organizations."
It's not maybe, but when and how?
Subject: Re: Fellow Regentonians! We got it!
From: TheRegentonian
To: All
Date Posted: 10:21:06 09/20/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 199.43.48.131
Message:
We need a few good young men to do this. I live in NJ, but I am quite willing to work with like-minded folk to do this. Do you know of any such folk? We should talk offline.
Subject: Re: Fellow Regentonians! We got it!
From: Lameeh Gblaah
To: All
Date Posted: 09:31:20 09/20/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: cpc3-lewi6-0-0-cust268.bmly.cable.ntl.com at 82.27.201.13
Message:
I knew about that and what was Alpha wurie's motive but he forgot to note that(cotton tree for dom so tay he high pass grass) He had come to be in the cream of the elites and he did so many "dabaroo"to fustrate us where is he now ? He would be catering for people in his so called blood bank lab for blood test. "The battle is not for the strong nor the race for the swift" The end would always justify the means. In every thing we do and evrywhere we go there is something known as hierachy even in heaven.so there would be poor as well as rich families sending their children to school to get educated to help them to aliviate poverty .Please leh we tell Alpha Wurie say he lef pan am!!!!
Subject: OBSERVATIONS FOR FOR JOHN LEIGH
From: Political Commentator
To: All
Date Posted: 21:19:04 09/19/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: adsl-66-140-46-116.dsl.rcsntx.swbell.net at 66.140.46.116
Message:
John Leigh, had members of the SLPP not allowed Kabbah to impose Berewa on the party, SLPP would have won the elections for a third time. Party members should be blamed for not taking Kabbah to the task. Had they done so, young people aspirants would have been had the opportunity to wrestle it out among themselves, just like in the case of Ernest and others within the APC.
The Makeni "conbention" should have set the stage for Kabbah and Berewa to recoil for vibrant aspirants to captain the boat. Instead of learning from mistakes
of the APC, when Shaki handpicked blue-eyed Momoh against the political tide sending both the APC and Mama Sa Lone to an untimely death, he chose to mimic the former.
By doing it à la Shaki, Kabbah hammered the last nail on the SLPP coffin before handing it to Charles Margai for burial. With her lies, false reports, and arrogant bashing of expatriates and foreign dignitaries, self appointed spokesgirl, Ninja Blyden knelled the funeral bell with a carte blanche under the very watch of rationally minded party members like you.
These and a few other shortcomings not excluding tribalism have been the syndromes leading to the SLPP in the limbo it’s now in. Depending on the progress of the mother-child relationship, SLPP will have no choice but move in with the PMDC by the time her daughter celebrates her 5th birthday three years or so from now or decline as a political force.
Subject: Re: OBSERVATIONS FOR FOR JOHN LEIGH
From: John E. Leigh
To: All
Date Posted: 14:11:48 09/20/07 ()
Email Address: johnernestleigh@yahoo.com
Entered From: cache-dtc-ag14.proxy.aol.com at 205.188.117.142
Message:
Mr. P. Commentator:
I agree with you that we SLPP people are responsible for our own defeat.
President Kabbah was determined to impose his will - both the presidendial ticket and the campaign theme of 'continuity' while most party members were adverse to oppose him for very practical reasons.
Presidential power is excessive in SL and alternative opportunities free of politics are extremely scarce in our country. As soon as one falls out of favor with the president, some friends and some relatives abandon him immediately. Those who are able to stand up against him are very few and resented by those who live off the president.
Clearly, we did it to ourselves. We were aware of wrong-headed policies and practices but most people were silent as if hiding a bad secret.
As for SLPP going to PMDC, I doubt it. Already, the Margai switch to APC caused PMDC to loose 99% of its Southeastern support during the second round. During the second round, Berewa won in all the kamajor areas including Mongheri, Chief Norman's hometown and in the san-san boy constituencies in Kono, Bo, Pujehun and Kenema.
Again, it all depends on have effective and democratic the APC governs and how effective the SLPP reorganizes. Let's keep our eyes and ears open in the public interest. Thanks. - JL
Subject: REPLACE SAM SUMANA WITH MARGAI
From: Onliner
To: All
Date Posted: 21:04:05 09/19/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: adsl-66-140-46-116.dsl.rcsntx.swbell.net at 66.140.46.116
Message:
The present vice president, former cab driver should be replaced with Charles Margai. It is stil not late for Ernest to make that move.
Subject: Re: REPLACE SAM SUMANA WITH MARGAI
From: Shembu
To: All
Date Posted: 09:44:25 09/20/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: eduproxy3.k12.de.us at 167.21.254.13
Message:
Onliner,
Stop this stupid pessimism. Your SLPP ambassador to Liberia was a carb driver in NYC for decades. Your so-called spokesman, Fayia Musa aka Victor Raider was a rebel that worked closely with Foday Sankoh and mosquito.
Sam is a young guy with strong educational background, and great business acumen. He went up against much older, much more experienced and educated individuals but came out on top for the position of running mate. It was definitely not an easy exercise to come up with a running mate. He earned what he got. So tell me why he must be replaced.
I tell you what I think. I know his Excellency Koroma will perform very well and live up to the people's expectation. But just in case he falls such of the people's expectations, that will be the time we replace him with Charles Margai for the 2012 battle.
Subject: Re: REPLACE SAM SUMANA WITH MARGAI
From: Special Cut
To: All
Date Posted: 12:50:34 09/20/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: gw1.dc.gov at 164.82.146.3
Message:
If you Know Sam personally, you would not talk about replacement. This is a hard working, down to earth guy with so many good attributes.He is the right man out there, buddy. Wait and see.
Subject: Re: REPLACE SAM SUMANA WITH MARGAI
From: Tonyayei
To: All
Date Posted: 07:54:11 09/20/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: dh112.public.mod.uk at 82.109.66.148
Message:
Leave Sam alone. Do not pull him down because you have won. Nobody on this forum as far as i know came up with this bizarre suggestion prior to election.
Nevermind he was a taxi driver but has developed himself and today thank goodness he is Mr VP. He did not go to prison, robbed or begged on the streets to look after himself or his family. Afterwards we all know the menial jobs we start with in the diaspora before we become what we are except for those "wey born meet am but we nar original borbor pain dem".
Subject: Re: REPLACE SAM SUMANA WITH MARGAI
From: Tonyayei
To: All
Date Posted: 06:55:38 09/20/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: dh112.public.mod.uk at 82.109.66.148
Message:
What position do you think the VP is placed in the hierachy?
Nevertheless, the VP was elected democratically and the constituitionality behind replacing him is probably yet to be amended.
However, C F Margai's alliance with APC was a tactical move for the good of the land and his PMDC's survival in a variety of ways and also to prove to SLPP that he was indeed a formidable factor but not to take up a senior position (not VP)in the cabinet. A whale of Sierra Leoneans especially some SLPPs do see CF as a traitor but i see him as a consequence of SLPPs myopia, which should be reflected on far and deep.
CF is still the leader of PMDC and would be best for him to accept a non-cabinet position should he opt to serve.
Subject: Re: All the worlds a stage
From: M. Alieu Iscandari Esq
To: All
Date Posted: 06:14:16 09/20/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: cache-ntc-ad04.proxy.aol.com at 207.200.116.198
Message:
Yesterday he was a cab driver as you say and he has worked his way up in life and today he is the Vice President of sierra leone and you can only address him as "Mr. Vice President"
Subject: Re: REPLACE SAM SUMANA WITH MARGAI
From: bad man
To: All
Date Posted: 00:20:20 09/20/07 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
this is a suggestion from an slpp destroyer who should be ignored. he is finding a way to discredit the new government.
Subject: Re: REPLACE SAM SUMANA WITH MARGAI...Nooo Way!
From: Toegondoe Sagbah
To: All
Date Posted: 21:54:35 09/19/07 ()
Email Address: mendemoi@yahoo.com
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Charles has his own party. It is called PMDC AND THAT'S WHERE HE WILL REMAIN.
Of course, he can accept a civil service position as a non APC. We don't want any integration of Charles
Subject: Re: REPLACE SAM SUMANA WITH MARGAI...Nooo Way!
From: POLITICO
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Date Posted: 22:14:17 09/19/07 ()
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I don't know which part of the world you live, but today in Sierra Leone, Charles Margai is adored by the north, south, east and west. He
is going to be a driving force in shaping our country for the future. Charles Margai is bigger than PMDC, APC and SLPP.
Subject: Re: REPLACE SAM SUMANA WITH MARGAI
From: Mammy Blessing
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Date Posted: 21:26:24 09/19/07 ()
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I don't think it is constitutionally possible for a president to change VPs like he changes knickers. May I remind you that Sam Sumana was elected by the people also.
It is possible however to utilize Charles' tremendous talents without violating the constitution. How about making him an ombudsman supervising electrification, Bumbuna, making Hastings an international airport, for example. If he is given unfettered access to Ernest, he will be the de facto VP.
Subject: Re: REPLACE SAM SUMANA WITH MARGAI
From: Mammy Blessing
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Date Posted: 22:01:43 09/19/07 ()
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That is something I really want to get an education about. It just does not make sense for a running mate to be dumped after the elections. I am sure that there are constraints. Anyway if there is anyone out there with info about the issue, please post.
Subject: Re: REPLACE SAM SUMANA WITH MARGAI
From: POLITICAL
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Date Posted: 21:51:05 09/19/07 ()
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Are you sure the vp will not be replaced? Tell us more about the constitutionality of the vp.
Subject: WHERE IS ALIEU Iscandri?
From: POLITICO
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Date Posted: 22:20:01 09/19/07 ()
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Legally, what are the possibilities of replacing the VP or creating a
provision for VP2?
Subject: Re: WHERE IS ALIEU Iscandri?
From: M. Alieu Iscandari Esq
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Date Posted: 06:16:45 09/20/07 ()
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If the XN says we can creat such an office then we can other wise it is a divisive issue and at this time of nation building, we do not need that.
Subject: Re: WHERE IS ALIEU Iscandri?
From: Special Cut
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Date Posted: 12:56:27 09/20/07 ()
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Now you start talking about VP2 again just to create many more grazing grounds that you cannot monitor. Sierra Leone is too small for all these pocket offices. Why should we have 2 VPs?
Subject: Re: WHERE IS ALIEU Iscandri?
From: Tamba Moiwo
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Date Posted: 18:07:08 09/20/07 ()
Email Address: moiwo@hotmail.co.uk
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Exactly! APC institutionalised that cancerous phrase 'wusai den tie cow nar dae in dae it'.This engendered in its wake the wanton pillaging of our economy,destruction of our schools,hospitals,banks,financial houses and all that was required for a vibrant and sustainable nation.
Back in the days,there a VP1 &VP2--RIGHT WASTE OF RESOURCES.
Subject: Re: WHERE IS ALIEU Iscandri?
From: Move on Dot Com
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Date Posted: 21:13:49 09/20/07 ()
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You are still living in the PAST. This didnt score you any points in the elections and wouldnt now. Get over it and move with the flow.
Subject: Re: WHERE IS ALIEU Iscandri?
From: Tamba Moiwo
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Date Posted: 07:00:41 09/21/07 ()
Email Address: moiwo@hotmail.co.uk
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IF YOU DO NOT LEARN FROM THE PAST,YOU ARE BOUND TO REPEAT IT.THATS ACAUTIONARY TALE FOR YOU BUDDY..
Subject: Re: WHERE IS ALIEU Iscandri?
From: M. Alieu Iscandari Esq
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Date Posted: 16:14:26 09/20/07 ()
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I agree with you except if the XN says we could and I dont believe that it says so.
Subject: Re: WHERE IS ALIEU Iscandri?
From: Layman
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Date Posted: 05:43:26 09/20/07 ()
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You do not need a legal luminary like Alieu to advise on this.Simple answer- no way, until the constitution in amended.
Subject: Re: WHERE IS ALIEU Iscandri?
From: Sam
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Date Posted: 23:26:20 09/19/07 ()
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Why is this post continuing? EK chose Sumana for his running mate. I understand Margai gave them the winning votes and you have to give PMDC something in return, but dumping Sumana may make me start wondering about EK.
I already have problems with the fact that APC let RUF join them. Do not dump Sumana, there are plenty other posts Margai can occupy and certainly do not create a VP2 position. While we are still excited and hoping that a new party means even more changes for our country, we still have to keep a watchful eye on our new rulers because of the past APC rule which only those who were corrupt beneficiaries would look back on fondly.
Pa Shaki had two VPs (God knows they were both worthless, evil bast#$&s) and if EK starts that wasteful unneccessary nonsense, he is going to have a few people nervous. What next, the type of brutal police chief that reigned under Pa Shaki?
Subject: Re: WHERE IS ALIEU Iscandri?
From: Candid Opinion
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Date Posted: 09:10:42 09/20/07 ()
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Speaker of the house..
Isnt he the #3 man in Gov...Or doe that post go to the majority in parliament..?
I think he deserves to be the 3rd most powerful man in our country.
Subject: Re: WHERE IS ALIEU Iscandri?
From: MUSA KAMARA
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Date Posted: 05:58:39 09/20/07 ()
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If His Excellency President Earnest Bai Koroma decides to nominate Hon.Charles Margai as VP2 will be a positive step as long as it carries the aim of developmennt,reconciliation and unity for our land.At this stage,we need viable,diligent and dedicated Sierra-Leoneans to put our nation on the world stage.As I have been advocating,I support a VP2 and Attorney General position for the Hon.Charles Margai.
Subject: Re: WHERE IS ALIEU Iscandri?
From: Eddie Grant
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Date Posted: 04:30:53 09/20/07 ()
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Can someone for once tell me why anyone is suggesting replacement of VP Sam? Could this be because of his academic ability or his integrety, I'm sure he's been well vetted before accepted into the post.
Subject: Re: WHERE IS ALIEU Iscandri?
From: Candid Opinion
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Date Posted: 09:08:41 09/20/07 ()
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Vetted my foot..
We are so dishonest to ourselves and our nation..
I think this is one of our biggest national failing..
Truth...honesty..calling shit............shit.
Is what will set us all free..
Subject: Re: WHERE IS ALIEU Iscandri?
From: Shembu
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Date Posted: 11:53:44 09/20/07 ()
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Candid,
You just demonstrated that you are very uncandid about your thoughts. What do you mean by "Vetted my foot.."?
Do you think this guy was just hand picked or what? There is a process by which the party leader in consultation with his members came up with a list that eventually narrowed down to one man being chosen. That man happens to be Sammy. Are you guys jealous because this guy is young. Please know that the guy is educated and qualified for the job. Please give him a break and an opportunity to perform his duties instead of prejudging him.
Probably people like you support the candidacy of Barack (a guy about the same age as Sammy) for USA 2008 presidency. A much bigger and powerful country like USA can give chances to all sorts of people, even Allan Keyes, but an improverished nation as ours is only full of jealous people. I know some of you would like to see JB Dauda, Momoh Pujeh, or some dinosaur like those back in power. We say NEW FACES all the way for the NEW MILLENIUM.
Subject: Re: WHERE IS ALIEU Iscandri?
From: Special Cut
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Date Posted: 13:01:42 09/20/07 ()
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Candid,
You need to change that moniker. I you so academically shorthanded that you need to resort to profanity during simple debates ?
Subject: Re: WHERE IS ALIEU Iscandri?
From: Cut ya put ya..
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Date Posted: 13:20:46 09/20/07 ()
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What has posting in cocorioko got to do with academia?
Why not you try you yone hand on the subject.. ?
I did not notice any profanity..Where is it ?
Subject: Re: WHERE IS ALIEU Iscandri?
From: Candid Opinion
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Date Posted: 12:06:37 09/20/07 ()
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I apologise..
I did not know thats how the APC works..
I assumed this was not consultative and no list was drafted.
I dont know what the process was and in my haste to judge.. i might have mistakenly assumed that there was hardly any process, salone politics and what i read might have come into play...
I read that he just showed up with a briefcase and a blank check, doctored resume and promise of more money where that came from..
If there was and he was vetted.. true true..and he ended up been the best candidate.. i take my erroneous assumption back.
It has little to do with his age.. or the barack factor.. i will support Hillary and not barack, i believe she is a better candidate, much more rounded.
Subject: "Hillary much more rounded"?
From: Kalos
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Date Posted: 12:58:06 09/20/07 ()
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How dare you say Hillary is much more rounded. Rounded in what? You
are buying into the American media falsehood. Barack Obama is smarter
with more experience than Hillary. Take away the Bill Clinton, she is just
another junior senator from New York.
Subject: Re: "Hillary much more rounded"?
From: Candid Opinion
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Date Posted: 13:16:42 09/20/07 ()
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An opposing view...
Yours..
I salute you..
Subject: Re: "Hillary much more rounded"?
From: Kalos
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Date Posted: 13:32:10 09/20/07 ()
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Candid Opinion, what a gentleman!!!! Continue the good job.
Subject: Re: REPLACE SAM SUMANA WITH MARGAI
From: Bambay Lans Kamara
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Date Posted: 22:16:39 09/19/07 ()
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Mr. Samuel Sam-Sumana is currently the Chief Executive Officer of Aries Rehabilitation Construction and Supplies (ARCS) SL Ltd, incorporated under the laws of Sierra Leone. As Chief Executive Officer, Mr. Sam-Sumana has shown his Leadership and Management skills when dealing with people in his employ. He is a motivator and a good listener who seeks solutions to Company problems using innovative methods developed while serving as Vice Chairman Kono-Union Chapter, Minnesota in the United States of America.
At the height of the civil war in Sierra Leone, Sam-Sumana was agonized over the near total collapse of the infrastructure of Kono District. In his position as Vice Chairman, Kono-Union Chapter USA, he paid frequent visits to the district and forged a good working relationship with the chiefdom authorities in Kono and Kenema District. He pioneered the construction and repairs of roads in Kono and Kenema districts using funds raised through advocacy and his own personal funds for the betterment of the then inaccessible areas of the Eastern region of the Republic of Sierra Leone.
Earlier, Mr. Samuel Sam-Sumana served as Managing Director of the United Diamond Mining Company, Kodu Town, Kono District, Sierra Leone. With his expertise in the field of diamond mining, he used to introduce environmental friendly and just mining methods in the field bringing development to the people where his company operated.
Mr. Samuel Sam-Sumana also served as the Regional Manager for C-12 International, a Huston, Texas based company engaged in diamond buying in Sierra Leone, Guinea and Liberia.
His native ingrained knowledge of the diamond industry made an asset to the company where he oversaw training, recruitment, planning and marketing. He provided advice to the company on the socio-political condition in Sierra Leone, Guinea and Liberia.
Samuel Sam-Sumana holds a Bachelor of Science (BSC) degree in Management Information System from the Metropolitan State University, Minnesota, USA. Samuel also holds two Diplomas (Diamond Rough Grading, Sorting and Polishing) from the America Institution of Diamond Cutting and Polishing, Deerfield Beach, Florida, USA, and a Diploma (Computer Network Support Specialist) from Knollwood Computer and Business School, St Louis Park, Minnesota, USA.
While in the USA, Mr. Samuel Sam-Sumana worked for Prudential Financial Group as the System Officer of the network support. He provided the strategic management and operational oversight for the Group, providing training and counseling to subordinate staff. At Allina Health Services, Mr. Samuel Sam- Sumana ran the Network Support System. He provided the same service to Seagate Technologies in the United States of America.
Mr. Samuel Sam-Sumana is a member of the "Five-Man Committee" of the All People’s Congress Party; a party with which Samuel has had a life-long association imbibing the populist character of the Party; a key ingredient in Mr. Samuel Sam-Sumana’s personal make-up. He has contributed reasonably to the APC in the Kono District and beyond with the aim of strengthening the party in the District. Mr. Samuel Sam- Sumana is a Substantial Contributor to the Kono District Scholarship Board, which underscores his commitment to the betterment of the district in particular and the Republic of Sierra Leone in general.
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Subject: Dan Rather sues CBS for $70 million
From: Bambay Lans Kamara
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Date Posted: 19:22:40 09/19/07 ()
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NEW YORK (AP) -- Dan Rather filed a $70 million lawsuit Wednesday against CBS, alleging the network made him a "scapegoat" for a discredited story about President Bush's National Guard service.
The 75-year-old Rather, whose final months were clouded by controversy over the report, says the complaint stems from "CBS' intentional mishandling" of the aftermath of the story.
The lawsuit, filed in State Supreme Court in Manhattan, also names CBS President and CEO Leslie Moonves, Viacom Inc., Viacom Chairman Sumner Redstone and former CBS News President Andrew Heyward. (At the time Viacom Inc. owned CBS. But Viacom and CBS Corp. split into two different companies in January 2006.)
Rather, the former anchorman of the "CBS Evening News," is seeking $20 million in compensatory damages and $50 million in punitive damages.
CBS spokesman Dana McClintock said: "These complaints are old news, and this lawsuit is without merit."
Rather narrated the September 2004 report that claimed President Bush skirted some of his duties during his National Guard service and that a commander felt pressured to sugarcoat Bush's record. Rather maintains the story was true.
But an independent review for the network determined the story was neither fair nor accurate. CBS fired three news executives and a producer for airing it.
Richard Thornburgh -- the former U.S. attorney general who made up the two-man investigative panel with Louis D. Boccardi, the retired chief executive of The Associated Press -- said he was unaware of Rather's lawsuit.
Reached at his home in Washington, he said only: "Our report speaks for itself."
Boccardi was not immediately available for comment.
Issued in January 2005, the 224-page report portrayed Rather as "pushed to the limit" with other stories at the time of the "60 Minutes Wednesday" report. He relied on a trusted producer, and didn't check the story for accuracy or, apparently, even see it before he introduced it on the program, the panel said.
CBS rushed the story on the air and then blindly defended it when holes became apparent, said the panel, which was unable to say conclusively whether memos allegedly disparaging Bush's service were real or fake.
Rather, who couldn't immediately be reached for comment Wednesday, worked at CBS News starting in 1962, then replaced Walter Cronkite in 1981 as "CBS Evening News" anchorman until signing off March 9, 2005.
He always considered himself a reporter first, and the habit of news anchors to travel to the scenes of big stories is largely his legacy. His interview with Saddam Hussein in 2003 was the last given by the Iraqi leader before he was toppled.
With his intense on-air demeanor, Rather also had his detractors, and his broadcast was a distant third in the evening news ratings at the time he stepped down. CBS News' ratings rebounded under short-term successor Bob Schieffer, but they've plummeted under Katie Couric, who took over the broadcast in September 2006.
Subject: Re: Dan Rather sues CBS for $70 million
From: Cornelius Hamelberg
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Date Posted: 21:50:48 09/19/07 ()
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Meanwhile Bambay you would think that Baraka Hussein Obama knows little about Civil Rights Alabama
Subject: Re: Dan Rather sues CBS for $70 million
From: Bambay Lans Kamara
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Date Posted: 23:20:21 09/19/07 ()
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Thanks my friend Cornelius Hamelberg. The leaders of America have tried over the centuries to bring the nation together. This is seen in the American Civil War, the Desegregation and Laws that came with it, we see this in the Civil Right Movement and many other areas. But I guess people needed to see who among the system actually and should actually call the shots before the necessary changes occur finally.
This is why I have no respect for any human who sees America only along domineering racial lines. As we can see, America is at war. Both Black and White go to the warfront, sacrifice their lives to save all of us at home. For that reason alone, it is imperative that people see the tail-end of racism. Those who wish for racial segregation to continue are the true enemies of America, worst than any foreign enemy. Because the foreign enemy wishes to get rid of all if they could. Therefore, their strength will receive a boost when they see disunity in America. America must be thankful that the leaders are brainy to handle their issues far from racial lines. The judiciary system must work with them by looking at America as a nation that has a reputation and many enemies. If the American form of democracy is not nurtured the internal enemies of this nation (those who see things along racial line) will be living a sad legacy for the nation. May God forbid that.
A nation divided shall never stand. There are certain facts that must be said. Sodom and Gomorra, though powerful, fell because of wickedness. Rome was larger and very powerful but it fell because of division. No matter how powerful a nation is, he must not forget that there is no power in disunity.
This is why I laugh so hard when I see especially certain White Americans get angry that an African who has been subjected under every form of injustice from which he still bleeds yet, they try to compare their successes and intelligence with such a person and even get aggravated, with NASA and all the fabulous brains in America, they still angry that such a person knows everything than everyone and will try all they could to prove that such a person does not know everything than every one. I ask myself, where has this one been all these years, in America?
On a more serious note, it is best for Americans to learn about various cultures particularly Blacks and Whites. It is a shame for a nation this powerful, with a rich history to find out that many people do not even know how the governmental or judicial system works, let alone her history. It is apparent that most do not know that California and Virginia are under the same government, there are those who think that President Bush is answerable to Gov. Schwarzenegger or the latter is has authority over them and no one outside California does, let alone knowing that there are fifty states that confederated to form the United States of America. Democracy, the Rule of Law seem like bacteria one ones to see with the nacked eye to most people. This is true for many states including Virginia, where I spent sixteen years. That is a shame.
From my experience, if they know and have been doing what I have seen them do, then the judiciary system needs to be refined because definitely a majority of the people, both Black and White do not trust the judiciary system. This is what they say in their action. More education needs be done but I am not truly, truly proud of what I have seen so far.
See people angry about politics in Sierra Leone when they do not even know the politics of where they live?
Sobothe!
Subject: Re: Dan Rather sues CBS for $70 million
From: Kalos
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Date Posted: 22:24:57 09/19/07 ()
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little surprise when JJ described Obama as "white man". That was not ice.
Subject: Re: Dan Rather sues CBS for $70 million
From: Cornelius Hamelberg
To: All
Date Posted: 23:19:12 09/19/07 ()
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100% is closer to the 99% loss of support that Johnny Leigh the non-entity is calculating for the Honourable BOY PIKIN Charles Francis Margai who is most certainly SOMEBODY.
Jesse J could have said that Hussein Osama was a half-white guy just as Johnny J is only a half-Mende man...and as hot as ice...in his fool’s paradise.
( By the way I notice that yesterday’s discussions have not been archived and I am curious as to what else the one who calls himself "freda maitland " had to say, later this morning after I had gone to bed. The thread was gone when I got to the forum some ten hours later. I am not someone to run away from a discussion - although it’s difficult to discuss philosophical topics with an ignoramus who wants to talk about classics and has only looked up the Analects of Confucius or the odes of Pindarus in his concise Oxford dictionary.
I know the other cowardly aliases that he has used to attack me in Leonenet (where he has considerable sway) and here too. A guided missile will find its way up his you know where one of these days....)
“Ne sutor supra crepidam” (Let the cobbler stick to his last - Pliny the Elder) and more such wit from H T-R but “freda” will never understand or enjoy it.
You thought that Jesse James was ice on Obama?
Subject: E.T. Kamara Surfaces on International Website
From: Researcher
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Date Posted: 19:14:42 09/19/07 ()
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Check This Out.
Subject: Prez. Ernest Koroma Orders Audit of Government Ministries
From: Independent Man
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Date Posted: 18:38:15 09/19/07 ()
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Source: AWOKO WEB SITE (SEPT. 19, 2007)
The newly sworn in President Ernest Bai Koroma has as his second Presidential action (with the first being the swearing in of his deputy, Vice President Sumana) ordered the formation of a transition team.
This was disclosed by his spokesman, Alpha Kanu, at a press conference at the party headquarters Tuesday.
Alpha Kanu told journalists that the transition team which includes the auditing firm KPMG, Parnell Kerr Forster and other auditors, is to “assess and evaluate the status of all ministries and government agencies” before the new administration takes over.
The coming administration he said is appealing to every government employee regardless of his or her affiliation or ethnic origin to remain at his or her post at home and abroad without fear or pressure from anyone.
The Spokesman therefore called on all Ministers and government officials to fully cooperate with the team.
Mr. Kanu stated “nobody is going to just walk away from Ministries, Agencies and departments like that because that creates chaos” He added “You stay there, you work until you are replaced and then you hand over.”
“If there is anything stolen from the Government of Sierra Leone there is an Institution called the Anti Corruption Commission (ACC) which is going to be strengthened and made to be independent so that they could investigate all allegations” he stated.
He maintained that they (APC) “are the government who wants to govern with reason and objectivity and don’t want to use sentiments to govern this country because when you govern on sentiments you would go wrong and create problems.”
Kanu disclosed “we don’t wish to hold the government in static while we wait for his Excellency Ernest Bai Koroma to make his choice of Ministers,” adding that, “President Koroma has decided to put a transition team in place to give him the time and wisdom to choose the right people in the right place who match the ability of the positions.”
The spokesman pointed out that “we must regard the transition period as merely a handing over of baton to the next runner in the democratic marathon” adding that, “the next administration will now handle the baton bearing in mind the efforts of the previous administrations.”
Subject: Let us try things we use to do maybe, that is why.
From: Bambay Lans Kamara
To: All
Date Posted: 18:22:18 09/19/07 ()
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I go burst with laugh!
How long will you be angry? Becareful high blood preasure or heart attack kills.
Is your efort working or are you exposing yourself? Go figure!
Ladies and gentlemen, I was attend to a court today about the mugging committed against me but I received a letter from the Sacramento Police Department indicating that my presence there is optional and that as long as the case has been proven the court will proceed with judgement.
I had to attend school, which is most important to me. So the guys who offended the State of California should be left to the state. My school is very important to me.
Are you still trying. Which Pastor is doing this constant baptimisms?
Ar go burst! What a disgrace.
Can't read over because some don't even understand some simple things are write, due to which they go balistic.
How can you influence people who know that is any one's guess.
Waskaleh
Subject: Vindictive John Leigh
From: BKM - Bureh Kasseh Makonteh
To: All
Date Posted: 17:56:52 09/19/07 ()
Email Address: nnn@nnn.com
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Message:
Don't let Mr Leigh fool you with his nice inglis words. The SLPP proved very vindictive in power. Mr Leigh took great pleasure in pursuing personal vendettas against ex APC government leaders who moved to the USA. He waged a personal war to have them kicked out of the USA, tried his utmost to deny them job opportunities and was even petty enough to request that their family members be refused US visas. He saved his venom for people like Dr Abdulai Conteh, who he perceived as talented and capable enough to become a threat to the SLPP. Of course, he failed miserably, as men like Dr Conteh are so immensely talented that they can flourish even in adversity. Now Mr Leigh, the shoe is on the other foot. BUT, we pray that the APC proves to be better than you; our country does not need more retribution and pain.
Subject: Re: Vindictive John Leigh
From: John E. Leigh
To: All
Date Posted: 13:45:50 09/20/07 ()
Email Address: johnernestleigh@yahoo.com
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Dear Mr. BKM - Bureh Kasseh Makonteh:
Your allegation that "Mr. Leigh took great pleasure in pursuing personal vendettas against ex APC government leaders who moved to the USA. He waged a personal war to have them kicked out of the USA, tried his utmost to deny them job opportunities and was even petty enough to request that their family members be refused US visas" are entirely incorrect.
I admit that I took great pleasure in opposing the AFRC/RUF regime (they were simply too violent and crass)and that I strove hard (very hard indeed and successfully so) to remove the junta and re-instate the APC-drafted and enacted SL 1991 Constitution. However, I had no vendettas against anyone or took things personally.
My job was not a personal vindictive fight against APC, UNPP or renegade SLPP leaders or members. It was an epic fight against violent coupligans and rebels regardless of party.
Some coup leaders were, of course, members of our various political parties but my successful opposition to such people was solely on account of their coup roles and for no other reason. Further, I never went against anyone other that pro-coup operators known to me personally after thorough investigations. And even at that, I overlooked a few of them I knew where hiding in the US and terrified of my work.
Thus talk about my going after APC family members for purely vindictive reasons is not true.
I generously assisted law-abiding all-comers in the embassy regardless of political affiliation, tribe, region of origin, religion, gender, personal friends or educational achievements.
I obtained TPS for all kinds of Sierra Leoneans as long as they were qualified and applied for help. I personally went to a number of immigration jails and successfully freed Sierra Leoneans regardless of their political or ethnic backgrounds.
I debated Dr. Karefa-Smart and Dr. Abass Bundu with respect but also with fierce determination to return the country to constitutionality.
I had nothing personal to do with Dr. Abdulia Conteh at all. And I don't recall ever seeing him even once in DC during the entire six years I was there. But I knew that Dr. Conteh was defence counsel or adviser to an AFRC coup diplomat whose name was on the US list of prohibited immigrants from Sierra Leone.
It was my job to help the US enforce its orders against names on that list and I was highly effective in providing the necessary support to the State Department. And I will do so again and again and again today; I repeat: I will do so again and again and again today if the same circumstances arose today.
I admit that Dr. Conteh is a very smart individual but the State Depart and I succeeded in defeating him in the AFRC diplomat's matter. That diplomat was arrested at Kennedy Airport at my specific request, detained in an area facility, prevented from entering the US and eventually deported or voluntarily departed to either the Gambia or Sierra Leone.
In all this I had nothing personal against Dr. Conteh and his client. I was merely doing the correct thing in furtherance of my determination to evict the coupligans and restore our country to constitutionality. Incidentally, Dr. Conteh was a classmate of my younger brother, Dr. Evelyn Leigh, at the Albert Academy and Evelyn thinks very well of Dr. Conteh. He was doing his job and I was doing mind. APC or SLPP or UNPP was never in my head throughout this encounter - just fighting coupliganism.
In conclusion, I join you in praying that the New APC regimes does far better than the defeated regime of Tejan Kabbah. Thank you. - JL
Subject: Re: Vindictive John Leigh...The Sifting San-san Boy
From: Toegondoe Sagbah
To: All
Date Posted: 21:59:12 09/19/07 ()
Email Address: mendemoi@yahoo.com
Entered From: pool-71-168-152-139.cmdnnj.east.verizon.net at 71.168.152.139
Message:
Fellows,
This guy is the true san-san boy he used to call PMDC supporters. San-san boys get themselves sifting through sand for left-over diamonds. Leigh keeps sifting throug the SLPP looking for an attachment.
He is a nonentity, you guys are making more hay out of him than a horse would.
Subject: Re: Vindictive John Leigh...The Sifting San-san Boy
From: John E. Leigh
To: All
Date Posted: 13:50:57 09/20/07 ()
Email Address: johnernestleigh@yahoo.com
Entered From: cache-dtc-ag14.proxy.aol.com at 205.188.117.142
Message:
Dear Mr. Sagbah:
You are, of course, entitled to your opinion but some people do not mind engaging me when discussin our country's affairs. They know who is a nonenity and who isn't. You don't have to judge for them. Please let them decide for themselves.
Incidentally, san-san boys refused to vote for your man. They voted for SLPP and APC instead.
Subject: Re: Vindictive John Leigh (2)
From: Cornelius Hamelberg
To: All
Date Posted: 19:04:01 09/19/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: c-088472d5.01-32-73746f42.cust.bredbandsbolaget.se at 213.114.132.8
Message:
"He saved his venom for people like Dr Abdulai Conteh"?
If Leigh considers himself a personal enemy of Abdulai Conteh then Leigh is certain-ly my personal enemy and is not in line for forgiveness under any circumstances whatsoever - short of his own repentance and apologies. Perhaps he thinks he is too big to apologise, but not too big to eventually bite the dust....
Subject: Re: Vindictive John Leigh
From: Cornelius Hamelberg
To: All
Date Posted: 18:54:20 09/19/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: c-088472d5.01-32-73746f42.cust.bredbandsbolaget.se at 213.114.132.8
Message:
"He saved his venom for people like Dr Abdulai Conteh"?
If Leigh considers himself a personal enemy of Abdulai Conteh then Leigh is certain-ly my personal enemy and is not line for forgiveness under any circumstances whatsoever - short of his own repentance and apologies. Perhaps he thinks he is too big to apologise, but not too big to eventually bite the dust....
Subject: SCRUTINIZE FOREIGNERS FROM THE MINING AREAS
From: MUSA KAMARA
To: All
Date Posted: 17:02:40 09/19/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: luna.hypair.net at 194.50.180.4
Message:
This will set the stage to combat illegal mining and smuggling of our precious stones.All foriegners should vacate the mining fields.The new government should make it a priority to monitor the economic activities of foreigners in those areas.It is pathetic to say, but this is a fact, Sierra-Leone is the only nation on earth where foreigners owe mining fields.Countries like Botswana,South Africa etc,where legislation strictly prohibit all foreigners from mining activities.All mining is done by companies or joint ventures with the government, which create massive employment for their citizens.Just have a glimpse into the mining areas,you will find an influx of Malians,Guineans etc and the notorious Lebanese engaging in mining and degrading the environment.The new government should act now.This is the time,Sierra-Leoneans should reap the benefits of their natural resources.
Subject: Re: SCRUTINIZE FOREIGNERS FROM THE MINING AREAS
From: Eddie Grant
To: All
Date Posted: 05:06:14 09/20/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 78.146.252.113
Message:
These are the words of a well meaning Sierra Leonean. I strongly supports you on this issue it's time we do something.
I used to work on these mines as part of my school holidays, so I know how difficult it is for those people in the mines now. I became so dissappointed when I discovered that we were strongly being exploited by foreigners the fact that, some of these so-called DEALERS comes to the mining areas to gain an unjust wealth. I called it unjust because, most of them do their dealings illigally without any form of contact with the authority simply because one of their relatives has already obtained a small licence.
One other disturbing fact is, when a local miner finds a gem, these DEALERS would buy it say for example, US$300 from them and sell it for US$15000 just look at the huge difference. We will never be able to reap the benefits of these precious stones if we continiue to allow these people to operate in the mining industry.
My suggestion is that, the governemnt to set up LOCAL BUYING CONSORTIUM to facilitate the buying of these gems from the actual Sierra Leonean workers on the ground and remove all foreign dealer from the mining industries.
Subject: Re: SCRUTINIZE FOREIGNERS FROM THE MINING AREAS
From: concern
To: All
Date Posted: 04:00:52 09/20/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: 14-64-ftth.onsneteindhoven.nl at 88.159.64.14
Message:
Musa, we are desperately waiting to see if Ernest Koroma will effect change in the mining areas. We can;t wait for long to see this happen!!. The ordinary people do not want foreigners to take residence in the mining areas. We know this is not a big ask from the APC not to encourage any foreigners to settle in diamondferous areas.
When Angola laid out strong measures in its mining fields barring Gambians and others from taking advantage of their hospitality, today Angola is developing rapidly. We need to stop this naked thievery and government's connivance to destroy the mining business.
Subject: Re: SCRUTINIZE FOREIGNERS FROM THE MINING AREAS
From: Toegondoe Sagbah
To: All
Date Posted: 22:01:29 09/19/07 ()
Email Address: mendemoi@yahoo.com
Entered From: pool-71-168-152-139.cmdnnj.east.verizon.net at 71.168.152.139
Message:
BRAVO! Did the SLPP ever care about that? Nooooooo
Subject: Re: SCRUTINIZE FOREIGNERS FROM THE MINING AREAS
From: nico
To: All
Date Posted: 07:42:08 09/20/07 ()
Email Address: nicoleconsult@hotmail.com
Entered From: host86-146-110-59.range86-146.btcentralplus.com at 86.146.110.59
Message:
It is imperative that the new president institute a comprehensive policy to protect our wealth. Diamond has always attracted all sorts of foreigners especially from neighbouring countries. This has had serious implication for our immigration control and national identity. One thing the government should consider is to legislate for all foreigners or visitors comming in to Sierra Leone to register with the local authority two weeks after they entered the country. Their registration must be certified by their sponsor or Justices of the peace.
The government should secure a database for all incomming visitors and police should be given power to arrest and deport any visiting foreigners who breach the country's immigration Laws- such as without working permit etc.
Any change of address should also be registered with the transfered local authority. The police should visit the new arrivals to verify they live their. The court should be empowered to recommend deportation of foreign criminals or where his/her continued presence is deemed unconducive to public good.
The Govt should further consider isuing a residency card renewable when their is any change of circumstances.
The govt should consider tightening the country's porous border, enchanced by efficient training of staff and intellence to disrupt and track those involved in clandetine activities to undermine our security and exploit our resources.
There should be a fair but firm control to ensure Sierra Leonean indigenes benefit from their resources whilst at the same time encourages business potential from foreign investors. This, for a start, will create a sense of balance in our country.
Subject: Re: SCRUTINIZE FOREIGNERS FROM THE MINING AREAS
From: MUSA KAMARA
To: All
Date Posted: 11:12:01 09/20/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: luna.hypair.net at 194.50.180.4
Message:
Nico,wise proposals and thanks for buttressing the notion.
Subject: Re: SCRUTINIZE FOREIGNERS FROM THE MINING AREAS
From: Concern
To: All
Date Posted: 07:58:13 09/20/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: 14-64-ftth.onsneteindhoven.nl at 88.159.64.14
Message:
Thank you Nico for a thougtful advice. Our people have suffered for far too long. The new government MUST see that whosoever is coming to reside in Sierra Leone should pay for a residency permit and it is proper to check every year for defaulters.
In the past, we have opened the door to anyone without realsing the implications. Now the voters have given their mandate to a true son of the soil and they in turn want him to treat national issues with utmost concern and respect.
We want all foreigners to be vetted and being forced to pay their residential permit. We won't tolearate and illegal aliens in our Country. In The Gambia many Sierra Leoneans including refugees were sent to Prison because they do not have a resident permit. Our drive isto secure our Country and bing new kind of system in its immigration
Subject: Re: SCRUTINIZE FOREIGNERS FROM THE MINING AREAS
From: kamara
To: All
Date Posted: 19:56:27 09/19/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: pool-71-172-31-93.nwrknj.fios.verizon.net at 71.172.31.93
Message:
Will Sierra Leonean millionaires replace the foreigners in the mining areas. The govt collects taxes from these businesses. who is going to replace the lost revenue. Some of these dealers export up to $ 60,000,000 a year in diamonds alone.
how many indigenous companies make as much as 25% this amount. few , if there is any . Think before you speak, forget about the emotions. We will become like Zimbabwe where the land was taken away from established white farmers and nation is now starving.
Subject: Re: SCRUTINIZE FOREIGNERS FROM THE MINING AREAS
From: Ishmael Yillah
To: All
Date Posted: 20:03:47 09/19/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: pool-71-191-0-118.washdc.east.verizon.net at 71.191.0.118
Message:
Mr. Kamara, you need to read and understand before you post reply. The writer was just trying to state that our minerals are stolen my foreigners and that is the fact.
Subject: Re: SCRUTINIZE FOREIGNERS FROM THE MINING AREAS
From: kamara
To: All
Date Posted: 20:23:08 09/19/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: pool-71-172-31-93.nwrknj.fios.verizon.net at 71.172.31.93
Message:
You, also need to read before you question my reading ability. I do not disagree with Musa's writing. The world is economicaly intertwined. You prevent the foreigners from going into mining areas,they will blacklist and boycott Sierra Leone diamonds. Sierra Leone is not the only place with diamonds. There are much more in russia,Brazil and Canada with less restriction.
They had these same laws in the 1950s and 1960s. Why do you they scrapped.
Subject: Re: SCRUTINIZE FOREIGNERS FROM THE MINING AREAS
From: Eddie Grant
To: All
Date Posted: 05:24:28 09/20/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 78.146.252.113
Message:
I think you totally misunderstood the whole mining thing. Who will boycott our minerals? when Sierra Leones diamonds are rated at the highest quality in the world.
Secondly, you are expressing your opinion as fact but the reality is it's not. If you have spent a munite in these mining areas and know how they operate, you'll surely be disgusted by these foreign DEALERS. Their unscrupulous way of making money out us and the insult they're directing at Sierra Leoneans just because they provide us with "shovel, buckets shakers and a bag of rice".
And for your information, there's no revenue gained from these miners by the authority. I have been a miner myself and knows the ins and outs of the business.
Subject: Re: SCRUTINIZE FOREIGNERS FROM THE MINING AREAS
From: MUSA KAMARA
To: All
Date Posted: 05:44:18 09/20/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: luna.hypair.net at 194.50.180.4
Message:
Grant,some guys dont have a clue on the mining industry and the hideous deals of the Foreigners residing in those areas.I have been spending most of my holidays in Kono,because my Dad was living there and I am well orientated to the tricks and exploitation habits of the uncouth foreigners.As you wisely put it as a support to my notion,Government should take the issue as a priority among other pressing issues and should act swiftly and decisively.Deepest regards to you.
Subject: Re: SCRUTINIZE FOREIGNERS FROM THE MINING AREAS
From: concern
To: All
Date Posted: 04:06:58 09/20/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: 14-64-ftth.onsneteindhoven.nl at 88.159.64.14
Message:
Foreigners have no business to have residency in our diamond areas. We are talking about foreign miners who have no asset. They come to Kono and others places and marry women or use their juju power to fool our people.
We cannot afford a villager with no asset to come to kono and over-night he becones millionaire. This has to be stopped./ we are not saying barring any foreign firms from investing in the diamond sector. What we do not support is individual artisanal miners and their agents from residing in Kono. We do not want any theivery and useless foreigners to do a one man business in Kono. We are for genuine foreign investors who have capital investmnet not the dregs that do not have good roads or light in some of the villages they are coming from. We want certified mining companies and serious investors. Not those who cannot wear good clothes only seek diamonds.
No way this time.
Subject: Re: SCRUTINIZE FOREIGNERS FROM THE MINING AREAS
From: kamara
To: All
Date Posted: 05:59:48 09/20/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: pool-71-172-31-93.nwrknj.fios.verizon.net at 71.172.31.93
Message:
I do not disagree with you. You need established
and well meaning dealers in the mining areas.Why have the foreigners been to exploiting us? We have no one to blame but our corrupt money hungry oficials from all govts. Diamond dealer ,Hashim Mackie who exported $60,000,000 last year had to pay a 3% tax to the govt. My fear is that If you create a xenophobic atmosphere.(like the attack of nigerians) The legitimate diamond business people will leave and govt will lose revenue. And there are few .if any sierra leoneans that transact this volume of business.
The best thing is for the major dealers to be Sierra Leoneans but that is not the case
Sierra Leone may have wonderful diamonds in the ground but if it does not have necessary capital to exploit it.How useful are they to the nation.
The govt needs a balanced plan that invites
legitimate mining companies and spearhead a training of Sierra leoneans in the mining business plus the provision of small loans to gaduates.
Subject: Re: SCRUTINIZE FOREIGNERS FROM THE MINING AREAS
From: Mammy Blessing
To: All
Date Posted: 20:58:31 09/19/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: pool-71-247-147-219.nycmny.east.verizon.net at 71.247.147.219
Message:
Aye, Mr. Kamara but only Salone is blessed with the high quqlity gem so lasciviously coveted by the world's jewellers. Kono is infested by skunks, mercenaries and mafiosi who bulldoze and dynamite that place everyday; picking the gems and smuggling them out of the country, without a penny in revenues for the gov.
Don't kick mercenaries out willy-nilly, but for Godsake treat this as a national emergency and bring some sanity to Kono.
No more shady deals where more than half of the country is leased to Hungarians, Russians and other Slavic criminals for millions in gov pockets and 1.5% of profits that evaporates in Hollywood-style accounting.
Meanwhile the ecological battering of Kono continues unabated.
Subject: Re: SCRUTINIZE FOREIGNERS FROM THE MINING AREAS
From: KING LOGGY
To: All
Date Posted: 17:15:31 09/19/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 71.16.51.222
Message:
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Subject: FYI
From: MODERATOR
To: All
Date Posted: 17:00:52 09/19/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: adsl-66-140-46-116.dsl.rcsntx.swbell.net at 66.140.46.116
Message:
You’re quarantined for what you do and not what you think. We have invested too many years of hard work to let this forum go down the alley of oblivion as others in the past. The archives are living testimony of our determination to serve the Diaspora with consistency and drive.
Nevertheless, we have serious day businesses to take care of to be held ransom by the errant behavior of those who cannot debate. Sorry, the use of blatant profanities is not a remedy. Cheers!
/Mod
Subject: Kadie Sesay
From: WISE ONE
To: All
Date Posted: 16:37:38 09/19/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: ool-457cb4d6.dyn.optonline.net at 69.124.180.214
Message:
I hear doctor Kadie Sesay has come out for the APC party. wow if that is true there are political prostitute in Sierra Leone
Subject: Re: Kadie Sesay
From: MUSA KAMARA
To: All
Date Posted: 17:08:12 09/19/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: luna.hypair.net at 194.50.180.4
Message:
Political prostitutes should not be allowed,as the name implies,they are only fetching for themselves not for the state.
Subject: Re: Kadie Sesay
From: Hawa kebe
To: All
Date Posted: 10:09:45 09/20/07 ()
Email Address: kebehawa@yahoo.co.uk
Entered From: adsl-75-19-57-161.dsl.irvnca.sbcglobal.net at 75.19.57.161
Message:
I think we should learn to forgive rely on good references of individuals
Subject: Re: Kadie Sesay
From: nico
To: All
Date Posted: 14:46:18 09/20/07 ()
Email Address: NICOLECONSULT@HOTMAIL.COM
Entered From: host86-146-110-59.range86-146.btcentralplus.com at 86.146.110.59
Message:
Hawa: There is no good reference where there is collective and systemic failure. Get that right.
Subject: Re: Kadie Sesay
From: Tom Jones
To: All
Date Posted: 17:58:26 09/19/07 ()
Email Address: foreewata@gmail.com
Entered From: at 159.145.7.90
Message:
Kadie Sesay was a Cabinet member under the Kabba regime. I do not know whether she ever declared to be an S.L.P.P Member. She had a political appointment which she served with integrity of purpose. Kadie is definitely an asset to Sierra Leone. Regardless of political affiliation, I think Kadie Sesay, if interested, and if she has the confidence of the President, should be allowed to serve her country again.
Subject: Re: Kadie Sesay
From: Big brother
To: All
Date Posted: 07:47:24 09/20/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: cpc1-lewi7-0-0-cust156.bmly.cable.ntl.com at 86.1.104.157
Message:
Please President Koroma do not use recycled politicians, for all they do is spread out corruption
Subject: Re: Kadie Sesay
From: nico
To: All
Date Posted: 14:40:48 09/20/07 ()
Email Address: NICOLECONSULT@HOTMAIL.COM
Entered From: host86-146-110-59.range86-146.btcentralplus.com at 86.146.110.59
Message:
I will be disgusted if Koroma even think of recycling failed politicians. These people are idled and should be given loans insted to engaged in farming. Or apply for jobs, based on their competence, like any other Sierra Leonean. Their defeated leaders, Berewa has already told them to get a life and should not live on politics.
Subject: Re: Kadie Sesay
From: concern
To: All
Date Posted: 04:12:44 09/20/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: 14-64-ftth.onsneteindhoven.nl at 88.159.64.14
Message:
There are many people who can perform more than Kadie Sesay. It will be suicidal to retain the services of ex SLPP Ministers who have failed woefully to transform our Country these past eleven years.
Ain't we move from turn coat politicians to new breed of individuals who needed to be given chance to stir Sierra Leone forward ?.
We criticise constuctively to see Sierra Leone move forward. Some of us do not have any influence at the doorstep of politics, but we do have our belief that sanity must prevail in Sierra Leone.
Subject: Re: Kadie Sesay
From: Mammy Blessing
To: All
Date Posted: 21:10:49 09/19/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: pool-71-247-147-219.nycmny.east.verizon.net at 71.247.147.219
Message:
We should be careful not to DEBATHIFY the whole country. Those who served the SLPP with integtity, without stealing or egregious repercussions on the country, should be allowed to serve their country... lest we lose a talented bunch in a game of HANG 'EM HIGH!
Dr. Kadi Sesay is a lady of integrity.
Subject: Re: Kadie Sesay
From: Independent Man
To: All
Date Posted: 18:41:30 09/19/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 69.111.161.46
Message:
C'mon,
She wanted to be Berewa's running mate. Doesn't that make her SLPP (at least at that time)? Or was she just pretending just to get power????
Subject: Re: Kadie Sesay
From: Candid Opinion
To: All
Date Posted: 08:58:37 09/20/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: ns.nucleusns2.com at 12.44.12.126
Message:
This is getting wierder by the minute..
So we are to believe SIERRA LEONEANS who worked, served, where employed should not have a say and should not be allowed in the nation building process..
BECAUSE PREVIOUS PLACE OF EMPLOYMENT & EMPLOYER WAS SLPP...?
What a Darn freaking shame.
Subject: Re: Kadie Sesay
From: Candid Opinion
To: All
Date Posted: 12:15:01 09/20/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: ns.nucleusns2.com at 12.44.12.126
Message:
I support any qualified Sierra leonean for the job..
Darn.. any qualified person.. doesnt even have to be sierra leonean..
Just not anyone because.. nar me party.. nor complexion, nor sex or age, or ethnic background.. just qualified..
Not just your man.. or me man..
ANYONE....with salone at heart and qualification at hand..
I just dont think Sammy has the qualifications for VP..(not academic). From what i have read which is all i base this gut feeling on).
Subject: Re: Kadie Sesay
From: Shembu
To: All
Date Posted: 12:00:54 09/20/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: eduproxy3.k12.de.us at 167.21.254.13
Message:
Candid,
Oh yea? You even support recycling folks from your SLPP that have proven themselves to be worthless but you ain't gonna allow the young guy, Sammy a chance to perform his duties as VP.
You are so very uncandid about your opinions. It is not funny!
Subject: OF COCORIOKO'S EDITORIAL
From: SUBWANALAI
To: All
Date Posted: 16:15:44 09/19/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: host81-154-14-226.range81-154.btcentralplus.com at 81.154.14.226
Message:
My Dear Cocorioko,
Your call for national reconciliation is well noted. However, because of the urgency to track down some common criminals, your blue print is kept in view (KIV).
In as much as some of us have got our pound of flesh, we demand some blood. Let me put it boldly.WHERE ARE THE PEOPLE'S MONEY? UNTILL THE ECONOMIC CRIMINALS ARE TRACKED AND BROUGHT TO JUSTICE WE WILL NOT REST.
TU COMPREHEND?
Truly Yours,
Subwanalai
Subject: Joseph Sherman
From: Gongoli
To: All
Date Posted: 15:58:46 09/19/07 ()
Email Address: gonos@yahoo.com
Entered From: 79-66-55-143.dynamic.dsl.as9105.com at 79.66.55.143
Message:
I hope Cocorioko has not employed Sylvia Blyden under the synonym of Joseph Sherman. What a disappointing article. Instead of looking forward this so-called Deputy Editor-in-Chief wants us to go on a witch-hunt. Grow up brother.
Subject: Re: Joseph Sherman
From: Joseph Sherman- for impersonator and coward
To: All
Date Posted: 22:59:34 09/19/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: pool-70-108-239-174.washdc.east.verizon.net at 70.108.239.174
Message:
I am not an opportunist to liken me to Sylvia Blyden neither did I act as a stooge or bootlicker to the SLPP to gain favors. The jungle justice meted to innocent Sierra Leoneans by Kabbah, Berewah, and cohorts and even the murdering of Yansaneh (journalist) which your outgoing SLPP govt. overlooked without transparent justice will never be forgotten. Until justice, the rule of law and respect for human dignity is practiced with any government, I will say the truth and nothing but truth without intimidation.
Be reminded that I am not a coward, during your SLPP reign, I went to the country twice and reported issues affecting the masses and I do the same for any government that comes to power that doesn't uphold the constitution. Lontha
Subject: Re: Joseph Sherman
From: Kalos
To: All
Date Posted: 10:20:02 09/20/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: c-98-204-44-243.hsd1.md.comcast.net at 98.204.44.243
Message:
By responding to baseless attacks you unintentionally give credibility to
the impersonator. We revere your reporting because it is fair and balance
(FOX n....). Continue the the good job.
Subject: Re: Joseph Sherman
From: KALOS
To: All
Date Posted: 17:53:20 09/19/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: c-98-204-44-243.hsd1.md.comcast.net at 98.204.44.243
Message:
Where is the article?
Subject: NoMinisterial Position for MPs
From: Sorba S
To: All
Date Posted: 15:30:43 09/19/07 ()
Email Address: sorba_1@yahoo.com
Entered From: at 209.116.81.187
Message:
The effectiveness of democracy depends on the proper implementation of the Separation of Power theory which is the Executive, Legislative and the Judiciary. With the proper functioning of these arms, checks and balances within the democratic setting are sure to take place. It is gradually becoming clear that the newly appointed APC government is about to exploit these measures for effective governance of the state.
Party sources have intimated this medium that Parliamentarians of the APC who may be eyeing ministerial positions should begin to forget about that immediately. Prior to the August 11, 2007 election, sources recalled, the Presidential flag bearer of the party Ernest Bai Koroma informed candidates contesting for parliamentary seats in the different constituencies that they should stay where they are and not think of switching over if the Presidential election is won by the party. It would appear that secret lobbying is beginning to take place by some members of the APC for ministerial offices which is not only against the principles of democracy but involves cost and requires a bye-election to be held.
It is not known whether or not funds are available at the National Electoral Commission to conduct bye- elections and when it would be convenient to the commission to undertake it. “It is unlikely that another APC candidate would win in the bye-election” A party stalwart remarked.
Meanwhile, law court sources alleged that petitions against some parliamentary seats won by both the APC and PMDC have been filed by aggrieved members of the Sierra Leone Peoples Party. It is not known when the election court would begin to examine the merit and demerit of the cases.
In a related development, the newly sworn in President of the republic of Sierra Leone, His Excellency Ernest Bai Koroma is reportedly taking a meticulous approach to the challenges ahead in nation building
Standard Times
Subject: Re: NoMinisterial Position for MPs
From: Musa
To: All
Date Posted: 16:11:05 09/19/07 ()
Email Address: Mkoroma@hotmail.com
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Could you please educate me on why there will be a bye-election if an MP is made a minister? Is that not why we voted them in? I would have thought that if someone wanted to be a minister they should pass the peoples' test by standing for election. I might be wrong so please correct me if you can. I am concerned that this could encourage corruption.
Subject: Re: NoMinisterial Position for MPs
From: Idrissa Kamara
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Date Posted: 18:01:34 09/19/07 ()
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You cannot be an MP and a minister at the same time. You will have to resign from parliament to take up a ministerial position. Hence your seat will become vacant, thereby making a by-election necessary.
To add to this, should you later be fired from the ministerial post, you cannot go back and take the parliamentary seat you gave up to become a minister.
I hope this helps
Subject: Re: NoMinisterial Position for MPs
From: Mohamed Fofana
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Date Posted: 17:12:53 09/19/07 ()
Email Address: mfofana2004@sbcglobal.net
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I think the MP will have to resign from Parliament and leave the seat vacant before accepting the ministerial position. By resigning his or her seat in parliament, mean that a by-election has to be conducted for that constituency.
Subject: Read on!
From: Bambay Lans Kamara
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Date Posted: 14:50:19 09/19/07 ()
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read on
Subject: Re: Read on!
From: alieu sesay
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Date Posted: 15:00:10 09/19/07 ()
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Bambay? Are you on CRACK? What S--- do you smoke? If you don't then there is something really screwing your BRAIN BRA.
This is cocorioco for CHRIST sake....
No wonder at your age, you are still in HIGH SCHOOL.
Recommendation: Stay with Hamelberg.
Subject: Re: Read on!
From: Bonthe Pikin
To: All
Date Posted: 15:19:28 09/19/07 ()
Email Address: bontilaynga@gmail.com
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SLPP Desperado Alieu, you are going to rot in frustration. Just continue to think how we are going to send your useless and good-for-nothing SLPP into the political wilderness! You'll die a frustrated and disgruntled man. Hey, have you seen JJ Blood?
Subject: Re: Read on!
From: alieu sesay
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Date Posted: 15:43:41 09/19/07 ()
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JJ is on his way to the International community where he was gainfully employed.
As for you, this is the Holiest month in the year( ISLAM) and so will not engage you in CUSS CUSS business...
So try...
Subject: Culled from thenewpeople.com: Sam Sumana/APC?
From: Mohamed Fofana
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Date Posted: 14:50:13 09/19/07 ()
Email Address: mfofana2004@sbcglobal.net
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Controversial Sam-Sumana Deal? Are these some of the covert APC financiers?
This news source has been tracking the unseeming relationship between Sam-Sumana (the APC vice president) and jewellery outlets in Houston and in other parts of America that paid a very royal sum that Sam Sumana used to bribe his way into the vice-presidency of the country. Some of those deals are being conluded just a day after the coronation of the APC. Is this the new fight for against corruption or is it the same old APC murk?
US jeweller Tiffany targets Sierra Leone’s diamonds
Target Resources, an alluvial diamond and gold mining company in Sierra Leone, has clinched a US$5 million marketing deal with jewellery retailer Tiffany & Co. a few days after signing an agreement with UK’s MinEx Group to execute a mining plan for its 4,200-acre diamond mining leases.
Author: Rodrick Mukumbira
Posted: Tuesday , 18 Sep 2007
WINDHOEK -
Target Resources [AIM:TGT], a diamond and gold miner operating in Sierra Leone, is up 3 to 25.50 pence after US jeweller Tiffany & Co agreed to invest US$5 million in a deal that will grant the world's second largest luxury jewellery retailer a five-year exclusive marketing agreement for Target's precious stones.
The investment, announced Monday, will take the form of a five-year subordinated debt. New York-based Tiffany will have the right of first refusal on Target's output at market price and will then sell, on Target's behalf, the diamonds it does not wish to keep for its own use, according to a Regulatory News Services statement.
"We are delighted to receive this vote of confidence both in the quality of our stones and in the way we mine them from what is arguably the world's most prestigious diamond retailer," said Freddy Hager, Chairman of Target.
James Fernandez, Chief Financial Officer of Tiffany said, "This investment in Target is consistent with our policy of selectively investing in diamond miners who ethically mine high quality stones. Sierra Leone is a well-known source of high quality rough stones and Target's production to date has been encouraging."
London-based Target, which held an initial public offering in July, has a market capitalisation of £23.386m.
Through its subsidiary Milestone Trading Ltd it is focused on the recovery of alluvial diamonds and gold in Sierra Leone's Kono district that hosts a producing mine and two others under construction, which are characterised by the presence of kimberlitic dykes and pipes, as well as large river and alluvial deposits.
The agreement with Tiffany is the second Target Resources has signed in less than seven days.
On September 11, it announced that it planned raise US$15 million in debt or additional equity after signing an agreement with UK-based mining and engineering consultants, the MinEx Group, to execute its mining plan for its 4,200-acre diamond mining leases in Sierra Leone.
The money would be used to fund the acquisition of equipment and infrastructure MinEx needs to complete the mining plan, said Target's Chief Executive Officer, Nissim Levy, and that the company was currently in active discussions with lenders and investors to raise the amount.
As per the deal, MinEx would provide management for the operations for a three-and-a-half year period. And in return, it would be entitled to a percentage of Target's diamond and gold revenues, after deducting local operating costs, at a level which is in line with standard market practice.
Culled from Mineweb
Subject: How does the new VP/APC feature in this international deal?
From: Ashanti
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Date Posted: 03:32:39 09/21/07 ()
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Greetings
Forgive me, but I fail to see the connection. A respected UK mining conglomerate (Target) that already holds 4,200-acre diamond mining leases in Sierra Leone seeks to raise the capital it requires to exploit those leases via a US$5 million marketing deal with an equally respected retailing giant (Tiffany & Co).
How does the new VP Sam Sumana / APC govt. come into this off-shore agreement between two international corporations?
Rather than indulging in insinuations and PHD (Put Him Down) so early on, we should be breathing a sigh of relief that international financiers have the confidence to invest in our country despite the change of govt.
I do hope we shall see constructive criticism and ideas for progress from a vibrant, watchful opposition. Their bid to return to power in
2012 will not be helped by muck-raking, character assasination and placing barriers in the way of those willing to help Sierra Leone emerge from the current socio-economic doldrums.
Peace.
Subject: John Benjamin and John karimu must be arrested
From: Fadugu
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Date Posted: 14:44:22 09/19/07 ()
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the two Johns were responsible for the collection, safe keeping and allocat1on of the nations financies. they received millions of dollars on behalf of the nation and all disappeared in thin air. they have the answers as to what happened to all the millions they received whilst our people live in abject poverty.
Subject: Re: John Benjamin and John karimu must be arrested
From: Tom Jones
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Date Posted: 16:38:20 09/19/07 ()
Email Address: foreewata@gmail.com
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John Benjamin and John Karimu should provide answers as to why the District of Kailahun was a 'No Go' area for the APC.
Is Kailahun not inclusive in the the geo-political composition of Sierra Leone? If not, it would better serve them to survive as an entity of a Sovereign nation by herself.
Karimu and Benjamin should definitely answer to their politcally selfish and unpatriotic acts; if not illegal.
Subject: Re: John Benjamin and John karimu must be arrested
From: MUSA KAMARA
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Date Posted: 17:11:41 09/19/07 ()
Email Address:
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You are correct Tom,but there are inept folks on this forum, who were justifying their barbaric and uncivilized actions.
Subject: Re: John Benjamin and John karimu must be arrested
From: hawa
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Date Posted: 15:23:43 09/19/07 ()
Email Address: hawa@yahoo.com
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Why not execute all the other ministers? I also read with disgust Joseph Sherman's so-called editorial. The same thing we were opposing Sylvia Blyden for is being done by Mr Sherman (whoever he is). You should channel the energy you have to perpetrate such viciousness to better the country. Anyway liquids find their level and Mr Sherman has found his.
Subject: Re: John Benjamin and John karimu must be arrested
From: Joseph Sherman
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Date Posted: 22:55:59 09/19/07 ()
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hawa,
I am not an opportunist to liken me to Sylvia Blyden neither did I act as a stooge or bootlicker to the SLPP to gain favors. The jungle justice meted to innocent Sierra Leoneans by Kabbah, Berewah, and cohorts and even the murdering of Yansaneh (journalist) which your outgoing SLPP govt. overlooked without transparent justice will never be forgotten. Until justice, the rule of law and respect for human dignity is practiced with any government, I will say the truth and nothing but truth without intimidation.
Be reminded that I am not a coward, during your SLPP reign, I went to the country twice and reported issues affecting the masses and I do the same for any government that comes to power that doesn't uphold the constitution. Lontha
Subject: Re: John Benjamin and John karimu must be arrested
From: Hawa
To: All
Date Posted: 03:07:45 09/20/07 ()
Email Address: Hawa@yahoo.com
Entered From: 79-65-74-234.dynamic.dsl.as9105.com at 79.65.74.234
Message:
Your narrow mindedness know no bounds. Do I have to be SLPP to disagree with you? You will not know the truth even if it hit you on the face. If disagreeing with you intimidates you, then you are in the wrong profession. And by the way, the outgoing government was OUR government - yours and mine. The new government is OUR government.........or from your opinion YOUR government.
Open your mind
Subject: Re: John Benjamin and John karimu must be arrested
From: Joseph Sherman
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Date Posted: 23:15:12 09/20/07 ()
Email Address:
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If I respond to you then I am equating to your ignorance, arrogance and blindness to see the truth. Nevertheless, failures of your type need help, if you so desire, I stand by to help you in any capacity.
Subject: A call to all Sierra Leoneans
From: campaignteam
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Date Posted: 14:25:36 09/19/07 ()
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Kindly volunteer to be part of APC government, by sending your e-mail to volunteer@ernestkoroma.org.
This is an open invitation to everyone to suggest best way to move our country forward
visit www.ernestkoroma.org for more
Subject: Congratulations, my Freetown people
From: Liberian Meh
To: All
Date Posted: 14:15:53 09/19/07 ()
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Ma meh, ah 'n know how to rejoice. You mean Kabbah fiasco fini' ? Oh, ma meh, I want to congratulate all you Freetown people or Sierra Leoneans for your victory. Ma meh, dar de thing we been praying for your people all along. We wanted papa God to gee you people good government like we fini' having in Libeia . Da kukujumuku bizness dat Kabbah, Berewa and those other rogues were on wasn't good for you people. We know Freetown dar great contry and we know if hard time fini' in Freetown, we gat somewhere to go if we tire sitting in Liberia .
Long Live Sierra Leone
Long Live Liberia
Now, leh me go drink my cane juice..Lorpu, don't forget to put my pepper soup on the fire.
Subject: Trouble fini' coming, my people
From: Liberian Meh
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Date Posted: 14:05:42 09/19/07 ()
Email Address:
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De Ernest Koroma meh goung audit all those ministers dem and public officials...Trouble fini' coming O,my people..All de krokoji ready to come out now. Kabbah people better tie their kinja good good, ma meh , because de thing ah see so, some people fini'yah .Ah hope Aerica, England and den other contry dem dont give asylum to all those Freetown rogues. Ma Ellen, papa nar cam yet O so close those borders before those rogues enter and hide in our contry.
Kabbah dar woman
Ernest dar meh
Subject: Re: Trouble fini' coming, my people
From: nico
To: All
Date Posted: 14:35:22 09/19/07 ()
Email Address: nicoleconsult@hotmail.com
Entered From: host86-146-110-59.range86-146.btcentralplus.com at 86.146.110.59
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The only problem in exposing these thieves is that they will destroy some important evidence and documents before they leave. So be mindful of that.
Subject: LET'S SAY NO TO XENOPHOBIA! (NIGERIANS UNDER ATTACK)
From: SUBWANALAI
To: All
Date Posted: 13:57:58 09/19/07 ()
Email Address:
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Some of us who witnessed the thick of the rebellion, and it's aftermath may; repeat may, understand the anger youths are directing at OGA MEN (NIGERIAN'S). Starting from the indescriminate killing of Sierra Leoneans by a certain Mark Ja Bone called "Evil Spirit"- Capt. David Ogunlaja, indecent elopment of Sierra Leonean house wives,from POOR YOUTH MAN BECAUSE IM NA POPOLIPO, by Nigerian Troops; the "Oga Man kill Fula Man for Dollar" incident (just like the Harry Yansaneh case, no justice delivered to date), drug trafficking etc, the renaming of Kissy Street, to Sani Abacha; done out of the patronage of one man- Tejan Kabbah (without the blessing of the parliament), a seed of hatred was sown. But our youths must be educated to learn this; "IF HOSE NOR SELL YOU TREET NOR GO BUY". These are the unfortunate legacy of the Tejan Kabbah era. Let's turn to a new chapter and make ECOWAS a reality. Now friends read this other ugly incident in our country's chapter, and join me in preaching co-existence. Let's not blame all Nigerians for their ex- motor mouth president Gen. Obasanjo, who signalled that Berewa should be voted into office. Once again, courtesey AWOKO on line:
Nigerians attacked in Freetown
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Nigerian protesting at their High Commission
Shock and desperation were written in the faces of scores of Nigerians who ran to their High Commission at Siaka Stevens Street yesterday to seek protection against aggression meted out on them by miscreants who looted some of their shops and physically attacked some.
Apparently a group of gangsters yesterday morning attacked the Nigerian shops at Goderich Street and carted away spare parts, generators, and some cash.
Retreating, these hooligans also stole wares at the entrance of the Victoria Park belonging to Sierra Leone business people.
One of the affected Nigerians, Christian Upoma who deals in spare parts at 13 Goderich Street, explained to Awoko that, “I was reading a novel when a group of boys entered my shop shouting that we [Nigerians] voted for the SLPP. But I told them I was a stranger having nothing to do with Sierra Leone politics and I asked them to leave my shop. The group then attacked my junior brother and beat him up. I went to his aid but I was also hit on my head with a bottle”.
Chris said $16,000 was taken from his pockets with some Guinean Francs.
Four other Nigerians’ shops along Goderich did not escape the robbery with aggravation
The Nigerian High Commissioner, Adamu Abass who was visibly worried, calmed down the Nigerians, and urged them to exercise patience as they were trying to contain the unpleasant situation.
He informed them that there would be a high powered Federal official that would come to Sierra Leone to see the new president and put the issue on the table.
The High Commissioner directed his fellow Nigerians to close their shops for a week while they monitor the situation.
The Police Western Area Commander, Tamba Gbekie, assured the Nigerians that the police would ensure that they protect the life and business of all Nigerians in the country.
He gave out a police hotline which they would call if under any threat.
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Subject: ERNEST KOROMA ORDERS THE AUDITING OF GOVT MINISTRIES
From: SUBWANALAI
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Date Posted: 13:34:19 09/19/07 ()
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Gentle men of the FORUM portor-portor don begin ketch fire. READ(COURTESEY AWOKO ON LINE)
Ernest orders audit of Government Ministries
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Alpha Kanu APC Presidential spokes person
The newly sworn in President Ernest Bai Koroma has as his second Presidential action (with the first being the swearing in of his deputy, Vice President Sumana) ordered the formation of a transition team.
This was disclosed by his spokesman, Alpha Kanu, at a press conference at the party headquarters Tuesday.
Alpha Kanu told journalists that the transition team which includes the auditing firm KPMG, Parnell Kerr Forster and other auditors, is to “assess and evaluate the status of all ministries and government agencies” before the new administration takes over.
The coming administration he said is appealing to every government employee regardless of his or her affiliation or ethnic origin to remain at his or her post at home and abroad without fear or pressure from anyone.
The Spokesman therefore called on all Ministers and government officials to fully cooperate with the team.
Mr. Kanu stated “nobody is going to just walk away from Ministries, Agencies and departments like that because that creates chaos” He added “You stay there, you work until you are replaced and then you hand over.”
“If there is anything stolen from the Government of Sierra Leone there is an Institution called the Anti Corruption Commission (ACC) which is going to be strengthened and made to be independent so that they could investigate all allegations” he stated.
He maintained that they (APC) “are the government who wants to govern with reason and objectivity and don’t want to use sentiments to govern this country because when you govern on sentiments you would go wrong and create problems.”
Kanu disclosed “we don’t wish to hold the government in static while we wait for his Excellency Ernest Bai Koroma to make his choice of Ministers,” adding that, “President Koroma has decided to put a transition team in place to give him the time and wisdom to choose the right people in the right place who match the ability of the positions.”
The spokesman pointed out that “we must regard the transition period as merely a handing over of baton to the next runner in the democratic marathon” adding that, “the next administration will now handle the baton bearing in mind the efforts of the previous administrations.”
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Subject: Re: ERNEST KOROMA ORDERS THE AUDITING OF GOVT MINISTRIES
From: nico
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Date Posted: 14:31:20 09/19/07 ()
Email Address: nicoleconsult@hotmail.com
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The right start, koroma will now teach the SLPP and kabba in particular how to run a country. This is a very strategic step, it shows koroma is living by his words that Sierra Leone need to be run like a business. Accountability. The new government cannot just walk in to the office as if nothing had happened. The new government must be a reforming and cleansing government. Koroma has to exposed the SLPP thieves to show the nation the wrong they did to them. Bravo President Koroma.
Subject: Re: ERNEST KOROMA ORDERS THE AUDITING OF GOVT MINISTRIES
From: MUSA KAMARA
To: All
Date Posted: 16:20:31 09/19/07 ()
Email Address:
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Well calculated,a sound and solid first step.Please have an insight in the mining areas especially the diamond fields,the presence of foreigners in those areas,their activities,legality etc.All foreigners should vacate the mining fields.
Subject: Re: ERNEST KOROMA ORDERS THE AUDITING OF GOVT MINISTRIES
From: Baboo Bone
To: All
Date Posted: 04:43:10 09/20/07 ()
Email Address: akmeng@aol.com
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Message:
We should view the Prezzo's move to audit Ministries in a positive light rather than a mere witchhunt. He needs to know the state of play in every Ministry to understand some of their shortcomings and develop plans to improve accountability, transparency and service delivery. Without setting benchmarks, he will find it difficult to meet some of the pledges he made during the electioneering process.
Subject: I AM ALIVE AND WELL AND LISTENING
From: John E. Leigh
To: All
Date Posted: 12:22:48 09/19/07 ()
Email Address: johnernestleigh@yahoo.com
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Message:
I am back in Massachusetts and lying low as promised months ago in this Forum. In fact, I was hoping to lay low for at least another 12 months prior to resurfacing - should the need ever arise. But given the repeat, nonsensical personal attacks on me merely because of my prominent pro-SLPP role during most of the period leading to the now-concluded elections in which my party was soundly defeated, I am temporarily re-surfacing for the limited purpose of answering some of my accusers and reaffirming my political culture for their convenience. Besides, I had earlier reserved the right to return to this Forum if necessary. So I now return temporarily.
Yes, yes; my party lost because the people voted overwhelmingly for change and my party’s flag-bearer and lead supporter insisted on sticking with their continuity scheme despite repeated advice from party dissidents like me and promises to us from some insiders that the SLPP campaign will distance himself from President Kabbah’s record way before the voting – something that never happened.
