Subject: IS FEN PLABA IS A JACK OF ALL TRADE?
From: FREE SPEECH
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Date Posted: 12:53:58 12/12/07 ()
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A jack of all trades and master of none.
Has been all over the place taken its toll?
Have you ever heard of the saying that, you can spread yourself so thin that you become ineffective everywhere?
Subject: THINK - TANK HAVE NO CLUE: GOOD LUCK
From: THINK-TANK
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Date Posted: 11:31:22 12/12/07 ()
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While I applaud the Think-Tank's desires, I have this to say to them. The Leone will not reach parity with the Dollar or the Pound Sterling in the next fifty years, and this is a conservative estimate. It may take longer, or may be never. I would like to be as optimistic as their recommendations and desires are, but I have yet to see the infrastructures that would promulgate the strengthening of our currency. For Sierra Leone to start seeing success in increasing the value of its currency, the following should be happening at an accelerating rate:
1. The country needs (to recruit) a workforce that is highly educated and skillful
2. Productivity of basic SLeonean essentials (rice and other) at home must exceed our current consumption, thereby having a surplus that can be traded elsewhere for foreign currency.
3. Fiscal spending must also be controlled and made to only relevant and appropriate areas/levels.
These issues, among many, must be addressed form the start before our hopes and desires are realized.
Subject: Re: THINK - TANK HAVE NO CLUE: GOOD LUCK
From: KKW
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Date Posted: 13:53:38 12/12/07 ()
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I think the Think Tank (pardon the tautology)has made an amazing effort. I, as well as many others, have several questions, but nevertheless, it is a blueprint that has the potential to be a roadmap out of our nation's current quandary. What has ailed us as a nation is the absence of hope, and the absence of a plan. If we give in to hopelessness, we will accept the status quo. Rather than condemn it outright and do nothing, it makes sense to critique it and hope that the final version of the plan, once implemented, sets Sierra Leone firmly on the road back to recovery.
Subject: Re: THINK - TANK HAVE NO CLUE: GOOD LUCK
From: John Simpson
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Date Posted: 12:38:08 12/12/07 ()
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Bra you have already done far better than the so called Think Tank will ever do. The so called Think is a collection of voodoo economists under the leadership of the clueless Mohamed Jalloh.
Subject: Re: THINK - TANK HAVE NO CLUE: GOOD LUCK
From: Chez Winakabs Europe
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Date Posted: 12:45:14 12/12/07 ()
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Not again. An idea by someone does not have to regarded as cluless. Confront him with questions - debate him on issues you think are unworkable or impracticable. To dismiss is to throw away the sense he sees in his idea.
We cannot all go to rome via the same route.
Good day fellow!!
Subject: Re: THINK - TANK HAVE NO CLUE: GOOD LUCK
From: For Chez
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Date Posted: 13:01:11 12/12/07 ()
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You made a brilliant point Chez. Ideas are indeed debatable, especially when it comes to economics. economic solutions are indeed controversial; what might work in one situation might not work in a similar situation by the same precription. Otherwise, we would never have had the supply and demand side economics.
this is what most Sierra Leoneans fail to realize; that economics is abstract and that there is no single solution to an economic problem. Besides, economists often apply different methods to arrive at a similar solution. We may disagree with the methods, but could agree on the solutions.
Thus in economics, no one economist is better than his peer especially when I could equally argue against your methodology applied.
In such, economics is often a debatable subject. a professor of economics once referred to the subject as 'an art of persuasion'; the more you can conjecturize, the better is your art of persuasion.
Subject: Re: THINK - TANK HAVE NO CLUE: GOOD LUCK
From: The Guy next door
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Date Posted: 13:49:42 12/12/07 ()
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I hope Prof. Kallon is reading these threads. 2Wks ago I could not help but to respond to the manner in which he dismissed policies adopted by a State house economist(Kawusu-Conteh)in his article posted on Patriotic vongaurd. This was in regards to measures taken to keep the flow of electric while the Bumbuna project is being soughted. He simply called the man's findings "rubbish".
Sometimes I wish Chez was President of Africa!!!!
Maybe some day. Life and hope does compliment each other, Chez! is inscribed somewhere in between.
Subject: KABS KANU HAS FINALLY GOT WHAT HE WORKED FOR.
From: okdok
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Date Posted: 11:40:12 12/12/07 ()
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My friend,you did well at election campaign time.We hope to see you with more better position if need be.
Subject: KABS TO HEAD NEW COMMUNICATION NETWORK AT STATE HOUSE
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Date Posted: 09:01:10 12/12/07 ()
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From my investigations, IF Kabs Kanu accepts the new job of DIRECTOR OF COMMUNICATIONS at State House, I learnt from the agbagbas inside here that he is going to head a new Communications Network at State House set up by the APC government . He will decide what goes out and he will also liase with all the other ministries, government corporations and parastatals to get their information out. While the press secretary will be attached to the President, the Director of Communications will be attached to all the ministers and Directors of parastatals.
I will advise Mr. Kanu to take the job because it will also be a stepping stone to something even better, if he serves the government well and pleases the President and his ministers.
Subject: Re: KABS TO HEAD NEW COMMUNICATION NETWORK AT STATE HOUSE
From: The Guy
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Date Posted: 11:41:55 12/12/07 ()
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This Job of P.S. is a joke. Many of us depend on online news for information. It appears most or all of the information presented on this forum, paper and other online news outlet(P.Vongaurd) is boggus with respect to the P.S. position. It appears the editors are subscribing to the rumour or are just lacking in their quest to seek and desiminate better information.
I am under the impression: the P.S. position is such an important position(mouth piece of the Executive)so much, so that it should have been amongst if not the first to fill. If we can go with out it for this long then my take is: its merely ceremonial and most probably not needed. Forumites your views.
Subject: Re: KABS TO HEAD NEW COMMUNICATION NETWORK AT STATE HOUSE
From: Chez Winakabs Europe
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Date Posted: 11:50:17 12/12/07 ()
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My view is that it is in place - the presidential affairs minister has been conducting such. I think the job should be a full-time post and not as it is now been seen - Alhajie Alpha Kanu part-timing the post.
What about the Information minister? He has too much work already - so such cannot be under his sleeve. The Press Secretary and the Director of Communications (DOC) should be separate. The P.S. to work directly in the president's office and the DOC to have the independence to collate all information trickling from all government and parastatals.
I think both are needed!! The big question is - where is the salaries for these outfits to come from?
Subject: Re: KABS TO HEAD NEW COMMUNICATION NETWORK AT STATE HOUSE
From: The Guy
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Date Posted: 13:32:46 12/12/07 ()
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I think both are needed!! The big question is - where is the salaries for these outfits to come from?
The Million pounds Question:
All the reason why these functoins should stay merged.
Subject: Re: KABS TO HEAD NEW COMMUNICATION NETWORK AT STATE HOUSE
From: Chez Winakabs Europe
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Date Posted: 11:36:07 12/12/07 ()
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Very confusing - "...the Director of Communications will be attached to all the ministers and Directors of parastatals." To be attached to all the ministers and directors or parastatals seems far-fetched.
It would bode well if he was to have an independent office liaising with the press officers of all the ministries and parastatals.
Here is a typical example of what the incumbent (say Rev. Kabs) role should be:
Take note that I have not made suggestions to how much the pay should be and the conditions of work.
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JOB DEscr1ptION
JOB TITLE: DIRECTOR OF COMMUNICATIONS
TO REPORT TO THE SECRETARY TO THE PRESIDENT
The incumbent in this position is appointed by, and serves at the pleasure of the Government of Sierra Leone.
The incumbent reports to the Secretary to the President/ or whatever name the President's secretary carries.
The incumbent acts as the designated communication organ for the Government's ministries and parastatals and serves as primary liaison between the Ministries, parastatals, president's office and the media; acts as principal public spokesman on all matters of government policy, public information, and sensitive issues.
The incumbent consults with the Government's senior management to develop the public relations strategy and public affairs policy for the Government's Office, handling all sensitive issues.
The incumbent manages media messaging; oversees news releases and advisories from the Government's Office via the Secretary to the president.
The incumbent oversees the approval for quotes, statements and other official comments for publications, attributed to the Government; manages media archival process; serves as a liaison for the public information officers of all ministries and parastals agencies.
The incumbent in this position is responsible for organising news conferences and media interviews with and for the Government; responsible for preparing the Government and staff for media interviews.
Consults with top level management in the development of program strategy and public affairs policy.
Applies a broad range of creative and technical skills to the development of staff expertise and to the assurance of skillful public relations.
As the Director of Communications the incumbent should be responsible for maintaining open dialogue between government and the people.
The following tasks are included in this responsibility:
To transmit information about pending and completed government resolutions, committees and task forces to the people or Sierra Leone and the outside world by means of a weekly government announcement in the Government communication organ and/or government website.
Ascertain people's needs, desires, and concerns by polling or other methods.
Publicise government events via posters, email and chalking boards.
Maintain and update the government website.
Maintain and update the Events calendar at the government website.
Check and respond to the government mailing address.
Maintain the government listservs.
Maintain a government bulletin board with updated Events Calendars and other information of interest to the people and the media.
The Director of Communications should be empowered to assemble a committee to achieve these goals.
Subject: FAO: CRITICS - NEW COMMUNICATION NETWORK AT STATE HOUSE
From: Chez Winakabs Europe
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Date Posted: 11:40:57 12/12/07 ()
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The above is merely suggestive and not otherwise. We love our country and we would be happy to see it function as a state with all sovereign rights.
Subject: CITY LIGHTS
From: Chez Winakabs Europe
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Date Posted: 07:53:20 12/12/07 ()
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Very funny but hope it will touch on the consciences of those responsible for the betterment of their people.
Subject: Re: CITY LIGHTS
From: Chez Winakabs Europe
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Date Posted: 08:00:04 12/12/07 ()
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I am sorry folks - the link needs a password and that is classified. I will try another way of sending the images for your reference.
It is actually about illuminating cities around the world including some in Africa. We you come to Freetown - you only see darkness.
Subject: CHEZ
From: FORREST GUMP
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Date Posted: 07:26:48 12/12/07 ()
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How are you my friend? , It was nice making your acquaintance at the dance on Saturday at the Hotel, the only thing we did not exchange phone no`s but that won`t be a problem. I saw you won a present on the raffle I hope it was a nice one,My regards to you and the Mrs
FORREST
Subject: Re: CHEZ
From: Chez Winakabs Europe
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Date Posted: 07:49:40 12/12/07 ()
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The pleasure was mine. I was happy to meet someone we agree and disagree on the net in person. It was a wonderful night. What astonished me most was the amount raised. way above what was needed. If only we could all come together with a purpose, we could achieve any thing we target. The prize of the raffle was brilliant. It was a super perfumed candle - I love the scent - it gives out what makes my nest calm. The maderon is fine - she enjoyed herself.
merry christmas to you and the family.
winakabs@rock.com
07956967000
Subject: Re: CHEZ
From: FORREST GUMP
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Date Posted: 07:57:42 12/12/07 ()
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I have called and left a message
FORREST
Subject: Re: CHEZ
From: Chez Winakabs Europe
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Date Posted: 08:02:54 12/12/07 ()
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Thanks!! I truly enjoyed your company and all.
Subject: Report on the World Bank African Diaspora Open House
From: Sierra Leone Youth Organization Representative
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Date Posted: 07:24:28 12/12/07 ()
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Report on the World Bank African Diaspora Open House
By Akindele Decker
The World Bank African Diaspora Open House held in Washington D.C. on November 29th 2007, was attended by 250 delegates from across the United States. Young Leaders – Sierra Leone Organization registered and was confirmed to attend the event, after receiving prior notification from African Tourism Organization (ATO). African professionals poured into the World Bank’s H Building with determination and curiosity at what the World Bank had to offer for the African Diaspora. The event opened up with speeches from Obiageli Ezekwesili, Africa Regional Vice President; Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Incoming Managing Director; and Hon. Amina Salum Ali, African Union (AU) Ambassador to the United States. The Chairman of the event was Richard Cambridge, the Regional Operations Advisor and Acting Manager, Capacity Development Management Action Plan Unit.
Mrs. Ezekwesili mentioned some of the key areas that Africa, as a whole, must make priority. Some of these included transparent management of mineral resources, facilitate regional and international trade, improve the capability of public service institutions, and the effective linking of human and financial capital to the respective areas of need. She also talked about some of the activities of the World Bank towards this initiative, such as high-level seminars on remittances, the creation of instruments to enable Diaspora engagement, and a development marketplace.
The Incoming Managing Director, Dr. Okonjo-Iweala, gave more substantive information on what opportunities for engagement were available as well as various avenues that needed to be tapped into. She mentioned the need to include African Americans, as they are part of the African Diaspora as defined by the AU, which is also the official definition used by the World Bank. Dr. Okonjo-Iweala also emphasized on a subject that has been quite a topic of discussion among the several Sierra Leonean forums recently, which is that of the gap of civil society in its engagement with the government. She stressed that there can be no good governance without a strong civil society. Civil society, according to her, can play many influential roles within the governing system, including examining government budgets and establishing mechanisms for accountability in the health, infrastructure, and other areas in which the public sector function.
Dr. Okonjo-Iweala touched on the challenges faced by the African Diaspora. Some of these include the fact that no one will effectively develop Africa but Africans, and the negative welcoming Diaspora Africans usually meet at home, although she convincingly stated that for every negative person at home, there are ten to fifteen positive people as well. Her message to the African Diaspora group was that we have to ensure that we produce results, measure our involvement, and become Ambassadors for change in Africa.
The AU Ambassador, Hon. Amina Salum Ali, reiterated some of the points made by the two earlier speakers, and she confirmed that Africa is in the right direction. She spoke about the commitment between the AU and the World Bank through a forthcoming Memorandum of Understanding expected early 2008. She stated that the African Diaspora will be officially sanctioned the 6th region of Africa by the AU, which will strengthen its legitimacy and provide a legal platform to put forth the African Diaspora’s agenda.
Opportunities and resources for the African Diaspora
Four key elements of the World Bank’s program for the African Diaspora that were covered during the open house, included “World Bank Portfolio”, “African Diaspora Remittances Investment Fund”, “Enabling Environment & Country Ownership”, and “Knowledge Sharing”. The World Bank portfolio, as presented by Gerard Byam, Director, African Region, Quality and Knowledge Department, was very impressive.
Some interesting data retrieved from Byam’s presentation includes the facts that the World Bank is currently managing 400 projects in Africa, with health, agriculture, transport and finance being the top 4. The highest numbers of projects are those dealing with sustainable development. From fiscal year 2008 – 2010, the three high priority areas of the World Bank projects include sustainability, poverty reduction, and human development. The six lending instruments of the World Bank includes IDA credits, IDA grants, Trust Funds, Africa Catalytic Growth Fund, IBRD Loans, and Guarantees, with the Trust Funds being the bulk used. Mr. Byam also noted that the World Bank does indeed provide funding to NGOs at a very small scale, through the Development Grant Facility for start-up institutions, Development Marketplace for the competition of ideas, and the Institutional Development Fund for capacity building initiatives.
According to Marilou Uy, Sector Director, Africa Financial and Private Sector Development Department World Bank Group, remittances have a significant developmental potential. Based on the World Bank data, $9.6 billion in remittances made its way to Sub-Saharan Africa in 2006. However, she noted that many of these remittances are conducted via informal systems. She also stated that currently, international remittance transfers are costly, while in-country transfers are often inefficient.
Some of the opportunities that can be attained in the efficient use and management of Diaspora funds, includes among other things, shifting personal remittances to the financing of development projects, leveraging on national and local government interested in attracting Diaspora investment, pooling funds to achieve economies-of-scale, and utilizing remittances as an entry point to financial systems. She concluded with the way forward for the World Bank, the African Diaspora and remittances, which included supporting financial sector development policies and reforms to reduce the cost of remittances, support innovations to facilitate remittances, stocktaking on existing investment funds and developing more reliable data on remittances.
John Page, Chief Economist, Africa Region, conveyed the overview of the World Bank’s enabling environment and country ownership element. He mentioned the positive areas of focus in Africa, such as the fact that two-thirds of Africans live in countries with more than 40% growth, growth collapses in other countries has prompted learned opportunities for governments, and better institutions are being created, while more countries are taking necessary steps to avoid conflicts. He also noted the negative aspects present in Africa, which includes, among other things, low private investment due to low savings, low investments, high risks, and lack of entrepreneurship. Mr. Page added that new leadership in African countries has several similarities, such as the commitment to increased private sector investment, however some are still searching for more effective ways in the way public and private sectors work together.
One key area that Mr. Page suggested the African Diaspora engage with home countries is in Trade. Stating the harsh fact that for most African countries, the same 5 exports used decades ago are the same 5 exports used today, Page encouraged the African Diaspora to get involved in an export push to encourage more innovative export products. With the African Diaspora’s experience with global markets and understanding of trends and taste, the Diaspora can make a significant difference in trade. Mr. Page also touched on the topic of skills. He rightly noted that with the increase in economies, skills become a constraint as an adequate skills force is needed to maintain stable economies. He urged all to shift the focus from a “Brain Gain” perspective to developing “Brain Banks”. He highlighted key aspects of the Brain Bank including setting up programs for temporary returnees, satellite learning, and training workshops.
Anders Zeijlon, the Acting Director for Regional Coordination in the World Bank Institute, presented his thoughts on the World Bank’s element of Knowledge Sharing. Though a very brief presentation, Mr. Zeijlon made some very interesting points and suggestions. He emphasized the importance of demand-driven knowledge sharing and results-focused initiatives. He stated that these are some of the key reasons why China is usually identified as an example of a country that makes good use of its Diaspora. The second session ended after a very comprehensive presentation of the elements of the World Bank and the opportunities and resources available for the African Diaspora.
African Diaspora Open House Delegates
Delegates at the African Diaspora Open House originated from various countries in Africa as well as African Americans. There were some from Zimbabwe, Sierra Leone, Nigeria, Ghana, Ethiopia, Kenya, and other African nations. The overall feeling and tone of the delegates was one of excitement and curiosity. After being silent throughout the previous two sessions, an opportunity was given to the delegates for responses to all of what the World Bank had proposed. It started out with a panel of African Diaspora delegates, which included Ben Afrifa of the Ford Foundation; Rosa Whitaker, President of Whitaker & Associates; and Lisa Aubrey, Associate Professor, Arizona State University.
It was very interesting to listen to the variety of questions and responses aimed at the World Bank. One distinct observation in the responses offered was the diligence in some to quickly concede any ounce of hesitation on our part. While Whitaker and Aubrey both demonstrated their need for more emphasis on the practical aspects of the World Bank African Diaspora Program, Afrifa used the opportunity to unsuccessfully persuade the World Bank to fund his company’s African Immigrant Remittance Investment Fund. This desperate act was attestation to a demeaning comment made by one of the earlier World Bank speakers, reminding the delegates that this event was not a grant-giving event. The fact that the World Bank automatically expected desperateness from these professional African delegates, speaks volumes about the effect increasing dependence on foreign aid has on the perception that the institutions themselves carry about Africa. Although briefly diverted by the unfortunate attempt of Afrifa’s proposal to the World Bank, Whitaker and Aubrey were both highlights in their attempt to raise very uncomfortable and challenging questions for the World Bank, such as the World Bank’s conformity to code of ethics, structural adjustments and trust of the World Bank, tangible initiatives and frameworks for mobilizing Diaspora resources, and the disconnect between economic studies and the private sector. Whitaker suggested increased value added exports rather than the usual raw materials currently exported in large quantities across the continent. She also suggested the involvement of the African Diaspora in procurement activities of the World Bank.
Two very interesting suggestions from the panel was that the World Bank should open up its IFC portfolio to the African Diaspora, and also that the World Bank should push for regional reform rather than country-country reform as regional reforms are more of an incentive towards integration. In response to the African Diaspora Delegates, the World Bank representatives stated that procurement is one of the most difficult and stressful areas of the World Bank and Diasporans are discouraged to venture in this area of the World Bank. Rather, the World Bank suggested Diasporans locate local firms that are already involved in this aspect of procurement and collaborate with them, rather than face the bureaucracy of the World Bank. Another area the World Bank suggested Diasporans get involved in was the E-Consulting element of the World Bank, to which all can apply and participate in.
The question and answer session was one of the most disappointing moments of the World Bank African Diaspora Open House. A moment that should have been encouraged by the World Bank and leveraged on to acquire as much reaction and suggestions from the Diaspora as possible was unfortunately given the shortest time of all of the other programs throughout the day. Out of about twenty delegates that stood in line to ask questions or make comments, less than half of that had the opportunity to have their questions or concerns addressed appropriately. There were even instances where some questions or remarks from delegates were cut short abruptly with a meager excuse that either the questions was not appropriate enough or we needed to move quickly in order to get to lunch.
However, one of the key highlights of the African Diaspora Delegate response was a question from Mohamed Jalloh, a Sierra Leonean financial executive, residing in Maryland, USA. After identifying himself to the delegates and World Bank panel, Mr. Jalloh stated that since the late 1970s he has been an avid critique of the World Bank. He stated unwaveringly that in 1979, he had predicted that the World Bank policies would negatively impact Sierra Leone and other countries in Africa. He asked that now that the World Bank had acknowledged the fact [at this open house] that their past policies had indeed caused some damage to African countries, would the “World Bank be prepared to pay restitution for its failures in the past 30 years?”
It was obvious to all the more than 250 people in the audience that Mr. Mohamed Jalloh’s question took the World Bank Chairman of the event, Richard Cambridge and the World Bank panelists by surprise as their facial expressions seemed bewildered and anxious for immediate quality control. The intensity grew as the tone of the entire audience grew increasingly ecstatic, while an African American sitting behind me quietly uttered, “that guy got some testicular fortitude” and another seemingly offended Caucasian Lady responded quietly “but he got the wrong testicular fortitude.” As expected, the World Bank avoided answering the questions and instead, through skillful quality control, stated that the World Bank’s Board of Directors would better answer such a question at a later date. After a few more questions, this response session ended with a break for lunch and additional networking.
Though seemingly confrontational, these panelists and delegates were rightly just in their approach in my opinion. The African Diaspora’s expectations for the World Bank in this venture must not be seen to be taken lightly as it impacts the very essence of Africa’s talented and skilled human capital. These challenging questions posed by Whitaker, Aubrey, Jalloh, and others are essential in ensuring the World Bank abandon its perception of a desperate and dependent Africa, for a conscious, determined, and serious Africa and her Diaspora. This is what the African Diaspora must bring to the table if we are to have a fair and just relationship with the World Bank that is mutually beneficial to all parties involved.
Agriculture Sub-group
Though officially titled “Agriculture, Environment, Natural Resources, Community Development, Women, Youth, and Vulnerable Groups”, the sub-group was in actuality centered on the sole focus of Agricultural development. However this worked out best, because the dialogue around Agriculture was effective enough to encompass the remaining areas. The presenters included two World Bank representatives from the African Agricultural department, a representative from the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), and Evans Darko from Ag Forte.
Among the discussants included Ibiduni Jones of African Tourism Organization (ATO), Kunmi Oluleye of Sheba Foods, and several others working in the agricultural sector and development fields. According to the World Bank presenter, Agriculture has 3 primary functions, namely, to trigger growth, a source of livelihoods, and a way of better managing natural resources and the environment. He stated that new opportunities within the Agricultural sector in Africa included, among other things, reduced taxation and trade agreements, institutional and technological innovations, and new actors and new ways of doing business.
Some of the major challenges however, include constraints on growth, making growth pro-poor, and implementation bottlenecks. He reassured the group that the World Bank supports investment operations or projects, as well as analytical work that may evolve from the African Diaspora. Some of the Diaspora entry points mentioned by the World Bank presenter, include advocacy on US trade policy reform, collaborative research, direct private investment, remittance flows, and public accountability.
From a private sector perspective, Evans Darko of Ag Forte, a poultry production firm based in Virginia, shared the firm’s experience within the Agricultural sector and emphasized on ways in which private sector investment can impact agricultural growth. Mr. Darko gave emphasis to the connection between agriculture, health, and education. Making an argument that a well-fed populace will produce an educated populace. He also stressed on the importance of dialogue between African governments, the World Bank, and the African Diaspora.
One solution, as expressed by Mr. Darko was the need for agricultural centers of excellence that would employ satellite learning and mentorship between agricultural workers and the African Diaspora. The session continued into more discussions, with other private sector experiences, such as Kunmi Oluleye who spoke about her company Sheba Foods, and her experiences dealing with Wal-Mart and other shopping centers. She also spoke about the effectiveness in serving as an intermediary between farmers at home and wholesalers or food manufacturers abroad. The agriculture sub-group concluded with more networking amongst the delegates, which was then followed by the final conclusion of the World Bank Diaspora Open House at the evening reception.
To note: several dialogues were established between a few of the Agricultural professionals and I. Follow-ups will be sought after in the attempt to take grasp of several opportunities in getting young people in Sierra Leone involved in investing in the Agriculture sector in Sierra Leone. Based on the information and dialogue at the sub-group, it is hopeful that investment by youth in the Agricultural sector can be a sustainable move towards wealth creation among the youth population in Sierra Leone.
Conclusions
We have yet to experience the seriousness of the World Bank’s African Diaspora program. As it seems, the program is still in its theoretical stage, although some signs are hopeful in that, action may materialize sooner than later. With this first move towards engaging with the African Diaspora, the World Bank has indeed established an opportunity for dialogue, however the real measure of gravity lies in forthcoming initiatives. It is still not clear what practical steps are to be taken towards World Bank’s role in engaging the African Diaspora in the development process of Africa.
Although there are some resources already available for Diaspora engagement such as the Development Marketplace, which has been established in the UK, this and other available resources are extremely competitive and embedded into a standardized system in which selective clients may already have the exclusive key to accessing the World Bank’s resources. Additional substantiation is needed from the World Bank through more such dialogue with the African Diaspora in order to convince those with doubts and skepticism that this initiative of the World Bank is truly genuine and beneficial.
Although there is much responsibility in the hands of the World Bank in regard to proving their case worthy to the African Diaspora, the African Diaspora also carries the responsibility of taking heed to these World Bank proposals with less accepting responses and more exploratory measures prior to formulating conclusions or decisions in accepting or refusing the World Bank’s proposal(s).
As evident at the World Bank African Diaspora Open House, although the African Diaspora delegates were extremely effective in engaging in dialogue and networking among ourselves, we did not cease the opportunity to be more assertive towards World Bank officials in respect to past ineffective policies and the World Bank’s track record of governance and exploitation in Africa.
In my view, in order to move forward to a stage where partnership and collaboration between the African Diaspora and the World Bank is to be institutionalized, the African Diaspora with its high esteem and experience with the West must ensure that the rights, equity, and resources of Africa are protected, respected, and treated justly by the World Bank. The African Diaspora must also not place complete reliability on the return rate of the World Bank’s Diaspora program. We have to be more enlightened to utilize the open content resources that the World Bank has available, without total dependence on the World Bank for making reference to these resources when developing citizen-managed initiatives for development.
In my view, Sierra Leone can achieve the goals of the World Bank’s African Diaspora program through the collective efforts of Sierra Leoneans themselves. Initiatives very similar to those proposed by the World Bank have already been developed. The equivalence of the World Bank’s Investment Fund and Remittance program matches up with our very Sierra Leone Investment Fund concepts and Dollar-A-Day (DAD). The very concept of engaging the African Diaspora in Africa’s development has been ongoing and in practice within the Sierra Leone community for the past few years, with more intensity the past two years.
The three areas which we lack strength, in my view, includes empowerment, organization, and rewards. We as individuals are not empowered enough to take full control of our fate as a nation. We find ourselves creating state-of-the-art initiatives however we fall short of implementation, because we lack empowerment and self-confidence in the success of what we have set out to achieve. Becoming fully confident in our abilities to manage and operate with the same effectiveness, World Bank program types, equipped with the vast knowledge and skills embedded in our human and social capital, is all the empowerment that we need.
In addition to empowerment, we as a Diaspora community needs to be organized into a functional and connected unit, operating efficiently according to standardized ethics, functions, and accountability mechanisms. The Council of Representatives (CORE) is an excellent way forward in regard to organizing the Sierra Leone Diaspora, and the annual Sierra Leone Youth Empowerment Conference (SLYEC) can be a very effective tool in organizing the Sierra Leone youth in the Diaspora as it also leverages on the inter-generational corporation from all segments of society.
As emphasized by World Bank Incoming Managing Director, Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, African Americans must be inclusive of the African Diaspora as defined by the African Union. Ghana has been an exemplifier of her engagement with African Americans through its heritage tourism and historical sites. As we continue to learn from both the Sierra Leone Gullah Heritage Association (SLGHA) and www. VisitSierraLeone .org, Sierra Leone has the capacity to match the Tourism industry of Ghana and possibly even surpass it. Through the Gullah communities of South Carolina, Georgia, and Florida, as well as data results from the African Ancestry’s DNA program, Sierra Leone lays claim to the ancestry of more African Americans than most people can begin to imagine.
In measuring Sierra Leone’s human and social capital in the Diaspora, one begins to understand the essence of a ‘brain bank’ as we carry vast talents and skills among our very professional and skilled Diaspora. Organizing these many facets of the Sierra Leone Diaspora into a fully functional unit serving several functions and targeting all segments in society, we can only imagine the wealth of results that we as a nation will experience once this phenomenon occur. Lastly, a third necessity we, the Sierra Leone Diaspora need in order to move forward effectively, is a system of rewards.
In my opinion, it is counter-productive for World Bank workers to gain financial and career rewards for implementing the exact programs that we Sierra Leoneans would implement for the sake of country. Some of us can argue that a citizen, particularly in the case of Sierra Leone, which is at the bottom of UNDP’s HDI table, should be willing to develop initiatives, manage them and implement them, for free, and for the mere sake of patriotism. Although this may be the ideal approach, realistically, it is one that results in little or no productivity, at least in our case.
One solution can be institutionalizing the rewards one receives from contributing his/her skills and talents towards the development, operation, or implementation of any initiatives towards development in Sierra Leone. The rewards received however, does not have to be financial, though it must be of value to the individual(s) receiving it so that all, whether encouraged by patriotism or not, can be equally productive due to an incentive rewarding system. Rewards to one individual can be in the form of nationally acknowledged awards, career development, experience, financial/income, profit, or even the sense of satisfaction from experiencing justice and content from providing aid and support to a struggling Sierra Leonean.
Whichever way it is setup, realistically, and in order to compete with the ever-growing influence and capacity of the World Bank over the way we govern ourselves, we need to establish a reward system, so that we can formally refer to ourselves as nation-builders and workers for Sierra Leone’s development. The future seems promising, as more recognition and opportunities have emerged for the Diaspora’s engagement with home-countries. The task is on the shoulders of the Diaspora, whether we will take advantage of these opportunities and leverage on them for the benefit of our nations according to our measures and not those designed to benefit all others with the exception of the beneficiaries themselves. There is one fundamental principle that I can say I respectfully share with World Bank’s Incoming Managing Director, Dr. Ngozi, Okonjo-Iweala, in that no one will develop Africa but Africans, so we must begin the process of taking Africa back.
About the Author: Akindele Decker is currently studying Global Business and Public Policy. He is also the Web Developer for African Tourism Organization (ATO). He serves as the Secretary- General for the Sierra Leone Network (SLN) and the Sierra Leone Gullah Heritage Association (SLGHA). Akindele was co-chair of the steering committees for the 2006 Youth-Led National Development Conference in Freetown, Sierra Leone and the 2007 Sierra Leone Youth Empowerment Conference in Maryland, USA. In April 2006, Akindele attended the “Youth and the New Pan-African Renaissance: Re-building Africa for the 21st Century” at Harvard University. He has given presentations on youth investment at the Freetown Solid Waste Management Company Online Consultation, and the 2007 Sierra Leone Network Voter Education Webinar. In November 2007, Akindele was selected to participate in the inaugural World Bank Diaspora Open House in Washington D.C. He holds the position as Vice President of Young Leaders - Sierra Leone and Chairman of its USA Branch. Akindele is an aspiring writer and an avid advocate for social and economic justice.
About Young Leaders – Sierra Leone: Young Leaders - Sierra Leone is a Non-partisan, Non-governmental, and Non-profit youth organization registered with the Government of Sierra Leone under the Ministry of Social Welfare, Gender and Children's Affairs and the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports. Young Leaders is dedicated to its mission of creating a platform for young Sierra Leoneans at home and in the Diaspora, in which unity, positivism, and nationalism is exercised through dialogue, development, education, advocacy, and networking. Members form various committees based on issues/areas where crucial needs have been identified in Sierra Leone and where members have individual interests. All 3 Branch in Sierra Leone, USA, and the UK currently has committees on: Business and Economics; Education; Health; Public Policy; Technology; and Women's Affairs. Some of the current and forthcoming initiatives of Young Leaders include the Sierra Leone Youth Portal, National Youth Helpline, Community Youth Empowerment Center, 2008 Sierra Leone Youth Empowerment Conference (SLYEC), 2008 Youth-Led National Development Conference, Advocacy Public Affairs (APA) programs and other initiatives. For more information about the organization and our programs, please visit our main website at www.youngleaders-sierraleone.org and our USA Branch website at www.ylsl-usabranch.org
Subject: FIRST SALONEAN BALLERINA! WAY TO GO SALONE!!
From: Bai Bureh
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Date Posted: 06:27:50 12/12/07 ()
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In the Wings: Michaela DePrince
Most ballerinas can trace their passion for dance back to a single early memory: a love-at-first-sight moment inspired by music, pink tulle, or satin slippers—perhaps in a theater, maybe in a dance studio. For Michaela DePrince, the introduction to ballet was a remarkable coincidence in the midst of devastation. Just twelve years old, Michaela has already made an extraordinary journey, replete with tragedy, hope, interventions of fate, and sweat-earned triumph. One wonders what could possibly happen next.
Michaela was born in Sierra Leone, a country in West Africa that the United Nations has declared to be the “least livable” nation in the world. Her parents were killed in its civil war. Michaela was living in an orphanage when she caught her first glimpse of a ballerina. A gust of wind blew a European magazine to the gates of the building, and in it Michaela found a portrait of a ballet dancer. She tore out the picture, and then gave the rest of the magazine to other children. When an American woman adopted her months later, Michaela spoke no English, but she showed the woman the picture (which she had been wearing under her clothes all along) and made it clear that this was what she wanted to do. Shortly after coming to America, her new mother bought a DVD of the New York City Ballet’s Nutcracker, fueling Michaela’s fascination with ballet. Soon she took her first dance classes at the Rock School in Philadelphia.
From the start, Michaela proved to be a natural, strong enough to begin pointework at the early age of 7. Her mother bought Gaynor Mindens for her first pair of pointe shoes, because she wanted to make sure Michaela would have an “orthopedically sound shoe.” After briefly trying other pointe shoes, Michaela “realized Gaynor Mindens were the best shoes for me,” and she’s been loving them ever since. She also notes that she’s never had a ballet injury, something she credits partly to the quality of her shoes.
After starting pointe, Michaela shot through the levels at the Rock School and also at former Pennsylvania Ballet principal Dalia Hay’s school in New Jersey. By age 10, she was taking classes in the professional training division—a program designed for high school students. Shortly afterwards, Michaela and her family moved to Vermont, and soon found the New England Ballet Conservatory. Michaela started taking private lessons with Vanina Wilson, six days a week. She continued to study there dancing 4-5 hours a day, in addition to being a full time middle school student (she totes her homework around with her to finish during her breaks). Over the years, her busy schedule has also included tap, ballroom, salsa, Graham and other modern techniques, yoga, and competitive swimming!
This past summer, Michaela came to New York for the Dance Theater of Harlem summer intensive, where she caught the eye of founding director and legendary Balanchine dancer Arthur Mitchell. He even coached her privately on the solos she was preparing for the Youth America Grand Prix, right before the New York City finals. Michaela admits she was nervous about working with him at first, but that the session improved her performance.
Michaela continues to work with Mr. Mitchell and others at Dance Theater of Harlem, commuting from Vermont when she has the opportunity. Her plans for this year’s Youth America Grand Prix are ambitious: she is tackling Aurora’s Rose Adagio variation from The Sleeping Beauty, as well as the Firebird’s variation. Michaela chose these very different dances to highlight her versatility. She’s aware that many audiences expect strength but not delicacy from black dancers, and wants to challenge this assumption with softness in Aurora’s variation. For the Firebird, Michaela is working on sharpness and characterization. She is enjoying her research: studying the way other dancers have transformed themselves into bird ballerinas.
Most recently, Michaela has started rehearsing adult roles with Albany’s Berkshire Ballet, and is very excited to start performing and touring with a professional company. Looking to the future, Michaela says she wants to be a star. She admires those black ballerinas who have made a mark, like the recently retired Houston Ballet principal Lauren Anderson, and Endalyn Taylor of DTH and the film Center Stage. Michaela lists an assortment of classical and contemporary dance companies she would like to dance with in the future, from San Francisco Ballet to Dwight Rhoden’s Complexions. Mainly, though, Michaela emphasizes that she wants to show that “black people like me can become famous, too… things can happen.”
By Mary Hodges
Subject: Fen Plaba you nar selfish boy pan dis school business
From: Bai Bureh
To: All
Date Posted: 05:43:35 12/12/07 ()
Email Address: rastafari_ish@hotmail.com
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Your list of the ten top schools in Salone is seriously flawed.You are still living in the past. The schools you have choosen were no doubt better off in those days but after the early seventies other schools came into the limelight too.How can you omit Methodist Boys High School('High School'), Ahmadiyya Muslim Sceondary School in Freetown and Mathora Girls School? Remember there was a time when Ahmadiyya and High School reigned supreme in all spheres too. As far as I am concerned there are no specific top ten schools in Salone.
If you are judging a school by the number of outputs that went to unis and completed you should do a careful and thorough research or else your assumption will be questionable.
Subject: Re: Fen Plaba you nar selfish boy pan dis school business
From: Mensa
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Date Posted: 07:50:31 12/12/07 ()
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Very true Bai Bureh!!! I was really wondering how this evaluation of Fen Plaba came about! What was the yardstick of this assessment. As you rightly pointed out, the statistics of the oldies might have prevailed in Me Bra's data.
I was going to give your input a clean bill of health, but alas......Ahmadiyya? (Questionable!!) We always had the impression that the Amadiyya school authorities would go all out to prove a point/make a name! That school was known to be famous for all the wrong reasons. There was a tincture of deceit in almost everything they perticipate in. ....Althletics, they fill over-age 'taxi' in junoir races. Football... they register division one players overnight just to win the final of Intersec football competition. GCE 'leakages' littered the whole western hemisphere! Numerical wise, they could have established themselves as a whole Republic! So we used to do the maths! From a crowd of thousands of GCE students, you get ten Division One..... WAEC never takes into account the total number of registered students. No hard feelings! The breakdown on Amadiyya was a hot topic of discussion during our days. So when you brought it up again, my reminiscence simply bloomed !!! Get my drift.
Another issue!! Wan....wan anwooth nga 'economics' an-kel baike nge-ayy!! Wan....Wan...O'man ee Yalloh o'way ..... Daikay ba o'woorah!
Subject: Re: Fen Plaba you nar selfish boy pan dis school business
From: BUFORD HWY
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Date Posted: 10:40:51 12/12/07 ()
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Mensa,
I wanted to stay away from this thread,but you have touch the wrong nerve by bringing ABAZA in your mix.Mind you I am a product of both HIGH SCHOOL and AHMADDIYYA MUSLIM FREETOWN.
"Ahmadiyya? (Questionable!!) We always had the impression that the Amadiyya school authorities would go all out to prove a point/make a name!"
