Subject: Umaru Bundu Wurie
From: Mensa
To: All
Date Posted: 06:56:41 10/09/07 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
I am still hopeful this guy will get a position. His performance record is just too good enough to be ignored. This is the guy that Sierra Leone needs right now in important places. In his previous positions, I've watched him reach the heights where others have never reached. The momentum is just right for such people to be in a government with such positive speculations.
Subject: WHY NOT ALL AFRICANS ARE CORRUPT (For Londoner)
From: Mirror
To: All
Date Posted: 06:38:07 10/09/07 ()
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Message:
In Reply to: Re: For MESSRS. foday mansaray, FENTHI, FODAY MANSARAY & QUEST posted by Londoner on October 08, 2007 at 21:22:23:
""us", "we"? I thought I was responding to you MIRROR."
Londoner, sadly, that is yet another example of your seemingly chronic problem of incomprehension. What you fail to understand is the simple fact that I am not the only one who reads your misapprehensions when you respond to me on Cocorioko! Hence, as I correctly stated but which predictably escaped your comprehension, "we" read your porous opinions that you inflict upon "us." Comprenez vous? I hope my attempt to help you finally understand what you read is not "pointless."
Out of my kindness, I had chosen to ignore your transparently porous implied opinion that the victims of Africa's corrupt leaders are themselves corrupt because they "go for months without pay and still manage to make ends meet." However, since you insist upon my reply, let me ask you the one question that should have steered you away from your factually and logically flawed statement, namely:
If, as you claim, each and every one of the millions of Sierra Leoneans who are victims of SL's corrupt leaders are unaffected because they replace the money looted from them by becoming corrupt themselves, why do they keep getting poorer and are perennially ranked among the poorest people on earth?
Subject: What makes David Carew a CREDIBLE man?
From: Hassan Kamara
To: All
Date Posted: 04:05:28 10/09/07 ()
Email Address: kamson10@hotmail.com
Entered From: c-68-50-118-144.hsd1.md.comcast.net at 68.50.118.144
Message:
Can some one tell me why David Carew is considered a credible finance minister
Subject: Re: What makes David Carew a CREDIBLE man?
From: Almamy Razak Tun Seray-Wurie Si
To: All
Date Posted: 06:36:14 10/09/07 ()
Email Address: almamysi@hotmail.com
Entered From: 24hrpc9.cpmc.columbia.edu at 156.111.18.148
Message:
Alfa,
He is like John Major (master of figures)..
He is an accountant like U
He worked for KPMG in The Gambia and Nigeria
I do not know about his faith in God, maritial status (especiallyhis position on infidelity)
Subject: Re: What makes David Carew a CREDIBLE man?
From: Cornelius Hamelberg
To: All
Date Posted: 06:11:21 10/09/07 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
Lets hope that he turns out to be an incredible finance minister, because his name is David.....
Subject: Re: What makes David Carew a CREDIBLE man?
From: Cornelius Hamelberg
To: All
Date Posted: 06:28:36 10/09/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: c-1e1271d5.01-32-73746f42.cust.bredbandsbolaget.se at 213.113.18.30
Message:
It's a good question.
President Koroma himself has a background in Economics, knows the importance of the minister of Finace in any government, has been talking about kick starting the econmomy and it's reasonable to suppose that with all the human material available to him he would make a good choice and has made a good choice in appointing David Carew to the finance portfolio.
Are you aware of the miracles that Benjamin Netanyahu, the minister of finance in the current government and presently the leader of LIKUD has performed on Israel's economy?
Check it out.
http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&q=David+Carew+%28+Sierra+Leone&btnG=Search&meta=
I'm also checking out this Carew starting here:
Subject: Christiana Thorpe
From: A Friend of Christiana Thorpe
To: All
Date Posted: 03:01:04 10/09/07 ()
Email Address: the newsletter@hotmail.com
Entered From: amontsouris-152-1-35-233.w82-123.abo.wanadoo.fr at 82.123.221.233
Message:
Chistiana Thorpe is Christiana Ayoka Mary Thorpe Not Modupeh
Subject: Elder Statesman
From: Erica Adams
To: All
Date Posted: 01:47:46 10/09/07 ()
Email Address: ericamonique82@hotmail.com
Entered From: adsl-074-185-005-235.sip.clt.bellsouth.net at 74.185.5.235
Message:
I was looking at the alleged charges against former President Kabbah and Sierra Leone in the courts in Abuja. 146 counts!!! It's such a shame. The reason it's a shame is because African heads of state have not learned to exit gracefully. They have to leave under a veil of disgrace. Why? Is power that seductive? It can't be money alone. You can only drive one car or live in one house at a time. Is it the male ego that won't allow them to relent? I know that I come into the discussion with a western perspective, but do they ever think about their legacy? One of the things the US presidents know is in store once they leave office is their presidential library or some similar structure. One of the finest examples of this is the Carter Center in Atlanta. This is an incredicle place that helps to address issues such as peace and conflict resolution. Plus he spearheaded Habitat for Humanity which is now an international program addressing affordable housing issues around the world. When the Tsunami hit Indonesia several years ago, the first Bush and Clinton went on a major fundraising campaign together for the sake of that cause; even though they would ordinarly oppose one another. They leave something to their people that will last even after they are no longer here. Maybe too much of the colonial mentality still lingers which has turned into self loathing. These people want to be rulers but they don't want to provide for their people properly. What is the pride in being the president of a country where you're dead last or second to last in all international quality of life indicators? Who will think highly of you when they know the natural resources that lie within your borders, yet your people are in such poverty? Most of all, how do you sleep at night knowing you have betrayed the trust of millions of people. Not just your own, but those of the people of countries who gave in earnest expecting outcomes. As this administration looks at its first 100 days, part of the new minister orientation needs to be a mission statement. One that says never again will we have leaders who are not servants. Never again will we be last on the index. Never again will we betray the trust of our fellow countrymen. Lastly, never again will we bring shame and disgrace to our country by being leaders who don't have integrity. As I read the list of charges from the 146, I felt a mixture of sadness and gladness. Sad because of all that has happened, but glad that a new day has come and there is the possibility to move on and become a model state.
Subject: Did Alpha Wurie paid millions of leones to the APC ?
From: M
To: All
Date Posted: 00:42:40 10/09/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 86.157.115.168
Message:
Did Alpha Wurie paid millions of leones to the APC ?
If this rumour is true I do not foresee Ernest taken any action against Alpha Wurie for any alleged embezzlement.
Alpha Wurie should be made to account for every penny he embezzled. The Uk should be asked for him to be extradited and surely that application will be granted. It is sad that many Sierra Leoneans struggle to pay fees for their family members while Alpha and his family take regular visits each year to the UK and they drive a brand new jeep with current registration number.
There is no way Alpha Wurie should have been able to purchase this property in the UK when he has not even worked in the UK. Minister's salaries in Sierra Leone is not fat enough to enable Alpha to purchase this sort of property neither fat enough to purchase any other type of property in the UK. The newspapers in the UK should be approached and I can assure Ernest that they will give him the biggest publicity that will force the British Authorities to send him back to Sierra Leone.
He would not succeed in claiming political asylum because the Geneva Convetion would not protect him if he is wanted for a crime.
Ernest Koroma will be applauded if for once he could get this man to account for every penny he stole from the government. Why should he be allowed to live in paradise enjoying the stolen money when the masses are suffering?
I urge all Sierra Leoneans to take up this matter. We should all fight to get this man to be sent back to Sierra Leone. It is even rumoured that his son came with a scholarship to the UK. Mr President, should you fail to request for his extradition it would be seen as a confirmation that Alpha actually paid some money to the APC something some of us would not want to believe.
Subject: Re: Did Alpha Wurie paid millions of leones to the APC ?
From: elbakay
To: All
Date Posted: 07:51:04 10/09/07 ()
Email Address: conteh.abu@gmail.com
Entered From: dves1bcx05.chase.com at 170.148.198.160
Message:
Mr Wurie is now in Freetown. He left the UK on the 24/09/2007 and I was onboard the same flight. My guess is he was pushed by the GB government to go back and not on his own. Relax guys the GB governement is in control and justice will prevail.
Subject: Re: Did Alpha Wurie paid millions of leones to the APC ?
From: M
To: All
Date Posted: 08:04:56 10/09/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 86.157.115.168
Message:
Although he is back in Sierra Leone, we should continue to put pressure on Ernest Koroma to act quickly before he relocates to Guinea just like he did during the war.
Subject: Re: Did Alpha Wurie paid millions of leones to the APC ?
From: TEE
To: All
Date Posted: 01:43:31 10/09/07 ()
Email Address: arthur_dabest81@yahoo.co.uk
Entered From: 82-45-100-42.cable.ubr08.gill.blueyonder.co.uk at 82.45.100.42
Message:
If I can get details of his registration number (Jeep) and the address of the property, I will put the newspapers after him
Subject: Did Alpha Wurie paid millions of leones to the APC ?
From: M
To: All
Date Posted: 00:39:42 10/09/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 86.157.115.168
Message:
If this rumour is true I do not foresee Ernest taken any action against Alpha Wurie for any alleged embezzlement.
Alpha Wurie should be made to account for every penny he embezzled. The Uk should be asked for him to be extradited and surely that application will be granted. It is sad that many Sierra Leoneans struggle to pay fees for their family members while Alpha and his family take regular visits each year to the UK and they drive a brand new jeep with current registration number.
There is no way Alpha Wurie should have been able to purchase this property in the UK when he has not even worked in the UK. Minister's salaries in Sierra Leone is not fat enough to enable Alpha to purchase this sort of property neither fat enough to purchase any other type of property in the UK. The newspapers in the UK should be approached and I can assure Ernest that they will give him the biggest publicity that will force the British Authorities to send him back to Sierra Leone.
He would not succeed in claiming political asylum because the Geneva Convetion would not protect him if he is wanted for a crime.
Ernest Koroma will be applauded if for once he could get this man to account for every penny he stole from the government. Why should he be allowed to live in paradise enjoying the stolen money when the masses are suffering?
I urge all Sierra Leoneans to take up this matter. We should all fight to get this man to be sent back to Sierra Leone. It is even rumoured that his son came with a scholarship to the UK. Mr President, should you fail to request for his extradition it would be seen as a confirmation that Alpha actually paid some money to the APC something some of us would not want to believe.
Subject: AMBASSADOR LEIGH & FODAY MANSARAY ON BLACK MARKET
From: FODAY MANSARAY
To: All
Date Posted: 00:09:37 10/09/07 ()
Email Address: FMANSARAY@AOL.COM
Entered From: host-24-225-160-74.patmedia.net at 24.225.160.74
Message:
Please Mr. AmbassadorI have enclosed some preffered research recommendations by the world bank.Your position and questions posed to me on the issue of foreign exchange and related issues affecting sierra leone's economic policies, will be responded approprietely in the AM.Rest assured that whenever a statesman like you ,coming down to the level of san san boys is greatly appreciated.I thank you for your meaningful contribution to this forum.We can only make suggestions and is left with powers to enact them.we as people should stand firm to ensure its all comes together at the end of the day.
Black Market Premia, Exchange Rate Unification, and Inflation in Sub-Saharan Africa
Brian Pinto
The author is a senior financial officer with the Financial Operations Department of the World Bank. This article summarizes selected results of a two-year research project on exchange rate regimes in Africa conducted in the former Country Policy Department of the World Bank and is based on Pinto (1987a, 1987b). The following economists contributed to the ideas presented here: Christophe Chamley, Armeane Choksi, Vinod Dubey, Homi Kharas, Saul Lizondo, Marcelo Selowsky, and Sweder van Wijnbergen. T. N. Srinivasan and an anonymous referee helped substantially to clarify and improve the exposition.
World Bank and International Monetary Fund (IMF) programs favor unification of official and black market exchange rates on the argument that multiple exchange rates misallocate resources. This article shows that such policy advice sometimes overlooks an important consideration: when multiple rates are a means of taxation, the widened deficit from unification increases inflation. This article uses the experience of Ghana, Nigeria, and Sierra Leone to illustrate the tradeoff between the benefits of unification for resource allocat1on and its costs for inflation.
Disclaimer:
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Online ISSN 1564-698X - Print ISSN 0258-6770 Copyright © 2007 World Bank Oxford Journals Oxford University Press Site Map
Subject: Re: AMBASSADOR LEIGH & FODAY MANSARAY ON BLACK MARKET
From: John K.
To: All
Date Posted: 05:05:39 10/09/07 ()
Email Address: ginamissah@hotmail.com
Entered From: pool-71-187-169-29.nwrknj.fios.verizon.net at 71.187.169.29
Message:
Foday, what about accepting the position of Bank Governor? I think you are qualify.
Subject: CONGRATULATIONS TO THE NEW MINISTERS
From: Cornelius Hamelberg
To: All
Date Posted: 23:26:08 10/08/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: c-1e1271d5.01-32-73746f42.cust.bredbandsbolaget.se at 213.113.18.30
Message:
Why delete or distort my importnat first two paragarph? Whatever I say or write, the mistakes are entirley mine, my mistakes.
I wrote: These children of Sierra Leone have been specially chosen, handpicked to serve their people/ country, and will be taking the national pledge which is:
” I pledge my love and loyalty to my country Sierra Leone;
I vow to serve her faithfully at all times;
I promise to defend her honour and good name;
Always work for her unity peace, freedom and prosperity;
And put her interest above all else.
So help me God.”
You have waited so long and speculated so much, given your advice and preferences here and there and you are all now we are all to some extent taken by surprise about the sagacity of Ernesto Bai Koroma’s deliberation in declaring his appointments!
EIGHT ministers so far according to this update, four of whom reportedly come from one of Sierra Leone’s great Diaspora cities, namely ATLANTA, Georgia, USA where some of the rich heavyweight dudes live.
A man or woman is never known until she is tested, and we can see at an instance that there are no round pegs in square holes; my personal judgment is: So far so good, from among those we know and those we don’t know, or know less about or have never heard about, but all to the good, especially the excellent Alpha Kanu, the very able & beautiful Human Rights and gender equality-conscious Zainab Bangura will cut a pretty picture on the international stage and should be impressive in all that she does; and then we have top APC attorney, Hon. Abdul Serry Kemal who we are to suppose is no toothless chimpanzee - and I can’t help having the gut feeling that he is all set to go and will not resist the impulse to do Justice by taking up arms and all legal means at his disposal to WAGE a war of genocidal extinction against the vast sea of corruption on which many SLPP sailors have been so happily sailing with impunity, the past decade or so.
Should anyone be worried as to the position of Sir Charles Margai & the PMDC in the scheme of things, from a reliable authority (a seasoned commentator on Sierra Leone’s political destiny) a man of impressive pedigree we get the following two verses:
1. “Dr. Soccoh Kabia is staunch PMDC and was actually Charles Francis Margia's original preference for his VP. He has good political pedigree, a thriving private practice here and, from all indications, should do well.”
2. “ Benjamin Davis (Lands) may also be PMDC. He is said to have done a good job with Ports during NPRC and also have good political instincts.”
There were 25 ministers in the SLPP government:
http://www.statehouse-sl.org/cabinet.html
Will there be twenty-five ministers in the APC government?
The ministers will be singing this song along with Bra Enviable: THE SIERRA LEONE NATIONAL ANTHEM:
" High we exalt thee, realm of the free;
Great is the love we have for thee;
Firmly united ever we stand,
Singing thy praise, O native land.
We raise up our hearts and our voices on high,
The hills and the valleys re-echo our cry;
Blessing and peace be ever thine own,
Land that we love, our Sierra Leone.
One with a faith that wisdom inspires,
One with a zeal that never tires;
Ever we seek to honour thy name
Ours is the labour, thine the fame.
We pray that no harm on thy children may fall,
That blessing and peace may descend on us all;
So may we serve thee ever alone,
Land that we love our Sierra Leone.
Knowledge and truth our forefathers spread,
Mighty the nations whom they led;
Mighty they made thee, so too may we
Show forth the good that is ever in thee.
We pledge our devotion, our strength and our might,
Thy cause to defend and to stand for thy right;
All that we have be ever thine own,
Land that we love our Sierra Leone. "
The outgoing 25-man cabinet.
http://www.statehouse-sl.org/cabinet.html
Subject: Re: CONGRATULATIONS TO THE NEW MINISTERS...Here They All Are
From: Toegondoe Sagbah
To: All
Date Posted: 00:30:01 10/09/07 ()
Email Address: mendemoi@yahoo.com
Entered From: pool-71-168-132-186.cmdnnj.east.verizon.net at 71.168.132.186
Message:
See them all on this :
http://www.OneSaloneNews.com
Subject: Learn U.S. States. Put your lights up!
From: Bambay Lans Kamara
To: All
Date Posted: 23:13:34 10/08/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: sccadmin195198.scc.losrios.edu at 165.196.195.198
Message:
Learn U.S. States
Subject: Doggy style
From: Bambay Lans Kamara
To: All
Date Posted: 22:57:14 10/08/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: sccadmin195198.scc.losrios.edu at 165.196.195.198
Message:
Go, go, go, go, go, go!
Subject: CONGRATULATIONS to the new ministers!
From: Cornelius Hamelberg
To: All
Date Posted: 22:54:31 10/08/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: c-1e1271d5.01-32-73746f42.cust.bredbandsbolaget.se at 213.113.18.30
Message:
They will be taking this Leone government,chosen to serve their people:
You have waited so long and speculated so much, given your advice and preferences here and there and you are all now we are all to some extent taken by surprise about the sagacity of Ernesto Bai Koroma’s deliberation in declaring his appointments!
EIGHT ministers so far according to this update, four of whom reportedly come from one of Sierra Leone’s great Diaspora cities, namely ATLANTA, Georgia, USA where some of the rich heavyweight dudes live
A man or woman is never known until she is tested, and we can see at an instance that there are no round pegs in square holes; my personal judgment is: So far so good, from among those we know and those we don’t know, or know less about or have never heard about, but all to the good, especially the excellent Alpha Kanu, the very able & beautiful human rights and gender equality conscious Zainab Bangura will cut a pretty picture on the international stage and should be impressive in all that she does; and then we have top APC attorney, Hon. Abdul Serry Kemal who we are to suppose is no toothless chimpanzee - and I can’t help having the gut feeling that he is all set to go and will not resist the impulse to do Justice by taking up arms and all legal means at his disposal to WAGE a war of genocidal extinction against the vast sea of corruption on which many SLPP sailors have been so happily sailing with impunity, the past decade or so.
Should anyone be worried as to the position of Sir Charles Margai & the PMDC in the scheme of things, from a reliable authority (a seasoned commentator on Sierra Leone’s political destiny) a man of impressive pedigree we get the following two verses:
1. “Dr. Soccoh Kabia is staunch PMDC and was actually Charles Francis Margia's original preference for his VP. He has good political pedigree, a thriving private practice here and, from all indications, should do well.”
2. “ Benjamin Davis (Lands) may also be PMDC. He is said to have done a good job with Ports during NPRC and also have good political instincts.”
There were 25 ministers in the SLPP government:
http://www.statehouse-sl.org/cabinet.html
Will there be twenty-five ministers in the APC government?
The ministers will be singing this song along with Bra Enviable : THE SIERRA LEONE NATIONAL ANTHEM:
" High we exalt thee, realm of the free;
Great is the love we have for thee;
Firmly united ever we stand,
Singing thy praise, O native land.
We raise up our hearts and our voices on high,
The hills and the valleys re-echo our cry;
Blessing and peace be ever thine own,
Land that we love, our Sierra Leone.
One with a faith that wisdom inspires,
One with a zeal that never tires;
Ever we seek to honour thy name
Ours is the labour, thine the fame.
We pray that no harm on thy children may fall,
That blessing and peace may descend on us all;
So may we serve thee ever alone,
Land that we love our Sierra Leone.
Knowledge and truth our forefathers spread,
Mighty the nations whom they led;
Mighty they made thee, so too may we
Show forth the good that is ever in thee.
We pledge our devotion, our strength and our might,
Thy cause to defend and to stand for thy right;
All that we have be ever thine own,
Land that we love our Sierra Leone. "
Subject: Every step I take, I'll be missing you
From: Bambay Lans Kamara
To: All
Date Posted: 22:47:27 10/08/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: sccadmin195198.scc.losrios.edu at 165.196.195.198
Message:
That's for sure
Subject: LET US LOOK AT THE PROPOSED CABINET.
From: ALPHA SAIDU BANGURA
To: All
Date Posted: 22:38:26 10/08/07 ()
Email Address: SAIDUBANGSO@AOL.COM
Entered From: c-69-143-242-205.hsd1.md.comcast.net at 69.143.242.205
Message:
I wish to examine some of the people President Koroma wants to help him run our country. I will divide them into two segments:The following people are most suitable to hold public office-
(1) Mrs. Zainab Hawa Bangura-she has kept a clean record in public service. For many years she worked for the Reliance Insurance Company and brought a lot of good things into the company. She resigned and formed the campaign for good governance organization, where she was very active in ensuring that government functions well. She got funding for many workshops to train government officials on how to preform well. She was also very instrumental in bringing democracy to our country. Recently she was hired by the untied nations to help rebuilt Liberia. I am sure she will bring her wealth for experience to the ministry of foreign affair.
(2) Alhaji Abu Bakarr Jalloh - is the finest gentleman I have ever met in my life. He is one of the very, very few people with integrity and credibility within the APC. He has served the following institutions will distinction, NDMC, EAST END LOINS,YMMA and UDC and MD university in the USA.I encourage everybody to check his record in these institutions, you will find out that he has a proven and outstanding record.
(3) MR.Abdul Serry-Kamal- Is a distinguish lawyer of a very long standing. He is one of the most loyal members of the APC. During the difficult days of the party, when Ernest Koroma turned his back against the APC, Mr. Serray Kamal stood his ground of defend the party.
(4)Alhaji I.B.Kargbo- Is a respectable journalist. During the debate on the present constitution , he was one of the few APC guys who break up with his party in the interest of the country.
The follow people are not suitable to hold any position in our country:
Dr.S.Kabia- He has being away from Sierra Leone for over 35 years and is totally disconnected with the problems facing our country. What will he bring of the ministry of health? How will he solve our health problem, when he does not even understand the problems. We should not give people position only because they spent huge amount of money in a political party.
Benjamin Davies- He was appointed a counter part general manager at the Ports Authority during the days of the illegal NPRC, he failed woefully to perform, he was immediately terminated. He quickly returned to Atlanta, Georgia .At this time in our country's history we need people who can preform, we do not need dead woods.
With respect I call on president Koroma to withdraw his nomination.
Ahaji Alpha Kanu- I will not even take you too far. A few years ago, Alpha Kanu collected a large amount of money from people wishing to preform the Hajj in Mecca, he converted the money into his private use. He did not provide the plane and hotel accommodation for our brothers and sisters. Instead of being a minister, Alpha Kanu should a prisoner.
Very soon I will send my objections to the parliamentary committee on public appointments. I call on all well meaning Sierra Leoneans to join me in the fight to prevent the wrong people form holding public offices.
Subject: Re: LET US LOOK AT THE PROPOSED CABINET.
From: Med Conteh
To: All
Date Posted: 04:17:47 10/09/07 ()
Email Address: medconteh2005@yahoo.co.uk
Entered From: at 89.240.215.44
Message:
Hi Bro Saidu
You get it completely wrong on the issue of Alpha Kanu and the pilgrimage business. My uncle was one of those that paid for the trip to Mecca, indeed they could not make the trip at the material time because according to Mr Kanu the company he hired the plane from dissappointed him the last hour.
However, Hee did manage to convey the pilgrims the following year without any further cost. My uncle Alhaji Ibrahim Conteh can testify or verify this statement
Subject: Re: LET US LOOK AT THE PROPOSED CABINET.
From: FRANCIS GBAYA
To: All
Date Posted: 07:08:55 10/09/07 ()
Email Address: francisgbaya75@yahoo.com
Entered From: s100-masq.iptelsl.net at 83.229.112.20
Message:
Med Conteh,
the question is not whether or not the pilgrimage materialised the following year. what is relevant is that it did not take place the year it was susposed to,Alpha Kanu could have diverted the money to other use during the one year, like buying treasure bills and investing it in other area.
coversion of the money must have taken place. if Kanu was not having any ulterior motive, he would have planed better for the pilgrimage. it is possible that those who were suposed to have undertaken the holy journey may have died before the following year that you alledged the pilgrimage took place, so Kanu should be investigated or be in jail for wrong doings.
Subject: Re: LET US LOOK AT THE PROPOSED CABINET.
From: Erica Adams
To: All
Date Posted: 23:10:41 10/08/07 ()
Email Address: ericamonique82@hotmail.com
Entered From: adsl-074-185-005-235.sip.clt.bellsouth.net at 74.185.5.235
Message:
I disagree with your assertion about Dr. Kabia if your objection is based solely on the fact that he has been away for 35 years. Has he established a solid reputation as a physician? This is acutally a great advantage because he's going to bring a different perspective. If he assembles his ministry staff properly, they'll balance each other. The fact that he's been away for 35 years and is willing to return home means his heart is in the right place. He is probably doing it at a great sacrifice too. The other advantage of someone being in this position who's been away for so long is that he's amassed wealth already so he's probably very stable financially. One of the concerns I have seen debated endlessly is that ministers of the pass were really interested because they wanted to fattened their on pockets. There are less strenuous things this man could be doing at this stage in his life. My vote says that he's really going to serve. Who knows, once things are back on an upswing, he may be able to lure some of his doctor friends over to help make Sierra Leone the next hot vacation spot. Unless you have some more compelling reasons, I have to respectfully disagree with you on this one.
Subject: Re: LET US LOOK AT THE PROPOSED CABINET.
From: awoko
To: All
Date Posted: 23:30:29 10/08/07 ()
Email Address: unis@yahoo .com
Entered From: pool-72-66-26-251.washdc.fios.verizon.net at 72.66.26.251
Message:
SAIDU WAS FINE WITH THOSE AKATA SLPP MINISTERS. ALL WAS FINE UNTIL THEY LOST THE ELECTIONS. LEF SAIDU NAR SOSO MOT MOT,EVEN EBILEH JAMA NOR TRUST AM. IF ARE LIE ASK THE PRESIDENT OF THE JAMA.
Subject: Re: LET US LOOK AT THE PROPOSED CABINET.
From: poorman
To: All
Date Posted: 22:59:36 10/08/07 ()
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saidu, were was dr ahaji ahmed tejan kabba ? what did he do or say? when alpha kanu used HAJJ money for his personal use.
Subject: THE AGONY OF DEFEAT
From: WHAT'S UP?
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Date Posted: 22:04:28 10/08/07 ()
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It saddened me to see John Leigh writes about "white market" during a very important event in his beloved country. Or should I expect a piece if Charlie boy is sent home as a free agent?
Subject: Re: THE AGONY OF DEFEAT
From: Bambay Lans Kamara
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Date Posted: 22:30:20 10/08/07 ()
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This is Twenty-first Century Civilization. We should be talking about progress not people trying to get their freedoms in this-day-in-age. I don't know what planet you are living, but I am hundred percent confident that he was born free therefore, he needs no redemtion. Slavery days are gone since the Amancipation Proclamation was signed into law in 1863. Whoever thinks of enslaving another human in-this-day-inage is a slave because he has a slavish mentality in that he or she is not free and has probably not enjoyed freedom, whereby he thinks freely, associate with whomever he or she wishes and express him or herself freely without thinking of what members of his or her group would think of him or her.
Twenty-First Century civilization baby!
http://www.nps.gov/ncro/anti/emancipation.html
Education.
Subject: Re: THE AGONY OF DEFEAT
From: Med
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Date Posted: 03:34:23 10/09/07 ()
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…….he was born free therefore; he needs no redemption…..
That’s the most intelligent statement I have read thus far on this forum. We as Africans need to grasp this reality, it would help develop our sense of belonging, a sense of patriotism, it would help us perceive the barbaric act of slaver, colonial rule and the subsequent celebration of ‘independence’ from a different perspective.
One reggae star mentioned ‘emancipation from mental slavery,’ Africans need to start saying no to certain external unwarranted demands, no to tribal conflicts, no to corruption, Africans need to think constructively, think economically and developmentally, think to use our raw materials judiciously, Africans need think and relieve those that have apparently been doing the thinking for us.
There is no need for Sierra Leone as a nation of less than 5 million to be in such deplorable condition as it is now. There is nothing worth boasting about our country, the people are dying, dying of hunger, sickness and economic degradation, whilst few opportunists hoard our economy in foreign banks, lord over the people and demand respect.
Africa has and would always remain a continent of immense natural and human recourses despite the drastic exploitation, a continent that others would envy, a place we shall forever call home.
We need to establish a system of freedom, a system that would have no semblance to the era of slavery and colonization. Africa existed before these sad chapters in our history and we should learn to coexist, with our core values, cultures and diverse ethnicities. Ever human was born free and so shall we remain, peace to mother Africa.
Subject: Wooo wooo wooo woooooooo!
From: Bambay Lans Kamara
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Date Posted: 22:02:13 10/08/07 ()
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Woo!
Subject: I love you!
From: Bambay Lans Kamara
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Date Posted: 22:00:27 10/08/07 ()
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I love you!
Subject: PLEASE LET'S ALL WORK TO KEEP THE FORUM CLEAN
From: KABS KANU
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Date Posted: 21:54:26 10/08/07 ()
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I have received lots and lots of complaints today from all parts of the world from people appealing for the obscenities and lewd discussions by Sylvia Blyden and party to be brought to an end by whatever means possible. Most of the people appealed that foreign diplomats and other nationals read this forum and it portrayed a very poor picture of our country.
You all know from the traffic report our Moderator has often published that even officials from the British Department of International Aid , U.S. Congress, State Department and FBI read this forum. It does not give any good picture of us if we have the forum in the state it was this morning.
Sylvia Blyden has burnt her candles on both ends. She has nothing to lose anymore.She has been a loser from time immemorial and she knows that , which is why she does not care how she degrades this forum with talks of genitals and the rest of it. You all saw how insensitive and unpatriotic Sylvia Blyden is .Anybody who will pour such attacks on the UN, EU and taunt America for 9/11 DOES NOT LOVE HER COUNTRY BECAUSE ANY BACKLASH WILL DESTROY THE COUNTRY FURTHER .But this is Sylvia : Everybody must go down with her.
I want to make this last appeal before I finally pull the plugs on this forum as the owners of SLIS, Africaonline and NUP did. Please let us all cooperate to keep this forum clean. It represents our country.If we say we love our country, we have to care for the image of our country. You may dislike me for writing favorable articles on the APC, but think of your country when you try to get at me.
I want to appeal to the MODERATOR to be ever more vigilant to delete Sylvia Blyden's obscene and lewd posts without delay and to continue blocking the IPs of offenders. I just cleaned up two filthy posts that had been sitting here for a while. We have to remain determined or else we will have the bad name for running a forum where obscenity is allowed.
We also want to appeal to everybody to ignore Sylvia and her like-minded demons . Do not respond to their posts .Their aim is to bring this forum down in Sierra Leonean fashion. Nothing good, they believe, is good for Sierra Leone.
If this advice is not heeded, we will IMPOSE registration and PASSWORDS without delay. We don't care any more how many people participate on this forum. If we have only 2 serious people, we will take that.
And I sincerely did not write this for any attacks. Any response to this post that goes back to insults, profanities , personal attacks and lewdness will be deleted without delay and the IPs of the writers blocked. WE HAVE BECOME MORE DESPERATE TO MAINTAIN ORDER ON THIS FORUM.
Thanks to you all.
Subject: Re: PLEASE LET'S ALL WORK TO KEEP THE FORUM CLEAN
From: Disgusted
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Date Posted: 22:03:51 10/08/07 ()
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Sylvia Blyden, Sylvia Blyden, Sylvia Blyden, Sylvia Blyden, that is all you write about.
Subject: Re: PLEASE LET'S ALL WORK TO KEEP THE FORUM CLEAN
From: Disgusted
To: All
Date Posted: 22:07:22 10/08/07 ()
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Your entire newspaper's front page is all the time overflowing with articles against Sylvia Blyden and her Awareness Times. If you go to Awareness Times, you do not see the same petiness repeated there. I am disgusted bra. Leave this lady alone and write about something else! Sylvia Blyden, Sylvia Blyden, Sylvia Blyden BO!
Subject: Racism Experiment. Jena 6 continues
From: Bambay Lans Kamara
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Date Posted: 21:23:51 10/08/07 ()
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How can you change a racist's thinking? How can someone who has had a racist viewpoint his entire life learn to accept a biracial granddaughter? Catch up on Charlie's story.
http://www.drphil.com/shows/show/941
IMPORTANT TO REMEMBER:
http://www.citivu.com/ktla/sc-ch1.html
http://www.fragmentsweb.org/stuff/photking.html
Subject: Like Sodom and Gomorah
From: Pope John Paul VI
To: All
Date Posted: 21:12:42 10/08/07 ()
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Kabs Kanu is a son of satan (SOS) masquerading as a pastor. This pornographic pastor spends all his time on this forum and has no time to study the scr1ptures. Oh thou carnal pastor..why are you taking the Lord's name in vain? Why are you making a mockery of God? Where are the fruit of the Spirit? You have become like Sodom and Gomorrah? You care more about the details of female genitalia and orgasm, than about the Holy Spirit. The wrath of God will consume you like Ananias and Sapphira. You use invectives as a so-called man of God. You delight in immorality. The Lord whom you mock, and whose name you blaspheme will punish you if you don't repent. You have become too carnal. Your conscience in no longer sensitive to the Holy Spirit. You can nolonger be an example of holiness because you are defiled. REPENT for the day is almost over.
Subject: New Cabinet Old Friends New Lovers for Girl Friday
From: G-Shire Lawyer
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Date Posted: 20:53:25 10/08/07 ()
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David Carew, new Finance Minister was repeatedly named this year by Journalist Olu Gordon as Sylvia Blyden's secret lover in Freetown. Gordon exposed how Crazy Sylvia chased away Carew's other woman one night and smashed Carew's car in jealousy fit. Neither Sylvia or Carew denied the newspaper report. They are still going strong. Old Finance Minister John Benjamin was named as Sylvia Blyden's old lover when she was in college. Girl Friday is on a role!! Go Girl.
Subject: Re: New Cabinet Old Friends New Lovers for Girl Friday
From: Marah
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Date Posted: 22:05:33 10/08/07 ()
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If you do not respect yourself then you do not respect where you are coming. Stop playing cheap politics and get ready for serious business. Have some respect for Sylvia. She is your sister.Some of you cannot even cough around your wives.
Subject: HOW ABOUT THE SOUTH EAST?
From: Lansana Makassuba
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Date Posted: 18:53:16 10/08/07 ()
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I can tell Ekutay is back in power. I have looked at the new cabinet and ALMOST all the big posts went to the North. The SLPP gave big posts to every part of the country. The APC has taken everything back to the north.
Subject: Re: HOW ABOUT THE SOUTH EAST?
From: NORTHERN/WESTERNER
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Date Posted: 21:42:25 10/08/07 ()
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Man I am so tired of your multiple postings ranting about Ekutay. Get this: your S/E SLPP had their chances and and blew every one of them. Take a chill pill and watch those who have Sierra Leone at heart to clean up your mess.
Subject: Re: HOW ABOUT THE SOUTH EAST?
From: AFAGAMA
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Date Posted: 20:39:08 10/08/07 ()
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Man !let's forget about tribalism or sectionalism. We have to be united and forge ahead in sustainable development. WAN WORD !!
Subject: Re: HOW ABOUT THE SOUTH EAST?
From: Keen Observer
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Date Posted: 19:33:42 10/08/07 ()
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Food for Thought
Under SLPP:
President-Tejan Kabba (South East)
Vice President-Solo Bee(South East)
Minister of Finance-John Benjamin(South East)
Minister of Foreign Affairs-Momodu Koroma(South East)
Minister of Mines-Swarray Deen(South East)
Minister of Transport-Prince Harding(South East)
Minister of Works-Boima(South East)
Minister of Gender Affairs-Gbujama(South East)
Commissioner of Revenue-Karimu(South East)
Minister of Information-Kai Kai (South East)
Minister of Internal Affairs-Egbenda(South East)
Did anyone complain?
Subject: Re: HOW ABOUT THE SOUTH EAST?
From: POLITICAL
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Date Posted: 20:56:04 10/08/07 ()
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Thank you for reminding us the last SLPP cabinet. It is great to list them and their origin. However, I want to tell Mr. Lansana that we in the south/east should start to forget about this tribal politics and concentrate on national politics. The South/east people did not pay less price for a cup of rice than the north/west during the SLPP. This tells you that the problems in the country are not tribal problems, they are national problems in which every sierra leonean is affected irrespective of your tribe, or political affiliation. So, it is unfortunate that we still have some people who still want to push the tribe card.
Subject: Re: HOW ABOUT THE SOUTH EAST?
From: Kenema
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Date Posted: 05:15:50 10/09/07 ()
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You are 100% right, it is only narrow minded people with peanut brain that always plays the tribalism card.
Subject: Time for every Purpose. New Ministers.
From: Bambay Lans Kamara
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Date Posted: 18:52:38 10/08/07 ()
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Leone Club Imposter, Minister of nothing. Oh, he is not among.
Subject: HOW ABOUT THE SOUTH EAST?
From: Lansana Makassuba
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Date Posted: 18:52:34 10/08/07 ()
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I can tell Ekutay is back in power. I have looked at the new cabinet and ALMOST all the big posts went to the North. The SLPP gave big posts to every part of the country. The APC has taken everything back to the north.
Subject: Re: HOW ABOUT THE SOUTH EAST?
From: Keen Observer
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Date Posted: 19:54:16 10/08/07 ()
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Food for Thought
Under SLPP:
President-Tejan Kabba (South East)
Vice President-Solo Bee(South East)
Minister of Finance-John Benjamin(South East)
Minister of Foreign Affairs-Momodu Koroma(South East)
Minister of Mines-Swarray Deen(South East)
Minister of Transport-Prince Harding(South East)
Minister of Works-Boima(South East)
Minister of Gender Affairs-Gbujama(South East)
Commissioner of Revenue-Karimu(South East)
Minister of Information-Kai Kai (South East)
Minister of Internal Affairs-Egbenda(South East)
Did anyone complain?
Subject: Re: HOW ABOUT THE SOUTH EAST?
From: Special Cut
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Date Posted: 19:50:55 10/08/07 ()
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Tribalist always look at things from the IDENTITY perspective
Subject: Re: HOW ABOUT THE SOUTH EAST?
From: Londoner
To: All
Date Posted: 19:11:48 10/08/07 ()
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Lansana,
Managerial competence is not directly proportional to the spatial distribution of the population. We want strong, competent, industrious, dynamic and committed ministerial heads to drive Sierra leone forward! In my humble opinion, you cannot fault President Koroma so far!
Subject: Re: HOW ABOUT THE SOUTH EAST?
From: Looking in
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Date Posted: 19:01:06 10/08/07 ()
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Big posts, small posts, medium posts, as long as it helps the country, that is the prayer. The people chose their leaders, now is the time for all to work, (and more than just their mouth), and not just those elected officials.
Subject: What about Charles Francis Margai' role in this government?
From: POLITICAL
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Date Posted: 17:49:23 10/08/07 ()
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I have seen the list of ministers for the New APC government. I however, want to know about Margai's role in this government.
Subject: New Cabinet
From: Looking in
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Date Posted: 17:32:09 10/08/07 ()
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Any thoughts?
Subject: Re: New Cabinet
From: june savage
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Date Posted: 17:50:37 10/08/07 ()
Email Address: junal@hotmail.com
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President Koroma, Thank you for appointing David Carew as your Finance Minister, he is rich and knows whats he is up to. He is the only who impresses me by the way, all the others are old wines in new bottles.
Subject: For MESSRS. foday mansaray, FENTHI, FODAY MANSARAY & QUEST
From: John E. Leigh
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Date Posted: 15:53:46 10/08/07 ()
Email Address: johnernestleigh@yahoo.com
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Gentlemen:
This is a belated response to your earliers postings. My apologies.
I am having some difficulty understanding Mr. foday mansaray’s reasoning underpinning his desire to reform the present system of foreign exchange (FE) transactions in SL. Nor am I certain that I have made myself fully understood on how I view the existing arrangements in this matter.
First, I believe that the existing arrangements are as follows: (a) there is an official regime or what one may call the “white market” whereby foreign exchange is traded via the banking system and (b) a parallel or so-called “black” market conducted via entrepreneurs in street corners and back offices in Freetown, Bo, Kenema, Kono, and Makeni, etc.
And as pointed out by Mr. FENTHI, this black market is augmented by certain vendors quoting and requesting payments for rents and the sale of land and houses in US dollars or some other convertible currency such as pound sterling or euros, etc.
If I understand Mr. foday mansaray correctly, his position is as follows:(i) there should be no parallel market; (ii) the NEW APC government will put in place regulations to prevent criminal activities in this sector; and (iii) “the (proposed) system does not need the central bank to give clearance to anyone needing to acquire foreign currency. The center piece of our policy should be Accountability.” Perhaps, Mr. foday mansaray might want to help me with some clarifications here.
Please note that the parallel FE system exits in SL because the official FE system is unfair and even outright crooked. I have already explained the FE crookedness and unfairness under the OLD APC that forced large numbers of international businesses that once flourished in SL and still flourish in The Gambia, Ghana and Nigeria to flee SL and that also put SLeone travelers in excruciating difficulties upon landing overseas devoid of FE.
AHRAMMU PROFITS: Presently in SL, the white market official FE conversion rates to Leones are ridiculously low and reflect an outrageous “ahrammou” monopoly profit to the authorities, banks and foreign exchange bureaus whereas the trading rates offered by the black market operators are substantially fairer and more advantageous to you and me.
Moreover, the rules (or practices) for depositing FE in banks constitute highway robbery in my view.
During my 2005 campaign for the SLPP leader position, I enquired about opening a dollar bank account. The bank charged me a fee of 2% up front of all FE amounts deposited and a conversion rate – if my memory is correct – of only $1 = Le2,700. More shocking was the bank’s declaration that they could not guarantee me dollars when I seek dollar withdrawals from my account, even with prior notice. Naturally, I declined to open an FE account and walked across the street and purchased Leones at the rate of $1 = Le3,000 from the free black market.
I am sure that there must be abuses in the black market but the solution is to design regulations to address those abuses and never to abolish the so-called black market which is in fact the real “free market”. Remember, we Africans do not fully understand or accept the principles of Self-determination. Our record is to use public office as a means for private gain. So, please do not give the Central Bank too much power over FE for. Officials are more likely to abuse their power for private gain than pursue the public interest.
TAXATION: On the matter of taxation, I see no major problem. A large portion of spending in SL is on imports. These are heavily taxed at ports of entry. So there is no need to further tax the inflow of FE into Sierra Leone. If we do, capital for commercial investment will simply dry up fast. And please keep in mind that most, if not all countries allow capital inflows free of taxation.
FE outflows are another matter. A way must be found to fairly tax profits but as long as (i) the tax rates are unconsciously high; (ii) poverty and backwardness reign supreme in SL and (iii) public administration is chronically incompetent, unfair and corrupt, modern tax administration is going to be unsuccessful in SL.
And such indicia of national instability will continuously provoke capital flights through both the “white” and “black” markets.
LANDLORDS: One point FENTHI, QUEST and FODAY MANSARAY discussed is truly a matter of concern to us nationalists. A country’s government must stand squarely behind the currency it issues. By demanding payment in FE rather than its own self-issued currency, the government disrespects and thus devalues its own very currency. And this was what actually happened during Momoh’s OLD APC days.
After blocking FE remittances belonging to PZ, UAC, SCOA, CFAO, etc., etc. for their legitimate imports, our then government demanded that home office officials from the UK and elsewhere of those companies visiting SL cannot use Leones generated by their SL branches to pay their local expenses but must pay with newly brought in FE which they must convert into Leones (at ahrammu rates) before they could be allowed into the country. Policies such as these are what are behind the paucity of long-term foreign investments and the massive unemployment in our country today.
When you see landlords and other vendors quoting prices for their realty in FE, it reflects several facts including high inflation rates in the local currency, currency instability, political instability and/or the fact that they are foreign-based.
PRICE CONTROLS: Mr. foday mansaray raised the issue of price control. First, our poor, poor government does not have the economic power to control prices by controlling the FE rates. Second, because we are a nation of importers, most retail prices reflect international economic factors, our backward public administration, our chronic instability and the difficulty of doing business and living in an infrastructure-scarce country with a very corrupt and unproductive culture.
The main economic and social problem in SL is a tendency towards over-consumption and towards under-production. Prices control benefits consumers. A good government should be doing the opposite: pleasing local producers for only by substantially increasing local production will the quality of life improve for our people. Take for example, the situation of the escalating price of rice. This has nothing to do with APC or SLPP.
The price of our staple food – rice – is determined by international demand centering on India and China. As these two giant countries with humongous populations become more industrialized and affluent – as the trends are - they will continue to afford a greater and greater share of the world’s grain production while reducing their acreage set aside for rice production. The upshot is rice price inflation.
Price control of rice by our government under these circumstances can only be marginally effective (if at all) and will be limited only to bursting up the crooked, notorious rice-importing cartel in Freetown, eliminating import bottlenecks at the key and eliminating import duty if any.
In the long-term, no price control must be put on local rice production as this will discourage production and encourage smuggling and thus the bribery of police and customs officers at our borders and violate ECOWAS/Mano River Union free-trade treaties.
The correct policy of our new government should be to encourage massive local rice production not only to meet local demand but to capture a portion the increasing international rice trade. Thank you. - JL
Subject: Re: For MESSRS. foday mansaray, FENTHI, FODAY MANSARAY & QUEST
From: Mirror
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Date Posted: 16:20:03 10/08/07 ()
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"Remember, we Africans do not fully understand or accept the principles of Self-determination. Our record is to use public office as a means for private gain." -- John Leigh
A truer confession is hard to imagine! However, John Leigh, please make it clear to your readers that you speak only from your own experience.
I would add to your confession, the fact that you do not fully understand economics. This can be easily from the fact that every one of the reasons you gave for the lack of foreign exchange makes no sense.
For example, you claim that it was the APC govt. that drove foreign businesses away from Salone because it asked their visiting emplyees to pay for local expenses in leones while exchanging their foreign currency (not foreign exchange, as you stated in error) at official rates).
The question that should have steered you away from such a glaring misunderstandsng of the economics of foreign exchange is quite simple: How many foreign company officials visited Salone in any given year and what percentage of Salone's total foreign exchange reserves were contributed by their per diem allowance?
The answer, John Leigh, would lead you to realize that it is ignorance of the highest order to claim, as you did, that the exchange rate of a country like Salone was determined by the personal travel allowances of the officals of the few foreign companies in Salone.
My advice to you is to avoid writing about economics.
Subject: Re: For MESSRS. foday mansaray, FENTHI, FODAY MANSARAY & QUEST
From: John E. Leigh
To: All
Date Posted: 16:50:40 10/08/07 ()
Email Address: johnernestleigh@yahoo.com
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Message:
Mr. Mirror:
I really do not mind you and others disagreeing with my analysis but truthfulness and fairness in debates are essential principles of democracy. Even so, I welcome your intervention in this posting.
For your information this is what I wrote:
"........After blocking FE [foreign exchange]remittances belonging to PZ, UAC, SCOA, CFAO, etc., etc. for their legitimate imports, our then government demanded that home office officials from the UK and elsewhere of those companies visiting SL cannot use Leones generated by their SL branches to pay their local expenses but must pay with newly brought in FE which they must convert into Leones (at ahrammu rates) before they could be allowed into the country.
Policies such as these are what are behind the paucity of long-term foreign investments and the massive unemployment in our country today."
What you wrote that I wrote here is thus completely wrong.
Next, my statement that "...... we Africans do not fully understand or accept the principles of Self-determination. Our record is to use public office as a means for private gain" is an objective analysis arising not only from my own personal observations regarding how many African government officials manage public affairs but also my analysis is based on published findings from donor nations, international NGOs such as Transparency International, International Crises Group, etc., and multilateral organizations such as the UN, IMF and the World Bank.
I am thus making clear that malgovernance is a widespread disease in Africa that needs to be adressed if our people and country are to move forward.
With this said, please note I won't respond to your further intervention here unless I know your true ID and provided your contribution is genuine. Thank you. - JL
Subject: Re: For MESSRS. foday mansaray, FENTHI, FODAY MANSARAY & QUEST
From: Mirror
To: All
Date Posted: 17:33:19 10/08/07 ()
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Mr. Leigh, I appreciate your reply. Still, please be advised that I am not concerned about whether you choose to reply or not. My concern is with making sure that you do not mislead your readers with spurious statements about the economy of Salone.
But since you have chosen to reply, I will have to again correct your own understanding of what you wrote: My criticism of you was this: "For example, you claim that it was the APC govt. that drove foreign businesses away from Salone because it asked their visiting emplyees to pay for local expenses in leones while exchanging their foreign currency (not foreign exchange, as you stated in error) at official rates)."
It is plain that my criticism accurately targeted what you actually wrote:
"Please note that the parallel FE system exits in SL because the official FE system is unfair and even outright crooked. I have already explained the FE crookedness and unfairness under the OLD APC that forced large numbers of international businesses that once flourished in SL and still flourish in The Gambia, Ghana and Nigeria to flee SL " -- John Leigh
It seems to be that you should be taking your own advice about being truthful in debate by avoiding misrepresenting your own statements in order to try to escape the consequences of your statements. More importantly, you should take my well-intentioned advice: Please avoid writing about economics because you very obviously do not have a sufficient understanding of the subject -- as your quoted erroneous statement above exemplifies.
For you to continue writing economics is like a person without a medical license practicing medicine. Both actions are dangerous not just to the fake practitioners but to innocent bystanders who make the mistake of taking such frauds seriously.
Your defense of your claim that you did not put yourself out as speaking for all Africans when you stated "we Africans do not fully understand or accept the principles of Self-determination. Our record is to use public office as a means for private gain" is easily shown to be porous. If, as you claim, it is an objective analysis, where is the evidence of such alleged analysis? Nowhere in your posting!
Finally, in case you are new to this forum, please be advised that it is an anonymous forum. Therefore, your request that a forumite identify himself or herself to you is yet further evidence of your failure to understand the [protocol ion this website. Therefore, it warrants no further comment.
Subject: Re: For MESSRS. foday mansaray, FENTHI, FODAY MANSARAY & QUEST
From: Londoner
To: All
Date Posted: 18:38:54 10/08/07 ()
Email Address:
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"The eye seeth not itself but by reflection."
Mirror, I'm not a fan of John Leigh nor I'm I a student of economics but I have to say that following the thread of the posts between you two, you do not seem to be argueing in good faith. Surely you are not asking John to split hairs by providing you with evidence to butress the truism of pervasive corruption in Africa? Your attacks seem to be laced with an egotistic tinge.
Subject: Re: For MESSRS. foday mansaray, FENTHI, FODAY MANSARAY & QUEST
From: Mirror
To: All
Date Posted: 19:47:46 10/08/07 ()
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You seem to share a problem of incomprehension with Leigh. Does your claim that there is "pervasive corruption in Africa" mean that "we Africans do not fully understand or accept the principles of Self-determination," as Leigh claims? Clearly not.
Like Leigh, you fail to distinguish between corrupt Africans and their African victims. If and when you finally do, you should be able to see, if you can see, why neither Leigh nor you can validly refer to those two distinctly separate groups of Africans as a monolithic unit ("we").
What appears to you as "attacks" would properly appear to you as instruction in logical reasoning if only you were not too busy loking for something that does not exist -- "an egotistic tinge."
Whereas Leigh would be well advised to avoid writing about economics because he does not fully understand it, for a similar reason, you would be well-advised to steer clear of making logical conclusions.
Subject: Re: For MESSRS. foday mansaray, FENTHI, FODAY MANSARAY & QUEST
From: Londoner
To: All
Date Posted: 20:48:26 10/08/07 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
Instruction in logical reasoning? Whom from, you? Going by your advise, I should "steer clear of making logical conclusions" by agreeing with you that Africans come in two groups - corrupt Africans and their victims. Look mate, this is not a game of semantics! Climb down your high horse for a minute and refect on the socio-economic reality of living in a poverty stricken society. How do you think workers go for months without pay and still manage to make ends meet? Corruption is corrruption regardless of its hue. We are tainted/shaped by the society we live in. The dichotomy you so steadfastly draw is feeble. That is why I hope that President Koroma in his quest to combat this malady will not forget that the mindset of the typical Sierra leonean needs to be changed.
I look forward to some more advice and instructions from your almighty self!
Subject: Re: For MESSRS. foday mansaray, FENTHI, FODAY MANSARAY & QUEST
From: Miror
To: All
Date Posted: 21:02:09 10/08/07 ()
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"The dichotomy you so steadfastly draw is feeble."
Now that you have given us your opinion, perhaps you can give us the evidence.
As we await your omitted substance, what you call semantics may yet properly manifest itself to you as the substantive differeence that dooms the undiscerning lumping of victim and victimizer. From that recognition, hopefully, will come the realization of the error in your thinking that pointing out your mistake entails climbing upon a horse.
Subject: Re: For MESSRS. foday mansaray, FENTHI, FODAY MANSARAY & QUEST
From: Londoner
To: All
Date Posted: 21:22:23 10/08/07 ()
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Message:
"us", "we"? I thought I was responding to you MIRROR. Any way drop the gobbledegook and lets discuss coruption in Africa. I don't mind being "doomed" for stating a fact. You looked but did not see. Read my earlier post again and you will realise that the request to provide you with substance is pointless. Corruption is not the speciality of a specific sub group of the population. It is pervasive! It is a societal scrouge! Levels of corruption vary but hardly any aspect of day-to-day living is untouched!
Please assist with some more pointing out of my erroneous thoughts.
Subject: Re: For MESSRS. foday mansaray, FENTHI, FODAY MANSARAY & QUEST
From: Mirror
To: All
Date Posted: 04:41:37 10/09/07 ()
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""us", "we"? I thought I was responding to you MIRROR."
Londoner, sadly, that is yet another example of your seemingly chronic problem of incomprehension. What you fail to understand is the simple fact that I am not the only one who reads your misapprehensions when you respond to me on Cocorioko! Hence, as I correctly stated but which predictably escaped your comprehension, "we" read your porous opinions that you inflict upon "us." Comprenez vous? I hope my attempt to help you finally understand what you read is not "pointless."
Out of my kindness, I had chosen to ignore your transparently porous implied opinion that the victims of Africa's corrupt leaders are themselves corrupt because they "go for months without pay and still manage to make ends meet." However, since you insist upon my reply, let me ask you the one question that should have steered you away from your factually and logically flawed statement, namely:
If, as you claim, each and every one of the millions of Sierra Leoneans who are victims of SL's corrupt leaders are unaffected because they replace the money looted from them by becoming corrupt themselves, why do they keep getting poorer and are perennially ranked among the poorest people on earth?
Subject: Re: For MESSRS. foday mansaray, FENTHI, FODAY MANSARAY & QU
From: freetong pikin
To: All
Date Posted: 16:06:22 10/08/07 ()
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The current global financial markets including the currency markets of the world have developed and now run parallel with the banking systems.
They were developed due to the 'inefficiencies' and the lengthy processes of the banking system.
Now even the banks are adopting the methods and are active participants in these markets.
I believe S/L has a float currency whereby market forces (incl. the 'black markets') determine the value of the leone.
Subject: Re: For MESSRS. foday mansaray, FENTHI, FODAY MANSARAY & QU
From: Bambay Lans Kamara
To: All
Date Posted: 18:11:57 10/08/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: sccinstr194109.scc.losrios.edu at 165.196.194.109
Message:
Your Excellency, I was of the opinion that PZ and other foreign markets, particularly PZ closed down when in 1997 the store was vandalized by opponents of the A.P.C?
All who studied high school economics can agree with the fact that stability is a key to economic success. Therefore, when we, Sierra Leoneans, and please understand that when I say we, I am referring to all who condoned the vidalization of such markets because they disagreed with the then A.P.C. government, come to grisp with the various contributions we have made towards the many problems that we have discussed so far, including the low foreign reserve, then and only then can we achieve the economic recovery we so desire.
The inadequacy of foeign exchange can be attributed to no other reason than our inability to create avenues where Foreign exchange can soar. Our tourism industry, attractive though it might be yet, we lacked in other areas, such as peace and stability that is a connerstone towards attracting tourists who would be in place to spend their foreign currencies from which our foreign reserve can be increased.
Another area that sent a heavy blow to our foreign exchange or foreign reserve if you will, is the devaluation of our currency, which made us inept or rather broke the spine to purchase machinery that we can utilize, invest to boost trade and decrease unemployment. The latter if reversed, could have empowered foreign investment because the working people could have had the purchasing power that could have fueled growth of these investments.
Most Economist might not consider how a country's percentage in motality rate can affect atraction of investors and tourists to such a country. Therefore, cleaning of our country from all the rubish that line the streets particularly in the city, plays a significant role in driving our exchange potentials to the dept it is today.
Last but not least, as you correctly stated, the crookedness associated with banks manipulating the transactions and banking systems has virtually dampened the ability for most people to trust and deal with us, which is another factor that has resulted to the rate at which our foreign exchange is today.
Ghana, Senegal, Uganda and particularly Uganda through their tourism, control over corruption and democratic leadership of transformation has led to praise hauled on them and has boosted their foreign reserve.
With all this in mind, I am of the impression that we would join hads, do not contribute to any crook that we wish to change but rather contribute towards national development because none order that us can change Sierra Leone.
Thank you.
I have to go I just finished failing Microbiology Lab test.
Ha!
Subject: KABS KANU DECLARE OPEN SUPPORT FOR APC
From: Sylvester Johnny
To: All
Date Posted: 15:51:19 10/08/07 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
I am surprise that my posting was deleted without any justifable reason. Let me re-poste for the benefit of those who never saw it.
We in the diaspora read and participate in Cocorioko forum because we felt that the newspaper and its chief editor were "neutral". With this open support for APC, one wonders if we should be looking somewhere else for unbiased and fair reports on mother Sa Lone. Reproduced here again.
Posted by KABS KANU on October 08, 2007 at 08:40:49:
In Reply to: AS A;ieu Iscandri Leaves, KABS picks up as APC spokesman posted by alieu sesay on October 08, 2007 at 07:56:58:
Allieu Sesay,
I am far better than you in the United States of America. While you are a laborer in a factory or a sausage flipper in a Macdonald's, I am a school teacher and Pastor. You cannot compare my returns to your's. In addition, my wife and daughter are highly-paid nurses in the U.S. system .Therefore I am self-sufficient . But pray, mr.Idiot , HOW POSSIBLE IS IT FOR SOMEBODY TO DO 3 JOBS IN AMERICA ?
Only an idiot like you also does not know that some of us cannot be Ministers of government because we are not registered voters in Sierra Leone, according to the constitution.
I have been doing my job without Pay for 5 years
Whatever happens, my promise of yesterday stands. Ah go support APC tay go. If e hart you, nar for go drown nar de Atlantic. That hostile treatment you people want some of us in the press to give Ernest Koroma will not happen. If you think we are not doing our job and you have the ability, which is questionable on account of your bad grammar, open your own newspaper.
Subject: Re: KABS KANU DECLARE OPEN SUPPORT FOR APC
From: KABS KANU
To: All
Date Posted: 16:02:31 10/08/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: ac854346.ipt.aol.com at 172.133.67.70
Message:
Johnny,
We are trying to stabilize the forum and return to normal life. You are one of those I respect.If you don't stop bringing up a boring topic that you have posted multiple times on this same forum to destabilize the forum , we will have no alternative but to limit your ability to post.
If I declare open support for the APC, what's the problem ? Is it a big deal as you want to make it ? Was I.B.Kargbo not the President of SLAJ and Editor of the NEW CITIZEN newspaper ? Is your worshipped scoundrel Sylvia Blyden not openly SLPP ? HAS SHE NOT CONTINUED HER DEFAMATION CAMPAIGN AGAINST THE APC?
Drop this boring topic that has been discussed and exhausted by all . You are undermining our efforts to stabilize the forum. Thank you.
Subject: Re: KABS KANU DECLARE OPEN SUPPORT FOR APC
From: SANTOS MANGA
To: All
Date Posted: 17:27:30 10/08/07 ()
Email Address: santos@aol.com
Entered From: at 86.156.235.37
Message:
Kab's where is my posting in sent in support of Syl Johnny.
Subject: Re: KABS KANU DECLARE OPEN SUPPORT FOR APC
From: Sylvester Johnny
To: All
Date Posted: 16:23:14 10/08/07 ()
Email Address:
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Rev Kanu,
I eqaully have a lot of respect for you. You are the first to provide a platform for real and up to date news on Sierra Leone but I am disappointed at your open declaration for APC. There are many like me who visit your newspaper and forum because we originally felt you are above politics. You have every right to support APC in the open but the deletion of my posting makes me wonder if you are trying to suppress opinion of a few. You have every right to block my IP address if you wish.I would not have reposted if my posting was not deleted.
I do not support APC for my personal reasons but I will support any government that makes life better for the average Sierra Leonean. I just commended EBK for appointing David Carew because I know him to be a fine gentleman. We are both accountants and I appreciate his contribution towards the development of the profession locally. The only thing that comes to mind is that we may have a conflict of interest if he is the Finance Minister and all the government audits are done by his firm KPMG.
I do not consider the topic boring because it affects how readers view your online paper.
Subject: Re: KABS KANU DECLARE OPEN SUPPORT FOR APC
From: Hassan Kamara
To: All
Date Posted: 16:56:16 10/08/07 ()
Email Address: kamson10@hotmail.com
Entered From: dsl092-165-252.wdc2.dsl.speakeasy.net at 66.92.165.252
Message:
Syl,
I don't think there is a conflict of interest. Apart from the PARASTATALS all government ministries are audited by the AUDITOR GENERAL which to me is a disservice to the people of Sierra leone because the Auditor General's office does not have the manpower to conduct an efficient audit. Independence will only be impaired when you consider the parastatals under his control. But let wait and see if he will accept the offer.
Hassan
Subject: Re: KABS KANU DECLARE OPEN SUPPORT FOR APC
From: KABS KANU
To: All
Date Posted: 16:31:56 10/08/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: ac854346.ipt.aol.com at 172.133.67.70
Message:
I am not blocking you.I am just advising you to move on and not destabilize our efforts to calm the forum. Every human being has a leaning but that does not mean that they are be rabidly blind to reality. What I meant was that I was not going to become a critic of the government as people want.When I criticised the SLPP, they had serious problems with that and disturbed my peace, harassed me, threatened me and called me all kinds of names .I am saying that if it was a taboo and crime to criticise the SLPP, why is it right to criticise the APC ? Is the SLPP a sacred cow ?
Subject: Re: KABS KANU DECLARE OPEN SUPPORT FOR APC
From: Jan
To: All
Date Posted: 22:23:32 10/08/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 86.157.115.168
Message:
Kabs, I have the utmost respect for you even though I don’t know you and never heard of you until I started visiting this forum recently. I therefore ask for your forgiveness should my writing cause any offence, as this is not the intention. My contribution here is based on the quotation below.
”When I criticised the SLPP, they had serious problems with that and disturbed my peace, harassed me, threatened me and called me all kinds of names. I am saying that if it was a taboo and crime to criticise the SLPP, why is it right to criticise the APC ? Is the SLPP a sacred cow ?”
The difference between a good professional journalist and an ordinary journalist is that the professional would not have succumbed to any threat, harassment or name-calling but would have continued to criticise any government in power. When you encountered this entire problem with the SLPP did you stop criticising them? You should not have assuming you did. Similarly do the same for the current government who would obviously see your criticism as a taboo just like the SLPP. What matters most in my opinion is your reputation. You want to be seen as an objective, unbiased and true professional unfortunately your article did not reflect this.
As a reverend, I hope you will start treating everyone fairly and equally just as you yourself stated in a previous article that what is sauce for the goose should be sauce for the gander or something to the effect.
Subject: CABINET MINISTERS
From: DR.MICHEL SHO-SAWYER
To: All
Date Posted: 15:21:05 10/08/07 ()
Email Address: michel_sawyer@yahoo.com
Entered From: at 84.54.30.6
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Finance and economic develoment David carew
Foreign affairs and international cooperation zainab bangura
Attorney general abdul serry kamal
Information and comm alhaji Ibrahim ben kargbo
Mineral resources alhakji jal abubakarr jallloh
Health -Dr. saccoh kabbia
Agriculture - Dr Sam sesay
Presidential and public affairs -alpha kanu
Works housing - john N Sahad
Lands benjamin O.N. davis
More to come during the week. Please pray for them to succeed...
Your Able Servant In Training
Dr. Michel Sho-Sawyer
Subject: Re: CABINET MINISTERS
From: MICHAEL LAHAI ROGERS, MD
To: All
Date Posted: 20:14:15 10/08/07 ()
Email Address:
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Congratulations to Dr. Sorko Kabia as new Minister of Health in Sierra Leone. I have known Dr. Kabia for a very long time and I know he will succeed to a make a positive change in the health care system in our country.We both studied in Germany then came to the US and had our residency at the same hospital in Ohio. WE both practice here in Georgia.I have no doubt in my mind that he is up to the challenge.Wish him the best
Subject: Re: CABINET MINISTERS
From: Mr.Integrity
To: All
Date Posted: 15:34:43 10/08/07 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
If it is true that David Carew is the new Finance Minister then this is the best appointment ever made to the Finance Ministry.This is one of my role models,he came from humble beginings at Grammar School went on to graduate from Fourah Bay College after that pursued an ACCA.He started at Peat Marwick and rose to become the managing partner.This is a guy with high integrity and moralsMethinks he would make an excellent Finance Minister.Brava,Mr.President.
Subject: Re: CABINET MINISTERS
From: Sylvester Johnny
To: All
Date Posted: 15:46:08 10/08/07 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
Please correct your records. David Carew is a fine gentleman but he did not pursue ACCA. He pursued CA in Nigeria. I believe Peat Marwick has been his only employer. Although I do not support APC,this appointment should be commended.
Subject: Re: CABINET MINISTERS
From: Evelyn Lewis
To: All
Date Posted: 15:57:08 10/08/07 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
Arise Sierra Leone!!!!! Excellent Choice for Finance Minister. You could do no wrong by going with someone like Carew. He definitely has the right balance for this job. May God guide and protect him and pray for a continued dream team for our countries revival in leadership.
Bravo Carew!!!
Bravo HE for a good choice and team so far!!!!!
Subject: Re: CABINET MINISTERS
From: Sadam Insane
To: All
Date Posted: 16:22:03 10/08/07 ()
Email Address: sorba_1@yahoo.com
Entered From: at 209.116.81.187
Message:
I do not know mr. Carew but I said it here before. And that is putting right people in their right places. This a right move. You go Mr. Prezzo.
Subject: Re: CABINET MINISTERS
From: Lameeh Gblaah
To: All
Date Posted: 02:08:33 10/09/07 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
I know David carew personally and I think he is a good pick by Ernest. As an ACCA holder myself, David an I went to the Buxton Boys school although he was two classes ahead of me , He went to the sierra leone Grammar school and I went to the st Edwards and six form at the Grammar School. Although he is an ACCA Nigeria holder his history at Peat marwick speaks for itself. WHAT A FINE GENTLEMAN!! I hope that you can see his performance.
Subject: Re: CABINET MINISTERS
From: Kenema
To: All
Date Posted: 07:33:45 10/09/07 ()
Email Address:
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After reading his profile (see link below), I think he is a hard working man with a good record.
If he can achieved in such positions in the private sector, I have the confidence that he can deliver.
Subject: Congratulation Madam Zainab Hawa Bangura!
From: Nar Sabi Talk
To: All
Date Posted: 15:18:31 10/08/07 ()
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Thank you for accepting the call of duty to thy Native Land...
I have always been proud of you through thick and thin...
The World shall witness what some of us have already known...
Wahter way nar foh u, nor go pass u, me Sista...
Shame on all your enemies especially those that were on the NUP forum...
The World shall witness your talent...!
Pekin way sabi foh wass ee hand go always eat wit ee big wan dem...
Stay Bless, Sweet and Professional as usual!
Subject: Re: Congratulation Madam Zainab Hawa Bangura!
From: John K.
To: All
Date Posted: 19:57:35 10/08/07 ()
Email Address: ginamissah@hotmail.com
Entered From: pool-71-187-169-29.nwrknj.fios.verizon.net at 71.187.169.29
Message:
Is NEC going to conduct another elections for the M.Ps that have been nominated as ministers. I hope Ernest will not be another J.S. Momoh.
Subject: New Cabinet
From: freetong pikin
To: All
Date Posted: 15:12:42 10/08/07 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
ladies and gentlemen the cabinet is here
Subject: APC TAKING BRIBES FROM THE LOIKES OF ALPHA WURIE TO SHUT UP!
From: THE VOICE OF PROGRESS
To: All
Date Posted: 15:04:38 10/08/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: host81-155-114-203.range81-155.btcentralplus.com at 81.155.114.203
Message:
It is reliably learnt that the APC government has embarked on recovering monies for their personal pockets from the so-called kabba kleptocratic club to suppress any form of invesrtigation. Top among the ministers coughing uop large sums of money is the notorious education minister, Alpha Wurie. Is this true? if it is, then APC is not serious to help transform our nation.
These same people you are collecting monies from to shut up will give you away to the people. Honour and nobility is better than riches. Honour and nobility can give you all the riches they have with committing a crime. Do not fall for such temptations. let them give back to Sierra leone what is sierra leone's and your government will be hailed as a team ready for transformation.
Subject: Think!
From: Bambay Lans Kamara
To: All
Date Posted: 14:36:21 10/08/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: sccinstr194030.scc.losrios.edu at 165.196.194.30
Message:
From Sierra Leone to New York on February 1991:http://www.3d-aviation.com/KLM.htm
To Sierra Leone April 2003: http://www.pbase.com/danbrownlee/image/40079904To From Sierra Leone June 2003:http://www.pbase.com/danbrownlee/image/40079904
I said, from Sierra Leone to New York February 1991. Left Sierra Leone in February in it and landed in John F. Kennedy Airport in March. Exactly!
Think.
Subject: Petra sees ’diamond rush’
From: Bambay Lans Kamara
To: All
Date Posted: 14:23:48 10/08/07 ()
Email Address:
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Petra Diamonds said that the market was experiencing a ’diamond rush’ thanks to "the shift of power in the diamond industry".
The company said a number of diamond companies have recently sought to raise money and acquire a public listing in London.
It said this was due to the diamond industry opening up to new players due to the shift of power in the industry and the "dramatic restructuring of the diamond pipeline".
While Petra reported the widening of its full year losses from 13.11 US cents a share to 13.60 US cents a share, the company believed the current financial year held far more promise.
"The compelling investment case for diamonds continues, with the market widely predicted by analysts to slip into a major supply deficit within the next five years, due to the lack of significant new production coming on stream," said Petra in a statement on its results for the 12 months to end June 2007.
"At our recent tenders diamond prices recovered from the weaker prices recorded during the financial year and, despite the turbulent events in the financial markets, many market participants believe that an increase in diamond prices is overdue," the company said.
Petra, which has bought several of diamond giant De Beers’ older operations in and around Kimberley, said revenue decreased by US$3.9 million to US$17 million in 2007 from US$20.9 million in 2006.
This was despite a slight increase on production. In the year to end June 2007, the company produced 180,474 carats compared to 175,011 carats for the same period the year before. The 3.1% was attributed to the increase in production from Petra’s South African mines.
Besides South Africa, Aim-listed Petra is also active in Angola, Botswana and Sierra Leone.
A loss for the year of US$20.9 million was reported compared to last year’s US$18.8 million on larger amortisation, exchange losses and depreciation charges.
The company had also expected production from the Koffiefontein mine, which it acquired from De Beers Consolidated Mines for 81.9 million rand, to count towards its 2007 results.
However, the one-month delay in the completion of the acquisition meant that the deal was only finalized post year-end.
Had the deal been concluded one month earlier, revenue to June 2007 would have been US$9.9 million higher, Petra said.
The company started its financial year with a portfolio combining the producing fissure mines in South Africa with the ’blue sky’ potential of its operations in Angola and Botswana, and advanced stage exploration in Sierra Leone.
During the year the company met its objective of delivering solid exploration results at Alto Cuilo in Angola and adding production to the group, which it did through its acquisition of Koffiefontein.
It also acquired an interest in the Luangue diamond project in Angola, entered into its second joint venture with BHP Billiton, and brought into the company cutting and polishing capabilities through the acquisition of Calibrated Diamonds.
Post year-end, it entered into an agreement to acquire the Kimberley Underground mines for 78.5 million rand from De Beers.
The acquisition of Calibrated Diamonds gives Petra the in-house capability to cut and polish its own rough diamond production, which in turn will directly impact Petra’s bottom line given the value uplift in a polished stone compared to the rough form.
Petra said it would not enter the retailing business, but will add significant value for shareholders by taking a proportion of its production to the cutting and polishing stage.
The company said improving conditions in many of the most promising African countries, such as Angola, the DRC and Sierra Leone, had also "precipitated a wealth of opportunities".
"Our focus going forward remains Africa," Petra said.
In the three months post year-end the company has already seen revenues reach US$15.9 million, which is only US$1.1 million less than that for the full year to end June 2007.
"With expected production of 250,000 carats for the year to 30 June 2008, an increase in our South African reserves and resources (not including Kimberley Underground) to 9.3 million carats, a strong background for diamond prices and encouraging progress across our development projects in Angola, Botswana and Sierra Leone, Petra’s prospects for the current financial year and beyond are extremely encouraging," the company said.
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Subject: SLeone's ex-leader visiting South Africa : radio
From: Bambay Lans Kamara
To: All
Date Posted: 14:21:14 10/08/07 ()
Email Address:
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FREETOWN (AFP) — Former Sierra Leone president Ahmad Tejan Kabbah is on his way to South Africa for a weeklong visit at the invitation of that country's government, state radio said Monday.
Sierra Leone Broadcasting Services (SLBS) reported that Kabbah left on Sunday but did not give any details about the trip.
Kabbah, who is credited for ending the country's decade-long civil war, led the country from 1996 until last month, with the exception of a nine-month spell when he was overthrown by the rebel military.
He was topped in May 1997, by a rebel faction, the Armed Forces Revolutionary Council (AFRC), and returned to power in March 1998 after a west African regional military force flushed out the junta.
In September, this year, he handed over to an opposition politician, Ernest Bai Koroma who won a vote seen as a test to determine if the war-wracked country had truly recovered from the civil war which claimed 120,000 lives and left thousands of survivors without limbs.
Kabbah himself was constitutionally barred from contesting having completed a two-five year terms.
This is Kabbah's first trip abroad since leaving office.
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Subject: Re: SLeone's ex-leader visiting South Africa : radio
From: THE VOICE OF PROGRESS
To: All
Date Posted: 14:55:00 10/08/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: host81-155-114-203.range81-155.btcentralplus.com at 81.155.114.203
Message:
This criminal has to be brought to justice. Why is EDrnest reluctant to comment on the issues regarding an inquiry into the financial shortfalls of Kabba's regime? Is it true that Kabba saw Ernest as the only person who will not conducrt such an inquiry against?
Subject: Change of Topic: Sierra Leone Police and 'Orders from Above'
From: Old Timer
To: All
Date Posted: 13:59:00 10/08/07 ()
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Sierra Leone Police ordered to place Government Office under Armed Siege
By Awareness Times
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The staff at the Sierra Leone Road Transport Authority (SLRTA) got themselves going through a frightening experience last week as armed policemen acting upon ‘orders from above’ (meaning orders from Vice President Sam-Sumana’s Transitional Team at State House) invaded the Authority’s premises at Kissy Road, forcefully driving away Sierra Leonean and foreign citizens who had gone there to conduct their lawful business of seeing to their driving licenses, their vehicle licenses and paying their traffic fines.
"Out, Out! Everybody get out of here! We are here to secure this place. Get Out! Get Out!" the policemen reportedly ordered the frightened staff and their customers.