My culture has been and it is still is to stay and help my party in difficult as well as in good times. And when in defeat, to work to help reform the party so it may revert to its true culture – the culture that I first learned as a school boy from the leadership of Dr. Milton Margai, Dr. John Karefa-Smart, Sanusie Mustapha, H. E. B. John, the Rev. Paul Dunbar, Dr. Doyle Sumner, Dr. Richard Caulker and Dr. William Fitzjohn, etc.
You will never catch me running away from a tough fight; or taking the easy road; or switching sides in the middle of a game or at half-time. Nor would you ever catch me backing down from a previously stated position in support of my stated political culture. So to those of you who wish to engage in primitive personal attacks on me now that your party has won, I will respond only as necessary to clear the air as to my post-election stance and then return to lay low in my Massachusetts baffa as originally intended.
Various forumites have written below under the rubric “Where is John Leigh the Parrot” that was initiated by someone using the moniker “Kakua”. Those sharing their views with forumites under this rubric include Atty. M. Alieu Iscandari, “Bongowas”, Dr. Yaya Fanusie, “WHAT IS YAYA TALKING ABOUT?”, Mr. Tamba Moiwo, Moses Largao & False Prophet, etc.
Dr. Fanusie made it plain that the competition is over, each side fought hard for its party’s, my side (SLPP) lost and we should all work together for our country’s future. This is the kind of maturity one expects from people who understand how democratic society’s function and why such societies are successful societies. But let’s face it we should expect ‘babu yey’ from certain types because: “monkey nor go lef eem black hand” ever. Today, we hear of hecklers all over our country and looters in Freetown assaulting leading members of the ousted party.
As pointed out by others, Kakua’s unnecessary personal attack is not the way to go. First, I am not a parrot nor have I ever behaved parrot-like. My ideas are my own, originated by me and used only when necessary and in counter-attacks. Second, my mouth is no rotten. It is fresh and clean and under regular professional oral hygiene care. And I say the political truth every time. A bad opponent will not like some of the things I say but he can never truthfully alleged that I lied about his record. Thus whatever I said about PMDC, Margai, APC, Berewa and SLPP during the campaign are true and I hereby confirm that I hold those same views today intact and will repeat them if a suitable opportunity arises.
Third, I said nothing bad about our youths. I accurately described part of PMDC’s support base in response to bogus assassination allegations. But it is the unfortunate death of Chief Hinga Norman during the campaign that improved PMDC’s fortunes but they lost that support during the second round upon Margai’s switch to APC.
Fourth, I am not an idiot. My party’s poor governance (which I repeatedly criticized years ago) and its continuity scheme doomed my party’s electoral prospects but my sticking up for my party to the end or defining the PMDC and the APC record, do not mean I am an idiot. I know that the OLD APC’s governance record is worse than the SLPP’s.
Fifth, I have not been declared bankrupt or even declared insolvent by any competent authority or organization or individual. In fact, I have one of the highest credit ratings in the entire United States. Sixth, I have never bribed anyone in my life, let alone bribed the SLPP $200,000. If I had $200,000 I know several ways to better deploy it than in SL poverty-stricken politics.
Lastly, the debt owed me is circa $90,000 only and this debt is owed me by the government, not the SLPP. Part of this debt was incurred by the embassy during the interregnum to keep the SL Embassy in Washington fully operational to help reverse the AFRC coup, remove the ARFC/RUF junta and reinstate the very constitution under which voting took place that led to the APC victory. We at the embassy accomplished all of these under my generous leadership. The balance of the debt consists of end-of-service entitlements due to every Commonwealth ambassador at the end of his/her service. A good government will pay its legitimate debts and pay them on time. “Kakau” needs to learn the essentials of good governance.
Attorney Iscandari writes as follows: “ Kakua, I concur with Yaya with regards to John Leigh. Although I am angry with him because I felt he betrayed my trust, …….
Mr. Iscandari is deeply mistaken if he truly feels that I betrayed his trust. I have betrayed no one’s trust in me ever in my entire life including Iscandari. And Mr. Iscandari has never entrusted me with anything that I breached. If he has the facts of my betrayal of his trust in me, please let him present the facts of what he trusted me with as well as the details of my betrayal of that trust and I will respond point-for-point.
In short, Mr. Iscandari’s anger at me is wholly misplaced. He should get over it.
Lastly and with the benefit of 20/20 hindsight, I have made no statements that I wish I had not made as posited by Mr. Iscandari. Again, I hereby reaffirm each and every statement I ever made during the campaign in support of my party and in opposition to my party’s opponents. Let it be remembered that it is very easy to make enemies when you stand on principle and when you accurately articulate what one believes the truth. Also, merely disagreeing with someone underdeveloped makes you their everlasting enemy. Hence, I stick to what I believe - regardless of whether it makes one my enemy.
“WHAT IS YAYA TALKING ABOUT?” wrote incorrectly in part as follows in response to Dr. Fanusie: “Are you kidding with us Yaya? John Leigh said here on this forum that he will never work with Charles Margai and we all know that Charles Margai is going to be part of the new administration. Bo lef nor!”
I repeat that I John Leigh will never work UNDER Margai for any reason whatsoever. This does not mean I will not work with him in the public interest. Please get your facts right, but all this is academic anyway.
As for my view of the truth about the election process and outcome, here below is how I responded to an e-mail from Dr. Karefa-Smart to Albert Academy Alumni that is now posted on Cocorioko’s front page.
Thank you. –JL
===================================================================================
Dear Dr. John Karefa-Smart:
Your support explained below for the newly-elected APC
president, Mr. Ernest Koroma, makes a lot of sense.
After all - and despite the voting flaws identified
and announced by NEC - President Koroma was elected
because voters clearly preferred him to VP Berewa.
The voters wanted their government to change its focus
from long-term development to immediate improvements
in their daily economic and social condition:
employment opportunities to put money in their pockets
so they may cope with cost of living inflation; the
provision of essential social services - electricity,
water supply, garbage collection, affordable housing,
etc. and the immediate crackdown on government
corruption but the SLPP regime refused to address
these burning issues squarely during the election
campaign despite repeated advice.
There was also determined tribal voting, North vs.
Southeast, throughout both rounds but much more so
during the second round of voting. Last but not
least, the September 2005 SLPP Makeni ConBention split
the party seriously and put the leadership in a bad
light to the general public.
My attitude to the APC might improve over time based
on national progress. President Koroma campaigned on
what he termed the NEW APC but my attitude to our new
APC president has been shaped by he's party's long
record of mostly nation-wrecking activities; the
needless execution of your two friends (and my heroes)
Dr. Mohamed Forna and Ibrahim Taqi, for their mere
political dissidence; Mr. Koroma's prior association
with the late Sahid Jamil Mohamed, and allowing
himself to be prominently surrounded by those powerful
OLD APC officials around him and by some notorious
AFRC supporters.
Most of our voters today may not be aware of APC's
governance record over 24-plus years in power but they
definitely despised the current SLPP leadership and
voted with a vengeance to throw them out.
However, let’s face it: Rome was not built in a day and
it will most certainly take a good man time to clean
up the stables!
I believe that each new president and his new
government elected by the people must be genuinely
welcomed and given the opportunity to show us by deeds
(not just words) that s/he and his/her government will
move our people and country forward.
Lets pray and hope that henceforth, as the months and
years role by, our country will be blessed with
prosperity, justice, peace and development for all
under the able leadership of President Koroma. Even
so, we must give him time for resources are
insufficient and the problems large.
In the meantime, thank you very much for your long
record of distinguished service to the world health
community, to our people, to our country and to our
Alma Mater.
Sincerely,
JL (AA class of '58)
Earlier, Dr. Karefa-Smart wrote as follows:
> Dear Fellow alumni: Some of you may be wandering
> why I have supported the
> APC led coalition that resulted in the defeat of the
> SLPP presidential
> candidate. You may be asking if I have forgotten
> that it was the APC president
> Siaka Stevens (also a fellow A.A. alumnus) who kept
> me in Pademba Road for 120
> days without any charges until he was forced to
> release me by pressure from
> AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL. Under ordinary circumstances
> it could not be conceived
> that could forgive Stevens who treated me the way he
> did. It is widely known at
> home and abroad that it was my joining the APC
> after Albert Margai who was
> appointed by the Governor General without any
> consultation with members of the
> SLPP to succeed Sir Milton Margai made it known
> that any expatriate who was
> seen to be associating with me would be declared
> "persona non grata" that
> swung all my supporters in the SLPP to join me to
> the APC: a move that
> contributed to the APC winning the next election,
> which in turn led to Lieut. Hinga
> Norman, on orders from his commanding officer,
> Brigadier Lansana, to commit
> the very first coup d'etat in the history of our
> country by arresting the
> Governor General, Siaka Stevens and Albert Margai,
> just as the GG was going to
> declare that Stevens was the new Prime Minister.
> When I returned home at the
> end of my five years as Assistant Director General
> of WHO in Switzerland
> Stevens reacted against my alliance with Dr. Mohamed
> Forna and the Taqui
> brothers in protest against the very evident
> dictatorship instituted by Stevens and
> his "Agba Satani" accomplice by consigning us to
> Pademba Road prison. When
> Stevens was succeeded by Brigadier J.S. Momoh as
> President, to my greatest
> surprise, both Governor General Banja Tejan-Sie who
> had been banished to exile
> in London by Stevens when he declared a Republic
> and I received invitations
> from President Momoh to return to Sierra Leone. We
> were given the warmest
> reception and President Momoh put his helicopter at
> our disposal and arranged
> for us to visit all three provincial headquarters
> so that everyone could see
> that we had returned home on his invitation. After
> this, in the presence of his
> guests including the diploatic corps at the largest
> ever presidential
> reception he surprised us and his guests by giving
> Sir Banja and me new diplomatic
> passports. This very generous act of the new head
> of the APC touched me
> and as a Christian I have had no difficulty in
> forgiving the maltreatment by
> President Siaka Stevens. Until his death President
> Momoh and I maintained a
> close personal relationship. Although it is well
> known that it was the betrayal
> of APC that led to my defeat in the presidential
> "run- off" election against
> the SLPP candidate, Ahmed Tejan Kabba, in which,
> never the less,. Kaba won
> only because Jonah, the NEC chairman, collaborated
> in perpetuating
> undisputable cheating the facts of which are widely
> known by Sierra Leoneans at home
> and in the diaspora. My relations with most leaders
> of the APC have remained
> friendly. I and members of my UNPP party have
> collaborated with the leaders of
> the APC and I was gratified when the coalition that
> I had urged for the
> presidential election as the only way in which the
> incumbent SLPP regime could be
> defeated was championed and led by the APC leader,
> our new president, I
> hope that this will help explain my enthusiastic
> support of the Hon. Ernest
> Koroma, the APC leader, our new President. I look
> forward to the CHANGE which,
> under his leadership and in collaboration with the
> Hon. Charles Margai and his
> other coalition colleagues, will satisfy the hopes
> and wishes of the majority
> of Sierra Leoneans and begin the difficult task of
> returning our country to
> the respected position it held before and during the
> early years of our
> becoming an independent country.
> John Karefa-Smart, "Esse quam videre" (1931).
Subject: Re: I AM ALIVE AND WELL AND LISTENING
From: Sabanoh
To: All
Date Posted: 16:16:46 09/19/07 ()
Email Address: Sabanoh007@yahoo.com
Entered From: adsl-75-60-186-145.dsl.wotnoh.sbcglobal.net at 75.60.186.145
Message:
John, I am glad you have excluded yourself from working under the Hon Charles Margai. He would not even allow a scum like you that have no morals to be around him. He is too honest to allow himself to be corrupted by you, a crook who mismanaged finances at the embassy. You should be ashamed to show up in America; why run away from Freetown now? It wouldn't surprise me if your name showed up for inquiry, kek keh John.
Subject: Re: I AM ALIVE AND WELL AND LISTENING
From: John E. Leigh
To: All
Date Posted: 12:30:01 09/20/07 ()
Email Address: johnernestleigh@yahoo.com
Entered From: cache-dtc-ag14.proxy.aol.com at 205.188.117.142
Message:
Dear Mr. Sabanoh:
Yes, yes! I have deliberately excluded myself from working under Mr. Margai under any circumstances for all the reasons previously stated in this forum. I have no interest whatsoever in his type of politics and management. Period!
As for honesty in dealing with government fincances, my record is unbeatable. For your information, I never managed embassy finances - except for a very short period after I caught the real pro-AFRC crooks with their hands in the cookie jar during the interregnum stealing public funds. I promptly handed over the finance task to the successor head of chancery who is still there today. My tenure at the embassy has been thoroughly audited and found to be exemplary. Please feel free to check with people who worked there during my six years there and who are still there today.
As for my presence in the US, why should I be ashamed to show up in America? I like the place and I have many, many Yankee friends and family members here.
I have lived happily here on and off since the sixties. For your information, I live here because I always do very well in interacting with civilized and productive, rational people, preferably in a thoroughly civilized environment as in the US. On the other hand, I have a hard time dealing with primitive, unproductive, underdeveloped, rogue people.
Further, I did not run away from Freetown. In recent times, I have been going back and forth regularly begining in September 2004 shortly after the detention of Chief Hinga Norman. Each time I conclude a segment of my task I would return to the US.
I made my most recent trip back to the US on Monday, September 11, 2007 - two after voting in the second round. I returned here because I thoroughly enjoy living in Massachusetts in a small Yankee village and because it is much expensive to stay in Freetown for no productive reason.
As you might suspect, living in Freetown is harsh and unenjoyable for there is little or no electricity, clean water supply and plenty of Hymalayas of garbage in the streets, kaka flies galore, high prices for necessities, numerous unemployed youths, wall-to-wall poverty, endless begging by many for their mere daily bread, etc.
You say you wouldn't be surprised if my name showed up in any inquiry. You may be right. As far as I know, anything can happen in our homeland - right or wrong! In fact, I know of innocent people who have been executed in cold blood and few people, if any, spoke out in public about such henious acts.
Its time for me to go away now and thank you for your intervention. But next time you write to or about me and would want me to respond, please use your real name like I am doing. Thank you again! - JL
Subject: Re: I AM ALIVE AND WELL AND LISTENING
From: Sabanoh
To: All
Date Posted: 11:47:55 09/21/07 ()
Email Address: Sabanoh007@yahoo.com
Entered From: cache-mtc-ah10.proxy.aol.com at 64.12.117.202
Message:
Just as much as you feel strongly that you would not work under Charles thats the same way I feel that I would NEVER stay in a country that you are a leader of. Fortunately, you are not there yet and we have another 5 years to work and prevent you from any leadership position in the country. I cant imagine you and Charles standing on the same platform. To tell you the truth you can't even tie Charle's shoes Keh Keh John.
Subject: Re: I AM ALIVE AND WELL AND LISTENING
From: Jay
To: All
Date Posted: 21:00:44 09/20/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: c-69-140-34-194.hsd1.md.comcast.net at 69.140.34.194
Message:
"As you might suspect, living in Freetown is harsh and unenjoyable for there is little or no electricity, clean water supply and plenty of Hymalayas of garbage in the streets, kaka flies galore, high prices for necessities, numerous unemployed youths, wall-to-wall poverty, endless begging by many for their mere daily bread, etc."
John,I totally agree with you on the above mentioned statement and these problems were exercerbated by the SLPP-led Government and thats why they lost the elections.
I used to admire you but I lost all admiration for you because of your vehement support of Berewa and your castigation of an honourable and visionary leader,Margai.
Now,that the elections are over I hope that all the name callings will stop and that we can engage in intellectual interactions on this forum.I look forward to your suggestions in your area of expertise on how we can move our country forward.Sierra Leone should from now on be viewed from a clear lens and not through red,green or orange lenses.
Subject: Re: I AM ALIVE AND WELL AND LISTENING
From: Shembu
To: All
Date Posted: 13:57:19 09/19/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: eduproxy2.k12.de.us at 167.21.254.12
Message:
JL,
Now is the time for you to show your true patriotism. I mean everyone knows that you are a great son of S/L despite our differences pre-electioneering campaign. What I will now expect from you is to take a quick rest and go back to work for S/L. This time you can perform a great role of offering good suggestions for the New Government on how to feasibly achieve some salient quick deliveries for the people. The area of constant flow of electricity for every part of Freetown from Calaba Town to beyond Godrich is very important. I think a temporary high powered plant is what we need until Bumbuna can be sorted out within a year or so. The question of privatization, or allowing a quasi-government parastatal to run our electricity generation is still looming. Your candid opinion will be greatly helpful. We have other areas,like roads and Guma that I believe could be address almost immediately.......but HOW? Please, JL, if you are gonna stay in the forum, do your civil service by helping out with suggestions. How are we gonna get the new government to see such suggestions could also be up for debate. I look forward to your response.
As far as statements you made during the heat of the campaign season, I believe it is your place to stick to your convictions, however, I also think that the stuff you said about Charlie were too raw and below your normal tone of communication. I am not saying that you should apologise to the Hon. Margai (which I believe you should), but rather a withdrawal of some your depictions about him will be very appropriate. Charlie is a noble Sierra Leonean and does not deserve some of your invectives.
Subject: Re: I AM ALIVE AND WELL AND LISTENING
From: John E. Leigh
To: All
Date Posted: 15:48:02 09/19/07 ()
Email Address: johnernestleigh@yahoo.com
Entered From: cache-dtc-ag14.proxy.aol.com at 205.188.117.142
Message:
Dear Mr. Shembu:
Thanks for your intervention and invitation. I definitely intend to write up some suggestions, in due course, in a genuine attempt to help the new government alleviate the deep sufferings of our hard pressed people. Hopefully, they may listen.
But I take exception to your charactization of Mr. Margai as a noble Sierra Leonean or that I went overboard in criticizing him although I acknowledge that I sank to the level of some lowlifers in counter-attacking my accusers.
In my view, your man is a political opportunist who wants to gain power by numerous possible means including double-crossing others, one-manic ownership of a political party, one-manic decision-making, flip-flopping from one party to another, hip-hopping from my committment to another, insisting on bossing his superiors, etc., etc.
And many people agree with me. You've seen the second round voting results. Mr. Margai has lost nearly 99% of his base in the Southeast second round voting. He is thoroughly loathed by many who believe, true or false, that he is interested only in his own situation.
Hence, I hear rumors of his possible elevation as our Second Vice President as well as the APC standard bearer in 2012. These rumors could be wild ones, of course!
However, Mr. Margai has made one significant contribution to Sierra Leone's political development: i.e. one man must not again insist on imposing his personal crony choices for a party's presidential ticket, be it by hook or by crook nor should he dictate to surbordinates around the clock on every single material issue.
Finally, if there is a specific statement I made about your man during the campaign that you know is clearly erroneous and which you would want me to publicly withdraw, please direct my attention to it and I will honestly consider your request with complete objectivity. Thank you. JL
Subject: Re: I AM ALIVE AND WELL AND LISTENING
From: Cornelius Hamelberg
To: All
Date Posted: 17:33:28 09/19/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: c-088472d5.01-32-73746f42.cust.bredbandsbolaget.se at 213.114.132.8
Message:
Half- Krio boy is still the same – chasing his $90,000 unsuccessfully. But has he accounted for the alleged misappropriations and monkey business at his embassy?
Sinat Chinam’s J.E. Leigh has not changed he is still asking for his small change.
Whilst as per his own confession he “sank to the level of some lowlifers in counter-attacking my accusers.” Mr. Margai has inestimably risen in the estimation of the nation and is now twice the man that Leigh was in his former days of glory. Eulogies of Hon Charles Margai keep pouring in. Political scientists are writing the history of his effects on the political scene in Sierra Leone. Leigh’s impact on the elections was nil and limited to some crowing in Cocorioko, whilst others were busy drinking the stuff called poyo, which I don’t know.
Perhaps under that influence he wrote: “hip-hopping from my commitment to another”
“MY” commitment? What the heck does he mean by that? Still so self-centred that everything - even Charles Margia’s commitment becomes his “MY” commitment?
And by what calculation dose he arrives at his conclusion that “Mr. Margai has lost nearly 99% of his base in the Southeast”? Still croaking a downgrading Mr. Margai’s importance whilst elevating his non-existent self into the non-existent limelight?
Does he know how and why HAMAS won that election? There is much Leigh does not know and cannot even imagine, possible: the thing that must be hardened must first be made soft… he knows that much…..so he can resume and take his stand again… nothing cryptic there… just plain talk. “Miracles take just a little longer.”
Indeed Mr. Margai is somebody in the Sierra Leone political scene and Mr. Leigh is nobody and can mostly only be heard braying in this Cocorioko forum where more than 90% don’t pay him any mind – and some like me have recently tried to be kind, but not any more if that’s the way he wants to be. I’m not going to offer an olive branch to a friend of the most arrogant one. First of all I am not important. Secondly why should I?
Typical of arrogance, you extend an olive branch to him and he kicks you in the face with his cloven hoof.
Come 2015 you might get national funeral back there in Massachusetts or back there in the Bo of his birth.
Rev. Jesse Jackson has changed, has sent felicitations to President Ernest Bai Koroma and has done good…. But Leigh persists in being Leigh and should re-seek the leadership of the SLPP and try for 2012 but should move from Boston to Bo town if he wants to get a good footing for a nomination in the next SLPP Makeni conBention or does he prefer to go on pension?
I’d be placing my bets on Alhaji Momodou Koroma for leadership – he is much younger and he is brilliant, calm, and not obtrusively strident in pitch. He would make more friends and has so far not gone out of his way to antagonise anyone.
How many times must I point to the story of Kamtza and Bar Kamtza?
Subject: Re: I AM ALIVE AND WELL AND LISTENING
From: Cornelius Hamelberg
To: All
Date Posted: 13:50:40 09/19/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: c-088472d5.01-32-73746f42.cust.bredbandsbolaget.se at 213.114.132.8
Message:
Admit: Hon Charles Francis Margai is twice - no ten times the man you are .......as the real san san boy that you are in the political wilderness you are still have no shame saying the APC has a parliamentary majority, and advocating that everybody should therefore please vote for the SLPP to control the executive and now your bring handsome face here to plead what?
Exactly what contributions do you want to make now?
This is a golden opportunity for you to answer an open-ended question of how you want to help bring heaven on earth – for yourself and other disadvantaged people of your lineage.
Subject: Re: I AM ALIVE AND WELL AND LISTENING
From: Nah Sabi Talk
To: All
Date Posted: 17:07:40 09/19/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: static-76-160-64-185.dsl.cavtel.net at 76.160.64.185
Message:
I am glad to see this day inwhich you are facing Ernest Leigh with his pants on his head! I vividly remember all the ugly comments this Leigh man posted of you, Charles Margai, the APC, San san boys, Sylvia Blyden even the country...
God has spoken for you...
We should try to forgive and forget Ernest Leigh...
Subject: Re: I AM ALIVE AND WELL AND LISTENING
From: John E. Leigh
To: All
Date Posted: 12:48:46 09/20/07 ()
Email Address: johnernestleigh@yahoo.com
Entered From: cache-dtc-ag14.proxy.aol.com at 205.188.117.142
Message:
Dear Mr. Nah Sabi Talk:
Man, you know how to talk. Nevertheless, I confirm that I stand squarely behind every thing I ever wrote in this forum about the people you've mentioned.
Merely because I supported my party's candidates and refused to opportunistically switched sides - and we lost - does not mean God is for your people or that welfare drunks are now sober or that I ever said anything wrong about san-san boys, omolankay drives, carwash boys, etc.
Remember! Sir Albert Margai elbowed Dr. Karefa-Smart out of the SLPP Leadership in 1964. Subsequently, Siaka Stevens' [Old] APC defeated SLPP in 1966 or 67 general elections. Then what happened to our people and country for 24/25 years thereafter? War and last place full of miseries.
George Bush defeated Al Gore in 2001, so what has happened to the USA since? Hitler won big elections in Germany pre-World War II, so what happened to the German people and the World? Just understand that at times, voters may not be always make the right choice. At time they do.
If you need an input from me next time you write, please ID yourself correctly. Meanwhile, thank you very much and congratulations to you that our voters of 2007 seemingly proved all your men right and John Leigh and Co. wrong. - JL
Subject: Re: I AM ALIVE AND WELL AND LISTENING
From: Cornelius Hamelberg
To: All
Date Posted: 13:39:50 09/19/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: c-088472d5.01-32-73746f42.cust.bredbandsbolaget.se at 213.114.132.8
Message:
Pa Leigh,
Don't you have any sense of shame?
Self-esteem other than vilfying others?
More than $90,000 in your bank account?
Surely living in the land of milk honey and opportunity Sierra leone is not your last hope of making money, is it?
You are free to answer the question and tangle with your " jew boy"
I am ready and waiting for you in the USA and over here and there too.
Subject: Re: I AM ALIVE AND WELL AND LISTENING
From: Cornelius Hamelberg
To: All
Date Posted: 13:29:43 09/19/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: c-088472d5.01-32-73746f42.cust.bredbandsbolaget.se at 213.114.132.8
Message:
Desperation is back on his quest for money principle: “Take the money,” he said – and they did.
The most qualified self promoting “legal brain” of the SLPP could not by legal redress get his alleged money back. Now stone broke? Broked by di akartas? They have most certainly chopped the bread and so you should take your cronies to court.
John Leigh dae baig ee wan make APC pay di $90,000 way SLPP owe am but noh pay am... ee say nah govment owe am........di bribe way ee bin gee SLPP.......
He could lave it as Sadaka after he said that his financial contributions to the SLPP cause was greater more than any other SLPPer’s.
Now after being ”robbed" at the Makeni ConBention, and after throwing his weight behind Mr. Berewa even after that and having not got his money back in spite of all the faithful tail wagging for his master he wants president. Koroma and Mr. Margai's government to pay the SLPP debts owed to him after all the vilification poured on them?
How ridiculous can one man be?
Mr Leigh still crying over $90,000?
DO you know how many people lost their lives, their legs and arms and properties? How many farms were burned down in the North (if you were an insurance broker, you would know)
I am owed by others much more than that. Waive it off as sadaka to your SLPPers… surely you are big and boastful enough to do that in public?
This is the day of debt cancellation, isn’t it?
Subject: Re: I AM ALIVE AND WELL AND LISTENING
From: False Prophet
To: All
Date Posted: 13:45:55 09/19/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: 65.107.153.146.ptr.us.xo.net at 65.107.153.146
Message:
"DO you know how many people lost their lives, their legs and arms and properties? How many farms were burned down in the North (if you were an insurance broker, you would know)"
Did you say insurance Broker in Salone?
Subject: Re: I AM ALIVE AND WELL AND LISTENING
From: Cornelius Hamelberg
To: All
Date Posted: 15:41:33 09/19/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: c-088472d5.01-32-73746f42.cust.bredbandsbolaget.se at 213.114.132.8
Message:
“Sierra Leoneans should be eternally grateful to Tony Blair for helping to end the war in Sierra Leone. He took a difficult decision and succeeded in stemming what could have engulfed the whole area in an extended regional conflict.”
I am quoting in verbatim what was said to me a few minutes ago on the phone…….
Yes, in the Nigeria of my time, a man could obtain a death certificate and claim insurance... if you want to know what a life is worth..... A man could also apply to go to Mecca obtain foreign exchange to do so - get a few passports and so much foreign exchange.....
As Bob Marley made clear in song:
“But if you know what life is worth,
You will look for yours on earth:”
http://www.lyricsfreak.com/b/bob+marley/get+up+stand+up_20021743.html
The arrogant are still getting too big for their boots?
Yes, John Leigh's personal $90,000 is not a priority when we are talking about a poverty reduction scheme. I should like to talk to Leigh – not through this public forum – tell him a little about his people and HOW he can be relevant –what steps he should take – if he is interested in letting go of his past – in order to face what is left of his future. (Can he see the part played by Charles Margai (addressing the Kamajors) in the movie “Blood Diamonds”? It’s a movie that’s very close to the truth. That was just one story and there are many other absolutely true stories that are infinitely more brutal. Good thing John – that you were a good ambassador and id good things for your country. And hopefully can do more. And when I say good thing John, I’m not genuflecting - I don’t need or want anything from you – certainly not your $90, 000 owed from the SLPP. I don’t need that kind of money – as sadaka from anybody, like you who would be talking about it forever. When I give- the left hand doesn’t know what the right hand is doing. I tend to give as much as I receive and live economically and hope to be buried economically too.
And the world? As Imam Ali (alaihi salaam) said in ash-Shiqshiqiyyah, “in my view this world of yours is no better than the sneezing of a goat.”
http://www.al-shia.com/html/eng/books/nahjulbalaga/003.htm
(Leigh) and not the old goat should be donating - putting cash where his mouth is, not asking for some social welfare or recompense from Charles Margai's government.
The above is said in a spirit of reconciliation and mending fences and bridge-building and forgiveness of debts – if you want to put it like that, because for me EREV YOM KIPPUR is on Friday and the “forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us” is very much a part of the spirit of our day of ATONEMENT /AT-ONE-MENT with the ALMIGHTY – and in the case of Sierra Leone at-one-ment is reconciliation, inclusiveness and unity……
Not that Leigh is better than you or me or any other san-san boy who has no place of his own to lay his weary head.
With the sale of the people’s Libyan Rice to establish a pension’s scheme Leigh – who is in that age bracket could be applying for a pension instead of crying about so much split milk
Indeed “False Prophet” with the human and natural resources we have even at the present time, in and out of Sierra Leone, good management - with people like Kenday Kamara - and indeed some of the good ideas that John Leigh himself has suggested in his website, we should be able to transform Sierra Leone into a state that cares about all it’s citizens , a state that can deliver social welfare to some of the poor, uneducated, amputated who cannot boast of resourcefulness or a means of making ends meet. We do not have to be in “leadership” positions to promote these borderless ideas but good relations with the powers that be can help put those ideas on a platform in which they are given a fair hearing – and there are many talented ones with special knowledge of developmental economics etc…..
Last thing here: in the next few months there will probably be some degree of cross-carpeting of those who share the “ if you can’t beat them , join them mentality ” Still we need a viable opposition to keep the APC on their toes: We can’t have the ACC used as political instrument to whip some of the old brigade into compliance or else face investigation and prosecution by the ACC - because even if all SLPP would like to share the new booty of APC , the Hon Ernest Bai Koroma will never pursue a goal of One Party-ism. That was at another time when Pa Shaki had the mandate that Sir Albert Margai sought…
http://bravenewfilms.org/blog/9767-sierra-leone-elections-9-august-2007?play=1
Subject: Re: I AM ALIVE AND WELL AND LISTENING
From: JAMBA SMOKER
To: All
Date Posted: 14:56:29 09/19/07 ()
Email Address:
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I guess he me meant, INSURANCE GBORKA!
Subject: Re: I AM ALIVE AND WELL AND LISTENING
From: alieu sesay
To: All
Date Posted: 15:01:54 09/19/07 ()
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ROTFLMAOPIMP.....kekekekekee
Subject: Nar now ah know say u nor get shame!
From: Nah Sabi Talk
To: All
Date Posted: 12:59:57 09/19/07 ()
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U know what? It's okay!
Come join the sand sand boys...
APC is the sun that shine for all... U too!
Bad bush nor deh for troway bad bad pekin lek you!
Come And let's celebrate!!!
Bring the whole family, Mannah eh Pa Alhaji Morikeh Fofanah, nor forget Gongorlie journalist oh?
Subject: Re: I AM ALIVE AND WELL AND LISTENING
From: SLPP
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Date Posted: 12:52:30 09/19/07 ()
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"First, I am not a parrot nor have I ever behaved parrot-like."
John Leigh, to say that you are a parrot is to give parrots a bad name.
Subject: Re: I AM ALIVE AND WELL AND LISTENING
From: alieu sesay
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Date Posted: 12:33:24 09/19/07 ()
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Kabboh BRA Leigh....Thanks for the GOD job on the ground.
Subject: Re: I AM ALIVE AND WELL AND LISTENING
From: Bangu
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Date Posted: 13:30:37 09/19/07 ()
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Alieu,
We know that school workload is heavy on you. Why don't you concentrate on that? To write just one sentence and bungle means you need rest especially with that loaded itinerary of yours that you revealed for all on the forum the other day.
Subject: Re: I AM ALIVE AND WELL AND LISTENING
From: alieu sesay
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Date Posted: 13:34:06 09/19/07 ()
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Bra nar me Man dat...i have to say KABBOH....thanks for the concern though.. but today is one of "them" free days wae man think say e for chat with my folks...
Subject: Re: I AM ALIVE AND WELL AND LISTENING
From: Bangu
To: All
Date Posted: 14:08:02 09/19/07 ()
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Alieu,
Just pulling your legs bro. who cares!
Seriously our country is turning a new page and I believe we are all looking forward to a place we can be very proud of. We need to return after acquiring all these academic credentials.....but we can not if living there is like hell. So we really hope that the new government will perform miracles to allow some of us to return like the proud Ghanian guys do when the come over here for studies.
Jah bless en make sure you study and write dem paper dem well well one oh!
Subject: Re: I AM ALIVE AND WELL AND LISTENING
From: alieu sesay
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Date Posted: 15:03:50 09/19/07 ()
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Or Bangu.....APC no APC i will be in salone this year.. As ar don so.. man don GO....
Subject: Joseph Sherman
From: Atteta
To: All
Date Posted: 12:11:01 09/19/07 ()
Email Address: attelov@yahoo.com
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What is Joseph Sherman talking about? Tejan Kabbah has retired, and Berewah has been voted out. I suggest he should channel his vicious energy in helping the APC meet it's goals than witchunting a failed government. Do you want them executed? You nar ariogbo? You keep talking about Sylvia Blyden, you are not doing any better.
And please. don't use the usual Cocorioco line, I am not SLPP.
Monkey nor dae lef in black han
Subject: NUP FORUM ARCHIVES and other matters pertinent
From: M. Alieu Iscandari Esq.
To: All
Date Posted: 10:40:44 09/19/07 ()
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Does anyone have access to the NUP forum archives. I have some materials saved but need some more. Please contact me at aiscandari@aol.com.
If you want to know what I need it for, I will tell you this much. Many years ago, a very arrogant fellow called John Benjamin Hirsch, once boasted on the NUP forum that HE was the person who planned the NPRC coup to avenge the death of his brother Capt Ben Hirsch. I told him then that as far as I knew that there was no STATUTE OF LIMITATIONS to the crime of TREASON. I do not know whether he believed me then because as you know "arrogance goeth before a fall" and this brother was ARROGANCE PERSONIFIED".
Lately I have been informed that he had moved his whole family to the Kailahun area and the border with Liberia. This move is an obvious manifestation of a conciousness of guilt. If Mr."Arrogance" himself is not guilty of anything why does he have to run away. He held the portfolio of Minister of Finance and it was necessarily important that he remain in sierra leone during the transition and help with the smooth transition of government.
If many of you would recall, I have always been an ardent advocate for justice for my hero SALAMI COKER, and 28 others who were brutally slaughtered by the NPRC regieme after what was purported to be an overnight trial where Retired Col KES BOYA now MP from the Kono District was purported to be the officer that passed the verdicts. KES who is a man that I know has denied the honor given to him by the NPRC and SLPP spinsters.
The fact however was that the December 29 1992 act of killing the 29 people was an act of Murder. There is also no statute of Limitations to the crime of Murder. I ask and urge this government to review the evidence collected by the British Inspector Biddle and review whether or not crimes were committed which need to be prosecuted.
In the same vein, I urge this government and the newly elected MP's particularly those from the US, to have tabled a motion to outlaw, the death penaly as a criminal sanction in sierra leone because its history in sierra leone has been mostly used as a weapon against Political opponents.
I further ask this new government to make sure and ensure that sierra Leone has an extradition treaty with every nation in Africa, particularly the west african sub region, the UK, every country in Europe or better yet the European Union, the United States, Canada and every country in South America. The rationale here is to make the world a very small place for criminals particularly ECONOMIC criminals who are running from sierra leone. Countries particularly those in the European Union, are more inclined to EXTRADITE criminals when there are adequate gurantees that the death penalty would not be inflcited on the extraditees.
Excuse my digression
Subject: Re: NUP FORUM ARCHIVES and other matters pertinent
From: Sheku Kallon
To: All
Date Posted: 00:27:53 09/20/07 ()
Email Address: shekukal@yahoo.com
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Alieu,
Take it easy. Countless Sierra Leoneans have lost families in that country over the years. We've endured a civil war and are trying to build back our democracy and move on. Let's not open a can of worms by going after the NPRC. I know on another forum I told you that the APC will have to win elections first in order to do what you are advocating. Consider that statement of mine a youthful mistake. Let us move on as a nation. We cannot change the past, but if all of us insist on payback in Sierra Leone, only a few of us will remain standing. There have been too many dirty hands in our country's affairs and very few saints. Let us move on.
Subject: Re: NUP FORUM ARCHIVES and other matters pertinent
From: M. Alieu Iscandari Esq
To: All
Date Posted: 06:06:39 09/20/07 ()
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Sheku,
Thanks for your input. I have always known, even when we were at that other forum, that the APC was going to win the elections baring a massive rig of the votes in the Kailahun and Kenema axis. As you can see I was right. My Beef withthe NPRC, is not limited to the discrete treaseanous act of overthrowing a legitimate government, rather it is the cruelty with which they snuffed out the lives of the many people on december 29, 1992 without due process of the law. We are not seeking REVENGE because that is within the purview of our creator the almight God. We are however seeking Justice either in Civil courts as a money judgement against those who killed James Bambay Kamara, Salami coker my first Hero and 27 other people on that fateful day. Their deaths should be compensated in some way by the Government and Justice should be seen to have swayed.
Perhaps more likely than not, the purpose of my original post, is to highlight the importance of how ARROGANCE while in power can create a connundrum for you when you fall out of power. I am against the death penalty and will never advocate for its use under any circumstances, however, John Ben when he thought that the SLPP would lead Siera Leone until after he had passed away, allowed his arrogance to hold sway and back then he was STUPID enough to make statements which in my opinion and in the opinion of many in the legal field, were statements against his penal interest. He admited to having being the chief planner of the NPRC coup and to that extent could be vicariously responsible for all the criminal acts of the NPRC including the killing of bambay kamara and Salami Coker.
Does this teach a lesson to you and other SLPP supporters wo have allowed arrogance to get to your heads? Sheku sierra leone belongs to all of us and unless we learn to live together we will all perish together.
Suffice it to say that I am not looking for John Ben Hirsch to swing from the Gallows at Pademba Road and If I had my drothers, I would rather have the gallows at Pademba be decommissioned for EVER.
Should John Ben Hirsch be civilly liable to the mother of Salami Coker, or his children, or the families of the 29 people that were killed EXTRAJUDICIOUSLY by the NPRC? I would advocate that the parliament vote to extend the limitations period within which to bring a civil action against all who were associated with the NPRC for money judgement.
Subject: Re: NUP FORUM ARCHIVES and other matters pertinent
From: Lawyers without borders
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Date Posted: 08:51:01 09/20/07 ()
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Snuff it mate...
NPRC is no more liable than the APC of yesteryears it overthrew..
The trial and execution of Francis Minah and all by the APC would not hold water in a guinean court let alone any with a semblance of judicial standards...
This laws of inference and coincidental obsfucation you are advocating to tangle Jon Ben and others is not holding up on this forum let alone in a court of law....
And i thought thier was a blanket amnesty granted to all and case was close..
Watin this.. ?
Subject: Re: NUP FORUM ARCHIVES and other matters pertinent
From: sa Lone lawyer
To: All
Date Posted: 10:47:09 09/20/07 ()
Email Address: salonelawyer@yahoo.co.uk
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no wonder you are a lawyer without borders because no reputable national institution will empower you to practice with analysis sucha as yours
Subject: Re: NUP FORUM ARCHIVES and other matters pertinent
From: Tamba Moiwo
To: All
Date Posted: 09:03:08 09/20/07 ()
Email Address: moiwo@hotmail.co.uk
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Message:
The MAN IS CONSUMED WITH SO MUCH HATERED.
He knows there will be huge problems of admissibility.But then this is the APC.The trial of Francis Minah was a travesty.Abdulai Conteh as AG,led witnesses in Court to the extent that Minah,a very bright Lawyer, stood in a public meeting to solicit the sum of 80,000 Leones to stage a coup and he would compensate late Vandy Jimmy for his support-that was how that poor bloke was roped in.The 'evidence' was not enough to hang a cat.
Bo Iscandri stay nar America en make you Attorney bizness.Salone nor wan order WAR.Stop this ethnic baiting.
Subject: Re: NUP FORUM ARCHIVES and other matters pertinent
From: M. Alieu Iscandari Esq
To: All
Date Posted: 10:36:46 09/20/07 ()
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Tamba what is the "Ethnic Baiting" here? Accusing people of crimes committed makes it ethnic baiting? You are too much my friend. And all this while I though that you werer smart. My bad.
Neither I nor the APC as it is presently constituted, take any responsibility for the Trial of Francis Mishek Minnah. In fact I am on record that there appears to be some things very wrong procedurally with the way the trial was conducted. have you lent our your voice against the arrest and indefinite iuncarceration of Omrie Golley who was similarly accusedof planning a coup at a beach bar in Freetown? No you have not or at least the record does not ref;ect your critical opposition to that manifest injustice.
Did you not say anything because Giolley does not belong to your ethnic group. You should stop using incitement to make your point. Your alleged ethnic baiting comment was out of place and shows a knack that you have exhibited so far of In pepito principi in argumentation. Give your self a break. Like I advised you the other day, at the rate you are going, you are either going to get howrser or you are going to write yourself into oblivion. You are not making anysense. You say I am full of Hatered? Hatered for whom? YOU? ROTFLMMFAO.
let me admit it then I am concumed with hatered for those who went around Freetown making lists of people to bring charges against and execute as collaborators, (and you said nothing then); I am against those who after succeeding in having many sierra leoneans sentenced to death for alleged crimes of "collaboration" then turned around and accepted bribes of $5000.00 each while seating on the "commitee on the prerogative of mercy" in order to protect the condemned from certain death. (You said nothing then). I am against those whose children live in mansions without no jobs while the bulk of sierra leoneans go without a solid meal each day.
Yes sir I am consumed with hatered for INJUSTICE whereever I find it and regardless of whom ever (like you) supports it. I hope this helps you see the basis of my consumption with hatered.
War? Did you say war?
My fried if you guys go into the bush with the intent to destabilise the natiuon of sierra leone or in any manner cause us any national pain we WILL drop napalm in the Bush and flush your blood thirsty rear ends out. This government will not tolerate any more rebel actions against the people of sierra leone and any attempts will be dealt with in the most severe of manners including like I said carpet bombing of all rebel bases in the bush, and extradition warrants for all rebel supporters and sympathizers in the US for acts of TERRORISM against the state of sierra leone. If you believe that in a post 9-11 america you can seek a safe haven here for acts of terrorism then think again.
Subject: Re: NUP FORUM ARCHIVES and other matters pertinent
From: alieu sesay
To: All
Date Posted: 11:13:37 09/19/07 ()
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Is this the NEW APC or the APC? You sound like the later and BRA no disrespect but if this goes to court(independent), you and the APC will LOOSE BIG TIME...
Subject: Re: NUP FORUM ARCHIVES and other matters pertinent
From: Bonthe Pikin
To: All
Date Posted: 15:15:42 09/19/07 ()
Email Address: bontilaynga@gmail.com
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Message:
Please Alieu Sesay stop embarassing yourself. How could say/write "you sound like the LATER"? Mi man cool down and concentrate on your studies. I am tempted to appreciate my younger brother in ss2 more any time you write on this forum. Honestly you don't write like someone in university. No pun intended!
Subject: Re: NUP FORUM ARCHIVES and other matters pertinent
From: alieu sesay
To: All
Date Posted: 15:39:17 09/19/07 ()
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You wish you could write like... You wish you were that gifted, you wish you had what i have.. But no BRO.. you are not me, i am what i am.. and i am PROUD.
Continue with you CUSS CUSS....
Subject: Re: NUP FORUM ARCHIVES and other matters pertinent
From: M. Alieu iscandari Esq
To: All
Date Posted: 11:42:05 09/19/07 ()
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if this goes to court(independent), you and the APC will LOOSE BIG TIME...
It would not be brought by the APC it will be brought by the People of the state of Sierra Leone Versus the Named Defendants. I believe that the probability of a defense verdict is a risk in the pursuit of justice. Whadda ya think
Subject: Re: NUP FORUM ARCHIVES and other matters pertinent
From: alieu sesay
To: All
Date Posted: 12:37:25 09/19/07 ()
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"I believe that the probability of a defense verdict is a risk in the pursuit of justice"
Alright Lawyer, but my instinct is that the case itself is not a SLAM DUNK for anyone....
Check this out... John Ben will not be using SULAY as a Defense lawyer.. so mek you nor corrupt am.
Subject: Re: NUP FORUM ARCHIVES and other matters pertinent
From: M. Alieu Iscandari Esq.
To: All
Date Posted: 14:25:03 09/19/07 ()
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Does it matter who he uses as a defense lawyer? In Common Law Jurisdictions, statments by an accused admitting responsibility for a crime are admissible against that accused as admissions against interest in this case his penal interest, over the hearsay rule. Not much is needed to make a case with regards to treason.
he just moght want to use Bu Buakei Jabbie the bumbling legal Chump as a lawyer you think? LOL
Subject: Re: NUP FORUM ARCHIVES and other matters pertinent
From: alieu sesay
To: All
Date Posted: 14:45:05 09/19/07 ()
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" Not much is needed to make a case with regards to treason"
The actions of the NPRC in KICKING the APC out was in my VIEW legitimate BRA. For these reasons:
1. There was no-way the APC-Military government would have listened to the People VIA the Ballot Box. So the actions of the NPRC, to which John Ben belonged, was a welcome relief for all( me included- was in Bo School)
2. The Momoh Government was not an Elected Government, it was a QUASI-Military Junta forced upon the people of Sierra Leone by the failed APC regime of Siaka Stevens. So overthrowing them is/was not a CRIME but a good job worthy of Praise.
3.TREASON - "This word imports a betraying, treachery, or breach of allegiance". Who did John Ben betray? Where was the Treachery? Who did he owe allegiance to?
Scenario: If i join a group to overthrow an AFRC/RUF government, will that be classed as TREASON?
Once again i am not a LAWYER! The above are just my TWO CENTS.
Subject: Re: NUP FORUM ARCHIVES and other matters pertinent
From: M. Alieu Iscandari Esq
To: All
Date Posted: 16:14:27 09/19/07 ()
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Once again i am not a LAWYER! The above are just my TWO CENTS.
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and your two cents is greatly appreciated. As you can see its best that you leave the issues of lawyers to lawyers who can make the case for treason.
stay blessed
Subject: Re: NUP FORUM ARCHIVES and other matters pertinent
From: Candid Opinion
To: All
Date Posted: 11:02:03 09/19/07 ()
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Message:
The notion that its only when your side gets the upper hand..
As a lawyer, this same keen for human rights.. should have been championed a year, a month a week ago..
Anything else.. is taking advantage, witchunt, payback for booting you guys out of office..
Answering for economic crimes.. i am with you on that one..
We should start with anything your Dad bequethed on you, the ben kanu's..jengo stevens.. joseph momohs, Sophian kargbo's, Edward kargbo's.. , MK suma.. Thollu bangura, ET kamara's...victor Fohs.. Sama Banya's Minahs et all...
Man....almost all of the political and parastatal class in salone.. has in thier own sweet way raped my country salone.. ...
Or maybe this witch hunting is precision guided.. its only HEAT seeking out Mr Benjamin and Maada Bio abd Tom Nyuma..?
Or does the limitation of statute not apply in cases of human economic crimes.. committed..for the past 27 years..
Lets just let bygones.. be ..By gones...and move our nation forward..
Subject: Re: NUP FORUM ARCHIVES and other matters pertinent
From: M. Alieu Iscandari esq
To: All
Date Posted: 14:09:12 09/19/07 ()
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As a lawyer, this same keen for human rights.. should have been championed a year, a month a week ago..
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Dude you must have been new to this Cocorioko Forum which is the only forum that I write in. I have been writing about the Harry Yansanneh issue since it happened. I attended the Coroners Inquest. I made a report abbout the coroners inquest on the cocorioko forum. Do you call the murder of a man by the brutal beating of an MP's children in the presence of many witnesses at the urging of said MP a witch hunt.
Boy you guys sure use words lightly. If Mr Yansanneh were your brother, son, father or what ever would you be so willing to ask for forgiveness or call this request for justice a "witchhunt"?
Do you know that the Coroners Inquest forun the SLPP MP culpable in the death of Mr. Yansa=nneh? Wjhy then was justice not served. Was ther an attempt forrm the highest echelons of the SLPP to subvert that Justice that they swore to uphold?
All I am asking for is that Ernest Koroma live up to the expectation and the promises that he had made in seeing that we live a a more just society. The killing of harry yansanneh is unresolved and we who speak our CONSCIENCE ask for justice. Anything wrong with that?
Subject: Re: NUP FORUM ARCHIVES and other matters pertinent
From: Candid Opinion
To: All
Date Posted: 14:15:21 09/19/07 ()
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Message:
True that.....
I am new around here..plus my innuaguration hsa hiccups so was away fro a while.. Banned the 2nd day..
If its true, all you say.. then it was willfull killing.. and should be prosecuted..
My witchunt comment was directed at the Hirsh/benjamin part of your statement..not the murder of INNOCENT people.
Subject: Re: NUP FORUM ARCHIVES and other matters pertinent
From: nico
To: All
Date Posted: 12:13:54 09/19/07 ()
Email Address: nicoleconsult@hotmail.com
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Message:
No to by gone by gone, the SLPP economic crimes was the worst and most callous because it was at a time when the whole world poured in monies for the victims of the war and to rebuild our country, only for these criminals to build mansions for themselves, whilst the people beg on the streets. Koroma will loose support if he encourage that nonsense of by gone.
Subject: Re: NUP FORUM ARCHIVES and other matters pertinent
From: M. Alieu Iscandari Esq.
To: All
Date Posted: 11:48:28 09/19/07 ()
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We should start with anything your Dad bequethed on you,
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It is clear that you do not understand the meaninhg of the words you use and that is the hall mark of an unintelligent person. Ever hear of Mrs Malaprop? My dad is still alive and therefore he has not made any "bequests" to me. On the other hand, I invite to thouroughly investigate that issue and avoid from making statements which are untrue. If you find that one cent of sierra leones money was unlawfully or LAWFULLY RECEIVED by me, then please broadcast and publish that information to the world. Please also produce and publish all documents including bank drafts transfers or any like evidence to make your case. If on the other hand you find that I am not now neither have I at any time in my life been a beneficiary of APC largese wouold you also have that be published.
PS: I have a small confession to make. I did receive some student grants as a sixth former at St Edwards and the amount I am not sure about now.
Subject: Re: NUP FORUM ARCHIVES and other matters pertinent
From: tamba moiwo
To: All
Date Posted: 09:12:07 09/20/07 ()
Email Address: moiwo@hotmail.co.uk
Entered From: gateway-303.energis.gsi.gov.uk at 62.25.109.196
Message:
"If you find that one cent of sierra leones money was unlawfully or LAWFULLY RECEIVED by me, then please broadcast and publish that information to the world"
We need a forensic accountant to tease out your Dad's tenure as Minister of Works.In particular, we would love to look at his accounts before and after his Ministerial position.
Nor drwa rope mek rope draw bush padiman.
Subject: Re: NUP FORUM ARCHIVES and other matters pertinent
From: Candid Opinion
To: All
Date Posted: 10:51:09 09/20/07 ()
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Message:
Minsitry of works use to be the most corrupt one of them all during the APC days.. Dont know if it was during Pa Iscandari's tenure..
But aliue did not answer my question..
Is he a benefactor..
Who cares if Not willfully or lawfully recieved.. ?
Did you paps have mass mass..sweets of office.. corner corner..? inflated Per diem..?
If so.. you own the people of salone some change my brother..dont you think.
Aint we all gots skeletons in our darn closets..
Subject: Re: NUP FORUM ARCHIVES and other matters pertinent
From: Mohamed Fofana
To: All
Date Posted: 14:18:17 09/19/07 ()
Email Address: mfofana2004@sbcglobal.net
Entered From: at 204.108.96.22
Message:
Alieu,
Anything you say or do now will be because the party you supported is in power. Why had this people not been brought to justice before the return of APC? Your dad is APC; you are APC and a lawyer. Was this the opportune time that you were waiting for? Forget about the war issues!!
Let us start fresh my brother and move on.
As for the public funds, I agree with you that those that were there should account for the public fund.
Subject: Re: NUP FORUM ARCHIVES and other matters pertinent
From: M. Alieu Iscandari esq
To: All
Date Posted: 17:06:26 09/19/07 ()
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Why had this people not been brought to justice before the return of APC?
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these people have not been brought to Justice all these years because they were in control of the government and were unwilling to see that Justice be done. Its that simple. In the Future please respond to my post without any mention of my father or what I do because it is all irrelevant to the call for Justice to be served. Stay Blessed
Subject: Re: NUP FORUM ARCHIVES and other matters pertinent
From: Candid Opinion
To: All
Date Posted: 11:59:33 09/19/07 ()
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Message:
Sorry mate..
I thought he was dead.. i got the impression..i should say..
If you have never, ever benefitted from anything other than your dads take home pay.. no mass mass.. no sweet of office.. no chap..
Again.. my sincerest condolences..
Subject: Re: NUP FORUM ARCHIVES and other matters pertinent
From: Patriot
To: All
Date Posted: 11:24:27 09/19/07 ()
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"Lets just let bygones.. be ..By gones...and move our nation forward.."
Candid:
You obviously don't know what you are talking about.
Do you think the on-going daily instances of extreme suffering caused to large numbers of Saloneans by the kleptomaniac elite in the SLPP regime of Kabbah and Berewa is are "bygones?"
The people of Salone want an end to impunity by the criminal class aka political leaders. So, I am sorry to dissapoint you, but to paraphrase Dr. Christiana Thorpe, "the days when political crooks can loot the treasury of Salone with impunity are over."
That means the SLPP criminals will be made to stand trial for any economic crimes they committed against the people of Salone who thereby became their hapless victims.
As to previous regimes, well, the APC has to set priorities. Nothing stopped the SLPP from doing what the APC must now do. The failure of the SLPP to do it when it was in power does not obligate the new APC govt. to do it for them.
You can choose to call it a witch hunt. That is your opinion. The people of Salone have a more credible name for it: ACCOUNTABILITY.
Me say: Let the commissions of inquiry begin. Dr. Thorpe has started the long overrdue ball of accountability rolling. President Ernest Koroma must not let it stop rolling. The long suffering people of Salone deserve no less.
Subject: Re: NUP FORUM ARCHIVES and other matters pertinent
From: Candid Opinion
To: All
Date Posted: 11:35:18 09/19/07 ()
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Ok...
Unu try dey..
Me know say.. this crap about accountability is all that.. crap..
APC will tiff.. SLPP cam back.. dem go tiff..
Tony blair.. tiff.. Bush will tiff.. Mbeki will tiff..
Ernest Koroma.. will be richer when he leaves office than when he got in..
No ONE... i repeat.. NO ONE can tell me APC is in power.. salone man should all sing kumbayah and 3 little birds and we wil lall be alright..
Corruption is a human desease and not an SLPP or APC one..
I love nigeria.. this is why even when minister and senators and governors tiff. they are not afraid to invest in the country.. capital is not on a fligth..
Prosecute away....
Subject: Re: NUP FORUM ARCHIVES and other matters pertinent
From: Talk Sense
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Date Posted: 12:50:40 09/19/07 ()
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"Corruption is a human desease and not an SLPP or APC one.. "
Candid Opinion, let me ask you a question that should help you see the nonsense underlying your above opinion: Cancer is a "a human desease and not an SLPP or APC one.. ", so are you telling us that every human being suffers or will suffer from cancer?
Talk sense, man.
Corruption is not a disease at all. It is a conscious decision taken by criminally-minded individuals or groups to defraud one or more members of society.
Someone had told you that you don't know what you are talking about. You have just proved that your ignorance is not limited to the meaning of the word "bygones." Clearly, it extends to that of the words, accountability and disease.
Do yourself a favour. Before you write, first learn about what you wish to write. It would make the rest of us applaud your nascent consideration in sparing us the time and effort of correcting your many mistakes.
Subject: Re: NUP FORUM ARCHIVES and other matters pertinent
From: Candid Opinion
To: All
Date Posted: 13:19:38 09/19/07 ()
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Well if you think the meaning is literal..In your language.... "WORD FOR WORD"
How much keystrokes should i waste on you..?
See.. thats where we differ.. me with my stupidity..
I have an opinion about a subject matter/s..
Corruption.. accountability, sincerity.. forgiveness..Lef die man leh e die.. no need for beat am tey e die more..
I can understand that it is only human when a catholic priest sodomizes a 3 year old.. or a mother abandons a baby on the curb..
You..you and your small mentality and limited capacity for all things not jesus...
Candido.. you stupid..go learn for write.. you talk nonsence..
Ok.. so what do you have to say about the matter at hand.. the subject..not the subjectee..
Cocorioko is so full of morons.. each trying so hard to paint himself with gold, its suffocating...
Some of us like the easier style of writing.. some mistakes.. freehand.. on the fly.. shooting at the hips..
It is not a darn freaking research paper.. or thesis..
get over it..
What tha feek.....i am waiting for the next one to tell me i dont understand english or what i write..
Subject: Re: NUP FORUM ARCHIVES and other matters pertinent
From: Independent Observer
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Date Posted: 16:30:43 09/19/07 ()
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You were asked you to talk sense -- not continue to talk nonsense.
Subject: Re: NUP FORUM ARCHIVES and other matters pertinent
From: Candid Opinion
To: All
Date Posted: 08:38:07 09/20/07 ()
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All you had to say was..
I dont understand.. can you repeat or explain..
How about you observe this..
,,|,, (the middle finger)..
Tiff me banned more knickers en cuss me.. where is the darn originality in that..
When you try and write one sentence without a mistake, 1(ONE) single sentence, you can engage..
Until then...Bluster is not a virtue..
Subject: Re: NUP FORUM ARCHIVES and other matters pertinent
From: Independent Observer
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Date Posted: 09:18:23 09/20/07 ()
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Assuming facts not in evidence, are we now?
Best you eshew the irrelevant forays. It will facilitate your focused response to issues. A more laudable posture than your current obssession with all things pronographic -- and irrelevant.
Subject: Re: NUP FORUM ARCHIVES and other matters pertinent
From: Candid Opinion
To: All
Date Posted: 10:46:38 09/20/07 ()
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Best you eshew the relevant forays..
And what pray tell me is your "focused response to issues".
Especially the one relevant in this exchange..?
Should John Ben stand trial for Overthrowing the Inept and corrupt APC?
That SIR is what this thread was started to discuss..
Are you going to contribute or distract...?
Subject: Re: NUP FORUM ARCHIVES and other matters pertinent
From: Independent Observer
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Date Posted: 12:25:09 09/20/07 ()
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Seems that you have already distracted yourself while baselessly speculating distraction in others!
For, how else to explain your forgetting so soon being repeatedly advised yesterday to stop trying to impose your "let bygones be bygones" immorality upon the victims of the decade-long SLPP corruption and oppression?
Subject: Re: NUP FORUM ARCHIVES and other matters pertinent
From: Candid Opinion
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Date Posted: 12:41:26 09/20/07 ()
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Moving the goal post are we, now its bygones....?
If you wanted to join the morality/or lack there of thread, you should have..nor gutter snipping like a low life rebel...and taking my comments out of context.
Are you going to participate on the topic or follow me around like an freaking irritating kaka fly...
Until you say something that shows participation to thread and not the handle.. Candid Opinion..
This is my repose...
You can continue sucking your thump all you want all by yourself..
Subject: Re: NUP FORUM ARCHIVES and other matters pertinent
From: Independent Observer
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Date Posted: 13:02:56 09/20/07 ()
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Manners maketh a man (or woman). Time for your utterances to prove that you are one or the other.
Unless of course you're neither.
Subject: Re: NUP FORUM ARCHIVES and other matters pertinent
From: How for do?
To: All
Date Posted: 11:54:45 09/19/07 ()
Email Address: dese@hotmail.com
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Message:
I hope you don't steal at work. I would like to know where you work. The reason why people are paid is so that they can get fair recompense for their duties.
Subject: Re: NUP FORUM ARCHIVES and other matters pertinent
From: Candid Opinion
To: All
Date Posted: 12:34:46 09/19/07 ()
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I pray tell me..
How is the APC going to resolve the issue of Margai alledgedly missaproprating funds and contracts awarded to relatives while he was an SLPP minister..?
Or is he a sacred cow..?
Lets just lets sleeping dogs lie.. move our country forward..
With APC in power, plenty case go dey for prosecute (as jay leno kin say..new material) why create backlog at the courts with old cases..
Obai promised ZERO tolerance.. i dont know if that is retroactive.....
Subject: Re: NUP FORUM ARCHIVES and other matters pertinent
From: Candid Opinion
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Date Posted: 12:06:48 09/19/07 ()
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The animal gene to collect, collect more, collect more pass the other animal.. is here to stay....
Get used to it..
Pay or Payed.. some well paid are quicker to fall and fall deeper and easier prey to the negative side of the human psyche to accumulate than their less fortunate counterparts.
Subject: Re: NUP FORUM ARCHIVES and other matters pertinent
From: Morals
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Date Posted: 12:41:46 09/19/07 ()
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Speak for your kind of animal, Candido. Don't assume that everyone is like you. Or that every Sa Lon man is like the criminals who have looted our country's money.
You have the right to condone corruption. You don't have a right to impose such immorality upon the people of Sa Lon who find it abhorent.
Subject: Re: NUP FORUM ARCHIVES and other matters pertinent
From: Hypocritical
To: All
Date Posted: 13:05:21 09/19/07 ()
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I did not say every sierra leonean.. neither did i condone the behavior..
Just say.. it is there.. in us all, just like the thous shalt nor steal, not covet your neighbors wife or young daughter.. some choose to be while others might not.. (morals.. you say its called?)...
Morality does not only pertain to financial corruption..so take your high horse and *&*&*$&#@
And where would you think you have the right to tell me what i have the rights to do?
If i do not speak for the people of salone... what makes you think you do with your "salone man find the mention of vices abhorent" comments...?
Now for the definition of an hypocrite..
Subject: Re: NUP FORUM ARCHIVES and other matters pertinent
From: Morals
To: All
Date Posted: 16:47:09 09/19/07 ()
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"I did not say every sierra leonean.. neither did i condone the behavior.. "
This where I continue to have a problem with your thinking. What do you mean by telling people to "let bygones be bygones" other than that it's okay to allow the "bygone" crimes to lay unaddressed.? If that's not condoning impunity, what does the word condone mean to you, then?
That is why I advised you not to speak for THOSE salone people who find such immoral acts as corruption abhorent. Sadly, to your mind, that is equivalent to me speaking for them. It is not.
If you think about it, you will understand that I am stating that you -- and only you -- can not speak for people who hold a contrary view to yours. That does NOT mean I am speaking for those people -- it simply means that I am pointing out a contradiction in your posturing. Hopefully, you now get it.
Subject: Re: NUP FORUM ARCHIVES and other matters pertinent
From: Patriot
To: All
Date Posted: 11:22:40 09/19/07 ()
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"Lets just let bygones.. be ..By gones...and move our nation forward.."
Candid:
You obviously don't know what you are talking about.
Do you think the on-going daily instances of extreme suffering caused to large numbers of Saloneans by the kleptomaniac elite in the SLPP regime of Kabbah and Berewa is are "bygones?"
The people of Salone want an end to impunity by the criminal class aka political leaders. So, I am sorry to dissapoint you, but to paraphrase Dr. Christiana Thorpe, "the days when political crooks can loot the treasury of Salone with impunity are over."
That means the SLPP criminals will be made to stand trial for any economic crimes they committed against the people of Salone who thereby became their hapless victims.
As to previous regimes, well, the APC has to set priorities. Nothing stopped the SLPP from doing what the APC must now do. The failure of the SLPP to do it when it was in power does not obligate the new APC govt. to do it for them.
You can choose to call it a witch hunt. That is your opinion. The people of Salone have a more credible name for it: ACCOUNTABILITY.
Me say: Let the commissions of inquiry begin. Dr. Thorpe has started the long overrdue ball of accountability rolling. President Ernest Koroma must not let it stop rolling. The long suffering people of Salone deserve no less.
Subject: Re: NUP FORUM ARCHIVES and other matters pertinent
From: Nah Sabi Talk
To: All
Date Posted: 10:51:38 09/19/07 ()
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Bra! bo you don ask we all to forgive, en you sef don say you have forgiven dem...
Let's move on Alieu... You are a Victor now!
please do not attempt an overkill...
Remember Macbeth, "... what's done cannot be undone..."
Let it go, me man!
Subject: Re: NUP FORUM ARCHIVES and other matters pertinent
From: M. Alieu Iscandari Esq
To: All
Date Posted: 16:47:37 09/19/07 ()
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Bra! bo you don ask we all to forgive, en you sef don say you have forgiven dem...
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Bra tell salami Cokers mother that. He was her ONLY SON. She has been crying for all these years without redress. No one has thought it fit to bring some redress to her. In the alternative would you support a Civil lawsuit against all the NPRC perpetrators for money damages?
Please tell me why are we so quick to forgive when it is not directly impacting us and or our family. Those people were BRUTALLY MURDERED by the NPRC under the control of guys like John Karimu, John Benjamin, Solomon Berewah and many in the NPRC who said nothing when innocent people were taken out of the jail and murdered in the most gruesome and grotesque of ways. Its all on record you know.
What remedies do the family members have?
How long would they wait for JUSTICE?
The APC should give them Justice.
Subject: Re:Harry Yansanneh Coroners Inquiry
From: M. Alieu Iscandari Esq
To: All
Date Posted: 10:50:29 09/19/07 ()
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I also ask that the APC reopens the coroners inquiry of Harry Yansanneh and order the arrest of the former Honorable Fatmata Hasan on a no bail warrant fo being an accessory and co conspirator in the death of Harry yansanneh.
Any investigations conducted should include an interview of FM carew the former Minister of Justice, in order to find out whether or not that was an attempt to subvert justice because of Hassans relationship with the SLPP and if such SOJ was evident, who were the catalysts of that.
A new dau=y for justice has just dawned in sierra leone. Its not witch hunting, rather I see it as a righting of past wrongs that occurre dunder the SLPP.
Subject: Re:Harry Yansanneh Coroners Inquiry
From: False Prophet
To: All
Date Posted: 10:55:41 09/19/07 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
What? Nobody listens to you my friend.. .. You are blowing hot air...
Subject: Re:Harry Yansanneh Coroners Inquiry
From: Candid Opinion
To: All
Date Posted: 11:04:44 09/19/07 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
This one i support..
I think one of the reasons SLAJ did a 365 on SLPP..
I should be prosecuted..
Subject: Re:Harry Yansanneh Coroners Inquiry
From: False Prophet
To: All
Date Posted: 11:11:22 09/19/07 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
Harry is not the issue... It is the witch hunting that he is initiating. What if others had did the same to te APC Agbagbas like Iscandri, Ben Kanu, Michael Abdulais etc?
He is just in my opinion using the Harry Yansaneh fracas to get at others...
Bo
Subject: Re:Harry Yansanneh Coroners Inquiry
From: Candid Opinion
To: All
Date Posted: 11:16:06 09/19/07 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
Might be....
Fella is on a war path....
Who/What did Alieu represent.. or what role/s he fullfilled at the special courts.....
Alieu?
Just want to know if you defendent anyone who was a babykiller..mass murderer...etc.. if not my apologies..
Subject: Re:Harry Yansanneh Coroners Inquiry
From: Candid Opinion
To: All
Date Posted: 11:39:34 09/19/07 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
I already apologised..
I repeat it again.. if you where on the right side of humanity... Kudos to you my Brother..
Subject: Re:Harry Yansanneh Coroners Inquiry
From: M. Alieu Iscandari Esq.
To: All
Date Posted: 11:37:59 09/19/07 ()
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You dont knoiw what I did at the special court my friend? I PROSECUTED war crimes and crimes against humanity
Subject: Re:Harry Yansanneh Coroners Inquiry
From: james
To: All
Date Posted: 13:31:23 09/19/07 ()
Email Address: JAMES@HOTMAIL.COM
Entered From: at 66.23.15.6
Message:
M.Alieu,
DO YOU ALSO THINK THAT THE TWO BANK GOVERNORS...SAM BANGURA AND ....(CAN'T RECALL THE SECOND NAME) WHO WERE MURDERED BY APC THUGS(HIGH-WAY) SHOULD BE INVESTIGATE.
2.SPEEDY TRIAL AND MURDERED OF FRANCIS MINA AND CO
3.OAU POLES' CONTRACTOR THAT WAS MURDERED BECAUSE THE APC GOVT STOLE HIS MONEY(BY REFUSING TO PAY HIM)
MORE WILL BE POSTED .I AM DIGGING HISTORY.
Subject: Re:Harry Yansanneh Coroners Inquiry
From: Candid Opinion
To: All
Date Posted: 11:40:11 09/19/07 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
I already apologised..
I repeat it again.. if you where on the right side of humanity... Kudos to you my Brother..
Subject: THE HONEYMOON IS OVER. CAN ERNEST KOROMA DELIVER THE GOODS?
From: BRA ENVIABLE
To: All
Date Posted: 10:28:15 09/19/07 ()
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The honeymoon is over. Political honeymoons do not persist like the honeymoons narrated in fairytales. Now that the congratulatory chorus is beginning to die down, Sierra Leoneans must assume the civic responsibility of watching Ernest Koroma with prying eyes. Although the SLPP is understandably gathering its wits after a mortifying defeat, Sierra Leoneans expect the party to perform its democratic function by putting Ernest Koroma under a watchful eye. This means that the SLPP must perform its duties in opposition by being quite unforgiving in its insistence on proper politics.
An administration that means well should never impose limitations on itself by making references to the failed leadership it replaced. I am therefore expecting the APC to serve the nation without comparing itself to the insipid performance of the SLPP.
The people will perform that part of the democratic task by making their feelings known during the next elections.
Throughout the campaign, the APC tried to assure Sierra Leoneans that the party has indeed cast its criminal past away, and that its strength now lies in being a refurbished political organization. Sierra Leoneans need to replace their congratulatory messages for Ernest Koroma with the piercing gaze of a nation searching for responsible leaders. We need to know whether the much-publicized "NEW" APC is new enough to avoid being criminally irresponsible as it once did.
Sycophants praise their leaders all the time. Responsible citizens watch their leaders with eagle eyes, waiting to become alarmists over the slightest political mistake. The voices welcoming Ernest Koroma should be ebbing by now. Anxieties must now begin to prick Sierra Leoneans into asking valid questions about the effectiveness of the so-called new APC. The nation apparently forgave the wrongs of the past by giving the deeply tainted APC another chance. What can the so-called NEW APC do on political parole? Too moss bato nar mokoh. Let's put the "new" APC under the intrusive lenses of a wide-awake nation by questioning-rather than forever congratulating- Ernest Koroma's leadership.
Subject: Re: THE HONEYMOON IS OVER. CAN ERNEST KOROMA DELIVER THE GOODS?
From: Toegondoe Sagbah
To: All
Date Posted: 22:07:28 09/19/07 ()
Email Address: mendemoi@yahoo.com
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Message:
TOO PREMATURE! SLPP had 11 years to perform, they didn't. Give the guy some time to reflect on what he wants to do, rather than jumping into something he will fail trying to do in a hurry.
Subject: Corrected for Bra Enviable and others
From: Cornelius Hamelberg
To: All
Date Posted: 18:44:18 09/19/07 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
Bra Enviable,
True: Mr. Alpha Kanu the APC’s spokesman is quoted as saying, that as “We are more than happy and all set to start work as soon as the new president is sworn in.”
But the cabinet has not yet been named and I’m sure that there are serious negotiations going on between the APC and the PMDC – and across the Diaspora looking for the relevant manpower…. I for one taught English at a Teachers College in Nigeria and why shouldn’t I do that in my own Sierra Leone? I’m ready, qualified, able, experienced and willing to go where I think that I am most needed: in my Makeni or Magburaka where I taught English and shared a flat there with Amadu Jalloh our unsuccessful presidential candidate this time around
….yes,”freda” I too am no nincompoop graduate. I’ll help all I can from over here. I wanted to help Professor Gbakimah – there was no bilateral agreement between Sweden and Sierra Leone, but now there is and tremendous goodwill too. Yes, there are many tongs in the fire……..and soon we will have many many more volunteers – even in the teaching areas… You have no idea of what even one man named Cornelius Hamelberg can do (and has done too) when he sets his mind to it. It’s my country. Understand? My style. My guitar, my voice, my determination, my understanding my talent at OUR service. And talking about name- dropping and inferiority complex one of my most honourable Yoruba brothers from Abeokuta, Wole Soyinka showed me a first draft page of his typewritten manuscr1pt there in his room at the Grand Hotel in Stockholm in 1979 when I had a whole week - (met him at the PEN writers party, was with him in between meetings of PEN – and dinner with him and Kofi Awoonor too and a Party at the home of A FRIEND. What do you think? That he did not understand me when I spoke to him, the way that I’m speaking here? We talked about other matters….
You think I’d need a manuscr1pt to address the UN about Sierra Leone for 5 or 10 or 30 minutes to move a heart the way that Sorious Samura did with his camera capturing some truths? Or I need “feda maitland” to edit or purify my words in a debate right now with Mr. Berewa – about anything – including corruption or decorous words that express my feelings of great sympathy for him ?
Think again. And instead of passing various personal judgments on Dr. Sylvia Olayinka Blyden's political passions when you are not fit/ qualified to stand in her shoes – and instead of your own limited stupidity putting her on trial without her being present to explain – and why should she explain to you who are so obviously a mental nut case unhappy with himself and in need of the therapy you project on others?
Bra Enviable,
My partial response to your first paragraph which was :
”The honeymoon is over. Political honeymoons do not persist like the honeymoons narrated in fairytales. Now that the congratulatory chorus is beginning to die down, Sierra Leoneans must assume the civic responsibility of watching Ernest Koroma with prying eyes. Although the SLPP is understandably gathering its wits after a mortifying defeat, Sierra Leoneans expect the party to perform its democratic function by putting Ernest Koroma under a watchful eye. This means that the SLPP must perform its duties in opposition by being quite unforgiving in its insistence on proper politics.”
True: Mr. Alpha Kanu the APC’s spokesman is quoted as saying, that as “We are more than happy and all set to start work as soon as the new president is sworn in.”
True too : The sun is shining, and there’s moonlight in Freetown by night but in my opinion the honeymoon has not even really started yet – we are approaching the first night - and I’m not talking about your “honeymoons narrated in fairytales” but of real-life honeymoons and just now people are in euphoria and in love with the APC whose task it is to not just kiss and caress, wine and dine, but uproot that entrenched culture of corruption that has persisted for so long along the corridors of power (the top) and has become “the system” and way of life……
This has to be uprooted by a vigorous anti-corruption campaign and punishments for violations of state law. Of course the ACC has to be empowered and reformed as necessary, the bottlenecks that will occur for cases pending means that the judges and magistrates and administrative personal in the law courts will have to be increased to fulfil the needs – and of course there are going to be – should be – in my opinion suspension from office on substantive grounds even prior to convictions…….. this is no witch hunt… this is clean up time failing which we are talking about CONTINUITY of the old toothless chimpanzee way of combating corruption by barking and not biting, especially not biting the hands of cronies since there was something called “collective responsibility” and as often happens in high power crime, the ethic has probably been “We are in this together” whatever happens, through thick or thin. How else do you account for the FACT that no Commissions of Inquiry were set up to investigate the huge amounts of monies that have disappeared from government custody under the watchful eyes of the government – all this according to the successive reports issued by the Auditor- General’s office – a semi –independent body…… and why are these reports hidden from the general public – indeed I have read some…. And generally know what I am talking about when I decide to talk about anything.
“SLPP must perform its duties in opposition by being quite unforgiving in its insistence on proper politics.”