Bra you are so right,because during the eighties Principal A.B.KAMARA made sure that he brought the brightest mind from NJALA,FBC to MMTC to come and help educate his pupils.So if that what you mean by going all out to prove a point well KUDOS to our former principal.Do you know that fourth and fifth formers of ABAZA were forced to attend after school classes?Do you know that the BEST TEACHERS in the country during the eighties/nineties were STAFF members of the great ABAZA?
"That school was known to be famous for all the wrong reasons. There was a tincture of deceit in almost everything."
When was ABAZA found wanting for any academic inproprieties?Please stay the FACTS instead of DEM SAY.
"Althletics, they fill over-age 'taxi' in junoir races."
Bra what was the weighing system in INTERSEC SPORT? Beside 'TAXI' never attended ABAZA.He was an EDWARDIAN.
SAHR KENDOH BEAT TAXI DE TIRE PUNCTURE.I guest you know that song.
"Football... they register division one players overnight just to win the final of Intersec football competition."
Well bra these register division one players were full time students that excelled in soccer so D-1 clubs decided to register them.Do you know that the 1984 ZONE-2 TOURNAMENT in Freetown 75% of the NATIONAL TEAM PLAYERS were from ABAZA?
Do you know that the from eighties to the early nineties ABAZA was the school to beat in both O' and A'LEVELS? Do you know what is the % of ABAZA UNI GRADUATES from the Eighties to TIDAY?
"No hard feelings! The breakdown on Amadiyya was a hot topic of discussion during our days. So when you brought it up again, my reminiscence simply bloomed !!! Get my drift."
NAR DIS SAME JEALOUS OONA BEIN DAE PA WAE WE BEIN DAE BEAT OONA LEFT EN RIGHT.Get over it.Our teachers gave up thier TIME to make sure that we recieved the BEST EDUCATION,and you dae nar ya so wit warm hart.
GOD BLESS the likes of KABIRU MANSARAY,DAUDA S.BANGURA,MOHAMED KANU,DAUZIN WURIE,JOHSE MARAH,A.O.BAYOH,MOHAMED BAYOH,LITE HAED BAYOH,FRENCH KAMARA just to name a few.
AHMADDIYYA!!!!!!!!!!!!! ZINTABA!!!!!!!!!WAE DE CUP!!!!!!!!EE DAE EASTERN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Subject: Re: Fen Plaba you nar selfish boy pan dis school business
From: Jack
To: All
Date Posted: 11:23:06 12/12/07 ()
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BUFORD HWY,
You beat me to the response. Do I need to say we might have something in common. I was in Zimtaba '79 to '84.
Check me out at njai@comcast.net
Ahmadiyya-Zimtaba
Subject: Re: Fen Plaba you nar selfish boy pan dis school business
From: BUFORD HWY
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Date Posted: 11:41:45 12/12/07 ()
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JACK,
Yes bra me sef bein dae dae from '80 to '86.Lower/upper six 85 to 86.
Subject: Re: Fen Plaba you nar selfish boy pan dis school business
From: BUFORD HWY
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Date Posted: 11:40:16 12/12/07 ()
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JACK,
Yes bra me sef bein dae dae from '80 to '86.Lower 85 to 86.
Subject: Re: Fen Plaba you nar selfish boy pan dis school business
From: Mensa
To: All
Date Posted: 12:40:14 12/12/07 ()
Email Address: unikad5@yahoo.com
Entered From: at 82.99.234.190
Message:
Reasons for elation and subsequent attempts of justification well noted. I still don't think everybody will swallow your rosy version in a whole piece! Glad to know that I contributed in bringing back those cherished memories. Stay cool, though!
Subject: Re: Fen Plaba you nar selfish boy pan dis school business
From: BUFORD HWY
To: All
Date Posted: 12:50:27 12/12/07 ()
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DIS YEAR NEXT YEAR BRA MENSA GO FEEL AM NAR EE EAR.(SMILE)
STAY BLESS,BUT ABAZA NAR NUMERO UNO.
Subject: A PLAN TO ALLEVIATE POVERTY IN SL -- A Reply to "Fen Plaba"
From: Mohamed A. Jalloh
To: All
Date Posted: 04:05:18 12/12/07 ()
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Fen Plaba! wrote on December 11, 2007:
"I would like to thank the Think Tank for their plan to improve the standard of living in Salone. The plan has, at its heart, the revaluation of the leone, eventually pegging it to a major currency by a fixed exchange mechanism."
Fen Plaba:
Thank you for your commendation of the SALONEDiscussion Think Tank for its plan that is indeed aimed at alleviating the cost of living in SL and thereby improve the standard of living of millions of Sierra Leoneans who have been unnecessarily impoverished by the cluelessness of their own leaders in adopting the predictably moribund policy of devaluing the then-strong S/Leonean currency, the Leone, at the behest of the demonstrably fraudulent IMF.
In the interest of accuracy -- a hallmark of the SALONEDiscussion Group (SALONEDiscussion@yahoogroups.com) that is dedicated exclusively to the serious discussion and implentation of issues to uplift all S/Leoneans -- kindly permit me to correct the very significant error in your above-quoted statement regarding the nature of our plan to restore the value of the Leone.
Please be advised that the Think Tank's plan to restore the value of the Leone does NOT have "at its heart, the revaluation of the leone, eventually pegging it to a major currency by a fixed exchange mechanism," as you claimed in error. On the contrary, by proposing that the Leone (appropriately backed by adequate foreign currency reserves) compete against the dollar and other major currencies, the Think Tank's plan to restore the value of the Leone entails a concept that is the exact opposite of "pegging it to a major currency."
Since your assumption that the Think Tank's plan to restore the value of the Leone "has, at its heart, the revaluation of the leone, eventually pegging it to a major currency by a fixed exchange mechanism," is, unfortunately, erroneous, there is clearly no basis for your equation of what happened to Argentina during its "rigid [fixed] exchange rate of 1 Peso = 1 US dollar" in the 1990's with what we are proposing for SL in 2008 under a NON-fixed exchange rate of Le 1= $1. Doing so, as you unfortunately did in error, is akin to comparing apples and oranges.
In regard to your interesting quote that you ascribe to Lord Maynard Keynes, I am obliged by the previously noted interest of accuracy to offer the following comments:
First, please be advised that Lord Keynes is not, as you claimed, "the Think Tank's favorite economist" -- a fact that is attested to by the fact that no such statement was made or implied in the Think Tank's plan. Second, it would be helpful if you would kindly cite the source of your quote that you attributed to Lord Keynes, as we properly did when we quoted him in the Think Tank's plan to restore the value of the Leone. Third, in regard to the quote that you state was Lord Keynes' ("A strong currency does not necessarily translate into a strong economy"), kindly allow me to offer the following quote from a S/Leonean economist: "It is a truism that a country with a worthless currency will become, sooner or later, a country with a worthless economy." Source: Mohamed A. Jalloh. "How to Immediately Alleviate Poverty in Sierra Leone." Concord Times. September 20, 2006. (Please click on the link below and scroll down to the above-cited article). http://www.concordtimessl.com/bintumani.htm
Finally, I agree with you that "We must not put the cart before the horse as we try to improve our economy." Unfortunately, that is exactly what you did when you stated: "Setting up factories to make valued-added intermediates for export instead of just shipping out raw materials. these are just some of the things that would strengthen the fundamentals of the economy...and eventually increase the standard of living and the value of the currency."
In order to understand how your above proposal is akin to putting the cart before the horse, it is sufficient to answer a dispositive question, namely: "Why are there no factories to make valued-added intermediates for export instead of just shipping out raw materials" in SL at this time?
ANSWER: Because there is no market overseas currently for such SL-manufactured goods due to trade protectionism and similar acts of obstruction by those mainly Western countries which currently process raw materials from SL. So, if SL is to create jobs from manufacturing, it would have to do so from manufacturers which produce finished goods for the local market. And since SL imports most of its consumer products (rice, medicines, cars, etc.) why have there been very few manufacturers and other suppliers producing these goods to replace expensive imports? The answer should be familiar by now, namely:
ANSWER # 2: Because there is not enough demand inside SL to justify the capital costs of manufacturing goods that are now being imported -- due to the fact that the vast majority of S/Leoneans are so desperately poor that they simply can not afford to buy imported goods that have become astronomically expensive due to the stratospheric exchange rate of the Leone to major foreign currencies. So, how, then, do you create manufacturing (and other) jobs in SL given the desperate poverty of most S/Leoneans?
ANSWER # 3: By drastically reducing the cost of living in SL so that the majority of S/Leoneans can afford to buy goods, and thereby exponentially expand demand, which, in turn, will create the need for a greatly expanded supply of goods that would then be produced by manufacturers and other producers inside SL.
So, how do you drastically reduce the cost of living in SL? The answer is one that should not only be thoroughly familiar by now, but it is one that should persuade you that, far from putting the cart before the horse, the SALONEDiscussion Think Tank's proposal to restore the value of the Leone is, in fact, precisely putting the HORSE before the cart -- the best way to ensure progress, viz.
ANSWER # 4: By drastically reducing the current astronomically high exchange rate of the Leone to the dollar and other major currencies which is most responsible for the high cost of living that is imported through relatively extremely expensive imported goods.
And that particular proposal should be most familiar -- since it is precisely what the SALONEDiscussion Think Tank's plan presented to President Ernest Koroma last month is all about.
I hope the above information sufficiently claries why the Think Tank's recommendation to restore the value of the Leone is the first step that the SL government must take if it intends to alleviate the pervasive and massive poverty that has been unnecessarily inflicted upon millions of S/Leoneans over the past 30 years. That harrowing deprivation inflicted upon the people of SL by their own government is especially unconscionable because it could have been easily avoided 28 years ago in 1979.
That was the year when, writing in the APC government's own newspaper, We Yone, at great risk to my freedom, if not my life itself, I openly warned the APC government of the notoriously vindictive and murderous President Siaka Stevens not to succumb to the predictably porous policy of devaluation which the IMF was foisting upon the SL government. Sadly for the people of SL, the old APC government failed to heed my advice. The harrowing result is that IMF-instigated devaluation caused such massive inflation, unemployment, closure of factories and resultant searing poverty -- just as I had openly predicted in my 1979 We Yone article -- that S/Leoneans have been perennially ranked the poorest people on earth. That, despite SL being the home of large deposits of diamonds, gold and other valuable minerals.
Hopefully, the new APC government of President Ernest Koroma will not repeat the egregious and wholly avoidable mistake of the old APC government by failing to understand the above-explained direct relationship between a worthless currency and a worthless economy.
Best regards,
Mohamed A. Jalloh
Chairman
SALONEDiscussion Think Tank Committee
Subject: Re: A PLAN TO ALLEVIATE POVERTY IN SL -- A Reply to "Fen Plaba"
From: Fen Plaba!
To: All
Date Posted: 12:21:44 12/12/07 ()
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Thanks for responding to my rejoinder, Mr. Jalloh. I really wish you success in this noble venture of poverty alleviation. My concerns with increasing the value of the leone by pegging it to the dollar, for example, have already been stated.
First of all we need to take into consideration the following if our upward revaluation of the leone is going to be effective:
1) Parliament must pass laws to ensure that the Bank of Sierra Leone does not run the presses in case of an 'emergency'. They cannot just print paper money to fund projects we can ill afford.
2) The Bank of Sierra Leone must ensure that government cuts its pocket according to its size. The government cannot legally spend money that exceeds the country's foreign exchange reserves.
3) The government must not incur additional loans. There would be a strong incentive for the govt to sneak around the necessary rigidity of the fixed currency regime by trolling for loans abroad, and leaving succeeding govts to repay the massive loans and interests (usually with the accompanying lawsuits of vulture funds which buy out delinquent loans on the cheap and squeeze out blood from vulnerable African countries).
4) There has to be a very serious anti-graft effort to stave off the currency speculators and profiteers. The ACC must have a robust financial crimes unit that should be completely independent of the bureaucracy and answerable only to Parliament.
5)We need to increase our foreign exchange cash reserves by revisting mining contracts so that we can start building factories to make intermediate products that can then be finished abroad, instead of just shipping out raw materials. We may not make finished products that are in demand in the West right now, but we can make intermediates from our raw materials that are sought after in the West and China. These factories will churn out, for example, titanium chloride from rutile, alumina from bauxite, steel intermediates from iron ore.This will bring more jobs for our people and more value for our exports. By the way Guinea is building factories to process alumina from bauxite now and President Sirleaf of Liberia just renegotiated with Firestone over its rubber.
I hope you do not take umbrage at this piece. My intention is to bring to your notice some ideas and concerns as you and your fellow economists embark on this noble cause. Good luck and God Bless.
Subject: Re: A PLAN TO ALLEVIATE POVERTY IN SL -- A Reply to "Fen Plaba"
From: Mohamed A. Jalloh
To: All
Date Posted: 14:23:22 12/12/07 ()
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Fen Plaba:
Thank you for your rejoinder. Each and every one of your points in your posting this time is sound. So, rather than taking umbrage, I would like to congratulate you for your cogent addition to the search for solutions to our country's seemingly chronic economic problems.
As our learned friend, KKW, mentioned elsewhere here, we have to start taking a stand with fresh ideas somewhere if we aim to break out of the vicious cycle of poverty in which we have been trapped -- needlessly, in my humble opinion -- because too many S/Leoneans had given up hope.
No one person has the answers to every problem. So, it makes sense to seek the input of as many serious fellow S/Leoneans as possible. That is why we put out the Think Tank's proposal to as many S/Leoneans as possible in the hope every S/Leonean can contribute his/her own ideas so that we can all learn from one other and collectively obtain more wisdom, the better to tackle what is our -- everyone one of us -- economic problems.
You have done your part --for which I thank you very much. Others will undoubtedly do their own part. Together, we would all benefit from one another's wisdom as we move towards a solution to the paradoxical problem of poverty among our people amidst an abundance of natural resources.
Subject: Re: A PLAN TO ALLEVIATE POVERTY IN SL -- A Reply to "Fen Plaba"
From: Economic Misdiagnosis
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Date Posted: 10:29:14 12/12/07 ()
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"Kohkohnomics... is a collection of superstitions and rubbish that masquerade as economic thought. Being the blasphemy that it is, kohkohnomics starts with the assumption that scarcity does not exist and that we can get everything without having to bear any opportunity costs. Therefore, efficiency is not an objective of kohkohnomics. On the contrary, pandering to the least common denominator is its sine qua non. Thus, by the nature of the voodoo (kohkoh) that they practice, kohkohnomists do not see economic growth in the same light as economists. Neither do they see the discipline of the market through competition as a virtue. On the contrary, kohkohnomists see market principles as vices that are worse than Lucifer’s disobedience of God. Hence, they propose the “visible foot” of government intervention into the economy as an antidote for the vices of the “invisible hand” of the market. Therefore, when in government, kohkohnomists tend to shroud their superstitions in populist jargons and parlay them as economic thought." Dr. Kelfala Kallon.
Subject: Re: A PLAN TO ALLEVIATE POVERTY IN SL -- A Reply to "Fen Plaba"
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please take you nonsense elsewhere. This is a serious discussion of important issues. some of us want to learn from people who know what they are talking about. In my books, Mr. Jalloh is just one such person. Kallon's giiberish doesn't make the cut. so please take it to a compost heap somewhere where it belongs.
Subject: Re: A PLAN TO ALLEVIATE POVERTY IN SL -- A Reply to "Fen Plaba"
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The country's future will be determined not only by the effectiveness of good governance and reforms but by the capacity to innovate Human capital, and the stability of its regional environment, where leadership is exercised at every level and entrepreneurial spirit is well-rewarded.
My friend you have taken a Leadership role in your calling, stay focus and keep your eye on the ball. An economic Think Tank for Sierra Leone is unheard of? Great job.
Subject: Re: A PLAN TO ALLEVIATE POVERTY IN SL -- A Reply to "Fen Plaba"
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"The country's future will be determined not only by the effectiveness of good governance and reforms but by the capacity to innovate Human capital, and the stability of its regional environment, where leadership is exercised at every level and entrepreneurial spirit is well-rewarded."
An absolute truism!
Or, to put it another way: Good governance without a good economy is like a beautiful gown on a dead lady.
Thank you for sharing with us the key to the emancipation of our long- and needlessly-impoverished country.
Subject: Re: FROM THE ARCHIVES: How to Immediately Alleviate Poverty
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Message: Freetown, Sierra Leone September 20, 2006 http://www.concordtimessl.com/bintumani.htm How to Immediately Alleviate Poverty in SL Mohamed A. Jalloh ( USA ) 20/9/2006 It is evident from the shameful fact that Sierra Leone is the home of, perhaps, the poorest people on earth, despite having abundant natural resources that the government of Sierra Leone has failed to successfully address the most crucial issue that affects the livelihood of each and every Sierra Leonean, namely. How can the daily deprivations of millions of Sierra Leoneans be immediately alleviated and their economic future put on a sounder footing? It is a truism that a country with a worthless currency will become, sooner or later, a country with a worthless economy. Sadly, that has been the recent history of Sierra Leone . Fortunately for the long suffering people of Sierra Leone , there is relief available in a single measure that is readily within the reach of the Sierra Leone government -- restoring the once mighty currency of Sierra Leone (the Leone) to its former strength. All it requires is a government in Sierra Leone which is not dependent upon the demonstrably ill-informed policies of the IMF for economic inspiration. My proposal to restore the exchange rate between the Leone and the U.S. dollar to parity in order to stabilize Sierra Leone 's economy rests on a fundamental premise, namely: The current exchange rate of about Le 3,000 = $1 is not the product of independent forces in the SL economy, but the predictable result of cynical, self-serving manipulation by the IMF, in collaboration with the like-minded World Bank. In their scheme, both institutions were unwittingly aided and abetted by the very politicians at the head of successive governments in Sierra Leone who were sworn to protect and promote the interest of the people of Sierra Leone . That harmful collaboration started with the APC regime of President Siaka Stevens in 1979 and continues under the current SLPP administration of President Ahmad Tejan Kabbah, as I have consistently contended in my published writings over the past 27 years. At the outset, I would like to make clear a crucial distinction in order to avoid any confusion about my proposal. I am not advocating that the Leone be pegged to the dollar, because that would mean a totally different thing from my actual proposal that the exchange rate be set (at par) in competition with the dollar. In order to understand this important distinction, it is sufficient to note that pegging the Leone to the dollar involves a passive relationship wherein the Leone's value to non-dollar currencies would be determined not by the intrinsic value between the Leone and those currencies, but by whatever the dollar's value is in relation to those currencies. Under that scenario, the dollar is the active currency, while the Leone gets a passive ride on the back of the dollar. Rather than competing with the dollar in the world market of currencies, the Leone would become an appendage of the dollar, with the Bank of Sierra Leone effectively becoming a passive conduit for the policies of the U.S. central bank, the Federal Reserve. This is because, with the Leone pegged to the dollar, Sierra Leone 's monetary policy would be set not in Freetown , but in Washington , D.C. That is most definitely not what I am advocating. On the contrary, what I am proposing with competitively setting the Leone at par with the dollar, is a very active policy wherein the value of the Leone would be actively determined by the usual factors that determine the exchange rate of one currency with another. Under this scenario, the guidance for SL's monetary policy appropriately would come from the central bank of Sierra Leone . So, how, one might ask, would this work to stabilize Sierra Leone 's economy? Primarily, it would remove the pervasive catastrophic distortions in the Sierra Leone economy which now make it virtually impossible for the average Sierra Leonean to survive on his/her salary or for the average manufacturer in Sierra Leone using imported inputs to price his goods at a price that average S/Leoneans can afford. As an example of such distortion, consider this: A civil servant earning Le 200 a month in 1977 when the exchange rate was Le 0.80 = $1 would now need to earn nearly three-quarter of a million Leones a month (Le 749,800 to be exact) in order to maintain the same value of his 1977 salary to the dollar. Since it is highly unlikely that such a civil servant is now earning that much money in SL, it is plain that the current exchange rate between the Leone and the dollar presents salaried workers with a veritable Hobson's choice -- steal to live or starve to death. Similarly, on the production side of the economy, consider a manufacturer in Sierra Leone who uses imported materials to produce goods locally. Whereas in 1977 he could import his raw material costing $100,000 with only Le 80,000 (remember, the Leone was stronger than the dollar, at Le 0.80 = $1), today, the same manufacturer would need to come up with nearly Le 375 MILLION ($374,900,000, to be precise) if he wants to import the same value of raw materials. For such a manufacturer to maintain his profit level, all other things being equal, he would have to raise the price of his manufactured goods by a staggering 375,000%! In order to obtain an idea of the gigantic magnitude of such increase, consider this: That means, for instance, that if he sold his bag of flour for Le 20 in 1977, he would now have to sell the same bag for nearly seventy-five thousand Leones (or, exactly Le 74,980)! Which begs the question: How many Sierra Leoneans would be able to afford to pay such an increase in price when their only source of income -- their salaries -- has not seen a commensurate increase? Answer: Very few, if at all. Again, those hapless Sierra Leoneans constituting the majority of the population face Hobson's choice. Indeed, the current plight of Sierra Leoneans as the poorest people on earth amidst abundant natural resources point to the failure of the policies of every government in Sierra Leone . In the wake of the IMF-inspired serial devaluation of the Leone that started in 1979, the standard of living of the average Sierra Leonean has steadily plummeted, while foreigners with the same amount of foreign earnings as previously saw their ability to buy Sierra Leonean goods produced locally from local inputs greatly expand. Meanwhile, those relatively few Sierra Leoneans who took the other one of Hobson's choices, even though they had less reason to do so because they were among the ruling elite, perfected the immoral art of stealing public funds. And as the living standards of the average Sierra Leonean deteriorated catastrophically, so did the Sierra Leone economy -- the inception of a vicious cycle of poverty that has now enabled foreigners (and to a lesser extent, kleptomaniacs among Sierra Leone's ruling elites) to take a disproportionately increasing share of Sierra Leone's resources. In particular, they have increased their standard of living by virtue of their artificially inflated greater ability to buy Sierra Leonean goods and entities compared to the more numerous, consequently impoverished average Sierra Leoneans. My proposal to restore the Leone to parity with the dollar is intended to effectively reverse this unconscionable longstanding trend. The question is how can this be done? As the IMF-inspired devaluations in our country over the past 27 years show, at one extreme, an exchange rate can be set by a mere announcement made by the government setting forth the rate at which the local currency (the Leone, in SL's case) will henceforth be exchanged for a unit of a (benchmark) foreign currency (in Sierra Leone's case, the U.S. dollar). At the other extreme, an exchange rate can also be set with absolutely no governmental intervention -- through the market forces of supply and demand for foreign exchange within the country. In between those extremes, exchange rates can be set by varying combinations of governmental and market interventions. In the particular case of Sierra Leone , my proposal involves a two-pronged strategy. On the one hand, it involves an initial intervention by the SL government to establish the new exchange rate between the Leone and the dollar at par, i.e., Le 1 = $1. This would immediately restore the value of the Leone to its pre-IMF instigated devaluation value in 1979. That, in turn, would provide immediate relief to millions of S/Leoneans in the form of a commensurate deceleration of the stratospheric inflation that has fueled the catastrophic decline in the standard of living of millions of Sierra Leoneans during the past 30 years or so of demonstrably ill-advised IMF policies in Sierra Leone . For example, Sierra Leonean businesses would also be able to afford the now drastically reduced cost of foreign inputs into their local manufacturing processes. That advantage would translate into a bonanza for their Sierra Leonean consumers who would be presented with a new-found ability to afford to buy those businesses' now much lower-priced products. Also, for instance, for the first time in their life, Sierra Leoneans under the age of 30 would be able to buy a soft drink (soda) in either a bottle or a can for one Leone or less. As another example of the salutary national impact of a revaluation of the Leone, for the first time in about 30 years, civil servants and other salaried workers in our country would be able to survive on their salaries, should they choose to abide by the laws of the country. The net effect of all of the expected advantages of revaluing the Leone, especially the dousing of the burning inflation pressures on the Sierra Leone economy, would be an increase in the standard of living of potentially millions of Sierra Leoneans who apply themselves diligently towards improving their personal circumstances in the vastly more conducive landscape ushered in by a more rational exchange rate policy. So, how would the new exchange rate be maintained? This brings us to the remaining crucial leg of the two-pronged strategy for restoring sanity to the exchange rate policies of the government. In order to maintain the exchange rate at Le 1 = $1, there must be maintained within the commercial banking sector of the country's economy enough foreign exchange reserves to meet the legitimate needs of Sierra Leoneans from all walks of life. Then -- and only then -- would commercial banks be able to keep selling dollars for Le 1 each. If there is not enough foreign exchange, it would be impossible to sustain the exchange rate at par over the long term. In that case, market forces of supply and demand would determine the rate, unless the government steps in to impose foreign exchange controls in a moribund effort to keep the exchange rate artificially at Le 1 = $1. Under those circumstances, the very likely result is the creation of a parallel (or "black") market for foreign exchange where the exchange rate would more closely reflect the result of market forces of supply of, and demand for, foreign currency. Which raises the dispositive question: How would that goal of ensuring adequate foreign exchange reserves to sustain the exchange rate at Le 1 = $1 be achieved? Answer: There are several ways that significant foreign exchange reserves can be attracted into the commercial banking system in the country in order to meet the legitimate needs of Sierra Leoneans and others. At one extreme is a means available through governmental action in the form of faithful enforcement of existing export, import, banking and related laws. At the other extreme is a means that entails no governmental intervention -- being, instead, constituted exclusively by action taken by private citizens to make foreign exchange available in the commercial banking system of SL pursuant to both their normal profit-seeking business ventures and non-profit activities. In the former category is perhaps the easiest avenue available at the fingertips of the Sierra Leone government for flooding the banks in Sierra Leone with foreign exchange reserves -- marshalling the massive amounts of foreign exchange that is annually generated from the export of country's abundant mineral, agricultural, and marine resources which, unfortunately, is now being lost to smugglers. Efforts by private citizen to generate foreign exchange within Sierra Leone 's commercial banking system could be achieved through solicitations for private equity ventures such as the dollar-a-day (DAD) program and other similar initiatives, which I explained in detail during my presentation as a panelist at the SL Network seminar held at Howard University in Washington , D.C. , last November. The revaluation of the Leone outlined above can not be done overnight or with the blissful incompetence for which successive governments in Sierra Leone , sadly, have long been internationally notorious. On the contrary, it requires meticulous and diligent planning for it to succeed in alleviating the longstanding suffering of millions of hapless Sierra Leoneans. Specifically, at a minimum, the process should be transparent and equitable enough to afford each and every S/Leonean a reasonable opportunity to adjust their business, educational, social and/or bureaucratic activities to the expected realities prescribed by the intended new exchange rate. Only then can it be assured to relieve the people of SL from the longstanding poverty that has been their entirely avoidable fate over the past thirty years or so of demonstrably ill-advised IMF and World Bank policies. Subject: RESEARCH FINDINGS ON THE APC AND THE SLPP-Coming soon!! 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Like John Benjamin Message: Subject: The Ultimate Manipulator and Controller - C. Jarret-Thorpe Message: Citizens all, there’s an issue going on of which I would like to draw your attention to. The Amistad schooner should be arriving in Freetown this week, tracing the notorious trans-Atlantic slave trade route before it was abolished 200years ago. Several events to commemorate this historical occasion are being planned in Freetown and some of the provincial cities .The current APC administration and the Freetown municipality led by the Mayor are scheduled to take part. However, a lady by the name of Mrs. Cynthia Jarrett-Thorpe (nee Carlton –Carew) has been working tirelessly over the past year to hijack the occasion in order to promote an organization she personally created and is obsessed about - “The Carlton-Carew ‘Ep’ (help) Foundation. Cynthia Jarrett-Thorpe currently resides in Atlanta, Georgia, US. She’s not only a pariah in the Sierra Leonean community in Atlanta, but also a pollutant of bad vibes. Mrs. Jarrett-Thorpe, sensing the formation of a Sierra Leone Creole Descendants Union - Georgia chapter, hijacked the idea and launched the “Carlton-Carew EP (help) Foundation” (headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia), without any endorsement from her husband and siblings, most of who reside in the US. I was made to understand that the only close relative pursuing this venture with her, is her octegarian father – Pa Carlton-Carew, who coincidentally, was very active in the Creole Descendants Union in Freetown, Sierra Leone. I am not suggesting that Pa Carlton-Carew disclosed to her daughter some of the S.L Creole Descendants Union’s agenda. But who knows! Mrs. Jarrett-Thorpe’s mean-spiritedness, dubious manipulation of events, and callous disregard for the feelings of people she comes in contact with, is known throughout Atlanta. Reputable Sierra Leonean academics and distinguished patriots in Georgia, who were hoodwinked into teaming up with her in Atlanta, are now distancing themselves from her. I will advice the current pool of African –Americans who are interested establishing contact with the motherland to be aware of her evil machinations. Cynthia will hurt you guys badly and then dump you when she cannot get her own way. She’s a master schemer of horrible plots. The “Awujoh”, scheduled for this weekend at beautiful paradise resort Banana Island, Sierra Leone and the pending launch of a building project is a desperate effort by Cynthia Jarrett-Thorpe to associate herself with and rub shoulders with top Sierra Leone government officials not excluding the newly elected and busy President. The “T-Shirt” depicting our black roots, bodes for nothing. This lady is a control freak. She could easily pale Lady Macbeth. She won’t stop at nothing. To Government officials, you have been warned! She’s craving for the oxygen of publicity and recognition when all she deserves is notoriety. Do not waste your precious time with her. She’s very good at creating photo opportunities to prove that she can hang out with the Jones’s. Off springs of Sierra Leonean parents and kin’s, African Americans, black South Americans who have fallen under the spell of Mrs. Cynthia Jarrett-Thorpe and her Carlton-Carew Ep Foundation, I will advice you to throw caution to the wind. The spiritual and emotional re-connection that you are seeking or have already discovered with mother Sierra Leone or the African motherland in general, will be severely dented once you know the “real” Cynthia Jarrett-Thorpe. Part of her repertoire is to throw curveballs and leave you stranded at home plate. If you are seeking information about your roots in Sierra Leone or the motherland in general, please contact the Sierra Leone Creole Descendants Union or other credible Sierra Leonean organizations in the US or Sierra Leone. I am appealing to the Sierra Leone Creole Descendants Union executive and other members to distance themselves from her. She’s nothing but trouble and an embarrassment to her family and close friends. She needs to be schooled about the genuine tenets of the “Creole/Krio and Sierra Leonean culture and tradition. She’s claims to be the first female “Nigerian” air pilot but failed to mention the flight school she attended or produce a bona fide certificate to substantiate her claim.(See excerpts from a book she recently manipulated to get published for her accomplice father). To clear the “air” I may in due course, have to al3rt the Nigerian Aviation Ministry for confirmation of this claim. Cynthia’s charity, (contrary to the bible saying) doesn’t start at home. She alienates close relatives and friends alike. Is there anyone out there who could “ep” (help) her to recover from her controlling and manipulating stupor? Please come forward! Most people, including my very self recognize and acknowledge success and achievements. It does not bode well when arrogance and wickedness is constantly being perpetrated towards others - be it relatives, friends or even your enemies. Subject: Cornelius You might find this to be an interesting read Message: Subject: IF ONLY OUR COUNTRY WAS DEVELOPED Message: Subject: Re: IF ONLY OUR COUNTRY WAS DEVELOPED Message: Subject: Re: IF ONLY OUR COUNTRY WAS DEVELOPED Message: Subject: Re: IF ONLY OUR COUNTRY WAS DEVELOPED Message: Subject: Re: IF ONLY OUR COUNTRY WAS DEVELOPED Message: Subject: APLAN TO ALLEVIATE POVERTY IN SIERRA LEONE Message: Click on link below to read the full article Subject: Re: APLAN TO ALLEVIATE POVERTY IN SIERRA LEONE Message: Subject: Re: APLAN TO ALLEVIATE POVERTY IN SIERRA LEONE Message: Subject: Re: A PLAN TO ALLEVIATE POVERTY IN SIERRA LEONE Message: Fen Plaba: Thank you for your commendation of the SALONEDiscussion Think Tank for its plan that is indeed aimed at alleviating the cost of living in SL and thereby improve the standard of living of millions of Sierra Leoneans who have been unnecessarily impoverished by the cluelessness of their own leaders in adopting the predictably moribund policy of devaluing the then-strong S/Leonean currency, the Leone, at the behest of the demonstrably fraudulent IMF. In the interest of accuracy -- a hallmark of the SALONEDiscussion Group (SALONEDiscussion@yahoogroups.com) that is dedicated exclusively to the serious discussion and implentation of issues to uplift all S/Leoneans -- kindly permit me to correct the very significant error in your above-quoted statement regarding the nature of our plan to restore the value of the Leone. Please be advised that the Think Tank's plan to restore the value of the Leone does NOT have "at its heart, the revaluation of the leone, eventually pegging it to a major currency by a fixed exchange mechanism," as you claimed in error. On the contrary, by proposing that the Leone (appropriately backed by adequate foreign currency reserves) compete against the dollar and other major currencies, the Think Tank's plan to restore the value of the Leone entails a concept that is the exact opposite of "pegging it to a major currency." Since your assumption that the Think Tank's plan to restore the value of the Leone "has, at its heart, the revaluation of the leone, eventually pegging it to a major currency by a fixed exchange mechanism," is, unfortunately, erroneous, there is clearly no basis for your equation of what happened to Argentina during its "rigid [fixed] exchange rate of 1 Peso = 1 US dollar" in the 1990's with what we are proposing for SL in 2008 under a NON-fixed exchange rate of Le 1= $1. Doing so, as you unfortunately did in error, is akin to comparing apples and oranges. In regard to your interesting quote that you ascribe to Lord Maynard Keynes, I am obliged by the previously noted interest of accuracy to offer the following comments: First, please be advised that Lord Keynes is not, as you claimed, "the Think Tank's favorite economist" -- a fact that is attested to by the fact that no such statement was made or implied in the Think Tank's plan. Second, it would be helpful if you would kindly cite the source of your quote that you attributed to Lord Keynes, as we properly did when we quoted him in the Think Tank's plan to restore the value of the Leone. Third, in regard to the quote that you state was Lord Keynes' ("A strong currency does not necessarily translate into a strong economy"), kindly allow me to offer the following quote from a S/Leonean economist: "It is a truism that a country with a worthless currency will become, sooner or later, a country with a worthless economy." Source: Mohamed A. Jalloh. "How to Immediately Alleviate Poverty in Sierra Leone." Concord Times. September 20, 2006. (Please click on the link below and scroll down to the above-cited article). http://www.concordtimessl.com/bintumani.htm Finally, I agree with you that "We must not put the cart before the horse as we try to improve our economy." Unfortunately, that is exactly what you did when you stated: "Setting up factories to make valued-added intermediates for export instead of just shipping out raw materials. these are just some of the things that would strengthen the fundamentals of the economy...and eventually increase the standard of living and the value of the currency." In order to understand how your above proposal is akin to putting the cart before the horse, it is sufficient to answer a dispositive question, namely: "Why are there no factories to make valued-added intermediates for export instead of just shipping out raw materials" in SL at this time? ANSWER: Because there is no market overseas currently for such SL-manufactured goods due to trade protectionism and similar acts of obstruction by those mainly Western countries which currently process raw materials from SL. So, if SL is to create jobs from manufacturing, it would have to do so from manufacturers which produce finished goods for the local market. And since SL imports most of its consumer products (rice, medicines, cars, etc.) why have there been very few manufacturers and other suppliers producing these goods to replace expensive imports? The answer should be familiar by now, namely: ANSWER # 2: Because there is not enough demand inside SL to justify the capital costs of manufacturing goods that are now being imported -- due to the fact that the vast majority of S/Leoneans are so desperately poor that they simply can not afford to buy imported goods that have become astronomically expensive due to the stratospheric exchange rate of the Leone to major foreign currencies. So, how, then, do you create manufacturing (and other) jobs in SL given the desperate poverty of most S/Leoneans? ANSWER # 3: By drastically reducing the cost of living in SL so that the majority of S/Leoneans can afford to buy goods, and thereby exponentially expand demand, which, in turn, will create the need for a greatly expanded supply of goods that would then be produced by manufacturers and other producers inside SL. So, how do you drastically reduce the cost of living in SL? The answer is one that should not only be thoroughly familiar by now, but it is one that should persuade you that, far from putting the cart before the horse, the SALONEDiscussion Think Tank's proposal to restore the value of the Leone is, in fact, precisely putting the HORSE before the cart -- the best way to ensure progress, viz. ANSWER # 4: By drastically reducing the current astronomically high exchange rate of the Leone to the dollar and other major currencies which is most responsible for the high cost of living that is imported through relatively extremely expensive imported goods. And that particular proposal should be most familiar -- since it is precisely what the SALONEDiscussion Think Tank's plan presented to President Ernest Koroma last month is all about. I hope the above information sufficiently claries why the Think Tank's recommendation to restore the value of the Leone is the first step that the SL government must take if it intends to alleviate the pervasive and massive poverty that has been unnecessarily inflicted upon millions of S/Leoneans over the past 30 years. That harrowing deprivation inflicted upon the people of SL by their own government is especially unconscionable because it could have been easily avoided 28 years ago in 1979. That was the year when, writing in the APC government's own newspaper, We Yone, at great risk to my freedom, if not my life itself, I openly warned the APC government of the notoriously vindictive and murderous President Siaka Stevens not to succumb to the predictably porous policy of devaluation which the IMF was foisting upon the SL government. Sadly for the people of SL, the old APC government failed to heed my advice. The harrowing result is that IMF-instigated devaluation caused such massive inflation, unemployment, closure of factories and resultant searing poverty -- just as I had openly predicted in my 1979 We Yone article -- that S/Leoneans have been perennially ranked the poorest people on earth. That, despite SL being the home of large deposits of diamonds, gold and other valuable minerals. Hopefully, the new APC government of President Ernest Koroma will not repeat the egregious and wholly avoidable mistake of the old APC government by failing to understand the above-explained direct relationship between a worthless currency and a worthless economy. Best regards, Mohamed A. Jalloh Subject: Re: APLAN TO ALLEVIATE POVERTY IN SIERRA LEONE Message: The idea in the plan is great but economically impossible given our low productivity. To reverse the devalued Leone, we will need to quadruple our GDP by 200%. That is not happening soon except we find a diamond as big as my head Current Exchange Rate -Le 2930 Subject: Re: APLAN TO ALLEVIATE POVERTY IN SIERRA LEONE Message: Jackal: In the usual interest of accuracy, kindly permit to state that the fatal error in your above-quoted opinion is that you assume, without evidence, that the Leone was originally devalued in 1979 at the behest of the cynical, corrupt and self-serving IMF due to "our [SL's] low productivity." Nothing could be further from the truth. In order to see that, please see the link below to my 2005 article entitled "How the IMF Fooled the Sierra Leone Government into Impoverishing Sierra Leone," from which the following excerpt that directly contradicts your unsupported assumption is taken: "In the early 1970s, a Sierra Leonean who wanted one U.S. dollar needed less than one Leone in Sierra Leone currency to obtain it. To be exact, she would need only eighty Sierra Leone cents. Today, that same Sierra Leonean would need more than Le 3,000 if she wanted to obtain the same $1. How did this happen? Did SL suddenly stop exporting diamonds, bauxite, coffee, cocoa, or shrimp, to cause its currency to drop in value against the dollar by a staggering three hundred and seventy five THOUSAND percent over the past 35 years? Or, did the USA suddenly become the world’s number one exporting country, and thereby help propel the dollar to its current stratospheric level of strength against the Leone? The answer to both questions is the same: No. On the contrary, SL has continued to export more or less the same quantity of mineral and agricultural commodities, although at lower prices than before. However, during the same period, the USA has become the biggest debtor nation in the world, setting records for its external trade deficits and its domestic budget deficits. Which begs the question: Why would a country like SL, with exports which have not collapsed, see its currency drop in value by 375,000 per cent against another country such as the USA, which exports less goods and services, compared to its imports, than any other country in the world? The answer is as unsurprising as it is simple: The USA controls the IMF, while the IMF controls Sierra Leone. And that explains how the SL government became the errand boy of the IMF in the latter’s wildly successful scheme that has now made every man, woman, and child in SL 375,000 times poorer than their counterparts in America. So, what, you might ask, is the name of that scheme? The answer: Devaluation, the crown jewel of the IMF’s foreign “aid” package for developing countries. According to the IMF, devaluation – a potent cure in Western and other developed countries for imbalances between a country’s exports and its imports -- is the cure for any and all economic problems of each and every country in Africa." Source: Mohamed A. Jalloh. "How the IMF Fooled the Sierra Leone Government into Impoverishing Sierra Leone." Awareness Times. Nov 24, 2005. Subject: Re: APLAN TO ALLEVIATE POVERTY IN SIERRA LEONE Message: Subject: Re: APLAN TO ALLEVIATE POVERTY IN SIERRA LEONE Message: Jackal: The problem you continue to have is exemplified by your unfortunate failure to recognize why "[w]hen the Leone(currency) was stronger .... the population was .... more productive." The obvious answer: Because the Leone was a strong, store of value. Once it ceased to be strong, runaway inflation tore through every facet of the SL economy, rendering each and every S/leonean's assets held in Leones nearly worthless. For instance, a S/Leonean with a net worth of Le 1 million in 1979 before the devaluation was worth $1.25 million (that's more than one million dollars). Today, that same S/Leonean's Le 1 million is worth a pitiful $333 (that's right, just over three hundred thirty dollars)! Do you expect such a S/Leonean to be as productive with his $333 today as he was when the same Le 1 million that is today only worth a pitiful $330, was worth more than $1 million? Of course not! Yet, inexplicably, to you, those very hard numbers appear not as quantitative propositions, but as a "value proposition!" Sadly, what you are missing is that the catastrophic impoverishment of that S/Leonean in the very quantitative example above had nothing to do with the increase in population, or whether "the price of gas, for example was low because there were few car owners." That is totally irrelevant to the simple fact -- and it is a fact -- that, for no valid reason, the IMF fooled the SL government into announcing that the Leone was now worth only less than half of what it used to be worth before the 1979 IMF devaluation. Once you understand that the IMF devaluation was a mere announcement that was doomed to never have any economic benefit, while creating massive inflation, unemployment, factory closures and consequent pervasive impoverishment, you will finally understand the gargantuan fraud underlying its installation in SL in 1979 -- and why the pauperization of the S/Leonean in the real example above was as totally unnecessary as the impoverishment of millions of S/Leoneans due to the devalaution. Subject: Re: APLAN TO ALLEVIATE POVERTY IN SIERRA LEONE Message: Subject: Why Shekito will not be the Press Secretary Message: 1. A big error Mr. Shekito made was when he proudly revealed information about his private conversation with EBK for millions of his closest friends to read. Not a good move if you are someone to be trusted with sensitive and confidential information from the man in the highest office in Sierra Leone. You have already shown you can't be trusted. 