According to several of the staff who spoke to this newspaper, they were last Thursday October 4th going about their normal work serving customers shortly before 4pm when a team of police officers from Ross Road’s B-Division suddenly stormed the premises requesting that they be shown the "Server Room" which needed to be "secured" by the Police as ordered by State House’s Transitional Team.
The Police were shown the Server only for them to inform the staff that the staff were trying to fool them by showing them a computer when they wanted to see a "Server"
"This is a Computer. We are not looking for Computers but for Servers! Show us the Server!" the irate computer-illiterate policemen reportedly snorted at the frightened staff.
It took some time before the officers were convinced that a Server was merely the name given to a computer that was itself serving other computers on a Network.
Awareness Times investigations reveal that the whole problem started with a broadcast the day before by the very popular Citizen Radio located at Kissy Thunderhill and operated by journalist David Tam-Baryoh.
It appears that the Radio had broadcasted a live phone call from an anonymous caller who claimed that senior staff of SLRTA whom he claimed were "right now under my eyes, switching computers from inside the server room" into a parked vehicle. When David Tam Baryoh requested of the caller what was the license number of the vehicle into which the computers were being placed, the anonymous caller simply mumbled something and cut off the telephone showing that he was not a sincere caller.
However, at the next day’s meeting held at State House during which the Inspector General of Police, Brima Acha Kamara was present, it was decided that a team of policemen be sent to SLRTA premises to secure the ‘Server Room’ whilst one Mr. Beresford George of the Transitional Team would look into the issue.
It now appears that Beresford George who is computer literate had already gone to the premises, inspected and found nothing untoward even before the team of police officers arrived to ‘secure’ the computer server.
However, the policemen continued to secure the premises that whole day until throughout the night into the next morning, Friday October 5th 2007, when the staff again arrived at work only to meet armed policemen with guns, having barricaded them from entering their individual offices and do their daily patriotic duties.
"The police officers were very aggressive to us. They accused us all of being thieves who were stealing the country’s money. Some pointed guns when we tried entering our offices," a staff member informed.
We were also informed that the nightly income from vehicles which park inside the compound at the rate of Le2,000 per night which was usually receipted for and handed over to the Accounts Department by the Night Duty Warden was all pocketed by the armed policemen on Thursday Night after the Night Warden was allegedly chased off the premises by gun-wielding policemen.
However, when we contacted the LUC for Ross Road Police, she strongly denied the accusations of theft of the Nightly Cash Income by the armed police officers she deployed there.
"I was there personally until almost midnight as my house is just nearby and no such theft occurred under my eyes. Unless they say it occurred after midnight but we will investigate," the LUC insisted upon the integrity of her policemen.
She accepted that indeed she was the one who deployed armed men there so as to give protective backing to the plain clothes police officers.
"I was instructed to secure the Server Room by the Inspector General of Police for the State House Transitional Team and we did just that," she said although she confessed that herself and her officers had limited knowledge of what was a Server.
For his part, Mr. David Tam Baryoh in a telephone chat with this newspaper accepted that certain media reports had the potential to cause needless stains on other people’s character.
"Certain newspaper publications are now giving the impression that devils were running Sierra Leone before now which is why I have stopped reviewing the contents of newspapers over my Radio," Tam Baryoh said. He strongly denied being the mole in the Transitional Team passing information on to Standard Times Newspaper even though his picture was used with the newspaper’s reports.
"My role is to create harmony and not to cause division," Tam Baryoh assured.
However, SLRTA staff don’t believe a word of Baryoh’s assurances.
"You just need to tune into his Citizen Radio every night and you know Tam-Baryoh incites people. He caused disruption of our work by broadcasting that anonymous caller’s lies" said an angry staff.
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Subject: Re: Change of Topic: Sierra Leone Police and 'Orders from Above'
From: Bonthe Pikin
To: All
Date Posted: 14:08:18 10/08/07 ()
Email Address: bontilaynga@yahoo.com
Entered From: at 213.163.116.34
Message:
Believe me Sylvia ein cup go full-up gis nor. E lef small. E feel say e kine nor dae
Subject: Re: Change of Topic: Sierra Leone Police and 'Orders from Above'
From: THE VOICE OF PROGRESS
To: All
Date Posted: 15:16:36 10/08/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: host81-155-114-203.range81-155.btcentralplus.com at 81.155.114.203
Message:
Threats!! For what? Counter her report - such makes more sense than threats. Listen fellow citizen - we live in a democracy - you saw how a ruling party got ousted by an opposition party that people thought was long dead. Stop your threats and engage the right by countering or supporting her claims.
Subject: Sorry
From: george
To: All
Date Posted: 13:57:24 10/08/07 ()
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Entered From: ibogw-fw2.sprintlink.net at 199.0.233.3
Message:
This is the typical, so you actually remove any article remotely possitive about Dr Blyden. now I can understand why this one sided banter continues.
Sorry I thought I can say anything.
Subject: Re: Sorry
From: Cotton Tree Yuba
To: All
Date Posted: 14:09:33 10/08/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: ppp-70-244-79-31.dsl.rcsntx.swbell.net at 70.244.79.31
Message:
George, from the heights of where I am located, I have seen governments come, go, and then return. I have also
seen people burnt alive or had their hands and feet chopped thanks to the acts of very individual you wish
to exhalt.
Until Sierra Leoneans can look call bad things by their names, your nation is doomed to fast rewind into oblivion. You remind one of those calling Foday Sankoh
papay.
Subject: Re: Sorry
From: Old Timer
To: All
Date Posted: 14:00:51 10/08/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: accfcf5a.ipt.aol.com at 172.207.207.90
Message:
This has been the game of Kabs Kanu for over three years now. Having read Sylvia's email below posted by Victor, one begins to understand the deep hatredness for Sylvia by Kabs and his wrecking crew.
Subject: POLLS
From: FORUM WATCHDOG
To: All
Date Posted: 13:37:34 10/08/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: ppp-70-244-79-31.dsl.rcsntx.swbell.net at 70.244.79.31
Message:
Polls will close in four hours.
Subject: Controversy = $ in U.S Tell Dr Blyden
From: george
To: All
Date Posted: 13:29:48 10/08/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: ibogw-fw2.sprintlink.net at 199.0.233.3
Message:
If Dr Blyden is capable of provoking such passion and emotions then she must have something to say.
In my view, it seems Dr Blyden is a woman with strong opinions and will not back down when confronted, she reminds me of Hillary Clinton who ignites equal reactions for her archrivals.
If she is really in the Maryland region, we will like to get in touch with her for some opportunities.
She has the opportunity of becoming an excellent adjunct professor on the Lecture scene, or work for a very reputable endowment that is involved in international studies and international “Africa” journalism, if she wishes to stay in this region.
She will make a perfect candidate considering her life experiences. In addition, to what we have learned about her on this forum.
Subject: The British High Commissioner to Sierra Leone is 38yrs old
From: Madingo Man
To: All
Date Posted: 13:08:34 10/08/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 84.13.171.158
Message:
When are we going to have more young and articulate Sierra Leonean diplomats abroad with background in International Relations, World Affairs or International Journalism, that can advocate and negotiate for the country rather than having old men sleeping at UN and other international conferences??
Subject: Presidential speech
From: Boli
To: All
Date Posted: 12:58:57 10/08/07 ()
Email Address: Boli@yahoo.com
Entered From: 79-66-97-71.dynamic.dsl.as9105.com at 79.66.97.71
Message:
See extracts of EBK's speech in Youtube
Subject: Sylvia - Lets talk FEMALE GENITAL MUTILATION!
From: Mbalu
To: All
Date Posted: 12:57:55 10/08/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: eduproxy2.k12.de.us at 167.21.254.12
Message:
Sylvia,
According to the Hon. Reverend Kabbs Kanu, you are either in MD, USA or somewhere in Europe. This allows you more access to the use of the keyboard for communication.
Hey, my name is Mbalu and I live in the Bronx (Go Yankees!), NYC. Sometime ago, I brought up an issue concerning FGM. The debate did well but could do better. I am in the process of compilling a strong document to bring with me to Freetown for the attention of the new APC government on my next visit. You being a medical doctor by trainig and a strong female, I invite you to join this debate and help shed some light on it. I know you may have seen the exchange online as you are an ardent cyberspacer. But now that you can spare a little bit more time, what do you think of FGM in Sierra Leone.
Sylvia please note, this debate has nothing to do with what westerners think or donot think. I could care less about the west and westerners' take on the issue. I just need your Sierra Leonean mind as a medical doctor in the year 2007 vis-a-vis a crude unhygenic practice that still face our kids in Sierra Leone today. Think along the lines of disease transmission and our poor health services delivery system.
Over to you Doc, let change the topic here.
Thanks,
Truely yours,
Mbalu
Subject: ATTENTION OF - OUR DECENT SUBSCRIBERS
From: FORUM WATCHDOG
To: All
Date Posted: 12:54:29 10/08/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: ppp-70-244-79-31.dsl.rcsntx.swbell.net at 70.244.79.31
Message:
It has come to our attention that some elements have appeared in our midst and bent on wreaking havoc on this forum. In a bid to thwart this "Salone man Sabi
pwell" kind of behavior, the introduction of passwords
to grant accesss to a decent few may be introduced.
However, since democratic consensus means so much to our administration, we will therefore put up a poll so
that you (our clients) can vote on the proposal.
We appreciate your patience as the polls are being put
together. Your feedbacks are welcome. Thanks for the understanding.
Subject: Re: ATTENTION OF - OUR DECENT SUBSCRIBERS
From: KKW
To: All
Date Posted: 13:09:31 10/08/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: cpe000039fc3f61-cm000039fc3e61.cpe.net.cable.rogers.com at 99.229.75.232
Message:
I am indifferent unless registration it is going to be used as a means of censorship. I cannot understand why people get hot and bothered about anonymous posters that hold different opinions from their own, or who are prone to aggressive or profane language. As with television, we all have the choice of ignoring material we do not wish to respond to. That, quite frankly, is the mature thing to do. You are not obligated to respond in kind to every post that you find offensive.
Subject: Re: ATTENTION OF - OUR DECENT SUBSCRIBERS
From: Way Way overdue
To: All
Date Posted: 13:02:11 10/08/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: eduproxy2.k12.de.us at 167.21.254.12
Message:
Impose mandatory registration is the only way to weed the unscruppulous ones amongst us. Good way to go by doing a poll but I suggest you take that decision poll or no poll. Because guess what? The bad mangoes among us will multi-vote just as they stuffed the ballots in Kailahun.
Subject: Re: ATTENTION OF - OUR DECENT SUBSCRIBERS
From: Abu Conteh
To: All
Date Posted: 13:47:10 10/08/07 ()
Email Address: conteh.abu@gmail.com
Entered From: 5ac7c073.bb.sky.com at 90.199.192.115
Message:
As a UNIX and Linux system administrator for the past five years within investment banking environment, I can't understand why there is no authentication requirement to enter this forum. Looking back at my first year doing software engineering, there is something called web ethics, which is missing on this forum. Mr Admin lets go for the passwd authentication from now on.
Cheers
Subject: BRA ENVIABLE WAS RIGHT. KABS IS A BOOTLICKER
From: Lansana Makassuba
To: All
Date Posted: 12:34:52 10/08/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: cs307bimac021.gsu.edu at 131.96.237.23
Message:
After reading Bra Enviable's posting below, I went back to the
Cocorioko front page and read past issues. Enviable is right. Kabs has
declared open support for the APC. The quotation made by enviable
about EBK being the Daniel come to save Sierra Leone is very much like
what bootlickers will say. Kabs has the right to support whatever party
but the reverend should be honest and stop pretending to be a
journalist searching for the truth.
What has he got to say to defend himself from the case made against
him below?
I have just revealed the hypocritical brothers on this forum. The
responses one gets from a message on Cocorioko depends not so
much on the contextual validity of the message than its musical
appeal. In layman's terms, the insults or compliments you get on
Cocorioko depends on how well your message was sweetened for
popular appeal. Asking Kabs Kanu to be considerate in his glorification
of Ernest Koroma, proved too caustic for some people. I was born and
raised in Sierra Leone. I know how yellow Journalism works hand in
glove with sycophancy to lull leaders into believing that they are God's
anointed. Here is an example. While wishing Ernest Koroma a happy
birth day, Cocorioko fulsomely flattered the President with the
following words:
"You have come to our beloved nation like Daniel come to Redemption.
We believe that you are God-sent to lead our nation out of the morass
of socio-economic and political backwardness."
The smarminess in the above nonsense is too mushy to be taken
seriously. When did an untested President become so divine as to
evoke Biblical comparisons? Apart from replacing an effete SLPP
government through elections, what else has President Koroma done to
attract "God-sent" encomiums like the ones quoted above? President
Koroma is yet to fire his first political shot, but insincere compliments
are already making him a rescuer from God.
Lest we forget, Stevens, Strasser, and JS Momoh the mental pigmy,
were all viewed as "God-sent" before they could even begin to
discharge menace on Sierra Leone. In the case of Momoh, the song that
greeted him in power, "oodat gee Momoh power? Nar God!", will
remain unparalleled in infamy.
Political sycophancy is apparently a Sierra Leonean trait. No amount of
national suffering will expose us to the fact that leaders in a failed
nation are better treated with cynicism than flattery. President Koroma
is a Sierra Leonean equal to Biblical redeemers of the oppressed? Not
so fast, Please! How unu bad-off so?
Subject: Re: BRA ENVIABLE WAS RIGHT. KABS IS A BOOTLICKER
From: Lansana = You nar Lie man!
To: All
Date Posted: 12:45:01 10/08/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: eduproxy2.k12.de.us at 167.21.254.12
Message:
Kabbs is not a bootlicker. He is the man that brought you the forum that gave you all this freedom. Be appreciative and stop bitting the finger that feeds you. You and Enviable are a bunch of crooks and liers. What do you think.....?
Subject: Re: BRA ENVIABLE WAS RIGHT. KABS IS A BOOTLICKER
From: Lansana Makassuba
To: All
Date Posted: 12:48:10 10/08/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: cs307bimac021.gsu.edu at 131.96.237.23
Message:
I see why Saddam Insane gets on you guys. You do not want to discuss
the issues. Who is the crook? Me or the reverend APC journalist?
Subject: Re: BRA ENVIABLE WAS RIGHT. KABS IS A BOOTLICKER
From: Lansana Makassuba
To: All
Date Posted: 12:47:33 10/08/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: cs307bimac021.gsu.edu at 131.96.237.23
Message:
I see why Saddam Insane gets on you guys. You do not want to discuss
the issues. Who is the crook? Me or the reverend APC journalist?
Subject: Re: BRA ENVIABLE WAS RIGHT. KABS IS A BOOTLICKER
From: BRA WEED
To: All
Date Posted: 13:16:40 10/08/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: c-69-140-34-194.hsd1.md.comcast.net at 69.140.34.194
Message:
BO SIDON SAFUL.BRA ENVIABLE NAR JAMBA SMOKER.
Subject: Re: BRA ENVIABLE WAS RIGHT. KABS IS A BOOTLICKER
From: KKW
To: All
Date Posted: 12:44:16 10/08/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: cpe000039fc3f61-cm000039fc3e61.cpe.net.cable.rogers.com at 99.229.75.232
Message:
It has been a LONG time since I read such eloquent and witty prose. LMAO!
Subject: IMPOSE MANDATORY REGISTRATION, PERIOD!
From: Shembu
To: All
Date Posted: 12:34:02 10/08/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: eduproxy2.k12.de.us at 167.21.254.12
Message:
Kabbs,
Impose a mandatory registration for the sake of reinstating sanity to this forum, period. It is your website, do as you feel. Some of us appreciate your good work and yet some of us velify you out of jealousy. Saloneman biznez tranga.
I am using an assumed name myself but care more about issues and the truth enough to not mind a manditory registration. With the mandatory registration, civilized individuals of substance will post read-worthy stuff and all others are free to peep or go back to the cave days and get their news via hear-say.
Why are you so afraid to do the right thing? Tell you the truth, I lose respect for you when you have to go down to the level of a nincompoop and write about Sylvia being here in the U.S. or Europe to justify your point. I am sick and tired of hearing stuff about this chick. She is not Ernest Koroma, our President. She does not in any way epitomise our problem as a nation. For heaven's sake lets stop accusing her of this and that.
Impose manditory registration. Woo dat ei hat, leh ei die.
It is your website and your forum. Thank you for bringing it to us but keep it sane and free of bullshitters like the Insane one, or the ugly one. Thank you.
Subject: Urgent reply needed Kabs or anyone with an answer.. Thanks
From: Mohamed Kamara
To: All
Date Posted: 12:23:23 10/08/07 ()
Email Address: totti23@hotmail.com
Entered From: mcstudent.montgomerycollege.edu at 160.253.128.7
Message:
I had an interesting conversation with another Sierra leonean, during our conversation, he revealed to me that David Tam Bayoh, who i hold in high esteem do not have a college degree and that he was not given a job at F.B.C. because of the above reason... i told him that was not true and that the guy is a good writer and a gentle man.Although, an individual do not necessarily have to get a college degree to be a good writer but Mr. Bayoh's article's i have read need atleast a certificate in Journalism or writing.
Since i have never met Mr. Bayoh and i do not know much about him, I will be very grateful if anyone on this forum can respond with his profile and educational background which can be verified.
Thank you very much in advance.
Subject: Re: Urgent reply needed Kabs or anyone with an answer.. Thanks
From: bayoh
To: All
Date Posted: 12:42:27 10/08/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: cache-ntc-ad04.proxy.aol.com at 207.200.116.198
Message:
Tam Bayoh has a diploma in journalism from the Ghana institute of journalism. das all. he is not a university graduate. the problem with him is that he makes too much noise as if he has a PhD. he was kabbah's friend and now he is ernest's friend. typical salone journalist.
Subject: Re: Urgent reply needed Kabs or anyone with an answer.. Thanks
From: bayoh
To: All
Date Posted: 12:52:38 10/08/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: cache-ntc-ad04.proxy.aol.com at 207.200.116.198
Message:
The Ghana Institute of Journalism is a post-secondary institution much like our trade centres in sierra leone. all you need is a few o levels to enter it. somebody once called it a glorified secondary school. The post-graduate diploma in journalism at the university of ghana, on the other hand, is far more serious than the GIJ diploma.
Subject: Re: Urgent reply needed Kabs or anyone with an answer.. Thanks
From: I have a degree but don't believe you need one to write Good
To: All
Date Posted: 12:39:30 10/08/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: eduproxy2.k12.de.us at 167.21.254.12
Message:
Nar book mek sense, nor to sense mek book.
Forget about David Mbayoh. whether or not he has a degree, you like his writings. Thats important enough. Your inquiry is not free of the same Pull Him Down syndrome affecting most Sierra Leoneans. He is a member of the transition team. He is educated enough, degree or no degree.
Subject: Re: Urgent reply needed Kabs or anyone with an answer.. Thanks
From: Londoner
To: All
Date Posted: 17:30:17 10/08/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: 82-44-249-162.cable.ubr05.haye.blueyonder.co.uk at 82.44.249.162
Message:
Mohamed,
Surely you meant "Nar sense make book not to book make sense!".
Subject: Re: Urgent reply needed Kabs or anyone with an answer.. Thanks
From: Bonthe Pikin
To: All
Date Posted: 13:58:10 10/08/07 ()
Email Address: bontilaynga@yahoo.com
Entered From: at 213.163.116.34
Message:
Tam may not have a degree and he doesn't need one to survive. All I can tell you is that Tam Baryoh is one of Sierra Leone's most prolific writers and a respectable journalist of high standing.
You always pull people down by bringing in education or academic qualifications. The earlier we realize education is one to way to success but not the only way the better. What has all the Phd holders done for SL?
Subject: Re: Urgent reply needed Kabs or anyone with an answer.. Thanks
From: Mohamed Fofana
To: All
Date Posted: 14:52:43 10/08/07 ()
Email Address: mfofana2004@sbcglobal.net
Entered From: at 204.108.68.10
Message:
Ecellent poit!!!
Subject: KABS KANU DECLARE OPEN SUPPORT FOR APC
From: Sylvester Johnny
To: All
Date Posted: 12:06:54 10/08/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: host-66-134-72-65.covad.com at 66.134.72.65
Message:
During the electioneering process in Sierra Leone, readers in the diaspora were made to believe that Cocorioko and its chief editor were "neutral". With the recent declaration of open support for APC, we now know that you cannot trust Cocorioko for fair and independent reporting. Posting from Kabs Kanu reproduced here if you missed it.
Posted by KABS KANU on October 08, 2007 at 08:40:49:
In Reply to: AS A;ieu Iscandri Leaves, KABS picks up as APC spokesman posted by alieu sesay on October 08, 2007 at 07:56:58:
Allieu Sesay,
I am far better than you in the United States of America. While you are a laborer in a factory or a sausage flipper in a Macdonald's, I am a school teacher and Pastor. You cannot compare my returns to your's. In addition, my wife and daughter are highly-paid nurses in the U.S. system .Therefore I am self-sufficient . But pray, mr.Idiot , HOW POSSIBLE IS IT FOR SOMEBODY TO DO 3 JOBS IN AMERICA ?
Only an idiot like you also does not know that some of us cannot be Ministers of government because we are not registered voters in Sierra Leone, according to the constitution.
I have been doing my job without Pay for 5 years
Whatever happens, my promise of yesterday stands. Ah go support APC tay go. If e hart you, nar for go drown nar de Atlantic. That hostile treatment you people want some of us in the press to give Ernest Koroma will not happen. If you think we are not doing our job and you have the ability, which is questionable on account of your bad grammar, open your own newspaper.
Subject: Re: KABS KANU DECLARE OPEN SUPPORT FOR APC
From: Kalos
To: All
Date Posted: 12:43:41 10/08/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: 64-56-44-3.isp.comcastbusiness.net at 64.56.44.3
Message:
Very, very disappointing. I held this guy in high esteem based on his profesionalism. I am disappointed and will find a way to apologize to all that I call names in trying to defend him. These are not good days for Sierra Leone. He was my authoritative voice... this is so low...God help me in absorbing this...
Subject: Re: KABS KANU DECLARE OPEN SUPPORT FOR APC
From: king niambana
To: All
Date Posted: 12:20:26 10/08/07 ()
Email Address: bonnicky@gmail.com
Entered From: dyndsl-091-096-053-080.ewe-ip-backbone.de at 91.96.53.80
Message:
REV KABS KANU : WHERE IS MY POST? THE POST NEVER VIOLATED ANY RULES OF DECENCY: PLEASE HAVE IT POSTED AGAIN: MY REV IN THE UNITED STATES
Subject: Re: KABS KANU DECLARE OPEN SUPPORT FOR APC
From: Syl the Johnny!
To: All
Date Posted: 12:20:14 10/08/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: pool-151-202-41-6.ny325.east.verizon.net at 151.202.41.6
Message:
Ganging up against Kabs will not free your beloved SLPP from the jaws of defeat. It's over Syl my boy. Your party lost the elections. Stick a fork in it, that goose was cooked a long time ago!
If you, as a Sierra Leonean are not neutral, why do you want to impose neutrality on others? You have always been one of the most narrow-minded of SLPPers. Does Kabs' purported neutrality stop you from posting here? Nope! Does it stop you and your angry SLPP buddies from literally mugging Kabs? Nope. So what's the big fuss?
I guess maybe you chaps are still venting steam over your lousy party's trouncing in the elections.
UNA GO DIE WIT BAD HART!
Subject: Re: KABS KANU DECLARE OPEN SUPPORT FOR APC
From: SANTOS MANGA
To: All
Date Posted: 12:19:03 10/08/07 ()
Email Address: santos@aol.com
Entered From: at 86.156.235.37
Message:
I TOLD YOU SO BUT NO ONE BELIEVED ME. I ASKED KABS SEVERAL QUESTIONS IN THAT RESPECT, HE NEVER ANSWERED TO NON. DISHONESTY IS WHAT THE ENGLISH CALLED IT. I AGREE IT IS HIS RIGHT TO FOLLOW ANY PARTY. HOWEVER, NOW THAT HE HAS COME IN THE OPEN WE WOULD LOOK HIM WITH THE EYE.
THANKS JOHNNY FOR REPUBLISHING THE ABOVE ARTICLE. YOU ARE A TRUE PRODUCT OF K-SCHOOL.
Subject: Re: KABS KANU DECLARE OPEN SUPPORT FOR APC
From: Moral Santos
To: All
Date Posted: 12:25:07 10/08/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: pool-151-202-41-6.ny325.east.verizon.net at 151.202.41.6
Message:
Please stop your sanctimonious whining, Mr. Manga! SLPP did not lose because of Kabs neutrality or bias. Your sorry party lost because it is populated by grimy, grubby kleptomaniacs who love their fat little accounts more than they care for the poor people of Salone!
Subject: Re: KABS KANU DECLARE OPEN SUPPORT FOR APC
From: WHO CARES -ITS HIS RIGHT
To: All
Date Posted: 12:14:38 10/08/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: eduproxy2.k12.de.us at 167.21.254.12
Message:
Johnny,
Go lick your wounds. SLPP lost. Just as you have the right to be SLPP Kabbs or any Sierra Leonean has the same right.
Shut the fuck up and lets talk issues.
Subject: Re: KABS KANU DECLARE OPEN SUPPORT FOR APC
From: SANTOS MANGA
To: All
Date Posted: 12:22:34 10/08/07 ()
Email Address: santos@aol.com
Entered From: at 86.156.235.37
Message:
STOP BEEN RUDE.THERE IS NO NEED FOR THAT. STICK TO THE ISSUES.
Subject: Re: KABS KANU DECLARE OPEN SUPPORT FOR APC
From: Manga Boy
To: All
Date Posted: 12:41:51 10/08/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: eduproxy2.k12.de.us at 167.21.254.12
Message:
Where is the rudeness. You stick to the issues, if you may.......stop velifying the same guy that brought you the forum that helped expose you a little bit, Manga Boy.
Subject: Alieu Sesay, please shut up
From: Ishmael Yillah
To: All
Date Posted: 11:09:36 10/08/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: pool-71-191-1-25.washdc.east.verizon.net at 71.191.1.25
Message:
Mr. Sesay, please shut up and leave KABS alone. It is none of your business if Mr. kanu has three jobs, in fact it is a noble cause for a man to work hard to take care of his family. KABS has the right to belong to any party of his choice as long as it does not compromise his neutrality as a journalist. So far, in my eyes, he is one most neutral journalist in our times, because he published articles from both APC, PMDC, and SLPP surporters. I always prayed for the Almighty Allah to bless KABS for his relentless dedication in bringing the news about our motherland to us, diasporans.
Thank you Mr. Kanu,
Ishmael K. Yillah
Subject: Re: Alieu Sesay, please shut up
From: poorman
To: All
Date Posted: 18:57:16 10/08/07 ()
Email Address: itarawally@verizon.net
Entered From: pool-72-66-26-251.washdc.fios.verizon.net at 72.66.26.251
Message:
bo unu lef de man.de man get rite for dae wusie e wan for dae. wans sa leone beteh.de man nor dea tiff kupor en buy ose nar london ,america or gee kolonko.
Subject: Re: Alieu Sesay, please shut up
From: alieu sesay
To: All
Date Posted: 11:23:58 10/08/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: 65.107.153.146.ptr.us.xo.net at 65.107.153.146
Message:
Is he the same man who accused me of workinh at McDonald's?
My friend shut up.. even if NEUTRALITY/INDEPENDENCE hit you in your face, you will still not tell what it is....
This is the same man who created SUBWANALAI, allowed him to defame others on this forum, helped him with information on some on the other side,...Now that Subwana/mende basher/lawyer has fallen out with them, they are on a RAMPAGE.....
On a more serious note How is Ibrahim?
Subject: Sylvia Blyden is Outspoken but she is not a coward Mr. Kanu
From: Old Timer
To: All
Date Posted: 11:08:01 10/08/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: accfcf5a.ipt.aol.com at 172.207.207.90
Message:
Dr Sylvia Blyden is outspoken and unlike some of us who prefer to keep quiet on issues affecting Sierra Leone, she sticks her neck out saying what she believes to be true. We might not agree with her views but most people will agree that she is not a coward. There is something very fishy about this Subwanalai accusation against Sylvia by Kabs Kanu. If you go to the archives and read them, you will see what I mean. SUBWANALAI is none other than Kabs Kanu himself. Also, he is Kalos. He made a mistake the other day and posted for Kalos using the name Kabs.
As an Old Timer on these forums, I suggest that the good reverend goes for some much needed repentance and deep prayer sessions.
Subject: Re: Sylvia Blyden is Outspoken but she is not a coward Mr. Kanu
From: KABS KANU
To: All
Date Posted: 13:36:12 10/08/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: cache-dtc-ag14.proxy.aol.com at 205.188.117.142
Message:
Some of you will die and end up live in Hell , if you don't stop all these wicked lies and misrepresentation. How can you call Sylvia Blyden a brave person when she has the tendency to use many, many masks.Masks that have been unearthed on Slis, NUP, LEONENET ETC.She was so cunning at Leonenet she was ISHMAEL KARGBO for over one year until she was busted not by Claude but Omolara( The guy who resigned ). There are many more instances. How did she behave when her mask ISHMAEL KARGBO and herself were banned from LEONENET ? She threatened to spoof the forum and flood it.She also criminally used ALIM SESAY 's account defiantly to be posting at LEONENET. Do you the criminal acts she was on in Freetown in concert with your SLPP thieves ? Do you think she was supporting SLPP because she loved you ? You guys are idiots and will die like one. Who has the record for destroying forums with mammy cuss ? Is it not Sylvia ?
Anyway, I see why LIBERIANS and GHANAIANS laugh at SIERRA LEONEANS that we are not a serious people. It is only in Sierra Leonean forums that SYLVIA BLYDEN will function.Watch the Liberian forums ( I am a member of the CONCERNED LIBERIANS DISCUSSION FORUM ) .You will not find a Sylvia Blyden there. If she arises there, unanimous condemnation will bail her out. You have just shown why these people make fun of us.
Subject: Re: Sylvia Blyden is Outspoken but she is not a coward Mr. Kanu
From: Mohamed Fofana
To: All
Date Posted: 15:07:53 10/08/07 ()
Email Address: mfofana2004@sbcglobal.net
Entered From: at 204.108.68.10
Message:
My brother, Sylvia is not the only one using inappropriate language on this forum. Many others are doing so. Like you said that we are been laughed at and this just because of Sylvia alone!!!! A lot of inappropriate language, attacks, profanity etc are being used on this forum!! Its high time Kabs Kanu and Co set examples and ban any such person irrespective political, tribal, regional or sectional affiliation. We are a making a monster out of Sylvia. If everybody ignores her, she will not have much attention or be noticed. There are many other Sylvias on this Forum.
Subject: Re: Sylvia Blyden is Outspoken but she is not a coward Mr. Kanu
From: BIBU
To: All
Date Posted: 14:52:20 10/08/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: 65.107.153.146.ptr.us.xo.net at 65.107.153.146
Message:
why don't you stay LIBERIAN... You REVO lef..
Subject: Re: Sylvia Blyden is Outspoken but she is not a coward Mr. Kanu
From: Old Timer
To: All
Date Posted: 13:51:30 10/08/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: accfcf5a.ipt.aol.com at 172.207.207.90
Message:
Not really Kabs Kanu. You small group pof Sylvia-Haters have been the one over the last few years accusing Sylvia of all these allegations but at no time have any of these allegations been proven. Neither Leonenet nor here or anywhere else. I hold my view. Sylvia is a brave outspoken Sierra Leone from very decent stock.
Subject: Re: Sylvia Blyden is Outspoken but she is not a coward Mr. Kanu
From: To Hell with Sylvia and the NEANDERTHAL (aka old Timer)
To: All
Date Posted: 12:17:24 10/08/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: eduproxy2.k12.de.us at 167.21.254.12
Message:
Lets talk issues, give us a break on Sylvia. We need electricity and water and roads and food and education and, and and.......
Old Timer, go back to your rat hole and enjoy your "ABONJO SUPER"
Subject: Re: Sylvia Blyden is Outspoken but she is not a coward Mr. Kanu
From: Old Timer
To: All
Date Posted: 13:54:10 10/08/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: accfcf5a.ipt.aol.com at 172.207.207.90
Message:
Thank you.
Subject: Re: Sylvia Blyden is Outspoken but she is not a coward Mr. Kanu
From: super
To: All
Date Posted: 12:48:05 10/08/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: cache-ntc-ad04.proxy.aol.com at 207.200.116.198
Message:
Na record yu call so, bobs. Abonjo super. salone bin swit da tem dey.
Subject: Re: Sylvia Blyden is Outspoken but she is not a coward Mr. Kanu
From: Jurassic
To: All
Date Posted: 12:09:06 10/08/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: pool-151-202-41-6.ny325.east.verizon.net at 151.202.41.6
Message:
Are you an old timer or a Neanderthal? Go back to your cave, you lizard!
Subject: REV KABS KANU- YOUR DREADED INTENTIONS
From: King Niambana
To: All
Date Posted: 10:08:14 10/08/07 ()
Email Address: bonnicky@gmail.com
Entered From: dslb-088-070-006-027.pools.arcor-ip.net at 88.70.6.27
Message:
Dear compatriots
The recent postings on the Cocoriko forum tittled "SUBUWANALAI" has indeed explained to all and sundry that the so called REV deliberately misled his masters flock by defaming the SLPP and telling lies to his readers. It is now clear that he did all these with the hope of achieving his selfish aims. WHAT A SHAME REV KABS KANU: YOU WILL GO DOWN THE ANNALS OF HISTORY:
Dear writer, have no fear! there is always a room to learn from mistakes and to go back on decisions you once ignored. Dr. Sylvia Blyden is a decent Sierra Leonean and will definitely treat you with all dignity and respect. Wishing you the best.
Subject: SUBWANALAI....
From: Sofali
To: All
Date Posted: 09:35:00 10/08/07 ()
Email Address: donidoni_int@aol.com
Entered From: adsl-69-108-68-64.dsl.irvnca.pacbell.net at 69.108.68.64
Message:
Whoever, is this person, may not be Sylvia. The name Sylvia is far from being a Susu or Yalunka to use the words SOFALI and YANGAMADIN.
Secondly, I don't think she is Muslim or has Islamic background. The word SUBWANALAI is mostly used by Muslims, even though it is incoreectly spelt here. It should have been: "Sub Hana ALLAH" It is very good phrase in Islam.
Subject: Re: SUBWANALAI....
From: What's in a Name?
To: All
Date Posted: 10:29:08 10/08/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: cache-dtc-ag14.proxy.aol.com at 205.188.117.142
Message:
What's in a name?
There is nothing ugly about the name "Sylvia Bylden" But she is ugly.
So, a name means nothing, necessarily. Therefore, one can not infer anything necessarily from a name.
Subject: Re: SUBWANALAI....
From: Sylvia can take ten names in a minute
To: All
Date Posted: 10:09:12 10/08/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: cache-dtc-ag14.proxy.aol.com at 205.188.117.142
Message:
I do not think Subwanalai is Sylvia. But at the same time, Sylvia can take any name at any time to spew hate.
Subject: Re: SUBWANALAI....
From: Med
To: All
Date Posted: 10:02:58 10/08/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 82.114.74.96
Message:
Please stop this public nuisance, you don’t need to be a dog to bark, neither an English native to speak English or an Arab to speak Arabic, where on earth are you coming from, I’ll be interested to know.
If the findings of cocorioko have calculatedly asserted that this reprobate of an element is what it is, then stop making vague and unintelligent excuses, face the reality.
I fully support the management of this forum in any decision they may undertake in reasonably restoring decorum/eliminating such vicious element/s.
Subject: Re: SUBWANALAI....
From: Sabanoh
To: All
Date Posted: 14:14:17 10/08/07 ()
Email Address: Sabanoh007@yahoo.com
Entered From: cache-dtc-ag14.proxy.aol.com at 205.188.117.142
Message:
Stop talking nonsense, Med. Concentrate on your own personal problems and leave Sylvia alone. When is your barren wife going to give you a child? Tuk u own, lef oder man yon. Lonta
Subject: Re: SUBWANALAI....
From: Sofali
To: All
Date Posted: 11:10:54 10/08/07 ()
Email Address: donidoni_int@yahoo.com
Entered From: at 204.108.68.10
Message:
1. Stop this public nuisance
3. where on earth are you coming from, I’ll be interested to know
3. Stop making vague and unintelligent excuses, face the reality.
My friend, it is people like you that Cocorioko, should ban. Look at the phrases you have used simply because I doubt that SUBWANALAI is Sylvia. Can you just say that SUWANALAI is Sylvia and provide reason(s) as to why you belief so? You are using the same attack method Sylvia is being attack for. There are some people that will not use a sentence or more without using a "cursing word or try to put down others" That is how they will feel comfortable, as people claimed Sylvia is doing. If Kabs Kanu and all others are trying to clean Cocorioko, they should focus on PEOPLE THAT ATTACK OTHERS BY CALLING THEM NAMES, USING HATE WORDS, and TRYING TO PUT OTHERS DOWN etc. All we need to do is to debate the issues, points and answer questions that are raised.
Labeling, name calling, insulting others, putting down others, and attacking people instead of the point(s)/message has never worked and will not work. Whoever, the all mighty has put up, no man can put down. Sadly, that is cancer that is destroying us and nobody is talking about it or discussing it. I will not label or call you names, even though MY LOWER ANIMAL INSTINCT AND EMOTIONS TELLS ME TO RECIPROCATE, BUT MY HIGHER SPIRITUAL/MORAL TELLS ME NOT TO.
God bless!!
Subject: Re: SUBWANALAI....
From: Forum Veteran
To: All
Date Posted: 09:55:25 10/08/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: cache-dtc-ag14.proxy.aol.com at 205.188.117.142
Message:
You don't know Sylvia . If you knew her, you would not make those connections. She is very cunning in dirty propaganda .Anyway, this forum is finished .
Subject: Re: SUBWANALAI....
From: This Forum Thrives!
To: All
Date Posted: 11:54:48 10/08/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: pool-151-202-41-6.ny325.east.verizon.net at 151.202.41.6
Message:
Forum Veteran, you give too much credit to the Sylvia Gangsta! Her vicious propaganda will be swatted like the lowly gnat she is.
I hope she gets dragged for aiding and abetting the limb-chopping war criminal, Foday Sankoh. Then we intend to entangle her in lawsuits for her libels against innocents in Salone. Very soon, she wouldn't have her bullying megaphone, The Awareness Times anymore! Don't be scared of the ugly one. We won't cuss like her. We wont CHERRR like her. We only hope to civilize her enough before we cart her off to jail to pay for all the war crimes she supported against our people!
Subject: IS SUBWANALAI A KABS KANU CREATION?
From: peggyboy
To: All
Date Posted: 09:31:59 10/08/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: 65.107.153.146.ptr.us.xo.net at 65.107.153.146
Message:
Posted by COMRADE SQUEALER on October 08, 2007 at 03:35:59:
In Reply to: Re: BEWARE : OUR FORUM WILL SOON BE FLOODED WITH PORN posted by Kabudu Gen on October 07, 2007 at 17:45:08:
THE STORY IS BASED ON GEORGE ORWELL'S ANIMAL FARM
CHARACTERS
COMRADE NAPOLEON: KABS WILFRED KANU
COMRADE SNOWBALL: MODERATOR
COMRADE SQUEALER: SUBWANALAI
COMRADE MOLLY: HAJA KHADIJA
COMRADE BENJAMIN: A. ISCANDRI
COMRADE ATTACK DOG: FORUM POLICE
COMRADE OWLS: KALOS, MAMMY BLESSING, CANDIDDO, KABUDU GEN ETC
Dear Comrades of the Farm (Forum),
You might have heard about my miraculous escape from the farm yesterday, after Comrade Kabs 'Napoleon' Kanu, let loose his attack dogs on me, led by Chief Dog- Forum Police. I hadn't the time, unlike Comrade Benjamin(Alieu Iscandri) to say goodbye to all you positivos. Before I proceed with my ordeal, let me inform you all about the need to strengthen ties with our counterparts in the neighbouring farm, where I am presently seeking refuge. Comrades, Robert Frost was right when he wrote" Good Fences Make Good Neighbours" Remember the escape routes we carved at our fence? Well, they came in handy for my escape.
Though I am still licking my wounds here in exile, I have found time to write this testimony, copies of which are scattered all over the farm (LOOK DOWN THE STEPS OF THIS FORUM FOR COPIES, JUST IN CASE THE MAD DICTATOR NAPOLEON KABS TRIES TO REMOVE THIS ONE THAT I AM POSTING AT HIS BACKYARD.
Comrades, this is my story. You will recall that when we were planning to topple Mr. Jones (Kabbah and SLPP), we agreed that "TWO LEGS ARE BAD AND FOUR LEGS GOOD". As soon as Mr. Jones was overthrown, Comrade Napoleon (Kabs; the fat pig), who has imposed himself on the farm, started wearing designer coats, bowl hats and fat cigars dangling from his hog mouth. I pointed out this to him, that they are capitalist oriented. He dismissively argued that they were the sweet of office.
Again, I tried to reason with him that because he was deviating, hard working comrades like old benjamin the donkey, and even the pampered Molly have withdrawn their services. Again, Comrade Napoleon(Kabs) seemed please with these developments, because, according to his blue eye boy Snowball (the illiterate Moderator), this means Bra Kabs will remain the sole diasporan beast that EBK will consider in his all inclusive government.
Our real showdown happened yesterday, when for the first time, I caught Napoleon(Kabs) tip-toeing on two legs, (just like the ousted Mr. Jones), instead of his normal four legs., with a protuding BORBOH-BELLEH-LIKE stomach. I requested an urgent meeting which I regret now. My mistake was not bringing along the wise owls (Kalos, Mammy Blessing, Candido, Kabudu Gen etc.) At the meeting, I raised the question of Comrade Kabs Napoleon walking on two legs. My queries were met by growls from the attack dogs. I also informed my now lawless audience that the younger generations of the farm no longer wants a BORBOH-BELLEH as minister. As such to prepare Comrade Napoleon for subsequent ministerial appointments, we should send him to the gymn to cut down on his 'roast goat-like' belly. The now furious Comrade Kabs Napoleon could have none of these. After a short tete-a-tete with Comrade Snowball; the dick head Moderator, there was signal for the attack dogs to pounce. Comrades, around mid day yesterday, I was hounded out of the farm; the only home I have known all these years. By midnight, I tried to smuggle these leaflets you are now reading into the farm, but the attack dogs were keeping vigil, blocking every move I made.An hurried all night party was staged by who else, the party animal Comrade Boxer(Bambay LANS).
I think they are asleep now, so I have risked entering the farm. If he pulls this posting down, look down the forum's steps, you will find more copies. Comrades, the revolution has just begun. VIVE LA REVOLUTION!!! To all true comrades, please take care of Fifi my wonder dog, untill I re-unite with him again. Hopefully, Comrade Napoleon will tamper justice with mercy.
Yours Sincerely,
Comrade Squealer(a.k.a SUBWANALAI)
p/s. Kabs Kanu is a propagandist par excellence. He is so stupid that he si now trying to misguide the farm that Comrade Squealer is that other ugly Comrade Glover(Sylvia Blyden). But I know liberal minds who have been reading my postings will know how much WORWORLIWOR had come under my attack. I don't blame Kabs. When parents waste their hard earned cash and send a kid like Kabs to FBC, only for him to read GREKO(Greek and Roman History) and Church History(All those let my people go subjects), this is what they get
COMING SOON:
BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING. BASED ON GEORGE ORWELL'S ANIMAL FARM
Subject: Re: IS SUBWANALAI A KABS KANU CREATION?
From: War Crimes Prosecutor!
To: All
Date Posted: 09:50:39 10/08/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: pool-151-202-41-6.ny325.east.verizon.net at 151.202.41.6
Message:
Please lie low in your lair, you cowardly cretin. We are so glad you are on "vacation" from Salone. We will drag you to court for being a supplicating cheerleader, as Foday Sankoh's chief Ninja propagandist, even as that guest-of-hell was systematically chopping off the limbs of men, women and children during the rebel war!
Oh, by the way, don't think Berewa, JJ Blood and your SLPP buddies can save your skin this time. We will get justice for our people, like it or not. Please keep posting your garbage. We will trace you through your IP, one way or the other. The warrants are coming!
Subject: Re: IS SUBWANALAI A KABS KANU CREATION?
From: Stop Talking to Yourself
To: All
Date Posted: 10:32:04 10/08/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: cache-dtc-ag14.proxy.aol.com at 205.188.117.142
Message:
Sylvia Blyden, please stop talking to Yourself. It is unhealthy, especially for an already sick person like you.
Subject: SUBWANAHLAI is a Creation of KABS
From: False Prophet
To: All
Date Posted: 09:22:04 10/08/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: 65.107.153.146.ptr.us.xo.net at 65.107.153.146
Message:
Your creation has turned on you. Just like Sia Tiyama who provided TRASH for the SLPP, so is/was SUBWANALAI....The difference is that SIA faded into the DARK, Subwanalai REBELLED against his creator and friends at Cocoriocco and APC...
My instinct says he is Alieu Iscandri....
Subject: Re: SUBWANAHLAI is a Creation of KABS
From: Blah blah!
To: All
Date Posted: 09:40:19 10/08/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: pool-151-202-41-6.ny325.east.verizon.net at 151.202.41.6
Message:
Alieu Sesay (false prophet), please be quiet. Your Moyamba junction N'gors are busy talking sense here!
Subject: Re: SUBWANAHLAI is a Creation of KABS
From: NO ANSWER
To: All
Date Posted: 09:42:45 10/08/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: 65.107.153.146.ptr.us.xo.net at 65.107.153.146
Message:
Fooloolu.. why do you think sesay is false prophet? Kabs?
Subject: Re: SUBWANAHLAI is a Creation of KABS
From: Blah blah!
To: All
Date Posted: 09:51:51 10/08/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: pool-151-202-41-6.ny325.east.verizon.net at 151.202.41.6
Message:
Because ee crase lek you!
Subject: Re: SUBWANAHLAI is a Creation of KABS
From: NO ANSWER
To: All
Date Posted: 09:54:55 10/08/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: 65.107.153.146.ptr.us.xo.net at 65.107.153.146
Message:
So because you crase lek Kabs, will it be safe for me to say you are KABS?
Subject: Re: SUBWANAHLAI is a Creation of KABS
From: Teacher
To: All
Date Posted: 10:26:45 10/08/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: cache-dtc-ag14.proxy.aol.com at 205.188.117.142
Message:
"So because you crase lek Kabs, will it be safe for me "to say you are KABS?" -- NO ANSWER
The answer is no. You can not "say you are KABS?" unless and until your FIRST prove BOTH that:
1. Kabs [is] crase.
2. Your antagonist [is] "crase lek Kabs,/"
Since you failed to PROVE either in the body of your argument, it is NOT "safe" (valid) for you to say to your antagonist: "you are KABS?"
Subject: I WARNED YOU YESTERDAY : NOW, YOU BELIEVE ME
From: KABS KANU
To: All
Date Posted: 09:06:30 10/08/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: cache-dtc-ag14.proxy.aol.com at 205.188.117.142
Message:
I have been a forumite for a very, very long time. I have been a forumite at LEONENET, SLIS, AFRICAONLINE , NUP , TAMU etc. When I tell you anything about forums, you must believe.
I warned you yesterday that Sylvia Blyden was here in Maryland or London---And that means GOODBYE to good forums.In Freetown, because of blackouts and the high costs of Internet, she is subdued, but abroad, she is untamed. When she was here before relocating to Freetown, she destroyed all the forums with rudeness , mammy Cuss and nuisance posts. Nobody had masks like Sylvia. Nobody knows how to use masks like her. Nobody hates her. But it is the things she does. This forum is following suit. Many of the posts you have read are coming from one IP , which can be traced to her. She is very busy writing under different names as she has done before.
We at COCORIOKO rued this day. We did predict it.We said that if the SLPP loses and Sylvia finds she cannot live in Sierra Leone any longer and she returns to the diaspora, this forum and many others will be in serious trouble.
You are seeing the truth now. And this will not be the end.
You are going to hear salacious propaganda that you have never heard before in your life. Mr.Ernest Koroma's reputation is going to be shred into bits and pieces. My reputation is going to go to the dogs. You just watch and see.
Those of you who are new and never saw Sylvia Blyden in action will now see why she is much reviled. SHE IS A ONE-PERSON WRECKING CREW. JUST WATCH AND SEE. GOOD LUCK TO YOU .
Subject: Re: I WARNED YOU YESTERDAY : NOW, YOU BELIEVE ME
From: remedy
To: All
Date Posted: 11:39:30 10/08/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: cache-ntc-ad04.proxy.aol.com at 207.200.116.198
Message:
Why is the lady so troublesome? I THINK SHE NEEDS A STRONG AND VIRILE HUSBAND.
Subject: Re: I WARNED YOU YESTERDAY : NOW, YOU BELIEVE ME
From: remedy
To: All
Date Posted: 11:42:48 10/08/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: cache-ntc-ad04.proxy.aol.com at 207.200.116.198
Message:
I think if she has kids of her own,she will not have time for all this nonsense. she needs a husband. hey you guys in freetown, one of you should woo and marry this lady. please help.
Subject: Re: I WARNED YOU YESTERDAY : NOW, YOU BELIEVE ME
From: boli
To: All
Date Posted: 11:15:15 10/08/07 ()
Email Address: boli@yahoo.com
Entered From: 79-66-97-71.dynamic.dsl.as9105.com at 79.66.97.71
Message:
With all due respect to you Mr Rev. you are displaying paranoia beyond belief. Before you even think about saying it, I am not SLPP, PMDC or APC. You sound worried that people will believe what Sylvia has to say about you and your cohorts. Don't you trust that people like us are capable of disseminating fact from fiction? Is that why you wanted to impose registration? Have you got a skeleton in your cupboard? I am sure your standing as a man of God should endear you to people and anything said out of line would be recognised for what it is. If you can trace IP numbers to her, why have you not done anything about it? What have you got in your conscience that Sylvia knows about? Has she really got enough on you to send your reputation to the dogs? I suggest you come clean before she tells the world what she has on you.
I have been a contributor to this forum for quite a while and whilst I disagree with certain views, I have been impressed with the level of patriotism displayed by others. You have dulled my enthusiasm by your paranoid outbursts and the fact that you can't seem to fathom that people have differing views.
I grew up with the APC in government and my experience are like that of many people - disappointing. The NPRC and SLPP made it even worse, so I am a bit optimistic and hoping that the new government will make a difference. This does not mean I hate SLPP, but means I have a skeptical view about all politicians. That does not mean I will stay out of Sierra Leonean politics, to the contrary.
I commend you for your foresight in making this site a reality, but please accept the fact that you are not God almighty. People will question you, your motives and anything you believe in; and you should be ready to answer your critics as and when necessary. Sylvia is Sylvia, let her say what she likes as long as she does not defame your character. If she does, I am sure you know what to do.
As long as you are impartial and honest in what you do, the good lord will look after you.
Subject: Re: I WARNED YOU YESTERDAY : NOW, YOU BELIEVE ME
From: Old Timer
To: All
Date Posted: 11:03:27 10/08/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: accfcf5a.ipt.aol.com at 172.207.207.90
Message:
Kabs I have also been a long time forumite on all the forums you mention. Right now, things are not looking good for you. Your explanation is not credible. Also, don't forget that Sylvia Blyden runs the nation's most popular Internet Cafes and they run for 24 hours. Someone posted a link to that report here a while ago. Kabs, you need repentance.
Subject: Re: I WARNED YOU YESTERDAY : NOW, YOU BELIEVE ME
From: JANGAMADIN!
To: All
Date Posted: 09:35:42 10/08/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: pool-151-202-41-6.ny325.east.verizon.net at 151.202.41.6
Message:
I say this to Sylvia: BRING IT ON!
Meanwhile, some of us are planning to take legal action abroad for her role as a NINJA in the rebel war. We are already seeking legal advice. Now that she is away from her political patrons and protectors, the egregious role played by this woman in our national grief needs to be exposed.
I don't believe there is a statute of limitations in prosecuting crimes against humanity. I advise all and sundry to seek the opinions of human rights lawyers in your cities to see if there is sufficient evidence to trot her to jail. We will soon come up with a website for all evidence against this rebel sympathiser to be posted.
Sylvia wanna make some noise? Good. She ain't seen anything yet!
Subject: Re: I WARNED YOU YESTERDAY : NOW, YOU BELIEVE ME
From: Worwor
To: All
Date Posted: 10:18:54 10/08/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: cache-dtc-ag14.proxy.aol.com at 205.188.117.142
Message:
That's Blyden writing under another pseudonym.
She hopes to throw those not ofay with her anti-social abtics by adopting multiple personlities and then serially writing under respective monikers.
She fools only herslef -- not those of us familiar with her low-life posturing.
Subject: Re: I WARNED YOU YESTERDAY : NOW, YOU BELIEVE ME
From: Shut Up
To: All
Date Posted: 09:19:47 10/08/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: gov198.ucc.ie at 143.239.91.198
Message:
Bo Kabs shut up. Sylvia is not like you. She is enjoying a 7 week holiday. How ba you jealous? You are still clocking in and out at your age Sylvia makes her own money. Wae poshin pass you ee pass you
Subject: Re: I WARNED YOU YESTERDAY : NOW, YOU BELIEVE ME
From: Erica Adams
To: All
Date Posted: 09:17:18 10/08/07 ()
Email Address: ericamonique82@hotmail.com
Entered From: adsl-074-185-005-235.sip.clt.bellsouth.net at 74.185.5.235
Message:
I'm going to be bold and predict that this time she's going to self destruct. This is her last run with this kind of foolishness. She's really not well and she's going to unravel.
Subject: THIS DOES NOT READ LIKE AN SLPP BOOTLICKER TO ME
From: Reality Check
To: All
Date Posted: 08:33:49 10/08/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: ac9ff31a.ipt.aol.com at 172.159.243.26
Message:
WILL AN SLPP BOOTLICKER PUBLISH AN ARTICLE LIKE THIS CLOSE TO THE ELECTIONS?
Subject: Re: THIS DOES NOT READ LIKE AN SLPP BOOTLICKER TO ME
From: ANSWER
To: All
Date Posted: 08:37:31 10/08/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: cache-dtc-ag14.proxy.aol.com at 205.188.117.142
Message:
WILL AN SLPP BOOTLICKER PUBLISH AN ARTICLE LIKE THIS CLOSE TO THE ELECTIONS?
Answer: Yes, if she is looking to increase the blackmail money she was being paid by the increasingly desperate SLPP in exchange for not criticising the hopeless SLPP government.
Subject: Re: THIS DOES NOT READ LIKE AN SLPP BOOTLICKER TO ME
From: She is here
To: All
Date Posted: 08:45:29 10/08/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: cache-dtc-ag14.proxy.aol.com at 205.188.117.142
Message:
Sylvia is really posting on the forum.
Subject: Re: THIS DOES NOT READ LIKE AN SLPP BOOTLICKER TO ME
From: A Real Reverend
To: All
Date Posted: 09:01:23 10/08/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: ac9ff31a.ipt.aol.com at 172.159.243.26
Message:
You are obsessed with Sylvia Blyden. Makes me believe every word they say that you wrote to her to get your rocks off. You are simply a sick man
Subject: MODERATOR, PLEASE!
From: JANGAMADIN!
To: All
Date Posted: 08:26:27 10/08/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: pool-151-202-41-6.ny325.east.verizon.net at 151.202.41.6
Message:
Moderator, can you please post SUBWANALAI aka Sylvia Blyden's nasty and infamous SOFALI attacks against the Mendes on this forum? This is for research and historical reference, so all well-meaning people can see for themselves the venality of this indiviual.
We should all understand that the tribal harmony that we enjoy in Sierra Leone should always be defended from the vile attacks of those who would want to rip us apart for political purposes.
Subject: Re: MODERATOR, PLEASE!
From: A Real Reverend
To: All
Date Posted: 08:29:33 10/08/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: ac9ff31a.ipt.aol.com at 172.159.243.26
Message:
This forum has just gone to the dogs finally.
Do you guys really think you can bring Sylvia Blyden down with false allegations.
The real SUBWANALAI says he is a relation of Kabs Kanu. You keep on saying it is Sylvia Blyden but with no proof to back you up.
Stop acting silly please and leave Sylvia alone.
Subject: Re: MODERATOR, PLEASE!
From: JANGAMADIN!
To: All
Date Posted: 08:47:50 10/08/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: pool-151-202-41-6.ny325.east.verizon.net at 151.202.41.6
Message:
"This forum has just gone to the dogs finally."----A real Reverend.
What kind of Rev are you? I hope you are a real man of God. If however you are mishievously playing games with the collar, God may show His displeasure with you. You will go to hell wearing gasoline pants before this forum goes to the dogs!
Subject: Re: MODERATOR, PLEASE!
From: Eye
To: All
Date Posted: 08:32:52 10/08/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: cache-dtc-ag14.proxy.aol.com at 205.188.117.142
Message:
Enter the devil herself posing as "A Real Reverend!"
Does Sylvia Blyden have no shame?
Subject: human values are piercing the veil of the monolithic state
From: Phnom Penh Post
To: All
Date Posted: 08:14:01 10/08/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: f246106.upc-f.chello.nl at 80.56.246.106
Message:
The second half of the 20th century has witnessed unprecedented advancement of human rights. From Haiti to the former Yugoslavia to Rwanda to Sierra Leone to East Timor, human values are piercing the veil of the monolithic state and challenging the foundation of its values.
Subject: Chance to ask Ernest questions
From: Have your say BBC
To: All
Date Posted: 08:01:03 10/08/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: f246106.upc-f.chello.nl at 80.56.246.106
Message:
Have Your SaySend us your feedback
What would you like to ask President Koroma?
Africa's newest president, Ernest Bai Koroma of Sierra Leone, will answer your questions.
Mr Koroma faces a tough task with the country still in recovery from the civil war.
Ernest Koroma says he is in politics to make a difference and has promised zero tolerance on corruption.
Are you worried about corruption? What do you want to ask about his foreign policy? What are his passions? Send us your questions.
If you would like to join Africa Have Your Say and talk directly to President Koroma LIVE on air on Tuesday 9 October at 1600 GMT, please include a telephone number. It will not be published. You can also send an SMS text message to +44 77 86 20 20 08.
Subject: AS A;ieu Iscandri Leaves, KABS picks up as APC spokesman
From: alieu sesay
To: All
Date Posted: 07:56:58 10/08/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: 65.107.153.146.ptr.us.xo.net at 65.107.153.146
Message:
Now that AI has seen the writing on the WALL, a writing that we have being pointing out to him all these past months, a new/old spokesman has emerged from the DARK. His name is KABS.
KABS -The Independent journalist has finally made it categorically clear that he will OFFICIALLY be the APC mouth Piece.
We all know how long this BATOISM will last- until the naming of the CABINET, since the only REASON KABS, and MANSARAY are kissing the A-- of the APC Agbas is because they want to be in the Government.
We also know KABS is having a difficult time in the US. Working three jobs to make ends meet...
I patiently await your next move....I remain the GREAT ALIEU.
Subject: Re: AS A;ieu Iscandri Leaves, KABS picks up as APC spokesman
From: KABS KANU
To: All
Date Posted: 08:40:49 10/08/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: cache-dtc-ag14.proxy.aol.com at 205.188.117.142
Message:
Allieu Sesay,
I am far better than you in the United States of America. While you are a laborer in a factory or a sausage flipper in a Macdonald's, I am a school teacher and Pastor. You cannot compare my returns to your's. In addition, my wife and daughter are highly-paid nurses in the U.S. system .Therefore I am self-sufficient . But pray, mr.Idiot , HOW POSSIBLE IS IT FOR SOMEBODY TO DO 3 JOBS IN AMERICA ?
Only an idiot like you also does not know that some of us cannot be Ministers of government because we are not registered voters in Sierra Leone, according to the constitution.
I have been doing my job without Pay for 5 years
Whatever happens, my promise of yesterday stands. Ah go support APC tay go. If e hart you, nar for go drown nar de Atlantic. That hostile treatment you people want some of us in the press to give Ernest Koroma will not happen. If you think we are not doing our job and you have the ability, which is questionable on account of your bad grammar, open your own newspaper.
Subject: Re: AS A;ieu Iscandri Leaves, KABS picks up as APC spokesman
From: Sabonoh
To: All
Date Posted: 14:21:26 10/08/07 ()
Email Address: Sabanoh007@yahoo.com
Entered From: cache-dtc-ag14.proxy.aol.com at 205.188.117.142
Message:
Wilfred, stop this bragging that you have this and that. You should not have responded to that email. Remember the humble beginnings you come from. I do not want to remind you, I remember you when you were a baby with your brother Sorie in Bo. Continue to be humble and let your ministry guide you.Lonta
Subject: Re: AS A;ieu Iscandri Leaves, KABS picks up as APC spokesman
From: Manty
To: All
Date Posted: 11:28:36 10/08/07 ()
Email Address: MantyK@yahoo.com
Entered From: 79-66-97-71.dynamic.dsl.as9105.com at 79.66.97.71
Message:
What has happened to 'turning the other cheek? REV KABS, as a man of God what are you trying to emulate. What do you tell your parishioners when they ask about advice regarding a hostile neighbour? I hope you don't ask them to go and seek revenge, because that is not the will of God...I wonder where you were ordained and what the people who ordained you think about your actions.
Subject: Re: AS A;ieu Iscandri Leaves, KABS picks up as APC spokesman
From: Bombali Baby
To: All
Date Posted: 11:13:02 10/08/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: pool-72-83-147-157.washdc.fios.verizon.net at 72.83.147.157
Message:
This does not sound like a pastor. The Reverend sounds like a terrorist. Reverend you need to repent for your senseless act of immorality. How can you ask a female, not your wife, about her orgasm? Reverend are you the evangelical 'Howard Stern'?
Subject: Re: AS A;ieu Iscandri Leaves, KABS picks up as APC spokesman
From: PORROT
To: All
Date Posted: 08:52:08 10/08/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: 65.107.153.146.ptr.us.xo.net at 65.107.153.146
Message:
"HOW POSSIBLE IS IT FOR SOMEBODY TO DO 3 JOBS IN AMERICA ?"
Good question, why don't you answer that....You IDIOT.
Subject: Re: AS A;ieu Iscandri Leaves, KABS picks up as APC spokesman
From: alieu sesay
To: All
Date Posted: 08:49:57 10/08/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: 65.107.153.146.ptr.us.xo.net at 65.107.153.146
Message:
I have never being a laborer or a sausage flipper in the US or salone.
When a so-called man of GOD becomes a SYCOPHANT, a PRAISE singer, all in the name of JOB HUNTING, we the strong and vigilant will point it out.
You have, in a few days become an I--- and and A-- kisser to nth power.
There are 19 cabinet positions and PMDC has 5, EKUTAY has 5, Technocrats have 5, the APC has 4....Where will that leave you?
In NJ, with your F-- A-- working three jobs.
By the way i do not intend to open a news outlet for the simple fact that people like you have made one a NOBLE profession a place for DUMMIES and BOOTLICKERS.
Subject: Re: AS A;ieu Iscandri Leaves, KABS picks up as APC spokesman
From: FORREST GUMP
To: All
Date Posted: 14:00:08 10/08/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: host81-152-27-7.range81-152.btcentralplus.com at 81.152.27.7
Message:
ALIEU is this really you or an impostor
FORREST
Subject: fresh reward for sylvia blyden$$$$$$$1000.00$$$$$$$$
From: prosecutor
To: All
Date Posted: 07:49:32 10/08/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: host-24-225-160-74.patmedia.net at 24.225.160.74
Message:
FRESH REWARD FOR TURNING OVER THE PIG BACK TO ITS RIGHTFUL OWNERS (DEPT OF CORRECTION STATE OF MARYLAND)
WILL BE HANDSOMELY REWARDED.
Subject: Re: fresh reward for sylvia blyden$$$$$$$1000.00$$$$$$$$
From: Sheriff-on-the-ready
To: All
Date Posted: 09:12:07 10/08/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: pool-151-202-41-6.ny325.east.verizon.net at 151.202.41.6
Message:
We will catch this despicable SLPP sycophant. She supported the cutting of limbs as a propagandist for Foday Sankoh; she accrued corrupt contracts from her political bosses in the SLPP; she did everything in her power, including stoking tribalism, to upend a democratic ballot and she appeared to grotesquely justify, in her paper, the horrendous and evil 9-11 terrorism. We are waiting, handcuffs a-ready!
Subject: THIS IS THE APC'S ACCOUNTABILITY AS EBK'S RELATIVE GETS
From: False Prophet
To: All
Date Posted: 07:46:11 10/08/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: 65.107.153.146.ptr.us.xo.net at 65.107.153.146
Message:
Reliable sources from Houston TX informed me yesterday that EBK's neice/nephew( Sister's Child), was given $27000 to buy a Mercedes Benz-ML 320.
This Vehicle is on its way to Freetown via MERCK Shipping.
Our country is suffering and our people are dying everyday from hunger and starvation, yet our so-called leaders are yet to change their ways.
With Thieves in high places, NO wonder we are still at te bottom of the FILTH.
Subject: Re: THIS IS THE APC'S ACCOUNTABILITY AS EBK'S RELATIVE GETS
From: kamara
To: All
Date Posted: 08:20:01 10/08/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: pool-71-172-31-93.nwrknj.fios.verizon.net at 71.172.31.93
Message:
Eventhough , I think this new govt is incompetent and indecisive, I cannot accuse any one of stealing yet. Ernest's sister has a good job in Texas and can afford to easily buy the $27,000 mercedes for her brother,if it was for him.
The timing of it might be wrong when you cannot even form a cabinet to begin tackling the nation's problems.
Subject: Re: THIS IS THE APC'S ACCOUNTABILITY AS EBK'S RELATIVE GETS
From: news is back!!!
To: All
Date Posted: 07:57:21 10/08/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: f246106.upc-f.chello.nl at 80.56.246.106
Message:
If it was the hard earned money of the so-called niece/nephew to purchase a mercedes. does that warrant you to heap the blame on Ernest Koroma?
I am sure, that you will be able to make it known to our people in Sierra Leone that buying a car is not a luxury. When you have a permanent job, you can mortgage even Hummer!!!
Man the attention given to that bit if it is true does not deserve any censure.
Subject: Re: THIS IS THE APC'S ACCOUNTABILITY AS EBK'S RELATIVE GETS
From: peggyboy
To: All
Date Posted: 08:01:07 10/08/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: 65.107.153.146.ptr.us.xo.net at 65.107.153.146
Message:
What a coincedence....My uncle is te President and i get 27000 or more to buy an ML 320 for that price.....
One of two things:
The average ML320 year 2003 to later models is 18000 dollars...for him/her to pay 27000 for it means he/she did not EARN that money or he/she does not know what the heck she/he was doing.
Subject: Re: THIS IS THE APC'S ACCOUNTABILITY AS EBK'S RELATIVE GETS
From: babbob
To: All
Date Posted: 10:24:26 10/08/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 213.42.21.60
Message:
Bo Una Blow!!!!!!
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Subject: Re: THIS IS THE APC'S ACCOUNTABILITY AS EBK'S RELATIVE GETS
From: news is back!!!
To: All
Date Posted: 07:57:12 10/08/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: f246106.upc-f.chello.nl at 80.56.246.106
Message:
If it was the hard earned money of the so-called niece/nephew to purchase a mercedes. oes that warrant you to heap the blame on Ernest Koroma?
I am sure, that you will be able to make it known to our people in Sierra Leone that buying a car is not a luxury. When you have a permanent job, you can mortgage even Hummer!!!
Man the attention given to that bit if it is true does not deserve any censure.
Subject: Why besmearing Ernest Koroma?
From: news
To: All
Date Posted: 07:39:18 10/08/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: f246106.upc-f.chello.nl at 80.56.246.106
Message:
Notorious Sierra Leoneans are on it again. This time, they have steeped up with an unserious campaign to attack Ernest Koroma for no just cause. When their siblings and tribal brothers were destroying Sierra Leone immediately Kabbah took office, this hypocrite and unpatriotic people did not say any word till Kabbah destoyred the military Institution by favouring the Kamajors.
There is no reason warranted an attack against Ernest Koroma at this time of his Presidency. Even at State house, it is full of the former regime personnel and all governmnet Offices are yet to conduct a clean environmnet for the new government to operate. It behooves me to read wicked and malicious stories about the new APC leader and others.
For Sylvia Blyden to sleep in the same room with someone who nearly killed her Mother and forced her Father into exile in the UK makes me to wonder the nature of Sylvia.
What I have made to understand that this woman has strayed away from godliness as she is working with evil forces to grab anything she wishes.
Hopefully, when she will think twice and see that many people have turned their back against her for dining with the devil.
My advice to the Cocorioko team is to stop reacting to all the unwarranted trash Sylvia is writing and turn their attention in giving good advice to our new leader.
Thats the way to go, Bro. Kanu.
Subject: Re: Why besmearing Ernest Koroma?
From: kamara
To: All
Date Posted: 08:38:02 10/08/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: pool-71-172-31-93.nwrknj.fios.verizon.net at 71.172.31.93
Message:
Remember, Sierra Leone is a democracy, people are free to citicise , sing and write what they like as long as they pay the legal consequences. You APC fanatics constantly criticised SLPP. Now it is your turn
We will criticise, EBK because of his indecision in the naming a cabinet after 5 years in the oposition and a long election period. If he takes so long to name a cabinet.How long will he take to formulate policies to develop Sierra Leone?
Sylvia is not different from any oportunistic Sierra Leonean sycophant. Sierra Leoneans are opportunists by nature that' s why shaki rode rough shod over us for so many years.
Look at Sulay Daramy, he was kabba's right man.When the kabba staff when to pay a curtesy call on the new President, Who would they meet answering the phone? Sulay Daramy. Do not blame Sylvia. She is only playing the game. In two years , she will be the biggest APC booster.
Subject: Re: Why besmearing Ernest Koroma?
From: learn book
To: All
Date Posted: 09:57:07 10/08/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 83.229.112.2
Message:
Sullay Daramy is a civil servant, and will have to work with every Governemnt in power, so criticism against him is most unappropriate.
Subject: Re: Why besmearing Ernest Koroma?
From: kamara
To: All
Date Posted: 08:37:13 10/08/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: pool-71-172-31-93.nwrknj.fios.verizon.net at 71.172.31.93
Message:
Remember, Sierra Leone is a democracy, people are free to citicise , sing and write what they like as long as they pay the legal consequences. You APC fanatics constantly criticised SLPP. Now it is your turn
We will criticise, EBK because of his indecision in the naming a cabinet after 5 years in the oposition and a long election period. If he takes so long to name a cabinet.How long will he take to formulate policies to develop Sierra Leone?
Sylvia is not different from any oportunistic Sierra Leonean sycophant. Sierra Leoneans are opportunists by nature that' s why shaki rode rough shod over us for so many years.
Look at Sulay Daramy, he was kabba's right man.When the kabba staff when to pay a curtesy call on the new President, Who would they meet answering the phone? Sulay Daramy. Do not blame Sylvia. She is only playing the game. In two years , she will be the biggest APC booster.
Subject: Will Sierra Leone copies Bangladeshi mode?
From: news from AFP
To: All
Date Posted: 07:17:18 10/08/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: f246106.upc-f.chello.nl at 80.56.246.106
Message:
High profile Bangladeshi jailed
Several politicians are accused of acquiring luxury properties
A former Bangladeshi and Asian cricket chief and MP has been sentenced to 13 years in jail as part of the government's fight against corruption.
Ali Asgar Lobi is an influential leader of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party, and close to Tarique Rahman, the son of former Prime Minister Khaleda Zia.
Lobi's wife was also sentenced to three years imprisonment in the same case.
They were both found guilty on Sunday of acquiring wealth - including a house and a car - through dishonest means.
"The special court has jailed Lobi (for) 10 years for amassing a huge amount of illegal wealth. He was also sentenced (to) three years in jail for concealing income to the anti-corruption commission," prosecutor Mosharraf Hossain Kazal told the AFP news agency.
The former Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) lawmaker was also fined one million taka ($14.500) and had property deemed to be illegal confiscated.
Tarique Rahman has been in prison since March
Lobi served as president of the Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) for five years, and from 2002-2004 was president of the Asian Cricket Council.
Meanwhile lawyers acting on behalf of the military-backed caretaker government say that plans to establish a "truth commission" - under which business people can confess their crimes - are now well underway.
"The government will set up the truth commission as soon as possible in a bid to spur economic activities which have slowed down after the authorities launched their crackdown," Syed Anisul Haq, a senior Supreme Court lawyer who is drawing up the proposals for the commission, told the AFP news agency.
"The idea is to offer an amnesty to top businessmen. Their absence has led to the collapse of their enterprises and dragged the whole economy down," he said.
He said that members of the business community wanting to benefit from the amnesty must return the proceeds of any corrupt deals.
Correspondents say it is the first time that Bangladeshi authorities have acknowledged that sweeping reforms aimed at cleaning up the country's notoriously corrupt political and economic system have had damaging side-effects.
Subject: MODERATOR, TIME TO TAKE OUT THE GARBAGE!
From: FORUM SANITATION CREW
To: All
Date Posted: 05:41:25 10/08/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: pool-151-202-41-6.ny325.east.verizon.net at 151.202.41.6
Message:
Moderator, seems as if the porno filth Kabs Kanu warned us about has finally hit the ceiling. Sylvia Blyden aka Subwanalai aka Worworliwor aka Ninja Foday Sankoh propagandist aka SLPP bootlicking supremo appears to have broken through your firewalls again and is spewing pornographic filth in the forum.
Moderator and Forum Police, please take out this despicable human beign from this civilized meet. We are tired of her skunkish morals. Her crude vendetta against Kabs would have been laughable were it not for the tragic demonstration of her uncouth upbringing for all to wince at.
Fellows, it's time to take out Sylvia's trash to Bormeh.
Subject: Re: MODERATOR, TIME TO TAKE OUT THE GARBAGE!
From: SUBWANALAI
To: All
Date Posted: 05:49:57 10/08/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: host86-146-213-238.range86-146.btcentralplus.com at 86.146.213.238
Message:
Oh shut up you bootlicker!
Subject: Re: MODERATOR, TIME TO TAKE OUT THE GARBAGE!
From: FORUM SANITATION CREW
To: All
Date Posted: 06:00:04 10/08/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: pool-151-202-41-6.ny325.east.verizon.net at 151.202.41.6
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Look who is spewing epithets! Sylvia Subanalai, you spent the better part of your productive life wrapping your sycophantic tongue around the feet of Foday Sankoh as he chopped off the limbs of your compatriots and Kabba /Berewa as they sabotaged and pillaged the economy. So Sylvia, let's be very careful before we start casting stones! I know you are bitter that the corrupt contracts you used to get from SLPP have dried up, but that distress shouldn't be an excuse for your pornographic rants!
Subject: Re: MODERATOR, TIME TO TAKE OUT THE GARBAGE!
From: SUBWANALAI
To: All
Date Posted: 06:02:51 10/08/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: host86-146-213-238.range86-146.btcentralplus.com at 86.146.213.238
Message:
NOR HART YOU HADE. SA. LONE NA WE ALL YONE. SOME OF UNA GET FOR SHAME
Subject: Re: MODERATOR, TIME TO TAKE OUT THE GARBAGE!
From: FORUM SANITATION CREW
To: All
Date Posted: 06:15:50 10/08/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: pool-151-202-41-6.ny325.east.verizon.net at 151.202.41.6
Message:
WELL DEN BEHAVE YOU SEF, TITY! LEF FOR CUSS YOU BIG WAN DEM AND BEGIN FOR DO SOMETHING PRODUCTIVE FOR YOU KONTRI. DIS RUDENESS WOR YOU DAE SHOW SO, NOR TO SO DEN MEN YOU!
Subject: SUBWANALAI AND KABS ARE BLOOD COUSINS
From: SUBWANALAI
To: All
Date Posted: 05:37:25 10/08/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: host86-146-213-238.range86-146.btcentralplus.com at 86.146.213.238
Message:
Kabs will know the real SUBWANALAI who has been his nightmare these past few days, when the time comes. But first we have got work to do. Let trash out our differences.