AS YOU AND THE SLPP ARE ALSO AWARE, MUCH OF THEIR INGLORIOUS AND IN SOME INSTANCES CORRUPT PAST WILL BE UNDER SCRUTINY BY INVESTIGATIVE CO0MMISSIONS OF INQUIRY INTO CRIMES THEY HAVE PROBABLY COMMITTED WHILST IN OFFICE/”POWER” – NOW SHOULD THE APC AS MORAL GOVERNMENT OF THE PEOPLE BE ”quite unforgiving in its insistence on JUSTICE FOR VERY IMproper politics.” OF THE REGIME THAT THE PEOPLE HAVE JUST BOOTED/ BALLOTED OUT OF OFFICE ?
Bra Enviable, that of course was a rhetorical question.
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Subject: Re: THE HONEYMOON IS OVER. CAN ERNEST KOROMA DELIVER THE GOODS?
From: Cornelius Hamelberg
To: All
Date Posted: 13:10:47 09/19/07 ()
Email Address:
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Bra Enviable,
True: Mr. Alpha Kanu the APC’s spokesman is quoted as saying, that as “We are more than happy and all set to start work as soon as the new president is sworn in.”
But the cabinet has not yet been named and I’m sure that there are serious negotiations going on between the APC and the PMDC – and across the Diaspora looking for the relevant manpower…. I for one taught English at a Teachers College in Nigeria and why shouldn’t I do that in my own Sierra Leone? I’m ready, qualified, able, experienced and willing to go where I think that I am most needed: in my Makeni or Magburaka where I taught English and was a roommate there with Amadu Jalloh our unsuccessful presidential candidate this time around
….yes,”freda” I too am no nincompoop graduate. I’ll help all I can from over here. I wanted to help Professor Gbakimah – there was no bilateral agreement between Sweden and Sierra Leone, but now there is and tremendous goodwill too. Yes, there are many tongs in the fire……..and soon we will have many many more volunteers – even in the teaching areas… You have no idea of what even one man named Cornelius Hamelberg can do (and has done too) when he sets his mind to it. It’s my country. Understand? My style. My guitar, my voice, my determination, my understanding my talent at our service. And talking about name- dropping and inferiority complex one of my most honourable Yoruba brothers from Abeokuta, Wole Soyinka showed me a first draft page of his typewritten manuscr1pt there in his room at the Grand Hotel in Stockholm in 1979 when I had a whole week - (met him at the PEN writers party, was with him in between meetings of PEN – and dinner with him and Kofi Awoonor too and a Party at the home of A FRIEND. What do you think? That he did not understand me when I spoke to him, the way that I’m speaking here? WE talked about other matters….
You think I’d need a manuscr1pt to address the UN about Sierra Leone for 5 or 10 or 30 minutes to move a heart the way that Sorious Samura did with his camera capturing some truths? Or I need “feda maitland” to edit or purify my words in a debate right now with Mr. Berewa – about anything – including corruption or decorous words that express my feelings of great sympathy with him ?
Think again. And instead of passing various personal judgments on Dr. Sylvia Olayinka Blyden's political passions when you are not fit/ qualified to stand in her shoes – and instead of your own limited stupidity putting her on trial without her being present to explain – and why should she explain to you who are so obviously a mental nut case unhappy with himself and in need of the therapy you project on others?
My partial sponse to your first paragraph:
True: Mr. Alpha Kanu the APC’s spokesman is quoted as saying, that as “We are more than happy and all set to start work as soon as the new president is sworn in.”
True too : the sun is shining, and there’s moonlight in Freetown by night but in my opinion the honeymoon has not even really started yet – we are approaching the first night - and I’m not talking about your “honeymoons narrated in fairytales” but of real-life honeymoons and just now people are in euphoria and in love with the APC whose task it is to not just kiss and caress, wine and dine, but uproot that entrenched culture of corruption that has persisted so long along the corridors of power (the top) and has become “the system” and way of life……
This has to be rooted by a vigorous anti-corruption campaign and punishments for violations of state law. Of course the ACC has to be empowered and reformed as necessary, the bottlenecks that will occur for cases pending means that the judges and magistrates and administrative personal in the law courts will have to be increased to fulfil the needs – and of course there are going to be – should be – in my opinion suspension from office on substantive grounds even prior to convictions…….. this is no witch hunt… this is clean up time failing which we are talking about CONTINUITY of the old toothless chimpanzee way of combating corruption by barking and not biting, especially not biting the hands of cronies since there was something called “collective responsibility” and as often happens in high power crime, the ethic has probably been “We are in this together” whatever happens, through thick or thin. How else do you account for the FACT that no Commissions of Inquiry were set up to investigate the huge amounts of monies that have disappeared from government custody under the watchful eyes of the government – all this according to the successive reports issued by the Auditor- General’s office – a semi –independent body…… and why are these reports hidden from the general public – indeed I have read some…. And generally know what I am talking about when I decide to talk about anything.
“SLPP must perform its duties in opposition by being quite unforgiving in its insistence on proper politics.”
AS YOU AND THE SLPP ARE ALSO AWARE, MUCH OF THEIR INGLORIOUS AND IN SOME INSTANCES CORRUPT PAST WILL BE UNDER SCRUTINY BY INVESTIGATIVE CO0MMISSIONS OF INQUIRY INTO CRIMES THEY HAVE PROBABLY COMMITTED WHILST IN OFFICE/”POWER” – NOW SHOULD THE APC AS MORAL GOVERNMENT OF THE PEOPLE “being quite unforgiving in its insistence on JUSTICE FOR VERY IMproper politics.” OF THE REGIME THAT THE PEOPLE HAVE JUST BOOTED/ BALLOTED OUT OF OFFICE?
Subject: Re: THE HONEYMOON IS OVER. CAN ERNEST KOROMA DELIVER THE GOODS?
From: Kelfala M. Kallon
To: All
Date Posted: 12:33:28 09/19/07 ()
Email Address: KelKallon@comcast.net
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Bra Enviable, this is perhaps the best piece I have read on this forum in a long while. Thanks.
My take is that now that the elections are over, all of us (not just the SLPP) should do what we can to make the APC not only govern in a deomcratic way, but to also deliver the goods. Democracy requires a strong voice of dissent to make it work. We should therefore not stiffle dissent in the name of national unity. Patroitism sometimes requires nothing less from us than being very critical of our government.
The APC were in opposition for 10 years. They obviously have been thinking about how they would govern if given the opportunity. They now have that opportunity. They, therefore, have no excuse for not hitting the ground running. This is not 1996 when we had a rebel war to contend with at the same time that the country was transitioning from military rule. Over the past decade, the nation has achieved peace; a virtually failed state has been revived to life; and institutions have been put into place for running the country in an orderly manner. The APC should therefore have no excuse if they do not begin to deliver on their promises to the people of Sierra Leone as soon as practicable.
Finally, I think that the SLPP deserves the same opposition experience that they provided the APC. Perhaps one of the chief causes of the outgoing SLPP government's failure to understand the mood of the country is that they have never had a real opposition experience; the Old APC denied them that opportunity in the APC's forst coming. My hope is that the New APC will not follow in the footsteps of their predecessors by denying the SLPP the opportunity to learn and prepare for governing during their years in opposition. This is why I am concerned about the deafening total silence of the New APC about the recent looting of the SLPP headquarters by thugs. My hope is that the leadership of the APC are just now being overwhelmed by the euphoria of being in power. Eventually, I hope, they will act swiftly to bring the culprits to justice in order to assure Sierra Leoneans that the New APC is not a carbon copy of the OLD APC. With photographs of the looter available galore, this should not be difficult to do.
Again, thanks for your very thoughtful piece.
Subject: Re: THE HONEYMOON IS OVER. CAN ERNEST KOROMA DELIVER THE GOODS?
From: Bonthe Pikin
To: All
Date Posted: 15:38:41 09/19/07 ()
Email Address: bontilaynga@gmail.com
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BO Kelfala u sidon yanda. Nor to u bin dae sing praise Kabbah en Berewa day and night even when u know say they were useless and unproductive leaders. Mi man take am easy. APC has to perfom but not under the thoughts of your likes.
Subject: Re: THE HONEYMOON IS OVER. CAN ERNEST KOROMA DELIVER THE GOODS?
From: BRA ENVIABLE
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Date Posted: 12:52:32 09/19/07 ()
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Mr. Kallon, thanks for the compliments. As you rightly said, the efficacy
of our democratic system depends on our collective al3rtness. That
message was exactly what propmted the posting to which you
responded.
Subject: Re: THE HONEYMOON IS OVER. CAN ERNEST KOROMA DELIVER THE GOODS?
From: Kelfala M. Kallon
To: All
Date Posted: 12:24:23 09/19/07 ()
Email Address: KelKallon@comcast.net
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Bra Enviable, this is perhaps the best piece I have read on this forum in a long while. Thanks. My take is that now that the elections are over, all of us (not just the SLPP) should do what we can to make the APC not only govern in a deomcratic way, but to also deliver the goods. Democracy requires a strong voice of dissent to make it work. We should therefore not stiffle dissent in the name of national unity. Patroitism sometimes requires nothing less from us than being very critical of our government.
The APC have been in opposition for 10 years. They obvioulsy have been thinking about how they would govern if given the opportunity. They now have the opportunity. They have no excuse for not hitting the ground running. This is not 1996 when we had a rebel war to contend with at the same time that the country was transitioning from military rule. Over the past decade, the nation has achieved peace, revived a virtually failed state to life, and put institutions into place for running the country. The APC should therefore have no excuse if they do not begin to deliver on their promises to the people of Sierra Leone as soon as practicable.
The SLPP also demands and deserves the same opposition experience that it provided the APC. Perhaps one of the chief causes of the SLPP's failure to understand the mood of the country is that they had never a real opposition experience because the Old APC denied them that opportunity. My hope is that the New APC will not follow in the footsteps of their predecessors by denying the SLPP the opportunity to learn and prepare for govern during their years in opposition. This is why I am concerned about the deafening total silence of the New APC about the looting of the SLPP headquarters. My hope is that they are just now being overwhelmed by the euphoria of being in power. Eventually, I hope, they will act swiftly to bring the culprits to justice in order to assure Sierra Leoneans that the New APC is not a carbon copy of the OLD APC. With photographs of the looter available galore, this should not be difficult to do.
Again, thanks for your very thoughtful piece.
Subject: Re: THE HONEYMOON IS OVER. CAN ERNEST KOROMA DELIVER THE GOODS?
From: Kasseh Burreh Makonteh
To: All
Date Posted: 11:33:34 09/19/07 ()
Email Address: jhlhl@JKhjlkjl.com
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Any attempt to go back will get us stuck in the past. We need 100% of our energies focused on nation building. Even then, I am afraid we will need a few generations to catch-up to what the rest of the world considers normal. The task is that daunting. No more recriminations and vengenace - I beg you. Let us now work to construct and take pride in our development.
Subject: Co-operating with ERNEST to DELIVER ( amended)
From: Cornelius Hamelberg
To: All
Date Posted: 21:26:38 09/19/07 ()
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Kasseh Burreh Makonteh,
Please excuse any typographical errors – I’ve been at this machine most everyday now a few hours a day since 17th January 2003 and have been through much thick and thin.
Better that you give us a fair warning about the magnitude of the task ahead of us (“how daunting a task we have ahead of us,” than some comforting words of false hope or delusionary thinking.
However your ” we will need a few generations to catch-up to what the rest of the world considers normal" is a bit of an exaggeration and from experience we know that reward for hard work – is a stimulus for growth and a natural incentive for more hard work, when we see that we are moving forward and that the goal is within reach. Isn’t that why we should set ourselves benchmarks as indicators of progress?
We do share one sense: a unity of purpose – the progress of our country and here are some remarkable utterances coming from a very sincere Mr. Berewa, who also deserves a round of applause for saying here, “united we stand, divided we fall” very much in the spirit of what you too say “No more recriminations and vengeance - I beg you. Let us now work to construct and take pride in our development.”
Solomon Berewa speaks:
http://news.sl/drwebsite/publish/article_20056542.shtml
There is a lot that we can achieve in the next few years. (What could be most discouraging is the leakages that Ernest Bai Koroma talked about in that CNN interview and WHO is it that wants to be endlessly filling a bucket that has a big hole through which the water leaks?:
From September 30th 2006:
“ Jim Clancy caught up with opposition leader Ernest Bai Koroma of the All People's Congress earlier this year. Jim Clancy asked him what topped his agenda.
(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)
ERNEST BAI KOROMA, PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: The number one issue, I believe, will be corruption. And the people of Sierra-Leone are looking forward to a government that will put up a strong fight against corruption, a government that will be more accountable to the people, and a government that will open up and allow Sierra-Leonians to have equal opportunities irrespective of your political convention.
JIM CLANCY, CNN CORRRESPONDENT: That's a very general assignment. Dissatisfaction with the government of President Ahmad Tejan Kabbah. At the same time, what are you offering the people? Their concerns are education, their concerns are jobs, their concerns are putting food on their tables and having a roof over their heads.
KOROMA: What I believe I will offer to the people of Sierra-Leone is, in the first place, I will come with a real policy of zero tolerance against corruption. If this message goes out and clearly to the Sierra- Leonians, that this is the government that is going to put up a serious fight against corruption, I'm sure the leakages that are responsible for the poor delivery services in the social sector, like education, health and employment situation will be turned around.”
http://transcr1pts.cnn.com/TRANscr1ptS/0609/30/i_if.01.html
China was able to educate hundreds of millions of people within ONE generation – albeit given the Confucian tradition that is a backbone of China’s work ethic – in a way somewhat akin/ equivalent to the protestant work ethic in the US……
This achievement is a result of prioritising EDUCATION.
When I was in Nigeria, Ambrose Ali , the Governor of Bendel State ( neighbouring my Rivers state) was devoting 50% of its budget TO EDUCATION – in fact I was heading for Bendel of which I was aware that Benin ( was steeped in traditional culture – and ah , yes the BENIN BRONZES! – But my better half wanted to go to “The Garden City of Port Harcourt” instead and as you all know, the Almighty had told Abraham to listen to Sarah.
Whilst I was in Nigeria (1981-1984) my classmates Sylvester Young taught maths in Benin and another Akintola Wyse taught African History in Calabar. Feyi George taught Maths in Port Harcourt. I met my classmate Omodele Wariboko who had gone back home to Nigeria, having trained as an engineer. At theatre and writers’ workshops I was constantly asked about a certain poet by the name of Syl Cheney-Coker who was up North. Winfred Fowler (Formerly Ms. Kenneth Ofodile) passed away up North in Sokoto. There was a lot of Sierra Leonean manpower dispersed in Nigeria. Yaya Fanusie was supposed to have been there then too. I heard that Joe Hamelberg was somewhere in my state but didn’t meet him. I met Mr. Deen-Gabisi and Feyi and his wife Florence. What I’m saying is that there are a lot of people out there, some of whom will return with just a little encouragement. All some of those who seek city civilisation need, is a little bit of night light in Freetown…..
One of my atheist friends erroneously and unsuccessfully suggested to me that our teacher Moses probably instituted the Sabbath – to give his people a day’s rest in order to get more work our of them during the remaining six days. Well, we know better. We know that the Almighty Himself instituted the Sabbath which has been continuously observed since it was instituted on at Mt. Sinai and that since that day the next Sabbath has always been on its way. We also know that in accordance with natural law - the donkey also needs rest in order to be able to work more…
WE can learn from big brother Nigeria. The probelms are similar
Subject: Re: THE HONEYMOON IS OVER. CAN ERNEST KOROMA DELIVER THE GOODS?
From: Cornelius Hamelberg
To: All
Date Posted: 20:41:39 09/19/07 ()
Email Address:
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Kasseh Burreh Makonteh,
Please excuse my typographical errors – I’ve been at this machine most everyday now a few hours a day since 17th January 2003 and have been through much thick and thin.
Better that you give us a fair warning about the magnitude of the task ahead of us (“how daunting a task we have ahead of us,” than some comforting words of false hope or delusionary thinking.
However” we will need a few generations to catch-up to what the rest of the world considers normal." Now that’s a bit of an exaggeration and from experience we know that reward for hard work – is a stimulus for growth and a natural incentive for more hard work , when we see that we are moving forward and that the goal is within reach . Isn’t that why we should set ourselves benchmarks as indicators of progress?
We do share one sense: a unity of purpose – the progress of our country and here are some remarkable utterances coming from a very sincere Mr. Berewa, who also deserves a round of applause for saying here, “united we stand, divided we fall” very much in the spirit of what you too say “No more recriminations and vengeance - I beg you. Let us now work to construct and take pride in our development.”
Solomon Berewa speaks:
http://news.sl/drwebsite/publish/article_20056542.shtml
There is a lot that we can achieve in the next few years. (What could be most discouraging is the leakages that Ernest Bai Koroma talked about in that CNN interview and is it that wants to be endlessly filling a bucket that has a big hole in it?:
From September 30th 2006:
“ Jim Clancy caught up with opposition leader Ernest Bai Koroma of the All People's Congress earlier this year. Jim Clancy asked him what topped his agenda.
(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)
ERNEST BAI KOROMA, PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: The number one issue, I believe, will be corruption. And the people of Sierra-Leone are looking forward to a government that will put up a strong fight against corruption, a government that will be more accountable to the people, and a government that will open up and allow Sierra-Leonians to have equal opportunities irrespective of your political convention.
JIM CLANCY, CNN CORRRESPONDENT: That's a very general assignment. Dissatisfaction with the government of President Ahmad Tejan Kabbah. At the same time, what are you offering the people? Their concerns are education, their concerns are jobs, their concerns are putting food on their tables and having a roof over their heads.
KOROMA: What I believe I will offer to the people of Sierra-Leone is, in the first place, I will come with a real policy of zero tolerance against corruption. If this message goes out and clearly to the Sierra- Leonians, that this is the government that is going to put up a serious fight against corruption, I'm sure the leakages that are responsible for the poor delivery services in the social sector, like education, health and employment situation will be turned around.”
http://transcr1pts.cnn.com/TRANscr1ptS/0609/30/i_if.01.html
China was able to educate hundreds of millions of people with ONE generation – albeit given the Confucian tradition that is a backbone of China’s work ethic – in a way somewhat akin/ equivalent to the protestant work ethic in the US……
This achievement is a result of prioritising EDUCATION.
When I was in Nigeria, Ambrose Ali , the Governor of Bendel State ( neighbouring my Rivers state) was devoting 50% of its budget TO EDUCATION – in fact I was heading for Bendel of which I was aware that Benin ( was steeped in traditional culture – and ah , yes the BENIN BRONZES! – But my better half wanted to go to “The Garden City of Port Harcourt “instead and as you all know, the Almighty had told Abraham to listen to Sarah.
Whilst I was in Nigeria (1981-1984) my classmates Sylvester Young taught math in Benin and another Akintola Wyse taught African History in Calabar. Feyi George taught Maths in Port Harcourt. I meant my classmate Omodele Wariboko who had gone back home to Nigeria. I was constantly asked about a certain poet by the name of Syl Cheney-Coker who was up North. Winfred Fowler (Formerly Ms. Kenneth Ofodile) passed away up North in Sokoto. There was a lot of Sierra Leonean manpower dispersed in Nigeria. I heard that Joe Hamelberg was somewhere in my state but didn’t meet him. I met Mr. Deen-Gabisi and Feyi and his wife Florence. What I’m saying is that there are a lot of people out there, some of whom will return with just a little encouragement. All some of those who seek city civilisation need, is a little bit of night light in Freetown…..
One of my atheist friends erroneously and unsuccessfully suggested to me that our teacher Moses probably instituted the Sabbath – to give his people a day’s rest in order to get more work our of them during the remaining six days. Well, we know better. We know that the Almighty Himself instituted the Sabbath which has been continuously observed since it was instituted on at Mt. Sinai and that since that day the next Sabbath has always been on its way. We also know that in accordance with natural law - the donkey also needs rest in order to be able to work more…
In Nigeria, it’s a matter of scale: their ACC
http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&q=EFCC+%28+Nigeria
Subject: Re: THE HONEYMOON IS OVER. CAN ERNEST KOROMA DELIVER THE GOODS?
From: Sorba S
To: All
Date Posted: 11:24:43 09/19/07 ()
Email Address: sorba_1@yahoo.com
Entered From: at 209.116.81.187
Message:
My friend stop it. Even Solomon Grundy who only last for a week did not finish in job before he was pronounce dead. It takes a least 100 Days
Subject: Re: THE HONEYMOON IS OVER. CAN ERNEST KOROMA DELIVER THE GOODS?
From: SIERRA LEONEAN
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Date Posted: 11:22:40 09/19/07 ()
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Message:
The APC is going to perform so well, the SLPP will remain ashamed in the wilderness forever.
Subject: Re: THE HONEYMOON IS OVER. CAN ERNEST KOROMA DELIVER THE GOODS?
From: Candid Opinion
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Date Posted: 11:37:21 09/19/07 ()
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Message:
Leh God answer you prayer.. insha allah (me nor religious oh, nor sabi arabic).
If thats the case.. i am toting Ernest 2012 nah be back for campaign..
Subject: Re: THE HONEYMOON IS OVER. CAN ERNEST KOROMA DELIVER THE GOODS?
From: alieu sesay
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Date Posted: 11:24:38 09/19/07 ()
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Message:
You think so? Hehehehee nor kill people dem with laugh...
We will be BACK in 2012... With a better message and a better messenger.. MARK MY WORDS.
Subject: Re: THE HONEYMOON IS OVER. CAN ERNEST KOROMA DELIVER THE GOODS?
From: Basco
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Date Posted: 13:04:27 09/19/07 ()
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Bois, me yehri say 2022. You nar nor go holl power jis nor!!!! E beteh you say PMDC.
Subject: For kamara. SLPP did not win the '67 elections!
From: Basco
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Date Posted: 10:18:13 09/19/07 ()
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By Sekou Dauda Bangura
“The appointment of Siaka Probyn Stevens as prime minister is unconstitutional and we the members of the armed forces being the custodians of state security are now taking over power....I repeat martial law!”
That was Brigadier David Lansana on March 21 1967 following the All People’s Congress election victory. That terse statement of the former strongman of the Sierra Leone military set in motion a situation of lawlessness and disorder, anarchy, chaos and panic that is unprecedented in Sierra Leone. Freetown, the capital, the once quiet and peaceful city, was in turmoil in the wake of which many innocent lives were lost. City hoodlums went on the rampage, looting and vandalizing the homes of innocent people. That unfortunate and regrettable action by Lansana sowed the seeds for all the military interventions and the attendant atrocities that have occurred in Sierra Leone’s checkered history.
As we move closer to election 2007, it is important that we reflect on the circumstances leading to the decision of then Brigadier David Lansana to unofficially and automatically takeover power. We should look back on the events of 1967 to remind ourselves that in any election, the rules of the game must be obeyed. The will of the majority must prevail. There are going to be winners and losers. But the latter should not reverse the decision of the majority by instigating men in uniform to bring to an abrupt end a constitutionally formed government. That was exactly what the SLPP did in 1967. Sir Albert Margai and his political henchmen, realizing their inevitable defeat, instigated Brigadier David Lansana and then Lieutenant Hinga Norman to seize power. These two were the first to stage a coup d’etat in Sierra Leone. The culture of violence that engulfed Sierra Leone in the 90s is a by-product of their ill-guided and rebellious action, in a futile attempt to keep the SLPP in power.
Brigadier Lansana capitalized on what he saw as a “constitutional crisis” to justify his coup. But his action was actually borne out of personal interest and ambition. He held his position as brigadier because of his loyalty to Sir Albert Margai(photo) and the SLPP. Fearing he would be out in the political wilderness with the APC in power, he decided to intervene not just to keep the SLPP in power but to protect his position, and most importantly to ensure Mende hegemony.
Hinga Norman, who was then serving as guard to the governor-general Sir Henry Lightfoot-Boston, had a lot in common with David Lansana. It was Hinga Norman who pointed a gun at the governor he was supposed to protect while the governor was swearing in Siaka Stevens as prime minister. Hinga Norman placed the governor under house arrest while other SLPP uniformed buzzards went on to arrest top-level members of the APC.
Suffice it to say that the coup was not a popular one. Within a very short time, it was thwarted. David Lansana and his associate Hinga Norman were unceremoniously dismissed from the military and made to serve time in prison for their illegitimate action. In 1975 David Lansana was found guilty of treason and was executed together with fourteen others. Hinga Norman died recently while facing a United Nation’s war crimes tribunal,for his role in the massacre of innocent Sierra Leoneans.
The RUF, it must be pointed out to those not familiar with its genesis, was financed by disgruntled SLPP heavy weights from its embryonic stage. It was the SLPP that created and nurtured the 800-pound gorilla that later went on the warpath for almost ten years. All this they did to unseat the APC from power. These facts must be brought to light so that the electorate will know exactly on whose doorstep to lay the blame for Sierra Leone’s burgeoning problems.
The defeat of the SLPP in the 1967 General Election was a foregone conclusion. At the time of the election, the party was no longer the monolithic bloc it used be in 1951 when it was formed to compete with the Creole-dominated National Council of Sierra Leone(NCSL). The Sierra Leone People’s Party that came into being in 1951 was the first national political party. It was a synthesis of the Protectorate Educational Progressive Union (PEPU) headed by Sir Milton Margai, the father of Independence; Sierra Leone Organization Society (SOS), headed by Dr. John Karefa Smart, who injected academic vigor into the politics of Sierra Leone; and the Peoples Party (PP) headed by that champion of integration Reverend Nathaniel Jones, popularly known as Lamina Sankoh.
At its inception, the party drew support from all the educated elites in the then Protectorate of Sierra Leone, including Dr. Siaka Stevens who served as Minister of Lands, Mines and Labor. The party had the full support of all the Paramount Chiefs in the Hinterland. But the repressive and dictatorial tendencies of some of the chiefs angered and alienated many young men in the provinces who later provided the grass root support for the APC. Little wonder the APC started as a protest movement. It became glaringly evident with time that there was a tilt towards southerners in the SLPP and this did not auger well with Lamina Sankoh who had severed relations with his Creole brothers in the name of national unity. Tribalism started rearing its ugly head. Lamina Sankoh, a renowned scholar and political firebrand, was so disappointed that he left the party, only to later die a disgruntled and frustrated politician.
Things took a turn for the worse in the Sierra Leone People’s Party with the death of Sir Milton Margai in 1964. There were sharp divisions within the party as to who should succeed Sir Milton as prime minister. Many in the party did not support the idea of Sir Albert Margai succeeding his brother. There were other senior and capable members of the party to takeover as prime minister. Karefa Smart, Sanusi Mustapha, Salia Jusu Sheriff, and Kandeh Bureh - were all fit and competent for the position. Why Sir Albert? Young radicals like Kutubu Kaisamba, and L. A. M. Mbriwah became the most vociferous critics of Sir Albert, charging nepotism. Sir Albert, determined to teach his critics a lesson, decided to deny them the SLPP symbol. This action was to later backfire on him. Young, vibrant and popular, the two contested as Independents and won by a landslide. To show their ire with Sir Albert, they decided not to join the SLPP but to join the All People’s Congress, the apparent winner of the 1967 election.
Prior to Kutubu Kaisamba of Kenema Central, Solomon Mbriwah of Moyamba North, Frank Anthony of Pujehun South and Prince Williams of Bo Town II joining the APC, the election results stood at: APC 32; SLPP 28. Brigadier Lansana, in an effort to justify his action to intervene charged that: “Not all the election results were out including those of the paramount chiefs. The governor general had suggested the formation of a coalition government of both SLPP and APC members.” The decision of the governor to appoint Siaka Stevens was, to Brigadier Lansana, “unconstitutional.” What Lansana did was to add the four independent (former SLPP) candidates that won the election, to the SLPP, thus coming up with an election stalemate of 32 - 32 to justify his unofficial takeover.
At election time in 1967, the popularity of the Sierra Leone People’s Party was at its lowest because of a combination of factors. Sir Albert and his ministers from the south have not only manifested tribalism, they have also shown a tendency to be corrupt. Amid accusation of corruption, tribalism, nepotism, and a sagging popularity, Sir Albert hinted at a one-party state with him as president. This only compounded the political discomfiture of his opponents who saw his action as a calculated and well-calibrated political move to ensure an indefinite stay in power. Having shown his inordinate ambition by maneuvering to become prime minister, it became quite clear that given the slightest chance he will become a dictator under a one-party state. People in the western area, especially Creoles, were strongly opposed to his plan to introduce a one party state. This explains why the S.L.P. P.’s performance was so dismal in the western area, while the APC performance was phenomenal in the 1967 General Election.
It is clear from what has been enumerated that the SLPP contested the 1967 General Election as a weakened party; a party racked by accusations of corruption, nepotism, tribalism and what have you. The same situation confronts the SLPP today. This is why the grand old party will not win in freely and fairly contested presidential and parliamentary elections. In point of fact the party has never won a free and fair election. Both the 1996 and 2002 elections were marred by irregularities. Not only were opponents denied the chance to contest, the party went out of its way to pad ballot boxes so that it comes out as the victor. In the 1996 election, James Jona, a friend of Kabba and then Electoral Commissioner, unilaterally made Kabba president. Dr John Karefa-Smart who contested the run-off election with Kabba, documented a number of irregularities that were enough to prevent the SLPP from forming a government.
It was at this time that Solomon Berewa emerged as a loyal lieutenant of Kabba and an arch-defender of the S.L.P.P. Berewa implored Karefa-Smart not to pursue legal action against Kabba thereby creating a situation for another military intervention. In the interest of peace, that unsavory situation-in which the SLPP votes in the south exceeded the expected voter turnout- was allowed. Where there was an expected turnout of 75 %, based on the number of registered voters, the SLPP garnered over 100%. This was not just a mathematical impossibility - it was a clear indication of massive rigging. For his role in ensuring and defending Kabba’s presidency, Berewah was appointed as Attorney General and later catapulted to the position of vice president. Buoyed by the confidence reposed in him by Kabba, Berewa now wants to become president so that he can perpetuate the status quo of a corrupt and inept government.
Subject: Re: For kamara. SLPP did not win the '67 elections!
From: Kasseh Bureh Makonteh
To: All
Date Posted: 11:20:31 09/19/07 ()
Email Address: hjhjhhj@hjk.com
Entered From: local.ldc.co.uk at 195.92.110.42
Message:
Excellent article. Insightful and profound. Without recriminations, we must institute a Truth and Reconciliation Commission that can study the RUF and NPRC movements, to properly understand whether these great tragedies were instigated by the SLPP. It would appear that Hinga Norman is no hero. His motivations appear tribal and parocial and, if your analysis is correct, is a major reason why we have destroyed this great gift from God we call Sierra Leone. Let us learn, without vengence, and look forward to building a great nation for all its inhabitanats, from the Easternest tip of Kailahun to the westernest tip of Freetown; from the southernest tip of Bonthe to the northernest tip of Kambia. May allah bless us all and provide us with wisdon.
Subject: Re: For kamara. SLPP did not win the '67 elections!
From: Mammy Blessing
To: All
Date Posted: 12:22:43 09/19/07 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
Whatever role Hinga Norman played in 1967, he more than made up for in his latter years. All great men have failings, at times more pronounced and astounding than the ordinary chap's. Martin Luther King had glaring personal failings of the libido, but still helped free a people from the shackles of discrimination. Hell, even pious Mother Teresa of Calcutta had her own small irritating habits.
When taken in its totality, Chief Hinga Norman deserves to be where he is now: in the pantheon of Sierra Leonean heroes.
Subject: Re: For kamara. SLPP did not win the '67 elections!
From: Basco
To: All
Date Posted: 11:36:50 09/19/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: 82-44-17-83.cable.ubr04.croy.blueyonder.co.uk at 82.44.17.83
Message:
Kasseh, in his untimely death I think Hinga Norman made amends for the '67 coup.It is amazing how things can turn out. Would our saying 'you know tiday you nor know toomarah' be appropriate? The SLPP party he risked his life twice for proved ungrateful to him.
Do you notice a lot of similarities between the two elections?
Subject: Re: For kamara. SLPP did not win the '67 elections!
From: kamara
To: All
Date Posted: 19:17:56 09/19/07 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
Allright, as Dauda, the APC ideologue suggests SLPP did not win the 1967 elections. OK and What. It is funny how Dauda coveniently avoids discussing the political period from 1968 - 1995. These were the times in which APC brutalised and plundered the nation. Was SLPP was responsible responsible for the cold blooded murder of Sam Bangura, Taqi, Forna and Minah to name a few?
I wish Ernest, luck because he has a lot of opportunists hanging around for jobs, who have nothing to offer him or Sierra Leone.
By the way tell your thugs to stop harrassing nigerian traders.
Subject: HINGA NORMAN, THE 800 POUND GORILLA!
From: Mammy Blessing
To: All
Date Posted: 09:42:56 09/19/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 165.155.200.146
Message:
As we rain accolades on Ernest Bai Koroma and Charles Margai, let's don't ignore the 800 pound gorilla in the WUTPAH, the revered patriot Chief Hinga Norman.
The monumental legacy of Hinga Norman in contemporary Sierra Leone history is as awesome and awe-inspiring today, as when he was mightily resisting the RUF/AFRC nasties or when he was defying the treachery of brothers in jail. Though some revisionists have tried to sully this good man's name with tribalism, he still scintilates and I am one Koya boy who will name my next son Hinga Norman Sesay.
Were it not for Hinga, the PMDC would have flamed out a long time ago like an impetuous supernova and Charles Margai wouldn't be able to rumble in the South...
And Ernest's numbers would have been so anemic that his ambition for the presidency would have tottered into life support, before a runoff.
The ghost of Hinga Norman chased Berewa and the SLPP out of State House and gave our nation a renewed lease on life.
If I were President Koroma, I would go to Bo and, in consuultation with the Bo authorities, honor this great chief with a statue in Clock Tower and rename Coronation Field, CHIEF HINGA NORMAN FIELD. It will do wonders for regional and tribal concilliation and wash away the bitterness of the elections...
But I am no president, only Mammy Blessing, who will however honor him by naming a son in his memory.
Subject: Re: HINGA NORMAN, THE 800 POUND GORILLA!
From: alieu sesay
To: All
Date Posted: 10:02:34 09/19/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: 65.107.153.146.ptr.us.xo.net at 65.107.153.146
Message:
The man will remain a HERO
Subject: Victor Fakondo under Investigation by FEDS...
From: Mike Mcgrew
To: All
Date Posted: 09:31:04 09/19/07 ()
Email Address: Mcgrew2@yah00.com
Entered From: at 67.99.62.82
Message:
Victor Fakondo chairman of Bethel United African Church is under investigation for FRAUD by the Internal Revenue Service, Department of Homeland Security, and the Somerville Prosecutor's office.. The Mayor of Franklin Township has comments about it on his home news tribune web blog, click on the link below....
Subject: ENGINEERS NOW IS THE TIME TO PLAN THE NEW SALONE!
From: Bai Bureh
To: All
Date Posted: 07:27:15 09/19/07 ()
Email Address: rastafari_ish@hotmail.com
Entered From: dator6071.161.gbgsd.se at 62.88.181.216
Message:
Forget about the economists they are only interested in cheating us out of our revenue,loans and aid; ignore the lawyers who lie to make money by depriving the poor of justice. What about the doctors? Well one can say they should not be ignored but what about trading people's lives with money? For all these three money is more important than people or relations. And the teachers.....if only they are freed from getting raw deals from governments,private tutioning will disappear and more time will be dedicated to the schools and colleges.
Mechanical engineers, electrical engineers, civil or structural engineers, computer engineers,environmental engineers etc. etc. make a honest living by using their creativity and diligence.These are the people Salone needs now more than before!
It is hightime we get dead serious and come together to plan the new Salone.Let us put our ideas into a melting pot and come up with unique and beneficial solutions for a technologically advanced Salone.For how long will we depend on foreign experts when most of us can do what they can or even better?
It is time we think about forming or strengthening professional associations;develop or enforce standards,formulate legislations so as to regulate every action pertaining to the engineering sector.As they do in the west so should we.We must be concerned about the well-being of our people and so lay emphasis on TRAFFIC OR VEHICLE SAFETY,ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION,SUSTAINABILITY,CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY ETC.
Readers or colleagues this sounds too ambitious but it can be done with the help of a careful and detailed planning and gradual implementation.
SO A PENNY FOR YOUR THOUGHTS!
Subject: Re: ENGINEERS NOW IS THE TIME TO PLAN THE NEW SALONE!
From: KLA
To: All
Date Posted: 09:40:43 09/19/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 164.82.84.3
Message:
"Already there are positive signs for Sierra Leone,
and gold deposits have been found in the north, south and east of the country.
But, non-existent gold export and production figures point to an unregulated and unmonitored industry in desperate need of reform.
"Looking at a map you see vast areas of the country where gold has been found, so you know there's a lot of gold out there," says Paul Temple, a consultant for Management Systems International's Peace Diamonds Alliance project. "....daco site
GEOLOGY IS NATIONAL DESTINY!!
tstm
xx
Subject: Re: ENGINEERS NOW IS THE TIME TO PLAN THE NEW SALONE!
From: Nulie
To: All
Date Posted: 08:05:40 09/19/07 ()
Email Address: nulie@ yahoo.com
Entered From: cpc2-orpi1-0-0-cust210.bmly.cable.ntl.com at 86.11.96.211
Message:
What about the Social Engineers? The social fabric reconstruction needs us. You think say the war don don kpata kpata. Ther is still more to do win the hearts and minds of people including:
The mechanical, electrical, envoronmental engineers. They need to be able to work together as a team. Who will make that happen?
Subject: Re: ENGINEERS NOW IS THE TIME TO PLAN THE NEW SALONE!
From: kamara
To: All
Date Posted: 07:48:45 09/19/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: pool-71-172-31-93.nwrknj.fios.verizon.net at 71.172.31.93
Message:
Bureh, It is not the educational ability. sierra leoneans are omnipresent in all the professional fields away from home. It is the ability to attract the appropiate capital to develop the infrastucture in sierra Leone. This in turn will attract foreign investments . You can be the best inventor in the world but if you do not have the capital to market and sell you invention, you are not going anywhere.
Do not kid yourself that we can go it alone. We need foreign Capital. Even the United States depends on foreign Capital.
We cannot be independent until we produce finished goods or items, the advanced world demands.
Subject: Re: ENGINEERS NOW IS THE TIME TO PLAN THE NEW SALONE!
From: Bai Bureh
To: All
Date Posted: 08:44:45 09/19/07 ()
Email Address: rastafari_ish@hotmail.com
Entered From: dator6071.161.gbgsd.se at 62.88.181.216
Message:
You are right but we have to first of all concentrate on us.We should think first about the local market, produce things that can be affordable to even the poorest Salonean. How do we do this? Simply get foreign aid and set up industries; we should reduce dependence on Indian- or Lebanese-owned factories.
I am not saying we don't need foreign assistance what I am trying to say is that we should not totally depend on foreign manpower when we have saloneans both at home and in the diaspora who are as capable as the foreigners.
Subject: Re: ENGINEERS NOW IS THE TIME TO PLAN THE NEW SALONE!
From: kamara
To: All
Date Posted: 10:20:48 09/19/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 205.148.53.200
Message:
We have to learn to pool our funds together and form a formidable company that can compete in sierra leone & abroad. H ave 50,000 Sierra Leoneans invest $500 per share . Register the 25, 000,000 company in the united states with acess to capital markets and loans. hire the best Sierra Leonean business brains, pay them well and let them know that if they steal a penny , they will be prosecuted. with access to the amount funds, you can compete with any lebanese or foreign busineesman who are etrenched in Sierra leone businees.
PS , lets fix the road from SAMU to Guinea first. That will bring a lot trade to sierra Leone.y
Subject: Re: NEW APPOINTMENTS: EDUCATION IS NOT THE ONLY CRITERION.
From: TigerSheik
To: All
Date Posted: 06:31:23 09/19/07 ()
Email Address: umarrsheik@yahoo.com
Entered From: 74.104-136-217.adsl-dyn.isp.belgacom.be at 217.136.104.74
Message:
And what about our so call professors rivaling with their male students at the ending of the academic year delibrately failing these students. Some of them trade marks for Pussy. you now know for sure why we are having more female graduates than male graduates up the F.B.C.
Come down father, come down.To the hearts of those responsible, let them know their actions are despicable Remind them that is u who wears the crown.
BURN DEM PAPA GOD BURN DEM.
Subject: Re: NEW APPOINTMENTS: EDUCATION IS NOT THE ONLY CRITERION.
From: The Woman
To: All
Date Posted: 07:13:35 09/19/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: c-69-136-93-199.hsd1.de.comcast.net at 69.136.93.199
Message:
I am really ashamed of this vulgarity. Can a woman ever achieve anything without be accused of using her personal parts other than her brain. Do women have less brain cells than men? May be women are smarter that’s why there are more of them graduating from FBC. Or how about population wise, there may be more women than men in Sierra Leone. I do not want to start a gender war. Please stop, do not get the FBC women involve, if you have a bone to pick with a professor that you rivaled with, take it up with him.
Let’s concentrate on the business at hand, making S/L a better place.
Thank you.
The Woman
Subject: Re: NEW APPOINTMENTS: EDUCATION IS NOT THE ONLY CRITERION.
From: Nah Sabi Talk
To: All
Date Posted: 07:42:19 09/19/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: static-76-160-64-185.dsl.cavtel.net at 76.160.64.185
Message:
Well said and righfully so...
I cannot speak for the poster, but truly believed that was not his intention...
He merely trying to express his frustration of the unscrupulous behaviors of some so-called lecturers at FBC...
Since I am in this thread, I want to use this time to apologise to you and all the women in the forum... Even the blind can see that Sierra Leone was able to show the World the art of democracy by the splendid handlings of a woman!
Subject: Re: NEW APPOINTMENTS: EDUCATION IS NOT THE ONLY CRITERION.
From: Nah Sabi Talk
To: All
Date Posted: 06:50:21 09/19/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: static-76-160-64-185.dsl.cavtel.net at 76.160.64.185
Message:
You can stop those types of people that are hurting our people and country... All you need to do find a case that you know of and we will see make sure that individual get the maximun exposure... Even his or her own family will begin to see him or her for what he or she is...
Let's stop keeping this stuffs under the carpet...
Subject: THINGS FALL APART
From: HAJA HURAI KAMARA
To: All
Date Posted: 05:55:52 09/19/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: ip-207-145-43-5.iad.megapath.net at 207.145.43.5
Message:
The APC put a knife into the things that held the SLPP together,and they have fallen apart.The falling of SLPP is a timely fall.The people of Sierra Leone are fed up with the system of bad governance, and no accountability of government officials pertaining to public funds.Sierra Leone today,is different the magnitude of awareness is huge.The people will register their concerns openly rather than sit down quietly.The SLOGAN BACK TO POWER has many developmental ingredients.ELECTRICITY--CLEAN DRINKING WATER---GOOD ROADS---EDUCATION-TRADES AND VOCATIONAL --MEDICAL AND DENTAL--FOOD --SHELTER,FINALLY INCENTIVES TO ENCOURAGE AND ATTRACT INVESTORS.Our PRESIDENT ERNEST BAI KOROMA will not digress from our problems.
Subject: Re: THINGS FALL APART
From: Kalos
To: All
Date Posted: 08:16:35 09/19/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: c-98-204-44-243.hsd1.md.comcast.net at 98.204.44.243
Message:
I guess this is my sister. Well stated, however, the talking and posturing
should stop; we need and require actions to fix the country's problems. It
is our obligation to be vigilant as overseers of the expected progress in
our country. Congratulation to Ernest Koroma, we will hold him to his
promise; he is the president for all Sierra Leoneans.
Subject: Shipment of Adult PAMPERS and other stories
From: Gola Queen aka Circular Road Berring gron
To: All
Date Posted: 05:32:20 09/19/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: cache-ntc-ad04.proxy.aol.com at 207.200.116.198
Message:
It has been reported that a container full of adult HUGGIES PAMPERS, has landed at the Queen Elizabeth Quay in Freetown Sierra Leone. I have been duly informed that the pro forma invoice has the name of a FORMER BIG MAN on it.
The Former Big Man I understand is now in negotiations with the new Government on reducing the taxes and fees levied on the PAMPERS on the basis that if it is not released then BIGMAN GO DISGRACE.
On the other hand, we have been made to believe that former KAKTOE of state marda Fulumunku Bio and his former "Okuru dog" of the war a beaten man by the name of Nyuma, have skipped town for places unknown via their favorite route Liberia. I kindda think that they are on another recruiting mission.
So where the hell was Victor "Fayia Musa" Reider going to when he was caught at the Liberian border attemptong to "escape". What worries me is why is it that those who were very much involved in the war against the people of sierra leone are leaving the country. Is there another grand plan to regroup and do what the SLPP knows how to do best. Which is to start another war against the people of sierra Leone.
What happened to Moseray Fadika and his investors. I hear that Moseray the Illitrate conduit for blood and stolen diamonds is now living in London cooling off his heels. So what happens to that house adorned in marble located at IMATT. If the house is going to be abandoned why dont you rent it get paid in dollars and pay the taxes on it.
I hear that John Benjamin the big bikfool dandogo who openly admitted that he was the architect of the NPRC coup is still in freetown. Doesnt this fool know that there is no STATUTE OF LIMITATIONS to TREASON and treachery. Does he remember allthe communications that he has had with M. Alieu Iscandari at the NUP forum. Does he remember his admissions against his own penal interests. Cant wait to see how all of this plays out. does John Ben know that their are penal sanctions fo violations of the electoral laws?
I understand that ambassador Foya has been plagued with the runs since the announcement of APC as the winners of the election and the possible appointment of Charles Margai as the Atorney General. Wow wee the case of the hunter now becoming the hunted. May be for the sake of Poetic justice, Charles should discharge a weapon in his direction and lets see how he feels then.
if unu sidom unu go yerri ajaible
Subject: Re: Shipment of Adult PAMPERS and other stories
From: Nah Sabi Talk
To: All
Date Posted: 07:09:51 09/19/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: static-76-160-64-185.dsl.cavtel.net at 76.160.64.185
Message:
Tons of people going to see their days turn into nights...
I only hope all is done in accordance with the rule of law...
I have no sympathy for those that have selfishly used and abused my people and country...
You've named a big culprit!
Where did M. Bio get his money in that short period of time?
Must give account for the money in Virginia and that of Salone...
Subject: NEW APPOINTMENTS: EDUCATION IS NOT THE ONLY CRITERION.
From: PATRIOT
To: All
Date Posted: 04:59:45 09/19/07 ()
Email Address: the newsletter@hotmail.com
Entered From: amontsouris-152-1-84-116.w86-212.abo.wanadoo.fr at 86.212.62.116
Message:
My dear friends,
A survivor of a concentration camp once wrote: "My eyes saw what no person should ever see: Gas chambers built by learned engineers; Children poisoned by educated doctors; Infants killed by trained nurses; Women and Children shot by high school graduates: so I am suspicious of education" end of quote.
Education should never produce learned monsters, skilled psychopaths, oppressors who have no conscience, politicians who have no regard for the populace, sophisticated thieves and greedy rogues who plunder the Country's treasury, trained doctors and nurses who turn the other way and let people die because they have no money, teachers who deprive children of their education, lawyers whose judgement is based on the highest bid etc,etc.
PHD's and Masters' and BA's are important only if they serve to make our students humane and people of INTEGRITY.
Subject: Re: NEW APPOINTMENTS: EDUCATION IS NOT THE ONLY CRITERION.
From: Nah Sabi Talk
To: All
Date Posted: 08:27:54 09/19/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: static-76-160-64-185.dsl.cavtel.net at 76.160.64.185
Message:
If you think education is expensive, try ignorance!
Try not to throw the baby with the bath water...
I know what edcation is affording me here in America and in my returning Home!
I am fully aware of the educated fools and manipulators.
In general, education is like money, can be used for good or for ills!
Subject: Re: NEW APPOINTMENTS: EDUCATION IS NOT THE ONLY CRITERION.
From: Patriot
To: All
Date Posted: 09:11:18 09/19/07 ()
Email Address: thenewsletter@hotmail.com
Entered From: amontsouris-152-1-84-116.w86-212.abo.wanadoo.fr at 86.212.62.116
Message:
I agree with you. The point is, while education is very important and absolutely necessary it should not be the ONLY criterion.
Subject: Re: NEW APPOINTMENTS: EDUCATION IS NOT THE ONLY CRITERION.
From: Nah Sabi Talk
To: All
Date Posted: 10:44:26 09/19/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: static-76-160-64-185.dsl.cavtel.net at 76.160.64.185
Message:
Nar true! Ah jus nor wan leh de young wan dem miss dat.
Cuz! knowledge nar POWER oh!
I really understand and share your concern too...
Subject: Re: NEW APPOINTMENTS: EDUCATION IS NOT THE ONLY CRITERION.
From: chunnior
To: All
Date Posted: 05:44:07 09/19/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: cache-ntc-ad04.proxy.aol.com at 207.200.116.198
Message:
skilled psychopaths, oppressors who have no conscience, politicians who have no regard for the populace, sophisticated thieves and greedy rogues who plunder the Country's treasury, trained doctors and nurses who turn the other way and let people die because they have no money, teachers who deprive children of their education,
you forgot to add stupid scientists who claim that they have worked for NASA but yet cant get past the little teacher trining college that they teach in.
Subject: Re: NEW APPOINTMENTS: EDUCATION IS NOT THE ONLY CRITERION.
From: Albert Moinina
To: All
Date Posted: 05:39:54 09/19/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 213.42.21.60
Message:
So true, Patriotic. You said it to the point.
Subject: RE: Sierra Leone: News & Information: President: State House
From: MUSA KALAWA
To: All
Date Posted: 03:02:51 09/19/07 ()
Email Address: muskalawa@yahoo.com
Entered From: adsl-76-195-146-231.dsl.lsan03.sbcglobal.net at 76.195.146.231
Message:
Fellow Sierra Leoneans, This is a complete shame. For some odd reasons, the employees of the former SLPP government has shut down the Sierra Leone: News & Information: President: State House web site Bandwidth Limit has been Exceeded. The server is temporarily unable to service your request due to the site owner reaching his/her bandwidth limit.
Subject: Re: RE: Sierra Leone: News & Information: President: State House
From: SUBWANALAI
To: All
Date Posted: 03:59:39 09/19/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 194.32.41.72
Message:
Simmer down bruv. Let it be shut down. It does not belong to the state, but to that devil called Sylvia Blyden. Ernest will create his.
Subject: How Awareness Times exposes its forum members
From: Nah Sabi Talk
To: All
Date Posted: 23:35:23 09/18/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: static-76-160-64-185.dsl.cavtel.net at 76.160.64.185
Message:
Hey Folks! Just wanted to let you all know that when you post at Awareness Times site, your information is up for grab by anyone anywhere in the world....
Here are just few examples of those that have just posted some comments recently...
Your email address janlia@hotmail.co.uk
Posted by JanL on September 15, 2007 at 15:17:58:
SAIDUBANGSO@AOL.COM Posted by ALPHA SAIDU BANGURA on September 14, 2007 at 21:52:54:
jumba1980@yahoo.com Posted by A.Wurie on September 10, 2007 at 11:42:04:
Subject: I have got you babe
From: Bambay Lans Kamara
To: All
Date Posted: 23:18:39 09/18/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: sccadmin195198.scc.losrios.edu at 165.196.195.198
Message:
Lucky Dube
Subject: A song for Obama
From: Bambay Lans Kamara
To: All
Date Posted: 23:10:15 09/18/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: sccadmin195198.scc.losrios.edu at 165.196.195.198
Message:
Song for Obama.
Subject: Rev. Jesse Jackson Congratulates Koroma
From: Bambay Lans Kamara
To: All
Date Posted: 21:34:32 09/18/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: sccadmin195198.scc.losrios.edu at 165.196.195.198
Message:
The following is a statement from Rev. Jesse L. Jackson Sr., founder and president of Rainbow PUSH Coalition, congratulating President-elect Ernest Bai Koroma and the people of Sierra Leone.
I congratulate President-Elect Ernest Bai Koroma for his election victory as the democratically elected President of The Republic of Sierra Leone. The overwhelming majority of Sierra Leoneans who voted in peace had demonstrated their determination to continue to return their country to peace, security, and democratic rule through your leadership.
I call upon the United States, and its allies to fully support President-elect Koroma with urgent needed debt relief and economic aid. I also appeal to all Sierra Leoneans to join hands with President-elect Koroma to unify and develop their beloved country.
I hope and pray that the people of Sierra Leone with the blessings of God will work with Mr. Koroma to modernize their country and answer the calls for strengthening democracy, equal opportunity, freedom, prosperity and unity. I also pray that Sierra Leone will succeed under its new leadership and play a key role as a democratic leader in West Africa and beyond.
As Mr. Koroma prepares to lead your beloved country, may God bless him, his family and administration. May He guard him and give him the daily strength and blessings he need to serve all Sierra Leoneans, to strengthen peace, security, unity, and democracy throughout your beloved country.
Keep Hope Alive!
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Subject: Re: Rev. Jesse Jackson Congratulates Koroma
From: SUBWANALAI
To: All
Date Posted: 04:54:00 09/19/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 194.32.41.72
Message:
Thank you Bambay for this information. Well..er..actually we donot need Jesse Jackson's congratulations. He owes the people of Sierra Leone an appology for equating the murderous rebel leader Foday Saybana Sankoh to Nelson Mandela.
Subject: Re: Rev. Jesse Jackson Congratulates Koroma
From: Nah Sabi Talk
To: All
Date Posted: 06:57:49 09/19/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: static-76-160-64-185.dsl.cavtel.net at 76.160.64.185
Message:
U sabi.... Ah be deh wait see if all man dor forget dat!
Keep hope alive...hehehe...lol
First you must find the hope inorder to be able to keep it alive....
Subject: Re: Rev. Jesse Jackson Congratulates Koroma
From: BUFORD HWY
To: All
Date Posted: 07:50:05 09/19/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: adsl-074-228-219-218.sip.asm.bellsouth.net at 74.228.219.218
Message:
RESPECT MY BROTHERS......
Do you know that Rev Jackson,Andrew Young and Joe Beasley are setting up an organization wherein any INVESTMENT or POLITICAL HELP from the US for any AFRICAN COUNTRY most go through their organisation? They are trying to position themselves as the MEDIATORS to any PROGRESSIVE SOLUTION to the continent.Their credibilities have been LOST in the AFRICA AMERICAN COMMUNITY,and they have decided to use the African continent as their next EXPLOITING TARGET.AL SHARPTON even has more credibility than these three stooges.
Subject: Re: Rev. Jesse Jackson Congratulates Koroma
From: Kamara
To: All
Date Posted: 10:24:22 09/19/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 205.148.53.200
Message:
buford, If we do not exploit what he have. Others are going to do it. We are content with the 9 -5.
Subject: Re: Rev. Jesse Jackson Congratulates Koroma
From: Nah Sabi Talk
To: All
Date Posted: 08:44:26 09/19/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: static-76-160-64-185.dsl.cavtel.net at 76.160.64.185
Message:
Thank you for your comment... You are so true!
These are people that are known to make a living of the miseries of others...
We need to find out more about this organization...
Please keep us abreast!
Subject: Where is the change ?
From: Lachy
To: All
Date Posted: 21:21:05 09/18/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: gw1.dc.gov at 164.82.146.3
Message:
Fellow brothers and sisters lets stop making mockery of those that were not on our side during the elections. People have the right to belong to which ever party suits them. Its not our place to question there political identity when we fail to win them over. We should now double our efforts and collectively uplift this nation from the abysmal depths into which it was plunged as a result of years of misrule.
The Sylvia Blyden or John Leigh issue matters no more. We are all Sierra Leoneans. We should be more focussed in effecting CHANGE, than spreading malice. These elections revealed Sierra Leoneans with fine attributes and this is what we should all strive to attain rather than waisting preciuos time in pointing fingers.Lets use this forum as a medium for exchange of IDEAS.
Subject: Re: Where is the change ?
From: Orkaibah
To: All
Date Posted: 00:28:32 09/19/07 ()
Email Address: rastafari_ish@hotmail.com
Entered From: master-02.brg.sgsnet.se at 193.11.202.74
Message:
Boy if live in the US of A why don't you take a break and enjoy some DOGFIGHT for a change? A bright idea, huh?
Subject: Re: Where is the change ?
From: Cornelius Hamelberg
To: All
Date Posted: 23:46:02 09/18/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: c-088472d5.01-32-73746f42.cust.bredbandsbolaget.se at 213.114.132.8
Message:
The change?
"Niggers kill others just because one didn't receive the correct change."
The Last Poets
Subject: The inauguration pictures
From: Forum Veteran
To: All
Date Posted: 18:55:32 09/18/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: h167-156-253.63.chubb.com at 167.156.63.253
Message:
SLPP supporters are so angry they have become blind . Yesterday afternoon, we had our first glimpse of the inauguration as per cocorioko who published the pictures. The fact is that cocorioko brought the pictures 24 hours before Awareness Times. Why are Boli and Candid opinion bashing cocorioko when AT came out with their pictures ? Have we become so biased against Cocorioko that we are blind ?
Subject: Re: The inauguration pictures
From: boli
To: All
Date Posted: 10:51:12 09/19/07 ()
Email Address: boli@yahoo.com
Entered From: 79-66-55-143.dynamic.dsl.as9105.com at 79.66.55.143
Message:
You don't need to tell blatant lies. The inauguration pictures were first released by Awareness Times. I am not SLPP and dont have any affiliations with APC, I am an objective observer and I checked before making my statement. I was even expected to be banned, because that is the way of Cocorioco.
It is also funny or strange that my posting was removed before any reaction was made to my comments. As a 'veteran' I expect you to check facts. You might have got your pictures from Cocorioco but not me. If you want to know, I support the change in Sierra Leone, but that will not cloud my objectivity. From your posting, any disagreement with Cocorioko is politically motivated. Maybe that's the way your mind works. The truth shall set you free.
If you still disagree with me BAN ME, but I will not allow you to stifle my opinions.
Subject: Re: The inauguration pictures
From: Tony
To: All
Date Posted: 14:20:17 09/19/07 ()
Email Address: Tonrt@aol.com
Entered From: 79-66-55-143.dynamic.dsl.as9105.com at 79.66.55.143
Message:
Becareful what you say or you might be banned
Subject: Re: The inauguration pictures
From: Candid Opinion
To: All
Date Posted: 08:36:34 09/19/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: ns.nucleusns2.com at 12.44.12.126
Message:
No bashing..
Just stating that Awarenesstimes brought us more..better.fuller look at the swearing in ceremony.
Nothing to bash me or Boli about..
True is true..
We all thank Revo.. he is doing a fine job but that does not take from facts..
If he can bring us a picture of Tom Nyuma infront of Obai's door with a psitol in his hand and assassin written on his forehead.. i would expect him to bring us picture of his main man taking the oath...
Subject: Re: The inauguration pictures
From: correction
To: All
Date Posted: 05:59:38 09/19/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: host86-129-154-198.range86-129.btcentralplus.com at 86.129.154.198
Message:
It was not inauguration, but swearing-in ceremony.Inauguration will take place later.
Subject: Re: The inauguration pictures
From: Observer
To: All
Date Posted: 19:51:46 09/18/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: adsl-66-140-46-116.dsl.rcsntx.swbell.net at 66.140.46.116
Message:
Please join me in thanking the reverend for a job well
done. He was the first to print the inauguration pictures. I can bet my gramma's oku lappa that had Kab's been on the ground like other journalists were, he would have sent more pics than what he was able to provide. ... and he's not even paid a shilling for his good work.
If you're reading this, Kabs, I want to tell you that you are doing a swell job. I your unbiased coverage of the past electoral storm. Now that the waves have simmered, I hope the SLPP will learn from the lessons of gongorlee journalism.
Had the self-styled SLPP ragtag mouthpiece reported the
storm like it was, I'm sure the SLPP captain and crew would have navigated the waters differently. I hope the
new government can learn from the mistakes of the SLPP and not buy into the BABUWOTHO overtures of Worwor Blyden.
BABU BLYDEN is mostly to blame for giving the the SLPP false hopes and misinformation that wrecked the SLPP ship on the YOU-GO-SOBBER rocks of wayo-wayo reality.
Kabs, your probono provision of news from the homeland
is highly appreciated. No PHD (pull him/her down) will shake the heights you've placed yourself among good sprited Sierra Leonean, and no medal can compare with the one you've won from the hearts of progress loving
Sierra Leonean. Keep it up!!
Subject: Re: The inauguration pictures
From: Remi
To: All
Date Posted: 20:16:46 09/18/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 131.118.54.71
Message:
Shut the fuck up.
Subject: Re: The inauguration pictures
From: MODERATOR
To: All
Date Posted: 23:27:43 09/18/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: adsl-66-140-46-116.dsl.rcsntx.swbell.net at 66.140.46.116
Message:
Remi the likes of you will be weeded out of this place and IP kept in our log for reference. Cheers!
/Mod
Subject: Re: The inauguration pictures
From: Candid Opinion
To: All
Date Posted: 08:32:05 09/19/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: ns.nucleusns2.com at 12.44.12.126
Message:
How about just deleting the mans post, warning....
Publicly out the man and let us the forum participants castigate the scoundrel for abusive behavior.
This banning shit has no place in a free society..
Subject: Re: The inauguration pictures
From: Bambay Lans Kamara
To: All
Date Posted: 19:41:19 09/18/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: sccadmin195198.scc.losrios.edu at 165.196.195.198
Message:
That was a swearing-in ceremony bo!
Subject: Re: The inauguration pictures
From: Leonean
To: All
Date Posted: 23:10:11 09/18/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: 71-215-224-107.mpls.qwest.net at 71.215.224.107
Message:
Which is another name for inauguration you idiot.
Subject: where is John Leigh the parrot?
From: Kakua
To: All
Date Posted: 17:27:35 09/18/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: host86-134-93-167.range86-134.btcentralplus.com at 86.134.93.167
Message:
john leigh is a coward that no one should take seriously. i hope he will now have the guts to repeat all the shits that was comming out of his rotten mouth about the youths and Bra Charles. he is a complete idiot no wonder he is been decleared bankrupt. you will never get back your bribed $200,000 from the slpp. he lef pan you babu yie OOOOOOOOO!!!
Subject: Re: where is John Leigh the parrot?
From: M. Alieu Iscandari Esq
To: All
Date Posted: 20:42:13 09/18/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: cache-ntc-ad04.proxy.aol.com at 207.200.116.198
Message:
Kakua,
I concur with Yaya with regards to John Leigh. Although I am angry with him because I felt he betrayed my trust, however the truth is that during the interregnum, he was an able soldier for justice and he presented a very positive image of sierra leone.
During the period of electioneering, he did make statements in support for his case and his party, which statements I am sure in hindsight, he wished he had not made. Because of his very aggresive support for his party he made many enemies. I have forgiven him long ago and I wish that you and everyone else he has said a pejorative word or two to would forgive him.
We need to move on as a nation, stand behind the present government and do everything in our power to make a better sierra leone
Subject: Re: where is John Leigh the parrot?
From: Bongowas
To: All
Date Posted: 07:03:17 09/19/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: c-69-255-182-17.hsd1.va.comcast.net at 69.255.182.17
Message:
Do you now feel the same for Sengbe as you feel for John?
Subject: Re: where is John Leigh the parrot?
From: M. Alieu Iscandari Esq
To: All
Date Posted: 11:33:42 09/19/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: cache-ntc-ad04.proxy.aol.com at 207.200.116.198
Message:
Of course I do. I would Never have attacked Sengbe or PK Muana or Marda Mustapha if my interests were not first attacked.
Subject: Re: where is John Leigh the parrot?
From: Yaya Fanusie
To: All
Date Posted: 20:27:38 09/18/07 ()
Email Address: saigobe@lanset.com
Entered From: pool-71-179-7-225.bltmmd.fios.verizon.net at 71.179.7.225
Message:
Kakua,
Please the elections is over. John leigh and co lost. Leave him alone to ponder his loss and then we all will work together to build Salone. The Game is over. We get wok for do for wi pipul dem wey don suffer long. the campaign nah bin easy tin now for develop the country a big tin and for get an done wi need everybody.
John Leigh get important role for play for hep di kontry during the next five years. politics don don for now. The new game wey just start yesterday with new kaptain na game call "lel wi build di kontry". U know dis game tranga lekeh LIFE AND DEATH. So ah bage yu lel wi lef for mock we oponents dem.
Yaya Fanusie-APC
Subject: Re: where is John Leigh the parrot?
From: WHAT IS YAYA TALKING ABOUT?
To: All
Date Posted: 07:07:46 09/19/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: c-69-255-182-17.hsd1.va.comcast.net at 69.255.182.17
Message:
Are you kidding with us Yaya? John Leigh said here on this forum that he will never work with Charles Margai and we all know that Charles Margai is going to be part of the new administration. Bo lef nor!
Subject: Re: where is John Leigh the parrot?
From: Tamba Moiwo
To: All
Date Posted: 21:05:27 09/18/07 ()
Email Address: moiwo@hotmail.co.uk
Entered From: host86-146-133-172.range86-146.btcentralplus.com at 86.146.133.172
Message:
Conciliatorily sound.
Pretty sure your sentiments cohere with those of our kith and kin.In the process of National Development,all hands most be on deck and beyound reproach.This process is violently disturbed and diverted with the bareface disingenious tittle tattle about 'we get for wok for we pipul dem wey don suffer for long',thereby inferring the out-going govt was on sabbatical for the tenure.Arrant nonsense!Precisely because party politics is about personal choices and perhaps a few sprinklings 'ideological',people have to make decisions.We were and/should/will not be 'opponents'-We are partners in Development.When symbolic and real state power was vested in President Koroma and his APC party assumed and took and oath that under his stewardship,the welfare,safety,protection and justice of the State as empowered by our Constitution.
As a party(not a spokesman),I believe the SLPP has the capacity and abilty to act responsibly to check the excesses of your party in a way that does not impinge on the BIG PICTURE. ONE COUNTRY,ONE PEOPLE,A TRULY UNSURPASSABLE MOTTO TO REMEBER.
THANK YOU,GOOD LUCK TO PREZO KOROMA AND MAY GOD BLESS SIERRA LEONE AND ALL WHO STRIVE TO ENLARGE HER COAST.
Subject: Re: where is John Leigh the parrot?
From: Moses Largao
To: All
Date Posted: 02:47:58 09/19/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: cache-dtc-ag14.proxy.aol.com at 205.188.117.142
Message:
"Precisely because party politics is about personal choices and perhaps a few sprinklings 'ideological',people have to make decisions."
So, this is how your unpatriotic SLPP seeks to rationalize the "personal choice" of massively looting the money belonging to the people of Salone over the past 11 years! It will not fly, fellow. Let me tell you why.
Even though you don't appear to know it, there is a difference between Saloneans working together and Saloneans allowing thieves-by-personal-choice such as the outgoing SLPP government functionaries to get away with looting Salone's money with impunity in the name of "working together".
That is not your only manifestation of a detachment from reaality. It is also evident in your calling the fact -- and it is a fact, notwithstanding your self-serving delusions -- that the SLPP regime failed to provide jobs to the long suffering people of Salone.
Calling that well-known fact "arrant nonsense", as you did, suggests that your detachment extends beyond an alienation from reality -- it also includes a detachment from the meanings of words you so carelessly use.
Subject: Re: where is John Leigh the parrot?
From: False Prophet
To: All
Date Posted: 17:29:27 09/18/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: 65.107.153.146.ptr.us.xo.net at 65.107.153.146
Message:
"you will never get back your bribed $200,000 from the slpp" When did it get to this figure? Did you factor in, inflation and interest? or is this just another LIES...
Subject: THE BEST ECONOMIST IN SALONE IS DUNSTAN SPENCER
From: False Prophet
To: All
Date Posted: 17:20:09 09/18/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: 65.107.153.146.ptr.us.xo.net at 65.107.153.146
Message:
Somebody mentioned that the best Economist in salone is Edmund koroma.. I respectfully disagree and think that DR Dunstan Spencer is a better Economist than Koroma.
Spencer's work in economics Spans decades and he is well known by other top Economists in the Diaspora...
He is a board member of a lot of International Organizations....
Subject: Re: THE BEST ECONOMIST IN SALONE IS DUNSTAN SPENCER
From: Ronaldino
To: All
Date Posted: 10:00:10 09/19/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: 82-44-17-83.cable.ubr04.croy.blueyonder.co.uk at 82.44.17.83
Message:
Running him close is Dr. Raymond Gilpin. A very bright young man. LSE product.
Subject: Re: THE BEST ECONOMIST IN SALONE IS DUNSTAN SPENCER
From: alieu sesay
To: All
Date Posted: 10:05:19 09/19/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: 65.107.153.146.ptr.us.xo.net at 65.107.153.146
Message:
Excellent...
Subject: Re: THE BEST ECONOMIST IN SALONE IS DUNSTAN SPENCER
From: P P Johnson
To: All
Date Posted: 09:30:15 09/19/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: host86-129-154-198.range86-129.btcentralplus.com at 86.129.154.198
Message:
I think the best Economist is James Sanpha Koroma, and he is most qualified to be Minister of Finance.
Subject: Re: THE BEST ECONOMIST IN SALONE IS DUNSTAN SPENCER
From: Kalos
To: All
Date Posted: 08:23:45 09/19/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: c-98-204-44-243.hsd1.md.comcast.net at 98.204.44.243
Message:
What has he published?
Subject: Re: THE BEST ECONOMIST IN SALONE IS DUNSTAN SPENCER
From: alieu sesay
To: All
Date Posted: 08:45:13 09/19/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: 65.107.153.146.ptr.us.xo.net at 65.107.153.146
Message:
Hundreds BRA.. Dunstan is the Man .... Google HIM and see for your self... Like false said, the man is an ICON.
Subject: Re: THE BEST ECONOMIST IN SALONE IS DUNSTAN SPENCER
From: Sally
To: All
Date Posted: 09:18:16 09/19/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: cache-dtc-ag14.proxy.aol.com at 205.188.117.142
Message:
You guys never learn from your mistakes do you? What does publishing have to do with competence as a cabinet minister?
Do you want us to believe that the incompetent and corrupt ministers in the failed SLPP government of Kabbah and the failed APC governments of Stevens and Momoh were not published?
Subject: Re: THE BEST ECONOMIST IN SALONE IS DUNSTAN SPENCER
From: alieu sesay
To: All
Date Posted: 09:37:36 09/19/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: 65.107.153.146.ptr.us.xo.net at 65.107.153.146
Message:
Nobody is asking that Dunstan be a Minister.. The point is: someone made a comment about Edmund koroma being the Best economist in salone....which in my view is a BLATANT LIE...hence came the name DUNSTAN SPENCER.
Dunstan will not want to be a Minister, he is content with what he is currently doing and enjoys it a whole lot.
Subject: Re: THE BEST ECONOMIST IN SALONE IS DUNSTAN SPENCER
From: Kalos
To: All
Date Posted: 22:06:41 09/19/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: c-98-204-44-243.hsd1.md.comcast.net at 98.204.44.243
Message:
Thanks Alieu. However, for the sake of country he might reconsider to
serve in another capacity; he is qualified serve as the governor of our
central bank based on his writings.
Subject: Re: THE BEST ECONOMIST IN SALONE IS DUNSTAN SPENCER
From: Poro
To: All
Date Posted: 19:15:04 09/18/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: host-66-134-72-65.covad.com at 66.134.72.65
Message:
Kabbah worked in the UN for years,look at his records compared to lesser known individuals. Edmund Koroma is not neccessarily the best economist in Sieera Leone but he has the local knowledge. He is not an eloquent though!
Subject: Re: THE BEST ECONOMIST IN SALONE IS DUNSTAN SPENCER
From: Kalos
To: All
Date Posted: 22:33:48 09/19/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: c-98-204-44-243.hsd1.md.comcast.net at 98.204.44.243
Message:
How do you determine the best economist? I believe Edmund is a great
administrator who can excel in any position of trust.
Subject: Parliament
From: boli
To: All
Date Posted: 16:03:22 09/18/07 ()
Email Address: boli@yahoo.com
Entered From: 79-65-0-87.dynamic.dsl.as9105.com at 79.65.0.87
Message:
Now that Solo Berewa has lost the presidential elections, who will be the leader of the opposition in parliament?
Subject: Re: Parliament
From: Poro
To: All
Date Posted: 16:11:46 09/18/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: host-66-134-72-65.covad.com at 66.134.72.65
Message:
Please go read the constitution again. The opposition leader in parliament is chosen from the elected members of parliament.Neither Charles Margain nor Berewah will be in parliament.
Subject: Re: Parliament
From: boli
To: All
Date Posted: 16:15:21 09/18/07 ()
Email Address: boli@yahoo.com
Entered From: 79-65-0-87.dynamic.dsl.as9105.com at 79.65.0.87
Message:
No need to be aggressive...thanks for your answer anyway. Not all of us did political science like you. This brings up my next question - will the leader of the opposition still respect the leadership of the SLPP? Just playing devil's advocate here, so please be gentle.
Subject: Re: Parliament
From: Poro
To: All
Date Posted: 16:24:37 09/18/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: host-66-134-72-65.covad.com at 66.134.72.65
Message:
Currently, Berewah is the leader of the party. The leader of the opposition in parliament is required to consult with the the leader of the party on a consistent basis.Members of parliament represent their constituencies and being a leader of the opposition is just an additional responsibility.This is going to be a challenge for both the SLPP and the PMDC.We are wait and seee how this plays out.
Subject: Re: Parliament
From: boli
To: All
Date Posted: 16:30:21 09/18/07 ()
Email Address: boli@yahoo.com
Entered From: 79-65-0-87.dynamic.dsl.as9105.com at 79.65.0.87
Message:
I bet it's going to be a challenge. More for the SLPP than the PMDC. Thanks for your answer
Subject: SHADOW CABINET
From: CKC MAN
To: All
Date Posted: 15:47:41 09/18/07 ()
Email Address: bontilaynga@gmail.com
Entered From: 203-167-156-177.dialup.clear.net.nz at 203.167.156.177
Message:
Forumites, please let us name people that we think have the ability to help President Koroma better govern Sierra Leone as Cabinet Ministers and other strategic positions. Feel free to come up with any names and why you think they are fit for to lead. I find the following fit for these positions:
Minister of Finance.....EDMUND KOROMA (Mr. Koroma, a London School of Economics trained Economist, is Director of NASSIT where he is doing a fantastic job. However, as the best economist in the country I think he has what it takes to turn our economy round for the best. Besides, he as trained a crop of Economists that he can work with to help put us on the road to prosperity. Before taking over as DG of NASSIT, he was head of EPRU (Economic Policy Review Unit) of the Ministry of Finance.
Minister of Energy and Power....ANDREW KEILI (Mr. Keili and others owned CEMATT...an indegenous consortium that had previously worked for NPA. Results were tangible, and had it not been for Kabbah's administrative incompetence, CEMMAT would have turned our electricity woes into a thing of the past. Andrew has a wealth of experience having worked for Sierra Rutile Limited and as an Energy consultant in Ukraine, Zimbabwe and other countries. He too has a team of experts that he can work with to transform our energy sector into something viable. Even though he is SLPP and member of the JJ Blood's REFORM GROUP, I think patriotism and the urge to see Sierra Leone become a better place will see him render his services to the new government.
Minister of Foreign Affairs......ZAINAB BANGURA (Former Presidential Candidate, Former Executive Director-Campaign for Good Governance, Chairlady (SL State Lottery) and now head of Civil AFFAIRS with
United Nations in Liberia).
Minister of Education....FESTUS SEIWOH (Former Principa of Bo School and staunch PMDC Supporter. Seiwoh was drastically humiliated for supproting Margai and even suspended from his job at Ministry of Education. As a seasoned administrator, Seiwoh has what it takes to take that Ministry further.
Anti-Corruption Commission.....Val Collier. Val worked as Commissioner for ACC but was never given the opportunity to freely and independently execute his duties because Kabbah and Berewa were never interested in seeing a fruitful anti-corruption commission. He was one of Berewaaa's casualties as leader of SLPP. I believe a second chance will give us the opportunity to see him transfrom ACC into something we can be proud of.
Vice Chancellor (USL)............Proff Jimmy Kandeh (Without hesitation Gbakima should be sacked immediately. Gbakima has spent the last two good years of tax payers money on nothing more than praise-singing Berewa. Up to the time of writing of this piece FOURAH BAY COLLEGE does not a website. He was all over the place campaigning for Berewa, forgetting his official responsibilities. He does not even seem to know what he was appointed to do. We cannot afford the luxury of wasting further tax payers money on ineffective leaders, square pegs in round holes. He should go.