2. Shekito's use of the media appears to be very self-serving. In light of the person who should ultimately be getting the media attention, this is another mistake. He has not even been officially given the position and already seems to have some narcassitic need to seem important. 3. The way Shekito has chosen a public format to go after this position is actually alarming. I don't know if he doesn't realize it or doesn't care, but the way this has played out publicly has given some a negative impression about EBK's decision making and also given the impression that there has been infighting between the president and some of his ministers. A good press secretary would always endeavor to put the most positive light he could on the president. The way shekito has gone about things has reminded me of the two women in the bible who were fighting over the same baby. When Solomon said to cut the baby in half, the real mother insisted the other woman take the baby. Shekito has shown a lot of immaturity surrounding this position and has come across as very cut throat even as it relates to the image of EBK. I don't care who becomes the press secretary, but since so much has been said and the speculation is still high, I thought I'd add my own two cents to the debate. Subject: Re: Why Shekito will not be the Press Secretary Message: But that being said, I think this Shekito character does need to learn for lef for congosah and learn to button up. We've never really had a presidential press person per se. Especially one that has been seeing how it's done in the west. So in his eagerness to emulate his favorite White House or Downing Street Press Secretary, combined with his apparent proclivity for acting lek belle ooman draws, things might happen when he is the PS where he feels the need to cover for State House/EK and he rushes out and gives a Shekito statement without having consulted with the President's team first. I hope he realizes that another name for this position is fall guy. I don't know what he is giving up in the UK career wise, but he needs to be careful he does not end up in the unemployment line after giving it up. Here is a bit of advice. As much as your job will be to be the public face of the president in a manner of speaking, you are not his body guard. Don't jump out in front of him as you've already done once without having even started your job. It won't be appreciated. Subject: Re: Why Shekito will not be the Press Secretary Message: Do not crucify him because he loves the media. It is his love for the media that earned him the coveted position. I believe that he would do well. I believe that when he assumes office he would do his very best. Subject: Re: Why Shekito will not be the Press Secretary Message: Subject: Re: Why Shekito will not be the Press Secretary Message: Subject: Kabs Kanu -director of communications Message: Subject: Re: Kabs Kanu -director of communications Message: Subject: Re: Kabs Kanu -director of communications Message: Subject: Re: Kabs Kanu -director of communications Message: Heartfelt congratulations.. Now resign you post at cocorioko as editor and take that collar off before you enter the devils liar so when we himbam pan you as APC megaphone.. it will not be blaspheme.. Cause me ah ready for cheerrrrrrrrhheeeee APC spin doctors and propangadists tay go 2012. As always.. Subject: Re: Kabs Kanu -director of communications Message: Subject: Re: Kabs Kanu -director of communications Message: Subject: ALIEU ISCANDARI Message: Alieu, RESPONSE: The Alieu’s of the world call a cabinet that “would promote national cohesion” a “utopia”. Visionary leaders on the other hand, would look at it as an inevitable process in a nation’s developmental dynamic. Hopefuly, EBK would wake up from his “socially illiterate” (Bra Enviable’s words) slumber and metamorphose into a visionary leader that will bring in MORE SouthEasterners and Western Area residents into his administration. And when that time comes, Alieu’s criteria of a “qualified, Sierra Leonean, not Necessarily members of the APC, but necessarily Nationalistic” would become redundant in the eyes of EBK since Alieu is simply an ordinary member of the APC, whose input in APC policy-making process does not count. Would EBK have won the presidency without the SouthEastern vote? Nope. EBK needs the SouthEast more than the SouthEast needs him. Remember, 2012 is just around the corner. The rightful party, the party of Sierra Leone - the SLPP will once again govern and take Salone to higher heights. Subject: OUR POOR COUNTRY - SIERRA LEONE Message: N.B: I RECENTLY RETURNED HOME AFTER A FEW YEARS OF STUDY TO CONTRIBUTE TO MY COUNTRY AND GUESS WHAT: EVEN FBC FROWNED AT MY OFFER TO BE A VOLUNTEER LECTURER AND PRACTICALLY SNOBBED ME AND DISCOURAGED MY INTENSIONS WITH COMMENTS LIKE "HE WANT CAN PULL BRAID NA WE MOTH WITH HIM FOREIGH DEGREE". ALSO, AND A FEW DAYS AGO BURGLARS ATTACKED MY APARTMENT IN WESTERN FREETOWN AT 3 AM AND TOOK ALL THE STUFF THAT I BOUGHT WITH HARD EARNED CASH, BUT I DON'T BLAME THEM ITS THE POVERTY IN THE COUNTRY THAT MAKES THEM TO TARGET PEOPLE THAT ARE RETURNING HOME, SO IF YOU ARE GOING THIS CHRISTMAS JUST BE VERY CAREFUL. ----------------READ ON-------------- World's Poorest Country Almost three years old, her daughter succumbed to diarrhoea because Conteh couldn't afford to pay a Le 90,000 medical consultation fee. I cried and yelled at him, but he didn't listen." As she cried again this past Saturday, Conteh recalled that she was able to take her baby to a pharmacy, but after a few days, her daughter died anyway. "I don't even like to think about it, it's terrible, it's pathetic." Now Conteh is worried another of her children may suffer the same fate. Once again, she can't afford the fees to vaccinate her youngest child. The Kroo Bay mother has four children and provides for them by selling oranges in the streets of her community. Her husband is unemployed. Conteh is like thousands of Sierra Leonean mothers struggling to survive in what last week the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) announced is now the poorest country in the world. Sierra Leone has taken Niger's spot at the very bottom of the UN's human development index. According to the UN global report, launched in Freetown last Friday, this country is now ranked 177th out of 177 countries. But the international 2005 findings are bleaker than a 2006 national report, which was also launched Friday. The UNDP claimed Sierra Leone fell to the lowest place because there is insufficient information about the country. "I believe the situation would have been much better if there was adequate data to show for development in the country," said Bernard Mokam, the UNDP's country director. But Saidu Turay, the Public Relations Officer for Freetown's Kroo Bay slum, wasn't surprised when he heard the report on the radio. "Once these reports come up we feel sad," he said. "It's a clear manifestation that nothing has been done since the time of the last report. The health care system is very, very poor." Turay said just last Friday a baby died in his community because there was no treatment. As he discussed the report from the doorway of the one-bedroom Kroo Bay shack he shares with several members of his family, a woman entered his compound shouting and crying - she'd just heard that she, too, had lost a family member to sickness. "If Sierra Leone is rated as the least developed country, then Kroo Bay will be rated as the worst developed slum in the country," said Turay. He said the Kroo Bay community suffers from high maternal and infant mortality, high unemployment, low rate of children in school, lack of housing, lack of proper medical facilities, high crime, child labour, trafficking and prostitution, sexual abuse, teenage pregnancy and many other problems. Turay rolled his eyes. "Etcetera, etcetera - these are the things that affect us in the community and these are the things the UN looked at when they were doing their study." Turay said in the last three months, three Kroo Bay women have died during childbirth because they couldn't afford to go to hospital or have a caesarean section. Conteh, too, said she delivered her five children with a traditional birth attendant in Kroo Bay. "I don't have the money. Life is extremely difficult, I am right now suffering from malaria, but I don't have the money to go to hospital," she said. Turay said this is common in Kroo Bay: "If you don't have the money to buy the required drugs, the person dies." With a growing population of more than 8,000 people, Kroo Bay is one of many Freetown slums long neglected by development projects and the government. Turay said it is extreme poverty like Kroo Bay's that accounts for the country's poor performance on the human development index. On Friday, Vice President Sam Sumana said his government is re-preparing a poverty reduction strategy paper from the last government, which he said "will stand as a stepping stone towards development." He also said the new government is committed to combating the problems raised in the report. Turay said the APC government should be aware of the problems after years in opposition. He said he doubts anything will change. "During the electioneering process you saw a lot of politicians coming down to the slums and making all kinds of promises because they wanted our votes," he said. "But once the election is over you hardly see any of them, even to say thank you for the votes. They give us sugar-coated vibes and then leave our problems to be solved by ourselves." Turay said if it wasn't for international nongovernmental organisations like Concern, Save the Children and the YMCA - who Saturday launched a new community centre and training project in Kroo Bay - his community would be completely neglected. "The government forgets about the existence of the slums, even though we are in the heart of the city." The theme of this year's global and national UNDP reports was the massive impact climate change is having on the people of the developing world, including Sierra Leone. "Our coastal land areas such as Bonthe Island, Banana Island, Rokupre and other villages directly depending on agriculture will be inundated," said Joseph Rahall, the coordinator of Green Scenery, a local civil society organisation. "This will cause mass displacement of people, causing security threats and our security is not in place to solve such problems. The criss-crossing of people will create conflict and we don't want to go back to war." Turay, too, said he is worried about climate change. He said Kroo Bay is rapidly expanding and most new homes are being built on top of rubbish, at the water's edge. "If the water rises, we're in trouble," he said. A greater worry in Kroo Bay is the annual rising of water during rainy season. For more than five months every year the people of Turay's community and others like it are continuously flooded with water and debris from the hills around Freetown. "On the issue of flooding, we are scared, we are always prepared for the worst to happen next year," he said. "This year was the worst ever." Turay said this is one impact of climate change that could easily be tackled by this government. "You see the trees being cut down in the hills," he said, noting that deforestation causes erosion, which causes the flooding. "Climate change also affects us greatly and it is on the increase because I don't see much being done about deforestation. It is a man-made problem." Along with destruction, the annual flooding also leaves the drainage areas of Kroo Bay clogged with garbage from the hills. The stench of sewage, stagnant water and mounds of garbage permeates the air throughout the community. Turay said this build-up can be traced back to his community's health problems - poor drainage and stagnant water are breeding grounds for mosquitoes and Turay said malaria is a growing problem in Kroo Bay. However, Turay said for Kroo Bay residents, day to day food security is a more constant worry than health problems. "We are poor and we can't afford the price of food, especially when the price of rice keeps sky-rocketing and there are no mechanisms to control the price. People find it very difficult to survive here. We find it difficult to sleep at night because we are thinking about how we will survive the next day." Subject: Re: OUR POOR COUNTRY - SIERRA LEONE Message: Subject: Re: OUR POOR COUNTRY - SIERRA LEONE: Posted by Erica Adams Message: Subject: Re: OUR POOR COUNTRY - SIERRA LEONE Message: Subject: Re: OUR POOR COUNTRY - SIERRA LEONE Message: Subject: Re: OUR POOR COUNTRY - SIERRA LEONE Message: Subject: Re: OUR POOR COUNTRY - SIERRA LEONE Message: When one writes standard letters, does one write everything in CAPS? (just something to think about) Subject: BEST SECONDARY SCHOOL IN SIERRA LEONE Message: Subject: Re: BEST SECONDARY SCHOOL IN SIERRA LEONE Message: Subject: Re: BEST SECONDARY SCHOOL IN SIERRA LEONE Message: Kankaylay? Model? Roosevelt? Vine Memorial Where are these rated? Subject: Re: BEST SECONDARY SCHOOL IN SIERRA LEONE Message: Subject: Re: BEST SECONDARY SCHOOL IN SIERRA LEONE Message: Subject: Re: BEST SECONDARY SCHOOL IN SIERRA LEONE Message: Subject: Re: BEST SECONDARY SCHOOL IN SIERRA LEONE Message: Subject: For Loggy& FARRAH MARRAH:90% of the Temne are Prostitutes Message: Tell all Temmnes to GO BACK HOME.. The War is OVER. Basta KORO DEM By Independent Subject: Re: For Loggy& FARRAH MARRAH:90% of the Temne are Prostitutes Message: Subject: Re: For Loggy& FARRAH MARRAH:90% of the Temne are Prostitutes Message: Subject: Re: For Loggy& FARRAH MARRAH:90% of the Temne are Prostitutes Message: Subject: Re: For Loggy& FARRAH MARRAH:90% of the Temne are Prostitutes Message: Subject: Re: For Loggy& FARRAH MARRAH:90% of the Temne are Prostitutes Message: Subject: Re: QUOTE OF THE DAY Message: Subject: Re: For Loggy& FARRAH MARRAH:90% of the Temne are Prostitutes Message: And yes when i do comeback, there will be bills waiting.. We borku nah god han wey broke en wan go home en chill during the festivals.. but we should not be cursed the same as dog vomits.. Subject: Re: For Loggy& FARRAH MARRAH:90% of the Temne are Prostitutes Message: Subject: Re: For Loggy& FARRAH MARRAH:90% of the Temne are Prostitutes Message: Egba mi oh!!! It is true all Temne people do is prostitute and sell things in the market. They need to go to school and improve themselves. Their markets are nasty and dirty and they just crowd the city. SO YES IT IS TRUE THEY SHOULD GO BACK TO YONIBABA AND MILE 91 AND KORMOT NAR FREETOWN!!! Halaki born craise. Una too lek for mek gbangbati, but una don meet una matches box. Subject: THE LONGEST NAME EVER Message: Or shall I call it ignorant or lack of confidence? Has anyone told "Almamy Razak Tun Seray-Wurie Si" that he could be sitting on a New Guineas World record for the longest name of a person ever? Subject: Re: THE LONGEST NAME EVER Message: Sierra Leone is for everyone and that includes you, me and every Naturalized citizen. The forum police is reminding all of the rules .Crossing the line is not a good idea. Thanks for your cooperation Lunta Subject: Re: THE LONGEST NAME EVER Message: Your comment should have been addressing those guys posting: Best school; best tribe; etc; etc. Subject: Re: THE LONGEST NAME EVER Message: Subject: Re: THE LONGEST NAME EVER Message: Your name is kind of un usually long and truly it is very possible that you are a strong candidate for a New Guineas World record for the longest name ever, this is not a joke except you don't want it. It's your name you don't have to be ashamed of it; I just want you to be recognized for it in the Guineas World record book. It is not a crime if you prefer to remain quiet over the potential to be famous-that’s why I said ignorant or lack of confidence. I was not degrading you in anyway. Everybody is ignorant in one-way or the other and sometimes it takes courage to step out of our boxes. Subject: Re: THE LONGEST NAME EVER Message: If your comment was innocent then you are forgiven ya! Subject: Re: THE LONGEST NAME EVER Message: Subject: Re: THE LONGEST NAME EVER Message: Subject: Re: THE LONGEST NAME EVER Message: Subject: Re: THE LONGEST NAME EVER Message: Subject: Re: THE LONGEST NAME EVER Message: Subject: Re: THE LONGEST NAME EVER Message: Subject: Re: THE LONGEST NAME EVER Message: Subject: FAO: MODERATOR - PEDRO'S POST Message: Subject: ASSAULT ON REASON - AL GORE Message: Why was the Senate silent? In describing the empty chamber the way he did, Byrd invited a specific version of the same general question millions of us have been asking: "Why do reason, logic and truth seem to play a sharply diminished role in the way America now makes important decisions?" The persistent and sustained reliance on falsehoods as the basis of policy, even in the face of massive and well-understood evidence to the contrary, seems to many Americans to have reached levels that were previously unimaginable. A large and growing number of Americans are asking out loud: "What has happened to our country?" People are trying to figure out what has gone wrong in our democracy, and how we can fix it. To take another example, for the first time in American history, the Executive Branch of our government has not only condoned but actively promoted the treatment of captives in wartime that clearly involves torture, thus overturning a prohibition established by General George Washington during the Revolutionary War. It is too easy—and too partisan—to simply place the blame on the policies of President George W. Bush. We are all responsible for the decisions our country makes. We have a Congress. We have an independent judiciary. We have checks and balances. We are a nation of laws. We have free speech. We have a free press. Have they all failed us? Why has America's public discourse become less focused and clear, less reasoned? Faith in the power of reason—the belief that free citizens can govern themselves wisely and fairly by resorting to logical debate on the basis of the best evidence available, instead of raw power—remains the central premise of American democracy. This premise is now under assault. American democracy is now in danger—not from any one set of ideas, but from unprecedented changes in the environment within which ideas either live and spread, or wither and die. I do not mean the physical environment; I mean what is called the public sphere, or the marketplace of ideas. It is simply no longer possible to ignore the strangeness of our public discourse. I know I am not alone in feeling that something has gone fundamentally wrong. In 2001, I had hoped it was an aberration when polls showed that three-quarters of Americans believed that Saddam Hussein was responsible for attacking us on Sept. 11. More than five years later, however, nearly half of the American public still believes Saddam was connected to the attack. At first I thought the exhaustive, nonstop coverage of the O.J. Simpson trial was just an unfortunate excess—an unwelcome departure from the normal good sense and judgment of our television news media. Now we know that it was merely an early example of a new pattern of serial obsessions that periodically take over the airwaves for weeks at a time: the Michael Jackson trial and the Robert Blake trial, the Laci Peterson tragedy and the Chandra Levy tragedy, Britney and KFed, Lindsay and Paris and Nicole. While American television watchers were collectively devoting 100 million hours of their lives each week to these and other similar stories, our nation was in the process of more quietly making what future historians will certainly describe as a series of catastrophically mistaken decisions on issues of war and peace, the global climate and human survival, freedom and barbarity, justice and fairness. For example, hardly anyone now disagrees that the choice to invade Iraq was a grievous mistake. Yet, incredibly, all of the evidence and arguments necessary to have made the right decision were available at the time and in hindsight are glaringly obvious. Those of us who have served in the U.S. Senate and watched it change over time could volunteer a response to Senator Byrd's incisive descr1ption of the Senate prior to the invasion: The chamber was empty because the Senators were somewhere else. Many of them were at fund-raising events they now feel compelled to attend almost constantly in order to collect money—much of it from special interests—to buy 30-second TV commercials for their next re-election campaign. The Senate was silent because Senators don't feel that what they say on the floor of the Senate really matters that much anymore—not to the other Senators, who are almost never present when their colleagues speak, and certainly not to the voters, because the news media seldom report on Senate speeches anymore. Our Founders' faith in the viability of representative democracy rested on their trust in the wisdom of a well-informed citizenry, their ingenious design for checks and balances, and their belief that the rule of reason is the natural sovereign of a free people. The Founders took great care to protect the openness of the marketplace of ideas so that knowledge could flow freely. Thus they not only protected freedom of assembly, they made a special point—in the First Amendment—of protecting the freedom of the printing press. And yet today, almost 45 years have passed since the majority of Americans received their news and information from the printed word. Newspapers are hemorrhaging readers. Reading itself is in decline. The Republic of Letters has been invaded and occupied by the empire of television. Radio, the Internet, movies, cell phones, iPods, computers, instant messaging, video games and personal digital assistants all now vie for our attention—but it is television that still dominates the flow of information. According to an authoritative global study, Americans now watch television an average of 4 hours and 35 minutes every day—90 minutes more than the world average. When you assume eight hours of work a day, six to eight hours of sleep and a couple of hours to bathe, dress, eat and commute, that is almost three-quarters of all the discretionary time the average American has. In the world of television, the massive flows of information are largely in only one direction, which makes it virtually impossible for individuals to take part in what passes for a national conversation. Individuals receive, but they cannot send. They hear, but they do not speak. The "well-informed citizenry" is in danger of becoming the "well-amused audience." Moreover, the high capital investment required for the ownership and operation of a television station and the centralized nature of broadcast, cable and satellite networks have led to the increasing concentration of ownership by an ever smaller number of larger corporations that now effectively control the majority of television programming in America. In practice, what television's dominance has come to mean is that the inherent value of political propositions put forward by candidates is now largely irrelevant compared with the image-based ad campaigns they use to shape the perceptions of voters. The high cost of these commercials has radically increased the role of money in politics—and the influence of those who contribute it. That is why campaign finance reform, however well drafted, often misses the main point: so long as the dominant means of engaging in political dialogue is through purchasing expensive television advertising, money will continue in one way or another to dominate American politics. And as a result, ideas will continue to play a diminished role. That is also why the House and Senate campaign committees in both parties now search for candidates who are multimillionaires and can buy the ads with their own personal resources. When I first ran for Congress in 1976, I never took a poll during the entire campaign. Eight years later, however, when I ran statewide for the U.S. Senate, I did take polls and like most statewide candidates relied more heavily on electronic advertising to deliver my message. I vividly remember a turning point in that Senate campaign when my opponent, a fine public servant named Victor Ashe who has since become a close friend, was narrowing the lead I had in the polls. After a detailed review of all the polling information and careful testing of potential TV commercials, the anticipated response from my opponent's campaign and the planned response to the response, my advisers made a recommendation and prediction that surprised me with its specificity: "If you run this ad at this many 'points' [a measure of the size of the advertising buy], and if Ashe responds as we anticipate, and then we purchase this many points to air our response to his response, the net result after three weeks will be an increase of 8.5% in your lead in the polls." I authorized the plan and was astonished when three weeks later my lead had increased by exactly 8.5%. Though pleased, of course, for my own campaign, I had a sense of foreboding for what this revealed about our democracy. Clearly, at least to some degree, the "consent of the governed" was becoming a commodity to be purchased by the highest bidder. To the extent that money and the clever use of electronic mass media could be used to manipulate the outcome of elections, the role of reason began to diminish. As a college student, I wrote my senior thesis on the impact of television on the balance of power among the three branches of government. In the study, I pointed out the growing importance of visual rhetoric and body language over logic and reason. There are countless examples of this, but perhaps understandably, the first one that comes to mind is from the 2000 campaign, long before the Supreme Court decision and the hanging chads, when the controversy over my sighs in the first debate with George W. Bush created an impression on television that for many viewers outweighed whatever positive benefits I might have otherwise gained in the verbal combat of ideas and substance. A lot of good that senior thesis did me. The potential for manipulating mass opinions and feelings initially discovered by commercial advertisers is now being even more aggressively exploited by a new generation of media Machiavellis. The combination of ever more sophisticated public opinion sampling techniques and the increasing use of powerful computers to parse and subdivide the American people according to "psychographic" categories that identify their susceptibility to individually tailored appeals has further magnified the power of propagandistic electronic messaging that has created a harsh new reality for the functioning of our democracy. As a result, our democracy is in danger of being hollowed out. In order to reclaim our birthright, we Americans must resolve to repair the systemic decay of the public forum. We must create new ways to engage in a genuine and not manipulative conversation about our future. We must stop tolerating the rejection and distortion of science. We must insist on an end to the cynical use of pseudo-studies known to be false for the purpose of intentionally clouding the public's ability to discern the truth. Americans in both parties should insist on the re-establishment of respect for the rule of reason. And what if an individual citizen or group of citizens wants to enter the public debate by expressing their views on television? Since they cannot simply join the conversation, some of them have resorted to raising money in order to buy 30 seconds in which to express their opinion. But too often they are not allowed to do even that. MoveOn.org tried to buy an ad for the 2004 Super Bowl broadcast to express opposition to Bush's economic policy, which was then being debated by Congress. CBS told MoveOn that "issue advocacy" was not permissible. Then, CBS, having refused the MoveOn ad, began running advertisements by the White House in favor of the president's controversial proposal. So MoveOn complained, and the White House ad was temporarily removed. By temporarily, I mean it was removed until the White House complained, and CBS immediately put the ad back on, yet still refused to present the MoveOn ad. To understand the final reason why the news marketplace of ideas dominated by television is so different from the one that emerged in the world dominated by the printing press, it is important to distinguish the quality of vividness experienced by television viewers from the "vividness" experienced by readers. Marshall McLuhan's descr1ption of television as a "cool" medium—as opposed to the "hot" medium of print—was hard for me to understand when I read it 40 years ago, because the source of "heat" in his metaphor is the mental work required in the alchemy of reading. But McLuhan was almost alone in recognizing that the passivity associated with watching television is at the expense of activity in parts of the brain associated with abstract thought, logic, and the reasoning process. Any new dominant communications medium leads to a new information ecology in society that inevitably changes the way ideas, feelings, wealth, power and influence are distributed and the way collective decisions are made. As a young lawyer giving his first significant public speech at the age of 28, Abraham Lincoln warned that a persistent period of dysfunction and unresponsiveness by government could alienate the American people and that "the strongest bulwark of any government, and particularly of those constituted like ours, may effectively be broken down and destroyed—I mean the attachment of the people." Many Americans now feel that our government is unresponsive and that no one in power listens to or cares what they think. They feel disconnected from democracy. They feel that one vote makes no difference, and that they, as individuals, have no practical means of participating in America's self-government. Unfortunately, they are not entirely wrong. Voters are often viewed mainly as targets for easy manipulation by those seeking their "consent" to exercise power. By using focus groups and elaborate polling techniques, those who design these messages are able to derive the only information they're interested in receiving from citizens—feedback useful in fine-tuning their efforts at manipulation. Over time, the lack of authenticity becomes obvious and takes its toll in the form of cynicism and alienation. And the more Americans disconnect from the democratic process, the less legitimate it becomes. Many young Americans now seem to feel that the jury is out on whether American democracy actually works or not. We have created a wealthy society with tens of millions of talented, resourceful individuals who play virtually no role whatsoever as citizens. Bringing these people in—with their networks of influence, their knowledge, and their resources—is the key to creating the capacity for shared intelligence that we need to solve our problems. Unfortunately, the legacy of the 20th century's ideologically driven bloodbaths has included a new cynicism about reason itself—because reason was so easily used by propagandists to disguise their impulse to power by cloaking it in clever and seductive intellectual formulations. When people don't have an opportunity to interact on equal terms and test the validity of what they're being "taught" in the light of their own experience and robust, shared dialogue, they naturally begin to resist the assumption that the experts know best. So the remedy for what ails our democracy is not simply better education (as important as that is) or civic education (as important as that can be), but the re-establishment of a genuine democratic discourse in which individuals can participate in a meaningful way—a conversation of democracy in which meritorious ideas and opinions from individuals do, in fact, evoke a meaningful response. Fortunately, the Internet has the potential to revitalize the role played by the people in our constitutional framework. It has extremely low entry barriers for individuals. It is the most interactive medium in history and the one with the greatest potential for connecting individuals to one another and to a universe of knowledge. It's a platform for pursuing the truth, and the decentralized creation and distribution of ideas, in the same way that markets are a decentralized mechanism for the creation and distribution of goods and services. It's a platform, in other words, for reason. But the Internet must be developed and protected, in the same way we develop and protect markets—through the establishment of fair rules of engagement and the exercise of the rule of law. The same ferocity that our Founders devoted to protect the freedom and independence of the press is now appropriate for our defense of the freedom of the Internet. The stakes are the same: the survival of our Republic. We must ensure that the Internet remains open and accessible to all citizens without any limitation on the ability of individuals to choose the content they wish regardless of the Internet service provider they use to connect to the Web. We cannot take this future for granted. We must be prepared to fight for it, because of the threat of corporate consolidation and control over the Internet marketplace of ideas. The danger arises because there is, in most markets, a very small number of broadband network operators. These operators have the structural capacity to determine the way in which information is transmitted over the Internet and the speed with which it is delivered. And the present Internet network operators—principally large telephone and cable companies—have an economic incentive to extend their control over the physical infrastructure of the network to leverage control of Internet content. If they went about it in the wrong way, these companies could institute changes that have the effect of limiting the free flow of information over the Internet in a number of troubling ways. The democratization of knowledge by the print medium brought the Enlightenment. Now, broadband interconnection is supporting decentralized processes that reinvigorate democracy. We can see it happening before our eyes: As a society, we are getting smarter. Networked democracy is taking hold. You can feel it. We the people—as Lincoln put it, "even we here"—are collectively still the key to the survival of America's democracy. Subject: Best School in Salone of all time Message: Subject: Re: Best School in Salone of all time Message: Subject: Re: Best School in Salone of all time Message: Subject: Re: Best School in Salone of all time Message: Subject: Re: Best School in Salone of all time Message: Subject: Re: Best School in Salone of all time Message: Subject: Re: Best School in Salone of all time Message: Subject: Re: Best School in Salone of all time Message: Subject: RESEARCH FINDINGS ON THE MENDES AND TEMNES PART 2 Message: b-Most mendes are cannivorous and can eat anything that flies except airplanes,anything that walks except robots,anything that crawls except toys and anything that swims except lifeless objects.Their love for meat makes them the most celebrated cannibals after the Liberians. c-Unlike the temnes, the mendes are good inventors and one should have no doubt about the existence of the KONGOBAY submarine used by cannibals in mende areas especially the south. The temnes also claim to have invented the PAMPA boat but cannot be verified. d-The temnes are fond of marrying many wives while most mendes believe in philandering. c-Most temnes like petty trading while the mendes believe in farm work. d-Most mende women are very helpful to men but tend to be dishonest with their husbands. f-Most temne women are helpful to men but cannot stomach being jilted;they even kill when a man does that to them.They are also dishonest to some extent with their husbands.They value money so much that they can spend a whole year shuttling between towns in Sierra Leone and Guinea in search of goods and transactions. g-It is very easy for a temne man to lose his temper when offended while it is easy for the mende to keep his cool but will never forgive or forget. CONCLUSION: None is better off or worse off.It is a draw.Both parties are urged to note their minus and plus points and do some soul-searching rather than asking for a ban or spewing venom on the author. These are just research findings and the work itself is just a labour of love.I expect both parties to commend the group for such epoch-making revelations rather than getting wild and start jumping like sulphuric acid has been spilled on their butts. After all it is a free world! AH TROWAY MI BONGA HEAD AR NOR CALL NO ARATA. Subject: Re: RESEARCH FINDINGS ON THE MENDES AND TEMNES PART 2 Message: Subject: Re: RESEARCH FINDINGS ON THE MENDES AND TEMNES PART 2 Message: Subject: Re: RESEARCH FINDINGS ON THE MENDES AND TEMNES PART 2 Message: The Kongobay boat is a sherbro not Mende. it may be in the South but is Sherbro. Mendes are not the only who kill for power. Remember the ritual performed by ALmamy Gazali in Port Loko during Pa Sheki's time We must able to laugh at ourselves without branding everything as tribalism. Subject: Re: RESEARCH FINDINGS ON THE MENDES AND TEMNES PART 2 Message: Subject: Re: RESEARCH FINDINGS ON THE MENDES AND TEMNES PART 2 Message: Subject: Re: RESEARCH FINDINGS ON THE MENDES AND TEMNES PART 2 Message: Subject: Re: 90% of the Prostitutes are Temnes Message: Basta KORO DEM Subject: Re: 90% of the Prostitutes are Temnes Message: E pass basta koro dem. Wit den Bin ka kuru, leh den go bak yonibana to den oberekamu dem. Pedrocintra is preety much right. I know that Mende people eat MONKEY! but I still think they are better than Temne on ALL LEVELS. These Temne immigrants need to leave Freetown and that will solve half of the problems in the beautiful city of Freetown. All other country men are welcomed. Every fight that has occured on tribal basis was been provoked form them. From Mende's to Lebanesse to Fula's to Krio's. Now that the fire is on them they cant handle it. NASTY TEMNE KAKROACH DEM. Subject: Re: 90% of the Prostitutes are Temnes Message: Subject: Re: 90% of the Prostitutes are Temnes Message: Subject: Re: 90% of the Prostitutes are Temnes Message: Subject: Don't Cry Message: Subject: Otoolege Message: Subject: TOP TEN SCHOOLS IN SIERRA LEONE....YES!! Message: 2) GRAMMAR SCHOOL 3) LEBANESE SCHOOL 4) C.K.C (How did ya get here, Munku Boys?) 5) ANNIE WALSH 6) St. EDWARD'S 7) St. JOSEPH'S (BROOKFIELDS) 8) ALBERT ACADEMY 9) METHODIST GIRLS SCHOOL (BIG UP, GRANNIES!) 