Kabs is a fine gentleman who will always remain a critic. No doubt about that. But first he has to inculcate those values in his moderator
Subject: Re: SUBWANALAI AND KABS ARE BLOOD COUSINS
From: JANGAMADIN!
To: All
Date Posted: 05:51:37 10/08/07 ()
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Entered From: pool-151-202-41-6.ny325.east.verizon.net at 151.202.41.6
Message:
Your sick obsession and pathetic craving of attention just underlies the nastiness that spews from your dark soul and foams through your mouth. Your pornographic rudeness has just confirmed to all, who at one time sympathised with you, that you are indeed one sick puppy. You were banned from this forum for a reason. Of course you can keep crashing in, and pat yourself thinking you are smart, but guess what? Now you will have to do it by jumping through a window like a common thief, before thr door is slammed once again in your face!
Subject: Re: SUBWANALAI AND KABS ARE BLOOD COUSINS
From: SUBWANALAI
To: All
Date Posted: 05:53:53 10/08/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: host86-146-213-238.range86-146.btcentralplus.com at 86.146.213.238
Message:
I will rule this forum untill your co-attack dogs wake up
Subject: Re: SUBWANALAI AND KABS ARE BLOOD COUSINS
From: JANGAMADIN!
To: All
Date Posted: 06:09:08 10/08/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: pool-151-202-41-6.ny325.east.verizon.net at 151.202.41.6
Message:
Rule what, fool? You rule nothing but your frolicsome bile. It is you who have been doing the nasty Rotweiller attacks. It's you who thinks in your sick vanity that you can "destroy" a free forum like this. Sorry Ma, it ain't gonna happen. Some of us on this forum may disagree with Kabs politics, but HE HAS NEVER TRIED TO KILL POLITICAL DISSENT AT ALL, ONLY UNCIVILIZED, UNCOUTH BEHAVIOUR LIKE YOURS like when you nastily called the Mende people, the SOFALI tribe and also called them JANGAMADIN. Sylvia, U nor go blow, tity?
Subject: Re: SUBWANALAI AND KABS ARE BLOOD COUSINS
From: Sofali
To: All
Date Posted: 07:29:09 10/08/07 ()
Email Address: donidoni_int@yahoo.com
Entered From: adsl-69-108-68-64.dsl.irvnca.pacbell.net at 69.108.68.64
Message:
"like when you nastily called the Mende people, the SOFALI tribe and also called them JANGAMADIN. Sylvia,"
Do you think that SUBWANALAI is Sylvia???
I heard that she is SLPP propagandist. If so, why did she write NASTY Postings about the Mendes people?? Also, if I may ask, is she a Susu or Yalunka by tribe? Whoever used the words "JANGAMADIN and SOFALI" may either be a Susu or Yalunka or speaks one of the two Languages. Sofali and Jangamadin are very strong words
.
Subject: Re: SUBWANALAI AND KABS ARE BLOOD COUSINS
From: JANGAMADIN!
To: All
Date Posted: 08:16:54 10/08/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: pool-151-202-41-6.ny325.east.verizon.net at 151.202.41.6
Message:
She used those words to confuse us about her identity. That's how devious she is. Just as she started with a pro APC stance in her postings so that she would gain credibility when she started attacking Ernest Koroma.
Even with the rancor that usually prevails on the forum, I was taken aback by the atrociousness and nastiness of her JANGAMADIN and SOFALI attcks against the Mendes. She really tried to hide her tracks but her vanity and self-destructive venom have gotten the better of her.
Subject: Re: SUBWANALAI AND KABS ARE BLOOD COUSINS
From: A Real Reverend
To: All
Date Posted: 08:21:02 10/08/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: ac9ff31a.ipt.aol.com at 172.159.243.26
Message:
Revd Kabs Kanu, are you a real man of God? You seem to be sick. Where is the proof of the material you want us to believe that Subanalai is Sylvia? Reverend, are you a real reverend? Stop mocking God.
Subject: Re: SUBWANALAI AND KABS ARE BLOOD COUSINS
From: JANGAMADIN!
To: All
Date Posted: 08:39:08 10/08/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: pool-151-202-41-6.ny325.east.verizon.net at 151.202.41.6
Message:
This IS NOT Sylvia Blyden. I have never met the good Reverend in my life or any other Cocorioko administrator. Kabs does not write like me. We have different styles. I am just a concerned forumite who is outraged by the pornographic and tribalistic filth this Subwanalai character is spewing.
By the way, I was disappointed with Kabs' declaration of support for EBK. But honest folks wil agree that he has allowed people to differ vigorously with his positions and people have hurled personal attacks against him. Even in the free press in The States, most of the newspapers are slanted Democratic or Republican. As long as our rights to dissent and express on the forum are not compromised, I think we should all chill out and concentrate on productive discourse!
Subject: KABS KANU IS A PATHETIC LOSER
From: COMRADE SQUEALER
To: All
Date Posted: 03:52:12 10/08/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: 87-194-121-22.bethere.co.uk at 87.194.121.22
Message:
THE STORY IS BASED ON GEORGE ORWELL'S ANIMAL FARM
CHARACTERS
COMRADE NAPOLEON: KABS WILFRED KANU
COMRADE SNOWBALL: MODERATOR
COMRADE SQUEALER: SUBWANALAI
COMRADE MOLLY: HAJA KHADIJA
COMRADE BENJAMIN: A. ISCANDRI
COMRADE ATTACK DOG: FORUM POLICE
COMRADE OWLS: KALOS, MAMMY BLESSING, CANDIDDO, KABUDU GEN ETC
Dear Comrades of the Farm (Forum),
You might have heard about my miraculous escape from the farm yesterday, after Comrade Kabs 'Napoleon' Kanu, let loose his attack dogs on me, led by Chief Dog- Forum Police. I hadn't the time, unlike Comrade Benjamin(Alieu Iscandri) to say goodbye to all you positivos. Before I proceed with my ordeal, let me inform you all about the need to strengthen ties with our counterparts in the neighbouring farm, where I am presently seeking refuge. Comrades, Robert Frost was right when he wrote" Good Fences Make Good Neighbours" Remember the escape routes we carved at our fence? Well, they came in handy for my escape.
Though I am still licking my wounds here in exile, I have found time to write this testimony, copies of which are scattered all over the farm (LOOK DOWN THE STEPS OF THIS FORUM FOR COPIES, JUST IN CASE THE MAD DICTATOR NAPOLEON KABS TRIES TO REMOVE THIS ONE THAT I AM POSTING AT HIS BACKYARD.
Comrades, this is my story. You will recall that when we were planning to topple Mr. Jones (Kabbah and SLPP), we agreed that "TWO LEGS ARE BAD AND FOUR LEGS GOOD". As soon as Mr. Jones was overthrown, Comrade Napoleon (Kabs; the fat pig), who has imposed himself on the farm, started wearing designer coats, bowl hats and fat cigars dangling from his hog mouth. I pointed out this to him, that they are capitalist oriented. He dismissively argued that they were the sweet of office.
Again, I tried to reason with him that because he was deviating, hard working comrades like old benjamin the donkey, and even the pampered Molly have withdrawn their services. Again, Comrade Napoleon(Kabs) seemed please with these developments, because, according to his blue eye boy Snowball (the illiterate Moderator), this means Bra Kabs will remain the sole diasporan beast that EBK will consider in his all inclusive government.
Our real showdown happened yesterday, when for the first time, I caught Napoleon(Kabs) tip-toeing on two legs, (just like the ousted Mr. Jones), instead of his normal four legs., with a protuding BORBOH-BELLEH-LIKE stomach. I requested an urgent meeting which I regret now. My mistake was not bringing along the wise owls (Kalos, Mammy Blessing, Candido, Kabudu Gen etc.) At the meeting, I raised the question of Comrade Kabs Napoleon walking on two legs. My queries were met by growls from the attack dogs. I also informed my now lawless audience that the younger generations of the farm no longer wants a BORBOH-BELLEH as minister. As such to prepare Comrade Napoleon for subsequent ministerial appointments, we should send him to the gymn to cut down on his 'roast goat-like' belly. The now furious Comrade Kabs Napoleon could have none of these. After a short tete-a-tete with Comrade Snowball; the dick head Moderator, there was signal for the attack dogs to pounce. Comrades, around mid day yesterday, I was hounded out of the farm; the only home I have known all these years. By midnight, I tried to smuggle these leaflets you are now reading into the farm, but the attack dogs were keeping vigil, blocking every move I made.An hurried all night party was staged by who else, the party animal Comrade Boxer(Bambay LANS).
I think they are asleep now, so I have risked entering the farm. If he pulls this posting down, look down the forum's steps, you will find more copies. Comrades, the revolution has just begun. VIVE LA REVOLUTION!!! To all true comrades, please take care of Fifi my wonder dog, untill I re-unite with him again. Hopefully, Comrade Napoleon will tamper justice with mercy.
Yours Sincerely,
Comrade Squealer(a.k.a SUBWANALAI)
p/s. Kabs Kanu is a propagandist par excellence. He is so stupid that he si now trying to misguide the farm that Comrade Squealer is that other ugly Comrade Glover(Sylvia Blyden). But I know liberal minds who have been reading my postings will know how much WORWORLIWOR had come under my attack. I don't blame Kabs. When parents waste their hard earned cash and send a kid like Kabs to FBC, only for him to read GREKO(Greek and Roman History) and Church History(All those let my people go subjects), this is what they get
COMING SOON:
BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING. BASED ON GEORGE ORWELL'S ANIMAL FARM
Subject: Re: KABS KANU IS A PATHETIC LOSER
From: Bombali baby
To: All
Date Posted: 04:19:54 10/08/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: pool-72-83-147-157.washdc.fios.verizon.net at 72.83.147.157
Message:
Don't worry. KABS KANU is waiting for the day of judgment when his mockery of God will come to an abrupt end. What can of man of God is this? How can a so-called Reverend want to have online sex with a female not his wife. Did Kabs really ask the orgasm question? Kabs may your sinful and politically corrupt soul perish in hell. May the God you mock pay you back in your own coins.
Subject: Re: KABS KANU IS A PATHETIC LOSER
From: Real Reverend
To: All
Date Posted: 08:16:06 10/08/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: ac9ff31a.ipt.aol.com at 172.159.243.26
Message:
Amen.
Subject: Racist graffiti suspect arrested in N.B.
From: Bamaby Lans Kamara
To: All
Date Posted: 01:50:08 10/08/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: c-71-197-104-25.hsd1.ca.comcast.net at 71.197.104.25
Message:
Racist graffiti suspect arrested in N.B.
Updated Sun. Oct. 7 2007 6:07 PM ET
CTV.ca News Staff
A day after a national anti-racism conference at New Brunswick's St. Thomas University, Fredericton police arrested a man in connection with posters defaced with racist slurs.
The Fredericton campus was rocked recently by racist slurs scrawled across posters advertising a campus concert. In one instance, the image of a St. Thomas student who fled war-torn Sierra Leone was defaced by the phrase "White power and no black."
"I was shocked," said Andrew Sahr Gborgbor, a 22-year old student and musician whose image was vandalized.
Gborgbor fled war-ravaged Sierra Leone three years ago. The poster was promoting a concert organized to raise awareness and money to help bring his mother come to Canada.
Students gathering for the anti-racism conference this weekend told CTV News that the incident highlights the need for anti-racism education.
"It's a matter of respect and looking at our history as a way of teaching for the future," said Candace Slamon, National Chair of SHOUT, a student anti-racism group.
Campus security cameras provided police with leads that led to an arrest, said Constable Ralph Currie of the Fredericton City Police told CTV News.
"A 40-year-old male, Mr. Chow Wang, was arrested subsequent to our ongoing investigation into the two incidents that were reported to us," he said.
Jenni Stoff, National Program Coordinator for the Canadian Centre for Diversity said the incident is motivating.
"It makes us see first hand that the work we are doing is so incredibly important," she said.
With a report from CTV Halifax's Denelle Balfour
Subject: COCORIOKO WILL CONTINUE TO BOOST THE NEW APC GOVERNMENT
From: KABS KANU
To: All
Date Posted: 21:18:34 10/07/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: h167-156-253.63.chubb.com at 167.156.63.253
Message:
Ladies and gentlemen,
Do you now believe what I told many of you years ago at Leonenet and the NUP Forum ? I told you that now that the SLPP was in power then, some of us were getting serious problems pointing out the mistakes of the government.At that time, you could not say anything without being labelled RUF, APC , Mende-hater etc.
At that time, I used to tell you that some of the guys attacking me for criticising the SLPP knew me at college or had relatives who knew me.They were cognisant of the fact that I had always criticised governments, students council or national. I said that some of those crying me down used to hail me in college or downtown for my criticisms of Pa. Shaki's APC Government. They regarded me as a patriot and heaped all kinds of praises on me. I said that however now that the SLPP was in power, these same people had changed.Now, they do not regard criticism as an act of patriotism but a mende-hating enterprise or a genuflection of RUF traits. I told you then to wait until the APC came back to power.I said that these same people will expect me to be vitriolic and bitterly critical of the government. HAVEN'T WE COME TO THAT ?
Why do people now want me to be critical of Ernest Koroma and the APC government ? Was it not an offence only yesterday to criticise the SLPP government ? Was criticism of government then not regarded as an act of tribal-bashing, subversion and rebellion ? Why are people harassing my life for not criticising the new APC government ?
Do you people now see what I was saying all along ? Do you now see how some Sierra Leoneans behave ? What is sauce for the goose must not be sauce for the gander, according to them. The SLPP is a sacred cow, but the APC is a punching bag.
Well, bad news. I AM NOT GOING TO BE STUPID ANY MORE TO CRITICISE THE APC GOVERNMENT JUST LIKE THAT. Given the fact that Ernest Koroma was my college mate at FBC, and also given the fact that many APC officials have openly thanked me and confessed that I played a big part in their victory, I am going to be patient with this government and help to boost it and promote its goals and objectives . I am not going to be a fool again to antagonize another APC government. I am going to work along with this one until they achieve their lofty dreams for our country.
Criticising the SLPP was very bad and I was made to suffer at Leonenet, SLIS and the NUP Forum for years for pointing out the mistakes of the SLPP government .Well what is sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander. If criticising the SLPP then was an act of unpatriotism , criticising the APC today should also be an act of unpatriotism.
Ernest Koroma is the right man for the Sierra Leone of today. He has great plans for our nation. Lets us all therefore jump onboard and work patiently with him to help him achieve his goals.
MAY GOD BLESS OUR NEW PRESIDENT AND HIS GOVERNMENT.
Subject: Re: COCORIOKO WILL CONTINUE TO BOOST THE NEW APC GOVERNMENT
From: Jay aka Hateem
To: All
Date Posted: 08:32:52 10/08/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: c-69-140-34-194.hsd1.md.comcast.net at 69.140.34.194
Message:
Kabs, I respectfully disagree with your statement that you would not be criticizing the newly elected APC Government,apparently because of yoyur friendship with the President.
Well I also happen to know the President personally and I have been his staunch defender on this forum because I strongly believe that he would make a difference in our economic well being,but,I also believe that constructively criticizing him will boost his Government as mistakes that are not seen by the inside eye would be pointed out to them by us in the outside looking in.
There is an adage in krio,that"tell fren tru nor pwell fren",I intend to continue supporting the president but at the same time be offering criticism when it is necessary.Kabs,you have done a great job with your newspaper and this forum and I am sure you would not like to be perceived as the Awareness Times of the APC.
I know that some people will always hate you for the role you played in bringing down their corrupt Government,but please for the sake of the marginalised,downtrodden,used,misused and abused people of Sierra Leone let us continue the fight on their behalf.The fight of having a Government that is responsive to the needs of the people,the fight of calling out our leaders when they are involved in corrupt practices,the fight of equality and justice in our motherland.
The struggle continues until the aspirations of our peole ar met.
Subject: Re: COCORIOKO WILL CONTINUE TO BOOST THE NEW APC GOVERNMENT
From: @
To: All
Date Posted: 09:05:31 10/08/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: ac9ff31a.ipt.aol.com at 172.159.243.26
Message:
Here goes another one attacking Awareness Times needlessly. Time will tell who is the true hero of the people@
Subject: Re: COCORIOKO WILL CONTINUE TO BOOST THE NEW APC GOVERNMENT
From: Sidon yanda!
To: All
Date Posted: 09:15:48 10/08/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: pool-151-202-41-6.ny325.east.verizon.net at 151.202.41.6
Message:
Bo du ya go sidon saful wit yu worworliwor bato portmanteau!
Subject: Re: COCORIOKO WILL CONTINUE TO BOOST THE NEW APC GOVERNMENT
From: SUBWANALAI
To: All
Date Posted: 05:27:58 10/08/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: host86-146-213-238.range86-146.btcentralplus.com at 86.146.213.238
Message:
No one says you should criticise for the sake of it. All we ask is be realistic and objective
Subject: Re: COCORIOKO WILL CONTINUE TO BOOST THE NEW APC GOVERNMENT
From: Leonean
To: All
Date Posted: 03:55:09 10/08/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: 71-215-198-118.mpls.qwest.net at 71.215.198.118
Message:
Kabs, this will only shame those who have been defending your journalistic style all along. You are not the first Sierra Leonean to put self and partisan interest above national interest and will not be the last. No matter what promise your college mate may have made to you, we just hope that as a Reverend, you will for the sake of our country give him good advice.
Actually, some of us just have only been reading what was in the forum for a long time as your front page has just been a propaganda piece for the new administration since the election. You are now no better than Sylvia Blyden who we all used to condemn. What does it pay a man to gain the world and lose his soul. A sad day. May you get the wordly riches you have been praying for.
Subject: Re: COCORIOKO WILL CONTINUE TO BOOST THE NEW APC GOVERNMENT
From: Candid Opinion
To: All
Date Posted: 19:44:55 10/08/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: ip68-100-48-137.dc.dc.cox.net at 68.100.48.137
Message:
Oh... I thought i was the only one by-passing the papers and coming straight to the forum...
Its hard to read the buttering of Obai like a 5 pound turkey..
Subject: Re: COCORIOKO WILL CONTINUE TO BOOST THE NEW APC GOVERNMENT
From: A Real Reverend
To: All
Date Posted: 08:24:53 10/08/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: ac9ff31a.ipt.aol.com at 172.159.243.26
Message:
You were criticising Sylvia Blyden most unfairly based on propaganda put here by Kabs Kanu and his team of APC.
Blyden's paper was the most objective throughout the last one year. Go back and check.
Subject: Re: COCORIOKO WILL CONTINUE TO BOOST THE NEW APC GOVERNMENT
From: Bombali baby
To: All
Date Posted: 04:29:38 10/08/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: pool-72-83-147-157.washdc.fios.verizon.net at 72.83.147.157
Message:
SURELY KABS KANU DOES NOT HAVE A SOUL. HOW CAN HE LOSE ONE? KABS KANU HAS BEEN MOCKING GOD ON A DAILY BASIS. AT A TIME WHEN MINISTERS OF GOD ARE PRAYING AND STUDYING THE WORD, KABS KANU IS ASKING PORNOGRAPHIC QUESTIONS ABOUT FEMALE ORGASM. KABS KANU NEED TO REPENT!!!
2 CHRONICLES 7:14
Subject: OH KABS KANU HAS A FARM
From: COMRADE SQUEALER
To: All
Date Posted: 03:40:13 10/08/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: 87-194-121-22.bethere.co.uk at 87.194.121.22
Message:
THE STORY IS BASED ON GEORGE ORWELL'S ANIMAL FARM
CHARACTERS
COMRADE NAPOLEON: KABS WILFRED KANU
COMRADE SNOWBALL: MODERATOR
COMRADE SQUEALER: SUBWANALAI
COMRADE MOLLY: HAJA KHADIJA
COMRADE BENJAMIN: A. ISCANDRI
COMRADE ATTACK DOG: FORUM POLICE
COMRADE OWLS: KALOS, MAMMY BLESSING, CANDIDDO, KABUDU GEN ETC
Dear Comrades of the Farm (Forum),
You might have heard about my miraculous escape from the farm yesterday, after Comrade Kabs 'Napoleon' Kanu, let loose his attack dogs on me, led by Chief Dog- Forum Police. I hadn't the time, unlike Comrade Benjamin(Alieu Iscandri) to say goodbye to all you positivos. Before I proceed with my ordeal, let me inform you all about the need to strengthen ties with our counterparts in the neighbouring farm, where I am presently seeking refuge. Comrades, Robert Frost was right when he wrote" Good Fences Make Good Neighbours" Remember the escape routes we carved at our fence? Well, they came in handy for my escape.
Though I am still licking my wounds here in exile, I have found time to write this testimony, copies of which are scattered all over the farm (LOOK DOWN THE STEPS OF THIS FORUM FOR COPIES, JUST IN CASE THE MAD DICTATOR NAPOLEON KABS TRIES TO REMOVE THIS ONE THAT I AM POSTING AT HIS BACKYARD.
Comrades, this is my story. You will recall that when we were planning to topple Mr. Jones (Kabbah and SLPP), we agreed that "TWO LEGS ARE BAD AND FOUR LEGS GOOD". As soon as Mr. Jones was overthrown, Comrade Napoleon (Kabs; the fat pig), who has imposed himself on the farm, started wearing designer coats, bowl hats and fat cigars dangling from his hog mouth. I pointed out this to him, that they are capitalist oriented. He dismissively argued that they were the sweet of office.
Again, I tried to reason with him that because he was deviating, hard working comrades like old benjamin the donkey, and even the pampered Molly have withdrawn their services. Again, Comrade Napoleon(Kabs) seemed please with these developments, because, according to his blue eye boy Snowball (the illiterate Moderator), this means Bra Kabs will remain the sole diasporan beast that EBK will consider in his all inclusive government.
Our real showdown happened yesterday, when for the first time, I caught Napoleon(Kabs) tip-toeing on two legs, (just like the ousted Mr. Jones), instead of his normal four legs., with a protuding BORBOH-BELLEH-LIKE stomach. I requested an urgent meeting which I regret now. My mistake was not bringing along the wise owls (Kalos, Mammy Blessing, Candido, Kabudu Gen etc.) At the meeting, I raised the question of Comrade Kabs Napoleon walking on two legs. My queries were met by growls from the attack dogs. I also informed my now lawless audience that the younger generations of the farm no longer wants a BORBOH-BELLEH as minister. As such to prepare Comrade Napoleon for subsequent ministerial appointments, we should send him to the gymn to cut down on his 'roast goat-like' belly. The now furious Comrade Kabs Napoleon could have none of these. After a short tete-a-tete with Comrade Snowball; the dick head Moderator, there was signal for the attack dogs to pounce. Comrades, around mid day yesterday, I was hounded out of the farm; the only home I have known all these years. By midnight, I tried to smuggle these leaflets you are now reading into the farm, but the attack dogs were keeping vigil, blocking every move I made.An hurried all night party was staged by who else, the party animal Comrade Boxer(Bambay LANS).
I think they are asleep now, so I have risked entering the farm. If he pulls this posting down, look down the forum's steps, you will find more copies. Comrades, the revolution has just begun. VIVE LA REVOLUTION!!! To all true comrades, please take care of Fifi my wonder dog, untill I re-unite with him again. Hopefully, Comrade Napoleon will tamper justice with mercy.
Yours Sincerely,
Comrade Squealer(a.k.a SUBWANALAI)
p/s. Kabs Kanu is a propagandist par excellence. He is so stupid that he si now trying to misguide the farm that Comrade Squealer is that other ugly Comrade Glover(Sylvia Blyden). But I know liberal minds who have been reading my postings will know how much WORWORLIWOR had come under my attack. I don't blame Kabs. When parents waste their hard earned cash and send a kid like Kabs to FBC, only for him to read GREKO(Greek and Roman History) and Church History(All those let my people go subjects), this is what they get
COMING SOON:
BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING. BASED ON GEORGE ORWELL'S ANIMAL FARM
Subject: Re: COCORIOKO WILL CONTINUE TO BOOST THE NEW APC GOVERNMENT
From: Independent Voice
To: All
Date Posted: 01:47:10 10/08/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: c-68-54-210-212.hsd1.in.comcast.net at 68.54.210.212
Message:
I am a new and independent voice on this forum, and it is with some concern .. not that some people care ... that I write to express my disappointment at Kab's outright acknowledgment of partisanship. As a new reader of Cocorioko, I did sense some partisanship, but dismissed it because I wanted to give the paper and forum the benefit of the doubt in hopes that things will happen at the right time. Besides, the reality of life is that we all have our own biases, which are reflected in the things we do, say, etc. ... even reflected in the forums we choose to join or the newspapers we read ... if you get my point. However, it was disappointing to say the least to see Kabs admittedly be so blatant about his support for, and arrogant about his contribution to the ruling parties triumphant victory. I believe Kabs , as the editor-in-chief could have been diplomatic about his unwavering support for the party and continued to do business as usual – some will catch-up to the partisanship and others like us, would continued to just wonder, wait and expect constructive feedback for the ruling party at the right time and when it is needed - constructive feedback is always needed for development and growth.
I hope Kabs will reconsider his decision and try to refrain from taking sides under the guise of “fair” reporting. Frankly, we need to help foster an environment in Sierra Leone where our politicians will be held accountability for their actions and do the right thing for the people. Speaking truth to power in a free society is the greatest thing that could happen for any great nation . I am sure His Excellency (EBK)... and we all know how great of a leader he is going to be ... will appreciate and wholeheartedly welcome constructive criticism of his administration at any time.
Sincerely,
Independent Voice
Subject: Re: COCORIOKO WILL CONTINUE TO BOOST THE NEW APC GOVERNMENT
From: Latet
To: All
Date Posted: 23:21:38 10/07/07 ()
Email Address: mariamagas@yahoo.com
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It is just so amazing what you have succeeded in doing with this piece. You have only confirmed what many had suspected you to be (APC mouthpiece) for a very long time. I will tell you this much. Nothing is wrong in being a partisan, but you cannot be an objective journalist and PRO for APC at the same time. Sir, I cannot lecture you on this, but an objective journalist calls the spade its proper name regardless of his/her interest. I am sure most Sierra Leoneans at this juncture are praying that the current government succeeds, for if it did, our people's plight will hopefully be alleviated. Yet, that does not mean that people cannot genuinely criticize when there is the need. It is so wrong to think that the APC government will only succeed if you merely give it a pass. It is even worse that such a statement can come from a journalist who often refers to himself as fair and balanced. Anyway, I applaud you for being very honest about what is going to be your role now. Good luck with your PR job.
Subject: Re: COCORIOKO WILL CONTINUE TO BOOST THE NEW APC GOVERNMENT
From: Peter Anthony
To: All
Date Posted: 23:07:02 10/07/07 ()
Email Address: apmac18@hotmail.com
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I resepect your view and besides I respect your person, I truely believe you said the above to create a discussion, but you are not going to abandon what you beleive in, your journalistic character, what has made you the envy of others over the years...NO, NO, NO I do not beleive that.
If you are serious please don't. Politicians come and go...and they go along with those that stand by them,... they've done it with other journalists in the past
One thing about good image and good character.... they take years to build,... and once they are destroyed....forget it....ask your colleages.
You know your code....you've been among the best in the business...do not ..PLEASE.We need some WOLE SOYINKA'S too.
THERE IS DIGNITY/PRIDE IN BEING YOUR OWN
Subject: Re: COCORIOKO WILL CONTINUE TO BOOST THE NEW APC GOVERNMENT
From: fact
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Date Posted: 02:37:25 10/08/07 ()
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Wole soyinka is not a journalist. Go sidom. Di man noe wetin ee dey tork bort. slpp make borku man geh sense.
Subject: Re: COCORIOKO WILL CONTINUE TO BOOST THE NEW APC GOVERNMENT
From: Almamy Razak Tun Seray-Wurie Si
To: All
Date Posted: 21:47:06 10/07/07 ()
Email Address: almamysi@hotmail.com
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Bra Kabs,
I think you must continue being neutral and be on watch for SL's interest. I can remember my Uncle (you knew at College) telling me of APC going after you as a teacher (for engaging students on politics when discussing The 'Animal Farm' novel).
President Koroma is your generation and the Vice President is my generation. We have a duty not to blindly follow them but to pray/work sincerely with them
Subject: Re: COCORIOKO WILL CONTINUE TO BOOST THE NEW APC GOVERNMENT
From: Emmanuel Jarrett
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Date Posted: 09:15:33 10/08/07 ()
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I agree with you coz....KABS, you have been very objective and I knew you will support the current administration becasue of your ties but please also criticize them for the good of our mama salone.
Subject: Re: COCORIOKO WILL CONTINUE TO BOOST THE NEW APC GOVERNMENT
From: Erica Adams
To: All
Date Posted: 21:42:14 10/07/07 ()
Email Address: ericamonique82@hotmail.com
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One of the things about dysfunctional systems is that people don't have an appreciation for normal. Reading the comments of some it is apparent that they are content with the status quo or even worse as long as an APC government can't take credit for improving the country. People need to ask themselves how long is reasonable to expect to see changes. The country did not get the way it is overnight, so it's not realistic to expect changes to happen quickly either.
Subject: Re: COCORIOKO WILL CONTINUE TO BOOST THE NEW APC GOVERNMENT
From: CHRIS
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Date Posted: 23:08:08 10/07/07 ()
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Yes we are not to expect our country to be transformed dramatically over night. But we expect the new Leadership to Come storming out of the Gate, in other words hit the ground running. They have to start moving with a sense of urgency. Grab a few easy victories which will not only give them self confidence but will pave the way to tackling the more complex problems ahead.
Subject: Re: COCORIOKO WILL CONTINUE TO BOOST THE NEW APC GOVERNMENT
From: Cornelius Hamelberg
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Date Posted: 00:33:42 10/08/07 ()
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Yes, we shall encourage and support the APC government in every way possible and endeavour to be constructive in our criticism when we have cause or reason to criticize - and even there it is a way of seeing, a point of view, maybe a disagreement as to how to go about being more helpful – not in oreder to destroy the APC governemnet out of sheer malice and being abad loser. A bad loser who did not criticize the SLPP and still voted for the SLPP in spite of all they know that ..
There are those who want to criticize everything, those whose pastime consists in making mountains out of mole hills and creating storms in teacups.
Those are their miracles, and what the SLPP did not do since the SLPP came into existence, they would like the APC to accomplish in 24 hours.
Please read the APC Manifesto and president Koroma’s address at the Opening of Parliament. Get acquainted with the idea (reality) that we live in a world of cause and effect and that the Government’ miracles will therefore take a little longer – not forever, because steps are already being taken to eliminate those leakages in the national bucket as was THE SYSTEM under the SLPP government. The system of impunity that was above and beyond the rule of law and one of the problems that arrested our development.
Subject: Re: COCORIOKO WILL CONTINUE TO BOOST THE NEW APC GOVERNMENT
From: Bambay Lans Kamara
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Date Posted: 02:25:40 10/08/07 ()
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http://www.flickr.com/photos/ianlloyd/20946442/in/set-488343/
Rev KABS-KANU, in all due respect, I am advising you to do what is in the interest of Sierra Leone. I love President Earnest Koroma to death, the same way I love Mr. O.F.Yansaneh whom you know very well, my brother. Nonetheless, I will love Sierra Leone more than I will ever love them. I learned from Mr. Yansaneh, particularly his father, Alhaji Foday Yansaneh that when one gives you a positive criticism, they have seen a pit that they would not wish for you to fall into. Otherwise, they will let the blind the lead the blind, who escapes the pit is his luck.
Alhaji Foday, at the time, I thought was hard on me when he use to tell me not to wear certain pants, though these were in fashion; for example “gun-mot,” “stop the war” or any pants that was too tight that showed sign of my manhood. My aunt, Hajah Fatu Mansaray and all our mothers use to be very upset with him. I listened and when he realized that I am a listener, he became my advocate and friend. When I listened things changed drastically especially with my love life. May their souls rest in perfect peace. I appreciate.
Back to the topic, be who you are for your children and their children’s-children’s sake and for the people of Sierra Leone, including the government. Our governments were hurting because the leaders did not have people who would tell them the truth. It will be fatal should you see the President leading a wrong direction without pinpointing it to him. One would not know leadership until one works closer to one; when you are close but far, in which case you make open-minded observation about the leader, his desires and those that surround him. I will always respect President Joseph Saidu Momoh and Mr. Yansaneh knows why.
There is a difference between gossip, character assassination and advice. Until we know the difference, we are sure to be angry and make very many mistakes.
Prophets had their confidants but they also consulted with wise people. You serve a God whose work you must do by doing the right thing and expect His reward. You must be yourself and serve Him and Sierra Leone. If you deviate that obligation or from any of the two to either satisfy your detractors or the government, you will be doing yourself a disservice.
We all wish that God will guide President Koroma and his government to succeed. But again, our people say that a pumpkin no matter how watery it may, when cooking it one has to add more water. The President cannot do it alone nor can the government do it by themselves. We have to respectfully participate in giving respectful advice to them, free from hate, jealousy, intent on character assassination and the pull-down syndrome to giving constructive criticism when it is due. Most misconstrue criticism to be always bad. It all depends on how one thread between the fine-line.
Be yourself.
Subject: Re: COCORIOKO WILL CONTINUE TO BOOST THE NEW APC GOVERNMENT
From: Erica Adams
To: All
Date Posted: 08:35:25 10/08/07 ()
Email Address: ericamonique82@hotmail.com
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One thing that my pastor said just yesterday is that without the criticism of your opposition, you are weakened. If you think about it, that's what keeps us on our toes. I have just never seen so much desire to see government fail. Even before they can get started.
Subject: Re: COCORIOKO WILL CONTINUE TO BOOST THE NEW APC GOVERNMENT
From: SL600
To: All
Date Posted: 03:45:58 10/08/07 ()
Email Address: SL600@hotmail.com
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Bambay Lans Kamara - Man you are too funny in your comments. Hay also no you tube link today? I look forward to clicking on them. Peace!!
Subject: SUBWANALAI CAN'T BE BANNED
From: SUBWANALAI
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Date Posted: 03:58:10 10/08/07 ()
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"You can ban me, but you can't ban the spirit of the farm"- Prof. Subwanalai
THE STORY IS BASED ON GEORGE ORWELL'S ANIMAL FARM
CHARACTERS
COMRADE NAPOLEON: KABS WILFRED KANU
COMRADE SNOWBALL: MODERATOR
COMRADE SQUEALER: SUBWANALAI
COMRADE MOLLY: HAJA KHADIJA
COMRADE BENJAMIN: A. ISCANDRI
COMRADE ATTACK DOG: FORUM POLICE
COMRADE OWLS: KALOS, MAMMY BLESSING, CANDIDDO, KABUDU GEN ETC
Dear Comrades of the Farm (Forum),
You might have heard about my miraculous escape from the farm yesterday, after Comrade Kabs 'Napoleon' Kanu, let loose his attack dogs on me, led by Chief Dog- Forum Police. I hadn't the time, unlike Comrade Benjamin(Alieu Iscandri) to say goodbye to all you positivos. Before I proceed with my ordeal, let me inform you all about the need to strengthen ties with our counterparts in the neighbouring farm, where I am presently seeking refuge. Comrades, Robert Frost was right when he wrote" Good Fences Make Good Neighbours" Remember the escape routes we carved at our fence? Well, they came in handy for my escape.
Though I am still licking my wounds here in exile, I have found time to write this testimony, copies of which are scattered all over the farm (LOOK DOWN THE STEPS OF THIS FORUM FOR COPIES, JUST IN CASE THE MAD DICTATOR NAPOLEON KABS TRIES TO REMOVE THIS ONE THAT I AM POSTING AT HIS BACKYARD.
Comrades, this is my story. You will recall that when we were planning to topple Mr. Jones (Kabbah and SLPP), we agreed that "TWO LEGS ARE BAD AND FOUR LEGS GOOD". As soon as Mr. Jones was overthrown, Comrade Napoleon (Kabs; the fat pig), who has imposed himself on the farm, started wearing designer coats, bowl hats and fat cigars dangling from his hog mouth. I pointed out this to him, that they are capitalist oriented. He dismissively argued that they were the sweet of office.
Again, I tried to reason with him that because he was deviating, hard working comrades like old benjamin the donkey, and even the pampered Molly have withdrawn their services. Again, Comrade Napoleon(Kabs) seemed please with these developments, because, according to his blue eye boy Snowball (the illiterate Moderator), this means Bra Kabs will remain the sole diasporan beast that EBK will consider in his all inclusive government.
Our real showdown happened yesterday, when for the first time, I caught Napoleon(Kabs) tip-toeing on two legs, (just like the ousted Mr. Jones), instead of his normal four legs., with a protuding BORBOH-BELLEH-LIKE stomach. I requested an urgent meeting which I regret now. My mistake was not bringing along the wise owls (Kalos, Mammy Blessing, Candido, Kabudu Gen etc.) At the meeting, I raised the question of Comrade Kabs Napoleon walking on two legs. My queries were met by growls from the attack dogs. I also informed my now lawless audience that the younger generations of the farm no longer wants a BORBOH-BELLEH as minister. As such to prepare Comrade Napoleon for subsequent ministerial appointments, we should send him to the gymn to cut down on his 'roast goat-like' belly. The now furious Comrade Kabs Napoleon could have none of these. After a short tete-a-tete with Comrade Snowball; the dick head Moderator, there was signal for the attack dogs to pounce. Comrades, around mid day yesterday, I was hounded out of the farm; the only home I have known all these years. By midnight, I tried to smuggle these leaflets you are now reading into the farm, but the attack dogs were keeping vigil, blocking every move I made.An hurried all night party was staged by who else, the party animal Comrade Boxer(Bambay LANS).
I think they are asleep now, so I have risked entering the farm. If he pulls this posting down, look down the forum's steps, you will find more copies. Comrades, the revolution has just begun. VIVE LA REVOLUTION!!! To all true comrades, please take care of Fifi my wonder dog, untill I re-unite with him again. Hopefully, Comrade Napoleon will tamper justice with mercy.
Yours Sincerely,
Comrade Squealer(a.k.a SUBWANALAI)
p/s. Kabs Kanu is a propagandist par excellence. He is so stupid that he si now trying to misguide the farm that Comrade Squealer is that other ugly Comrade Glover(Sylvia Blyden). But I know liberal minds who have been reading my postings will know how much WORWORLIWOR had come under my attack. I don't blame Kabs. When parents waste their hard earned cash and send a kid like Kabs to FBC, only for him to read GREKO(Greek and Roman History) and Church History(All those let my people go subjects), this is what they get
COMING SOON:
BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING. BASED ON GEORGE ORWELL'S ANIMAL FARM
Subject: emancipate yourself from mental Slavery
From: james
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Date Posted: 20:48:15 10/07/07 ()
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Subject: THE UNTOLD SUFFERING IN THE CONGO
Untold Suffering in the Congo
by Keith Harmon Show and David Barouski
The British medical journal Lancet recently took greater notice of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) than all western media outlets combined. A group of physicians reported that about 4 million people have died since the "official" outbreak of the Congolese war in 1998 (1). The BBC reported the war in Congo has claimed more lives than any armed conflict since World War II (2). However, experts working in the Congo, and Congolese survivors, count over 10 million dead since war began in 1996-not 1998-with the U.S.-backed invasion to overthrow Zaire's President Joseph Mobutu. While the western press quantifies African deaths all the time, no statistic can quantify the suffering of the Congolese.
Some people are aware that war in the Congo is driven by the desire to extract raw materials, including diamonds, gold, columbium-tantalite (coltan), niobium, cobalt, copper, uranium and petroleum. Mining in the Congo by western companies proceeds at an unprecedented rate, and it is reported that some $6 million in raw cobalt alone-an element of superalloys essential for nuclear, chemical, aerospace and defense industries-exits DRC daily. Any analysis of the geopolitics in the Congo requires an understanding of the organized crime perpetrated through multinational businesses, in order to understand the reasons why the Congolese people have suffered a virtually unending war since 1996.
Some people have lauded great progress in the exposure of illegal mining in DRC, particularly by the group Human Rights Watch (HRW), whose 2005 report "The Curse of Gold" exposed Ugandan officials and multi-national corporations smuggling gold through local rebel militias. The cited rebel groups were the Nationalist and Integrationist Front (FNI) and the People's Armed Forces of Congo (FAPC). The western companies targeted by HRW were Anglo-Ashanti Gold, a company headquartered in South Africa, and Metalor, a Swedish firm. The HRW report failed to mention that Anglo-Ashanti is partnered with Anglo-American, owned by the Oppenheimer family and partnered with Canada-based Barrick Gold described below (3).
London-based Anglo-American Plc. owns a 45% share in DeBeers, another Oppenheimer company that is infamous for its near monopoly of the international diamond industry (4). Sir Mark Moody-Stuart, a director of Anglo-American, is a director of Royal Dutch/Shell and a member of U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan's Advisory Board (5). The report also suppressed the most damning evidence discovered by HRW researchers-that Anglo-Ashanti sent its top lawyers into eastern DRC to aid rebel militia leaders arrested there.
Several multinational mining companies have rarely if ever been mentioned in any human rights report. One is Barrick Gold, who operates in the town of Watsa, northwest of the town of Bunia, located in the most violent corner of the Congo. The Ugandan People's Defense Force (UPDF) controlled the mines intermittently during the war. Officials in Bunia claim that Barrick executives flew into the region, with UPDF and RPF (Rwanda Patriotic Front) escorts, to survey and inspect their mining interests (6).
George H.W. Bush served as a paid advisor for Barrick Gold. Barrick directors include: Brian Mulroney, former PM of Canada; Edward Neys, former U.S. ambassador to Canada and chairman of the private PR firm Burston-Marsteller; former U.S. Senator Howard Baker; J. Trevor Eyton, a member of the Canadian Senate; and Vernon Jordan, one of Bill Clinton's lawyers (7).
Barrick Gold is one of the client companies of Andrew Young's Goodworks International lobbying firm. Andrew Young is the former Mayor of Atlanta, and a key organizer of the U.S.-Uganda Friendship Council. Young was chosen by President Clinton to chair the Southern Africa Enterprise Development Fund in October 1994. Goodworks' clients-or business partners in some cases-include Coke, Chevron-Texaco, Monsanto, and the governments of Angola and Nigeria (note weapons transfers from Nigeria cited below).
Young is a director of Cox Communications and Archers Daniels Midland-the "supermarket to the world" and National Public Radio sponsor whose directors include Brian Mulroney (Barrick) and G. Allen Andreas, a member of the European Advisory Board of The Carlyle Group.
Barrick Gold's mining partners have included Adastra Mining - formerly named America Mineral Fields (AMFI, AMX, other names), formerly based in Hope, Arkansas, Bill Clinton's hometown. Adastra had close ties with Lazare Kaplan International Inc., the largest diamond brokerage firm in the U.S., whose president, Maurice Tempelsman, has been an advisor on African Affairs to the U.S. Government and has been the U.S. Honorary Consul General of the Congo since 1977 (8).
Maurice Tempelsman accompanied Bill Clinton during his African tour in 1998, and he sails with the Clintons off Martha's Vineyard. He serves on the International Advisory Council of the American Stock Exchange, and is a director of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute, a "scientific" front for his offshore diamond mining-raking the seabed into oblivion.
Adastra also purchased a diamond concession on the Congolese-Angolan border from the Belgian mercenary firm International Defense and Security (1998), and currently has cobalt and copper concessions in Congo's Katanga (Shaba) province (9). Adastra is a member of the Corporate Council on Africa, along with Goodworks, Halliburton, Chevron-Texaco, Northrop Grumman, GE, Boeing, Raytheon, Bechtel and SAIC-the latter two being secretive intelligence and defense entities involved in classified and supra-governmental "black" projects.
In April 1997, Jean-Ramon Boulle, a co-founder of Adastra (then AMFI), received a $1 billion dollar deal for mines in the Congo at Kolwezi (cobalt) and Kipushi (zinc) from Laurent Kabila's Alliance of Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Zaire (ADFL) before they were even officially in power. The ADFL were even allowed to use Boulle's private jet (10). Meanwhile, directors of Adastra are also former directors of Anglo-American (11). Other Clinton-connected founders of Adastra include Michael McMurrough and Robert Friedland-both involved in shady, criminal, offshore businesses in Indonesia, Africa, Burma and the Americas (12).
Barrick sub-contracts to Caleb International, who has also partnered with Adastra in the past. Caleb is run by Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni's half-brother Salim Saleh, the former acting General of the UPDF. When Uganda withdrew from the Congo in 2002 following a so-called "peace" agreement, Saleh began training paramilitary groups to act as Ugandan proxies to sustain the flow of minerals into Uganda (13).
Salim Saleh is a shareholder in Catalyst Co. of Canada, who has a 100% interest in Uganda's Kaabong gold fields (14). He is a part owner of Saracen, a private military company created by the mercenaries-for-hire firm Executive Outcomes (15). The U.N. Panel of Experts on Illegal Exploitation of Congo's Mineral Resources recommended Salim Saleh be put on a travel ban and have his assets frozen, but nothing was done.
Recent interventions by the armed U.N. peacekeeping mission in the Congo (MONUC) have concentrated on disarming or eliminating the Forces for the Democratic Liberation of Rwanda (FDLR), a rebel group that opposes Rwanda, and the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF), a rebel group that opposes Uganda. (Note that the Rwanda military has partnered with its erstwhile "enemies"-the FDLR-when necessary to secure resource plunder while Uganda has its own pattern of complicity with its "rebel" enemies. Rebel alliances are to perpetually shifting.)
The removal of these rebel groups will effectively clear the eastern Congo for large-scale multi-national mining. The Mai-Mai militia, whose stated goal is "to protect Congo from Rwandan and Ugandan invaders," has committed documented human rights abuses, yet they appear to be off the agenda for MONUC. The Mai-Mai operate in northern Katanga (Shaba) province and in the Kivus.
Katanga's militias and racketeering are connected to criminal networks of businessmen, including Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe, Billy Rautenbach, John Bredenkamp, and Marc Rich. U.S. diamond magnate Maurice Tempelsman has profited from Katanga concessions since the Kennedy era. Lawrence Devlin, the old CIA station chief of Lubumbashi under Eisenhower, maintained Tempelsman's criminal rackets with direct ties to Zaire's former President Mobutu, and was subsequently employed by Tempelsman (16).
The Forrest Group has the longest history of exploitation in the Congo, gaining its first mining concessions before the Congo declared independence from the Belgians. The group, which includes the Ohio-based OM Group, has numerous concessions in Katanga (Shaba). Chairman George Forrest is the former chairman of the Congo's state-owned mining firm GECAMINES, and owner of the New Lachaussee weapons manufacturing company.
Coltan ore is widely used in the aerospace and electronics industries for capacitors, superconductors and transistors after it is refined to tantalum. The U.S. is entirely dependant on foreign sources for tantalum, an enabling technology for capacitors essential to aerospace weaponry and every pager, cell phone, computer, VCR, CD player, P.D.A. and TV. U.S. import records show a dramatic jump of purchases from Rwanda and Uganda during the time they were smuggling tantalum and cobalt out of the Congo.
Sony dramatically increased their importation of coltan following the release of their Playstation 2, while Compaq, Microsoft, Dell, Ericsson, Hewlett-Packard, IBM, Nokia, Intel, Lucent, and Motorola are also large-scale consumers (17). Sony's current Executive Vice-President and General Counsel Nicole Seligman was a former legal adviser for Bill Clinton through the D.C. firm Williams and Connelly, LLP, whose clients included Bill Clinton and Oliver North (18). Sony Executive Vice-President and Chief Financial Officer Robert Wiesenthal is a former banker with First Boston, a supporter of Refugees International's "humanitarian" relief efforts at Rwandan refugee camps in Eastern Congo, just before the fall of Mobutu in 1995; Wiesenthal was also financial adviser to Cox Communications, OM Group, Time Warner and The New York Times (19).
Walter Kansteiner, the son of a coltan trader in Chicago, is the Assistant Secretary of State for Africa and former member of the Dept. of Defense Task Force on Strategic Minerals. Kansteiner's speech at The Forum for International Policy in October of 1996 advocated partitioning the Congo (then Zaire) into smaller states based on ethnic lineage (20). Ironically, while the speech was given, Laurent Kabila and his ADFL were beginning their march to overthrow Mobutu with the aid of Rwanda, Uganda, and the U.S. (21). Kansteiner is a trustee of the Africa Wildlife Foundation-another euphemistic front for resource acquisition in Congo.
Bechtel, a U.S. aerospace & construction company, provided satellite maps of reconnaissance photos of Mobutu's troops for the ADFL invasion of Congo in 1996; they also created infrared maps of the Congo's mineral deposits (22). The Rwanda Patriotic Front (RPF), led by Paul Kagame, the current Rwandan President graduate of the U.S. Army officers school at Fort Leavenworth, used Bechtel's NASA maps to locate Rwandan Hutu civilians that fled the cataclysm in Rwanda in 1994. An estimated 800,000 refugees were hunted down and killed in the Congo's forests (23). Bechtel's friends in high places include former Secretary of State George Shultz (Board of Directors), former Secretary of Defense Casper Weinberger (Bechtel Counsel) and retired U.S.M.C. general Jack Sheehan (Senior Vice President), who is also a member of the Defense Policy Board at the Pentagon (24). Riley P. Bechtel is on the Board of J.P. Morgan (25). Bechtel's Nexant Company is the prime contractor on the Uganda-Kenya pipeline project, believed to ultimately facilitate petroleum transport out of the Semliki Basin of Lake Albert.
The U.N. Panel of Experts named New England-based Cabot Co. for conducting unethical business practices (26). Cabot is one of the largest tantalum processors in the world. The current Deputy Director of the U.S. Treasury, Samuel Bodman, was CEO and chairman of the board for Cabot from 1997-2001 (27). Current Director John H. McArthur is a Senior Advisor to Paul Wolfowitz at the World Bank (28).
Private Military Contractors (PMCs) are also big business in Africa. Brown & Root, a subsidiary of Halliburton, helped build a military base near Cyangugu, Rwanda just next to the Congo-Rwandan border. "Officially," Brown and Root was there to clear land mines, but instead housed mercenaries from Military Professional Resources Inc. (MPRI) who trained the RPF and Laurent Kabila's ADFL for invasion of the Congo in 1996, and the Rwandan army's re-invasion in 1998, after Laurent Kabila threw out the Rwandans, Ugandans, Bechtel and the IMF (29). The French intelligence service reported that U.S. Special Forces and mercenaries from MPRI participated in the murder of Rwandan Hutu refugees on the Oso River near Goma in 1996 and even claims to have turned over the bodies of two American soldiers killed in combat near Goma (30). The circumstances surrounding the unofficial recovery of these two U.S. soldiers remain very mysterious (31).
MPRI is based in Arlington, Virginia and is staffed and run by 36 retired U.S. generals. It is contracted by the Pentagon to fulfill the African Crisis Responsive Initiative (ACRI). This program includes the Ugandan military, and it supplied military training in guerrilla warfare to Ugandan officers at Fort Bragg, North Carolina in July 1996. During the invasion of the Congo in 1998, Ugandan soldiers were found with ACRI equipment while Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International have implicated Ugandan battalions trained by ACRI in rapes, murders, extortion, and beatings of Ugandan civilians (32).
Executive Outcomes founder Tony Buckingham has established other Private Military Companies that operate around Africa. Buckingham's Heritage Oil & Gas works closely with his PMC Sandline International to manipulate the petroleum options around Lake Albert, and is believed to have signed concession deals with warring armies and governments on both sides of the Uganda-Congo border. Branch Energy is another Buckingham affiliated company operating in the Great Lakes region.
Investigations of illegal weapons sales to Rwanda last year, in violation of the U.N. arms embargo on the region, have been hampered by the Rwandan government's refusal to provide a list of serial numbers of the 5000 AK-47s delivered there. The shipping country, Bulgaria, also refused to provide serial numbers, and would only confirm that the weapons were sold legally to a non-embargo country, Nigeria, en route to Rwanda and DRC. The governments of Uganda, Congo, South Africa and Equatorial Guinea-a major U.S. petroleum protectorate-are equally culpable in supporting the clandestine arms sales to the region (33).
Weapons shipments arriving by boat from Tanzania, and the Government of Tanzania's role in supporting war in DRC, are never questioned. This may have something to do with Barrick Gold's mining licenses in Tanzania's Masaai territories. Aircraft flying between Tanzania, DRC, and from Kenya, are allowed to do so without proper documentation, record-keeping or customs oversight.
Another shady "untouchable" arms dealer operating behind the scenes in the region is an Indian-American named Mr. Kotecha. Kotecha's interests in South Kivu are substantial, and he is openly fingered as dealing in money laundering, arms, coltan and diamonds. After the first U.S.-sponsored invasion of the Congo in 1996, Kotecha is known to have repeatedly boasted of being the "United States Consulate" in South Kivu. Kotecha holds a U.S. passport and owns a mansion in California.
When an outspoken local defender of human rights working for a small NGO (Pascal Kabungulu of Heritiers de la Justice) was assassinated during the summer of 2005 in Bukavu, the alleged killers, including a local Congolese military commander, were identified but MONUC and the international "community" took no action. The killing revolved around his role in exposing the Congolese commanders' involvement in contraband smuggling (which continues today).
A U.N. Panel of Experts in a forthcoming report will challenge many airlines and companies for undertaking illicit flights (illegal, secret, unregistered or falsely registered) into and out of DRC. One of many notable companies apparently connected to Victor Bout's arms trafficking networks is Simax, an Oregon-based company using an address in Sierra Leone. However, the U.N. Panel of Experts has once again ignored certain western agencies-with histories of illicit activities-whose flights remain equally surreptitious and unaccountable.
At the top of the list is the International Rescue Committee (IRC)-directors include Henry Kissinger -whose flights in and out of Congo, and internal flights to and from isolated airports in eastern DRC, are completely unmonitored by MONUC arms embargo inspectors. In Bukavu, for example, all light aircraft are subject to MONUC arms embargo inspections, but IRC flights are not within the MONUC mandate. As one MONUC Military Observer admitted, "The IRC should be subject to the same standards as everyone else; otherwise we have to assume they are shipping weapons, because they do not let us confirm they are not."
Similarly, while the U.N. Panel of Experts have investigated and reported on certain illegal criminal networks and activities in Congo, they never attend to the top-level deals brokered behind closed doors by executives from Adastra, Anglo-American, the companies of Sweden's Adolph Lundin (a close friend of George H.W. Bush), who have control of mining concessions in Lubumbashi, Kolwezi and Mbuji Mayi areas in the Katanga (Shaba) and Kasai provinces. U.S.-based Phelps Dodge is partnered in Katanga copper/cobalt mining projects with Lundin's Tenke Mining. Phelps Dodge director Douglas C. Yearly is also a director of Lockheed Martin, and the World Wildlife Fund-partnered with USAID and CARE in "conservation"-read: acquisition-projects all over Congo while CARE's "humanitarian" agenda is also funded by Lockheed Martin.
"Conservation" interests provide the vanguard of western penetration in Central Africa: USAID, WWF, AWF, and Conservation International lead the charge. Evidence from USAID cases all over Congo quickly contradicts all fanfare about USAID bringing "sustainable" or "community development" projects. Most notable are the Central Africa Region Partnership for the Environment (CARPE) and Congo Basin Forest Partnership (CBFP), two programs pressing hidden military, intelligence and economic agendas. Notably, National Geographic is involved in furthering the mythologies of conservation, democracy, community development, or the lip service paid to respecting and supporting indigenous people.
Some people have suggested the reason that there isn't greater awareness and equitable intervention in the Congo is because "we simply don't know what to do" to remedy the situation. However, it is fairly clear what needs to be done, the West is just unwilling to do it because of powerful economic and geopolitical reasons.
Footnotes:
1. U.S. Military Training programs must have an oversight committee and total transparency. Western governments must end their hypocritical stance and ensure they don't train any "rebel" or "dissident" groups, especially if they are against a democratically elected government (provided the elections weren't fraudulent), even if the elected government isn't politically aligned with the western ideology and/or economic ideals. To do otherwise would refute claims that the west is intervening to "spread democracy."
2. In parallel with number 1, a committee must be set up to ensure the same doesn't occur for the private military companies. As multinational corporations, these firms aren't subject to obey laws of warfare as an established country's armed forces are supposed to. The U.N. must pass resolutions mandating the World Court and International Criminal Court (ICC) to prosecute such corporations. Lastly, when such companies are exposed for conducting illegal activities, such as aiding coups or trafficking human slaves, the corporations who conduct these activities must be blacklisted from receiving government contracts, domestic or international, and the guilty individuals must be prosecuted (34).
3. In the arms arena, more substantial efforts must be created to intercept and prosecute "embargo busters," illegal brokers, and arms sellers. Furthermore, those selling, transporting, brokering, funding, or wiring arms transactions for weapons specifically intended for children should receive the harshest of the penalties (certain "small weapons" are modified to reduce their weight to make it easier for a child to carry). Firms that participate in arms shipments, transport and/or the movement of the flow of the money generated from these sales with countries, people or organizations that are embargoed or act against national or international law should be held accountable for their crimes. Assets can be frozen, travel bans imposed, and all government and economic business ties with such firms severed. These penalties must also have an assurance of enforcement.
4. Debt relief is essential, but ways must be found to protect IMF and World Bank loans from being used for military expenditures. The motivations of World Bank President Paul Wolfowitz are suspect. Dr. Wolfowitz is a former Deputy Secretary of Defense under George W. Bush, a former ambassador to Indonesia under Ronald Reagan, a PNAC member, and dual citizen in Israel. Likewise, the World Bank and IMF must shift their policy of privatization as a stipulation for loan approval in order to stimulate business growth within the state instead of having the business sector growth be almost entirely from multinational corporations. The World Bank and IMF must also provide debt relief to the counties that need it most according to economic indicators. Some countries receiving debt relief, like Uganda and Rwanda, are among the biggest spenders of their loans in the military sector (35). It must be ensured that a majority of spending occurs on infrastructure and public services, and that this does not benefit the standard set of "embedded" western corporations. It must also be ensured the loan money is used in areas that need development the most. For example, in Uganda, the loan money Museveni has used for development has focused in the south in Kampala, the capital, and in Mbarra, his hometown. Meanwhile, the Acholi people, who always vote against Museveni's party in the polls, are ignored and the situation in the Lira, Gulu, and Kitgum districts continues to deteriorate. In addition, individual countries must examine the aid they give to countries that spend a high percentage of capital on military, as well as commit human rights abuses. Lastly, debt relief doesn't harm banks that gave the loans in the first place and collect on some of the interest rates, not to mention the American businesses that make profit on the privatized businesses as part of the loan deal. The debt is transferred to the taxpayers, so transparency is needed to insure that costs are also incurred by the firms granting the loans (if they want credit for their "humanitarian" debt relief).
5. Western countries must end the impunity for those responsible for looting minerals from Congo. Firms that purchase smuggled minerals, and/or purchase concessions from illegitimate rebel groups must be prosecuted. The World Court recently made a start by convicting Uganda and fining the government, but Rwanda, Burundi, Zambia, and Zimbabwe remain unaccountable for their direct pirating, as are the Western firms that purchased the minerals, and Western individuals supporting them. (The Kimberly Process, established with the support of academic and intelligence experts at Harvard University, is a perfect example of the gatekeepers policing their own gates: the huge, entrenched, but secretive interests like the Oppenheimer/DeBeers and Maurice Tempelsman owned companies are legitimized as dealers of "clean" diamonds; while the other, far less connected competitors and challengers of the status quo, including Congolese children sneaking into mines and being shot for "stealing" the diamonds off their own starving families' former lands, are demonized as dealers of "blood" diamonds.)
6. The World Court and International Criminal Court must hold all military and civilian leaders-African, U.S., European-that are guilty of war crimes and crimes against humanity accountable for their actions. The West must not be allowed to shield criminals from prosecution by virtue of their economic and political alliances with Western governments. Governments that harbor these criminals should be subject to prosecution. Economic sanctions may not be proper, as poor nations generally suffer severe civilian casualties as a result; specific involved individuals in government and the military must be held accountable.
7. "Peacekeeping" forces, in particular MONUC, must be examined to ensure that the mission is being conducted with the interests of promoting stability in the country. As illustrated, elements of MONUC have used the mission as a cover to further the agenda of the West and its corporate sponsors under the banner of "peacekeeping," causing the death of civilians in the process: those responsible should be tried and prosecuted. It must also be ensured that the investigations don't stop at individual soldiers or brigades committing crimes, but to examine the chain of command and their allegiances to uncover the motivations behind MONUC operations. There have been reports of MONUC troops looting ivory, gold, and animal skins in National Parks. Villagers say that they have seen murders occur right in front of MONUC soldiers and they didn't act to prevent the killings (36). MONUC soldiers have raped Congolese women (37).
When pro-Rwandan rebel leaders Laurent Nkunda and Jules Mutibusi, both war criminals wanted by the U.N., took over Bukavu by force in May 2004, MONUC provided them with weapons and vehicles. Nkunda himself has stated the head of MONUC, William Swing, personally gave him a telephone to use during the raid. (38)
8. The international media is completely silent on virtually every major issue of significance with respect to war in DRC-and the international and criminal networks behind it. Misinformation about Africa prevails due to a concerted effort by the mainstream media to blackout the truth. A boycott of key publications is imperative, and must include the most offensive: Boston Globe, Washington Post, Newsweek, Time, US News & World Report, USA Today, New York Times, the New Yorker (Conde Nast Publications), Harper's, Atlantic Monthly (highly subsidized by Lockheed Martin and Northrup Grumman) and, especially, National Geographic.
9. The fog of war needs to be cleared away from so-called "humanitarian" and "human rights" programs, organizations and individuals currently aligned with the Western corporate enterprise. Notables in this category include: Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International, CARE, USAID, Norwegian People's Aid, International Crises Group, International Rescue Committee, Refugees International, the Genocide Intervention Fund, and many U.N. bodies, but especially UNHCR. Most of these agencies appear to exist merely to perpetuate their own survival. Doctors Without Borders also deserves scrutiny for their recent actions in DRC.
10. The peace and justice community remains unaccountable for its failure to take any significant actions to mitigate war in Congo and expose the true reasons behind it. A first step should be open up the spaces to alternative voices currently excluded by major social justice media venues. Second is to declare a total boycott on diamonds and gold, and an organized campaign to protest and economically castigate diamond stores where Lazare diamonds are sold. A third action is the commitment of meaningful funds-both from individuals and from organizations-to support the vibrant grass roots organizations and individuals working for human rights, women's health, disarmament, education, food security, rainforest and environmental defense in Congo. Fourth, people need to break through their fear (inculcated by the western media) of taking action to help people in the Congo: there is no reason-except the unacceptable-that westerners cannot establish a "Witness for Peace" program situated in the Congo.
11. Rights groups with missions pertinent to Congo's need must expand their missions to include Congo. Rape is endemic in the Congo: a source of psychological and physical trauma, it contributes to the spread of HIV, Ebola and other sexually transmitted diseases. Survivors often give birth to HIV positive children with no prospects for medical or financial help. This has lead to an insurmountable need for aid to care for the orphans. Mothers of children conceived of rape are often disowned by their village and families. Western feminist and women's rights activists and organizations must get involved and provide resources for the victims of rape in Congo. Those responsible for rapes must be tried and punished as per the law if guilty. Indeed, evidence from rape cases in rural DRC shows that sexual violence is significantly reduced simply by holding military officers accountable for their troops' actions, but this is not happening.
12. MONUC's Radio Okapi is the lifeline of news in DRC today, but programming is largely comprised of U.N. programming. The United Nations needs to be pressured to open up the Radio Okapi network, eliminate the "fluff" pieces, and diversify and deepen its programming and reportage. As a simple example of how things could easily be improved in DRC, programs that sensitize the public o the issue of rape, and sensitize the military to the punishment for it, could easily be implemented; such programming is never considered.
13. The transitional government in Congo is comprised of military leaders and government officials who must be held accountable for their crimes. Like the individuals, organizations, corporations and governments that have supported them, all are responsible for crimes against humanity. The current profiteering in DRC is enabled by these key players, who hold the highest levels of the DRC government, and whose crimes remain hidden by the western press. The transitional government must not be allowed to appoint war criminals to cabinet or parliamentary positions, as well as local governor positions in the provinces.
References
(1) "Mortality in the Democratic Republic of the Congo: A Nationwide Survey." Benjamin Coghlan, Richard J. Brennan, Pascal Ngoy, David Dofara, Brad Otto, Mark Clements, and Tony Steward. The Lancet, 7 Jan. 2006. Number 367 pp. 44-51
(2) "Thousands' dying in DR Congo war," BBC News, 6, Jan. 2006
(3) "Depopulation & Perception Management Part 2: Central Africa," keith harmon snow. Pioneer Valley VOICE, Feb. 2001"; Congo: Capitalist Mineral Lust Fuels Bloodshed," Direct Action
(4) "The Lost World War," Erik Vilwar, Corporation Watch Newsletter, Issue 13, March-April 2003
(5) "Depopulation As Policy, or, How the Despair and Death of Millions of African People is Daily Determined by the Lifestyle of Ordinary Americans, in Small Town USA, With Nary a Word of Truth In the US Press, If Anything At All, And Why Most of Us Know Nothing About It, And Do Nothing To Stop It When We Do Know," keith harmon snow, 2003
(6) Private interview, keith harmon snow, Bunia, 2005.
(7) "Central Africa: Hidden Agendas and the Western Press," Pioneer Valley Voice, Keith Harmon Snow
(8) "Genocide and Covert Operations In Africa 1993-1999," United States One Hundred Seventh Congress. Subcommittee on International Operations and Human Rights. First Session. 17 May 2001. comp. Centre for Research on Globalization.
(9) Ibid.
(10) "Stolen Goods: Coltan and Conflict in the Democratic Republic of the Congo," Dena Montague, SAIS Review, vol. XXII no. 1 (Winter-Spring 2002); "Congo: Capitalist Mineral Lust Fuels Bloodshed," Direct Action; "Congo: The Western Heart of Darkness," Asad Ismi, The Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives Monitor, October 2001.
(11) "Depopulation & Perception Management Part 2: Central Africa," keith harmon snow, Pioneer Valley VOICE, Feb. 2001 .
(12) "Proxy Wars in Central Africa: Profits, Propaganda, and Luxury Goods for the White World-Pacification, Rape, and Slavery for the Blacks," keith harmon snow, World War 3 Report, Issue No. 100, 19 July 2004.
(13) "Named and Shamed," Ruud Leeuw.
(14) "Uganda, Sanctions, and Congo-K: Who is Who in Uganda Mining," Africa Analysis, 5 June 2001.
(15) "Corporate Soldiers: The U.S. Government Privatizes Force," Daniel Burton and Wayne Madsen.
(16) David Gibbs, "The Political Economy of Third World Interventions," University of Arizona Press; and Wayne Madsen, "Genocide and Covert Operations in Africa, 1993-1999," Mellen Press, 1999.
(17) "The Lost World War," Erik Vilwar, Corporation Watch Newsletter, Issue 13, March-April 2003.
(18) "Sony Corporation of America: Executive Biographies," Jan. 2006.
(19) "Proxy Wars in Central Africa: Profits, Propaganda, and Luxury Goods for the White World - Pacification, Rape, and Slavery for the Blacks," keith harmon snow, World War 3 Report, Issue No. 100, 19 Jul. 2004
(20) "Genocide and Covert Operations In Africa, 1993-1999," United States One Hundred Seventh Congress, Subcommittee on International Operations and Human Rights, First Session, 17 May 2001, comp. Centre for Research on Globalization
(21) "The U.S. (Under)mining Job of Africa"
(22) "Stolen Goods: Coltan and Conflict in the Democratic Republic of the Congo," Dena Montague, SAIS Review, Vol. XXII, No. 1, (Winter-Spring 2002).
(23) "A Continent for the Taking: The Tragedy and Hope of Africa," Howard French, 12 April 2005, Vintage, New York, NY.
(24) "The Exception to the Rulers: Exposing Oily Polititians, War Profiteers, and the Media That Love Them," Amy Goodman, David Goodman, 2004, Hyperion Press, New York, NY.
(25) See: "Friends in High Places: The Bechtel Story."
(26) "Stolen Goods: Coltan and Conflict in the Democratic Republic of the Congo," Dena Montague, SAIS Review, Vol. XXII, No. 1, (Winter-Spring 2002); Named and Shamed, Ruud Leeuw
(27) "Rwanda's Secret War: U.S.-Backed Destabilization of Central Africa," keith harmon snow, 12 December 2004.
(28) "Proxy Wars in Central Africa: Profits, Propaganda, and Luxury Goods for the White World - Pacification, Rape, and Slavery for the Blacks," keith harmon snow, World War 3 Report, Issue No. 100, 19 Jul. 2004.
(29) "The U.S. (Under)mining Job of Africa"
(30) "Genocide and Covert Operations in Africa, 1993-1999," United States One Hundred Seventh Congress. Subcommittee on International Operations and Human Rights. First Session. 17 May 2001. comp. Centre for Research on Globalization.
(31) Private interview, keith harmon snow, eastern DRC, July 2005.
(32) "Corporate Soldiers: The U.S. Government Privatizes Force," Daniel Burton and Wayne Madsen
(33) Confidential report, received, February 2006.
(34) "The Controversial Commando," Pratap Chatterjee, 14 Jun. 2004; "CSC/DynCorp." Corporation Watch; "Crossing the Rubicon," Michael Ruppert, 2004, New Society Publishers, Gabriola Island, BC, Canada: p. 79-80.
(35) "The Use of Rwanda's External Debt (1990-1994): The Responsibility of Donors and Creditors," Michel Chossudovsky, Pierre Galand, 30 March 2004.
(36) "Rwanda's Secret War: U.S.-Backed Destabilization of Central Africa," keith harmon snow, World War Four Report, 12 Dec. 2004.
(37) "Proxy Wars in Central Africa: Profits, Propaganda, and Luxury Goods for the White World-Pacification, Rape, and Slavery for the Blacks," keith harmon snow, World War 3 Report, No. 100, 19 Jul. 2004.
(38) "Report on Events in Bukavu, South Kivu: May 26 to June 9, 2004," Network of Women for the Defense of Rights and of Peace.
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Subject: WAS SIERRA LEONE CURSED TO BE A SYCOPHANTIC NATION?
From: BRA ENVIABLE
To: All
Date Posted: 20:38:48 10/07/07 ()
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I have just revealed the hypocritical brothers on this forum. The responses one gets from a message on Cocorioko depends not so much on the contextual validity of the message than its musical appeal. In layman's terms, the insults or compliments you get on Cocorioko depends on how well your message was sweetened for popular appeal. Asking Kabs Kanu to be considerate in his glorification of Ernest Koroma, proved too caustic for some people. I was born and raised in Sierra Leone. I know how yellow Journalism works hand in glove with sycophancy to lull leaders into believing that they are God's anointed. Here is an example. While wishing Ernest Koroma a happy birth day, Cocorioko fulsomely flattered the President with the following words:
"You have come to our beloved nation like Daniel come to Redemption. We believe that you are God-sent to lead our nation out of the morass of socio-economic and political backwardness."
The smarminess in the above nonsense is too mushy to be taken seriously. When did an untested President become so divine as to evoke Biblical comparisons? Apart from replacing an effete SLPP government through elections, what else has President Koroma done to attract "God-sent" encomiums like the ones quoted above? President Koroma is yet to fire his first political shot, but insincere compliments are already making him a rescuer from God.
Lest we forget, Stevens, Strasser, and JS Momoh the mental pigmy, were all viewed as "God-sent" before they could even begin to discharge menace on Sierra Leone. In the case of Momoh, the song that greeted him in power, "oodat gee Momoh power? Nar God!", will remain unparallel in infamy.
Political sycophancy is apparently a Sierra Leonean trait. No amount of national suffering will expose us to the fact that leaders in a failed nation are better treated with cynicism than flattery. President Koroma is a Sierra Leonean equal to Biblical redeemers of the oppressed? Not so fast, Please! How unu bad-off so?
Subject: Bra enviable , if you don't understand, please repsond.
From: Cornelius Hamelberg
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Date Posted: 23:41:06 10/07/07 ()
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Bra Enviable,
Please tolerate poetic excesses formulated in passionate patriotic prose – albeit through exalted Biblical affinities. There are national orators that show their mettle at coronations. My friend Muctarr Mustapha was an orator. His dad was minister of finance in the SLPP government - but on this occasion of Hon Ernest Bai Koroma putting a full stop to the continued plundering of our inheritance and redeeming the nation from any further continuity of collapse – in spite of all the goodwill money pumped into what was meant to be the Sierra Leone people’s economy – Muctarr would have probably come out strongly with some bombastic hyperboles about the victory of Sierra Leone’s FELLAHEEN - a word he taught me in form three – around which time I did not really have much use for the English dictionary.
Muctarr introduced me to the Cuban newspaper Gramma which at that time was one of the main sources of his oratorical – and rhetorical inspiration. Muctarr was head and shoulders more politically mature and savvy than the rest of us – the rest of us including his best friends my classmates Desmond Easmon and George Morgan. Of course with a name like that I had always thought that Muctarr was Temne. I didn’t know that he was Krio until a couple of years ago, after he had passed away.
Bra Enviable,
There are English language traditions - of expressing optimism, joy, hope in the future!
Much of it derives from some of the prophetic language of the Hebrew translated into the King James Version with which most of those who are the beneficiaries of a missionary education are familiar. It is true that there is an English type of culture that goes with the English language, and it may be observed that the British as a whole do not like enthusiasts – and do not tend to be effusive – unless showing great emotion – and mostly through the medium of Romantic poetry or a BBC football commentary - since football is an occasion for emotion - sometimes expressing itself through hooliganism, and other times, e.g. the last time that England won the world cup – by defeating Germany at Wembley, an occasion for GREAT EMOTION! The Football commentators were singing and I heard an aria or two – and some spontaneous poetry – yes, Bobby Charlton has been a redeemer on more than one occasion – and if Brian London (an Englishman) had won the world heavyweight crown – well, then most probably he could have ascended the throne by popular approval as the new King of England.
Indeed Ernest Bai Koroma defeated da so called ”bomba” just as David the Shepherd boy brought Goliath down to Earth and received a similar standing ovation.
The Latin temperment is of quite a more passionate nature – I’m thinking of the Spanish speaking world of Fidel’s oratory ( incidnetally Ché is being celebrated - it’s his 40th Anniversary now…….. I’m also thinking of the visionary language of some of the French philosophers ( contrasted with the logical positivists) Think of the Italian temperament and the emotionality of Russian-speaking Georgians. And during the apartheid years, the ideological passions of many of my South African friends - all of them great intellectuals, poets , writers, musicians, artists, activists. I’m sure that James Alie can tell you that Molefe Pheto fits all those categories.
Sierra Leoneans also have a right and a poetic license to express their emotions in any politically worded poetic extravaganzas that may overflow from their minds and their lips.
They can contrast the redeemer with the abysmal failure.
So I ask you: At this juncture, what's wrong with a partisan commentator - a san-san boy like me saying about president Koroma and the miracle (against all the odds stacked against them) of the opposition's victory in SIERRA LEONE,
"You have come to our beloved nation like Daniel come to Redemption. We believe that you are God-sent to lead our nation out of the morass of socio-economic and political backwardness.”?
It's a sentiment presently expressed in good faith and hope – a way of talking, that's all! Perhaps it lacks the scientific precision of the kind of pessimism a sour grapes pro SLPPer would like us to confine ourselves to – all in the name of a dead objectivity that would like to deny a presently euphoric APCer – and dictate that we feel other than what you feel.
And as Madiba Nelson Mandela said when the Wild West objected to him visiting his friend Colonel Muammar al-Qadhafi of Africa, “If you don’t like it you can go jump in a pool!”