Decentralization Secretariat.......Nobody in mind yet, but EMMANUEL GAIMA and PETER KAINDANEH should be sacked. GAIMA and KAINDANEH transformed DESEC into a hut for irresistibe sycophants. Any one who was not a card carrying SLPP member should not get employment there.They made that clear. Instead of doing their officials they were all over the place antagonising people. In fact they were all over the place campaigning for BEREWA with tax payers money. Emails on public discussion fora could attest to that fact.
Subject: Re: SHADOW CABINET
From: Baboo Bone
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Date Posted: 05:17:43 09/19/07 ()
Email Address: akmeng@aol.com
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CKC Man
`Shadow Cabinet' is the term used to describe MPs who represent the opposition in Parliament. The word `Shadow' literally means that their duty is to monitor/shadow the activities of the `Executive' i.e. Ministers in Government. Thus you will have the `Shadow' Ministers of Finance, Transport, Health etc.
Subject: Re: SHADOW CABINET
From: Economist
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Date Posted: 03:26:11 09/19/07 ()
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Best Econimist Sierra Leone ever produced is James Sanpha Koroma, and I heard he will be appointed Minister of Finance.
Subject: Re: SHADOW CABINET
From: Jay Leno
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Date Posted: 08:58:55 09/19/07 ()
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For a matter, i though you were unintentionally joking about the best economist Sierra Leone has ever produced when you mentioned Sanpha Koroma's name.
Then I noticed that you were not talking about the best economist at all but the "Best Econimist Sierra Leone ever produced." Then, I really got your joke, after all!
As Alieu Iscandari would say, dying of laughter: ROTGLMMAO
Subject: Re: SHADOW CABINET
From: P.P.Johnson
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Date Posted: 04:28:06 09/19/07 ()
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I fully agree and I cannot imagine President Koroma forming a cabinet, without involving a talented person like Sanpha Koroma.
Subject: Re: SHADOW CABINET
From: Saspo
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Date Posted: 03:05:07 09/19/07 ()
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Hey, you forgot one name among your thinly-disguised list of Mendes-for-Continued-Destruction-of-Salone cabinet: How about Solomon Berewa for the new post of Uber-President.
Surely, Berewa has the "ability to help President Koroma better govern Sierra Leone as Cabinet Ministers and other strategic positions!"
You sick traitors of the people of Salone are so transparent, it would have been funny if we were not talking about your SLPP's 10-year ruination of the lives of the people of Sa Lon: No light, no water, no food.
Open your eyes: You might just see that your wretched SLPP was kicked out of power by the victims of their ten years of corruption. Your wishful thinking will not bring their cohorts back to oppress their victims -- not even through the back door as you shamelessly wish to do.
Subject: Re: SHADOW CABINET ( corrected: 500
From: Cornelius Hamelberg
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Date Posted: 18:40:07 09/18/07 ()
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Just a little input here (and all I’d like to do is to go back to my school in Magburaka)
Is someone who knows (whatever the subject may be) the same as someone who doesn’t know? Who is superior?
We are back to answering these illiterate questions in our semi-literate societies in which the one-eyed is king and the most qualified should be president and the second most qualified should be vice- president and then there are the ministers the most excellent professor of law that Sierra Leone can come up with should wipe out corruption etc? And the other most qualified warder to be in charge of the prisons. We already have an Archbishop and he’s in charge of the Church …..
Mr. Acha Kamara has done an excellent job as Police Chief!
And Omrie Golley’s political detention I hope will soon be over……
Some of the people you would like to nominate had better be left in their universities or small business enterprises…
Yes it would be nice to have Jeffrey Sachs himself instead of Edmund Koroma (is he a relative of the president --- on the nepotistic edge of appointment? (Smile)
Jeffrey Sachs one of our sincere well-wishers could certainly be one of our hired consultants.
http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&q=Jeffrey+Sachs
In what ways would the SLPP cabinets of old be different from the kind that CKC-man proposes for the APC– not that it is for him to propose or decide who should be in charge of building any bridges, roads, schools, hospitals, clinics, planting seeds, or polishing diamonds …. The work has to be done but not necessary just by Gladius Lewis I who I’m sure is in no hurry to leave his professorship because of his deep seated nationalism , and start earning a pittance…….. or Cecil Blake to take over that Ministry of Information systems which he is unlikely to transform into a den of rumour and deceitful misinformation……… but in one area – the Chancellor of the now University of Sierra Leone, Professor Abdul Karim Bangura, the overall most qualified Sierra Leonean ( in my view) with a very broad based perspective indeed , has previously said that if he were the Vice Chancellor in charge of higher education in Sierra Leone ( Not the Minster of education) he would transform USL - once the Athens of West Africa into one of the top 500 Universities in the World within a reasonable time….. And with a little help from our friends that his dream could come true:
Yours for the checking out:
http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&q=Abdul+Karim++Bangura
Otherwise it’s not just a matter of getting the most qualified and honest Sierra Leoneans in the world to man each specific ministry (we would put James Jonah or John Leigh as Minster of finance and firsts thing, you suspect rightly is that he would like to get his $91,000 back- preferably with interest …… question is did they give him a receipt…. Other question is, why didn’t the SLPP government institute any commission of inquiry to investigate the astronomical shortfalls and “ disappearances” reported in the Auditor- General’ s reports for the several past years?)
There are many many qualified people in all the fields that all the ministries could do with, and for the people named so far, there are many other more qualified etc … of course you are thinking that whole ministries should be under competent people – and the competent people should also have competent staff to work with … Mr. Berewa only had a (one) secretary as was observed in the British Parliament ----- no wonder he was a workaholic… he had to do most things, himself……
Subject: Re: SHADOW CABINET
From: Cornelius Hamelberg
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Date Posted: 18:21:44 09/18/07 ()
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Just a little input here (and all I’d like to do is to go back to my school in Magburaka)
Is someone who knows (whatever the subject may be) the same as someone who doesn’t know? Who is superior?
We are back to answering these illiterate questions in our semi-literate societies in which the one-eyed is king and the most qualified should be president and the second most qualified should be vice- president and then there are the ministers the most excellent professor of law that Sierra Leone can come up with should wipe out corruption etc? And the other most qualified warder to be in charge of the prisons. We already have an Archbishop and he’s in charge of the Church …..
Mr. Acha Kamara has done an excellent job as Police Chief!
And Omrie Golley’s political detention I hope will soon be over……
Some of the people you would like to nominate had better be left in their universities or small business enterprises…
Yes it would be nice to have Jeffrey Sachs himself instead of Edmund Koroma (is he a relative of the president --- on the nepotistic edge of appointment? (Smile)
Jeffrey Sachs one of our sincere well-wishers could certainly be one of our hired consultants.
http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&q=Jeffrey+Sachs
In what ways would the SLPP cabinets of old be different from the kind that CKC-man proposes – not that it is for him to propose or decide who should be in charge of building any bridges, roads, schools, hospitals, clinics, planting seeds, or polishing diamonds …. The work has to be done but not necessary just by Gladius Lewis I who I’m sure is in no hurry to leave his professorship because of his deep seated nationalism , and start earning a pittance…….. or Cecil Blake to take over that Ministry of Information systems which he is unlikely to transform into a den of rumour and deceitful misinformation……… but in one area – the Chancellor of the now University of Sierra Leone, Professor Abdul Karim Bangura, the overall most qualified Sierra Leonean ( in my view) with a very broad based perspective indeed , has previously said that if he were the Vice Chancellor in charge of higher education in Sierra Leone ( Not the Minster of education) he would transform USL - once the Athens of West Africa into one of the top 5000 Universities in the World within a reasonable time….. And with a little help from our friends that his dream could come true:
Yours for the checking out:
http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&q=Abdul+Karim++Bangura
Otherwise it’s not just a matter of getting the most qualified and honest Sierra Leoneans in the world to man each specific ministry (we would put James Jonah or John Leigh as Minster of finance and firsts thing, you suspect rightly is that he would like to get his $91,000 back- preferably with interest …… question is did they give him a receipt…. Other question is, why didn’t the SLPP government institute any commission of inquiry to investigate the astronomical shortfalls and “ disappearances” reported in the Auditor- General’ s reports for the several past years?)
There are many many qualified people in all the fields that all the ministries could do with, and for the people named so far, there are many other more qualified etc … of course you are thinking that whole ministries should be under competent people – and the competent people should also have competent staff to work with … Mr. Berewa only had a (one) secretary as was observed in the British Parliament ----- no wonder he was a workaholic… he had to do most things, himself……
Look at some biographies here ( where there are seveteen unviversities and some great feats of engineering in bridge building and other technologies.....
http://www.sweden.gov.se/sb/d/2052
Subject: Re: SHADOW CABINET
From: Joe Mustapha
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Date Posted: 17:10:53 09/18/07 ()
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I endorse Zainab Bangura, Siewoh Edmund Koroma and Andrew Keili. I am not too sure of Val Collier.
Subject: Re: SHADOW CABINET
From: Almamy Razak Tun Seray-Wurie Si
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Date Posted: 16:45:26 09/18/07 ()
Email Address: almamysi@hotmail.com
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I also think Edmund Koroma is great...
Subject: Re: SHADOW CABINET
From: fact
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Date Posted: 16:33:00 09/18/07 ()
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CKC, you mentioned some very good guys I respect. they are qualified, but I think announcing them may not be a good idea. slpp extremists might call some of them and pile pressure, asking them not to accept. so cool for now and let's wait for ernest and co to announce their cabinet.
Subject: Re: SHADOW CABINET
From: SeeYOH
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Date Posted: 15:53:45 09/18/07 ()
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Gaima's position is a local post an can be SaCKED by APC but Kaindaneh's is an International Position and was hired by the WORLD BANK so will wait and see if the APC has powers over the Bank's Employee...
Subject: Re: SHADOW CABINET
From: CKC MAN
To: All
Date Posted: 15:58:07 09/18/07 ()
Email Address: bontilaynga@gmail.com
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Message:
So he was hired by World Bank to get involved in national politics. We go see en ti records dae. Krio man say paper nor dae rotten.
Subject: Re: SHADOW CABINET
From: Mariama Sowa
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Date Posted: 17:17:38 09/18/07 ()
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Lets respect peoples right to choose. Not every one can be APC/PMDC. If Peter Kaindaneh can do the job, then why not ?
Keili is an asset in leading the energy and power crises even though he is SLPP. This time we are not going to reward positions rather we are going to screen the best that can get the JOB done. We do not want to fall like the SLPP did.
Subject: Re: SHADOW CABINET
From: alieu sesay
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Date Posted: 16:01:28 09/18/07 ()
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Just to add to what the other GUY was saying, until his contract with the Bank on that Project Expires, there is nothing you can do...
The man is a Sierra Leonean and has a right to political affliations.... So natin nor wrong with him being an active SLPP member.
Watin nar im woke you YAI DAE PAN? Or E pull uman nar you han?
Subject: Re: SHADOW CABINET
From: concern
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Date Posted: 02:28:31 09/19/07 ()
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While it is good to get a government of national unity. I want to caution the APC not to appoint deeply rooted SLPP members in any strategic posts. APC beware the days of one partyism. There are otehr APC sympathisers who can deliver more than the SLPP sponsored contractors.
You have PMDC to form a governmnet. You do not need saboteurs. This time we are going to help the new APC unearth its enemies plan.
lonta
Subject: Re: SHADOW CABINET
From: CKC MAN
To: All
Date Posted: 16:14:32 09/18/07 ()
Email Address: bontilaynga@gmail.com
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Mr SESAY, NO SIR, I am not interested in his job and had never met with the guy but these guys were simply bad. Granted that he has the right to affiliate with a political party but it cannot be done at the detriment of the nation, and this what exactly they were doing. These guys could take per diem with the pretext of going to do official jobs only to spend the whole time on political campiagns. I have written evidence of this.
Except you tell me that is what WOLRD BANK EMPLOYEES ARE PAID TO DO. It was also World Bank that told them to be asking for SLPP membership cards during job interviews. World bank instructed to give OFFER OF EMPLOYMENT LETTERS TO PEOPLE AND WITHDRAW THEM IMMEDIATELY THEY REALIZED YOU WERE APC OR PMDC. Mi man salone nor go ever betteh if some man den dae in positions of trust. These guys should go, or, better still, don't renew his contract which ends at the end of this year.
Subject: Re: SHADOW CABINET
From: Pa Sorie
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Date Posted: 20:32:51 09/18/07 ()
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Message:
hey how come no one recommended our dear Rev?
Subject: Re: SHADOW CABINET
From: Cornelius Hamelberg
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Date Posted: 21:44:08 09/18/07 ()
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Of course our dear Rev and he is quite up to it - if he will be a little more reserved with his public display of emotions----- become a little more arrogant. I can become arrogant. Just ignore the little cockroaches and seriously what does it matter what a cockroach says? Must you start arguing with him?
But when The Rev. gets to Freetown and he is in closer proximity to Lady Sylvia (bearing in mind that unlike poles attract) there might be case of spontaneous combustion.... like mixing petrol and fire, they might become one huge indistinguishable flame and instead of “love thy enemy” and “turning the other cheek”, he might well start singing “your sweetness is my weakness” - and this is a political kinda passion - It’s now or Never - I know that you’ve got a lot of personality, but where is your sense of humour ? Our dear Rev might be dipping over the South Pole and getting lost UNLESS he takes
Erica’s advice
http://www.hwforums.com/2179/messages/46611.html
Subject: Re: SHADOW CABINET
From: alieu sesay
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Date Posted: 16:19:32 09/18/07 ()
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I am very informed on the INTERVIEW process of IRCPB...On the panel is a more senior GUY from the BANK-Asian who makes the final decision.....
So these two fellows do not have the final say in who is employed.... Nar lie you dae lie pan dem.
Subject: Re: SHADOW CABINET
From: CKC MAN
To: All
Date Posted: 18:30:44 09/18/07 ()
Email Address: bontilaynga@gmail.com
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Alieu Sesay, bo na dis sabi all una don lef pan tay den don pull una. Waetin u feel say ar dae gain for lie pa Gaima and Kaindaneh. Were you of the court case between Gaima and one Sorba Barlay for withdrawing his OFFER OF EMPLOYMENT LETTER on the pretext that it was orders from above? Do you know of any Foday Mansaray who was asked for his SLPP membership during a job interview and was asked to macth out because he was not a card carrying SLPP member? This was what Gaima told him_" why come here when you know you are not a card carrying member of SLPP". Mi man those guys will rot in hell. And people like Gaima are going to see their nakedness in SL. They thought public offices were their personal property. No more shall we allow evil and shameless men like Gaima to hold positions of trust. Mek e go back na FBC-sometem we go manage di good-for-nothign mortal man dae
Subject: Re: SHADOW CABINET
From: Eddie Grant
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Date Posted: 16:32:05 09/18/07 ()
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While the elections just ended, I think what other people are trying to suggest has done no harm at the moment. It hasn't been perceived to be the final decisions. After all the new president Ernest Koroma has every legal responsibility to choose who should hold what position.
Mainwhile, I think its just a good will gesture by CKC man to bring his suggestions forward. Though most of the people he had listed have not fitted the bill. I also believe that people who have held a particular office for the past 5 years or so, have not proved to be capable of boistring progress, at list we could have seen tiny evidence of progress.
I think it is too early to speculate.
Subject: Re: SHADOW CABINET
From: boli
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Date Posted: 16:06:12 09/18/07 ()
Email Address: boli@yahoo.com
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Message:
alieu, you still dae talk. How are you my friend? When can we meet for a drink?
Subject: Re: SHADOW CABINET
From: alieu sesay
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Date Posted: 16:08:54 09/18/07 ()
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Message:
Usai you dae Bra... Nar busy man busy these days with family from back home and my School.. Some serious research....
Will be in ATL this weekend, in MD next weekend and in NY end of the Month...
Subject: Re: SHADOW CABINET
From: BUFORD HWY
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Date Posted: 08:03:13 09/19/07 ()
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Message:
WAIT OH...... WATIN U GET NAR ATLANTA WAE U NOR GO SIDOM NAR U HOSE? AR HOPE SAY U NOR GET ONE OF DEM DEKALB,CLAYTON,GWINNETT,FULTON EN COBB COUNTY SALONE TATA DEM OH? IF AR KAYCH U CAM BEIR NAR ME AREA,AR GO SEND WATA PER U (LAUGH)
Subject: Re: SHADOW CABINET
From: alieu sesay
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Date Posted: 08:21:34 09/19/07 ()
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Message:
No bra.. Nar me fambul dem wae dae visit wan tour the US so i have to start with the capital of the SOUTH.
TATA Bizness stop for now.. will take that up at a future date and time....
How ATL?
Subject: Re: SHADOW CABINET
From: boli
To: All
Date Posted: 16:12:11 09/18/07 ()
Email Address: boli@yahoo.com
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Message:
I am sure to bump into you soon and I will introduce myself. You have been a worthy adversery and I think sealing our friendship with a drink is in place. Politica is what it is. We are fighting for the same thing but see things from a different angle. I respect your opinion and that will not detract us from the fact that we eat ress, cassada leaf etc etc.
Love to you family
Subject: Re: SHADOW CABINET
From: alieu sesay
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Date Posted: 16:20:39 09/18/07 ()
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Message:
i trust you bra.. so check your mail...
Subject: Re: SHADOW CABINET
From: Bambay Lans Kamara
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Date Posted: 20:18:42 09/18/07 ()
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Ladies and gentlemen, in any democracy, as nationals, it is imperative that we familiarize ourselves with the constitution of that form of democracy. Sierra Leone is a Parliamentary Democracy, at the same time, what we do, as citizens, what the President does is strictly within the confines of the constitution of the land.
In making suggestions for cabinet positions we must first of all know what is stipulated in the constitution with regards to appointment of cabinet ministers. In that line, members who have been dully elected in the past elections who are parliamentarians, representing the various constituencies are the ones that will be considered first. The President has the prerogative, under the constitution to appoint any member of the public to serve in ministerial capacities in an office directly linked to the office of the President.
I studied government and worked at State House for four years, Office of the President.
Subject: Re: SHADOW CABINET
From: THAVARISH
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Date Posted: 08:12:37 09/19/07 ()
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Bambay,
DOYA HELP ME NAR YA SO. WATIN NAR DE DIFFERENCES BETWEEN PARLIAMENTARY EN PRESIDENTIAL SYSTEM OF GOVEMENT?
Subject: Re: SHADOW CABINET
From: Baboo Bone
To: All
Date Posted: 09:15:54 09/19/07 ()
Email Address: akmeng@aol.com
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A parliamentary system of Government is one in which the Majority Leader in Parliament is appointed Prime Minister and is the Head of the Executive (i.e. Britain). With a presidential system of Government the President is appointed in a separate election and is the Head of the Executive but not necessarily a Member of Parliament (i.e. USA). In the latter there is complete separation of powers between the Executive (i.e. President and Cabinet Ministers) and the legislature (Members of Parliament). Some Parliamentary system (i.e Israel) may have a President who is a titular/ceremonial Head of State.
Intilli
Subject: Re: SHADOW CABINET
From: BIBU
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Date Posted: 09:42:52 09/19/07 ()
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Message:
So what is Sierra Leone? A HYBRID?
Subject: Re: SHADOW CABINET
From: Baboo Bone
To: All
Date Posted: 10:01:32 09/19/07 ()
Email Address: akmeng@aol.com
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Sierra Leone is definitely a Hybrid system because our parliamentary procedures and standing orders are based on the Westminster Model (Parliamentary System of government) while we have a Presidential System of Government. This is why it has been reported that EBK is not prepared to appoint any of the APC Parliamentarians a Minister. According to Sierra Leone's Constitution an MP must resign from parliament if appointed a Cabinet Minister - which will mean a by-election now that we have reverted to election by constituency as opposed to the previous list system. In the case of the latter, if an MP was appointed a Cabinet Minister, his position is automatically filled by the someone on the original list submitted to the Electoral Commission prior to the election.
Subject: Re: SHADOW CABINET
From: Marah
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Date Posted: 21:41:21 09/18/07 ()
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I welcome the idea of not giving Ministerial post to Parliamentarians, a lot of whom are already broke and are ready to refill. Some had to take huge loans with the hope that if given a Ministerial Post they will have no choice but to cut ya put ya.
Subject: Re: SHADOW CABINET
From: Bambay Lans Kamara
To: All
Date Posted: 22:57:21 09/18/07 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
Marrah,
I will respond to you latter but let me get this out of the way.
There are those contributors that have expressed anger but have not questioned themselves why? I can understand therefore, I have decided to be the mature one, knowing that I am contributing on the World Wide Web, where the possibility exists that dignitaries might be reading. Especially, in my case, when my name is typed on Google, yahoo or any search engine on the Internet, what comes-up mostly, are things I have written over the years. As such, I have to be very cognizant of my thinking, maturity and responsibility. Therefore, if I have not responded to any one, I would like to express my profound regret, in consideration that they might be angry therefore, they shouldn’t be tolerated; my apologies.
I have taken the White House, and institutions like her around the globe, Congress and the like and the Senate to name a few, who are all in my mind when I discuss but there are times when I take into consideration the diversity of the audience and give every one their share for the sake of inclusion.
Marah,
When people are given Ministerial positions they are not required by law to use their own money. They are expected to work and be paid by the government. Monies are allotted on constituency, departmental or Ministerial bases. Given Ministerial positions, they Permanent Secretaries or Administrative Secretaries hang heads on a daily bases to utilize that money. It is that money they utilize to do the work of the nation.
How they get personal money is their business as long as it is not stolen from the poor people, the poor people are not bullied to keep them poor for sadistic and foolish reason (egocentric reasons actually,) they are by nature and by law required to survive as long as they do that in an honest and practical fashion.
We are from a poor country, second to last in International Economic Index, we must not talk about other people's poverty but try to find ways we can redeem our nation. Why some people are poor must be the issue we have to thoroughly search our consciences at this point in time, to try to take the shame that we have caused ourselves by some of our mischievous actions that are not pertinent to civilized outlook.
Hey even these do borrow once in a while.
Subject: Why the hasty democratic transition, any explanation please…
From: Med
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Date Posted: 15:45:46 09/18/07 ()
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I congratulate the APC leadership stirred by President Earnest Koroma, and the people of Sierra Leone for a smooth transition. The elections were widely accredited ‘free and fair’, I have however failed to establish reasons why the hasty ‘swearing in ceremony.’ Sincerely, I have not heard of any free and fair democratic transition patterned in such fashion, this collaborative action, supposedly of APC and SLPP [initiated by SLPP] signals a very bad massage; such a speedy presidential handover does not establish a successive planning procedure.
The NPRC, a very good for nothing military junta gave SLPP reasonable time, prior a recognized handover ceremony, was this hasty SLPP – APC transition preplanned? The Kabba SLPP was expected to have given a realistic time to the APC, as to enable both parties adequately prepare a responsible and transparent transition, nevertheless, it happened again in obscurity, I am sure if Berewa had won, it could have been a graceful ceremony.
The APC is entrusted with a responsibility SLPP has carelessly dissuaded; the SLPP betrayed the confidence of the people. The APC should avoid any doctrine that literally decapitated the plam tree and rule in democratic fashion, a government of ‘national unity’ as stated by the APC leader, is not necessarily the best method of governance applicable to our country neither is it democratic; Kabba craftily used this same slogan not only to confuse but to also abuse the intelligence of the ordinary Sierra Leonean, whilst he misused greedy and selfish politicians for over 10 years. There was a slight justification though, ‘just emerging from rebel conflict’
Sierra Leoneans wanted a change through a democratic means, the voted overwhelmingly, irrespective of ethnicity and they expect democratic procedures in governing the affairs of the state and not sectarian ideology.
Mr. President, be warned against maintaining the status qou, which is the failed doctrine ‘government of national unity,’ practiced by your predecessor and rather establish a new governance paradigm, stick to the Democratic system.
The people of Sierra Leone want a change, a transparent one yah.
Lek all man day nar in lane!!
Subject: Re: Why the hasty democratic transition, any explanation please…
From: Jackal
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Date Posted: 16:06:24 09/18/07 ()
Email Address: dollarbill@gmail.com
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CORRECTION TO PREVIOUS POST
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I am interested in helping you answer your question, but that is my opinion not the truth.
1. There was no need for ceremonious delays. It helped resolve conflicts and tensions.
2. Kabbah may have wanted to show he was ready to handover quickly.
3. Kabbah was embarrased or needed to hand over the mess before questions start coming.
"The NPRC, a very good for nothing military junta gave SLPP reasonable time, prior a recognized handover ceremony"
Here I refuse to agree with you. Good for nothing is relatively your opinion. Compare the GDP growth of all governements. Compare the currency stability, consumer price index, foreign exchange stability, and public sector wage increases.(Non has been done since the NPRC increased wages by 100%)
If you think Sierra Leone had a good governement, lets use thier numbers as the baseline for comparative analysis; that is if you know economics or finance.
Subject: Re: Why the hasty democratic transition, any explanation please…
From: Med
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Date Posted: 16:44:47 09/18/07 ()
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The Jackal, your opinionated justification is aptly accepted and classified as a means to an end.
The NPRC, that you claim to be the best government, leaves me with only one option; that you have very little knowledge of the mishaps this bunch of incompetent naïve and teenage soldiers perpetrated on the economy of Sierra Leone. I suppose that you have an understanding of financial economics and yet could not distinguish between levels of financial misappropriation, abuse of authority etc. I would like to also register, as a basics of any future augment on NPRC, you should note that any military junta + NPRC, governs by decree, their first move is to suspend the constitution, do you really understand what it means to suspend a National Constitution, I suppose yes, thus, NPRC could not reasonably be compared to any government or institution that function under a given law or a constitution. This is not about financial economics, please. I still uphold my view on the NPRC.
Cheers.
Subject: Re: Why the hasty democratic transition, any explanation please…
From: Jackal
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Date Posted: 20:03:50 09/18/07 ()
Email Address: dollarbill@gmail.com
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"The NPRC, that you claim to be the best government"
I DID NOT CLAIM THE ABOVE IN MY RESPONSE TO YOUR POST. I DID NOT INFER THAT EITHER. I JUST WANTED TO CLEAR YOUR CONTENTION.
Subject: Re: Why the hasty democratic transition, any explanation please…
From: Jackal
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Date Posted: 19:58:33 09/18/07 ()
Email Address: dollarbill@gmail.com
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I think you should hold firmly to your view. Wheter it is military rule or civilian rule one thing is certain; at the end of each fiscal year, numbers are collected showing what was bought, sold and expensed.
Now Sir my simple point is that if you think the NPRC was good for nothing, that is your opinion. It is my opinion that you may have a bias.
I think so because according to the GDP or concsumer price index. Those are one of many economic indicators. Did you know that the dollar was at a stable rate of Le 550 until Kabbah took over in 1996 when it jumped to 960? That is a 43% increase. Today it is Le 3000. Do the math and see the percentage variance and tell me what you really think.
I would like you to seriously name the best government. I can supply you thier GDP, GNP, CONSUMER PRICE INDEX, RATE OF UNEMPLOYMENT, CURRENCY EXCHANGE RATE.
Subject: Re: Why the hasty democratic transition, any explanation please…
From: Jackal
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Date Posted: 16:04:06 09/18/07 ()
Email Address: dollarbill@gmail.com
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I am interested in helping you answer your question, but that is my opinion not the truth.
1. There was need for ceremonious delays. It helped resolve conflicts and tensions.
2. Kabbah may have wanted to show he was ready to handover quickly.
3. Kabbah was embarrased or needed to hand over the mess before questions start coming.
"The NPRC, a very good for nothing military junta gave SLPP reasonable time, prior a recognized handover ceremony"
Here I refuse to agree with you. Good for nothing is relatively your opinion. Compare the GDP growth of all governements. Compare the currency stability, consumer price index, foreign exchange stability, and public sector wage increases.(Non has been done since the NPRC increased wages by 100%)
If you think Sierra Leone had a good governement, lets use thier numbers as the baseline for comparative analysis; that is if you know economics of finance.
Subject: Presidential Inauguration Pictures
From: Sheku Sheriff
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Date Posted: 15:41:50 09/18/07 ()
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Hi All check out more pictures and my analysis of the inauguration at www.segbwema.blogspot.com.
Subject: Re: Presidential Inauguration Pictures
From: Shembu
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Date Posted: 16:56:25 09/18/07 ()
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Shek,
You need to check your URL. It does not seem to work.
Subject: Re: Presidential Inauguration Pictures
From: Sheku Sheriff
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Date Posted: 19:13:17 09/18/07 ()
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it is www.segbwema.blogspot.com
Subject: JC to Clear Freetown Dec 29
From: Sorba S
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Date Posted: 15:03:19 09/18/07 ()
Email Address: sorba_1@yahoo.com
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Hi every one I am sorry I did not get back to some of the responses received yesterday about the cleaning of our beloved city. If you are interested, you can contact on the following email- solomon1212@yahoo.com of which I can forward my telephone number to all of you. I look forward to hearing from all that are interested. Emmanuel Strfford you can email me and I will give you more info on this. I have already spoken to some foux about. I also invite more ideas as to how we can go about it smothly.
Thank you all. My God continue to bless our beloved Sierra Leone.
In Concert
Sorba.
Subject: Re: JC to Clear Freetown Dec 29
From: Mohamed Fofana
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Date Posted: 15:55:22 09/18/07 ()
Email Address: mfofana2004@sbcglobal.net
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You have a good idea for cleaning the city. It can be done under difficulty with the present planning condition of the city. One of the best ways to pick up trash from houses is by having block system planning of the city or town. With the block system, you have excellent road network for Garbage trucks to around the block and easily pick up trash cans. Even if you have garbage truck, it will be difficult to around and pick up trash cans due to lack of access roads.
In addition, a law has to be enforced that littering is prohibited those cited will face severe penalty. House will be supplied with trash cans and pick up is done by the city or private contractor paid by the city, not the government. The cities have to get their act together for running the city government.
When a city gets too big or populated, it should split. An example will be Freetown. I think that the city of Freetown is too big. It should be divided into City of Lumley, City of Hills station, City of Aberdeen and Murray town combined, City of central Freetown, city of Kissy, City of Calaba town, etc. The cities compete in terms of developing their own city. Each city has its own Mayor and city government. Each city has its own hospitals, market, city hall, source of power, water etc. The same should apply to the provinces.
Those who know how houses are built in Freetown knows what I am talking about. Someones from yard is another person's back yard or side. No city planing!!
However, this is way forward in the long run.
Subject: Re: JC to Clear Freetown Dec 29
From: Ibrahim Turay
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Date Posted: 00:45:55 09/19/07 ()
Email Address: imtu71@hotmail.com
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Is this my boss Mr. Mohamed from boston??? This is your strategic assistant (lol).
Subject: Re: JC to Clear Freetown Dec 29
From: Sorba S
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Date Posted: 16:34:07 09/18/07 ()
Email Address: sorba_1@yahoo.com
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Thanks Mo
Good analysis but the idea is not how and what to do. The idea is to take a day and focus on cleaning the city. We don't even have to clean every where but whatever we can do to help get rid of some mosquitos will save many lives. Just think of it that way.
Subject: Violence and looting yesterday
From: Patriot
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Date Posted: 14:32:16 09/18/07 ()
Email Address: thenewsletter@hotmail.com
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I am totally against violence in any shape or form.
In decrying the half-starved, angry youths who wreaked havoc yesterday, let us not forget that any call for non-violence must also take into account the more subtle but deadly kinds of violence: the violence of mismanaging resources and pushing people to the edge -to the point of starvation and destitution; the violence of poverty, the violence of oppression, corruption, greed, bribery,etc. Anything unpatriotic that we do paves the way for violence. No situation of violence stands in opposition to its past. These are the youths that a cycle of all these ill have produced over the past thirty years under the Old APC and the SLPP. While we condemn violence, we really should not be surprised at the behaviour of our angry youths. Hopefully, the new APC will not fail our children. Please lift us out of the quagmire.
Subject: Re: Violence and looting yesterday
From: SUBWANALAI
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Date Posted: 15:21:21 09/18/07 ()
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Point Patriot. Violence should be condemned by Ernest Koroma right from the onset. Let's continue to use the only lethal weapon. Intelligence.
Subject: President Ernest Bai Koroma gets sworn in to office in Sierr
From: Bamaby Lans Kamara
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Date Posted: 14:02:44 09/18/07 ()
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Please click above link to view photograph taken today at State House, Freetown, Sierra Leone of the swearing–in ceremony of Sierra Leone new President H.E Ernest Bai Koroma. Photos include the new vice President Samuel Sam Sumana as well as the outgoing President Kabbah and Vice President Solomon Berewa please stay tuned for the full report of today’s day of drama that started with the invalidation of hundreds of thousand of ballots and ended with the looting and destruction of the SLPP Head Quarter Office in Freetown.
Subject: SHAMEFUL: TRULY SHAMEFUL!
From: slpp forum
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Date Posted: 13:54:14 09/18/07 ()
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Welcome to the S.L.P.P. Forum
Re: The Time for Politics and Campaigning is Over
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Posted by Martha Kposowa on September 18, 2007 at 13:50:52:
In Reply to: The Time for Politics and Campaigning is Over posted by John Mannah on September 18, 2007 at 12:51:20:
"This is where the commentaries by some of our members on this forum comes in relevant."
Dr. Mannah, please note that your statement quoted above is ungrammatical. I ask that you kindly correct it because some of us allow our children to read this forum's postings to try to learn about Sierra Leone. It would be rather unfortunate if they should have their elementary school English lessons negated by your repeated mistakes of grammar.
Thank you for your anticipated cooperation.
Subject: Re: SHAMEFUL: TRULY SHAMEFUL!
From: Poro
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Date Posted: 16:07:30 09/18/07 ()
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One of the key reasons why Sierra Leone as a nation continues to fail is because we are always focusing on the wrong thing. When you read articles/opinions, please concentrate on the message rather than the grammer. If you need to demonstrate your mastery of English, please go to the university. In Sierra Leone, when a need for a job arises, we concentrate on the number of academic degrees instead of the experience required to get the job done. The APC did the mistake of hiring a lot of Phd holders in the 80s and early 90s with little or no regard to their work experience relative to the job at hand. In Sierra Leone today, you can easily get a masters degree without a good WASSCE result. Let us learn from these mistakes going forward.
Let us be positive going forward and forget about our political affiliations at least for now.
Subject: Re: SHAMEFUL: TRULY SHAMEFUL!
From: Ropo
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Date Posted: 09:08:44 09/19/07 ()
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"One of the key reasons why Sierra Leone as a nation continues to fail is because we are always focusing on the wrong thing."
Very true. You are an example of those Sierra Leoneans who focus on one of those wrong things as can be seen from your appeal for medicority: "When you read articles/opinions, please concentrate on the message rather than the grammer."
Although you don't know it, an untidy mind produces untidy results. Your post is proof that what our country needs is people NOT like you who seek to accept medicocrity instead of striving to improve their minds so as to improve their chances of success as we try to build Sierra Leone.
What we need for Sierra Leone to progress are people who, having been shown their deficiencies, will try to improve themselves in life, rathher lazily seeking to wallow in them on this or that lazy excuse.
Subject: Re: SHAMEFUL: TRULY SHAMEFUL!
From: Ashmau
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Date Posted: 14:16:00 09/18/07 ()
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Is this the calibre of people that Berewa would have put in an Slpp goverrment had he won the elections?
Subject: Former Vice-President Solomon Berewa congratulates President
From: Bambay Lans Kamara
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Date Posted: 13:32:54 09/18/07 ()
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Only hours after he was declared winner of the 2007 Presidential Runoffs , Ernest Bai Koroma entered destiny with pomp and paegentry today as he was sworn in as the next President of Sierra Leone . In a very colorful and dramatic occasion at State House, outgoing Vice-President Solomon Berewa, the defeated SLPP Presidential candidate , pledged his support for Mr. Koroma and offered to be consulted at any time if required to provide advice to the new government
Read report and pictures by Joseph Kamanda
I resemble somebody in that picture.
Subject: Re: Former Vice-President Solomon Berewa congratulates President
From: SUBWANALAI
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Date Posted: 13:45:11 09/18/07 ()
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What is your motive here Bambay? Are you trying to divert our attention from a pertinent issue? We are talking about economic criminals, and you are feeding us with this crap; which is stale news, anyway. TAKE AM EASY OH. NA WE ALL BEGIN DIS STRUGGLE, but the revolution shall soon start eating it's own children
Subject: Re: Former Vice-President Solomon Berewa congratulates President
From: Bamaby Lans Kamara
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Date Posted: 14:43:38 09/18/07 ()
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SUBWANALAI, we are moving forward. All the people you see in those photographs are educated, some of them educators who have studied "Constructivism and the underlying theories. It is from this I learned to deal with human beings and situation from the perspective of the know and those who do not know, the rich and the powerful and those who are not, those who are willing to learn and those who resist learning. I have had experiences and know that in a time as this, we must be hopping for what is best, avoiding the mindset of a failure who always look at issues from a blored view as oppose to the successful who look at things from an optimistic view. Bellow is an explanation of what I mean:
Bellow
"The constructivistic approach to teaching and learning is based on a combination of a subset of research within cognitive psychology and a subset of research within social psychology, just as behavior modification techniques are based on operant conditioning theory within behavioral psychology. The basic premise is that an individual learner must actively "build" knowledge and skills (e.g., Bruner, 1990) and that information exists within these built constructs rather than in the external environment. [See Ullman (1980) versus Gibson (1979) for an overview of this controversy within the cognitive perspective.] However, all advocates of constructivism agree that it is the individual's processing of stimuli from the environment and the resulting cognitive structures, that produce adaptive behavior, rather than the stimuli themselves (Harnard, 1982). John Dewey (1933/1998) is often cited as the philosophical founder of this approach; Ausubel (1968), Bruner (1990), and Piaget (1972) are considered the chief theorists among the cognitive constructionists, while Vygotsky (1978) is the major theorist among the social constructionists. Activity theory and situated learning are two examples of modern work based on the work of Vygotsky and some of his followers."
The major theorists for the development of operant conditioning are Edward Thorndike, John Watson, and B. F. Skinner. This approach to behaviorism played a major role in the development of the science of psychology, especially in the United States. They proposed that learning is the result of the application of consequences; that is, learners begin to connect certain responses with certain stimuli. This connection causes the probability of the response to change (i.e., learning occurs.)
Thorndike labeled this type of learning instrumental. Using consequences, he taught kittens to manipulate a latch (e.g., an instrument). Skinner renamed instrumental as operant because it is more descr1ptive (i.e., in this learning, one is "operating" on, and is influenced by, the environment). Where classical conditioning illustrates S-->R learning, operant conditioning is often viewed as R-->S learning since it is the consequence that follows the response that influences whether the response is likely or unlikely to occur again. It is through operant conditioning that voluntary responses are learned.
The 3-term model of operant conditioning (S--> R -->S) incorporates the concept that responses cannot occur without an environmental event (e.g., an antecedent stimulus) preceding it. While the antecedent stimulus in operant conditioning does not elicit or cause the response (as it does in classical), it can influence it. When the antecedent does influence the likelihood of a response occurring, it is technically called a discriminative stimulus.
It is the stimulus that follows a voluntary response (i.e., the response's consequence) that changes the probability of whether the response is likely or unlikely to occur again. There are two types of consequences: positive (sometimes called pleasant) and negative (sometimes called aversive). These can be added to or taken away from the environment in order to change the probability of a given response occurring again.
General Principles
There are 4 major techniques or methods used in operant conditioning. They result from combining the two major purposes of operant conditioning (increasing or decreasing the probability that a specific behavior will occur in the future), the types of stimuli used (positive/pleasant or negative/aversive), and the action taken (adding or removing the stimulus)."
I actually do not have time to read over.
See and learn as those who know see the world and how it should be:
Subject: Re: Former Vice-President Solomon Berewa congratulates Presi
From: Bankie Libaman
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Date Posted: 17:25:08 09/18/07 ()
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Bo paddy stop. You just go copy en paste lek nar you aid e komot. You should have referenced the material for brevity sake. Please let's deliberate simple and pragmatic solutions. You don't want to loose your audience please.
Subject: Re: Former Vice-President Solomon Berewa congratulates Presi
From: Bambay Lans Kamara
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Date Posted: 20:35:52 09/18/07 ()
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"discipline." If you can understand that.
Subject: Re: Former Vice-President Solomon Berewa congratulates President
From: Shembu
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Date Posted: 15:17:45 09/18/07 ()
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Bambay,
Am I lost or what? What brought us to your graduate term paper on methods of teachings. Why did you have the need to flex your cognitive muscles on us. How many folks on this forum do you think have a clue about what you are talking? Not trying to counter any of your intentions but I honestly think this is our main problem in S/L. All this so-called educated people duel on speaking the language no one understands except them. In the process they steal all the people's money and shamelessly end up back in the west doing menial jobs after overspending their looted wealth. Keep it simple for the ordinary folks and flex your academic know-how within the four walls of a classroom. Please!
Thank you.
Subject: Re: Former Vice-President Solomon Berewa congratulates President
From: SUBWANALAI
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Date Posted: 15:08:39 09/18/07 ()
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Pheeeeeeeww! Well done Bambay for plagerising. I still stand by my word that you have got to becareful or else you will be the first child to be eaten by this revolution. Instead of posting such gabbage, get down your high horse and discuss issues in simple language for the common man we purport to fight for to understand. Such directionless and inappropriate "thesis" will only confuse the people. But tha is what some of you Siaka-type "Davidson Nicols" want. Confuse the people with big jargons while you plunder the resources. No way..De Yai De Watch Una Dis Time Round
Subject: Re: Former Vice-President Solomon Berewa congratulates President
From: BUFORD HWY
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Date Posted: 08:20:26 09/19/07 ()
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MARCAVELLI........The making of the king
Subject: Inquiry into the people's stole millions is no witch hunt!
From: Mammy Blessing
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Date Posted: 13:10:51 09/18/07 ()
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The quandry facing every new government is how to conduct an impartial inquiry into the looting of the treasury without the exercise descending into a witch hunt.
Prez Koroma can avoid the charge of gunning for the SLPP by instituting a truly independent commission by pushing legislation through parliament with the following features:
1)The commission should include judges, representatives of civil society, senior judges unsoiled senior, soldiers and police, representatives from international anti-corruption groups like Transparency international, and U.N representatives.
2)Local and foreign auditors mandated to go over the books thorougly.
3) Supporting staff including police back-up.
4) Complete independence (like NEC's) from political independence.
This will not only result in an unreproachable outcome but also serve as a strong disincentive to future politician-thieves.
Subject: Re: Inquiry into the people's stole millions is no witch hunt!
From: Cornelius Hamelberg
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Date Posted: 14:15:05 09/18/07 ()
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It is not only in areas under the purview of auditors and accountants that high crime and other forms of bribery, looting and coruption has taken place........
Subject: Re: Inquiry into the people's stole millions is no witch hunt!
From: Cornelius Hamelberg
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Date Posted: 14:09:53 09/18/07 ()
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This topic will not go away for some time to come and I hope that the Cocorioko archives will soon be in order, so that we may be able to make quick references to older material.
The points that Mammy Blessings take up demand a serious looking into and Dr. Abdulai Conteh and other legal luminaries will no doubt be offering some of their know-how to us ordinary folks in a language which we all understand……
Mr. Professor Henry Joko-Smart will undoubtedly be offering his competence and experience in that area and he knows more than many others about the obstacles/ obstructions lack of power and political will and other difficulties that he has encountered as director of that department that he no doubt can continue to direct.
I would prefer e.g. Judge Bankole Thompson and British Judges or Commonwealth judges to preside on some higher profile cases (- no uncle tom am I, but their neutrality is more assured than that of you or the undecorated me)
Before leaving office, President Kabbah decorated several of the judges. He also decorated Dr. Sylvia Blyden for her services to journalism.
Should former A-G Berewa or Kabbah appear before those judges, ah, they will look each other in the eye and smile……..brother to brother….old times…..
No.
Seriously,
The whole idea of accountability through a Commission of Inquiry can smack of persecution – and not just the pursuit of Justice and setting a bright example – a precedent which can also act as a deterrent, especially if it is merely seen as an APC investigation of the crimes that the SLPP could have committed whilst in office.
I can hear Mammy Blessing scream “Could have? “ You mean HAVE! Why do you think that they sought to pass legislation that would give then immunity from prosecution for crimes they could have committed whilst in office? No smoke without fire and it’s hard to fathom why such self-protection should have been necessary in the first place if there is nothing to hide or any hanky-panky / yuki-yuki to account for.
Evidence is there no doubt, several miles long, a pyramid of evidence which I assume corresponds to the all -pervasive structure of the crimes that Mr. Kabbah has repeatedly said is to be found at every level of his society – and we know that his society does not include the Porro Society, as he made clear with reference to the practices of the then Kamajoria and their high priest…….
As we cheered Mr. Kabbah advising that the SLPP-ers desist with going down with their pleas for an “injunction” I thought that it was the same kind of tacit “injunction” of understanding that has protected some of the high and mighty from investigation and prosecution – it’s been the same in Nigeria - that the Attorney-General’s office is the one that approves and who does the Attorney –general take orders / advice from or and by whom is his bread buttered?
Mr. Berewa must have tremendous insights into all of that.
And when we read that both Mr. Kabbah and Mr. Berewa had been shaking hands with the new Commander-in-Chief (no commander-in-thief is he) it dawned on me that KB
(Kabbah-Berewa was now going to be very nice guys to Ernest and the-powers-that-be or at least not go out of their way to in any way antagonise them.
Well in Nigeria it has been said that Hogah Obasanjo has variously used the EFCC (Economic & Financial Crimes Commission) as apolitical tool with which to obtain certain types of compliance: You do this OR we investigate you………
There is much to learn from the largely successful EFCC of Nigeria.
The Auditor –General’s reports is just one stepping stone to giving us an idea of the extent of what Mr. Kabbah has been talking about since the creation of the Anti Corruption Commission on February 3, 2000.
Let it not come to a point of impotence when Stephen Sackur should be interviewing President Ernest Bai Koroma and saying to him, “But people say that you are a toothless Chimpanzee” etc. GOD FORBID!
Ernest B has made it very clear even talking here:
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/b16d692a-62f3-11dc-b3ad-0000779fd2ac.html
Subject: Re: Inquiry into the people's stolemillions is no witch hunt!
From: Cornelius Hamelberg
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Date Posted: 14:46:57 09/18/07 ()
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This is a re-posting since I notice repetitions and other mistakes that I did not post. So I post the original one more time and see what happens:
This topic will not go away for some time to come and I hope that the Cocorioko archives will soon be in order, so that we may be able to make quick references to older material.
The points that Mammy Blessings take up demand a serious looking into and Dr. Abdulai Conteh and other legal luminaries will no doubt be offering some of their know-how to us ordinary folks in a language which we all understand……
Mr. Professor Henry Joko-Smart will undoubtedly be offering his competence and experience in that area and he knows more than many others about the obstacles/ obstructions lack of power and political will and other difficulties that he has encountered as director of that department that he no doubt can continue to direct.
I would prefer e.g. Judge Bankole Thompson and British Judges or Commonwealth judges to preside on some higher profile cases (- no uncle tom am I, but their neutrality is more assured than that of you or the undecorated me)
Before leaving office, President Kabbah decorated several of the judges. He also decorated Dr. Sylvia Blyden for her services to journalism.
Should former A-G Berewa or Kabbah appear before those judges, ah, they will look each other in the eye and smile……..brother to brother….old times…..
No.
Seriously,
The whole idea of accountability through a Commission of Inquiry can smack of persecution – and not just the pursuit of Justice and setting a bright example – a precedent which can also act as a deterrent, especially if it is merely seen as an APC investigation of the crimes that the SLPP could have committed whilst in office.
I can hear Mammy Blessing scream “Could have? “ You mean HAVE! Why do you think that they sought to pass legislation that would give then immunity from prosecution for crimes they could have committed whilst in office? No smoke without fire and it’s hard to fathom why such self-protection should have been necessary in the first place if there is nothing to hide or any hanky-panky / yuki-yuki to account for.
Evidence is there no doubt, several miles long, a pyramid of evidence which I assume corresponds to the all -pervasive structure of the crimes that Mr. Kabbah has repeatedly said is to be found at every level of his society – and we know that his society does not include the Porro Society, as he made clear with reference to the practices of the then Kamajoria and their high priest…….
As we cheered Mr. Kabbah advising that the SLPP-ers desist with going down with their pleas for an “injunction” I thought that it was the same kind of tacit “injunction” of understanding that has protected some of the high and mighty from investigation and prosecution – it’s been the same in Nigeria - that the Attorney-General’s office is the one that approves and who does the Attorney –general take orders / advice from or and by whom is his bread buttered?
Mr. Berewa must have tremendous insights into all of that.
And when we read that both Mr. Kabbah and Mr. Berewa had been shaking hands with the new Commander-in-Chief (no commander-in-thief is he) it dawned on me that KB
(Kabbah-Berewa was now going to be very nice guys to Ernest and the-powers-that-be or at least not go out of their way to in any way antagonise them.
Well in Nigeria it has been said that Hogah Obasanjo has variously used the EFCC (Economic & Financial Crimes Commission) as apolitical tool with which to obtain certain types of compliance: You do this OR we investigate you………
There is much to learn from the largely successful EFCC of Nigeria.
The Auditor –General’s reports is just one stepping stone to giving us an idea of the extent of what Mr. Kabbah has been talking about since the creation of the Anti Corruption Commission on February 3, 2000.
Let it not come to a point of impotence when Stephen Sackur should be interviewing President Ernest Bai Koroma and saying to him, “But people say that you are a toothless Chimpanzee” etc. GOD FORBID!
Ernest B has made it very clear even talking here:
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/b16d692a-62f3-11dc-b3ad-0000779fd2ac.html
Subject: Re: Inquiry into the people's stole millions is no witch hunt!
From: Mammy Blessing
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Date Posted: 13:13:15 09/18/07 ()
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I meant to write Stolen millions...Oh well!
Subject: Re: Inquiry into the people's stole millions is no witch hunt!
From: Cornelius Hamelberg
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Date Posted: 15:12:37 09/18/07 ()
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Many many millions
Subject: Re: Inquiry into the people's stole millions is no witch hunt!
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Date Posted: 13:28:19 09/18/07 ()
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Mammy Blessing,like you read somewhere on this forum, I strongly support this view. Poor Sierra Leoneans have been taken for a ride for far too long. It's about time we make sure that those who have no business in politics stay out of it. That "NA WE TURN" mentality, should be buried 6000 feet down, and with a burst.
Facing a Commision of Inquiry does not pre-suppose that you are guilty; in fact it makes a saint of some people perceived to be evil. Bring it on Ernest!
Subject: Mr. Pam Tick don die
From: BOB
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Date Posted: 13:03:44 09/18/07 ()
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I regret to announce the death of Mr. Palm tree commonly know as Topoi, who died as a result of the rising sun on Sept 17th 2007. He is survived by 2 brooms and palm fruits.
He has no friends and will be buried next week in the western region of salone where he provided no electricity, no water and where all his corrupt relatives live.
the funeral service will be broadcast live on FM 98.1. Stay tuned
Subject: Pictures
From: Boli
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Date Posted: 12:51:28 09/18/07 ()
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Whatever you say about Awareness Times, they are the first to put pictures of the inauguration up. Cokorioco still has not given us any good pictures yet....that is journalism.
....watin, you wan ban me?
Subject: Re: Pictures
From: Candid Opinion
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Date Posted: 13:02:32 09/18/07 ()
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HEHEHEH
I was going to say the same thing..
But you know.. Afaid that with my prodigal stature..
Man betteh thread lightly.
Subject: Re: Pictures
From: Boli
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Date Posted: 13:09:19 09/18/07 ()
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nar for waka saful saful. But its the truth. Journalism is about giving information rather than being partisan and banning people left, right and centre.
If you don't hear from me again, you know I have been put in the dog-house
Subject: Re: Pictures
From: Tejan Kamara
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Date Posted: 18:46:45 09/18/07 ()
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You guys are really trying to pull Kabs Kanu down because he helped APC remove you from power. Cocorioko is being praised by grateful APC members for the role it played in defeating SLPP.Is that why you have failed to note that Cocorioko published the inauguration pictures first, since yesterday afternoon ? The number of pictures dont matter. It is the quality.You guys could kill Kabs now I can see.
Subject: Re: Pictures
From: KABS KANU
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Date Posted: 19:29:49 09/18/07 ()
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Tejan,
It is the same person talking to himself but who says I have time for him ? They have been making these comparisons from time immemorial after Awareness Times began licking Berewa's boots but on a day like today, have I not triumphed over them ?
Subject: Re: Pictures
From: Observer
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Date Posted: 20:08:43 09/18/07 ()
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Please join me in thanking the reverend for a job well done. He was the first to print the inauguration pictures. I can bet my gramma's oku lappa that had Kab's been on the ground like other journalists were, he would have sent more pics than what he was able to provide. ... and he's not even paid a shilling for his good work.
If you're reading this, Kabs, I want to tell you that you are doing a swell job. I your unbiased coverage of the past electoral storm. Now that the waves have simmered, I hope the SLPP will learn from the lessons of gongorlee journalism.
Had the self-styled SLPP ragtag mouthpiece reported the storm like it was, I'm sure the SLPP captain and crew would have navigated the waters differently. I hope the new government can learn from the mistakes of the SLPP and not buy into the BABUWOTHO overtures of Worwor Blyden.
BABU BLYDEN is mostly to blame for giving the the SLPP false hopes and misinformation that wrecked the SLPP ship on the YOU-GO-SOBBER rocks of wayo-wayo reality.
Kabs, your probono coverage of news from the homeland is highly appreciated. No PHD (pull him/her down) will shake the heights you've placed yourself among good sprited Sierra Leonean, and no medal can compare with the one you've won from the hearts of peace and progress loving Sierra Leoneans.
Keep it up Revo!!
Subject: Sylvia Blyden - why not....?
From: Cornelius Hamelberg
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Date Posted: 11:53:08 09/18/07 ()
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Sylvia!
Always at the centre of some storm. I hope that she is safe where she is, wherever she is and there is no reason to be afraid. President Ernest Bai Koroma is committed to the rule of LAW.
Sylvia was the greatest advocate and defender of her sister Dr. Lady Christiana Thorpe when many – even in this Forum had doubts about her.
I have never written anything in a Sierra Leone newspaper on line or in print. I’m in this or that forum, not to teach, but to get people to think. Teaching perhaps involves some “make-make” and I don’t like that. There are of course various levels of the “Make-make” and much room for misunderstanding too, and even misunderstanding questions we are asked: That’s the most difficult part and of course I am not and do not intend to be some father confessor who corrects. But anything - even the “Satanic Verses “can be discussed by those who have a monopoly on truth or who believe that God has only spoken to them, but not to me or you or him or her ……or us.
In politics generally and in African politics in particular it’s like a war between government and the opposition whose function it is to OPPOSE!
No neutral ground and as our man sang
“Now there's spiritual warfare and flesh and blood breaking down.
Ya either got faith or ya got unbelief and there ain't no neutral ground.
The enemy is subtle, how be it we are so deceived………” etc check it out:
http://www.bobdylan.com/moderntimes/songs/precious.html
President George W Bush made it even more clear: “Either you are with us, or you are with the terrorists” (Applause.)
The Rev Kabbs Kanu in particular should check this out:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/You're_either_with_us,_or_against_us
We must appreciate that it should be difficult to be in the newspaper business like a paramahansa (leave the spirituality out of it, and just observe the sedate aloofness of the majestic swan in water, feet out of sight, paddling below and head held up high above the murky waters ). It’s difficult to be that or neutral, wholly objective, above clientism or patronage, even when courted by the powers that be and not be politically involved, in muddy/ muddied political waters, cross currents and controversies between political rivals.
The scene is not only one of heated political debate ( the Sierra Leone press is mostly political) between rival parties - a powerful government side and - always – a struggling opposition side ( difficult to imagine the SLPP so recently swept away from power as being a weak opposition side , isn’t it?)
The context – and in our case the muddy political waters are further disturbed by draconian press laws and in our Sierra Leone of late, being politically involved in the rough ride local political power system you have not forgotten those prominent landmarks of what can happen because we have permanent reminders of the outstanding cases of Paul Kamara, Harry Yansanneh, Philip Neville. So we have an idea of what a newspaper person is up against.
In Sweden just as in most African countries that enjoy a free press, the press can be very opinionated, can be divided along strict or not so strict party lines and depending on the degrees of press freedom and of the freedom of information acts, can be one of the main sources of informing the public about what’s happening. The press and not the ministry of information.
In Sweden even parliamentary issues are often debated through the agency of the press and there are often articles written in daily newspapers by e.g. the prime minister, other ministers on current issues – policy issues that are also being discussed or debated in parliament. The press is a forum for free discussions and opinions.
I have not witnessed our own Sierra Leone political leaders debate forum in any of the local Sierra Leone newspapers – neither Mr. Kabbah nor Mr. Berewa or any of our ministers , ambassadors etc.
What I have observed about much of the Sierra Leone press January 2003 to now is that there is much of the Animal Farm “Four legs good, two legs bad” syndrome. In which the pro SLPP press and people would be good old four legs and two legs would tend to be Pa Shaki and the hysteria from hysterical SLPP mouthpieces/ spokes- ladies and gentlemen would be telling us, “Surely comrades, you don’t want old two legs – and sometimes even old one leg (one party) back do you, shaking their piggy tails like squealer……
Now let’s get to dear Sylvia and we are talking about someone who evolved from being a Pippi Longstocking to Pippi in charge of a newspaper called “AWARENESS TIMES”. The name of the paper declares its function. The editor is ware and has an agenda, to make and keep you AWARE.
You would think that it would be an opposition newspaper because - because of so many shortcomings, in Africa especially, the government is always the BAD GUY – and so truly effective newspaper in my opinion is obviously wholly compromised when it starts sleeping with the president, ministers and becomes their surrogate mouthpiece. Not that Sylvia has been doing that, but she has - as we all can see, had her own axes to grind with e.g. the honourable John Leigh – who has been true – to his won flexible principles, the latest of which was (if APC controls parliament, then gentlemen please – said he – please vote solidly for Berewa so that the SLPP will control the Executive. I merely asked him and if you as leader of the SLPP had obtained a majority of seats in the parliament, would you be advocating that we all please vote for the leader of the APC to take possession of the coveted presidency?
They answered the question most suitably, and what will he say now?
Sympathy for Sylvia:
I have heard some of the things said about Sylvia also being said about Hilton Fyle – even by his own relatives some of whom have lamented his getting involved in politics – a place in which virtue and integrity is compromised without much difficulty if you have nothing stronger to hold on to – that’s why God and not man (Krio, Mende or great Yoruba is my guiding light.
As the election campaign heated up the sides got more clearly divided and apparently Sylvia became more SLPP … I don’t know…. I didn’t visit Awareness Times that much – all in all since it began, les than a dozen times…… but this criticism of the UN and the alleged collusion with Opongo Benjamin, John Karimu etc is all foreign to me….. Can’t understand it (even if I read it)
The young lady (whose dad Babatunde Edward Blyden was a sometime mentor and inspirator of yours truly) is of an independent and sometimes impulsive spirit.
By now - today – she’s even more experienced than she was yesterday – in throwing in her lot whole heartedly – with what ever side it is (maybe Jesus’) in which she believes.
AS a newspaper woman it is a tremendous responsibility. Ours is still a semi-literate society and by literate I don’t just mean being able to read and write…. For even I was told recently – by one who has read and understood far less than I have, was told by this chap to “ TRY TO READ AND UNDERSTAND” - as if by reading and understanding a more complicated Hugh Trevor -Roper , I should necessarily agree with him, just because he is a doctor of so many philosophies and is so handsome and clever and all…..to the extent that his prognosis in which he wanted me to believe is that his SLPP was going to win the presidential election albeit with a margin of 1%...... all this because his name was David and the anointed of Alhaji Kabbah is called Solomon….. And I told him I don’t look up to any man / Mende Man…. Which was deemed not philosophic but tribalistic…… like scum…such crap I do not believe in……
So in our illiterate society, the one who wields the word - or is a source of information has tremendous responsibility – and can easily mislead….
It would seem that Sylvia has been serving the interests of the SLPP - and that should only be critical if in doing so she was deliberately sabotaging the truth or withholding it – although even that she or I can do in the interest of all of us…….. As someone ha said, she was giving us the other side – another side of the picture – a vital contribution to a vibrant press, like in the story of the three blind men and the elephant…
Until ambassador June Carter Perry has an update relevant to our present situation,
MY last word is still this
http://freetown.usembassy.gov/sp011706.html
Subject: Re: Sylvia Blyden - why not....? ( amended
From: Cornelius Hamelberg
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Date Posted: 13:18:02 09/18/07 ()
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Sylvia!
Always at the centre of some storm. I hope that she is safe where she is, wherever she is and there is no reason to be afraid. President Ernest Bai Koroma is committed to the rule of LAW.
Sylvia was the greatest advocate and defender of her sister Dr. Lady Christiana Thorpe when many – even in this Forum had doubts about her.
I have never written anything in a Sierra Leone newspaper on line or in print. I’m in this or that forum, not to teach, but to get people to think. Teaching perhaps involves some “make-make” and I don’t like that. There are of course various levels of the “Make-make” and much room for misunderstanding too, and even misunderstanding questions we are asked: That’s the most difficult part and of course I am not and do not intend to be some father confessor who corrects. But anything - even the “Satanic Verses “can be discussed by those who have a monopoly on truth or who believe that God has only spoken to them, but not to me or you or him or her ……or us.
In politics generally and in African politics in particular it’s like a war between government and the opposition whose function it is to OPPOSE!
No neutral ground and as our man sang
“Now there's spiritual warfare and flesh and blood breaking down.
Ya either got faith or ya got unbelief and there ain't no neutral ground.
The enemy is subtle, how be it we are so deceived………” etc check it out:
http://www.bobdylan.com/moderntimes/songs/precious.html
President George W Bush made it even more clear: “Either you are with us, or you are with the terrorists” (Applause.)
The Rev Kabbs Kanu in particular should check this out:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/You're_either_with_us,_or_against_us
We must appreciate that it should be difficult to be in the newspaper business like a paramahansa (leave the spirituality out of it, and just observe the sedate aloofness of the majestic swan in water, feet out of sight, paddling below and head held up high above the murky waters ). It’s difficult to be that or neutral, wholly objective, above clientism or patronage, even when courted by the powers that be and not be politically involved, in muddy/ muddied political waters, cross currents and controversies between political rivals.
The scene is not only one of heated political debate ( the Sierra Leone press is mostly political) between rival parties - a powerful government side and - always – a struggling opposition side ( difficult to imagine the SLPP so recently swept away from power as being a weak opposition side , isn’t it?)
The context – and in our case the muddy political waters are further disturbed by draconian press laws and in our Sierra Leone of late, being politically involved in the rough ride local political power system you have not forgotten those prominent landmarks of what can happen because we have permanent reminders of the outstanding cases of Paul Kamara, Harry Yansanneh, Philip Neville. So we have an idea of what a newspaper person is up against.
In Sweden just as in most African countries that enjoy a free press, the press can be very opinionated, can be divided along strict or not so strict party lines and depending on the degrees of press freedom and of the freedom of information acts, can be one of the main sources of informing the public about what’s happening. The press and not the ministry of information.
In Sweden even parliamentary issues are often debated through the agency of the press and there are often articles written in daily newspapers by e.g. the prime minister, other ministers on current issues – policy issues that are also being discussed or debated in parliament. The press is a forum for free discussions and opinions.
I have not witnessed our own Sierra Leone political leaders in debate forum in any of the local Sierra Leone newspapers – neither Mr. Kabbah nor Mr. Berewa or any of our ministers, ambassadors etc.
What I have observed about much of the Sierra Leone press January 2003 to now is that there is much of the Animal Farm “Four legs good, two legs bad” syndrome. In which the pro- SLPP press and people would be good old four legs and two legs would tend to be Pa Shaki and the hysteria from hysterical SLPP mouthpieces/ spokes- ladies and gentlemen would be telling us, “Surely comrades, you don’t want old two legs – and sometimes even old one leg (one party) back do you?”, shaking their piggy tails like squealer……
Now let’s get to dear Sylvia and we are talking about someone who evolved from being a Pippi Longstocking to Pippi in charge of a newspaper called “AWARENESS TIMES”. The name of the paper declares its function. The editor is aware and has an agenda, to make and keep you AWARE.
You would think that it would be an opposition newspaper because - because of so many shortcomings, in Africa especially, the government is always the BAD GUY – and so a truly effective newspaper in my opinion is obviously wholly compromised when it starts sleeping with the president, ministers and becomes their surrogate mouthpiece. Not that Sylvia has been doing that, but she has - as we all can see, had her own axes to grind with e.g. the honourable John Leigh – who has been true – to his own flexible principles, the latest of which was that if APC controls parliament, then gentlemen please – said he – please vote solidly for Berewa so that the SLPP will control the Executive. I merely asked him and if you as leader of the SLPP had obtained a majority of seats in the parliament, would you be advocating that we all please vote for the leader of the APC to take possession of the coveted presidency?
The people answered the question most suitably, and what will he say now?
Sympathy for Sylvia:
I have heard some of the things said about Sylvia also being said about Hilton Fyle – even by his own relatives some of whom have lamented his getting involved in politics – a place in which virtue and integrity is compromised without much difficulty if you have nothing stronger to hold on to – that’s why God and not man (Krio, Mende or from among the great Yoruba) is my guiding light.
As the election campaign heated up the sides got more clearly divided and apparently Sylvia became more SLPP … I don’t know…. I didn’t visit Awareness Times that much – all in all since it began, less than a dozen times…… but this criticism of the UN and the alleged collusion with Opongo Benjamin, John Karimu etc is all foreign to me….. Can’t understand it (even if I read it)
The young lady (whose dad Babatunde Edward Blyden was a sometime mentor and inspirator of yours truly) is of an independent and sometimes impulsive spirit.
By now - today – she’s even more experienced than she was yesterday – in throwing in her lot whole heartedly – with whatever side it is (maybe Jesus’) in which she believes.
As a newspaper woman it is a tremendous responsibility. Ours is still a semi-literate society and by literate I don’t just mean just being able to read and write…. For even I was told recently – by one who has read and understood far less than I have, was told by this chap to
“ TRY TO READ AND UNDERSTAND” - as if by reading and understanding a more complicated Hugh Trevor -Roper , I should necessarily agree with him, just because he is a doctor of so many philosophies and is so handsome and clever and all…..to the extent that his prognosis in which he wanted me to believe is that his SLPP was going to win the presidential election albeit with a margin of 1%...... all this because his name was David and the anointed of Alhaji Kabbah is called Solomon….. And I told him I don’t look up to any man / Mende Man…. Which was deemed not philosophic but tribalistic…… like scum…such crap I do not believe in……
So in our illiterate society, the one who wields the word - or is a source of information has tremendous responsibility – and can easily mislead….
It would seem that Sylvia has been serving the interests of the SLPP - and that should only be critical if in doing so she was deliberately sabotaging the truth or withholding it – although even that she or I can do in the interest of all of us…….. As someone has said, she was giving us the other side – another side of the picture – a vital contribution to a vibrant press, like in the story of the three blind men and the elephant…
Until ambassador June Carter Perry has an update relevant to our present situation,
MY last word is still this
http://freetown.usembassy.gov/sp011706.html
Subject: Re: Sylvia Blyden - why not....? ( amended
From: Erica Adams
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Date Posted: 14:19:31 09/18/07 ()
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You have to see through spiritual eyes to understand the danger of Sylvia. She has a Jezebel spirit. Men have to be very careful about the laps they lay their heads in. Although women like this are very charming and seductive, they secretly hate men; especially the men whose confidences they have gained. I hate to bring scr1pture into politics but Delilah is a prime example in the bible. Look at Judges 16 and start at verse 18. It means nothing to these kind of women to betray these men. The APC needs to stay as far away from Sylvia as possible. As a matter of fact, they need to make her life unbearable so that she won't even have a way to make a living in Sierra Leone. It's going to take other women to deal with Sylvia. If you look throughout this forum, you will only see men that she has used her charms on mentioned. Her greatest asset is what she does flat on her back and that's not going to work on women. Take this advice if you choose to, but if you don't, I promise you in years to come you all will be having this same discussion about Sylvia Blden.
Subject: Re: Sylvia Blyden - why not....? ( amended
From: Cornelius Hamelberg
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Date Posted: 16:21:28 09/18/07 ()
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Love can conquer hate.
About the possibility of her being a Jezebel or Delilah etc well, she's not the only one. As far as I know she is a practicing Christian and aware of her pedigree and ancestry, being a third generation descendant of Edward Wilmot Blyden. Her father, of sterling character was president of the Excelsior Fraternity of which I was a member – mentioning this is only to support my view that she comes from a very conservative Creole home – Conservative and Christiana as far as home training and good manners are concerned.
However I do notice a tendency in her and in many other Sierra Leoneans that I have met here (Leigh, Sengbe, Cadmus, Chez, etc) to be more ever ready to give answers and less so to speculatively examine a question from the many angles from which we are likely to get a more lasting answer…… as I have observed elsewhere, It's like this: if a house is built on a false foundation, it will fall. If a magnificent edifice is built on a false foundation - a fantastic superstructure of arguments is built on a false premise that structure is also liable to the same fate of demolition as if built on water, clouds or sand.
I understand Sylvia intuitively ( have never met her in person) and I'm sure that she has high ideals - even though high ideals are always a challenge to live up to - and I can say that there are certain things I wouldn't do for all the gold and diamonds of this world - and that's true.
How to face up to torture is another matter when you have to choose between the belly dancer and those hungry rottweiler dogs or crocodiles waiting for your flesh in the pit, or the buzz saw or electric drill, the average man has his Creator but not much else to resist with. A Pakistani guy used to tell me in Nigeria, that Abraham was thrown into a pot of boiling oil and the oil did not even touch him. I always told him I am Ham- elberg but not Abra-Ham…..
And yet still how to face temptation with the resistance of a Joseph is yet another matter (I suppose that even the Rev Kabbs Kanu should not pour gasoline all over himself and thus drenched, should not go and dance around Sylvia's fire and hope to get away without catching any fire......
But from all that to this extreme and inhumane judgment, what kind of person is it that writes thus about as harmless a person as Sylvia Blyden? She is not dangerous so it’s beyond comprehension that you could be so vindictive with words like
"As a matter of fact, they need to make her life unbearable so that she won't even have a way to make a living in Sierra Leone."
Sylvia has not yet met someone she respects and who really understands her – and who also respects her. Respect begets respect and I’m sure that if you respect her, she will not disrespect you even if she is medical doctor and you are not…….she has mostly met politicians and business leaders with varying strengths in principles , honesty , integrity or even ideology…..and there is also the basic essence called love……
Now you could kindly name me ten guys who I should look up to, and if you can’t find ten, just name me one …. Apart from Hon. Charles Margai…….
A question the springs to mind, about Sylvia’s integrity is: If she had been the electoral commissioner, what kind of moves should we have expected from her w surrounded as she would be by all those pressures, threats, temptations and intimidation?
SO you see she is strong in some ways, but not in all ways…… and therefore needs help in some ways.
The Almighty I blessed is He, is the Only 1 who does not need help ---- but even there it is part of Jewish understanding that we have to help the Almighty – to make this world abetter place. We have to Help Him and indeed otherwise we would have been born already circumcised, intili?
Now if we have to help the Almighty, how much more do we not have to help His Excellency president Ernest Bai Koroma and his government, not to mention our sister Sylvia……?
President Koroma has among his priorities, “to make peace with neighbours”
Love your neighbour as yourself. I am G-d.
Subject: Re: Sylvia Blyden - why not....? ( amended
From: freda maitland
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Date Posted: 20:25:30 09/18/07 ()
Email Address: fredam@yahoo.ca
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Look Hamelburg, go peddle your creole nonsense some place else. I think I knew you brother (FBC, Engineering dept, Excelsior frat, Sigma) and you are a disgrace to your kind. I am a creole too but I know as do many others that being a creole counts for zilch when we are talking about the present culture of corruption that has overtaken every sphere of life in S/L.
Ms. Blyden is a fool. Whether willingly or not, she allowed herself to be used repeatedly to carry water for those in power and when the crunch came she is now left hanging out there with no parachute. I don't care how educated she claims to be, her actions have shown her to be deficient in simple foresight and reasoned thought.
And your endless rambling in this post has not made things any clearer. Your arguments, if you can call it that, smacks of classism and elitism and I find it offensive. Sierra Leone is not just a land of creoles and your insinuations wrt their upbringing is just crass.
I Hate to come off so rude but your post clearly annoyed the heck out of me.
Subject: Re: Sylvia Blyden - why not....? ( amended
From: Cornelius Hamelberg
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Date Posted: 20:47:54 09/18/07 ()
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I am personally replying to Erica Adams. I am not you and you are certainly not me (smile)
You may be a Kiriyo good for you. I am an honourable Yoruba man and please don't define me, for me or call Sylvia a fool either.
When you semi-illiterate guys start talking about rambling it seems that you want me to subordinate my free thoughts to some pre-arranged programme that corresponds with your expectations. You don't like the solo or the song, go play your own. You don’t have to repent of your conclusions either. I’m playing on a social level. I was talking to Erica and now I’m talking to you.
Please feel free to be other than me and to play at your political level. I play at a political level in Forums and places where I know the score and where your Krio shit doesn’t matter.
I’m sorry to learn that many broke their fast as soon as the election results were announced…
Khalid……
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yDeAnC-6P0Q
Subject: Re: Sylvia Blyden - why not....? ( amended
From: freda maitland
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Date Posted: 21:36:22 09/18/07 ()
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"As far as I know she is a practicing Christian and aware of her pedigree and ancestry, being a third generation descendant of Edward Wilmot Blyden. Her father, of sterling character was president of the Excelsior Fraternity of which I was a member – mentioning this is only to support my view that she comes from a very conservative Creole home – Conservative and Christiana as far as home training and good manners are concerned."
Hamelberg, you started off with the creole stuff (see paragraph above) and I'm saying being creole has no bearing in the environment that obtains in today's S/Leone.
Moreover, your claim to Nigerian/Yoruba heritage is not unique. I can easily make the same claim since some of my ancestors did come from Yoruba stock. In any event, with you being Nigerian/Yoruba, why don't you butt out of discussions regarding S/Leonean affairs. Please go laud the recently-held elections that your people had and show that you are proud of those results.
I find your comment regarding your manner of expressing yourself somewhat quaint, but foolish. Every written language that I know of has type of some ordered structure to its written form. This make it possible for the writer to clearly convey their ideas and not just put down a jumbled mess as you did in your initial post. Go to any linguistics professor you can find and they'll tell you the same. It's one thing if you are writing in long (or short) hand for your own benefit but when you present (post/publish) your ideas for public consumption, "your personal style", as you call it, becomes meaningless.
Finally, I hope, I'm not going to fight with you. As I mentioned earlier, I think I knew your brother (younger/older?) and he was a gentleman (does Sigma ring a bell?) And you, well, not so much.
Have a nice and delusional life. CIAO.
Subject: Re: Sylvia Blyden - why not....? ( amended
From: Cornelius Hamelberg
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Date Posted: 21:58:07 09/18/07 ()
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You don't know me and I doubt whether you know my brothers in Halland andf d the UK or my sister in USA or any of my relatives in Sweden.
What's bothering you?
Don't expect any more replies from me.
I hope you understood that you don't need a Phd in Literature to do that.
Subject: Re: Sylvia Blyden - why not....? ( amended
From: freda maitland
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Date Posted: 22:19:30 09/18/07 ()
Email Address: fredam@yahoo.ca
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Sad that you cannot differentiate between literature and linguistics. You will do well to find out.
Again, as I've already implied, I have nothing against you. However your attempt to use classism (read: so and so is a creole so they must have had a decent upbringing) is despicable and annoying. The demise of our country largely came about as a result of rabid tribal/ethnic sentiments and some of us feel offended when those sentiments are used, often quite carelessly, to justify someone's stupid behavior.
And you are right, I'm through with this conversation so please don't bother to respond. I cannot abide an ignorant fool. I hope your siblings are proud of you. Ciao.
Subject: Re: Sylvia Blyden - why not....? ( amended
From: Cornelius Hamelberg
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Date Posted: 22:59:55 09/18/07 ()
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I had a good upbringing. I have good manners, I acquired English as my mother tongue at the age of six years and I learned Krio much later when I returned to Sierra Leone.