10) PRINCE OF WALES (I just love your motto: Forward Never, Backward Ever. Where U at...Kutoh Road or Kingtom?) Subject: Re: TOP TEN SCHOOLS IN SIERRA LEONE....YES!! Message: Subject: Re: TOP TEN SCHOOLS IN SIERRA LEONE....YES!! Message: Subject: Re: TOP TEN SCHOOLS IN SIERRA LEONE....YES!! Message: Subject: Re: TOP TEN SCHOOLS IN SIERRA LEONE....YES!! Message: Subject: Re: TOP TEN SCHOOLS IN SIERRA LEONE....YES!! Message: New # 10 is Almamy Razak Tun Seray-Wurie Si's School, the one and only St. Helena Secondary School! This means P.O is now officially off the top 10 list, Solar powered computer center or not! Subject: Re: TOP TEN SCHOOLS IN SIERRA LEONE....YES!! Message: Subject: Re: TOP TEN SCHOOLS IN SIERRA LEONE....YES!! Message: Subject: Re: TOP TEN SCHOOLS IN SIERRA LEONE....YES!! Message: Subject: Re: TOP TEN SCHOOLS IN SIERRA LEONE....YES!! Message: Subject: Re: TOP TEN SCHOOLS IN SIERRA LEONE....YES!! Message: Subject: Re: TOP TEN SCHOOLS IN SIERRA LEONE....YES!! Message: Subject: Re: TOP TEN SCHOOLS IN SIERRA LEONE....YES!! Message: Subject: Re: TOP TEN SCHOOLS IN SIERRA LEONE....YES!! Message: Fen Plaba, to answer you.. ? Me nor wan dey pass waterloo.. Subject: Re: TOP TEN SCHOOLS IN SIERRA LEONE....YES!! Message: Subject: Re: TOP TEN SCHOOLS IN SIERRA LEONE....YES!! Message: Subject: Re: TOP TEN SCHOOLS IN SIERRA LEONE....YES!! Message: Subject: Re: TOP TEN SCHOOLS IN SIERRA LEONE....YES!! Message: Subject: Re: TOP TEN SCHOOLS IN SIERRA LEONE....YES!! Message: Subject: Re: TOP TEN SCHOOLS IN SIERRA LEONE....YES!! Message: Subject: Re: TOP TEN SCHOOLS IN SIERRA LEONE....YES!! Message: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=khGXgvCZfJk&feature=related Subject: Re: TOP TEN SCHOOLS IN SIERRA LEONE....YES!! Message: Subject: Re: TOP TEN SCHOOLS IN SIERRA LEONE....YES!! Message: Subject: Re: TOP TEN SCHOOLS IN SIERRA LEONE....YES!! Message: Subject: Re: TOP TEN SCHOOLS IN SIERRA LEONE....YES!! Message: Subject: Re: TOP TEN SCHOOLS IN SIERRA LEONE....YES!! Message: Subject: Kabs appointed Director of Communications Message: Usually very reliable State House sources in Freetown have indicated that Wilfred Leroy Kabs-Kanu(photo), editor of the popular Cocorioko online newspaper has been appointed Director of Communication by the APC government. Kabs(as he is popularly known) will soon leave for Sierra Leone to take up his new appointement after several years in the United States where he has worked as clergyman, educationist and journalist. More on this later. Subject: Re: Kabs appointed Director of Communications Message: Subject: Lady in red Message: Subject: Enjoy! Message: Subject: Let us show our support for the Banya Family... Message: Subject: Re: Let us show our support for the Banya Family... Message: Subject: Re: Let us show our support for the Banya Family... Message: Subject: Re: Agnes Kulu Banya Bless you Message: Subject: HOW TO SERVE WITHOUT KISSING UP TO THEM! Message: When S.A.T Koroma was heading top ministries in Siaka Stevens government, the poor people of Koya saw no economic benefit at all. The only people who 'enjoyed' were his kids who rolled around Masiaka and Freetown in big cars while the rest of us sweatily 'Piled' through the dusty roads. I am sure the same scenario can be applied, with the same miserable results, to all the many regions of Sierra Leone. Why we go at each other's throats over spoils of office that go to people who don't give a hoot about us makes no darned sense. I bet you, there were just as many poor people in Bumpeh during Berewa's Regency than in other places without a minister. Benjamin's Segbwema? Hard-Up bin cake all man yan da! We can best serve our country, not by dragging our self-respect trough the gutter for a silly appointment, but by lobbying for the liberalization of the crazy business climate in the country. We need to get rid of the byzantine regulations and bureaucratic bottlenecks that have dried up investment in the country. Once the business climate is friendly and corruption-free, diasporans can then rush in and spend their well-earned dollars. We can serve Sierra Leone best by setting up companies, no matter how tiny. The cummulative investment might of diasporans in the private sector will be more powerful and profound than a few ministerial positions in Sierra Leone. Subject: Re: HOW TO SERVE WITHOUT KISSING UP TO THEM! Message: Subject: Re: HOW TO SERVE WITHOUT KISSING UP TO THEM! Message: Subject: Re: HOW TO SERVE WITHOUT KISSING UP TO THEM! Message: "Our obsession with who and what tribe or region gets a cabinet post or top job is really degrading and takes away from the big picture." There has to be DIVERSITY in the distribution of cabinet jobs or jobs in general in a multiethnic society. Didn't the APC contest all the parliamentary seats in the country??? Why should't the country's cabinet then be representative of that effort??? Wouldn't a truly representative cabinet promote national cohesion??? Remember, politics and governement are all about REPRESENTATION. Subject: Re: HOW TO SERVE WITHOUT KISSING UP TO THEM! Message: Now lets address the other question of whether or not the APC did contest all the parliamentary seats in the country. My answer to that is an unequivocal NO. As I recall, the APC and PMDC were denied permission to campaign in Kailahun and parts of Kenema district by..... You guessed right SLPP stalwarts. Their candidates were not allowed the opportunity to campaign in these districts in violation of the election laws of sierra leone. Thus we cannot in good conscience any APC candidate contesting under such ardous circumstances to have been given the freedom to contest and deem any such APC candidate to have been denied the right to contest. Your equally legitimate question about whether or not a truly representative cabinet would promote national cohesion, and I agree, except that the APC under Siaka Stevens (you know how I feel about the old meh) and Joseph Momoh, attempted to create that very utopia you now advocate for so eloquently. What happened was that People like JB Dauda who rose to the position of Vice President under the APC, later came on national radio during the SLPP candidate debates and stated that he joined the APC only because he wanted to destroy it from within. Now you would agree with me that under the circumstances, the APC would have to be very careful about who it appoints from your side to achieve that parity that you espouse because many from your side cannot be entrusted with positions of authority because they later turn around and bite the hand that feeds them in order to achieve their selfish aims. There should be a way though that your goals can be achieved and I agree with them for the most part. Do you have anyone who you may want to recommend? They have to be qualified, Sierra Leonean, not Necessarily members of the APC, but necessarily Nationalistic. You have 24 hours to come up with a suitable person so that we can achieve this diversity we all think outta be. Blessings!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Subject: Re: HOW TO SERVE WITHOUT KISSING UP TO THEM! Message: What diversity, every tribe joined The old APC as it was a one party dictatorship. There was no where to go. A democratic APC will never have diversity as its genesis evolved from anti mende hatred in the mid sixties. Its core members came from anti-mende backgrounds. it was formed to diminish the preceived power of mendes. Unless this hatred ceases with the new generation, APC will have no diversity. It will be a Temne /limba party which each one jockeying for control after marginalizing the krios who were instrumental in the birth of the party. Krios were anti SLPP as the Slpp native intelectuals destroyed the myth that the Krios were the only professionals and the intellectuals in Sierra leone. SlPP put forth native professionals as Karefa Smart, Milton & Albert Margai. Subject: Re: HOW TO SERVE WITHOUT KISSING UP TO THEM! Message: AND HERE LADIES AND GENTLEMEN IS ANOTHER BUFFON WHO DOES NOT KNOW THAT THE HISTORY OF THE SLPP STARTS WITH A MAN CALLED LAMINA SANKOH WHSE GIVEN NAMES AT BIRTH WAS ETHELDRED JONES A KRIO BY BIRTH. PLEASE CHECK TEHSE SITES OUT: I hope that the links would give you a rudimentary education on the krio influence in the formation of the SLPP and from these links you will learn not to say stupid things like you just did in this post. Subject: Re: HOW TO SERVE WITHOUT KISSING UP TO THEM! Message: Subject: Re: HOW TO SERVE WITHOUT KISSING UP TO THEM! Message: Subject: Re: HOW TO SERVE WITHOUT KISSING UP TO THEM! Message: The issue is how do we deal with the accusation of tribalism perceived or not that is currently leveled at current govt. EBK has the prerogative to hire who he wants despite the consequences. Subject: Re: HOW TO SERVE WITHOUT KISSING UP TO THEM! Message: Bra E wshould rather spend his time making recommendations on those southeasterners who he considers worth the merit of being appointed to the present Government. That having been said, theres also the issue of the Presidents Prerogative in appointments and it appeasr from the cacophony of noises from grand noise makers like Bra E, that that prerogative is being ursurped by these nefarious allegations and accusations. Subject: Re: HOW TO SERVE WITHOUT KISSING UP TO THEM! Message: With the divisive elections and our past history of civil war. I would think the APC advisors would have urged Ernest to pick a cabinet that is more representative of country. it is not only the Southerners that are absent, there are not to many krios or people from the western area either. The elections are over and SLPp were given the boot for not performing up to the electorate's expectations. it is not sour grapes , it is a just a freindly advice, some of us offer to Ernest. It is in our interest, If EBK succeeds and builds a strong economy. It is not in our interest for him to fail. Subject: Re: HOW TO SERVE WITHOUT KISSING UP TO THEM! Message: A while back after one of my trips to sierra leone, I complained that teh civil service was packed with folks from the south east and that other tribes were being squeezed out of the Civil service through blatant tribal discrimination in favor of mendes. Most of the resiudent imbeciles on this forum and the former sierra leonean fora called me a tribalist. I see nothing tribalistic in stating facts which are true and proveable. The present dissenting voices on the internet abouyt this so called northernization of the country is divisive and is a clear indication that the SLPP and its supporters have lost, and continue to loose credibility by their tendency to cry foul when there is none. The president has a mandate and for Gods sake lets give him some breathing space to make his appointment as he sees fit. Ernest Koroma understands that he has a legacy and that unless he does what is right by sierra leone his legacy would be trashed by very willing people such as those in the dissenting choir raising their voices as if they are in a drunken stupor. Subject: Re: HOW TO SERVE WITHOUT KISSING UP TO THEM! Message: Subject: Stop Press’ get thrilled by Ernest Koroma’s Sense of Humour Message: President Koroma has last weekend, shown guests at the popular Freetown Stop Press Restaurant that he still possesses his well known sense of humour during a surprise visit he made to the popular Entertainment spot. Additionally, if there was any doubt in anyone’s mind that His Excellency President Ernest Bai Koroma is a religious reader of Sierra Leone’s fastest selling, highest selling and most widely circulated newspaper, that was placed to rest last weekend when during the surprise visit, President Koroma informed he was there to receive some more Economics lessons from J.J. Saffa following what he had read in Awareness Times that day. Subject: CHILL OUT Message: Subject: AMISTAD SAILS INTO FREETOWN Message: Subject: Just received this from a special person. Enjoy! Message: 2.) A woman asks a man who is travelling with six children, "Are all 3.) Teacher: Do you know the importance of a period? Kid: Yeah, once my 4.) What's the difference between stress, tension, and panic? "Stress 5.) Man comes home, finds his wife with his friend in bed. He shoots Subject: Re: Just received this from a special person. Enjoy! Message: Subject: Re: Just received this from a special person. Enjoy! Message: Subject: Pedro missed it in the 14century and missed again in the 21 Message: I strongly believe 99.9 % of the tribes you talked on do not believe in your wasteful research. Why don't you go and research about poverty and disease in sierra leone to help the government work on it? This would have made a great difference on you than wasting time on issues that divides us. Did you just see the current composition between these two tribes. Many people told you that they are both descendants of the two or more tribes. How can you convince them that one is better than the same? Subject: MAX KANU--ASAP Message: Subject: CAMPAIGN TO SHAME PEDRO Message: REFORM YOURSELF BEFORE YOUR MIND SURPASSES THAT OF HITLER. SHAME ON YOU !!! Subject: Daily Muslim Wisdom Message: Subject: Re: Daily Muslim Wisdom Message: I agree. "Remain patient in adversity to attain peace, for adversity is the threshold to freedom." I partially totally disagree this is dangerous and has been partially responsible for the backwardness of Africa. You got to be constantly on the lookout to get yourself out of adversity. In fact you have to do it with such eagerness, now that technology is moving at a breathtaking speed. Any dillydally will leave you in the wake of the developed world and you will never recover from it. Prove me wrong--but where are we today? Subject: Re: Daily Muslim Wisdom Message: Subject: A message to Kab's Kanu pastor... Message: Subject: Old NRA. Message: As long as den respect the spirit of Christmas normor(with vindictiveness). (As me granny kin say "There is a time for every purpose under the [rising] sun") Dieh Dieh. Subject: Sierra Leone sets up forest park :Way to go EBK! Message: The 75,000 hectare park is home to 50 species of mammals, including leopards, chimpanzees and forest buffalos. President Ernest Bai Koroma hopes the new national park will boost tourism. Although few turned up to hear his announcement, the president said he hoped the creation of the country's second national park would create jobs and extra income. "Over the years we have had a lot of rainforest, all over, covered... but today what we have as a mature forest area is under 5% and if we don't take a serious approach to this issue, we will lose everything," President Koroma said. Trust fund Sierra Leone is recovering from a brutal decade-long civil war, which ended in 2002. Campaigners say that without official protection, the Gola Forest would have been destroyed within 10 years, as Sierra Leone tries to raise living standards. It is to become Sierra Leone's second national park. The Gola Forest is also home to 274 bird species, 14 of which are close to extinction, and the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB) is helping to fund the scheme. "We are helping the government turn a logging forest into a protected forest," said the RSPB's Alistair Gammell. "Huge amounts of carbon will be saved and the site is an excellent example to those now involved in climate talks in Bali." Subject: Re: Sierra Leone sets up forest park :Way to go EBK! Message: Subject: AN INTERVIEW WITH THE SL FILM MAKER JIMMY B. Message: Subject: Re: AN INTERVIEW WITH THE SL FILM MAKER JIMMY B. Message: That is what anyone would call an achievement. The film maker clearly has vision, he thought about it, planned it, organised it and produced it. His aim is to produce film base on our culture but deviod of the stereotype voodo films which has come to exemplified other African films. His objective is to extablsh a good film making industry to rival countries like Nigeria and Ghana and put Sierra Leone on the map. Bravo Bangura What has Puawei Sama Banya's achieved? We know about the conservation thing which he pocketed the money. Where is the conservation? The only reliable record we hold on Puawei's political achievement is that after nearly 4 decades, of his involvement in politics, the result is that, Sierra Leoen is last in human development index. Subject: SIERRA LEONE FILM MAKER JIMMY BANGURA Message: Subject: SIERRA LEONE FILM MAKER JIMMY BANGURA Message: Subject: MY APOLOGIES IF I'VE HURT ANYONE ON THIS FORUM Message: Subject: Re: MY APOLOGIES IF I'VE HURT ANYONE ON THIS FORUM Message: Subject: Re: MY APOLOGIES IF I'VE HURT ANYONE ON THIS FORUM Message: Subject: Re: MY APOLOGIES IF I'VE HURT ANYONE ON THIS FORUM Message: Having said that, I really hope that this move has nothing to do with the Bambay Lans Kamara's stuff a couple of weeks ago. His was euphorically received and delicately cuddled to the end of the episode. So I hope you're not up to something. Come to think of it, I hope you're not heading to Freetown to assume one of the Ambassadorial positions soon to be in the offing! If yes, well, all the best! Subject: Re: MY APOLOGIES IF I'VE HURT ANYONE ON THIS FORUM Message: Pedro made/forced/induced me to wrote some unwitting things against the Temne I should not have done under normal circumstances. It is not in my blood to even use foul languages on people let alone made them feel stupid. So I felt a bit guilty of absentminded hurting my Temne brothers. So that was a sincere apology because to me, Sierra Leoneans are Sierra Leoneans and I am too intelligent to allow tribe or political gimmicks to change that in my dictionary and I had no intention to hurt anyone. Cheers, Anthony Subject: Re: MY APOLOGIES IF I'VE HURT ANYONE ON THIS FORUM Message: Subject: I APOLOGIES IF I'VE HURT ANY OTHER TRIBE ON THIS FORUM Message: Subject: Re: I APOLOGIES IF I'VE HURT ANY OTHER TRIBE ON THIS FORUM Message: Subject: Re: I APOLOGIES IF I'VE HURT ANY OTHER TRIBE ON THIS FORUM Message: Subject: Re: I APOLOGIES IF I'VE HURT ANY OTHER TRIBE ON THIS FORUM Message: Subject: Re: I APOLOGIES IF I'VE HURT ANY OTHER TRIBE ON THIS FORUM Message: Subject: Re: I APOLOGIES IF I'VE HURT ANY OTHER TRIBE ON THIS FORUM Message: Subject: Re: I APOLOGIES IF I'VE HURT ANY OTHER TRIBE ON THIS FORUM Message: Subject: Re: I APOLOGIES IF I'VE HURT ANY OTHER TRIBE ON THIS FORUM Message: Subject: Re: I APOLOGIES IF I'VE HURT ANY OTHER TRIBE ON THIS FORUM Message: Subject: Commissioner General of NRA Message: Subject: Sierra Leone Judiciary Message: Subject: ELECTRICITY DECEMBER 20???? Message: Subject: Re: ELECTRICITY DECEMBER 20???? Message: In short, the old plant will be a back up to the new generator plant Subject: Re: ELECTRICITY DECEMBER 20???? Message: Tangays APC cannot pull this off.. Nah fen Plaba normoh me sorry for. Come Dec 20, 2007. I hope your main man, O'Koro, doesnt dis-appoint us all... Subject: Re: ELECTRICITY DECEMBER 20???? Message: Subject: Re: ELECTRICITY DECEMBER 20???? Message: Subject: Re: ELECTRICITY DECEMBER 20???? Message: Subject: Re: Konopady: ON THE SLPP, TRIBALISM AND ALL THAT APC TRASH Message: How I wish my father's beloved party was not hijacked by selfish bastards like Tejan Kabbah and Slomon Berewa! Let the APC mess continue, and in the people's name, the SLPP will rise up to the challenge of restoring Sierra Leone to its Athens-like glories. Subject: Re: Konopady: ON THE SLPP, TRIBALISM AND ALL THAT APC TRASH Message: kabba is now Chair of the Commonwealth Observer group to Kenya/Uganda? Berewa is to become Associate professor at bradford Univeristy? Who then are left to carry on the mess they plunged us in? it is a very sad world to see the ones we view as destructive continue to be elevated at the expense of the one whom we see as the good. For us to be able to repair the mess meted on our party - we need to start now. We need to try and consolidate all efforts and resources onto achieiving one goal - to restore respect and cedence in the SLPP. I empathise with what is being felt. In such circumstances - equanimity becomes the only tool for sanity. Subject: RESEARCH FINDINGS ON TEMNES AND MENDES Message: Now to our findings: POLITICALLY: ACADEMICALLY: RELIGIOUSLY: ECONOMICALLY: SPORTS: ENTERTAINMENT: THE RESEARCH CONTINUES ON OTHER AREAS. Subject: Re: RESEARCH FINDINGS ON TEMNES AND MENDES Message: Now a days Freetown has turned into heaven for them. Ever since the war all of them have migrated to Freetown in ridiculous numbers. WHY DONT THEY ALL GO BACK TO MAKENI OR YONIBANA???? They are the only tribe that has come to Freetown in such high numbers, and all they do is crowd the streets to sell thier markets and make the city look nasty. I have a feeling that they do not like thier Temne line because they are always migrating to Bo, Freetown, Kenema or anywhere exept thier Temne areas. They ahve a bad rep with many tribes. Mende Krio, Oku, Fula, MAndingo, or whatever. TEMNE MAN DEM BAD. Dem danger. The Limbas are much better and sadly get confused to be Temne becasue they come fromt he same area and have the same names. Anyways Temne people are the worst tribe in Sierra Leone because thuer language is strong and nasty and very ahrd to listen to. and They should all go back upline because the war is ove now. Infact they all should migrate out of Sierra Leone. LONTA!!! Subject: Re: RESEARCH FINDINGS ON TEMNES AND MENDES Message: Subject: Re: RESEARCH FINDINGS ON TEMNES AND MENDES Message: Limba people are very peaceful and nice to deal with, Mende people are peaceful, Krio are peaceful, same goes for Kono. BUT TEMNE PEOPLE ARE DANGEROUS. If I was mayor of Freetown I will kick out all of the SQUATTERS that love in dirty pan bodi's OUT. most of them are Temne becasue they just decided one day to come to Freetown and have no house of family there. WHY DONT THEY GO TO YONIBANA?!?! It is rare to see someone in my family marry Temne although there are a few. And I will see that my daughters dont touch them. They are just a group of bad people, I know that I shouldnt catergorize all Temne as being bad, but there are just too many kroot and primitive Temne's that I have no choice. Wi need for dreb una all kromot nar fourah bay because una all nar alaigbegi dem. How can a group of people go and clear a dutty box and go and settle and live there?!?!?! ONLY NASTY TEMNE PEOPLE Subject: Re: RESEARCH FINDINGS ON TEMNES AND MENDES Message: Subject: Re: RESEARCH FINDINGS ON TEMNES AND MENDES Message: Un ano lek buk biznez nar for sell nar markit nain nomom una sabi. I know what Im talking about and if you want to classify me and being crazy be my guest. You and I both know the truth about Temne people and their behavior, being that you are one you should be defending your brothers and giving an explanation as to why they behave in such a manner. Temne's are a very primitive people and when they go to school they just become educated people woth primitive minds. You are my case in point Lonta Subject: Re: RESEARCH FINDINGS ON TEMNES AND MENDES Message: Subject: Re: RESEARCH FINDINGS ON TEMNES AND MENDES Message: But tel yu wef bua for mi. Subject: Re: RESEARCH FINDINGS ON TEMNES AND MENDES Message: You simply disgust me, you half brain chimp! Subject: Re: RESEARCH FINDINGS ON TEMNES AND MENDES Message: Temne man dem nor fit nating betteh. Subject: Re: RESEARCH FINDINGS ON TEMNES AND MENDES Message: Subject: Re: RESEARCH FINDINGS ON TEMNES AND MENDES Message: That's also includes your father right? Is father also loud, rude and full of "gbos-gbos"? Well that explains everything about you! Subject: Re: RESEARCH FINDINGS ON TEMNES AND MENDES Message: One thing i have observed about SLPP suporters is you guys have turned to name-calling and tribalism after you lost the elections. Subject: Re: RESEARCH FINDINGS ON TEMNES AND MENDES Message: First of all. I did not generalize. I said My observation of the Temne is from my family members who are loud and are full of Gbos Gbos. May be other Temnes are not loud and full of GBOs GBOS. Mine are and they fit the earlier descr1ption. Please refrain from insults and not demean the Yilla name. The familly name is honorable and the familly is brought up well. Subject: Re: RESEARCH FINDINGS ON TEMNES AND MENDES Message: How does the above statement sounds to you, sir? Is it overgeneralization and stereotyping a productive group of people in salone? On the side note, i thank you for writing such kinds words about my paternal family, the yillahs!!!!!!!! Subject: Re: RESEARCH FINDINGS ON TEMNES AND MENDES Message: Subject: Re: RESEARCH FINDINGS ON TEMNES AND MENDES Message: Subject: Re: RESEARCH FINDINGS ON TEMNES AND MENDES Message: Subject: Re: RESEARCH FINDINGS ON TEMNES AND MENDES Message: Subject: Re: RESEARCH FINDINGS ON TEMNES AND MENDES Message: Subject: Re: RESEARCH FINDINGS ON TEMNES AND MENDES Message: Subject: Re: RESEARCH FINDINGS ON TEMNES AND MENDES Message: Subject: Re: RESEARCH FINDINGS ON TEMNES AND MENDES Message: There is an ever increasing need for this forum to be vetted for idiots like you. The country is still trying to recover after ten years of war and you are busy trying to start another one. If you have nothing better to do please do not do it here!!!! Subject: Re: RESEARCH FINDINGS ON TEMNES AND MENDES Message: Subject: Re: RESEARCH FINDINGS ON TEMNES AND MENDES Message: Subject: Re: RESEARCH FINDINGS ON TEMNES AND MENDES Message: No lecture time but A. O. Conteh is not a temne - he is a susu!! Abass Bundu is a mix of Fula and temne. By the way who is a real temne or mende? Subject: I AM MENDE BUT GRADMOM CAME FROM LIBERIA MENDE Message: Subject: Re: I AM MENDE BUT GRADMOM CAME FROM LIBERIA MENDE Message: The ones in the south are not spelled the same way. They related to the ones in Liberia and it is spelled KROMA. Check your origin properly. I know that because I am from the south east. Subject: YOU ARE RIGHT BUDDY Message: Subject: Re: RESEARCH FINDINGS ON TEMNES AND MENDES Message: Subject: Re: RESEARCH FINDINGS ON TEMNES AND MENDES Message: Many of us comming from the south east grew up with northeners and westerners. We schooled with them, with good memories. Some came as far as port Loko like, Makeni etc. So we grew up to appreciate differences because it is normal to be different. I would like to believe that the same sentiment and tolerance is respected by others. Subject: Re: RESEARCH FINDINGS ON TEMNES AND MENDES Message: Subject: Re: RESEARCH FINDINGS ON TEMNES AND MENDES Message: How many lecturers or teachers are Temne and what are their levels. What is their self control in terms of trusting them with you while alone in a house? Who are the arm robbers in Sierra Leone are they mostly Mende or Temne? Who are the thugs in Sierra Leone are they Mostly Mende or Temne? You don't have to respond to the above questions because I don't have time for a feedback. You donbolo causer. The sooner you have your brother in power you want the world to know now that Temne are the best and yet Portloko and Makeni are not even attractive in Sierra Leone. Subject: Re: RESEARCH FINDINGS ON TEMNES AND MENDES Message: Subject: Re: RESEARCH FINDINGS ON TEMNES AND MENDES Message: Thanks for highlighting it. Subject: Re: RESEARCH FINDINGS ON TEMNES AND MENDES Message: "After a lot of mud-slinging from both tribes as to who is better off or worse off," Where did this ever happen? You are the first to ever mention this. People like you are not fit to live among decent Sierra Leoneans, but again I can understand why you came up with this trash - LOW SELF-ESTEEM. Subject: Re: RESEARCH FINDINGS ON TEMNES AND MENDES Message: Subject: Re: RESEARCH FINDINGS ON TEMNES AND MENDES Message: Squirrels are very smart. I did not see any smartness in the posting, but twisted and demented brian of one professing to be educated. Very stinking tribalist's invention called research. Subject: Re: RESEARCH FINDINGS ON TEMNES AND MENDES Message: Subject: Re: RESEARCH FINDINGS ON TEMNES AND MENDES Message: I Think that no one should have responded to the guy's posting. Responses he is receiving is exactly what he wanted. What everyone might do, is if you see a posting by pedro, then you just don't open the posting, otherwise expect to read thrash. Keep cool guys Subject: Re: RESEARCH FINDINGS ON TEMNES AND MENDES Message: Subject: FOR BRA ENVIABLE, TALKING RICH ABOUT TRIBALISH TAKE A LOOK Message: Administrative Assistant - Mrs Isatu Conteh Subject: Re: FOR BRA ENVIABLE, TALKING RICH ABOUT TRIBALISH TAKE A LOOK Message: Please research properly before you issued a ststement of fact. 1 I don't know the backgroung or tribe of H C Melvin Chalobah, but Chalobah suggest he may well be connected with Guinea/Gambia. 2 His Deputy James Allie is a Shabro. 3 Head of Chancery, Mrs Hawa Sumner is a Temene, a relative of late SI Koroma. She was married to the son of late DL Sumner and still distingushed in her married name. Counsellor Sahr P Demba: I don't know him but he is unlike to be a mende-more of a Kono. Councillor Florence Bangali, cannot tell but could either be a relation of Amara Bangali or a married name. First Secretary Counsellor Josephine Marah (my sweety) Definitely a mende, married to a relative of late SB Marah. First Secretray Johnathan Las-Lamin Financial attache: Yomba Fasuluku is a typical kono Information attache, Sorie Fofana,if still there, is a mandigo. Administrative Attache: Mrs Elizebeth Sesay, not sure and I don't make deduction when not sure. Administrative assistant: Mrs Isatu Conteh, not sure, the same as Elizebeth Sesay. Now my frien where did you get your facts from, which states that 99 percent of the embassy staff you listed are mende? Subject: Re: FOR BRA ENVIABLE, TALKING RICH ABOUT TRIBALISH TAKE A LOOK Message: Subject: SHEKITO may not be EBK's Press Secretary.................... Message: Here comes the self-appointment-self-announcement of Mr. SHEKITO to the position of Press Secretary. First, the veracity “he called me to say he had taken the “decision” to make me Press Secretary at State House. And this is an Executive Any communiqué from the president’s office about this appointment? Secondly, SHEKITO betrayed the president’s trust by disclosing the private conversation he allegedly had with him. Thirdly, if and only if KABBS KANU is truly interested in the Press Secretary position, it is not over yet. Sheku Kallon wrote a “Now to an important matter in your paper. I noticed that since Mr.Sheka Tarawalli began writing about his appointment on IT IS NOT OVER YET!!!!!!!!! Subject: Re: SHEKITO may not be EBK's Press Secretary.................... Message: Subject: Re: SHEKITO may not be EBK's Press Secretary.................... Message: Subject: Re: SHEKITO may not be EBK's Press Secretary.................... Message: Subject: Re: SHEKITO may not be EBK's Press Secretary.................... Message: Subject: Re: SHEKITO may not be EBK's Press Secretary.................... Message: Subject: Re: SHEKITO may not be EBK's Press Secretary.................... Message: Subject: Re: SHEKITO may not be EBK's Press Secretary.................... Message: I swear on my life, a senior party executive officer in Kenema bitterly told me that this JJ Blood stole about 30 millions Leones from the party funds. Subject: Re: SHEKITO may not be EBK's Press Secretary.................... Message: It was his confrontational style and lack of organisational ability, coupled with the fact that he was not in the framework of Sierra Leone national politics that contributed greatly to the part's defeat. Subject: JJBLOOD IS NOT RESPONSIBLE....... Message: Subject: APC IS THE SAME,APC Message: Subject: Re: APC IS THE SAME,APC Message: Subject: Re: APC IS THE SAME,APC Message: Under Slpp , we did not have this blatant thuggery. The President is silent , not knowing where to begin. What Incompetence. Subject: Re: APC IS THE SAME,APC Message: Subject: Daily Muslim Wisdom Message: Subject: Re: Daily Muslim Wisdom Message: Subject: Re: Daily Muslim Wisdom Message: Subject: Re: Daily Muslim Wisdom Message: Subject: Re: Daily Muslim Wisdom Message: Subject: SWEET STATISTICS: CRY, BABY, CRY! Message: Question #1: APC: Ernest Bai Koroma (90%), Satan (8%), Undecided (2%) Question #2: APC: Ernest Bai Koroma (99%), Satan(1%) Question #3: ...And supposing that Satan is Temne, what is your choice? APC: Ernest Bai Koroma (53%), Satan (46%), Undecided (1%). SLPP: Ernest Bai Koroma (10%), Satan (1%), Undecided (89%) More statistics later about an SLPP candidate and Satan.... Subject: Re: SWEET STATISTICS: CRY, BABY, CRY! Message: Me man dis statistics mek a laf. Bo Ernest Koroma ehn satan??? Nah. Some of us are pummelling the man to realize that he is not the president of the North but Sierra Leone. Why should every appointment be Bangura, Conteh, Kanu, etc., etc. Why not also Kakpindi, Karimu, Johnson, etc. But satan?? Nah. At this time I will choose Ernest Koroma. However, if Ernest rigs the elections in 2012 then maybe I will reconsider because I wouldn't want APC to be in power beyond 2012 since I intend to return home and relax under the palm tree. Subject: Re: SWEET STATISTICS: CRY, BABY, CRY! Message: Subject: Re: SWEET STATISTICS: CRY, BABY, CRY! Message: Subject: COO OFF AFTER THE DAY'S HARD WORK Message: Subject: Re: COO OFF AFTER THE DAY'S HARD WORK Message: Subject: Re: COO OFF AFTER THE DAY'S HARD WORK Message: Subject: EBK should keep to his promise Message: Subject: APC COMMUNICATION HANDICAP. Message: Subject: Re: APC COMMUNICATION HANDICAP. Message: Subject: Kabs Kanu, Rare Diamond for You Message: While in the USA, Alpha Kanu also broke the bad news (in spite of several denials) that Rev Wilfred Leeroy Kabs-Kanu, a committed APC supporter and publicist, that he had ben passed over for the press officer job although Rev. Kabs-Kanu has been consistent and dedicated in his excoriation of the former SLPP and its promotion of belief in the new APC agenda. The overlooking of Rev. Kabs-Kanu may not be unconnected to the APC's hiring practice of hiring only cronies and malleable characters like Shekha Tarawallie (Shekito) who has announced in a series of articles that he bagged the job after a personal telephone solicitation for his services by the President. Rev. Wilfred Leeroy Kabs-Kanu is a seasoned journalist who has practised in three countries spanning 34 years. A preacher, educator, and graduate, Rev. Kabs-Kanu is an articulate writer and speaker, a focused man of God who is untainted by the corruption and unethical journalistic practices (coasting) that Shekito may have engaged in as a journalist. Subject: Re: Kabs Kanu, Rare Diamond for You Message: Subject: Re: Kabs Kanu, Rare Diamond for You Message: Subject: Re: Kabs Kanu, Rare Diamond for You Message: Subject: Justice For All By 2012? His Excellency Is Wrong Message: Dr. Jonas Salk, who invented the polio vaccine, was continually attacked by his peers for his pioneering work in the field of fighting the polio menace. Through his experience, we discover that criticism usually comes in three odious phases. First, our critics will say to us, "It won't work!" Then when we begin to succeed they would say, "What you are doing isn't really important!", and finally, after they see that it's important and seems to be working, they would say, "We knew you would do it all along!" Two Thursdays ago, the house of Parliament in Sierra Leone approved President Earnest Bai Koroma’s nominee; legal practitioner, Abdul Tejan-Cole, for the post of chief commissioner for the country’s beleaguered Anti Corruption Commission. Barely three days later, just when the young man took his seat at the commission, a strange piece of advert appeared in one of the country’s leading newspapers, telling the world that the legal firm, of which the new commissioner was leading counsel, had been dissolved. I call this piece of information strange because, like Dr. Jonas Salk, Tejan Cole has done what is strange, unheard of, bizarre, unthinkable, and perhaps for some of his senior colleagues at the bar and bench, a miscalculated venture capable of sending strange signals to the usually unsuspecting public who see no wrong in the actions of people who have chosen to dress like demi-devils, and yet lording it over even the bishops. The Chief Justice in the republic of Sierra Leone, working in a new system that has trumpeted its pending fight against corruption, graft and double-dealing, has his private law firm still intact. Two other judges, Nicolas Brown-Mark and Eku Roberts, all have their chambers in their names and spirit. Filing and litigating cases on behalf of different persons. My impression is that the new Anti Corruption Commissioner sees as conflict of interest, any means of his chambers getting involved in cases that his commission may have interest in. How does he compromise his chambers’ interest in a corruption trial being led by his commission? To avoid this conflict of interest, and to be able to avail himself properly to serve fellow Sierra Leoneans, the young commissioner has deprived himself of what some of his senior colleagues delight in. Against the background of the country having a mistrusted and less respected judiciary; a judiciary whose problems have come to be compounded by the British legal aid sector, the government has chosen to see no problem with the chief justice maintaining his private law chambers, and remaining as same, while others, as judges, have also chosen to think that Sierra Leoneans are not only naive but silly enough to believe that a judge with an existing private law firm in his/her name, cannot influence in anyway, cases in which such law firms have interest; whether such cases are before him/her, or in another court altogether. If I have a case against you, and do appear to have hired the services of lawyers from the law firm of the Attorney General and minister for justice, judging from the way things have been for the past three decades, I have 80% chance of success than you. And yet, when the previous government assembled some fifty Sierra Leoneans and asked them to review the constitution, no one of them thought this issue was worth eating bread over. In the United States, Attorneys are allowed to advertise. In the British system, no legal practitioner is allowed to canvass his/her trade like a pepper doctor at Abacha street in central Freetown would do. Sierra Leone’s legal practice is colonially similar to the uncomfortable influential canopy of the British legal system. What better way of advertisement, than having the chief justice of the country, or a senior judge, as the owner of the chamber, where you work as a young lawyer? President Earnest Bai Koroma says he wants fair playing field in the game of trade and the administration of justice. And yet, most of the big banks in Sierra Leone retain the services of the legal firm of the chief justice. If you think you have the president’s word for your defense, be damned to have a case against you by any of such banks. To relate this to the experience of Dr. Jonas Salk, the polio experimentalist, Earnest Bai Koroma’s Anti Corruption Commissioner has “erred” on the side of common sense and integrity. Prior to his appointment, Tejan Cole had a very good job- deputy director, and then acting director at the international Center for Transitional Justice, ICTJ; a job with less hassle and blame, compared to that of a thief-catcher in a society where many believe that to steal and do the wrong thing is the only way to be great. And now worse still, he almost checked some colleagues out of job by dissolving his chambers. Some are going to accuse Tejan of being a bad pacesetter, while others should be able to see him as trouble maker. A third group should certainly see him as providing too much for the thinking, much so when we, the non legals enter the debate. Whichever way we shamelessly look at it, the holding of public and influential legal/civil service positions, while at the same time maintaining (controversially), private legal firms, is beginning to stink rotten. Next time my aunt has a case and needs a lawyer, I will advice her to look for a chamber that has ‘connections’ in the court system. I wish the President, his judges and their law firms and his chief justice well! But if we might be reminded, during the Truth and Reconciliation Commission hearings, what came out clearly, among many bad things we all did to each other, was that one of the root causes of our ten year civil strife was our bad legal system; the judiciary that we had, and continue to have smells stink, and yet we say Change has Come. With Lord Chief Justice on seat, and judges with private legal firms with the gravels, Mr. President has some thinking to do. Do you remember the great Janneh case? When a private Sierra Leonean investor had his case decided by justice Abel Stronge and then a re-trial asked for my the great lord chief justice proved him otherwise? We are heading for such more of such eras. For me, the President’s trips to bell-in-investors, is going to be countered by the type of judiciary we have. Did I hear you say: JUSTICE FOR ALL BY 2012? If you ask me, H.E. is going to be wrong, looking at the type of judiciary he presently has on ground. If we were to reconstruct some institutions by order of merit, I will advocate first the police, followed by the judiciary, and then the army. Taxi drivers and street traders will organize themselves later Subject: Re: Justice For All By 2012? His Excellency Is Wrong Message: Subject: LET THERE BE LIGHT AND THERE WAS LIGHT>>> Message: The President will accomplish his first Major goal of providing Regular electricity supply to the people of Sierra Leone in just 90 days. In life or business we put a test case plan or implementation for 90 days. During those 90 days, we should tell how well and where we should make the necessary adjustment. This is like a football coach watching his players play, and then he is able to see who is performing well or who need replacement. He has told his interim cabinet to sharp up or ship up the first 90 days. That shows he really means business. To give an example of the domino effect of regular electric supply. In the city Freetown., only forty thousand household customers among the two and half million will take advantage of this mile stone opportunity in December of 2007 when the light is switch on.. On this move alone, NPA will be able to create hundreds if not thousand of Jobs. Regular electricity supply will invite foreign capital and investors to lunch small industries and commerce, which were not readily available under the defunct SLPP government. In addition, revenue will quadruple and night life of the 60’s and 70’s will ring a bell The President, Minister of Energy and Power and the Energy Task Force are making all the right moves and I urge all of us to be patience to review the outcome of some of these planned implemented. If there are deadlines, we must give grace period and the benefit of the doubt to enable the government to explain any delay to finish the said project on time. Rest assured based on the investigations performed by the transition team and the involvement OF the president in all phases, I am convinced that he will Without a doubt, he has been done more and has been to more countries in 90 days to find solution for Sierra Leone ailing problems than Kabba’s first year in office .That is genuine commitment and patriotism. All of us should pray for this leader to have good health and strength to keep the same resilient, so that this generation and generation yet unborn will feel the effect of a great son of sierra Leone . He will certainly join the ranks of Bai Bureh and many of our for- father who fought tireless for justifiable Causes, to bring about positive change AND resisting enemies of progress. Subject: Re: LET THERE BE LIGHT AND THERE WAS LIGHT>>> Message: Regular electricity to the people Freetown where he got the most vote. $32 million is to be spent to light up freetown on a leased generator! North, East, South will receive their share soon. $32 million to the North, $16 million to the south, $64.6 million to the East, ($64 million to Kono alone whilst the kenema environ gets $.6 million). Why? You figure out! Let there be light to all of Sierra Leone and not just Freetown. APC MANTRA! Subject: Re: LET THERE BE LIGHT AND THERE WAS LIGHT>>> Message: Subject: Re: LET THERE BE LIGHT AND THERE WAS LIGHT>>> Message: The President seems very inexperienced eventhough he has very qualified people around him. He does not have have the gogetter spirit. We have heard so many pronouncements but no action. I wish him luck because the political honeymoon is always too short. Subject: Re: LET THERE BE LIGHT AND THERE WAS LIGHT>>> Message: The president will bring light, but you have all these people that will be "stealing" electricity like they currently do water which means with very few paying, the service can't be maintained. I hope basic hygiene is being taught in the schools still, like they taught when I went to Regent Square. I hear some of these upline people just hang out the window and dump out their kaka bokit. Subject: Re: LET THERE BE LIGHT AND THERE WAS LIGHT>>> Message: Subject: Re: LET THERE BE LIGHT AND THERE WAS LIGHT>>> Message: NOR CUSS PEOPLE NAR DARK ROOM. Subject: Awareness Times Forum Backrupted and suspended Message: Subject: Re: Awareness Times Forum Backrupted and suspended Message: Subject: How come diamonds come from the South and East of Salone Message: Subject: Re: How come diamonds come from the South and East of Salone Message: Subject: Re: How come diamonds come from the South and East of Salone Message: Subject: ABUSE OF POWER Message: Subject: Tribe and Politics Message: Subject: Re: Tribe and Politics Message: If you live the East coast where there are a plethora of ethnic groups., you will see tribal politics at play,Jews,Italians,hispanics,Blacks and Irish fighting for the spoils of victory. Yes , in America ,nobody asks about your tribe but they ask about your ethnic group. People cant hide the fact that they are are from the, black ,chinese or Hispanic which eventually determines the level of success in America. Subject: Re: Tribe and Politics Message: Subject: Re: Tribe and Politics Message: Finally, In Sierra Leone elections, the people genuinely wanted a change for the better.Whether their votes for APC will give them the change , they yearn that's another question. Take care Erica Subject: Re: Tribe and Politics Message: Subject: Re: Tribe and Politics Message: Subject: Re: Tribe and Politics Message: I will not support APC because it's genesis is based anti mende hatred. I am not mende, but I detest tribalism. I have familly members who rose up to high positions in the one party APC but I can not be part of tribalism. Subject: Re: Tribe and Politics Message: Subject: Re: Tribe and Politics Message: Subject: Re: Tribe and Politics Message: Subject: Re: Tribe and Politics Message: Subject: Re: Tribe and Politics Message: Subject: Re: Tribe and Politics Message: But in the hope of national reconciliation he could be magnanamous and hire some APC southerners and easterners to show that he is President of all of Sierra Leone, not just Makeni, Port Loko, Tonkolili and Bombali. My father is from the North also but I find this trend in Sierra Leone disturbing. I hope this has to do with Ernest's inexperience not a concerted effort in Norhernization. Look, a freindly warning,Get Ernestto end the Subject: Re: Tribe and Politics Message: Subject: Re: Tribe and Politics Message: All we are asking is deliver on something. Electricity, roads , food ,liberties, and crime. Subject: Re: Tribe and Politics Message: Subject: Re: Tribe and Politics Message: Subject: FEN PABLA - ESPRIT DE CORPS Message: esprit de corps Definition group spirit; sense of pride, honor, etc. shared by those in the same group or undertaking. This idea still rings true for the new APC in the new dawn. You know that I will be one of the first people to cry out loud if the dispensation in the new dawn is going awry. The idea of a northern tilt is a conception of our minds. Remember kortor that HE EBK has not even filled half of the positions available yet. Why the hue and cry? During the elections, APC supporters were prevented from campaigning and exercising some of their rights in the southeastern corridors of Sierra Leone. It is a natural law to co-exist with that which one is comfortable with. Once the goverment(APC) is able to identify allies in those regions who are willing to work with HE EBK, they will be properly and well positioned. Orsaiiii Subject: Re: FEN PABLA - ESPRIT DE CORPS Message: Subject: UNA RELAX UNA BRAIN CELLS DEM SMALL WITH THESE Message: Subject: Re: UNA RELAX UNA BRAIN CELLS DEM SMALL WITH THESE Message: Subject: Re: UNA RELAX UNA BRAIN CELLS DEM SMALL WITH THESE Message: Subject: UNA RELAX UNA BRAIN CELLS DEM SMALL WITH THESE Message: Subject: UNA RELAX UNA BRAIN CELLS DEM SMALL WITH THESE Message: Subject: SO WE NEED $32 MILL TO COMPLETE OUR OWN 50 MEGAWATTS BUT WE Message: THEY TELL US SLPP LEFT NOTHING, BUT THEY STILL FOUND $32,000,000 = Le 96,000,000,000.00 LYING AROUND FOR LENT GENERATOR FOR BLUFF. Subject: Re: SO WE NEED $32 MILL TO COMPLETE OUR OWN 50 MEGAWATTS BUT WE Message: Yes, I too have a problem with the price we are paying for