Che Guevara
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Subject: Re: WAS SIERRA LEONE CURSED TO BE A SYCOPHANTIC NATI
From: Cornelius Hamelberg
To: All
Date Posted: 23:12:59 10/07/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: c-1e1271d5.01-32-73746f42.cust.bredbandsbolaget.se at 213.113.18.30
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Bra Enviable,
Please tolerate poetic excesses formulated in passionate patriotic prose – albeit through exalted Biblical affinities. There are national orators that show their mettle at coronations. My friend Muctarr Mustapha was an orator. His dad was minister of finance in the SLPP government - but on this occasion of Hon Ernest Bai Koroma putting a full stop to the continued plundering of our inheritance and redeeming the nation from any further continuity of collapse – in spite of all the goodwill money pumped into what was meant to be the Sierra Leone people’s economy – Mucatrar would have probably come out strongly with some bombastic hyperboles about the victory of Sierra Leone’s FELLAHEEN - a word he taught me in form three – around which time I did not really have much use for the English dictionary.
Muctarr introduced me to the Cuban newspaper Gramma which at that time was one of the main sources of his oratorical – and rhetorical inspiration. Muctarr was head and shoulders more politically mature and savvy than the rest of us – the rest of us including his best friends my classmates Desmond Easmon and George Morgan. Of course with a name like that I had always thought that Muctarr was Temne. I didn’t know that he was Krio until a couple of years ago, after he passed away.
Bra Enviable,
There are English language traditions - of expressing optimism, joy, hope in the future!
Much of it derives from some of the prophetic language of the Hebrew translated into the King James Version with which most of those who are the beneficiary of a missionary education are familiar. It is true that the English culture that goes with the English language, it may be observed that the British as a whole do not like enthusiasts – and do not tend to be effusive – unless showing great emotion – and mostly through the medium of Romantic poetry or a BBC football commentary - since football is an occasion for emotion - sometimes expressing itself through hooliganism, and other times, e.g. the last time that England won the world cup – by defeating Germany at Wembley, an occasion for GREAT EMOTION! The Football commentators were singing and I heard an aria or two – and some spontaneous poetry – yes, Bobby Charlton has been a redeemer on more than one occasion – and if Brian London (an Englishman) had won the world heavyweight crown - well then we would have probably he could have ascended the throne by popular approval as the new King of England.
Indeed Ernest Bai Koroma defeated da so called” bomba” just as David the Shepherd boy brought Goliath down to Earth and received a similar standing ovation.
The Latin temperment is of quite a more passionate nature – I’m thinking of the Spanish speaking world of Fidel’s oratory ( incidnetally Ché is being celebrated - it’s his 40th Anniversary now…….. I’m also thinking of the visionary language of some of the French philosophers. I also think of the Italian temperament and the emotionality of Russian-speaking Georgians. And during the apartheid years, the ideological passions of many of my South African friends- all of them great intellectuals, poets , writers, musicians, activists. I’m sure that James Ali can tell you that Molefe Pheto fits all those categories.
Sierra Leoneans also have aright to express their emotions in any politically worded poetic extravaganzas that may overflow from their minds and their lips.
They can contrast the redeemer with the abysmal failure.
So I ask you: At this juncture, what's wrong with a partisan commentator - a san san boy like me saying about president Koroma and the miracle (against all the odds stacked against them) of the opposition's victory in SIERRA LEONE,
"You have come to our beloved nation like Daniel come to Redemption. We believe that you are God-sent to lead our nation out of the morass of socio-economic and political backwardness.”?
It's a sentiment presently expressed in good faith and hope – a way of talking, that's all! Perhaps it lacks the scientific precision of the kind of pessimism a sour grapes pro SLPPer would like us to confine ourselves to – all in the name of a dead objectivity that would like to deny a presently euphoric APCer – and dictate that we feel other than what you feel.
And as Madiba nelson Mandela said when the Wild West objected to his visiting his friend Colonel Muammar al-Qadhafi of Africa, “if you don’t like it you can go jump in a pool!”
Che Guevara
http://search.msn.co.uk/results.aspx?q=Che+Guevara&FORM=MSNH&mkt=en-gb&x=15&y=7
Subject: Re: WAS SIERRA LEONE CURSED TO BE A SYCOPHANTIC NATION?
From: KING LOGGY
To: All
Date Posted: 21:06:01 10/07/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 144.226.173.69
Message:
"You have come to our beloved
nation like Daniel come to
Redemption. We believe that
you are God-sent to lead our
nation out of the morass of
socio-economic and political
backwardness"
--------------------------------------------------
Bra Enviable, the above quotation it seems is directed towards the failures of the SLPP rather than praising Ernest Koroma.
According to those who voted the SLPP out of power, Satan could have been considered "God sent" if he had "chased" the SLPP out of town.
Consider the word "REDEMPTION" as the most important word of the quotation.
Either way, this is only my take and others may have their's.
Subject: SYLVIA BLYDEN WAS THE SALESWOMAN OF RUF'S CUT-HAND IDEOLOGY
From: Forum Veteran
To: All
Date Posted: 18:21:20 10/07/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: h167-156-253.63.chubb.com at 167.156.63.253
Message:
Sylvia Blyden was the saleswomann of the RUF's "Cut-Hand " ideology . How can we take such an individual seriously ? She is mad for supporting the loser , SOLO B and the corrupt SLPP. She will take her anger on anybody who contributed to APC's victory, like Kabs Kanu.
Subject: BEWARE : OUR FORUM WILL SOON BE FLOODED WITH PORN
From: KABS KANU
To: All
Date Posted: 17:21:18 10/07/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: h167-156-253.63.chubb.com at 167.156.63.253
Message:
I am taking this opportunity to warn everybody on this forum that Sylvia Blyden has come to the diaspora --Some say she is in lONDON and others say she is in Maryland or Virginia.
What this means for us is that she is going to direct all her ire against us by making nuisance and defamatory posts on this forum. You have already read her posts on the form. It was her cunning means of entering the forum and stirring quarrels with profanities that made us to start showing IPs.
1. She was SUBANALAI. We detected it and blocked her IP. We TRIED TO BLOCK HER BUT USING HER I.T.SKILLS, SHE ALWAYS CAME BACK.SHE THEN THREATENED THE MODERATOR THAT IT IS ALL OUT WAR BETWEEN THEM AND HE WILL NOT ABLE TO BAN HER FROM THE FORUM. SHE WAS RIGHT UNTIL WE TOO USED OUR SKILLS AND WE SILENCED THAT MONIKER FOR GOOD.
2.Next, she posted under Victor, with a fake letter in which she pretended to be responding to a letter from the very Victor.In this letter, God save her soul, she said I proposed to her(Which is enough to make a cat laugh )and that I wrote her a letter as Mariama Massaquoi asking her about her orgasm. You all know I will not do that . She thinks lying about me will stop me from exposing her, but she is mistaken.She does not know how determined I am to make the world know the kind of person she is. You all know how much she lies so I don't have to dwell on that.
3. Next , she started posting as salone man today. The same IP numbers FOR VICTOR AND SALONEMAN .We are having problems blocking the IP BECAUSE SHE ALWAYS HAS A WAY OF CIRCUMVENTING BLOCKS AND COMING BACK.
Please be on your guard. Remember 2005 when she used to bomb and flood the forum with pornography and keep me and the MODERATOR cleaning it whole night ? Dont be surprised if we go back to those days.
Don't be surprised also .You are going to start reading CHARACTER-ASSASSINATION as you have never read before.She is going to take us back to the SLIS and NUP Forum days (under different monikers ) when the forums were trashed with character-assassination, mammy cuss and all filth , forcing the forums to close.
If you are one of those whose skin she gets under, your peace is gone. YES, SYLVIA BLYDEN IS IN TOWN. BUT I AM HER BOSS AND WILL HANDLE HER. I JUST WANTED TO PUT YOU ON YOUR GUARD.
Subject: OH KABS KANU HAS A FARM
From: COMRADE SQUEALER
To: All
Date Posted: 03:33:25 10/08/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: 87-194-121-22.bethere.co.uk at 87.194.121.22
Message:
THE STORY IS BASED ON GEORGE ORWELL'S ANIMAL FARM
CHARACTERS
COMRADE NAPOLEON: KABS WILFRED KANU
COMRADE SNOWBALL: MODERATOR
COMRADE SQUEALER: SUBWANALAI
COMRADE MOLLY: HAJA KHADIJA
COMRADE BENJAMIN: A. ISCANDRI
COMRADE ATTACK DOG: FORUM POLICE
COMRADE OWLS: KALOS, MAMMY BLESSING, CANDIDDO, KABUDU GEN ETC
Dear Comrades of the Farm (Forum),
You might have heard about my miraculous escape from the farm yesterday, after Comrade Kabs 'Napoleon' Kanu, let loose his attack dogs on me, led by Chief Dog- Forum Police. I hadn't the time, unlike Comrade Benjamin(Alieu Iscandri) to say goodbye to all you positivos. Before I proceed with my ordeal, let me inform you all about the need to strengthen ties with our counterparts in the neighbouring farm, where I am presently seeking refuge. Comrades, Robert Frost was right when he wrote" Good Fences Make Good Neighbours" Remember the escape routes we carved at our fence? Well, they came in handy for my escape.
Though I am still licking my wounds here in exile, I have found time to write this testimony, copies of which are scattered all over the farm (LOOK DOWN THE STEPS OF THIS FORUM FOR COPIES, JUST IN CASE THE MAD DICTATOR NAPOLEON KABS TRIES TO REMOVE THIS ONE THAT I AM POSTING AT HIS BACKYARD.
Comrades, this is my story. You will recall that when we were planning to topple Mr. Jones (Kabbah and SLPP), we agreed that "TWO LEGS ARE BAD AND FOUR LEGS GOOD". As soon as Mr. Jones was overthrown, Comrade Napoleon (Kabs; the fat pig), who has imposed himself on the farm, started wearing designer coats, bowl hats and fat cigars dangling from his hog mouth. I pointed out this to him, that they are capitalist oriented. He dismissively argued that they were the sweet of office.
Again, I tried to reason with him that because he was deviating, hard working comrades like old benjamin the donkey, and even the pampered Molly have withdrawn their services. Again, Comrade Napoleon(Kabs) seemed please with these developments, because, according to his blue eye boy Snowball (the illiterate Moderator), this means Bra Kabs will remain the sole diasporan beast that EBK will consider in his all inclusive government.
Our real showdown happened yesterday, when for the first time, I caught Napoleon(Kabs) tip-toeing on two legs, (just like the ousted Mr. Jones), instead of his normal four legs., with a protuding BORBOH-BELLEH-LIKE stomach. I requested an urgent meeting which I regret now. My mistake was not bringing along the wise owls (Kalos, Mammy Blessing, Candido, Kabudu Gen etc.) At the meeting, I raised the question of Comrade Kabs Napoleon walking on two legs. My queries were met by growls from the attack dogs. I also informed my now lawless audience that the younger generations of the farm no longer wants a BORBOH-BELLEH as minister. As such to prepare Comrade Napoleon for subsequent ministerial appointments, we should send him to the gymn to cut down on his 'roast goat-like' belly. The now furious Comrade Kabs Napoleon could have none of these. After a short tete-a-tete with Comrade Snowball; the dick head Moderator, there was signal for the attack dogs to pounce. Comrades, around mid day yesterday, I was hounded out of the farm; the only home I have known all these years. By midnight, I tried to smuggle these leaflets you are now reading into the farm, but the attack dogs were keeping vigil, blocking every move I made.An hurried all night party was staged by who else, the party animal Comrade Boxer(Bambay LANS).
I think they are asleep now, so I have risked entering the farm. If he pulls this posting down, look down the forum's steps, you will find more copies. Comrades, the revolution has just begun. VIVE LA REVOLUTION!!! To all true comrades, please take care of Fifi my wonder dog, untill I re-unite with him again. Hopefully, Comrade Napoleon will tamper justice with mercy.
Yours Sincerely,
Comrade Squealer(a.k.a SUBWANALAI)
p/s. Kabs Kanu is a propagandist par excellence. He is so stupid that he si now trying to misguide the farm that Comrade Squealer is that other ugly Comrade Glover(Sylvia Blyden). But I know liberal minds who have been reading my postings will know how much WORWORLIWOR had come under my attack. I don't blame Kabs. When parents waste their hard earned cash and send a kid like Kabs to FBC, only for him to read GREKO(Greek and Roman History) and Church History(All those let my people go subjects), this is what they get
COMING SOON:
BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING. BASED ON GEORGE ORWELL'S ANIMAL FARM
Subject: Re: OH KABS KANU HAS A FARM
From: Satmed
To: All
Date Posted: 11:42:25 10/08/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: 5ac74b81.bb.sky.com at 90.199.75.129
Message:
Don't you have better things to do. I'm not surprised all the Sierra Leonean Forums I have visited are sick and tired of you.
No wonder the SLPP lost the election, because people like have been cursed.
Subject: Re: OH KABS KANU HAS A FARM
From: YOU TARGETED US UBFAIRLY!
To: All
Date Posted: 06:55:59 10/08/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: pool-151-202-41-6.ny325.east.verizon.net at 151.202.41.6
Message:
Sylvia Blyden aka Subwanalai, when are you gonna apologise for your nasty diatribe against the Mendes during the election campaign. I thought at the time that it was a regrettable outburst borne out of frustration. Now I see it was a carefully planned, premeditated attack aimed at destroying the comity of this forum. You really are a sad pathetic creature. Apologise now before your soul burns in hell!
Subject: Re: OH KABS KANU HAS A FARM
From: A Real Reverend
To: All
Date Posted: 08:19:00 10/08/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: ac9ff31a.ipt.aol.com at 172.159.243.26
Message:
You people learn to leave Sylvia Blyden alone. No-one believes that she is any of the things you write about her except yourselves.
Sylvia is a great hero! Whilst the real bootlickers are licking boots, she is fighting for the common man. The voiceless. She has always done this and for that she has my everlasting respect. Leave Sylvia alone and concentrate on repairing your own shortcomings.
Subject: Re: BEWARE : OUR FORUM WILL SOON BE FLOODED WITH PORN
From: POLITICAL
To: All
Date Posted: 18:00:27 10/07/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: ip70-162-167-106.ph.ph.cox.net at 70.162.167.106
Message:
KABS, Sylvia may have some IT knowledge, but she is not what you think she is. She can be easily destroyed in her IT expertise. Sylvia is not much knowledgeable in terms of IT. You may soon prove that.
Subject: Re: BEWARE : OUR FORUM WILL SOON BE FLOODED WITH PORN
From: Abu Conteh
To: All
Date Posted: 17:49:19 10/07/07 ()
Email Address: conteh.abu@gmail.com
Entered From: 5ac7c0aa.bb.sky.com at 90.199.192.170
Message:
Aye, are you using a firewall on your system? If so you can block traffic coming from an IP address. Please have a chat with your web hosting company to install Nokia check point firewall on your servers and then everything will be blocking and allowing traffic through different ports. It's very easy do it but one need to understand how your systems are set up, in order word you can block traffic coming from the IP address she is using on the range from her ISP.
Cheers
Abu
Subject: Re: BEWARE : OUR FORUM WILL SOON BE FLOODED WITH PORN
From: Frant
To: All
Date Posted: 15:19:53 10/08/07 ()
Email Address: Frano@yahoo.com
Entered From: 79-66-125-218.dynamic.dsl.as9105.com at 79.66.125.218
Message:
THE MAN IS A PARANOID PIECE OF S**t
Subject: Re: BEWARE : OUR FORUM WILL SOON BE FLOODED WITH PORN
From: Abu Conteh
To: All
Date Posted: 17:48:04 10/07/07 ()
Email Address: conteh.abu@gmail.com
Entered From: 5ac7c0aa.bb.sky.com at 90.199.192.170
Message:
Aye, are you using a firewall on your system? If so you can block traffic coming from an IP address. Please have a chat with your web hosting company to install Nokia check point firewall on your servers and then everything will be blocking and allowing traffic through different ports. It's very easy do it but one need to understand how your systems are set up, in order word you can block traffic coming from her IP address she is using on the range from her ISP.
Cheers
Abu
Subject: Re: BEWARE : OUR FORUM WILL SOON BE FLOODED WITH PORN
From: Kabudu Gen
To: All
Date Posted: 17:45:08 10/07/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: pool-151-202-41-6.ny325.east.verizon.net at 151.202.41.6
Message:
We await the Ninja Mammy Ruda and all her vampire morphings, with a wooden stake. She wil soon discover that the resilience of a true press beats the evil machinations and scurillousness that she promotes in her sad, tasteless rag, The Awareness Times which is about to be feted with myriad law suits.
Subject: OH KABS KANU HAS A FARM
From: COMRADE SQUEALER
To: All
Date Posted: 03:35:59 10/08/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: 87-194-121-22.bethere.co.uk at 87.194.121.22
Message:
THE STORY IS BASED ON GEORGE ORWELL'S ANIMAL FARM
CHARACTERS
COMRADE NAPOLEON: KABS WILFRED KANU
COMRADE SNOWBALL: MODERATOR
COMRADE SQUEALER: SUBWANALAI
COMRADE MOLLY: HAJA KHADIJA
COMRADE BENJAMIN: A. ISCANDRI
COMRADE ATTACK DOG: FORUM POLICE
COMRADE OWLS: KALOS, MAMMY BLESSING, CANDIDDO, KABUDU GEN ETC
Dear Comrades of the Farm (Forum),
You might have heard about my miraculous escape from the farm yesterday, after Comrade Kabs 'Napoleon' Kanu, let loose his attack dogs on me, led by Chief Dog- Forum Police. I hadn't the time, unlike Comrade Benjamin(Alieu Iscandri) to say goodbye to all you positivos. Before I proceed with my ordeal, let me inform you all about the need to strengthen ties with our counterparts in the neighbouring farm, where I am presently seeking refuge. Comrades, Robert Frost was right when he wrote" Good Fences Make Good Neighbours" Remember the escape routes we carved at our fence? Well, they came in handy for my escape.
Though I am still licking my wounds here in exile, I have found time to write this testimony, copies of which are scattered all over the farm (LOOK DOWN THE STEPS OF THIS FORUM FOR COPIES, JUST IN CASE THE MAD DICTATOR NAPOLEON KABS TRIES TO REMOVE THIS ONE THAT I AM POSTING AT HIS BACKYARD.
Comrades, this is my story. You will recall that when we were planning to topple Mr. Jones (Kabbah and SLPP), we agreed that "TWO LEGS ARE BAD AND FOUR LEGS GOOD". As soon as Mr. Jones was overthrown, Comrade Napoleon (Kabs; the fat pig), who has imposed himself on the farm, started wearing designer coats, bowl hats and fat cigars dangling from his hog mouth. I pointed out this to him, that they are capitalist oriented. He dismissively argued that they were the sweet of office.
Again, I tried to reason with him that because he was deviating, hard working comrades like old benjamin the donkey, and even the pampered Molly have withdrawn their services. Again, Comrade Napoleon(Kabs) seemed please with these developments, because, according to his blue eye boy Snowball (the illiterate Moderator), this means Bra Kabs will remain the sole diasporan beast that EBK will consider in his all inclusive government.
Our real showdown happened yesterday, when for the first time, I caught Napoleon(Kabs) tip-toeing on two legs, (just like the ousted Mr. Jones), instead of his normal four legs., with a protuding BORBOH-BELLEH-LIKE stomach. I requested an urgent meeting which I regret now. My mistake was not bringing along the wise owls (Kalos, Mammy Blessing, Candido, Kabudu Gen etc.) At the meeting, I raised the question of Comrade Kabs Napoleon walking on two legs. My queries were met by growls from the attack dogs. I also informed my now lawless audience that the younger generations of the farm no longer wants a BORBOH-BELLEH as minister. As such to prepare Comrade Napoleon for subsequent ministerial appointments, we should send him to the gymn to cut down on his 'roast goat-like' belly. The now furious Comrade Kabs Napoleon could have none of these. After a short tete-a-tete with Comrade Snowball; the dick head Moderator, there was signal for the attack dogs to pounce. Comrades, around mid day yesterday, I was hounded out of the farm; the only home I have known all these years. By midnight, I tried to smuggle these leaflets you are now reading into the farm, but the attack dogs were keeping vigil, blocking every move I made.An hurried all night party was staged by who else, the party animal Comrade Boxer(Bambay LANS).
I think they are asleep now, so I have risked entering the farm. If he pulls this posting down, look down the forum's steps, you will find more copies. Comrades, the revolution has just begun. VIVE LA REVOLUTION!!! To all true comrades, please take care of Fifi my wonder dog, untill I re-unite with him again. Hopefully, Comrade Napoleon will tamper justice with mercy.
Yours Sincerely,
Comrade Squealer(a.k.a SUBWANALAI)
p/s. Kabs Kanu is a propagandist par excellence. He is so stupid that he si now trying to misguide the farm that Comrade Squealer is that other ugly Comrade Glover(Sylvia Blyden). But I know liberal minds who have been reading my postings will know how much WORWORLIWOR had come under my attack. I don't blame Kabs. When parents waste their hard earned cash and send a kid like Kabs to FBC, only for him to read GREKO(Greek and Roman History) and Church History(All those let my people go subjects), this is what they get
COMING SOON:
BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING. BASED ON GEORGE ORWELL'S ANIMAL FARM
Subject: Re: OH KABS KANU HAS A FARM
From: SQUEAL ME A RIVER, SYLVIA SUBWANALAI!
To: All
Date Posted: 07:01:15 10/08/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: pool-151-202-41-6.ny325.east.verizon.net at 151.202.41.6
Message:
I lost all respect for you when you started spamming the place with cheap pornographic propaganda. I hope you hold your head in shame for insulting the Mendes as the SOFALI tribe during the elections. And I hope you get chased out of this forum like a mangy dog everytime you sneak in. Apologise, thou loathsome propagandist!
Subject: Re: BEWARE : OUR FORUM WILL SOON BE FLOODED WITH PORN
From: Forum Veteran
To: All
Date Posted: 17:36:15 10/07/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: h167-156-253.63.chubb.com at 167.156.63.253
Message:
KABS, have you forgotten years back when Gongolie Sylvia accused us at Leonenet that the reason we were pummelling her was that we got orgasm from just mentioning her name ? These are some of her tactics .Just ignore that ugly B. She is mad at you because you won and she lost.
.
Subject: Re: BEWARE : OUR FORUM WILL SOON BE FLOODED WITH PORN
From: Mammie Cuss
To: All
Date Posted: 19:23:06 10/07/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: h167-156-253.63.chubb.com at 167.156.63.253
Message:
Sylvia is a troubled woman with an overexpanded libido. She associates everything with sex.Piaget will say she is penis envy, but what to do ? She is our country woman.Let's spare her.
Subject: Re: BEWARE : OUR FORUM WILL SOON BE FLOODED WITH PORN
From: KABS KANU
To: All
Date Posted: 18:11:17 10/07/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: h167-156-253.63.chubb.com at 167.156.63.253
Message:
I am not bothered by her.I just want to put you all on guard. You remember that when she used to fllod the forum with porn, we had to take the forum down to be able to clean it. I just want to put you on your guard about the oncoming interruptions.
I am not bothered by her defamation because I am used to them.
Subject: WARNING TO ALL : SYLVIA BLYDEN WILL SOON FLOOD THE FORUM
From: KABS KANU
To: All
Date Posted: 17:15:10 10/07/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: h167-156-253.63.chubb.com at 167.156.63.253
Message:
I am taking this opportunity to warn everybody on this forum that Sylvia Blyden has come to the diaspora --Some say she is in lONDON and others say she is in Maryland or Virginia.
What this means for us is that she is going to direct all her ire against us by making nuisance and defamatory posts on this forum. You have already read her posts on the form. It was her cunning means of entering the forum and stirring quarrels with profanities that made us to start showing IPs.
1. She was SUBANALAI. We detected it and blocked her IP. We TRIED TO BLOCK HER BUT USING HER I.T.SKILLS, SHE ALWAYS CAME BACK.SHE THEN THREATENED THE MODERATOR THAT IT IS ALL OUT WAR BETWEEN THEM AND HE WILL NOT ABLE TO BAN HER FROM THE FORUM. SHE WAS RIGHT UNTIL WE TOO USED OUR SKILLS AND WE SILENCED THAT MONIKER FOR GOOD.
2.Next, she posted under Victor, with a fake letter in which she pretended to be responding to a letter from the very Victor.In this letter, God save her soul, she said I proposed to her(Which is enough to make a cat laugh )and that I wrote her a letter as Mariama Massaquoi asking her about her orgasm. You all know I will not do that . She thinks lying about me will stop me from exposing her, but she is mistaken.She does not know how determined I am to make the world know the kind of person she is. You all know how much she lies so I don't have to dwell on that.
3. Next , she started posting as salone man today. The same IP numbers FOR VICTOR AND SALONEMAN .We are having problems blocking the IP BECAUSE SHE ALWAYS HAS A WAY OF CIRCUMVENTING BLOCKS AND COMING BACK.
Please be on your guard. Remember 2005 when she used to bomb and flood the forum with pornography and keep me and the MODERATOR cleaning it whole night ? Dont be surprised if we go back to those days.
Don't be surprised also .You are going to start reading CHARACTER-ASSASSINATION as you have never read before.She is going to take us back to the SLIS and NUP Forum days (under different monikers ) when the forums were trashed with character-assassination, mammy cuss and all filth , forcing the forums to close.
If you are one of those whose skin she gets under, your peace is gone. YES, SYLVIA BLYDEN IS IN TOWN. BUT I AM HER BOSS AND WILL HANDLE HER. I JUST WANTED TO PUT YOU ON YOUR GUARD.
Subject: MY EXCHANGE WITH THE GREAT DR. SYLVIA BLYDEN (aka SMARTEST)!
From: Victor
To: All
Date Posted: 16:38:06 10/07/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: cache-los-ae04.proxy.aol.com at 195.93.21.132
Message:
MY EXCHANGE WITH THE GREAT DR. SYLVIA BLYDEN (aka SMARTEST)!
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Posted by Victor [cache-los-ae04.proxy.aol.com at 195.93.21.132] on October 07, 2007 at 16:19:36:
Subject: Re: THANKS SO MUCH BUT DONT WORRY YOUR HEAD
From: "Dr. Sylvia Blyden"
Date: Sun, October 7, 2007 8:17 pm
To: "Victor Stephens"
Priority: Normal
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I saw missed calls when I woke up. I was resting and phone was in silent mode.
Well, if you feel so, post it. I have read it through and everything there is
correct. It will raise their ire against me but who cares? More publicity!(smile).
You go ahead son.
Please delete my contact phone numbers!
It's the Smartest Doc!
On Sun, October 7, 2007 2:14 pm, Victor Stephens wrote:
> Smartest, can I please have your permission to post this email of yours on
> the online forums? It will be a much needed piece that will expose the
> Cocorioko Reverend and his people always using fake names to attack you.
> Please give me permission to post it both on Cocorioko and on Awareness
> Forum also. I have been having problems logging on to Awareness Forum lately
>
> Also, I tried calling the number listed but it just rang and rang.
>
> Please respond
>
> Your boy,
> Victor.
>
>
> On Sun, October 7, 2007 1:07 pm, Dr. Sylvia Blyden wrote:
>> Hi Dear,
>>
>> Don't worry your head about Cocorioko. Kabs Kanu has always had a bee in
>> his trousers for me and his Forum Moderator or Forum Police is still mad
>> at me for turning down his marriage offer in 1996. He is married now but
>> he seems to still be mad at me. I pray for him at any chance I get for
>> him
>> to get peace of mind and stop spreading lies about me.
>>
>> What asylum? Where? Ha ha ha! That is the funniest thing I have heard in
>> a
>> long time. I am right now in London preparing to fly to a few other
>> European cities
>> before going back to Freetown next weekend and then on to Ghana, Liberia,
>> Nigeria and South Africa to continue my vacation. America is not even in
>> my planned itinerary let alone me planning to seek asylum there. My life
>> in
>> Freetown is solid right now. I have a role to play for my people and
>> that
>> is exactly what I am going to do.
>>
>> My dear, let me tell you what my grandfather told me a long time ago. NO
>> POLITICIAN TURNS DOWN PUBLICITY WHETHER NEGATIVE OR NOT. These people
>> always writing about me even when I don't countenance them are just
>> making
>> me more popular. Now, everyone knows there is someone known as Sylvia
>> Blyden existing. All I need to do when I want to enter active politics
>> is
>> to connect with people and tell me true, who can resist my charm when
>> they
>> meet the REAL Sylvia against the monster my detractors want to paint me
>> as? (wink, wink).
>>
>> Blow for you yah. Nor hart you hade. Make den write... Ar nor mind. As
>> long as noto person wey ar respect dey write bad about me, ar nor go
>> mind
>> at all. If I respected Kabs Kanu, I will feel bad reading his obnoxious
>> articles he always publishes against me but since I don't have an iota
>> of
>> respect for a man who once wrote to me under the pseudonym of Mariama
>> Massaquoi asking me to tell him what it feels like to have an orgasm
>> since he (Mariama) had suffered Female Genital Mutilation and could
>> not experience sexual orgasms with his missing clitoris, well yousef tell
>> me nor? I still have Mariama Massaquoi's email sent asking me about
>> sexual
>> orgasms when it turned out that it was Kabs Kanu himself using a
>> pseudonym
>> of Mariama Massaquoi to get his rocks off! The man is a sick bastard and
>> I honestly believe he will get his comeuppance soon from the Almighty so
>> I'm not at all perturbed at his efforts against me. I mostly ignore him.
>>
>> If people like Dr. John Mannah start to attack me, I will get concerned.
>> For now, let the anonymous morons write away thinking they are harming
>> me.
>> THEY ARE ONLY MAKING ME MORE FAMOUS FOR MY EVENTUAL ENTRY INTO POLITICS.
>>
>> I met your SLPP Chairman and SLPP Secretary General here in the UK
>> yesterday. They are both great guys planning a re-bounce of your party.
>> I
>> wish them well. Sierra Leone needs a solid opposition right now. I wish
>> I
>> was prepared for politics right now, I would have loved to help them out
>> but my political plans are for some 20 years hence...
>>
>> Yes, I have heard about this new Erica something and her claims to the
>> thug Mike Kalokoh but I am not prepared to grant her the publicity she
>> seems to be seeking at my expense. Let her continue. I wonder how
>> Kalokos hoped their 1998 Statutory Declaration could compare to our
>> bonafide documents dating as far back as 1923! Just ignore her please.
>>
>> My number in the UK here is xxxxxxxxx. Call me before I fly out or you
>> will have to wait until I come back in a few weeks time. Once again,
>> thanks so much for your concerns but please don't worry about the
>> writings
>> of my detractors placing me in any danger. My Christian faith in the
>> Almighty
>> is rock solid. He has protected me thus far and I know He will continue
>> to
>> do so always. Dont forget the mantra: THE TRUTH OUTLIVES EVERYTHING!!
>>
>>
>> Stay fit.
>> Sylvia B (The Smartest!)
>>
>>
>> --
>> Dr. Sylvia Olayinka Blyden,
>> SYLVIA BLYDEN DOT COM
>> Sierra Leone's Leading ICT Consultants
>> Freetown, Sierra Leone
>> Telephone: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> Email: xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>
>>
>
>
--
Dr. Sylvia Olayinka Blyden,
Chief Executive,
SYLVIA BLYDEN DOT COM
Sierra Leone's Leading ICT Consultants
Freetown, Sierra Leone
Telephone: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Email: xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Follow Ups:
Subject: MY EXCHANGE WITH THE GREAT DR. SYLVIA BLYDEN (aka SMARTEST)!
From: Victor
To: All
Date Posted: 16:19:36 10/07/07 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
Subject: Re: THANKS SO MUCH BUT DONT WORRY YOUR HEAD
From: "Dr. Sylvia Blyden"
Date: Sun, October 7, 2007 8:17 pm
To: "Victor Stephens"
Priority: Normal
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I saw missed calls when I woke up. I was resting and phone was in silent mode.
Well, if you feel so, post it. I have read it through and everything there is
correct. It will raise their ire against me but who cares? More publicity!(smile).
You go ahead son.
Please delete my contact phone numbers!
It's the Smartest Doc!
On Sun, October 7, 2007 2:14 pm, Victor Stephens wrote:
> Smartest, can I please have your permission to post this email of yours on
> the online forums? It will be a much needed piece that will expose the
> Cocorioko Reverend and his people always using fake names to attack you.
> Please give me permission to post it both on Cocorioko and on Awareness
> Forum also. I have been having problems logging on to Awareness Forum lately
>
> Also, I tried calling the number listed but it just rang and rang.
>
> Please respond
>
> Your boy,
> Victor.
>
>
> On Sun, October 7, 2007 1:07 pm, Dr. Sylvia Blyden wrote:
>> Hi Dear,
>>
>> Don't worry your head about Cocorioko. Kabs Kanu has always had a bee in
>> his trousers for me and his Forum Moderator or Forum Police is still mad
>> at me for turning down his marriage offer in 1996. He is married now but
>> he seems to still be mad at me. I pray for him at any chance I get for
>> him
>> to get peace of mind and stop spreading lies about me.
>>
>> What asylum? Where? Ha ha ha! That is the funniest thing I have heard in
>> a
>> long time. I am right now in London preparing to fly to a few other
>> European cities
>> before going back to Freetown next weekend and then on to Ghana, Liberia,
>> Nigeria and South Africa to continue my vacation. America is not even in
>> my planned itinerary let alone me planning to seek asylum there. My life
>> in
>> Freetown is solid right now. I have a role to play for my people and
>> that
>> is exactly what I am going to do.
>>
>> My dear, let me tell you what my grandfather told me a long time ago. NO
>> POLITICIAN TURNS DOWN PUBLICITY WHETHER NEGATIVE OR NOT. These people
>> always writing about me even when I don't countenance them are just
>> making
>> me more popular. Now, everyone knows there is someone known as Sylvia
>> Blyden existing. All I need to do when I want to enter active politics
>> is
>> to connect with people and tell me true, who can resist my charm when
>> they
>> meet the REAL Sylvia against the monster my detractors want to paint me
>> as? (wink, wink).
>>
>> Blow for you yah. Nor hart you hade. Make den write... Ar nor mind. As
>> long as noto person wey ar respect dey write bad about me, ar nor go
>> mind
>> at all. If I respected Kabs Kanu, I will feel bad reading his obnoxious
>> articles he always publishes against me but since I don't have an iota
>> of
>> respect for a man who once wrote to me under the pseudonym of Mariama
>> Massaquoi asking me to tell him what it feels like to have an orgasm
>> since he (Mariama) had suffered Female Genital Mutilation and could
>> not experience sexual orgasms with his missing clitoris, well yousef tell
>> me nor? I still have Mariama Massaquoi's email sent asking me about
>> sexual
>> orgasms when it turned out that it was Kabs Kanu himself using a
>> pseudonym
>> of Mariama Massaquoi to get his rocks off! The man is a sick bastard and
>> I honestly believe he will get his comeuppance soon from the Almighty so
>> I'm not at all perturbed at his efforts against me. I mostly ignore him.
>>
>> If people like Dr. John Mannah start to attack me, I will get concerned.
>> For now, let the anonymous morons write away thinking they are harming
>> me.
>> THEY ARE ONLY MAKING ME MORE FAMOUS FOR MY EVENTUAL ENTRY INTO POLITICS.
>>
>> I met your SLPP Chairman and SLPP Secretary General here in the UK
>> yesterday. They are both great guys planning a re-bounce of your party.
>> I
>> wish them well. Sierra Leone needs a solid opposition right now. I wish
>> I
>> was prepared for politics right now, I would have loved to help them out
>> but my political plans are for some 20 years hence...
>>
>> Yes, I have heard about this new Erica something and her claims to the
>> thug Mike Kalokoh but I am not prepared to grant her the publicity she
>> seems to be seeking at my expense. Let her continue. I wonder how
>> Kalokos hoped their 1998 Statutory Declaration could compare to our
>> bonafide documents dating as far back as 1923! Just ignore her please.
>>
>> My number in the UK here is xxxxxxxxx. Call me before I fly out or you
>> will have to wait until I come back in a few weeks time. Once again,
>> thanks so much for your concerns but please don't worry about the
>> writings
>> of my detractors placing me in any danger. My Christian faith in the
>> Almighty
>> is rock solid. He has protected me thus far and I know He will continue
>> to
>> do so always. Dont forget the mantra: THE TRUTH OUTLIVES EVERYTHING!!
>>
>>
>> Stay fit.
>> Sylvia B (The Smartest!)
>>
>>
>> --
>> Dr. Sylvia Olayinka Blyden,
>> SYLVIA BLYDEN DOT COM
>> Sierra Leone's Leading ICT Consultants
>> Freetown, Sierra Leone
>> Telephone: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> Email: xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>
>>
>
>
--
Dr. Sylvia Olayinka Blyden,
Chief Executive,
SYLVIA BLYDEN DOT COM
Sierra Leone's Leading ICT Consultants
Freetown, Sierra Leone
Telephone: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Email: xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Thorpe
From: Alimamy Turay
To: All
Date Posted: 15:34:43 10/07/07 ()
Email Address: deltablast@yahoo.com
Entered From: e178116062.adsl.alicedsl.de at 85.178.116.62
Message:
Please remove her ugly face from the page! It is enough!
Subject: Re: Thorpe
From: Somtin Butu!
To: All
Date Posted: 16:34:57 10/07/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: pool-151-202-41-6.ny325.east.verizon.net at 151.202.41.6
Message:
I hope her wonderful, inspiring, beautiful picture remains on the front page forever! If ee hart you, go butt you backoh pan de cotton tree!
Subject: Re: Thorpe
From: Peter
To: All
Date Posted: 16:08:27 10/07/07 ()
Email Address:
kanu_andrew@yahoo.com
Entered From: wsip-70-168-131-133.dc.dc.cox.net at 70.168.131.133
Message:
I think u should be ashame of yourself by saying she is ugly.
Subject: Re: Thorpe
From: Saloneman
To: All
Date Posted: 16:24:54 10/07/07 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
It seems to be the only way Salone males know how to pull a strong sister down. Who will look at Christiana Thorpe and say she is ugly? Who will look at Sylvia Blyden and say she is ugly? But this Cocorioko place is always doing that. Sometimes, I am ashamed to be a male Saloneman
Subject: Re: Thorpe
From: SANTOS MANGA
To: All
Date Posted: 18:51:22 10/07/07 ()
Email Address: santos@aol.com
Entered From: at 86.156.235.37
Message:
I agree.I think we should check ourselves out before saying nasty things about others particularly our Sierra Leone Women.
Subject: Read the rationale for the transition here.
From: MUNDAYBIAYAY
To: All
Date Posted: 15:19:04 10/07/07 ()
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Message:
http://standardtimespress.net/cgi-bin/artman/publish/article_2140.shtml
Subject: JOHN MANNAH, COCORIOKO, AND THE TRUTH
From: BRA ENVIABLE
To: All
Date Posted: 14:33:14 10/07/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: cache-dtc-ag14.proxy.aol.com at 205.188.117.142
Message:
There is a dogfight on the SLPP forum between scholarly fighter-pilots and amateur airmen trying to fly sorties into intellectual territory. This battle caught my eyes because of John Mannah's snobbish descr1ption of Cocorioko as a haven for idiots. In his words, Cocorioko is the place for imbeciles to thrive. Well, let me tell this man that Cocorioko is a populist site with a podium for Sierra Leoneans of every descr1ption. Cocorioko does not require its visitors to possess Shakespearean wits, and we love it that way.
Has Cocorioko turned itself into a sycophantic singer for Ernest Koroma? The answer is surely "Yes!" Is Cocorioko a den of idiots? No! I wish Mr. Mannah's disappointment with Cocorioko had everything to do with Kabs Kanu's role as the new propaganda secretary for the APC.
I have lately become disenchanted with Cocorioko's naked bid to prettify Ernest Koroma before the latter could take a single step into the presidency. We need well-meaning Sierra Leoneans in the crusade against irresponsible politicians, and judging by its shameless toadying, Cocorioko has lost the spine for critical journalism. If every educated Sierra Leonean sings Koroma's praises, who will stand by the poor masses when the jackboots of corruption go for the kill?
I wish Kabas Kanu could remain loving of the APC without necessarily being a salivating praise-singer. Still, we love Cocorioko because every Sierra Leonean can be heard on this forum without the fussy adherence to grammatical precision. John Mannah simply missed that point!
Subject: BRING BACK SUBWANALAI
From: COMRADE PARROT
To: All
Date Posted: 03:59:45 10/08/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: 87-194-121-22.bethere.co.uk at 87.194.121.22
Message:
THE STORY IS BASED ON GEORGE ORWELL'S ANIMAL FARM
CHARACTERS
COMRADE NAPOLEON: KABS WILFRED KANU
COMRADE SNOWBALL: MODERATOR
COMRADE SQUEALER: SUBWANALAI
COMRADE MOLLY: HAJA KHADIJA
COMRADE BENJAMIN: A. ISCANDRI
COMRADE ATTACK DOG: FORUM POLICE
COMRADE OWLS: KALOS, MAMMY BLESSING, CANDIDDO, KABUDU GEN ETC
Dear Comrades of the Farm (Forum),
You might have heard about my miraculous escape from the farm yesterday, after Comrade Kabs 'Napoleon' Kanu, let loose his attack dogs on me, led by Chief Dog- Forum Police. I hadn't the time, unlike Comrade Benjamin(Alieu Iscandri) to say goodbye to all you positivos. Before I proceed with my ordeal, let me inform you all about the need to strengthen ties with our counterparts in the neighbouring farm, where I am presently seeking refuge. Comrades, Robert Frost was right when he wrote" Good Fences Make Good Neighbours" Remember the escape routes we carved at our fence? Well, they came in handy for my escape.
Though I am still licking my wounds here in exile, I have found time to write this testimony, copies of which are scattered all over the farm (LOOK DOWN THE STEPS OF THIS FORUM FOR COPIES, JUST IN CASE THE MAD DICTATOR NAPOLEON KABS TRIES TO REMOVE THIS ONE THAT I AM POSTING AT HIS BACKYARD.
Comrades, this is my story. You will recall that when we were planning to topple Mr. Jones (Kabbah and SLPP), we agreed that "TWO LEGS ARE BAD AND FOUR LEGS GOOD". As soon as Mr. Jones was overthrown, Comrade Napoleon (Kabs; the fat pig), who has imposed himself on the farm, started wearing designer coats, bowl hats and fat cigars dangling from his hog mouth. I pointed out this to him, that they are capitalist oriented. He dismissively argued that they were the sweet of office.
Again, I tried to reason with him that because he was deviating, hard working comrades like old benjamin the donkey, and even the pampered Molly have withdrawn their services. Again, Comrade Napoleon(Kabs) seemed please with these developments, because, according to his blue eye boy Snowball (the illiterate Moderator), this means Bra Kabs will remain the sole diasporan beast that EBK will consider in his all inclusive government.
Our real showdown happened yesterday, when for the first time, I caught Napoleon(Kabs) tip-toeing on two legs, (just like the ousted Mr. Jones), instead of his normal four legs., with a protuding BORBOH-BELLEH-LIKE stomach. I requested an urgent meeting which I regret now. My mistake was not bringing along the wise owls (Kalos, Mammy Blessing, Candido, Kabudu Gen etc.) At the meeting, I raised the question of Comrade Kabs Napoleon walking on two legs. My queries were met by growls from the attack dogs. I also informed my now lawless audience that the younger generations of the farm no longer wants a BORBOH-BELLEH as minister. As such to prepare Comrade Napoleon for subsequent ministerial appointments, we should send him to the gymn to cut down on his 'roast goat-like' belly. The now furious Comrade Kabs Napoleon could have none of these. After a short tete-a-tete with Comrade Snowball; the dick head Moderator, there was signal for the attack dogs to pounce. Comrades, around mid day yesterday, I was hounded out of the farm; the only home I have known all these years. By midnight, I tried to smuggle these leaflets you are now reading into the farm, but the attack dogs were keeping vigil, blocking every move I made.An hurried all night party was staged by who else, the party animal Comrade Boxer(Bambay LANS).
I think they are asleep now, so I have risked entering the farm. If he pulls this posting down, look down the forum's steps, you will find more copies. Comrades, the revolution has just begun. VIVE LA REVOLUTION!!! To all true comrades, please take care of Fifi my wonder dog, untill I re-unite with him again. Hopefully, Comrade Napoleon will tamper justice with mercy.
Yours Sincerely,
Comrade Squealer(a.k.a SUBWANALAI)
p/s. Kabs Kanu is a propagandist par excellence. He is so stupid that he si now trying to misguide the farm that Comrade Squealer is that other ugly Comrade Glover(Sylvia Blyden). But I know liberal minds who have been reading my postings will know how much WORWORLIWOR had come under my attack. I don't blame Kabs. When parents waste their hard earned cash and send a kid like Kabs to FBC, only for him to read GREKO(Greek and Roman History) and Church History(All those let my people go subjects), this is what they get
COMING SOON:
BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING. BASED ON GEORGE ORWELL'S ANIMAL FARM
Subject: Re: BRING BACK SUBWANALAI
From: We REMBER YOUR INSULTS!
To: All
Date Posted: 06:47:17 10/08/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: pool-151-202-41-6.ny325.east.verizon.net at 151.202.41.6
Message:
Sylvia Subwanalai, we remember your unwarranted, venomous attacks and insults against the Mendes. I for one will never forgive you for calling us the SOFALI tribe and JANGAMADIN. You maligned us on this forum with the vilest insults , just to forment tribal hostility. One fine day you will pay for your crimes against the people of Salone. Instead of using your talents as a force for good, you mercenaried them to the likes of the hand-chopper Foday Sankoh as one of his Ninja journalists! I hope the courts are being readied. We will seek redress in court!
Subject: Re: JOHN MANNAH, COCORIOKO, AND THE TRUTH
From: cornelius hamelberg
To: All
Date Posted: 17:04:13 10/07/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: c-1e1271d5.01-32-73746f42.cust.bredbandsbolaget.se at 213.113.18.30
Message:
Perhaps the best thing that some of us imbeciles can do for John Mannah is to change gears when we get into that SLPP worlWide, so that he can show us what he can do if we really want to do.
To do?
To take those gloves off. Even his big bee bomba boss will tell him to think twice.
Subject: Re: JOHN MANNAH, COCORIOKO, AND THE TRUTH
From: Lady J
To: All
Date Posted: 16:23:43 10/07/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: adsl-2-36-214.mia.bellsouth.net at 65.2.36.214
Message:
Hey Buddy, You wrote ...
"If every educated Sierra Leonean sings Koroma's praises, who will stand by the poor masses when the jackboots of corruption go for the kill?
That's a good question, and I bet you and Kabs will end up in the same team, denouncing future corruption.
I trust him ... It's just a phase ... He will be back.
As per the other response? ...... It's Projection 101- (Attributing to others one's own unacceptable desires and impulses).
You are one of Siera Leone's brightest, and you can take that to the bank.
Our first encounter was over 8 years ago in a different medium, and it was very interesting ....
Hmmm... Me nor know udat bin sehn call you for cam fordom pan mi .... Well!!!! Korworkilleh take place, and we became buddies .... You are a true Gentle Man
Subject: Re: JOHN MANNAH, COCORIOKO, AND THE TRUTH
From: BRA ENVIABLE
To: All
Date Posted: 17:56:10 10/07/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: cache-mtc-ah10.proxy.aol.com at 64.12.117.202
Message:
Neneh Fullah Musu, ow dae bodi?
Lady J,
I can only hope that Brother Kabs Kanu ends this "phase" of Journalism. We all have great expectations. However, given our history of false dawns, nar for wait forse. Let's see what Brother Ernest Koroma is politically made of befoe we begin bato am lek angel.
Brother Kabs Kanu turn Jelli Baah.
I will hold my pretty compliments until Brother Koroma proves that he is different from those who have raised our hopes in the past, only to snuff them out with stagnation and grinding poverty.
Stay blessed, my dear!
Subject: Re: JOHN MANNAH, COCORIOKO, AND THE TRUTH
From: TILOLO
To: All
Date Posted: 18:47:18 10/07/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: c-69-140-34-194.hsd1.md.comcast.net at 69.140.34.194
Message:
Bra Enviable:
Have you resumed smoking that herb.It's bad for you,bro.Why can't you give the Prezo a chance before making your usually useless comments.I think we should start by praising him and constructively criticize him for any missteps.
Get off that weed,bro.
Subject: Re: JOHN MANNAH, COCORIOKO, AND THE TRUTH
From: Russo
To: All
Date Posted: 14:40:41 10/07/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 66.212.16.194
Message:
Bra Enviable, you are one of the biggest imbeciles in this place.
Subject: Re: JOHN MANNAH, COCORIOKO, AND THE TRUTH
From: Somtin Butu
To: All
Date Posted: 16:21:09 10/07/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: pool-151-202-41-6.ny325.east.verizon.net at 151.202.41.6
Message:
Enviable,
Your grimy back-handed slap at Kabs and Cocorioko is really pedestrian for a cultured fellow like you. The idea that the press must automatically have an adversarial relationship with the govt is really a crockery of crap. EBK has not yet done anything to deserve your ire and wrath.
The president has set out goals for himself that we could judge him by in three months... for the impatient ones. If either Ernest or his ministers swindles the country and Cocorioko rewards that infraction with glowing tributes, then you have a right to damn them as sycophantic. If the government turns out to be incompetent and Cocorioko niches itself as its praise-singer, then Bra, you amd I and all forumites will be right to call the Cocortokoites a bunch of hypocritical sycophants! Until then, Bra Enviable you are indulging in cheap, gratuitous rudeness that is unworthy of the Bra Enviable we have all come to respect!
Subject: u all damn hypocrite when its comes to sylvia blyden(nar sab
From: mkay
To: All
Date Posted: 13:39:17 10/07/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: 27.red-83-50-61.dynamicip.rima-tde.net at 83.50.61.27
Message:
Who cares weither you are creole or country what we want to know is there is a new order in sierra leone and APC under the leadership of ERNEST BAI KOROMA will perform more better than the cleptomaniac of the SLPP mende mandigo tribalist.
Subject: Re: u all damn hypocrite when its comes to sylvia blyden(nar sab
From: medkay
To: All
Date Posted: 14:29:29 10/07/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: 27.red-83-50-61.dynamicip.rima-tde.net at 83.50.61.27
Message:
Who are you?i am talking of how the mr sabi mentioned of creole to country men towards the role played by th so called krio sister sylvia blyden.My concern is,the people of sierra leone have suffered and need relief ,and the answer is the new order under the elegant leadership of ERNEST OBAI KOROMA.Your invest did not stop the looting of the nation wealth from the corrupt leadership of the tejan kabbah, berewa sleeping bomber and some of you may be one of them,you tiff.
Subject: Re: u all damn hypocrite when its comes to sylvia blyden(nar sab
From: Veteran
To: All
Date Posted: 14:26:55 10/07/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: ppp-70-244-79-31.dsl.rcsntx.swbell.net at 70.244.79.31
Message:
Those who've been online over the past decade would recall that Worworliwor set up the NINJA news site to distort information. As Foday Sankoh's internet liaison, she was the saleswoman of the cut hand ideology who even refers to Ghadafi as Kabbah's brother.
Many, including Victor Foe and I are ready to testify at any hearing involving her. We met her and Omrie Golley at Foday Sankoh's House in Liberia right after our release from RUF captivity.
Subject: Re: u all damn hypocrite when its comes to sylvia blyden(nar sab
From: Nar Sabi Talk
To: All
Date Posted: 14:39:11 10/07/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: static-76-160-64-185.dsl.cavtel.net at 76.160.64.185
Message:
Mkay!
I am in favor of you and others wanting to testify against her... Lord knows what you and the others went through, but it all has to be done in the proper venue... Calling names is not going to do it...
And again, I cannot help but to ask... Where are those you voted for to represent you?... Why don't you take your evidence to them and let them do something based on the rule of law?
Subject: Re: u all damn hypocrite when its comes to sylvia blyden(nar sab
From: Nar Sabi Talk
To: All
Date Posted: 14:07:38 10/07/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: static-76-160-64-185.dsl.cavtel.net at 76.160.64.185
Message:
Please! Who ever you are... Do not draw a line on the sand for the New President nor the APC party...
People like you normally have nothing invested in country or thyself...
Nuff said... I hope...
Subject: That which brought about the whole problem. What a shame!
From: Bamaby Lans Kamara
To: All
Date Posted: 12:58:02 10/07/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: c-71-197-104-25.hsd1.ca.comcast.net at 71.197.104.25
Message:
Short Term Memory or craziness?
You be the judge.
Subject: I FOUND THIS ON THE SLPP FORUM TODAY -- SO TRUE!
From: town crier
To: All
Date Posted: 12:07:17 10/07/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 64.26.98.90
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Welcome to the S.L.P.P. Forum
Re: A Few Words of Clarity for Abu Koroma
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Posted by Maada Kpukumu on October 07, 2007 at 06:18:37:
In Reply to: A Few Words of Clarity for Abu Koroma posted by John Mannah on October 06, 2007 at 10:55:12:
John Mannah wrote: "Boy what a pedigree for a boy who grew up in the slums of Dove Court around Eastend Police (small police) in Freetown."
I don't want you to put me on your "Do not Teach" list, John Mannah, but please allow me to teach you that you have used the word, "pedigree" incorrectly in your sentence quoted above. If, as you claim, you "grew up in the slums of Dove Court," that is, in fact, your pedigree - nothing else. This is because one can not change one's pedigree.
Therefore, your allusion to having "progressed" from your pedigree proves what many people have told you since 2006, when you started exposing your poor grasp of the English language by writing in public in a selfish, vain hope of joining a corrupt Berewa-led government in SL in order to belatedly enrich yourself through corruption.
Specifically, as Karamoh Kabba and others told you in reply to your opaque and paragraph-less ramblings that you mischaracterize as economic writings, it is proof that you truly do not understand many of the words you so carelessly use. Worse still, you do so with the exaggerated confidence that typically comes from those suffering from abysmal ignorance.That, in turn, guarantees the failure of your painful-to-watch attempts at writing sensible articles which you foolishly imagine would convince people that you have -- as you claim incessantly but porously -- a Ph.D. worth the name.
Subject: Re: I FOUND THIS ON THE SLPP FORUM TODAY -- SO TRUE!
From: POLITICAL
To: All
Date Posted: 12:32:22 10/07/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: po-out-f136.google.com at 72.14.252.136
Message:
It is too funny
Subject: Re: I JUST FOUND THIS -- MUCH FUNNIER!
From: TOWN CRIER
To: All
Date Posted: 12:45:27 10/07/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 64.26.98.90
Message:
Welcome to the S.L.P.P. Forum
Re: A Few Words of Clarity for Abu Koroma
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Posted by Budu Kargbo on October 07, 2007 at 12:40:24:
In Reply to: Re: A Few Words of Clarity for Abu Koroma posted by Maada Kpukumu on October 07, 2007 at 06:18:37:
Maada:
I agree with you. Mannah definitely needs a lot of remedial instruction in the basics of English grammar.
Virtually every sentence in his postings is marred by elementary grammatical errors. You need to go learn how to construct proper English before coming to talk to superior people about education. For example, John Mannah assasinates the Queen's English when he wrote, in blissful ignorance yesterday, under the thread, Re: A Few Words of Clarity for Abu Koroma: "These are the six names I have listed in my database that suit the profile of nincompoops, academically challenged, and intellectual neophytes."
Of course, even primary school pupils know that there is no such expression in proper English as "suit the profile," as Dr. John Mannah wrote. Goven the fact that Dr. Mannah does not know that simple fact -- as evidenced by his use of such ungrammatical English -- the inescapable conclusion is harsh, but unquestionably valid.
That conclusion is that: Sadly, Dr. John Mannah has demonstrated that his understanding of English is below the level of a primary school pupil.
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Subject: Re: I JUST FOUND THIS -- MUCH FUNNIER!
From: TOWN CRIER
To: All
Date Posted: 12:45:03 10/07/07 ()
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Re: A Few Words of Clarity for Abu Koroma
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Posted by Budu Kargbo on October 07, 2007 at 12:40:24:
In Reply to: Re: A Few Words of Clarity for Abu Koroma posted by Maada Kpukumu on October 07, 2007 at 06:18:37:
Maada:
I agree with you. Mannah definitely needs a lot of remedial instruction in the basics of English grammar.
Virtually every sentence in his postings is marred by elementary grammatical errors. You need to go learn how to construct proper English before coming to talk to superior people about education. For example, John Mannah assasinates the Queen's English when he wrote, in blissful ignorance yesterday, under the thread, Re: A Few Words of Clarity for Abu Koroma: "These are the six names I have listed in my database that suit the profile of nincompoops, academically challenged, and intellectual neophytes."
Of course, even primary school pupils know that there is no such expression in proper English as "suit the profile," as Dr. John Mannah wrote. Goven the fact that Dr. Mannah does not know that simple fact -- as evidenced by his use of such ungrammatical English -- the inescapable conclusion is harsh, but unquestionably valid.
That conclusion is that: Sadly, Dr. John Mannah has demonstrated that his understanding of English is below the level of a primary school pupil.
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Subject: Re: I JUST FOUND THIS -- MUCH FUNNIER!
From: Dirige Nos
To: All
Date Posted: 14:03:15 10/07/07 ()
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Abayomie Tejan and others who went to St. Edwards then
would rermember him as the idiot who always had to keep
his mouth shut, one because of the foul odour that came out whenever he opened it, and two, because he sounded so daft.
One would think that with all this exposure people may have changed. In his case, the only thing that changed was that he became a memdelist.
He probably was in school but waiting for opportunity to dissimate his tribalogical ideas. It is unfortunate that after all his years in the etho rich environs of Freetown would he resorted to cave thinking. Indeed you can take the man out of the cave but not the
cave out of the man. Reminds of what happens when you wash a dog.
He's indeed the same old boy living in an overcrowded
shack by Eatern police. He used to "pile" from Eastern
police to Kingtom, and problably wanted the present
generation to continue doing so. As Emerson said in his
2 fut Arata song time was up.
Subject: Re: I FOUND THIS ON THE SLPP FORUM TODAY -- SO TRUE!
From: town crier
To: All
Date Posted: 12:12:12 10/07/07 ()
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Welcome to the S.L.P.P. Forum
Re: Personal Attacks
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Posted by Aiah Gbondo! on October 07, 2007 at 10:17:54:
In Reply to: Personal Attacks posted by Moderator on October 07, 2007 at 09:25:14:
Moderator, your "appealing to all for an end to the personal attacks" is commendable -- but just a wee bit suspicious. I hope you will therefore answer the following questions:
1. Where were you when your fellow SLPP member, John Mannah, was launching personal attacks on then-APC leader, Ernest Koroma, the recently elected President of Sierra Leone, right here on your forum?
2. And, pray tell us, Moderator, where were you when your fellow SLPP member, John Mannah, was launching personal attacks on the PMDC leader, Charles Margai, the historic catalyst for the end of the shameful practice of tribalism in Salone politics under a decade of SLPP's selfish, divisive tribal politics?
3. Where were you, Moderator, when fellow SLPP member, John Mannah launched a personal attack on Salone's current vice-president, Sam Sumana, right here on your forum?
4. And, where were you, Moderator, when your fellow SLPP member, John Mannah, was launching vile, defamatory personal attacks on Mohamed Jalloh, an extremely patriotic S/Leonean and internationally acclaimed financial expert, who counts among his many honors, a listing in Marquis "Who's Who in the World" and the status of being the youngest S/Leonean to be admitted to Fourah Bay College in its 180-year history?
5. Moderator, is your overnight antipathy to "personal attacks" brought about because your fellow SLPP member, John Mannah, has been comprehensively exposed yesterday as ignorant of the elementary rules of English grammar after claiming that he was an expert in English?
6. Or, Moderator, is your nascent conversion to the bandwagon of no personal attacks the result of the conclusive exposure of your fellow SLPP member, John Mannah as a wannabe-be economist who never worked as an economist while falsely referring himself as an economist as a ruse to finagle a job with a Berewa-led SLPP government that the people of Salone have now doomed with their rejection of the corrupt SLPP?
I look forward to your responses.
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Subject: Re: I FOUND THIS ON THE SLPP FORUM TODAY -- SO TRUE!
From: town crier
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Date Posted: 12:16:47 10/07/07 ()
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Re: A Few Words of Clarity for Abu Koroma
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Posted by Abayomi Tejan on October 06, 2007 at 21:57:55:
In Reply to: Re: A Few Words of Clarity for Abu Koroma posted by John Mannah on October 06, 2007 at 19:04:11:
John Mannah wrote: "You are doing yourself a dis-service by failing to heed to my advice."
John Mannah,
Your capacity to write bad English is rapacious! Even though no one expects you to know it, the word you used " dis-service " is NOT English. It is pure nonsense.
Rather than comically purporting to give advice, you should be taking advice: Go back to kindergarten and start the impossible road to passing English at Standard Seven in primary school. As you have been told, your demonstrably poor intellect is proof positive of the pitfalls of correspondence courses as a substitute for a proper college education. It also makes your unlikely claim to having taken classes at Cambridge as transparently mendacious as your whopping lie in 2006 that you were director of communications for the SLPP in North America.
Let me ask you, John Mannah: Do you really believe the whoppers you tell people? Or, are you just too ashamed to admit that, at age 53 or so, you are a total failure in life? Instead of trying to remedy your obviously poor education, why do you seek to escape reality by falsely claiming to have obtained a serious qualification (a correspondence course Ph.D.from a third rate college) at an age when most serious academics have already reached the zenith of their professional careers? Do you think that would somehow get you to your goal of joining the kleptomaniacs in the traitorous SLPP cabal who have massively looted our country over the past ten years?
Well, John Mannah, think again: Those hopes of yours to get rich through looting the public treasury of Sierra Leone just become futile with the decisive rejection by the people of Sierra Leone of your fellow destroyers of our country -- the corrupt SLPP regime of Kabbah and Berewa.
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Subject: Re: I FOUND THIS ON THE SLPP FORUM TODAY -- SO TRUE!
From: Funny
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Date Posted: 03:25:06 10/09/07 ()
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Very true.
Subject: Re: I LIKE THIS BEST OF ALL!
From: twon crier
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Date Posted: 12:20:05 10/07/07 ()
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Welcome to the S.L.P.P. Forum
Re: HEY FELLOWS! Juat Cool It For The Sake Of Salone
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Posted by Teacher on October 06, 2007 at 21:31:12:
In Reply to: Re: HEY FELLOWS! Juat Cool It For The Sake Of Salone posted by X on October 06, 2007 at 18:11:03:
"Please leave Manner alone." -- X
Mr. or Ms. X, actually, you should be advising the insufficiently diligent Mannah to leave his betters alone.
Exhibit: Look at what the dense clown wrote:
"Posted by John Mannah on October 06, 2007 at 10:55:12:
Abu, ...
The looting, violence, theiving and roguery they have resorted to. The message to you guys is; wake up from your slumber and go start doing the peoples business. You say your Ph.D is from an Ivy league institution? your party is looking for competent S/Leoneans like you to take up leadership positions and help govern. They really need you, not yesterday, but now. Go and put your Ph.D to use for your country now, but Ph.D in what, Greek and Roman Culture? Its not worth much, thus your lack of knowledge in constructing proper grammar.
Some of us with serious qualifications, will not avoid the difficult work of confronting the problems facing our beloved country this time around and leave it to idiots like our forebearer did in the 70's."
Tell me, X: Who but a correspondence course graduate masquerading as a self-styled person "with serious qualifications" (no doubt in lying only ) would write such nonsensical English as "The looting, violence, theiving and roguery they have resorted to.?"
Would this overreaching tribalistic dunce who calls himself John Mannah ever learn the rules of elementary English grammar?
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Subject: FOREIGN CURRENCY EXCHANGE SYSTEM in SL
From: FENTHI
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Date Posted: 11:51:28 10/07/07 ()
Email Address: fenthi@hotmail.com
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The Gambia seems to be relatively stable with her Foreign Exchange System. I have been made to understand that you don`t transact any Business in the Gambia in Foreign Exchange outside the Banks. No dollar boys, no Rents or land buying in dollars, pounds or euros etc. Can Sierra Leone adopt similar policies ? Will such policies give greater respect to the Leone just as the Dalasi is enjoying? Please help me, some Economist- Foday, Jackal, John K., mammy blessing, Brother JEL, over to you.
Subject: Re: FOREIGN CURRENCY EXCHANGE SYSTEM in SL
From: Watch out
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Date Posted: 05:03:19 10/08/07 ()
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Everything will be alright, with forex and economy, as soon as Sanpha Koroma becomes the Minister of Finance.He will lead the Country to new economic heights.
Subject: Re: FOREIGN CURRENCY EXCHANGE SYSTEM in SL
From: QUEST
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Date Posted: 18:41:46 10/07/07 ()
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It is all a money laundering scheme my friend. What a lot of us do not realize is that there is also organized crime in the two tier financial system. There are two reasons for this. First both corrupt official and international criminal enterprise benefit if it is easy to launder money across national borders. Accepting this type of activity looks more attractive even to holiday makers if it relatively easy to get a few more Leones for their foreign exchange by using the other tier system. Remember most stolen moneys have to be laundered. The two tier system is just another sophisticated way of disguising illegitimate income to make it appear legitimate.
For example, many international statutes require that financial institution be aware of the illegal origin of the funds the receive. In reaction, corrupt officials and organised crime that feed on each other, take additional steps to conceal the origin of their gains by using the two tier foreign currency exchange system. At issue is both the ease with which trillions of leones can be laundered and the undermining of the country's financial structure.
Subject: Re: FOREIGN CURRENCY EXCHANGE SYSTEM in SL
From: Satmed
To: All
Date Posted: 15:57:49 10/07/07 ()
Email Address: mohamedkamara@hotmail.com
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It is not true that The Gambia do not transact foreign exchange outside the the Banking system. Even Western Countries do transact foreign currencies outside the Banking system.
Foreign exchange in salone is not regulated. Businesses or individuals have to register to deal in foreign currency.
Banks also contribute to the growth of the black market trade. Go to any of the Banks and ask for the Ł or $, the rate they will mention will drive you to the black market. I have never heard of any holiday people or tourists exchanging their $ and $ in any Bank.
Subject: Re: FOREIGN CURRENCY EXCHANGE SYSTEM in SL
From: chris
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Date Posted: 22:09:14 10/07/07 ()
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In fact most countries do transact foreign exchange outside the central Banking system, but the are directly or indirectly related, either in terms of receipts, making their nightly ,next day or weakly deposits in the central Banking system or even Bank subsidiaries. The difference is only a matter of convenience. There is openness and accountability. A country's links to the broader world can either limit or expand with its scope of openness and accountability. In the case of Sa Leone it is open but to contraband and crime flow across boarder(diamonds and such). On the other hand it is closed to legitimate foreign investment because it is not accountable. These behavior are entrenched and are not main stream.
Subject: Re: FOREIGN CURRENCY EXCHANGE SYSTEM in SL
From: FODAY MANSARAY
To: All
Date Posted: 15:48:21 10/07/07 ()
Email Address: fmansaray@aol.com
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As a matter of fact, this will eventually happen.Once the leones begins to gain value and earn the credibility of the pupulation at large then, you can push for such a policy.There are many way to discourage the use other currencies or then the Leones as medium of payment for goods and services within sierra leone.We will cross that bridge like Gambia when the population gain a whloe lot of confidence in the financial system.For that to happen the central needs to be in control.
Subject: Ex-President Tejan Kabbah Dodges ECOWAS Court
From: Bamaby Lans Kamara
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Date Posted: 11:49:08 10/07/07 ()
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Ex-President Tejan Kabbah Dodges ECOWAS Court Last Friday As Obasanjo’s Lawyer and 20 Others Line Up Against Him
Posted by on Oct 7, 2007, 06:42
Mr. Adebayo Adenipekun (SAN) from the law firm of Chief Afe Babalola (SAN) was the lead Counsel in the ECOWAS court on Friday 5th October 2007. Appearing with him were lawyers Ibrahim Hamman, B.J.Akomolafe and other legal brains from the same law firm, all present at the ECOWAS Court in Abuja last Friday, 5th October,2007 in preparation to undertake a fierce legal battle between their client Mohamed Kamal Wansa trading as “D&M Impex”Melbourne Enterprise” and “Vulga Nova Pharmacy” (the Plaintiff) and the SLPP government of the Republic of Sierra Leone as the 1st Defendant and His Excellency, Alhaji Dr. Ahmad Tejan Kabbah, then President of the Republic of Sierra Leone as the 2nd Defendant. Chief Afe Babalola, (SAN), is the legal adviser to ex-President, Obasango of Nigeria.
Disappointedly, both Defendants were conspicuously absent and were not represented by any Counsel in the court when it resumed sitting on Friday in Abuja the headquarters, of the ECOWAS Court.
It would be recalled that the Plaintiff had slammed a civil suit of Human Right Abuses against both defendants of which the second, was the President of the Republic of Sierra Leone at the time the human rights abuses were committed.
At the ECOWAS Court on Friday 5th October, 2007 the panel of Judges were the President of the Community Court of Justice-ECOWAS, Hon. Justice Aminata Sanogo Malle from the Republic of Mali as the presiding Judge, Hon. Justice Benin Anthony from Ghana and Hon. Justice Toe Barthelemy from Burkina Faso.
When the matter was mentioned by the lead counsel Mr. Adebayo Adenikpekun (SAN), the registrar of the court presented a letter purportedly written by the former Attorney General and Minister of Justice, Mr. Fred Carew, stating that a new government had been elected, but no cabinet members appointed. Thus, in view of that, he needed at least three- month adjournment in order to brief his successor about recent developments pertaining to the matter and other national issues.
Responding to the letter, Mr. Adenikpekun (SAN) told the court among others that the Attorney who filed the defense on behalf of the 1st and 2nd defendants was not the purported writer of the unsigned and undated letter sent to the court, therefore he was requesting for costs. Presiding Judge, Hon. Justice Aminata Sanogo Malle advised that the costs requested for would be included when the matter finally comes to an end and a winner emerges. The matter was adjourned to January 15th 2008, when it is expected that both defendants would appear in court or be represented by their solicitors and if not, it is very likely that judgment in default would be given against them.See court documents below
Subject: WHAT HAPPEN TO SUBWANALAI?
From: Kalos
To: All
Date Posted: 10:25:31 10/07/07 ()
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What happen to Subwanalai after the feisty exchanges with the
moderator? Was he axed by the moderator or Kabs?
Subject: SUBWANALAI LIVES BRUV
From: SUBWANALAI
To: All
Date Posted: 03:55:39 10/08/07 ()
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Message:
THE STORY IS BASED ON GEORGE ORWELL'S ANIMAL FARM
CHARACTERS
COMRADE NAPOLEON: KABS WILFRED KANU
COMRADE SNOWBALL: MODERATOR
COMRADE SQUEALER: SUBWANALAI
COMRADE MOLLY: HAJA KHADIJA
COMRADE BENJAMIN: A. ISCANDRI
COMRADE ATTACK DOG: FORUM POLICE
COMRADE OWLS: KALOS, MAMMY BLESSING, CANDIDDO, KABUDU GEN ETC
Dear Comrades of the Farm (Forum),
You might have heard about my miraculous escape from the farm yesterday, after Comrade Kabs 'Napoleon' Kanu, let loose his attack dogs on me, led by Chief Dog- Forum Police. I hadn't the time, unlike Comrade Benjamin(Alieu Iscandri) to say goodbye to all you positivos. Before I proceed with my ordeal, let me inform you all about the need to strengthen ties with our counterparts in the neighbouring farm, where I am presently seeking refuge. Comrades, Robert Frost was right when he wrote" Good Fences Make Good Neighbours" Remember the escape routes we carved at our fence? Well, they came in handy for my escape.
Though I am still licking my wounds here in exile, I have found time to write this testimony, copies of which are scattered all over the farm (LOOK DOWN THE STEPS OF THIS FORUM FOR COPIES, JUST IN CASE THE MAD DICTATOR NAPOLEON KABS TRIES TO REMOVE THIS ONE THAT I AM POSTING AT HIS BACKYARD.
Comrades, this is my story. You will recall that when we were planning to topple Mr. Jones (Kabbah and SLPP), we agreed that "TWO LEGS ARE BAD AND FOUR LEGS GOOD". As soon as Mr. Jones was overthrown, Comrade Napoleon (Kabs; the fat pig), who has imposed himself on the farm, started wearing designer coats, bowl hats and fat cigars dangling from his hog mouth. I pointed out this to him, that they are capitalist oriented. He dismissively argued that they were the sweet of office.
Again, I tried to reason with him that because he was deviating, hard working comrades like old benjamin the donkey, and even the pampered Molly have withdrawn their services. Again, Comrade Napoleon(Kabs) seemed please with these developments, because, according to his blue eye boy Snowball (the illiterate Moderator), this means Bra Kabs will remain the sole diasporan beast that EBK will consider in his all inclusive government.
Our real showdown happened yesterday, when for the first time, I caught Napoleon(Kabs) tip-toeing on two legs, (just like the ousted Mr. Jones), instead of his normal four legs., with a protuding BORBOH-BELLEH-LIKE stomach. I requested an urgent meeting which I regret now. My mistake was not bringing along the wise owls (Kalos, Mammy Blessing, Candido, Kabudu Gen etc.) At the meeting, I raised the question of Comrade Kabs Napoleon walking on two legs. My queries were met by growls from the attack dogs. I also informed my now lawless audience that the younger generations of the farm no longer wants a BORBOH-BELLEH as minister. As such to prepare Comrade Napoleon for subsequent ministerial appointments, we should send him to the gymn to cut down on his 'roast goat-like' belly. The now furious Comrade Kabs Napoleon could have none of these. After a short tete-a-tete with Comrade Snowball; the dick head Moderator, there was signal for the attack dogs to pounce. Comrades, around mid day yesterday, I was hounded out of the farm; the only home I have known all these years. By midnight, I tried to smuggle these leaflets you are now reading into the farm, but the attack dogs were keeping vigil, blocking every move I made.An hurried all night party was staged by who else, the party animal Comrade Boxer(Bambay LANS).
I think they are asleep now, so I have risked entering the farm. If he pulls this posting down, look down the forum's steps, you will find more copies. Comrades, the revolution has just begun. VIVE LA REVOLUTION!!! To all true comrades, please take care of Fifi my wonder dog, untill I re-unite with him again. Hopefully, Comrade Napoleon will tamper justice with mercy.
Yours Sincerely,
Comrade Squealer(a.k.a SUBWANALAI)
p/s. Kabs Kanu is a propagandist par excellence. He is so stupid that he si now trying to misguide the farm that Comrade Squealer is that other ugly Comrade Glover(Sylvia Blyden). But I know liberal minds who have been reading my postings will know how much WORWORLIWOR had come under my attack. I don't blame Kabs. When parents waste their hard earned cash and send a kid like Kabs to FBC, only for him to read GREKO(Greek and Roman History) and Church History(All those let my people go subjects), this is what they get
COMING SOON:
BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING. BASED ON GEORGE ORWELL'S ANIMAL FARM
Subject: Re: SUBWANALAI LIVES BRUV
From: JANGAMADIN!
To: All
Date Posted: 06:37:58 10/08/07 ()
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Nope, you are dead as far as we are concerned. Keep spilling your venom until you choke in it. By the way, there is a difference between a zombie and a living person. So please check your pulse!
Subject: Re: WHAT HAPPEN TO SUBWANALAI?
From: FORUM POLICE
To: All
Date Posted: 10:35:41 10/07/07 ()
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He fell by his own weight. He will never post here again. Nobody challenges our Moderator. If he comes back with another IP , we will ban it.
Subject: Re: WHAT HAPPEN TO SUBWANALAI?
From: Mike
To: All
Date Posted: 17:01:30 10/07/07 ()
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MY EXCHANGE WITH THE GREAT DR. SYLVIA BLYDEN (aka SMARTEST)!
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Posted by Victor [cache-los-ae04.proxy.aol.com at 195.93.21.132] on October 07, 2007 at 16:19:36:
Subject: Re: THANKS SO MUCH BUT DONT WORRY YOUR HEAD
From: "Dr. Sylvia Blyden"
Date: Sun, October 7, 2007 8:17 pm
To: "Victor Stephens"
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I saw missed calls when I woke up. I was resting and phone was in silent mode.