I am not familiar with the word Classism or aware of it. It seems that you have strong feelings about words such as despicable - just because I say that Babatunde Edward Blyden was / is my friend. I have other friends too you know.....
I also like Classical music and Klezmer...Opera and theatre...good company, intelligent people, Persian poetry, good wine too without feeling like you.....
I don't need any advice from you on how to read a text or how to express myself - whether talking face to face with Sylvia or interviewing Mr. Berewa - or debating with someone more - much more mentally equipped than you are - on a range of subjects, including some aspects of English or world Literature.
I am not responsible for any inferiority complex or other complexes you may find oppressive.
DO you know how to play the guitar?
N.B: MOST OF MY FRIENDS ARE NOT SIERRA LEOENANS OR KRIO.
THEY ARE FROM EVERYWHERE ELSE. AND FROM ALL CLASSES ... INCLUDING THAT ( FOR YOU) UNTHINKABLE CLASS TOO.
Subject: Re: Sylvia Blyden - why not....? ( amended
From: Cornelius Hamelberg
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Date Posted: 22:46:00 09/18/07 ()
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I had a good upbringing. I have good manners, I acquired English as my mother tongue at the age of six years and I learned Krio much later when I returned to Sierra Leone.
I am not familiar with the word Classism or aware of it. It seesm that you have strong feelins about words such as despicable - just because I say that Babatunde Edwrad Blyden was / is my friend. I have other friends too you know.....
I also like Clasical muisc, and Klezmer......Opera and theatre .....good company, intelligent people, Persian poetry, good wine too without feeling like you.....
I don't need any advice from you on how to read a text or how to express myself - whether talking face to face with Sylvia or interviewing Mr. Berewa - or debating with someone more - much more mentally equipped than you are - on a range of subjects , including some aspects of English or world Literature.
I am not responsible for any inferiority complex or other complexes you may find oppressive.
DO you know how to play the guitar?
Subject: Re: Sylvia Blyden - why not....? ( amended
From: freda maitland
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Date Posted: 23:01:17 09/18/07 ()
Email Address: fredam@yahoo.ca
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http://www.thefreedictionary.com/Classist
Subject: Re: Sylvia Blyden - why not....? ( amended
From: Cornelius Hamelberg
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Date Posted: 23:41:28 09/18/07 ()
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Freud or Freda ?
Subject: Re: Sylvia Blyden - why not....? ( finito
From: Cornelius Hamelberg
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Date Posted: 23:32:08 09/18/07 ()
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There is also a Yoruba aristocracy....
Look, I knew two governors in Nigeria and even heavier people than that...in e.g. Ghana. I also had friends like George Green, Ernest, Cromwell (Ogoni Guys) and Emma Wopara. You wanna me to a tell ya more?
You know - really know about the Caste system in India?
When I go to an African country, I first look for the artists and writers and musicians - the Commissioner of Police, Chief Justice, governor and if they have one, the King.
Now I don't want to get too close to the politicians and so on either because if they introduce you to their cousin and you mess up with her, you may well experience the unpleasant miracle of your ess most likely becoming gress..... in spite of your good grammar and spelling.
I know what I'm talking about and that’s why I listen when Erica says bewaring of Sylvia...
Never know which police will start feeling like Othello.....
Could have settled down in Egypt if I wanted to.....
You should see me dining at the high table and some guys like you wondering is that Cornelius up there?!? What he is doing up there....
At that point I could throw you one or two babu yai oooo. Like my boss in Nigeria cringing to come into her office whilst I’m lighting my Cuban cigar and puffing mighty puffs of smoke and you are babbling about Hebrew linguistics…
Subject: Re: Sylvia Blyden - why not....? ( finito
From: freda maitland
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Date Posted: 02:19:59 09/19/07 ()
Email Address: fredam@yahoo.ca
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See, your mask just slipped again. This is pure BS and it offers a glimpse into a troubled mind.
You need help, my friend. Urgently.
Subject: Re: Sylvia Blyden - why not....? ( finito
From: Cornelius Hamelberg
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Date Posted: 02:41:25 09/19/07 ()
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GO back to your forum
Subject: Re: Sylvia Blyden - why not....? ( amended
From: Cornelius Hamelberg
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Date Posted: 23:10:55 09/18/07 ()
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I was joking you should be able to understand English at that level too.....
Seems that you are anxious to teach me some ideas.....
Classicsim too?
Have you read trhe classics?
Ja, there is aYoruba aristocracy too you know....
I knew three state governors in Nigeria.....
They were not Krio ... I knew a lot of other epople too like George Green and Ernest and Cromwell, Ogoni guys and Emma Wopara ... you want me to tell you more......? And some haervier guys than that .... in Ghanja too...... non-Krios... and Sweden?
Subject: Re: Sylvia Blyden - why not....? ( amended
From: freda maitland
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Date Posted: 02:27:51 09/19/07 ()
Email Address: fredam@yahoo.ca
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The word is Classicism (see link) and it has to do with a comlpetely different subject. Sheeesh!
Subject: Re: Sylvia Blyden - why not....? ( amended
From: Cornelius Hamelberg
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Date Posted: 02:43:52 09/19/07 ()
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WHat do you know about the subject?
HOw many classics have you read in your life?
How many hours have you spent in a museum?
WHat do you know about Greek Sculpture?
What's your name?
Subject: Re: Sylvia Blyden - why not....? ( amended
From: freda maitland
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Date Posted: 02:05:11 09/19/07 ()
Email Address: fredam@yahoo.ca
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Message:
Dude, I'm beginning to understand where you are coming from. You need therapy. Seriously. Or else you need to put down the crack pipe.
Best of luck.
Subject: Re: Sylvia Blyden - why not....? ( amended
From: Cornelius Hamelberg
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Date Posted: 02:27:32 09/19/07 ()
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I wrote to Erica Adams.
You started criticizing my way of expressing myself instead of teaching you illiterate people you want to teach me English.....
I do not have any brother who went to any FBC etc or have a crack pipe or any other kind of pipe…..
Now we don't even know your name.....
What's the matter with you?
I am satisfied with who I am and so is my wife - who writes and speaks English, Swedish, Italian, Spanish , French and German better than you do and much more than that too.
I do have an honours degree in English which does not bother me too much...and quite naturally my reading habits differ very much from yours...
Why don't you try correcting and advising your professor...?
You are obviously not happy with yourself. What is it that you need? Some more self-esteem?
Look “Freda” Where I stand to speak, you cannot match me, not in a thousand years, in any language that you may choose…….
That goes for writing too…… any kind of style you wanna choose…… even soukous…..or blues…..
Subject: Re: Sylvia Blyden - why not....? ( amended
From: freda maitland
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Date Posted: 22:57:30 09/18/07 ()
Email Address: fredam@yahoo.ca
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Message:
Well, you obviously still have a lot to learn.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classism
As to complexes, they probably will apply more aptly to you than me. You are the one who has been name-dropping in a bid to show your connections. Most people afflicted with inferiority/superiority complexes tend to do that.
Still, one last time, just go away. You are not worth my time.
Subject: Re: Sylvia Blyden - why not....? ( amended
From: Cornelius Hamelberg
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Date Posted: 23:36:41 09/18/07 ()
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Is that your real name, Freda Maitland?
Have I complained about your style or tried to teach you any pronunciation or grammar?
I understand what you mean by inferiority complex.
You don't want me to be me.
You talk about classism etc....
You can go back to your dustbin.
Subject: Re: Sylvia Blyden - why not....? ( amended
From: freda maitland
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Date Posted: 02:09:54 09/19/07 ()
Email Address: fredam@yahoo.ca
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Message:
Dude, like I said upstream, I'm beginning to understand where you are coming from with your gibberish. You need some serious therapy. No Kidding.
Or else you need to quit smoking whatever it is you smoke and also put down the crack pipe. It's really not helping.
Hope you get better. And best of luck to you.
Subject: Re: Sylvia Blyden - why not....? ( amended
From: Cornelius Hamelberg
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Date Posted: 02:39:40 09/19/07 ()
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You know what envy and hatred is?
It begins when you start thinking, why should that guy be better than me?
This is not the first of second or third time you have been pursuing me - and I did not take a woman from you either.... why ? Why are you so upset?
Subject: Re: Sylvia Blyden - why not....? ( amended
From: Cornelius Hamelberg
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Date Posted: 02:35:57 09/19/07 ()
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By the way, I now know who you are....... it's AMAZING!!!!!!!
WHAT A COMPLEX!
Subject: Re: Sylvia Blyden - why not....? ( amended
From: Cornelius Hamelberg
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Date Posted: 02:32:43 09/19/07 ()
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You are probably some economic refugee from the land of gold and diamonds. I am not.
You are probably more deeply immersed in your culture than I am...... get lost......
You probably don't have any love in your life... sorry about that...... can you see anything positive in me?
Subject: Re: Sylvia Blyden - why not....? ( amended
From: Cornelius Hamelberg
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Date Posted: 02:32:06 09/19/07 ()
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You are probably some economic refugee from the land of gold and diamonds. I am not.
You are probably more deeply immersed in your culture than I am...... get lost......
You probaly don't have any love in your life... sorry about that...... can you see anything positive in me?
Subject: Re: Sylvia Blyden - why not....? ( amended
From: Cornelius Hamelberg
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Date Posted: 22:23:09 09/18/07 ()
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I have studied both.
Just one last thing... If you knew me (I was last in Sierra Leone in March 1970) you would know that I was never what you would call a Krio or typically what you imagine in that you’re very trained or untrained imagination.
So all this talk about Krio , is irrelevant to me.... as are your own cherished reading or writing habits and why should I go to some professor when I have one ( myself) and live with another ( my wife)?
Should I go to
English Forums?
German Forums?
Israeli Forums?
Jamaican Forums?
If any of the above is not clear to you, then go somewhere else.
Swedish forums?
All the people that I talk to understand me - listen to what I say as I listen to them too
Don’t worry about how I play, think; sing the poetry that I dig or the structure of my prayers to the Almighty……
Subject: Re: Sylvia Blyden - why not....? ( amended
From: Cornelius Hamelberg
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Date Posted: 21:54:42 09/18/07 ()
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Why waste your time?
My better half just finsihed reading Tolstoy's Anna Karenina perhaps you would like to discuss the style and contenst with her?
Why bother with the rubbish that I think or write?
The www is big place to be engaged with your literary criticism which does not bother me or any other writer that I know at ALL!
Why be irrelevant?
Subject: Re: Sylvia Blyden - why not....? ( amended
From: Erica Adams
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Date Posted: 16:41:24 09/18/07 ()
Email Address: ericamonique82@hotmail.com
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I can say this as harshly as I have stated it because I know from personal dealings with this woman. Even if you have your home that you are living in and Sylvia wants it, she will go all out to try and get you out of your own home. This is exactly what she has done to our family in Lumley when she attempted to use the court system to take our property from us. I'm not talking about speculation or what somebody else said, I'm telling you from experience. She is a very unprincipled person and there are many who stand in the pulpit every Sunday that I wouldn't trust. Your agrument that she comes from a good home really doesn't mean much because there are those who go astray in spite of how they were brought up. If people are truly looking for a new day in Sierra Leone, there are too many options that do not include Sylvia Blyden. Respect is not given it is earned and she has not shown herself to be a respectable person who is trustworthy. You don't put new wine in old sheepskin. If people are really wanting change look to those who proved themselves worthy. I love her just as I have been commanded to, but God knows I don't like her.
Subject: Re: Sylvia Blyden - why not....? ( amended
From: Cornelius Hamelberg
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Date Posted: 20:31:32 09/18/07 ()
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Erica Adams,
Is your dad Mr. S.A.S. Adams my former Geography teacher and one of Canon Harry Sawyer’s best friends?
No matter. I understand the kind of pain that you suffer.
It also pained me that she was once disrespectful to Ms. Cassandra Garber who had never been disrespectful to her – that was not a manifestation of the good breeding that Rogie sings about in his “Advice to School Girls.” Or that any of us could be proud of.
I too do not respect someone who does not respect me.
My wife, who taught French at FSSG still speaks highly - and respectfully of Ms. Garber who was the principal of that school.
I think that Sylvia was trying to send a message to the SLPP that she was a “till death do us part” supporter.
Therefore the attack on John Leigh.
And the attacks that irritated me in the extreme – the allegations those APC youths were after her – to add to the propaganda that was attempting to link the APC with acts of violence…. Why should APC youths be after her? To sample her charms, to see if they are” of the expensive kind”?
The DN’s report about Sierra Leone talks about the APC’s history of misuse of power and corruption behind it, but also about Mr. Koroma‘s zero level tolerance for corruption, quoting him as saying, in an interview with Reuters “There are no holy cows. Everybody will be investigated and if they are shown to have been guilty of corruption are going to be sent to prison, even if they are members of my own family.” (I’m translating from the Swedish, and these are perhaps not his exact words in English)
Mr. Alpha Kanu the APC’s spokesman is quoted as saying, that as “We are more than happy and all set to start work as soon as the new president is sworn in.”
She tried d to steal your family property, she should know better than to want to do that now – without protection or immunity granted by the SLPP and I hope that didn’t and will not succeed in that or any other evil enterprise – SLPP or no SLPP. As the president has sworn – anyone who tries to steal your property is going to jail.
It must be the climate that she lives in. Certainly a bad environment and as a lady of fashion catching up with the conspicuous consumption of the Jones must be an inevitable reality in her competitive rat race society.
I understand that there’s a lot of that kind of thing, and I too have some scraps of land in that area, but have been away so long, I’m sure that some buildings are now occupying what was once vacant space…..
( BTW My grandfather leased some land - I think it was at Fort Street ( he himself lived just by the British Council Library and used to fire off a few rounds from his gun , in the evenings, just to let potential thieves know that he was personally well armed and prepared - well he leased this land and built a house there- o right at the top of the hill and I’m made to understand that when the lease was up the owner of the land instructed him to move the house to some place else or hand it ( the house ) over to him….. because it was still his land and the lease was over…..
They went to Court and I don’t know how it ended , but the last time I saw my grandfather – to introduce him to my future wife , was in that house on the hill…..
Yes, Sylvia strikes me as being an excitable person with the penchant for what Englishmen don’t like - the irrepressible in the enthusiast. The British don’t muck like enthusiasts and Sylvia is soon going to be very enthusiastic about the APC – by and will get close by writing some flattering or supportive articles to promote them and herself. NO danger in that - or even in her enthusiasm for the SLPP - waning in the glow and first flush for her newly found love in the APC – although I wouldn’t be as crude as to suggest that she will soon be bending over backwards to please him…
I’m sure that if pastor Kanu wasn’t married he would probably deal with her effectively and neutralise her arrogance his number one.... but danger is she could scalp him … danger is that a man could hate a woman or a woman could hate a man so much that she wants to destroy him with all her love……
Anyway he prays “And lead us not into temptation…….
“men that she has used her charms on” yes, I know the type. Those charms won’t work on me. You say that
“Her greatest ass et is what she does flat on her back…” yea ?
Now you’re trying to scare me here with “Take this advice if you choose to, but if you don't, I promise you in years to come” etc…. I’ll tell her to back off. I’ve met worse types. Ahhhhhhhhh you wouldn’t understand… I'll call her dad.
But on amore serious note, you have said, “The APC needs to stay as far away from Sylvia as possible.” At the same time the new government will need to cultivate a good relationship with the press which doesn’t mean that they have to decorate Sylvia the way that Mr. Kabbah did and Sylvia herself should be more circumspect. About how she goes about her business as a journalist……. And it is the Sierra Leone reality that should be the centre of attention and not Sylvia Blyden herself …….even if she is used to being the centre of attention we don’t want the cabinet to start fighting over her…… so you are right perhaps APC should stay as far away from Sylvia as possible “and that way some other guys won’t get jealous about the Jezebel…….
I didn't like Berewa much either but now I feel something for him... funny....
Subject: Re: Sylvia Blyden - why not....? ( amended
From: Erica Adams
To: All
Date Posted: 21:33:16 09/18/07 ()
Email Address: ericamonique82@hotmail.com
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Message:
No actually I'm Adams by marriage. My husband is from Magbruka and his dad owned the hotel there. My husband (Mohamed) did move to Freetown as a teen and attended Albert Academy. I love your soft spot for Berewa.
Subject: Re:ECONOMIC JUSTICE BEFOPRE RECONCILIATION. ..SIR!
From: TigerSheik
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Date Posted: 11:27:18 09/18/07 ()
Email Address: umarrsheik@yahoo.com
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Message:
I am down with you bro! First,We need accountability.
NO SWEET TALK ( sugar na mot) GO DERAIL DIS PROCESS.
BRA IF NA DE SMALL WAN WAE LEF, MAKE DEM PULL AM. SO WE GO USE AM AS COTRIBUTION FOR BUY A TEMPORARY GENERATOR WAE GO KICK DE TONG TILL DE HOLLIDAY FINISH.
Subject: Tejan Kabbah already out of the country?
From: Town Crier
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Date Posted: 11:17:33 09/18/07 ()
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Word is that Ex-President Tejan Kabbah left Freetown last night. His destination is currently unknown.
I wonder why? Could this have been part of the agreements to hand over to APC?
Hmmmmmmmmmmmmm.....just wondering out loud
Subject: Re: Tejan Kabbah already out of the country?
From: Bambay Lans Kamara
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Date Posted: 13:02:23 09/18/07 ()
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Greetings my brothers and sisters. That would never have crossed my mind with the type of political mindset I have. I do not think Americans who vote and understand why they vote would ever think of such a scenario whereby, they would expect President George Bush Sr. to have left the country because President Clinton won an election. Rather, they would be anticipating, first of all, celebrating the success on the second day of the announcement that democrats have won, anticipating and planning to put the modalities in place for an successful inauguration ceremony.
I am confident our politics had moved beyond that the stage of vindictiveness as we are approaching an era of true national reconciliation for a proper national healing to boost the momentum our people have gathered to move Sierra Leone forward. This is what we must be thinking about at this point, which is how can we move forward from here? I believe President Earnest Koroma and government will welcome all Sierra Leoneans to jump onboard for national development.
Politics is like soccer. The various teams: East End Lions, Mighty Black pool, Fisheries, Kakwa Rangers, Bombali Stars to name a few, had their various supporters and teams. But after the league, we all join as a nation to fight an International battle, that is supporting one symbol: the Green White and Blue: (Leone Stars.) This is what politics is and what it should be. We must from this point realize that we are second from the bottom in the International Economic Index. If there is that index, then there is a competition. We as Sierra Leoneans must not be competing with one another from now on but work as a team with the International market as the playing field. We must now think global rather than national competition. Whoever wins in Sierra Leone, only the Sierra Leoneans know but when we succeed internationally, we have served as is expected of good Ambassadors of Sierra Leone.
Like any other Sierra Leonean, President Kabbah is still a Sierra Leone and so is Hon. Berewa and all S.L.P.P. supporters and stalwarts. We have to encourage them to jump onboard, as I am confident President Koroma will do. This is not the kind of politics where opponents are driven away but we at a threshold of refined politics, where unity in diversity is encouraged, which President Koroma and Mr. Margai have set in motion for the betterment of our beloved Sierra Leone. We must be now than ever ready to face the challenges as a team and put aside our indifferences and beckon each other to join to face the challenges that lsy ahead.
Let us unite. United we stand divided we fall. I love you all, God bless us all.
Subject: Re: Tejan Kabbah already out of the country?
From: SUBWANALAI
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Date Posted: 13:58:48 09/18/07 ()
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Bulloccks! Bambay, if you are still drunk from celebrating the election of your aunt Marie Yansaneh to Parliament, go to bed and sleep peacefully. If you wake up with the ear of a dog, try to stay drunk, you might just start thinking properly again.
Nobody is witchhunting anyone.All we ask is: WHERE IS THE PEOPLE'S MONEY? Remember the money does not belong to APC neither Ernest, but to the people, who in actual fact are his employers.
HEYWAY, LEH KABBA WIT IM KABILEH DEM GEE WE WE MONEY OH. LONTA!
Subject: Re: Tejan Kabbah already out of the country?
From: boli
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Date Posted: 14:13:43 09/18/07 ()
Email Address: boli@yahoo.com
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No need to say that to him, he is a certified moron, what did you expect?
Subject: Police ordered to free all prisoners in local jails
From: Town Crier
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Date Posted: 11:11:12 09/18/07 ()
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Local police stations have been ordered to release all prisoners in their custody.
Subject: Re: Police ordered to free all prisoners in local jails
From: Nah Sabi Talk
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Date Posted: 12:11:45 09/18/07 ()
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That's not a smart move... Do they know what some of those prisoners were accused of?
Sadam had a reason why he did that and he had his desired result... Hope the government is fully aware of the potential tendencies on national security or the welfare of the ordinary citizens...
Nuf said!
Subject: ECONOMIC JUSTICE BEFOPRE RECONCILIATION. ..SIR!
From: SUBWANALAI
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Date Posted: 10:51:33 09/18/07 ()
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The outgoing Vice President said “Like a good father he (Koroma) should ensure that no one of his children maltreats the other child they should all be treated fairly equally without intimidation, without threat without violence without injustice.” (Source Awoko on line)
SUBWANALAI NOTES: "Good words Solo. Sweeter to the ears of those that will never rise up from their sleepless slumber. Not I. Now, where are the people's money? SLPP fanatics/sympathisers can call me a trouble maker. For all I know, I don't care, 'cause I have been called worse.
It is about time Sierra Leonean politicians are made to be aware that once they are sworn into public offices they should be ready to account for their stewardship when they quit. Sierra Leone is not a "GRANAT FARM" for any kind of squirrel to feast on and then retire abroad waste their ill-gotten wealth and again return to the country in a thuggish way to reap some more; ala Maada "Ngotowa" Bio and Tom "Buss Hade" Nyuma.
So many questions beg for answers:
>What happened to all those funds pumped by the UK?
>What about donations from friendly countries?
>Where the plights of war wounded and amputees adequately addressed?
>What about ex-combatants?
>Tell me where did the money go (Respect ya bruv, David Tam-Baryoh)when our people continued to wallow in squalor?
All well meaning Sierra Leoneans must cry for justice. Lets name and shame the economic criminals. We are no longer bothered with the war and it's selective Special Court. What we crave for is Economic Justice. That's what our people, who have been downtrodden for long want!
ALUTA!CONTINUA!
Subject: Re: ECONOMIC JUSTICE BEFOPRE RECONCILIATION. ..SIR!
From: Mammy Blessing
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Date Posted: 12:07:02 09/18/07 ()
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Subwanalai,
I call your name in reverence 'cos I am fasting. One of the things I've advocated for is taking action against the political operatives who have sucked the country dry. I see no difference betweeen them and the hoodlums who pull a ski mask over their head and snarl: YOUR MONEY OR TOUR LIFE! The instant multimillionaires like the NACSA Kanjas, the Karimus, Benjamins, Edmund Koromas, Alpha Wuries and others who have gang raped the country need to be tried to set an example. Just as Christina thorpe declared that there is no safe haven for crooks at the ballot box, Ernest should make it clear that hitting the jackpot on the backs of Sierra Leoneans will no longer be tolerated in government.
Stopping crooks and attempting to retrieve ill-gotten millions is hardly a witch hunt, son.
Subject: Re: ECONOMIC JUSTICE BEFOPRE RECONCILIATION. ..SIR!
From: nico
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Date Posted: 12:34:07 09/18/07 ()
Email Address: nicoconsult@hotmail.com
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Earnest Koroma must not fail in establshing accountablity, he has already stated that his administration will be zero tolerance to misuse of public funds, he should not be deflected on that by the sweets words from the scophantic out going government officers. He must be bold enough to empower the ACC to revisit and deal with all cases which were suppressed by the Kabba administration. The roof have caved in, there is no more a protection from the rain. The nation await what step Earnest is going to take to back up his words.
Subject: Re: ECONOMIC JUSTICE BEFOPRE RECONCILIATION. ..SIR!
From: MUSA KAMARA
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Date Posted: 12:44:43 09/18/07 ()
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There should be tough,drastic and swift actions to give teeth to the ACC,and the culprits should return all embezzled funds to the state immediately.
Subject: Re: ECONOMIC JUSTICE BEFOPRE RECONCILIATION. ..SIR!
From: MUSA KAMARA
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Date Posted: 12:27:47 09/18/07 ()
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CORRECT and you have my support.
Subject: Re: ECONOMIC JUSTICE BEFOPRE RECONCILIATION. ..SIR!
From: Patriot
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Date Posted: 11:07:40 09/18/07 ()
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"Now, where are the people's money?"
SUBWANALAI, I agree with you. That is the number one priority in the area of ACCOUNTABILITY for President Ernest Koroma.
The new govt, should institute a commission of enquiry to answer the question all Salone people want answered: "Now, where are the people's money?"
Subject: Re: Jonah you are a disgrace
From: Mohamed Kamara
To: All
Date Posted: 10:49:51 09/18/07 ()
Email Address: totti23@hotmail.com
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Guys, I'm not trying to justify what Dr. Jonah did in Sierra leone. A question was asked " Where is James Jonah ?". I was not back home when all his alleged short comings occured, My Professor at the Elliot School of International Studies at George Washington University chose me to be part of the group that went to the presentation at the Ralph Bunche Institute in New York, I was so proud among my classmates because he (Dr.Jonah)is a Sierra Leonean held in high regard by my Professor and other scholars of Intl Studies at various universities. My professor is a visting scholar at the AMERICAN ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE.
There are venues like cocorioko,Op-Ed's in New York Times or articles in The Foreign Policy magazine where individuals can write and let the International Community know there/his failures when he was back home, i should have done it but i do not have any proof or articles that can be used as evidence when doing such. I cant make unjustifiable accusations becuase it will tarnish my reputation. On the other hand, if any one of you guys have such please forward it to me.
Thanks.
Subject: I will be back
From: sylvia Blyden
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Date Posted: 10:44:15 09/18/07 ()
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Ha HA ! i will be back, because APC = SLPP = APC = SLPP = APC/PMDC, which is the watermelon formulae. Hasn't Ernest already gone to omojuba to Pa Berewa. You people oonu fool. Wait and see me come back bigger than ever. The dodgy Alpha Kanu(Hajj money chopper) has already made overtures...
Subject: THE REAL CHEZ WINKABS!! SLPP BOOTLICKER!!!
From: Bai Bureh
To: All
Date Posted: 10:20:37 09/18/07 ()
Email Address: rastafari_ish@hotmail.com
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Awareness Times contributed to SLPP's defeat
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Posted by Chez Winakabs Europe on September 18, 2007 at 09:21:23:
In Reply to: Awareness Times contributed to SLPP's defeat posted by Augusta Lebbie on September 18, 2007 at 08:32:39:
"Berewa, Kabbah and JJ should not have allowed Sylvia Blyden to be our press spokesman".
The above statement said it all. Sylvia used a tool which she understood but the backing to bury the tool was not available. Our leaders are very greedy. They do not value hardwork. Why do you think they 'deliberately forgot' to put in place communication organs to help the election campaign. it was only when we lost the first round that they hurriedly started putting in place things that were necessary at the start.
I personally made so many calls to JJ Blood, Suliaman Daramy, Bobson Sesay trying to guide in certain matters I thought were not been handle properly to merit a win. They all ignored me as the issues involved spending.
They pocketted the funds and allowed loyal and committed supporters to campaign with bare essentials.
Blame us (the entire SLPP membership) and the executive. Sylvia was trying to survive. Not all journalists are honest. We should have known that. We are to blame!!
Subject: Re: THE REAL CHEZ WINKABS!! SLPP BOOTLICKER!!!
From: Chez Winakabs Europe
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Date Posted: 16:58:30 09/18/07 ()
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I do noy understand the relevance of your post and calling me an SLPP BOOTLICKER? What do you mean?
take it easy brother/sister, let my beliefs not make you crucify me. If I am with you, I am with you all the way. No amount of money or favour will change my position. I implore you to have some respect for people's beliefs and opinions.
Subject: Re: THE REAL CHEZ WINKABS!! SLPP BOOTLICKER!!!
From: Mohamed A. Kamara
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Date Posted: 15:59:41 09/18/07 ()
Email Address: Saghinosoccerworld@yahoo.com
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Reality finally kicked you very hard in head. I say don't lose sleep over the outcome. Like I said in my last post, you possess the kind of enthusiasm, I think all Sierra leoneans should project. Even though the SLPP's hope of a three-peat was being sunk like the "Titanic", you were still huffing and puffing on the propaganda clarion. My suggestion my brother, is for you to put that drive into something productive; like working with all compatriots, in rebuilding our homeland. CHEERS.
Subject: Re: THE REAL CHEZ WINKABS!! SLPP BOOTLICKER!!!
From: MUSA KAMARA
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Date Posted: 10:27:36 09/18/07 ()
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Too late to rectify your grave blunders.Next time try to get spokesperson with moral integrity.
Subject: They start: Awareness Times contributed to SLPP's defeat
From: Bai Bureh
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Date Posted: 10:16:42 09/18/07 ()
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Welcome to the S.L.P.P. Forum
Awareness Times contributed to SLPP's defeat
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Posted by Augusta Lebbie on September 18, 2007 at 08:32:39:
I think we should not only blame ur officials for our defeat. We have to blame our press too. Awareness Times damaged SLPP. Berewa, Kabbah and JJ should not have allowed Sylvia Blyden to be our press spokesman. This was one of the things that hurt our party and caused our defeat. SLPP has always been a party with integrity and people who speak for us deserve to have integrity, but here were we, allowing a rebel to speak for us. The woman was rude abusing people left and right and hardening the heart of the International Community against us. If any one among you thinks that these things do't count, you are mistaken. She made things worse for us.She made everybody to be angry wit us. I dont know why men dont reason in these circumstances . I can now inform you that after causing our defeat, she is going to woo APC to be able to get the same contracts we gave her.Next time let us not allow rebels to support us.
Subject: WHO is HON Bai Koroma ?
From: SID
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Date Posted: 10:00:29 09/18/07 ()
Email Address: rt_22192@yahoo.com
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Dont know much about him, sound very articulate and promising though
but need to know more
Education:
Business or corporate experience if any
work experience:
have he lived outside of Sierra Leone and where ?
Subject: Re: WHO is HON Bai Koroma ?
From: boli
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Date Posted: 12:42:51 09/18/07 ()
Email Address: boli@yahoo.com
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It is not HON Bai Koroma bu His Excellency Bai Koroma
Subject: Re: WHO is HON Bai Koroma ?
From: KKW
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Date Posted: 10:49:38 09/18/07 ()
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Check here
Subject: Alpha Khan Kanu
From: Candid Opinion
To: All
Date Posted: 09:59:10 09/18/07 ()
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This is not an APC acid trip..
I just want to know if the man is tainted with HAJJ money as New People reported..
Especially since this is fast month..
For those in the know.. if he did.. please dont gloss over it..if you are Muslim.. (triple satani on you) fro covering up for him this time of year.
We can all pray that if he did... amends are in order..
He can set up a functional commission to look into how to make HAJJ a pleasant experience for our citizens (most of them senior and respected fathers and mothers).. especailly since most of them.. this is the biggest sacrifice both in kyash, sprititual and emotionional they will make before Allah process their recall.
I admire the man and want to know if its justified...for my concience, or if i should banish him to the section i reserve for the ben kanus, victor foes, edward kargbo's and joseph momohs...
http://www.thenewpeople.com/070917alphakanu.htm
Subject: Ernest Koroma's visit to Berewa
From: Patriot
To: All
Date Posted: 09:54:48 09/18/07 ()
Email Address: thenewsletter@hotmail.com
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I was very happy to read in the Awareness Times website that President Ernest Koroma visited Solomon Berewa. Ernest Koroma has started on a good footing. There should be no rancour in politics. There always has to be a winner and a loser. Bitterness and vengefulness will get us nowhere. Berewa seems to be very cordial in the photos. We are on the right road after all. God bless Sierra Leone.
Subject: Re: Ernest Koroma's visit to Berewa
From: ITK
To: All
Date Posted: 11:25:40 09/18/07 ()
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Basco, Patriot and Subwanalai:
Thease are the kinds of posts I look forward to reading: remarkably, no abuse, cordial, light-hearted, and funny. I think we sometimes get too worked up when discussing Sierra Leone because of the painful realization that things are not the way they should be. I am sure I do not need to tell you how painful it is to have discussions with friends from Senegal or Kenya whose only perception of Sierra Leone is based on the ignominous label created by the Western media: "second poorest nation in the world" -- a country whose population lacks the most basic necessities of life. Believe me, when my friends from Gambia (no offense to them), can effortlessly disarm you in conversations about the quality of life in our respective countries, that is when you realize that we must do better.
I agree with you, we are on the right road. Most Sierra Leoneans want what is best for Sierra Leone. The challenge is translating that into reality.
Two quick diagreements with you guys: there are no losers in elections. When all the votes are tallied, a better man , dare I say, woman, or party comes out ontop. APC desrves to win. Can't go into it in detail here obviously, but they did what they had to do to triumph; my party did not.
Last, leave Berewa's tummy alone. Do you realize the man's age? At that age, some of us will probably have a lot more than our tummies to worry about.
Subject: Re: Ernest Koroma's visit to Berewa
From: SUBWANALAI
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Date Posted: 10:16:04 09/18/07 ()
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Yeah bruv, Solo De Bomber looked very cordial, but de man im belleh look broke..Now, don't get me wrong, ITK. I donot hate any of my compatriots, but if im belleh broke na for tok am, so that we would refer him for treatment, remember he still has to face the People's Court
Subject: Re: Ernest Koroma's visit to Berewa
From: Basco
To: All
Date Posted: 10:05:11 09/18/07 ()
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After chatting to Ernest late last night, he has assured me that there will be no victimisation of no one by his government.
Subject: Proposal for Our Supreme Court for Allieu IScandri
From: Mohamed Kamara
To: All
Date Posted: 09:53:36 09/18/07 ()
Email Address: totti23@hotmail.com
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Sir,
Do you think the Sierra Leone Constituion or our system of Government can allow the incoming administration to propose appointing Judges on the Supreme Court to a lifetime appointment ? to prevent loyalty to any administration... though if resignation or death occurs, any adminstration will appoint someone from the same political background ?
Thanks in advance.
Subject: ALL APPOINTEES MUST DECLEAR THEIR ASSETS !
From: Shembu
To: All
Date Posted: 09:52:21 09/18/07 ()
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I wish to strongly suggest to the New APC government that all political appointees including; Ministers, Commisioners of Parastatals, Diplomats etc etc must first declear their assets. By so doing, we establish a baseline with which we can monitor these people's wealth acquisition over time.
I am freaking tired with our politicians building mansions with the people's money instead of spending the money for the designated projects. Therefore, all political appointees should hence forth be required to DECLEAR their ASSETS.
People like Kanja Sesay built mansions upon mansions for different girlfriends using NACSA monies. Even his younger brother can boast of a fabulous mansion from the NACSA funds. We must not tolerate this type of garbage anymore. Enough is enough.
Recently, STJ who is the outgoing ambassador to the U.S.A. used monies he stole from the proceeds of selling Sierra Leone's real estate in London to buy a town house in Silver Spring, Maryland for a CASH AMOUNT of $300,000 (three hundred thousand dollars). Ay bo, dis pass mark! He did not need to finance his home through a mortgage system like we all do. We must be vigilant this time and require all appointees to DECLEAR THEIR ASSETS.
Subject: Re: ALL APPOINTEES MUST DECLEAR THEIR ASSETS !
From: MUSA KAMARA
To: All
Date Posted: 10:14:47 09/18/07 ()
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Thats correct Shembu,declaration should not be the end of the struggle but to withdraw all embezzled funds through the law will be applauded
Subject: Re: ALL APPOINTEES MUST DECLEAR THEIR ASSETS !
From: Ekulions
To: All
Date Posted: 14:27:17 09/18/07 ()
Email Address: ekulions@msn.com
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Amen!!! I totally agree. That would be a good first step. The new President should also not surround himself with any of the former old corrupt guards.
Subject: ARE BEGGINING TO APPOINT ERNEST'S CABINET NOW?
From: SUBWANALAI
To: All
Date Posted: 09:36:05 09/18/07 ()
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People have suggested names...Well, I would suggest we bring back Steve Swarray, if not Yours Truly Subwanalai as Minister of Lokti Lokti. Why not? If I vote for you, tell me who would vote for me.
Subject: Re: ARE BEGGINING TO APPOINT ERNEST'S CABINET NOW?
From: Bandele
To: All
Date Posted: 09:50:55 09/18/07 ()
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while we're at it, how about bringing back Steve Swarray's benefactors John Karimu and John Benjamin?
Subject: Re: ARE BEGGINING TO APPOINT ERNEST'S CABINET NOW?
From: SUBWANALAI
To: All
Date Posted: 10:11:22 09/18/07 ()
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Godd one Bandele. And don't forget to make Hindowa Batillo Hugbateh Momoh Minister of Tampering, Eddie Nyallay Minister of Wam Hart etc. More names please
Subject: Re: ARE BEGGINING TO APPOINT ERNEST'S CABINET NOW?
From: Brema
To: All
Date Posted: 11:57:18 09/18/07 ()
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Mohamed Pateh Bah, Min. of sabotage
Subject: SOMEBODY SAY HI TO CHRISTIANA THORPE FOR ME
From: SUBWANALAI
To: All
Date Posted: 09:25:21 09/18/07 ()
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HI Christie babes,; my Woman of the Year.
Ladies and gentlemen, I am about to set up a fund to facilitate a well deserved holiday for our Propagandist Par Execellence- Chez Winnakabs of Europe. Bravo to your stoicism Bruv. Chez. Tell us where you want to go for your dream holiday.
Readers can subscribe on line @www.yougosoba.org/Chez/ITK/eelefpandem (Birds of the same feather)..hee!hee!hee!.....WE DAE YAAAAAAA!
Subject: Zainab Bangura!!! Salone need you now!!!
From: Nah Sabi Talk
To: All
Date Posted: 09:09:21 09/18/07 ()
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Zainab! We know that you are doing a splendid job for the UN in Liberia, but please come back home... We need your likes... Your enemies shall never prosper and will not let you abandon your native land
Water way nar for you, nor go run pass you...
Please come home!
Subject: L@@K! To those that don't know her...
From: Nah Sabi Talk
To: All
Date Posted: 09:25:35 09/18/07 ()
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A former Reagan-Fascell Democracy Fellow at NED ( Awarded to her at the White House by Pres. Bush)
Zainab Hawa Bangura, a human rights activist in her native Sierra Leone, serves as chief civil affairs officer to the U.N. Mission in Liberia. In 1995, she founded the Women Organized for a Morally Enlightened Nation (W.O.M.E.N), Sierra Leone‚s first nonpartisan women‚s political rights organization. In 1996, she co-founded the Campaign for Good Governance, and in 2001 she founded the National Accountability Group.
One of the few women in the world to be awarded by George Bush at the Whitehouse... Yes! A Native of Sierra Leone... Someone that was crucified by her very own people in sites such as NUP...
Subject: Re: L@@K! To those that don't know her...
From: Candid Opinion
To: All
Date Posted: 09:29:21 09/18/07 ()
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True.. always admired the lady..
Subject: QUOTE OF THE DECADE
From: Observer
To: All
Date Posted: 08:42:58 09/18/07 ()
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There is a very important message arising from these elections: there is no longer a place for fraud and malpractice in the Sierra Leone electoral system. The people of Sierra Leone deserve to exercise their rights in an atmosphere of freedom, fairness and transparency. This is what NEC strived to provide and will continue to strive for in the future - nothing less will be tolerated. Those who cheated have succeeded in doing a disservice to their respective candidates. They also succeeded in disenfranchising fellow Sierra Leoneans. But they did not succeed in tarnishing either the results or the credibility of the process.
Christina Thorpe - NEC
Subject: Re: QUOTE OF THE DECADE
From: nico
To: All
Date Posted: 14:22:56 09/18/07 ()
Email Address: nicoleconsult@hotmail.com
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The woman is a real patroit, those thugs must be ashmed of their criminal cheatings. I am not a member of the APC but I believe she has done the right thing for our country. I hope Earnest will do a lot better to shame the SLPP thugs and money grabbers.
Subject: Ernest Koroma Financial Times Interview
From: M. Alieu Iscandari Esq
To: All
Date Posted: 08:10:05 09/18/07 ()
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http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/b16d692a-62f3-11dc-b3ad-0000779fd2ac.html
Subject: Re: Ernest Koroma Financial Times Interview
From: Med
To: All
Date Posted: 09:31:40 09/18/07 ()
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Congratulations to the President of the Republic of Sierra Leone. He was extensively constructive. I however do respect his initiative to establish the rule of law; this was an imperative recommendation by the TRC, Judicial Autonomy, which the Kabba lead administration deliberately failed to implement. I also support 100%, the fact that ‘Sierra Leoneans want answers to certain political episodes.’
I cannot imagine that Kabba and Berewa would leave office without handing over a comprehensive Auditor General’s report; such conspicuous recklessness is a blatant Contumacious disregard of State duties.….. Let me leave that to those presently concern…..
President Koroma, set a precedent, freedom to Anti Corruption Commission [ACC].
Subject: Re: Ernest Koroma Financial Times Interview
From: Candid Opinion
To: All
Date Posted: 09:33:58 09/18/07 ()
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We should start a petition for the freedom of information act to be passed ASAP..
I think that singular act will be the cornerstone of our fight to LIMIT corruption.
Subject: Re: Ernest Koroma Financial Times Interview
From: tamba moiwo
To: All
Date Posted: 09:38:38 09/18/07 ()
Email Address: moiwo@hotmail.co.uk
Entered From: gateway-202.energis.gsi.gov.uk at 195.92.40.49
Message:
KOROMA'S HONEYMOON EXPIRES IN DECEMBER.
HE WILL BRING IN EMERGENCY POWERS TO TACKLE CORRUPTION.WE WAIT TILL DECEMBER TO SEE IF THE MAN TRULY PUTS MUSCLE BEHIND HIS WORDS.
"WORD NAR MOT NORTO LOAD NAR EAD"
Subject: Re: Ernest Koroma Financial Times Interview
From: tamba moiwo
To: All
Date Posted: 08:46:09 09/18/07 ()
Email Address: moiwo@hotmail.co.uk
Entered From: gateway-202.energis.gsi.gov.uk at 195.92.40.49
Message:
WHAT HAS HE GOT TO SAY ABOUT THE BURNING AND LOOTING OF THE SLPP OFFICE?
OR,INDEED WHAT DO YOU ALIEU ISCANDRI HAVE TO SAY?DO YOU KNOW YOUR BROTHER SULAY'S CAR WAS DAMAGED AND HE MOLESTED?
DAY 2 AND APC REVERTS TO TYPE.WHAT AWAY TO GO!!!!!
Subject: VEXTATIOUS LOSER
From: M. Alieu Iscandari Esq
To: All
Date Posted: 15:50:18 09/18/07 ()
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At the rate you are going, you are going to burn out before the party really starts. Now lets face it, neither I nor the entire APC leadership would condone violence against the SLPP or its headquarters. The process of handing over the government and transition into a new administration is on going and the Leadership is presently cacausing on putting together a new government.
I speak for the APC when I say that I can assure you that as soon as this government is chosen and it starts moving, we will not tolerate any violence and the laws of the land will be enforced to the letter.
I am sure that your anger that your incompetent non producing, corrupt paty which has succeeded only in creating a non thriving economical climate and a thriving and bustling corruption oriented state, has lost the election. Take heart, because if we do not perform within tthe next five years then we will sure as daylight get booted out.
Your numerous rants against a government that is in its infancy and barely two days old, are unconscionable but expected. Now if I were you I think that you could soothe your throat with some tea fixed with cloves and some honey and then go to sleep. You have been hollering on this forum too damn much for today. Too much of something is good for nothing. You are now sounding like a VEXTATIOUS LOSER
Subject: Re: VEXTATIOUS LOSER
From: Tamba Moiwo
To: All
Date Posted: 19:04:05 09/18/07 ()
Email Address: moiwo@hotmail.co.uk
Entered From: host86-146-133-172.range86-146.btcentralplus.com at 86.146.133.172
Message:
Your rancid comments and posturing lay naked the rancorous loathing for my party and dare I suggest any miniscule of democratic credentials.Surely its a case of up for the job,show your mettle and measure up to the huge expectations placed on the shoulder of your party leader.Hollow and evasive excuses about the infancy and duration of your leadership smacks of odious dishonesty.The events referred to have taken place a good 24 hrs and no comments seem to be forthcoming from the APC high command to distance or condemn the whole series of events that have and are unravelling in the immediate aftermath of your victory.
Even assuming Prezo Koroma is busy assembling his new brand of scroundrels,for a party that prides itself on 'chic' news management style,one would have expected your secretariat to put out a statement. Frankly, this is a rather retarded take
on this burning issue(no pun intended).
This singular act of reticence by your party and govt leaves a bitter taste( deja vu)in the mouth of Sierra Leoneans.Your attempt to demonise and piegeon-hole the out-going govt in your self-appointed cyber spokesman role smears you with unwashable slimy substance.
We as Sierra Leoneans will hold your govt to the same scrunity and vitrol that was reserved for the out-going govt.There are no mitigating factors here if you really call a spade a spade.Does it take the entire rapacious retinue to summon the police and identify the culprits?
Your reference to 'anger' on my part is misplaced.I may make a strong point forcefully but never said with an ounce of malice.My friend,I may not like what you sprout,but I will defend your right to say ,come hell highwater.Slapping me down and calling names aint gonna silent my voice.
ITS DAY 3 AND APC AINT WORKING.DERELICTION OF DUTY.
RAMADAN MUBARAK
TAMBA
Subject: Re: Ernest Koroma Financial Times Interview
From: Tamba Moiwo
To: All
Date Posted: 09:24:48 09/18/07 ()
Email Address:
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One way or the other, we are going to perfect this democracy, Tamba. Irrational exuberance by supporters who thought we are back to the bad old days is probably responsible for that despicable vandalism than some sinister APC policy.
We need to blast the abomination of the SLPP HQ attack and Prez Koroma needs to condemn it and start stamping his authority on law and order.
What we shouldn't do is begin the I TOLD YOU SO finger-pointing. Let's be charitable but al3rt and let's be moderate in our denunciations..at least for now.
Subject: Re: Ernest Koroma Financial Times Interview
From: Pablo
To: All
Date Posted: 09:30:23 09/18/07 ()
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"Irrational exuberance by supporters who thought we are back to the bad old days is probably responsible for that despicable vandalism than some sinister APC policy."
Probably? What evidence do you have for your assumed probability?
You are probably exhibiting irrational confidence in your probably porous powers of projection.
Subject: Re: Ernest Koroma Financial Times Interview
From: Observer
To: All
Date Posted: 09:07:09 09/18/07 ()
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What makes you think that the burning and ooting was done by the APC?
Subject: Re: Ernest Koroma Financial Times Interview
From: tamba moiwo
To: All
Date Posted: 09:17:09 09/18/07 ()
Email Address: moiwo@hotmail.co.uk
Entered From: gateway-202.energis.gsi.gov.uk at 195.92.40.49
Message:
"What makes you think that the burning and ooting was done by the APC?"
OH DEAR!!!
THATS A BROKEN RECORD.JUST STROLL DOWN ANY HMV SHOP AND VIOLA!!! HIS MASTERS'VOICE-SAUCH AN OBEDIENT DOG AFTER ALL THESE YEARS.
Subject: Re: Ernest Koroma Financial Times Interview
From: Momoh Margao
To: All
Date Posted: 09:19:22 09/18/07 ()
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Answer the question, please.
Like someone said, the proper response to a question is an answer. If you didn't know it, now you do. So, to repeat, answer the question, if you want to be taken seriously.
Subject: Sylvia Blyden hiding in shame
From: Nationalist
To: All
Date Posted: 06:58:10 09/18/07 ()
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Message:
The news we are hearing in Freetown here about Sylvia Blyden is not good. Yesterday whole day she was in hiding. She has remained in hiding.She has moved from her house and is hiding somewhere in Leicester. Nobody is hunting her but she is too ashamed.Remember that up to the last minute she was predicting that Berewa would win by 52% to 46%. She was still abusing the APC up to Saturday. Now she is i big shame. She has lost all the contracts she got from Solo B and Kabbah. Life is going to be rough for her now. People aresaying that she is planning her next strategy,look for somewhere to lay on her back for somebody within the SLPP, now that John Benjamin and other secret lovers within the SLPP.sHE HAS TO BE WATCHED SERIOUSLY.
Subject: Re: Sylvia Blyden hiding in shame
From: The Nationalst
To: All
Date Posted: 07:00:38 09/18/07 ()
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I should have said : Now she will look for somebody within the APC to lay on her back for.
Subject: Re: Sylvia Blyden hiding in shame
From: Candid Opinion
To: All
Date Posted: 08:38:27 09/18/07 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
Comon people...
Lets us move forward..
Sylvia served her purpose..
She gave us views from the other side..
Let her be..
I hope she bounces back and muster the strength to continue the good work..
I a democracy.. and one as juvenile and temperamental as ours.. we need all the investigative reporting we can handle.
It is up to us individual readers to filter the true from the sensational...
If you cant, then you are better off not reading cocorioko or awarenesstimes.
Subject: Re: Sylvia Blyden hiding in shame
From: Historian
To: All
Date Posted: 09:17:10 09/18/07 ()
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Methinks you are too quick to "move forward." Rather than merely "movbe forward" for moving forward's aske, as you imply, better to move forward wisely -- by learning from our mistakes. Which means dealing with those who have caused us harm.
Subject: Re: Sylvia Blyden hiding in shame
From: Mammy Blessing
To: All
Date Posted: 09:11:07 09/18/07 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
Candid One, you call Sylvia's toilet diving, investigative reporting? A derisive Ha! to that mon ami...and something less charitable from her victims.
Most readers on Cocorioko can discern crap from nugget but not the teeming masses who may think her libels are gospel.
I hope she mends her ways and starts working for her nation's good rather than impishly poke at the hornets just so she gets her pieces of silver.
Well, I guess we still need her. A few ogres in a company of princesses may not be such a bad idea after all.
Subject: Re: Sylvia Blyden hiding in shame
From: Candid Opinion
To: All
Date Posted: 09:25:14 09/18/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: ns.nucleusns2.com at 12.44.12.126
Message:
Even the sewers have a function.. so is vomit.. and excretion..
In life, positive energy is my driving force...
Most readers on cocorioko cannot discern WE from US..
If they could, they should have called up REV Kanu on that 3ple assasination attempt bogus, sensational, inciteful story the minute it came out.
I don't think the sisters looks has anything to do with her strive for recognition..it might just be she was not held and cuddled enough when a baby..(oh well.. that might be because of her looks) but i tend not to focus on the material and physical..
A few negativity quotes...
Avoid destructive thinking. Improper negative thoughts sink people. A ship can sail around the world many, many times, but just let enough water get into the ship and it will sink. Just so with the human mind. Let enough negative thoughts or improper thoughts get into the human mind and the person sinks just like a ship.
Anger is the most impotent of passions. It effects nothing it goes about, and hurts the one who is possessed by it more than the one against whom it is directed.
Subject: Re: Sylvia Blyden hiding in shame
From: Mammy Blessing
To: All
Date Posted: 09:41:16 09/18/07 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
What's up Candido? You have one of the sharpest intellects and wittiest barbs on the forum universe. why are you spewing bromides left and right this morning? A bad night eh?
By the way I disagree about anger being an impotent passion. I am just reading about this guy who angrily hacked his cheating wife and absconded to Guatemala where he is living the good life, chilling with the signoritas...away from the law's reach.
About Sylvia's missing baby cuddles, ..Wicked!
Subject: Re: Sylvia Blyden hiding in shame
From: Question
To: All
Date Posted: 09:32:21 09/18/07 ()
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Candid, what makes you think it was a bogus assassination attampt?
Subject: Re: Sylvia Blyden hiding in shame
From: Candid Opinion
To: All
Date Posted: 09:45:24 09/18/07 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
Now thats an odd question, Question..
For a couple of learned reasons..researched and agreed on internationally..
Motive, opportunity, alibi..all fell short..
Even SLP the upline branch says it was an attempt on Tom Nyuma's life and not Obai..
Subject: Re: Sylvia Blyden hiding in shame
From: Question
To: All
Date Posted: 10:01:38 09/18/07 ()
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Not odd at all, Candido. Very common among people who are serious about supporting their claims with evidence, lest they be seen as the spreaders of lies, rumors, etc.
Subject: Re: Sylvia Blyden hiding in shame
From: Remi
To: All
Date Posted: 13:12:17 09/18/07 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
Una lef mi krio sista. She is not hiding. If she is, I dont blame her. Becasue Apc Might kill her. We are back to Siaka Steven day oh lord nar god nomo go help wi.
Subject: HEHEHEHEHEH
From: Candid Opinion
To: All
Date Posted: 10:08:57 09/18/07 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
Okay.. we can start with you..
If you want to debunk mine own lies and rumors..
WHY DONT YOU START WITH THE EVIDENCE..
I say the assasination stories where all CRAP
Salone police says it crap.. even upline branch withs its 3 chairs and 1 pen..
What say yea..? Why.. How...WHEN... who..
Subject: Re: Rules of Proper Procedure
From: Question
To: All
Date Posted: 10:14:29 09/18/07 ()
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"Okay.. we can start with you.. "
No, my friend, you've got it backward.
You do not ask for evidence from someone like me who asks you a question about your claim.
It is you -- and only you -- who must be asked for evidence. Why? Because it is you -- and only you -- who has made a claim of fact without giving us the evidence. Capish?
Subject: You try dey.
From: Candid Opinion
To: All
Date Posted: 10:23:32 09/18/07 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
well me yone do so..
Continue playing with yourself..
My instinct tells me this is a futile academic exercise.. and i gots better to do..
Subject: Re: Rules of Proper Procedure
From: Question
To: All
Date Posted: 11:04:55 09/18/07 ()
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"My instinct tells me this is a futile academic exercise"
Your instincts are wrong. Determing whther someone making a claim has any ccredible basis for doing so is never a "futile" exercise in academia or outside it.
On the contrary, it represents the threshold that separates serious people from the spreaders of lies, and rumours. Only the former are needed for Salone's development.
Subject: Re: Sylvia Blyden hiding in shame
From: Augusta Lebbie
To: All
Date Posted: 08:58:33 09/18/07 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
No way, the woman caused our defeat. She lied about our chances and gave us false hopes.She used profanities against diplomats, the International Community, the UN and turned them against us. She made more enemies for us. She was just abusing people left and right. I am mad why jj,Kabah and Solo B allowed somebody like Sylvia to speak for us. Her voice damaged us.
Subject: Re: Sylvia Blyden hiding in shame
From: Candid Opinion
To: All
Date Posted: 09:02:26 09/18/07 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
The SLPP agborloh had no wase when it was young..
As Obai said...We tried to fatten the pig on market day.. it failed.. It was a terribly run campaign..
lets face it.. if we are not going to identify the mistakes.. we will never smell a way to find solutions..
It had very little to do with sylvia's newspaper(well for me anyways)...
Subject: Looting by thugs
From: kamara
To: All
Date Posted: 06:47:43 09/18/07 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
Basco, What's your opinion on the looting. Did nt I tell you that APC were thuggish. Please help rid your party of the thugs. We want to preserve our democracy, we do not want to fall back into dictatorship.
please notify your boys that Sierra Leone is democracy and the majority of the electorates are non noviolent and do not tolorate this type of thuggish behavior.
Subject: Re: Looting by thugs
From: Sia Neima Fomba
To: All
Date Posted: 09:42:49 09/18/07 ()
Email Address: sia_fomba@yahoo.com
Entered From: 82-43-72-185.cable.ubr06.croy.blueyonder.co.uk at 82.43.72.185
Message:
Those guys who looted the SLPP office are Sierra Leoneans but not APC supporters because no one can identify one- doesn't mean those in the street without jobs or doing nothing are APC supporters? They are our brothers and fellow Sierra Leoneans. Sierra Leoneans we must learn our lessons; Tribalism,Sectionalism, Bootlicking etc are factors responsible for the backwardness of our nation.
Let stop pointing fingers at each other but build a bettter Sierra Leone for us all.
Subject: Re: Looting by thugs
From: Basco
To: All
Date Posted: 09:16:17 09/18/07 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
looting done by SLPP supporters.
Subject: Re: Looting by thugs
From: Moigula
To: All
Date Posted: 07:24:24 09/18/07 ()
Email Address:
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What makes you think the looting was done by APC?
Subject: Re: Looting by thugs
From: kamara
To: All
Date Posted: 09:34:48 09/18/07 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
Because thuggery and looting are APC traits and APC supporters have claimed so and apologized. Why would SLPP attacks its own office.
SLpp never looted in their past victories. Basco ,please tell your thugs that they have won, they do not have to subject us to violence.
I said told you earlier, it is same Apc thugs that are going hurt the party when they finally realize dictatorship has ended in Sierra leone and Ernest has to operate a clean govt. no more put for me.
God give ernest the strength and will to save us from these thugs.
Subject: Re: Looting by thugs
From: Basco
To: All
Date Posted: 10:00:37 09/18/07 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
From what I gather, disappointed SLPP supporters grab the last bits of office furniture and electronic bits and pieces in lieu for cash promised after the 'win'. I would tend to believe this version of events as joyfull APC supporters were busy celebrating.
Subject: Re: Looting by thugs
From: Moigula
To: All
Date Posted: 09:58:37 09/18/07 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
"Why would SLPP attacks its own office. "
And who said the SLPP attacks its own office? Please tell us who said that or apologize to us for telling lies.
Subject: Re: Looting by thugs
From: tamba moiwo
To: All
Date Posted: 11:58:51 09/18/07 ()
Email Address: moiwo@hotmail.co.uk
Entered From: gateway-202.energis.gsi.gov.uk at 195.92.40.49
Message:
Moigula,I would have produced cast-iron evidence of who exactly said those words,to whom and on what occasion.
But let me refer you to YOURS TRULY -Kabs Kanu's report on the burning of the SLPP office in Kailahun.He categorically stated there was a plot to assasinate Koroma and Margai.But with regards to the burning of SLPP office,he was reticent.
But Kabs is an Honourable MAN AND WE DARE NOT IMPUTE SUCH DOWNRIGHT VOLTE FACE TO HIM.
Bra when you see the report,lets read between the lines.
Subject: slyvia Blyden moves to entice APC
From: concern
To: All
Date Posted: 06:30:38 09/18/07 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
Sources say Sylvia Blyden is making frantic efforts to win the hearts of some of APC big men. I am told that she will definitely suceed as she has done in the past to mingle with those she has cursed and abused.
However, we need to warn these APC guys, that we are watching and any attempts to bring back Sylvia Blyden in the mainstream media will not be tolerated. She has incited and castigated all the International experts that are helping Sierra Leone in its developmetal process.
Subject: Re: slyvia Blyden moves to entice APC
From: SNF
To: All
Date Posted: 10:02:43 09/18/07 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
Slyvia Blyden is a medical doctor, it high time she start practicing her profession if she is qualify. She must be tested before given licence. Am sure she is the 'black sheep'in her family. Sugar-ant is what she should be called. She took part in the Johnny Paul's government, the SLPP government- want-want is her name. No APC will except her because every one knowns her as government baby. This APC is new generation APC not the old greedy and selfish one though we have few who stood firm to see the sun rise again. Bravo to them!!!! This time around APC is going to work coz they want second term. I trust the amn himself--Ernest Bai Koroma and team
Subject: Re: slyvia Blyden moves to entice APC
From: Porrooooooh
To: All
Date Posted: 10:21:05 09/18/07 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
SYLVIA BLYDEN IS NOT A MEDICAL DOCTOR.SHE IS A PARAMEDIC. GET THIS INTO YOUR HEAD. SHE CALLS HERSELF dr, but she is not a medical doctor.
Subject: Re: slyvia Blyden moves to entice APC
From: Jan
To: All
Date Posted: 15:48:13 09/18/07 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
She is a medical doctor for your information. My sister was in the same medical school as Sylvia and they both qualified together.
Subject: Re: slyvia Blyden moves to entice APC
From: HJB
To: All
Date Posted: 07:05:34 09/18/07 ()
Email Address: admin@leoneclub.org
Entered From: ool-18e41df9.dyn.optonline.net at 24.228.29.249
Message:
The press did a lot of injustice during the election to its readers. I hope that would change for the better. It was so unfortunate that some of us had relied on this reporting to base our arguments on...especially the SLPP folks. They went to the extent of trying to characterize the lady honorable Christian Thorpe. Her job was a tough one...imagine what should happen if any of these journalists have had her position.
Subject: Re: SABOTAGE?
From: TigerSheik
To: All
Date Posted: 06:14:34 09/18/07 ()
Email Address: umarrsheik@yahoo.com
Entered From: 119.160-240-81.adsl-dyn.isp.belgacom.be at 81.240.160.119
Message:
JAMES KOROMA HOW YOU DAE VEX SO LEK BILOLO WAY DEN TROWAY SALT PAN. AH - AH! HE BITTER!. He LOOK LEK SAY YOU COFFEE NOR GET SUGAR EN MILK DIS MORNING. WAY EMMERSON MIN DAE TELL ONU BUT BITTER MEHRISIN ONU NOR BELIEVE. U JUST BEGIN FEEL AM NAR U HAIR THIS YEAR. THIS GO SHOW U HOW DE PEOPLE DEM MIN DAE SUFFER ALL THESE YEARS.
For you to say i'm a disgrace is totally absurd. I think you would like to know that i'm a non partisan neither an affeliate to any party or organizations, trying to exploit the present situation to gain any personal interest. I am a free man(freetonian). I don't need to be in any party to voice out my opinion. Sierra leone is not only meant for APC,SLPP or PMDC but for us all sierra leoneans. I am very comfortable in my independent position.
Don't be mad at me.(TRICK NA LEK SMOKE, IF DEM BIN DON BURN DEM YONE SLPP OFFICE. WHY MAKE DEM NOR FOR LOOT DEM YONE OFFICE? U CLAIM SAY U MIN DAE. IF SOMEBODY SAY U NAH WAN PAN THE LOOTERS AH SIMPLY NOR GO BELEIVE.NOW U DAE VEX LEK SAY U NA WAN PAN DE LOOTERS THEM.
EN HOW U DO KNOW SAY NA APC SUPPORTERS DEM NA DE LOOTERS DEM?
Subject: Osman F Yansanneh, Winner
From: Tayyib Bah
To: All
Date Posted: 05:34:29 09/18/07 ()
Email Address: tayyibbah@btinternet.com
Entered From: host86-140-233-203.range86-140.btcentralplus.com at 86.140.233.203
Message:
I wish to personally congratulate Osman Yansanneh whom I consider one of the most steadfast, trustworthy, reliable and sincere Sierra Leoneans.
He stood by and served late President Momoh both when the latter was in power and out of it and exile in Guinea. Most an opportunist would have jumped ship on the grounds of being a civil servant and therefore serving the state rather than individuals.
Osman also stepped down as Sec-Gen of the APC party in favour of Victor Foe when asked to do so in the name of regional/ethnic balance.
Osman is who I call a Gentleman true and true and he will now be rewarded for his steadfastness.
I wish him every success and long life to enjoy the fruits of his steadfastness and sincerity.
Subject: Re: Osman F Yansanneh, Winner
From: Bugsyb
To: All
Date Posted: 06:58:31 09/18/07 ()
Email Address: aburneynic@yahoo.co.uk
Entered From: 104.red-88-17-107.dynamicip.rima-tde.net at 88.17.107.104
Message:
We didn't vote APC back in just to re-cycle Momoh's old guard, these people ruined the Country in the 1980s, loyalty is an admirable quality it does not however make one fit for any Office. Your statement "Most an opportunist would have jumped ship on the grounds of being a civil servant and therefore serving the state rather than individuals." defeats itself, because as a Civil Servant you do not serve the individual but the State. If he gets a position in the new dispensation let it be on merit, his Professional abilities and not on his loyalty.
Subject: Re: Osman F Yansanneh, Winner
From: HJB
To: All
Date Posted: 07:17:57 09/18/07 ()
Email Address: admin@leoneclub.org
Entered From: ool-18e41df9.dyn.optonline.net at 24.228.29.249
Message:
That's a problem in SL...we take pride in serving individuals and not the nation as a whole. Although you can argue that he served the country by serving Momoh; but he could have over-served him. A honorable thing he could have done was to serve the interest of Sierra Leoneans...and continuing to serve Momoh could have been in conflict with the general interest of our nation.
Subject: Re: Osman F Yansanneh, Winner
From: marah
To: All
Date Posted: 06:58:00 09/18/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: gw1.dc.gov at 164.82.146.3
Message:
Who cares ? Are you Osman's chief barto-liner?
Subject: Re: Osman F Yansanneh, Winner
From: Tayyib Bah
To: All
Date Posted: 07:46:29 09/18/07 ()
Email Address: tayyibbah@btinternet.com
Entered From: host86-140-233-203.range86-140.btcentralplus.com at 86.140.233.203
Message:
Marah, I am not a barto-liner as you claim.
On the contrary I am only giving credit where credit is due.
Like the view I hold about former Education Minister Abdul Karim Koroma (AKK): whatever may be held against him, this is one man who I believe northerners should be grateful to because AKK is one person who more than anybody narrowed the educational gap between the north on the one hand and the rest of the country on the other.
Subject: Re: Osman F Yansanneh, Winner
From: Orkaibah
To: All
Date Posted: 09:03:09 09/18/07 ()
Email Address: rastafari_ish@hotmail.com
Entered From: master-02.brg.sgsnet.se at 193.11.202.74
Message:
Modeibo forget about the old guard they have done theirs.Remember it is a new APC where we want only new faces at the forefront.Stop living in the past.
Subject: SLPP DESERVE CREDIT
From: ALIE KAMARA
To: All
Date Posted: 05:12:51 09/18/07 ()
Email Address: stepsaheadgroup@yahoo.co.uk
Entered From: 5ac17506.bb.sky.com at 90.193.117.6
Message:
Despite wht me and others have been saying about the corruption, tribalism and the lack of development in our beloved country.
We must credit them for the peaceful transition yesterday.
I hope our party the APC dont fail us and if they do and in five years time the people decide to vote us out of office, we must accept.
I am sure all political parties have learnt from the mistakes of the SLPP, who took the people for granted.
What most analysts in the past elections noted is that the people have put aside regional, tribal and political affiliation aside and vote for a change.
I have confident in Ernest leadership and i am sure he is our saviour that we have been crying for.
I also want him to bring in fresh faces that have clean records and have the interest of our country at heart.
He should be wary of political prostitutes, that are waiting in the wings to come and unleash havoc, thereby making him not to succeed in his good intentions for our beloved Sierra Leone. Many of the old SLPP guard are going to try to crossover as they consider themselves the destiny holders of we Sierra Leoneans. Those very people will wreck the APC and abandon it for newer greener pastures when the APC have lost it cause.
My advice to our Leader is to bring in new faces from the party and search for honest Sierra Leoneans in the dissopra that are capable of delivering our nation from it ruins.
I suggest for there to be a register of Sierra Leonean Professionals overseas whom you may call on to serve their country with love and pride, rather than having EXPATRIATES from other countries, who will take there takings and salaries to their contries of origins.
For you to attract Sierra Leoneans that have qualifications, bring in incentives like affordable housing, eletricity and better living conditions, i believe with that we will abandon our new found habitats in thousands to help bring the change in our motherland.
I wish you the very best and we look forward to you redeeming us from poverty, corruption, lawlessness and poor education, bad roads, blackouts, and medical facilities.
MAY GOD DRIVE AWAY ANYONE IN YOUR MIST THAT MAY TRY TO DISTRACT YOU FROM DELIVERING US TO THE PROMISE LAND.
GOD BLESS YOU AND LONG LIVE SIERRA LEONE.
Subject: SABOTAGE?
From: TigerSheik
To: All
Date Posted: 04:41:35 09/18/07 ()
Email Address: umarrsheik@yahoo.com
Entered From: 119.160-240-81.adsl-dyn.isp.belgacom.be at 81.240.160.119
Message:
Don't even try it. It's just a cheap stunts. Everyone knows THE SLPP is cable of staging things like this to tanish the reputations of the present government. Maybe they looted their own office to wipe out credible evidence that they were about to stage something malicious.
You should know that there is an invistagation currently going on, alledging the assasination of Christiana Thorpe by Barewa's body guard. I just heard that Victor Reider has been arrested. If true who's next?
I THINK IT'S INEVITABLE FOR THEM TO LOOT AND BURN THEIR OFFICE. WHO CARES!
Subject: Re: SABOTAGE?
From: NAR U SABI
To: All
Date Posted: 04:55:31 09/18/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: host81-154-56-88.range81-154.btcentralplus.com at 81.154.56.88
Message:
NAR U SABI
THE NEW APC , VIOLENCE, VIOLENCE AND VIOLENCE ALL THE WAY
Subject: Re: SABOTAGE?
From: Observer
To: All
Date Posted: 05:06:16 09/18/07 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
SLPP IS USING THE OLD APC TRICKS TO TRY TO DISCREDIT THE NEW APC. IT WILL NOT WORK.
Subject: Re: SABOTAGE?
From: James Koroma
To: All
Date Posted: 04:55:30 09/18/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: host86-135-88-78.range86-135.btcentralplus.com at 86.135.88.78
Message:
You are a disgrace to your country, we do not want people like you (Tiger Sheik) in the new APC. Let us for once give SLPP and Tegan Kabba some credit rather than try to create mayhem in our country by not facing up to the facts when our own people do wrong. The looting was done by APC thugs and I am ashamed of it. ( I was in the vicinity when it all happened) Personally I think President Koroma should set an example with these people to show the country that such behaviour would not be tolerated with him as head of our country.
Subject: Suggestion to Ernest Koroma
From: Patriot
To: All
Date Posted: 04:21:25 09/18/07 ()
Email Address: thenewsletter@hotmail.com
Entered From: amontsouris-152-1-84-116.w86-212.abo.wanadoo.fr at 86.212.62.116
Message:
Appoint Christiana Thorpe as head of the Anti Corruption Commission. This will send a clear message to thieves and rogues in high place that you mean business.
Subject: Re: Suggestion to Ernest Koroma/ THE THORPE CONVENTION
From: Silent majority
To: All
Date Posted: 10:01:20 09/18/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 195.54.227.249
Message:
This suggestion is at first glance attractive. But on second thoughts i think it would be better for her to stay on at the NEC in order to continue to strengthen this ABSOLUTELY VITAL institution of our state to the point where politicians fear to tamper with the electoral process.
In fact i would go further and make bold to suggest that she should not accept any 'government' positions lest it appear as some sort of 'reward'. I.e to accept a government position may open up the charge (in some quarters) that it was a reward for 'services rendered'.
This would be known as the THORPE CONVENTION. i.e the convention that no NEC chairperson should accept a government job after an election.
Subject: Re: Suggestion to Ernest Koroma/ THE THORPE CONVENTION
From: Bugsyb
To: All
Date Posted: 12:52:54 09/18/07 ()
Email Address: aburneynic@yahoo.co.uk
Entered From: 104.red-88-17-107.dynamicip.rima-tde.net at 88.17.107.104
Message:
Well put Sir, with citizens like you it's a wonder Sierra Leone is second to last on the Human Development Index. But then again I'm betting you don't live and work there :-(.
Subject: Re: Suggestion to Ernest Koroma/ THE THORPE CONVENTION
From: Candid Opinion
To: All
Date Posted: 10:15:05 09/18/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: ns.nucleusns2.com at 12.44.12.126
Message:
BRAVO..........
CLAP CLAP CLAP...........
Indeed a Thorpe amendment to the electoral laws..
or national laws..
Subject: Re: Suggestion to Ernest Koroma
From: Bugsyb
To: All
Date Posted: 07:44:50 09/18/07 ()
Email Address: aburneynic@yahoo.co.uk
Entered From: 104.red-88-17-107.dynamicip.rima-tde.net at 88.17.107.104
Message:
What's wrong with her being the Chief Electoral Commissioner? It is a very important position. Everyone agrees she's done a good job, SO KEEP HER THERE!
Subject: Re: Suggestion to Ernest Koroma
From: SNF
To: All
Date Posted: 10:19:35 09/18/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: 82-43-72-185.cable.ubr06.croy.blueyonder.co.uk at 82.43.72.185
Message:
He must form a governmnet of 'UNITY' and must cut across sectionalism and tribalism. No ministers must stay over 12 months i office so that everyone giving the chance will work hard to mark his or her name. Women must be given steak responsiblities to perform as we all have seen Dr. Thorps out come as a woman of personality and esteem. Women should be involved in nation building to lessen corrruption and put Sierra Leone on the map. What men cannot do women can do it.Ernest give women the to chance to help you build the nation. Power was given to you by women so include them in your government. Bravo!!1
Subject: Re: Suggestion to Ernest Koroma
From: Candid Opinion
To: All
Date Posted: 10:25:14 09/18/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: ns.nucleusns2.com at 12.44.12.126
Message:
Thats a funny one..
Women must be given steak responsibilities to perform..
Subject: Re: Suggestion to Ernest Koroma
From: Another Patriot
To: All
Date Posted: 07:25:18 09/18/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: cache-ntc-ad04.proxy.aol.com at 207.200.116.198
Message:
My nomination for the ACC is Alieu Iscandari Esq. The position of head of the ACC should be held by a lawyer and someone who wuld be able put together a case. I was able to see alieu iscandari in action at the special court. I also know that he is a fearless man. If this government wants to make a mark on corruption let him take the helm at the ACC and watch the changes that will soon take place.
Subject: Re: Suggestion to Ernest Koroma
From: nico
To: All
Date Posted: 07:09:00 09/18/07 ()
Email Address: nicoleconsult@hotmail.com
Entered From: host86-146-110-59.range86-146.btcentralplus.com at 86.146.110.59
Message:
Please Mr President do that, this lady deserves all the support she need. I have not met her but Sierra Leone need this sort of people. There are many like her in and outside Sierra Leone but they have been over shadowed by thieves and sycophants.
Subject: Re: Suggestion to Ernest Koroma
From: HJB
To: All
Date Posted: 07:27:59 09/18/07 ()
Email Address: admin@leoneclub.org
Entered From: ool-18e41df9.dyn.optonline.net at 24.228.29.249
Message:
Well its better to thread carefully. James Jorna did well as electoral commissioner and he was later given a ministerial post...am not sure if he was equally good. All I could say to our new leader is appoint leaders by merit and not on sentiment.
Subject: Re: Suggestion to Ernest Koroma
From: Tonyayei
To: All
Date Posted: 06:02:54 09/18/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: dh112.public.mod.uk at 82.109.66.148
Message:
The stage has been set to make Sierra Leone an exemplar for the rest of the so called developing countries to emulate. I know there are people out there who would certainly wish to slaughter me for this but corruption has been a way of life in Sierra Leone and it is against this background that i would suggest to our President to call all those who were in positions of trust in the previous goverment/public servants to fully account. This is no witch hunt or propensity to instability to our fledgling democracy. I can see some very hungry wolves from the diaspora and home who may be hell bent on fleecing the state, to think twice because Sierra Leone has grown above thieving politics. My party behaved very irresponsibly and recklessly on crime, lawlessness and corruption and i urge President Koroma to set an example like Dr Thorpe in the above named sectors.
Long Live Sierra Leone and may all those who mean evil for the land, be punished as per Governor Clarkson's prayer.
Subject: Re: Suggestion to Ernest Koroma
From: tamba moiwo
To: All
Date Posted: 05:49:51 09/18/07 ()
Email Address: moiwo@hotmail.co.uk
Entered From: gateway-303.energis.gsi.gov.uk at 62.25.109.196
Message:
hahahaha-bo nor kil me wit laf....
would the appointment be for 'a job well done'?
Subject: Re: Suggestion to Ernest Koroma
From: Patriot
To: All
Date Posted: 07:30:19 09/18/07 ()
Email Address: thenewsletter@hotmail.com
Entered From: amontsouris-152-1-84-116.w86-212.abo.wanadoo.fr at 86.212.62.116
Message:
Moiwo, Yes it is for a job well done. It is obvious that you are one of those who who would have been happy to see her compromise her principles. I know Christiana very well. Whatever you might think, I know she is a woman of integrity. She did us all proud. Country before personal interest. Bravo to Christiana and all like-minded sierra Leoneans.