this, but get your facts straight. Subject: Re: SO WE NEED $32 MILL TO COMPLETE OUR OWN 50 MEGAWATTS BUT WE Message: Subject: Re: SO WE NEED $32 MILL TO COMPLETE OUR OWN 50 MEGAWATTS BUT WE Message: Subject: Re: SO WE NEED $32 MILL TO COMPLETE OUR OWN 50 MEGAWATTS BUT WE Message: Subject: Re: SO WE NEED $32 MILL TO COMPLETE OUR OWN 50 MEGAWATTS BUT WE Message: Subject: Re: SO WE NEED $32 MILL TO COMPLETE OUR OWN 50 MEGAWATTS BUT WE Message: Subject: TELL KOROMA THE TRUTH BEFORE IT'S TOO LATE Message: Some of his tribal associates are just as socially illiterate. In his ululations about being made Press Secretary, Sheka Tarawallie dropped a hint that drove a nail in President Koroma's tribalistic coffin. Sheka Tarawallie believes that as executive president, Ernest Koroma can appoint people without being hamstrung by any rule. The bizarrely appointed Sheka Tarawallie should know that in the context of post-war Sierra Leone, an executive president needs to consider reconciliation when recruiting a team for national development. While I have no intention of impugning Sheka Tarawallie's qualification for the job, I stand by the conviction that his appointment was lodged in the fact that he is either from Makeini or Magburaka. When the unreformed bigots within the APC attempted to scupper his leadership of the party before the elections, I had the impression that Ernest Koroma could be impressively liberal for a party that believes in exclusive ethnicity. From the appointments of Sheka Tarawallie to Zainab Bangura, it is now known that Ernest Koroma is socially illiterate, and therefore incapable of being comfortable around Sierra Leoneans without a northern lineage. This socio-political illiterate must be educated in the art of "tribal mixing" before he sharpens the swords of tribalism. Subject: Re: TELL KOROMA THE TRUTH BEFORE IT'S TOO LATE Message: Subject: Re: TELL KOROMA THE TRUTH BEFORE IT'S TOO LATE Message: I dont think it is right to wholly and en bloc condemn what BRA ENVIABLE wrote. I think he is partly right. In lieu of relegating his concerns to the backyard of tribal ´politicking´, you should have relatively looked at the tribal politics of the defeated Slpp. Dooming the genuine concerns of people in this period of the history of sierra leone when unity is most needed, is very dangerous. Do not forget to remember that the rebel war was started by mr FOday sankoh, a northerner. He went to the east/south because he knew that the Easteners and southerners were disgruntled as a result of national APC rape. You are now contributing to a repetition of that dark history of sierra leone. Sierra leone needs dialogue and not tribalistic rhetoric that will set salone ablaze again.I dont think well-meaning sierra leoneans are waiting for another apocalypse. Subject: Re: TELL KOROMA THE TRUTH BEFORE IT'S TOO LATE Message: Bra E, Ernest nar fair man. His only problem is the scouts are only getting him midiocre players from the south easat.Just look at the south -easterners that he has to settle for. Musa Tarawali aka Sarti Resident Minister south.And William Juanna Smith aka APC Smith Resident Minister East. Subject: Re: TELL KOROMA THE TRUTH BEFORE IT'S TOO LATE Message: Do you know that there are tribes and ethnic groups in the world’s most populous country China? About 1.3 billion people live together in harmony without any noise about ethnicity. Their main focus is technological and economic growth. They come together and mimic everything they see from the West. Now they are a force to be reckoned with. Some of the countries in Europe (Sweden, Finland and Norway) with similar populations like ours are almost like heaven. There have been some people on this forum who have been saying that APC will be in power for over 15 years, some even said for ever and this makes you wonder whether they intend to change the country back to one-party-state like what happen during Sheki’s time. I am yet to see a president of our nation who really loves our country. Such a president will be looking at ways to strengthen the fragile peace in the country; creating jobs for the people; protecting the weak and the minorities; encouraging diversity; taping local resources and utilizing it to the fullest rather than jumping the border and looking for help elsewhere that always come with strings attached and malicious intents. Some of these presidents lack the ability to understand that the real protection they will give themselves is to bring joy to even the lowest and most depressed in the nation. Rather they breed a separate group of arm forces; collect relatives and friends and shutdown the rest of the community. This kind of move has only one outcome: instability. You know as well as I do that “instability” will wreck the country and deter any meaningful growth. So it is high time that we start voicing our concerns now before it is too late. I am truly glad that you raised this issue because even my Temne; Mende; Krio; Lokkoh; Limba; and so on BROTHERS AND SISTERS out there will agree with me to say NO TO TRIBALISM. Subject: Re: TELL KOROMA THE TRUTH BEFORE IT'S TOO LATE Message: The President will accomplish his first Major goal of providing Regular electricity supply to the people of Sierra Leone in just 90 days. In life or business we put a test case plan or implementation for 90 days. During those 90 days, we should tell how well and where we should make the necessary adjustment. This is like a football coach watching his players play, and then he is able to see who is performing well or who need replacement. He has told his interim cabinet to sharp up or ship up the first 90 days. That shows he really means business. To give an example of the domino effect of regular electric supply. In the city Freetown., only forty thousand household customers among the two and half million will take advantage of this mile stone opportunity in December of 2007 when the light is switch on.. On this move alone, NPA will be able to create hundreds if not thousand of Jobs. Regular electricity supply will invite foreign capital and investors to lunch small industries and commerce, which were not readily available under the defunct SLPP government. In addition, revenue will quadruple and night life of the 60’s and 70’s will ring a bell The President, Minister of Energy and Power and the Energy Task Force are making all the right moves and I urge all of us to be patience to review the outcome of some of these planned implemented. If there are deadlines, we must give grace period and the benefit of the doubt to enable the government to explain any delay to finish the said project on time. Rest assured based on the investigations performed by the transition team and the involvement OF the president in all phases, I am convinced that he will Without a doubt, he has been done more and has been to more countries in 90 days to find solution for Sierra Leone ailing problems than Kabba’s first year in office .That is genuine commitment and patriotism. All of us should pray for this leader to have good health and strength to keep the same resilient, so that this generation and generation yet unborn will feel the effect of a great son of sierra Leone . He will certainly join the ranks of Bai Bureh and many of our fore- father who fought tireless for justifiable Causes, to bring about positive change AND resisting enemies of progress. Subject: Re: TELL KOROMA THE TRUTH BEFORE IT'S TOO LATE Message: The President will accomplish his first Major goal of providing Regular electricity supply to the people of Sierra Leone in just 90 days. In life or business we put a test case plan or implementation for 90 days. During those 90 days, we should tell how well and where we should make the necessary adjustment. This is like a football coach watching his players play, and then he is able to see who is performing well or who need replacement. He has told his interim cabinet to sharp up or ship up the first 90 days. That shows he really means business. To give an example of the domino effect of regular electric supply. In the city Freetown., only forty thousand household customers among the two and half million will take advantage of this mile stone opportunity in December of 2007 when the light is switch on.. On this move alone, NPA will be able to create hundreds if not thousand of Jobs. Regular electricity supply will invite foreign capital and investors to lunch small industries and commerce, which were not readily available under the defunct SLPP government. In addition, revenue will quadruple and night life of the 60’s and 70’s will ring a bell The President, Minister of Energy and Power and the Energy Task Force are making all the right moves and I urge all of us to be patience to review the outcome of some of these planned implemented. If there are deadlines, we must give grace period and the benefit of the doubt to enable the government to explain any delay to finish the said project on time. Rest assured based on the investigations performed by the transition team and the involvement OF the president in all phases, I am convinced that he will Without a doubt, he has been done more and has been to more countries in 90 days to find solution for Sierra Leone ailing problems than Kabba’s first year in office .That is genuine commitment and patriotism. All of us should pray for this leader to have good health and strength to keep the same resilient, so that this generation and generation yet unborn will feel the effect of a great son of sierra Leone . He will certainly join the ranks of Bai Bureh and many of our for- father who fought tireless for justifiable Causes, to bring about positive change AND resisting enemies of progress. Subject: Re: TELL KOROMA THE TRUTH BEFORE IT'S TOO LATE Message: wWhat kind of weed did you smoke today-sensi or bopima. Subject: Re: TELL KOROMA THE TRUTH BEFORE IT'S TOO LATE Message: Subject: Re: TELL KOROMA THE TRUTH BEFORE IT'S TOO LATE Message: The can be said of your Berewa and Kabbah, not Ernest. I am beginning to be tired of your intellectual dishonesty. Subject: Re: TELL KOROMA THE TRUTH BEFORE IT'S TOO LATE Message: BRA ENVIABLE, from the above, you tend to base your conclusive condemnation of the president on a word that 'has been used', but not a word that the President 'has said'! Sorry to say, you embark on a 'mago-mago' trail of smear and condemnation without actually spending more time building a case with supportive evidence. Subject: Re: TELL KOROMA THE TRUTH BEFORE IT'S TOO LATE Message: Subject: The Crazy Cycle Message: Subject: Re: The Crazy Cycle Message: To be a good president does not require a presidential experience as you are claiming in your post. Bill Clinton was a good president from the beginning and even Bush was doing the right thing until the war on terror shows up, and you cannot tell me that Bush and Powel or Rice are from the same tribe. You were saying that the guy is new at office: how can you be new and spend $32M of tax payer’s money in your first few days at office. With $32M the guy could have hired 133 of the best Sierra Leonean brains around the world on an average monthly salary of $4,000 USD for the rest of his 5 year term. You don't have to be a genius to know that spending $32M USD from the coffers of a poor country like ours just for a Generator in the name of bringing light to the city was wrong. My sister, Erica, so many things are wrong with this administration that's why people are talking on this forum. If you spend all the money to give light to the city alone, what's next? Subject: Re: The Crazy Cycle Message: I know that Powell and Rice are not from the same tribe as Bush but they are party loyalists. Powell served the first President Bush as well. So I guess you could say it's similar to being from the same tribe. A big part of why Powell left the administration of the second Bush is because he didn't have the president's ear. Even when he tried to give his honest assessment on Iraq, Bush wasn't interested. Bush did bring many others with him from Texas, and this is not an unusual practice. I would be intersted in seeing what is the standard practice of most incoming administrations around the world because I don't know that EBK is that off with his practice of bringing in people he can get on one sheet of music in the shortest amount of time. I have never read any where that the $32 million was from Sierra Leone taxpayer money. My understanding is that this money was donated for this specific purpose so even if they wanted to spend the money on something else they couldn't. Subject: Re: The Crazy Cycle Message: I hope you are not trying to compare Sierra Leone with the worst economy in the world to that of an economic power house, the United States of America. Did you know that the war on Afghanistan and Iraq alone has consumed about 1 trillion US$? But the economy of the US is still going strong. By comparison if Sierra Leone spends even one-thousands of that, if at all we have it, we might have to spend all our resources and still will not recover. Prove me wrong, but since we sold our railway to host OAU we are still in the comma after nearly three decades now. There are still corruption in the West but it will no longer affect their economic growth, we on the other hand will be seriously affected if something as little as a pin is stolen. Did you know that Nigeria, despite her oil wealth, is backward today because the Ibo are almost totally ignored? What brought down Rwanda to its knees if it was not tribalism? I don't care what others may think on this forum, tribalism of any kind is wrong and should not be tolerated by any one and that includes the president. It is his problem if he cannot work with Kini Kaku. Subject: Re: The Crazy Cycle Message: I still would be curious to know if EBK's appointments are out of lines with how other president's appoint their inner circle. Subject: Re: The Crazy Cycle Message: Let's keep quiet a little bit may be we could hear the crawling of an ant or the whispering of a ghost. Did I just hear someone whisper that we are just coming from a war; that almost developed on tribal lines? Are we not supposed to be still reconciling with one another? May be the drums we a beating at the moment is too laud and making us oblivious to our surroundings. Can you bring back the accordionist, Salia, to play some soft music for us? How other president appoints their inner circle in Africa does not interest me because it has no credibility, they are designed to fail, and otherwise we will not be having failed states all over the place. We have to design our own model that works best for our country and I don't think that EBK is good in this area. Subject: Re: The Crazy Cycle Message: Subject: Re: The Crazy Cycle Message: Subject: Re: The Crazy Cycle Message: Subject: Re: The Crazy Cycle Message: Thanks for your advice. I know there are vampires out there who are ready to misinterpret you otherwise. I certainly appreciate your call. I am just annoyed that even though we have the brains our leaders are failing to tap into it instead they skip us looking for exploiters. I had always told my friends that we cannot expect foreigners to make our country more beautiful than theirs. We have to do it ourselves. Now if the local brains are ignored, how can this ever be possible? Cheers, Anthony Subject: Re: The Crazy Cycle Message: Subject: Re: The Crazy Cycle Message: Subject: Re: The Crazy Cycle Message: The case in question that has attracted so much criticism is President Koroma's choice in the appointment of ministers. But even at that, I still want to keep my faith in him. Never known him as a man devoid of ideas! Never read his moves as constitutionally invalid! Perhaps, given time, critics would come to understand the reason behind his decision. Come to think of it, leadership is not always about fulfilling the desire of critics! If he could only successfully pursue an integrated agenda of reforms to address the myriad of problems that have persistently subverted the nation’s human, development and economic progress, then the critics would generously afford to forget the 'northern' tag to every appointment that the President makes. Instead, they would embrace the gradual human/economic deveopment from a nationalistic perspective and judge the ministers according to their contribution - not according to the region they hail from. Watch this guy! He tends to have the knack for political theatre. Subject: Re: The Crazy Cycle Message: The man wore the proud title "Leader of the Opposition All People Congress" for 5 good years prior to 2007 elections.. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernest_Bai_Koroma I would like to see what changed at Ritcorp in 14 years? Uda gee Koro power..? Nah god.. Subject: KOTHOR FENPLABA Message: Kothor Fenplabla, U see komaneh Fenplabla the difference between you and EBK is that you went to Bo School, ate Bo School Kondoh and romanced those beautiful SouthEastern girls. EBK on the contrary, went to Magburaka Boys Secondary School and spent almost all his formative years between Magburaka and Makeni. So when it comes to cross-cultural understanding, EBK's head is buried in sand. God save Sierra Leone. Those of us in the opposition are not calling on EBK to bring SLPP folks in his government. We are simply surprised that he totally ignored APC folks in the SouthEast in a bid to creat a Northern Mafia. Subject: Re: KOTHOR FENPLABA Message: Subject: Re: KOTHOR FENPLABA Message: There are reports that Fenblaba did not eat Bo School Kondoh and that he is one of the few who threw their kondoh over the hospital fence. Lonta Subject: Re: KOTHOR FENPLABA Message: Subject: Re: KOTHOR FENPLABA Message: Subject: Re: KOTHOR FENPLABA Message: I hope the president take your concerns expressed here on board. I am not an APC but I genuinely wish the APC shame the SLPP by rebuilding Sierra Leone. Many of us who are not in the APC, blasted our party and campaigned on the platform of change. We cannot wish anything less but success for the APC administration because that would vindicate our position. Whilst I understand the disproportionate regional tilt towards the north and west, I think EBK should try and shake off the seeming allegation of tribalism. I do not think the president is a tribalist although I recognised it will be difficult for him to deflect that perception if he fail to alley the genuine fear of people like you. I am however opposed to and I would strongly advise EBK not to recycled any SLPP in the former Kabba's administration. There are many honest and qualified southerners both in side and in the diasporan that EBK can utilise. In fact strategically the APC can strengthen its electoral appeal in the south east by working with some southerners outside of the SLPP. He can also appoint more from the PMDC in the South east and empower them to compete with SLPP as the two parties are the dominant parties in those regiouns. Proposed motto: Divide and rule. Subject: Re: KOTHOR FENPLABA Message: Subject: Re: KOTHOR FENPLABA Message: Subject: HERE WE GO AGAIN!!! Message: Mr Bryant was originally charged after an audit by the West African regional body, Ecowas, uncovered evidence of corruption during his two years in office ending in 2006. "This is a very, very, very dark day for Liberia. This is the reward we get for restoring peace and democracy to our country," Mr Bryant, dressed in a white shirt and olive-coloured trousers, told reporters as he was led into the prison compound. His power-sharing government took over after Charles Taylor stepped down, with rebel forces on the outskirts of the capital, Monrovia. Mr Taylor is now facing war crimes charges. Subject: TENSION BUILDING UP IN SIERRA LEONE Message: Subject: Re: TENSION BUILDING UP IN SIERRA LEONE Message: Subject: Re: TENSION BUILDING UP IN SIERRA LEONE Message: SLPP have accepted their loss and moved on and are acting as a vehement opposition not rubber stamping the resolutions of a Northern based Govt, that has the interest of Northern Sierra Leonean at heart. Somebody has to speak for the Sierra Leoneans outside Makeni, Port Loko,Tonkolili and Bombali. Remember, This democracy, I know Apc is not used to this. I do not envy Ernest , He his going to have to battle SLPP and the meglomaniac APC fanatics who he has prevented from practicing corruption. Subject: Re: TENSION BUILDING UP IN SIERRA LEONE Message: "The people there do not want us around, they will take your dollar or Euro donations, trust me, they do not want you around" You are correct on that. But wrong on this: "Those APC fanatics in New Jersey and the U>S who are masquerading as if they were responsible for the APC victory are fooling themselves. How many jobs slots have been offered to these stalwarts" The APC has demonstrated its pro diasporan credential. Out of 22 diasporan candidates who applied to contest for the parliamentary seats 19 were chosen. Compare that to the SLPP only one candidate was chosen from the diasporan. At least 7 including people from the diasporan have been appointed cabinet ministers and deputy ministers. That is not including diplomatic position. Compare this with the SLPP. Only that opportunist Joe Kallon who was about to be made homeless by his wife and jobless in London was appointed deputy minister only because Kallon had used the party funds to purchased a van which he gave the party home in his own name. The SLPP uk branch financial report made a note of that freud by kallon. "The diaspora on the internet have a false sense of importance,they have no say on the outcome of the politics in Sierra Leone." This is not true. Among all valuable contribution I made, for instance, towards the SLPP in the past, I was elated to discovered from the internet, that the African Strategic research studies had quoted a large part of my resignation statement from the SLPP in their situation report on Sierra Leone a month before the August election. I don't call such as self-importance when a distingueshed regional academic institution quotes someone who had only gone to Sierra Leone 5 times in 32 years. I also think that the diasporans contribution should not be underated or discounted. But I think this should not be a quid pro quo relation. Job opportunities in Sierra Leone must be open to all its citizens irrespective of a distance or territoral locat1on. Diasporans are in an envidous position. On one hand they are harassed to come home to rebuild the country. On the other hand the home base opportunist are not comfortable with this and would like the diasporans to stay where they are. Subject: Re: TENSION BUILDING UP IN SIERRA LEONE Message: How many of the APC fanatics in New JErssey who Claim credit for the APC victory have been offered jobs? The bootomline is there are wealthy people in Sierra Leone who can sponsor the candidates singlehandedly and they do not need our funds. The best we can do for them is public relations in the West. I am glad your resignation letter was quoted but the botomline is that folks back home fear competition. Diasporans are not necesarily more educated than those back home but we may have a stronger work ethic. That is the fear. Subject: Re: TENSION BUILDING UP IN SIERRA LEONE Message: Subject: Re: TENSION BUILDING UP IN SIERRA LEONE Message: It stemmed from that SAJ chairman and APC penificator himself.. Standard times editor and Sylvia wannabe.. So ah bage..stop giving us on the other side bad name..and stop giving readers mis-information.. Unlawful endangerment of peace ful persons and property. Grab Grab syndrome. Cut ya put ya policies. Shortsightedness in critical and national procurement. Bombali and pote loko junction keepcompinizm.. Oh..non declaration of assetizm... I know its only been 3 months.. so we will wait for the six month anonoucement of the EKUTAY part2.. Subject: Re: TENSION BUILDING UP IN SIERRA LEONE Message: Subject: IS APC ANOTHER MUMU GOVERNMENT ? Message: Subject: Re: IS APC ANOTHER MUMU GOVERNMENT ? Message: Subject: Re: IS APC ANOTHER MUMU GOVERNMENT ? Message: Subject: Re: IS APC ANOTHER MUMU GOVERNMENT ? Message: Subject: Re: IS APC ANOTHER MUMU GOVERNMENT ? Message: Subject: Re: IS APC ANOTHER MUMU GOVERNMENT ? Message: Thats all we have been saying past couple of days.. Why it took you a whole week to come out with it mate beats me.. Maybe we can move on from this APC that, SLPP should have done that when good men lke you step up and declare the truth... We can, as true patriots start with the NEC website saga.. Next, Haja half money satu Kabba shenanigans just a month in office. Next, EBK's public apology to Tom Nyuma. Next EBK's knowledge of the libyan rice deal... Last.. Who penned INJECTMENT instead of Ejectment notice..? That is still in my subconcious...I hear it was a certain guy named Shek and end rhymes with (Judge at OJ simpson trial). Is it true? Subject: Re: IS APC ANOTHER MUMU GOVERNMENT ? Message: Subject: Re: IS APC ANOTHER MUMU GOVERNMENT ? Message: Christiana Thorpe thing.. The libyan rice saga..???? He single handedly cost SLPP 10-15 negative points with the electorate with that 1 story.. Subject: POLICE NAMED IN LEBANESE MONEY LAUNDRY SCANDAL Message: Assistant Inspector General of Police, Sisco Koroma, has been named in the Lebanese money laundering syndicate following our fact-finding trail to unearth the fraudster’s dubious activities. The Sierra Express newspaper, Wednesday edition, of November 5, carried a headline: “Lebanese fraudster exposed.” In response to the story, the son of Jamal Shaban, Raif, stormed our office with a Police Officer and revealed that Sisco Koroma is his fathers friend who has now taken up the matter. Among other issues Raif disclosed, he said their former house servant Farah Jalloh was dismissed because he stole money from them. He further said that Sisco Koroma has now photocopied the newspaper story for further action against us and that his father has already consulted their lawyer. Documentary evidence with us implicates the comments of the Lebanese con businessman who is neck deep in money laundering activities in Sierra Leone. Further information has reached us that Farah Jalloh has been threatened following his revealing of their secret as their Nigerian agents who are employed in running the syndicate have said they will take care of him. It is evident that the Lebanese nationals are flouting the laws of Sierra Leone with impunity, a Crime Officer who commented on the issue said. He stated that dealing with money laundering in perspective is an international criminal offence. He also maintained that a foreigner exercising excess power of meting out punishment on a citizen with impunity is criminal. The Sierra Leone industrial laws make provision for employees and employers and also make known the status of a foreigner and a citizen in terms of their working relationship. If therefore one group flouts such provision they must be disciplined but it seems that the authorities are not active to respond to these matters, the officer said. He said money laundering is a derived crime, meaning that a criminal act may have been committed to generate more wealth to be laundered. Simply defined, money laundering is a process by which criminals attempt to conceal or disguise the true origins and sources of the proceeds of their criminal activities by creating layers of financial and other business transactions that will give a false picture of how such wealth was acquired, he concluded Subject: Mr. President, You Missed the Point Message: When I read the article, "John Benjamin Blasts Ernest- say the truth about the economy" in Awareness Times’ 27 November edition, I was happy and proud that someone is telling Mr. President the truth. In the 28 November edition, I read another article titled both "Ernest and IMF are Right". The article referred to an, interview with Momoh Conteh, one of my many APC friends. I read the article immediately after leaving Momoh Conteh’s office. I noticed the responses were inadequate in content and done by someone who has not participated in economic management dialogue in Sierra Leone. I wanted to stay out but on second thought, I decided to participate for two reasons. As an Economist who has monitored the economic developments in Sierra Leone for over 15 years, I thought I should set the records straight. Also, I had to come in so that Mr. President, first gentleman of Sierra Leone does not mislead the public. With him (Mr. President), when he talks, all his cronies and supporters believe and start to re-echo his message. I therefore decided to come in so that Mr. President wrong message does not keep going. I wanted to come in as a Development Economist but I am also the National Secretary-General of the SLPP. I will wear my two hats and come in as both a Politician and an Economist. Of course, President Koroma spoke like a Politician. I can forgive him. But let me just say Mr. President, when next you talk to IMF officials, know they deal with macroeconomic issues including stabilisation and structural reforms and economic growth is a principal variable for them. For IMF like all economic institutions, economic growth is a necessary condition for poverty reduction and improving living standards. When you talk with the World Bank, you can discuss structural reforms and sector issues such as social protection, health and education issues. Even with them, growth is fundamental as you only distribute what you produce (Gross Domestic Product) or receive as donations. For students of economics and young economists, let me inform you that the arguments have been about economic growth and distribution. The APC is saying the growth was meaningless as it was not distributed. The SLPP is saying, No, there was growth and efforts were made to distribute the proceeds from growth through policies like more grants-in-aid, free tuition, girl child education, free examination fees, school bus services, subsidized tractor services, free drugs for vulnerable groups (disabled, lactating and pregnant women) post-war resettlement assistance. Undoubtedly, distribution is more difficult as it involves institutional reforms including new laws and procedures as well as infrastructure and logistic challenges. Let me start with the macro-economy and latter the distribution of gains of economic growth. I, however, beg my readers to take them through memory lane and develop a basis for my arguments. The period of APC rule was characterized by the following: Acute shortage of foreign exchange and thus scarcity of essential goods like rice and petroleum products. Large parallel markets for food items, fuel products, national currency the Leone and foreign exchange. Inflation reached three digits climbing from 76.6% in 1985 to 178.7% in 1987. Economy was on a steady decline with outputs from agriculture and industry plummeting to their lowest levels. Frequent shut down of businesses. Few examples include the closure of Marampa mines, Bata, PZ, UAC, Railway, NDMC and later SLPMB. Unemployment and poverty were the consequences of the gloomy era. These coupled with the shrink in public sector, left thousands of people out of jobs with many migrating to urban towns where they eke out living through resorts to informal petty trading activities. The situation worsened during the war period caused by this very APC Party. Thousands of people were forced to flee their homes and displaced. Social and economic infrastructure destroyed. Economic activities came to a halt as farmers abandoned farm lands leaving behind farm implements and essential inputs. Business firms including mining installations and factories shut down. New investments in the productive sector slowed down with few exceptions in construction and informal commercial sectors. All these heightened the dismal job problem. During the SLPP era, there were unprecedented levels of economic growths rising from -17% in 1998 to over 7% in 2006. In absolute terms, GDP rose from merely $700 million to about $1.1 billion for the same time period. Yet, this national cake was not enough for the now nearly 5 million people to share. Also, remarkable in the records were gains in institutional changes and structural reforms that impeded economic growths. Some of these are improvement in Budget Formulation and Management – the process became more participatory and transparent. Public Procurement and Government Budgeting and Accountability Acts were enacted. Social Security which is also a distribution mechanism was set up thus removing the long queues for retirement and pension benefits in front of the Treasury. The political will was there to liberalise the markets of goods including petroleum products. Black markets reduced as there was enough foreign exchange in the economy, enough rice and enough petroleum products. The characteristic of the APC regime toe-line disappeared. As a result of the SLPP effective economic management, Sierra Leone benefited from substantial debt relief under the Heavily Indebted Poor Country (HIPC) Initiative and Multi-lateral Debt Relief Initiatives (MDRI).Today, Sierra Leone external debt stock is about US$0.5 billion compared to US$ 1.7 billion in 2004. The relief expanded the government fiscal space and by September, 2007, a total cash balance of Le 542 billion was left at the central bank for utilization by the APC government and there was external reserve of US$184million; equivalent to 3-4 months of imports. In addition, the commercial banks have reasonable foreign exchange. The Leone has been stable around Le 2,800 - Le 3,100 to I US$ for over 4 years now. Inflation has been under control estimated slightly above 10% in September 2007. For Mr. President to say there is nothing to write home about the economy is most unfortunate. Indeed, Mr. President missed the point. The APC should be honest to admit the goodies the SLPP left behind. We are quietly waiting for the budget speech. The APC has no option but to talk about the good economic performance in 2007 otherwise donors will back out. On ending the war in 2002, the Government was morally right and economically justified to allocate scare resources for resettlement, disarmament, demobilization, reintegration, rehabilitation and reconstruction activities as well as restoration of basic social infrastructure like schools and health facilities. Free tuition, examination fees and girl child school support, institutional feeding, provision of learning and teaching materials, health care assistance for displaced and vulnerable persons in rural communities were all part of the distribution package of the SLPP administration. Obviously, this was at the expense of essential urban facilities. The impacts of these policy choices were, however, great. For example, school enrolment at primary school level rose from about 300,000 in 1998 to over 1.3 million in 2006. Over 900 Peripheral Health Units are functioning compared to less than 500 during pre-war years. Thousands of people who were locally displaced and fled as refugees in neighboring countries and relied on NGOs for hand-outs returned home and started economic activities. With subsided tractor services and other farming assistance, one can notice resumption of agriculture activities as one travels around the country even in APC strongholds of Bombalil, Port Loko amidst transportation difficulties. The fact is that the over 1 million people that have returned are better off than their ugly days in displaced camps. In essence, it is incorrect and dishonest that people were made worse off during the SLPP era. On the contrary, livelihoods of most people have improved compared to the 90s days. Admittedly, there are visible signs of youth unemployment and poverty in urban communities. This definitely was a direct consequence of the war. Most of these youths dropped from high schools during the war period. The rural youths moved in search of greener pastures and swelled the army of unemployed urban youths. With little or no employable skills coupled with low investments, several of these youths had to peddle their living through dollar sales, money changing, petty trading, stone breaking, car washing, security jobs and other low paid jobs. The SLPP government started the Youth Employment Scheme and negotiated for a youth component to be included in the Peace Building Fund. Government also provided tractor services to youth groups for farming activities. The resumption of mining activities and construction activities also created jobs for thousands of youths. Agreeably, this was the situation which the SLPP faced after the war. The APC and other parties capitalized on it and fooled our people with the bogus concept of change. Now APC is here. The prices of essential goods have gone up. Rice which was Le 72,000 per bag in the last days of the SLPP has risen to about Le 100,000. Poda Poda price from Kissy to central Freetown is now Le1,000 compared to Le 800 few months ago. No jobs yet for the youths despite rhetoric by Mr. President and ministers. Armed robbery is on the increase. We have returned to the reign of indiscipline as APC pursues its ‘massification’ policy (pro-people and want to hurt no one). To the APC, purging competent guys, mostly from the South & East and perceived to be SLPP and replacing them with less qualified people is the best way out. For the APC, spending US$32 million to 15 megawatt generator using diesel fuel is preferred to spending less than that amount to complete Bumbuna with capacity to generate 50 megawatt and address the distribution and institutional problems. Good luck, Mr. President. But you are missing the point. Subject: Re: Mr. President, You Missed the Point Message: Subject: Re: Mr. President, You Missed the Point Message: Wlshing you the best...By the way, have you seen the Financial Economist, John Mannah, lately? Subject: Re: Mr. President, You Missed the Point Message: Dec 20 is around the corner , people are waiting for constant electricity. IF Apc delivers, they will get a boost. Please deliver something for the people. All we have had from APC is talk. Let us see something concrete. Subject: Re: Mr. President, You Missed the Point Message: Heck I can deliver myself from botobata. The way I see it is that every Government may have a plan. Their plan and my personal plan may not be the same in terms of the paths taking. Therefore I'll give a newly elected government 6months to one year in order to be able to analyse their capacity. When one applies for a job and then get the job, doesn't that person gets a PROBATION PERIOD of 3-6months in order to evaluate their performance? So why all the brohaha about EBK when he had only been inaugurated last month? Unfair, if you ask me. Give the man time for a learning curve. 6months to 1 year, and then come back with your evaluation and analysis. Is that too much to ask? Subject: Re: Mr. President, You Missed the Point Message: Subject: Re: Mr. President, You Missed the Point Message: Subject: Re: Mr. President, You Missed the Point Message: You see, the one thing about propaganda, soon you would start to sound like a broken record. This forum is a bit entertaining and informative. Those of us you care to read at all are those who could read between the lines, SO PLEASE STOP THE KROOBAY TYPE PROPANGANDA and be fun again. Subject: Re: Mr. President, You Missed the Point Message: LOL! Me a propagandist? Nah. Just countering the piggush propaganda of the SLPP. Unlike SLPP supporters who had their tongues wrapped firmly around the boot of their leaders when they were ruining the country, I lash out at the APC when they go wrong. My support is not robotic. By the way, this is Saturday and I ain't got nothing to do, Homes. So I'm gonna burn up the keyboard today. Subject: Re: Mr. President, You Missed the Point Message: I think you are the hardest working man in APC political propagation..If you are not been paid, maybe next reshuffle shekito's poyicion? I hear he is not that well liked, he caused some people sleepless nights and some ministers eating thier words, so maybe he wont last.. Subject: Re: Mr. President, You Missed the Point Message: Subject: Re: Mr. President, You Missed the Point Message: Dont worry.. sweets of office is enough for most of these returnees.. most of these guys are not economists.. but i know they calculated the ROI before making that leap.. Just to stoke the fire, en put salt na yo soefoot...? Subject: Re: Mr. President, You Missed the Point Message: YOU KNOW WATIN THE SALONE PEOPLE DO SO WITH SLPP? You are 100% right with the NORTHERNIZED GOVERNMENT. This is post war Sierra Leone. There is no piece. We all just sat on our grievances for the sake of the nation. If for any reason the nation is put aside again, we will face a total meltdown. Subject: Re: Mr. President, You Missed the Point Message: Subject: Re: Mr. President, You Missed the Point Message: Subject: Re: Mr. President, You Missed the Point Message: Subject: Re: Mr. President, You Missed the Point Message: Subject: Re: Mr. President, You Missed the Point Message: Awoko Newspaper..? Subject: Re: Mr. President, You Missed the Point Message: Subject: Security! Sierra Leone Police To Down Tools Message: Subject: HAS ANYONE SEEN WIRI WIRI LATELY? Message: Subject: Re: HAS ANYONE SEEN WIRI WIRI LATELY? Message: Tony, ar ope say you geh sense of humor en nor take me joke the other way. "Enyoy di wikend", as Santhikie would say. Subject: Re: HAS ANYONE SEEN WIRI WIRI LATELY? Message: I am not interested in your loquacious attitude like a moody house wife. All I am interested in is that you are well, live and kicking and making sure that you are HIV positive before heading home for Christmas. I don't care about the other bit. Welcome on board. Subject: Re: HAS ANYONE SEEN WIRI WIRI LATELY? Message: Subject: Re: HAS ANYONE SEEN WIRI WIRI LATELY? Message: If den show me say den value education, de nor go jus take Iye Gbanpo, wae bin don dae cook cockori with e wiri wiri water en make am minister of works, den a go go. Subject: Re: HAS ANYONE SEEN WIRI WIRI LATELY? Message: Should I take anything Mr. Anthony Sisay says on this forum as Gospel? All what I can say is BULLCRAP. Human beings are fallible and most people who talk about politics are Opportunists. APC, SLPP, PDP, XYZ,... doesn't matter. So layoff and give Prez EBK the chance to do his job. Comeback after one year and give your analysis, then we can chat about something not partisan-like, but genuine patriotic issues. Subject: Re: HAS ANYONE SEEN WIRI WIRI LATELY? Message: Badbob, I am not a prophet and I don't expect you to take my word for granted. It is up to you to compare and contrast whatever someone said on this forum. I know one thing though that from the first moves of this administration, they are yet to prove me wrong, I have no hope. It will be suicidal for me to head home because I am a southerner. They will prefer for me to rot than use my skills to help further the country. Subject: Re: HAS ANYONE SEEN WIRI WIRI LATELY? Message: Subject: Re: HAS ANYONE SEEN WIRI WIRI LATELY? Message: You got to know the tools you have before you can do a good job. He does not know and has not made any attempt to know. I therefore don't think he is prepared to take the country to the next level and out of the bottom of the human development list. Even Egypt who are better off than Sierra Leone are calling for their expatriates and offering them higher rewards to take up responsible positions to advance that country. Subject: WHY I SAID "APC" DON'T VALUE EDUCATION Message: Before you jump on me let me give you an insight: Concerned countries helped our government by given us scholarships to study in their countries. Some key areas that need development are identified and people are chosen to go and acquire knowledge in these key areas only to be totally abandoned by their country. In fact they don’t even know where I am now. They don't even want to know if you eat, dress or where you sleep. Even if you happen to be in jail in Cambodia is not the concern of the government. But yet in the same environment you see that students from other countries (including some Africans) were having a regular monthly allowance of $500 to $1,000. To show how serious these countries are they even go to the extent to give each and everyone of their students who has just completed his or her studies a minimum of $4,000 to transport all the things acquired over the years to his or her country. For example: Ghana. Now, we all know where Ghana is today. Even the African-Americans are fighting to associate themselves with Ghana. So when a genuine human being like me, who can only speak the truth and nothing but the truth, say that APC don't value education, you better believe. During my time at FBC under the APC regime, university was shutdown at least twice, disrupting the academic curriculum. The APC government smoked us with teargas in our classrooms. Our studies where also disrupted even the year I took my common entrance examination. Despite the fact that SL had the very first university in West Africa, countries like Ghana, Nigeria, Senegal and others have left us in their wake. If you doubt whether for the most part after our independent SL has been under the APC regime, then follow the link below to study the timeline on SL. Subject: Re: WHY I SAID "APC" DON'T VALUE EDUCATION Message: Subject: Re: WHY I SAID "APC" DON'T VALUE EDUCATION Message: Subject: Re: WHY I SAID "APC" DON'T VALUE EDUCATION Message: Subject: Re: WHY I SAID "APC" DON'T VALUE EDUCATION Message: If you Mama en papa jus born you and abandon you completely for no good reason will you take care of dem wen you grow up? You see my brother, you nor go jus make the grade to university and think say you don make am, you get for study hard and you need support from everyone. Subject: Re: WHY I SAID "APC" DON'T VALUE EDUCATION Message: Subject: Re: WHY I SAID "APC" DON'T VALUE EDUCATION Message: I believe you are one of those Jesus was referring to when he said: They have eyes but cannot see. You loquacious dickhead GO BACK TO BRAZIL. Subject: Re: WHY I SAID "APC" DON'T VALUE EDUCATION Message: Subject: Re: WHY I SAID "APC" DON'T VALUE EDUCATION Message: When you have your woman, don't take care of her and tell me if other service man no go dae hammer ram somewhere. May be you go end up for accuse am say e ungrateful, because you took her to where ever you are, helped her with her school fees and now she is seeing someone else. Be real pinhead--continuous maintenance is the key. Subject: Re: WHY I SAID "APC" DON'T VALUE EDUCATION Message: Subject: WHY I SAID "APC" DON'T VALUE EDUCATION Message: Before you jump on me let me give you an insight: Concerned countries helped our government by given us scholarships to study in their countries. Some key areas that need development are identified and people are chosen to go and acquire knowledge in these key areas only to be totally abandoned by their country. In fact they don’t even know where I am now. They don't even want to know if you eat, dress or where you sleep. Even if you happen to be in jail in Cambodia is not the concern of the government. But yet in the same environment you see that students from other countries (including some Africans) were having a regular monthly allowance of $500 to $1,000. To show how serious these countries are they even go to the extent to give each and everyone of their students who has just completed his or her studies a minimum of $4,000 to transport all the things acquired over the years to his or her country. For example: Ghana. Now, we all know where Ghana is today. Even the African-Americans are fighting to associate themselves with Ghana. So when a genuine human being like me, who can only speak the truth and nothing but the truth, say that APC don't value education, you better believe. During my time at FBC under the APC regime, university was shutdown at least twice, disrupting the academic curriculum. The APC government smoked us with teargas in our classrooms. Our studies where also disrupted even the year I took my common entrance examination. Despite the fact that SL had the very first university in West Africa, countries like Ghana, Nigeria, Senegal and others have left us in their wake. If you doubt whether for the most part after our independent SL has been under the APC regime, then follow the link below to study the timeline on SL. I am writing this so EBK will not make the same mistake. I don't hate him as others would think. The tribalism business should stop, put the right man in the right position, if he messed up lay him off and jail him for some time even if he is your father. THAT'S THE KIND OF LANGUAGE WE CAN UNDERSTAND IN SIERRA LEONE. Subject: kabs ah bato you Message: Personally, I am glad you were not the appointed Press Secretary because as I stated in my post when the rumours of who the new PS would be started flying on this board, while the PS obviously plays a part in the govt, and if someone leaves their better paying job in the west to accept that appt, they are doing it for love of country (or thinking of the money they'll be stealing) I don't think they will actually contribute to national development. I also still maintain that even this govt will tell some lies and guess who will be articulating those lies? So I don't think it is a position for a God fearing man. Now if they want to make you energy, tourism or mining minister or head of National Revenue or ports, there you can play a meaningful part and I for one would support you. Ignore the hatas, and on behalf of the lots and lots of us that do appreciate what you've done here by putting up this site out of your pocket and your time, a BIG BIG THANK YOU!!! We really do appreciate you. P.S. I still reserve the right to bring up questions that might not seem to be 100% pro Cocorioko, that does not mean I don't support you all the way . While we don't want an Awareness Times whose role is just to criticize the govt, we also don't want a newspaper that just toes the govt's line at all times. That's what We Yone is for, since that is an APC set up newspaper. The media is important to the country only if it serves as a force for good, that is, questioning the govt's actions when its out of line etc. Subject: Re: kabs ah bato you Message: Subject: To all decent folks on this forum Message: 5. Trolls in forums The Internet can be a spacious platform for all sorts of community interaction, provided that the participants conduct themselves in a civil manner. Too often, though, they don't. "I hate when I am on a forum and people just post random comments about how much somebody is a jerk or how their religion saves," said PC World reader Roberta Dikeman of Dublin, California. "Can we please stay on topic--or post that drivel on your own sites!" Hiding behind the pseudonymity of a Web alias, trolls disrupt useful discussions with ludicrous rants, inane threadjackings, personal insults, and abusive language, deliberately baiting forum regulars into pointless controversy and disharmony. Trolls lurk everywhere--in Google and Yahoo newsgroups, in blog comment areas, and on specialty message boards created to offer technical help to users. The free and fruitful exchange of ideas on the Web suffers when Web community owners have to moderate discussions and keep a tight rein on membership. But such actions are among the few effective ways to maintain civility and sanity in online forums. Another approach is for users to police the community themselves by collectively ignoring or dismissing malicious interlopers. Subject: Kabs and the Shekito issue Message: Subject: Puawei at war with Journalist Message: Take the most recent recruit to this bandwagon, the former editor of Concord Times newspaper now living in Canada Sahr Yamba. His opening headline in the Standard Times newspaper is "Good night Puawui, sleep well!" The bottom line here is that only my Maker makes the Decision on when I should go to sleep. While that time is in his Hands and I have breath, I shall continue to expose the shallow thoughts and lack of logic in the likes of Sahr Yamba. In the end it is he who will continue to have sleepless nights while wishing me good night. Yamba uses a lot of words and irrelevant stories in what he hopes is a rejoinder to my criticism of Christiana Thorpe. Let me remind him that from Ms. Thorpe�s own muddled figures which her people printed, there is clear evidence that the actual election figures for the Presidential run-off were tampered with and altered against Solomon Berewa. I had hoped that all the devil�s advocates who are now coming out would advise their heroine to publish the original voting figures and by doing that expose this "80-year old" as a mischief maker and send him to sleep. Until that�s done we�ll run after the lady till it is done. Yamba said that we were constantly warned about the our failures; granted, could the Youngman recall one, just one occasion when Concord Times under his editorship reported the achievements of the SLPP? His paper was represented in Cockeril when the Libyan buses, garbage trucks and water bowsers were presented to the press; what was the paper�s reaction when Philip Neville dropped his mischievous bombshell? Again, if he has forgotten so soon, I have not forgotten that his Concord Times reported in 2005 that when Solomon Berewa attempted to enter the SLPP office in Makeni, the door was shut before him, or the other equally false story about Maigore Kallon, J.B Dauda and others refusing a meeting with him? If the general Sierra Leonean populace was so fed up with Tejan Kabbah led SLPP then let us have the real figures to confirm that assumption; but even with the current botched-up ones could a reasonable person come to such wild conclusion? Yamba and his kind continue to scream all over the place about Koroma�s overwhelming victory. This brings me to a recent bizarre editorial in the Exclusive newspaper which took me to task with irrelevant reference to my age and my senility, simply because I had challenged the paper�s story of large crowds embracing Mr. Koroma when he entered Kailahun. The paper then concludes, "see what happened?" Again the question is what was I supposed to see? That the APC and Ernest Bai Koroma won all or any seats in Kailahun district? What warped thinking indeed. The Standard times in its numerous attempts to get the favour of President Koroma again displayed a complete lack of understanding of the constitution or that the author was being deliberately dishonest. Nobody questions the right of the President to appoint and dismiss public officials like the Central Bank Governor. The problem we had was that the method of dismissals contravened the constitution. The miserable apologist compared the situation with the non renewal of Mr. Sampha Koroma�s appointment at the end of his first term. As if that was not enough blunder, the author cited the case of former Chief Justice Dr. Abdullai Timbo. A simple investigation would have told that APC zealot that Timbo was never sacked; he had reached the mandatory retirement age for a Chief Justice. For the records, the leader of the PMDC was even heard advising a newly appointed High Court not to take the oath of office before Justice Timbo because the matter might be challenged in court. But then we are in a new Sierra Leone under a new dispensation. Be that as it may, with the likes of characters like these our President is going to have a hard time changing attitudes. Finally, once again my advice to my teenage critics is that they stop comparing my intellect and output with the over 80s with whom they may be familiar. LONTA Subject: Re: Puawei at war with Journalist Message: What say ye....critics.. Subject: Re: Puawei at war with Journalist Message: Subject: Re: Puawei at war with Journalist Message: Puawei Sama Banya is full of ego and enjoys the lime light. Quite frankly the man has no shame. For someone who had abandoned medicine to enter politics by the backdoor and held several senior positions in government, one would have expected him to write his memoirs for the younger gereation. But there is nothing credible for Puawei to write about, hence he writes nonsense about C THORPE in oder to discredit an election that was not only declared impressivly democratic, free and fair by the international community but that his former boses kabba and Berewa have also accepted the result. In fact because of the democratic way in which former president kabba presided over the election in Sierra Leone, the commonwealth has compensated him with an appointment to lead an election monitoring team to kenya on the basis that the Sierra Leone experience laid a good model to copy by other African countries. Berewa, I understand has also taken up some teaching appointment in the uk. But what is puawei doing? This guy, apart from a brief failed practice in medicine, he abandoned it and since then he has been consumed with politics all his life but there is nothing he could show for. Puawei's diatribes against C THORPE and his refusal to accept that the SLPP is no longer in power, because of people like him, is misplaced and provocative, designed to destabilise our country. If Puawei is really a politician of conviction, he should file an election petition in the court that was created by his SLPP government to deal specifically with the allege electoral mal-practices. But to continue to attack a respectable and honest women, who has clearly made a mark,in the international sphere, under challenging circumstances, shows the ignomy of Puawei. Puawei has the ckeek to call responsible and professional adults teenagers. I am begining to wonder. I will not be surprise if Puawei contest the leadership of SLPP. Puawei Sama Banya is sly and dangerous. I still remember several decades ago when in a conversation with an old school chum of Puawei at Bo School who told me that puawei was a power hungry man and can kill for power. This came true when puawei contested a parliamentary seat in Kailahun constituency as the APC candidate against Dauda Sandy's SLPP. The SLPP Dauda Sandy's lookalike brother known as ngo Gbaki, a relative of mine, was shot and killed by specially imported APC thugs to help Sama Siama Banya win that seat. He lost even with his violence and had never won an election in a fair contest. Is this the kind of people the younger generation should aspire to, when he treats them with contempt? Puawei Sama Banya is a desperate power hungry man who does not want to let go, he is probably dancing in his bed room with the light switch off. Puawei, you take on the "teenagers" but at your peril. Subject: Re: Puawei at war with Journalist Message: Puawei is now at war with virtually every news paper editor from concord Times,awoko, standard Times, exclusive etc. Only the awareness times publishes his articles. Subject: Re: Puawei at war with Journalist Message: Subject: Please stop posting in my name Message: Though we will not delete your posts, however, somebody with this IP number( 90.196.203.154) POSTED illegally using my name . I hope you will detest from this act. The IP involved has been blocked and this person will not post here any more. Even if he/she writes the Moderator to plead with lies that he/she did nothing, the IP will not be reinstated. Please let's post in our own names . Those who do not oblige will be banned for good from this forum. Subject: ENEMY OF PROGRESS Message: The President will make his official announcement before Christmas. At that time, the general public will know who the new Press Secretary and Communication Director will be. Our editor in Chief is a very decent man. He makes no apologies for standing up for freedom and democracy in Sierra Leone. He is not asking for any handout. He is willing to serve his country like any patriotic sierra Leonean. He is not going to tolerate nonsense and nuisance intruding into the decision making process of the President. We fought against enemies of progress and again we make no apologies for sending these enemies of progress on French leave. Subject: ENERMY OF PROGRESS Message: The President will make his official announcement before Christmas. At that time, the general public will know who the new Press Secretary and Communication Director will be. Our editor in Chief is a very decent man. He makes no apologies for standing up for freedom and democracy in Sierra Leone. He is not asking for any handout. He is willing to serve his country like any patriotic sierra Leonean. He is not going to tolerate nonsense and nuisance intruding into the decision making process of the President. We fought against enemies of progress and again we make no apologies for sending these enemies of progress on French leave. Subject: APC = A SCANDAL A DAY Message: From a nation of unity government to ZERO TOLERANCE to the appointment of a Press secretary, it seems the new government and its leader all talk one tin ya tiday, another in New Jersey tumarrah... The President, a Christian, might be a man of his word, ah mean when we hear his diehards swear he is a man of integrigty, who are we mere motals to doubt? Where so far he has been lacking is backing his PRESIDENCIAL words with the appropriate action.. He makes promises he can hardly keep.. The only promise he has kept so far ...? In our days.. we called this kind of behavior.. 2 mot pennef.. Is EBK a 2 mot pennef..or is it the light skinned temne boy who is his right hand man.. Subject: Re: APC = A SCANDAL A DAY Message: Well try to be a Sierra Leonean instead of a DISTRACTOR. Subject: Re: APC = A SCANDAL A DAY Message: EBK made promises he is not keeping, and this Shekito tin just made it worse...i just want Kabs to know e hart me bad... How is that distracting.. ? Or are you accusing me of what you are.? Subject: Re: APC = A SCANDAL A DAY Message: Subject: Re: APC = A SCANDAL A DAY Message: Can you, without malice point out the so-called unkept promises by the Prez. One thing I noticed from many people like is that, you judge the background of Sierra Leoneans by names and surnames. When somone has a surname of Koroma it means that person is from the north. These are the perceptions of SLPP supporters. If I ask those who think the entire APC government is Northern based to show where in the North the various ministers come from, nobody will be able to answer with evidence. So me brtha le we forget about regional division and concentrate on the most pressing issues. Subject: Re: APC = A SCANDAL A DAY Message: You call that crytic..?? How about now.. fi yuo cna raed tihs, yuo hvae a sgtrane mnid too I guess you can.. He promised a Governnent of the people.. He promised Zero Corruption. A governement of laws? I noticed something too.. Is that cryptic again.? Subject: Re: APC = A SCANDAL A DAY Message: Subject: Shekito nar God gee u power Message: Subject: Re: Shekito nar God gee u power Message: Subject: Re: Shekito nar God gee u power Message: Subject: Re: Shekito nar God gee u power Message: Subject: EBK;s appointment of Press Sec. (Shekito) Message: What is true? Please help. Foday Mans. what say you? Subject: Re: EBK;s appointment of Press Sec. (Shekito) Message: I must admit though that the whole situation is becoming a comedy of errors. Una take am easy! Subject: Re:Shekito nar God gee u power Message: However Kabs-Kanu nor worry as nar u credit card u spend with for host Alpha Kanu so u go dae pay the minimum payment.However next time spend more as u did not impress Alpha Kanu as nar dem wae dae EBK sae im minister dem for dae thief by paying visit and getting Tips. osh ya Subject: Re: EBK;s appointment of Press Sec. (Shekito) Message: This nor funny.... The man lacks credibility he has not even spent a day in the office.. Unu go have a field day with this chump nah freetong.. .. Subject: Re: EBK;s appointment of Press Sec. (Shekito) Message: Subject: Re: EBK;s appointment of Press Sec. (Shekito) Message: Lef me bo.. ah nor owe you.. As we kind say nah peckam.. Subject: Re: EBK;s appointment of Press Sec. (Shekito) Message: Subject: Re: EBK;s appointment of Press Sec. (Shekito) Message: Seriously is he appointed? Subject: Re: EBK;s appointment of Press Sec. (Shekito) Message: Sylvia nah fine gyal ya.. Okay..jsut been silly.. she is an alright lady in my books.... So far... all my sources say shekito was picked up at aberdeen by a car with sirens...and he used the helakicopter from lungi.. I know he cant afford it with his own money.. so it must be una bra im banner.. Subject: Kabs-Kanu should collect money from Alpha Kanu Message: Goods and expensive hospitality nar corruption to Ernest. Subject: Re: Kabs-Kanu should collect money from Alpha Kanu Message: We for gladi he was not holding the pote mantle.. en briefcase.. Subject: HOW COMPETENT IS OUR NEW PRESS SECRETARY? Message: As usual, I must discuss my hobbyhorse: How qualified is Sheka for this job? Of course, Sheka's journalistic assertions alone cannot be equated with suitability for such a job. If you can stitch together a series of inelegantly written sentences, you can claim to be a journalist in Sierra Leone. Equally true, getting a job from Ernest Koroma does not necessarily mean the employee was vetted for professional exactitude. Being a native of Koinadugu, Bombali or Magburaka, instantly makes you a candidate for a plummy job in Koroma's New Era. Subject: MY GIANT SUPPORT FOR ERNEST BAI KOROMA! Message: 1) The predominance of us Northerners in the Cabinet is a horrible (not tribalistic) error that has robbed the president of the moral authority to be truly the president of all Salone. As much as i hate to admit it, these appointments are becoming more and more indefensible by the day. Unless the president corrects this imbalance, Southeasterners will always view EBK as a Northern parochial leader and SLPP propagandists will have a field day. 2) I think the appointment of the Press Secretary debased the process. It was crude, cruel, lacked dignity and was ignominous. It was frankly embarassing for the Minister of presidential affairs to be saying one thing and the President to be whispering something else to an exiled journalist in London. Subject: Re: MY GIANT SUPPORT FOR ERNEST BAI KOROMA! Message: You think that was a mistake..? He did not have the anus to tell the Good REV that, sorry pa.. We know say you help, but Shekito dey dress fine and get plenty waitman paddy, so Obai lean towards am... While knowing full well that the job has been appointed already to shorty.. Its chipical (temne accented) APC back stabbing 101... Subject: Sierra Leone has no rose for Thorpe Message: Subject: How Competent Is Our New Press Secretary? Message: As usual, I must discuss my hobbyhorse: How qualified is Sheka for this job? Of course, Sheka's journalistic assertions alone cannot be equated with suitability for such a job. If you can stitch together a series of inelegantly written sentences, you can claim to be a journalist in Sierra Leone. Equally true, getting a job from Ernest Koroma does not necessarily mean the employee was vetted for professional exactitude. Being a native of Koinadugu, Bombali or Magburaka, instantly makes you a candidate for a plummy job in Koroma's New Era. Subject: Re: How Competent Is Our New Press Secretary? Message: Subject: Re: How Competent Is Our New Press Secretary? Message: Bra E: I am trying to get my best Komaneh FenPlaba to go for a diplomatic job. U know Fenplaba nar buk man ehn nar Northerner. But di man grow up nar di SouthEast - Bo. Nar Bo School kondoh boy. So e go sorry for me ehn U. Subject: INTERESTING -HISTORY, PRESENT & FUTURE - FYI !!!!! Message: Posted by Mohamed Boye Jallo Jamboria,Norge, on 4 December 2007 at 09h13 Let me tell you why I am not partisan,it is a brief history and I hope you will evaluate it with an open mind. I learnt the art of being non partisan between 60s and 98 when the covert political muscles behind the war who had fallen out and distrusted eachother,came face to face and unleashed their grudge by a chain of actions starting with the military intervention to the events of the 6th, January , killings of innocent people who had never been a part of the selfishwar theatre they had created for themselves. My grandfather whose first name I carry was SLPP and secretary for the party in the North. He was a product of the Bo school and also a very close friend of Sir Milton,Taplima Ngobeh,Yanki Sesay and a host of those prominent men in the early SLPP heirachy. As a matter of fact ,Sir Milton used to visit us at Songo, Koya chiefdom regularly.He went there not only to visit my grandfather but because the Governot General then ,Sir Henry Lightfoot-Boston had a farm there and they used to spend some saturdays there discussing state matters in a friendly and relaxed manner. The late Taplima left our house at Songo and was on the way to Freetown from his home in the Kailahun district,when he died in a road accident at Joe town close to Waterloo. The crux of the matter is that one Saturday, Sir Milton I could still remember vividly, came to my grandfather very early at about 6 AM and he was shaky. That fateful day I slept with my grandfather so I had to be woken up when Sir Milton came in. By then I was in the third class at the Rural Amalgamated Primary school at Songo. I overheard Sir Milton complaining to my grandfather that there were People in the SLPP who wanted to kill him because he was very liberal with the north and the Creoles.He had by then asked all paramount chiefs in the north to ensure that they send three childern from non ruling houses to school every year on their support. His reason was that the north was educationally backward compared to the west, south and the east. The reason for this which I deduced later in my life, is that the northern ruling houses had not taken up the chance provided by the British because of the then wide spread influence of Islam and also because of the lingering effects of the slave trade on the minds of the people. They had the opinion that all gestures from people outside their localities was to take their children away. They had the opinion that the children were sold to either canibals or for ritual sacrifice. Anyone coming to ask to take a child to another area apart from that the parents had identified is a "COTHI" or translated a canibal. Also THE INFLUENCE OF ISLAM was such that people had the ability to write,keep accounts and do those basic things every literate western educated man can do. That is why the Grammar school is not in the north as Reverend Schellenker wanted. Alongside the overpowering influence of the Islamic Leaders was such that they stepped up a propaganda about western education that was very negative. Remember that there had been Islamic institutions in the north for centuries before the white man came . Sir Milton�s move was in the interest of creating a balance in the national wealth by creating an even distribution of power through education and equal opportunities.There were people within the ranks of the SLPP WHO WERE OPPOSED TO THIS and so from that time the very fabric that should have helped us develop into a nation had been tampered with by selfish and short-sighted men who can be best described as CONSERVATIVE ELITISTS. The foundations of the RUF war was laid by the theatrics of politics of "MAN BUTU MAN WATCH" OF THESE MEN and it is still affecting our mental vision as Sierra Leoneans. That is why I always say we must EMANCIPATE OURSELVES first from mental slavery before we can begin to get the matirces fo developing Sierra Leone RIGHT. This CONSERVATIVE ELITIST OR MORE SUITABLY SELFISH approach to politics and the imminent fact that Sir Milton died very early ,ruling only for four years, and the consequent marginalisation of the northerners and Creoles by the shortlived and self-centered Sir Albert regime led the APC to win the 67 elections. Another reason why the SLPP lost the 67 elections was because Sir Albert failed to solve the differences between himself and L.A.M Brewah,J.I.Kai-Samba,Prince Williams and some other core SLPP members. He allowed the filthy politics of personal greed and "MAN BUTU MAN WATCH". The politics of elemination of potential challengers to the throne started with Sir Albert. This is one reason why the SLP lost the recent elections as this type of politics undermined their fabric when Charles left and formed the PMDC. SO THEY MUST STOP BLAMING VICTOR ANGELO OR ANY OTHER EXTERNAL SOURCE FOR THEIR SHORTSIGHTEDNESS.IN LIFE ONE GETS WHAT ONE DESERVES FROM WHAT ONE DOES! If regional or ethnic semtiments exist today in Sierra Leone it started after Sir Albert took power. He brought radical reforms in the civil service and regoinal and party allegiance became the way to top positions in the civil service. His stepbrother, Sir Milton, a liberal, maintained the civil service he inherited and kept the creoles there to put down the tensoins and help develop nationhood. Sir Milton�s resaoning was that before 1958 the creoles had the only political party that challenged the SLPP which by then was a party ofr all the provincials after Songo,which is the border town between the colony and the then protectorate and part of it is western area and part in the port loko district. He fell out with some radical elements in the SLPP because of this nation building vison he had and as rumours have it Sir Milton was eliminated by his personal doctor upon the covert urgings of these radicals, by an overdose of injection, after several attempts on his life including a staged managed accident at Mountain cut by Kissy road. These core men took power and lasted only for three years. When Siaka Stevens, their brother, who told a political lie that he was Limba to get the votes of the north (the SLPP by then having very strong holds in the north from chiefs and all the elites, born of Moyamba with his mother from the Massaquoi family of Blama in the Pujehun district took power he knew the complexities and so introduced a one party state to get others involved. Most of the key posts he gave to southerners and easterners to control the situation to his advantage. THAT WAS WHAT LED TO THE LOOTING OF THE ECONOMY as these men never saw reason to work for the national good. Men like Sama Banya, Salia Jusu Sherif and others held positons of consequence that would have made them national heroes today if they had done the right things to develop Sierra Leone. They did not have the will. They only thought about themselves and see the mess the country is in now. Siaka being a Trade Unionist and trained at the Ruskin College in Britain, was a master of the political arts of DIVIDE AND RULE THAT WAS THE CORE BRITISH METHOD OF CONTROL IN AFRICA, used all the slefish politicians to keep himself in power. In the end this divide and rule policy became country counter productive as some elements in the political race by 1982 thought that after so many years in power,it was time Siaka went out and some other selfish group come in. THAT IS THE ROOT OF THR RUF A GROUP MADE UP OF MOSTLY DISGRUNTLED POLITICIANS, YOUTHS AND THE SUFFERING MASSES WHO FELT THE ONLY WAY TO GET THE APC OUT WAS THROUGH THE BARREL OF THE GUN. My positon, when I came to realise how selfish and willful these political actors,including the S.I. Koromas and all, was that if Sierra Leone is to develop, the framework has to come be developed without or outside THE DOMIAN OF MAINSTERAM POLITICS as all the old guards are mere CHANGE COATS moving from the SLPP to APC and back to SLPP. Given this sad history and the fact that this was the unsaid root of the war, we must change our outlooks and close our ranks if we mean to make it better, otherwise the beat goes on and Sierra Leone will continue in this STAE OF GYRATION with no centre like William B.Yeats side in his poem "The Second Coming". Please examine what I have said and look at Sierra Leone NOT FROM THE REGIONAL, ETHNIC OR PERSONAL POINTS OF VIEW BUT THE TOTAL GEOGRAPHIC ENTITY. The slogan ONE COUNTRY; ONE PEOPLE was deviced by Sir Milton who wanted to see a nation grow out of a divided situation. Today we have ONE COUNTRY; THREE PEOPLE and that is not in the name of progress, RIGHT!We are not going to get Sierra Leone to DEVELOP WITH CREOLE ,MENDE AND NORTHERN STATES existing within the same geographical entity. If we annot stop thinking as these three peoples we will never develop and foreigners will be the benefactors of this divide as they are now! Whether we like it or not we have been thrown into one destiny by the western powers during the scramble for Africa. We can live as one as we have the same cultures and traditions. The only seeming difference amongst us is the languages but even there we are all from the same ancestorage, the Mali Empire, and our languages have a lot of words that are transethno lingiustics as they are basically from the MANDE group of Languages in west Africa. The long and short of what I want to put across is that OUR POLICTICAL CLASS OF THE 60S, 70S and their young recruits are not to be trusted. We should never stick our backs out for them as they are a group of unscrupulous, surreptitous and selfish men that have misled the destiny of a very rich part of the earth. President Koroma is the begining of a new system of political way of doing things and I do not expect him to score more than 70% maximum as there are still OLD WINES from the selfish political class who weild influence in Sierra Leone. Until that class is totally taken out of mainstream politics things will change but at a very slow pace as they are still there to preach their politics of divide-a key reason for the war. MAY GOD GIVE US THE WISDOM TO SEE REALITY AND THINK POSITIVE! Subject: Re: INTERESTING -HISTORY, PRESENT & FUTURE - FYI !!!!! Message: Subject: Shekito as Press Secretary-Woe! to black Journalists Message: Remember, Sierra Leone is no more like you perceive it to be. The people are enlightened, so making friends with foreigners to ursher your agenda is unhealthy for the president and the people of Sierra Leone. Subject: Re: Shekito as Press Secretary-Woe! to black Journalists Message: Subject: Re: Shekito as Press Secretary-Woe! to black Journalists Message: Indeed, your name denotes who you are-under darkness and only conversant with darkness and stench. First and foremost- "typical Sierra Leoneans are known to be unpatriotic and could mortgage their birth rights for pittance at the expense of their brothers and sisters to accommodate a stranger. The phobia and admiration for strangers is embedded in Sierra Leoneans in the likes of you. Do you know how many experiences I have had from my kith and kin because I am a Sierra Leonean? If the white man or some one with a foreign language goes to Sierra Leone to involve in any venture, who will be given preference? The lack of patriotism and love for one onther as dipicted in this forum against progressive people like Kabs Kanu who though a Sierra Leonean with regional and international exposure is still been abused by people like you-spewing hate, ridicule and ingratitude to your fellow Sierra Leonean. Now, the Shekito issue of associating with whites in Manchester is indicative that if given the position of PS as he as boasted-do you think he will accomodate the black press? The man is an opportunist, a bootlicker, a sycophant and will compromise the intergrity of the PS office to accommodate foreign journalists as his association with this different pigmentation is crystal clear. So Mr. Wiri Wiri, your comments on my doctoral candidacy is just another indication of typical Sierra Leonean mentality of jealousy, unpatriotism and the end product of the polygamous family which has instilled these negative vices that is destroying our nation. Subject: Re: Shekito as Press Secretary-Woe! to black Journalists Message: Subject: Re: Shekito as Press Secretary-Woe! to black Journalists Message: Subject: PLEASE LEAVE KABS-KANU ALONE Message: Subject: Re: PLEASE LEAVE KABS-KANU ALONE Message: Subject: Re: PLEASE LEAVE KABS-KANU ALONE Message: Subject: Re: PLEASE LEAVE KABS-KANU ALONE Message: Subject: Will Cocorioko stop giving publicity to APC? Message: Subject: Re: Will Cocorioko stop giving publicity to APC? Message: Subject: Re: Will Cocorioko stop giving publicity to APC? Message: We want to be plain though that we do not conduct our business over the internet so I have nothing to say on the question of whether I should have got the job Shekito is saying EBK called him and offered him. So why not leave my name out of all this ? As Shekito rightly said, it is God who provides. God gives to whom he wants and we must respect his sovereignty . MEANWHILE, we want to congratulate Shekito and we wish him God's blessings . Subject: Re: Will Cocorioko stop giving publicity to APC? Message: We all rooted for you and wanted you to get the job.. we deserve a clean and respectful response as to what happened.. Please make a statement..honest one for that matter.. Thank you. Subject: Re: Will Cocorioko stop giving publicity to APC? Message: On the other hand, Mr Tawaralie's uttrances on this forum over the position of EBK press secretary gave a pointed lead to the fact that he has been bidding for this appointment. It is however not clear to me as to whether it was appropriate for Mr Tarawalie to have divulged a private telephone conversation between himself and president Koroma during which he claimed the president offered him the position as press secretary. Moreover, the state house has not and up to the time Mr Tarawalie revealed his appointment, issued any official announcement on the appointment of press secretary to the president. I found it odd that EBK had offered Trawalie a job via telephone but this was left with Mr Tarawalie to bring his appointment to the public domian, given the status of that position. Notably, Mr Tawaralie's announcement of his appointment came after the presidential minister -Kanu denied knowledge of the said appointment in a statement to the USA APC officials, adding that the president normally informed him of such appointment. The art of seperating reality from appearance comes to play here. When we go out in the day and look up at the bright sun one gets the impression that the sun itself was moving. The truth, however, is that it is the earth and not the sun that rotates. I can only wish Mr Tarawalie success in his new post. Subject: Re: Will Cocorioko stop giving publicity to APC? Message: Subject: Re: Will Cocorioko stop giving publicity to APC? Message: Subject: Re: Will Cocorioko stop giving publicity to APC? Message: now we go see objective journalism wae all d big position don go. Subject: Re: Will Cocorioko stop giving publicity to APC? Message: I wasn't suprised when Siaka Tarawallie starts coming to the limelight in all the online mediums recently by singing praises and soliciting recognition from EBK that he knew his father, they attended the same church and sycophantically invoking recognition from the president. I am not against Sheka been chosen as Press Secretary but stating that he is not fighting for a job is mere nonsense and a black lie. Shekito we wish you luck as press secretary but be ready to face the wrath of journalists who will question the defaults of EBK's government if fumbles. Subject: FIVE CURRENT MINISTERS HAVE A CASE TO ANSWER Message: So the talk about ZERO TOLERANCE on CORRUPTION nar BULL KAKA from the APC/Northern/Makeni President. If they are really serious about corruption....they should start by opening these files and telling their Ministers to PAY UP and or DELIVER ... Subject: Re: FIVE CURRENT MINISTERS HAVE A CASE TO ANSWER Message: The above will be the hope you have to bring lasting stability in the country. Your ranting and preaching of tribalism have failed, shame on you. Believe me you will not be purnished for your tribal hate but you'll rather benefit from the good the APC/Northern/Makeni President would bring. Be patient or worst still continue to pronounce tribalism as your only option now. Subject: Re: FIVE CURRENT MINISTERS HAVE A CASE TO ANSWER Message: Subject: Re: FIVE CURRENT MINISTERS HAVE A CASE TO ANSWER Message: Subject: Re: FIVE CURRENT MINISTERS HAVE A CASE TO ANSWER Message:
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From: Pedrodacintra
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Date Posted: 03:26:57 12/12/07 ()
Email Address: rastafari_ish@hotmail.com
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Hold your breath and ready your fire,I am coming again and this time more stronger than before!
From: Sr Researcher
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Date Posted: 10:05:52 12/12/07 ()
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A lot of research has been done, and SLPP/APC has been defined, in a nutshell, as Water Melon.So please do not spend more time and energy on this subject
From: NAR U SABI
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Date Posted: 03:43:05 12/12/07 ()
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NAR U SABI
From: Pedrodacintra
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Date Posted: 05:19:18 12/12/07 ()
Email Address: rastafari_ish@hotmail.com
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Enti u nar big big grumpig anyampi? Nar eem make way are troway me bonga aide you run cam tiff am!
Anytin way you say ar go rite plenty leh ee hart you more en more.
From: Bonthe Pikin
To: All
Date Posted: 03:03:00 12/12/07 ()
Email Address: bontilaynga@gmail.com
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Centennial Secondary School is the best school in Sierra Leone for me. I don't have to say Bo School or POW because it is only best to those who attended there. And shame on those who are even ashamed to talk about the schools that made them what they are today just because the schools are not BO SCHOOL, CKC, POW or AA.
From: senehun
To: All
Date Posted: 10:27:54 12/12/07 ()
Email Address: ama4515502@aol.com
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"FOR GOD AND COUNTRY,CENTENNIAL IS THE BEST".YOUR ARE RIGHT BASED ON YOUR SCHOOL OF THOUGHT.JUST CURIOUS BROTHER,WHEN DID YOU GRADUATE FROM THE HIGHEST INSTITUTION OF LEARNING IN MATTRU JONG?I BELIEF BONTHE SECONDARY SCHOOL AND BUMPEH HIGH ARE SUPERIOR.KETAMIA.
From: Fen Plaba!
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Date Posted: 23:23:11 12/11/07 ()
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After being jilted on Prom Night by the President because of his laboramus and braggadacio in revealing sweet nothings between him and the president, I really woudn't want to be in Shekito's shoes right now.
Can you imagine Shekito's unbelievable embarassment? After taking out the biggest megaphone on the net to announce that you are an Alagba, only to find out that you are an Efulefu. Life sucks bra!
I hope this whole sorry episode does not scar the young man for the rest of his life. I would really feel terrible if Chez, Anthony, Nico and other Londoners start posting sightings of Shekito walking the streets of London or Manchester in his jammies, flip-flops on his head and screaming like a desolate banshee from Hell. Well you know the expression...Loose lips sink ships ...and posh careers!
From: Bonthe Pikin
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Date Posted: 06:26:27 12/12/07 ()
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Shekito said he is Press Secretary to President, and Kabs Kanu is reported (P Vanguard) to be the new Director of Communications....so what is the problem?
From: banshee
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Date Posted: 04:31:18 12/12/07 ()
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I hear shekito is already in freetown.
From: Reporter
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Date Posted: 05:49:07 12/12/07 ()
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And has taken up his office in State House.God give him POWER!!!!
From: Bambay Lans Kamara
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Date Posted: 23:17:45 12/11/07 ()
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Mym7gEuLpg
From: Bambay Lans Kamara
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Date Posted: 22:48:27 12/11/07 ()
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From: Bambay Lans Kamara
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Date Posted: 22:37:13 12/11/07 ()
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Isn't she sweet!
From: Bambay Lans Kamara
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Date Posted: 22:00:39 12/11/07 ()
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From: Bambay Lans Kamara
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Date Posted: 21:46:05 12/11/07 ()
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fwd_aqvDqZM&feature=related
From: Bambay Lans Kamara
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Date Posted: 21:22:08 12/11/07 ()
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f6zHAScKBq8&feature=related
From: Kawusu
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Date Posted: 20:30:39 12/11/07 ()
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1) BO SCHOOL!!!
You have the audacity to refer to us as Munku boys? CKC is my alma mater and you attended that TOWEI KONDOH school near the hospital, CKC's perpectual rival. Man, I don't know for now but the time I attended CKC, that school was second to none in Salone but the TOWEI KONDOH school was always struggling academically with all those rude boys running after QRS and UCC girls.
From: Fen Plaba!
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Date Posted: 22:41:14 12/11/07 ()
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CKC better than Bo School? Kawusu lef nor! We were the big bad wolves of Bo Town...even when we magnanimously allowed the 'Bury Gron' boys a taste of the academic throne- for a few years- just because we didn't want to be too greedy.
It used to be so funny when the GCE results came out. It didn't matter how great or awful our performance was. There was only one overriding question: "We beat CKC?"
If the answer was yes, then there was much jubilation as we 'broke bounds' from campus to huff and puff and kack chest to the QRS girls. If, however, CKC had walloped our tail, Bo School Boys would be so despondent that the Kondoh would be especially tasteless for a whole week. After that, we would simply get even. Some of us would put on white sheets and hide behind the gravestones in the cemetry around CKC and jump out like ghouls from Hell at passing CKC boys. You should see those Munku Boys scream like sisi banshees crying for the ghost of Father Lamb to save them. Still priceless after all these years.
So Kawusu blow. Bo School nar una bra for real!
From: Alimamy Turay
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Date Posted: 20:24:16 12/11/07 ()
Email Address: deltablast@yahoo.com
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Cocorioko please dont get us bored with Christiana Thorpe ! It is all over!!!!!!!!!1 she is not extraordinary!!!! The people voted SLPP out not Thorpe! So, stop this misplaced worship of this Lady!
From: okdok
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Date Posted: 20:27:08 12/11/07 ()
Email Address: okdok@yahoo.com
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All is just over joy as they had no better chance to win that election.
From: Santiki Bancura
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Date Posted: 22:54:47 12/11/07 ()
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You most leaf Crisstikna Top alone . Why, becos she is very nise womans who helps brink demoncrasy to sarralone and all over Africa. Okdok, you your very very yone self nose that she says No No No to the SLPP palmtik big people when they tries to thief the elecshon. She says to Pa Berewa, 'Pa I is Convent Mother Pikin and won't corobate my soul to yahanama hell for steal elecshon.'
So Madame Chrisstikna Top is cood womens, yos lek Madam Erica on we forum. So please stop yelos toks and let we sinc her prases. Thatis all.
From: Gbanalorkor
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Date Posted: 09:13:10 12/12/07 ()
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Christiana cannot be left alone, she is very dishonest. look at the annual review she gave to Kenawa, the former employee of Nec, and look what she said about the guy again, just because the guy did not agree with her underhand games. Christiana will definately see that on her break fast table.
From: Alimamy Turay
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Date Posted: 20:15:49 12/11/07 ()
Email Address: deltablast@yahoo.com
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I write to inform one and all that JJ Blood is not responsible for the downfall of the SLPP! He himdelf was a victim of deceit; however I hold him in a very high esteem!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
From: okdok
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Date Posted: 20:22:47 12/11/07 ()
Email Address: okdok@yahoo.com
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I have no clue who the minister is.Please help.