Well, if you feel so, post it. I have read it through and everything there is
correct. It will raise their ire against me but who cares? More publicity!(smile).
You go ahead son.
Please delete my contact phone numbers!
It's the Smartest Doc!
On Sun, October 7, 2007 2:14 pm, Victor Stephens wrote:
> Smartest, can I please have your permission to post this email of yours on
> the online forums? It will be a much needed piece that will expose the
> Cocorioko Reverend and his people always using fake names to attack you.
> Please give me permission to post it both on Cocorioko and on Awareness
> Forum also. I have been having problems logging on to Awareness Forum lately
>
> Also, I tried calling the number listed but it just rang and rang.
>
> Please respond
>
> Your boy,
> Victor.
>
>
> On Sun, October 7, 2007 1:07 pm, Dr. Sylvia Blyden wrote:
>> Hi Dear,
>>
>> Don't worry your head about Cocorioko. Kabs Kanu has always had a bee in
>> his trousers for me and his Forum Moderator or Forum Police is still mad
>> at me for turning down his marriage offer in 1996. He is married now but
>> he seems to still be mad at me. I pray for him at any chance I get for
>> him
>> to get peace of mind and stop spreading lies about me.
>>
>> What asylum? Where? Ha ha ha! That is the funniest thing I have heard in
>> a
>> long time. I am right now in London preparing to fly to a few other
>> European cities
>> before going back to Freetown next weekend and then on to Ghana, Liberia,
>> Nigeria and South Africa to continue my vacation. America is not even in
>> my planned itinerary let alone me planning to seek asylum there. My life
>> in
>> Freetown is solid right now. I have a role to play for my people and
>> that
>> is exactly what I am going to do.
>>
>> My dear, let me tell you what my grandfather told me a long time ago. NO
>> POLITICIAN TURNS DOWN PUBLICITY WHETHER NEGATIVE OR NOT. These people
>> always writing about me even when I don't countenance them are just
>> making
>> me more popular. Now, everyone knows there is someone known as Sylvia
>> Blyden existing. All I need to do when I want to enter active politics
>> is
>> to connect with people and tell me true, who can resist my charm when
>> they
>> meet the REAL Sylvia against the monster my detractors want to paint me
>> as? (wink, wink).
>>
>> Blow for you yah. Nor hart you hade. Make den write... Ar nor mind. As
>> long as noto person wey ar respect dey write bad about me, ar nor go
>> mind
>> at all. If I respected Kabs Kanu, I will feel bad reading his obnoxious
>> articles he always publishes against me but since I don't have an iota
>> of
>> respect for a man who once wrote to me under the pseudonym of Mariama
>> Massaquoi asking me to tell him what it feels like to have an orgasm
>> since he (Mariama) had suffered Female Genital Mutilation and could
>> not experience sexual orgasms with his missing clitoris, well yousef tell
>> me nor? I still have Mariama Massaquoi's email sent asking me about
>> sexual
>> orgasms when it turned out that it was Kabs Kanu himself using a
>> pseudonym
>> of Mariama Massaquoi to get his rocks off! The man is a sick bastard and
>> I honestly believe he will get his comeuppance soon from the Almighty so
>> I'm not at all perturbed at his efforts against me. I mostly ignore him.
>>
>> If people like Dr. John Mannah start to attack me, I will get concerned.
>> For now, let the anonymous morons write away thinking they are harming
>> me.
>> THEY ARE ONLY MAKING ME MORE FAMOUS FOR MY EVENTUAL ENTRY INTO POLITICS.
>>
>> I met your SLPP Chairman and SLPP Secretary General here in the UK
>> yesterday. They are both great guys planning a re-bounce of your party.
>> I
>> wish them well. Sierra Leone needs a solid opposition right now. I wish
>> I
>> was prepared for politics right now, I would have loved to help them out
>> but my political plans are for some 20 years hence...
>>
>> Yes, I have heard about this new Erica something and her claims to the
>> thug Mike Kalokoh but I am not prepared to grant her the publicity she
>> seems to be seeking at my expense. Let her continue. I wonder how
>> Kalokos hoped their 1998 Statutory Declaration could compare to our
>> bonafide documents dating as far back as 1923! Just ignore her please.
>>
>> My number in the UK here is xxxxxxxxx. Call me before I fly out or you
>> will have to wait until I come back in a few weeks time. Once again,
>> thanks so much for your concerns but please don't worry about the
>> writings
>> of my detractors placing me in any danger. My Christian faith in the
>> Almighty
>> is rock solid. He has protected me thus far and I know He will continue
>> to
>> do so always. Dont forget the mantra: THE TRUTH OUTLIVES EVERYTHING!!
>>
>>
>> Stay fit.
>> Sylvia B (The Smartest!)
>>
>>
>> --
>> Dr. Sylvia Olayinka Blyden,
>> SYLVIA BLYDEN DOT COM
>> Sierra Leone's Leading ICT Consultants
>> Freetown, Sierra Leone
>> Telephone: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> Email: xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>
>>
>
>
--
Dr. Sylvia Olayinka Blyden,
Chief Executive,
SYLVIA BLYDEN DOT COM
Sierra Leone's Leading ICT Consultants
Freetown, Sierra Leone
Telephone: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Email: xxxxxxxxxxxxx
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Subject: Re: WHAT HAPPEN TO SUBWANALAI?
From: Kabs
To: All
Date Posted: 11:16:22 10/07/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: c-98-204-44-243.hsd1.md.comcast.net at 98.204.44.243
Message:
Will I be banned if I ask Kabs to tell us what constitutes "challenges"?
Subject: Re: WHAT HAPPEN TO SUBWANALAI?
From: Kalos
To: All
Date Posted: 11:26:00 10/07/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: c-98-204-44-243.hsd1.md.comcast.net at 98.204.44.243
Message:
I am sorry, I inadvertently stated KABS as the name of the poster above.
The posting read “WILL I BE BANNED IF I………”. Sorry again, Kabs.
Subject: Re: WHAT HAPPEN TO SUBWANALAI?
From: stupido
To: All
Date Posted: 07:44:44 10/08/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: host-24-225-160-74.patmedia.net at 24.225.160.74
Message:
YOUR NI-KON -PUP.How there you talk like this in my back yard. You will be chain and hang upside down for stupidity by tomorrow nite.
Subject: APC DON BEGIN! ENTER THE APC!!!!!
From: TALK TRUE
To: All
Date Posted: 09:17:17 10/07/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 148.177.1.218
Message:
For those of you who are still in denial, these are the same old APC tactics.
What were we thinking?
· That the Ernest Koroma who helped keep Siaka Steven loots will be any different from his mentor? The old man’s eye over Jamil? No wonder Jamil’s son, who stood to inherit his father’s share could be killed by another Koroma we know very well.
· That a group of thugs would take power and automatically become civilized?
Wake up. There is not much we can do now, but let me just give you a heads up.
They have started.
1. They start by attacking the not so obvious politicians like Abdulai Sidibay, lock them up for whatever reason they could come up with. Don’t worry yourselves, they will ultimately release him. But by then, his business would be bankrupt, and he will not be a threat to them again. For those of you in the western world, in what cities or municipalities would you find the head of the police or the Sheriff not a citizen of that town? The police officer in charge the so-called Kabia is not a resident of Kono and will molest the citizens of that town and does not have to face them later in life.
2. They will clean up the civil service. They will do it in such a way that the SLPP will not trust those who will stay.
3. They then take out the big goon. They have travel restrictions on them all. They are waiting for them to make the ultimate mistake and get together for whatever reason, and then they are accused of trying to overthrow the government.
4. By next elections, we would then see history in African politics; we would see a quick referendum to send us back to a one party state.
I hear a lot of talk about how the Salone man has changed. Perception! Perception! Perception! The reality that the APC know very well is that people need leadership, so you spot potential leadership, and take them out.
The relationship between the president and his vice is the same Sheke and “agbashetani” (S.I. Koroma) relationship. He is the good guy Koroma, while Sam takes people down. It is gradual folks, they will not make it too obvious, by the time you know it, we are again left with the ultimate option: civil war.
Their current problem with the selection of a cabinet has to do with how soon should the old faces come out. They are going to announce a cabinet that will run for say six months, fire them all for not doing their jobs and then, enter the APC
Let us note that it is not in the interest of the foreign workers in Sierra Leone to have a peaceful developing nation. They will be unemployed if this happens. The people we see are not the philanthropists that donate money to poor nations. They are employees who would only have jobs when these nations stay poor and unstable. So they will actual aid the APC in all there moves.
Subject: Re: APC DON BEGIN! ENTER THE APC!!!!!
From: FENTHI
To: All
Date Posted: 10:24:26 10/07/07 ()
Email Address: fenthi@hotmail.com
Entered From: cache-frr-ae04.proxy.aol.com at 195.93.60.132
Message:
True Talk,
the very existence of the likes of you underlines sierra leone`s misfortune in educating some of its children. Please give the new president a chance.In a society where people loot their offices in the event of a pending change of a government, its all but logical that the proceedures that are being employed now in the transition period are being implemented.
No defamatory ourbursts,whether from you, nor from your journalistically immature SLPP-mouthpiece, Miss Blyden, will change the new regime`s resolve to prepare a clean Arena for the new governmental Team. If you think that it`s easy to take over Power from a cleptocratic administration like the one just exiting, then you must be kidding.
Subject: Re: APC DON BEGIN! ENTER THE APC!!!!!
From: TALK TRUE
To: All
Date Posted: 10:42:12 10/07/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 148.177.1.218
Message:
It is so easy to spot an APC individual. Their first lines always start with an insult on the opposing view.
You are hopping that by your constant attacks on the opposing views they will keep quite. Trust me, this will be bad for the nation. A group of people that suffer quietly is like a time bomb. Let the opposing views be heard. They keep the administration on its toes.
We keep talking all these bad things about the Kabba regime. They basically went bad from all the praises and high expectations we the people pumped in them.
Subject: Re: APC DON BEGIN! ENTER THE APC!!!!!
From: FENTHI
To: All
Date Posted: 11:14:45 10/07/07 ()
Email Address: fenthi@hotmail.com.
Entered From: cache-frr-ae04.proxy.aol.com at 195.93.60.132
Message:
Sorry if that was absorbed as an insult. I never meant it to be so.Neverthelass, please allow Pres. EBK some time. It has been reiterated here over and over again by many contributors that the APC has an agenda, you simply have to wait and see.
Subject: Re: APC DON BEGIN! ENTER THE APC!!!!!
From: Looking in
To: All
Date Posted: 09:40:14 10/07/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: nc-76-0-177-82.dhcp.embarqhsd.net at 76.0.177.82
Message:
Why don't you give peace a chance? Give government a chance. Give "the peoples choice" a chance. The system may not be a fully working system for another 20 years, but at least give it a chance to begin instead of inciting another war. Have you not had enough of war?
Subject: Re: APC DON BEGIN! ENTER THE APC!!!!!
From: TALK TRUE
To: All
Date Posted: 10:28:45 10/07/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 148.177.1.218
Message:
Do you mean 27 years?
The situation is as simple as 1+1=2. I am not talking about what other people will be doing, but what the APC is doing.
So giving peace a chance will start by allowing the rule of law.
To pass a travel ban in a democracy should at least go by the House of Parliament.
To arrest a your political opponent should be with a case and a warrant signed by a Magistrate.
These simple steps will give peace a chance.
Subject: Re: APC DON BEGIN! ENTER THE APC!!!!!
From: Bamaby Lans Kamara
To: All
Date Posted: 12:38:58 10/07/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: c-71-197-104-25.hsd1.ca.comcast.net at 71.197.104.25
Message:
“For those of you in the western world, in what cities or municipalities would you find the head of the police or the Sheriff not a citizen of that town?”
I do.
In America what is required is whether or not one is a resident of a state. Residency requirement is living a year and a day or so in a particular state. America is a confederation therefore, there are Federal and State laws that go side by side. All Federal laws covers every individual in all 50 states but each state has their own laws that cover residents living within that state. However, to ensure that justice is served, these states’ Police or law enforcement agencies work as a team, which makes it very difficult for one to commit a crime in one state and escape to the other because they are sure to be brought to the book. This is why most criminals escape the country to other countries but even at that, there is a global network that will arrest a culprit who escapes to another country. Systems put in place such as American Most Wanted is a network that operates globally.
But the main answer to your question is one cannot be born in California parse, but can be head of the California Law Enforcement.
Another classic example is Sierra Leone, where the one time head of the Police was a British citizen, Police Inspector-General Keith Biddle: see image bellow.
Therefore, in the western world particularly American cities or municipalities, it is always possible to find the head of the police or the Sheriff not a citizen of that town. Per request I will give you examples upon examples of such possibilities.
If the people of a city respects the city, state or nation they should respect the laws of that such a city state or nation. That is responsible citizenship because the image of the town city or state is supreme to any individual citizens ego. Therefore, if they respect the laws they can not be disrespected but any citizen who puts him or herself in the place of the law is sure to be imprisoned let alone insulted. That is the American way, where the Rule Law is supreme to any individual persons.
I am happy that you ask questions to be informed but it sounds foolish to talk authoritatively on subjects you know nothing about.
Inspector-General Keith Biddle picture bellow:
http://search.yahoo.com/search;_ylt=A0oGkybOFQlHwSIAXodXNyoA?p=picture+of+Police+Inspector-General+Keith+Biddle&fr=yfp-t-501
Subject: Re: APC DON BEGIN! ENTER THE APC!!!!!
From: Mohamed A. Kamara
To: All
Date Posted: 12:00:31 10/07/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: ool-457951c4.dyn.optonline.net at 69.121.81.196
Message:
Talk true this not going to be another "BUSINESS AS USUAL" governance brother. You are just beginning to see the "NEW DAWN" theme being put into practice sir. What's the helter-skelter all about, by government officials in the previous regime, when we have issues pertinent to the maintenance of the state at hand?. Whatever happened to placing the interest of the country FIRST? The transfer of the responsibilities to nurse our homeland back to good health, MUST be done DILIGENTLY, with ACCOUNTABILITY and in a WELL STRUCTURED trend from this point on sir. So to the parasites who have booked their flights in order to jump ship, before giving their fellow citizens a run down about where things stand, I say TOUGH LUCK. They should consider such a step of enlightening the rest of us, as making their begruging contribution towards moving forward. On the bright side, it will help their pathetic souls, to project a positive public image at least.
Subject: U all damn Hypocrite when it comes to Sylvia...
From: Nah Sabi Talk
To: All
Date Posted: 08:40:20 10/07/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: static-76-160-64-185.dsl.cavtel.net at 76.160.64.185
Message:
Slyvia was not an elected representative of the people, but somehow you stupid tribal fools are holding her more accountable than the very ones you invested your votes on... If she had done whatever you all are now claiming, where the hell is the accountability from your government officials? What are the courts for? Didn't Sierra Leone under the SLPP government signed an agreement with the US to work together with the FBI? So any accused criminal cannot hide here nor in S/L...
You all made me to believe that if she was not a Creole, you would have cared less as you did of your own former minister that was implicated in the murder of a journalist in Freetown...
And ask for Erica Adams, maybe she was just born last night, the struggle for land in Freetown has been going on since the advent of colonialism... And the court is the right forum for such a battle...
We will just have to close this place down, but I will not sit idling and let you all unfairly crucify a citizen of my country at a global level without any legal basis...
***And for the Rev. Kabs Kanu! I will hope to God that you and your moderator do not delete this posting for I am deadly serious about bringing this one-sided international persecution of a fellow citizen to an end...
You all won and she lost, what's the big deal?
If losers are expected to be treated in this manner, who would blame those already in power if they employ all means possible to maintain and sustain their grip of it?
Subject: Re: U all damn Hypocrite when it comes to Sylvia...
From: Erica Adams
To: All
Date Posted: 16:41:08 10/07/07 ()
Email Address: ericamonique82@hotmail.com
Entered From: adsl-074-185-005-235.sip.clt.bellsouth.net at 74.185.5.235
Message:
You are missing the point about my issues with Sylvia. It is difficult for me to receive the kind of criticism she pours out, when I know for a fact she's a liar and a thief. The hell that she has been putting our family through by misusing the courts and making false claims to our property, and then sending thugs to abuse my brother-in-law until he finally was overcomed by all the stress and passed away several years ago. When you have this kind of history with someone and then she is trying to portray herself as some kind of moral police who is qualified to point out the inadequecies of others, that's a bitter pill to swallow. At the very least, don't let your hands be as dirty as the person's whose faults you're pointing out. I don't feel bad for Sylvia because she put herself out there and once you do, you have to take the good with the bad. Some people are going to agree with you while others will disagree. Some people with love you and other won't.
Subject: Re: U all damn Hypocrite when it comes to Sylvia...
From: My E
To: All
Date Posted: 16:39:01 10/07/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: cache-los-ae04.proxy.aol.com at 195.93.21.132
Message:
MY EXCHANGE WITH THE GREAT DR. SYLVIA BLYDEN (aka SMARTEST)!
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Posted by Victor [cache-los-ae04.proxy.aol.com at 195.93.21.132] on October 07, 2007 at 16:19:36:
Subject: Re: THANKS SO MUCH BUT DONT WORRY YOUR HEAD
From: "Dr. Sylvia Blyden"
Date: Sun, October 7, 2007 8:17 pm
To: "Victor Stephens"
Priority: Normal
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I saw missed calls when I woke up. I was resting and phone was in silent mode.
Well, if you feel so, post it. I have read it through and everything there is
correct. It will raise their ire against me but who cares? More publicity!(smile).
You go ahead son.
Please delete my contact phone numbers!
It's the Smartest Doc!
On Sun, October 7, 2007 2:14 pm, Victor Stephens wrote:
> Smartest, can I please have your permission to post this email of yours on
> the online forums? It will be a much needed piece that will expose the
> Cocorioko Reverend and his people always using fake names to attack you.
> Please give me permission to post it both on Cocorioko and on Awareness
> Forum also. I have been having problems logging on to Awareness Forum lately
>
> Also, I tried calling the number listed but it just rang and rang.
>
> Please respond
>
> Your boy,
> Victor.
>
>
> On Sun, October 7, 2007 1:07 pm, Dr. Sylvia Blyden wrote:
>> Hi Dear,
>>
>> Don't worry your head about Cocorioko. Kabs Kanu has always had a bee in
>> his trousers for me and his Forum Moderator or Forum Police is still mad
>> at me for turning down his marriage offer in 1996. He is married now but
>> he seems to still be mad at me. I pray for him at any chance I get for
>> him
>> to get peace of mind and stop spreading lies about me.
>>
>> What asylum? Where? Ha ha ha! That is the funniest thing I have heard in
>> a
>> long time. I am right now in London preparing to fly to a few other
>> European cities
>> before going back to Freetown next weekend and then on to Ghana, Liberia,
>> Nigeria and South Africa to continue my vacation. America is not even in
>> my planned itinerary let alone me planning to seek asylum there. My life
>> in
>> Freetown is solid right now. I have a role to play for my people and
>> that
>> is exactly what I am going to do.
>>
>> My dear, let me tell you what my grandfather told me a long time ago. NO
>> POLITICIAN TURNS DOWN PUBLICITY WHETHER NEGATIVE OR NOT. These people
>> always writing about me even when I don't countenance them are just
>> making
>> me more popular. Now, everyone knows there is someone known as Sylvia
>> Blyden existing. All I need to do when I want to enter active politics
>> is
>> to connect with people and tell me true, who can resist my charm when
>> they
>> meet the REAL Sylvia against the monster my detractors want to paint me
>> as? (wink, wink).
>>
>> Blow for you yah. Nor hart you hade. Make den write... Ar nor mind. As
>> long as noto person wey ar respect dey write bad about me, ar nor go
>> mind
>> at all. If I respected Kabs Kanu, I will feel bad reading his obnoxious
>> articles he always publishes against me but since I don't have an iota
>> of
>> respect for a man who once wrote to me under the pseudonym of Mariama
>> Massaquoi asking me to tell him what it feels like to have an orgasm
>> since he (Mariama) had suffered Female Genital Mutilation and could
>> not experience sexual orgasms with his missing clitoris, well yousef tell
>> me nor? I still have Mariama Massaquoi's email sent asking me about
>> sexual
>> orgasms when it turned out that it was Kabs Kanu himself using a
>> pseudonym
>> of Mariama Massaquoi to get his rocks off! The man is a sick bastard and
>> I honestly believe he will get his comeuppance soon from the Almighty so
>> I'm not at all perturbed at his efforts against me. I mostly ignore him.
>>
>> If people like Dr. John Mannah start to attack me, I will get concerned.
>> For now, let the anonymous morons write away thinking they are harming
>> me.
>> THEY ARE ONLY MAKING ME MORE FAMOUS FOR MY EVENTUAL ENTRY INTO POLITICS.
>>
>> I met your SLPP Chairman and SLPP Secretary General here in the UK
>> yesterday. They are both great guys planning a re-bounce of your party.
>> I
>> wish them well. Sierra Leone needs a solid opposition right now. I wish
>> I
>> was prepared for politics right now, I would have loved to help them out
>> but my political plans are for some 20 years hence...
>>
>> Yes, I have heard about this new Erica something and her claims to the
>> thug Mike Kalokoh but I am not prepared to grant her the publicity she
>> seems to be seeking at my expense. Let her continue. I wonder how
>> Kalokos hoped their 1998 Statutory Declaration could compare to our
>> bonafide documents dating as far back as 1923! Just ignore her please.
>>
>> My number in the UK here is xxxxxxxxx. Call me before I fly out or you
>> will have to wait until I come back in a few weeks time. Once again,
>> thanks so much for your concerns but please don't worry about the
>> writings
>> of my detractors placing me in any danger. My Christian faith in the
>> Almighty
>> is rock solid. He has protected me thus far and I know He will continue
>> to
>> do so always. Dont forget the mantra: THE TRUTH OUTLIVES EVERYTHING!!
>>
>>
>> Stay fit.
>> Sylvia B (The Smartest!)
>>
>>
>> --
>> Dr. Sylvia Olayinka Blyden,
>> SYLVIA BLYDEN DOT COM
>> Sierra Leone's Leading ICT Consultants
>> Freetown, Sierra Leone
>> Telephone: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> Email: xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>
>>
>
>
--
Dr. Sylvia Olayinka Blyden,
Chief Executive,
SYLVIA BLYDEN DOT COM
Sierra Leone's Leading ICT Consultants
Freetown, Sierra Leone
Telephone: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Email: xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Follow Ups:
Subject: Re: U all damn Hypocrite when it comes to Sylvia...
From: Erica Adams
To: All
Date Posted: 16:59:49 10/07/07 ()
Email Address: ericamonique82@hotmail.com
Entered From: adsl-074-185-005-235.sip.clt.bellsouth.net at 74.185.5.235
Message:
1923 my a.. If that is the case, why is there currently an order on the books to tear down the structure you put up that is encroaching on our property. If you have a document giving you these rights all the way back to 1923, why are we still in our property? You ain't that damn smart. As we all know, you can get anything you want to say anything you want it to say in Freetown. I can go there today and get a passport that says I'm white even though anyone looking at me knows that's not true. For you to say that you don't know Michael Kalokoh when you had him in court for years, had people beat him up, and contributed to his death is further proof of the fact that you are a liar. Court proceedings are a matter of public record so for you to deny knowing Mike just shows how stupid you are. Anyone who doubts what I'm saying and has access to those public records can look it up and see that you are lying. As for your political life, hell will freeze over sooner!
Subject: Re: U all damn Hypocrite when it comes to Sylvia...
From: Kabudu Gen
To: All
Date Posted: 13:37:33 10/07/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: pool-151-202-41-6.ny325.east.verizon.net at 151.202.41.6
Message:
You got it wrong buddy. Sylvia is not beimg singled out for annililation. The reverse is true. She has a long history of picking on people, and of being one of the most notorious practitioners of the politics of personal destruction.
She has continuously used her megaphone, The Awareness Times, to launch scurrilous attacks on people she considers to be her enemies. Ask Victor Angelo, John Leigh, Ernest Koroma and countless others who have been victimized by her bile. They carry the scars of Sylvia "cut-han" journalism. Believe me Nar Sabi Talk, this woman, on whom you have decided to so gallantly shower your chivalry, is no lady!
Sylvia likes throwing rocks,
Sylvia lives in a glass house...
Every so often, a rock boomerangs
and smashes Sylvia's glass house!
Subject: Re: U all damn Hypocrite when it comes to Sylvia...
From: Nar Sabi Talk
To: All
Date Posted: 14:23:09 10/07/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: static-76-160-64-185.dsl.cavtel.net at 76.160.64.185
Message:
You've made a good argument but the facts still remain the truth...
None of those folks you mentioned above are on her as those you failed to mention... our forum of Patriots...
Subject: Re: U all damn Hypocrite when it comes to Sylvia...
From: george
To: All
Date Posted: 10:02:19 10/07/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: pool-71-240-239-111.fred.east.verizon.net at 71.240.239.111
Message:
The degree of hatred for Dr Blyden has reached a magnifying proportion in this forum. I thought it was all about the election but it seem to be deeper and personal.
I have not been following the events leading to this intense dismay and disgust for this woman but I am doing my research now. I will reserve my comments until I am more informed. Warning
Subject: Re: U all damn Hypocrite when it comes to Sylvia...
From: Fan of Lamina Poyo
To: All
Date Posted: 10:31:19 10/07/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: h167-156-253.63.chubb.com at 167.156.63.253
Message:
Nar Sabi Talk,
Nobody hates Sylvia. It is her devillishness and dangerous character that make people go after her and I am pretty sure a whole bunch of you know that .People do not like Sylvia but you need to ask why it is so. The reasons are that she is so evil and vindictive she is always throwing stones at others. Whatever Sylvia says and does is to undermine and malign innocent people, establish a kind of I know-it-all aura and to get people in the bad books of authority. She does not believe in human rights.She is always on the side of human rights abusers, plunderers of our economy and vindictive leaders ( Foday Sankoh, Johnny Paul Koroma ,KABBAH/BEREWA etc) .And from that position she is always fighting good people and getting them in trouble. Who will love that kind of person ?
Subject: Re: U all damn Hypocrite when it comes to Sylvia...
From: Nar Sabi Talk
To: All
Date Posted: 12:13:52 10/07/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: static-76-160-64-185.dsl.cavtel.net at 76.160.64.185
Message:
Fan of Lamina Poyo:
Truly appreciate your opinion...
Based on what you've mentioned, Sylvia cannot possibly be the only person that fits that, but how come she is the only one surgically sigled out for global destruction...? I have criticized her when she has been wrong, but I will not let this destruction of a fellow citizen continue without doing the best I can to curb it...
Everyone must pay for their actions, I have no problem with that, but it has to be handled fairly...
We all must try to check our dislikes and emotions for ONLY the letter "D" (FOR DEEDS) is missing in "ANGER" to make it DANGER...
Sierra Leone is no longer the same anymore... And if you asked me, she is still not spoken for yet!
Subject: SYLVIA APPLIES FOR POLITICAL ASSYLUM IN USA.
From: momoh liba
To: All
Date Posted: 06:39:58 10/07/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: c-69-143-225-68.hsd1.md.comcast.net at 69.143.225.68
Message:
IT IS RELIABLY LEARNT THAT SYLVIA OLYINKA BLYDEN HAS AS OF FRIDAY OCTOBER 6 2007 APPLIED FOR POLITICAL ASSYLUM IN SIERRA LEONE CLAIMING THREATS TO HER LIFE BY APC THUGS DURING AND AFTER THE JUST CONCLUDED ELECTIONS. MANY OTHERS WHO HAVE HOSE 10 YEAR MULTIPLE INDEFINITE WILL USE THIS SAME ROUTE TO GET GREEN CARD SO WE MUST FIND OUT WHERE THE ASSYLUM HEARINGS WILL BE HELD AND GO AND PROTEST THEIR OR BE A WITNESS AGAINST THEM. IT SHOULD BE NOTED THAT DURING JUNT DAYS SYLVIA HAD ENTERED THE UNITED STATES USING A PSEUDO NAME OF FATMATA KAMARA. SHE PRESENTLY NOW RESIDES AT A CHEAP HOTEL IN FREDERICK MD AS NO RELATIVE OR FREIND WILL WANT ANYTHING TO DO WITH HER.
STAY TUNED FOR MORE TO COME.
Subject: Re: SYLVIA APPLIES FOR POLITICAL ASSYLUM IN USA.
From: Asylum Lawyer
To: All
Date Posted: 16:39:58 10/07/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: cache-los-ae04.proxy.aol.com at 195.93.21.132
Message:
MY EXCHANGE WITH THE GREAT DR. SYLVIA BLYDEN (aka SMARTEST)!
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Posted by Victor [cache-los-ae04.proxy.aol.com at 195.93.21.132] on October 07, 2007 at 16:19:36:
Subject: Re: THANKS SO MUCH BUT DONT WORRY YOUR HEAD
From: "Dr. Sylvia Blyden"
Date: Sun, October 7, 2007 8:17 pm
To: "Victor Stephens"
Priority: Normal
Options: View Full Header | View Printable Version | Download this as a file
I saw missed calls when I woke up. I was resting and phone was in silent mode.
Well, if you feel so, post it. I have read it through and everything there is
correct. It will raise their ire against me but who cares? More publicity!(smile).
You go ahead son.
Please delete my contact phone numbers!
It's the Smartest Doc!
On Sun, October 7, 2007 2:14 pm, Victor Stephens wrote:
> Smartest, can I please have your permission to post this email of yours on
> the online forums? It will be a much needed piece that will expose the
> Cocorioko Reverend and his people always using fake names to attack you.
> Please give me permission to post it both on Cocorioko and on Awareness
> Forum also. I have been having problems logging on to Awareness Forum lately
>
> Also, I tried calling the number listed but it just rang and rang.
>
> Please respond
>
> Your boy,
> Victor.
>
>
> On Sun, October 7, 2007 1:07 pm, Dr. Sylvia Blyden wrote:
>> Hi Dear,
>>
>> Don't worry your head about Cocorioko. Kabs Kanu has always had a bee in
>> his trousers for me and his Forum Moderator or Forum Police is still mad
>> at me for turning down his marriage offer in 1996. He is married now but
>> he seems to still be mad at me. I pray for him at any chance I get for
>> him
>> to get peace of mind and stop spreading lies about me.
>>
>> What asylum? Where? Ha ha ha! That is the funniest thing I have heard in
>> a
>> long time. I am right now in London preparing to fly to a few other
>> European cities
>> before going back to Freetown next weekend and then on to Ghana, Liberia,
>> Nigeria and South Africa to continue my vacation. America is not even in
>> my planned itinerary let alone me planning to seek asylum there. My life
>> in
>> Freetown is solid right now. I have a role to play for my people and
>> that
>> is exactly what I am going to do.
>>
>> My dear, let me tell you what my grandfather told me a long time ago. NO
>> POLITICIAN TURNS DOWN PUBLICITY WHETHER NEGATIVE OR NOT. These people
>> always writing about me even when I don't countenance them are just
>> making
>> me more popular. Now, everyone knows there is someone known as Sylvia
>> Blyden existing. All I need to do when I want to enter active politics
>> is
>> to connect with people and tell me true, who can resist my charm when
>> they
>> meet the REAL Sylvia against the monster my detractors want to paint me
>> as? (wink, wink).
>>
>> Blow for you yah. Nor hart you hade. Make den write... Ar nor mind. As
>> long as noto person wey ar respect dey write bad about me, ar nor go
>> mind
>> at all. If I respected Kabs Kanu, I will feel bad reading his obnoxious
>> articles he always publishes against me but since I don't have an iota
>> of
>> respect for a man who once wrote to me under the pseudonym of Mariama
>> Massaquoi asking me to tell him what it feels like to have an orgasm
>> since he (Mariama) had suffered Female Genital Mutilation and could
>> not experience sexual orgasms with his missing clitoris, well yousef tell
>> me nor? I still have Mariama Massaquoi's email sent asking me about
>> sexual
>> orgasms when it turned out that it was Kabs Kanu himself using a
>> pseudonym
>> of Mariama Massaquoi to get his rocks off! The man is a sick bastard and
>> I honestly believe he will get his comeuppance soon from the Almighty so
>> I'm not at all perturbed at his efforts against me. I mostly ignore him.
>>
>> If people like Dr. John Mannah start to attack me, I will get concerned.
>> For now, let the anonymous morons write away thinking they are harming
>> me.
>> THEY ARE ONLY MAKING ME MORE FAMOUS FOR MY EVENTUAL ENTRY INTO POLITICS.
>>
>> I met your SLPP Chairman and SLPP Secretary General here in the UK
>> yesterday. They are both great guys planning a re-bounce of your party.
>> I
>> wish them well. Sierra Leone needs a solid opposition right now. I wish
>> I
>> was prepared for politics right now, I would have loved to help them out
>> but my political plans are for some 20 years hence...
>>
>> Yes, I have heard about this new Erica something and her claims to the
>> thug Mike Kalokoh but I am not prepared to grant her the publicity she
>> seems to be seeking at my expense. Let her continue. I wonder how
>> Kalokos hoped their 1998 Statutory Declaration could compare to our
>> bonafide documents dating as far back as 1923! Just ignore her please.
>>
>> My number in the UK here is xxxxxxxxx. Call me before I fly out or you
>> will have to wait until I come back in a few weeks time. Once again,
>> thanks so much for your concerns but please don't worry about the
>> writings
>> of my detractors placing me in any danger. My Christian faith in the
>> Almighty
>> is rock solid. He has protected me thus far and I know He will continue
>> to
>> do so always. Dont forget the mantra: THE TRUTH OUTLIVES EVERYTHING!!
>>
>>
>> Stay fit.
>> Sylvia B (The Smartest!)
>>
>>
>> --
>> Dr. Sylvia Olayinka Blyden,
>> SYLVIA BLYDEN DOT COM
>> Sierra Leone's Leading ICT Consultants
>> Freetown, Sierra Leone
>> Telephone: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> Email: xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>
>>
>
>
--
Dr. Sylvia Olayinka Blyden,
Chief Executive,
SYLVIA BLYDEN DOT COM
Sierra Leone's Leading ICT Consultants
Freetown, Sierra Leone
Telephone: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Email: xxxxxxxxxxxxx
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Subject: Re: SYLVIA APPLIES FOR POLITICAL ASSYLUM IN USA.
From: Erica Adams
To: All
Date Posted: 23:17:48 10/07/07 ()
Email Address: ericamonique82@hotmail.com
Entered From: adsl-074-185-005-235.sip.clt.bellsouth.net at 74.185.5.235
Message:
Dear Sylvia,
I don't care if you have a declaration dating back to 1823! If you all have the documents you claim, why are we still in our property? Why are you acting like the structure you built that is encroaching on our property wasn't ordered to be torn down? Since court proceedings are a matter of public record, anyone who chooses to can get a copy of them. You refered to my late brother-in-law as a thug. You know the one whose premature death you contributed to when you sent thugs to beat him up and kept dragging to court. Now you are pretending you don't know Michael Kalokoh. When you kept filing papers trying to steal our property, who did you have them addressed to? Why did you reference a statutory declaration for someone you know nothing of and have no dealings with? How would you know what property I'm referencing if you had no dealings with Michael Kalokoh. You call yourself the smartest, but your stupidity shows itself every time you come on this forum. Stick with your own forum of five who are blindly led by your insanity. If I were jetsetting around the world, the last thing I'd be doing is writing and replying to myself on this forum. I saw your write up about mental health day recently. There are good mental health services in the west; take advantage of them while you're away. All the best.
Subject: Re: SYLVIA APPLIES FOR POLITICAL ASSYLUM IN USA.
From: Sabanoh
To: All
Date Posted: 09:04:00 10/07/07 ()
Email Address: Sabanoh007@yahoo.com
Entered From: cache-mtc-ah10.proxy.aol.com at 64.12.117.202
Message:
Some of you on this forum probably do not know Sylvia or else you wouldn't be wasting your time worrying or writing about her. I can tell you she dont give a damn what you think of her. I met Sylvia during the struggle between Kabba and the AFRC. She is an intelligent and shrewd politician and to tell you all the truth I dont think that most of you can even shine her shoes. Unlike most of you first-in-the family high school/college grads (mostly from degree mills in the US) she comes from a long line of educated family. Her maternal grandfather is SAJ Pratt former minister and her paternal grandfather Edward Blyden, former SL rep at the UN. My suggestion to all you haters is to get a life---creole man nor dey lef nar gron. Lonta.
Subject: AWARENESS TIMES JUSTIFIES 9/11 TERRORISM
From: Ninja Journalist Observer
To: All
Date Posted: 09:42:07 10/07/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: ppp-70-244-79-31.dsl.rcsntx.swbell.net at 70.244.79.31
Message:
On September 11th 2001, the United States of America got devastated by people who say that they felt short-changed by the International World.
Has the International Community learnt anything from the wicked event where thousands of innocent lives ended in a hail of fiery brutality?
Will the International World continue to impose their own ideas and force their will upon other Nations and people?
Is the United Nations aware of the sacredness of their avowed neutrality in World Affairs and Nations' internal politics?
These are some thoughts from Sierra Leone on September 11 2007, the sixth anniversary of the greatest horror of modern times that occured in New York, New York, USA.
Subject: Re: SYLVIA APPLIES FOR POLITICAL ASSYLUM IN USA.
From: Somtin Butu!
To: All
Date Posted: 08:27:16 10/07/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: pool-151-202-41-6.ny325.east.verizon.net at 151.202.41.6
Message:
I wonder how the immigration judges will react when they hear and see evidence that Sylvia had some how tried to justify the 9-11 terrorism as a reaction to U.S foreign policy. I remember Cocorioko having to run a flash dissociating Sierra Leoneans from Sylvia's grotesque analysis. It's gonna be very hot for Sylvia in that immigration hearing.
Subject: Re: SYLVIA APPLIES FOR POLITICAL ASSYLUM IN USA.
From: Josephus Fynecontry
To: All
Date Posted: 06:44:57 10/07/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: h167-156-253.63.chubb.com at 167.156.63.253
Message:
If this is true,we must not allow her to stay in the United States because she has a case to answer in Sierra Leone. Please supply us more information so we can go after her through the FBI and Home Security.
Subject: Re: SYLVIA APPLIES FOR POLITICAL ASSYLUM IN USA.
From: thug life
To: All
Date Posted: 07:22:37 10/07/07 ()
Email Address: thuglife@aol.com
Entered From: c-71-224-131-184.hsd1.nj.comcast.net at 71.224.131.184
Message:
fbi an dhome land security dont give a fuk about salone lol. you all waste you time thinkign they do. unless you all get you act together and gain soem respect in the international comunity they would neva give a fuka nd they have neva given a fuk. we more worried about therorists than about you witch hunt in you little backward country.
Subject: Re: SYLVIA APPLIES FOR POLITICAL ASSYLUM IN USA.
From: Med
To: All
Date Posted: 07:42:40 10/07/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 82.114.66.82
Message:
You have your national worries and so do we, it’s about our ‘backward country’s’ national development, that I suppose you have no idea of, its also cruelty on your intelligence, the community you represent that you could be allowed access to the WWW.
Thug Life, because of cultural differences I would refrain form calling you a ’fuk.’
Subject: CORRECTING ALPHA SAIDU'S MISCUES ABOUT ERNEST KOROMA
From: KABS KANU
To: All
Date Posted: 06:38:32 10/07/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: h167-156-253.63.chubb.com at 167.156.63.253
Message:
ALPHA SAIDU,
If you have read President Koroma's speeches and interviews, he has said that he is a man of accountability and transparency. Given such a credential, he will not allow his soon-to-be-appointed cabinet ministers to take over from the ex-ministers without proper accountability. You know too that the stakeholders and international community who provide funds to keep the nation going demand accountability too. There must be an orderly transfer of power with accountability and transparency the keynote.
Mr. Koroma set up the Transition Team to oversee this transfer of power. They will prepare reports of every ministry and present it to the APC government. The nation will then be informed by the new government about what they met (The social and financial standing of every ministry ) .This will make the nation understand what the APC met so that the mistakes of the past government cannot be attributed to the government taking over. This is my own understanding of the transition process. Also, this will give the government a comprehensive view of the task at hand and where to start. This is transparency and accountability at work.
Members of the Transition Team, we are told by Dr.Lancelot Lake, a member, are not being paid. They are performing a voluntary service for the nation.
You have mixed up the Swearing-in ceremony with the Inauguration. Both are different and separate occasions.One is designed to make the President and his V-P take their oaths of office prior to assuming control .The inauguration is a ceremony that formally inducts the President and his team into office. President Koroma, you can therefore see, has not organized 2 inauguration ceremonies.Your viewpoint is wrong.
Ernest Koroma has shown that he is the right person for the Presidency. He has not come to perpetuate the Free-For-All unaccountable system that has existed in Sierra Leone for ages and destroyed the country. He is stepping carefully and circumspectly to ensure that nothing is unaccounted for. He also wants to form a cabinet that will be beyond reproach.
Subject: Re: CORRECTING ALPHA SAIDU'S MISCUES ABOUT ERNEST KOROMA
From: Kalos
To: All
Date Posted: 11:12:49 10/07/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: c-98-204-44-243.hsd1.md.comcast.net at 98.204.44.243
Message:
It is unpatriotic to blindly and sometimes stupidly and unconditionally support the policies of EBK with
reckless abandonment of the expectations of our people. Any dissent is meted by the firing squad of the so-
called blind supporters. What happen to the 100-day progress report the president promise the nation?
Receiving and entertaining diplomats, ethnic groups, former NPRC leaders, buddy-buddy with JB and others
are not clear indications of leadership. Let us go back to the much-hyped "running the country like a
business" hysteria; based on the past 30 days it is past due to completely accept the falsehood of that
assertion.
It is logical, rational and in place to ask the questions: Is the president unprepared? Did he underestimate the
enormous responsibilities of the presidency?
No one, I mean no one, should be afraid or intimidated to ask the tough questions, provide constructive
criticism, or demand for answers. We owe it to EBK and our country. We love the guy, we elected him; he
needs our support by directly and indirectly pointing to his flaws. This guy will learn from his mistakes
Subject: Re: CORRECTING ALPHA SAIDU'S MISCUES ABOUT ERNEST KOROMA
From: Kabudu Gen
To: All
Date Posted: 12:29:04 10/07/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: pool-151-202-41-6.ny325.east.verizon.net at 151.202.41.6
Message:
"It is unpatriotic to blindly and sometimes stupidly and unconditionally support the policies of EBK with
reckless abandonment of the expectations of our people"--- Kalos.
Kalos, kindly tell us who is stupidly and unpatriotically supporting the policies of EBK. I hope you are not insinuating that defending the guy from the atrocious attacks by bitter foes like JJ Blood and Sylvia Blyden is "unpatriotic".
As for a progress report, i think he has already accomplished a lot in less than a month without the ministers that is the focus of obsession for so many:
1) By hiring reputable accounting firms like KPMG to audit all ministries and parastatals, he sets a tone of truth, honesty and accountability in govt and allows the people to see the true state of our nation's finances. This will serve notice to all incoming ministers and department heads that they will be called to account for their stewardship. This will have a chilling effect on corrupt practices.
2) The vetting of government functionaries by the transition team is a welcome departure from the past when partisans scratch and claw each other in a mad rush for government positions. We are all suffering from the damage those unvetted knaves did in those ministries. The missing millions they absconded with are being pampered in corrupt SLPP accounts right now.
EBK, please take all the time in the world and let those who are dedicated to artificial deadlines chew on the eleven years of misery the Kabba kakistocracy inflicted on the country. Some of us already know you are serious when you said we need and will get 2 MW thermal stations in all the provincial towns and enough megawattage to light up Freetown out of the darkness.
Subject: Re: CORRECTING ALPHA SAIDU'S MISCUES ABOUT ERNEST KOROMA
From: Thomas
To: All
Date Posted: 16:59:59 10/07/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 66.212.16.194
Message:
MY EXCHANGE WITH THE GREAT DR. SYLVIA BLYDEN (aka SMARTEST)!
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Subject: Re: THANKS SO MUCH BUT DONT WORRY YOUR HEAD
From: "Dr. Sylvia Blyden"
Date: Sun, October 7, 2007 8:17 pm
To: "Victor Stephens"
Priority: Normal
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I saw missed calls when I woke up. I was resting and phone was in silent mode.
Well, if you feel so, post it. I have read it through and everything there is
correct. It will raise their ire against me but who cares? More publicity!(smile).
You go ahead son.
Please delete my contact phone numbers!
It's the Smartest Doc!
On Sun, October 7, 2007 2:14 pm, Victor Stephens wrote:
> Smartest, can I please have your permission to post this email of yours on
> the online forums? It will be a much needed piece that will expose the
> Cocorioko Reverend and his people always using fake names to attack you.
> Please give me permission to post it both on Cocorioko and on Awareness
> Forum also. I have been having problems logging on to Awareness Forum lately
>
> Also, I tried calling the number listed but it just rang and rang.
>
> Please respond
>
> Your boy,
> Victor.
>
>
> On Sun, October 7, 2007 1:07 pm, Dr. Sylvia Blyden wrote:
>> Hi Dear,
>>
>> Don't worry your head about Cocorioko. Kabs Kanu has always had a bee in
>> his trousers for me and his Forum Moderator or Forum Police is still mad
>> at me for turning down his marriage offer in 1996. He is married now but
>> he seems to still be mad at me. I pray for him at any chance I get for
>> him
>> to get peace of mind and stop spreading lies about me.
>>
>> What asylum? Where? Ha ha ha! That is the funniest thing I have heard in
>> a
>> long time. I am right now in London preparing to fly to a few other
>> European cities
>> before going back to Freetown next weekend and then on to Ghana, Liberia,
>> Nigeria and South Africa to continue my vacation. America is not even in
>> my planned itinerary let alone me planning to seek asylum there. My life
>> in
>> Freetown is solid right now. I have a role to play for my people and
>> that
>> is exactly what I am going to do.
>>
>> My dear, let me tell you what my grandfather told me a long time ago. NO
>> POLITICIAN TURNS DOWN PUBLICITY WHETHER NEGATIVE OR NOT. These people
>> always writing about me even when I don't countenance them are just
>> making
>> me more popular. Now, everyone knows there is someone known as Sylvia
>> Blyden existing. All I need to do when I want to enter active politics
>> is
>> to connect with people and tell me true, who can resist my charm when
>> they
>> meet the REAL Sylvia against the monster my detractors want to paint me
>> as? (wink, wink).
>>
>> Blow for you yah. Nor hart you hade. Make den write... Ar nor mind. As
>> long as noto person wey ar respect dey write bad about me, ar nor go
>> mind
>> at all. If I respected Kabs Kanu, I will feel bad reading his obnoxious
>> articles he always publishes against me but since I don't have an iota
>> of
>> respect for a man who once wrote to me under the pseudonym of Mariama
>> Massaquoi asking me to tell him what it feels like to have an orgasm
>> since he (Mariama) had suffered Female Genital Mutilation and could
>> not experience sexual orgasms with his missing clitoris, well yousef tell
>> me nor? I still have Mariama Massaquoi's email sent asking me about
>> sexual
>> orgasms when it turned out that it was Kabs Kanu himself using a
>> pseudonym
>> of Mariama Massaquoi to get his rocks off! The man is a sick bastard and
>> I honestly believe he will get his comeuppance soon from the Almighty so
>> I'm not at all perturbed at his efforts against me. I mostly ignore him.
>>
>> If people like Dr. John Mannah start to attack me, I will get concerned.
>> For now, let the anonymous morons write away thinking they are harming
>> me.
>> THEY ARE ONLY MAKING ME MORE FAMOUS FOR MY EVENTUAL ENTRY INTO POLITICS.
>>
>> I met your SLPP Chairman and SLPP Secretary General here in the UK
>> yesterday. They are both great guys planning a re-bounce of your party.
>> I
>> wish them well. Sierra Leone needs a solid opposition right now. I wish
>> I
>> was prepared for politics right now, I would have loved to help them out
>> but my political plans are for some 20 years hence...
>>
>> Yes, I have heard about this new Erica something and her claims to the
>> thug Mike Kalokoh but I am not prepared to grant her the publicity she
>> seems to be seeking at my expense. Let her continue. I wonder how
>> Kalokos hoped their 1998 Statutory Declaration could compare to our
>> bonafide documents dating as far back as 1923! Just ignore her please.
>>
>> My number in the UK here is xxxxxxxxx. Call me before I fly out or you
>> will have to wait until I come back in a few weeks time. Once again,
>> thanks so much for your concerns but please don't worry about the
>> writings
>> of my detractors placing me in any danger. My Christian faith in the
>> Almighty
>> is rock solid. He has protected me thus far and I know He will continue
>> to
>> do so always. Dont forget the mantra: THE TRUTH OUTLIVES EVERYTHING!!
>>
>>
>> Stay fit.
>> Sylvia B (The Smartest!)
>>
>>
>> --
>> Dr. Sylvia Olayinka Blyden,
>> SYLVIA BLYDEN DOT COM
>> Sierra Leone's Leading ICT Consultants
>> Freetown, Sierra Leone
>> Telephone: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> Email: xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>
>>
>
>
--
Dr. Sylvia Olayinka Blyden,
Chief Executive,
SYLVIA BLYDEN DOT COM
Sierra Leone's Leading ICT Consultants
Freetown, Sierra Leone
Telephone: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Email: xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Follow Ups:
Subject: Re: CORRECTING ALPHA SAIDU'S MISCUES ABOUT ERNEST KOROMA
From: Med
To: All
Date Posted: 07:09:54 10/07/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 82.114.66.82
Message:
Kabbs Kanu, please don’t buy into that thing, I have and would continue to strongly disagree with the fact that the inauguration and swearing in ceremony are two separate occasions, the APC can have a befitting ceremony, but confusing the populace is not only misleading but extensively unpatriotic. Also based on your premise, one can assume that the supposedly swearing in ceremony was timely and thus the presidents’ executive decision on the continued service of the former SLPP ministers is also justifiable.
Every Sierra Leonean do support a systematic transition, but the present political situation predicts otherwise, it sends an expression that something is either wrong or went wrong somewhere, I’ll leave that to your judgment.
Subject: Re: CORRECTING ALPHA SAIDU'S MISCUES ABOUT ERNEST KOROMA
From: Kabudu Gen
To: All
Date Posted: 08:15:17 10/07/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: pool-151-202-41-6.ny325.east.verizon.net at 151.202.41.6
Message:
Med, did Kabba have an inauguration? If so did you oppose it?
You are right about Saloneans assuming something is wrong with the present political situation. Our people are smart. They are very suspicious about the hastiness in which SLPP handed over, almost like getting a hot potato off your hands. Already Sylvia Blyden and JJ Blood are spreading propaganda abour how great SLPP was and how their party handed a stable, prosperous democracy to APC!
To avoid all confusion, and to be fair to both SLPP and APC, the president is right to have a thorough accounting of the ministries before his ministers take control. I hope this will become th norm henceforth.
Subject: Re: CORRECTING ALPHA SAIDU'S MISCUES ABOUT ERNEST KOROMA
From: TALK TRUE
To: All
Date Posted: 09:29:34 10/07/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 148.177.1.218
Message:
Is he also sending them to overnight GED lessons?
Or is it true that the APC party is having trouble satisfying the power needs of all "them wan them wey put money" ?
He could take all the time investigating ministers, but should at least give the parliament the list of ministers for them to start looking at, start the background checks.
Or is that also not necessary as the APC has the majority anyway.
We spoil our leaders from the get go. We give excuses for their shortcomings.
Subject: Re: CORRECTING ALPHA SAIDU'S MISCUES ABOUT ERNEST KOROMA
From: Kabudu Gen
To: All
Date Posted: 12:45:08 10/07/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: pool-151-202-41-6.ny325.east.verizon.net at 151.202.41.6
Message:
"Is he also sending them to overnight GED lessons?"
Even a laughing hyena wouldn't crack a smile at that unfunny joke!
Seriously though, I don't see the rush with the cabinet business. The country is moving on. Technical and business teams are right now in negotiations to get us thermal stations for electricity. Plans are in place for better technology for clean drinking water. The prezy will name a cabinet that will hit the ground running, doing the people's business, after they have been vetted. We have had ministers-aplenty and we all weep after they have looted the damn place. Let's be a little more patient. HE has barely been there a month. Damn!
Subject: Re: CORRECTING ALPHA SAIDU'S MISCUES ABOUT ERNEST KOROMA
From: Med
To: All
Date Posted: 09:14:50 10/07/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 82.114.66.82
Message:
Kabbas’ handover in principle was sufficient enough; though it allowed the NPRC further ravage our economy with impunity.
You guys should think, who would be handing over again, The APC and SLPP, I assume reached an understanding on the nature and timing of the inauguration. I am not against another inauguration or a more befitting ceremony that would attract national rulers and colleague heads of states as long as the source of funding is made public, but again in politics every negative decision has a boomerang effect. I have also come to realize that most African leaders do not only fail to understand their basic human rights but also do not have a clue on the executive privileges awarded by the constitution. This is why it’s difficult for our leaders to say NO, internally or worse more to foreign policies that have no economic benefit to the nations the represent. Its difficult to say NO than YES in politics, with no you would be obliged to explain, most incompetent leaders choose the easy way out, YES SIR, YES SIR and suffer the people.
Finally, I will urge that the APC concentrate on their homework, time is of the essence and as mentioned earlier I would refuse to accept that the SLPP usurped the APC into the premature inauguration, or any other justification other than a calculated bogus move aimed at further bastardizing our ravaged national revenue.
For example, no body cares if Kabba, Paul Koroma, Bio, Strasser, Momoh or Bamdalay were ever inaugurated, one thing they have in common though is the fact that they all failed to deliver on promise and people would continue to curse even the dead amongst these crooked lot.
Subject: CORRECTING ALPHA SAIDU'S MISCUES ABOUT ERNEST KOROMA
From: KABS KANU
To: All
Date Posted: 06:33:59 10/07/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: h167-156-253.63.chubb.com at 167.156.63.253
Message:
ALPHA SAIDU,
If you have read President Koroma's speeches and interviews, he has said that he is a man of accountability and transparency. Given such a credential, he will not allow his soon-to-be-appointed cabinet ministers to take over from the ex-ministers without proper accountability. You know too that the stakeholders and international community who provide funds to keep the nation going demand accountability too. There must be an orderly transfer of power with accountability and transparency the keynote.
Mr. Koroma set up the Transition Team to oversee this transfer of power. They will prepare reports of every ministry and present it to the APC government. The nation will then be informed by the new government about what they met (The social and financial standing of every ministry ) .This will make the nation understand what the APC met so that the mistakes of the past government cannot be attributed to the government taking over. This is my own understanding of the transition process. Also, this will give the government a comprehensive view of the task at hand and where to start. This is transparency and accountability at work.
Members of the Transition Team, we are told by Dr.Lancelot Lake, a member, are not being paid. They are performing a voluntary service for the nation.
You have mixed up the Swearing-in ceremony with the Inauguration. Both are different and separate occasions.One is designed to make the President and his V-P take their oaths of office prior to assuming control .The inauguration is a ceremony that formally inducts the President and his team into office. President Koroma, you can therefore see, has not organized 2 inauguration ceremonies.Your viewpoint is wrong.
Ernest Koroma has shown that he is the right person for the Presidency. He has not come to perpetuate the Free-For-All unaccountable system that has existed in Sierra Leone for ages and destroyed the country. He is stepping carefully and circumspectly to ensure that nothing is unaccounted for. He also wants to form a cabinet that will be beyond reproach.
During the campaign MR. Ernest Koroma continuously called all ministers in the Kabba administration, corrupt and useless people. After he took the oath of office as president, he begged the same ministers of the Kabba era to work for him, what type of a person will ask people he does not trust and respect to work in his administration? While the ex-ministers continue to serve, Mr. Koroma appointed a transition team, I wish he will tell us the job of his transition team(all members of the transition team are being paid by government).
Mr.Ernest Koroma has been in office for a little over three weeks and till can not appoint his cabinet. This clearly shows that he was not ready for the sensitive position of president of Sierra Leone. I heard that he wants to take Sierra Leoneans from their high level international job and appoint them ministers. I only hope he understands that only registered voters can be appointed ministers. We will also demand that he presents us with their clean pass records for a proper examination. Working for an international institution does not mean that you are corrupt free.
I have been reliably informed by a senior APC official that they are planning another inauguration for president Koroma sometime this year.
Somebody needs to tell me what is the rationale behind inaugurating Mr. Koroma twice at the expense of the nation?
I am sure that very soon all Sierra Leoneans will notice that Mr.Koroma is the wrong person for the most senstive position of president of Sierra Leone.
Subject: WHEN WILL PRESIDENT KOROMA GET HIS PRIORITIES RIGHT?
From: ALPHA SAIDU BANGURA
To: All
Date Posted: 04:30:24 10/07/07 ()
Email Address: SAIDUBANGSO@AOL.COM
Entered From: c-69-143-242-205.hsd1.md.comcast.net at 69.143.242.205
Message:
During the campaign MR. Ernest Koroma continuously called all ministers in the Kabba administration, corrupt and useless people. After he took the oath of office as president, he begged the same ministers of the Kabba era to work for him, what type of a person will ask people he does not trust and respect to work in his administration? While the ex-ministers continue to serve, Mr. Koroma appointed a transition team, I wish he will tell us the job of his transition team(all members of the transition team are being paid by government).
Mr.Ernest Koroma has been in office for a little over three weeks and till can not appoint his cabinet. This clearly shows that he was not ready for the sensitive position of president of Sierra Leone. I heard that he wants to take Sierra Leoneans from their high level international job and appoint them ministers. I only hope he understands that only registered voters can be appointed ministers. We will also demand that he presents us with their clean pass records for a proper examination. Working for an international institution does not mean that you are corrupt free.
I have been reliably informed by a senior APC official that they are planning another inauguration for president Koroma sometime this year.
Somebody needs to tell me what is the rationale behind inaugurating Mr. Koroma twice at the expense of the nation?
I am sure that very soon all Sierra Leoneans will notice that Mr.Koroma is the wrong person for the most senstive position of president of Sierra Leone.
Subject: Re: WHEN WILL PRESIDENT KOROMA GET HIS PRIORITIES RIGHT?
From: KABS KANU
To: All
Date Posted: 06:41:07 10/07/07 ()
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ALPHA SAIDU,
If you have read President Koroma's speeches and interviews, he has said that he is a man of accountability and transparency. Given such a credential, he will not allow his soon-to-be-appointed cabinet ministers to take over from the ex-ministers without proper accountability. You know too that the stakeholders and international community who provide funds to keep the nation going demand accountability too. There must be an orderly transfer of power with accountability and transparency the keynote.
Mr. Koroma set up the Transition Team to oversee this transfer of power. They will prepare reports of every ministry and present it to the APC government. The nation will then be informed by the new government about what they met (The social and financial standing of every ministry ) .This will make the nation understand what the APC met so that the mistakes of the past government cannot be attributed to the government taking over. This is my own understanding of the transition process. Also, this will give the government a comprehensive view of the task at hand and where to start. This is transparency and accountability at work.
Members of the Transition Team, we are told by Dr.Lancelot Lake, a member, are not being paid. They are performing a voluntary service for the nation.
You have mixed up the Swearing-in ceremony with the Inauguration. Both are different and separate occasions.One is designed to make the President and his V-P take their oaths of office prior to assuming control .The inauguration is a ceremony that formally inducts the President and his team into office. President Koroma, you can therefore see, has not organized 2 inauguration ceremonies.Your viewpoint is wrong.
Ernest Koroma has shown that he is the right person for the Presidency. He has not come to perpetuate the Free-For-All unaccountable system that has existed in Sierra Leone for ages and destroyed the country. He is stepping carefully and circumspectly to ensure that nothing is unaccounted for. He also wants to form a cabinet that will be beyond reproach.
Subject: Re: WHEN WILL PRESIDENT KOROMA GET HIS PRIORITIES RIGHT?
From: Changes
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Date Posted: 06:13:26 10/07/07 ()
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Bra, things will change, and everything will move in the right direction, if he appoints Sanpha Koroma as Minister of Finance.
Subject: Re: WHEN WILL PRESIDENT KOROMA GET HIS PRIORITIES RIGHT?
From: FENTHI
To: All
Date Posted: 11:00:19 10/07/07 ()
Email Address: fenthi@hotmail.com
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The new Minister of Finance will be a real surprise booster, but definitely a no-nonsense Economist and Banker of integrity. Sampha is undoubtedly good for the job, but sierra leone has got so many competent people for such a position,spread all over the world, that it is folly to be clinging on old names all the time. I would have gone further to tell you from what area in Sierra Leone the new Guy is hailing, but that will spoil the broth- so keep guessing. Pres. EBK knows his country far too better than most of us think.
Subject: Re: WHEN WILL PRESIDENT KOROMA GET HIS PRIORITIES RIGHT?
From: Madingo Man
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Date Posted: 05:12:58 10/07/07 ()
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Did you read the statement from His Excellency The President regarding the SLPP Ministers?
If no, let me explain to you he did not ask them to work, according to our constitution their mandate finished the day the out-going President handover the staff of power. They can't sign any legal document and they can't give out instructions. The President asked them to stayed so that they can prepare their handing over notes in a professional manner.
Subject: Re: WHEN WILL PRESIDENT KOROMA GET HIS PRIORITIES RIGHT?
From: Bai Bureh
To: All
Date Posted: 05:01:20 10/07/07 ()
Email Address: rastafari_ish@hotmail.com
Entered From: master-02.brg.sgsnet.se at 193.11.202.74
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Alpha,it is said look before you leap.The speed with which Kabba handed over to Ernest sent suspicious shockwaves over all.Ernest is not a blind man to walk into a trap set to decimate him and his followers.He has to tread carefully.He is doing the needful first-thing-first.He is determined to fight corruption and so has to establish a starting point.People need to know what was in the kitty when he took over.The APC ministers need to know too where they will be finding themselves and what they will be up against.It would have been very naive and unwise on the part of Ernest to just blindly start working with his cabinet on areas that have been severely damaged or polluted.He would have found it very difficult to convince the people that all was not well when he took over and that would have played right into the hands of the opposition.
As for the innauguration, it happens everywhere not just in Salone.
Anyway Alpha happy LAILATUL QADR and EID MUBARAK in advance!
Subject: Re: WHEN WILL PRESIDENT KOROMA GET HIS PRIORITIES RIGHT?
From: Med
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Date Posted: 04:40:20 10/07/07 ()
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There is apparently no political agenda and APC might largely depend on what was described as failed policies of the SLPP to manage the affairs of the state or the delay might imply that the APC is working on a governance strategy, way after elections.
The truth is that ‘Sierra Leoneans are easy going people and we shall wait and see..God day’
Subject: A View From The Islamic World
From: UK5
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Date Posted: 02:53:15 10/07/07 ()
Email Address: unikad5@yahoo.com
Entered From: at 213.217.51.236
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In as much as we all wish to see peace and stability reign under the the new leadership of President Koroma, I think one has to draw his attention to the fact that the Islamic world has been playing a significan role in our successive governments' political survival over the years. Therefore, one would expect the newly elected Party's appointment of ministers take into consideration the effect of both the President and his VP being Christians.
The question that has always been so difficult for people in the Arab World is: "What's the percentage of muslims in your country?" In most cases, fueled by enthusiasm to inform on our impressive percentage, Leoneans don't normally envisage the next question. "Between 75 to 80%." They'll reply proudly.
"Is your president a muslim?" ...."No, but this issue of religion does not play a prominent role in the ......bla .. bla..." The guy will simply cut you short. "If you say that muslims constitute 75 to 80%, then how come your president is not a muslim?"
No one is preaching for the Muslims to call the shots in our secular state of Sierra Leone [so to speak], but if the APC is fighting tideously, from what we hear, to strike a satisfactory balance in tribal and party lines in order to form a government of national unity, then the component of the cabinet would be more comprehensively balanced if the religious aspect is also taken into consideration.
Frankly speaking, the start of President Koroma's current appointment of speakers and choice of VP didn't seem to highlight any muslim share in the lot. The first three positions in the country have been comfortably occupied by Christians. The interpretation will be evident in the way the Islamic world grades our government. The effects will be seen during Islamic conferences, summits and seminars. The services and previleges that Sierra Leonean pilgrims enjoy may be hard to come by, [diminished if one should be a bit more blunt] during Hajj because of less attention. New Ambassadors posted to Islamic countries my find it hard to make a positive hardway in their respective missions. Scholarships may be limited - particularly when a majority of them have to be obtained through lobbying or through goverment-to-government overtures.
Perhaps, the reader may make other analysis of 'national concern'. But the truth remains, we can't just ignore the interpretation that the muslim world attach to the components of every cabinet in our countries. Sierra Leone is more so under focus because we are just about losing a muslim president, therefore the replacement or the cabinet will be under study.
We all wish the country to reap the best in every aspect, that's why we try to look at things from every angle.
Subject: Re: A View From The Islamic World
From: sid
To: All
Date Posted: 09:18:40 10/07/07 ()
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I do appreciate your attempt for an open discussion on this issue, but you will find out that you will be very lonely in your viewpoints.
Sierra Leoneans are a unique people, we may be poor but we do have values and we hold them dearly.
One of them is the unwritten balance of religion and state. Our state is based on pure Democratic principles. We do not vote based on which religion our candidate belong.
We do appreciate the ARABS for bringing Islam and the WEST for Christianity. As a Sierra Leone, we have used those values at our advantage however; we have not let them divide us.
This might come as news to you but majority of Sierra Leoneans consider him or herself a Sierra Leonean first before a religious affiliation i.e. Christianity or Islam and will incline to vote within tribal groups rather than along religious lines.
I hope you and your Arab friends realize that the world is getting smaller, Africans are getting smarter and stronger, divide and rule is a philosophy of the past.
It is much more complicated then the religious madness amongst the shia, sunnie, wahabies or catholic and prodistance. Please save us the day brother.
Subject: Re: A View From The Islamic World
From: Kabudu Gen
To: All
Date Posted: 07:55:49 10/07/07 ()
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It's funny that the three top candidates in the last elections were Christian, and that did not even register in my support. Religious tolerance is one of the few blessings God has given Sierra Leone. Even the issue of tribe, while it simmers during election cycles, has never been combustible despite the wilful provocations of some politicians.
Subject: Re: A View From The Islamic World - Wrong Port Mate !
From: Reporter
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Date Posted: 07:41:16 10/07/07 ()
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Well, I suppose it had to surface sometime. The entire world is in danger of being dragged into the divisive West vs. Islam confrontation post 9/11.
UK5, either you are not a Sierra Leonean or you don't have a clue about our history of inter-faith tolerance. Religion has never featured in public appointments. It has always amazed me how Christians and Muslims marry each other freely with the full support of their families and communities. Sierra Leone is the only country I know of where a couple can get married in BOTH church and mosque on the same day with supporters from both faiths in attendance. AND for good measure, emerge to be greeted by Orjeh or Huntin' cultural 'devils' that would be banned from hallowed portals in stricter religious countries.
I don't know from what you infer that "the Islamic world has been playing a significant role in our successive governments' political survival". Nowadays, economic and geo-political interests far outweigh any religious considerations. I'm afraid you're barking up the wrong tree on this one!
I pray Sierra Leone NEVER experiences the madness of religious extremism (Amen).
Subject: Re: A View From The Islamic World
From: THE VOICE OF PROGRESS
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Date Posted: 05:30:44 10/07/07 ()
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Only bigots worry about others. We are a multi-faith country and it is reflected in every facet of our lives. Stop your evil thinking!!
Subject: Re: A View From The Islamic World
From: intelectual pimp
To: All
Date Posted: 07:26:37 10/07/07 ()
Email Address: intelect@aol.com
Entered From: c-71-224-131-184.hsd1.nj.comcast.net at 71.224.131.184
Message:
you see this how the tribal divide started in saleone. just because its more muslims you want a muslim leader. we should not encourage such religious divisions and tribalisms.leaders use them to stay in power and to get in power. watch out for people like this
Subject: Re: A View From The Islamic World
From: NAMWENCHE-SAYNANH
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Date Posted: 12:05:17 10/07/07 ()
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And then eventually a shariah state. Stupid, man stupid.
Fuck that islamic shit. This is truoble big time
Subject: Re: A View From The Islamic World
From: Bai Bureh
To: All
Date Posted: 04:46:07 10/07/07 ()
Email Address: rastafari_ish@hotmail.com
Entered From: master-02.brg.sgsnet.se at 193.11.202.74
Message:
Point of correction:From what I know, the VP despite the name Sam, is very much muslim and hails from a muslim background.
From your article it seems the islamic world is more interested in muslim leaders than the countries themselves or to put it in another way,want to see muslim-dominated countries being ruled by muslims rather than the progress of the country and the people.I believe for the average Sierra Leonean,right now it is more a matter of who will deliver the goods to help his country out of the decadence it is now facing.
We have had christians since indepndence for almost thirty years and a muslim who ruled for ten years but all failed miserably.Only God knows who will deliver.It does not matter from which religion the president or vice president is as long as he is committed to the alleviation of the people's sufferings.
I think the islamic world should be more focused on the people rather than the leaders or their cabinet or diplomatic setups.It should have a broader view of everything in the islamic world and a holistic concern to add. It will be very unfair if facilities are curtailed or withdrawn just because the president or whoever is not muslim.
I hope this article is not a veiled threat of a kind of punishment for not voting in a muslim president or a kind of hand-twisting instrument to force the president to give priority to muslims in all appointments.
Subject: Re: A View From The Islamic World
From: Med
To: All
Date Posted: 04:29:58 10/07/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 82.114.66.82
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This is baseless and a potential provocative religious statement. Sierra Leones political sustainability is largely influenced by greater tolerance for diverse ethnicity and religions. These as basic core values have sustained this small impoverish nation through out slavery, independence + dictatorial rule, rebel crisis and in the hands of common political thieves.
I am however forced to assert that you absolutely have no clue of the concept of governance and religion at play in our country, not even the constitutional provision. As a matter of fact Sierra Leone is governed by Democratic principles, a concept you also need to understand and save us of this religious hoax.
Subject: A View From The Islamic World
From: UK5
To: All
Date Posted: 02:46:59 10/07/07 ()
Email Address: unikad5@yahoo.com
Entered From: at 213.217.51.236
Message:
In as much as we all wish to see peace and stability reign under the the new leadership of President Koroma, I think one has to draw his attention to the fact that the Islamic world has been playing a significan role in our successive government's political survival over the years. Therefore, one would expect the newly elected Party's appointment of ministers take into consideration the effect of both the President and his VP being Christians.
The question that has always been so difficult for people in the Arab World is: "What's the percentage of muslims in your country?" In most cases, fueled by enthusiasm to inform on our impressive percentage, Leoneans are don't normally envisage the next question. "Between 75 to 80%." They'll reply proudly.
"Is your president a muslim?" ...."No, but this issue of religion does not play a prominent role in the ......bla .. bla..." The guy will simply cut you short. "If you say that muslims constitute 75 to 80%, then how come your president is not a muslim?"
No one is preaching for the Muslims to call the shots in our secular state of Sierra Leone, but if the APC is fighting tideously, from what we hear, to strike a satisfactory balance in tribal and party lines in order to form a government of national unity, then the component of the cabinet could be comprehensively balanced if the religious aspect is also taken into consideration.
Frankly speaking, the start of President Koroma's current appointment of speakers and choice of VP didn't seem to highlight any muslim share in the lot. The first three positions in the country have been comfortably occupied by Christians. The interpretation will be evident in the way the Islamic world grades our government. The effects will be seen during Islamic conferences, summits and seminar. The services and previleges that Sierra Leonean pilgrims enjoy may be hard to come by, [diminished if one should be a bit more blunt] during Hajj because of less attention. New Ambassadors posted to Islamic countries my find it hard to make a positive hardway in their respective missions. Scholarships may be limited - particularly when a majority of them have to be obtained through lobbying or through goverment-to-government overtures.
Perhaps, the reader may make other analysis of 'national concern'. But the truth remains, we can't just ignore the interpretation that the muslim world attach to the components of every cabinet in our countries. Sierra Leone is more so under focus because we are just about losing a muslim president, therefore the replacement or the cabinet will be under study.
We all wish the country to reap the best in every aspect, that's why we try to look at things from every angle.
Subject: Re: A View From The Islamic World
From: Bai Bureh
To: All
Date Posted: 06:33:27 10/07/07 ()
Email Address: rastafari_ish@hotmail.com
Entered From: dator6071.161.gbgsd.se at 62.88.181.216
Message:
Is that 'Issa' or formerly UK-Tina of AA? Are you still in Saudi or back home in Calabatown?
Subject: We keep on waiting
From: Bamaby Lans Kamara
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Date Posted: 01:41:59 10/07/07 ()
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Entered From: c-71-197-104-25.hsd1.ca.comcast.net at 71.197.104.25
Message:
We keep on waiting for the world to change.
Subject: CAN HE BE EMBRACED?
From: Amadu Kabbah
To: All
Date Posted: 00:11:13 10/07/07 ()
Email Address: amadutkabbah@yahoo.com
Entered From: c-71-197-97-158.hsd1.ca.comcast.net at 71.197.97.158
Message:
None is quite as generous to the Party as I am. I spent $45,000 of my hard-earned money during 1995/96 to help elect the SLPP in 1996. I spent $150,000 of my money to negate the AFRC/RUF coup and bring back the SLPP Government of President Tejan Kabbah and the SLPP-led government from exile in Conakry. Each announced/unannounced candidate has moved from Party to Party in search of personal advantage/benefits. I have NEVER done any such a thing.
It could have been better if John Leigh did otherwise. He is too dedicated to the SLPP that does not love him. He spent his fortune to negate the AFRC to bring back the SLPP from exile. If he knew he would have invested his money into something else. That was good for him and some of us. But you know what when bra came back to contest for the leadership of the Party he invested everything in, he was stupidly sidelined (the thing Uncle Charles frowned at). If he knew he could have gone with Charles so that he could win the people's love.
I don't know whether John Leigh knew or believed that the AFRC he negated was better than SLPP. He might want to loose his nerves for this simple truth which many Sierra Leoneans know. AFRC was unconstitutional. AFRC had no friends. AFRC was a Junta regime. During its tenure, the world was locked to the Junta. But one interesting thing, AFRC was able to light the capital with 24/7 electricity. During the same period, rice was the cheapest and the children went to school in buses without paying a cent, when their schooling was disrupted by the SLPP for fear that the AFRC strategy would have caused them to stay in power. John Leigh knows this but he was bent on sending the Junta out of power.
If a government (be it unconstitutional or what, the fact is that our history would be considered incomplete without mentioning AFRC)that was under international pressure could provide the people with what they could not get from a constitutional government, isn't it proper for the people to think otherwise? We could not because John Leigh was everywhere in the US blowing the SLPP to some unimaginable proportion, driving the international community into believing that the SLPP was God sent to take the country to heaven. Unfortunately, John Leigh saw what the SLPP was capable of doing. He knows it that that party succeeded in doing nothing but fanning the flame of corruption. I was thinking that the John Leigh would have transfered his support if he loved Sierra Leone; but he could not.
I know how he feels right now about SLPP; he is grossly disappointed and would wish... Instead of doing otherwise, he is out there bragging about being the only person who has not shifted his support from that nightmare (SLPP).
If I were president and carried the kind of support the SLPP leader had, I would not have hesitated to fire any Minister or public worker in my government who was found pilfering with public funds as it was going on in the SLPP tenure. But that was what the SLPP big guns enjoyed so they had no time to bring it to an end. John Leigh enjoyed it too, I am sure. But don't you think he can be embraced in the new order?
Subject: Palo Conteh to Become Deputy Defence Minister!!!
From: Ekutay
To: All
Date Posted: 00:10:53 10/07/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: gateway.cyberstar.com at 209.239.66.36
Message:
Deep throat in formed me that Palo Conteh ( formerly head of the SLAF MP unit under Momoh) will be come the new deputy defence minister.
Soon Rtd Col.SIM Turay will become National security adviser.The rise of Ekutay is becoming evident.
Ekutay all the way!!!
Subject: Re: Palo Conteh to Become Deputy Defence Minister!!!