Subject: Re: Suggestion to Ernest Koroma
From: pa sorie kanu
To: All
Date Posted: 07:01:16 09/18/07 ()
Email Address: pakanu@comast.net
Entered From: c-68-50-22-158.hsd1.md.comcast.net at 68.50.22.158
Message:
God bless you for the suggestion. It is not a payback. Every rightous individual knows she did a marvelous job.
These are my suggestions:
1.) The Hon. E.B. Koroma should really consider putting her or someone with her calibre to head the Anti Corruption commission.
2.) Every Administrator (MPs, Miniters and department heads and such) should declare their assets before assuming any position.
3.) Revise the mining code to replictate Botswana's.
4.) Hire full time lobbyists to the US congress, British and the European parliaments.
5.) Establish a position of international AID Co-ordinator reporting directly to the President.
I look forward to a prosperous Sierra Leone.
Subject: Re: Suggestion to Ernest Koroma
From: Shembu
To: All
Date Posted: 09:41:11 09/18/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: eduproxy2.k12.de.us at 167.21.254.12
Message:
Pa Sorie,
Great suggestions. I would like to buttress the idea of asset declaration. I am freaking tired with our politicians building mansions with the people's money instead of spending the money for the designated projects. Therefore, all political appointees should hence forth be required to DECLEAR their ASSETS.
People like Kanja Sesay built a mansion for a different girlfriend for each small school shack built through NACSA. Even his younger brother boasts of a fabulous mansion from the NACSA funds. We must not tolerate this type of garbage anymore. Enough is enough.
Subject: OVERNIGHT LOOTING REPORTED IN FREETOWN
From: Independent Man
To: All
Date Posted: 03:04:24 09/18/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 69.111.161.46
Message:
Reports from Sierra Leone indicate that there was consideable looting in Freetown last night.
The SLPP office in Freetown was cleaned up and so were some businesses. Some people are afraid to venture into town today. There is a strong belief that some police officers are part of the looting gangs. If this is this case, it is a damn shame. Some people will simply never change.
I hope the new government will send these clowns a strong message that lawlessness will not be tolerated. My party (the SLPP) failed to stamp out lawlessness, and appeared weak almost all the time. I hope the APC does not follow the same pattern of weakness.
Subject: Re: OVERNIGHT LOOTING REPORTED IN FREETOWN
From: Memory lane
To: All
Date Posted: 06:15:27 09/18/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: 14-64-ftth.onsneteindhoven.nl at 88.159.64.14
Message:
When the NPRC was leaving power, nobody said anything about the looting spree they carried out at the OAU villas, Kabasa Lodge and many otehr places housed by the NPRC officials. Their looting and destruction was unprecedented. Noboy here was able to talk aboutthat. Now desperate people from all parties were involved.
We need to call a spade a spade. It is not an APC thing to support it. Infact the looting of the NPRC regime by all account is disprportionate.
Subject: Re: OVERNIGHT LOOTING REPORTED IN FREETOWN
From: Jackal
To: All
Date Posted: 15:45:37 09/18/07 ()
Email Address: dollarbill@gmail.com
Entered From: c-24-13-121-79.hsd1.il.comcast.net at 24.13.121.79
Message:
MEMORY LANE- Do you have a memory problem regarding looting or just have an issue with the NPRC? Rewind back to 1991. RUF rebelswere looting indiscriminately, and even looting young women from villages.
Before then looting was not an issue in the country.
It is a national issue. It is also a symbol of economic desperation. The police should track and prosecute those involved in the looting to set an early example.
Peace Bro...It is a new age in Sierra Leone. Vent out and be peaceful.
Subject: Re: OVERNIGHT LOOTING - OPS PAY YOURSELF
From: NGULULU KPAKAI
To: All
Date Posted: 06:27:36 09/18/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: ip4da2899b.direct-adsl.nl at 77.162.137.155
Message:
This is the trend that follows after every change of govt in Salone. The people are desperate to retrieve some of the ill-gotten assets of fugitive former govt functionaries and their associates. DIS NAR OPERATION PAY YOURSELF !!!!!!
Subject: Re: OVERNIGHT LOOTING - OPS PAY YOURSELF
From: tamba moiwo
To: All
Date Posted: 09:12:49 09/18/07 ()
Email Address: moiwo@hotmail.co.uk
Entered From: gateway-202.energis.gsi.gov.uk at 195.92.40.49
Message:
"DIS NAR OPERATION PAY YOURSELF !!!!!! "
Bra,this is not part of the scr1pt.You do things secertly and never admit in public about your actions.You have just broken the APC ORMATA-no wonder abga Iscandri wants you to surrender your party card(if you have one)-but then bra has suspicion that you nar'really SLPP in APC attire-impersonating.
Learn this fast,in APC, we see no evil,hear no evil and drum roll please,SPEAK NO EVIL.
Now phone abga Iscandri and apologise for working outside the scr1pt.
Tamba(just foraying into an IN-HOUSE disturbance)
Subject: Re: OVERNIGHT LOOTING - OPS PAY YOURSELF
From: M. Alieu Iscandari Esq
To: All
Date Posted: 07:34:56 09/18/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: cache-ntc-ad04.proxy.aol.com at 207.200.116.198
Message:
I hope that you are not a member of the APC if you are I ask that you go to the APC ofice in your area or district and hand over you membership card because the APC does not need, neither would it tolerate attitudes such as that. Redspect for the law is something that the APC will and MUST enforce. It is wrong to loot the SLPP offices by ANYONE. It is also wrong to point fingers at the APC because none amongst you can say with any degree of definiteness that the looting was done by the APC or sanctioned by the APC. Any statements to that effect willl only serve an incendiary purpose. The APC will counter any negative propaganda for the next 5 years on this and any other cyber fora.
Subject: Re: OVERNIGHT LOOTING - OPS PAY YOURSELF
From: tamba moiwo
To: All
Date Posted: 09:02:06 09/18/07 ()
Email Address: moiwo@hotmail.co.uk
Entered From: gateway-202.energis.gsi.gov.uk at 195.92.40.49
Message:
"It is also wrong to point fingers at the APC because none amongst you can say with any degree of definiteness that the looting was done by the APC or sanctioned by the APC"
This is a classic case of selective amnesia.What did you say about the incident in Kailahun District?Could you given the same circumstances vouch for the absence of your party members/supportters anywhere near the SLPP offices?
You can bury your head in the sand like an ostrich and pretend APC is a party that does not condone violence.
The gauntlet is thrown and am sure you will counter any negative propaganda.At the risk of misreading your comments,should one draw the irresitible inference that all 'nar lie'?
Bra dis Country belong to we all-its just a case of some think they can run it better whilst others disagree.But lets agree that shoulder to shoulder,we must stand and deliver.A case of we either hang heads together or we die seperately.The choice bra is yours and your Party's.
Subject: Re: OVERNIGHT LOOTING - OPS PAY YOURSELF
From: Candid Opinion
To: All
Date Posted: 09:12:22 09/18/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: ns.nucleusns2.com at 12.44.12.126
Message:
It is indeed a case of selective amnesia..
Its always the other side that is wrong, perpetuating violence.. eating children, burning villages, going to morray man.. looting the treasury..
We burned our own office, did not do anything in 10 years with war and coups, and refugees, and child soldiers, and excombatants, and burnt villages, and non existent schools and hospitals and population explosion and losing the FT minicipality..
But what about the APC in 27 years..
Alieu Isacandari and others will tell you..(Bra lef that talk dey.. that was a long time ago)..nah lie.. When APC ruled, at least there was light.. and water..
Corruption....nah lie.. (Edward kargbo, Ben Kanu et all.. started businesses with family loans..)..
And the goat will say "Isnt it always greener on the other side..?"
Subject: Re: OVERNIGHT LOOTING - OPS PAY YOURSELF
From: tamba moiwo
To: All
Date Posted: 08:49:19 09/18/07 ()
Email Address: moiwo@hotmail.co.uk
Entered From: gateway-202.energis.gsi.gov.uk at 195.92.40.49
Message:
OH BRA NAR LIP-SERVICE.
YOU NEED FOR REPENT PAN YOU NEPALM BOMB THREAT.MEMBA SAY NAR FAS MONTH OH!!!
RAMADAN MUBARAK BRA.
Subject: Re: OVERNIGHT LOOTING - OPS PAY YOURSELF
From: FORREST GUMP
To: All
Date Posted: 07:12:51 09/18/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: host86-133-162-110.range86-133.btcentralplus.com at 86.133.162.110
Message:
And you are happy about it ,well what do you expect when the APC join forces with RUF, Next it will be operation no living things.
FORREST
Subject: Re: OVERNIGHT LOOTING - OPS PAY YOURSELF
From: Maskita
To: All
Date Posted: 07:04:50 09/18/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: gw1.dc.gov at 164.82.146.3
Message:
Ngululu kpakai you still talk like a rebel-"OPERATION PAY YOURSELF". Once a rebel is always a rebel.
Subject: Re: OVERNIGHT LOOTING REPORTED IN FREETOWN
From: Mammy Blessing
To: All
Date Posted: 04:18:32 09/18/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: pool-71-247-147-219.nycmny.east.verizon.net at 71.247.147.219
Message:
Looting in Freetown and an attack on the SLPP HQ will be a damned shame. Nothing leaves a bad aftertaste in the opposition than anything that can be construed as deliberate targeting by rogue elements. And nothing makes foreign investor run away faster!
I suspect that the looting is probably misplaced exuberance by poor, hungry unemployed youth rather than deliberate APC policy. However the president should move fast and condemn this vandalism, fire some chief cops and assure the opposition that democracy is here to stay.
Subject: Re: OVERNIGHT LOOTING REPORTED IN FREETOWN
From: FORREST GUMP
To: All
Date Posted: 04:23:08 09/18/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: host81-154-56-88.range81-154.btcentralplus.com at 81.154.56.88
Message:
The New APC is already resurfacing
FORREST
Subject: Re: OVERNIGHT LOOTING REPORTED IN FREETOWN
From: Saloneman
To: All
Date Posted: 04:10:32 09/18/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: host86-129-167-251.range86-129.btcentralplus.com at 86.129.167.251
Message:
This is very disappointing and a sad beginning
Subject: Re: OVERNIGHT LOOTING REPORTED IN FREETOWN
From: kamara
To: All
Date Posted: 06:35:11 09/18/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: pool-71-172-31-93.nwrknj.fios.verizon.net at 71.172.31.93
Message:
welcome to APC/PMDC rule. Basco and Co. Did n't I say APC were thugs and only knew GBOSE GBOSE.
God please give Ernest strength and wisdom to deal with the thuggish element within APC. DId SLPP loot when they won on 1996 7 2002
Subject: Re: OVERNIGHT LOOTING REPORTED IN FREETOWN
From: Tamba Moiwo
To: All
Date Posted: 05:47:39 09/18/07 ()
Email Address: moiwo@hotmail.co.uk
Entered From: gateway-303.energis.gsi.gov.uk at 62.25.109.196
Message:
Now were are the custodians of integrity and honesty?
Alieu,have you said anything relating to the acts and declarations of your Party referable to the looting and burning of the SLPP offices?
tamba
Subject: Re: OVERNIGHT LOOTING REPORTED IN FREETOWN
From: Eddie Grant
To: All
Date Posted: 17:07:58 09/18/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 89.243.47.229
Message:
You people are so dispicable to think this way. How on earth can people point their filthy fingers to APC.
You're still showing your bitterness of your party's defeat.
Please guys just cut this callous behaviour.
Eddie
Subject: A party in power being cheated?It was an unusual claim.
From: from BBC
To: All
Date Posted: 02:21:23 09/18/07 ()
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Message:
Democracy wins in S Leone's polls
By Will Ross
BBC News, Freetown
The opposition won 53% of votes
It was clear early on that this was unlike many elections in Africa.
Before even a single ballot in the presidential poll had been cast, the governing party was complaining of rigging.
On election day itself the ruling Sierra Leone People's Party (SLPP) accused the police of bias.
A party in power being cheated? It was an unusual claim.
The familiar scenario in so many elections across Africa is of a very uneven playing field, with the pitch sloping in favour of the governing party.
But in Sierra Leone, Ernest Bai Koroma of the opposition All People's Congress (APC) has won with 53% of the total votes compared to 44% for the outgoing Vice President, Solomon Berewa.
Helping hand
Mr Koroma was given a huge helping hand when former minister Charles Margai broke away from the governing party and later called for his supporters to back the APC candidate in the run-off vote.
On the campaign trial, the APC candidate, a former insurance broker, was confident of victory.
"You cannot fatten your pig on market day," said Mr Koroma.
There is no longer a place for fraud and malpractice in the Sierra Leone electoral system
Christiana Thorpe
National Electoral Commission
It will be a tough defeat to take for the SLPP and even as it stared them in the face, party officials were in a serious state of denial.
The electorate has sent a clear message to the country's politicians - the majority of voters felt the government was not doing enough to eradicate poverty in this mineral rich country.
There was also a widespread perception that the outgoing government was corrupt.
The newly-created National Electoral Commission (NEC) has done a good job at trying to keep the playing field level thanks largely to its boss - the former nun and headteacher, Christiana Thorpe.
Sierra Leoneans have witnessed a well-organised poll and the fair but firm Ms Thorpe dealt with election malpractice the same way she might have reacted to finding one of her former students cheating in exams.
But judging by the attempts in Sierra Leone's election, her pupils would probably have been better at cheating.
Fake results
"During the verification process we discovered counterfeit results forms which were sent to the NEC from polling stations throughout the country," said Ms Thorpe.
"It was not difficult to detect them as they contained a spelling mistake in the title. The word 'form' was spelled 'from'."
Then results from 477 polling stations had to be annulled because the cheaters had been over-enthusiastic, recording more than 100% turn out.
Koroma won and so did democracy
Those stations where miraculously more people had voted than were registered were largely but not exclusively in government strongholds.
The head of the commission said a very important message had emerged from the elections.
"There is no longer a place for fraud and malpractice in the Sierra Leone electoral system," said Ms Thorpe.
"The people of Sierra Leone deserve to exercise their rights in an atmosphere of freedom, fairness and transparency."
Rewind the clock a few years and the situation was very different.
"This has been one of the best-run elections I have witnessed," says Eldred Jones, the respected ex-principal of Fourah Bay College, Sierra Leone's main university.
"Some of our elections in the past have been horrific with violence and interference. People being put into sacks and conveyed to their opponents as gifts."
Ethnic divisions
Just five years ago many Sierra Leoneans had voted overwhelmingly for the SLPP in both parliamentary and presidential elections.
Solomon Berewa could only poll 44%
Almost six years after the end of the decade-long war, people are desperate to see improvements in their lives. Jobs, electricity, health care and education are the main priorities.
The election has reopened some of the regional and ethnic divisions with the country split between the two main parties.
One of Mr Koroma's top priorities will need to be reuniting the population.
But he knows the electorate want results and soon.
"If Ernest Bai Koroma doesn't perform, we'll boot him out in the next election," one man told me, referring to the APC leader.
But Mr Koroma was not the only winner in Sierra Leone's election.
It looks like democracy won too
Subject: THE ROLE OF WOMEN IN SIERRA LEONE
From: HAJA HURAI KAMARA
To: All
Date Posted: 01:47:58 09/18/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: ip-207-145-43-5.iad.megapath.net at 207.145.43.5
Message:
Itis about time women in SIERRA LEONE irrespective of tribal, religious or political affiliation foster development projects towards a better SIERRA LEONE.There is a brighter future for women in SIERRA LEONE WITH ERNEST BAI KOROMA as president.There is urgent needs for technical and trade schools.I am calling on all women with technical and vocatinal background to come forward to contribute to the national interest of your country,SIERRA LEONE.
Subject: DEM HAJA'S DON BEGIN ?
From: TigerSheik
To: All
Date Posted: 01:35:34 09/18/07 ()
Email Address: umarrsheik@yahoo.com
Entered From: 118.36-241-81.adsl-dyn.isp.belgacom.be at 81.241.36.118
Message:
WE DAE WATCH ONU DIS TEM. WE WAN FOR MAKE ONU KNOW SAY THIS NAH DIFFERRENT A.P.C. IF ONU CAM FOR HELP FOR BUILD THE COUNTRY ONU WELL COME. BUT IF NAH DA YUKI YUKI (RES QUOTA, WE NOR DAE PAN DAT. lUNTA!
Subject: VIVA --- PRESIDENT ERNEST BAI KOROMA
From: HAJA HURAI KAMARA
To: All
Date Posted: 00:41:36 09/18/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: ip-207-145-43-5.iad.megapath.net at 207.145.43.5
Message:
Congratulations to you MR. PRESIDENT ERNEST BAI KOROMA.The voice of the people is a powerful instrument for a change.Therefore the people of SIERRA LEONE have spoken,and there is a remarkable political change in SIERRA LEONE.ONE FOR ALL,AND ALL FOR ONE.VIVA APC,BROVO PMDC.
Subject: Re: VIVA --- PRESIDENT ERNEST BAI KOROMA
From: Leonean
To: All
Date Posted: 12:32:29 09/18/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: 71-215-224-107.mpls.qwest.net at 71.215.224.107
Message:
APC has won and the Hajas are now coming out from wherever they have been hiding all these years. Please no more rice chits and petrol quotas.
Subject: CULLED FROM BBC
From: baykutay
To: All
Date Posted: 00:23:43 09/18/07 ()
Email Address: baykutay@yahoo.com
Entered From: at 193.220.2.141
Message:
It was clear early on that this was unlike many elections in Africa.
Before even a single ballot in the presidential poll had been cast, the governing party was complaining of rigging.
On election day itself the ruling Sierra Leone People's Party (SLPP) accused the police of bias.
A party in power being cheated? It was an unusual claim.
The familiar scenario in so many elections across Africa is of a very uneven playing field, with the pitch sloping in favour of the governing party.
But in Sierra Leone, Ernest Bai Koroma of the opposition All People's Congress (APC) has won with 53% of the total votes compared to 44% for the outgoing Vice President, Solomon Berewa.
Helping hand
Mr Koroma was given a huge helping hand when former minister Charles Margai broke away from the governing party and later called for his supporters to back the APC candidate in the run-off vote.
On the campaign trial, the APC candidate, a former insurance broker, was confident of victory.
"You cannot fatten your pig on market day," said Mr Koroma.
It will be a tough defeat to take for the SLPP and even as it stared them in the face, party officials were in a serious state of denial.
The electorate has sent a clear message to the country's politicians - the majority of voters felt the government was not doing enough to eradicate poverty in this mineral rich country.
There was also a widespread perception that the outgoing government was corrupt.
The newly-created National Electoral Commission (NEC) has done a good job at trying to keep the playing field level thanks largely to its boss - the former nun and headteacher, Christiana Thorpe.
Sierra Leoneans have witnessed a well-organised poll and the fair but firm Ms Thorpe dealt with election malpractice the same way she might have reacted to finding one of her former students cheating in exams.
But judging by the attempts in Sierra Leone's election, her pupils would probably have been better at cheating.
Fake results
"During the verification process we discovered counterfeit results forms which were sent to the NEC from polling stations throughout the country," said Ms Thorpe.
"It was not difficult to detect them as they contained a spelling mistake in the title. The word 'form' was spelled 'from'."
Then results from 477 polling stations had to be annulled because the cheaters had been over-enthusiastic, recording more than 100% turn out.
Those stations where miraculously more people had voted than were registered were largely but not exclusively in government strongholds.
The head of the commission said a very important message had emerged from the elections.
"There is no longer a place for fraud and malpractice in the Sierra Leone electoral system," said Ms Thorpe.
"The people of Sierra Leone deserve to exercise their rights in an atmosphere of freedom, fairness and transparency."
Rewind the clock a few years and the situation was very different.
"This has been one of the best-run elections I have witnessed," says Eldred Jones, the respected ex-principal of Fourah Bay College, Sierra Leone's main university.
"Some of our elections in the past have been horrific with violence and interference. People being put into sacks and conveyed to their opponents as gifts."
Ethnic divisions
Just five years ago many Sierra Leoneans had voted overwhelmingly for the SLPP in both parliamentary and presidential elections.
Almost six years after the end of the decade-long war, people are desperate to see improvements in their lives. Jobs, electricity, health care and education are the main priorities.
The election has reopened some of the regional and ethnic divisions with the country split between the two main parties.
One of Mr Koroma's top priorities will need to be reuniting the population.
But he knows the electorate want results and soon.
"If Ernest Bai Koroma doesn't perform, we'll boot him out in the next election," one man told me, referring to the APC leader.
But Mr Koroma was not the only winner in Sierra Leone's election.
It looks like democracy won too.
Subject: COULD SOMEBODY POST THE PICS OF THR CEREMONY AT STATE HOUS
From: ROBERT PSINE
To: All
Date Posted: 00:30:01 09/18/07 ()
Email Address: painera2003@yahoo.com
Entered From: host184-124-dynamic.7-87-r.retail.telecomitalia.it at 87.7.124.184
Message:
we now kno that Earnest Koroma is the president of Sierra Leone.Could some one please post the pictures for us to see.
CONGRATULATIONS TO THE A.P.C.
Subject: THE TIME FOR REBUILDING IS NOW
From: Brima Kamara
To: All
Date Posted: 00:16:07 09/18/07 ()
Email Address: brimakam@yahoo.com
Entered From: at 193.220.2.141
Message:
To all true Sierra Leoneans out there in the diaspora, I want to say to you that the elections are now over. No more insult or partyism. It is now time to put all that behind us and work for the common good of our people. In five years time we will be back for the kind of interesting political debates that had been raging on in the cocorioko and this website. We are all Sierra Leoneans. It does not matter if you are from the West, South, East or North. Our sole aim should be to move our country forward for it to take it rightful place in the international community. No one has monopoly over good ideas. So we need ideas from all the people who by their postings in this forum shows they are matured and can push our country forward if they have the will to do so. An election might be over but there more elections to come. So let's forget about this one and put into practice all the brilliant ideas that we have been putting forward during those endless debates. From my own perspective. I dont think there was a loser in these elections. Sierra Leone has proved to the rest of africa and indeed the world that democracy can triumph if only we give it the chance. For far too long has our name been in the news for the wrong reasons. At last we can be able to hold our heads up high and answer the naysayers that "Indeed, Something good can come out of our beloved country Sierra Leone". I congratulate all the people of Sierra Leone and all those who took part in those lively debates. You are all winners so let us all celebrate the beginning of a new area in Mother Sierra Leone. May God bless us all.
Subject: THE TIME FOR REBUILDING IS NOW
From: Brima Kamara
To: All
Date Posted: 00:15:54 09/18/07 ()
Email Address: brimakam@yahoo.com
Entered From: at 193.220.2.141
Message:
To all true Sierra Leoneans out there in the diaspora, I want to say to you that the elections are now over. No more insult or partyism. It is now time to put all that behind us and work for the common good of our people. In five years time we will be back for the kind of interesting political debates that had been raging on in the cocorioko and this website. We are all Sierra Leoneans. It does not matter if you are from the West, South, East or North. Our sole aim should be to move our country forward for it to take it rightful place in the international community. No one has monopoly over good ideas. So we need ideas from all the people who by their postings in this forum shows they are matured and can push our country forward if they have the will to do so. An election might be over but there more elections to come. So let forget about this one and put into practice all the brilliant ideas that we have been putting forward during those endless debates. From my own perspective. I dont think there was a loser in these elections. Sierra Leone has proved to the rest of africa and indeed the world that democracy can triumph if only we give it the chance. For far too long has our name been in the news for the wrong reasons. At last we can be able to hold our heads up high and answer the naysayers that "Indeed, Something good can come out of our beloved country Sierra Leone". I congratulate all the people of Sierra Leone and all those who took part in those lively debates. You are all winners so let us all celebrate the beginning of a new area in Mother Sierra Leone. May God bless us all.
Subject: CHEZ WINAKABS WHERE ARE YOU?
From: The guy next door
To: All
Date Posted: 00:06:35 09/18/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: ool-4355f2ef.dyn.optonline.net at 67.85.242.239
Message:
Chez, when ever you wake up, if you wake up we are really celebrating. This not a dream like you had a few days ago.
Subject: Re: CHEZ WINAKABS WHERE ARE YOU?
From: chez Winakabs Europe
To: All
Date Posted: 03:37:50 09/18/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: host86-129-200-111.range86-129.btcentralplus.com at 86.129.200.111
Message:
I am wide awake. I fought a fight and I am happy that it is all over. I lost my fight and I am now trying to assess the root cause of my loss. Congratulations to you guys and may the Good Lord help you govern well. Admittedly, my party under Kabba messed up big time. I had hope to have banked on Berewa winning to able able to see if he was different. The people decided otherwise.
Good luck and we will be back. I have appealed to the entire SLPP membership to request for the resignation of the entire executive save the leader. You guys were well organised. Greed was not prominent in your campaign. Our was greed and aforethought knowledge that we will lose. they decided to withhold funds to fund strategic aspects of the campaign.
I will continue my work in Sierra leone. We are a nation and so shall it be.
Subject: Re: CHEZ WINAKABS WHERE ARE YOU?
From: Mammy Blessing
To: All
Date Posted: 04:29:13 09/18/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: pool-71-247-147-219.nycmny.east.verizon.net at 71.247.147.219
Message:
Always a patriot---Chez. We have won an election battle but not the war over infrastructure, economy, despair and corruption in Salone.
Now the partisanship is suspended as we all work to get our country from the toilet. We hope for sound policies from the government. We will be watching keenly as we give Ernest a fair chance to do his business.
If he succeeds, we give applause.
If he falters, especially because of corruption, we will be caustic and swing vehement opposition.
Salone first, as far as I am concerned.
Subject: Re: CHEZ WINAKABS WHERE ARE YOU?
From: Chez Winakabs Europe
To: All
Date Posted: 04:39:11 09/18/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: host86-129-200-111.range86-129.btcentralplus.com at 86.129.200.111
Message:
Without a doubt, Sierra Leone first. My suggestion to our new president is to immediately set up a commission of inquiry into the way leaders of our SLPP government amassed so much wealth during their services to the nation whilst the people remained in abject poverty. Kabba should be amongst those to give account of how his buddies earned so much at the expense of the suffering masses. another notable character is Alpha Wurie. How can he amass so much whilst the education ministry and its responsibilities are in dire need to efficiently work.
I banked on Berewa to have done this but the people have decided and therefore I pray His Excellency Ernest Koroma can do us justice. They should not get away with it. The nation will not look at it as a witch hunt but a way to recover what is rightfully ours.
Subject: When will awearness time update its page
From: The guy next door
To: All
Date Posted: 23:37:01 09/17/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: ool-4355f2ef.dyn.optonline.net at 67.85.242.239
Message:
Almost 24 hrs and the Awearness has not publish the developments in Sierra Leone. What kind of a paper is this?
Subject: Re: When will awearness time update its page
From: Ibrahim Turay
To: All
Date Posted: 23:42:22 09/17/07 ()
Email Address: imtu71@hotmail.com
Entered From: pool-71-161-90-74.cncdnh.east.verizon.net at 71.161.90.74
Message:
What is there to update on her site other than congratulating president Ernest Koroma? You know she's a coward and a mighty loser. Why care about a dead rat when there is a chicken to roost my brother???
Subject: Re: When will awearness time update its page
From: The guy next door
To: All
Date Posted: 00:01:23 09/18/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: ool-4355f2ef.dyn.optonline.net at 67.85.242.239
Message:
TRUE...
Subject: Lets celebrate!
From: Bambay Lans Kamara
To: All
Date Posted: 23:25:20 09/17/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: sccadmin195198.scc.losrios.edu at 165.196.195.198
Message:
Congratulations patriotic Sierra Leoneans. We have got the freedom we deserve. We must now work hard, with the to-be-formed government to realize and enjoy this freedom. Congratulations to Hon. Earnest Bai Koroma, Mr. Samsumana, Mr. Charles Margia, Mr. Victor Foh, Mr. Kanu and all A.P.C. stalwarts. But most importantly, congratulations Sierra Leone.
Let us unite. United we stand divided we fall. I love you all, God bless us all.
Subject: Congratulations and May God Provide Guidance
From: Sheku Kallon
To: All
Date Posted: 22:25:04 09/17/07 ()
Email Address: shekukal@yahoo.com
Entered From: 72-254-169-91.client.stsn.net at 72.254.169.91
Message:
Congratulations to President Ernest Koroma and the APC for their victory in the elections. You fought hard and won the elections outright. Now comes the task of governing and I ask God to provide you and your administration the guidance and wisdom you will need for the daunting challenges that face our nation. Lord knows Sierra Leone and Africa has a lot going against them.
Subject: Re: Congratulations and May God Provide Guidance
From: Sierra
To: All
Date Posted: 22:41:41 09/17/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: cache-dtc-ag14.proxy.aol.com at 205.188.117.142
Message:
At-a-boy! That's the Sheku I know.
Subject: Re: Congratulations and May God Provide Guidance
From: Bambay Lans Kamara
To: All
Date Posted: 23:16:06 09/17/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: sccadmin195198.scc.losrios.edu at 165.196.195.198
Message:
What!
Subject: A.B.C. News
From: Bambay Lans Kamara
To: All
Date Posted: 21:56:03 09/17/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: sccadmin195198.scc.losrios.edu at 165.196.195.198
Message:
Sierra Leone elects new President
By By Africa correspondent Andrew Geoghegan
Posted 6 hours 54 minutes ago
Sierra Leone's Opposition leader has been sworn in as the country's new President after being declared the victor 10 days after a run-off election.
Opposition leader Ernest Bai Koroma is an insurance broker and has vowed to run Sierra Leone like a business.
He won a decisive 55 per cent of the vote over his rival, the current Vice-President Solomon Berewa.
However, the ruling party has challenged the result suspecting there have been voting irregularities.
Ironically, it was the issue of corruption which convinced voters that the country needed a change of leadership.
Tags: government-and-politics, world
Subject: Syl - Via - Bly - Den
From: David Kamara
To: All
Date Posted: 21:38:35 09/17/07 ()
Email Address: saloneloudmouth@yahoo.com
Entered From: cpe00195b4bf214-cm001a667071fe.cpe.net.cable.rogers.com at 99.244.128.53
Message:
Syl - who, via bly den she has ran away. Look at her Awarenesstimes website - its become Unaware of the real happenings. Every ploy that she tried to mislead the mass, every prediction that she was giving with her so called Dr. knowledge has shown ultimately that we in Salone are not Dr.'s but have better wisdom, we remain quiet till its action time and we know what we want, we do it and we achieve it, then its AWARENESS TIMES OF OURS...
Subject: Congratulations to the APC and PMDC
From: abubakarr jalloh
To: All
Date Posted: 21:18:14 09/17/07 ()
Email Address: lahasaba@yahoo.com
Entered From: 000-039-435.area3.spcsdns.net at 68.244.153.115
Message:
I will like to register my profound and sincere congratulations to the APC and PMDC for a very clever fight that you guys put up to ascend to the presidency of our country. I wish you all the best in your new found role as drivers that will steer the ship of state. May the Almigty Allah, guide you all to do what is right for our beloved Sierra Leone.
To the media houses like Cocorioko,Awareness Times,Patriotic Vanguard, Standard Times and The New People just to name a few I thank you all for your valuable service to the nation. I hope you guys will be as objective as possible from now on to ensure that our young democracy develop to a point that will make us all more proud as a nation.
To my SLPP faithfuls we did our best to sell our candidate but things did not work for us this time. Therefore let us work hard to move our party to the next level that will ensure victory for us in 2012. We are not losers but rather people that brought democracy and the best elections ever in our country. I want to suggest we throw a big party for all to celebrate DEMOCRACY. We are the grand old party of the late Sir Milton Margai and others. Those guys believe in nothing but humility and sincerity in helping those that are less fortunate than them. Let us take our party back to those roots. I love you all and hope to see you at our first meeting.
To my family the JALLOH-TIMBO, both at home and the diaspora, guys the kind of peaceful politics that we are practising I wish the whole country will do the same. Those of you that are on the side of the APC congratulations and keep on participating in the affairs of your country. I will keep to my promise at the end of the Ramadan month your victory party is on me.
SIERRA LEONEANS LOVE EACH OTHER AS GOD LOVES YOU.
Subject: Re: obituary news of the late friends os berewa
From: larrylum
To: All
Date Posted: 04:25:29 09/18/07 ()
Email Address: larrylum2nice@yahoo.com
Entered From: at 195.41.173.10
Message:
we hereby regret the sudden death of friends of berewa which was announced yesterday. further details of the funeral shall be announced by ernest bai koroma the newly president elect of our country.
Subject: Re: Congratulations to the APC and PMDC
From: Ibrahim Turay
To: All
Date Posted: 23:50:54 09/17/07 ()
Email Address: imtu71@hotmail.com
Entered From: pool-71-161-90-74.cncdnh.east.verizon.net at 71.161.90.74
Message:
Mr. Jalloh, I'd like to thank you in return for your patriotic gesture which show how much of a gentle man you are. However, did I hear you say you believe in "humility and sincerity"??? To say the least, whatever happened to the injunction??? Humility is out of SLPP's world.
Subject: Re: Congratulations to the APC and PMDC
From: Shembu
To: All
Date Posted: 23:27:12 09/17/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: c-68-82-30-239.hsd1.de.comcast.net at 68.82.30.239
Message:
Mr. ABJ,
Thanks for the kind words. I hope that your party goes back to the drawing board and figure out where you guys went wrong. My advice is that more folks in your party think and act like yourself. It is for the good of the nation not just the good of a few. We should view politics as just a means to belong to a group of inviduals that share similar beliefs but that our job is to work to develop the entire nation.
I am a friend of your younger brother, Vistro and it is interesting how you guys are brothers supporting different parties but habor the same love and respect for each other as always. I hope many more Sierra Leoneans can emulate such behavior. God bless you guys and good luck for the 2012 campaign.
Subject: Koroma wins Sierra Leone election, takes office
From: Bamabay Lans Kamara
To: All
Date Posted: 20:55:57 09/17/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: sccadmin195198.scc.losrios.edu at 165.196.195.198
Message:
hey thieisome!
Subject: Re: Koroma wins Sierra Leone election, takes office
From: Cornelius Hamelberg
To: All
Date Posted: 21:37:19 09/17/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: c-088472d5.01-32-73746f42.cust.bredbandsbolaget.se at 213.114.132.8
Message:
I just read the print edition of Dagens Nyheter - delivered this morning. Nice picture of His Excellency President Ernest Bai Koroma, smiling and talking to the press, surrounded by microphones......
Will translate article/ report by Anna Koblanck writing from Johannesburg, later.
It's 4.34 a.m... it's been a long day... a historic day....a satisfying day.....
Subject: Re: Koroma wins Sierra Leone election, takes office
From: Bai Bureh
To: All
Date Posted: 01:18:51 09/18/07 ()
Email Address: rastafari_ish@hotmail.com
Entered From: dator6071.161.gbgsd.se at 62.88.181.216
Message:
Hej!
Var någonstans bor du i Sverige? Jag har läst nyheter om val i Göteborg Posten också.
Subject: Where is Abass Bundu?
From: Charlar
To: All
Date Posted: 20:54:06 09/17/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: canlinkdsm.eds.com at 205.239.196.6
Message:
Where is Abass Bundu?
Subject: Re: Where is Abass Bundu?
From: Mammy Blessing
To: All
Date Posted: 03:54:43 09/18/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: pool-71-247-147-219.nycmny.east.verizon.net at 71.247.147.219
Message:
SUCKING AIR in history's garbage dump.
Subject: Re: Where is Abass Bundu?
From: Ibrahim Turay
To: All
Date Posted: 23:58:23 09/17/07 ()
Email Address: imtu71@hotmail.com
Entered From: pool-71-161-90-74.cncdnh.east.verizon.net at 71.161.90.74
Message:
He is in the closet formulating a strategy that would immediately evacuate him from SLPP to APC. Just watch, expect to hear apologetic speech just to get his house back.
Subject: 1825 DAYS TO DELIVER, PRESIDENT KOROMA!!
From: Mammy Blessing
To: All
Date Posted: 20:42:25 09/17/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: pool-71-247-147-219.nycmny.east.verizon.net at 71.247.147.219
Message:
President Koroma,
We have congratulated you ad nauseum for your well-deserved win in the elections. Now it is time to go to work for the people of Salone. There is so much despair and economic ruin in the country that if you don't start showing tangible results within say three months, the honeymoon will be lost and the people now blaring your hosannas will be baying for blood.
Electricity, sanitation, clean water, jobs, corruption: something's gotta ccange for the better before Emerson and Pupa Baja start hurling insults.
Mr. President, so many people on this forum exerted on your behalf under different pseudonyms that they will be royally miffed if you disappoint.
I myself fulminated on this forum as Mammy Sweh, Mammy Blessing, Victor Moigua, Max Vandy, Mambolo Sweet, Henrietta Vandy, Obnoxious Tribalist, Bambay Fanatic!
We wish you the best as you try to make it happen in 1,825 days. God bless Sierra Leone!
Subject: Re: 1825 DAYS TO DELIVER, PRESIDENT KOROMA!!
From: Tamba Moiwo
To: All
Date Posted: 20:52:43 09/17/07 ()
Email Address: moiwo@hotmail.co.uk
Entered From: host86-146-133-172.range86-146.btcentralplus.com at 86.146.133.172
Message:
NO MAN,TIME STARTS NOW AND AFTER THREE MONTHS,WE NEED A REPORT CARD.
SO NAR FOR TELL DAE MAN LEK EE LEF BABY BIZNESS NOW EN OLE SORBEH....
AVALANCHE NOR DAE FAR OH!!! ANPOSUK!!!!
TAMBA
Subject: Re: 1825 DAYS TO DELIVER, PRESIDENT KOROMA!!
From: Mammy Blessing
To: All
Date Posted: 21:25:58 09/17/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: pool-71-247-147-219.nycmny.east.verizon.net at 71.247.147.219
Message:
Tamba,
You are absolutely right. If the prezy does not do something drastic in three months, the tide will change very, very quickly.
If in three months, there is no light in Freetown and Bormeh still stinks, the sense of disappointment will be palpable. The disappointment will only be compounded if discredited politicians are seen zipping through the potholes of Freetown in flashy Hummers with Pretty Young Things, splashing muddy water on the poor.
I pray for the new gov's success and will be joining others on this forum to proffer solutions for the national good. We will not tolerate business as usual. Some of us will not be praise-screaming ourselves hoarse.
We will be forming alliances with former adversaries on this forum as we try to keep our president on the straight and narrow for the good of the country.
We do all this because Africa is littered with the carcasses of once-popular presidents who reverted to the old way.
If you love Earnest, by all means, support him with all your heart but don't flinch from bringing down the hammer when he starts deviating!
Subject: Re: 1825 DAYS TO DELIVER, PRESIDENT KOROMA!!
From: Bambay Lans Kamara
To: All
Date Posted: 21:16:43 09/17/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: sccadmin195198.scc.losrios.edu at 165.196.195.198
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A darft will always remain to be a daft. (Munku nar munku!) Wow!
Do you actually believe you can be right by breaking the law and the amount of wickeness?
But we have to wait let us celebrate for the time being.
Subject: GOVERNMENT of NATIONAL UNITY=Zero tolerance CORRUPTION
From: TEAMWORK
To: All
Date Posted: 20:21:41 09/17/07 ()
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A leader with Fairness, Honesty, Competency, and a vision.
*1 Senior Ministers and Junior Ministers (20-35)
*2 Permanent/ProvincialSecretaries/Civil Service
*3 Judiciary
*4 Ambassadors
*5 Army/Police/Prison/Fire Force
*6 Parastatals
*7 Local Government Councils/Parliament
May God guide President Ernest Koroma as he reviews/assigns these responsibilities
Subject: Re: GOVERNMENT of NATIONAL UNITY=Zero tolerance CORRUPTION
From: Bugsyb
To: All
Date Posted: 20:53:38 09/17/07 ()
Email Address: aburneynic@yahoo.co.uk
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NO! NO! NO! Government of National Unity is a euphemism for a one Party State (and we all know where that got us before) APC govern SLPP/PMDC "DEMOCRATIC" opposition please!
Subject: Elections over, let us unite and blog
From: Sheku Sheriff
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Date Posted: 20:14:05 09/17/07 ()
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Chect out my blog.
www.segbwema.blogspot.com
Subject: PRESS RELEASE
From: KARAMOH Kabba
To: All
Date Posted: 19:06:20 09/17/07 ()
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PRESS RELEASE
APC/PMDC COALITION OF NORTH AMERICA
September 17, 2007
The APC/PMDC Coalition for 2007 Presidential Runoff Election of North
American congratulates His Excellency Ernest Bai Koroma, on his
accession to the presidency of the Republic of Sierra Leone on this
momentous day of September 17, 2007.
We congratulate the Leader of the PMDC, Hon. Charles Francis Margai
for his magnanimity in the pursuit of a viable coalition with the APC in
the name of unity and peace that has indisputably become the
cornerstone of our victory.
We thank the Electoral Commission (NEC): Chief Electoral
Commissioner, Christiana Thorpe, the commissioners and the entire
staff of NEC for conducting a transparent election. The free, fair and
peaceful disposition of these elections has redeemed our long-tainted
image by war and military rules of the past.
We congratulate the officials of the APC/PMDC Coalition for their
relentless effort, untiring devotion to the purpose of electioneering in
the presidential runoff election.
We wish to thank all our members, supporters and well-wishers of the
APC/PMDC Coalition for commitment and sincerity of purpose in
securing the victory.
We are even more so grateful to the people of Sierra Leone for their
show of political maturity, political awareness and unfaltering
determination for change in our country and commitment to free, fair
and peaceful elections. We will take this opportunity to acknowledge
the SLPP’s effort and committment to the freedom of expression, and
the democratic process that made our victory possible.
We wish to appeal to all Sierra Leoneans that this is a victory for all
without regard to political party affiliation, ethnic origin and regional or
religious background. We embrace all citizens to join us in our vision
for national cohesion and nation building. We are poised, on our part,
to ensure that regional background or ethnic origin of our citizenry
does not cloud our vision to promote and strengthen the socio-
economic development of our nation.
We wish to thank the International Community, the United Nations and
our major development partners for standing with us in times of trial.
Indeed, their commitment and our cooperation as a society in search of
lasting peace made this hard won victory even sweeter. And in the
spirit of acknowledging your commitment, we say thank you.
Victory would not have been possible without the wholesome
participation and support of the people of Sierra Leone and their
commitment to peace. And we shall not relent until we deliver to them
better services that they deserve. We thank everyone that made our
success possible at home and in the diaspora.
We must also tap the backs of the members of the APC/PMDC coalition
of North America for our contribution to the victory.
Francis Pa Santhikie Bangura
Sec. Gen. APC – USA
Kallay Musa Conteh
Asst. Sec. Gen. APC - USA
Karamoh Kabba
Media & Comm. PMDC – USA
Tejan Savage
Sec. Gen. PMDC - USA
Subject: Re: PRESS RELEASE
From: Tamba Moiwo
To: All
Date Posted: 19:10:58 09/17/07 ()
Email Address: moiwo@hotmail.co.uk
Entered From: host86-146-133-172.range86-146.btcentralplus.com at 86.146.133.172
Message:
Karamoh,you don late...
Kabs jis beat you to the Information Minister.And by the way you were thrown out of PMDC and crawled your way back in typical 'jeliba' fashion.
Please have excuse the day belongs to Koroma and Kanu.
Subject: Jonah you are disgrace
From: Buya ronko
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Date Posted: 18:43:34 09/17/07 ()
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Message:
James Jonah I am kindly asking to go to Mother Christiana school to teach you how to conduct elections.Jonah i gathered you are in Sierra leone and hope you have learnt your lesson from Miss Thorpe.You are a disgrace to the nation.
The saddest part was i felt sorry for Berewa because he did not have the opportunity to let you conduct the elections so that you can be compensated with a ministerial position (babu yai o) the way Bigful Kabba compensated you for depriving the old Karefa -Smart.
However,let us wait and see youe ending because you are responsible for all the mess we went through with bigful Kabba and his cohots. ocountry into this mess by rigging the election in favour of your bigful procurement officer in the UN.
kAREFA-Smart take courage Ernest Koroma will exactly make our beloved country as that what was your where about to do.You just sit down and watch.
Jonah and Kabba you are a disgrace to the UN.You guys are you not ashame of yourself?Look at Kofi Annan an African as you who is well respected in his own country and the diaspora.Kabba,Berwa and co oonu don pack?
Subject: Re: Jonah you are disgrace
From: Mohamed Kamara
To: All
Date Posted: 19:05:17 09/17/07 ()
Email Address: totti23@hotmail.com
Entered From: pool-71-166-130-119.washdc.east.verizon.net at 71.166.130.119
Message:
Dr. Jonah is a senior fellow at the Ralph Bunche Institute of International Studies at C.U.N.Y. Also,he was a member of group of scholars that recieved $ 1.5 million in 2005 from the Carnegie Corporation of New York for studies in International Development, International Peace and Security and Strengthening U.S. Democracy.
His research was on " The U.N. in Conflict Resolution: The Role of the International Civil Servant".He gave a presentation recently in New York on the above topic, where he spoke extensively about Ralph Bunche. It was revealed during this workshop that he was one of the living disciples of Ralph Bunche.
Thanks Brother.
Subject: Re: Jonah you are disgrace
From: Jackal
To: All
Date Posted: 23:46:45 09/17/07 ()
Email Address: dollarbill@gmail.com
Entered From: c-24-13-121-79.hsd1.il.comcast.net at 24.13.121.79
Message:
Jonah lost his credibility by accepting a position in a government whose election he officiated. To make matters worse he has no recorded accomplishment to show for his job as the finance minister.
I think Jonah could add value by transforming a third world economy while he was its Finance minister than any theoritical paper he can write on conflict resolution.
After all Jonah was nobody until Strasser called him to officiate the election process. I think he is an intellectual farce.
Subject: Re: Jonah you are disgrace
From: Saidu Daphay Turay
To: All
Date Posted: 19:55:55 09/17/07 ()
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What does his fellowship at the Ralph Bunche Institute has to do with put the credibility of Sierra Leone at stake and a laughing stock in the internatinal community? With all those enviable achievements a common lady (Christiana Thorpe) who has just received her PhD has exposed and disgraced Jonah's credentials. Sierra Leone doesn't fellows who are aiding and abetting criminals to destroy the country.
Subject: Re: Jonah you are disgrace
From: John K.
To: All
Date Posted: 19:09:10 09/17/07 ()
Email Address: karimuhawa@hotmail.com
Entered From: pool-71-172-29-241.nwrknj.fios.verizon.net at 71.172.29.241
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James Jonah is a DISGRACE to our country.
Subject: Re: Jonah you are disgrace
From: Mohamed Kamara
To: All
Date Posted: 09:48:09 09/18/07 ()
Email Address: totti23@hotmail.com
Entered From: mcstudent.montgomerycollege.edu at 160.253.128.7
Message:
Guys, I'm not trying to justify what Dr. Jonah did in Sierra leone. A question was asked " Where is James Jonah ?". I was not back home when all his alleged short comings occured, My Professor at the Elliot School of International Studies at George Washington University chose me to be part of the group that went to the presentation at the Ralph Bunche Institute in New York, I was so proud among my classmates because he (Dr.Jonah)is a Sierra Leonean held in high regard by my Professor, who is visting scholar at the AMERICAN ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE.
There are venues like cocorioko,Op-Ed's in New York Times or The Foreign Policy magazine where individuals can write and let the International Community know there/his failures when he was back home, i should have done it but i do not have any proof or articles that can be used as evidence when doing such. I cant make unjustifiable accusations becuase it will tarnish my reputition. On the other hand if any one of you guys have such please forward it to me.
Thanks.
Subject: Re: Jonah you are disgrace
From: TigerSheik
To: All
Date Posted: 01:19:17 09/18/07 ()
Email Address: umarrsheik@yahoo.com
Entered From: 118.36-241-81.adsl-dyn.isp.belgacom.be at 81.241.36.118
Message:
Why is it our so called men with education tend to to take stupid actions that will hunt them till the end of times?
SHAME ON YOU JAMES JONAH, KABA, BAREWA AND OTHERS.
With all your so called education and credentials you guys should have been wise enough to create strategies that could have helped our country from this messy situation we are now in.
Whoever say you've got education is dumb stupid.
Subject: And the winner of the media war is....Kabs Kanu
From: Yapo Conteh
To: All
Date Posted: 17:31:45 09/17/07 ()
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Message:
Sylvia Blyden will never see the light of day again. She has destroyed her credibility and respect and nobody will take her seriously again.
Kabs Kanu won the media war. Congrats, Kabs
Subject: Re: And the winner of the media war is....Kabs Kanu
From: Tamba Moiwo
To: All
Date Posted: 19:06:42 09/17/07 ()
Email Address: moiwo@hotmail.co.uk
Entered From: host86-146-133-172.range86-146.btcentralplus.com at 86.146.133.172
Message:
I suggest President Koroma,from the Wusum hills should compensate the Right venerable Kabs(Kabba) Kanu by making him Minister of Information to carry on the battle for the next five years.
Now,when you consign Slyvia to the heap of 'uncredible'people,there are very many people who will toss Kabs to the bottomless pit of 'lay-bellism'.His was not a fight for Sierra Leone-it was self-seeking and skewed towards the APC.A partisan Journalist is a dangerous one.Lets see if Kabs and Foday Mansaray will not be up in arms when they are side-lined.
Consider how many 'dregman' don pitch in for APC and are waiting by the phone for OBAI or his new scroundrels to loot.
President Kabba in his parting shot opined"I inherited an empty kitty and a war ravaged Country,I have now given you a stable and viable Country'.We will be on his 'tailboard' every second,minute and hour of his Presidency.
We will fight the APC on land,air ,sea and every nook and cranny of that land.
Let battle commence.
Subject: Re: And the winner of the media war is....Kabs Kanu
From: KABS KANU
To: All
Date Posted: 20:47:22 09/17/07 ()
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Message:
Judgement Day will tell.At times, it is easier for us to try to say what is in the hearts of others. We live in a free society and can say what we like but God is the final judge and on Judgement Day, he shall make people understand the error of their ways.
I started publishing newspapers in school ( By hand) .I spent my years at FBC writing the same way on CHUKS PRESS .Was I seeking something then ? I have been publishing COCORIOKO for almost 4 years now without getting a cent, but a loser like you will not understand because 'you hart wam' after the bloody defeat handed your party by the APC.
BRA, NAR FOR EASY O MAKE UNA NOR GET HEART ATTACK.
Subject: Re: And the winner of the media war is....Kabs Kanu
From: Tamba Moiwo
To: All
Date Posted: 21:00:31 09/17/07 ()
Email Address: moiwo@hotmail.co.uk
Entered From: host86-146-133-172.range86-146.btcentralplus.com at 86.146.133.172
Message:
REVO, YOUR RESPONSE IS VERY TELLING.YOU ARE VERY ECONOMICAL WITH THE TRUTH--"I have been publishing COCORIOKO for almost 4 years now without getting a cent".YOU NAR 'MAN OF GOD'SO WHY LIE? WUDAT NAR FODAY MANSARAY?
SURELY THE BOY FROM WUSUM WILL GIVE YOU A JUST RECOMPENSE GFOR A JOB WELL DONE.
BRA,WE DON "EMBALM"-WE NOR DAE DO WAM ART.
ECHEGEH!! INTILLI? AWA MANDIRANUI YO!!!
Subject: Re: And the winner of the media war is....Kabs Kanu
From: KABS KANU
To: All
Date Posted: 21:35:18 09/17/07 ()
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Message:
If you have embalmed, then leave other people alone. When SLPP won the elections in 1996 and 2002, nobody harassed you. Whatever choices I make is my business, not your's.
Subject: Re: And the winner of the media war is....Kabs Kanu
From: Tamba Moiwo
To: All
Date Posted: 19:13:36 09/18/07 ()
Email Address: moiwo@hotmail.co.uk
Entered From: host86-146-133-172.range86-146.btcentralplus.com at 86.146.133.172
Message:
, nobody harassed you. Whatever choices I make is my business, not your's.
PASTOR KABBA,YOU MEK AR LAF.SO DEN EXCHANGE NAR HARASSMENT? PROFOUNDLY SORRY BRA..
Subject: Re: And the winner of the media war is....Kabs Kanu
From: tamba moiwo
To: All
Date Posted: 06:00:14 09/18/07 ()
Email Address: moiwo@hotmail.co.uk
Entered From: gateway-303.energis.gsi.gov.uk at 62.25.109.196
Message:
REVO,YOU NOR YERI DA TOK YEAT????
SHOT ART MAN NOR DAE JOIN KAKADEBUL.
"Whatever choices I make is my business, not your's". It may very well be so,but do not lead others down the garden-path.
Do you understand this:AND LEAD US NOT INTO TEMPTATION????
Subject: Re: And the winner of the media war is....Kabs Kanu
From: Mambolo Sweet
To: All
Date Posted: 19:46:09 09/17/07 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
Oh Tamba, your poison pen itches to capsize this caravan before it even revs its engines. As you sharpen your cutlass to mow the seedling...caution my seedy one, the fiery blowback may just scorch thee cinders!
Journalist, Minister or Reverend, Kabs Kanu rocks.
Your perfidy against this good man is...well, filthy.
Subject: Re: And the winner of the media war is....Kabs Kanu
From: Tamba Moiwo
To: All
Date Posted: 20:08:02 09/17/07 ()
Email Address: moiwo@hotmail.co.uk
Entered From: host86-146-133-172.range86-146.btcentralplus.com at 86.146.133.172
Message:
Mambolo Sweet kin sweet,but bra you yone bitter bad bad one.Nar Wusum Hill ee grow ?
"Kabs Kanu rocks" Look be serious now,you really meant to say: KABS KANU SOCKS...
Tamba
Subject: Re: And the winner of the media war is....Kabs Kanu
From: Cornelius Hamelberg
To: All
Date Posted: 18:56:24 09/17/07 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
At heart she’s something of a
Pippi Longstocking.
She is really not a
Bad-looking woman... a Scot would probably say,” That’s a bloody good looking-woman!"
Don't know why she thought that some APC youths were after here and she had to barricade her premises....perhaps a bit of a guilty conscience there as in Proverbs 28
” The wicked man flees though no one pursues,
but the righteous are as bold as a lion.”
The righteous e.g. Kab K, like Like and like iron in Zion......
Subject: Re: And the winner of the media war is....Kabs Kanu
From: Cornelius Hamelberg
To: All
Date Posted: 18:26:51 09/17/07 ()
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Yes, congrats the Rt. Hon. Rev. Wilfred Leeroy Kabs-Kanu, for conviction, commitment, dedication and staying the course in a very courageous manner - not deviating to left or right or telling white lies....
All the above amounts to what I call integrity of the sort that has been an immense contribution to media responsibility and an effective tool in bring about change in our democracy!
As for Sylvia, you two should get together sometime so that you can give her some of what she needs. And I’m sure that what she needs is what she wants – a piece of light from your eyes….and some of that piece of peace that passeth all understanding….give it a shot Rev, go for it!
Africa must unite!
Subject: Re: And the winner of the media war is....Kabs Kanu
From: Oremi mi soro
To: All
Date Posted: 19:52:38 09/17/07 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
FUCK APC IF DEN DAE BOMB SLPP NAR TONG AR HOPE DEN MENDE MAN GO DEAL WIT DEN UPLINE. FUCK APC TEMNE MAN DEN BIZNEZ TRANGA LEH DEN GO BACK MAKENI EN YONIBANA EN KORMOT NAR WI TONG.
Subject: Re: And the winner of the media war is....Kabs Kanu (2)
From: Cornelius Hamelberg
To: All
Date Posted: 22:11:52 09/17/07 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
If yu talking to me sis (if you are indeed a Sis) let it be a piece or peace and I sure hope you understand the spirit of all this:
Yu tong- yes I like that , you sound like a New York man and if you were Jesse Jackrabbit Jackson you’d be calling it “Hymietown” and asking all them Jews to move to Amsterdam?
Your city? Yu tong or and your original Krio tongue is a stranger to those shores. You better be strong because Gbanabom Gbanabom wants to change the name of your town give it back to King Naimbana and move that your country cotton tree that provides all that shade all day, away, wants to give Mayor Winstanley R. Bankole Johnson and his noble councillors notice and start a new centre for the garbage collection no more disposal of ex-crement at Bomeh or burning of all that waste stuff at Gehenna. Looka here you know that Snoop Dogg was denied a visa to Australia, ( their town) they said niggers like him ( his type) not allowed - that’s not a good place for a kind hearted nigger like he be……and you want to deport my brothers to Yonibana – ( some me hamilbug bug fambul dem say den noh sabi mi again when ah say nah BAI BUREH nah mi main man – dem say nah Tonkolili ah comot – but I never ever mind the reactionary German nigger swine ( dem noh know say mi nah honourable Yoruba man from Abeokuta)
Anyway ah get you point: overcrowding can cause some social distress and physical / mental STRESS especially when you are neither APC nor SLPP tonight - another solid dark night
(Without light) and it was all of them that voted like a -this and like a-that:
Western Area Rural
APC : 55,332
SLPP: 22,842
WA Urban ( FREE-tong , yu tong)
APC : 249,056
SLPP: 115,771 ( show say SLPP rig bad bad wan nah ya so)
But on the whole Temne man pass Mende man nah Freetwon oh : ask Gbanabom , nah Temne man tong – ( before 1787 en Pa Thomas Peters im arrival on M.V: Apapa......
For the darkness, President-in-Ernest will soon provide the much missing LIGHT and that will attract the fire flies all the way from Makeni – more overcrowding as life conditions
( water and claen market places) improve in your once Garden City.
This means that he will simultaenously have to re- attract the able-bodied, and idle youths back to the land and farming... probaly have Lev Leviev commit to setting up some diamond- cutting and polishing ina Sierra leone – he’s a good guy ( I said guy, not goy) .....
Anyway sis, Ah dae go sleep now ( like lion of iron in ZION.......
Please consider this with favour and without any more descrimination from y’all Banga Krio pipul dem ( this was just a short reply)
Snoop Dogg denied visa to Australia
http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&q=Snoop+Dogg+denied+visa+to+Australia
Subject: Re: And the winner of the media war is....Kabs Kanu
From: Cornelius Hamelberg
To: All
Date Posted: 21:22:01 09/17/07 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
If yu talking to me sis let it be a piece or peace and I sure hope you understand the spirit of all this:
Yu tong- yes I like that , you sound like a New York man and if you were Jesse Jackrabbit Jackson you’d be calling it “Hymietown” and asking all them Jews to move to Amsterdam?
Your city? Yu tong or and your original Krio tongue is a stranger to those shores. You better be strong because Gbanabom Gbanabom wants to change the name of your town give it back to King Nimbana and move that your country cotton tree that provides all that shade all day, away, wants to give Mayor Winstanley R. Bankole Johnson and his noble councillors notice and start a new centre for the garbage collection no more disposal of ex-crement at Bomeh or burning of all that waste stuff at Gehenna. Looka here you know that Snopp Dogg was denied a visa to Australia, ( their town) they said niggers like him ( his type) not allowed - that’s not a good place for a kind hearted nigger like he be……and you want to deport my brothers to Yonibana – ( some me hamilbug bug fambul dem say den noh sabi mi again when ah say nah BAI BUREH nah mi main man – dem say nah Tonkolili ah comot – but I never ever mind the reactionary German nigger swine ( dem noh know say mi nah honourable Yoruba man from Abeokuta)
Anway ah get you point: overcrowding can cause some socail istress and phsyical / mental STRESS especially when you are neither APC nor SLPP tonight - another solid dark night
( without light) and it was all of them that voted like a -this and like a-that :
Western Area Rural
APC : 55,332
SLPP: 22,842
WA Urban ( FREE-tong , yu tong)
APC : 249,056
SLPP: 115,771 ( show say SLPP rig bad bad wan nah ya so)
But on the whole Temne man pass Mende man nah Freetwon oh : ask Gbanabom , nah Temne man tong – ( before 1787 en Pa Thomas Peters im arrival on M.V: Apapa......
For the darkness, President-in-Ernest will soon provide the much missing LIGHT and that will attract the fire flies all the way from Makeni – more overcrowding as life conditions
( water and claen market places) improve in your once Garden City.
This means that he will simultaenously have to re- attract the able-bodied, and idle youths back to the land and farming... probaly have Lev Leviev commit to setting up some diamond- cutting and polishing ina Sierra leone – he’s a good guy ( I said guy, not goy) .....
Anyway sis, Ah dae go sleep now ( like lion of iron in ZION.......
Please consider this with favour and without any more descrimination from y’all Banga Krio pipul dem ( this was just a short reply)
Subject: Re: And the winner of the media war is....Kabs Kanu
From: Oremi mi soro
To: All
Date Posted: 00:51:14 09/18/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 131.118.54.71
Message:
Shut up.
Temne people are NOT FROM FREETOWN. They have thier villeges that they come from. Freetown is the home to the Krios and the Okus. The war is over and everyone needs to go back home, and I do not think the Temne's are understanding that.
They are the ONLY TRIBE that has migrated to Freetown in such high numbers. I do not see Limba's, Mende's, Kono's, or Soso's running to Freetown in such a manner. You guys should run to Makeni and try to develop that sad excuse of a city instead of coming to Freetown. Since they have over taken the city I have never seen it in such nasty condition as it is in now. They all live in pan-bodi's and are very uncivilized and uneducated. All Temne women know how to do is to sell thier petty merchandise in the market. They do not even know how to speak proper krio and they are polutting it with thier strong and disgusting language.
TEMNE PEOPLE DO NOT LIKE WHERE THEY ARE FROM. THEY ARE ALL OVER THE COUNTRY AND EVERYWHERE THEY GO THEY TAKE THIER GBOSS GBOOS AND KROOT WAYS WITH THEM.
NOW WE HAVE A TEMNE PRESIDENT IF I WAS PRESIDENT I WILL BUT THEM ON THE FIRST PODA-PODA TO MILE 91 AND YONIBANA. DEN TOO DAMN NASTY FOR MI COMFORT.
Subject: Re: And the winner of the media war is....Kabs Kanu
From: Cornelius Hamelberg
To: All
Date Posted: 00:45:06 09/19/07 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
Shut up is not a nice thing to say to Brother Cornelius....
This is the vilest talk I've ever heard from anyone from the day of my birth till just exactly now when I noticed your message ( I was searching for some more gobbledegook from " freda maitland" when I noticed this from " you.
It's obvious that you don't know the history of Sierra Leone. Akintola Wyse was my classmate at POW and my roommate at FBC. He would shudder to hear you talk like this and so would my mother, who spoke Themne and my father who spoke Suso.
When did the so called Krios arrive/ migrate from slavery overseas and take up residence in the peninsular?
Makeni was badly damaged during the war.
You know this song,
”Home again, Makeni!
Home again, Port Loko!
When shall I see my home?
When shall I see my native land -
I shall never forget my home!
On the Banks of the Moa River,
On the banks of the Moa River
I'll be dreaming tonight
Where the moon shines so bright,
On the banks of the Moa River.!
My Scottish stepfather taught me this song on board the M.V. Aureole on our way to Sierra Leone. He worked all over the country.... but you have probably not been to Makeni or Yonibana... or seen the moon shining in Port Loko either..... or the rice paddies by the Scarcies river...
Yes, I also know all about the Settlers Descendants Union......
You should try to express yourself in amore civilised way.... so that someone does not have to kick your ass in order to teach you a lesson in good manners……
If I told you what I really think of you, I would be banned from this Forum, forever…..
Subject: PROUD TO BE A SIERRA LEONEAN
From: Independent Man
To: All
Date Posted: 17:20:42 09/17/07 ()
Email Address:
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The peaceful and orderly hand over of power in Sa Lone is very impressive. The fact the Berewa showed up at Ernest's swearing-in ceremony and shook Ernest's hand shows that Sierra Leone has come a long way.
Our people are now very aware and al3rt and are following the progress or lack there of very closely. They have shown our politicians that they (the people) are the bosses and the politicians are mere publicservants...if you will
Today is a day all Sierra Leoneans should be proud of.
Democracy is finally in our country. We must strive to maintain it. I hope that my party (SLPP) will put up an effective opposition in parliament for the good of the country, instead of crossing over to join the APC.
Subject: Secretary-General Pledges UN Support to President-Elect
From: Bambay Lans Kamara
To: All
Date Posted: 17:19:29 09/17/07 ()
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UN News Service (New York)
17 September 2007
Posted to the web 17 September 2007
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today pledged continuing support for Sierra Leone following the announcement of the opposition victory in presidential elections, the first since United Nations peacekeepers left in 2005 after helping to bring peace and stability to the West African country that was torn asunder by a brutal 10-year civil war.
In a statement issued by his spokesperson Mr. Ban commended all Sierra Leonean parties and their supporters "for exercising patience and restraint" during the tallying of votes in the 8 September poll, in which Ernest Bai Koroma of the All People's Congress Party received 54.6 per cent and incumbent Vice-President Solomon Berewa of the Sierra Leone People's Party obtained 45.4 per cent of the total valid votes cast. The final result was announced today.
Mr. Ban extended his warm congratulations to Mr. Koroma and also commended the National Electoral Commission and Sierra Leone's security agencies for the professional and efficient manner in which they performed their duties during the period, which saw two rounds of voting since neither of the top candidates received sufficient votes to be elected outright.
"The Secretary-General wishes to assure the newly elected government of Sierra Leone of the continued support of the United Nations as the country continues to move towards durable political stability and sustainable economic development," the statement concluded.
The presidential and parliamentary elections were Sierra Leone's second since the end of the civil war in 2002, and the first since the withdrawal of the UN Mission in Sierra Leone (UNAMSIL).
Since then assistance has been channelled through the UN Integrated Office in Sierra Leone (UNIOSIL), which today announced one more example of UN aid with the handing over of audio-visual equipment and computers to the Voice of Children Project (VOC), managed by the Office.
Presiding at the hand-over ceremony, UN Children's Fund (UNICEF) Goodwill Ambassador Fabrienne Demal, a Belgian pop star popularly known as Axelle Red, praised the children for their courage and enthusiasm and advised them to take their newly acquired journalistic skills seriously.
The Voice of Children project is regarded internationally as a highly successful communications tool for stimulating critical discussion among children in peace consolidation environments. It was launched as a non-profit public service radio facility for and by the children of Sierra Leone on the issues that affect their lives most intimately.
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Subject: Congratualtion to All
From: Tszyu
To: All
Date Posted: 16:47:51 09/17/07 ()
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I am a happy man today as I have waited long enough for a change.
Firstly I have being wanting to write since this morning but did not know what to say and as I will usually get my inspiration from reading other contributions, I have just thought of a more appropriate response.
Sierra Leone's security forces, the police and the army should be highly recommended for their gallant effort in protecting its citizens from wicked and unscrupulous politician who are usual bent in causing confusion and mayhem. The neutral news papers, namely Cocorioko, even though it seems bias towards APC have got the reporting highly objective and true to the point, not withstanding the other news paper who have also done the same.
I thank my brothers and sisters of Sierra Leone as they have being really educated this time as to how to vote and they stood firm in their conviction for whom they wanted as their leader/president and the need for a change, this is the first true African democracy to say the least.
Lastly I congratulate the APC leader President Koroma and hope that he will do what others have not done before, to be truthful to his people and please no witch hunt, but to address any citizen who will otherwise try to send us back to the stone ages. To the party members I congratulate you on a job will done and also to all those who have contributed to the success of this election not forgetting Dr Christiian Thorpe, who sailed above all obstacles that a less feeble person would have tarnish their reputation, in put in her place. Bravo to All!!!
May God bless us all and hope for a better tomorrow.
Sierra Leoneans unite; this is the only way forward.
God Bless
Tszyu contributor since 1990 days
Subject: FOR CHEZ AND ITK: SULLAY WILL NEVER COME GOOD.
From: SUBWANALAI
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Date Posted: 16:41:28 09/17/07 ()
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Hello my comrades in the struggle. You see, I told you yesterday that Sullay (Sulaiman Banja Tejan Sie 2)will come of no good. But you ITK thought I just hated the man. As critics we donot wish for another man's misery, but if it makes news whether for good or bad reasons, then so be it. Have you watched Sullay's picture on AWOKO as he leaves court? His eyes were as red as a disco light.(Hey Sullay baby, what's up ya nose)...Chez, but I told you to "bilah" that man, the night before the morning that was to be. Didn't I? So, wah gwan?
More to the point. His injunction file to the courts survived as long as Chritiana Thorpe got dressed. What a shame! Sullay has always been a loser. And this time round to the People's Princes. What about that uppercut Sullay? When will you ever learn? Hey...just joking buddy.You? Shiooooor! You will never learn. I know you would come back again. Yup, for another controversy."Controversial Sulaiman Banja Tejan Sie 11"...ummm, that's what you are. So it was written, and so it shall be done.
Subject: Re: FOR CHEZ AND ITK: SULLAY WILL NEVER COME GOOD.
From: Mi Breadren-Me man
To: All
Date Posted: 16:56:44 09/17/07 ()
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Una lef the man, you have to be in Sierra leone to know how things are played, no to him wan de smoke or get high, way all dem big man dem way day go after dem small pekin dem, or de wan dem way de tiff. Afterward the man nar barrister and he has not being dis-barred yet. We two get bad hat, man dem get for survive, do you guys know all de wan dem we lef England en America for go falla APC, no to dem all clean oh, so do ya, Sully nar me man, BTW, I do not smoke or use any form of drugs, I am just a lover of all pips, even the dull and ignorant. At least he is in Sierra Leone, oppositions were are you, do ya take am easy.
Subject: JOHN MANNAH'S UNGRAMMATICAL WRITIING DISSECTED
From: Teacher
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Date Posted: 16:38:07 09/17/07 ()
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Welcome to the S.L.P.P. Forum
Re: ChristianaThorpe, Your Few Months of Fame is Over
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Posted by Teacher on September 17, 2007 at 16:34:38:
In Reply to: Re: ChristianaThorpe, Your Few Months of Fame is Over posted by John Mannah on September 17, 2007 at 16:07:42:
: Teacher; go and look into grammer construction again. I learned this in high school. "
John Mannah, I am beginning to feel sorry for you: Every time you write, you expose the yawning gaps in your educations. In this case, you are exposing your poor grammar.
Please notice the proper spelling of grammar -- which is not to be confused with your ungrammatical concoction, "grammer."
Now let's get to your substantive bloopers: You wrote: "Subject and verb combination. lime light of fame and political chicanery go with is. whenever you use the word "and", in combination with another word, its used as a singular, not a plural."
Here, you are demonstrating a quite common trait among overreaching blind SLPP supporters, namely: An inability to understand what they read. The grammatical error in your sentence is not located in your use of the word "and." The fact that you fail to see that means that your ignorance of elementary grammar (spelt with an "a" not "e"") is far deeper than I first thought!
I do not intend to spoon-feed you by telling you what your error is. You will learn better (if it is possible for you to learn at all) by finding out on your own, using useful pointers that I will generously give you here:
1. Identify the subject of the sentence first. You can do so by deleting the following phrase from the sentence: "months in the lime light of fame and political chicanery"
2. Next, take a look at the subject of the sentence and confirm that it is in the plural number.
3. That means it can be accompanied only by a plural verb.
4. Now, take a look at the verb in your sentence. You will confirm that you used a SINGULAR verb to accompany a plural subject.
5. Hopefully, by now, you are aware that such a sentence is ungrammatical -- just like I told you at first, and yet, you failed to understand.
Now, notice that I started your much belated remedial education in English grammar by DELETIG the phrase containing the word "and" -- which you contend, wrongly, is the basis of my assertion of your error of grammar. I hope you can understand that, having proved that your sentence is ungrammatical WITHOUT the presence of the phrase containing "and," it is self-evident that the culprit phrase could NOT be the basis of your elementary error of grammar.
Now, in consideration of my teaching you elementary grammar, may I ask you to try again to a correct version of your ungrammatical sentence?
I will ignore -- this time -- your clearly wishful thinking about you being an encyclopedia, whether walking or comatose. :)
Subject: Re: JOHN MANNAH'S UNGRAMMATICAL WRITIING DISSECTED
From: Amidu Sesay
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Date Posted: 17:18:18 09/17/07 ()
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Dis Mannah nar borbor pain?
Subject: Check out my blog
From: Sheku Sheriff
To: All
Date Posted: 16:15:45 09/17/07 ()
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Hi everybody, check out my blog at:
www.segbwema.blogspot.com
congratulations APC and PMDC. W
Subject: Re: Check out my blog
From: Jay
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Date Posted: 17:17:33 09/17/07 ()
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Hey Sherro:
What's up bro.How's the Minnesota.Glad to hear from you.I just checked your blog out,it's impressive.Keep up the good work bro.
Your classmate at SLGS and FBC.
Subject: Re: Check out my blog
From: Sheku Sheriff
To: All
Date Posted: 18:55:32 09/17/07 ()
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SLGS, FBC, thats me. Well with just Jay, I can't really tell who you are. But I am pleasesd that you are well and kicking. Lets keep up supporting Sierra leone.
Subject: Re: Check out my blog
From: BRA ENVIABLE
To: All
Date Posted: 16:27:34 09/17/07 ()
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I had a very close friend at CKC named Sheku Sheriff.
Tall, lanky, extremely intelligent and funny as hell. Then there was Dwight Caulker. I was in upper Form Six Arts when Dwight was similarly doing Sixth form studies in the science section. Is this Sheku Sheriff a screen name? Where in Salone do you come from?
Subject: JC to clean to Free Town Dec 29
From: Sorba S
To: All
Date Posted: 15:50:06 09/17/07 ()
Email Address: sorba_1@yahoo.com
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Fellows, the elections are over in Sierra Leone. We have all talked for and against the prior Government and incoming present government. It is time for us to now come together and help rebuild the country. In order for us to atrack investors we have to show some effort on our part.
I am therefore reconmending a voluntary clean-up Free Town by JCs.
Here is what we can do for some of us going to Sierra Leone in December.
1. I know some of us Cannot clean filth. Even myself I can not do it but we can comtribute money say $50 each meet at the stadium that day and employ the youths for that day.
2. We can also purchase some trash can or dust bin to put at stratigic locat1ons and then use vehicles to do a pick up.
3. I am looking at December 29 to do.
Please help me with your suggestions. Let us bring our country back to where it was before Foday Sankoh.
Subject: AH DON CRASE!
From: TigerSheik
To: All
Date Posted: 16:38:39 09/17/07 ()
Email Address: umarrsheik@yahoo.com
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AH DON CRASE! BAREWA WAE DORTY THE COUNTRY NA HIN FOR CLEAN AM WITH E MOT.
BRA E BETE U ADVICE ALL THEN J C THEM MAKE WE TRY GO BACK EN BUILD WE COUNTRY. SOME MAN DEM DON CAM YA EN FORDON NA WATTA EN TURN FISH.
Subject: Re: JC to clean to Free Town Dec 29
From: EDWARD MAADA SIAKA
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Date Posted: 16:33:42 09/17/07 ()
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Thats a great idea and I wish you can get JCs to do it or contribute to the cleaning of F/Town. Its somehow symbolic.I am not going down F/Town but if their is an a/c I will certainly donate something.
Subject: Re: JC to clean Freetown Dec 29
From: Sorba S
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Date Posted: 16:08:10 09/17/07 ()
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I am looking for volunteers. Your effort will not go in vain.
Subject: Freinly letter to John Mannah ( rejected by the SLPP website
From: Cornelius Hamelberg
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Date Posted: 15:42:27 09/17/07 ()
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John Mannah,
This is a friendly and chatty letter:
Treachery is as distant from our national heroine Dr. Christina Thorpe as corruption is distant from an angel - and you know that there are few if any (angels) in the SLPP. – although it’s possible that there are some that I don’t know of in which case you will kindly give me their names and addresses so that I may look them up or indeed look up to them.
In spite of this general awareness the word treachery is now a most favoured word in your vocabulary – and Dr. Christiana Thorpe gives a lie to the Chauvinistic Iron Johns’ oft – quoted Shakespearean observation ” Frailty thy name is woman.”
She has done all true Sierra Leone men and women proud. The acclaim is now universal barring a few disenchanted bitter old Negro voices like yours.
You sound as if the people voted overwhelmingly for your SLPP but the Electoral commission went against the popular will expressed by ballots cast for the APC, by the long suffering people and that Lady Christiana austerely and unfairly or criminally gave the winners’ trophy of presidency to the one who had truly lost the presidential election.