From: Almamy Razak Tun Seray-Wurie Si
To: All
Date Posted: 19:22:57 12/11/07 ()
Email Address: almamysi@hotmail.com
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Kabs-Kanu,
Congratulations! May our good God increase your wisdom as you settle inside the corridor of power. Tell H.E. that there are many Sierra Leoneans who wish to make positive contributions (by returning or doing something there when the atmosphere permitts). People who knew you at FBC and CKC believe in you, also your fellow teachers (in SL and Liberia) do tell us your good deeds. Sir, continue being like that, may God crown our prayers for you.
Islam tells us that there are two possibilities one must not forget therefore keep praying till your last day: A good man can turn bad in late life; A bad man can turn good in late life.
I remember John Benjamin had a forum that closed. Would cocorioko live after you return to SL?
Whosoever runs it will not be as tolerant as you, maybe some forumities will be no more without Kabs....
From: Njahloh
To: All
Date Posted: 17:38:32 12/11/07 ()
Email Address: ndbt1900@hotmail.com
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The Ultimate Manipulator and Controller – Cynthia Jarrret-Thorpe (nee Carlton-Carew)
NB: This article is written with information acquired through reliable sources including the internet. It is not written out of spite, malice, hate, jealousy, anger or application of the” PHD” (pull her down) doctrine sometimes utilized by Sierra Leoneans to personally settle scores. Readers are free to verify the full content or any part of this article with Sierra Leoneans/Nigerians/African-Americans or any other group of people, who during the course of time, have interacted with Mrs. Cynthia Jarrett-Thorpe. The reference to Pa. Carlton-Carew is vital to the core subject of this article and should not be construed as a deliberate attempt to show disrespect or bring his name into disrepute.
From: M. Alieu Iscandari Esq
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Date Posted: 17:17:31 12/11/07 ()
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Read on folks
From: Anthony Sisay
To: All
Date Posted: 16:50:25 12/11/07 ()
Email Address: anthonysisay@yahoo.com
Entered From: pcd280119.netvigator.com at 203.218.70.119
If only our country was developed this shameful thing should not have been happening to Bangura:
From: Jackal
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Date Posted: 18:43:28 12/11/07 ()
Email Address: epa@gmail.com
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Call it the impressionist view of British government hypocrisy.
From: KKW
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Date Posted: 16:58:12 12/11/07 ()
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It would be very unfortunate if he was sent back. Hopefully the club has enough clout to override this decision.
From: Bambay Lans Kamara
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Date Posted: 20:38:17 12/11/07 ()
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Greetings my brothers and sister. Jakal, as much as we would hate for the brother to return to Sierra Leone, I would also admonish you not to jump into hasty generalizations and name-calling. In the first place, we have not been told on what grounds this brother of ours is under deportation. Rather than rushing to condemn the British, I would have hoped that the author of this piece drops us a line or two on the circumstances circumventing his situation. It is from there Sierra Leoneans particularly, contributors on this forum can put heads together, if they ever dare to, to discuss the issue at hand from the immigration guidelines.
Sierra Leoneans have had enough opportunities to vent their disagreement over injustices practiced against their compatriots but we have never taken advantage of these opportunities. The mindset we have these days could have permanently left Africans in chains, Apartheid should have continued in South Africa, Zimbabwe, Mozambique, Segregation and all the Rules that came with should have all people's of African decent in a perpetual mental bondage that could festered the grip of inferiority on all of us. Which could blocked the way for everyone of us. Sierra Leone and other African countries could have never regained independence because of this "it is their business let them deal with it mentality," which I find profoundly unpatriotic. This booth-liking mentality that most of us have inculcated has caused setbacks and severe pains for many, a continuation of the neocolonialistic euphoria.
Nonetheless, Sierra Leone has immigration laws and most contributors here have been arguing about the damage justice served disproportionately has impacted our sociological set-up. As such, we are all envious of the Brits, American, French, Italian or should I say First World systems because these systems dare to practice justice, if inequitably yet, not despairingly rampant as practiced in most Third World set-ups. These systems are never closer to the degradation that justice has suffered in most democracies. This is so because the former live to learn so as to change. In that view, we must not condemn their decisions but respect it until there are absolute reasons to condemn them which has not been evidenced in this case.
Though this brother has circumstances working against every dream that he has dreamed for himself by sending him back yet, I believe we have to be in a pleading mode rather than accusatory or finger pointing temperament. For starters, we have not been informed of why the Brits are about to take this measures. Moreover, they have a system is place that they would like to maintain and strengthen, which we cannot meddle with without due process.
Please give us something to work with. There are Immigration Attorneys writing here or viewing this page that might see reasons why to step in. Everything this gentleman might have allegedly violated is within the Law therefore, if Lawyers can see loopholes within the British Constitution to deter the proceedings or verdict if you will, then the British and Sierra Leone have both scored. But jumping into conclusions without finding out what the problem is and what solutions avail the situation is a waste of time. Pointing fingers cannot help the gentleman. Blaming the British is an absolute waste of time. The only way blaming them can shame them is if their action is an arbitrary show of power without credible cause. As far as this issue is concerned, we do not have anything to work with in achieving this goal.
From: Brabanxx
To: All
Date Posted: 06:10:30 12/12/07 ()
Email Address: brabanxx@aol.com
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BLK you are right about getting our facts together first before rushing to judgement. In an earlier blog on the BBC, it was posit that Al Bangura entered the UK before age 18 without any documentation. The home office is claiming that he (Al) has not been able to establish that he is who he claims he is. Lawyer Iscandari will agree with me that until Al supports his claim by concrete evidence,despite his exemplary performance in soccer; according to the Home Office he might not be elligible for the benefits he is claiming. Sierra Leoneans are also known in the western world for the high degree in filing fraudulent immigration claims and possession of fake documents.
I hope that everything ends well for him because of his newborn. The kid stands to gain from Al living and working in the UK. Like Kallon, he might be able to use his hard earned cash to bring some investments and or developments to mother Salone.
God Bless Salone
From: news
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Date Posted: 16:11:14 12/11/07 ()
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A Plan to Alleviate Poverty in Sierra Leone
On November 7, 2007, the SALONEDiscussion Think Tank Committee authorized the delivery of a compendium of recommendations to President Ernest Koroma. The recommendations addressed ways to restore the value of the Leone, and electricity, water and sanitation services to SL. This newspaper will be serializing the four chapters of the compendium. Today, we publish the first chapter of the compendium dealing with the restoration of the value of the Leone.
From: Critical Thinker
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Date Posted: 04:11:49 12/12/07 ()
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The fact that we even have a Think Tank that focuses on Sierra Leonean issues is itself a very good thing. These guys should be commended. Let the debates begin.
Policy Analysts, start your engines!!!!!
From: Fen Plaba!
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Date Posted: 19:50:03 12/11/07 ()
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I would like to thank the Think Tank for their plan to improve the standard of living in Salone. The plan has, at its heart, the revaluation of the leone, eventually pegging it to a major currency by a fixed exchange mechanism.
The plan is, however, fraught with uncertainties. I hope we tread gingerly on this path of currency revaluation. To quote the Think Tank's favorite economist, Lord Maynard Keynes, "A strong currency does not necessarily translate into a strong economy".
Let's take the example of Argentina in the 90s. The Argentines created a Convertibility Board out of their Central Bank and established a rigid exchange rate of 1 Peso = 1 US dollar.
Things went swimmingly well at first. Hyperinflation was controlled and the standard of living increased for Argentines. However, Argentina's trading partners like Brazil and Venezuela had weak currencies that were further devalued. Cheap goods from these trading partners flooded Argentina as dollar reserves took flight, out of Argentine banks, for the borders. Argentina's products, on the other hand, were too expensive and so companies outsourced factories and jobs out of the country, thereby fueling unemployment. The crisis came to a head between 1999 and 2002 as riots toppled a succession of governments.
We must not put the cart before the horse as we try to improve our economy. We need to start by creating jobs through public job projects that will later be weaned from the govt. For example, making Hastings an international airport, Sanitation in Freetown and Upline. Setting up factories to make valued-added intermediates for export instead of just shipping out raw materials. these are just some of the things that would strengthen the fundamentals of the economy...and eventually increase the standard of living and the value of the currency.
By the way, we can then afford to change the name of the currency to: Sierra Leone Pound, Dollar...whatever.
From: Mohamed A. Jalloh
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Date Posted: 04:10:44 12/12/07 ()
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Fen Plaba! wrote on December 11, 2007:
"I would like to thank the Think Tank for their plan to improve the standard of living in Salone. The plan has, at its heart, the revaluation of the leone, eventually pegging it to a major currency by a fixed exchange mechanism."
Chairman
SALONEDiscussion Think Tank Committee
From: Jackal
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Date Posted: 19:37:00 12/11/07 ()
Email Address: epa@gmail.com
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"Set a goal to bring down the current exchange rate of the Leone to the U.S. dollar by twenty-five percent (Le 2,250 = $1) by December 31, 2008, by fifty percent (Le 1,500 = $1) by December 31, 2009, by seventy-five percent (Le 750 = $1) by December 31, 2010, and to parity (Le 1 = $1) at the end of 2011."
10 years ago -Le 930
Percent difference -69%
2017 projected forecast -Le (Your guess)$1-Le1 HOW?
From: Mohamed A. Jalloh
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Date Posted: 06:44:02 12/12/07 ()
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Jackal wrote on December 11, 2007:
"The idea in the plan is great but economically impossible given our low productivity. To reverse the devalued Leone, we will need to quadruple our GDP by 200%. That is not happening soon except we find a diamond as big as my head"
From: Jackal
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Date Posted: 08:49:43 12/12/07 ()
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Mr. Jalloh, you are presenting a value proposition. It is wonderful. That is the ideal position we want to be. Crunch the numbers and you will see where and why I contest your proposition. Remember this is economics not wishful thinking. We have scarce resources challenging multiple demands.
Your economic forecast(which is what I call it ) is out of sync with our economic reality. When the Leone(currency) was stronger or equivalent to the dollar, there were two factor in play that your proposition isolates; the population was smaller and more productive.
Demand for foreign made goods were minimal. The price of gas for example was low because there were few car owners. Rice was hadly imported. Coffee and cocoa farmers recorded high profits from increased exports.
IMF was not in our economic vocabulary. Contrast this scenario to what prevails today. Population growth is undeniable, creating the need for big government, and increased budget. Demand for foreign goods are at an all time high. Farmer productivity declined significantly in relation to the population engaged in farming. In fact there are relatively far too few people interested in farming.
I think I can go on and on with rational economic examples to justify why I think your proposition is too aggressive.
$1 to Le1 is not impossible but 2011 is not a target year. How do you propose to quantitavely reverse a 69% currency devaluation. (1997-2007). Don't forget that we are still averaging less than a dollar a day.
I ran a "what if" scenario in excel based on your proposition. The results were not encouraging. Again Sir, except we hit oil wells and slap a big diamond, you will need to adjust your forecast. Good job though. I support your idea all the way.
From: Mohamed A. Jalloh
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Date Posted: 09:50:11 12/12/07 ()
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"When the Leone(currency) was stronger or equivalent to the dollar, there were two factor in play that your proposition isolates; the population was smaller and more productive."
From: FORECAST
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Date Posted: 20:42:11 12/11/07 ()
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GOOD ONE THE JACKAL.
WE NEED CONSISTENT ELECTRICITY.
GOOD ROADS AND COMMUNICATIONS NET WORK.
WE HAVE TO INCREASE PRODUCTION AND EXPORT WHICH WILL BRING IN FOREIGN EXCHANGE.
CRACK DOWN ON TAX DEFAULTERS
CONTINUE TO STRENTHEN THE PRESIDENT'S VISION OF GOOD GOVERNANCE.
ALL OF THE ABOVE COULD BE A GOOD START.
From: Erica Adams
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Date Posted: 15:41:44 12/11/07 ()
Email Address: ericamonique82@hotmail.com
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I normally shy away from the talk about political appointments but as I have been reading all the speculation about this most coveted position, I have come to realize that the self proclaimed forerunner in all liklihood won't be appointed to this position. I have some points I'd like to outline for you all because I'm very sure of what I'm saying.
From: Sam
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Date Posted: 20:55:43 12/11/07 ()
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Only one problem with your hypotheses..EK is already perceived as having problems with his decision making when it comes to his appointees. How exactly would he announces now that no he never gave Shekito the job? Politics being what it is, I am sure they can come up with something, but those on a higher intelligence plane, will definitely start worrying about our president.
From: Alie Formeh Kamara
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Date Posted: 19:27:18 12/11/07 ()
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Go easy on Shekito.
His only mistake was that he jumped the gun before his appointment became public. But I believe that the President called him and appointed him Press Secretary.
The media is his house and I think he considered himself as a Diasporan and I think he was simply informing us that
From: Joe Sakpa Rogers
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Date Posted: 18:33:09 12/11/07 ()
Email Address: Jroger88@uncc.edu
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As a Sierra Leonean,I always look foward to reading concrete and informative occurences pertaining to the general good of the country.Some postings are so off the wall that reading them is distasteful.Void of any tribal or partisan affiliations,interesting news always make good evenings.Postings like"which school is the best" leaves little or no space for much more important news.Erica,your postings are one of the very few coherent pieces of writings that hit the"bulls eye".On Shekito,you spelled it out real well as of betrayal in his braggadocio ways.In life,three things that are never certain are "Success,Dreams,and Fortune".Dream your dreams till they become reality before putting your foot in your mouth.Thanks a bunch.
From: toomors
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Date Posted: 15:57:41 12/11/07 ()
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This matter has been settled in Freetown. Please let it rest. There are more important matters to discuss.
From: mohamed barrie
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Date Posted: 14:12:22 12/11/07 ()
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Congrats kabs kanu -Director of communication.check it out at the patriotic vanguard newspaper
From: wow
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Date Posted: 22:10:17 12/11/07 ()
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wow
From: Sam
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Date Posted: 20:59:24 12/11/07 ()
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Press Secretary, Director of Communications, Spokesman etc. Statehouse isn't the White House. Can we afford all this? Is EK just rewarding his followers and putting them where the fit in, or is it something worse, and we have a president who loves the spotlight too much?
From: Candid Opinion
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Date Posted: 14:35:45 12/11/07 ()
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Kabs...
Well deserved, shekito should be shinning your shoes.. but woyang.....
Yours truly.
El Candido.
From: Reservation
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Date Posted: 16:20:48 12/11/07 ()
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congrat Kabs! you deserve it more than anyone. EBK could have made you minister of information and broadcasting. all the same one has to start from some where. who knows what lies ahead of you. wish you all the best.
From: Fen Plaba!
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Date Posted: 23:01:11 12/11/07 ()
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I salute you sir on your appointment. A more formal congrats when you make it official.
From: Kawusu
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Date Posted: 14:00:22 12/11/07 ()
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“Your equally legitimate question about whether or not a truly representative cabinet would promote national cohesion, and I agree, except that the APC under Siaka Stevens (you know how I feel about the old meh) and Joseph Momoh, attempted to create that very utopia you now advocate for so eloquently. What happened was that People like JB Dauda who rose to the position of Vice President under the APC, later came on national radio during the SLPP candidate debates and stated that he joined the APC only because he wanted to destroy it from within. Now you would agree with me that under the circumstances, the APC would have to be very careful about who it appoints from your side to achieve that parity that you espouse because many from your side cannot be entrusted with positions of authority because they later turn around and bite the hand that feeds them in order to achieve their selfish aims.
There should be a way though that your goals can be achieved and I agree with them for the most part. Do you have anyone who you may want to recommend? They have to be qualified, Sierra Leonean, not Necessarily members of the APC, but necessarily Nationalistic.
You have 24 hours to come up with a suitable person so that we can achieve this diversity we all think outta be.
Blessings!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! “ Alieu Iscandari
When I first read your interesting piece, I mistook you for one of Ernest Koroma’s top policy advisers. But on second thought I realized that this is Alieu Iscandari from the Western Area, an area that is even more underrepresented in the APC cabinet than the SouthEast. So you see Alieu you and I may have more in common than we have differences – both of our regions are underrepresented due to Northernization. I can only think of David Carew who is a true Western Area guy in this APC cabinet. The guy called Benjamin may even be from the SouthEast. Is this a system that you can be proud of???
“Your equally legitimate question about whether or not a truly representative cabinet would promote national cohesion, and I agree, except that the APC under Siaka Stevens (you know how I feel about the old meh) and Joseph Momoh, attempted to create that very utopia you now advocate for so eloquently.” Alieu.
God bless you, my brother.
From: Lanre
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Date Posted: 13:16:51 12/11/07 ()
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INSTEAD OF SPENDING HOURS DISCUSSING ABOUT THE BEST SECONDARY SCHOOLS, OR PROMOTING TRIBALISM IN OUR COUNTRY ETC., WHY DON'T WE DEBATE MORE RELEVANT ISSUES SUCH AS THE STATE OF OUR COUNTRY'S CURRENT HUMAN DEVELOPMENT INDEX RELEASED BY THE UNDP? I AM TRULY ASHAMED AND DEPRESSED AS A SIERRA LEONEAN TO YET AGAIN READ THIS REPORT PUTTING US AT THE BOTTOM OF GLOBAL HUMAN DEVELOPMENT. AND IT IS TRUE, WE ARE REALLY POOR AND FAR BEHIND - IF IN DOUBT VISIT TOWN AND SEE FOR YOURSELF - NOTHING WORKS, WE AS A PEOPLE HAD COLLECTIVELY DEGRADED OUR OWN COUNTRY THROUGH GREED AND SELFISHNESS - IN EFFECT, WE ARE OUR OWN ENEMY. WE SHOULD NOT FOOL OURSELVES, THERE IS NO SILVER LINING - IT WILL TAKE ABOUT A CENTURY FOR SIERRA LEONE TO BECOME A VIABLE STATE AGAIN. FOR NOW IT IS A FAILED STATE AND WE SHOULD ACCEPT THAT REALITY. THE BEST WE CAN DO NOW IS TO MICROMANAGE WHAT REMAINS OF THE COUNTRY FOR PEOPLE TO CONTINUE SURVIVING. THERE IS SO MUCH TO BE DONE THAT A BEGINNING WILL BE TOUGH TO DEFINE, HOWEVER, I DO BELIEVE THAT WE CAN BEGIN WITH SOME BOLD STEPS. FOR SIERRA LEONEANS TO CONTINUE TO LIVE IN AREAS SUCH AS KROO BAY OR SUSAN'S BAY IS A VIOLATION OF THEIR BASIC HUMAN RIGHTS. THERE SHOULD BE NO EXCUSES WHATSOEVER, WHY KROO BAY SHOULD NOT BE CLOSED, DEMOLISED AND THE PEOPLE RELOCATED TO HIGHER GROUND. THE ASSOCIATION GROUNDS AT KING TOM CAN BE USED TO ERECT BASIC HOUSING FOR THESE PEOPLE (THERE IS NO NEED FOR SO-CALLED SPORT FIELDS WHEN PEOPLE SLEEP LIVE IN THIS FLOODED GARBAGE FILLED TERRAIN). IT SHOULD BE ONE OF THE PRIORITIES OF THIS GOVERNMENT TO CLOSE DOWN KROO AND SUSAN'S BAY WITHIN THE NEXT 2 YEARS.
AllAfrica.com - http://allafrica.com/stories/printable/200712101592.html
Another of Sunkari Conteh's children is sick. The last/ time one of her children was ill, it died.
"I pleaded with the doctor to wait while my husband gathered the money," she said. "The doctor refused.
From: Erica Adams
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Date Posted: 15:46:06 12/11/07 ()
Email Address: ericamonique82@hotmail.com
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It's a good thing they are reflecting on the schools and hopefully this will spark some interest in forming and supporting alumni associations to support these schools.
From: Theodora Godwin
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Date Posted: 17:43:52 12/11/07 ()
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Erica in response to your article were in you stated "It's a good thing they are reflecting on the schools and hopefully this will spark some interest in forming and supporting alumni associations to support these schools." I will tell you the truth from my own vantage point and experience; that only a few of these so-called "ALUMNI ASSOCIATION" which have been formed by some of these Old Girls and Boys, have generated meaningful contributions that they have collected in fund raisers of one form or another to their ALMAMATER. We talk a lot about CORRUPTION IN SIERRA LEONE, you will be glad to know that it is not only our Ministers and Government officials who are CORRUPT, but our very PEERS, who are elected as TREASURERS for these organization, even the OLD GIRLS AND BOYS who are entrusted with TICKETS, serving as USHERS TO COLLECT AND SELL TICKETS at the entrances when events are being organized steal the very funds they are being entrusted with all in the game of FUND RAISING for their OLD SCHOOLS. In 1995 HARFORD SECONDARY SCHOOL OLD GIRLS ASSOCIATION, WASHINGTON D.C. BRANCH CELEBRATED THEIR 100 YEARS JUBILEE, all old girls were charged $100.00 (One Hundred Dollars) each, as our contribution towards this august celebration.(There are over 100 old girls around the Washington D.C. Area alone)not to mention those who came from other States to attend. Entrance fees were collected for the dance that was jammed packed. Donation for food and drinks were also requested and were generously provided. To date,not a single financial report has been shared with the old girls as to how much money was raised, how the funds were utilized, what change was left to be saved in the ALUMNI ACCOUNT. I have been told of other incidents in other schools where the ticket money was pocketed and tickets claimed to be stolen. If we cannot control our reckless want and use of money in these simple instances, can you imagine how much pilfering we will be engaged in when we are put in a position of TRUST. SOME OF US ARE USING THESE SCHOOLS TO OUR BENEFIT AND NOT TO THE BENEFIT OF THOSE WHO ARE MEANT TO BE ASSISTED.
From: KKW
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Date Posted: 14:02:12 12/11/07 ()
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It is bad etiquette to post in all caps. And what is a serious issue to one may not be a serious issue to another.
From: Wiri Wiri
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Date Posted: 14:28:38 12/11/07 ()
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I am not sure where to find this so-called rule of not posting in CAPS, worst of all "it is a bad etiquette?". Who says? S/L people can make a big deal out of nothing, gosh!. Respond to the essence contained in the forumite's posting and do not dwell on unimportant and non-existing rules about how not to write.
From: Mother's tongue
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Date Posted: 16:05:19 12/11/07 ()
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Thanks my brother Wiri: I thought this was an open and democractic forum for people to express their different shades of opinion. KKW are the types of people we labelled as anti-progress. The minimum he/she could have done was to ignore the posting rather than to "attack" the use of caps as bad etiquette...He has just demonstrated his miniature mindedness by failing to see the issues beyond "CAPS"
From: babbob
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Date Posted: 20:20:17 12/11/07 ()
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When one comes to the net to discuss issues, that person should study the rules. Google and find Netiquette and you may come across the rules.
From: Bonthe Pikin
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Date Posted: 11:09:03 12/11/07 ()
Email Address: bontilaynga@gmail.com
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Centennial Secondary School in Mattru Jong is the best school in Sierra Leone. Oh ya dunyei! Centennial, pro deo et patria (For God and Country)
From: Fen Plaba!
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Date Posted: 11:39:38 12/11/07 ()
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Tehehehehehehehe...Hehehehehehe...Hahhahahahaha!
Let me catch my breath O. Teehehehehehe!
ROMBLMSO (Rolling on my backside, laughing my sides out).
Thanks Bonthe Pikin for making me cry with laughter.
From: Candid Opinion
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Date Posted: 13:19:44 12/11/07 ()
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Lora Dove..?
From: Mohamed A. Kamara
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Date Posted: 15:29:31 12/11/07 ()
Email Address: Saghinosoccerworld@yahoo.com
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You don forget drum fordom...........Rokel.
From: Ronaldino
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Date Posted: 13:33:31 12/11/07 ()
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Roosevelt number one for belleh!
From: Mohamed A. Kamara
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Date Posted: 15:25:08 12/11/07 ()
Email Address: Saghinosoccerworld@yahoo.com
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Me man oosai you day lef Bode hos school "Richard Allen". Way you see doctar opin pull belleh clinic nar the same street.
From: Ibrahim Turay
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Date Posted: 14:14:42 12/11/07 ()
Email Address: imtu71@hotmail.com
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Hahahahahahahhahahhahahahahaha :) that was hilarious!!! Oh boy, you just made me crack some serious laughter which I hadn't done for quite sometime. You are one funny guy.
From: Alieu Oil
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Date Posted: 11:03:17 12/11/07 ()
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Loggy and FARRAH MARRAH what is you take on this statement made by Independent:
The Prostitution rate has increased Three FOLDS since they came to freetown.
From: fact
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Date Posted: 15:36:51 12/11/07 ()
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Not true. Most temne women in freetown are petty traders. go to the markets and see.
From: KING LOGGY
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Date Posted: 12:02:42 12/11/07 ()
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I'm not perfect, that I know.
I also know I have stepped over lots of dead bodies over the years on this and other fora. If yours is one of them, then I feel your pain.
From: Mohamed A. Kamara
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Date Posted: 12:34:13 12/11/07 ()
Email Address: Saghinosoccerworld@yahoo.com
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Well what do i know. Thanks for the advice Maskita. I thought I heard somewhere that you have disappeared into the wilderness. Since that's not the case, I will be watching over my shoulders from now on.
From: KING LOGGY
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Date Posted: 15:54:40 12/11/07 ()
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Orkama tay mine or yankamadi! Da fee ratha ka eh yankra yong yem sompa kor. Kafiri!
From: Mohamed A. Kamara
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Date Posted: 11:44:38 12/11/07 ()
Email Address: Saghinosoccerworld@yahoo.com
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I feel your pain brother. Even though you got weaned off your dry spell; you are now angry, because you had to spend so much money in the process. My temne sisters are smart business women. They know where the flesh business is booming, with all the benjamins and quids flowing from JCs like you, who will work two or three jobs and save that hard earned cash; just to fly to freetown and get laid, since wifey or your girlfriend in the diapora has been closing her legs period. You are back in babylon, with the overwhelming bills you met at the door, struggling to pay them on time. Oh well, because of financial constraints you couldn't make it to freetown this christmas. Don't let it get you down my brother. There is easter ladida time coming up. By then the percentage of temne koros in freetown will be 100%. Just make sure you use condoms this time. So that you won't have to be sedated when you want to take a leak.
From: M. Alieu Iscandari Esq
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Date Posted: 13:36:50 12/11/07 ()
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Just make sure you use condoms this time. So that you won't have to be sedated when you want to take a leak.
THIS IS SOOOO FUNNY
From: Candid Opinion
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Date Posted: 13:17:39 12/11/07 ()
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Bo...
Nor put we all nar tha category..
Mesef been wan go christmas.. but cant afford it..
Will try to make it easter..
From: Fen Plaba!
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Date Posted: 11:51:14 12/11/07 ()
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Ouch!
Mohamed, you nar bad man! U finish am gbata gbata!
From: Watasai Stone
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Date Posted: 17:26:59 12/11/07 ()
Email Address: laj201@aol.com
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It is spelled kpata kpata. Temne people dont even know how to speak Krio. Prime example is Fen Plaba. gbata gbata??? lmao
YU DON KILL ME!!!
From: Anthony Sisay
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Date Posted: 10:18:33 12/11/07 ()
Email Address: anthonysisay@yahoo.com
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I am not sure whether this guy will be sitting on a New Guineas World Record with realizing it. It is exploitation to the highest degree. But who has been exploiting him?
From: chairman himself
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Date Posted: 13:48:57 12/11/07 ()
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Please everyone involve in racist discussions. Turn down the redrick. It is not necessary.
From: Anthony Sisay
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Date Posted: 16:56:28 12/11/07 ()
Email Address: anthonysisay@yahoo.com
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Chairman,
I am not sure how the "longest name ever" can be a racist comment. From that name I cannot even tell the tribe of the person, because anybody can be called anything in this present day Sierra Leone.
From: Almamy Razak Tun Seray-Wurie Si
To: All
Date Posted: 12:32:01 12/11/07 ()
Email Address: almamysi@hotmail.com
Entered From: 24hr03.osr.columbia.edu at 156.111.18.112
Long Names or Short Names, Does one worry about others name instead of worrying about your name.
Anthony, I do not think you should rate my level of confidence before yours...Remember that their is a corelation between "Pulling Others Down" and One' self-esteem which is the rock of one's confidence. The issue at hand was rating schools not rating one's name...
I was thinking like you, I would ask why?
Your Sisay is not spelled the most common way but I knew a Sierra Leone Sisay far back in 1975. Also, since your name sounds 'Kontri' I would have asked for your contri names...(Just Kidding)..
Please when you come to this forum, do not just post words before thinking about what you want to write. You do not have to gain popularity here..
In Islam, one has rights to your father's name, Grandpa's name, Clan's name, and sometimes your village's name. Okay?
For example, the Muslim Prophet Muhammad (Peace Be On him) had many names: Muhammad Ibn Abdullah Ibn Abdul Mutallib Banu Hashim-Quraish, Muhammad Al-Amin, Muhammad Mustapha, Muhammad Ahmad, etc etc..
From: Anthony Sisay
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Date Posted: 17:07:44 12/11/07 ()
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I was just joking Wurie-Si,
From: Almamy Razak Tun Seray-Wurie Si
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Date Posted: 19:11:10 12/11/07 ()
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In short, your comment was not positive. By the way, there are famous men with long names you can subscribe, leave mine alone:
*Seri Paduka Baginda Haji Bolkail Hassanol Wadaullah of Brunei
* Captain(rtd) Valentine Essegrabo Melvin Strasser
* General (rtd) Alhaji Dr Yayah Abdul Aziz Junkun Jamous Jammeh
From: Anthony Sisay
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Date Posted: 10:16:20 12/12/07 ()
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Thank you for the enlightenment. You just proved that there are longer names than yours.
From: REAL TUNIS
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Date Posted: 10:28:29 12/11/07 ()
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THOSE NAMES MAKES HIM FEEL GOOD ABOUT HIMSELF, IF YOU ASK ME IT IS CALL INFERIORITY COMPLEX
From: Anthony Sisay
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Date Posted: 10:31:30 12/11/07 ()
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Let's coin a new one for him Arts Wurie-Si.
From: SAM
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Date Posted: 10:26:30 12/11/07 ()
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THOSE NAMES MAKE HIM FEEL GOOD ABOUT HIMSELF. INFERIORITY COMPLEX IF YOU ASK ME.
From: Almamy Razak Tun Seray-Wurie Si
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Date Posted: 12:37:51 12/11/07 ()
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Tity,
Haven't you noticed that Kabs now shows your computer's I.
I see pxy.vnsny.org for your two postings...Please respect people even though your were not taught how in the past. You used my I.D. once to tarnish my image and have not give up since..I will send your details to Senegal for some spiritual help. I will ask some muslim elders who pray everyday like saints to help you become a civilized/good person...
From: SAM
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Date Posted: 14:46:39 12/11/07 ()
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I GOT YOUR THREATEN PHONE MESSAGE AND DO YOU KNOW IT IS ILLEGAL TO DO THAT IN USA. I AM GOING TO TELL YOU AGAIN, YOU NEED PSCHY HELP...PLEASE GET SOME. I THINK YOU SHOULD GO TO SENEGAL SO YOU CAN BECOME A REAL MAN.I TARNISH PEOPLE NAME? HAVE FORGOTTEN WHAT YOU DID TO YOUR BROTHER NAME WHEN HE WAS SICK. PLEASE REFRAIN FROM THROWING STONES WHEN YOU LIVE IN GLASS HOUSE. ALL MAN SABI YOU FOR CONGOSSA AND YOU WOMAN LIKE BEHAVIOR. DONOT EVEN GO THERE!!!!!!!!!!!!!
From: MI JAMSII NAR LONDON DI MUNKU
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Date Posted: 16:51:24 12/11/07 ()
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All is Well that ends well
From: Londoner
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Date Posted: 10:18:01 12/11/07 ()
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Moderator,
What's your take on Pedrdacintra's postings titled 'Research findings on the Mendes and Temnes'?
From: Chez Winakabs Europe
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Date Posted: 06:06:30 12/11/07 ()
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Not long before our nation launched the invasion of Iraq, our longest-serving Senator, Robert Byrd of West Virginia, stood on the Senate floor and said: "This chamber is, for the most part, silent—ominously, dreadfully silent. There is no debate, no discussion, no attempt to lay out for the nation the pros and cons of this particular war. There is nothing. We stand passively mute in the United States Senate."
From: Ronaldino
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Date Posted: 02:34:23 12/11/07 ()
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Prince fo Wales.
No other school has got three A's at A Level science in the Old GCE A Levels.
From: Fen Plaba!
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Date Posted: 12:00:28 12/11/07 ()
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P.O...Best school in Salone? Astafulie Seven Tem!
I am kinda fond of the school though. my aunt, Mammy Sesay taught Math there for years and many cousins of mine excelled there (grudging respect).
From: Mohamed A. Kamara
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Date Posted: 10:32:23 12/11/07 ()
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You are right on point Brother. Small world indeed. I didn't know that you are a fellow santem ghost, until i read your post. You forgot to tell "fact" the hater, that we will be having the first solar powered computer center in the country, come february '08.
From: fact
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Date Posted: 03:15:51 12/11/07 ()
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p.o. is getting those grades becos students from other schools go there to do sixth form science.
From: Ibrahim Turay
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Date Posted: 14:20:45 12/11/07 ()
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Exactly!!! You've just hit the point. What about St. Edward's? Where would you rank us? Any news from Sir Rob the fromal pricipal?( Hey you look!!!) common expression of his :)
From: Wiri Wiri
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Date Posted: 14:41:30 12/11/07 ()
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St. Edwards?
Well John Mannah is from that School and he has a PhD that the whole world knows about. So there goes your rating.........just kidding.
From: Ibrahim Turay
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Date Posted: 14:19:56 12/11/07 ()
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Exactly!!! You've just hit the point. What about St. Edward's? Where would you rank us? Any news from Sir Rob ( Hey you look!!!) common expression of his :)
From: Mohamed A. Kamara
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Date Posted: 10:22:05 12/11/07 ()
Email Address: Saghinosoccerworld@yahoo.com
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Sire, what Ronaldino claimed is a traditoin, not a fluke. And the majority of the sixth-form student body is always made up of pupils from the lower forms. Students from other schools wanting to attend there, says a lot about that prestigious alma mater of ours. FORWARD EVER. BACKWARDS NEVER.
From: Pedrodacintra
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Date Posted: 02:17:45 12/11/07 ()
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a-Mendes can do anything to attain power-even kill.It was rumoured that Sir Albert engineered the death of Sir Milton so as to assume power and stop his overtures to the northerners.
From: nyanda diamoh
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Date Posted: 08:05:52 12/11/07 ()
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can you cite your source please?
From: nyanda diamoh
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Date Posted: 08:05:03 12/11/07 ()
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can you site your source please?
From: Kamara
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Date Posted: 06:34:37 12/11/07 ()
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You free to present you research and Sierra Leones must be able to accept criticism. Some of the generalizations you make are true despite how offensive they sound. As a person from a multi tribal background I saw them daily.
From: Pedrodacintra
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Date Posted: 07:14:07 12/11/07 ()
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Thankx Orkama. You are the only one who have done the wisest thing so far.All the others who read the first part allowed their emotions to control them especially the mende boys.They have lost the benefit of the posting.
From: Koboko
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Date Posted: 08:07:18 12/11/07 ()
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the eating of human beings cannot be only associated to mendes. infact this barbaric act was introduced to the south-east by liberians. when i was growing-up, i can still remember our parents telling us to be aware of people with liberian accent during christmas. with the emergence of the civil war, i can categorically say that most tribes, including temenes were guilty of canibalism. most of the sacrifices done by most secret societies involves the killing and eating of human beings.
From: larrylum
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Date Posted: 08:16:47 12/11/07 ()
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like exhuming dead bodies in mile 91 for ritual purposes. the temnes are fond of that.a friend of mine says that he had to guard his dead mum's grave for two weeks for fear of her body to be exhumed by these ritualists.
From: Independent
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Date Posted: 08:21:54 12/11/07 ()
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Tell all Temmnes to GO BACK HOME.. The War is OVER.
The Prostitution rate has increased Three FOLDS since they came to freetown.
From: Watasai Stone
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Date Posted: 17:09:11 12/11/07 ()
Email Address: laj201@aol.com
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Nar tru yu tok mi broda. Leh god bless yu ya!!!
From: owners
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Date Posted: 16:01:53 12/11/07 ()
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Who are the owners of Freetown? go to your history books.
From: owners
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You are the owners of Freetown? go to your history books.
From: Watasai Stone
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Date Posted: 17:39:26 12/11/07 ()
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The Krios are. Your stupid Temne cheif sold it without knowing how to read or write, he just took the money. FOOL
From: Bambay Lans Kamara
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Date Posted: 23:09:29 12/10/07 ()
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uTJGWYk4Kyo
From: Bambay Lans Kamara
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Date Posted: 22:51:30 12/10/07 ()
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZGXNUPVZ5ag&feature=related
From: Fen Plaba!
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Date Posted: 22:32:32 12/10/07 ()
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1) BO SCHOOL!!!
From: Mohamed A. Kamara
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Date Posted: 11:00:25 12/11/07 ()
Email Address: Saghinosoccerworld@yahoo.com
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Fen plaba you go nar dee right church, but you sidom nar dee wrong pew. For sure, that prestigious alma mater of ours, THE PRINCE OF WALES SCHOOL, has always been among the best, IF SOME FOLKS DO NOT CONSIDER IT AS THE BEST. The student body turning out an overall outstanding performance year after year is a tradition. They are not being taught to do otherwise. Oh come february '08 the school's solar powered computer center will be in operation. Will be the first in the nation. We continue to set the pace. Like the true Princewalean motto says FORWARD EVER. BACKWARDS NEVER. We still day nar Kaytee bra.
From: Fen Plaba!
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Date Posted: 11:20:05 12/11/07 ()
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"Oh come february '08 the school's solar powered computer center will be in operation. Will be the first in the nation. We continue to set the pace".
Mohamed, I'm also waiting for the Solar thingy. However, I will be watching, eagle-eyed, to see if there are any 'underground' cables leading from the Kingtom Power Station to the P.O computer station. Unu take tem o....
From: Mohamed A. Kamara
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Date Posted: 11:56:19 12/11/07 ()
Email Address: Saghinosoccerworld@yahoo.com
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That was a good one. You got me rolling. Considering the condition that power station is in, if the solar system draws juice from there, nar blackout freetown go lef pan.
From: Almamy Razak Tun Seray-Wurie Si
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Date Posted: 06:58:53 12/11/07 ()
Email Address: almamysi@hotmail.com
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A GOOD SCHOOL:
* Teacher Qualities
* Curriculum
*Resources
*Facilities
*Funding
*Achievements
*Graduation Rates/Low drop-out rates
*College/Further Training Attendance i.e. students getting into tetiary education
From: Fen Plaba!
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Date Posted: 11:29:32 12/11/07 ()
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Alimamy, take a chill pill bro. We are just kidding around, trying to add a little levity to the forum, a'ight?
Okay, I guess you are a little miffed that we didn't put your alma mater to the list. I'm sorry about that. So here is a correction....ahem..
From: Mohamed A. Kamara
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Date Posted: 12:10:46 12/11/07 ()
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Fen Plaba man oh man, you are neck deep in trouble. You rubbed a calming balm on Alimamy's bruised ego at the expense of POW school. This calls for legal recourse. Man you are going to feel wascalleh (Iscandari) and Maurice Garber's wrath. Just a couple of the school's legal eagles. Boys you need Bathan Macauley for dis wan.
From: WASCALLEH
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Date Posted: 14:08:15 12/11/07 ()
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FEN PLABA NAR "OMOR KAYKAYRAY" LEF DAT GEE DAT
From: Bai Bureh
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Date Posted: 01:21:37 12/11/07 ()
Email Address: rastafari_ish@hotmail.com
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Top ten by whose standards?