From: More Ministers
To: All
Date Posted: 05:26:25 10/07/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 83.229.112.2
Message:
James Sanpha Koroma, the best economist of Sierra Leone, to become Minister of Finance.
Subject: I will be leaving with my head high up…Joe Blell
From: Cornelius Hamelberg
To: All
Date Posted: 04:46:15 10/07/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: c-088472d5.01-32-73746f42.cust.bredbandsbolaget.se at 213.114.132.8
Message:
Let's not pass a blanket judgment on all Sierra Leoneans not in your camp. There are some, for example:
http://awoko.org/index.php?mact=News,cntnt01,detail,0&cntnt01articleid=1173&cntnt01returnid=15
I will be leaving with my head high up…Joe Blell
________________________________________
Joe Blell Deputy - Defence Minister
Outgoing Deputy Defence Minister Joe Blell has told journalists that he will be leaving office with his head raised high up, after serving five years as minister.
Addressing a press conference at Defence Headquarters Wednesday, Mr Blell disclosed that he has served as Sierra Leone’s High Commissioner to the Federal Republic of Nigeria for ten years.
“I think I will be leaving with my head high up” he said, adding “When I became Defence Minister in 2002 … since then there have been great improvements. We now have an army all of us should be proud of.”
Continuing he said “I will say thanks to all those who gave me the opportunity to serve and I believe I have served to the best of my ability”
Mr Blell also said “first and foremost I am a nationalist and will take my leave and enjoy my time with my family” When asked whether he will accept serving as a minister for the second time, he only gave a chuckle.
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Subject: I will be leaving with my head high up…Joe Blell
From: Cornelius Hamelberg
To: All
Date Posted: 04:43:53 10/07/07 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
LKet's not pass a blanket judemnet on all Sierra leoneans not in your camp. For example:
http://awoko.org/index.php?mact=News,cntnt01,detail,0&cntnt01articleid=1173&cntnt01returnid=15
I will be leaving with my head high up…Joe Blell
________________________________________
Joe Blell Deputy - Defence Minister
Outgoing Deputy Defence Minister Joe Blell has told journalists that he will be leaving office with his head raised high up, after serving five years as minister.
Addressing a press conference at Defence Headquarters Wednesday, Mr Blell disclosed that he has served as Sierra Leone’s High Commissioner to the Federal Republic of Nigeria for ten years.
“I think I will be leaving with my head high up” he said, adding “When I became Defence Minister in 2002 … since then there have been great improvements. We now have an army all of us should be proud of.”
Continuing he said “I will say thanks to all those who gave me the opportunity to serve and I believe I have served to the best of my ability”
Mr Blell also said “first and foremost I am a nationalist and will take my leave and enjoy my time with my family” When asked whether he will accept serving as a minister for the second time, he only gave a chuckle.
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Subject: Mind your language
From: kekuda
To: All
Date Posted: 00:09:21 10/07/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: ppp-69-218-211-235.dsl.wotnoh.ameritech.net at 69.218.211.235
Message:
Have fun
Subject: Re: Mind your language
From: Kabudu Gen
To: All
Date Posted: 07:25:50 10/07/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: pool-151-202-41-6.ny325.east.verizon.net at 151.202.41.6
Message:
Thanks Kekuda, that clip took me back on memory lane to my childhood in Salone, watching Britlsh comedies on black and white TV from SLBS.
It's incredible how fresh and funny these comedies still are. You've made my day bro!
Subject: CAN HE BE EMBRACED?
From: Amadu Kabbah
To: All
Date Posted: 00:08:20 10/07/07 ()
Email Address: amadutkabbah@yahoo.com
Entered From: c-71-197-97-158.hsd1.ca.comcast.net at 71.197.97.158
Message:
None is quite as generous to the Party as I am. I spent $45,000 of my hard-earned money during 1995/96 to help elect the SLPP in 1996. I spent $150,000 of my money to negate the AFRC/RUF coup and bring back the SLPP Government of President Tejan Kabbah and the SLPP-led government from exile in Conakry. Each announced/unannounced candidate has moved from Party to Party in search of personal advantage/benefits. I have NEVER done any such a thing.
It could have been better if John Leigh did otherwise. He is too dedicated to the SLPP that does not love him. He spent his fortune to negate the AFRC to bring back the SLPP from exile. If he knew he would have invested his money into something else. That was good for him and some of us. But you know what when bra came back to contest for the leadership of the Party he invested everything in, he was stupidly sidelined (the thing Uncle Charles frowned at). If he knew he could have gone with Charles so that he could win the people's love.
I don't know whether John Leigh knew or believed that the AFRC he negated was better than SLPP. He might want to loose his nerves for this simple truth which many Sierra Leoneans know. AFRC was unconstitutional. AFRC had no friends. AFRC was a Junta regime. During its tenure, the world was locked to the Junta. But one interesting thing, AFRC was able to light the capital with 24/7 electricity. During the same period, rice was the cheapest and the children went to school went in buses without paying a cent, when their schooling was disrupted by the SLPP for fear that the AFRC strategy would have caused them to stay in power. John Leigh knows this but he was bent on sending the Junta out of power.
If a government (be it unconstitutional or what, the fact is that our history would be considered incomplete without mentioning AFRC)that was under international pressure could provide the people with what they could not get from a constitutional government, isn't it proper for the people to think otherwise? We could not because John Leigh was everywhere in the US blowing the SLPP to some unimaginable proportion, driving the international community into believing that the SLPP was God sent to take the country to heaven. Unfortunately, John Leigh saw what the SLPP was capable of doing. He knows it that that party succeeded in doing nothing but fanning the flame of corruption. I was thinking that the John Leigh would have transfered his support if he loved Sierra Leone; but he could not.
I know how he feels right now about SLPP; he is grossly disappointed and would wish... Instead of doing otherwise, he is out there bragging about being the only person who has not shifted his support from that nightmare (SLPP).
If I were president and carried the kind of support the SLPP leader had, I would not have hesitated to fire any Minister or public worker in my government who was found pilfering with public funds as it was going on in the SLPP tenure. But that was what the SLPP big guns enjoyed so they had no time to bring it to an end. John Leigh enjoyed it too, I am sure. But don't you think he can be embraced in the new order?
Subject: Re: CAN HE BE EMBRACED?
From: Kabudu Gen
To: All
Date Posted: 07:44:10 10/07/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: pool-151-202-41-6.ny325.east.verizon.net at 151.202.41.6
Message:
The beauty of democracy is that everyone who has the confidence, money and vehicle can make a run for high office. Remember that in the last elections, there were other candidates besides Berewa and EBK, whose names we don't remember anymore. I hope JL runs again. I actually don't hold his impolitic zingers against his political enemies against him. Remember, no shrinking violet ever won an elections.
My only advice to him and to all others who are entertaining the thought of running for office: Don't just limit your campaign on the internet boards. Go to Salone, way before the next elections, and do some good deeds. Help people out, open a business, start a small microfinance scheme, get two old school buses and put them to work as public transportation and dedicate the profits to scholarships, helping farmers, charity etc for your chiefdom. And have a good local PR person to get your name in the papers. You will be surprised as to how high your stock will zoom.
Subject: CAN HE BE EMBRACED?
From: Amadu Kabbah
To: All
Date Posted: 00:05:58 10/07/07 ()
Email Address: amadutkabbah@yahoo.com
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Message:
None is quite as generous to the Party as I am. I spent $45,000 of my hard-earned money during 1995/96 to help elect the SLPP in 1996. I spent $150,000 of my money to negate the AFRC/RUF coup and bring back the SLPP Government of President Tejan Kabbah and the SLPP-led government from exile in Conakry. Each announced/unannounced candidate has moved from Party to Party in search of personal advantage/benefits. I have NEVER done any such a thing.
It could have been better if John Leigh did otherwise. He is too dedicated to the SLPP that does not love him. He spent his fortune to negate the AFRC to bring back the SLPP from exile. If he knew he would have invested his money into something else. That was good for him and some of us. But you know what when bra came back to contest for the leadership of the Party he invested everything in, he was stupidly sidelined (the thing Uncle Charles frowned at). If he knew he could have gone with Charles so that he could win the people's love. I don't know whether John Leigh knew or believed that the AFRC he negated was better than SLPP. He might want to loose his nerves for this simple truth which many Sierra Leoneans know. AFRC was unconstitutional. AFRC had no friends. AFRC was a Junta regime. During its tenure, the world was locked to the Junta. But one interesting thing, AFRC was able to light the capital with 24/7 electricity. During the same period, rice was the cheapest and the children went to school went in buses without paying a cent, when their schooling was disrupted by the SLPP for fear that the AFRC strategy would have caused them to stay in power. John Leigh knows this but he was bent on sending the Junta out of power.
If a government (be it unconstitutional or what, the fact is that our history would be considered incomplete without mentioning AFRC)that was under international pressure could provide the people with what they could not get from a constitutional government, isn't it proper for the people to think otherwise? We could not because John Leigh was everywhere in the US blowing the SLPP to some unimaginable proportion, driving the international community into believing that the SLPP was God sent to take the country to heaven. Unfortunately, John Leigh saw what the SLPP was capable of doing. He knows it that that party succeeded in doing nothing but fanning the flame of corruption. I was thinking that the John Leigh would have transfered his support if he loved Sierra Leone; but he could not.
I know how he feels right now about SLPP; he is grossly disappointed and would wish... Instead of doing otherwise, he is out there bragging about being the only person who has not shifted his support from that nightmare (SLPP).
If I were president and carried the kind of support the SLPP leader had, I would not have hesitated to fire any Minister or public worker in my government who was found pilfering with public funds as it was going on in the SLPP tenure. But that was what the SLPP big guns enjoyed so they had no time to bring it to an end. John Leigh enjoyed it too, I am sure. But don't you think he can be embraced in the new order?
Subject: $$$$$$$$$$$$$500.00 for letting the cat out of the bag
From: SHERIFF' DEPT. TO SERVE BLYDEN
To: All
Date Posted: 23:41:32 10/06/07 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
Ladies and Gentlemen, it has come to our notice that Sylvia Blyden the outlaw Journalist is on the run and currently residing in the united states of america.Anyone who can provide a current adress ,upon proof of service to appear in Court will be awarded the sum of $500.00 United States of America dollars.
Subject: Re: $$$$$$$$$$$$$500.00 for letting the cat out of the bag
From: SHERIFF' DEPT. TO SERVE BLYDEN
To: All
Date Posted: 00:20:04 10/07/07 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
I am dead serious.This so called Outlaw Journalist is on the run and needs to be apprehened before it is too late.If you can lend a hand God will reward you for your noble work and at the same time getting paid.
Subject: Re: $$$$$$$$$$$$$500.00 for letting the cat out of the bag
From: Bambay Lans Kamara
To: All
Date Posted: 01:31:25 10/07/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: c-71-197-104-25.hsd1.ca.comcast.net at 71.197.104.25
Message:
What is she running from, where is she running from and why?
Subject: Re: $$$$$$$$$$$$$500.00 for letting the cat out of the bag
From: Bambay Lans Kamara
To: All
Date Posted: 23:46:38 10/06/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: c-71-197-104-25.hsd1.ca.comcast.net at 71.197.104.25
Message:
You are not a very serious individual are you? Because serious individuals pay attention to serious issues and refrain from engaging in useless diatribe. Are you conscious or do you even know what you say sometimes!
Subject: Re: $$$$$$$$$$$$$500.00 for letting the cat out of the bag
From: Erica Adams
To: All
Date Posted: 23:44:52 10/06/07 ()
Email Address: ericamonique82@hotmail.com
Entered From: adsl-074-185-005-235.sip.clt.bellsouth.net at 74.185.5.235
Message:
If I knew, I'd do it for free!
Subject: R $ 500.00 for letting the cat out of the bag (corrected)
From: Cornelius Hamelberg
To: All
Date Posted: 00:35:22 10/07/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: c-088472d5.01-32-73746f42.cust.bredbandsbolaget.se at 213.114.132.8
Message:
Erica,
That's about how much I pay annually for computer repairs thanks to your sister.
Fact is her boy friend is about to appear and she knows what she’s been doing (sleeping with the enemy whilst he's been absent.). She’s got some unmistakable signs which clearly indicate his displeasure and so she cannot face the fury of the jealous man and has disappeared till further notice – or until she can negotiate her return to the scene.
That’s less than half of the story and she will have to pay much much more than my computer repairs….
You wrote thus on 18th September 2007, under the thread I started in defence of Sylvia, “Sylvia Blyden - why not...?”
https://cocoriokoarchive2.tripod.com/09.21.07.htm#46600
Entered From: adsl-074-185-005-235.sip.clt.bellsouth.net at 74.185.5.235
https://cocoriokoarchive2.tripod.com/09.21.07.htm#46611
You wrote:
” 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 Blyden. ”
I cannot understand why you used the comparison with JEZEBEL and yet my seventh sense says Sylvia ought to be very careful as we cannot and do not wish her a similar fate. The point of departure from your example of Jezebel is that Sylvia believes in Jesus and not in Baal.
This is from Chapter 7 of “Menorahs, Mezuzas, and other Jewish Symbols” By Miriam Chaikin. From chapter Seven: Symbolic Acts the second paragraph under Circumcision:
“The Bible tells about a conflict that raged between God’s prophet, Elijah, and Jezebel, the daughter of the king of Sidon, a city in Lebanon. Jezebel, a pagan princess, was married to Ahab, the Jewish King of Israel. She worshipped a god named Baal, whose symbol was a scared pole. AS a pagan, she was free to worship whatever gods she wished. The Jewish King, however, was not. He was sworn to the One God, yet he also worshipped the sacred pole. Jezebel was a brutal queen. She was ambitious to have the scared pole worshipped throughout Israel. Her arch opponent in this was Elijah. He prophesized that Jezebel would be punished for her evil ways and die wretchedly. His prophecy came true. A new king had Jezebel thrown from the palace windows and her body was eaten by wild dogs.”
The Biblical Jezebel.
http://search.live.com/results.aspx?q=+The+Biblical+JEZEBEL+&go=S%C3%B6k&form=QBRE
Subject: Re: $$$$$$$$$$$$$500.00 for letting the cat out of the bag
From: Cornelius Hamelberg
To: All
Date Posted: 00:22:03 10/07/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: c-088472d5.01-32-73746f42.cust.bredbandsbolaget.se at 213.114.132.8
Message:
Erica,
That's about how much I pay annually for computer repairs thanks to your sister.
Fact is her boy friend is about to appear and she knows what she’s been doing (sleeping with the enemy whilst he's been absent.). She’s got some unmistakable signs which clearly indicate his displeasure and so she cannot face the fury of the jealous man and has disappeared till further notice – or until she can negotiate her return to the scene.
That’s less than half of the story and she will have to pay much much more than my computer repairs….
You wrote thus on 18th September 2007, under the thread I started in defence of Sylvia, “Sylvia Blyden - why not...?”
https://cocoriokoarchive2.tripod.com/09.21.07.htm#46600
“Email Address: ericamonique82@hotmail.com
Entered From: adsl-074-185-005-235.sip.clt.bellsouth.net at 74.185.5.235
https://cocoriokoarchive2.tripod.com/09.21.07.htm#46611
You wrote:
” 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 Blyden. ”
I cannot understand why you used the comparison with JEZEBEL and yet my seventh sense says she ought to be very careful as we cannot and do not wish her a similra fate. The point of departure from ypour example of Jezebel is that Sylvia belives in Jesus and not in Baal.
This is from Chapter Seven of “Menorahs, Mezuzas, and other Jewish Symbols” By Miriam Chaikin. From chapter Seven: Symbolic Acts the second paragraph under Circumcision:
“The Bible tells about a conflict that raged between God’s prophet, Elijah, and Jezebel, the daughter of the king of Sidon, a city in Lebanon. Jezebel, a pagan princess, was married to Ahab, the Jewish King of Israel. She worshipped a god named Baal, whose symbol was a scared pole. AS a pagan, she was free to worship whatever gods she wished. The Jewish King, however, was not. He was sworn to the One God, yet he also worshipped the sacred pole. Jezebel was a brutal queen. She was ambitious to have the scared pole worshipped throughout Israel. Her arch opponent in this was Elijah. He prophesized that Jezebel would be punished for her evil ways and die wretchedly. His prophecy came true. A new king had Jezebel thrown from the palace windows and her body was eaten by wild dogs.”
Jezebel.
http://www.google.se/search?client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla%3Asv-SE%3Aofficial&channel=s&hl=sv&q=JEZEBEL++%28+of+the+Bible%29&meta=&btnG=Google-s%C3%B6kning
Subject: Re: $$$$$$$$$$$$$500.00 for letting the cat out of the bag
From: Erica Adams
To: All
Date Posted: 16:12:18 10/07/07 ()
Email Address: ericamonique82@hotmail.com
Entered From: adsl-074-185-005-235.sip.clt.bellsouth.net at 74.185.5.235
Message:
One thing you have to realize is that everyone that professes Christ, is not a Christian. Once you have a relationship with Him, there are certain things you just won't do. Just as I have told you before, my issues with her aren't because of something somebody told me or said to me about her, I can only base my opinion of her on our experience with her as a family. She tried to steal our property, tried to use the court systems to do it, and was willing to lie in court to do it. If you look at the characteristics of Jezebel, you will see lots of similarities. People can profess anything, but look at their walk. If their walk doesn't match what they claim to be, what are they? The word of God convicts you, so if you can do and say anything you think you're big and bad enough to do, there is no real evidence of your conviction.
Subject: When will tourists make tracks to Sierra Leone?
From: QUEST
To: All
Date Posted: 22:50:57 10/06/07 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
There is an increasing desire for tourists to seek new destinations beyond tried-and-trusted countries. Sierra Leone attracts fewer than .5% of the world's tourists, and receives an even smaller proportion of their money. So what is holding us back?
Tourist concern over personal safety?
Not a destination of adventure?
Underdeveloped tourist infrastructure?
No extensive international air connections and developed tourist resorts.
Hotels of poor quality, expensive and bureaucratic?
No vision to market our long beaches, and vibrant history/ culture?
No national parks?
etc etc.
You tell me!
Subject: Re: When will tourists make tracks to Sierra Leone?
From: ROKONTHA
To: All
Date Posted: 20:32:18 10/07/07 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
when we start making and enforceing laws that stop people from urinating and defacating in public, and aggresively pan handling.
Subject: Re: When will tourists make tracks to Sierra Leone?
From: Tourist
To: All
Date Posted: 08:02:47 10/07/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 83.229.112.2
Message:
If one looks at the number of tourists in Gambia,one will wonder, what does Gambia have, which we do not have??Just a few points:
1.Gambia has excellent hotels at affordable prices, and we hardly have any.
2.Gambia has easy access to the airport, which we do not have.
3.In Gambia, people are not harrassed at the airport, by Immigration,police,CID and other security agencies,and at Lungi....God help us.
4.Gambia has ample power supply and water supply, which we do not have.
5.Gambia is a secured place and no one harrasses people walking on the streets.
6.In terms of natural beauty, Sierra Leone is 100% more beautiful than Gambia, but we fall short of other parameters.
Subject: Re: When will tourists make tracks to Sierra Leone?
From: Kabudu Gen
To: All
Date Posted: 08:31:59 10/07/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: pool-151-202-41-6.ny325.east.verizon.net at 151.202.41.6
Message:
The next minister of tourism, take note of Tourist's points. Makes a whole lot of sense!
Subject: Re: When will tourists make tracks to Sierra Leone?
From: wiseone
To: All
Date Posted: 07:33:26 10/07/07 ()
Email Address: wiseone@yahoo.com
Entered From: c-71-224-131-184.hsd1.nj.comcast.net at 71.224.131.184
Message:
as soon as your security situation is fine. electricity is good and you stop killing each other I have enough tourists to move you economy a couple of notches up. so why you seek vendettas we gonna go to other countrys that provide safety fo rus
Subject: Lets encourage John Leigh to be SLPP opposition leader
From: Cornelius Hamelberg
To: All
Date Posted: 20:31:27 10/06/07 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
If he has the stamina!
Now that there is a leadership tussle in the SLPP (according to "the New People" (seems like just about everybody wants to be president but nobody wants to be leader of the opposition and that's the dilemma) so in my opinion it's time for John E. Leigh, he who was " ROBBED" he says at the Makeni ConBention, to show his face again and go for it.
Here are two letters he wrote in reply to mine on 31 May and 1st June 2005, when the going was strong and he was optimistic. The Letters are strongly supportive of his leadership claims and he even stands a better chance now that Hon. Charles Francis Margai is no longer his rival for leadership of the SLPP, but can he whip Berewa? That's the question:
Dear Mr. Hamelberg:
Your inquiry below was forwarded to me the other day while I was traveling in SL.
"From: "Cornelius"
To: leonenet@listproc.umbc.edu
Subject: J.E.Leigh Esq. do you agree that arrogance is alive and we ll, certainly well-meaning - wants to be president and announces to God and His creation : "none of the announ ced or unannounced candidate is a qualified as I am for th e position."
Date: Sat, 28 May 2005 10:06:21 -0700
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J.E.Leigh Esq. do you agree that arrogance is alive and well, certainly well-meaning - wants to be president and announces to God and His creation : “none of the announced or unannounced candidate is a qualified as I am for the position.”
AS a strong supporter of Mr. Charles Margai I could disprove your exaggerated self appraisal by quoting the full length two part interview that you gave to Executive Intelligence Review , whilst the civil war was at it's highest point. ( It is that period of your life activities that exonerate you in your own eyes and raise you higher than Chief Hinga Norman and all those who lost their lives,?)".
"Please answer this question Mr. John Ernest Leigh - I know all about you - and personally , I think you would be a good running mate or something in that region. But only the SLPP , and the people can decide.
Question is (and it's only one question):"
Following your above request, I have pleasure in answering in chronological sequence, the question(s) you’ve posed to me below:
Question 1. Have you ever heard of the word humility?
Answer: Yes.
Q 2. What does it mean to you?
A 2: Modesty. Meekness. Unassuming.
Q 3. Are you the wisest and most knowledgeable person in the SLPP?
A 3. No.
Q 4. Do you have grassroots support and financing from grassroots members? ( Anyone can get a great infusion of cash from the far-East!)
A 4. (i) Yes. (ii) Not yet.
Q 5. How qualified are you?
A 5. Highly qualified and qualified way above each and every announced and unannounced candidate for the SLPP Leader position in succession to President Kabbah.
Q 6. What are these qualifications?
A 6. 40-plus years of professional business experience in Sierra Leone, USA, UK, Nigeria and Asia, both civil service, management and entrepreneurship. Titles include: HM Customs Officer-Clinetown; International Enterprise Fellow –Chase Manhattan Bank; Senior Research Economist -Bank of Sierra Leone; Auditor-Continental Can Company; Senior Financial Analyst- Xerox Corporation; Managing Director-African Universities Press; Chairman, African Universities Press; Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer- Advertising Corporation of America.
Successfully Conducted Profitable Business in all five Continents.
Attorney-At Law, Commonwealth of Massachusetts and State of New York
SL Ambassador to the US & High Commissioner to Canada
Belonged only to the SLPP. Never switched sides and joined any other party. Never served Siaka Stevens, Momoh, NPRC, AFRC, etc. I am one of the most loyal and generous SLPPers. Able defender of the SLPP. Tireless and creative Party worker.
BS (Economics); Master of Business Administration (Banking & Finance); Juris Doctor
Q 7. When did you become thus qualified - could you give us the date and time?
A 7. BS (’64); MBA ’66, JD ’92. Customs –1958; Chase-1966/67; Bank of SL-1967/68; Continental Can Co.-1967-72; Xerox-1972-75; AUP-1975-84; ACA-1984-87. Attorney-1992-present. SL Ambassador/HC-1996-2002.
Q 8. Can anyone de deemed as qualified as you to lead the nation?
A 8. Yes
Q 9. Could you please tell us what makes the other Sierra Leoneans within the SLPP known and unknown, announced and unannounced who are less qualified than you?
A 9. Each lacks in-depth, world class management experience; multinational commercial transactions' experience, international negotiating skills; training or work experience in economics, accounting, auditing, finance, banking, management and international affairs. Each has little or zero grounding in genuine industrial democratic practices and lifestyles.
None is quite as generous to the Party as I am. I spent $45,000 of my hard-earned money during 1995/96 to help elect the SLPP in 1996. I spent $150,000 of my money to negate the AFRC/RUF coup and bring back the SLPP Government of President Tejan Kabbah and the SLPP-led government from exile in Conakry. Each announced/unannounced candidate has moved from Party to Party in search of personal advantage/benefits. I have NEVER done any such a thing.
Each is of questionable integrity. One promoted himself from captain to brigadier in two years. His colleagues executed 28 fellow Sierra Leoneans in cold blood with no consequences to the culprits, nor compensation (or even an apology) to the survivors, or even an inquiry, etc.
One is a Party new comer commonly known an 'money eater'. Another organized a mob to burn Party offices in Kenema.
Some are loyal to specific individuals in order to gain favors. My loyalty is to the Party itself for purely altruistic reasons.
One is a notorious negotiator who drafted the lopsided oil agreement with TGS-Nopec as well as the Special Court Act that violated our constitution as well as the Lome Agreement. The other was a cabinet member who voted to accept the agreement and awarded government contracts to his wife. On the other hand, I presented my objection (backed by a critical analysis) in writing to the said oil agreement and committed no financial transgression while in public service. Some are womanisers. I am not.
My record of exemplary leadership during the days of the coupligans is unmarched anywhere in Africa. I have no racial or tribal bias. I call a spade a spade.
CONCLUSION
Having answered your questions above, please permit me to let you know that when Mr. Charles F. Margai - the man you are supporting – was taking his Common Entrance examination, I was taking my School Certificate exams. I then went on to gain three GCE A Levels - Economics, Economic History and British Constitution - as a private candidate. I accomplished this while working as a fulltime Customs Officer at Clinetown.
For your information, the man you support was a classmate of my younger half-brother at CKC in Bo. You must have read about his academic record in one of our local newspapers.
My mother is a Haja from Bo. My father was a Weslyan Methodist from Freetown, Ward One - i.e. 14 Wilberforce Street. I was born in Bo and raised in Freetown. I was schooled in Freetown, Clinetown, Yonibana (Tonkolili District), New York & Boston.
I now ask you one simple question: On what is your support for Mr. Margai based?
I hope you will let me know in due course whether my background compares favorably with the announced and unannounced candidates for the leadership of SLPP now that you have had the opportunity to know me a little bit better.
Thank you for your cooperation.
Sincerely,
JL
Dear Mr. Hamelberg:
Many, many thanks for your kind response. Please feel free to post our correspondence as you wish in the internet and please note that I very much appreciate your seeking my prior consent.
I am in the newspapers merely because it concerns an impending presidential election of great interest to Sierra Leoneans worlwide and to our donor community as well. The government in our country has a powerful hold on and role in our country and its conduct has the decisive power to usher in another round of horrendous violence or lead us all to peace, posperity and international respect. Given the power of the presidency in our country, therefore, public interest in potential presidential candidates and what they stand for is at an all-time high.
It is thus necessary for potential candidates to access the media so they may get their message to our people. Such is a necessity in any democratic environment.
After touring the country again in May, I can tell you that grinding poverty is widespread and there is little hope that the average war victim survivor can make it without compensation from those who orchestrated the war against our people. People are looking to improve their lives for they sufferred terribly. Under such circumstances, it is my view that our leaders should not be seen to be socializing with Libya which trained Foday Sankoh, Sam Bockerie, Charles taylor, Blaise Campoare and a host of violent people who laid waste large parts of our country and thus increased the povery and suffering of our people.
Ghadaffi knows I opposed his role in West Africa. He complained to President Kabbah about my work when I was in Washington. In distinguishing myself from the Kabbah Administration, articulating my views on how to deal with Ghadaffi is paramount.
By the way, our newspapers are not always accurate. I did not notice any of the reporters present at my May 25 press briefing taking notes in shorthand. Nor did I see tape recorders except for Sky Radio and 98.1. So, the quotation ascribed to me re Ghadiffi is not exactly how I had put it.
As for my use of the word "best" in describing my leadership quality in comparison to the quality of the competition, I was been very truthful as I set forth yesterday in my answers to your questions. As you yourself has stated it is nothing more than 'telling it as it is'. And it is proper that those involved make such a distinction clear to the public. SL is, unfortunately, not as sophisticated as Sweden, probably the No 1 country in the UN Human Development Index. SL, on the other hand, has been in last place seven years in a row.
Finally, please let me state that I know when to blow my horn and when to act with utter humility. Those who truly know me can attest that I am not arrogant at all. If even thing, I am, self-effacing and playful to the core. But when it comes to official business, it is important to me to make clear where I stand on any relevant issue.
Not every one will agree with the choices I make or the statements I utter, but I am confident that whatever I do or say, I am able to furnish valid defences that will pass rationality test anywhere.
Once again, I thank you for your kind remarks and delighted to be in communication with someone of your background and standards. Hopefully, we will continue to communicate and do whatever each can to further our national interests.
Thanks once again.
Sincerely,
John Leigh
corneliushamelberg@bredband.net wrote:
Mr Leigh,
I hope that you are in good health and fine spirits. I am sorry to say that I have misjudged you and been far too hard on you.
Please accept my apologies. Of course you are suitably qualified.The qualifications that you speak of are impressive and should I be making a case for you I would emphasise your ultimate qualifier in your own words, that which modifies all your preceding statements:
“In my view, the contest ought to be decided on who is the most qualified candidate that will do the most good for the people of Sierra Leone”
MY irritation with you is mainly cultural. That you dare to say that you are “best”
I was also irritated about the manner in which you spoke about Muammar al Qadhafi, although I had no intention of posting it to the net. I understand that you were very angry and others have expressed similar or stronger sentiments. One of my best friends is Jewish and was born in Libya- their properties were seized and he cries about much worse and unmentionable treatment like MR al Qadhafi constructing a major highway that cut right across the Jewish cemetery which means that even the Jewish dead in Libya could find no rest – yet he did not start screaming about it in the Newspaper……
But I understand that you were feeling very nationalistic – but still as an Ambassador , my feeling is that – even if our country was in possession of the most lethal nuclear weapons. You should have exercised verbal control – in a word restraint and avoid unnecessary confrontations that the president himself would like to avoid. And you know that he has been a constant visitor to Libya.
Personally apart from his transgressions …. Well I cannot honestly finish that sentence.
I have assimilated certain Swedish Norms, having lived the better part of 35 years here and here the unwritten law is called JANTELAGEN.
Here is a brief descr1ption of it:
“ Understatements
"Jantelagen"is a term often used. It means that you should never think that you are better than anyone else. To be understated is important. What Swedes consider bragging would in many countries only be to tell it like it is.
If someone compliments you on a job well done or your new haircut a Swede rarely responds with "thank you". Instead we explain how easy it was and how anyone could have done it or that the haircut really doesn't look very good or that at least it wasn't expensive. “
Now this was a confidential and private response and I respect it as such.
Still if you have no objection and if you do not think that it will in any way harm or hinder your advancement , should I feel free to forward it to the Forum.
Your NO I will regard as a command a in the same spirit as I would your YES.
I wish you well and that you campaign vigorously as you obviously feel a calling to redeem our nation from its very precarious situation.
Sincerely Yours,
Cornelius.
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> J.E.Leigh Esq. do you agree that arrogance is alive and we ll, certainly well-meaning - wants to be president and announces to God and His creation : "none of the announ ced or unannounced candidate is a qualified as I am for th e position."
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> J.E.Leigh Esq. do you agree that arrogance is alive and well, certainly well-meaning - wants to be president and announces to God and His creation : ?none of the announced or unannounced candidate is a qualified as I am for the position.?
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> AS a strong supporter of Mr. Charles Margai I could disprove your exaggerated self appraisal by quoting the full length two part interview that you gave to Executive Intelligence Review , whilst the civil war was at it's highest point. ( It is that period of your life activities that exonerate you in your own eyes and raise you higher than Chief Hinga Norman and all those who lost their lives,?)".
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> "Please answer this question Mr. John Ernest Leigh - I know all about you - and personally , I think you would be a good running mate or something in that region. But only the SLPP , and the people can decide.
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> Following your above request, I have pleasure in answering in chronological sequence, the question(s) you?ve posed to me below:
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> A 6. 40-plus years of professional business experience in Sierra Leone, USA, UK, Nigeria and Asia, both civil service, management and entrepreneurship. Titles include: HM Customs Officer-Clinetown; International Enterprise Fellow ?Chase Manhattan Bank; Senior Research Economist -Bank of Sierra Leone; Auditor-Continental Can Company; Senior Financial Analyst- Xerox Corporation; Managing Director-African Universities Press; Chairman, African Universities Press; Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer- Advertising Corporation of America.
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> Successfully Conducted Profitable Business in all five Continents.
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> Belonged only to the SLPP. Never switched sides and joined any other party. Never served Siaka Stevens, Momoh, NPRC, AFRC, etc. I am one of the most loyal and generous SLPPers. Able defender of the SLPP. Tireless and creative Party worker.
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> Having answered your questions above, please permit me to let you know that when Mr. Charles F. Margai - the man you are supporting ? was taking his Common Entrance examination, I was taking my School Certificate exams. I then went on to gain three GCE A Levels - Economics, Economic History and British Constitution - as a private candidate. I accomplished this while working as a fulltime Customs Officer at Clinetown.
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Subject: Re: Lets encourage John Leigh to be SLPP opposition leader
From: David Kamara
To: All
Date Posted: 20:49:48 10/06/07 ()
Email Address: saloneloudmouth@yahoo.com
Entered From: cpe00195b4bf214-cm001a667071fe.cpe.net.cable.rogers.com at 99.227.232.7
Message:
The problem with JL is he may talk all the great talk of being a SLPPian, but in reality he wanted to be Mr. President and not even a second fiddle. So hoping that he will sit in the parliament in the opposition is no where near his great dream. Having ability is one thing but ready to put your abilities to the benefit of the nation from any angle is different bowl of soup and JL does not have the stomach for it.
Subject: Re: Lets encourage John Leigh to be SLPP opposition leader
From: Cornelius Hamelberg
To: All
Date Posted: 22:03:37 10/06/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: c-088472d5.01-32-73746f42.cust.bredbandsbolaget.se at 213.114.132.8
Message:
Well, I thought about Mr. Berewa who was known to his ardent supporters as “da bomba”, when I came across these recently discovered lines of s song lyric entitled GO WAY YOU BOMB written by Bob Dylan some forty-something years ago and only recently discovered by Izzy Young of New York and Stockholm and which I first read at 6.30 a.m. as published on 3rd October 2007 in DN .
The pertinent line was:
“ An' my friends 're gettin headaches that split an' spit an'
That kind a feelin' is rubbin' off on me an' I don' like it none too good
I hate the letters in yer word - B that means bad yer so bad that even
A dead hog in the sun would get up an' run…”
http://www.dn.se/DNet/jsp/polopoly.jsp?d=2198&a=699913
Well, Charles Margai in particular was selectively targeted for a most vicious and unrelenting verbal aerial bombardment from Mr. John Ernest Leigh, and this was on a daily basis. I was not spared his waterfalls of invective either, although I deferred and did not react as I could have to such slurs and insults, the fighter in me would take the fight out of the Forum and be inclined to lay him flat on his back right there in Massachusetts.
Yes indeed, as Rev Kanu will be the first to admit according to Paul's letter to the Romans that he knows so well, " all have sinned, and come short of the glory" and in the heat of the campaign warm up words like bullets did bark and aim for their mark:
“words like bullets bark
As human gods aim for their mark
Made everything from toy guns that spark
To flesh-colored Christs that glow in the dark
It's easy to see without looking too far
That not much
Is really sacred.”
http://www.bobdylan.com/songs/itsalright.html
But for those of us who believe in a strong multi-party democracy, the opposition cannot afford to go to sleep – and a non-existent opposition is tantamount to a de facto one party state of affairs. So John knows that all bygones are long ago forgiven and almost entirely forgotten and no doubt he will he agree with other thoughts in that direction, further along these lines:
“A question in your nerves is lit
Yet you know there is no answer fit to satisfy
Insure you not to quit” etc.
There is something unique about Mr. Leigh and it is this:
Of all the aspirants for leadership of the SLPP and all the presidential aspirants outside of the SLPP, he was the only one who consistently participated in this and other Sierra Leone forums to engage participants in the everyday election issues, chief of which for him was/ has been the question of leadership qualifications. Well, you’ve heard him on that ad nauseum and there’s precious little to add.
It takes a lot of energy and al3rtness to do what he did – and it is that kind of al3rtness, intelligence and one pointed monomaniac energy and constructive advice that and will be needed from the opposition benches or the SLPP will wait patiently till Sengbe wins the Nobel Prize in Chemistry before that date – and on the strength of that achievement he hopes to clinch the SLPP leadership and do battle against Ernest and Charles in 2012. but he had better be there in Sierra Leone, because there was some talk of Yumkella (I don’t know which one,) also going in for the contest.
In the meantime there is a most vociferous troika or trinity if you prefer in our Leonenet and it consists of a one Sam Zoker, a Professor Ed Smith and a certain David Keili unabated criticisms of the smallest APC moves or lack of movement, when there is a rest or a lull in movement and it is this they so easily name “inertia”.
Power sweet and muck also sweet as you guys know….
GO away you bomb!
http://www.dn.se/DNet/jsp/polopoly.jsp?d=2198&a=699913
Subject: Multi -Party Democarcy needs a strong opposition:JEL, ready?
From: Cornelius Hamelberg
To: All
Date Posted: 20:27:12 10/06/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: c-088472d5.01-32-73746f42.cust.bredbandsbolaget.se at 213.114.132.8
Message:
Now that there is a leadership tussle in the SLPP(according to "the New Poeple" ( seems like just about everbody wants to be prseident but nobody wants to be leader of the opposition and that's the dilemma ) so in my opinion it's time for John E. Leigh, he who was " ROBBED" he says at the Makeni ConBention, to show his face again and go for it.
Here are two letters he wrote in reply to mine on 31 May and 1st June 2005, when the going was strong and he was optimistic. The Latters are strongly supportive of his leadership claims and he even stands a better chance now that Hon. Charles Francis Margai is no longer his rival for leadership of the SLPP, but can he whip Berewa? That's the question :
Dear Mr. Hamelberg: I hope that you are in good health and fine spirits. I am sorry to say that I have misjudged you and been far too hard on you. Please accept my apologies. Of course you are suitably qualified.The qualifications that you speak of are impressive and should I be making a case for you I would emphasise your ultimate qualifier in your own words, that which modifies all your preceding statements: “In my view, the contest ought to be decided on who is the most qualified candidate that will do the most good for the people of Sierra Leone” MY irritation with you is mainly cultural. That you dare to say that you are “best” But I understand that you were feeling very nationalistic – but still as an Ambassador , my feeling is that – even if our country was in possession of the most lethal nuclear weapons. You should have exercised verbal control – in a word restraint and avoid unnecessary confrontations that the president himself would like to avoid. And you know that he has been a constant visitor to Libya. Personally apart from his transgressions …. Well I cannot honestly finish that sentence. I have assimilated certain Swedish Norms, having lived the better part of 35 years here and here the unwritten law is called JANTELAGEN. “ Understatements > From: john leigh Subject: Re: Multi -Party Democarcy needs a strong opposition:JEL, ready? Message: It could have been better if John Leigh did otherwise. He is too dedicated to the SLPP that does not love him. He spent his fortune to negate the AFRC to bring back the SLPP from exile. If he knew he would have invested his money into something else. That was good for him and some of us. But you know what when bra came back to contest for the leadership of the Party he invested everything in, he was stupidly sidelined (the thing Uncle Charles frowned at). If he knew he could have gone with Charles so that he could win the people's love. I don't know whether John Leigh knew or believed that the AFRC he negated was better than SLPP. He might want to loose his nerves for this simple truth which many Sierra Leoneans know. AFRC was unconstitutional. AFRC had no friends. AFRC was a Junta regime. During its tenure, the world was locked to the Junta. But one interesting thing, AFRC was able to light the capital with 24/7 electricity. During the same period, rice was the cheapest and the children went to school went in buses without paying a cent, when their schooling was disrupted by the SLPP for fear that the AFRC strategy would have caused them to stay in power. John Leigh knows this but he was bent on sending the Junta out of power. If a government (be it unconstitutional or what, the fact is that our history would be considered incomplete without mentioning AFRC)that was under international pressure could provide the people with what they could not get from a constitutional government, isn't it proper for the people to think otherwise? We could not because John Leigh was everywhere in the US blowing the SLPP to some unimaginable proportion, driving the international community into believing that the SLPP was God sent to take the country to heaven. Unfortunately, John Leigh saw what the SLPP was capable of doing. He knows it that that party succeeded in doing nothing but fanning the flame of corruption. I was thinking that the John Leigh would have transfered his support if he loved Sierra Leone; but he could not. I know how he feels right now about SLPP; he is grossly disappointed and would wish... Instead of doing otherwise, he is out there bragging about being the only person who has not shifted his support from that nightmare (SLPP). If I were president and carried the kind of support the SLPP leader had, I would not have hesitated to fire any Minister or public worker in my government who was found pilfering with public funds as it was going on in the SLPP tenure. But that was what the SLPP big guns enjoyed so they had no time to bring it to an end. John Leigh enjoyed it too, I am sure. But don't you think he can be embraced in the new order? Subject: Investigate Message: Subject: please read this carefully Message: Subject: VP & Awareness times Message: Subject: Re: VP & Awareness times Message: Who is the Dr. that went for vacation? I hope it is not Sylvia. What Dr is she, Or better still what is she a Doctor in? I want to know that, then the world will know. Subject: Re: VP & Awareness times Message: Subject: Re: VP & Awareness times Message: He is SLPP big fish indeed and could possibly tow the line. Subject: Dear Mother- An all time classic. Must read Message: Subject: Re: Dear Mother- An all time classic. Must read Message: Subject: Re: Dear Mother- An all time classic. Must read Message: Subject: SHAME ON JOHN MANNAH Message: Subject: Re: SHAME ON JOHN MANNAH Message: Posted by Victor [cache-los-ae04.proxy.aol.com at 195.93.21.132] on October 07, 2007 at 16:19:36: Subject: Re: THANKS SO MUCH BUT DONT WORRY YOUR HEAD I saw missed calls when I woke up. I was resting and phone was in silent mode. Well, if you feel so, post it. I have read it through and everything there is You go ahead son. Please delete my contact phone numbers! On Sun, October 7, 2007 2:14 pm, Victor Stephens wrote: Follow Ups: Subject: Re: SHAME ON JOHN MANNAH Message: You may not agree with his point of view but how else will you try to persuade readers to yours, if you are not making any difference? People always write with little reasoning during the heat of an argument, but that's when it becomes necessary for by-lookers (if I can use that word), to stand back and try to perse with objectivity. It becomes a learning process for all of us. Go out there and bring us Manna's article that exeplifies the writing of a high school drop out. Subject: Re: SHAME ON JOHN MANNAH Message: Toegondoe: It appears that you sell headache medicines for a living. Please spare forumites the headache that comes from trying to read Mannah's communist manifesto-length, very dense, roto rata ramblings. They are even worse than the writing of a high school drop out. You see them on the low-brow SLPP forum, so no need for you to ask Ibrahim to give us a headache by reproducing them here. Subject: Black and White? Reasoning. Message: I wish to remind forumites about the now secrete but diabolical state of the world especially when it relates to race, tribe, section or what not. Majority of us have been following events closely but not all are fortunate to rationalize as most others that are gifted in understanding by looking, observing and hearing. But I fervently believe that all humans can learn when the environment is conducive not hostile and conniving. In that light therefore, and to promote profound and meaningful education, I am obliged to remind readers once again, that reasoning is what makes an individual an intelligent being, which is why, as I fervently believe so, I would have posted skenkycelebs.com or nudefakecelebs.com but I am restricted by self-respect and respect for others, though it is an eye-opening exercise yet, not all will want it openly known that they view them but would lie to God than man therefore, I have decided not to. Subject: SLPP WILL NEVER TASTE POWER IN SIERRA LEONE OUR LIFETIME Message: After the mess SLPP created , nobody will vote for them in 2012 ,especially if APC brings back electricity, water, good roads and the good times. So SLPP will be out for a straight 10 years. Then comes 2017.SLPP never wins an election when the year ends in 7. Secondly, if people are dissatisfied with APC, they will not turn to SLPP.They will try PMDC in 2022. And don't expect PMDC to rule for only 5 years .They will go for 10 years. Thus look for 2032 for any chance of SLPP ever coming back to power . By this time, some of them advocating for SLPP will be dead. Added on Date: 11:54:13 10/06/07 Subject: Re: SLPP WILL NEVER TASTE POWER IN SIERRA LEONE OUR LIFETIME Message: Subject: SLPP WILL NEVER TASTE POWER IN SIERRA LEONE OUR LIFETIME Message: After the mess SLPP created , nobody will vote for them in 2012 ,especially if APC brings back electricity, water, good roads and the good times. So SLPP will be out for a straight 10 years. Then comes 2017.SLPP never wins an election when the year ends in 7. Secondly, if people are dissatisfied with APC, they will not turn to SLPP.They will try PMDC in 2022. And don't expect PMDC to rule for only 5 years .They will go for 10 years. Thus look for 2032 for any chance of SLPP ever coming back to power . By this time, some of them advocating for SLPP will be dead. 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Jenkins-Johnston and Zainab Bangura...New Ministers Message: Subject: FAO: ONLINEMAN Message: Subject: Re: FAO: ONLINEMAN Message: Subject: Re: FAO: ONLINEMAN Message: O - Of For the Attention Of (FAO) Subject: Re: FAO: ONLINEMAN Message: Subject: Re: FAO: ONLINEMAN Message: Subject: Re: FAO: ONLINEMAN Message: Subject: Re: FAO: ONLINEMAN Message: Subject: Re: FAO: ONLINEMAN Message: Subject: Re: FAO: ONLINEMAN Message: Subject: AMNESTY FOR SLPP GOVT' FINANCE CRIMES IF... Message: 1) The offending ministers and parastatal heads public apologise and beg for forgiveness from the poor Sierra Leoneans whose money it is that was stolen, on national TV and radio, and promise not to steal anymore. 2) The offending SLPP functionaries return 70% of the stolen loot. Subject: Re: AMNESTY FOR SLPP GOVT' FINANCE CRIMES IF... Message: Subject: Re: AMNESTY FOR SLPP GOVT' FINANCE CRIMES IF... Message: Subject: Re: AMNESTY FOR SLPP GOVT' FINANCE CRIMES IF... Message: let this be the beginning of a model example that you cannot be entrusted with the country's resources and then go on to abuse your office and the people. They have no shame. They should be brouight into the open and shamed. kabba should be brought again in front of a public inquiry and be banned for life from even become a director or elderstatesman. I have written to bradford university for his honorary doctorate degree be revoked and would also lobby the british public to support such a move. kabba, a shameless idiot should without delay be brought to account for all the loot under his watch. Subject: Re: AMNESTY FOR SLPP GOVT' FINANCE CRIMES IF... Message: Subject: Re: AMNESTY FOR SLPP GOVT' FINANCE CRIMES IF... Message: Do you want me to name more - many that you used your so-called yes-boys to exploit people by pretending to be capable of awarding them contracts that would have benefitted the nation. You and your yes-boys duped these people and betrayed your copuntry. Show me exactly what you and your pathetic lot gave to sierra leone. No one will leave you in peace to enjoy retirement. God will deliver you to us and the law will punish you and take back what you stole from us. I will not rest and I am appealing to all who happen to know about some of these things to bring them into the open. You are on constant surveillance byn an independent citizen's group to track down your assets and those of others connected to you. You will not rest. You had the opportunity to have repaid us for your thievery in the late 60s and mid 70s. You blew it again - you hopeless and reckless being!! I know he reads this site and they sit down with his boys and laugh at us. He who laughs last laughs best. We will surely have our laugh. Subject: Re: AMNESTY FOR SLPP GOVT' FINANCE CRIMES IF... Message: Subject: Re: AMNESTY FOR SLPP GOVT' FINANCE CRIMES IF... Message: Subject: Re: AMNESTY FOR SLPP GOVT' FINANCE CRIMES IF... Message: Subject: Re: AMNESTY FOR SLPP GOVT' FINANCE CRIMES IF... Message: A la hu ak barr. Subject: are you allowed to throw a stone at someone when you leave i Message: Subject: AS KABS BARRANTA, I CANNOT BE BANNED Message: As a Reverend gentleman(?)I least expected you to call me an "infidel", but since you've said so, I take it that you belong to the thoughts of Al-Qaeda/ Taliban. God, how you were shaky to describe my mouth as "stinking", "Ah don eva kiss you?". Wae you belleh feba roast goat. Go on and ban this IP again. But when ever I have issues, I would post under the name yours Truly, SUBWANALAI Subject: WHERE CAN I FIND THE SLPP FORUM? Message: PLEASE, CAN SOMEONE TELL ME WHERE I CAN FIND THE SLPP FORUM? I WANT TO LEAVE THIS FORUM WHERE THUGS BELIEVE THAT AN EYE FOR AN EYE IS THE WAY FORWARD. Subject: OH KABS KANU HAS A FARM Message: CHARACTERS COMRADE NAPOLEON: KABS WILFRED KANU Dear Comrades of the Farm (Forum), Comrades, this is my story. You will recall that when we were planning to topple Mr. Jones (Kabbah and SLPP), we agreed that "TWO LEGS ARE BAD AND FOUR LEGS GOOD". As soon as Mr. Jones was overthrown, Comrade Napoleon (Kabs; the fat pig), who has imposed himself on the farm, started wearing designer coats, bowl hats and fat cigars dangling from his hog mouth. I pointed out this to him, that they are capitalist oriented. He dismissively argued that they were the sweet of office. Our real showdown happened yesterday, when for the first time, I caught Napoleon(Kabs) tip-toeing on two legs, (just like the ousted Mr. Jones), instead of his normal four legs., with a protuding BORBOH-BELLEH-LIKE stomach. I requested an urgent meeting which I regret now. My mistake was not bringing along the wise owls (Kalos, Mammy Blessing, Candido, Kabudu Gen etc.) At the meeting, I raised the question of Comrade Kabs Napoleon walking on two legs. My queries were met by growls from the attack dogs. I also informed my now lawless audience that the younger generations of the farm no longer wants a BORBOH-BELLEH as minister. As such to prepare Comrade Napoleon for subsequent ministerial appointments, we should send him to the gymn to cut down on his 'roast goat-like' belly. The now furious Comrade Kabs Napoleon could have none of these. After a short tete-a-tete with Comrade Snowball; the dick head Moderator, there was signal for the attack dogs to pounce. Comrades, around mid day yesterday, I was hounded out of the farm; the only home I have known all these years. By midnight, I tried to smuggle these leaflets you are now reading into the farm, but the attack dogs were keeping vigil, blocking every move I made.An hurried all night party was staged by who else, the party animal Comrade Boxer(Bambay LANS). Yours Sincerely, p/s. Kabs Kanu is a propagandist par excellence. He is so stupid that he si now trying to misguide the farm that Comrade Squealer is that other ugly Comrade Glover(Sylvia Blyden). But I know liberal minds who have been reading my postings will know how much WORWORLIWOR had come under my attack. I don't blame Kabs. When parents waste their hard earned cash and send a kid like Kabs to FBC, only for him to read GREKO(Greek and Roman History) and Church History(All those let my people go subjects), this is what they get COMING SOON: BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING. BASED ON GEORGE ORWELL'S ANIMAL FARM Subject: Re: WHERE CAN I FIND THE SLPP FORUM? Message: Subject: Re: WHERE CAN I FIND THE SLPP FORUM? Message: www.johnmannahphdforpresident.com or www.sylviaworworliworsaydenrogueslpppandeelection.net Subject: Re: WHERE CAN I FIND THE SLPP FORUM? Message: Subject: Re: WHERE CAN I FIND THE SLPP FORUM? Message: Subject: Re: WHERE CAN I FIND THE SLPP FORUM? Message: Subject: Re: WHERE CAN I FIND THE SLPP FORUM? Message: Subject: Re: WHERE CAN I FIND THE SLPP FORUM? Message: Subject: Re: WHERE CAN I FIND THE SLPP FORUM? Message: Subject: REVEALED: COCORIOKO USURPS STATE HOUSE OFFICE Message: COMING SOON: Subject: Re: REVEALED: COCORIOKO USURPS STATE HOUSE OFFICE Message: Subject: Re: REVEALED: COCORIOKO USURPS STATE HOUSE OFFICE Message: Yes, Joseph Kamanda is reporting from State House.If e monah youi, nar for die. Envious infidel . Subject: Re: FACT---REVEALED: COCORIOKO USURPS STATE HOUSE OFFICE Message: We too at COCORIOKO are systematic and methodical.We know that our outstanding performance will create a place for us on this earth. HOWEVER, if we have a correspondent at State House , it is because we want to provide the best possible coverage for this government BECAUSE WE CARE A LOT FOR IT AND ARE PRAYING FOR IT TO SUCCEED BY GOD'S GRACE. WE believe that this government has the capacity to turn things around and bring a better life to our suffering people. We also believe that envious, power-conscious people will try to start defaming the government and misrepresenting its goals and objectives out of tribalism .We want the public to get accurate and comprehensive reports about how best this government is working to solve their problems. Whatever we are doing is sacrificial but this wretched infidel going around opening his stinking mouth does not understand voluntaryism or patriotism. He is a confusionist, one of those responsible for the problems in our country. WE WANT TO ASSURE YOU THAT WE WILL EVENTUALLY REMOVE HIM OR HER FROM THIS FORUM FOR HIS RUDENESS TO THE MODERATOR, WHO HAS DONE SO MUCH FOR US AND DOES NOT NEED AN ILL-BRED MAN OR WOMAN BRINGING HIS/ HER BAD TRAINING TO HIM. Subject: Re: REVEALED: COCORIOKO USURPS STATE HOUSE OFFICE Message: Subject: Re: REVEALED: COCORIOKO USURPS STATE HOUSE OFFICE Message: Subject: Re: REVEALED: COCORIOKO USURPS STATE HOUSE OFFICE Message: Subject: Re: REVEALED: COCORIOKO USURPS STATE HOUSE OFFICE Message: Subject: Re: REVEALED: COCORIOKO USURPS STATE HOUSE OFFICE Message: Subject: Re: REVEALED: COCORIOKO USURPS STATE HOUSE OFFICE Message: Subject: WHO IS RESPONSIBLE FOR INVESTIGATIONS INTO THE MALPRACTICES Message: Please let it not look like a witch-hunt. show the trut5h about the lies and dishonesty of these people to the public - let it be a televised inquiry. The likes of momodu koroma has stashed so much money in the UK and Libya. Let the body responsible for such investigations seek the help of the UN in accessing the international accounts of these bandits. To the true SLPP loyalists, please understand that the recklessness and decit of the people who led us brought the downfall. We should not support their cries of a witch-hunt. They are to blame for the lack of good water suppy to our houses, unemployment, good health care, good roads, etc. Some of us appealed to our authorities dor over seven years but nothinbg was done. I will remain an SLPP but will not suppiort the the rape of our country by my own party authorities for their own selfish ends. Subject: Re: WHO IS RESPONSIBLE FOR INVESTIGATIONS INTO THE MALPRACTICES Message: Subject: Re: WHO IS RESPONSIBLE FOR INVESTIGATIONS INTO THE MALPRACTICES Message: Subject: Re: WHO IS RESPONSIBLE FOR INVESTIGATIONS INTO THE MALPRACTICES Message: Subject: THE TRUE FACTS ABOUT THE SLPP Message: According to our objecting friends, the retention of the word "ultimately" in the above sentence is, variously, a negative characterization of the SLPP, a display of partisanship in favor of the APC, kicking the losing SLPP when it is down, a lack of diplomacy or harping on the immaterial past instead of the future. The question to be answered amidst this raging controversy is a simple one: Do these various objections have any merit? In my humble opinion, they do not. In order to see this, witness the following analysis: As was noted during the discussion of the objections cited above, the ultimate utility of a commendation is to "encourage authors of actions to make improvement." However, it is difficult for one to encourage another to improve his or her actions if one does not accurately describe the person’s past action. In short, one must faithfully, however painfully, accurately recite the facts attesting to the other’s past actions. By that standard, it is difficult to find fault with our patriotic friend and the SL Network’s president, Amadu Massally’s commendation of the SLPP depicted in the proposed note of appreciation. As Amadu has noted, it is a fact that the SLPP did do exactly the actions he cited in commendation of the party — they ultimately conceded defeat. Amadu could have stated in the body of the note of appreciation that the SLPP did so only after losing their court challenge — action which was expressly intended to stop the announcement of the election results. Such a statement would have been entirely factually accurate. However, in a show of magnanimity (which has been alluded to as diplomacy, but, tellingly, not in regard to Amadu’s gesture), Amadu elected not to include such unflattering details in the draft. Instead, he admirably chose to include the minimum possible detail — a single word, "ultimately," that was necessary for him to remain faithful to the facts. Significantly, that single word represents the only difference between the latest competing version and Amadu’s revised version. In my humble opinion, the need to remain faithful to the facts, and the alternative available to do so in the form of the unflattering detailed statements of the SLPP’s actions, such as that cited above and which Amadu has elected not to use, should dissolve any residual objection to the draft sentence most recently proposed by Amadu, viz. "We would also like to commend the SLPP upon ultimately conceding defeat and assisting the new APC government in ensuring a smooth transfer of power." As regards the objection that the above statement is evidence of harping on the immaterial past instead of looking to the future, it is a truism that those who forget the lessons of history are condemned to repeat them. Accordingly, to state that "harping on a past [] is not material," is to evince an insufficient appreciation of the predictable consequences of ignoring the lessons of the past. The emphasis, I should emphasize, is on consequences. In my humble opinion, whether the SLPP sought to delay the conclusion of the presidential election by "just several hours or at most a day" is immaterial. What is immensely significant, as our Dr. Jonathan Peters accurately pointed out yesterday, is the insufficiently emphasized fact that the eleventh-hour attempt in court by the SLPP to stop the announcement of the winner of the presidential election was the last desperate act of a party that had employed a myriad of independently verified subterfuges uniformly designed to massively disenfranchise the people of SL. Accordingly, to suggest that the SLPP’s action in seeking to stop the announcement of a winner in an election that it feared it had lost is "not material, I bet you, in the large scheme of things" is to ignore the nature, extent and timing of the SLPP’s role in the "large scheme of things." It would also unwisely send a signal to the SLPP that its actions in attempting to selfishly thwart the will of the people of SL are "not material." Yet, on the contrary, the SLPP’s actions were explosively material since they could have plunged the country into entirely avoidable turmoil. That is why the SLPP must be encouraged to learn the most salutary lesson from its past — that there are consequences for its actions. That lesson starts with the open recognition of those past actions. Delivering such a lesson does not require the existence of a perfect society, as was suggested in objection to mention of the fact that the SLPP conceded defeat only ultimately. On the contrary, the existence of a perfect society would make such a lesson unnecessary. Thus, helping the SLPP to learn that lesson could be seen as moving it, and our country, further along the road towards a more perfect society. It is for that reason that our patriotic friend, Amadu, and all of us who subscribe to the salutary principle that actions must have appropriate consequences, should hold our heads high. In holding firm to the truth about the elections, without fear or favor, we are continuing the admirable nascent practice of accountability in public service articulated by the National Electoral Commission’s chairlady, Dr. Christiana Thorpe, when she courageously announced the winner of the presidential election at an event that the SLPP had vainly tried to stop, viz. "There is no longer a place for fraud and malpractice in the Sierra Leone electoral system." That relevance of that patriotic lesson is not limited to the SLPP. It is even more so to the victorious APC government of our new President Ernest Koroma, who happens to have been a classmate of quite a few of our valued members and my fellow student at Fourah Bay College. He ignores it in his general administration of our country at his own electoral peril. Editors Note: Moh’m Jalloh(photo), a native of Sierra Leone resident in Maryland is the founding Managing Director of a financial services firm in suburban Washington, D.C., USA. The above article is adapted from his separate responses to two fellow members of SALONEDiscussion, the pioneering Internet discussion forum dedicated exclusively to the serious discussion of issues related to SL with the aim of advancing the development of the country. SALONEDiscussion is a co-sponsor of the press release commending political parties and others in SL. Subject: Re: THE TRUE FACTS ABOUT THE SLPP Message: Why pretend that SLPP dd not do that? For me, SLPP must be condemned. not praised. Lonta Subject: Re: THE TRUE FACTS ABOUT THE SLPP Message: My Opinion: After reading this article, I went back and reead the press release which caused the apparenbtly very civil debate in the Salone Discussion forum. I must say I found the press release to be a very balanced and fair report on the role of the SLPP, APC, PMDC in the recent Salone elections. So, I agree with Moh'm Jalloh. But my opinion is even if you does not agree with him, you can't help but notice how methodically he presents his argument. Just look at the example I put at the sbegining of this post. Subject: Thanks all same Kabs Message: Regardless, you are doing a very good job and I admire your courage for respecting freedom of speech despite the many appeals by those less tolerant to have opposing views kicked out of this forum. To all forumites, opposing views play a crucial role in a democracy. It gives those in authority the impetus to work harder and prove themselves. We cannot all start to regard Koroma as a messiah until we see what he does. One of the Sierra Leone writers I admire is Sheka Tarawallie (Shekito). When we were in university, he was the first person to sound a cautionary note about NPRC. Those days, students were so eager for a change that he was roundly cried down and labelled as unpatriotic. Few years later, most of what he said in that lenthy article, proved to be true. So forgive us for being sceptics. In my 37 years on earth, I have seen a lot of African leaders come into office with many promises and high ideals. Kabba, Momoh, K. Doe, Rawlings, Charles Taylor, Mugabe and many others all came to liberate their people from poverty, ignorance and disease. But what did they do. Most of them ended up being Kleptocratic dictators who sank their countries into further poverty and indebtedness. Sierra Leoneans should be all the more be cautious as we have watched years of poor governance sink our country into the economic quamire it is presently in. If you ban us from this forum solely because we are not hailing the king before we see what he has done, you would have done our country a great disservice. We are all praying for Ernest Koroma, God bless him, to do good by our country. But we will also be looking at him and all future leaders in our country through electron microscopic lenses. We are no longer willing to sit down and only start complaining when things go wrong. Thanks to the internet. I know myopic people will attack me again. But that is just what makes my day. Thanks once again Kabs for helping us disseminate the truth while others disseminate propaganda. May God make your Church and paper grow. Subject: Re: Thanks all same Kabs Message: Subject: Re: Thanks all same Kabs Message: On a side note in 37 years you still haven't seen much as far as politics is concerned.If you had been born during the pre-independence era then you would have got chronicles to sell or be bought.Lol. Subject: Re: Thanks all same Kabs Message: I admire Cocorioko and Co for their dedication and tireless contributions to this medium. Correct me if I am wrong; this is a non paying undertaking with tremendous responsibilities that is sometimes rewarded with barrages of unfounded and irresponsible attacks. In my world, it is a service to our nation. I salute Cocorioko and staff for giving me the opportunity to read colorful and astute forumites like Bai Bureh, Subwanalai, Mammy Blessing, the two Alieus and many, many others. The moderator’s role is not an easy one; all we generally ask for is to exercise neutrality and avoid pseudo “smart” responses. Thanks to all. Subject: Re: Thanks all same Kabs Message: Subject: THIS IS NOT WITCH- HUNTING! Message: The above statment was a statement of Jacob Jusu Saffa, the SLPP Pen-pusher. It's unfortunate that Saffa is talking like he is dreaming. To say SLPP maintained a culture of tolerance sounds strange to me. I want to believe that tolerance in the SLPP way means executing opponents and finding ways to arrest and execute others. Does Saffa know that most of the people Berewa and Kabbah could not capture are out of the country and that Johnny Paul was chased by his party he says was tolerant? Oh Yes!That is tolerance in the SLPP way. The truth will soon be out. Respect for the Rule of Law is arresting Omrie Gollie becuase he went to that country to exercise his right as a citizen. Respect for the Rule of law and tolerance in the SLPP way is misappropriating and embezzling public funds. I don't really know what Awareness Times is writing about. It is hard to imagine that just a few days after we have elected our President and VP this paper will take this kind of unthinkable direction to misdirect our attention from the sweet we have brought for the good people of Sierra Leone. They are mere detractors who will fail in their endeavors. There is no truth in what has been written. If Joseph Gborie takes his time and uses his energy to destroy whatever in Kono, he would be doing it by himself and not because he is the cousine of the VP. If the VP'S cousine breaks the law should he not be questioned and dealt with if found guilty? If Sidibay finds himself in detention today, he paved the way for that because he desired to change his abode. He break the law and the law caught him, not the VP. Live the VP alone. This new government is for peace, reconciliation and national development. It is a government of the people and will serve all of us not a selected few like the SLPP was--WAN PIPUL WAN POCKIT! It is too early to begin to think the way Awareness Times is thinking and reporting. Saffa should exercise some patience to see what our new government plans for him. The APC is not witch-huntimg anybody. Our new Manager wants to know what is in the office before he begins work. Is that wrong? They are only taking stock; don't they have the right to do it? Saffa needs to tell me that when he took up office from Prince Harding he did not take stock before he sat in that office to start functioning as the Sec. Gen. If he did not, then that was unfortunate. If he did not, that does not mean that APC will not. There are financial time bombs all over the place. They should be identified at least for the records and the big names. But if I may ask, did the Transition team go to Pa Kabbah's office? Who went to Solo- Bee? What about the Mining contracts? They need to open their eyes lek mountain fatfoot. A lot went under the bridge during the SLPP tenure. We cannot afford to be begging all the time. John Karimu used to come to the US for vacation instead of Segbwema. The rules are, you cannot be a businessman and a Minister; but SLPP needed to dress his children like Alpha Wurie and others. So Pa Kabbah had to ask the late S.B. Marah to bend the rule in 1996 for Wurie to become Minister. Again Pa Kabbah bend the rule for the AITH boss to go the Finance Ministry so that he can be in the position to award contracts to himself. That is tolerance and the Rule of Law in the SLPP way. The Lome Peace Accord talked about amnesty for all who took part in commiting atrocities against their fellow man during the war. Solo Bee and Pa Kabbah undermined Hinga Norman and made plot to stop Johnny Paul from existing, even when the guy had registered a political party and had two seats in the house. A coup was orchestrated by Solo-Bee under the advice of Pa Kabbah so that the young man could be eliminated. Wherever he has gone or whatever may have happened to him nobody knows. The President, our president is only talking about stock taking so that he would be able to know how much is in the office, but people like JJ Blood are speaking English and law. That which His Excellency is doing is even more lawful. This should be enough to tell JJ Blood and his cronies that His Excellency knows what he is doing and he, Saffa should not be doubting as to where the President and his Vice are taking the nation to. The president wants to know what he is taking, so he must be given the chance to do what he is doing. In fact he does not need to ask for permission to ask a Transition team to do what they are doing. JJ Blood, una get for blow!This may sound too distasteful in the ears, but the Krios say, "IF YOU NOR PUT YOU HAN NAR YOU WASE YOU NOR GO SMELL SHIT." THIS IS NOT WITCH-HUNTING. Subject: Re: THIS IS NOT WITCH- HUNTING! Message: Subject: Re: THIS IS NOT WITCH- HUNTING! Message: Where can I find the SLPP Forum? Please let me know. Thanks Subject: Re: THIS IS NOT WITCH- HUNTING! Message: Subject: ILLEGAL CURRENCY MARKET IN SIERRA LEONE Message: Subject: Re: ILLEGAL CURRENCY MARKET IN SIERRA LEONE Message: I also beg to differ. Stiffling a parallel market is a contradiction of the principles the free market. You are trying to protect the interest of the central bank's monopoly over the release and flow of foreign exchange. Subject: Re: ILLEGAL CURRENCY MARKET IN SIERRA LEONE Message: Feel free to raise objections but changes are innevitable in that part of our economy.For the record ,I am not aspiring for any office on the land.I was very please to effect change in sierra leone and myself like many other sierra leoneans will continue to support this president when and if necessary .We started together and we will finish together as a team. Subject: Re: ILLEGAL CURRENCY MARKET IN SIERRA LEONE Message: Subject: Re: ILLEGAL CURRENCY MARKET IN SIERRA LEONE Message: Going back to your level of understanding.why are you looking for the black market to compete with your central bank? The black market is an illigal entity and is a drain from our resources thus undermines our monetary policies. Not one Iota of tax dollar is collected from these illigal transactions.The black market in sierra leone constitute for over 40% of those petty traders on kissy st, bombay market,abache st and your diamond dealers crossing the boarders from liberia and guinea.You have look at the bigger picture to our economy as a whole.All of these transaction go unreported.Your figure quoted for our last GDP does not includes your petty traders. Subject: Re: ILLEGAL CURRENCY MARKET IN SIERRA LEONE Message: Subject: Re: ILLEGAL CURRENCY MARKET IN SIERRA LEONE Message: I respectfully beg to differ with your view that there should be no parallel foreign exchange market in SL. This your view is exactly what it was like under the OLD APC when every lawful foreign exchange transaction was centralized in our central bank. The upshot was that those with crooked political connections got foreign current whenever needed. Us lowly types as well as legitmate businesses suffered immensely. There were times when SLeone travelers to London would arrive there with only $10.00 and piles of Leones in our pockets. Those travelers would either have to be met at the airport or used criminal tricks to get establish in the new land. Why? Because those in authority over foreign exchange denied foreign currencies to all but a chosen few on a crass discriminatory basis. The improper and/or fraudulent management of our foreign exchange facilities were also the principal reasons why SL - of all places - no longer have present within her territory any of the numerous large international firms still present in the old British West Africa (The Gambia, Ghana and Nigeria), viz: PZ, UAC, CFAO, SCOA, Kingsway, Royal Exchange Insurance, GB Olivant, UTC, Texaco, Agip, UMARCO, Longman's, Evans Brothers, etc., etc. Those legitimate firms strictly engaged everyday in legitimate commerce were starved of foreign exchange while the politically connected had all the foreign currency they demanded and at any time they demanded such. The present system was put in place by Dr. James (Jim) Fornah, President Momoh's and APC's sole credible Finance Minister. We must keep it in place and protect it. If portions of this system have gone astray, we should correct them but we should NOT go back to the OLD APC system of absolute power, crookedness, cronyism, fevoritism, nepotism and discrimination. We must accept the plain fact that many African officials still do not understand the principles of self-determination and of those who do, many refuse to be guided by those principles in the daily exercise of their official responsibilities. President Koroma has said he represents the NEW APC and thus out to creat a better country for us all. Please let's us allow him to leave in place existing systems that function properly. Instead, let's help him focus on those situations that are the source of misery to our unfortunate people. Thank you. - JL Subject: Re: ILLEGAL CURRENCY MARKET IN SIERRA LEONE Message: Our economic policy right now to control prices and inflation without Instituting proper regulations on the foreign exchange market does not work. The truth is we have to put together policies that will account for growth simulation, stabilization of prices and so on. Think about the heavy burden placed on the fluctuation of prices, good and services. Why should we leave this vital part of our economy left to chances or the underground market at kissy st.? . we have ran our economy on foreign depends and you will agree with me that the policy in place like many policies instituted by not just the last SLPP were not progressive because they have not brought us any financial freedom or ease any pressure on the financial system let alone simulate g Subject: Re: ILLEGAL CURRENCY MARKET IN SIERRA LEONE Message: Subject: Re: ILLEGAL CURRENCY MARKET IN SIERRA LEONE Message: Subject: IN SUPPORT OF THE MODERATOR Message: Please be warned: The Moderator's decisions are fully backed by the Cocorioko Newspaper Company Limited. A word for the wise is sufficient. Subject: Re: IN SUPPORT OF THE MODERATOR Message: Just protesting his position on issues..and his abitrary guilotine. I for one knows he has all the rights, but he can try to explain reasons for deleting and banning without pissing off people more. I have taken offence a few times and made it known. It is i and i and only i. Anything else.. you aint no match. It is painful to see a post i have spent 20 minutes typing and proffreading and spellchecking be deleted. I hope the good reverend has his rosary in his hand when reading this so his banning fingers are busy. Subject: Re: IN SUPPORT OF THE MODERATOR Message: I am rearing to go to battle with you this morning Candido....but lol, this is damn funny. A worthy wordsmith indeed! Subject: Re: IN SUPPORT OF THE MODERATOR Message: I am fast becoming a player of words as the Mammy Blessing's, Subwanalis, Kabudu General's and Kalo's of this medium. APC still sucks...the bomber is still my number.. Subject: Gotta Go now!!!!!!!!!!!!! Message: The cocorioko forum can be very addictive and it is by far the best organised sierra leonean news outlet ever. It has been a blessing to have run into some of you folks in cyberspace. Hoping that we would one day meet in person and share our brotherhood/sisterhood. God Bless all of us. PEACE Subject: Re: Gotta Go now!!!!!!!!!!!!! Message: Subject: Re: Gotta Go now!!!!!!!!!!!!! Message: Subject: Re: Gotta Go now!!!!!!!!!!!!! Message: Subject: Re: Gotta Go now!!!!!!!!!!!!! Message: Oremi.. igberri lek me say kudos my brother.. I hope if this is your calling.. (i am phising of course) your would give our motherland the same you advocated here.. Honestly, integrity, inclusive, liberal and a can do bravado that is more than needed in our society.. Just so i dont plasta you too much and get the irk of my SLPP comrades.. Please dont dissapoint us by been thy fathers son.. (sorry bra...ah nor know no provoking for you pass tha wan dey).. Gods speed. Subject: Re: Gotta Go now!!!!!!!!!!!!! Message: Subject: Re: aiscandari@aol.com Message: God Bless Subject: Re: Gotta Go now!!!!!!!!!!!!! Message: Subject: Re: Gotta Go now!!!!!!!!!!!!! Message: Stay bless bruv. LOW GRADE SAN SAN Subject: Re: Gotta Go now!!!!!!!!!!!!! Message: Subject: Re: Gotta Go now!!!!!!!!!!!!! Message: Subject: Re: Gotta Go now!!!!!!!!!!!!! Message: Subject: Re: Gotta Go now!!!!!!!!!!!!! Message: Subject: Re: Gotta Go now!!!!!!!!!!!!! Message: Binkakru moderator if SUBWANALIA cannot speak in his mammy's tongue.. can others..? Ps: Yeah i know..debate and all.. no match.. Subject: Re: Gotta Go now!!!!!!!!!!!!! Message: Subject: Re: Gotta Go now!!!!!!!!!!!!! Message: Subject: Re: Gotta Go now!!!!!!!!!!!!! Message: 1000 tem blaspheme.. Subject: Re: Gotta Go now!!!!!!!!!!!!! Message: Ah sweh to god noto malice.. Fairness.. was all it was.. Sorry mate.. Subject: JOHN MANNAH IS A SHAMELESS LOSER AND TRIBALIST Message: The hobo has not been eating for weeks.He has just been crying and crying and crying. Now look at what this pigmy, underdeveloped, demented tribalistic upline scavenger wrote at the SLPP Forum : "Even where Sam Sumana is in the APC, we are still interested in his welfare as a brother from the east. We will not allow the APC to misuse and abuse him like they did to late S.I.Koroma, late Paul Kamara, and late Francis Mishek Minah. We are therefore watching, as we will not allow the Ekutay APC cabal to marginalize this young brother, use and abuse him. It will not fly this time at all." You think Sam Sumana has time for a wretched tribalist like you ? SHAMELESS TRIBALIST. Subject: Re: JOHN MANNAH IS A SHAMELESS LOSER AND TRIBALIST Message: John Mannah fails tell people the truth about his correspondence course Ph.D. Just like when he concealed the fact that he was disciplined by the SLPP national executive for lying to the public that he was director of communications for the SLPP in North America last year. That truth is that John Mannah was actually driving a taxi cab in Washington DC during the time he claimed to have been studying at a college in New York. So, how could John Mannah have got a "Ph.D in financial economics" in far away New York while he was actually driving his cab on the streets of DC? The answer -- which of course, the always dishonest John Mannah never tells people when he tells them he has a "ph.D in financial economics" -- is obvious: John Mannah took a correspondence course to get his Ph.D from a third rate college in New York. It is that secret (no longer) that constantly torments the already very tribalistic John Mannah. That is why he is even more tribalistic against those of us from a different tribes who attended Ivy league universities and other first class universities to get our Ph.D. As if anyone forced John Mannah not to study hard and try to gain admission to an actual university and attend it if he wanted to obtain a respectable Ph.D Subject: Re: JOHN MANNAH IS A SHAMELESS LOSER AND TRIBALIST Message: I don't know John Mannah, and I could care less about him if he not qualified as he says he is. But my question is what beef do you have with distance learning courses? I mean top-rated Uni these days have distance learning divisions. A lot of the Executive MBA (EMBA) these days are part-time / distance learning modes. The admission criteria is the same for full-time mode, so what's the beef? Here are Schools that offer Distance learning MBA and are Ranked by Business Weekly: American Intercontinental University So Bra, reconsider!!!! British Uni with Distance Learning Section: University of Durham Would you say all of the above are Third-rated? Subject: Re: JOHN MANNAH IS A SHAMELESS LOSER AND TRIBALIST Message: Online courses to get a PhD in Financial Economics, come on man, wake up to reality. Do you know what it takes to be admitted at a university to study for PhD in Economics? I don't know for your EMBA and all that but an online PhD in Financial Economics is trash. Subject: Re: JOHN MANNAH IS A SHAMELESS LOSER AND TRIBALIST Message: I'm an engineer by profession and I know the rigours of having a PhD, because I have been a PhD candidate for Engineering. The only time you might get daily contact with your supervising professor is during the first year. Financial Economics is even easier to do online since you don't have any laboratory work. Most Universities that have online programmes do have an online WHITEBOARD. You could have face to face chats using videoconferencing and also have group communications and discuss assignments with your colleague for Classroom-based chat session. If you missed class/chat session, you could go back and review the whole session since it is recorded on video. So yes my MAN, I have been admitted into an Engineering PhD program, therefore I have an idea what it takes to be admitted. My Man, the world has moved very far with technology, so a lot is possible these days. Don't forget that a PhD candidate is meant to do research and defend HIS dissertation. The PhD candidate doesn't need to see his supervising professor every day. Modes of Instructions could Part-time, Distance/Online. BTW, in my last posting, I didn't mention PhD. I wrote about DISTANCE Education (Masters, Diploma, PhD). If YOU aren't AWARE that something exists, doesn't mean it doesn't exist. Below are samples of Distance Learning PhD Programmes. http://aiu.edu/Doctor%20of%20Business%20Administration.html http://www.extension.harvard.edu/DistanceEd/ http://www.usu.edu/cob/degreesmajors/economicsphd.cfm The Goethe University Ph.D. program's simple vision is to establish in Continental Europe’s primary center for financial markets and central banking one of the premier centers in Europe for graduate ... Click here for more program info Universitŕ di Milano The aim of the doctoral program is to provide advanced training in both economic theory and applied economics, as well as to introduce students to high-standard research in economics. The ... Click here for more program info Subject: Re: JOHN MANNAH IS A SHAMELESS LOSER AND TRIBALIST Message: The problem is with the tribalistic liar who lies about being a slpp official when he was not. Mannah also lied about the type of degree he claimed to have by insinuating that he attended a university as a fulltime student in New York. On top of that, John Mannah spews tribalistic, hate-filled lies about those he envies because they have a position in the Salone government that he follishly thought he could have when he is not qualified to have it. Like the VP Sam Sumana. About distance learning, let me tell you it is good when it is done properly. that means it is offered by a reputable school which proves the quality of its instruction through the quality of its graduates. On both accounts, John Mannah fails to pass muster. His attempts to write economics have routinely been exposed every time as nonsense writing. On top of that, his college is either not a credible school or John Mannah is the exception to its good instruction. I hope you now understand that the problem is not distance learning. It is Mannah, the liar, tribalist, and jealous wannabe economist who did not one day work as economist but lies that he is an economist. I challenge John Mannah to state the name of any reputable institution where he worked as an economist. Subject: Re: JOHN MANNAH IS A SHAMELESS LOSER AND TRIBALIST Message: But please next time you could state the third-rated school so that it doesn't sound as generally attributed to all distance programs. Again, thanks for clarifying. Subject: DAY OF PRIDE FOR APC Message: I don't know for you but I feel very proud of this day.The Palm Tree thought that it had conquered the SUN ,and to see the SUN in power once again is fascinating. I am very proud of the APC. LONG LIVE THE ALL PEOPLE'S CONGRESS Subject: Let us be ware!!! Message: Subject: Sam Sumana Locks up his BITTER RIVAL- SIDIBAY in KONO Message: NEWS The information that spread like wildfire all over Kono yesterday was that Vice President Samuel Sam-Sumana ordered the arrest of Sidibay (his bitter political rival in the district) upon allegations that some six or so weeks ago, he was reported to have fired a pistol in the air during an SLPP Political Rally. It will be recalled that the young, popular and very wealthy Abdulai Sidibay was almost single-handedly responsible for swaying a lot of the youth votes to the SLPP against Sam Sumana’s APC Party during the past elections which caused Sam-Sumana to fail to even win his desired Constituency seat in Parliament. (See Report we are reproducing today). It was Sidibay who openly promised that Sumana would never get the majority of votes from either Kono town or Kono District. And indeed, Sidibay’s words came to pass as despite intense campaigning by Sam-Sumana, he was unable to get the majority of votes in Kono for the APC either during the First Rounds or the Run-off. The bitterness between the two men (Sumana and Sidibay) was therefore no secret during the electioneering period. However, shortly after Sumana and himself were sworn in, President Ernest Bai Koroma assured all Sierra Leoneans that despite whatever stance they had taken either against his party or for his party, they were all equally protected and all the bitterness of the last elections should be put behind as the nation pushed forward in unity. However, Ernest Koroma’s assurances have repeatedly fallen short as his Vice President is now constantly being linked to surreptitious ‘orders from State House’ being enacted against well known SLPP supporters whilst his cousin and supporters in Kono are openly harassing people and going scot free. When Awareness Times contacted the Inspector General of Police on the allegation that it was through him that the orders were given, IG Brima Acha Kamara expressed ignorance of exactly what was going on in Kono. He informed that he only "vaguely heard" of the detention of Abdulai Sidibay and that his hands were not in it. Awareness Times then contacted the Local Unit Commander of the Sierra Leone Police in Kono, Chief Superintendent Kabia who confirmed that indeed Abdulai Sidibay had been arrested over a complaint that was made to the Kono Police, in his words, "several weeks ago". According to LUC Kabia, Sidibay was reported to have fired a pistol during an SLPP Rally held in Kono well before the elections. When Awareness Times put it to him that he was merely using the old complaint as a reason to molest Sidibay upon the orders of Sam-Sumana, LUC Kabia responded in the negative. "No, no, no. It is not Sam-Sumana. This is a legitimate police investigation into a report of a pistol being fired several weeks ago by Abdulai Sidibay. Even IMATT knows of the report," LUC Kabia posited. When Awareness Times pointed out that it was almost 21:00GMT when we were speaking to him and that Abdulai Sidibay had been arrested since mid-day yesterday without being given bail, LUC Kabia said that the "seriousness" of the case was what would decide if he was given bail last night. "Depending on the weight of the matter, you decide if you give bail or not," LUC Kabia stated. When Awareness Times asked him if he had the alleged pistol in his possession, LUC Kabia responded that the police had retrieved no such gun from Abdulai Sidibay but that "eye-witnesses" had told the police they saw Abdulai Sidibay firing a gun during the SLPP Rally. When Awareness Times asked whether anyone was wounded by the alleged gun fired several weeks ago, LUC Kabia replied in the negative but stated that several APC supporters were "bruised" during the SLPP rally. He also alleged that "some pistol shells" were found at the site of the SLPP Rally which was "evidence". When he was asked if Sidibay would be detained and refused bail based upon alleged gun sighting by APC supporters against an SLPP strongman like Sidibay, the LUC Kabia said the police would consider based upon "all the factors" available to them last night. Awareness Times however spoke to a junior police officer at the very same Kono Police Station who expressed outrage at the treatment of Abdulai Sidibay last night and debunked the claim that the British-led IMATT was in support of the arrest of Sidibay. "I can tell you for a fact that this very police station has conducted a thorough search of all the premises belonging to Abdulai Sidibay and we found no gun or pistol there. We have searched all his houses. All his offices. No gun. No gun found anywhere. This is a witch-hunt by Vice President Samuel Sam-Sumana" the junior police officer angrily stated on condition of anonymity. Awareness Times tried to contact the Vice President’s Press Officer yesterday but we were unsuccessful as his Comium phone number rang incessantly. However, given the gravity of the situation for the detained Abdulai Sidibay, we are publishing the report. Meanwhile, Vice President Samuel Sam Sumana has through one Karamoh Kabba, denied this newspaper’s report that he was related to Joseph Gborie (aka Jojo). However, this newspaper can challenge the Vice President that contrary to his denials, Joseph Gborie (Full Name = Joseph Manyii Gborie) who is on a lawless spree in Kono during which he smashed vehicle windscreens of peaceful citizens last week, is the son of his mother’s elder brother. VP Sam-Sumana's mother, Mrs. Hawa Sam-Sumana (nee Gborie) is the younger sister of the Kono Speaker Chief S.E. Gborie who fathered Joseph Manyii Gborie. Joseph Gborie himelf was often seen in the company of Vice President Sam-Sumana during the electioneering period. As we went to press, we have also received reports from the National Secretary General of the SLPP, Jacob Jusu Saffa about the stabbing of an SLPP supporter by an APC supporter in Kono on Wednesday night past. According to Saffa, the SLPP supporter was stabbed because he dared to wear a green SLPP T-Shirt into a local entertainment spot that was packed full of APC partisans. When we asked LUC Kabia on this report, he said the Kono police were investigating a report of a "broken bottle" being stoned at an SLPP supporter and not a report of a stabbing. "It was not a stabbing. It was just a broken bottle that was thrown at the complainant following an argument at a drinking bar," LUC Kabia said. He however stated that no arrests had been made. Meanwhile, President Ernest Koroma is expected to announce his "National Unity" Cabinet anytime today Friday October 5th 2007. Jacob Jusu Saffa has however debunked the entire National Unity efforts as a "big exercise in hypocrisy". "I don’t know where the country is heading for under Ernest Bai Koroma and Sam-Sumana. SLPP spent years cultivating and maintaining a culture of tolerance and respect for the rule of law and an independent police. APC in just a few weeks in power has turned everything upside down with vindictiveness, revenge tactics, violence and an outright abuse of power especially by Sam-Sumana," the SLPP’s Secretary General, Jacob Jusu Saffa lamented last night. Subject: Re: Sam Sumana Locks up his BITTER RIVAL- SIDIBAY in KONO Message: If this 'popular slpp business man' was arrested on such legit grounds, how could awareness times blame VP? The 'several weeks ago,' I am obliged to assume that the matter was supposedly an open case and also might have given reasonable time to the police gather evidence and to conclude investigation. This arrest could not have been more appropriate than now, taking into account the political tension 'several weeks ago.' Please awareness times, save the troubled people of Sierra Leone these of your cheap + vicious SLPP propaganda . Subject: Re: Sam Sumana Locks up his BITTER RIVAL- SIDIBAY in KONO Message: Now let me analyze your report. The tone and slant of your report clearly shows a bias in favor of the SLPP. You are wrong to say SLPP maintained a culture of tolerance for the rule of law...This only happened for SLPP supporters. Subject: Re: Sam Sumana Locks up his BITTER RIVAL- SIDIBAY in KONO Message: You complained as follows: 5. When The Standard Times Editor Phillip Neville wrote what was alleged to be an incorrect article about the Khadafi rice and money, he was thrown in jail with no bail until he retracted the article even though up to now Kabba never told us where or to whom he sold the rice. 6..............." President Kabbah did tell the people of Sierra Leone about the disposition of the Libyan rice as well as the use to which the funds were put, both at the time of the receipt of the rice gift as well as upon the establishment of NASSIT where the proceeds of the rice sale were invested exactly a year prior to the false report in the pro-APC Standard Times. Below is my more detailed e-mail respose on this matter to the Albert Academy Alumni Group following an inquiry from a member. Even so, I believe that justice is inproperly administered in our country and the new government ought to work on improving the civil rights of people facing police and judiciary power. But disagree with your implication that merely because a previous administration condoned injustice, the current administration ought not be chestized for behaving likewise. All the incidents you cited are still amenable to police investigations and prosecution. They are now in the hands of the current administration. Also, your claim about repeated injustice under the last SLPP administration is not entirely correct. Just a few examples for your convenience: 1) All of Margai's frequent assassination shouts during the just-ended campaign were all bogus claims made for political effect. No one was ever interested in killing Mr. Margai or anyone other candidate. For your information, our people know deep down that they can't properly manage violence and that any act of violence, no matter how minor, can escalate in a flash into a wild, uncontrollable free-for-all that can easily consume anyone without notice! So, peer pressure is heavily anti-violence! 