You know that this is not so.
Although victory is not yours in the people’s court - not in the parliamentary elections either, you should be trying to uphold – with dignity – and equanimity - all the good things about the SLPP, such as my possibility of being here to disagree with you, on your own website.
Mr Karamanlis' centre-right New Democracy the winner of the elections in Greece, have a parliamentary majority of four seats………
http://www.cfr.org/publication/13639/
That too will be difficult for them to pilot bills through parliament.
In Sweden, the Social Democrats – after many years in office, lost the last election which was held a year ago – not because of bad performance in office, but because the opposition, a coalition of conservative forces, were able to engineer a successful election campaign on all fronts and able to generate an atmosphere of ”We want change” which caught on and became the dominant mood of the majority of people.
Most of the media scribes of the SLPP spent more time barking about Pa Shaki than in intelligently articulating their vision for a mandate period 2007-2012. If Sierra Leone were more of a media-conscious and literate society and Mr. Berewa showed contempt for us all by refusing to debate with any of the other candidates about their vision for the country then I assure you that he would have done even more disastrously.
I am only speaking frankly.
We and the rest of the world are loud in our applause for Lady Christiana Thorpe who has done a great job. She has done her job most excellently at every twist and turn of the course of events – and you accuse her of “treachery”?
Get a grip on yourself man. It sounds like disappointment is making you go bananas. I think that the rampant corruption that is the daily bread activity of some of your people is the true definition of treason and treachery. They go together. Bread crumbs sins.
You can put together the best lawyers that you can find including the best of the QCs in the Commonwealth, and it’s improbable that you will get anywhere with contesting the rightfulness of the honourable leader of the APC opposition from 1996-2007 Mr. Ernest Bai Koroma being promoted to the post of president by an overwhelming majority of the people’s votes. It’s called people’s approval.
Mr. Berewa has been gentlemanly enough to congratulate him.
You will soon be conducting a post-mortem which will investigate and analyse the causes of you losing the elections and – for the good of the country – getting yourselves together as a truly opposition party – for the first time, in Independent Sierra Leone. President Ernest Bai Koroma was on the opposition benches in Parliament for a good eleven years – from 1996 to 2007 and did not cry “Treachery” when the APC lost in 1996 and 2002 – thus giving the SLPP the chance to prove their mettle. And now - the people – not our first Lady Christiana – have told you, what they think of your over ten years of governing the country, by voting you out. If you had done well, Mr. Berewa’s dream would have come true and he would have probably won with 80% of the votes Gambians, Ghanaians, Senegalese, Zimbabweans, North and South Americans Brits (of course) Swedes, South Africans, Cameroonians, Ugandans, Malawians, other Sierra Leoenans – to name just a few that I have talked to have been full of wonderment that Sierra Leone is a truly democratic country today, a country in which the opposition can wrest power from the incumbent government which was thought to be entrenched in a very real African sense of the word ENTRENCHED – the way that bribery & corruption, mismanagement , ineptitude/ineptness and a general misuse of power can be entrenched in Africa.
So please don’t spoil everything by being a bad loser.
We all realise that – as reported on the BBC too,” The national election commission, said that flaws in the vote were not enough to invalidate the result.”
And why don’t you follow in your leaders’ footprints:
“A spokesman for Mr Koroma's party said both Mr Berewa and the outgoing president, Ahmad Tejan Kabbah, had already called to congratulate the winner.”
Last night I listened to Richie Havens doing his version of Bob Dylan’s’ “License to Kill” to my chagrin he left out one of the most important lines of Bob’s lyric namely:
” He wants it all and he wants it his way.”
http://www.bobdylan.com/songs/license.html
Ritchie Havens:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=JltNLkh03ME
I don’t know how carefully you followed the Nigerian elections. I did. I follow Nigerian matters. You probably read this:
http://www.cfr.org/publication/13639/
Please read this statement carefully:
” At our last briefing, we informed the media and the public that the National Electoral Commission (NEC) would undertake a series of investigations and recounts in order to finalize the results of the presidential election run-off. We are happy to report today that the Commission undertook the field work during the period established and is ready today to present its findings. We at NEC are satisfied with the verification process which was undertaken, and are very confident that the official results we are about to announce are indeed those recorded in the polling stations and accurately reflect the will of the voters.
Nevertheless, it is with regret that we report that, despite all the measures taken to hinder electoral malpractices, there were instances where malpractice and fraud were attempted. The system we have instituted at NEC makes it difficult for fraud to be successfully undertaken, but it cannot completely stop those who are intent on manipulating the results from actually trying. This is the reason why NEC needed to be careful with the tallying of results. We are pleased that we have been able to detect malpractices and have taken appropriate remedial action to limit the influence which such acts would otherwise have.
For example, during the verification process we discovered counterfeit results forms which were sent to NEC from polling stations throughout the country. It was not difficult to detect them as they contained a spelling mistake in the title, the word ‘form’ was spelled ‘from’. Three such cases were identified at polling centres 07131 in Port Loko, 11153 in Moyamba and 13056 in Western Rural. The Commission responded by recovering the original forms issued to the stations that contained the true and accurate results. These were then entered into the tally.
There were also attempts at ballot stuffing and ballot-box swapping, but they were detected thanks to the measures put in place and the investigations conducted. Additionally, through the recounting process undertaken with party agents and observers, we were able to either confirm results or uncover various anomalies which were then addressed to accurately reflect the poll.
As reported earlier, the Commission noted polling station results with turn-outs of over 100%. It is impossible for voter turnout in excess of 100% to have taken place without fraud or illegal action. The Commission has been left with no option but to invalidate all results from polling stations reporting over 100% turnout. In all, 477 stations across the country have thus been invalidated, as follows: Kailahun: 90, Kenema: 65, Kono: 9, Bombali: 17, Kambia: 8, Koinadugu: 12, Port Loko: 2, Tonkolili: 6,
Bo: 123, Bonthe: 2, Moyamba: 24, Pujehun: 113, Western Rural: 1 and Western Urban: 5.
It is extremely regrettable to have to invalidate even a single polling station, and it is a decision that the NEC did not take lightly. However, the responsibility for the act of invalidation falls on those who are responsible for the malpractices, it is they who should be held accountable for disenfranchising voters, as there were legitimate votes cast in these polling stations.
There is one important element to highlight: international election standards say that the invalidation of votes does not require a repeat of the polling exercise if the act of invalidation does not affect the outcome of the poll. The National Electoral Commission can confirm that in the case of 8 September poll these invalidations have NOT affected the outcome of the election.
NEC will continue to collaborate with the law enforcement agencies in the investigations of all electoral malpractices reported.
There is a very important message arising from these elections: there is no longer a place for fraud and malpractice in the Sierra Leone electoral system. The people of Sierra Leone deserve to exercise their rights in an atmosphere of freedom, fairness and transparency. This is what NEC strived to provide and will continue to strive for in the future - nothing less will be tolerated. Those who cheated have succeeded in doing a disservice to their respective candidates. They also succeeded in disenfranchising fellow Sierra Leoneans. But they did not succeed in tarnishing either the results or the credibility of the process.
The results
5,679 polling station results were entered into the results database, representing 100% of all polling stations across the country, excluding those that were invalidated.
The average national turnout is 68.09%.
The total number of valid votes cast is 1,740,058.
There are 43,793 invalid votes, representing 2.45% of total votes cast.
The general summary of the results, as well as the detailed results, by station and by centre, will be posted on the NEC website: www.necsierraleone.org.
The presidential run-off results by districts:
Koroma – APC
Berewa – SLPP
Kailahun
11,631
111,695
Kenema
32,666
160,699
Kono
52,908
74,458
Bombali
125,419
14,095
Kambia
61,250
14,449
Koinadugu
42,178
23,130
Port Loko
132,287
17,789
Tonkolili
101,296
12,958
Bo
37,006
105,459
Bonthe
20,018
28,313
Moyamba
26,485
49,886
Pujehun
2,875
38,107
WA Rural
55,332
22,842
WA Urban
249,056
115,771
National results
950,407
789,651
In exercise of the powers conferred on the Returning Officer by section 37 of the Electoral Laws Act, 2002, I hereby certify that 950,407 valid votes were cast in favour of the candidate Ernest Bai Koroma at that election:
AND Ernest Bai Koroma therefore received the highest number of valid votes cast in the election:
Ernest Bai Koroma has been duly elected President of the Republic of Sierra Leone at the Presidential Election of 2007.
Any citizen of Sierra Leone may challenge the validity of the election of the President by petition to the Supreme Court of Sierra Leone, within seven days after the declaration of the Presidential results. “
Subject: Letter to John Mannah ( edited) rejected by SLPP website
From: Cornelius Hamelberg
To: All
Date Posted: 17:11:01 09/17/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: c-088472d5.01-32-73746f42.cust.bredbandsbolaget.se at 213.114.132.8
Message:
I replied to the following posting by John Mannah:
http://www.hwforums.com/2195/messages/308.html
It was rejected even after I changed "barking" to complaining"
John Mannah,
This is a friendly and chatty letter:
Treachery is as distant from our national heroine Dr. Christiana Thorpe as corruption is distant from an angel - and you know that there are few if any (angels) in the SLPP. – although it’s possible that there are some that I don’t know of in which case you will kindly give me their names and addresses so that I may look them up or indeed look up to them.
In spite of this general awareness the word treachery is now a most favoured word in your vocabulary – and Dr. Christiana Thorpe gives a lie to the Chauvinistic Iron Johns’ oft – quoted Shakespearean observation ” Frailty thy name is woman.”
She has done all true Sierra Leone men and women proud. The acclaim is now universal barring a few disenchanted bitter old Negro voices like yours.
You sound as if the people voted overwhelmingly for your SLPP but the Electoral commission went against the popular will expressed by more ballots cast for the APC, by the long suffering people and that Lady Christiana austerely and unfairly or criminally gave the winners’ trophy of presidency to the one who had truly lost the presidential election.
You know that this is not so.
Although victory is not yours in the people’s court - not in the parliamentary elections either, you should be trying to uphold – with dignity – and equanimity - all the good things about the SLPP, such as my possibility of being here to disagree with you, on your own website.
Mr Karamanlis' centre-right New Democracy the winner of the elections in Greece, have a parliamentary majority of four seats………
http://www.cfr.org/publication/13639/
That too will be difficult for them to pilot bills through parliament.
In Sweden, the Social Democrats – after many years in office, lost the last election which was held a year ago – not because of bad performance in office, but because the opposition, a coalition of conservative forces, were able to engineer a successful election campaign on all fronts and able to generate an atmosphere of ”We want change” which caught on and became the dominant mood of the majority of people.
Most of the media scribes of the SLPP spent more time barking about Pa Shaki than in intelligently articulating their vision for a mandate period 2007-2012. If Sierra Leone were more of a media-conscious and literate society and Mr. Berewa showed contempt for us all by refusing to debate with any of the other candidates about their vision for the country then I assure you that he would have done even more disastrously.
I am only speaking frankly.
We and the rest of the world are loud in our applause for Lady Christiana Thorpe who has done a great job. She has done her job most excellently at every twist and turn of the course of events – and you accuse her of “treachery”?
Get a grip on yourself man. It sounds like disappointment is making you go bananas. I think that the rampant corruption that is the daily bread activity of some of your people is the true definition of activity that can earn life terms for treason and treachery. They go together. Bread crumb sins.
You can put together the best lawyers that you can find including the best of the QCs in the Commonwealth, and it’s improbable that you will get anywhere with contesting the rightfulness of the honourable leader of the APC opposition from 1996-2007 Mr. Ernest Bai Koroma being promoted to the post of president by an overwhelming majority of the people’s votes. It’s called people’s approval.
Mr. Berewa has been gentlemanly enough to congratulate him.
You will soon be conducting a post-mortem which will investigate and analyse the causes of you losing the elections and – for the good of the country – getting yourselves together as a truly opposition party – for the first time, in Independent Sierra Leone. President Ernest Bai Koroma was on the opposition benches in Parliament for a good eleven years – from 1996 to 2007 and did not cry “Treachery” when the APC lost in 1996 and 2002 – thus giving the SLPP the chance to prove their mettle. And now - the people – not our first Lady Christiana – have told you, what they think of your over ten years of governing the country, by voting you out. If you had done well, Mr. Berewa’s dream would have come true and he would have probably won with 80% of the votes.
Gambians, Ghanaians, Senegalese, Zimbabweans, North and South Americans Brits (of course) Swedes, South Africans, Cameroonians, Ugandans, Malawians, other Sierra Leoenans – to name just a few that I have talked to have been full of wonderment that Sierra Leone is a truly democratic country today, a country in which the opposition can wrest power from the incumbent government which was thought to be entrenched in a very real African sense of the word ENTRENCHED – the way that bribery & corruption, mismanagement , ineptitude/ineptness and a general misuse of power can be entrenched in Africa.
So please don’t spoil everything by being a bad loser.
We all realise that – as reported on the BBC too,” The national election commission, said that flaws in the vote were not enough to invalidate the result.”
And why don’t you follow in your leaders’ footprints:
“A spokesman for Mr Koroma's party said both Mr Berewa and the outgoing president, Ahmad Tejan Kabbah, had already called to congratulate the winner.”
Last night I listened to Richie Havens doing his version of Bob Dylan’s’ “License to Kill” to my chagrin he left out one of the most important lines of Bob’s lyric namely:
” He wants it all and he wants it his way.”
http://www.bobdylan.com/songs/license.html
Ritchie Havens:
I don’t know how carefully you followed the Nigerian elections. I did. I follow Nigerian matters. You probably read this:
http://www.cfr.org/publication/13639/
Please read this statement carefully:
” At our last briefing, we informed the media and the public that the National Electoral Commission (NEC) would undertake a series of investigations and recounts in order to finalize the results of the presidential election run-off. We are happy to report today that the Commission undertook the field work during the period established and is ready today to present its findings. We at NEC are satisfied with the verification process which was undertaken, and are very confident that the official results we are about to announce are indeed those recorded in the polling stations and accurately reflect the will of the voters.
Nevertheless, it is with regret that we report that, despite all the measures taken to hinder electoral malpractices, there were instances where malpractice and fraud were attempted. The system we have instituted at NEC makes it difficult for fraud to be successfully undertaken, but it cannot completely stop those who are intent on manipulating the results from actually trying. This is the reason why NEC needed to be careful with the tallying of results. We are pleased that we have been able to detect malpractices and have taken appropriate remedial action to limit the influence which such acts would otherwise have.
For example, during the verification process we discovered counterfeit results forms which were sent to NEC from polling stations throughout the country. It was not difficult to detect them as they contained a spelling mistake in the title, the word ‘form’ was spelled ‘from’. Three such cases were identified at polling centres 07131 in Port Loko, 11153 in Moyamba and 13056 in Western Rural. The Commission responded by recovering the original forms issued to the stations that contained the true and accurate results. These were then entered into the tally.
There were also attempts at ballot stuffing and ballot-box swapping, but they were detected thanks to the measures put in place and the investigations conducted. Additionally, through the recounting process undertaken with party agents and observers, we were able to either confirm results or uncover various anomalies which were then addressed to accurately reflect the poll.
As reported earlier, the Commission noted polling station results with turn-outs of over 100%. It is impossible for voter turnout in excess of 100% to have taken place without fraud or illegal action. The Commission has been left with no option but to invalidate all results from polling stations reporting over 100% turnout. In all, 477 stations across the country have thus been invalidated, as follows: Kailahun: 90, Kenema: 65, Kono: 9, Bombali: 17, Kambia: 8, Koinadugu: 12, Port Loko: 2, Tonkolili: 6,
Bo: 123, Bonthe: 2, Moyamba: 24, Pujehun: 113, Western Rural: 1 and Western Urban: 5.
It is extremely regrettable to have to invalidate even a single polling station, and it is a decision that the NEC did not take lightly. However, the responsibility for the act of invalidation falls on those who are responsible for the malpractices, it is they who should be held accountable for disenfranchising voters, as there were legitimate votes cast in these polling stations.
There is one important element to highlight: international election standards say that the invalidation of votes does not require a repeat of the polling exercise if the act of invalidation does not affect the outcome of the poll. The National Electoral Commission can confirm that in the case of 8 September poll these invalidations have NOT affected the outcome of the election.
NEC will continue to collaborate with the law enforcement agencies in the investigations of all electoral malpractices reported.
There is a very important message arising from these elections: there is no longer a place for fraud and malpractice in the Sierra Leone electoral system. The people of Sierra Leone deserve to exercise their rights in an atmosphere of freedom, fairness and transparency. This is what NEC strived to provide and will continue to strive for in the future - nothing less will be tolerated. Those who cheated have succeeded in doing a disservice to their respective candidates. They also succeeded in disenfranchising fellow Sierra Leoneans. But they did not succeed in tarnishing either the results or the credibility of the process.
The results
5,679 polling station results were entered into the results database, representing 100% of all polling stations across the country, excluding those that were invalidated.
The average national turnout is 68.09%.
The total number of valid votes cast is 1,740,058.
There are 43,793 invalid votes, representing 2.45% of total votes cast.
The general summary of the results, as well as the detailed results, by station and by centre, will be posted on the NEC website: www.necsierraleone.org.
The presidential run-off results by districts:
Koroma – APC
Berewa – SLPP
Kailahun
11,631
111,695
Kenema
32,666
160,699
Kono
52,908
74,458
Bombali
125,419
14,095
Kambia
61,250
14,449
Koinadugu
42,178
23,130
Port Loko
132,287
17,789
Tonkolili
101,296
12,958
Bo
37,006
105,459
Bonthe
20,018
28,313
Moyamba
26,485
49,886
Pujehun
2,875
38,107
WA Rural
55,332
22,842
WA Urban
249,056
115,771
National results
950,407
789,651
In exercise of the powers conferred on the Returning Officer by section 37 of the Electoral Laws Act, 2002, I hereby certify that 950,407 valid votes were cast in favour of the candidate Ernest Bai Koroma at that election:
AND Ernest Bai Koroma therefore received the highest number of valid votes cast in the election:
Ernest Bai Koroma has been duly elected President of the Republic of Sierra Leone at the Presidential Election of 2007.
Any citizen of Sierra Leone may challenge the validity of the election of the President by petition to the Supreme Court of Sierra Leone, within seven days after the declaration of the Presidential results. “
Subject: JOHN MANNAH EXPOSED AS A FOOL AT THE SLPP FORUM
From: Edwardian
To: All
Date Posted: 14:59:06 09/17/07 ()
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Welcome to the S.L.P.P. Forum
Re: Christiana Thorpe: S/Leoneans are Watching you
Posted by Edwardian on September 17, 2007 at 14:40:24:
In Reply to: Christiana Thorpe: S/Leoneans are Watching you posted by John Mannah on September 16, 2007 at 11:16:03:
1. Our school motto; that says "dirigenus in veritate", meaning "In God We Trust".
Mannah, forgive me for saying this, but I have to correct your multiple errors:
1. "dirigenus in veritate" is NOT the motto for St. Edward's Secondary School, which you claim to have attended.
2. The actual St. Edward's School motto does NOT mean what you claim it means -- "In God We Trust."
3. As knowledgeable people would confirm for you, the Latin expression for "In God we Trust" is NOT "dirigenus in veritate," as you claim with misplaced confidence.
I don't know if you really attended St. Edward's Secondary School, as you also claim, but the fact that you neither know the school's motto nor what it means casts serious doubt on your claim. Of course, it may just be that you are fond of using words for which you have no idea what they mean -- as Karamoh Kabbah told you when he demolished your sophomoric rant that you claimed was a thesis on the economics underlying Sierra Leone's debt problems.
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Subject: Re: JOHN MANNAH EXPOSED AS A FOOL AT THE SLPP FORUM
From: Ibrahim Turay
To: All
Date Posted: 15:46:14 09/17/07 ()
Email Address: imtu71@hotmail.com
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Its a great feeling to realize that there are May Park Boys in our midst. The Latin expression means 'Lead Us In Truth' which is our motto. Hope I have saved the day.
Subject: Re: JOHN MANNAH EXPOSED AS A FOOL AT THE SLPP FORUM
From: Edwardian
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Date Posted: 15:54:04 09/17/07 ()
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Ibrahim, thanks for showing the tribalistic John Mannah what our motto means -- 30 years after he first darkened the halls of our great school.
Now that the ineducable John Manah knows what our great school's motto means, can we again try to educate the self-delusive, self-styled "educated" fellow about HOW TO SPELL OUR MOTTO -- 30 years after the patient teachers at St. Edward's first tried, in vain, to teach him how to do so?
Subject: Re: JOHN MANNAH EXPOSED AS A FOOL AT THE SLPP FORUM
From: Candid Opinion
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Date Posted: 15:47:47 09/17/07 ()
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Wutehteh...
We dey dey Wop....
One big fan of Morgan and white house.. in the house..
Subject: Re: JOHN MANNAH EXPOSED AS A FOOL AT THE SLPP FORUM
From: Jay
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Date Posted: 17:01:53 09/17/07 ()
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Candido:
Did you attend Edwards?If yes,what year.
You took me back to those days...Alpha Morgan,White House,Pap Sam,Katie Field,No.9 Test the mike.
Oh.Those days where the best.
Subject: Re: JOHN MANNAH EXPOSED AS A FOOL AT THE SLPP FORUM
From: Jay
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Date Posted: 15:15:43 09/17/07 ()
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Edwardian:
It's unfortunate that the tribal maggot known as John Mannah atended our great school.I knew him when he was in sixth form,we used to walk to school together as we lived in the same neighbourhood.H ewas unassuming at the time,he finally realized he was a Mende when he entered Fourah Bay College,which is a bastion of tribalism.He has gone through a total reformation from an unassuming gentleman at St.Edwards to an unrefined tribalist spewing hate online.
I hope that this maggot would as from today go by our school's motto-DIREGENUS IN VERITATE which translates to -LEAD US IN TRUTH-as the truth will set him free.
Subject: Re: JOHN MANNAH EXPOSED AS A FOOL AT THE SLPP FORUM
From: Edwardian
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Date Posted: 15:29:25 09/17/07 ()
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Jay, I agree with you . Imagine this Mende tribalist spending John Manah spending time at our school and coming out six years later AND HE STILL DOES NOT KNOW the school's motto!!!!!
How inattentive can a student be to graduate from a school and not only fail to know what the school motto means, but he CAN'T EVEN SPELL THE MOTTO RIGHT!!!!!!
Is there any greater proof that this unrepenntant tribalist is beyond reformation via remedial education? Th3e shameful fact about Mannah is that even Mammy Titi, who vewr went to St. Edward's but only sold brade en akar there for decades knew that our motto meant "Lead us in truth."
But not the self-styled educated John Mannah. It's a crying shame, like you said.
Subject: Why these two men dissociated?
From: Question
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Date Posted: 14:57:47 09/17/07 ()
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NEC Eastern Region Commissioner, Edward Nallay and his Southern Region counterpart Winston Momoh left the hall prematurely , disassociating themselves from the declaration of the winner of the presidential runoff results.
Subject: Re: Why these two men dissociated?
From: SUBWANALAI
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Date Posted: 16:19:39 09/17/07 ()
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They are like the proverbial kids. Deny them candy and they would walk away...But for these two kakatowas, they've just watched a fake dream evaporate.
Subject: Congratulations to the President elect, Mr. Ernest B. Koroma
From: Osman Deen
To: All
Date Posted: 14:36:15 09/17/07 ()
Email Address: odeen76@yahoo.com
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Congratulations to Mr. Ernest Bai Koroma, President elect of the Republic of Sierra Leone. God has blessed and bestowed to you a magnificent responsibility of leading our beloved country Sierra Leone. Success in Sierra Leone hinges on how well you manage the country’s resources. As a steward, God has given you talents to invest, a political capital, which is to be manage (spend) diligently to yield great dividend for all Sierra Leoneans. Mr. Koroma, the People of Sierra Leone put their trust in you to deliver what the SLPP failed to deliver. I say thanks to every one that contributes to this success. I am calling on every political party, especially the SLPP, the inevitable opposition party, to join hands and put the people's agenda forward. The “My party” frenzy is over, NOW is time to do the people’s business and President Ernest Bai Koroma is the chosen leader for that task. The people’s expectations are high for the APC leader; it is time to get our hands dirty for Sierra Leone. Let us celebrate and go to work immediately.
Subject: Re: Congratulations to the President elect, Mr. Ernest B. Koroma
From: Sam Gbla
To: All
Date Posted: 04:48:21 09/20/07 ()
Email Address: samgbla65@hotmail.co.uk
Entered From: dsl82-163-68-124.as15444.net at 82.163.68.124
Message:
My congrat to you and my beloved brothers and sisters. I hope you will be a true servant of the people who for too long have been taken for granted by so called elite politicians. I think you have to resture respect for the common man.Love is lacking in our society. It's high time sierra leoneans start treating each other with love and human dignity. Please mr Pres show humility and love and care for the many disadvantage sierraleoneans.God bless your term in office.Amen
Subject: KABBAH- GIVE ERNEST THE AUDITOR GENERAL'S REPORT
From: Auditor General
To: All
Date Posted: 14:34:45 09/17/07 ()
Email Address: auditor@yahoo.com
Entered From: at 206.113.148.2
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"I inherited a bankrupt, war-torn and failing state.
"Today, I am handing over to you a fully stable and functional state."
Kabbah should tell us how much is in the kitty. Dont set the President Elect up and say everything is ok.
Subject: Re: KABBAH- GIVE ERNEST THE AUDITOR GENERAL'S REPORT
From: nico
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Date Posted: 14:43:20 09/17/07 ()
Email Address: nicoleconsult@hotmail.com
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Kabba is always good at saving his own skin, we are now begining to hear so many execuses. He will not say that his leadership failure led to the SLPP defeat. Can he now tell us about Yenga and other financial mal practices under his watch? The nation is waiting to know how their resources were misspent.
Subject: Re: KABBAH- GIVE ERNEST THE AUDITOR GENERAL'S REPORT
From: Jackal
To: All
Date Posted: 14:59:55 09/17/07 ()
Email Address: dollarbill@gmail.com
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Message:
Kabbah should account for Yenga. We want to know the story about Yenga. If Kabbah sold it he should stand trial equal to treason
Subject: Re: KABBAH- GIVE ERNEST THE AUDITOR GENERAL'S REPORT
From: Candid Opinion
To: All
Date Posted: 14:41:05 09/17/07 ()
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And did Earnest counter.. or acknowledge..?
This man you all treat as Saint Koroma, has been in the Opposing Government for 5 + years..
Approving nominations, budgets, interests groups etc..
If he acts clueless to anything going on in government past 5 years, he is a darn hypocrite..
Subject: Re: KABBAH- GIVE ERNEST THE AUDITOR GENERAL'S REPORT
From: Sorba S
To: All
Date Posted: 15:04:14 09/17/07 ()
Email Address: Sorba_1@yahoo.com
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What you do not know is that Koroma was not a member of paliament. His party had menbers in the Paliament but him and therefore he could not approve or disapprove any thing. Get your facts right before you post my friend.
Subject: Re: KABBAH- GIVE ERNEST THE AUDITOR GENERAL'S REPORT
From: Candid Opinion
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Date Posted: 15:21:49 09/17/07 ()
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You can play with symantics all day..
The man is the leader, had been (since now he is my president)... of the opposition party in parliament..
If he did not help pass laws.. and was not actively an MP..then what the heck is he talking about here when he says he helped passed the Dual Citizen act..
http://youtube.com/watch?v=UY7zFSE8YAY
Even if thats not he case..
As one of our preeminent citizens past 5 years.. where was his civic responsibility.. ?
Subject: Re: KABBAH- GIVE ERNEST THE AUDITOR GENERAL'S REPORT
From: Sorba S
To: All
Date Posted: 15:24:48 09/17/07 ()
Email Address: sorba_1@yahoo.com
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How did you know about the dual citizenship? Were you an MP? If your answer is Yes them you are right but if you answer is No them revisit your facts
Subject: TO ALL SLPP MEMBERS
From: alieu sesay
To: All
Date Posted: 14:33:07 09/17/07 ()
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We fought a very Brave fight. We defended a murder suspect, we fought an UP-HILL battle...
I know some of us are very sad, but all is not lost.
Through this fight, i have come to know and respect all of you....
Mariah Carey says: "The hero lies in you...when you feel like hope is gone, look inside you.....reach into your soul and the sorrow that you know...."
YOU GUYS ARE MY HERO
Subject: Re: TO ALL SLPP MEMBERS
From: Candid Opinion
To: All
Date Posted: 14:37:47 09/17/07 ()
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Much big up to you too fine Sir...
This is just half time..
The battle now is to keep the fire stoke under them san san boys feet..
We are now the opposition party.. and we hope our PMDC comrades will join us not just in words (opposition) but in deeds..
Subject: Re: TO ALL SLPP MEMBERS
From: alieu sesay
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Date Posted: 14:43:33 09/17/07 ()
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candid! you are a fighter....Any EQ 5 connections?
Hope you understand the above...If not never mind....
Subject: Re: TO ALL SLPP MEMBERS
From: Candid Opinion
To: All
Date Posted: 14:52:25 09/17/07 ()
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I will never mind then..
Dont know what Equals 5 is.. my guess.. FBC social group.?
Stay strong my Brother..
Subject: BBC : New Sierra Leone president inaugurated
From: Cornelius Hamelberg
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Date Posted: 14:30:01 09/17/07 ()
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"My government will spare no effort to deal with zero tolerance with corruption and mismanagement of state resources.
"We know how high your expectations are and that you have suffered for too long."
S Leone opposition celebrate win
Opposition supporters bedecked in red have been out on the streets of the Sierra Leonean capital, Freetown, as they celebrate their election victory.
All People's Congress leader Ernest Bai Koroma won 54.6% of the vote in the presidential run-off.
His rival, Vice-President Solomon Berewa of the governing Sierra Leone People's Party (SLPP) obtained 45.4%.
The national election commission said that flaws in the vote were not enough to invalidate the result.
A spokesman for Mr Koroma's party said both Mr Berewa and the outgoing president, Ahamd Tejan Kabbah, had already called to congratulate the winner.
The national electoral commission was asked to investigate reports of suspect ballots at 14 polling stations, where the turnout was reported as 100% or more, compared to a national average of 68%.
Amid such concerns the SLPP sought an injunction to try to stop the publication of any further results.
But by the time the High Court looked at the application and deemed it required resubmission, the result had already been announced.
In any event, the electoral commission had pointed out that most, though not all, of the suspect results were in SLPP strongholds.
President in waiting
Ernest Bai Koroma is an insurance broker who says he wants to run the country like a business concern.
He polled well in the predominantly Muslim north of the country and in the capital.
PROFILE
With an ebullient character, Koroma stands tall with charisma. The 54-year-old insurance broker says he wants to run the country like a business concern
But he also made inroads into his opponents' traditional heartland in the ethnic Mende south.
Sierra Leone is gradually rebuilding after a decade-long diamond-fuelled war but remains one of the world's poorest countries where mass unemployment could still lead to instability.
The 54-year-old APC leader ran a slick campaign - calling for change.
Opponents say his party mismanaged the country for two decades leading up to the war but such criticisms were not enough to deflect an electorate seeking a change.
His rival for the presidency, Solomon Ekuma Berewa, had been a surprise choice - named as the SLPP candidate by the incumbent President Ahmed Tejan Kabbah at a time when he was not even a card-carrying member of the party.
As Attorney General, Mr Berewa helped negotiate an end to Sierra Leone's civil war and though a veteran 69 years old, his reputation as a workaholic convinced many he had the stamina for the top job.
But observers say high levels of corruption prevented the governing SLPP from delivering basic public services and this fatally damaged his campaign.
Story from BBC NEWS:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/2/hi/africa/6998687.stm
Published: 2007/09/17 16:31:36 GMT
© BBC MMVII
Subject: Congrattulations!
From: Mohamed Fofana
To: All
Date Posted: 13:44:59 09/17/07 ()
Email Address: mfofana2004@sbcglobal.net
Entered From: at 204.108.96.22
Message:
Congratulations Mr. President Koroma and the APC Party. Sierra Leoneans have just handed you "A Political Capital" to spend. Please plan to spend it well for Sierra Leoneans to give you another mandate in 2012.
While congratulating you and your party for a battle well fought, yet another battle has just begun. The battle of spending the political capital for Sierra Leoneans to say: Yes we knew he could deliver and he has done it. Others will say, oh boy, we never felt that he could deliver, but he has proved us wrong. You have a tough battle ahead of you and good luck.
Mohamed Fofana
Subject: Re: Congrattulations!
From: FORREST GUMP.RUBBER DUCK.NAR U SABI .RAMANDAN GUMP
To: All
Date Posted: 14:09:16 09/17/07 ()
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Message:
ME AND MY BROTHERS WISH THE APC AND ERNEST BAI KOROMA GOOD LUCK AND GOD`S BLESSING FOR THE FUTURE, WE HOPE THAT THEY CAN DELIVER WHAT THEY PROMISED
FORREST
Subject: Re: Congrattulations!
From: Jay
To: All
Date Posted: 14:12:25 09/17/07 ()
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Message:
Bra so nar u na nar u sabi
slpp don loss di election
u go soba now.Laugh.
Thanks for a good fight bra
Let us now join hands in
building a prosperous Sa Lone
Subject: Re: Congrattulations!
From: FORREST GUMP.RUBBER DUCK.NAR U SABI .RAMADAN GUMP
To: All
Date Posted: 14:48:25 09/17/07 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
YEA, Bra we are now regrouping for the next election. Da wan dae, we go boss una top. Have a nice time enjoying the Celebrations We all hope to do our own little bit for SaLon
FORREST
Subject: Re: Congrattulations!
From: John Kalokoh
To: All
Date Posted: 14:03:52 09/17/07 ()
Email Address: jmgkalokoh@yahoo.com
Entered From: pool-138-88-75-109.res.east.verizon.net at 138.88.75.109
Message:
Absolutely correct Mohamed fofanah! We can see far beyond what the ordinary man can see,in that, President Koroma has a huge task ahead of him.
In my wisest opinion, it will be fitting if all of us can constantly remember him in our prayers because it takes God to see him through this rough,challenging yet peaceful journey.
Long live president Koroma, Long live the people of Sierra Leone.
Subject: Congrattulations!
From: Mohamed Fofana
To: All
Date Posted: 13:42:30 09/17/07 ()
Email Address: mfofana2004@sbcglobal.net
Entered From: at 204.108.96.22
Message:
Congratulations Mr. President Koroma and the APC Party. Sierra Leoneans have just handed you "A Political Capital" to spend. Please plan to spend it well for Sierra Leoneans to give you another mandate in 2012.
While congratulating you and your party for a battle well fought, yet another battle has just begun. The battle of spending the political capital for Sierra Leoneans to say: Yes we knew he could deliver and he has done it. Others will say, oh boy, we never felt that he could deliver, but he has proved us wrong. You have a tough battle ahead of you and good luck.
Mohamed Fofana
Subject: JC to Clear Free Town Dec 29
From: Sorba S
To: All
Date Posted: 13:38:28 09/17/07 ()
Email Address: sorba_1@yahoo.com
Entered From: at 209.116.81.187
Message:
Fellows, the elections are over in Sierra Leone. We have all talked for and against the prior Government and incoming present government. It is time for us to now come together and help rebuild the country. In order for us to atrack investors we have to show some effort on our part.
I am therefore reconmending a voluntary clean-up Free Town by JCs.
Here is what we can do for some of us going to Sierra Leone in December.
1. I know some of us Cannot clean filth. Even myself I can not do it but we can comtribute money say $50 each meet at the stadium that day and employ the youths for that day.
2. We can also purchase some trash can or dust bin to put at stratigic locat1ons and then use vehicles to do a pick up.
3. I am looking at December 29 to do.
Please help me with your suggestions. Let us bring our country back to where it was before Foday Sankoh.
Subject: Re: JC to Clear Free Town Dec 29
From: Emmanuel J.M.Stafford
To: All
Date Posted: 21:58:35 09/17/07 ()
Email Address: ejmstafford@yahoo.co.uk
Entered From: 5acf0480.bb.sky.com at 90.207.4.128
Message:
I give you 100% support and i am also voluntering to help in coordinating coleagues here in the UK for that 'historic event'.
Let us try and get our phone numbers and start working on it now.
Subject: Re: JC to Clear Free Town Dec 29
From: Ibrahim Turay
To: All
Date Posted: 15:11:22 09/17/07 ()
Email Address: imtu71@hotmail.com
Entered From: pool-71-161-90-74.cncdnh.east.verizon.net at 71.161.90.74
Message:
Amongst all the contributory participations I'v read at this forum, there has never been an intelligent and patriotic initiative such as yours. I felt compelled to commend you for your developmental proposal that supercedes individual satisfaction/pleasure ( JC's vacation) for the betterment of the nation. Bravo brother!!! I'm appealing to others to actively invole in implementing changes in our beloved Sierra Leone. Let's refrain from negatively engaging our ideologies from a deceiving perception of what our counrty can do for us. Our endevours should be based on a concept of what we can do for our country. Since the election saga has come to an end, it is high time we bury our differences and strengthen a bipartisan relationship. God bless Sierra Leone and no where else. (suppse to be funny)
Subject: Re: JC to Clear Free Town Dec 29
From: Sorba_S
To: All
Date Posted: 15:45:15 09/17/07 ()
Email Address: sorba_1@yahoo.com
Entered From: at 209.116.81.187
Message:
Thank you Mr Turay for your follow-up. This is realy serious. I think if we can make the difference let us do it. I know for a fact that most of us are spending more than $50 at parddie. Spending it to save the environment will help. Let us all join hands and help.
Subject: Congrattulations!
From: Mohamed Fofana
To: All
Date Posted: 13:37:05 09/17/07 ()
Email Address: mfofana2004@sbcglobal.net
Entered From: at 204.108.96.22
Message:
Congratulations Mr. President Koroma and the APC Party. Sierra Leoneans have just handed "A Political Capital" to spend. Please plan to spend it well for Sierra Leoneans to give another mandate in 2012.
While congratulating you and your party for a battle well done, yet another battle has just begun. The battle of spending the political capital for Sierra Leoneans to say: some will say, Yes we knew he could deliver and he has done it. Others will say, oh boy, we never felt that he could deliver, but he has proved us wrong. You have a tough battle ahead of you and good luck.
Mohamed Fofana
Subject: Re: Congrattulations!
From: Tamba Moiwo
To: All
Date Posted: 13:44:16 09/17/07 ()
Email Address: moiwo@hotmail.co.uk
Entered From: gateway-303.energis.gsi.gov.uk at 62.25.109.196
Message:
Well, we have each congratulated Koroma and his APC.oNE THING i'LL LIKE TO KNOW IS WHO WILL BE THE FIRST LADY?
WOULD IT BE 1)SIA KOROMA(THATS HER MAIDEN NAME)
2)ISATU KARIM or
3)ARABELLA FORAY???
THIS FIVE YEARS WILL BE A MEDIA BLITZ AGAINST APC AND ALL THEIR HANGERS-ONS.THE DIE IS CAST.
TAMBA(ON THE CAMPAIGN TRAIL)
Subject: Re: Congrattulations!
From: Candid Opinion
To: All
Date Posted: 13:51:23 09/17/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: ns.nucleusns2.com at 12.44.12.126
Message:
My guess is your answer is here..
Officially.. it would be the koro's..(koro square)
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/afp/20070917/img/pwl-sierraleone-vote-8c7438-c0c3c49681f30.html
Subject: Re: Congrattulations!
From: Jay
To: All
Date Posted: 13:50:13 09/17/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: c-69-140-34-194.hsd1.md.comcast.net at 69.140.34.194
Message:
Thats none of your business Taba.Why did'nt you ask Kabba who was the first lady when Patricia Kabba was alive.Was it Mammy Kabba or Isa Jabbie.
Subject: Does Ex president Kabba has girlfriend??
From: Ibrahim Turay
To: All
Date Posted: 16:03:26 09/17/07 ()
Email Address: imtu71@hotmail.com
Entered From: pool-71-161-90-74.cncdnh.east.verizon.net at 71.161.90.74
Message:
Can somebody give me information about this lady called Isatu Jabbie?
Subject: Re: Does Ex president Kabba has girlfriend??
From: Madingo Man
To: All
Date Posted: 16:24:09 09/17/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 89.243.41.174
Message:
Yes he does, her name is Isatu Jabbie who should be brought to justice for fraud. She was one of the so called government contarctors who were supplying goods at very high prices. For example supplying Dell computers to the Ministry of Education for $3,000 each and we all no how much Dell computers cost online.
Subject: Re: Does Ex president Kabba has girlfriend??
From: Ibrahim Turay
To: All
Date Posted: 17:53:17 09/17/07 ()
Email Address: imtu71@hotmail.com
Entered From: pool-71-161-90-74.cncdnh.east.verizon.net at 71.161.90.74
Message:
You gotta be kidding me!!! Who on earth would pay $3000 for a single Dell computer?? Please, I'm trying to have a nice here and do not urge me to initiate an investigative measure against this lady? If at all it is true, what you just said is tantamount to managerial exploitation. Please dig in and get me some facts and I'll take it from there.
Subject: Re: Does Ex president Kabba has girlfriend??
From: Basco
To: All
Date Posted: 10:52:36 09/18/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: 82-44-17-83.cable.ubr04.croy.blueyonder.co.uk at 82.44.17.83
Message:
Unless she did not pay freight and duty then 3k usd is expensive.
Subject: Re: Does Ex president Kabba has girlfriend??
From: Madingo Man
To: All
Date Posted: 16:23:46 09/17/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 89.243.41.174
Message:
Yes he does, her name is Isatu Jabbie who should be brought to justice for fraud. She was one of the so called government contarctors who were supplying goods at very high prices. For example supplying Dell computers to the Ministry of Education for $3,000 each and we all no how much Dell comouters cost online.
Subject: BABU BLYDEN AGREES TO COMPLY WITH IMC
From: Researcher
To: All
Date Posted: 13:29:16 09/17/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: adsl-68-91-33-198.dsl.rcsntx.swbell.net at 68.91.33.198
Message:
Sierra Leone: Sylvia Blyden Agrees to Comply With IMC
Concord Times (Freetown)
14 September 2007
Posted to the web 14 September 2007
Mariama Kandeh
Freetown
Publisher of Awareness Times newspaper, Dr. Sylvia Blyden Wednesday assured the Complaints Committee of the Independent Media Commission (IMC) that she will refrain from publishing any perceived defamatory articles against the United Nations (UN) boss in Sierra Leone, Victor Angelo and the international community.
In the run up to the September 8 run-off election, the newspaper was said to have consistently published reports against the Executive Representative of the Secretary General (ERSG) and head of the United Nations missions in Sierra Leone, Victor Angelo, other UN officials and the international community.
"The Committee resolved that the complainant, the Office of National Security (ONS) and other stakeholders in the investigation should desist from making any further statement in the media that may prejudice the Committee's investigation," a statement from IMC states.
The Commission is investigating articles published by Awareness Times against Mr Angelo and other officials of the UN brought before it by the ONS.
It could be recalled that the newspaper alleged in one of its publications that Angelo, some officials of the UN and the international community, rigged the August 11 polls in favour of the opposition All Peoples Congress (APC) thereby supporting regime change in the country.
Subject: LOW KEY INAUGURATION
From: Bugsyb
To: All
Date Posted: 13:26:46 09/17/07 ()
Email Address: aburneynic@yahoo.co.uk
Entered From: 104.red-88-17-107.dynamicip.rima-tde.net at 88.17.107.104
Message:
I hope that the fact that we are not having a huge Inauguration Ceremony (with Neigboring Heads of States etc.)is a sign of things to come. Less style, more substance and no frivolous spending of our country's meagre resources. BRAVO!
Subject: Re: LOW KEY INAUGURATION
From: Augustine Tejan Kamara
To: All
Date Posted: 13:40:00 09/17/07 ()
Email Address: augustine122000@yahoo.com
Entered From: pool-71-178-147-246.washdc.east.verizon.net at 71.178.147.246
Message:
BOttom line is dat the right man won the election. am soooo happy for our country............lets all SLPP,APC,PMDC AND THE OTHER GROUPS ALL JOIN PRESIDENT KOROMA IN A NATION BUILDING PERIOD. SIERRA LEONE IS FOR ALL OF US. GOD BLESS EVERY ONE
Subject: Sia Tiyaama - Be a MAN
From: Shembu
To: All
Date Posted: 13:26:16 09/17/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: eduproxy2.k12.de.us at 167.21.254.12
Message:
Sia,
I know it is getting cold up in Albany or in Europe (where ever you are presently located), but you can be man enough to send your congratulatory message for the APC directly to Cocorioko. Don't tell me you did through the NEWPEOPLE.COM, no body visits that bogus site.
We are waiting, Maada Sia Tiyaama.
Subject: Rev. Kabs Kanu wins media war
From: Kakua
To: All
Date Posted: 13:19:29 09/17/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: host86-134-93-167.range86-134.btcentralplus.com at 86.134.93.167
Message:
Congratulations Rev. Kabs Kanu for giving awarenesstime a bloody upper-cut that they will never forget. you have demonstrated to the world that you are a born journalist and not a made one like the rag tag journalist awarenesstimes. please keep the good work and may the Lord continue to bless and guide you.
Subject: SENGBE IS HERE
From: KING LOGGY
To: All
Date Posted: 13:13:15 09/17/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 71.16.51.222
Message:
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Subject: Re: SENGBE IS HERE
From: Cornelius Hamelberg
To: All
Date Posted: 13:25:00 09/17/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: c-088472d5.01-32-73746f42.cust.bredbandsbolaget.se at 213.114.132.8
Message:
Sengbe is musing and will soon be in a deep snooze...
Subject: Re: SENGBE IS HERE
From: Swegbeh
To: All
Date Posted: 13:47:05 09/17/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: c-69-140-34-194.hsd1.md.comcast.net at 69.140.34.194
Message:
Cornelius.Please stop this.I don't expect you to treat your bosom friend this way.Is he still musing or is he taking cover(with his azz exposed)on top of a branchless palm tree..
Bra Cornie,you're the man,you are soooo funny.
hahahahaha!Sengebe please come down for there is no hiding place up there.
Subject: Where is my MILK SHAKE Prof. Kallon
From: Shembu
To: All
Date Posted: 13:02:10 09/17/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: eduproxy2.k12.de.us at 167.21.254.12
Message:
Prof.,
Congrats on a strong fight by your party...and I accept your well wishes eventhough I think they were less than candid.
Now to our wager, you will be getting an e-mail from me with details of my info so we can arrange for me to enjoy my milk shake ASAP. I won, brother. Better luck next time.
Subject: Re: Where is my MILK SHAKE Prof. Kallon
From: Kelfala M. Kallon
To: All
Date Posted: 14:15:11 09/17/07 ()
Email Address: KelKallon@comcast.net
Entered From: c-67-165-237-76.hsd1.co.comcast.net at 67.165.237.76
Message:
Shembu, you obviously do not know me. I say what I mean and mean what I say. My congratulations to the APC is sincere. Believe me, in spite of the vitriolic campaign both sides waged, that we have changed power from one civilian administration to another peacefully (and the losers having congratulated the winners) gives me hope that the best of our national character is yet to come. While I will remain SLPP (to the core) and will work to reform the party and give you guys a run for your money in 2012, I will consider President Koroma as my President and the President of all Sierra Leoneans. My fervent prayer is that cooler heads like you prevail in the APC so that we don't repeat the mistakes of the 1960s.
Again, congrats, my brother. Give me your mailing address so that I can send you a coupon for your milkshake. If Allah permits us to be here in 2012, I hope to win my ice tea then.
Ramadan Mubarak.
Kelfala
Subject: Congratulations Sierra Leone
From: Boli
To: All
Date Posted: 12:55:58 09/17/07 ()
Email Address: Boli@yahoo.com
Entered From: 79-65-49-4.dynamic.dsl.as9105.com at 79.65.49.4
Message:
Having been brought up under APC rule, I never thought I would be congratulating them on a well deserved victory. I grew up in Sierra Leone during the reign of Bandele (Pa Shaki), and most of my generation could not stand the APC in power. Times have changed, and I am happy to see the back of Tejan-Kabbah, Berewa, Benjamin etc etc. My first recollections of actually taking part in politics was when Emmanuel Grant put himself forward for the Central 11 constituency in Freetown. Then he stood under the SLPP banner and I was one of his young activists who went around campaigning against the late Great J C O Hadson-Taylor.
One of the main reasons for my euphoria towards the results of these elections is the fact that this is the first time in our history that the ordinary person in the street has influenced a change in government. No matter what the future holds, politicians will now understand what 'accountability' means. The APC should know that we back them now, but in five years time they have to give account of their term in office. I know people will point me to Tejan-Kabbah's rise to power, but this is different. This time we will witness a handover of power at the behest of the people.
It's the end of an era (I hope) - where politicians treat their constituents with arrogance and disrespect by only seeing to their needs when elections draw close. Politicians should realise that they are there to serve the people and not their pockets or immediate cohorts. The war and its implications is not lost on the ordinary Sierra Leonean and people will not be quiet if the APC or any other Party decides to resort to nepotism and other corrupt means to further themselves or their own.
One of the first things the new government should do is clean up the major cities in the country. First impressions go a long way and we need to take pride in our towns by presenting them in a clean and hygeinic manner. They should also work with NGOs and business to create employment opportunities for our people and develop a health service that will cater for our needs; and last but definitely not the least - STAMP OUT CORRUPTION.
I hope the SLPP party will accept defeat and commit themselves to be a worthy opposition, and who knows, we might vote them in next time. This is what mature politics is all about.
Thanks to the NEC under the leadership of Christiana Thorpe and CONGRATULATIONS to Sierra Leoneans of all parties for a job well done.
Congratulations Ernest Koroma and long live democracy in Sierra Leone.
PS. Alieu Sesay, take suru me broda......we all nar wan.
Subject: Re: Congratulations Sierra Leone
From: nico
To: All
Date Posted: 13:19:57 09/17/07 ()
Email Address: nicoleconsult@hotmail.com
Entered From: host86-147-24-165.range86-147.btcentralplus.com at 86.147.24.165
Message:
I extend my sincere congratulation to the newly elected president, His Excellency Earnest Koroma for his victory. The whole of Sierra Leone and the world now put their trusts in him to use his office and the responsibility placed on him by the people of Sierra Leone to bring meaningful improvement to the long suffering nation.
I would, at this stage, appeal to the president elect to see and deal with problems as a national and not a regional or tribal.
My congratulation also goes to our PMDC leader Charles Margai who surmounted all the ills and evils to work with Earnest Koroma to build a nation that is tolerant, free from tribalism and progressive.
May god guide and guard them.
Subject: HELP!!!Where is Sengbe and Cadmus
From: Swegbeh
To: All
Date Posted: 12:55:21 09/17/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: c-69-140-34-194.hsd1.md.comcast.net at 69.140.34.194
Message:
It's 2:00 p.m,do you know the wherabout of Sengbe and Cadmus.Is it true that they are on suicide watch.
Subject: Re: HELP!!!Where is Sengbe and Cadmus
From: Sengbe is kamara in disguise
To: All
Date Posted: 13:08:47 09/17/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: f298781.ga.unc.edu at 152.4.31.217
Message:
Sengbe is kamara in disguise. He has been here all the time
Subject: Re: HELP!!!Where is Sengbe and Cadmus
From: RBS Coker
To: All
Date Posted: 13:41:16 09/17/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: cache-mtc-ah10.proxy.aol.com at 64.12.117.202
Message:
Very true. Sengbe is indeed kamara. typical SLPPer -- cowardly to the bitter end.
Subject: Re: HELP!!!Where is Sengbe and Cadmus
From: kamara
To: All
Date Posted: 13:37:43 09/17/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: pool-71-172-31-93.nwrknj.fios.verizon.net at 71.172.31.93
Message:
No you are wrong ,Kamara is not Sengbe. what do you have against Sngbe?
Subject: Ernest Koroma Sworn In to Office
From: Town Crier
To: All
Date Posted: 12:45:18 09/17/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 198.208.251.24
Message:
Ernest Koroma has been officially sworn in to office as I type. He will be inaugurated in about a week.
Congratulations!!! Long Live Sierra Leone and Long Live Peace!
We wait to see the "new" APC tenure in office.
Subject: Re: Ernest Koroma Sworn In to Office
From: Bugsyb
To: All
Date Posted: 13:47:58 09/17/07 ()
Email Address: aburneynic@yahoo.co.uk
Entered From: 104.red-88-17-107.dynamicip.rima-tde.net at 88.17.107.104
Message:
What's the difference?
Subject: CONGRATULATIONS TO PRESIDENT ELECT
From: MUSA KAMARA
To: All
Date Posted: 12:42:21 09/17/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: luna.hypair.net at 194.50.180.4
Message:
My congratulations to the President elect,his Excellency Earnest Bai Koroma,the strong men and women in the apc,the viable pmdc,the people of Sierra-Leone and all the tough guys on this forum.I pray for God's blessings and guidance in your bid to promote our Mother land and her inhabitants.We will be with you to achieve your goal.
Subject: FODAY MANSARAY ... Blessings
From: Lady J
To: All
Date Posted: 11:52:36 09/17/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 65.82.23.33
Message:
“Hmmm ….Something smells soooo goooood!!!!! Yayah exclaimed; jumping with joy, as Foday stood by the door with our "study night feast" in his room. Unar still day tork about the Vulture is a Patient Bird? Way unar eat done, ar go cam help unar wit unar homework …... Hey!!!. J… Ar get U Fanta for U … Make sure say U tell dem for put nar James Hardley Chase book aside ehn make unar concentrate pahn unar G.C.E O’Level study. Ar day cam jisnor .
That was Foday Mansaray in the late 80s, trying to help his younger brother’s friends study for their G.C.E. Exam. I was the only girl amongst those seven boys under Foday’s tutelage … He had to set us straight, or else, we would have been concentrating on James Hardley Chase’s books ….(Me nar bin kakatuah pan ehn book dem) … Uhhh …... Those were the days….. Oh well … Back to Foday Mansaray.
When he decided to leave the comfort of his home in New Jersey, and head to Freetown in the middle of the rainy season to help bring change in our beloved country, I knew there was no turning back for him. When he sets his mind to accomplish a goal, nothing can stop him … Whenever I'll speak to him in Freetown, his parting words will always be ... "Nor worry .. We day sidom sarful ehn wait for the result ...All tin day nar God ehn hahn..."
Foday is more patient that the vulture.
I say congratulation to you my brother for accomplishing another feat once again.
You are a shining diamond that doesn’t require any polishing.
Peace and Blessings
Lady J
Subject: Re: FODAY MANSARAY ... Blessings
From: John K.
To: All
Date Posted: 20:55:57 09/17/07 ()
Email Address: karimuhawa@hotmail.com
Entered From: pool-71-172-29-241.nwrknj.fios.verizon.net at 71.172.29.241
Message:
President Koroma you should watch Foday Mansaray and Alex Mansaray. They are behind the APC for appointments. The people of Sierra Leone are nolonger fools. Look at Alex who want a position in the new administration. God Forbid!
Subject: Re: FODAY MANSARAY ... Blessings
From: Shembu
To: All
Date Posted: 12:32:06 09/17/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: eduproxy2.k12.de.us at 167.21.254.12
Message:
Lady J,
I am an APC supporter but what is your point in your posting? Are you promoting Foday for an appointment in the new government? If that is the case, as long as he gets an appointment at per with his credentials and experience that will be fine. Some of us will be closely watching, we want no round pegs in square holes this time around, and we want no praise singing about any personality. Those things and "the Pa syndrome" are why we are as underdeveloped as we are.
Foday may have played a critical role in bringing the APC to power and may deserve an appointment to continue his good works but we must be careful. Thats all I am saying.
Subject: Re: FODAY MANSARAY ... Blessings
From: Lady J
To: All
Date Posted: 13:20:59 09/17/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 65.82.23.33
Message:
Shembu ... You asked "Are you promoting Foday for an appointment in the new government? The answer is no my dear.... Foday is a self made man, he doesn't need me to promote him ... On the other hand, if I chose to to promote him, trust me, it will take you more than two days to finish reading what I have to say about him.
Shembu, I just wrote about his selfless act. I bet you too have somebody who knows about yours. If I knew about it, I will heap the same praise on you.
This is Foday's Blessings .... Let him enjoy it.
Peace and Blessings to you my dear
Lady J
Subject: Re: FODAY MANSARAY ... Blessings
From: Candid Opinion
To: All
Date Posted: 12:34:13 09/17/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: ns.nucleusns2.com at 12.44.12.126
Message:
Well if thats the case..
How do we resolve this sqaure Sumana in the round VP hole..?
Is it in our constitution to reshuffle the VP... ?
It might not be ans we are stucked 5 years..
Subject: Re: FODAY MANSARAY ... Blessings
From: Shembu
To: All
Date Posted: 12:59:06 09/17/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: eduproxy2.k12.de.us at 167.21.254.12
Message:
Candid,
Like your brother, Sia Tiyaama alledge, if you think Sammy is a square peg in a round hole, simply give us the facts to back your accusations. Don't just accuse people without evidence.
Unless you are jealous of the young guy (only 44-45 years old) he deserves his place. I mean the pool of talents from which he was chosen can not be underestimated - he's got to be fit.
Subject: Re: FODAY MANSARAY ... Blessings
From: Candid Opinion
To: All
Date Posted: 13:06:35 09/17/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: ns.nucleusns2.com at 12.44.12.126
Message:
Oh.. should it not be the other way around good sir...
You are challenging my assertion..
You should have done your homework and tell me why i am wrong.. and i will counter..
Cant be jelous.. weh man don pass you e.. don pass you.. No need to even challenge that.. He is ther VP of my country..
But it does not negate the fact that he won the lottery of the millenium...
Just hope he learns fast and can buck up without blunder..
If the fact should stand.. as of this very moment.. without grooming, polishing, hands on, apprentiship...
PLUS A FEW YEARS just gholding earnests breifcase to the office. The man is a square peg.
Subject: Re: FODAY MANSARAY ... Blessings
From: Shembu
To: All
Date Posted: 13:22:45 09/17/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: eduproxy2.k12.de.us at 167.21.254.12
Message:
Candid,
He can not be a square peg just by virtue of his age and experience. Like you rightfully mentioned, some people can learn fast on the job and end up doing better than others who start out with tremenduous experience. Case in point, the uotgoing SLPP is jam packed with experienced government officials, but what was the performance? Zero. Just corruption.
I believe it is time for a guy our generation to be up there. We must be optimistic and pray that god guides him. We can not dwell on any negativity.....I believe as a college grad, Sammy is equipped with the right stuff to do a good job.
Subject: Re: FODAY MANSARAY ... Blessings
From: Candid Opinion
To: All
Date Posted: 13:34:11 09/17/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: ns.nucleusns2.com at 12.44.12.126
Message:
Well we are both converging on the same then..
My argument is not that the man lacks intelligence..
Neither mammy blessing..
Just that we can talk all we want.. go up cam dong..
If you wan take screwdriver cook fufu.. you get a lot of hammering to do first..
I rest my case.. natin negative about it..
Subject: SLPP TRIBALISTJOHN MANNAH GIVEN A BEATING AT THE SLPP FORUM
From: John Jusu
To: All
Date Posted: 11:50:54 09/17/07 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
Posted by John Jusu on September 17, 2007 at 11:33:06:
In Reply to: Mohamed Jalloh is not Man Enough to Post here posted by John Mannah on September 16, 2007 at 23:51:49:
John Mannah,
I am a SLPP supporter like you. But I don;t believe in assassinating the character of other people simply because they don;t support my party.
Mind you, I am not saying that you do that. Nor am I saying that that you don't. That is because you have not shown me any evidence for the allegations you have made against Mohamed Jalloh. I have read Mr. Jalloh's profile on Awareness Times. I did not see any of the wild claims you have made against what the Awareness Times profile shows to be a Sierra Leonean with unprecedented national and international accomplishments.
Just as an example, Mohamed Jalloh is the youngest Sierra Leonean to be admitted at Fourah Bay College, the university of Sierra Leone. As another example, Mohamed Jalloh is the first Sierra Leonean to graduate from the University of Sierra Leone with a honors degree in economics with specialization in accounting. I don't about you, John Mannah, but to me and any reasonable person, that is the profile of an accomplished Sierra Leonean. Do you have any accomplishments which you can compare to Mr. Jalloh's record setting achievements? If so, please tell us.
Let me turn to your wild claims about Mohamed Jalloh. According to Awareness Times, Mohamed Jalloh criticized the APC government within one year of leaving college by publishing a critique of the APC's government policy of devaluation that the IMF pushed down our country's throat.In addition, I was a student at Fourah Bay College in 1985 when Mohamed Jalloh held a public lecture that denounced the APC's President Momoh's floatation of the Leone at the behest of the IMF.
So, John Manah, how could Mohamed Jalloh, a critic of the APC for more than a decade be a stalwart of the APC, as you claim without evidence? You are not making any sense!, John Manah
Meanwhile, let me ask you to show us the evidence that you forgot to provide us when you painted a totally different picture of the same man whose profile show him as a patriotic Sierra Leonean who has spent his entire adult life defending the interest of the people of SL against both local corrupt governments and foreign corrupt institutions like the IMF you praise.
1: What evidence do you have that Mr. Jalloh is a "APC stalwart and thug," as you claimed without presenting evidence.?
2. What evidence do you have that Mr. Jalloh's job "was given to him out of corruption and hegemony" as you claimed without presenting evidence?
3. Can you tell us the job descr1ption for the job you say Mr. Jalloh received within months of graduation so that we can determine for ourselves whether the "job was a graduate level job."?
4. Can you tell us (a) what date Mr. Jalloh started working at SLPMB and (b) what date Mr. Jalloh became head of the Economic Planning Dept. at SLPMB so that we can determine for ourselves whether "within months of his employment was awarded the job to head the economic planning unit" as you claimed without presenting evidence?
5. Can you present evidence showing that SLPMB "built [Mr. Jalloh] a two story house," as you claimed without presenting evidence?
6. Can you present any evidence to show, as you insinuate, that Mr. Jalloh did not pay off his car and housing loan to SLPMB?
7. Can you tell us (a) the date that Mr. Jalloh started working at SLPMB and (b) the date he was given a housing loan so that we can tell whether he was "give this type of benefit" as "an undergraduate employee just out of college?" as you claim without presenting evidence.
8. Can you present us with evidence that Mr. Jalloh is "posing under the moniker Saloneman" as you claim without presenting evidence?
I hope you can present the evidence and answer the questions above so that we can independently judge whether you are just a bitter person who can not get over the fact that Mr. Jalloh is an internationally accomplished Sierra Leonean, and a fearless fighter against APC corruption throughout the APC misrule in SL , as Awareness Times confirmed when it published his stellar short profile. (see the link below to read the profile).
I can not end without commenting on your strange argument that one needs a graduate degree to receive employee benefits.
John Manah, when our leader, President Kabbah, was appointed to head a department at the United Nations, did he have a graduate degree? So, according to you, he should have been denied benefits like a car and others employee benefits? When our candidate, Solomon Berewa put himself withing 200,000 votes of becoming president of Sierra Leone, had he won and become president, should he be denied the benefits of the office of president because he is not a graduate?
So, according to your argument, John Mannah, our new president, Ernest Koroma, must he declared unfit to receive the type of benefits like free housing, an official car just because he does not have a graduate degree?
Let us go the world of business, John Manah, here in the U.S., where you claimed that "Which company in America, for those of us who live here will give this type of benefit to an undergraduate employee just out of college."
Have you heard of the name, Bill Gates? Did Bill Gates have even an undergraduate degree when he was given his own private jet by Microsoft -- "company in America," -- as a NON-undergraduate employee? Have you heard of Steve Jobs, John Manah? Did Apple Computer -- "company in America," provide him with a private jet, a house, a driver, and car as a NON-undergraduate employee?
Why, John Mannah, are you so illogical in your arguments while claiming to be educated?
Subject: Re: SLPP TRIBALISTJOHN MANNAH GIVEN A BEATING AT THE SLPP FORUM
From: Shembu
To: All
Date Posted: 12:24:59 09/17/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: eduproxy2.k12.de.us at 167.21.254.12
Message:
John Mannah is always a bitter man. He lost all elections he participated in when we were at FBC.
My word of advice to Dr. Mannah is, now that the SLPP has lost and his hopes of getting a job with them have been dashed, can he be Sierra Leonean enough to join the debate of offering strong strategic advice to the new government on how to successfully rule our motherland. We want educated folks like John to use their knowledge properly to give back to the country. John had a scholarship while at FBC (I think he had a study leave also, cause he was pretty older than the rest of us then and came to college from work not straight from school), he therefore needs to give back without occupying a political position. I know JJ Bloof had promised John and Yarjah jobs just like he did for Kalilou Totangi. But unfortunately SLPP is out and John can continue driving his taxi carb in D.C. while at the same time offer good advice to the APC leadership by way of participating in our Cocorioko forum debates.
Thank you John, in advance for a job well done.
Subject: Re: SLPP TRIBALISTJOHN MANNAH GIVEN A BEATING AT THE SLPP FORUM
From: OUCH!
To: All
Date Posted: 11:57:22 09/17/07 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
"Why, John Mannah, are you so illogical in your arguments while claiming to be educated?"
Subject: Re: SLPP TRIBALISTJOHN MANNAH GIVEN A BEATING AT THE SLPP FORUM
From: Candid Opinion
To: All
Date Posted: 12:45:29 09/17/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: ns.nucleusns2.com at 12.44.12.126
Message:
Heheheh...
""We need more Salone people to back up their allegations against public officials with evidence. If not, the courts should be the next stop for people defamed. ""
I think you mistakenly stumbled in here..?
You forget usai you dey..?
Co Co rio & ko..?
Back up allegation of public servants what..?
Subject: Re: SLPP TRIBALISTJOHN MANNAH GIVEN A BEATING AT THE SLPP FORUM
From: OUCH!
To: All
Date Posted: 12:53:11 09/17/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: cache-mtc-ah10.proxy.aol.com at 64.12.117.202
Message:
No mistake, my friend. That is my vision for a brand new Salone -- where people put their money where their mouth is. So, you defame people, you pay for your crime. It's the end of impunity as we knew it in Salone under the old APC and the failed SLPP. It's a new beginning under outr anti-corruption president EBK.
Just ask the old guard SLPP cabal of Berewa, Karimu and Benjamin -- they rigged the Kailahun polls, and guess what? They paid the price -- the 4rigged votes were thrown out! Who says Salone people can not be taught discipline?
Just look at the SLPP and the wages of corruption -- mbanishment to the dustbin of history. By the say-so of the PEOPLE. That, my friend, is the new Salone under the new APC of President Ernest Koroma. Just ask Berewa.
Subject: Re: SLPP TRIBALISTJOHN MANNAH GIVEN A BEATING AT THE SLPP FORUM
From: Candid Opinion
To: All
Date Posted: 13:01:41 09/17/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: ns.nucleusns2.com at 12.44.12.126
Message:
This Yes Sir, Yes Sir attitude from APC supporters is more than worrying..
It was all well and good to tarnish peoples name, drag people tru the gutter, call tom nyuma a baby killer, John benjamin and karimu a budget plunderer, and thieving scoundrels, tribalists. etc etc until your man got in there ....
As soon as he is innuagurated.. there will be the provabial shower of blessing all over salone and everything will be all right..?
"It's a new beginning under outr anti-corruption president EBK."
"That, my friend, is the new Salone under the new APC of President Ernest Koroma."
Its almost cultist.. and smirks of North Korea.
Subject: Re: SLPP TRIBALISTJOHN MANNAH GIVEN A BEATING AT THE SLPP FORUM
From: OUCH!
To: All
Date Posted: 13:36:53 09/17/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: cache-mtc-ah10.proxy.aol.com at 64.12.117.202
Message:
"It's a new beginning under outr anti-corruption president EBK."
"That, my friend, is the new Salone under the new APC of President Ernest Koroma."
Its almost cultist.. and smirks of North Korea.
_______________________________________________________
No, my friend, it is not "almost cultist."
It will become that IF (and that's a big "if") the new APC starts calling its leader, as the truly cultist SLPP did call its leader who became president as plain Tejan Kabbah, and soon became "His Excellency, Doctor, Alhaji Ahmad Tejan Kabbah!"
A case of the (SLPP) pot calling the kettle black, my SLPP friend?
Subject: Re: SLPP TRIBALISTJOHN MANNAH GIVEN A BEATING AT THE SLPP FORUM
From: Candid Opinion
To: All
Date Posted: 13:43:20 09/17/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: ns.nucleusns2.com at 12.44.12.126
Message:
Ok OUCH..
Lets wait and see..
Co co rio & ko.. has been the APC media trojan horse..
Lets wait and see if it morphed to the salone 100 pound gorilla when the APC falters just as the SLPP did.. and i hope you are around to fight the good fight for country then just as you all did this time around for BRA...
If all this Hail kohmaneh.. Hail bra, Hail the leader.. continues.. we are right back to sqaure 1.
Nothing faster to turn a decent man into a cronic megalomaniac than all this "UNDER OUR ANTI CORRUPTION PRESIDENT, HAIL HIS EXCELLENCY" Crap...
Subject: Re: SLPP TRIBALISTJOHN MANNAH GIVEN A BEATING AT THE SLPP FORUM
From: OUCH
To: All
Date Posted: 14:20:27 09/17/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: cache-mtc-ah10.proxy.aol.com at 64.12.117.202
Message:
"Lets wait and see if it morphed to the salone 100 pound gorilla when the APC falters just as the SLPP did.."
Candid, do I detect a stumble in your statement above? Don't you mean to say IF the "APC falters just as the SLPP did..?" rather than WHEN as you wrote in apparent error?
How can you counsel us reasonably to "wait and see.. " and then unreasonably declare what the future will hold even before we have finished waiting and seeing as you advised?
A tad self-contradictory, there, old chap, wouldn't you say? Unless you want to admit that its is an an unwitting display of bias against the new APC in favour of the failed SLPP. :)
Subject: Re: SLPP TRIBALISTJOHN MANNAH GIVEN A BEATING AT THE SLPP FORUM
From: Candid Opinion
To: All
Date Posted: 14:30:07 09/17/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: ns.nucleusns2.com at 12.44.12.126
Message:
Of course it is bias, unwitting or not..?
WAHT?...APC wins and human nature doesnt come into play anymore..we all dont know the words to Kumbaya....?
I know you are APC.. hence lies your bias.. grant me mine.
Nothing contradictory..You yours.. me mine.. capish..?
It is of the future so all we can do is wait and see it happen..
WHEN it does happen.. i hope US all (YOU INCLUDED) will call them on it..
Subject: Re: SLPP TRIBALISTJOHN MANNAH GIVEN A BEATING AT THE SLPP FORUM
From: OUCH!
To: All
Date Posted: 15:06:44 09/17/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: cache-mtc-ah10.proxy.aol.com at 64.12.117.202
Message:
"I know you are APC.. "
Where is your evidence for your claim, my friend?
Subject: Re: SLPP TRIBALISTJOHN MANNAH GIVEN A BEATING AT THE SLPP FORUM
From: Candid Opinion
To: All
Date Posted: 15:13:16 09/17/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: ns.nucleusns2.com at 12.44.12.126
Message:
well i got a clue somewhere here..
"It's a new beginning under outr anti-corruption president EBK"
I am assuming you said "OUR" anti corruption preso.. EBK..?
Why you insist on wasting bandwidth.. i dont know..
Subject: Re: SLPP TRIBALISTJOHN MANNAH GIVEN A BEATING AT THE SLPP FORUM
From: OUCH!
To: All
Date Posted: 15:37:09 09/17/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: cache-mtc-ah10.proxy.aol.com at 64.12.117.202
Message:
"well i got a clue somewhere here..
"It's a new beginning under outr anti-corruption president EBK"
I am assuming you said "OUR" anti corruption preso.. EBK..?
Why you insist on wasting bandwidth.. i dont know.."
Candid:
You are starting to stumble very badly now, my friend! Let me ask you a simple question that should help you see the obvious error in your thinking.
When an American says "our war president George Bush" does that suggest to you that the American is Republican (the political party of George Bush)?
Of course not! It simply means Bush is president of ALL Americans -- just as Koroma is president of ALL Sierra Leoneans!
Get it? Or am I wasting bandwidth trying to help you understand simple English?
Subject: Re: SLPP TRIBALISTJOHN MANNAH GIVEN A BEATING AT THE SLPP FORUM
From: Candid Opinion
To: All
Date Posted: 15:46:20 09/17/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: ns.nucleusns2.com at 12.44.12.126
Message:
Ok.. You win...I assumed..
If you are and hiding behind symantics.. aye your choice..
If you are not and my asumption is wrong, my apologies.. (just dont have time to DIG up your posts right now that will define you are APC)
Now lets move on to bigger and better..and the issues at hand.
And please dont start that understand english crap..
Or we can cut it off here..
Subject: Re: SLPP TRIBALISTJOHN MANNAH GIVEN A BEATING AT THE SLPP FORUM
From: OUCH!
To: All
Date Posted: 16:13:00 09/17/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: cache-mtc-ah10.proxy.aol.com at 64.12.117.202
Message:
"Ok.. You win...I assumed..
If you are and hiding behind symantics.. aye your choice..
If you are not and my asumption is wrong, my apologies.. (just dont have time to DIG up your posts right now that will define you are APC)"
Candid,
I accept your apology, my persistent friend.
I have to tell you though that this discussion is not about wining. It is about me helping my fellow Sierra Leoneans like you learn how to reason properly. It is that skill that will entitle them to be taken seriously, especially when they deal with international institutions and personnel on behalf of our country's government.
So, continuing that selfless and very important task for the hopeful benefit of our motherland, please allow me to help you spot the error of thinking in your latest unfortunate statement:
"If you are not and my asumption is wrong, my apologies.. (just dont have time to DIG up your posts right now that will define you are APC")
QUESTION: If, as you admit, you don't have time to dig up my alleged posts that will allegedly define me as APC, should you not keep quiet UNLESS and UNTIL you do dig up the alleged posts BEFORE you make claims about me being APC?
I hope you will see that I have agreed not to bring up your failure to understand English.
But, as you can see, hopefully, that is not your only failing, sadly. But we must confront your multiple errors of thinking if we are to succeeed in helping you learn how to think straight, wouldn't you say, mate?
)
Subject: Re: SLPP TRIBALISTJOHN MANNAH GIVEN A BEATING AT THE SLPP FORUM
From: Candid Opinion
To: All
Date Posted: 16:25:43 09/17/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: ns.nucleusns2.com at 12.44.12.126
Message:
OUCH....
I think a self assesment is warranted..
If you can make this statement.
(Just ask the old guard SLPP cabal of Berewa, Karimu and Benjamin -- they rigged the Kailahun polls, and guess what?)
and then talk about libel all in the same breath.. and then 3 sentences later.. talk about critical thinking...
Well hypocrisy is a kind word for you..
I entertained you enough.. lets move on..
Help Sierra Leoneans reason properly by using yourself as research material.
Go easy my man.. lets let the thread did a deserving death..
Subject: Re: SLPP TRIBALISTJOHN MANNAH GIVEN A BEATING AT THE SLPP FORUM
From: OUCH!
To: All
Date Posted: 17:13:18 09/17/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: cache-mtc-ah10.proxy.aol.com at 64.12.117.202
Message:
"Well hypocrisy is a kind word for you.. "
You are engaging in innuendo -- a variant of an ad hominem attack. Resist the temptation, if you can.
If you want to prove attempt to prove a charge of hypocrisy, please go ahead. But first, state the evidence, as you have attempted to do. Then, show how your evidence leads to your cconclusion of hypocrisy --as you have not done.
So, please do so now. Then, once you have completed your argument, we will proceed to examine it for validity. That's the proper way to way. So, go ahead, my friend, let's go.
Subject: Re: SLPP TRIBALISTJOHN MANNAH GIVEN A BEATING AT THE SLPP FORUM
From: Kiptieu Savage
To: All
Date Posted: 12:39:18 09/17/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: cache-mtc-ah10.proxy.aol.com at 64.12.117.202
Message:
A very good question. It would be interestintg to hear Mr. Mannah's answers to the questions he has been asked. We need more Salone people to back up their allegations against public officials with evidence. If not, the courts should be the next stop for people defamed.
Kudos to the writer that replied to Mr. Mannah in a civil and logical manner.
Subject: A call to all Sierra Leoneans
From: Campaign Team
To: All
Date Posted: 11:48:45 09/17/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 195.166.237.254
Message:
A call to all Sierra Leoneans who wish to contribute to our nation building to volunteer at ernest@ernestkoroma2007.com with your full details, CV, etc. visit www.ernestkoroma2007.com for more
Subject: Chris in her own words
From: Sorba S
To: All
Date Posted: 11:42:08 09/17/07 ()
Email Address: sorba_@yahoo.com
Entered From: at 209.116.81.187
Message:
At our last briefing, we informed the media and the public that the National Electoral Commission (NEC) would undertake a series of investigations and recounts in order to finalize the results of the presidential election run-off. We are happy to report today that the Commission undertook the field work during the period established and is ready today to present its findings. We at NEC are satisfied with the verification process which was undertaken, and are very confident that the official results we are about to announce are indeed those recorded in the polling stations and accurately reflect the will of the voters.
Nevertheless, it is with regret that we report that, despite all the measures taken to hinder electoral malpractices, there were instances where malpractice and fraud were attempted. The system we have instituted at NEC makes it difficult for fraud to be successfully undertaken, but it cannot completely stop those who are intent on manipulating the results from actually trying. This is the reason why NEC needed to be careful with the tallying of results. We are pleased that we have been able to detect malpractices and have taken appropriate remedial action to limit the influence which such acts would otherwise have.
For example, during the verification process we discovered counterfeit results forms which were sent to NEC from polling stations throughout the country. It was not difficult to detect them as they contained a spelling mistake in the title, the word ‘form’ was spelled ‘from’. Three such cases were identified at polling centres 07131 in Port Loko, 11153 in Moyamba and 13056 in Western Rural. The Commission responded by recovering the original forms issued to the stations that contained the true and accurate results. These were then entered into the tally.
There were also attempts at ballot stuffing and ballot-box swapping, but they were detected thanks to the measures put in place and the investigations conducted. Additionally, through the recounting process undertaken with party agents and observers, we were able to either confirm results or uncover various anomalies which were then addressed to accurately reflect the poll.
As reported earlier, the Commission noted polling station results with turn-outs of over 100%. It is impossible for voter turnout in excess of 100% to have taken place without fraud or illegal action. The Commission has been left with no option but to invalidate all results from polling stations reporting over 100% turnout. In all, 477 stations across the country have thus been invalidated, as follows: Kailahun: 90, Kenema: 65, Kono: 9, Bombali: 17, Kambia: 8, Koinadugu: 12, Port Loko: 2, Tonkolili: 6,
Bo: 123, Bonthe: 2, Moyamba: 24, Pujehun: 113, Western Rural: 1 and Western Urban: 5.
It is extremely regrettable to have to invalidate even a single polling station, and it is a decision that the NEC did not take lightly. However, the responsibility for the act of invalidation falls on those who are responsible for the malpractices, it is they who should be held accountable for disenfranchising voters, as there were legitimate votes cast in these polling stations.
There is one important element to highlight: international election standards say that the invalidation of votes does not require a repeat of the polling exercise if the act of invalidation does not affect the outcome of the poll. The National Electoral Commission can confirm that in the case of 8 September poll these invalidations have NOT affected the outcome of the election.
NEC will continue to collaborate with the law enforcement agencies in the investigations of all electoral malpractices reported.
There is a very important message arising from these elections: there is no longer a place for fraud and malpractice in the Sierra Leone electoral system. The people of Sierra Leone deserve to exercise their rights in an atmosphere of freedom, fairness and transparency. This is what NEC strived to provide and will continue to strive for in the future - nothing less will be tolerated. Those who cheated have succeeded in doing a disservice to their respective candidates. They also succeeded in disenfranchising fellow Sierra Leoneans. But they did not succeed in tarnishing either the results or the credibility of the process.
The results
5,679 polling station results were entered into the results database, representing 100% of all polling stations across the country, excluding those that were invalidated.
The average national turnout is 68.09%.
The total number of valid votes cast is 1,740,058.
There are 43,793 invalid votes, representing 2.45% of total votes cast.
The general summary of the results, as well as the detailed results, by station and by centre, will be posted on the NEC website: www.necsierraleone.org.
The presidential run-off results by districts:
Koroma – APC
Berewa – SLPP
Kailahun
11,631
111,695
Kenema
32,666
160,699
Kono
52,908
74,458
Bombali
125,419
14,095
Kambia
61,250
14,449
Koinadugu
42,178
23,130
Port Loko
132,287
17,789
Tonkolili
101,296
12,958
Bo
37,006
105,459
Bonthe
20,018
28,313
Moyamba
26,485
49,886
Pujehun
2,875
38,107
WA Rural
55,332
22,842
WA Urban
249,056
115,771
National results
950,407
789,651
In exercise of the powers conferred on the Returning Officer by section 37 of the Electoral Laws Act, 2002, I hereby certify that 950,407 valid votes were cast in favour of the candidate Ernest Bai Koroma at that election:
AND Ernest Bai Koroma therefore received the highest number of valid votes cast in the election:
Ernest Bai Koroma has been duly elected President of the Republic of Sierra Leone at the Presidential Election of 2007.
Any citizen of Sierra Leone may challenge the validity of the election of the President by petition to the Supreme Court of Sierra Leone, within seven days after the declaration of the Presidential results.
Subject: Is this the end of two foot arata?
From: Sorba S
To: All
Date Posted: 11:25:32 09/17/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 209.116.81.187
Message:
I think the erra of two foot arata is over. But please lets don,t victimize them.
Subject: CONGRATULATIONS KABS KANU AND EARNEST KOROMA{ APC}
From: okdok
To: All
Date Posted: 11:36:53 09/17/07 ()
Email Address: okdok@yahoo.com
Entered From: wnpgmb11dc1-45-173-146.dynamic.mts.net at 206.45.173.146
Message:
Its nice all came to an end.We are all sierra leoneans.
I hope what you call failure of SLPP will come success during APC rule
Subject: Re: Is this the end of two foot arata?
From: Cornelius Hamelberg
To: All
Date Posted: 11:35:22 09/17/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: c-088472d5.01-32-73746f42.cust.bredbandsbolaget.se at 213.114.132.8
Message:
One of the priorities of the new government will be to strengthen the ACC so that a time does not come when we read in Cocoriko that " two-fut arata rides again!"
Subject: A call to all Sierra Leoneans who wish to contribute
From: APC
To: All
Date Posted: 11:09:33 09/17/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 195.166.237.254
Message:
A call to all Sierra Leoneans who wish to contribute to our nation building to volunteer at ernest@ernestkoroma2007.com with your full details, CV, etc. visit www.ernestkoroma2007.com for more
Subject: MOSERAY FADIKA ===TOP THE LIST.
From: THE CRAB
To: All
Date Posted: 10:58:39 09/17/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: ip-207-145-43-5.iad.megapath.net at 207.145.43.5
Message:
THE NUMBER OF PEOPLE TO BE ARRESTED FOR THE COUNTRY MONEY,(SIERRA LEONE)MOSERAY FADIKA IS AT THE TOP OF THE LIST.HIS NAME WAS PLACED ON THE LIST BY HIS BROTHER KEMOH.
Subject: Re: MOSERAY FADIKA ===TOP THE LIST.
From: Basco
To: All
Date Posted: 11:13:07 09/17/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: 82-44-17-83.cable.ubr04.croy.blueyonder.co.uk at 82.44.17.83
Message:
No victimisation!
Subject: Re: MOSERAY FADIKA ===TOP THE LIST.
From: Hypocrite
To: All
Date Posted: 09:14:42 09/18/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: cache-dtc-ag14.proxy.aol.com at 205.188.117.142
Message:
Where were you when Fadika was victimizing the people of salone by looting the country's money?
Subject: Re: MOSERAY FADIKA ===TOP THE LIST.
From: kamara
To: All
Date Posted: 12:19:11 09/17/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 205.148.53.200
Message:
Basco, You have a heart after all. Great
Subject: Re: MOSERAY FADIKA ===TOP THE LIST.
From: Candid Opinion
To: All
Date Posted: 12:30:26 09/17/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: ns.nucleusns2.com at 12.44.12.126
Message:
Personal vendetta's.
One of the reasons why there is capital flight in salone...
These threats and witch hunting can only hurt us..
If the man owe you money.. or greedy you pan im wealth..
Take am go cote..
Subject: Re: MOSERAY FADIKA ===TOP THE LIST.
From: max vandy
To: All
Date Posted: 12:37:24 09/17/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 165.155.200.146
Message:
Candido, you dae?
Missed your posts...
Hoping for a better Salone..
Patriots first, Party avtivists way second..
God bless ya bra..
Subject: Re: MOSERAY FADIKA ===TOP THE LIST.
From: Candid Opinion
To: All
Date Posted: 12:42:51 09/17/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: ns.nucleusns2.com at 12.44.12.126
Message:
Dey bra...
Banned and only got an email that my account is re-activated only today.. after the election.
Good fight Bra..
Lets just light the fire and keep it stoked...under Earnest and Margais feet..
We should start the freedom of information petition..
Subject: BEREWA CONCEEDS, ERNEST TO BE SWORN IN TODAY
From: SUBWANALAI
To: All
Date Posted: 10:46:36 09/17/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: host81-154-14-226.range81-154.btcentralplus.com at 81.154.14.226
Message:
According to the Al-Jazeera television network, the Leader of SLPP, Solomon Ekuma Berewa has telephoned Ernest Koroma congratulating him on his election. As the Keyan correspondent was speaking at about 16:30 Sa. Lone time, the swearing -in-ceremony of the new president was expected in two hours time, to be followed by an innauguration in a week,s time.
Stay tuned.
Subject: Re: BEREWA CONCEEDS, ERNEST TO BE SWORN IN TODAY
From: ITK
To: All
Date Posted: 11:14:47 09/17/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 38.98.119.16
Message:
Subwanal:
You see-- this is how civil Sierra Leoneans can be. We can never progress if we are not united. What will Solo B gain by chhosing to not embrace his brother, Ernest.
APC has won the elections. Our country must move forward. What I am nervous about is whether some APC sympathisers can move forward. The ball is in their court. Only time will tell.
Subject: Re: BEREWA CONCEEDS, ERNEST TO BE SWORN IN TODAY
From: Cornelius Hamelberg
To: All
Date Posted: 11:57:27 09/17/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: c-088472d5.01-32-73746f42.cust.bredbandsbolaget.se at 213.114.132.8
Message:
When reality appears, unreality disappears.
Good that Mr. Berewa has congratulated Mr. Koroma.
With the new Status Quo and Who is Who in Sierra Leone, Johnny Leigh will soon follow his leader.
It was the 17th of September, a day we will always remember.
Famous last words:
Berewa:” Let's wait for the election, yah…. I can't talk about how beautiful or ugly I am, let the people decide yah… but my impression is that, I don't think there is any politician as popular today as I am. I can tell you that from my tour of this country, there is no politician who is near as popular as I am at the moment. Let nobody fool you.”
Berewa: “How can I be scared? Having a run-off is unnecessary. You know what it means for the resources of Sierra Leone ? Why should I be scared of a run-off when it cost a lot of money? Let me tell you, my majority will be so massive.!”
Subject: SAN SAN....BOY John Leigh For Prezi 2012
From: Profiler
To: All
Date Posted: 10:26:25 09/17/07 ()
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Message:
Hope the SLPP folks will be reasonable enough to pay our next president in 2012 the money they owe him.Congrats prezi Ernest and wonder boy Charlie.
Subject: WE'VE HEARD MANY SLPP CONGRATS, BUT NOT ALIEU SESAY
From: POLITICAL
To: All
Date Posted: 10:12:53 09/17/07 ()
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Entered From: ip70-162-167-106.ph.ph.cox.net at 70.162.167.106
Message:
What's up Alieu Sesay? We are still waiting for your concession and congratulation like Sylvester Johnny, Kelfalla Kallon and others. The OSD are coming if you dont concede quicker.
Subject: Re: WE'VE HEARD MANY SLPP CONGRATS, BUT NOT ALIEU SESAY
From: alieu sesay
To: All
Date Posted: 10:20:37 09/17/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: 65.107.153.146.ptr.us.xo.net at 65.107.153.146
Message:
Posted by alieu sesay on September 17, 2007 at 09:15:35:
I say congrats to President Koroma and the APC party for your elections victory.
Pray the country comes first...
Once again..i say KUDOS.
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Subject: Re: WE'VE HEARD MANY SLPP CONGRATS, BUT NOT ALIEU SESAY
From: boli
To: All
Date Posted: 14:52:32 09/17/07 ()
Email Address: boli@yahoo.com
Entered From: 79-65-49-4.dynamic.dsl.as9105.com at 79.65.49.4
Message:
Well done and well said my friend alieu. let's meet for a beer
Subject: Re: WE'VE HEARD MANY SLPP CONGRATS, BUT NOT ALIEU SESAY
From: POLITICAL
To: All
Date Posted: 10:20:32 09/17/07 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
Never mind, Alieu Sesay, I'm just kidding. You guys rocks. You fought to the finish line. That how a warrior do. We hope you will all join us in the PMDC 2012. The SLPP is on a life support machine. The PMDC is now becoming the formidable party to contest in 2012. At the moment, let's work with the APC and see what they will bring for the country.
Subject: Re: WE'VE HEARD MANY SLPP CONGRATS, BUT NOT ALIEU SESAY
From: gbanabom 91
To: All
Date Posted: 11:20:38 09/17/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: pool-70-17-78-200.res.east.verizon.net at 70.17.78.200
Message:
Where is Alpha Saidu ? He is lost . Well his family will will go bed with a full stomach of rice as of today .
Subject: Re: WE'VE HEARD MANY SLPP CONGRATS, BUT NOT ALIEU SESAY
From: alieu sesay
To: All
Date Posted: 10:24:00 09/17/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: 65.107.153.146.ptr.us.xo.net at 65.107.153.146
Message:
I will remain an SLPP till death. We will be calling on the current SLPP executive to disband and or call for an early Party executive elections.
They ran the elections like they ran the country, hence their presence in the EXECUTIVE is no longer welcome.
I will be in FREETOWN in a few weeks and will make it my AIM for them to resign....
Subject: Re: WE'VE HEARD MANY SLPP CONGRATS, BUT NOT ALIEU SESAY
From: M. Alieu Iscandari Esq
To: All
Date Posted: 13:22:11 09/17/07 ()
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Entered From: cache-ntc-ad04.proxy.aol.com at 207.200.116.198
Message:
They ran the elections like they ran the country
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so how did they run the country? Good or Bad?
Subject: Re: WE'VE HEARD MANY SLPP CONGRATS, BUT NOT ALIEU SESAY
From: alieu sesay
To: All
Date Posted: 13:23:10 09/17/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: 65.107.153.146.ptr.us.xo.net at 65.107.153.146
Message:
Bra! The outcome of the elections is my answer.
Subject: congrats
From: fact
To: All
Date Posted: 09:54:48 09/17/07 ()
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Message:
congrats to ernest bai koroma and charles margai. apc should never forget charles margai.
Subject: Congratulations Sierra Leone
From: Crispin Cole Sr.
To: All
Date Posted: 09:50:25 09/17/07 ()
Email Address: ccole32445@aol.com
Entered From: pool-71-98-164-68.tampfl.dsl-w.verizon.net at 71.98.164.68
Message:
Congratulations to the people of Sierra Leone for the capacity to utilize the democratic process in bringing about a change of government. This will hopefully be an example to our neighbors, some of whom are rotting in ineptitude.
The bar for Ernest Koroma and the APC has been raised very high. The celebration should be brief and the task of returning the country to a reasonably decent habitat must commence NOW.
Unlike the outgoing government that retained an almost permanent team of ministers regardless of their non performance, this President must set benchmarks for his cabinet and kick anyone out that fails to produce. He must be wary of 'sacred cows' and 'untouchables', those who might want to believe that they are bigger than the party because of what they might have invested in it.
We pray for your success Ernest. Congratulations to you, Congratulations to the APC and Congratulations to the People of Sierra Leone.
Crispin Cole Sr
SierraConnection.Com
September 17, 2007
Subject: Re: Congratulations Sierra Leone
From: Tamba Moiwo
To: All
Date Posted: 10:11:32 09/17/07 ()
Email Address: moiwo@hotmail.co.uk
Entered From: gateway-303.energis.gsi.gov.uk at 62.25.109.196
Message:
Bra,was this sent via blackberry from T Mobile?
Tamba
Subject: Re: Congratulations Sierra Leone
From: Crispin Cole
To: All
Date Posted: 10:44:55 09/17/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: pool-71-98-164-68.tampfl.dsl-w.verizon.net at 71.98.164.68
Message:
Nor Bra Tambs: Dis too hot. Nar REDberry
C2
Subject: Where are Mada Bio, Tom Nyuma, Komba Modeh, J.B. and J.K.?
From: Reality Check
To: All
Date Posted: 09:41:03 09/17/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 66.250.191.180
Message:
For national security, Mada Bio, Tom Nyuma, Komba Mondeh, John Benjamin and John Karimu are to be located and continuously monitor their movements.
Subject: Re: Where are Mada Bio, Tom Nyuma, Komba Modeh, J.B. and J.K.?
From: Toegondoe Sagbah
To: All
Date Posted: 11:47:22 09/17/07 ()
Email Address: mendemoi@yahoo.com
Entered From: pool-71-168-131-9.cmdnnj.east.verizon.net at 71.168.131.9
Message:
CLOSE THE BORDERS WITH LIBERIA AND GUINEA. They may be heading out as you read this. Those goones should not get away. We need them for a commission of inquiry
Subject: Re: Where are Mada Bio, Tom Nyuma, Komba Modeh, J.B. and J.K.?
From: Candid Opinion
To: All
Date Posted: 09:52:43 09/17/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: ns.nucleusns2.com at 12.44.12.126
Message:
This is witch hunting..
During the campaigns they did nto broke any salone laws.
If they did.. please forward the complains to the CID so they will be arrested..
Anything else ....is harrasment of peaceful citizens or a personal vendetta.
Subject: Re: Where are Mada Bio, Tom Nyuma, Komba Modeh, J.B. and J.K.?
From: Tamba Moiwo
To: All
Date Posted: 10:09:22 09/17/07 ()
Email Address: moiwo@hotmail.co.uk
Entered From: gateway-303.energis.gsi.gov.uk at 62.25.109.196
Message:
Perhaps you need to call Alieu Iscandri to drop his Napalm bomb.
Bra way you say?
Tamba
Subject: Congratulations to the APC
From: Kelfala M. Kallon
To: All
Date Posted: 09:38:22 09/17/07 ()
Email Address: KelKallon@comcast.net
Entered From: c-67-165-237-76.hsd1.co.comcast.net at 67.165.237.76
Message:
I wish to congratulate President Koroma and the APC for their success. May they rise up to the great trust that the people of Sierra Leone have reposed in them. May cool heads prevail and may President Koroma and his team be magnanimous in victory.
While the NEC Chairperson obviously over-reached her mandate, I urge the leaders of my party, the SLPP, to withdraw all legal challenges to her declaration in the interest of peace and national reconciliation.
Our party returned democracy to Sierra Leone and we should do everything to see it prosper. Ours is a resilient party; we will be back. We should now regroup, be a vibrant opposition in Parliament, and prepare to come back in 2012.
Subject: Re: Congratulations to the APC
From: Mohamed Kamara
To: All
Date Posted: 10:31:23 09/17/07 ()
Email Address: kamarakay21@verizon.net
Entered From: b12-arbiter-b.net.nih.gov at 128.231.88.6
Message:
What will this guy do to the mende people whom God placed in the nation of Sierra Leone as legal citizens. According to his useof words in your wildly read newspaper against the mendes it looks like he does not want them to exist. APC has won and is accepted by all. What will then be the faith of the mendes?
This forum is brought to you by COCORIOKO, Sierra Leone's biggest and most widely-read newspaper online. It was set up to give you the opportunity to discuss matters of supreme importance affecting our country.
NO ONE REMEBERS THAIMU BANGURA
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Posted by SUBWANALAI on August 22, 2007 at 05:48:23:
If anyone should remeber Thaimu Bangura the Sanda War Lord, it should be these shameless, ingrates SLPP tribalists who are bent on plunging Sierra Leone into a tribal war. In the 1996 elections, when SLPP's Tejan Kabbah entered the runoff race against Kerefa Smart, most of the nasty mende tribalists thought because Thaimu was a northerner, it was a fore gone conclusion that he would pitched tents with Karefa Smart. But no, Thaimu openly supported Kabbah and so were his followers, mostly northerners. They did not question their leader, because they were convinced that his decision was done in the national interest...
But no, not these nasty mende trbalsits
(NOTE: TO MY HOSTS- COCORIOKO.COM. I AM USING STRONG LANGUAGE HERE BECAUSE SOME OF US ARE FED UP WITH THESE BEASTS WHO GOD WRONGLY PLANTED AMONGST US IN SIERRA LEONE. I AM READY TO PAY THE PRIZE EVEN IF IT MEANS BANNING ME FROM THIS FORUM)
What has Charles Margai done wrong that has caused him unwarranted critcisms? For the stupid mende buffons, he has decided to dine with the lepers. Lepers? Yes, that's how these sofali tribe (mendes)consider the APC. For them, the APC should never come to power again. Indeed, no sooner provisional results from NEC started indicating an APC lead the idiots started screaming: 'If Sierra Leoneans are stupid to allow the APC back in power then they will only have themselves to blame'. Can you imagine? What a cheek from these imbeciles who are going with the pin-hole inflated idea that God actually willed Sierra Leone to them. God will never give power to such morons. Stupid! Useless! bas... I stop short for my decent readers. I am really fuming now. These wretched of the earth should examine themselves and tell us what positives their so-called lefu-lefu secret society they call party(SLPP) has actually done for Sierra Leone that the APC did not do?
They will always harp about Siaka Stevens being a dictator or that he killed so and so. The man was a product of society, idiots. Your forefathers thought him thuggery. Rememeber your unwelcomed coup d' etat of 1967?
If anybody should cry it is Charles Margai, because he suffered most than you hangers-on. His dad was not only sent into exile, Siaka also used Charles' cousin Alusine Deen in Gbangbatoke to deny the former a seat in parliament. Not only that poor Charles suffered detentions, arbitrary arrests etc. But a genuine Charles is now saying that 'that was yesterday,let give national unity a chance' yet these remant collectors are roaring for blood.
Siaka killed, yes, but so did Kabbah and worst of all in a modern age.
The likes of Jia Kangbai are not alone. I have met so-called intellectuals from the mende tribe who do not care about what manifestoes or policies the next party has. All they think about is how to vote for an SLPP nasty. They would tell you that even if a dog contests, as long as it has an SLPP tag, they would vote for it. These are a disgrace to education.
Walk through the corridors of power these days and all you will hear is 'Ngor', 'Muah ley ley mia' rubbish. When they give an office to another tribe,northerners and even Krios including, they make sure their stooges are planted in the set up to undermine the efforts of other tribes. And the amazing thing the donlkeys did was to make a mende man vice chancellor of the country's university. Jesu Christ,no wonder education is deteriorating in the country. The Krios handled it well. But with these corrupt mende hegemony at the helm of things corruption including sexual(mende man nor able im trosis) dae na campus WUTEHTEH.
And yet these doomed tribe do not want others to see the light. What do they want, a division of the country? That's all they care for, as long as they continue to satisy their greed and lust. Yangamadis! I wait for a response.
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Subject: Re: Congratulations to the APC
From: PA Javombo
To: All
Date Posted: 10:15:09 09/17/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 209.214.214.3
Message:
Proff,
Thanks for been magnanimous in defeat.
The San San boys of Sierra Leone have made their voices clear.
Where is John Leigh? I guess he will have to throw his Sierra Leone passport. Since "Flunky lawyer"
will now have the chance to call the shots.
Anyway we are arranging the 40th day ceremony of the SLPP which will happen after the month of Ramadan.
In the mean John Leigh's name came up as one of the pall bearers for SLPP's funeral.
Subject: Re: Congratulations to the APC
From: Dehunge
To: All
Date Posted: 09:45:34 09/17/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: gw1.dc.gov at 164.82.146.3
Message:
I dare say this that you get no credit for sounding reasonable and gracious in defeat. Just yesterday you were twisting facts to castigate the NEC. What you have done now would have had credibility if it was done a week ago when it was apparent to all, but those of you who would have accepted a win by any means, that the people have choosen the APC. You have only bowed to the inevitable. I therefore on behalf of the APC reject your congratulations.
Subject: Re: Congratulations to the APC
From: BRA ENVIABLE
To: All
Date Posted: 09:56:01 09/17/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: cache-dtc-ag14.proxy.aol.com at 205.188.117.142
Message:
I beg to differ. I will whole-heartedly accept Mr. Kallon's compliments. Democracy behooves an opponent to go for the jugular until the electoral chips fall with convincing clarity. While refusing to recognize an opponent's victory is undemocratic, accepting the ultimate result is a decent thing to do. That is what Mr. Kallon did, and I appreciate him for that.
Subject: Re: Congratulations to the APC
From: Jimmy Kandeh
To: All
Date Posted: 10:45:48 09/17/07 ()
Email Address: jkandeh@richmond.edu
Entered From: frh177097.richmond.edu at 141.166.177.97
Message:
Bra Enviable:
You are right but SLPP did not "return democracy to Sierra Leone" (Kallon); the people did by contesting the authoritarianism of the APC (Momoh) and NPRC. So this notion that the SLPP (many were one-party collaborators) brought democracy to SL is as disingenuous and false as the claim that they brought peace to our country.
Let's hope and pray EBK will rise to the challenge and do right by our people. Berewa deserved to lose the presidency; it is now time for Ernest to earn the office he has been entrusted with. God Bless our country. Jimmy
Subject: Re: Congratulations to the APC
From: tamba moiwo
To: All
Date Posted: 12:06:06 09/17/07 ()
Email Address: moiwo@hotmail.co.uk
Entered From: gateway-303.energis.gsi.gov.uk at 62.25.109.196
Message:
"SL is as disingenuous and false "
My friend that is the peak of chicanery.If the govt presided over ushering in a regime that allowed for people like you to air out their views however unpalatable is a mark of genuine democratic credentials.
We'll see when you are given 'that' post-we will hold your feet to the fire.
Subject: Re: Congratulations to the APC
From: Shembu
To: All
Date Posted: 12:48:34 09/17/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: eduproxy2.k12.de.us at 167.21.254.12
Message:
Jimmy please do not respond to this Moiwo guy. He is completely missing the point. He is now assuming that you want a job with the new APC government. I know you Jimmy and read a lot of your stuff.......save your breath.
Also, just quick, Kelfala's message was still not wholehearted because he still thinks that the NEC boss overstepped her mandate. This is not true. Somebody please tell Kelfala that I am waiting for my milk shake from our wager way back when.
Subject: Re: Congratulations to the APC
From: Tamba Moiwo
To: All
Date Posted: 19:19:25 09/17/07 ()
Email Address: moiwo@hotmail.co.uk
Entered From: host86-146-133-172.range86-146.btcentralplus.com at 86.146.133.172
Message:
Shembu:
I have a strong suspicion you are dyslexic.
Why must I continue to cast pearls to swine??
Bra,nar for go Lapland.You might just keep company with reindeers.What y'say???
Tamba
Subject: Re: Congratulations to the APC
From: Kelfala M. Kallon
To: All
Date Posted: 17:05:53 09/17/07 ()
Email Address: KelKallon@comcast.net
Entered From: c-67-165-237-76.hsd1.co.comcast.net at 67.165.237.76
Message:
Shembu, you are correct to say that I still think that the NEC boss overstepped her mandate, but that is water under the bridge now. In spite of that, I congratulate the APC for a well-run campaign. With regard to your milkshake, please read my earlier response to your email.
Jimmy, I am not going to quibble with you over whether or not the SLPP returned democracy to Sierra Leone. Let's agree to disagree.
I hope that all is well in Richmond.
Subject: Re: Congratulations to the APC
From: Jimmy Kandeh
To: All
Date Posted: 14:29:34 09/17/07 ()
Email Address: jkandeh@richmond.edu
Entered From: frh177097.richmond.edu at 141.166.177.97
Message:
Shembu:
Thanks for the advise. I am sometimes inclined to engage Tamba Moiwo if only because he comes across, despite our sharp political differences, as well-schooled. He may be a politically confused brother but he does write very well and the SLPP could use individuals like him (for example, he expresses himself much better in writing than JJ Blood).
At least nobody accused me of looking for a job when I criticized the APC of Stevens and Momoh. But when I criticize the SLPP, I am called a turncoat (as if any party has a right to my allegiance) and a disgruntled job-seeker. Kabba thought he could silence my voice through co-optation (told him I was not interested in any job offer) and when that failed his supporters started claiming that I was only criticizing SLPP because I was not given a job.
I was even accused of seeking a job because I supported Kabba's reinstatement in 1998. What some people failed to realize was that my opposition to the AFRC/RUF and support for Kabba's reinstatement had nothing to do with Kabba or myself. I was simply acting on the basis of what I thought was best for our country.
I have declined opportunities in the past (as recent as July 2007) to meet with Ernest not because I have anything against him but because I am not completely sold on the "new APC."
Ernest may have won by default (I told my SLPP brothers their candidate was unelectable but they were beyond listening) but he may well surprise many of us by stepping up to the plate and doing good things for our country.
I will support Ernest if he rules in the interest of our country and will be among the first to call him out if and when he deviates from what is in our national and public interest.
Let's hope and pray that we finally have a good leader in the person of EBK; otherwise the search for one will be intense again come 2012.
For now, let us allow the SLPP to Rest in Peace. Best, Jimmy
Subject: Re: Congratulations to the APC
From: Candid Opinion
To: All
Date Posted: 09:55:35 09/17/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 74.93.213.177
Message:
I will join you and duff my red cowboy hat to the APC.. and thier leader and supporters.
We did deserve to be beaten.. and we should accept this defeat and work hard for take over in 2012.
Subject: Transition
From: Dehunge
To: All
Date Posted: 09:36:58 09/17/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: gw1.dc.gov at 164.82.146.3
Message:
I read somewhere that Tejan Kabba wants to wait until October 22 to transfer power. I think he should hand over immediately within a week. The people of Sierra Leone can not endure another day of of the useless SLPP government. Secondly,i think another month or so will give SLPP coruupt politicians enough time to take the carpets from govt. offices. Finally Tejan Kabba's mandate has long expired. He needs to hand over next week if not sooner.
Subject: Re: Transition
From: KKW
To: All
Date Posted: 09:45:57 09/17/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 204.50.182.249
Message:
It usually takes a month or so to change administrations.
Subject: Re: Transition
From: Dehunge
To: All
Date Posted: 09:49:31 09/17/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: gw1.dc.gov at 164.82.146.3
Message:
It should not take that long. When the Army takes power, it does't give any notice. In this case we had given the Slpp government more than a month's notice. It is time for them to vacate State Lodge.
Subject: Alieu Isc...please help!!!!!!!!!!
From: HELP DESK
To: All
Date Posted: 09:45:00 09/17/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 66.250.191.180
Message:
Where is Alieu Iscandri? Is our constitution silent on this issue?
Subject: WHERE ARE ALL THE SLPPERS GONE1
From: SUBWANALAI
To: All
Date Posted: 09:36:04 09/17/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: host86-144-197-87.range86-144.btcentralplus.com at 86.144.197.87
Message:
The song is sang on the tune of: Where are all the flowers gone...
Subject: Re: WHERE ARE ALL THE SLPPERS GONE1
From: Candid Opinion
To: All
Date Posted: 09:50:51 09/17/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: ns.nucleusns2.com at 12.44.12.126
Message:
My ban was lifted after Cristiana Thorpe called the elections APC..
But my congratulations has already been tendered..
Subject: Re: WHERE ARE ALL THE SLPPERS GONE1
From: Back to their SLPP Forum to Cry
To: All
Date Posted: 09:49:21 09/17/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: f298781.ga.unc.edu at 152.4.31.217
Message:
Back to their SLPP Forum to cry.
Subject: Re: WHERE is Sengbe and where is J.E. Leigh?
From: Cornelius Hamelberg
To: All
Date Posted: 12:25:18 09/17/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: c-088472d5.01-32-73746f42.cust.bredbandsbolaget.se at 213.114.132.8
Message:
The latter should have learned by now that there is not much profit attained by overestimating himself and underestimating us san san boys.
I hope that he gets the $90,231 and 81 cents that the SLPP owes him……
Subject: Congrats to Earnest Ernest Koroma.
From: Candid Opinion
To: All
Date Posted: 09:35:10 09/17/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: ns.nucleusns2.com at 12.44.12.126
Message:
SLPP - We suck..
We got outsmarted, outgunned, outpropogated, outrigged.
Lets accept it and move on..
If we know we can do better, lets work for 2012 or bettr yet.. LET SHOW THESE APC MONKEYS.. even as the opposition.. we can do better than the nonsense they did as the opposition party in parliament.
We hope my Margai will keep his promise and take country first and not just toe the APC line.
Salone First.
Subject: Re: Congrats to Earnest Ernest Koroma.
From: BRA ENVIABLE
To: All
Date Posted: 09:41:58 09/17/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: cache-dtc-ag14.proxy.aol.com at 205.188.117.142
Message:
Margai is a principled man. He will embrace what is good for Sierra Leone, and accordingly reject anything that contravenes our goals. I will be the first to reveal anything Un-Sierra Leonean he does. At least for now, I know him, trust him and willing to give him time to prove himself.
Subject: Re: Congrats to Earnest Ernest Koroma.
From: Candid Opinion
To: All
Date Posted: 09:49:13 09/17/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: ns.nucleusns2.com at 12.44.12.126
Message:
Amen to that..
We are hoping . (we in the SLPP camp)that PRO APC members of this forum and the wider diaspora will join us in the opposition in outing anything and everything fishy and yuki yuki in this new/future administration.
That my friend is what will define us and distanct us from this cultist and tribalistic tendency we have as Sierra Leoneans
Subject: A Cleaner Freetown
From: Sam
To: All
Date Posted: 09:24:58 09/17/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: pool-72-74-220-5.bstnma.east.verizon.net at 72.74.220.5
Message:
Now that APC has won the election and the SLPP can't throw salt in the mayor's game, will we see a cleaner Freetown, starting now? Note to APC and the Mayor: Getting Freetown clean is something that can be done now, within the means of the country. Start seriously cleaning up Freetown as soon as APC gets in power, and Ernest Koroma's reputation as someone who will bring change to the country will be irrefutable. So get on it.
Second, or actually, first, show a conciliatory tone. While we all disagree with how Kabbah did some things, it seems the good of the country is what he had in mind. I'm sure he had a hand in the supreme court turning the the injuction request and has probably told Berewa not to even think of exercising his right to appeal the election results. So EK should place a call to the pa for suggestions, especially with international relations vis a vis economic help, which Kabbah has done an okay job with. This will show APC is not coming to power with a vindictive purpose.
Subject: CHRISTIANA THORPE STOLE THE ELECTIONS FOR THE A.P.C.
From: ALPHA SAIDU BANGURA
To: All
Date Posted: 09:24:37 09/17/07 ()
Email Address: SAIDUBANGSO@AOL.COM
Entered From: static-71-166-173-207.washdc.east.verizon.net at 71.166.173.207
Message:
I wonder how Miss. Christiana Thorpe feels after wrongfully given political power to the most ill-motivated and imcompetent APC, only because she has a personal problem with a SLPP member.
We in the SLPP know that the people believe in our leadership.
On behalf of our entire leadership I assure the people of Sierra Leone that we will do all within our power and ability to justify the confidence reposed on us.
Subject: Re: CHRISTIANA THORPE STOLE THE ELECTIONS FOR THE A.P.C.
From: Ibrahim Turay
To: All
Date Posted: 16:06:57 09/17/07 ()
Email Address: imtu71@hotmail.com
Entered From: pool-71-161-90-74.cncdnh.east.verizon.net at 71.161.90.74
Message:
Should i imply that was the reason why you sent Berewa's guard to assassinate such a God fearing individual like her?
Subject: Re: CHRISTIANA THORPE STOLE THE ELECTIONS FOR THE A.P.C.
From: Cornelius Hamelberg
To: All
Date Posted: 13:03:17 09/17/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: c-088472d5.01-32-73746f42.cust.bredbandsbolaget.se at 213.114.132.8
Message:
If a bad breeze transformed you into a piece of crap, I'd flush you down the toilet.
Subject: Re: CHRISTIANA THORPE STOLE THE ELECTIONS FOR THE A.P.C.
From: FORREST GUMP
To: All
Date Posted: 11:50:41 09/17/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: host81-152-27-2.range81-152.btcentralplus.com at 81.152.27.2
Message:
WELCOME BACK
FORREST
Subject: Re: CHRISTIANA THORPE STOLE THE ELECTIONS FOR THE A.P.C.
From: For Rev. Kabs and Moderator
To: All
Date Posted: 09:53:40 09/17/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: f298781.ga.unc.edu at 152.4.31.217
Message:
Kabs Kanu, why did you allow this ill gotten son back on this forum? He never has anything good to say about people. Please moderator, delete saidu's diatribe.
Subject: Re: CHRISTIANA THORPE STOLE THE ELECTIONS FOR THE A.P.C.
From: Jay
To: All
Date Posted: 09:38:31 09/17/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: c-69-140-34-194.hsd1.md.comcast.net at 69.140.34.194
Message:
You nincompoop,you have just proven that you have no shame.Can you take a page from Allieu Sesay,Sylvester Johnny or even Chez to congratulate the APC on pulling off an impropable win.Instead of criticising Aunty Christiana,I would advice you to take an inward look at your Party and make a decision on why you had an azz whooping.
The people kicked you out and you would have to wait at least five years for yor dream as a bag carrier or batman to come true.For now you are stuck in the US doing menial jobs and going to McDonalds in the evening to break your fast,u bad hart tin.Have you found a place to stay or are you still parambulating like the lost sheep that you are.There is a saying that a fool at forrty is a fool forever and I'm afraid you are a fool forever.
Subject: Re: CHRISTIANA THORPE STOLE THE ELECTIONS FOR THE A.P.C.
From: Candid Opinion
To: All
Date Posted: 09:45:45 09/17/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: ns.nucleusns2.com at 12.44.12.126
Message:
Jobs, how ever menial.. should be treated with respect.
talk to the man about the content of his post vs what he ate for supper, or what sara he was last seen at..
Thats dialog and discuss..
Anything else.. if abuse.. verbal.
Subject: Re: CHRISTIANA THORPE STOLE THE ELECTIONS FOR THE A.P.C.
From: Jay
To: All
Date Posted: 10:01:18 09/17/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: c-69-140-34-194.hsd1.md.comcast.net at 69.140.34.194
Message:
"or what sara he was last seen at"
Bra provoke nor mix,lef for moko di bra nor.
You have to go personal on that sara king.
I saw him at a sara yesterday.
And in true Fourah Bay style,
his takeaway was like three plastic bags full.
No McDonalds for sunakati this week.
How are you Bra Candid,welcome back.
Let us join hands for the sake of our oprressed People.
It's no more an APC SLPP thing.
It's a Sierra Leone Thing.
Subject: Re: CHRISTIANA THORPE STOLE THE ELECTIONS FOR THE A.P.C.
From: Sam
To: All
Date Posted: 14:00:21 09/17/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: pool-72-74-220-5.bstnma.east.verizon.net at 72.74.220.5
Message:
Ooside e pull computer for de post nonsense, or mosque dem don begin gee free access ramadan tem?
Subject: Re: CHRISTIANA THORPE STOLE THE ELECTIONS FOR THE A.P.C.
From: BRA ENVIABLE
To: All
Date Posted: 09:34:40 09/17/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: cache-dtc-ag14.proxy.aol.com at 205.188.117.142
Message:
Is this an imposter posting as Alpha S. Bangura?
I thought the COCORIOKO High Command has banned this brother for activities incompatible with decorous behaviour?
Did he dodge the ban by posting from an unbanned computer?
Subject: Re: CHRISTIANA THORPE STOLE THE ELECTIONS FOR THE A.P.C.
From: Candid Opinion
To: All
Date Posted: 09:42:25 09/17/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: ns.nucleusns2.com at 12.44.12.126
Message:
If we believe in inclusivity, let the brother post..
Even in defamity, and ill judgement..
Every opinion counts..
As we move forward..New Dawn.. (yawn).. oops, sorry..
I hope we can all, value our individuality and give space for al views..
I for one.. think Victor Foe should be in Prison..
Some of you think he is he the black karl rove..
We can all agree to disagree..
Subject: Re: CHRISTIANA THORPE STOLE THE ELECTIONS FOR THE A.P.C.
From: Sorba S
To: All
Date Posted: 09:32:33 09/17/07 ()
Email Address: sorba_1@yahoo.com
Entered From: at 209.116.81.187
Message:
What is your problem. Was she at the pooling stations?. What could you have done if that was you? Probably enpty averything into your so call SLPP. They cannot even clean the city of Free Town much more themselves. Give me a break. Leave that lady alone. We Sirra Leoneans are very Proud of her. She should be giving the ministry of Finance. By the way her boy friend is an Dirty SLeepy or SLSLopy for a lack of better word. I still have more left for you. Come again
Subject: Re: CHRISTIANA THORPE STOLE THE ELECTIONS FOR THE A.P.C.
From: CONFIANCE'
To: All
Date Posted: 09:31:05 09/17/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: cache-ntc-ad04.proxy.aol.com at 207.200.116.198
Message:
we will do all within our power and ability to justify the confidence reposed on us.
HEY STUPID WHAT CONFIDENCE WAS "REPOSED" ON YOU. YOU USE WORDS THAT YOU DO NOT KNOW THE MEANING OF. PLEASE GO CHILL EN SHUT YOUR RED LIP UP. SILENCE IS GOLDEN.
Subject: email for Dr. Thorpe
From: Sorba S
To: All
Date Posted: 09:17:25 09/17/07 ()
Email Address: sorba_1@yahoo.com
Entered From: at 209.116.81.187
Message:
Can someone post nec email so that we can at least bato this woman and her mem and women for a job well done. The guys that are working with her did a fine job too.
Thank
Subject: Re: email for Dr. Thorpe
From: busybody
To: All
Date Posted: 09:30:09 09/17/07 ()
Email Address: the newsletter @hotmail.com
Entered From: amontsouris-152-1-38-140.w82-123.abo.wanadoo.fr at 82.123.224.140
Message:
You can get their email address at the NEC website
Subject: Re: email for Dr. Thorpe
From: SUBWANALAI
To: All
Date Posted: 09:23:42 09/17/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: host86-144-197-87.range86-144.btcentralplus.com at 86.144.197.87
Message:
Yeah, excluding Hindowa Batillo Hugbateh Momoh, Eddie Nyallay etc
Subject: VIVA ERNEST!
From: Hateem aka Jay aka Bandit Opinion aka Emile aka Beanie
To: All
Date Posted: 09:17:15 09/17/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: c-69-140-34-194.hsd1.md.comcast.net at 69.140.34.194
Message:
I wish to congratulate the President -Elect Ernest Bai Koroma on his election victory.I pray God to grant him the wisdom to take the country in the righgt direction and I wish him success during his term of office.
To my brothers in the struggle Subwanalai,Allieu Iscandri,Victor Moigua,Kalos,Cornelius,Buford Highway,Amadu Kabbah,Olu Beckley,Kabbs Kanu,Foday Mansaray,Mohamed Jalloh and all the other progreesive minds on this forum,I salute you and I love you.The struggle has just begun,the struggle to rid Sierra Leone out of corruption,the struggle to lift Sierra Leone to greater heights,let us say no to sycophancy.Let us continue to advocate for the voiceless people of Sierra Leone.Let us guide our new President and offer criticism when necessary.For those who would be close to the President,don't be tempted by the trappings of Power,tell him like it is,I believe he would appreciate that.
Once more let us join hands in building a prosperous Sierra Leone.
Subject: Re: VIVA ERNEST!
From: SUBWANALAI
To: All
Date Posted: 09:28:52 09/17/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: host86-144-197-87.range86-144.btcentralplus.com at 86.144.197.87
Message:
Wadada!Wadada!Wadada! Bro. Jay. Even as I celebrate the end of "Two Fut Arata/ Mass Mot", I wish to dedicate this victory to all the progressive brothers you've mentioned, including you the indefatigable Jay. I also assure you that should Ernest Koroma and his team blunder, you would find me a ready-made company.
P/S. Guys like Chez and ITK are not invited, for being blind.
Aluta! Continua!
Subject: Re: VIVA ERNEST!
From: Sorba S
To: All
Date Posted: 09:24:32 09/17/07 ()
Email Address: Sorba_1@yahoo.com
Entered From: at 209.116.81.187
Message:
You are right. SLPP, PMDC, UDP, PNP, SLYVIA BLIDEN, Let us all come together and work for the interest of the country. Most of us are doing very well but our people back home are suffering. The more we check these people our the better for them. I say let the post office work again.
Subject: Re: VIVA ERNEST!
From: SUBWANALAI
To: All
Date Posted: 09:30:53 09/17/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: host86-144-197-87.range86-144.btcentralplus.com at 86.144.197.87
Message:
Nope! Tell Syvia she is not invited. We cannnot continue to encourage "turn coats" in that country's politics.Only patriots are invited.
Wa Saaaam!
Subject: Congratulations APC and the People of Sierra Leone
From: alieu sesay
To: All
Date Posted: 09:15:35 09/17/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: 65.107.153.146.ptr.us.xo.net at 65.107.153.146
Message:
I say congrats to President Koroma and the APC party for your elections victory.
Pray the country comes first...
Once again..i say KUDOS.
Subject: Re: Congratulations APC and the People of Sierra Leone
From: Mammy Blessing
To: All
Date Posted: 09:39:37 09/17/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 165.155.200.146
Message:
And congrats to you, fellow Bo School Boy for fighting the good fight. We all need to be thankful for the political maturity of the country.
We will support Ernest Koroma as he tries to lifr the country from its doldrums.
If he misrules, we will be opposing him soundly as we did Berewa. Meanwhile, keep hope alive.
Subject: REMEBERING TETINA
From: M. Alieu Iscandari Esq
To: All
Date Posted: 09:13:50 09/17/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: cache-ntc-ad04.proxy.aol.com at 207.200.116.198
Message:
YOU SIDOM YOU OLE YOU FOOT OH
APC GO DON LEF YOU GO MAMA
YAY YA OH OH
E LEF PAN YOU OH
Excuse me but I am in a light mood today.
Subject: Re: REMEBERING TETINA
From: news
To: All
Date Posted: 13:40:22 09/17/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: 14-64-ftth.onsneteindhoven.nl at 88.159.64.14
Message:
Wlieu, nah now ah no say, me en yu comot wan area. ah nor go doubt wae Ebun dae comot school, yu kein dae pass with yu POW uniform.
Uman tote man, nah we debul.
cool man
Subject: Re: REMEBERING TETINA-NO,WE WAN LIGHT...
From: tamba moiwo
To: All
Date Posted: 10:07:04 09/17/07 ()
Email Address: moiwo@hotmail.co.uk
Entered From: gateway-303.energis.gsi.gov.uk at 62.25.109.196
Message:
Congrats to APC BRA..
NOW THE ELECTIONS ARE OVER WE WAIT WITH BATED BREATH WHAT THE TEAM WILL BE.
OUR CAMPAIGN FOR 2012 STARTS TODAY,WHILE YOU ARE STILL CONGRATULATING YOURSLEVES.
OUR DEMOCRACY IS A MATURE AND COME 2012,WE HOPE YOUR PARTY WILL NOT REVERT TO TYPE.
PLEASE EXTEND TO ALL APC SUPPORTERS.
Tamba(on the campaign trail)
Subject: Re: REMEBERING TETINA
From: SUBWANALAI
To: All
Date Posted: 09:32:38 09/17/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: host86-144-197-87.range86-144.btcentralplus.com at 86.144.197.87
Message:
I won't fault you Iscandri. Afterall, you are just going back to your roots.
Congrats Alieu for been always there.
Subject: Re: REMEBERING TETINA
From: A. Harris
To: All
Date Posted: 09:43:34 09/17/07 ()
Email Address: acnora@aol.com
Entered From: ns4.kodiaksys.com at 63.123.252.6
Message:
Well done. We are going back to our roots.
Subject: Random musings
From: KKW
To: All
Date Posted: 09:13:34 09/17/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 204.50.182.249
Message:
First off - congratulations to the people of Sierra Leone for pulling off a change of government with little or no bloodshed.
Second - congratulations to the President-elect on his victory. It is almost unbelievable that he has put a new face on a much-discredited and reviled party and led it to victory.
Third - congratulations to Solo B, for bowing out and saving the country from probable chaos. There was really no way to turn the tide after the first round.
Finally - congratulations to NEC and its Chairperson for a job well done. As an early critic, I have to say that they confounded the skeptics and stayed true to the process.
All in all, there is much goodwill to share and rejoice in, but the road ahead is still an uphill climb. I know Ernest Koroma personally (although I cannot claim to be his friend) and I have a lot of confidence in him as a leader and administrator. But Sierra Leone is a difficult place and expectations are stratospheric. It was the same in 1985 and 1996. Be careful and don't allow history to repeat itself.
Subject: Thanks .. Charles Margai ... You are a Bloodless Diamond
From: Lady J
To: All
Date Posted: 09:03:12 09/17/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 65.82.23.33
Message:
"You know what my sister? She looked at me with an immaculate grin on her face; when I first landed in your country, my mission was to come in, pick up the diamonds, and leave your country. Little did I know that the real diamonds are the people of Sierra Leone. She grinned once again, this time around, it wasn’t so immaculate, and it was tinted with her thoughts. She went on “I visited Kono district, through the help of Lamin, one of your rebel Leaders. I watched those young souls dig through mud and gravel just to find a piece of diamond. As I watched, my stomach churned inside of me, and I wondered what I was doing. The diamonds I was there to pick up was not even for me, it was for my boss.” She smiled once again, this time a little bit crooked, my silence must have provoked it, but she continued on“I met a lot of crooks in the city, and they reminded me of the gravels and mud those kids were sieving, just to get to the diamonds, and I also met a lot of nice people who made my stay easier, and they reminded me of your diamonds. I will be back next time, and it will be on my own, just to visit the real diamonds” She gave me the immaculate grin again and this time, I gave her my “diamond smile”. Indeed, some of the people in Sierra Leone are the real diamonds, while some are the gravels and mud you have to sieve through to get to the real minerals. (That was the same day I met King Loggy at Lungi Airport …. One of our precious diamonds)
This brings me to my CAPTION ….. Yes, Charles was embedded amongst our gravels and mud (SLPP), and somehow he plucked himself out of it, through the help of his own integrity and dignity. As we celebrate the dawn of a new day, let’s not forget to tip our head-tie and hats to Charles Margai for making a difference in Sierra Leone today.
To John Yirrah Marah …. As you lay in Kabala Government Hospital today, hoping that you will heal from the wounds you sustained through the hands of the SLPP, because you ran as a PMDC, and stood your ground at the polling stations wearing your RED tee shirt, making sure that the RED and ORANGE votes will not be painted GREEN, and for that you were attacked beaten to a pulp. I know you have the strength to make it, because you are one of our BLOODLESS DIAMONDS. May God grant you a speedy recovery.
Peace and Blessings
Lady J
Subject: Re: Thanks .. Charles Margai ... You are a Bloodless Diamond
From: LOVEY DOVEY
To: All
Date Posted: 09:09:47 09/17/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: cache-dtc-ag14.proxy.aol.com at 205.188.117.142
Message:
Lady J, jaarama.
Nar you rite dah langa
posting?
Thank you for saying nice things about my man, Charles Margai.
Signed,
Bra Enviable, aka Lovey Dovey
Subject: Re: Thanks .. Charles Margai ... You are a Bloodless Diamond
From: Lady J
To: All
Date Posted: 09:21:00 09/17/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 65.82.23.33
Message:
Lovey Dovey (AKA .. Precious Diamond) ... How are you my dear? I know someday you are going to make a difference in Sierra Leone.
Nor worry ... we go make sure say den gravel gravel ... ehn portoh portoh nor cam near U ...
Peace my dear
Another Precious Diamond
Subject: Re: Thanks .. Charles Margai ... You are a Bloodless Diamond
From: LOVEY DOVEY
To: All
Date Posted: 09:28:00 09/17/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: cache-dtc-ag14.proxy.aol.com at 205.188.117.142
Message:
Peace out, Precious Queen and please stay safe in God's protective care.
In peace,
Lovey Dovey
Subject: NOBEL PRIZE FOR CHRISTINA THORPE!
From: Mammy Blessing
To: All
Date Posted: 09:01:32 09/17/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 165.155.200.146
Message:
Congratulations fellow Sierra Leoneans. We did good!
SLPP patriots, you may have lost this battle but our country Sierra Leone won the greater war for democracy.
Fellow APC and PMDC stalwarts, let us celebrate with magnaminity to all and keep our leaders true, as we support them in the herculean task of nation building and economic development.
Dr. Christina Thorpe, LIONESS OF SIERRA LEONE, you did us all proud. Your unflinching integrity and unshakable valour are an inspiration not only to Sierra Leoneans, but to Africa as a whole where so many are yearning to be free from the boot of tyranny and dictatorship.
A NOBEL FOR CHRISTINA!!!
Subject: Re: NOBEL PRIZE FOR CHRISTINA THORPE!
From: Kalos
To: All
Date Posted: 09:31:11 09/17/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 66.250.191.180
Message:
Mammy Blessing, I forgot to list you this morning as one of the participants that needs to be identified in some form and moreover you deserve to SERVE your country. Thanks for all your contributions. Absolutely, Dr. Thorpe deserves a nomination for this award. In my little ways, I will research the process, draft a nomination letter and post it for additional input. LOOK out!!!!!!!!
Subject: Re: NOBEL PRIZE FOR CHRISTINA THORPE!
From: KKW
To: All
Date Posted: 09:21:34 09/17/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 204.50.182.249
Message:
Perhaps the Order of Rokel may be a more attainable goal.
Subject: Re: NOBEL PRIZE FOR CHRISTINA THORPE!
From: Busybody
To: All
Date Posted: 09:34:22 09/17/07 ()
Email Address: thenewsletter@hotmail.com
Entered From: amontsouris-152-1-38-140.w82-123.abo.wanadoo.fr at 82.123.224.140
Message:
She has already got that.
Subject: Vigilance should be maintained on Liberia border
From: concern
To: All
Date Posted: 08:57:25 09/17/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: 14-64-ftth.onsneteindhoven.nl at 88.159.64.14
Message:
Elleen Johson Sirleaf should use her power to help Sierra Leone keeps the peace. In the event of any attack from that part of the Country by SLPP supporters including JohnKarimu and John Benjamin, our governmnet must act fast to call upon theInternational COmmunity to reign on the liberian leader. We in Sierra Leone will not afford this time for our neighbours to support any subversive groups. We hae chosen democtatic way toremove a governmnet and that is why it is important for the Liberian governmnet to help us stabilise ouir Country. Hope Ellen Johnson Sirleaf will not tolearate and Sierra Leonean dissidents in Libeian soil.
Subject: Re: Vigilance should be maintained on Liberia border
From: Victor Moigua
To: All
Date Posted: 09:16:53 09/17/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 165.155.200.146
Message:
A battalion shoud be sequestered along the border to work cooperatively with the Liberians. This will discourage all adventurers.
Subject: HAHAHAHAHAHAHAH
From: Albert Moinina
To: All
Date Posted: 08:56:09 09/17/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 213.42.21.154
Message:
SPEECHLESS - HMMHAMKAHMAK SO HAPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY. CONGRATS APPPPPPPPPPPPPPCCCCCCCCCCC ACCCCCCCCCCCPPPPPP.
TIME TO CELEBRATE
Subject: Sulay Tejan Sie Faints in Judge's Chambers
From: Bernard
To: All
Date Posted: 08:50:51 09/17/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: host81-158-149-65.range81-158.btcentralplus.com at 81.158.149.65
Message:
From a very good source I have been told that Lawyer tejan Sie fainted when the judge turned down the SlPP injuction on Nec because he had blundered in filing of the motion. The source intimated that he thinks Sulay had smoked a heavy tie earlier and had very red eyes. He said even the judge kept looking at him and at one stage did not take his eyes of him.
When he(the judge)dismissed the injuction he heard a loud bang on the floor (like VRRARP)in turning he found Sulay on the ground. The other SLPP lawyers took this opportunity to blame Sulay because Solo Berewa will be mad with them.
Subject: Re: Sulay Tejan Sie Faints in Judge's Chambers
From: Chez Winakabs Europe
To: All
Date Posted: 12:53:52 09/17/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: host86-144-13-80.range86-144.btcentralplus.com at 86.144.13.80
Message:
Bernard, I just to spoke to Sullay - he was just laughing at the thought that he fainted in court. He is fineI He is fine and he has accepted the defeat with magnanimity.
Subject: Re: Sulay Tejan Sie Faints in Judge's Chambers
From: Babu yai oh
To: All
Date Posted: 15:24:31 09/17/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: c-69-140-34-194.hsd1.md.comcast.net at 69.140.34.194
Message:
Chez do you know this song:
e lef pan u
o oh o oh
e lef pan u
babu yai oh
Subject: Re: Sulay Tejan Sie Faints in Judge's Chambers
From: Mr.Sychophant
To: All
Date Posted: 13:00:59 09/17/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: c-69-140-34-194.hsd1.md.comcast.net at 69.140.34.194
Message:
Bo go sidon sarful.You hypocrite.you no iota of credibility left.What happened with your 14000 votes,oh I know,aunty chris did not cooperate.You have bee relegated to the dustbin of history,Chez.Mr.Sycophant,you would have to wait at least 6 years before you can try your "bato linining'for a job and by that time you would have past your prime,loser.
Subject: Re: Sulay Tejan Sie Faints in Judge's Chambers
From: Basco
To: All
Date Posted: 11:49:46 09/17/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: 82-44-17-83.cable.ubr04.croy.blueyonder.co.uk at 82.44.17.83
Message:
I Hope he is feeling okay!
Subject: How can we inculcate honesty to our kids
From: news
To: All
Date Posted: 08:45:41 09/17/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: 14-64-ftth.onsneteindhoven.nl at 88.159.64.14
Message:
This is not to embarass anyone but it is the truth. If, Sierra Leone should have people like Christiana Thorpe, we need to stop telling lies to our children and others.
The lies that these kids pick up is the reason why our Country has been left to rotten. many of us who pick these lies are now grown ups but we still using lies and dishonesty to get what we want. It has to be a civic duty of all Sierra Leoneans to instill honesty and truthfulness in their household.
We need to follow new trick to get Sierra Leone moving. There has to be new curriculum across the educational spectrum in a bid to reshape the minds of our Children. It is still not late. The APC if they choose some of our suggestions, then 2012 is a foregone conclusion to wrap another victory. Sierra Leoneans are tired to be fooled. All what they need is honest leadership. I believe that both Ernest Koroma and the kingmaker, Charles Margai will afford the people with decent leadership.
Best wishes!!!
Go Ernest! Go Charles.
Subject: Junction
From: Sorba S
To: All
Date Posted: 08:34:50 09/17/07 ()
Email Address: sorba_1@yahoo.com
Entered From: at 209.116.81.187
Message:
Hey what juction was SLPP standing. I think APC passed them with speed eh? Can some one tell me the exact juction please!
Subject: Will Ernest puts moratorium in mining?
From: news
To: All
Date Posted: 08:33:00 09/17/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: 14-64-ftth.onsneteindhoven.nl at 88.159.64.14
Message:
Generations yet unborn will sing a new song for Ernest Koroma if hesafeguard their future now. The last fourty years, we have seen few people including foreigners of Lebanese and West African extracts gain massively from the diamond mines in our Country.You just need to go to Senegambia, Beirut and other cities to see how Sierra Leone's wealth has helped to bring opulence there.
I am a true nationalist and I will want the new governmnet to stop free for all mining in Kono immediately. Non Sierra Leoneans should not be allowed to take residence in Kono and other mining areas. The new governmnet must not do any business with individual miners. We need only one multi national company and the resuscitation of NDMC or DIMENCO.
It will be suicidal for this new governmnet to allow free for all mining in Sierra Leone. Infact, mining should be stopped for the next two years and more emphasis must be placed on agriculture. With Monty Jones, son of Sierra Leone, then the sky will be our limit in the desire to realise food self-sufficiency.
I am not trying to trigger any nationalistic fervour. What I am trying to relay is that Sierra Leone's wealth should not be mortaged to foreigners. We are not going to sit by this time and allow foreigners and individuals to reap our wealth by paying athree percent tax for exported diamonds.
Sam Sumana, take the bull by the horn and find a good strategy to rid your people from exploiters and mafias.
Our sisters should be mindful of the mafiosonature of these diamond crooks who will marry them and their fathers will give these foreigners place to mine. We will not tolerate this time. That is why it is important for this new governmnet to stop foreigners to have residence in Kono. Because ot was frreee for all Jack and Jill, we have seen how our Country goes down the drainage.
2007 is an age of enlightenment for all Sierra Leoneans. Hope Mr Koroma will work in unison with ahrles Margai to rid our diamond areas from despicable and selfish diamond smugglers.
A word for the wise is quite sufficient
Subject: Re: Will Ernest puts moratorium in mining?
From: MUSA KAMARA
To: All
Date Posted: 13:11:50 09/17/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: luna.hypair.net at 194.50.180.4
Message:
I support your proposals on the mining issue.This is crucial to the economy and the new government should take drastic measures to limit or ban foreign illegal miners.Our country is the only nation where foreigners can mine without proper papers.
Subject: Re: Will Ernest puts moratorium in mining?
From: KLA
To: All
Date Posted: 09:36:11 09/17/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 164.82.84.3
Message:
In the spirit of elections Euphoria,one must extend a huge KUSHEH and TENKI,TENKI to all who brought Sierra leone to this juncture in our history, where the RULES OF LAW prevailed! The NEW APC must continue to walk this path of true democracy. The world is watching!!
This thread is on mining policy where caution must be exercised in understanding some of the existing mining initiatives.We do not want to engage in acts of expropriation that could ruin our relationship with primary donor, British DFID!!
"Minister of Marine Resource Alhaji Mohamed Swaray-Deen said Mr. Wilson was sent here in response to a request made by President Kabbah to DFID to get someone with the know how to help government properly manage the mining sector"....presidential website
please follow link to site of relevance.
TSTM
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Subject: Re: Will Ernest puts moratorium in mining?
From: Mammy Blessing
To: All
Date Posted: 09:31:16 09/17/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 165.155.200.146
Message:
What galls me about our current mining policy is the 3% rule. During Siaka Steven's time, the gov't gets 55% of the profits and the mining companies get 45%.
This prevailed with the great mining companies of the past: NDMC and DELCO.
Kabba only got 3% (profits and Taxes).
If you see the environmental disaster in Kono, you will be dismayed. there are explosions going off everyday around Koidu to get at the Kimberlite. All for a paltry 3%. This indeed should be rectified.
Subject: The days for Moseray Fadika are numbered
From: Reality
To: All
Date Posted: 08:54:53 09/17/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 66.250.191.180
Message:
Where is Moseray Fadika and his so called investors?
Subject: Re: Will Ernest puts moratorium in mining?
From: Sorba_1
To: All
Date Posted: 08:43:44 09/17/07 ()
Email Address: sorba_1@yahoo.com
Entered From: at 209.116.81.187
Message:
I say stop all mining and lets start all over again
Subject: Re: Will Ernest puts moratorium in mining?
From: kamara
To: All
Date Posted: 11:03:46 09/17/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 205.148.53.200
Message:
i hope APC pays you salary back pay now.
Subject: SLPP EXECUTIVE SHOULD STAND DOWN
From: Bock Jah
To: All
Date Posted: 08:29:03 09/17/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 195.172.14.80
Message:
The SLPP national executive including the leader,Chairman,Secretary General etc should consider their position after this defeat as their positions are no longer tenable.
A new and vibrant executive should be elected to provide a viable opposition and prepare for the next elections in 2012. I dont mean people like John Leigh because he is worse and has contributed in his own way to the down fall of the party.I mean responsible people whose utterances in public reflect wisdom and maturity.
Congratulations to President Elect Earnest Koroma and the APC as we look forward to a new era in Sierra Leone's political history
Subject: Re: SLPP EXECUTIVE SHOULD STAND DOWN
From: Tonyayei
To: All
Date Posted: 09:19:51 09/17/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: dh112.public.mod.uk at 82.109.66.148
Message:
I absolute agree to let all the jockers disappear from front line SLPP politics. In fact most were opportunists and not true SLPP materials. We await them. However, we must now perform an autopsy to identify the innumerical causes of death of the SLPP in this caampaign and never to repeat them. Sycophancy should be a thing of the past and its about time we recognised our own.
Felicitations to President elect HE Ernest Bai Koroma and may the Lord guide and guard you execute your mission mandate to vivify the lives of Sierra Leoneans.
Long live the Republic of Sierra Leone. May God help us the true die-hard SLPPs to do that which is right to regain our positition in the political horizon.
Subject: Re: SLPP EXECUTIVE SHOULD STAND DOWN
From: Bock Jah
To: All
Date Posted: 11:23:32 09/17/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: cache-los-ae04.proxy.aol.com at 195.93.21.132
Message:
Well said ndakeh.God bless you.
Subject: CONGRATULATIONS TO APC
From: Independent Man
To: All
Date Posted: 08:24:52 09/17/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 69.111.161.46
Message:
Congratulations to Ernest Koroma and the APC for winning the presidency. My party (the SLPP) accepts defeat.
Mr. Koroma is now my president!
Subject: IT TOOK A WOMAN TO SET US RIGHT
From: M.. Alieu Iscandari Esq
To: All
Date Posted: 08:23:23 09/17/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: cache-ntc-ad04.proxy.aol.com at 207.200.116.198
Message:
LADIES AND GENTLEMEN THIS IS A TOAST TO THE UNFLINCHING STRENGTH OF THE SIERRA LEONEAN WOMAN. THIS IS A TOAST TO OUR MOTHERS SISTERS AND DAUGHTERS ALL OF WHOM ARE TODAY EMBODIED IN THE SPIRIT OF THE FEARLESS UNINTIMIDATED CHRISTIANA THORPE.
TO ALL OF THOSE WHO HAVE DOUBTED YOUR ABILITY TO DO THE JOB, TO THOSE WHO INSULTED YOUR INTELLIGENCE AND BY EXTENSION OURS TOO WE FORGIVE YOU.
IT TOOK A WOMAN TO SET SIERRA LEONE STRAIGHT. MAY GOD BLESS YOU MS. THORPE.
Subject: Re: IT TOOK A WOMAN TO SET US RIGHT
From: Nah Sabi Talk
To: All
Date Posted: 09:02:56 09/18/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: static-76-160-64-185.dsl.cavtel.net at 76.160.64.185
Message:
That so true Alieu! My other today's female hero is Zainab Bangura! She needs to leave Liberia and come home now... Needed more now than ever!
Subject: Re: IT TOOK A WOMAN TO SET US RIGHT
From: Tonyayei
To: All
Date Posted: 09:29:05 09/17/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: dh112.public.mod.uk at 82.109.66.148
Message:
I think i am one of the few who never doubted the iron chairlady. I have met her in person and just knew that she is unflinching in all her endeavours.
Congratulations and God will surely bless you Dr Thorpe
Subject: Re: IT TOOK A WOMAN TO SET US RIGHT
From: Independent Man
To: All
Date Posted: 08:25:53 09/17/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 69.111.161.46
Message:
Alieu,
You are up early....
CONGRATULATIONS!!!!!!
Subject: Re: IT TOOK A WOMAN TO SET US RIGHT
From: M. Alieu Iscandari Esq
To: All
Date Posted: 08:28:48 09/17/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: cache-ntc-ad04.proxy.aol.com at 207.200.116.198
Message:
Didnt sleep all night. Now I have to prepare for court this morning and then CRRRAAASSSHHHH after. Already told my secretary not to call me today for nothing. If she cannot handle it then tuff.
Are we going to be friends now?
Subject: Re: IT TOOK A WOMAN TO SET US RIGHT
From: Independent Man
To: All
Date Posted: 09:37:37 09/17/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 69.111.161.46
Message:
Alieu,
You have never been my enemy. I am your junior and I have always respected you...believe it or not. No Sierra Leonean is an enemy to me.
Politics is Politics and I stand up for my party and for what I believe in. I criticize my party when I disagree with their policies/actions.
Sometimes I do cross the line when I let my emotions take over my thought process and my actions.
Again congratulations on your win. The APC showed the SLPP that they are better politicians. We will regroup and reform our party. We hope that Free and Fair elections become the norm in Sa. Lone.
Subject: Ernest Bai Koroma has been duly elected President ...
From: Basco
To: All
Date Posted: 08:19:27 09/17/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: 77-96-89-146.cable.ubr04.croy.blueyonder.co.uk at 77.96.89.146
Message:
'Ernest Bai Koroma has been duly elected President of the Republic of Sierra Leone at the Presidential Election of 2007'.....Dr Christiana Thorpe.
God na man way nor di sleep!!! Foll White!!
Subject: Re: Ernest Bai Koroma has been duly elected President ...
From: motuba
To: All
Date Posted: 08:24:17 09/17/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: cache-ntc-ad04.proxy.aol.com at 207.200.116.198
Message:
e red!! e RED
Subject: CHEZ, keep your promise
From: KALOS
To: All
Date Posted: 08:13:14 09/17/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 66.250.191.180
Message:
Chez, what is your take? MONDAY-D-DAY is here, let us hear from you.
Subject: Re: CHEZ, keep your promise
From: Chez Winakabs Europe
To: All
Date Posted: 08:31:38 09/17/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: host86-144-13-80.range86-144.btcentralplus.com at 86.144.13.80
Message:
I have already congratulated your party!! I am really upset! what else do you want from me? My prayer is for your party to understand that it is not 'winners takes it all' - if they are bent on governing the whole country. i pray that other members of my party accept this defeat with equanimity. All has not been lost! We need a new direction and that we will pursue!! CONGRATULATIONS TO YOU ALL AND KNOW THAT WE ARE A NATION!!
Subject: Re: CHEZ, keep your promise
From: Kalos
To: All
Date Posted: 08:40:43 09/17/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 66.250.191.180
Message:
As always, you are a gentleman. The nation needs you more than you can imagine. All of us will monitor the new government. What should we expect the first 90 days?
Subject: ALIEU, CORNELIUS, SUBWANALIE.....Do the right thing!
From: KALOS
To: All
Date Posted: 08:08:19 09/17/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 66.250.191.180
Message:
KABS-KANU: Are deliberately deleting my posting on this subject? Forgive some of us, we cannot just hold back. You may not want to be part of the story, but your contribution and others are tremendous. PLEASE, PLEASE allow us to post our gut feelings:
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
You guys have conducted yourselves in such a professional and friendly manner that you deserve to SERVE your country. I know family comes first, but country comes in an immediate second. You have a lot to offer to your country and this is the time to do so. Please consider this plea with utmost consideration. Also, Kabs-Kanu MUST MUST serve in some capacity. WE NEED you all.
Subject: ITS SAD FOR SIERRA LEONE{APC AGAIN?}
From: okdok
To: All
Date Posted: 08:12:39 09/17/07 ()
Email Address: okdok@yahoo.com
Entered From: wnpgmb11dc1-161-173-169.dynamic.mts.net at 142.161.173.169
Message:
Congratulation to APC but sad for the country.
Subject: Re: ITS SAD FOR SIERRA LEONE{APC AGAIN?}
From: Cornelius Hamelberg
To: All
Date Posted: 09:32:58 09/17/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: c-088472d5.01-32-73746f42.cust.bredbandsbolaget.se at 213.114.132.8
Message:
The country is the people and the people have spoken.
It could be sad or glad for Berewa come 2012 if he doesn't die of heartbreak before then or disappear into where he came from (Oblivion).
It's like a football match. Having lost, old baldhead now wants to contests the magnificent goals that Ernest scored, when he knows that chain-smoking and corruption have rendered him out of good physical condition and unfit to play the match in the first place. At least that was the considered opinion of Johnny Leigh who has assured us that he did not fail in form four and that unlike me, is not a fulumunku etc. Leigh said the guy who beat him at the rigged Makeni ConBention (Berewa) was "unfit and unqualified to lead Sierra Leone, under any circumstances whatsoever" - this he said before Berewa gave him hope of being his running- mate or a big-Mac post in the dream Berewa government.
Berewa would (if he could) bribe or buy all the voters, invite them all to an awujoh at the Brookfields stadium and bribe or buy the very referee if that were possible. But it was not possible
Let’s see what Leigh can do as head adviser or tail of Berewa and his Legal team which does not want to accept the people's verdict but went to court to get “an injunction” to “restrain” Dr. Christiana Thorpe from announcing APC’s victory but failed, even as now we are having a function at the junction, after confirming President Ernest Bai Koroma as His Excellency.
Subject: Re: ITS SAD FOR SIERRA LEONE{APC AGAIN?}
From: Mammy Blessing
To: All
Date Posted: 09:08:28 09/17/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 165.155.200.146
Message:
okdok,
Don't worry my friend. Your party is in safe hands under a democracy. If the APC does not deliver, then you guys will have a realistic shot. That's the beauty of the democratic process. Let's congratulate the maturity of a nation.
Subject: NOW WHAT CAN YOU DO FOR YOUR COUNTRY?
From: Aminta
To: All
Date Posted: 07:55:33 09/17/07 ()
Email Address: amieco@comcast.net
Entered From: c-69-136-93-199.hsd1.de.comcast.net at 69.136.93.199
Message:
I am so proud to be a Sierra Leonean and also very proud to be a woman. This Lady should be commended for her strength and integrity. It doesn’t matter whether one is APC or SLPP, we should all be happy and give a collective sigh of relief that the day has come when a leader is elected by the number of genuine votes cast.
SLPP did not win this time but the next time around they should be comforted by the fact that the ruling party shall not manipulate the elections.
Please let us all pray for peace, wisdom for the new president and for more Sierra Leoneans like Ms Thorpe.
Let us cast the divisions and work together. For those of us that can contribute by bringing new ideas or businesses that will create employment for the average Sierra Leonean please get busy.
A NEW DAY HAS DAWN!! NOW WHAT CAN YOU DO FOR YOUR COUNTRY?
Subject: Re: NOW WHAT CAN YOU DO FOR YOUR COUNTRY?
From: Narme
To: All
Date Posted: 08:34:44 09/17/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: amontsouris-152-1-38-140.w82-123.abo.wanadoo.fr at 82.123.224.140
Message:
It is indeed a great day for Sierra Leone. For me the victory is not so much for Ernest Koroma as for Christiana Thorpe. Let us think of what Sierra Leone would be like if more people acted with the same level of integrity as Christiana Thorpe. The battle in Sierra Leone is not so much between political parties as between good and evil. Let us thank the nuns who trained Christiana Thorpe and reinforced the values which her mother taught her.
Congratulations Ernest Koroma. Please take the baton from Christiana Thorpe and move the country forward. May God bless Sierra Leone.
Subject: Re: NOW WHAT CAN YOU DO FOR YOUR COUNTRY?
From: Kalos
To: All
Date Posted: 08:00:39 09/17/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 66.250.191.180
Message:
Alieu, Cornelius, Subwanalie, Kabs-Kanu....please answer the question. WHAT CAN YOU DO FOR YOUR COUNTRY?
Subject: Re: NOW WHAT CAN YOU DO FOR YOUR COUNTRY?
From: Brima Kamara
To: All
Date Posted: 08:07:37 09/17/07 ()
Email Address: brimakam@yahoo.com
Entered From: at 193.220.2.141
Message:
Indeed, it is now the dawn of a new day. It is now that the actual work of rebuilding the country should start. Let all sierra Leoneans, from all works of life and from anywhere in the world come home and help build our beloved nation. The ball is now in our court
Subject: ALIEU, CORNELIUS, SUBWANALIE.....Do the right thing!
From: KALOS
To: All
Date Posted: 07:54:27 09/17/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 66.250.191.180
Message:
You guys have conducted yourselves in such a professional and friendly manner that you deserve to SERVE your country. I know family comes first, but country comes in an immediate second. You have a lot to offer to your country and this is the time to do so. Please consider this plea with utmost consideration. Also, Kabs-Kanu MUST MUST serve in some capacity. WE NEED you all.