2) The allegation that ex-Col. Nyuma attempted to assassinate Candidate Koroma in Bo during the tail-end of the campaign is likewise rubbish. Police investigation proved that Nyuma was unarmed and was aroused from a deep slumber with his girlfriend slumbering besides him when his room was broken into and beaten up. Now nobody goes to kill an opponent with his girl friend or sleeps soundly. Besides, John Benjamin and Nyuma, enroute to Freetown from Kailahun, had checked in into their Country-side Inn rooms and gone to bed prior to the arrival and checking-in of the Koroma entourage at the same inn. Finally, a good president should not have the likes of ex-coupligan Leddahboot in his entourage. "Dear Dauda: You are quite right. External factors affected our .............................................................................................................. Next, the Ghadaffi uproar was the result of poor, The vast majority of SLeoneans disliked the North However, Kabbah did not corrupt the two shiploads of The Kabbah government sold the consignments openly in Funds received from the sale of the Libyan rice were President Kabbah gave at least one public speech Guess what? Candidate Ernest Koroma was chairman of "Kakah wee nor wan yerri! Wey we res?." But why should he? Its politics and Kabbah brought it However, Kabbah's decision to place the rice for sale First, there was no practical way to distribute the Second, the rice was sold at a concessionary price Third, had a realistic method devised to equally Fourth, any such distribution arrangement would have Thank you for bringing the points in your posting EQV Subject: Re: Sam Sumana Locks up his BITTER RIVAL- SIDIBAY in KONO Message: Sylvia or AWARENESS TIMES is a paid medium to mislead the reading public. They will do what they can but will have to fail because we will jointly make them fail in all their endeavor. Whethere they believe what I am saying today or not, they will see it come to pass in a not too distant future; in fact very soon. When Kabbah took the poor man's diamond and transformed it into an ordinary stone, who questioned? The SLPP collected over 217 million Pound sterling from the British on the people's behalf but it did not reflect in our lives, who asked him? Can you ask AWARENESS TIMES about the KOIDU HOLDINGS and the SIERRA RUTILE? That is the respect for the RULE OF LAW according to the SLPP Secretary General. When a government strives hard and stretches its muscles to subject its people to a position where they become not sure of whether they are people living on earth, they say that government is good and has respect for the Rule of Law. When its people go to bed not sure of whether they will have something to eat the following day, that government is hailed for maintaining democracy. That was the SLPP of Pa Kahbah and that is the SLPP the people have told ,IT IS ENOUGH. RULE OF LAW DO SO! So Sylvia, I think it is time enough for you to put on your glasses to enable you to see how the people who mean well for the country are going. You can't beat us and you cannot join us in this mood. I know you are going to change your stance very soon to join us, but you will not have room. If you start doing the right thing now, you may qualify to become a part of this team that means well for this country by 2017. Look, let me prophesy to the entire forum that it is going to be APC all the way till 2022 when the people will decide to give POWER to another party but not SLPP. Subject: Re: Sam Sumana Locks up his BITTER RIVAL- SIDIBAY in KONO Message: Subject: Re: Sam Sumana Locks up his BITTER RIVAL- SIDIBAY in KONO Message: Subject: Re: Sam Sumana Locks up his BITTER RIVAL- SIDIBAY in KONO Message: Subject: Re: Sam Sumana Locks up his BITTER RIVAL- SIDIBAY in KONO Message: If this is the kind of writing you went to school to be trained in, then I am sending you this warning to say farewell to it. Make a complete U-turn to it or I will come down too hard and will expose your diablical engagement with somebody you will not want people to know that you had relationship with. I am sure you will not be happy to let people know about that kind of relationship. Don't you think so? I will tell the whole story and you will have to leave Freetown at the end of the story. How do you feel when you use the press to circulate lies about people? I must tell you that, YOU CUP GO FULL GISNOR. I will tell a story you think nobody knows about. Be warned and desist from the kind of journalism you are practising. The SLPP you think you are portraying as a government of saints has been put to rest and will never in true democratic elections come back to rule Sierra Leone, at least not in our time. The SLPP you present as good was only good for stealing and dragged that nation to be donor dependent. Of course you know much more than I do when we address issues that have link with the SLPP. It was because of the good works of the SLPP that made us to reposition them to the passenger seat. That is where they will ahev to be for a very long time. You need to be careful not to abuse your freedom and respect. Remember that you are spreading lies about the people's VP and your Secretary General is becoming too quick with his tongue. Tell him to wait so that he does not think about denouncing the SLPP by the end of 2008. How would you feel when you would come back begging for foregiveness? I will feel too bad if you come back to beg. In order not to create an avenue for shameful begging, it will be good for you to be quiet and stop circulating untrue statements about others, moreso the VP. This is no threat, BE WARNED!! Subject: Re: Sam Sumana Locks up his BITTER RIVAL- SIDIBAY in KONO Message: Subject: Re: Sam Sumana Locks up his BITTER RIVAL- SIDIBAY in KONO Message: The above statment was a statement of Jacob Jusu Saffa, the SLPP Pen-pusher. It's unfortunate that Saffa is talking like he is dreaming about rule of law and independent police.To say SLPP maintained a culture of tolerance sounds strange to me and most Sierra Leoneans. I want to believe that tolerance in the SLPP way means executing opponents and finding ways to execute those they were not able to capture. Does Saffa know that most people Berewa and Kabbah could not capture are out of the country and that Johnny Paul was chased by his party? That is tolerance in the SLPP way. The truth will soon be out. Respect for the rule of law is arresting Omrie Gollie becuase he went to that country to exercise his right as a citizen. Respect for the rule of law in the SLPP way is misappropriating and misdirecting public funds. I don't really know what Awareness Times is writing about. It is hard to imagine that just a few days after we have elected our President and VP this paper will take this kind of unthinkable direction to misdirect our attention from the sweet we have brought for the good people of Sierra Leone. They are mere detractors who will fail in their endeavors. There is no truth in what has been written. If Joseph Gborie takes his time and uses his energy to destroy whatever in Kono, he would be doing it by himself and not because he is the cousine of the VP. If the VP'S cousine breaks the law should he not be questioned and dealt with if found guilty? If Sidibay finds himself in detention today, he paved the way for himself because he thinks he thinks he should change his abode. He break the law and the law caught him, not the VP. Live the VP alone. This new government is for peace, reconciliation and national development. It is a government of the people and will serve all of us not a selected few like the SLPP was--WAN PIPUL WAN POCKIT! It is too early to begin to think the way Awareness Times is thinking and reporting. Saffa should exercise some patience to see what this new government will do. Subject: Taxi Driver Confessions: After Fast Month Message: Subject: Re: Taxi Driver Confessions: After Fast Month Message: Subject: Re: Taxi Driver Confessions: After Fast Month Message: Subject: Mr President, You will never appease Margai Message: The idea of a transitional team is fine, but is it in our constitution, or is it the first sign that the new APC government, as in the past, does not care much about constitutional limitations? Mr. President, if you are delaying the appointment of your cabinet because you want to appease Charles Margai, then I urge you not to bother, as Margai is impossible to appease and it is unnecessary to appease him. Mr Margai, by his very nature, never wants second place. When President Kabbah defeated him for the leadership of the SLPP, he defected to NUP, thinking the leadership of the party was his birth right. Even when he was given a ministerial appointment, he left with the lame excuse that his principles could not be compromised. As soon as it was clear that SLPP would soon be looking for a new leader, he found a way to come back into the party hoping to have the leadership handed to him on a silver platter, disregarding those that had stayed loyal to the party through thick and thin. Of course as everybody knows, he lost the leadership to Berewa. If Margai was not such a power greedy individual, he could have stayed with SLPP and the Vice Presidential position would most definitely have been his. Berewa is an old man and Margai would have easily succeeded him. Margai however, just wants power for power's sake. He will not be satisfied with anything President Koroma will do for him. After all it is even unnecessary. Let APC members rule, as it is their party that won. Even within PMDC, Margai marginalises those who he perceives as posing a threat to his authority. He surrounds himself by admirers and those that owe him a favor. He is the classic example of a simple dictator. Please Mr. President, dont leave our beloved country in Limbo trying to please everyone. It is now going to a month since you assumed power. Subject: Re: Mr President, You will never appease Margai, YOU DIVIDER Message: How do you know that Ernest cannot appease Margai? Do you know the depth of their friandship? Do you know how honest they are with each other? Do you know how much they like each other? Just because your evil, vengeful, hateful Berewa preferred for the whole SLPP to lose than for him to eat his ego and strike a compromise with Charles, does not mean others cannot do what he DIDN"T KNOW HOW TO DO AS A STATESMAN. No wonder, he didn't look like one, talk like one, dress like one or even present himself like one. Go eat nails for dinner buddy, but you need to know that Charles is not asking for anything from Ernest except support him get rid of the most corrupt, money mongering government ever, in the history of Salone. He knows very well its an APC government, not a PMDC one. So go to sleep on a belly full of nails. You have no idea as to why Ernest is taking his time to name his cabinet. He is a very meticulous, carful and thoughtful man, I understand. He is probably investigating everyone he wants to appoint including investingating their academic claims, their curent property holdings etc. etc. But a Charles Margai hater like you would rather interprete your own beliefs into hateful expressions. Just be reminded that Ernest may know Charles far better than you. Hence your advice is out of place and totally irrelevant. Just sit back and wait for Ernest and stop your hateful speculations. Charles helped him defeat your corrupt party, that's all there is to it. Subject: Re: Mr President, You will never appease Margai, YOU DIVIDER Message: Subject: Re: Mr President, You will never appease Margai, YOU DIVIDER Message: Subject: Re: Mr President, You will never appease Margai, YOU DIVIDER Message: Subject: Re: Mr President, You will never appease Margai, YOU DIVIDER Message: Subject: Re: Mr President, You will never appease Margai, YOU DIVIDER Message: NO, I didn't say that the disqualified votes should be awarded to "PMDC". I said to every other "party" that didn't engage in the rigging. Now, unless, of course, you are making reference to PMDC by default because they and the other smaller parties didn't engage in the rigging, then I can agree with your statement. By the way, go to this website and search for the article, unless you can get it from Cocorioko. Why are you talking politics if you don't belont to a party, c'mmon man. If you were reading my articles then you are a political animal. Get on with it and stop suffering with others political views Subject: Re: Mr President, You will never appease Margai, YOU DIVIDER Message: Subject: Re: Mr President, You will never appease Margai, YOU DIVIDER Message: For your information, I am not an SLPP, but of course your type would never understand that there are individuals not tied to artificial labels and symbols. I say whatever I want and to tell you the fact, I am very fulfilled in what I do, not like you who have over the course of these years been dragged down by poor choices made by an imbecile butterfly thinking it was an eagle. Subject: Re: Mr President, You will never appease Margai, YOU DIVIDER Message: I am PMDC, but I know that you are already fully aware. I have backbone and fear no whimps like you or your bosses especially when the likes of you always hide your tails between your legs for fear of standing up like men. Count me out of your line of whimpish attacks. Lick your wounds of defeat that came at the behest of PMDC after your massive riggings and the absolute abuse of government funds. An indication of your lack of education to the extent of not even knowing the Constitutional and other legal constraints meant to be exercised by the offices that your leaders occupied whose boot you keep licking. Keep quiet and let me talk to your betters. Subject: Re: Mr President, You will never appease Margai, YOU DIVIDER Message: What you have to know is that there are those among us who do not go around parading our educational qualifications, for the simple fact that God endowed us with the natural ability to acquire them. Assuming that you are more educated than someone you have never met just shows the illogical and irrational mental processing that your puny excuse for a brain is capable of. Subject: Re: Mr President, You will never appease Margai, YOU DIVIDER Message: Subject: Re: Mr President, You will never appease Margai, YOU DIVIDER Message: Subject: Re: Mr President, You will never appease Margai, YOU DIVIDER Message: Subject: Re: Mr President, You will never appease Margai, YOU DIVIDER Message: Subject: Re: Mr President, You will never appease Margai, YOU DIVIDER Message: Subject: Re: Mr President, You will never appease Margai Message: According to our constitution, sec 56(2)b states that: A person shall not be appointed a Minister or Deputy Minister unless-he has not contested and lost as a candidate in the general election immediately preceeding his nomination for appointment;this said, I don't think that Margai is qualified to hold a ministerial position in this government. Subject: SUBWANALAI GOES TO WAR! Message: /Moderator Kalos, Candido and Foster I thank you for trying to broker peace on my behalf. I have been away from the info super highway, only to come back and find this debate dragging. But what do you expect when you are dealing with a commoner, calling gentlemen rabbles. This toothless Dictator...oopps... Moderator is an idiot who must be contained, not for myself but for others. Tell you what, the wretch is a coward who only pounces when your back is turned. Kabs Kanu with whom the buck stops has explained to me his side of the story with regards this long drawn story, but when you put a jelly brain, whose only claim to fame is pondering at the excellence of his compatriots, what do you expect? A paranoid whose inner turmoil comes puking at your faces. Kalos, you got it right. I am a self made fighter, who can deal with this tramp waiting for a shoe cleaning job at state house. EPILOGUE: I do not debate when it comes to keeping the order. If Cheers! Subject: Re: SUBWANALAI GOES TO WAR! Message: Subject: Re: SUBWANALAI GOES TO WAR! Message: Subwanalai, in the name of decorousness, forgiveness and deference for Subject: Re: SUBWANALAI GOES TO WAR! Message: Subject: KANDEH YUMKELLA - NPRC minister Message: Subject: Re: KANDEH YUMKELLA - NPRC minister Message: Subject: Re: KANDEH YUMKELLA - NPRC minister Message: Subject: Re: KANDEH YUMKELLA - NPRC minister Message: Subject: Re: KANDEH YUMKELLA - NPRC minister Message: To give you an insight of how the coup was planned and administered, please read Ken Josiah's 'TRIAL BY REBELLION '. Stay blessed ! Subject: paul kamara (you are a man of the past0 Message: Subject: Re: paul kamara (you are a man of the past0 Message: Subject: New Era Dawning Message: SLeone leader declares new era dawning on war-wracked nation FREETOWN (AFP) — Sierra Leone's new leader, President Ernest Bai Koroma, on Friday declared that the war-scarred country has turned a page on its bloody past and is headed for economic growth again. "A new era of peace, security stability and social economic progress has come to our country," he said in his first ever address to the nation since taking office three weeks ago. He made the address during the first session of the country's 124-strong parliament in the capital. "Never again shall we turn against each other to spill the precious blood of our brothers, sisters and children as a new dawn has broken on the horizon of our nation, bringing forth a new Sierra Leone where there are no ethnic or regional boundaries," he added. "I am in politics to make a difference," said the leader of the All People's Congress (APC), which had been in opposition but narrowly became the largest parliamentary party in August polls. Koroma went on last month to win closely watched elections seen as a test of whether the former British colony had put the violence of its 1991-2001 civil conflict behind it. The war, funded by blood diamonds and considered one of the most brutal in modern history, left around 120,000 people dead and thousands more mutilated and traumatised. To foster post-conflict reconciliation, Koroma said the recommendations of a truth and reconciliation commission (TRC) created under his predecessor after the war would be applied. The TRC report has gathered dust on the shelves of the former government since it was handed over to ex-president Ahmad Tejan Kabbah on October 5, 2004. "There is a need to put more impetus behind the process of reconciliation and to provide the appropriate mechanism for the spirit of reconciliation to continue to flourish," Koroma stressed. Lawmakers attired in their party colours brightened the atmosphere at the ceremony with both government and opposition legislators clapping lustily and raising clenched fists in support of Koroma's speech. In parliament's forecourt, hundreds of party supporters from the ruling APC, the former governing Sierra Leone People's Party and the opposition People's Movement for Democratic Change, hobnobbed, carrying placards reading "a new dawn is here". Koroma vowed to root out widespread corruption in Sierra Leone, which is rated the world's second poorest nation despite its huge diamond wealth. He said the country's anti-corruption law of 2002 will come under review make the anti-graft task force more effective and independent. Alleged cases of corrupt practices by public servants would be a subject for investigation and prosecution, he said. "The culture of impunity that has taken root in Sierra Leone will be eliminated," he said. To promote transparency and accountability, he ordered that all public officials including himself would be required to declare their assets. He pledged an economic turnaround within the next three years. Koroma warned that in a "new Sierra Leone where we will work harder than before", civil servants should separate their work from politics and will no longer be allowed in political activities under his administration. He pledged that his government will cooperate with international agencies fighting to stamp out the trafficking of arms, drugs and people, in his desire to promote the rule of law. Subject: Re: New Era Dawning Message: Subject: Re: New Era Dawning Message: Reading some of the threads here, it appears many forumites do not understand (or have forgotten) that our horrific civil conflict was a CLASS war, not a tribal war. Youngsters that had lost hope in ever getting their share of our national wealth were manipulated by a mad megalomaniac into turning on their kith and kin. Whether people come from Kabala in the north or Pujehun in the south, the language of poverty and deprivation cuts across all ethnic, religious and gender barriers. This is what made the RUF such an "Equal Opportunity" monster. As I have commented before, govt. machinery in S.Leone needs a COMPLETE makeover; not just a change of personnel. Mr. President, I echo your declaration: "NEVER AGAIN" !!! Subject: SL NEWSPAPER HEADLINES Message: Subject: RESUSCITATE FBC STUDENTS UNION Message: As we all know, S/L government officials are very complacent over students' plights and only students themselves can make the necessary moves to ensure that even their allowances are paid. I remembered when we have to go to Bambay's office before we can get our "SLGs" paid. Why Bambay, a cop? Because the then Momoh government was as sick as a demented chicken. We keep seeing the same crap year after year. Please help the cause of Sierra Leonean students by debating this issue and making calls to University authorities, new MPs, Ministers-to-be, etc. We can not afford to subject our future leaders under such treatment as that will only build nasty sentiments in these kids leading to more problems than we really want to see. Subject: Anxiety Over New Cabinet is Unwarranted Message: Commentary by Alfred Munda SamForay, MSET. It has been fifteen days or so now since Hon. Ernest Bai Koroma was sworn in as the fourth President of the Second Republic. Speculations as to who will serve the President in the Executive Branch are all over the media both domestic as well as international. All last week we were told by those who thought they had inside information on State House affairs that the new cabinet will be announced last Friday. Then again on Monday and neither of these predictions materialized. Meanwhile, the nation’s business is being conducted by ministers from the previous government of President Tejan Kabbah along with their respective Permanent Secretaries and Directors General whose job it is to provide for proper functioning during transition whether from one government to another as in this present case or simply from one minister to another. There is also a new Parliament with its own executives including the Speaker – who is second in the line of succession – his deputy and other members of the legislative leadership. There is a functioning judiciary despite the absence of a new Chief Justice and an Attorney General and Minister of Justice. In short, there is no power vacuum in the country. So undue anxiety over the appointment or announcement of the new cabinet is in the opinion of this observer highly misplaced. No one is dying in Sierra Leone simply because we don’t know who the next Minister of Health is, neither is the country less secure because we don’t have a new Deputy Minister of Defence. The professional army, police and all other national security apparatus appear to be in place. Without being an apologetic for the new government of Ernest Bai Koroma, it is my considered view that the priority of the new government should be to fully consider government policies before the men and women who will be administering and implementing those policies are put in place. Sierra Leone is not acutely in need of new leaders – it is in need of new leadership. In addition to whom the next minister or deputy is going to be, Mr. Koroma and his Transition Team should also focus on what that minister or deputy minister is going to be doing once in office. A case in point is the President’s enthusiasm for sustainable energy for all Sierra Leoneans, not just those few with the money to buy noisy and air polluting private generators. Speaking to the Sierra Leone Institute of Engineers recently, the President spoke of a need to find ways and means to make the nation secure in its domestic energy needs. In particular, he mentioned the very disgraceful statistic on Sierra Leone’s infinitesimal consumption of electrical energy. Those of us in the field of professional engineering know fully well that a country’s development index is measured not on the number of cell phones and private generators in the backyards of a few fortunate citizens, but the number of kilowatt hours consumed per person per year, which the president placed at about 8 compared to Ghana’s 400 or so kilowatt hours per capita. The rest of the world consumes about 1,200 kilowatt-hours of electrical energy per citizen per year. Comparatively, we are not even in the same century or on the same planet as the rest of the global village in terms of energy consumption – hence our chronic and severe poverty and under-development. Although this seems like too much details for the average citizen, this level of defining the national problem is exactly the kind of thinking a leader should have if he or she wants to demand “results and not too many excuses†from his or her subordinates, as Mr. Koroma has been saying lately. It shows to me, any way, and perhaps to the engineers to whom he was speaking that the President has some fundamental grasp of our energy problems. Our children are not going to make it to the world stage if they continue to study on candles and kerosene lamps. We cannot invite industrialists to Sierra Leone to build factories if they have to bring along their own generators. There are plenty of other places in the world to invest their money and create jobs such as China, India and Mexico with functionally educated workforce and plenty of kilowatt-hours of electricity to run their machines and equipment. It should, therefore, be the duty of all Sierra Leoneans – those in government and those in the private sector – to consider ways to put our country on the same playing field as our fellow citizens of the world. Our engineers and other technical experts should busy themselves with matters related to sustainable and renewable alternative energy resources such as wind, solar, wave and geothermal in addition to the never-ending Bumbuna Hydro-electric Project. Sierra Leone happens to be blessed by the Almighty with virtually inexhaustible solar energy, an almost perfect locat1on on the earth’s latitude, a strategic locat1on on the Atlantic Ocean and seven rushing rivers to nourish our land. What more can God do for us? Worrying over who the next Minister of Energy and Power is, will not help us get to where we need to be. Formulating a sound energy policy will. And that should be our collective priority – as well as that of Ernest Bai Koroma and his Transition Team. Subject: OTHER ONLINERS Message: ------------------------------------------------------ Lamina Poyo Continues to Clean House, but is he Serious? - By California Poet. He swore on the gbangbani that he will get all those who took items from the house. Some people who know Lamina Poyo well do not believe a word he said. They would chuckle when the people vouch for the determination of Lamina Poyo. Others point to the group he has created. Those who know people in the group have already started saying that was Lamina Poyo’s first blunder. "If Lamina Poyo really wanted to clean house," Tha Yeabu exclaimed, "he should not have included Rych-hard Kontay Lompa in the team." Tha Mabinty asked, "who is Momoh Kontay? Is he from Lompa?" " No," said Ayodele Palmer, a school leaver who professed to know Momoh Kontay. "He said he is a doctor although no one knows where he got his degree from? He is also said to have worked for Red Cross, Care and ECOWAS but he was sacked from all three organizations." " Alawakubarr," said Tha Mabinty"…aye boy pikin, wetin make den shack am pan woke now?" " Well", Ayodele continued, "my uncle who is a member of the group Lamina Poyo put together, Uncle Ol-you-yone Roving-mammy-coker said Rych-Hard Kontay is a chief crook. My uncle said he got information that Rych-Hard Kontay stole massively from all those organizations that is why he was sacked." " Aye Allah," said Ya Mehna who had been listening attentively, "na den kine tiff man dem ya Lamina Poyo dae put na ihn group for clean dee ose?" She asked in krio. "Oh and it does not end there," said Ayodele, now becoming excited. "Momoh Kontay, another crook in the new group had been taking money from people telling them he would help them get post graduate education in the United States. In actual fact, he would seize their allowances and give them pittance while threatening them he would report them to US immigration if they raised any alarm." Yea Daiima who was standing nearby exclaimed, "Ar Porleh! Salone don don kpata kpata if na den anyampi den dae Lamina Poyo dae habope pan." Ayodele who now had a serious look on his face lowered his voice and asked, "have you heard about Lamina Poyo’s brother Santigie Omole, the one who stole the cables for Bumbuna electricity?" "Yes sir, it is true sir, I swear." "Well tell me more about it," Ayodele who seems to know more about the inner workings of Lamina Poyo’s new house cleared his throat-a sign he was ready to spill. Well, Santigie Omole the younger brother of Lamina Poyo is an architect. But he and his wife export scrap metals for a living since Santigie Omole does badly at architecture. Few months back Santigie Omole was arrested for stealing the copper cables that were meant to complete Bumbuna." "Jesus Christ of Nazareth," exclaimed Rev Max-During Deacon of the Anglican Church who also became interested in the conversation. "Such a person should perish in jail. How can he steal the cables that were meant to satisfy all of us?" "Well, by Uncle Ol-you-yone Roving-Mammy-Coker said he thinks it was all part of sabotage and Lamina Poyo knows that his brother was stealing the cables." "Well, now that his brother is the leader of the house on Fort Thornton what is he going to do?" Deacon asked. "Well," exclaimed Ayodele, "this is where we will know whether Lamina Poyo is serious about his new occupation." " How so," asked the deacon? "Lamina Poyo keeps talking about zero tolerance for corruption. People say if he is really serious, he should prosecute his brother first because people see him as a common thief." "Well, my son," said the deacon, "I also heard that Alpha Kafiri, Lamina Poyo’s crooked yeliba saying they inherited an emergency situation to electrify the house." "Well sir," said Ayodele, "that Kafiri man is himself a liar and a thief." "Why?" said Mr. Wilkinson. " He is the same man who squandered the money meant for people traveling to Mecca to perform their religious rites," Ayodele blurted out. "Are you telling me this man who did that terrible thing to those people going to Mecca is the one speaking for Lamina Poyo?" Mr Wilkinson exclaimed. "Yes sir." "God save Salone," said the deacon, "as I do not think Lamina Poyo is serious. Sontem ee feel say na poyo bar ee don boss pan…tchiiioooooooooooo." Tha Mabinty said in disgust sucking her teeth."Na so back a yeri say den idle wan dem wae ee put na da group wae ee call transistor, me nor know dee name sef, all tem dem dae ride bik bik lorry dem en drink beer." "Who in Jesus’ name pays them," said Mr Wilkinson?" Were they part of the budget?" " I heard Alpha Kafiri say that Lamina Poyo is personally paying them." "What?" Mr Wilkinson asked. "Where did Lamina Poyo get all that money from? Did he buy all the big jeeps they are riding in? Does he pay for the petrol they use? This Lamina Poyo chap is really not serious." Subject: Sierra Leone: Citizens Show Solidarity With Palestinians Message: 5 October 2007 Freetown Sierra Leoneans from all walks of life on October 2 converged in Freetown to manifest their solidarity with the Palistenian people in their sruggle for freedom. The event which is known as International Quds Day, was declared by the late Ayatollah Khomeini, founder of the Islamic Revolution in Iran, to invoke world wide support for the Palestinian struggle. Since then, it has been observed in many parts of the world including Sierra Leone. The event which is known as International Quds Day, was declared by the late Ayatollah Khomeini, founder of the Islamic Revolution in Iran, to invoke world wide support for the Palestinian struggle. Since then, it has been observed in many parts of the world including Sierra Leone. Quds is believed to be the original name of Palestine. Muslims believe that it was the first Qibla ( the direction to Muslims turn during prayer) founded by Abraham. It was also there that Holy Prophet Muhammad ascended to heaven during hisProphethood. Each year, Quds Day is celebrated on the last Friday of the Holy month of Ramadan. This year, the event falls on October 5 but muslims met on the previous day in the capital Freetown to share ideas on the issue. In Sierra Leone, this year, it attracted several dignitaries. The Chief Imam of the Central Mosque in the capital Freetown Sheikh Ahmad Tejan Sillah speaking on Palistenian issue pointed out the need for the imperial powers to show justice, which he said must be "realistic". He added: "Muslims should not be silent on Reza Gezel Sofal said, "The Palestinian problem is not a poblem of Jews and Palestinians but a problem of Zionism and oppression". He said eventhough there were many Palestinians who were muslims and some were Christians, "the issue is not of being Muslim or Christian but an issue of justice to an oppressed nation".. Another speaker Dr. Leopold Foullah, head of the Department of Theology and Philosophy at Fourah Bay College in Freetwon said the issue has social, political and nationalistic connotations. "All nations should pray for peace in the region" , he said. He underscored the fact that pace was paramount for the stability of the global community. Mr. A. R. Fofana of the Sierra Leone -Iran Friendship Society said, 'Imam Khomeini's declaration of Quds Day was with the vision that one day Palestine shall be free", adding that "today thousands of Palestinians are homeless in their own country". According to him, positive ways should be found to liberate the Palestinians. The ambassador of the Islamic Republic of Iran to Sierra Leone H.E. Saheed Tahaghoghi Merizi said Quds( Palestine) was the first Qibla (direction where Muslims turn during prayer) of Islam. "We should cry fo Palestine as Imam Khomeini did", he said. He called for a referrendum involving all Muslims and Christians in Palestine to determine the country's destiny. "I call upon all Muslims to converge in mosques to pray and show solidarity with the oppressed people of Palestine", he said. Sheikh Gibril Kamara urged all muslims to pray for the total liberation of Palestine. A journalist John Momoh of the New Vision newspaper said, "The issue of Palestine is an issue of justice to an oppressed people". Alpha Jalloh called for the implementation of UN resolutions that had been passed years ago. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: Sierra Leone: Students Protest High Fees And Deplorable Cond Message: 5 October 2007 Students of Fourah Bay College have protested the high fees and deplorable conditions in the college. A group in the College called "The Liberals' on behalf of their colleagues has protested to the Deputy Vice Chancellor of the University of Sierra Leone Professor Redwood Sawyer. Students unionism was banned last year which has incapacitated the students in having proper and effective means of channeling their grievances and articulating their interests. This apparently caused The Liberals to take the issue on behalf of their colleagues. The students have called for a review of registration fees, tuition fees, computer fees, cost of ID cards and fees they pay for what is called "faculty development, which the students say is not used for any feasible project. All the fees and charges have been increased which has made the situation in the college unbearable. "Furthermore, the payment of compulsory computer fees as condition for resgistration has also ignited attention especially when the same issue of computer fees sparked up a serious row between the administration and the students last semester", says Alhaji Abu Komeh of The Liberals . In their protest letter to the administration the students have called on the college administration to refund fees paid by students who are on government bursaries.. They also point at the inadequacies characterising the College. "Over the years, students have been paying willingly for development, but it is crystal clear that there are no monuments to show that we have been getting its worth especially in the past three years", they state in their protest letter. They also point out that for the past two academic years, the administration has made over 300% increase in accommodation charges. "We cannot overemphasise the deplorable condition of dormitories, inadequate water supply and poor sanitory conditions. Sudying at night is difficult as lack of electricity continues to make FBC the darkest college on earth and the most lucrative for candle sales". The students have called for an indisriminate accommodation to the hostels and for refunds of fees paid by students who were offered bursaries but did not get accommodation. The students say the refunds have accumilated over the past couple of years. The students beleive that the continued deterioration of the College was as a result of the banning of the students union a year ago.. Negotiations took place and there were promises of allowing the resumption of of union activities but it never materialised. "We are hopeful that the administration will not flout its own side of the agreemnt to conduct the student union election after registration..." The issues raised have created tension in the College as students have returned from holidays but have been faced with many constraints. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: J J BLOOD for SLPP Leadership run into 2012 - YEAH! Message: Lets push JJ Blood for the party leadership running up to the 2012 elections. The man is charismatic, successfully transformed the party and restored its glory. What else could he have done to earn the top position of the party? It was Berewa and Pa Kabba's fault that we abandoned the election rigging strategy. JJ Blood for SLPP 2012. Oh Yeah!! Subject: Re: J J BLOOD for SLPP Leadership run into 2012 - YEAH! Message: Subject: Re: J J BLOOD for SLPP Leadership run into 2012 - YEAH! Message: Subject: Re: J J BLOOD for SLPP Leadership run into 2012 - YEAH! Message: Please advise JJ Blood to go learn about running his own affairs before attempting to be in the shoes of the likes of His excellencey Dr. kandeh Yumkella. no offe4nce to you brother JJ Blood, you ran a failed endeavour. relax and see how the next man does things to suit the people and the party interests. Subject: Re: J J BLOOD for SLPP Leadership run into 2012 - YEAH! Message: Subject: Re: J J BLOOD for SLPP Leadership run into 2012 - YEAH! Message: Subject: Re: J J BLOOD for SLPP Leadership run into 2012 - YEAH! Message: Subject: Re: J J BLOOD for SLPP Leadership run into 2012 - YEAH! Message: Subject: PMDC IS THE ALTERNATIVE TO SLPP: Join Now Message: Everything about that country need CHANGE. What is a better future for Salone that does not need CHANGE? Give Salone a CHANGED future. PMDC was created with a name and an objecture for a future for CHANGE. You have all seen what it did in this election to fulfill that objective. It has changed the REGIONAL and TRIBAL alliances as it affects our national politics. Let us joing only the party or parties that espouce CHANGE and avoid the ones with intent on maintaining the status quo. JOIN PMDC TODAY AS THE LEADING PARTY FOR CHANGE Subject: Re: PMDC IS THE ALTERNATIVE TO SLPP: Join Now Message: Subject: Re: PMDC IS THE ALTERNATIVE TO SLPP: Join Now Message: Subject: Re: PMDC IS THE ALTERNATIVE TO SLPP: Join Now Message: Subject: Re: PMDC IS THE ALTERNATIVE TO SLPP: Join Now Message: Subject: Re: PMDC IS THE ALTERNATIVE TO SLPP: Join Now Message: Subject: Re: PMDC IS THE ALTERNATIVE TO SLPP: Join Now Message: Subject: Re: PMDC IS THE ALTERNATIVE TO SLPP: Join Now Message: Most do not know how to come back to the SLPP fold. Brothers and sisters of the PMDC, you are welcome to reapply for membership in the SLPP, it is your right. if accepted, you are back in the family. Subject: Re: PMDC IS THE ALTERNATIVE TO SLPP: Join Now Message: Subject: Re: PMDC IS THE ALTERNATIVE TO SLPP: Join Now Message: Subject: Re: PMDC IS THE ALTERNATIVE TO SLPP: Join Now Message: Subject: Re: PMDC IS THE ALTERNATIVE TO SLPP: Join Now Message: PMDC aint going anywhere. The people of ther south will come back to their senses and know SLPP is their home. If it were not for the mismanagement of the runoff by the cowardly and incompetent Christiana Thorpe , Berewa should be President. Berewa was robbed by the arbitary cancellation of votes. Kabba and Berewa were armtwisted in to accepting the results by an international coomittee that was not interested in spending additional funds on an elections for a black country. SLPP should have continued the lawsuit. Look Margai will split with APC within two years. Where is going to go then. Campaign in Bombali and Tonkolili. Stop dreaming brother. PMDC is done from the start. 10 Subject: Re: PMDC IS THE ALTERNATIVE TO SLPP: Join Now Message: Margai would step down and give someone else the baton of perty leadership, he can always stay the god father and stateman.. PMDC so far just means It is his bona fide property and you all are just serfs.. Subject: THE PEOPLES PRESIDENT Message: Subject: Re: THE PEOPLES PRESIDENT Message: Salone money nor go sweet nar dem mouths. Subject: MR. President, do not consider AMNESTY for................. Message: Amnesty is the general pardon from government for law breaking. We are trying to build a democracy in Sierra Leone; the fundamental pillar of democracy is adherence to the rule of law. What a travesty if the current regime is just afraid to confront reality in the fictitious name of UNITY. Leadership is not a popularity contest; “I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure: which is: Try to please everybody”. Mr. President, history will not be kind to you if you entertain amnesty in any of its manifestations. Subject: Re: MR. President, do not consider AMNESTY for................. Message: Subject: Ee Hiba Somebody Message:
Your inquiry below was forwarded to me the other day while I was traveling in SL.
"From: "Cornelius"
To: leonenet@listproc.umbc.edu
Subject: J.E.Leigh Esq. do you agree that arrogance is alive and we ll, certainly well-meaning - wants to be president and announces to God and His creation : "none of the announ ced or unannounced candidate is a qualified as I am for th e position."
Date: Sat, 28 May 2005 10:06:21 -0700
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J.E.Leigh Esq. do you agree that arrogance is alive and well, certainly well-meaning - wants to be president and announces to God and His creation : “none of the announced or unannounced candidate is a qualified as I am for the position.”
AS a strong supporter of Mr. Charles Margai I could disprove your exaggerated self appraisal by quoting the full length two part interview that you gave to Executive Intelligence Review , whilst the civil war was at it's highest point. ( It is that period of your life activities that exonerate you in your own eyes and raise you higher than Chief Hinga Norman and all those who lost their lives,?)".
"Please answer this question Mr. John Ernest Leigh - I know all about you - and personally , I think you would be a good running mate or something in that region. But only the SLPP , and the people can decide.
Question is (and it's only one question):"
Following your above request, I have pleasure in answering in chronological sequence, the question(s) you’ve posed to me below:
Question 1. Have you ever heard of the word humility?
Answer: Yes.
Q 2. What does it mean to you?
A 2: Modesty. Meekness. Unassuming.
Q 3. Are you the wisest and most knowledgeable person in the SLPP?
A 3. No.
Q 4. Do you have grassroots support and financing from grassroots members? ( Anyone can get a great infusion of cash from the far-East!)
A 4. (i) Yes. (ii) Not yet.
Q 5. How qualified are you?
A 5. Highly qualified and qualified way above each and every announced and unannounced candidate for the SLPP Leader position in succession to President Kabbah.
Q 6. What are these qualifications?
A 6. 40-plus years of professional business experience in Sierra Leone, USA, UK, Nigeria and Asia, both civil service, management and entrepreneurship. Titles include: HM Customs Officer-Clinetown; International Enterprise Fellow –Chase Manhattan Bank; Senior Research Economist -Bank of Sierra Leone; Auditor-Continental Can Company; Senior Financial Analyst- Xerox Corporation; Managing Director-African Universities Press; Chairman, African Universities Press; Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer- Advertising Corporation of America.
Successfully Conducted Profitable Business in all five Continents.
Attorney-At Law, Commonwealth of Massachusetts and State of New York
SL Ambassador to the US & High Commissioner to Canada
Belonged only to the SLPP. Never switched sides and joined any other party. Never served Siaka Stevens, Momoh, NPRC, AFRC, etc. I am one of the most loyal and generous SLPPers. Able defender of the SLPP. Tireless and creative Party worker.
BS (Economics); Master of Business Administration (Banking & Finance); Juris Doctor
Q 7. When did you become thus qualified - could you give us the date and time?
A 7. BS (’64); MBA ’66, JD ’92. Customs –1958; Chase-1966/67; Bank of SL-1967/68; Continental Can Co.-1967-72; Xerox-1972-75; AUP-1975-84; ACA-1984-87. Attorney-1992-present. SL Ambassador/HC-1996-2002.
Q 8. Can anyone de deemed as qualified as you to lead the nation?
A 8. Yes
Q 9. Could you please tell us what makes the other Sierra Leoneans within the SLPP known and unknown, announced and unannounced who are less qualified than you?
A 9. Each lacks in-depth, world class management experience; multinational commercial transactions' experience, international negotiating skills; training or work experience in economics, accounting, auditing, finance, banking, management and international affairs. Each has little or zero grounding in genuine industrial democratic practices and lifestyles.
None is quite as generous to the Party as I am. I spent $45,000 of my hard-earned money during 1995/96 to help elect the SLPP in 1996. I spent $150,000 of my money to negate the AFRC/RUF coup and bring back the SLPP Government of President Tejan Kabbah and the SLPP-led government from exile in Conakry. Each announced/unannounced candidate has moved from Party to Party in search of personal advantage/benefits. I have NEVER done any such a thing.
Each is of questionable integrity. One promoted himself from captain to brigadier in two years. His colleagues executed 28 fellow Sierra Leoneans in cold blood with no consequences to the culprits, nor compensation (or even an apology) to the survivors, or even an inquiry, etc.
One is a Party new comer commonly known an 'money eater'. Another organized a mob to burn Party offices in Kenema.
Some are loyal to specific individuals in order to gain favors. My loyalty is to the Party itself for purely altruistic reasons.
One is a notorious negotiator who drafted the lopsided oil agreement with TGS-Nopec as well as the Special Court Act that violated our constitution as well as the Lome Agreement. The other was a cabinet member who voted to accept the agreement and awarded government contracts to his wife. On the other hand, I presented my objection (backed by a critical analysis) in writing to the said oil agreement and committed no financial transgression while in public service. Some are womanisers. I am not.
My record of exemplary leadership during the days of the coupligans is unmarched anywhere in Africa. I have no racial or tribal bias. I call a spade a spade.
CONCLUSION
Having answered your questions above, please permit me to let you know that when Mr. Charles F. Margai - the man you are supporting – was taking his Common Entrance examination, I was taking my School Certificate exams. I then went on to gain three GCE A Levels - Economics, Economic History and British Constitution - as a private candidate. I accomplished this while working as a fulltime Customs Officer at Clinetown.
For your information, the man you support was a classmate of my younger half-brother at CKC in Bo. You must have read about his academic record in one of our local newspapers.
My mother is a Haja from Bo. My father was a Weslyan Methodist from Freetown, Ward One - i.e. 14 Wilberforce Street. I was born in Bo and raised in Freetown. I was schooled in Freetown, Clinetown, Yonibana (Tonkolili District), New York & Boston.
I now ask you one simple question: On what is your support for Mr. Margai based?
I hope you will let me know in due course whether my background compares favorably with the announced and unannounced candidates for the leadership of SLPP now that you have had the opportunity to know me a little bit better.
Thank you for your cooperation.
Sincerely,
JL
Dear Mr. Hamelberg:
Many, many thanks for your kind response. Please feel free to post our correspondence as you wish in the internet and please note that I very much appreciate your seeking my prior consent.
I am in the newspapers merely because it concerns an impending presidential election of great interest to Sierra Leoneans worlwide and to our donor community as well. The government in our country has a powerful hold on and role in our country and its conduct has the decisive power to usher in another round of horrendous violence or lead us all to peace, posperity and international respect. Given the power of the presidency in our country, therefore, public interest in potential presidential candidates and what they stand for is at an all-time high.
It is thus necessary for potential candidates to access the media so they may get their message to our people. Such is a necessity in any democratic environment.
After touring the country again in May, I can tell you that grinding poverty is widespread and there is little hope that the average war victim survivor can make it without compensation from those who orchestrated the war against our people. People are looking to improve their lives for they sufferred terribly. Under such circumstances, it is my view that our leaders should not be seen to be socializing with Libya which trained Foday Sankoh, Sam Bockerie, Charles taylor, Blaise Campoare and a host of violent people who laid waste large parts of our country and thus increased the povery and suffering of our people.
Ghadaffi knows I opposed his role in West Africa. He complained to President Kabbah about my work when I was in Washington. In distinguishing myself from the Kabbah Administration, articulating my views on how to deal with Ghadaffi is paramount.
By the way, our newspapers are not always accurate. I did not notice any of the reporters present at my May 25 press briefing taking notes in shorthand. Nor did I see tape recorders except for Sky Radio and 98.1. So, the quotation ascribed to me re Ghadiffi is not exactly how I had put it.
As for my use of the word "best" in describing my leadership quality in comparison to the quality of the competition, I was been very truthful as I set forth yesterday in my answers to your questions. As you yourself has stated it is nothing more than 'telling it as it is'. And it is proper that those involved make such a distinction clear to the public. SL is, unfortunately, not as sophisticated as Sweden, probably the No 1 country in the UN Human Development Index. SL, on the other hand, has been in last place seven years in a row.
Finally, please let me state that I know when to blow my horn and when to act with utter humility. Those who truly know me can attest that I am not arrogant at all. If even thing, I am, self-effacing and playful to the core. But when it comes to official business, it is important to me to make clear where I stand on any relevant issue.
Not every one will agree with the choices I make or the statements I utter, but I am confident that whatever I do or say, I am able to furnish valid defences that will pass rationality test anywhere.
Once again, I thank you for your kind remarks and delighted to be in communication with someone of your background and standards. Hopefully, we will continue to communicate and do whatever each can to further our national interests.
Thanks once again.
Sincerely,
John Leigh
corneliushamelberg@bredband.net wrote:
Mr Leigh,
I was also irritated about the manner in which you spoke about Muammar al Qadhafi, although I had no intention of posting it to the net. I understand that you were very angry and others have expressed similar or stronger sentiments. One of my best friends is Jewish and was born in Libya- their properties were seized and he cries about much worse and unmentionable treatment like MR al Qadhafi constructing a major highway that cut right across the Jewish cemetery which means that even the Jewish dead in Libya could find no rest – yet he did not start screaming about it in the Newspaper……
Here is a brief descr1ption of it:
"Jantelagen"is a term often used. It means that you should never think that you are better than anyone else. To be understated is important. What Swedes consider bragging would in many countries only be to tell it like it is.
If someone compliments you on a job well done or your new haircut a Swede rarely responds with "thank you". Instead we explain how easy it was and how anyone could have done it or that the haircut really doesn't look very good or that at least it wasn't expensive. “
Now this was a confidential and private response and I respect it as such.
Still if you have no objection and if you do not think that it will in any way harm or hinder your advancement , should I feel free to forward it to the Forum.
Your NO I will regard as a command a in the same spirit as I would your YES.
I wish you well and that you campaign vigorously as you obviously feel a calling to redeem our nation from its very precarious situation.
Sincerely Yours,
Cornelius.
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> Date: 2005/05/31 ti PM 10:02:48 GMT+02:00
> To: "Mr. Cornelius Hamelberg"
> Ämne: RE: John Leigh's Superior Leadership Qualifications
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> Dear Mr. Hamelberg:
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> Your inquiry below was forwarded to me the other day while I was traveling in SL.
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> J.E.Leigh Esq. do you agree that arrogance is alive and we ll, certainly well-meaning - wants to be president and announces to God and His creation : "none of the announ ced or unannounced candidate is a qualified as I am for th e position."
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> J.E.Leigh Esq. do you agree that arrogance is alive and well, certainly well-meaning - wants to be president and announces to God and His creation : ?none of the announced or unannounced candidate is a qualified as I am for the position.?
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> AS a strong supporter of Mr. Charles Margai I could disprove your exaggerated self appraisal by quoting the full length two part interview that you gave to Executive Intelligence Review , whilst the civil war was at it's highest point. ( It is that period of your life activities that exonerate you in your own eyes and raise you higher than Chief Hinga Norman and all those who lost their lives,?)".
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> "Please answer this question Mr. John Ernest Leigh - I know all about you - and personally , I think you would be a good running mate or something in that region. But only the SLPP , and the people can decide.
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> Question is (and it's only one question):"
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> Following your above request, I have pleasure in answering in chronological sequence, the question(s) you?ve posed to me below:
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> Question 1. Have you ever heard of the word humility?
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> Answer: Yes.
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> Q 2. What does it mean to you?
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> A 2: Modesty. Meekness. Unassuming.
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> Q 3. Are you the wisest and most knowledgeable person in the SLPP?
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> A 3. No.
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> Q 4. Do you have grassroots support and financing from grassroots members? ( Anyone can get a great infusion of cash from the far-East!)
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> A 4. (i) Yes. (ii) Not yet.
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> Q 5. How qualified are you?
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> A 5. Highly qualified and qualified way above each and every announced and unannounced candidate for the SLPP Leader position in succession to President Kabbah.
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> Q 6. What are these qualifications?
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> A 6. 40-plus years of professional business experience in Sierra Leone, USA, UK, Nigeria and Asia, both civil service, management and entrepreneurship. Titles include: HM Customs Officer-Clinetown; International Enterprise Fellow ?Chase Manhattan Bank; Senior Research Economist -Bank of Sierra Leone; Auditor-Continental Can Company; Senior Financial Analyst- Xerox Corporation; Managing Director-African Universities Press; Chairman, African Universities Press; Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer- Advertising Corporation of America.
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> Successfully Conducted Profitable Business in all five Continents.
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> Attorney-At Law, Commonwealth of Massachusetts and State of New York
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> SL Ambassador to the US & High Commissioner to Canada
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> Belonged only to the SLPP. Never switched sides and joined any other party. Never served Siaka Stevens, Momoh, NPRC, AFRC, etc. I am one of the most loyal and generous SLPPers. Able defender of the SLPP. Tireless and creative Party worker.
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> BS (Economics); Master of Business Administration (Banking & Finance); Juris Doctor
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> Q 7. When did you become thus qualified - could you give us the date and time?
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> A 7. BS (?64); MBA ?66, JD ?92. Customs ?1958; Chase-1966/67; Bank of SL-1967/68; Continental Can Co.-1967-72; Xerox-1972-75; AUP-1975-84; ACA-1984-87. Attorney-1992-present. SL Ambassador/HC-1996-2002.
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> Q 8. Can anyone de deemed as qualified as you to lead the nation?
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> A 8. Yes
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> Q 9. Could you please tell us what makes the other Sierra Leoneans within the SLPP known and unknown, announced and unannounced who are less qualified than you?
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> A 9. Each lacks in-depth, world class management experience; multinational commercial transactions' experience, international negotiating skills; training or work experience in economics, accounting, auditing, finance, banking, management and international affairs. Each has little or zero grounding in genuine industrial democratic practices and lifestyles.
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> None is quite as generous to the Party as I am. I spent $45,000 of my hard-earned money during 1995/96 to help elect the SLPP in 1996. I spent $150,000 of my money to negate the AFRC/RUF coup and bring back the SLPP Government of President Tejan Kabbah and the SLPP-led government from exile in Conakry. Each announced/unannounced candidate has moved from Party to Party in search of personal advantage/benefits. I have NEVER done any such a thing.
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> Each is of questionable integrity. One promoted himself from captain to brigadier in two years. His colleagues executed 28 fellow Sierra Leoneans in cold blood with no consequences to the culprits, nor compensation (or even an apology) to the survivors, or even an inquiry, etc.
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> One is a Party new comer commonly known an 'money eater'. Another organized a mob to burn Party offices in Kenema.
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> Some are loyal to specific individuals in order to gain favors. My loyalty is to the Party itself for purely altruistic reasons.
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> One is a notorious negotiator who drafted the lopsided oil agreement with TGS-Nopec as well as the Special Court Act that violated our constitution as well as the Lome Agreement. The other was a cabinet member who voted to accept the agreement and awarded government contracts to his wife. On the other hand, I presented my objection (backed by a critical analysis) in writing to the said oil agreement and committed no financial transgression while in public service. Some are womanisers. I am not.
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> My record of exemplary leadership during the days of the coupligans is unmarched anywhere in Africa. I have no racial or tribal bias. I call a spade a spade.
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> CONCLUSION
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> Having answered your questions above, please permit me to let you know that when Mr. Charles F. Margai - the man you are supporting ? was taking his Common Entrance examination, I was taking my School Certificate exams. I then went on to gain three GCE A Levels - Economics, Economic History and British Constitution - as a private candidate. I accomplished this while working as a fulltime Customs Officer at Clinetown.
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> For your information, the man you support was a classmate of my younger half-brother at CKC in Bo. You must have read about his academic record in one of our local newspapers.
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> My mother is a Haja from Bo. My father was a Weslyan Methodist from Freetown, Ward One - i.e. 14 Wilberforce Street. I was born in Bo and raised in Freetown. I was schooled in Freetown, Clinetown, Yonibana (Tonkolili District), New York & Boston.
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> I now ask you one simple question: On what is your support for Mr. Margai based?
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> I hope you will let me know in due course whether my background compares favorably with the announced and unannounced candidates for the leadership of SLPP now that you have had the opportunity to know me a little bit better.
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> Thank you for your cooperation.
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> Sincerely,
> JL
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>
From: Amadu Kabbah
To: All
Date Posted: 00:03:17 10/07/07 ()
Email Address: amadutkabbah@yahoo.com
Entered From: c-71-197-97-158.hsd1.ca.comcast.net at 71.197.97.158
None is quite as generous to the Party as I am. I spent $45,000 of my hard-earned money during 1995/96 to help elect the SLPP in 1996. I spent $150,000 of my money to negate the AFRC/RUF coup and bring back the SLPP Government of President Tejan Kabbah and the SLPP-led government from exile in Conakry. Each announced/unannounced candidate has moved from Party to Party in search of personal advantage/benefits. I have NEVER done any such a thing.
From: David Kamara
To: All
Date Posted: 20:09:17 10/06/07 ()
Email Address: saloneloudmouth@yahoo.com
Entered From: cpe00195b4bf214-cm001a667071fe.cpe.net.cable.rogers.com at 99.227.232.7
Investigate
IPC travel of how the licence got renewed for thier chopper that took friendly visitors down?
Sama Monde - wasnt he refused visa by the US embassy and told not to travel to the US as he is in their corrupt officials list?
Ade Thomas: All those cases of SLPP that was given judgement by him due to "nod" from above.
Kefela: SLRA, why and how come he was giving ads in the newspaper wishing Kabbah and Berewa for Pray day and Christmas to make sure no one gets into the all bumpy and rough SLRA
JD Rogers: Where is the capital deposit of all the foreign banks in the country, we have atleast 5 of them in last 4 years.
John Karimu: Why this year the NRA has fallen behind more than 50% in their collection, where did all the funds go?
Prisons: Check every single contract awarded to all those lebanese
From: mohamed barigue
To: All
Date Posted: 19:55:05 10/06/07 ()
Email Address: mohamedbarigue@yahoo.fr
Entered From: c-69-143-225-68.hsd1.md.comcast.net at 69.143.225.68
see the link
From: David Kamara
To: All
Date Posted: 19:08:35 10/06/07 ()
Email Address: saloneloudmouth@yahoo.com
Entered From: cpe00195b4bf214-cm001a667071fe.cpe.net.cable.rogers.com at 99.227.232.7
Now that Sidibay is confirmed to be a SLPP Strongman and as the police have confirmed that he was found with a gun and that too has fired shots which even IMATT confirms, is there a need to further link the whoreness times and SLPP and all their motives to create chaos and confusion. No wonder the Dr. has gone on a vacation, may be putting all those dirty heads together to find new ways to slang our VP. Layoff lady, we shall not be spectators .....
From: Amadu Kabbah
To: All
Date Posted: 23:17:27 10/06/07 ()
Email Address: amadutkabbah@yahoo.com
Entered From: c-71-197-97-158.hsd1.ca.comcast.net at 71.197.97.158
No wonder the Dr. has gone on a vacation, may be putting all those dirty heads together to find new ways to slang our VP. Layoff lady, we shall not be spectators .....
From: Erica Adams
To: All
Date Posted: 19:38:08 10/06/07 ()
Email Address: ericamonique82@hotmail.com
Entered From: adsl-074-185-005-235.sip.clt.bellsouth.net at 74.185.5.235
The story was reported as if his status as a businessman somehow excluded him from the rule of law. Do you even need the VP to order an arrest for this kind of offense? Also, we don't know anything about his background. Was this his first offense ever? If not, that would have a lot to do with why there was a delay in offering bail. Not to mention, firing a gun in the midst of a crowd is just plain stupid. Was his intention to intimidate? It looks like that plan back fired since according to even AT there were eyewitnesses.
From: Med
To: All
Date Posted: 19:27:04 10/06/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 82.114.66.82
This guy of a business man, like most crooked business men and women, is a criminal without foresight and I am also compelled to believe that his shrewd business associates and dealings might have heftily contributed to the economic catastrophe in our country. He should be further investigated, whilst on trial.
From: kekuda
To: All
Date Posted: 14:44:52 10/06/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: ppp-69-218-211-235.dsl.wotnoh.ameritech.net at 69.218.211.235
My Dia Moda,
How are you? I hope you in the good kondishon of healt and hope efriting is fine in the fillage.
Mama I know oyibo sef talk am sey mother knows best but this wife wey you pick for me no good o!
I know sey you don spend plenty money on dowry but she no act reach for wetin we pay for am.
Effa since she enta house na so so wahala and complain. She reach here finish and her goat begin
follow dog waka. First ting she wan do be say make I find am oyibo name because none of her friends
dey bear Tawakalitu or sontin like dat.
The akata wife wey my friend marry to get Iwe Ilu don dey influence her tinking.
Nowadays if I tell Tawa to press my singlet she go tell me to take my mouth touch am for yansh....me
wey don dey here long time sef no sabi wetin dat one mean and if na dat kin play my friend dey play
wit im wife na im palava be dat but me I no go copy dat kin ting.
Dem do small party for my job and as the proud son of my fada I wear dat Kembe with dog ear-ed cap
wey you send me go. And my wife begin complain of how I no get shame dey wear outfit wey im
trouser no cover knee well well go bankwet!
Eniwe as she see the look for my face she see sey I no dey gree shenj am and she sef come go
shenj and you for see wetin she wear!
My moda na the same Tawa wey you write me sey dem take masquerade
escort am enta plane be this?
Agument begin afta dat becos the ting wey she sef wear no efen reach knee
talkless to cover am!
Fodamore, she no sabi cook! Why dem no send am go Iya Sule buka make she get small
training before dem send am come?
Mama when she stir Amala the lumps wey dey inside am big pass Joe Lasisi fist!
And her stew nko? ha! E get sontin here wey dem dey call oodus-of-noodus
(take style rezembu pepper soup small but E no get maggi or salt) with water wey
look like dem juss take am wash hand after chop and na so her stew dey look and
taste..and if I no chop am she go vex me! If no be sey I dey use palmwine push am through my troat I for dey starve.
How pesin go take Eba chop stew wey dey flow go elbow?
Naija food she neffa sabi make finish and now Tawa don dey try cook oyibo food ..na s
o my wife go tanda for kitchen dey look inside book before she troway sontin for pot!
The other day he come carry sontin put for my front talk
sey na salad...who go follo am chop dat one? Emi ko!
Na only goat me I sabi sey dey chop cold leaf....for man like me wey dey proud
sey aniting wey people for Lagos sef dey take two or three different pieces of
metal chop me I fit use one hand do am you know sey this one don pass
me...her time don reach O!
Moreofa...she no dey siddon for house for efening again sha! Na so her
akata fren go come carry am commot for house waka go..so for two days I follo dem.
One day like this I follo dem enta one building wey inside one glass room dem
line up and all of dem come dey jump up and down for notin! The place dey
one kind funny sef...dem bicycle get pedal but if you use am the ting no dey comot for the same spot!
The nex time I follo dem na anoda surprise I get......I no sabi wetin I do this
akata woman wey wan come turn my wife into AJEBOTA finish O!
Regular shoe no do am again na the one wey get tire underneath she come
dey take waka for the place! I no know how dem fit dey do am sef...I try am
afta dem comot and na so so yansh man pikin dey take nak for ground.
She efen come get odasiti to tell me sey ma agemates dey chop iron ....sey me I no get any yams for leg.
Mama me I no know O...but I feel like sey make I return am. I no sabi wetin
she dey take soup money buy as the kin food she dey chop no show for im bodi.
The same Tawa wey we dey call 'Samba' for fillage come dey look like sey
I dey suffer am...her trademark extra large yansh don run enta finish O!
I suspect dat place wey she dey go jump but I no wan make she know sey
I follo am....her neck now big pass ostrich own and if I say make she follo
me chop pounded yam with assorted meat take pammy wash am down like
we dey do for fillage she go begin complain sey fat dey inside! chei!!!!
For my own house I no fit light my pipe inside as she don carry 'No Smoking' sign put for parlor!
Tawa wey no read pass primary two don dey blow the kin englis wey
I no dey understand wetin she dey talk and she no dey practice
with the sewing machine wey I buy am again ...how she go get job like she get for Naija for here?
Mama abeg gif me adfice as this one don tire me.....if to sey na Asake
I carry come America E no go be like this..Asake no go shenj and she dey hear
word from ma mouff....abeg reply in time before I commit O...
Na me, your son
Kasali.
Submitted by Manny Osifo
From: BRA ENVIABLE
To: All
Date Posted: 19:34:30 10/06/07 ()
Email Address:
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Lord ar dae dae!
This piece is immeassurably interesting. Nigeria's version of Krio is really interesting. Every sentence in this piece is limitlessly funny.
Look at the quoted sentences below, for example. They made me laugh so hard I had to consciously restrain myself. Such comical postings are surely necessary to help folks decompress after a grueling day. I sincerely thank the person that culled and posted this interesting piece.
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"o my wife go tanda for kitchen dey look inside book before she troway sontin for pot!
The other day he come carry sontin put for my front talk
sey na salad...who go follo am chop dat one? Emi ko!
Na only goat me I sabi sey dey chop cold leaf..."
From: Cornelius Hamelberg
To: All
Date Posted: 19:48:34 10/06/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: c-088472d5.01-32-73746f42.cust.bredbandsbolaget.se at 213.114.132.8
Yes indeed very much in the Nigerian Comic tradition plentifully available on the some 100 radio stations across the Federation, on TV and on endless thousands of soap opera videos.... Amos Tutuola’s “The Palm Wine Drinkard” was only the beginning...when are we going to have some respect for the creative energies that lay dormant and relatively unexplored in the Krio language?
Everybody, almost everybody (except me) is competing to be King of Sierra Leone Literature (poetry, prose, raised, drama, song, lyric rap in English..... then there are the occasional Emersons...
From: Ibrahim Babangida
To: All
Date Posted: 13:49:51 10/06/07 ()
Email Address:
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Did I hear that John Mannah has a PHD? I read where he angrily told some one on the SLPP forum that their SLPP site discusses issue like intellectuals, while Cocorioko has people with very little education. But guess what! Every posting from John Mannah do not look like it came from a PHD holder. He THINKS and WRITES like a high school drop out. Shame on John Mannah.
From: Sam
To: All
Date Posted: 16:40:52 10/07/07 ()
Email Address:
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MY EXCHANGE WITH THE GREAT DR. SYLVIA BLYDEN (aka SMARTEST)!
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From: "Dr. Sylvia Blyden"
Date: Sun, October 7, 2007 8:17 pm
To: "Victor Stephens"
Priority: Normal
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correct. It will raise their ire against me but who cares? More publicity!(smile).
It's the Smartest Doc!
> Smartest, can I please have your permission to post this email of yours on
> the online forums? It will be a much needed piece that will expose the
> Cocorioko Reverend and his people always using fake names to attack you.
> Please give me permission to post it both on Cocorioko and on Awareness
> Forum also. I have been having problems logging on to Awareness Forum lately
>
> Also, I tried calling the number listed but it just rang and rang.
>
> Please respond
>
> Your boy,
> Victor.
>
>
> On Sun, October 7, 2007 1:07 pm, Dr. Sylvia Blyden wrote:
>> Hi Dear,
>>
>> Don't worry your head about Cocorioko. Kabs Kanu has always had a bee in
>> his trousers for me and his Forum Moderator or Forum Police is still mad
>> at me for turning down his marriage offer in 1996. He is married now but
>> he seems to still be mad at me. I pray for him at any chance I get for
>> him
>> to get peace of mind and stop spreading lies about me.
>>
>> What asylum? Where? Ha ha ha! That is the funniest thing I have heard in
>> a
>> long time. I am right now in London preparing to fly to a few other
>> European cities
>> before going back to Freetown next weekend and then on to Ghana, Liberia,
>> Nigeria and South Africa to continue my vacation. America is not even in
>> my planned itinerary let alone me planning to seek asylum there. My life
>> in
>> Freetown is solid right now. I have a role to play for my people and
>> that
>> is exactly what I am going to do.
>>
>> My dear, let me tell you what my grandfather told me a long time ago. NO
>> POLITICIAN TURNS DOWN PUBLICITY WHETHER NEGATIVE OR NOT. These people
>> always writing about me even when I don't countenance them are just
>> making
>> me more popular. Now, everyone knows there is someone known as Sylvia
>> Blyden existing. All I need to do when I want to enter active politics
>> is
>> to connect with people and tell me true, who can resist my charm when
>> they
>> meet the REAL Sylvia against the monster my detractors want to paint me
>> as? (wink, wink).
>>
>> Blow for you yah. Nor hart you hade. Make den write... Ar nor mind. As
>> long as noto person wey ar respect dey write bad about me, ar nor go
>> mind
>> at all. If I respected Kabs Kanu, I will feel bad reading his obnoxious
>> articles he always publishes against me but since I don't have an iota
>> of
>> respect for a man who once wrote to me under the pseudonym of Mariama
>> Massaquoi asking me to tell him what it feels like to have an orgasm
>> since he (Mariama) had suffered Female Genital Mutilation and could
>> not experience sexual orgasms with his missing clitoris, well yousef tell
>> me nor? I still have Mariama Massaquoi's email sent asking me about
>> sexual
>> orgasms when it turned out that it was Kabs Kanu himself using a
>> pseudonym
>> of Mariama Massaquoi to get his rocks off! The man is a sick bastard and
>> I honestly believe he will get his comeuppance soon from the Almighty so
>> I'm not at all perturbed at his efforts against me. I mostly ignore him.
>>
>> If people like Dr. John Mannah start to attack me, I will get concerned.
>> For now, let the anonymous morons write away thinking they are harming
>> me.
>> THEY ARE ONLY MAKING ME MORE FAMOUS FOR MY EVENTUAL ENTRY INTO POLITICS.
>>
>> I met your SLPP Chairman and SLPP Secretary General here in the UK
>> yesterday. They are both great guys planning a re-bounce of your party.
>> I
>> wish them well. Sierra Leone needs a solid opposition right now. I wish
>> I
>> was prepared for politics right now, I would have loved to help them out
>> but my political plans are for some 20 years hence...
>>
>> Yes, I have heard about this new Erica something and her claims to the
>> thug Mike Kalokoh but I am not prepared to grant her the publicity she
>> seems to be seeking at my expense. Let her continue. I wonder how
>> Kalokos hoped their 1998 Statutory Declaration could compare to our
>> bonafide documents dating as far back as 1923! Just ignore her please.
>>
>> My number in the UK here is xxxxxxxxx. Call me before I fly out or you
>> will have to wait until I come back in a few weeks time. Once again,
>> thanks so much for your concerns but please don't worry about the
>> writings
>> of my detractors placing me in any danger. My Christian faith in the
>> Almighty
>> is rock solid. He has protected me thus far and I know He will continue
>> to
>> do so always. Dont forget the mantra: THE TRUTH OUTLIVES EVERYTHING!!
>>
>>
>> Stay fit.
>> Sylvia B (The Smartest!)
>>
>>
>> --
>> Dr. Sylvia Olayinka Blyden,
>> SYLVIA BLYDEN DOT COM
>> Sierra Leone's Leading ICT Consultants
>> Freetown, Sierra Leone
>> Telephone: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> Email: xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>
>>
>
>
--
Dr. Sylvia Olayinka Blyden,
Chief Executive,
SYLVIA BLYDEN DOT COM
Sierra Leone's Leading ICT Consultants
Freetown, Sierra Leone
Telephone: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Email: xxxxxxxxxxxxx
From: Toegondoe Sagbah
To: All
Date Posted: 14:30:57 10/06/07 ()
Email Address: mendemoi@yahoo.com
Entered From: pool-71-168-132-186.cmdnnj.east.verizon.net at 71.168.132.186
Be objective, my man! Avoid drammatization. I interact with Manna on the SLPP forum too, and he is a prolific and well reasoned writer.
From: C. Marx
To: All
Date Posted: 17:30:48 10/06/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: cache-mtc-ah10.proxy.aol.com at 64.12.117.202
"Go out there and bring us Manna's article that exeplifies the writing of a high school drop out."
From: Bamaby Lans Kamara
To: All
Date Posted: 12:44:11 10/06/07 ()
Email Address:
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Greetings my brothers and sisters. "The Jena 6
You've heard the news and read the headlines. Now, on Dr. Phil, the families of the six black teens arrested and charged with the assault of a white teen in Jena, Louisiana last December sound off. Was it a hate crime or just a prank? A matter of black and white, or simply right and wrong? Were the Jena 6's civil rights violated during the trial?"
However, writing from a world class of civilization, bearing in mind that the effort to change the world from barbaric days as you will find in the Dr. Phil show on Monday and in the following post, taking into consideration that a contributor in your midst has been held captive by the lowest of minds in a bid to show their frustrations and ignorance, for no just cause, I will keep on doing what I was called to, in order to open mankind’s eyes to see what is civilized as oppose to what he presumed was or is. Racism is not the name for a Whiteman, poverty is not an Identification of a Black man. Wealth and poverty are man made as Love and hate are man’s hearts desires.
Civilized people do not pre-occupy themselves on sadism therefore, they would do what it takes to make the world a better place.
I call on you all to view the mentioned links if you wish by putting www. before them and view the following link to the Dr. Phil show. Remember that these two messages are all geared towards educating us to make the world a better place but you can only gain from it when you view them with an open mind. You will not regret your time but learn ostensibly. Do not pretend you did know because you will be fooling no one but you because millions of people are and you will never know who is when you act funny. Remember, you cannot hold some one down and have them respect you especially if they have the right and willingness to be a better person but every human sees your effort to deter such a person. Such an act will not only be frowned upon but alsoconsidered uncivilized.
Oh last but not least remember that one who makes such an amount is highly respected and would want to maintain their respect but do what it takes to change the world for the better: It is four pages page 1. page 2. page 3. and page 4. Scroll to the bottom and find names of people in the news or on the photos in the unposted link.
Remember that you are yourself and cannot decide for others based on your views. We live in a free world but some want to make it a prison for others. We must fight against such mental slavery because they are the ones in prison in that they have restricted what and whom they can learn from now they are confused and guessing from one wrong to the other but they are proud that they are not right but want to be perceived to be right by pretence. All in those pictures are over twenty-one (21) years they di so out of willingness. In case you are wondering.
http://www.forbes.com/lists/2007/53/07celebrities_The-Celebrity-100_NameHTML.html
Enjoy!
From: Josephus Fynecontry
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Date Posted: 11:59:16 10/06/07 ()
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By the time SLPP ever comes to power again in Sierra Leone, most of us in our 40s and 50s would be dead. Once SLPP lost this 2007 ELECTION , forget it. They will never taste power again.
From: The guy next door
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Date Posted: 03:23:57 10/07/07 ()
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True that.
From: Josephus Fynecontry
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Date Posted: 11:54:13 10/06/07 ()
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By the time SLPP ever comes to power again in Sierra Leone, most of us in our 40s and 50s would be dead. Once SLPP lost this 2007 ELECTION , forget it. They will never taste power again.
From: Bambay Lans Kamara
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Date Posted: 11:23:27 10/06/07 ()
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COCORIOKO NEWSPAPER : WHO WE ARE
.COCORIOKO WISHES TO DISSOCIATE ITSELF FROM THE TOPCITY FORUM ON THE INTERNET. WE SUSPENDED OUR SUBscr1ptION FROM TOP CITY YEARS AGO AND THEY WERE SUPPOSED TO HAVE DISABLED THE FORUM .WE HAVE WRITTEN THEM LETTERS TO REMIND THEM THAT WE HAVE CANCELLED OUR SUBscr1ptION AND THEY SHOULD DISABLE THE FORUM BUT THEY HAVE STILL NOT DONE SO.WE ARE NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR ANYTHING POSTED ON THAT FORUM .
Web site designed & hosted by Leeroy Wilfred Kabs-Kanu © 2007 at Homestead™
______________________________________________________Good reading for those who enjoy the art of reading: Humility and huspitality.
http://www.bgct.org/TexasBaptists/Document.Doc?&id=983
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Do not take-up arms when it is not your war.
If it is your battle, do not stand watching, if you think the war is not worth your time, fight any way or advocate for peace. But do not shoot at a member/s of your army because the enemy will never appreciate you no matter how many of your soldiers you kill for his sake, especially one that has hatted you to the bone from the get-go.
I just thought I should share this.
From: Londoner
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Date Posted: 11:07:58 10/06/07 ()
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Hi Mbalu,
Greetings from across the atlantic. Hope you've not deserted the forum 'cause I really do enjoy your posts. I've got the email address of a sister in Sierra Leone who heads an organisation that is working against all odds to educate and change attitudes regarding FGM. You can get in touch with her and lend your support! God bless!
From: Discourage London dating
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Date Posted: 13:44:20 10/06/07 ()
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Hi Bra this is not a dating forum. Try eharmony.com or match.com
From: Reporter
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Date Posted: 10:38:01 10/06/07 ()
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Australia has put a freeze on the settlement of refugees from Africa.
From: Somtin Butu!
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Date Posted: 10:21:27 10/06/07 ()
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Having a former rebel Ninja propagandist, Sylvia Blyden, as your de facto leader and spokesman is not a good sign for a party that is already in free fall. Then horror of horrors, when I read yesterday that one of the architects of the SLPP disaster, JJ Blood himself, is threatening to run for party leader, it occurred to me that the SLPP is indeed in meltdown. Even though your party is toxic to a lot of us because of its abysmal record and its flirtation with tribal politics, I still believe that SLPP has a hallowed role to play in our democracy. Democracy is compromised when the opposition is weakened, especially from self-inflicted wounds as in your case.
So listen up, SLPPers of all ages, sizes and orientations. If you wanna get in good again with the people of Salone, you must take the following steps:
1) Elect an attractive leader who is not burdened with the sins of the Kabba-Berewa messocracy.
From: Kalos
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Date Posted: 10:11:27 10/06/07 ()
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J.B. Jenkins-Johnston and Zainab Bangura to be the next AG and Foreign Minister respectively. These are qualified and fine people.
From: Somtin Butu!
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Date Posted: 10:12:36 10/06/07 ()
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Good for them!
From: THE VOICE OF PROGRESS
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Date Posted: 08:52:14 10/06/07 ()
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slpp forum located at www.slppworldwide.com. it is a shame that no one will give you the forum locat1on - prejudice of any sort is detrimental to the progress of our nation. What a shame to all of us for not able to help a man because he is not one of us. No shall prosper that has such attitude. Do we remember Jesus' teaching - what do you gain by loving only those that love you? nothing - treat your enemy in the correct way - you will be showing the world that you are a child of God.
From: jabbah
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Date Posted: 09:08:07 10/06/07 ()
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What is FAO?
From: THE VOICE OF PROGRESS
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Date Posted: 09:10:28 10/06/07 ()
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F - For
A - Arttentuion
From: Bai Bureh
To: All
Date Posted: 09:07:58 10/06/07 ()
Email Address: rastafari_ish@hotmail.com
Entered From: master-02.brg.sgsnet.se at 193.11.202.74
Man do me a favour,if you are a frequent visitor to that forum or an SLLPer, tell the administrator to stop living in the past by making a vital correction on the SLPP site's main page where the two losers are still considered a winning team inspite of being heavily trounced by the baby-boomer duo of Ernest and Sam.
Tell them it should be the loosing team instead.Thanks.
From: YUK
To: All
Date Posted: 09:17:53 10/06/07 ()
Email Address: yu_kamara@yahoo.com
Entered From: 247.135.45.66.cm.sunflower.com at 66.45.135.247
They SLPPers are still yet to recover from the heavy punches of EBK and Sam. I believe that they still have not come to the full realization of the change that is premeating our beloved country, when they do, they will definitely change that caption to "The Losing Duo", not team. It is EBK and Sam that have a team.
From: THE VOICE OF PROGRESS
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Date Posted: 09:21:03 10/06/07 ()
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Please take the country's issues seriously. Ernest has won and we are still in doubt as to which direction we will be heading. I expected to see press releases that map out the plan of action of the new government. this is yet to happen. is the honeymoon not over yet? Please start the good business practice you guys promised the people.
From: YUK
To: All
Date Posted: 09:30:38 10/06/07 ()
Email Address: yu_kamara@yahoo.com
Entered From: 247.135.45.66.cm.sunflower.com at 66.45.135.247
If you are still in doubt as to which direction the country will be heading, then you need to wake up from your slumber, wake up man!!! The Presidential Task Force Team, is cleaning up the way for the nation to know where EBK's team will pick up the country. That way, everyone could be held accountable for what was entrusted with them on bhalf of the people of Sierra Leone. I mean EVERYONE, outgoing as well as incoming government officials
From: THE VOICE OF PROGRESS
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Date Posted: 09:37:22 10/06/07 ()
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I hope such will be swift as it does not take the mind of an Einstein to know those that amassed incalculable wealth in their service to the country.
From: THE VOICE OF PROGRESS
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Date Posted: 09:12:16 10/06/07 ()
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You are correct in your observation. They have been told and they will update the site as soon as possible. thanks!
From: Somtin Butu!
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Date Posted: 08:02:35 10/06/07 ()
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Since any talk of an investigation into the looting of the country's coffers by the previous government is bound to raise the hackles of JJ Blood, Sylvia Blyden, Kanja Sesay, the two Johnnies and myriad girl friends, concubines and other SLPP activists who feasted on part of the $300 million largesse, I hereby suggest a simple, reasonable compromise that should satisfy all sides of the divide and allow the nation to move forward.
I suggest that the investigations and the warrants be stopped if:
From: Somtin tinap
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Date Posted: 10:10:32 10/06/07 ()
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No way!! Zero tolerance of corruption is President Koroma's proclaimed agenda. A thief is a thief and should be dealt with according to the law regardless of whose hackles are raised.
From: SIK
To: All
Date Posted: 09:16:23 10/06/07 ()
Email Address: sorie.koroma@gmail.com
Entered From: nvil-119.res.umass.edu at 128.119.188.119
Bra ! I agree with you. Let them confess and apologize publicly.
From: THE VOICE OF PROGRESS
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Date Posted: 09:05:59 10/06/07 ()
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I am all for the apologies - but to say return only 70% - that is still a smack in the mouth - they have to account for everything and then be stripped bare. You give back to sierra leone what belongs to sierra leone.
From: TK
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Date Posted: 13:34:53 10/06/07 ()
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why can't you idiots leave me alone? i have served you people for over 10 years and i can assure that i didn't steal a single cent. i challenge you to come up with any evidence to suggest that i stole from the national coffers. no doubt peole around me were corrupt and those are the people you should go after. please leave me in peace to enjoy my retirement.
From: THE VOICE OF PROGRESS
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Date Posted: 15:46:10 10/06/07 ()
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You countless idiot and thief. Do you remember the Middlesborough, North East England businessman you had to suffer to death? you took his Ł500,000.00 for a contract on diplomatic fuel and never gave him the contract. the money was not his and oneday he was found dead and the coroner's report was that he suffered a heart attack.
From: equal oportunity
To: All
Date Posted: 11:45:23 10/07/07 ()
Email Address: noafirmativeactionforapcorslpp@aol.com
Entered From: c-71-224-131-184.hsd1.nj.comcast.net at 71.224.131.184
i say we do a through investigation into all politicians form old apc days to nprc to afrc to slpp and whom ever stole form the countries resources should have to pay back and face some jail time. we should be even right across the board. i dont support corruption from apc, slpp, nprc Mende, temne, creole, limba. until we try to be even with this investigation this cycle would continue. the new govenrment ministers would do the same thing. our politicians make a living off politics. politics should not be a business in which we take turns looting and raping the nations coffers. we should stop treating our country like a gangbang. where are all the moderate patriots when we need them.
From: Erica Adams
To: All
Date Posted: 08:45:23 10/06/07 ()
Email Address: ericamonique82@hotmail.com
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They (failed politicans) always get on TV and beg and cry in the US. That's one way of having a public record that these are people who can't be trusted. I think that failure to comply with the return of assets should mean jail time.
From: Bai Bureh
To: All
Date Posted: 08:43:09 10/06/07 ()
Email Address: rastafari_ish@hotmail.com
Entered From: master-02.brg.sgsnet.se at 193.11.202.74
What a catch 22 situation!
From: Democracy Now
To: All
Date Posted: 13:56:26 10/06/07 ()
Email Address: alubless@comcast.net
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Are you kidding? A 22 catch situation, for an almighty continuation till 2012 as Gore Jeff of....was bargaining for?
From: truth speaker
To: All
Date Posted: 07:10:47 10/06/07 ()
Email Address: intellectualgangsta@aol.com
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This is a question thats been bothering me. I feel that you are allowed to as long as you come clean as to your own evils and corruption. some people posting in here have not been clean in regards to that arena. Example Morie Saffa. have you told people here how you boughtyour house in america? have you told people about the insurance fraud that you were involved in? unlike people that got others deported because they had dirt on them i dont belive in that. even though i have enough dirt to have you locked up in the states i dont belive in bringing a brother down in the name of feeling good. i belive in forgivness but not forgetting. so when you wish to throw stones at others think about yout glass house you stay in.
From: SUBWANALAI
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Date Posted: 07:09:50 10/06/07 ()
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Kabs Kanu has finally, to his own mind banned me from this Forum.Just what I was anticipating. I have now achieved my objective, exposing a fickle minded Sierra Leonean, who took delight in crticising his compatriots yet cannot withstand hard hitting criticism. Kabs, "If you live in a glass house, don't throw stones..."
From: onlineman
To: All
Date Posted: 05:31:42 10/06/07 ()
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I HAVE BEEN BANNED FROM THIS FORUM FOR SIMPLY SAYING THAT THE POLICE SHOULD HAVE GRANTED BAIL TO VP SAMSUMANA'S BITTER ENEMY.
From: COMRADE SQUEALER
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Date Posted: 03:30:36 10/08/07 ()
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THE STORY IS BASED ON GEORGE ORWELL'S ANIMAL FARM
COMRADE SNOWBALL: MODERATOR
COMRADE SQUEALER: SUBWANALAI
COMRADE MOLLY: HAJA KHADIJA
COMRADE BENJAMIN: A. ISCANDRI
COMRADE ATTACK DOG: FORUM POLICE
COMRADE OWLS: KALOS, MAMMY BLESSING, CANDIDDO, KABUDU GEN ETC
You might have heard about my miraculous escape from the farm yesterday, after Comrade Kabs 'Napoleon' Kanu, let loose his attack dogs on me, led by Chief Dog- Forum Police. I hadn't the time, unlike Comrade Benjamin(Alieu Iscandri) to say goodbye to all you positivos. Before I proceed with my ordeal, let me inform you all about the need to strengthen ties with our counterparts in the neighbouring farm, where I am presently seeking refuge. Comrades, Robert Frost was right when he wrote" Good Fences Make Good Neighbours" Remember the escape routes we carved at our fence? Well, they came in handy for my escape.
Though I am still licking my wounds here in exile, I have found time to write this testimony, copies of which are scattered all over the farm (LOOK DOWN THE STEPS OF THIS FORUM FOR COPIES, JUST IN CASE THE MAD DICTATOR NAPOLEON KABS TRIES TO REMOVE THIS ONE THAT I AM POSTING AT HIS BACKYARD.
Again, I tried to reason with him that because he was deviating, hard working comrades like old benjamin the donkey, and even the pampered Molly have withdrawn their services. Again, Comrade Napoleon(Kabs) seemed please with these developments, because, according to his blue eye boy Snowball (the illiterate Moderator), this means Bra Kabs will remain the sole diasporan beast that EBK will consider in his all inclusive government.
I think they are asleep now, so I have risked entering the farm. If he pulls this posting down, look down the forum's steps, you will find more copies. Comrades, the revolution has just begun. VIVE LA REVOLUTION!!! To all true comrades, please take care of Fifi my wonder dog, untill I re-unite with him again. Hopefully, Comrade Napoleon will tamper justice with mercy.
Comrade Squealer(a.k.a SUBWANALAI)
From: forum link
To: All
Date Posted: 09:12:22 10/06/07 ()
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http://www.hwforums.com/2195/index.html
From: Kabudu Gen
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Date Posted: 06:27:51 10/06/07 ()
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Very easy my onlineman paddy. Go to:
From: Cornelius Hamelberg
To: All
Date Posted: 05:46:09 10/06/07 ()
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Eye for eye, you sound like an Israeleyete
From: Cornelius Hamelberg
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Date Posted: 05:55:31 10/06/07 ()
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Eye for eye, you sound like Moshe Dayan & the Israeleyetes or do you prefer Israelights?
From: Wise thug
To: All
Date Posted: 07:00:48 10/06/07 ()
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unless you Sierra Leoneans learn to respect each other you would remain the poorest country in the world.
From: Somtin Butu!
To: All
Date Posted: 07:02:45 10/06/07 ()
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What are you...a Gabonese?
From: truth hurts
To: All
Date Posted: 07:29:57 10/06/07 ()
Email Address: olamba@yahoo.com
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nope. but unless we learn to respect each other. and learn to disagree with respect no progress forward. you would be having these same discussions 20 years later. truth hurts
From: Somtin Butu!
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Date Posted: 08:05:39 10/06/07 ()
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Agreed...but does the truth hurt lek kabala peppeh?
From: SUBWANALAI
To: All
Date Posted: 04:32:45 10/06/07 ()
Email Address:
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Independent media houses in Freetown are raising eyebrows over the status of a Cocorioko reporter Joseph Kamanda, who has attached himself to the office of the President. Of grave concern is the fact that press officers attached to geovernment offices are normally chosen by the Government Information Services(GIS)a department under the Ministry of Information. That COCORIOKO which was before now regarded as an independent medium could appoint their own press attache to the president, is been investigated by independent bodies. Crucial to the investigation are the travelling costs and per diem received by Mr. Kamanda. Investigators are also trying to establish how much influence does cocrioko has at government house.
Speaking to Prof. Subwanalai(an expert in public relations); he opined that every media house, independent or otherwise has a right to information at all quarters. But if the bill is been footed by tax payers, it becomes fishy, and leaves the media house looking like a toothless bull dog.
Prof Subwainala who is currently a loose canon on the COCORIOKO FORUM is compiling a dossier on the activities of COCORIOKO harbingers at the corridors of power.
From: independent thinker
To: All
Date Posted: 07:05:11 10/06/07 ()
Email Address: bigman@yahoo.com
Entered From: c-71-224-131-184.hsd1.nj.comcast.net at 71.224.131.184
unless you SLPP and APC having no life mother fuckas learn to respect each other SIerra Leone would remain the pit hole of the world. If we elect to office people who survive by politics with no regular jobs what do you expect from them? coruption I would say and a need to neva want to leave power. thats the reason why the old apc failed and the new slpp failed. we need more accountability. real accountability not witch hunting.
From: KABS KANU
To: All
Date Posted: 06:21:39 10/06/07 ()
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All I can say about this envious infidel is that he has not seen anything yet.You have just started complaining about COCORIOKO. If God blesses the plans we have for COCORIOKO, some of you will die of envy very soon.
From: KABS KANU
To: All
Date Posted: 06:35:21 10/06/07 ()
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By the way, we have not usurped anything. This APC government is a government of accountability that does everything systematically and methodically. They have not appointed anybody yet and have not paid out anything to anybody yet.Even the Transitional Team is volunteering.
From: Kabudu Gen
To: All
Date Posted: 05:35:19 10/06/07 ()
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Subwanalai, please say it ain't so. That you are so pissed about your beef with the moderator that you are willing to smear Cocorioko. That will be sad. If you have credible sources for your story, well and good. Enguiring minds would want to know. Believe it or not, you have a powerful reputation on this forum. It will be tragic to see it all messed up by you engaging in Sylvia Blyden-type journalism.
I look forward to seeing your insightful posta again.
Kabudu.
From: SUBWANALAI
To: All
Date Posted: 04:54:15 10/06/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 194.32.41.72
After the dramatic revelations about COCORIOKO's usurpation of a State House, Prof. Subwanalai received a telphone call from a media mogul who wanted to know whether Subwanalai's attack is not born out of the legendary "Sour Grapes".
SUBWANALAI: Yeah, as a Fox, I like sweet grapes, so if I donot have them, I am sure to cry foul.
From: Kabudu Gen
To: All
Date Posted: 05:24:21 10/06/07 ()
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At least you are honest with the sour grapes thingy. Look man, you still have a lot of goodwill here. Try not to mess it up because of a little static between you and the moderator a'iht?
From: SUBWANALAI
To: All
Date Posted: 05:37:44 10/06/07 ()
Email Address:
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I am opened to wise conselling KG. What however I hate is to be manipulated. Every where man is born free but yet we are in chains? (Jacque Rosseau)
From: Kabudu Gen
To: All
Date Posted: 06:11:23 10/06/07 ()
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I am familiar with Rousseau. He is one of my all time favorites. Look man, forget about the beef and let's move on. There is a lot on the plate right now and I for one am eager for your take on substantive issues. The Subwanalai perspective is something I look forward to reading and reacting to all the time. Let it go, bro.
Peace,
KG.
From: SUBWANALAI
To: All
Date Posted: 06:28:24 10/06/07 ()
Email Address:
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Peace to you KG, but not Kabs the taliban who calls me infidel
From: THE VOICE OF PROGRESS
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Date Posted: 04:27:21 10/06/07 ()
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Who is responsible for investigations into the malpractices of statal affairs by my SLPP authorities in the last government? I implore those charged with such investigations to do so in the intwerest of the nation and its citizenry that suffered most as a result of the recklessness and lack of respect for the people of sierra leone by my own party authorities. let it be a publicised and transparent procedure. Let it not look like a witch-hunt. Show the people of sierra leone what the culprit was before he assumed office; what his earnings and bonuses were whilst in office; and what he is now worth. such will make sure the people, especially us in the SLPP to know that they are not targetted because they are SLPP but because they stole the resources that would have transformed us from a very poor nation to an average nation. Please do not forget the biggest of the thieves - tejan kabba - I hear that he says ernest is his son and ernest will not touch him. The reason for him not to have trusted Berewa as he saw berewa to have been the one who will put him in the dock. HE President Ernest, please lead by showing us that you will not forgive your father if he were to put the lives of millions of people into poverty prone states. Show us that pa kabba has tio account for for his deceit and recklessness. hwe should be called to account for all these. His henchmen and girlfriend should also be brouight to account in their dealings of fraud, especially larceny by offering bogus contract agreements to so many people. let all those affected by the actions of these bandits be offered a sanctuary to report tgheir complaints.
From: info
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Date Posted: 04:39:21 10/06/07 ()
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His Excellency the Vice President is responsible.
From: THE VOICE OF PROGRESS
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Date Posted: 04:48:35 10/06/07 ()
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What will be the job of the anti-corruption?
From: corrupt exposer
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Date Posted: 07:32:20 10/06/07 ()
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while they are goign after the politicians that are proven to steal money and send them over seas they should go after the sierra leoaneans involved in illegal activities. the ones that did insurance fraud in the usa to get there house the morrie saffas thats it. whom dress in sheep clothing but are wolves
From: news
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Date Posted: 02:38:38 10/06/07 ()
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Staying True to the Facts About the SLPP
- Friday 5 October 2007.
By Mohamed A. Jalloh (USA)
The note of appreciation to the people of Sierra Leone (SL) commending our political parties, the National Electoral Commission and others that is published below this article in this edition of the pioneering Patriotic Vanguard, created quite a heated controversy prior to the finalization of its original draft. Specifically, an interesting objection was raised to the following statement which ultimately substantially survived to the final press release: "We would also like to commend the SLPP upon ultimately conceding defeat and assisting the new APC government in ensuring a smooth transfer of power."
From: Citizen
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Date Posted: 07:44:15 10/06/07 ()
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No way SLPP should be ciongratulated. remember John Karimu and John Benjamin blocking Pujehun when APC and PMDC tried to campign there?
From: Albert Thomas
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Date Posted: 03:43:57 10/06/07 ()
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Quoting Moh'm Jalloh: "In holding firm to the truth about the elections, without fear or favor, we are continuing the admirable nascent practice of accountability in public service articulated by the National Electoral Commission’s chairlady, Dr. Christiana Thorpe, when she courageously announced the winner of the presidential election at an event that the SLPP had vainly tried to stop, viz. "There is no longer a place for fraud and malpractice in the Sierra Leone electoral system."
From: Leonean
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Date Posted: 02:27:18 10/06/07 ()
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Hey Kabs, some of us were just a little disappointed when a respectable paper like yours became a party mouth piece during and after the elections.
From: CRAZY
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Date Posted: 07:44:33 10/06/07 ()
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Are you sure Shekito is a respected jouirnalist ? Some of us close to the media know otherwise.
From: Bai Bureh
To: All
Date Posted: 03:59:21 10/06/07 ()
Email Address: rastafari_ish@hotmail.com
Entered From: master-02.brg.sgsnet.se at 193.11.202.74
I am not Kabs spokesman but I think your acceptance of his good deeds and tolerance speaks volumes of how introspective you have been.The truth always triumphs.By doing the commendable thing you have done has not negatively changed anything in you and infact has enhance your reputation as a big and sane-thinking intellectual.I admire bold and honest guys like you.This is one of the hardest things for most cocorioko detractors to accept.
From: Kalos
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Date Posted: 08:25:15 10/06/07 ()
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Bai Bureh and Mammy Blessing, thanks for your well reasoned responses to Leonean. I will continue to defend Kabs for the simple reason that he is one of the best in his profession and his objectivity is second to none. Show me a media outlet without political leanings and I will present you a sin-less 40-year-old man.
From: Mammy Blessing
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Date Posted: 05:17:43 10/06/07 ()
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Leonean, that was a refreshing piece. I believe that the reason so many of us lurk atound this place, instead of TV, is because of the diversity of opinions on almost every issue. If it had been a starchy one-size-fits-all-orthodoxy that prevails here, some of us would never have stayed even if we were asked to. The freedom of expression that rages here makes the managers of the forum commendable. The names that Kabs and the moderator have been called here, by both APC and SLPP supporters, make rubbish of allegations that Cocorioko is APC. Through it all Kabs' team remain stoic, taciturn and mostly unresponsive to the vitriol. Trust me, if Ernest Koroma does not deliver for the country, the editorials on this paper will become hostile just like that.
I carry no brief for Cocorioko- they are big boys- but at times I become so outraged by the gratuitous and unfair pummelling administered to Kabs and Co by disgruntled elements, that I had gone to battle with many a moniker. Frustration is no excuse for bad manners. Once again, I enjoyed your post.
Mammy!
From: Amadu Kabbah
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Date Posted: 02:11:41 10/06/07 ()
Email Address: amadutkabbah@yahoo.com
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"I don’t know where the country is heading for under Ernest Bai Koroma and Sam-Sumana. SLPP spent years cultivating and maintaining a culture of tolerance and respect for the rule of law and an independent police. APC in just a few weeks in power has turned everything upside down with vindictiveness, revenge tactics, violence and an outright abuse of power especially by Sam-Sumana," the SLPP’s Secretary General, Jacob Jusu Saffa lamented last night.
From: junior
To: All
Date Posted: 09:41:02 10/06/07 ()
Email Address: worneh2000@yahoo.com
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your right we will love see all thos state criminals locktup
From: SLPP Forum Request
To: All
Date Posted: 05:23:37 10/06/07 ()
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Hello,
Let Freedom Reign!!!
From: Kabudu Gen
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Date Posted: 06:17:47 10/06/07 ()
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Oh it's easy homey! Go to:
www.johnmannahphdforslpppresident.com
Enjoy bro.
From: foday mansaray
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Date Posted: 01:08:54 10/06/07 ()
Email Address: fmansaray@aol.com
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Like what most of our forumites have indicated,the core of our financial policies breakdown lies in our able to enforce current laws on the books.There should not be a parallel market.The central bank should be the the sole entity responsible to control the inflow and outflow of currency.Our subsidiary financial institutions such as banks, exchange bureaux,money remittance company and the petty traders who wants to participate should be duly licensed and monitored by the central bank.You can still maintain the street hawkers but have them become registered agents attached to their respective licensed agencies .You can then begin to neutralize the black market effectiveness or negative impact on the government ABILITY to control illegal movement of foreign currencies.Yes, you can slow down the black market, until the petty traders and bussiness community at large built confidence in the system that it works.Acquiring foreign currencies from any bank should be the right of every sierra leonean. Any official catch engaging in illigal trading,will be prosecuted to the full extent of the law ,especially as a bank official. The office of the prosecutor general will be very busy experdiciously prosecuting offenders.Remember this, zero tolerance against corruption if we are going to smell success. we must start enforcing our sound laws on the books.
From: jackal
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Date Posted: 23:34:33 10/06/07 ()
Email Address: dollarbill@gmail.com
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Foday Mansaray,
What you dont understand about the forex market is it cannot be a monopoly. In a free market, the central bank has no business controlling productivity of the private sector. The central bank of the United States has no control over the millions of small booth currency exchange enteprises, including Western Union.
To restrict the flow of foreign exchange is to limit productivity, growth, and economic development.
From: foday mansaray
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Date Posted: 00:35:51 10/07/07 ()
Email Address: fmansaray@aol.com
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It is not my fault you lack comprehension.Western Union and all these agencies are at their finest maturity stage of the US economy.Yes ,there is something called the US treasury which supervised all
institution such as western union, and other exchange bureaux.etc.They have to file annual reports as well as submit to periodic audit to ensure full compliance of U.S laws.
In cases of money laundering,the secret service is the enforcer of these laws for the US Treasury Dept.
From: jackal
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Date Posted: 02:13:21 10/07/07 ()
Email Address: dollarbill@gmail.com
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How did my plea to differ on an economic discourse solicit your point of not aspiring for office, or support of the President or starting and finishing as a team?
That seems like a complete deviation from a subject of microeconomics that you poorly addressed. And for your information, the US treasury does not really supervise western union and foreign exchange entities. The US treasury is a custodian of government funds.
Now Foday, my point is really simple. The activities of a few petty traders making local and foriegn currency available to willing buyers is an economic activity that in no way hinders government from growing.
Government can regulate their activities but stiffling that market takes food off a lot of table. Beside lets consider the cost benefit analysis. In FREE market where competition exists, the consumer gets a better rate for thier money.
The banks mostly underpay when you buy forex from them and and undersell when you sell to them. The consumer has a choice of selling or buying where the rewards are greater.
What kind of money laundering operation are we talking here anyway? thousand, millions, billions, dollars pounds, euro or what?
My point is the impact of alone level money laundering cannot positively impact Sierra Leone's economy. Think of such factors as increasing our GDP by doubling or tripling productivity.
Our last GDP numbers were at 6.9%. Transform that to 14 or 28%. You will not be worrying about petty traders making a few pennies here and there.
"Lack of comprehension" is a typical verbiage misplacement of words. Try a healthy dose of healty economic debate.
From: FODAY MANSARAY
To: All
Date Posted: 00:18:21 10/08/07 ()
Email Address: FMANSARAY@AOL.COM
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Mr Jackal, enforcement of US cuurency laws is within the jurisdiction of the US treasury as far as the federal government is concern.The individual state division of banking is the primary issuer of permit to transact bussiness for institutrion such as western union.We are talking about foreign exchange
and who regulates those institutions.
How can you honestly promote a strong ecomomic policy with holes like this..
From: jackal
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Date Posted: 16:37:03 10/08/07 ()
Email Address: dollarbill@gmail.com
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Foday,
Now I am impressed you've returned to the subject of microeconomics. Western Union and Co are not governed by the treasury. The treasury makes, keeps and issues US currency. The treasury does not regulate commerce. Western Union is a commercial entity.
Note that I agree on regulating the activities of petty traders and black markets. But the gross profit from pettry traders in no way impacts an economy with liberalized trade policy. Thise folks make a few pennies on the dollar just like Sierra Leoneans who transfer money to Sierra Leone.
Here is an economic fact for you to dwell on. They actually help to keep foreign exchange low for the consumers.
Unlike banks, they make foreign currency available at any time day or night. That helps to fule the economy. An economy is fueled by increased comsumer activities.
Sorry Foday, the black market cannot account for 40% of the national economy. Do you really know the total figures of our national economy? Our estimated GDP in 2006 is an estimated 5.4 billion.
You are implying that if the petty traders are asked to close shop, governement will capture 40% of lost revenue. That is $2 billion. That my friend is not only wrong it is simply impossible.
Review your quantitative analysis.
From: John E. Leigh
To: All
Date Posted: 11:08:32 10/06/07 ()
Email Address: johnernestleigh@yahoo.com
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Dear Mr. foday mansaray:
From: foday mansaray
To: All
Date Posted: 15:21:05 10/06/07 ()
Email Address: fmansaray@aol.com
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My statement was "there should not be a parallel market”. There is no need to be differing. The current system in place eludes and diminished the role of the central bank. An effective Central Bank must be able to Curtail all of the problems you highlighted aboved.In my opinion, the system does not need the central bank to give clearance to anyone needing to acquire foreign currency. The center piece of our policy should be Accountability. What you have now is a recipe for fraud and illegal activities and thus encourages unacceptable open policy and movement of cash not properly accounted for by the central bank. Listen, we don't need to be apprehensive towards change. The regulations will be there to build upon, while the business community will slowly rely on an exchange policy that will run itself silently. Except, those evil forces running the underground market will have problems seeing all of these coming to existence. The reason why it seems like the system is working, because the central bank does not have control over exchange rates. . Situation cited 3 weeks ago when the prices of dollar fall and it was going up in Freetown.
From: John K,
To: All
Date Posted: 05:36:44 10/06/07 ()
Email Address: ginamissah@hotmail.com
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Yes, you are right Foday. When you become the next Bank Governor, make sure you implement these laws. Lonta!
From: Mammy Blessing
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Date Posted: 04:40:48 10/06/07 ()
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The reason why the currency black market is booming is because of inefficiency and corruption in the banking sector. Access to foreign exchange is almost impossible except for the well greased. It is widely believed that the real alagbas who control the black market are the politicians and bankers who lurk in the shadows and salivate over the JC holiday dollars.
When I tried to do business in Sierra Leone last year, I was told I had to open a foreign currency account, which I gladly did. Accessing the money, however, was like pulling teeth. If I wanted a thousand dollars, they would tell me that they didn't have all of it available immediately; would I take half in leones (at subpar rates), could I hold on till the next day, blah blah? All this when I had 20K sitting in the account. No wonder the black market is booming, undermining the economy. It's almost as if officialdom is pushing you to shop with their 'boys' in the streets!
From: KABS KANU
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Date Posted: 00:57:41 10/06/07 ()
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I want to advice all those defying and challenging the Moderator that they risk being excluded from this forum if they don't desist from their acts.
From: Candid Opinion
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Date Posted: 08:49:18 10/06/07 ()
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Sorry bra...
It is not challenge..
He could have responded with anything better than..
(ah tire with the human spell checkers and degree holders)
From: Kabudu Gen
To: All
Date Posted: 09:09:31 10/06/07 ()
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"I hope the good reverend has his rosary in his hand when reading this so his banning fingers are busy"
From: Candid Opinion
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Date Posted: 10:17:58 10/06/07 ()
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If man is in good and worthy company as showcased here and fails to prosper and be progressive in thought and deeds..
Then man is to blame..
From: M. Alieu Iscandari Esq
To: All
Date Posted: 00:47:33 10/06/07 ()
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Folks for the past few years that I have been on this and other sierra leonean fora, I have made many enemies and gained just as many admirers. I have however decided to quit the forum and focus on other things that require more of my time.
From: Jay
To: All
Date Posted: 15:21:30 10/06/07 ()
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Good luck bro.Wishing you good fortune in all your endeavours.
From: Chez Winakabs Europe
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Date Posted: 09:50:26 10/06/07 ()
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May you continue tomprosper in your filed. May those who want to see you down turn around to embrace you with love. Peace and stability may you have.
From: Bai Bureh
To: All
Date Posted: 08:55:53 10/06/07 ()
Email Address: rastafari_ish@hotmail.com
Entered From: master-02.brg.sgsnet.se at 193.11.202.74
Man where are going leaving me? I will miss you buddy!
Are moving down to the land that we loved?
Anyway if you have time holla me on bai_burehuk@yahoo.co.uk. and don't forget to pop in at the SLRTC in Kissy.
From: Candid Opinion
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Date Posted: 08:40:10 10/06/07 ()
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It is with admiration that i extent my gratitude to bro alieu..For letting me get to know him tru his hand and virtual presence..
I know you are not leaving with much..you are a dreg man. Let me not hear about lands and houses and pajero's in 2-3 years.
From: Kalos
To: All
Date Posted: 08:35:22 10/06/07 ()
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Alieu, thanks for your contributions. It was a fun ride that we will miss. You have a lot to give back to your country; when it matters I hope you will strongly consider to serve. Wish you the best. Do you mind to repost your email address.
From: M. Alieu Iscandari Esq
To: All
Date Posted: 09:03:43 10/06/07 ()
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I am not going home I will be right here in the Bay area. I have just increased my responsibilities and I need to spend more time doing what I love most which is the practice if the law.
From: Sabanoh
To: All
Date Posted: 07:01:01 10/06/07 ()
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You may leave this forum if you want to. I can assure you that you can't hide from some of us who know your back ground and your "community service" that you claimed to have rendered to the people of San Jose. If you are going to Freetown with the idea that this is your turn to plunder the finances of Sierra Leone and follow the footsteps of Pa I scandal-ri,I advise you to think again. I am in the process of relocating to Freetown next year and will be one of your critics.
From: LOW GRADE SAN SAN
To: All
Date Posted: 06:35:26 10/06/07 ()
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You will always be a jolly good fella.Hope to see you in person some day soon.
From: Mammy Blessing
To: All
Date Posted: 04:07:07 10/06/07 ()
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Oremi, I wish you all the best in your future endeavours. I hope your "abrupt farewell" portends a call to higher service on behalf of your country as most of us have been wishing!
Whatever you do, stay blessed and Godspeed!
From: FORREST GUMP
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Date Posted: 04:00:35 10/06/07 ()
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Go where? have you been recalled to FREETOWN, if so GOOD LUCK
FORREST
From: Erica Adams
To: All
Date Posted: 02:52:28 10/06/07 ()
Email Address: ericamonique82@hotmail.com
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Even though I'm really new to the forum, I've enjoyed your input. Best of luck in all you endeavor. If we do happen to meet face to face some day, don't act like you don't know us! Take care.
From: Bai Bureh
To: All
Date Posted: 01:20:01 10/06/07 ()
Email Address: rastafari_ish@hotmail.com
Entered From: master-02.brg.sgsnet.se at 193.11.202.74
Aiy orman tay chaiy mi wan. Kay re ne mi mbor.
Iyayma in gbalr mi ka 'bai_burehuk@yahoo.co.uk.'
Iti kileneh en letter moo.
From: Candid Opinion - Temne Alert - Moderator- MODERATOR
To: All
Date Posted: 08:32:48 10/06/07 ()
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I thought a delete was annouched for all posts not been of english or a mixture of...?
Ok.. maybe you are still in slumber...we await your awakeness and enlightenment.
From: Bai Bureh
To: All
Date Posted: 08:51:41 10/06/07 ()
Email Address: rastafari_ish@hotmail.com
Entered From: master-02.brg.sgsnet.se at 193.11.202.74
Only because of you my temne post was deleted.Please make sure you don't post in any language other than english too;not even the use of non-english words.
So you are now the language police working hand in glove with the moderator.What a new interesting assignment.Lol.
From: Somtin Butu!
To: All
Date Posted: 09:00:45 10/06/07 ()
Email Address:
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Candid One is a snitch,
Candid One is the teacher's pet,
Bai Bureh, you know what?
Let's wait till school is over at two o'clock
and meet in the 'fityie kornah'..
and together we will 'bote' Candido, the teacher's pet!
From: Candid Opinion - Astafirrulie
To: All
Date Posted: 09:08:14 10/06/07 ()
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Leh god make me bozin fordom middle tong during rush hour...
me in the teachers corner..?
From: Candid Opinion
To: All
Date Posted: 08:57:52 10/06/07 ()
Email Address:
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BB...
From: KANFORIE SORIE KOROMA
To: All
Date Posted: 23:11:51 10/05/07 ()
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You will think that after the MIGHTY RED SUN consumed the wortless PALM TREE , tribalists like John Mannah will learn.
From: Abu Koroma
To: All
Date Posted: 04:01:44 10/06/07 ()
Email Address:
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What do you expect? John Mannah is a correpondence course graduate who claims to have a Ph.d in "financial economics."
From: babybob
To: All
Date Posted: 06:12:58 10/06/07 ()
Email Address:
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From: YUK
To: All
Date Posted: 08:51:09 10/06/07 ()
Email Address: yu_kamara@yahoo.com
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Man, the truth is the rigors involved in getting enrolled and taking classes and been supervised directly by a professor are far different from taking online courses. Maybe you don't know what getting a PhD in Economics means.
From: babybob
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Date Posted: 10:01:56 10/06/07 ()
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YUK,
Goethe University Frankfurt
Program: Economics
locat1on: Frankfurt am Main,
Click to send E-mail to: phd@wiwi.uni-frankfurt.de
Program: Economics - Ph. D.
locat1on: Milano, AL
Click to send E-mail to: graduate.school@unimi.it
From: Abu Koroma
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Date Posted: 07:58:11 10/06/07 ()
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my man babybob, the problem I have is not with distance learning. Not at all.
From: babybob
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Date Posted: 08:34:56 10/06/07 ()
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Alright, now I get it.
From: KANFORI SORIE KOROMA
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Date Posted: 22:47:26 10/05/07 ()
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Go to Cocorioko and see the photos of today's opening of Parliament and the report.They are enough to make every APC member feel proud.
LONG LIVE PRESIDENT ERNEST KOROMA
From: Mohamed Fofana
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Date Posted: 22:39:09 10/05/07 ()
Email Address: mfofana2004@sbcglobal.net
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-EDUCATION (collected informayion) and KNOWLEDGE (Organized Information for easy accessibility) is power!!
-Colossal power!!!
-Nonetheless, Education and Knowledge without WISDON and Moral Value is like UNGUIDED MISILE!!!
-It might even destroy the educated and knowledgeable individual that lacks wisdom and moral value.
-Wisdom/Moral values guides the individual about how, when, where and why to use the power.
-So let us beware!
From: alieu sesay
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Date Posted: 19:32:27 10/05/07 ()
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From Awareness Times Newspaper in Freetown
Sierra Leone Police arrests Strongman of Erstwhile SLPP Government
By Awareness Times Investigative Team
Oct 5, 2007, 18:46
One popular Sierra Leonean diamond dealer and supporter of the erstwhile Sierra Leone People’s Party (SLPP) Government by the name of Abdulai Sidibay, found himself yesterday tasting the raw and bitter flavour of the so-called National Unity and Reconciliation of Ernest Bai Koroma’s Government when he was arrested upon ‘orders from above’, and hurled off to the Koidu Town Police Station where he was denied bail up to press time last night.
From: Med
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Date Posted: 04:54:29 10/06/07 ()
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Awareness Times then contacted the Local Unit Commander of the Sierra Leone Police in Kono, Chief Superintendent Kabia who confirmed that indeed Abdulai Sidibay had been arrested over a complaint that was made to the Kono Police, in his words, "several weeks ago".
On the other hand, the SLP has proved not reliable, they have reduced this enviable institution to a political tool, the incompetent SLPP spitefully used them and I hope that they learnt a lesson. The SLP as institutions would remain forever, political figures/parties would change as frequent as every five years if not elections.
From: Toegondoe Sagbah
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Date Posted: 22:03:00 10/05/07 ()
Email Address: mendemoi@yahoo.com
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Fellas,
This is no more an era of SLPP "SELECTIVE" JUSTICE where some people get greater protection under the law than others. That happened all through the 10 years of SLPP rule and was widespread during the elections. Let me list a few:
1. When Charles Margai complained about an assasination attempt on his life around Mile Shaka, not an iota of investigation was made by the SLPP police.
2. When a female PMDC candidate was beaten up by SLPP goones in Segbwema and a complaint was made to the police, nothing happened.
3. When Ambassador Patrick Foya allegedly fired a gun at Charles in Kailahun, nothing was done to him.
4. When Tom Nyuma allegedly went to kill Ernest Koroma and was saved by Ernset's security guard, it was Leatherboot that was jailed, Nyuma went free.
5. When The Standard Times Editor Phillip Neville wrote what was alleged to be an incorrect article about the Khadafi rice and money, he was thrown in jail with no bail until he retracted the article even though up to now Kabba never told us where or to whom he sold the rice.
6. When SLPP supporters were burning down PMDC houses in Bo and Pujehun, nothing happened to them.
1. Do you consider a crime for a civilian (not police or army) to fire a gun in public?
2. You said that Sidibay had fired a gun at an SLPP rally...Did he? If so, do you consider that a breach of the law or not?
3. Did Sidibay have a license to fire a gun "in public"? If not, then do you think he commited a crime?
4. Do you think he should have been arrested way back then, but instead, was allowed to go free because he was an SLPP big wig and it was SLPP government's time?
5. Do you believe Chief Superintendent Kabia or not, that this is a "legitimate police investigation"?
6. Do you agree or not that in criminal law the gravity of a crime can dictate the allowance of a bail or not?
7. Who do you believe about IMATT's position, the Superintendent or the junior officer? Who should you believe?
8. Is the arrest of Sidibay hinged upon the incident at the scene of the crime (when people saw him fire a gun), or is it based on NOW that he may have hidden or gotten rid of the gun?
As to where the country is heading, let's all sit and wait. But try and be fair in your reporting and allow the law to take its course. If Sidibay fired a gun, he broke the law. May be breaking the law was a tolerable offence under the SLPP for SLPP supporters but not under this government.
From: John E. Leigh
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Date Posted: 12:31:48 10/06/07 ()
Email Address: johnernestleigh@yahoo.com
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Dear Mr. Toegondoe Sagbah:
".....................................
Please read below the facts about the Libyan rice fiasco as previously reported by me. Thank you. - JL
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recent elections greatly. In fact, external actors
used Kabbah's poor governance reputation to discredit
his government (and hence his chosen successors) and
to back the APC.
stubborn leadership on Kabbah's part as well as
shrewed opposition tactics. Here is my take on this
situation.
African dictator because of his known war role in
support of Foday Sankoh, Charles Taylor & the RUF,
etc. Nevertheless, Kabbah stubbornly courted him
endlessly in utter disregard of disapproving Sierra
Leoneans. I suspect that he and his underlings might
have traveled to Libya as much as more than 20 times
during his two terms.
rice Ghadaffi donated to the abused people of SL.
numerous markets around the country and at a
concessionary price. According to the Ministry of
Development, Mr. Ernest Koroma purchased 1,000 bags of
this rice and resold most of it for his private
profit.
properly deposited in the official bank account of
NASSIT, a social security fund set up by the SLPP
government for the benefit of old age pensioners (some
of this money should have been set aside to help
create employments for our youths, in my view).
explaining all this and had his speech and facts about
NASSIT posted on the presidential website.
the parliamentary committee that had oversight of
NASSIT and knew the whole truth but during the
campaign he appeared to have feigned ignorance of
these facts and never came to the assistance of Kabbah
even when the contagious APC hue and cry nationwide
after the false report about the donated Libyan rice
in a local pro-APC newspaper incited the public was
this (and please do excuse my reproduction of their
popular 'French'):
upon himself and his party by cozying up with the
hated Ghadaffi despite the public's long-running
revulsion!
in most markets around Sierra Leone made sense.
donated rice to each and every citizen wherever
located - from Freetown Central to the remotest baffa
in Koinadugu or Kambia or Bo or Pujehun Districts,
etc.
which reflected both the gift element as well as the
cost of distribution.
distribute the Libyan rice to each and every citizen
nationwide on a cost-effective basis, the average
share per citizen would have amounted to less than
half-a-cup; some say as little as two tablespoons
each.
led to more corruption and wastage and probably -
inter-family (or even tribal) fights or insults. And
remember, politicians are not the only corrupt people
in SL!
below to our attention.
JL ('58)"
From: Amadu Kabbah
To: All
Date Posted: 23:44:33 10/05/07 ()
Email Address: amadutkabbah@yahoo.com
Entered From: c-71-197-97-158.hsd1.ca.comcast.net at 71.197.97.158
WHY WOULD YOU WASTE ALL THESE QUESTIONS AT SYLVIA OR AWARENESS TIME? I have sent her a warning and I am sure she would not waNt to meet with the unfortunate when I would really tell her her story. Yes, I will be telling the story to her and not to readers. She might not take me seroius but when I will start to tell the story, then she would know that I am serious and VERY serious.
From: THE VOICE OF PROGRESS
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Date Posted: 04:02:20 10/06/07 ()
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You are the very people who will bring salone into chaos again. Why don't you don your research to have the authority to counter what awareness times have written. Please understand that salone is not only yours. When trouble comes the innocent and unarmed civiloians are the very people who will suffer. Let us be rational in our thoughrts and stop any abuse of the rule of law.
From: Bai Bureh
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Date Posted: 00:35:59 10/06/07 ()
Email Address: rastafari_ish@hotmail.com
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Orlangbah you can't say it much better.Bravo!
From: Mammy Blessing
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Date Posted: 22:37:06 10/05/07 ()
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Toegondoe, a powerful debunking of this SLPP propaganda directed, with wilful mischief, by Sylvia Blyden. In any civilized society, firing a gun in a public gathering is a crime, period. I am appealing to SLPP supporters not to get into the habit of criticizing every legitimate law enforcement exercise as a witch hunt. We are still a country of laws. Sidibay,or Sidi Bomba, as he is known in Koidu is one of those nefarious diamond swindlers who continue to swindle thousands of poor miners out of the true worth of their diamonds. He will 'TAP' a diamond and then bribe his way all the way to State House and get the poor miner jailed, with not a penny in compensation. Sidibay's religion is money, not SLPP or APC. He fired a gun for the SLPP because he believed his back will be scratched in return by SLPP (had they won) when he swindled his next diamond.
Of course Sylvia, partisan animal that she is, is trying to spin this as a witch hunt against SLPP. Reconciliation does not mean you have to allow a man to come into your house, pull down his pants, and defecate on your sofa. If you shoot a gun in public, you must be made to answer for your actions even in Sylvia's SLPP Utopia that we, the poor Sierra Leoneans, never really got to experience.
From: Amadu Kabbah
To: All
Date Posted: 23:16:14 10/05/07 ()
Email Address: amadutkabbah@yahoo.com
Entered From: c-71-197-97-158.hsd1.ca.comcast.net at 71.197.97.158
Sylvia,
From: Looking in
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Date Posted: 19:56:30 10/05/07 ()
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Sensationalism. In America that newspaper would be equivalent to the National Inquirer. Are there no laws regarding slander? A bit a truth, a bit of speculation, and a lot of circulation.
From: Amadu Kabbah
To: All
Date Posted: 22:40:21 10/05/07 ()
Email Address: amadutkabbah@yahoo.com
Entered From: c-71-197-97-158.hsd1.ca.comcast.net at 71.197.97.158
"I don’t know where the country is heading for under Ernest Bai Koroma and Sam-Sumana. SLPP spent years cultivating and maintaining a culture of tolerance and respect for the rule of law and an independent police. APC in just a few weeks in power has turned everything upside down with vindictiveness, revenge tactics, violence and an outright abuse of power especially by Sam-Sumana," the SLPP’s Secretary General, Jacob Jusu Saffa lamented last night.
From: Mammy Blessing
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Date Posted: 19:20:23 10/05/07 ()
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I know that I promised to write about an amorous adventure I had with a Kiwi when I cabbed in New York. Although the narrative is PG, the feelings aroused by that sweet adventure were so intense, my fast was almost compromised. After Pray day, I will write about it, just to show people that the cabbie cannot easily be stereotyped. I still keep my New York City TLC license, proudly displayed in my living room. I wish I still had my security guard license to display with my university degrees...
Take care fellas.
Mammy!
From: Kalos
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Date Posted: 09:46:24 10/06/07 ()
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MB, I was told a NY cabbie license is worth thousands of dollars. Make a copy of the lic for your display, sell the original and send me the money if you do not have immediate use for it.
From: Amadu Kabbah
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Date Posted: 23:53:41 10/05/07 ()
Email Address: amadutkabbah@yahoo.com
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Yes bro, many of us have many licenses to produce when we surface out there in the Promised land. You have the New York City TLC Lisence , the Security ID and degress to show. I have all those and more to show when another Moses(EBK)will lead us to the Promised Land. That's the time to tell the sweet stories all night long.
From: Leonean
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Date Posted: 16:59:50 10/05/07 ()
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I hope that the transiton team which you have set up is doing a good job Mr. President, but I personally believe that a cabinet, with full authority granted by our contitution should have been in place by now.
From: Toegondoe Sagbah
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Date Posted: 17:48:13 10/05/07 ()
Email Address: mendemoi@yahoo.com
Entered From: pool-71-168-132-186.cmdnnj.east.verizon.net at 71.168.132.186
You are a cheap, frustrated, vengeful, never-forgiving, nation-dividing, hate-mongering Berewa next of kin who doesn't want this country to heal.
From: SANTOS MANGA
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Date Posted: 18:59:55 10/05/07 ()
Email Address: santos@aol.com
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Moi saffa aka Toegondoe, once again you've missed the point. Politics is not about 'friendships it is about interests'. Besides, you have no licence to be rude to people in defence of your so called high prist Margai. Explain yourself bar been rude.Postings here are read by many civilized people around the world. Be civil.
From: Toegondoe Sagbah
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Date Posted: 19:21:13 10/05/07 ()
Email Address: mendemoi@yahoo.com
Entered From: pool-71-168-132-186.cmdnnj.east.verizon.net at 71.168.132.186
Do you understand politics? P-L-E-A-S-E!!!! You ar eanothe disgruntled SLPP. Stay quiet, you've been Kept quiet. For you, don't eat nails, eat more sour grapes and decreas your Ph Level. Boe lef me yaa.
From: SANTOS MANGA
To: All
Date Posted: 19:34:48 10/05/07 ()
Email Address: santos@aol.com
Entered From: at 86.156.235.37
Indeed. Were you not the same person who advocated that the disqualified votes of the APC and SLPP should be awarded to PMDC because they were no party to cheating. If your analysis was true, are you now in bed with the APC CHEAT.For you info I belong to no political hue. For now Sierra Leone is my political party.NO NEED TO BE RUDE TO EXPRESS YOUR OPINION.
From: Toegondoe Sagbah
To: All
Date Posted: 19:51:17 10/05/07 ()
Email Address: mendemoi@yahoo.com
Entered From: pool-71-168-132-186.cmdnnj.east.verizon.net at 71.168.132.186
Forgot to give you the website
See below
From: Toegondoe Sagbah
To: All
Date Posted: 19:49:30 10/05/07 ()
Email Address: mendemoi@yahoo.com
Entered From: pool-71-168-132-186.cmdnnj.east.verizon.net at 71.168.132.186
Ok I promise not to be rude. But I was not rude anyway. I simply enlisted a group of adjectives. What ticks me sometimes is when people refuse to be hones with themselves. And then they come off attacking from a politically slanted view point as if no one else is smart enough to pick up their drift.
From: SANTOS MANGA
To: All
Date Posted: 20:05:54 10/05/07 ()
Email Address: santos@aol.com
Entered From: at 86.156.235.37
Thanks for the link. I did not say I am not interested in politics. What I said was, I do not belong to any political party. Does that disqualify me from talking politics? I am not apolitical. Besides, it is my humble opinion that Sierra Leone is bigger than all of us and that includes political parties. Nevertheless, the day I declare for a political party I will let the world to know.
From: Leonean
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Date Posted: 18:26:17 10/05/07 ()
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Toegondoe, I wont waste my time with you and your debase language. Frustrated intellectuals like you are not worth my time. Your choice of words reveal the medieval mentality behind the pen you wield. Education was wasted on the likes of you.
From: Toegondoe Sagbah
To: All
Date Posted: 19:36:28 10/05/07 ()
Email Address: mendemoi@yahoo.com
Entered From: pool-71-168-132-186.cmdnnj.east.verizon.net at 71.168.132.186
Who are you to be woh anything? Another frustrated SLPP crook? You can never be lucky to get my type of education in your entire life, so get over the education
From: Leonean
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Date Posted: 19:52:51 10/05/07 ()
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Your type of education is not what appeals to me. Any educational endeavor that makes its pursuer lowly and vile does not appeal to me. See the problem with entities like you is that you associate with so many people you are more educated than that you then convince yourself that you probably are more educated than all.
From: SANTOS MANGA
To: All
Date Posted: 20:10:08 10/05/07 ()
Email Address: santos@aol.com
Entered From: at 86.156.235.37
I agree but try not to be rude to him. He said, he is not going to be rude in the future. Let us be civil to one another we are all brothers and sisters.
From: Leonean
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Date Posted: 20:21:46 10/05/07 ()
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I will try, although it is hard because of his choice of language.
From: Toegondoe Sagbah
To: All
Date Posted: 21:17:47 10/05/07 ()
Email Address: mendemoi@yahoo.com
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Ok Guy,
Accept my appology, sorry. I am usually only issue oriented. But sometimes, the animal in me kicks in. And I amnever too proud to beg either.
From: SANTOS MANGA
To: All
Date Posted: 20:27:00 10/05/07 ()
Email Address: santos@aol.com
Entered From: at 86.156.235.37
OR CAN I SAY SISTER
From: SANTOS MANGA
To: All
Date Posted: 20:25:16 10/05/07 ()
Email Address: santos@aol.com
Entered From: at 86.156.235.37
I KNOW BUT THANKS FOR TRYING BROTHER.
From: Brabanxx
To: All
Date Posted: 17:42:38 10/05/07 ()
Email Address: Brabanxx@aol.com
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Today APC,PMDC, and SLPP members waved banners that echoed the "new dawn" envisaged by HE Ernest Koroma. In this light, let us continue to have the spirit of change that has been so frequently inculcated during this elections. In this same spirit let us hope that Margai will be a changed person also. If this does not come true of Margai,I do not think he can do much harm.
From: SUBWANALAI
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Date Posted: 16:02:02 10/05/07 ()
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Never argue with a fool - people might not know the difference. Cheers!
The battle line is drawn. Pick your weapon in this duel. For if you miss, I shall lay you naked for the birds of prey. Idiot! How dare you call me a fool? Just because your ways and mine are incompatible? You've picked the wrong man mate.
Here is a pleasant invitation to your common rudeness: IF YOU HAVE GOT BALLS, BAN ME. The span of my life is not dependent on COCORIOKO; but I assure you that you will continue to see my postings untill I am pleased that you've been beaten inot pulp. Imbecile! Ah Heng Bass...
I were to, I would do so in a different capacity, and
I bet you are no match.
< MODERATORS COMMENT TO KALOS' POSTING: Kabs is this the confrontational moron you imposed on decent people. This guy is plain crazy. Well, mighty host has now gathered against the bully.
From: Onliner
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Date Posted: 19:51:29 10/05/07 ()
Email Address:
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The consistence with which the moderator has been maintaining this forum earns respect yet to be matched by those have no contributions whatsoever to pride about.
Their postings bear the hallmarks of the PHD syndrome – a curse that contaminates upon contact, and intended to obliterate every form of social and economic progress.
One only needs to look at what happened to the Athens of Africa to foresee the intentions of these detractors. They are alumnae of the “Salone Man Sabi Pwell” old school of thought. Now that things haven’t gone their way, Kabs and members of the Cocorioko team are being hijacked by a consensus of the clan type of modus operandi.
“A bon chat bon rat” say the French. (Translation: to a good cat, a good rat). The forum administrators should stand the ground against those whose sole intentions are to wreak havoc. We would rather see them banned than let the forum go down Samba gutter.
Keep up the good work moderator! Keep up the good work Cocorioko!
From: Kalos
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Date Posted: 18:41:54 10/05/07 ()
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Now, what say you Mr. Moderator? Subwanalai you stole my thunder,
albeit, thanks for undressing him and clinically taking him to school. I just
got home and frantically looking for any additional misguided postings
from him.
Kabs, please hold back and allow time to display its power of temperance.
From: ORSOJAH
To: All
Date Posted: 17:30:53 10/05/07 ()
Email Address: makeni_one@yahoo.com
Entered From: c-76-114-228-69.hsd1.md.comcast.net at 76.114.228.69
Interesting dabates.
From: KBM
To: All
Date Posted: 15:41:33 10/05/07 ()
Email Address: kbm@kbm.com
Entered From: 5ac31c3e.bb.sky.com at 90.195.28.62
Shame to see that Kandeh Yumkella is now seeking to become SLPP leader. Why would a democratic party entertain a man that partook in a military coup? Maada Bio and Kandeh Yumkella are cut out of the same cloth - men who were prepared to take up arms against their own people in pursuit of their selfish interests. They are destructive men of the past - a cancer that should never be allowed to return.
From: Bugsyb
To: All
Date Posted: 15:54:46 10/05/07 ()
Email Address: aburneynic@yahoo.co.uk
Entered From: acd4152c.ipt.aol.com at 172.212.21.44
Sir, Kandeh Yumkella took no part in the Coup that overthrew the APC Government in 1992, I know that he served the NPRC Government (1994-1995) but tht was after a good deal of moral blackmail and arm-twisting (coincidentally by someone very close to our present Head of State). He cannot be tarred by the same brush as Maada Bio.
From: Truth and Justice
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Date Posted: 16:06:12 10/05/07 ()
Email Address: trc@trc.com
Entered From: 5ac31c3e.bb.sky.com at 90.195.28.62
Wait and see what comes out of the revamped TRC. YOu may find out that men like Kandeh were the brains behind the NPRC coup. They financed the men with guns, provided its leadership in government, sanctioned the execution of their enemies, and planned the transition from the gunmen to their party - SLPP. They thought they had suceeded and could keep their involvement a secret, but it will all come out now. They only suceeded in destroying the country we love, for their selfish interests.
From: Bugsyb
To: All
Date Posted: 16:54:09 10/05/07 ()
Email Address: aburneynic@yaho.co.uk
Entered From: acd4152c.ipt.aol.com at 172.212.21.44
I shall be very surprised if you are proved right, I am still of the opinion that the Coup of 1992 was very badly planned and poorly financed and only succeeded because we were fed up of the corrupt and incompetent APC Government of Joseph Momoh. Who would beleive that any Government could be worse than that lot, but thanks to Tejan Kabbah and his kleptocratic bunch of buffoons we know see how wrong we were.
From: Capt Yamao Khati
To: All
Date Posted: 19:59:18 10/05/07 ()
Email Address:
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Bugsyb,
From: med jay
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Date Posted: 15:32:03 10/05/07 ()
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Mr.Paul i think you are one of the most doctrate full Sierra Leone has ever produced. It is a shame for a doctor like you not to simply comprehend a simple statement of a person. If you are linguistly inclined what do you mean by the word "past". Shame on calling someone whos is well knowledgable of his environment as a past man. Infact do you call you father a past man because of his age. If your father is alive and heard his son calling someone past man i think he will be ashamed of having as a son like you. I think the coming back of APC into power is blinding folding most of your type from reality. To cut long matter short the person you need to advice to beware is your foolish vice president who think he can make life mesirable for SLPP MEMBERS. MAY GOD BLESS SIERRA FROM THE HAND OF THUGERY LIKE YOU.
From: Kalos
To: All
Date Posted: 15:36:54 10/05/07 ()
Email Address:
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Who is Paul Kamara? Any recent posting by him?
From: Looking in
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Date Posted: 14:59:31 10/05/07 ()
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GOOGLE NEWS: Copyright © 2007 AFP. All rights reserved.
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From: KKW
To: All
Date Posted: 16:29:25 10/05/07 ()
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One hesitates to join the bandwagon of praise-singers in spite of having great personal respect for the new president. I remember only too well the dawns of two previous new eras that hopelessly failed to live up to initial expectations. There was the Joseph Momoh's "new order" in 1985, and Valentine Strasser's "revolution" in 1992. Public and media sycophancy combined with sweet-talking, connection-offering civil servants all too frequently hi-jack the spirit of change before it has time to take root.
From: Reporter
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Date Posted: 15:42:32 10/05/07 ()
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Pres. Koroma is making it clearer by the day that he is of a different generation that yearns for PROGRESSIVE politics rather than the TRIBAL politics that allowed 'Old Pa' politicians to divide and rule. APC and PMDC stalwarts that thought it would be "tiff-tiff" business as usual are getting a rude shock.
From: KKW
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Date Posted: 14:21:18 10/05/07 ()
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Very interesting how our local/online newspaers choose their daily headlines.
From: SHEMBU
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Date Posted: 14:19:48 10/05/07 ()
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Sorry that the FBC student union ban of last year still holds. It is about time University administrators
stop this old-school iron-fisted move any time they see students rise up and speak up for their rights. Universities all over the world have students' unions looking after the welfare of students. Those of us of the '87 - '92 generation at FBC, experienced a bitter challenge in trying to restore the students' union that we never met at FBC following the ban during the stdent leadership of: Alie Kabba, Samuel Foyoh and others.
From: Bamaby Lans Kamara
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Date Posted: 13:04:18 10/05/07 ()
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Anxiety Over New Cabinet is Unwarranted
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Date Posted: 13:02:38 10/05/07 ()
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Courtsy - www.thenewpeople.com
As Lamina Poyo continues to be bewildered since is arrival at Fort Thornton, he continues to make naive moves in his appointment schemes. Lamina Poyo would want his followers and people of Ro Kiamp to believe he is serious about cleaning the house he has just acquired through questionable means.
Mr Wilkinson who teaches math in senior secondary school became more interested in the conversation. "Do not tell me that little boy," said Mr Wilkinson in his fake British accent.
From: Bambay Lans Kamara
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Date Posted: 12:53:53 10/05/07 ()
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From: Bambay Lans Kamara
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Date Posted: 12:46:05 10/05/07 ()
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The Independent (Freetown)
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From: SLPP Porn Star
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Date Posted: 12:13:54 10/05/07 ()
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Folks of the noble party,
From: Toegondoe Sagbah
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Date Posted: 17:54:19 10/05/07 ()
Email Address: mendemoi@yahoo.com
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With a novice like JJ Blood, 2012 will be an easy win for PMDC
From: Kakroach
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Date Posted: 12:27:28 10/05/07 ()
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Way Kakroach wan alaki, e day go nar pamine bottle. You cannot be serious. Do you fathom JJ as president? You've got wild dreams.
From: THE VOICE OF PROGRESS
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Date Posted: 12:21:59 10/05/07 ()
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SLPP Porn Star, I normally do not respond to such but for the sake of correctness, may I suggest you tell JJ Blood, to his face that his lack of respect for the party and the voters cost us the election. He has so much to hide that every attack on his person begets venom. JJ Blood was unable to carjole the voters because of his silly self-created arrogance. i pray he finds time to apologise to the party for conducting such a bad campaign. he divided the chapters of the party and formed his own FRIENDS OF BEREWA, who further alienated the true and loyal executive branches we have around the world.
From: Bock Jah
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Date Posted: 04:31:42 10/06/07 ()
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I agree with you because i witnessed this when i was in S/L before the elections.There was a radio call-in programe and a man from the east-end of the city was complaining that the water from the wells they had provided was not healthy for drinking.JJ replied in a manner i regarded as arrogant,imature and insensitive by saying the man should not go to the well and should find another means of getting clean water if he is complaining.
From: O'wount
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Date Posted: 13:44:10 10/05/07 ()
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Who Yumkella? I hope not that one of Samu Chiefdom, Kambia District. If that is the one I will stop by saying Parah!. seyor moneh oh!
From: THE VOICE OF PROGRESS
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Date Posted: 14:17:25 10/05/07 ()
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He is of Samu origin but i believe he is not the one you are talking about.
From: Bai Bureh
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Date Posted: 12:18:23 10/05/07 ()
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Then it is bye bye SLPP!
From: Toegondoe Sagbah
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Date Posted: 12:05:38 10/05/07 ()
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Fellow Sierra Leoneans,
In the interest of forming political alliances for the betterment of Salone, it is necessary to be pragmatic about alliances that stand for CHANGE.
1. A future where honest leaders are elected to rule
2. A future with progressive leaders. Leaders whose objective will be to bring our country into the 21st century
3. A future when our country is no longer at the bottom of the UN development index
4. A future with a government not hacked by massive corruption
From: Surprised
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Date Posted: 05:05:47 10/06/07 ()
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I thought PMDC is merging into APC???Please clarify??
From: Bai Bureh
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Date Posted: 12:20:59 10/05/07 ()
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I promise you 10000 SLPP members who need rehabilitation and relief from their party's stigma.
From: brother
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Date Posted: 13:19:56 10/05/07 ()
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Moi Saffa aka Toegondoe Sagbah keep deluding yourself.
From: nico
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Date Posted: 13:25:31 10/05/07 ()
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He is not deluding himself. I am in the process of applying to be a member of PMDC. The SLPP is unelectable and leaderless. The PMDC has a vision for Sierra Leone which the SLPP will never compete with. The SLPP is no longer a national party but groups of individuals who wants to hijack the leadership of Sierra Leone.
From: brother
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Date Posted: 13:29:13 10/05/07 ()
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you can also join the deluding club. Remember my word as long as some us live PMDC WILL NEVER REPLACE SLPP. In fact I will not reply to anything you post next.
From: nico
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Date Posted: 09:19:14 10/07/07 ()
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You better not reply, but I have to state it. Who is deluded, the SLPP or the PMDC? your SLPP party said during the election campaign that they would win the election by 75%, your SLPP chairman also told the world that they had already won the election even before votes were cast, following the fake million man march in Bo and that they were only waiting to formalised their victory in post election. Did you hear your loud mouth Secretary General, JJ Blood said Charles Margai was a joker. Man I believe U when you said you will not reply. But dare to. I am having a nice sunday couscus for lunch. Please stop posting your rubbish. When u define delusion, you will have no choice but to accept that that descr1ption is aptly attributable to your SLPP. Lotta
From: THE VOICE OF PROGRESS
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Date Posted: 14:21:19 10/05/07 ()
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That is exactly my position - pay them less ears. let them live in dream land. They are caught in a limbotic situation. ignore them and you keep them silent - pay them attention - you keep them talking.
From: Toegondoe Sagbah
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Date Posted: 17:52:21 10/05/07 ()
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Only a loser will go to a lost party that just lost.
From: THE VOICE OF PROGRESS
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Date Posted: 18:13:47 10/05/07 ()
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Did you win?
From: Toegondoe Sagbah
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Date Posted: 19:25:01 10/05/07 ()
Email Address: mendemoi@yahoo.com
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NO! MY PARTY WAS MASSIVELY RIGGED...THE SLPP BRAND OF POLITICS. Oh, before I forget we ere alsohighly overspent with government and donor money. Stay tuned, you will get to know about these from the investigations.
From: kamara
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Date Posted: 06:13:09 10/06/07 ()
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Togondoe:
parliamentary seats , big deal. How many did they win in Freetown or the North?
From: Candid Opinion
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Date Posted: 13:42:55 10/05/07 ()
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If PMDC was seriously considering the big league..
Pa Margai dey cam..
From: mkay
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Date Posted: 11:32:17 10/05/07 ()
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Our president,the peoples president is strong,handsome,articulate and honest not like the outgoing government of corrupt,mumus,incompetent administration that rules the country without insight and unpatriotism are now teaming up and steal the last kopor that our new president is aiming to buildup for the wellbeing of the lost nation in the world.una nor vex o loosers.
From: THE VOICE OF PROGRESS
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Date Posted: 12:47:17 10/05/07 ()
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No one will steal the people's purse and survive with it. The curse of putting millions in penury will come to haunt your offsprings.
From: Kalos
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Date Posted: 11:23:24 10/05/07 ()
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The ongoing rumor in Sierra Leone is AMNESTY for the sake of unity and reconciliation. I hope EBK and the legislature will not buy into this short-cut indirectly promoted and generally sponsored by culprits in the last SLPP administration.
From: NO AMNESTY
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Date Posted: 13:26:41 10/05/07 ()
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Did Kabbah/Berewa gave amnesty to twenty four innocent military Officers. Did he pity Soloku Bockarie?
From: Lamina Poyo
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Date Posted: 10:48:55 10/05/07 ()
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