From: Fen Plaba!
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Date Posted: 04:42:18 12/11/07 ()
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By all standards, koth engineer, by all standards known to man. Bai Bureh, nor bring technical bizness nar ya so O, we jis dae try for labo with small bragging rights. Anyways Manners Maketh Man!
By the way, Candido, did you go to that peggy school in Bo called C.K.C.?
From: Mensa
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Date Posted: 07:12:40 12/11/07 ()
Email Address: unikad5@yahoo.com
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Wait-o! Nor to blunder me man don blunder so-eh? Me man, you nor faint? Fen Plaba dae call you Candido! So, according to Fen Plaba, the porsin wae dae use the log-in name "Bai Burah" nar de same porsin dae use "Candid Opinion"! Oh I see! Well, we sef go begin metamorphosize! This woll, we get for learn from others!!!
From: Fen Plaba!
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Date Posted: 11:10:37 12/11/07 ()
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Mensa, ar nor blunder at all. I just happened to throw out a shout-out to Candido in the middle of a response to the Sparrow himself, the fearless persecutor of SLPPers, the one and only Bai Bureh! Hence the confusion.
Bai Bureh and Candid Opinion are both my paddies. They come from different sides of the field but are both powerful polemicists.
Cheers.
From: Bai Bureh
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Date Posted: 07:20:32 12/11/07 ()
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Nor to so ee be oh! Bai Bureh na Bai Bureh, typical temne man while Candido nar sherbro mende.
From: Candid Opinion
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Date Posted: 13:11:39 12/11/07 ()
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Possing nor for relax small en enkoy im mampama.. ??
ose wan this..?
Me en BB join nah nabel..?? Aye bo...Shylock hommie Mensa u sef..?
St Edwards during the morning.. 9-11AM a brief stop at white house.. then Convent SJSS till 1:30PM..
I was a true living, breathing conwardstonian in my days.
From: Candid Opinion
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Date Posted: 14:44:06 12/11/07 ()
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Once in a while..
We had our own clique.. and white house served our purpose.. plus it was right next to beringron fence.. so man des dey jomp en beatam behen mormeh when we here, Prefect!!!!...
From: Ibrahim Turay
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Date Posted: 14:26:24 12/11/07 ()
Email Address: imtu71@hotmail.com
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YOu nor reach Papsam?
From: Mohamed A. Kamara
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Date Posted: 16:08:39 12/11/07 ()
Email Address: Saghinosoccerworld@yahoo.com
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IB nar man you call so. Papsam dee bra for all Princewaleans including Edwardians. Lunch time man day swim nar pole (back of police barracks). Someman kin hide you uniform if you nor gee anybody for ole. Most times man den day raid White House sosoliso or mammy Ashwood een joint for braid. Oosai man den don kill nuff maskita, nar een nar angry. From day man get for go see the steady nar FSSG (en send message for een juvy mate nar dee boader). Dee sidebite dem know den schedule wit man bobs. Well man for don arrange the weekend schedule for avoid unnecessary traffic jam donton satiday. The good old days for sure.
From: Mensa
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Date Posted: 07:28:51 12/11/07 ()
Email Address: unikad5@yahoo.com
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Yes me man! Ar send da Islamic stuff nar you e-mail. Me man da tin dae ee very touching. Make sure say you distribute am to interested parties. Ar sure say man dem go be touched as well!
From: Bai Bureh
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Date Posted: 08:51:59 12/11/07 ()
Email Address: rastafari_ish@hotmail.com
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Man teki for da tin day. Ar don sen am to more than 10 porsin dem en dem all appreciate.
From: Ishmael Yillah
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Date Posted: 23:50:25 12/10/07 ()
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Fen plaba, you must have left kazillion years ago. Still enjoy your postings though!!!!!!!!!!!!!1
From: Bambay Lans Kamara
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Date Posted: 23:20:17 12/10/07 ()
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What statistical determinants did you take into consideration in coming to this conclusion? In order words, what makes a school a good school?
From: Idriss Koroma
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Date Posted: 23:58:30 12/10/07 ()
Email Address: risssu1703@hotmail.co.uk
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The Grammar school is the best school in sierra leone.
Followed by The Bo school.
Then Lebanese School
P O W
C K C
Annie Walsh
St. Joseph's(Brookfields)
Methodist Girls High school
Albert Academy
St. Edward's
From: Lameeh Gblaah
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Date Posted: 13:46:31 12/11/07 ()
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Bo una listen, ar nor wan for tork !! Way dem de cont peppeh nor cont jakato. The Grammar school is far above de rest . Bo school nar upline boomber. So huse wan nar fenplaba yone pan crack shoose.Nar St Francis , CKC, en Bo school dem dae nar the same boat!!
From: Santiki Bancura
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Date Posted: 18:20:36 12/11/07 ()
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I tink says Cramma Sucool is de numbas one Sekondri sukool in de whole-whole Sarraleone. Ar bin ko dae for fife ears and I bin does well well in the EE CEE EE eksams. Lamin Gblaah, Am gladdy for wenting to the same sukool as you. I tink Mr. Fen Plaba is yos yelous of our crate, crate Cramma Sukool. Cod Bless and dont men the ilatirates from them other sukools.
Sinsarity me and me,
Santiki,
The crammarist of Murray ton.
From: Mohamed A. Kamara
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Date Posted: 15:40:02 12/11/07 ()
Email Address: Saghinosoccerworld@yahoo.com
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Regentonians den day nar dis forum? Oona nor yeri say den pawn the school to Radwan Bahsoon. Now nar Lebanese nar dee main course of study. Next tin you know, den ton am to warehouse. Wallai thalai ar feel bad for oonar.
From: Bambay Lans Kamara
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Date Posted: 23:19:35 12/10/07 ()
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What statistical determinants did you take into consideration in coming to this conclusion? In order words, what makes a school a good school?
From: Patriotic
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Date Posted: 22:31:36 12/10/07 ()
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The Patriotic Vanguard, Sierra Leone News Portal|
Kabs-Kanu is Director of Communications
- Tuesday 11 December 2007.
From: cruel
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Date Posted: 01:49:52 12/11/07 ()
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Na lie da wan dae.There is no such position, unless one could be created now to appease the Rev.This reduandant position will mean nothing, but to work under a rthief like Mohamed Koroma????/I think let Rev stay where he is, and wait for a better and dignified job
From: Bambay Lans Kamara
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Date Posted: 22:14:53 12/10/07 ()
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OcWspfgk9c8
From: Bambay Lans Kamara
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Date Posted: 22:07:12 12/10/07 ()
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Svns8BMSIhU&feature=related
From: Julia Bona
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Date Posted: 21:17:36 12/10/07 ()
Email Address: JuliaBe@hotmail.com
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Though Agnes Kulu Banya son in law Tyrone Jamison and daughter Andrea are getting a divorce, let our prayers be with them.. Hopefully these two young people can go on with there lives and be happy... The Banya family are good people, and I'm sorry Agnes daughter's marriage did not work out.
From: Julia Bona
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Date Posted: 21:21:54 12/10/07 ()
Email Address: JuliaBe@hotmail.com
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P.S. Let's us also pray fo MAMA KUMBA, we hope you are doing better, from my family to yours...
From: Davida Bona
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Date Posted: 05:47:31 12/11/07 ()
Email Address: avida@msn.com
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I also pray for the Banya family, ,along with my sister.. Agnes Kulu Banya's son in law Tyrone Jamison and her daughter both have promising carreers, the son in law at the department of homeland security and the daughter at UNDMJ.. May God be with them... I wish much success in there carreers and there lives...
From: Frank Bona
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Date Posted: 18:49:29 12/11/07 ()
Email Address: Frankyfresh@yahoo.com
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You have a good family, though things did not workout for your daughter's marriage, life goes on, and will continue too, I wish your daughter and son in law the best,,
From: Fen Plaba!
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Date Posted: 19:23:42 12/10/07 ()
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Our obsession with who and what tribe or region gets a cabinet post or top job is really degrading and takes away from the big picture. We forget that throughout our history, big men with big jobs have come from our individual tribes with no tangible benefit for his kinsmen. Our people still remain broke, economically hopeless and without prospects.
From: Bambay Lans Kamara
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Date Posted: 21:41:58 12/10/07 ()
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FREE SPEECH, he also stated that: "A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin.
H. L. Mencken
US editor (1880 - 1956" Smile.
From: FREE SPEECH
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Date Posted: 20:15:06 12/10/07 ()
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A professional politician is a professionally dishonorable man. In order to get anywhere near high office he has to make so many compromises and submit to so many humiliations that he becomes indistinguishable from a streetwalker. - H.L. Mencken
From: Kawusu
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Date Posted: 20:11:04 12/10/07 ()
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Interesting post.
From: M. Alieu Iscandari Esq
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Date Posted: 01:02:34 12/11/07 ()
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There has to be DIVERSITY in the distribution of cabinet jobs or jobs in general in a multiethnic society. Didn't the APC contest all the parliamentary seats in the country??? Why should't the country's cabinet then be representative of that effort??? Wouldn't a truly representative cabinet promote national cohesion??? Remember, politics and governement are all about REPRESENTATION
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I will attempt to answer some of the very credible questions that you have raised. For starters I agree with you that there must be diversity in the distribution of cabinet jobs in a multi ethnic society such as ours. I take it that you do not necessarily mean that there should be some sort of a "QUOTA" system, because if that is what you are insinuating then I am opposed to it. I further assume that you do believe that whomever os appointed a cabinet minister must merit the appointment regardless of what his tribe is. I further take it that you are definitely not advocating that the president appoint members of the SLPP, who are predominantly south easterners just to meet that perceived DIVERSITY standard? Or are you?
From: kamara
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Date Posted: 11:57:16 12/11/07 ()
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Were SLPP candidates really given the free reign to campaign in bombali ,Kambia and port loko ditricts? or were their lives threathened when they dared step foot in APC strongholds.
From: M. Alieu Iscandari esq
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Date Posted: 13:55:04 12/11/07 ()
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Krios were anti SLPP as the Slpp native intelectuals destroyed the myth that the Krios were the only professionals and the intellectuals in Sierra leone. SlPP put forth native professionals as Karefa Smart, Milton & Albert Margai.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lamina_Sankoh
http://www.sierra-leone.org/heroes8.html
From: Kamara
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Date Posted: 15:10:34 12/11/07 ()
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look , You just proved my point , SLPP has a more diverse tribal backing than APC. They were more inclusive than a democratic APC has been . They had other notable Krios as Gideon Thomas and RGO King. The Krios became anti SLPp in the mid sixties . a la Nancy Steele.
From: M. Alieu Iscandari Esq
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Date Posted: 01:43:45 12/12/07 ()
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The Krios became anti SLPp in the mid sixties . a la Nancy Steele.
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Some "krios became anti - SLPP and do you know why? There are still many krios and aku krios who are part and parcel of the SLPP party and indeed some of my very own relatives are included. But many krios became disillusioned with the SLPP because of Mende tribalism towards them. Go check the records then come back and talk to me about what you just read. Siaka Stevens was a much more charismatic leader than Albert Margai., and he had many more connections amongst ordinary krios whereas Albert could count amongst his friends the creme d la creme of krio society.
From: Kamara
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Date Posted: 05:54:56 12/12/07 ()
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You are right that Albert did have the creme of Creme of Krios and Siaki was a much more charismatic leader than not only Albert but most of our leaders. Many Krios felt tribalism at the time as SLPp tried to break down the krio stranglehold of the civil service by bringing in non krios. The same way whites feel when affirmative action is applied. Please do not view ny statement as anti Krio. My father was a northerner who learnt his professional under eloquent and outstanding krio professionals. He was taken under their wings until his carreer blossomed.For that I am greatful and have an admiration for Krios.
From: M. Alieu Iscandari Esq
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Date Posted: 10:02:31 12/12/07 ()
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The accusation of tribalism against Ernest Koroma is unfounded and unfair. What is see, and that is why I do not get involved in these debates much, even though someone I call a brother (Bra E) appears to be the proponent of these accusations, is that there is a lot of sour grapes going on here.
From: Kamara
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Date Posted: 12:08:28 12/12/07 ()
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You are right the president has the prerogative to hire whom he wants, he has appointed some formidable people based on their credentials. I can not prove that his appointments were based on blatant tribal sentiments but the make up of the cabinet leaves the perception of tribal based appointments. This is indeed unfair and sad.
From: M. Alieu Iscandari Esq
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Date Posted: 13:20:33 12/12/07 ()
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I agree with you that teh countrys cabinet MUST be representative of the whole country, I disagree that there should be some sort of a quota system where the President should be mandated to appoint so many people from the South East or any at all. the mandate is that he appoint competent people who would carry out his mandate and that is fair enough.
From: Bambay Lans Kamara
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Date Posted: 22:26:14 12/10/07 ()
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I owe you all an apology for posting instead of lining-up in the thread. I had read the postings and wanted to respond to, particularly Fen Plaba! then I received a call from one cannot ignore so I just went ahead and posted.
It was an honest mistake.
From: Bambay Lans Kamara
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Date Posted: 17:56:43 12/10/07 ()
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Stop Press Hosts a Relaxed President
From: SGK
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Date Posted: 17:52:40 12/10/07 ()
Email Address: sheku-kamara@hotmail.co.uk
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DAVID GRAY
From: Bambay Lans Kamara
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Date Posted: 17:49:56 12/10/07 ()
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The replica of the Schooner called AMISTAD sailed into Freetown today. The Amistad was a slave ship that used to transport slaves from West Africa to the Americas . Between 1839-1842 , the ship entered the history book infamously when the Sierra Leonean slaves onboard revolted off the coast of Cuba .The ship inadvertently and fatefully strayed to the United States , where the Sierra Leonean slaves , led by a Mende strong man, Sengbe Pieh, set off a dramatic legal battle that in turn triggered political and popular resentment against the Slave trade , ultimately leading to their freedom and return to their motherland. The ship is engaged in what has been described as Atlantic Freedom Tour.
Read more in the link bellow:
From: Bambay Lans Kamara
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Date Posted: 17:06:13 12/10/07 ()
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1.) A young boy asks his dad, "What is the difference between confident
and confidential?" Dad says, "You are my son. I'm confident about
that. Your friend over there is also my son. That is confidential! "
these kids yours?" The man replies sarcastically, "No, I work in a condom
factory and these are customers' complaints."
sister said she had missed one, and my mom fainted, dad had a heart
attack, & our neighbour ran away.
is when wife is pregnant. Tension is when girlfriend is pregnant. Panic
is when both are pregnant".
his friend and kills him. Wife says, "If you keep on behaving like this,
you'll lose ALL your friends o".
From: ONENESS
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Date Posted: 22:14:32 12/10/07 ()
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This is too funny!!! Great Bambay keep it up. (lol)
From: Fen Plaba!
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Date Posted: 04:53:58 12/11/07 ()
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Your most enjoyable postimg since you made me chill with 'Beatiful' by Jimmy B.
From: POLITICAL
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Date Posted: 16:51:57 12/10/07 ()
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Pedro, when you came to sierra leone and heard the roaring sound of the thunders up mount aureol, you hastily concluded that it was the roaring of lions on the mountains that caused that noise. It was wrong then.
How can we believe you now when you've misled history? Your research is not only bogus, but pettish.
From: KABS KANU
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Date Posted: 16:04:33 12/10/07 ()
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Max, you have to drop me a line at kabbskanu@aol.com ASAP because I have to make a decision on a matter ASAP and your input is required. Your phone goes straight to voice-mail and I may not be getting your e-mail address right because my letter bounced. Strange you have to be contacted this way, but this is urgent. Somebody please pass it on. Thanks.
From: Albert Moinina
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Date Posted: 15:17:01 12/10/07 ()
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SHALL WE ALL SAY "SHAME ON YOU PEDRO TRIBALIST". SHAME ON YOU TRIBALIST. ALL YOU CAN SHARE IS YOUR SHAMEFUL, EVIL, HATEFUL AND TRIBALIST INVENTIONS ABOUT MENDES.
From: M. Alieu Iscandari esq
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Date Posted: 13:39:00 12/10/07 ()
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Do not be ruled by lust; seek freedom by following the righteous. Mere claims of piety will not earn you inner freedom. Remain patient in adversity to attain peace, for adversity is the threshold to freedom. Those who cannot persevere are held back from the doors of Mercy.
-Sheikh Abdul Qadir Jillani
From: Anthony Sisay
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Date Posted: 23:44:58 12/10/07 ()
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"Mere claims of piety will not earn you inner freedom."
From: M. Alieu Iscandari Esq.
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Date Posted: 13:57:12 12/11/07 ()
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The post was not intended for you to fight it. Just absorb it and glean something useful from its being there.
From: Ms. Koroma
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Date Posted: 13:13:40 12/10/07 ()
Email Address: Kromas@gmail.com
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Recently there were many posts regarding citizens of Franklin Township. Though none of the people mentioned are perfect the post were with out merit or proof. It is a shame that someone is using the disagreement between individuals to fuel animosity. Listen Mayor and Mr. Kabs Kanu, if half of what was said regarding Victor Fakondo chairman of Bethel United African Church, SCAP board of Trustee member and Saint Peter’s University Hospital Employee were true, I doubt he would hold any of these positions. If what was written about Isaac Dorsey were true, he would not still be the director of the Somerset Community Action Program. If a third of the things written about Tyrone Jamison were true, he would not have been on the Rent Leveling board for Franklin township, nor served under Assemblyman Upendra Chivukula, nor still be employed as a deportation officer for the department of Homeland Security. The fact that Mr. Darryl Simpkins has a thriving law office is a testament to his honesty and good relations with the community. Ms. Agnes Kulu Banya is a school teacher and a board member for the Franklin Township Housing authority. Now all of these people have impressive academic credentials and have provided service to the Franklin Township New Jersey community for everyone regardless of ethnicity. These people may disagree with one another publicly and have stood there ground tenaciously; they have never been proven to have disrespected each other publicly, so why should we the citizens of this township entertain this rumor mongering and gossip. If anyone of these people were accused of something, then the proof should be submitted. Only an uneducated mind adopts the thoughts of others without creditable evidence to corroborate the allegation. I know that both the Mayor and Mr. Kabs Kanu editor of Cocorioko removed the horrendous posts regarding these individuals. People should have the right to write about the issues, but they should not be allowed to abuse any public forum to spread slander and lies. Nobody’s family is perfect, however many of these people profess to be Christian, if that is the case Jesus Christ said you would know his people by the love they have amongst them. For those who are Christian that is something that should be thought about. As a member of this township, a Sierra Leonean by birth, and a member of the Bride of Christ Global Ministries church, I think we should all praise God and think of Love and peace in this time of year.. I pray for all the people slandered and for the families of those people.
From: Messenger nor ba die na wah.
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Date Posted: 13:02:58 12/10/07 ()
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Is some level of scrutiny of the old NRA regime imminent ?? Also, has the timing been set to coincide with and impress the current JC audience rapidly building up in Freetown ??
From: Bai Bureh
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Date Posted: 12:12:26 12/10/07 ()
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Sierra Leone sets up forest park
The forest could have been destroyed in 10 years
Sierra Leone's president has launched a scheme to save part of an endangered rainforest, which campaigners say will help fight climate change.
People living near the Gola Forest, near the border with Liberia, are to be paid annually to compensate for the loss of royalties from logging firms.
Aid agencies, the European Commission and France are setting up a $12m (£6m) trust fund to pay for the park's running costs and to make annual payments to some 100,000 people.
From: KKW
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Date Posted: 12:35:18 12/10/07 ()
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Well done.
From: Anthony Sisay
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Date Posted: 11:16:05 12/10/07 ()
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You may need realplayer to play the link below:
From: nico
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Date Posted: 12:39:07 12/10/07 ()
Email Address: nicoleconsult@hotmail.com
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Mr Sesay:
From: Anthony Sisay
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Date Posted: 11:12:50 12/10/07 ()
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Enjoy good things from SL. I hope the links work fine this time.
From: Anthony Sisay
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Date Posted: 11:08:52 12/10/07 ()
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Enjoy something goog from Sierra Leone
From: Anthony Sisay
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Date Posted: 10:58:21 12/10/07 ()
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Sometimes we make mistakes and in the process hurt other loving and kind people unwittingly. So I would like to take this time off to say sorry to anyone I might have hurt on this forum as a direct result of my postings. I apologize. I love all Sierra Leoneans, black or white; thick or thin lipped; Temne or no Temne. I love your all. Even our new giant.
From: LABO LABO
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Date Posted: 20:47:47 12/10/07 ()
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BRA TONY, YOU NO SAY ME EN YOU JAM AID, BUT YOU NAR WE EN WE NAR YOU.ALIKE WAY YOU DEA SLPP WE DEA APC NO BAD BLOOD NAR RESPECT NOR MOR WE GEH FOR BILL SALEONE.
From: Anthony Sisay
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Date Posted: 23:14:10 12/10/07 ()
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Thanks, Labo Labo.
From: Mensa
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Date Posted: 07:43:23 12/11/07 ()
Email Address: unikad5@yahoo.com
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Well, Brother Antony Sisay, although you've not hurt me personally, I do accept your appology on behalf of those you must have hurt and, perhaps, for one reason or the other, just won't come out and say so.
From: Anthony Sisay
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Date Posted: 10:06:47 12/11/07 ()
Email Address: anthonysisay@yahoo.com
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Mensa,
From: Mensa
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Date Posted: 13:44:35 12/11/07 ()
Email Address: unikad5@yahoo.com
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Now I got your drift. And now I know how cool a person you are. Guilt, reflection, self-assessment, remorse, etc. give us back our humanity after we have temporary lost it in crazy moments. For you to come clean and apologise even with the cyber covenant of anonymity, then you must be a special person. Stay cool.....always!
From: Anthony Sisay
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Date Posted: 10:29:55 12/10/07 ()
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Sometimes we make mistakes and in the process hurt other loving and kind people unwittingly. So I would like to take this time off to say sorry to anyone I might have hurt on this forum as a direct result of my postings. I apologize. I love all Sierra Leoneans, black or white; thick or thin lipped; Temne or no Temne. I love your all. Even our new giant.
From: SGK
To: All
Date Posted: 12:21:00 12/10/07 ()
Email Address: sheku-kamara@hotmail.co.uk
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Mr.Sesay,
You are a true gentleman. Not everyone has the courage to make a public apology. To me you've got a good heart.
However, i would say i do like most of your controversial views though we are in the opposite ends of the political spectrum. This is what democracy is all about, discussing different views and try to learn from each other without insulting anyone. Of course nobody is "Mr know it all."
Please, feel free to debate issues here. Remember, the more the the merrier.
Finally, be always positive in all your endeavors as our Prince Of Wales motto says FORWARD EVER BACKWARD NEVER.
May the Almighty God bless you in all your tryings.
Stay focus and bless my brother.
From: Anthony Sisay
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Date Posted: 17:52:12 12/10/07 ()
Email Address: anthonysisay@yahoo.com
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Thanks, SGK, may our Almighty God bless you too.
From: M. Alieu Iscandari Esq
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Date Posted: 13:41:29 12/10/07 ()
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So we do share something together and thats that old school at Kingtom. Granville House is my House and RED is my color
From: SGK
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Date Posted: 14:09:52 12/10/07 ()
Email Address: sheku-kamara@hotmail.co.uk
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Yes Mr. Iscandari, i am always proud to be a Prince Walean from form one to form six.
By the way are you related to Mr. Abdul Muthalib Iscandari? I just love his middle name Muthalib. I wonder where he is now.
From: Mohamed A. Kamara
To: All
Date Posted: 11:16:08 12/11/07 ()
Email Address: Saghinosoccerworld@yahoo.com
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Wascalleh please tell Abdul that I said hi. I haven't seen him in ages. Since we graduated from the Prince Of Wales School and the Scout organization with George Remmie.
From: M. Alieu Iscandari Esq
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Date Posted: 18:04:02 12/10/07 ()
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My only true Sibling. Lives in Chicago and is doing big things there
From: Ronaldino
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Date Posted: 14:49:08 12/10/07 ()
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I need to apologize to Tony for being a bit to hard on him being left stranded by the Salone Govt when he won a scholarship abroad!
I know Abdul Muthalib Iscandari AKA to his mates as 'BONDO'. A lover of WOMEN. A fine gentleman.
From: SGK
To: All
Date Posted: 15:53:55 12/10/07 ()
Email Address: sheku-kamara@hotmail.co.uk
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Ronaldino,
The man has made an apology if and only if he hurts someone with his postings. That's very good of him to do.
Do you forgive people? I am not in this forum to fight fellow debaters or rather to hate people simply because their views are different from mine. I was not brought up that way.
I am not jealous of Tony having a Scholarship from the Sierra Leone Govt. That was his own luck. Thank God i have made way for my children and myself through my patience, hard-work and perseverance.
Besides, i don't personally know Mr Abdul Muthalib and i am not interested in people's private lives. Whether he is/was a womaniser that is his own business. I only like the Muthalib name because of the Arabic connection the name has due to my religion.
From: NRA
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Date Posted: 09:52:14 12/10/07 ()
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M S Bamba, present Commsissioner of customs & Excise, to be the new Commissioner General of NRA.He will take over the functions of Dr John Karimu.His candidature is endorsed by entire Executive of the Party.Congrats M S Bamba, and keep it up
From: Lameh Gblah
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Date Posted: 09:43:07 12/10/07 ()
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Friends and Foes,
Please let me tell you some of the audacious things that are happening in that sierra leone judiciary system. That system is the most corrupt in the whole of the Mano river region.You would not imargin that there are some cases that are in that system been going on for some four years now . The reason is because the rich are bulling the poor . Most of the cases are land cases. Just look into the case Of the Donald Macauley v The Estate of Carlton Taylor. The plaintiff took the defendents to court because they refused to renew a twenty years lease. and he realises that the defendants were poor and are unable to challenge him in court and as a result he tried to intimedate them by taking them to court in that they would renew the lease. Now the case had been going on for two and a half years.Mr Donald Macauley is trying to use his influence to win the case and leave these people in adverse poverty. Please I would like you to look into some of these cases and lets discuss about them.Every time the case is called upon its adjourned for three weeks , one month, etc , etc
From: Brabanxx
To: All
Date Posted: 09:40:02 12/10/07 ()
Email Address: brabanxx@aol.com
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Talking to some of my folks close to the money for the electrification of Freetown, it was disclosed that the landing rights for the equipments have been secured. However the generators will not be in Freetown until December 18, 2007. I doubt if a couple days will be enough to make all the hook-ups, test and supply this long awaited uninterupted power. Forumites what do you think?
From: FODAY MANSARAY
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Date Posted: 10:23:02 12/10/07 ()
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My source is telling me that they are embarking on two prom approach. The old generator which I believed is fully refurbished and the new generator plant which is going to installed in time for the holiday season.
From: Candid Opinion
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Date Posted: 10:59:56 12/10/07 ()
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Shior...........
We know it, they know it..
New machines will not come online till January..
He has staked his reputaion on this sliding date banking on that sly character, his main man.. O'Koro...
From: Sidimambay
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Date Posted: 12:10:06 12/10/07 ()
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my people, please don't take this as a joke because it is very serious. it is of utmost importance that we see light in freetown come December 20. any extentation of this date will be very dissapointing. i am going purposely to enjoy the lights for the december holidays. please Mr President, make it a point of duty that you don't let us down on 20 December. most people are going to judge the tenure of your presidency on this date.
From: MUSA KALAWA
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Date Posted: 16:05:36 12/10/07 ()
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It shouldn't be a must...!!
In anything, there is always a grace period as we may say. or a margin of error + or - .
As long as there is fruitful effort towards the government side. I belive it will be done.....LONTA
From: Mohamed A. Kamara
To: All
Date Posted: 19:24:20 12/11/07 ()
Email Address: Saghinosoccerworld@yahoo.com
Entered From: ool-44c6af1f.dyn.optonline.net at 68.198.175.31
Musa I couldn't agree with you more. Let us assume that bringing light to freetown and other parts of the country exceeds the aforementioned date, till sometime in january. If the machines which could pump the juice are physically in the country, kkmmhh Cc moath kkhh paytay, one should see the glass cup as half full. It is what the optimistic individual calls work in progress. For den JC way nor buy bgenbgeh lamp en go wit am, tough luck. To the nay sayers who are itching to see this intial phase of nursing our homeland back to good health fail; way oyinbo say can go good do so, are guess oonu go tap nar naybar yard.........Guinea en Liberia......en sen ardoo to dee fambul dem.
From: BRA ENVIABLE
To: All
Date Posted: 09:26:01 12/10/07 ()
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Konopady, If your Sierra Leonean citizenship ever comes under doubt, the paucity of knowledge you have about the country will make you fail a citizenship test with shocking ease. You do not sound like a Sierra Leonean!
Did you say all but one name at our embassy in London is Mende? Accepted, South-easterners share quite a number of names with their northern compatriots. Tamba, for example, can be found among the Kono and Kissi in the east, and among Limbas in the North as well. The list goes on. However, most of the names you mentioned are not mende. The more APC apologists research to link the SLPP with tribalism, the more it becomes clear that the party of the palm tree was more ethnically liberal than the northern bigots masquerading under a tribal clique called the APC. Did the SLPP go wrong? Yes, it did, and I railed against the party long before its expulsion from power.
Far back in time when the horizon looked deceptively sunny, I was able to see the SLPP's shortcomings, and accordingly opposed the party with the most uncharitable analyses. I do not normally respond to nonsense, and this posting settles my reply to that rubbish you tried to heap on the SLPP. Barely three months in power, the APC has sullied itself with enough tribalistic toxicity to make the SLPP look like the one and only party that can unite the country it valiantly wrested from British colonial rule.
From: Chez Winakabs Europe
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Date Posted: 09:59:19 12/10/07 ()
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I understand your frustrations - but it is wise to sometimes not allow them to make your adrenaline jump above normalcy.
From: Pedrodacintra
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Date Posted: 09:15:46 12/10/07 ()
Email Address: rastafari_ish@hotmail.com
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After a lot of mud-slinging from both tribes as to who is better off or worse off, a research was conducted by a group of think-tanks (the author is one) which is bent on revealing the real truth about the two rivals by using several research methods.Before anyone starts to raise questions about the group's research ability let me give a short lecture on research:There are two types of research namely PRIMARY and SECONDARY.To use the two you have to employ any of the following methods:HISTORICAL,EX-POST FACTO,EXPERIMENTAL,APPLIED,BASIC and ACTION.
a-Nearly all mendes are SLPP supporters or sympathisers.
b-Most temnes are APC supporters but few are sympathisers;
c-Temnes are excellent local govt. administrators and therefore make good,wise and famous chiefs while it is the reverse for the mendes;
d-Mendes are the worst megalomaniacs while the temnes believe power comes from God.
d-Temnes make better politicians unlike the mendes.
SOCIALLY:
a-The mendes are repulsively arrogant,selfish and tribalistic.They always dream of a greater mendeland like the jews do for a greater Israel.The mendes hardly mix.
b-The temnes are down-to-earth, open and accept outsiders which has resulted to their language being the most widely spoken after the lingua franca krio.
c-Temnes are very rebellious especially when they feel their rights are being trampled on while the mendes tend to be very docile a characteristic which earned them the first leadership of Sierra leone.
d-Most violent temnes are hybrids or remixes i.e. those that resulted from inter-marriages.The pure temnes are very peace-loving;
e-Most violent mendes eat 'gbagbays'or monkeys and make up a large population of the megalomaniacs;
f-Most peaceful mendes are hybrids or remixes e.g. from the sherbros,temnes,kissis and krims.
The mendes took the lead during the colonial or 'tangays' era because the temnes after the bitter experience of the hut tax war,never trusted anything that has to do with the white man.But after independence especially during the early seventies the temne came back very strong and took the lead from the mendes which is evident from products like Abdulai Conteh,Abass Bundu,Ibrahim Taqi etc.
a-Both groups have a large muslim population each and are die-hards.This is one of the few unifying factors of these two rivals.
b-Both have christian converts too.
Here the temnes are clearly in the lead.From Freetown to Kono or Bo or Kenema or Koindu or Tongo the temnes are stakeholders in everything that has to do with money.They invest anywhere in Sierra Leone be it on the market stall or the rich diamond fields.
a-Both have good footballers both at home and abroad.
a-While the temnes have an establish superstar like Vick Fornah, the mendes are boasting of the uprising superstar Emmerson who is working very hard to find footing in the international arena.
In the olden days the mendes had Salia and SE Rogers while the temnes had Bassie Kondee.
From: Watasai Stone
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Date Posted: 16:34:20 12/10/07 ()
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Temne people are personally the worst tribe in Sierra Leone. They are loud, rude, and too much gboss gboss. They are very primitive and I dont like thier style. They have no class what so ever.
From: Mohamed A. Kamara
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Date Posted: 14:30:44 12/11/07 ()
Email Address: Saghinosoccerworld@yahoo.com
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Watasai Stone you got some serious issues. Personally I think you need to see a shrink........a psychiatrist in case you are confused. If you had any knowledge of our society's history you could have known that the first thing Europeans found out about temne folks is that though they can sell their fellow Africans into slavery,(a very sad chapter in our history indeed), they can be a force to reckon with; when they are rubbed the wrong way. We have never been known to be pushovers. The english called an African named Bai Bureh who stood up to their leeching ways warlike.........oh wait there is a big word for it......CANTEKEROUS is it......please help me out my educated brothers and sisters. We shouldn't apologise to anyone sir for that intuition. You can go ahead and be a doormat if it suits you. Now needless to say that I am a temne man. Dad from Port Loko and mom from Bombali........DOE KIAMP DAR KOM ME. KEHREH MIN THAIMNEH THAIMKH. Now in my life so far I have had a few fights (as a little boy) , none of which i initiated. Since then i have never been in another fight. I have respect for myself and others, and i am quite sure, i am not the only temne indivdual with that creed. I have friends (even from my days at the Prince Of Wales School ) from all enthic backgrounds (including my foulahtown and Fourah Bay fellas), I continue to interact with from time to time. As far as I can remember I have never disrespected, picked on, stolen from, beat upon or intimidated anyone. My wife is a mende woman, and according to you, oh boy her life is in danger already. My son's mother is a creole. Phew! No wonder she hated my guts so much, being a temne man. I notice you are losing sleep over so many temne people being in freetown at same time. Well, the last time I checked there is not a single statement in our homeland's constitution which barred any citizen in the provinces, from coming to freetown. Thank god Nuella's dad's (Rogers-Wright) discriminatory notion of building a gate at Waterloo, to keep "COUNTRY PEOPLE" out of freetown never materialised. I am sure you could have stood at that gate with a baseball bat to enforce it. And please the next time you are going to freetown, make sure you have a security detail. You wouldn't want temne people to jump on you as soon as you get off the plane. Which shouldn't surprise you because you know that they are primitive. Please go for counseling. It will do you a lot of good.
From: Watasai Stone
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Date Posted: 16:57:52 12/11/07 ()
Email Address: laj201@aol.com
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You need counseling. From my experience TEMNE PIPUL DEM BAD!!!
Everyone knows this it isnt something we need to argue about.
In colonial times The British didnt want you guys in Freetown because you guys were troublesome and it is very true unu tooooo gboss gboss.
From: Mohamed A. Kamara
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Date Posted: 17:26:26 12/11/07 ()
Email Address: Saghinosoccerworld@yahoo.com
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I just realised that your mindset is way beyond redemption. Now I know your mental inadequacy is worse than i thought it was. My job is to observe individuals who are developmentally challenged to put it mildly, and determine their cognitive level; in order to place them in a suitable rehabilitative facility. I think I might be of considerable help, from one salone brother to the other. I know it will be a huge task, but it is not impossible. Once you assert, you are aware that you should be reasonable enough not to categorize all temne as being bad; but you just can't resist the obssession to characterize all of them as the same, I figured you are for sure a basket case. You can reach me at my email address above. There is hope for you bro. I AM MY BROTHER'S KEEPER.
From: Watasai Stone
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Date Posted: 17:31:27 12/11/07 ()
Email Address: laj201@aol.com
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Shut up. Temne man don go learn buk,m so in feel to say in sabi all ting. Bo kormot bifo me.
From: Mohamed A. Kamara
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Date Posted: 18:33:58 12/11/07 ()
Email Address: Saghinosoccerworld@yahoo.com
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I just showed your post to my wife (your mende sister), she has been laughing so much. She said, either a temne fellow took your woman away from you, or your romantic gestures were rejected by a temne woman. If indeed that's the case, I can see why you are itching to wipe all temne folks off the face of the earth. This is my last post on the issue, i have made the determination that your obssessive compulsive behavior with my people can't be helped. Good luck.
From: Watasai Stone
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Date Posted: 18:41:30 12/11/07 ()
Email Address: laj201@aol.com
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I am by no means Mende so please do not place me in mendeline.
From: Ishmael Yillah
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Date Posted: 16:45:12 12/10/07 ()
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Mr. Kabs-kanu should ban you and your IP from this forum because you are sub-human, harum-scarum, wretched, obnoxious, ignoramus, nincompoop, bigot, SOB, malinger, and plainly stupid. I am recommending for moderator to ban you and pedrodecintra from this forum because both of you are enemies of sierra leone.
From: Watasai Stone
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Date Posted: 18:49:10 12/10/07 ()
Email Address: laj201@aol.com
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He probably will ban my IP. But I dont care. There has been numerous occasions where people on this forum have talked trash about Mendes, lebaneese, Fulas, KRIOS, and many other ethnic groups, but those people where not banned. But I am sure, due to the fact I am expressing my feelings about the WORST TRIBE IN SIERRA LEONE, THE TEMNES. I will be banned.
From: Kamara
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Date Posted: 18:13:12 12/10/07 ()
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Why ban the man. this is democracy. let him be free to talk his trash.he is half right. My father is from the North and I know temnes are full of Gbos Gbos.I can tell you from my relatives' behavior. Temnes are aloud and are quick to fight and are prone to violence. they resemble the susu of guinea. Mt statement is based on my experience with family members that are temne and susu.
From: Ishmael Yillah
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Date Posted: 23:45:26 12/10/07 ()
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Kamara,
From: Ishmael Yillah
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Date Posted: 21:08:54 12/10/07 ()
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I beg to defer!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Kamara or whatever your name is, you are simply stupid and half baked literate, because well educated individual would desist from making over-generalized statement about a group of people or tribe. May be you guys need to take panadol or stop pain to releive your pain.
From: Kamara
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Date Posted: 06:20:45 12/11/07 ()
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Yillah, Who is calling names now. Illiterate and have baked. APC thugs resort to violence and thuggery. I know the yillah family very well. We are connected through intermarriage. Late AB yillah. Ibrahim yilla , Dr momodu Yilla and khalil yilla in New York. The yillas are not shrill and insulting as you are to me . They are an asset to Sierra Leone. Some of Yilla family, sadia yilla lived with my cousin A.B Kamara.
From: Ishmael Yillah
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Date Posted: 10:06:23 12/11/07 ()
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Mr. kamara, for point of corrections, i am not a member of APC, nor SLPP. However, i supported EBK over Berewa because the former is younger, energetic and has good vision for our country. while the latta is old, weak, and unprogressive. Does that makes me an APC thug?
this is what you wrote yesterday:
"My father is from the North and I know temnes are full of Gbos Gbos"
With all the respect, because your surname is noble, i will urge you to refrain from making such an inflamatory remarks.
Take care and have a great week.
Ishmael K. Yillah
From: kamara
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Date Posted: 12:10:31 12/11/07 ()
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I have never called you a thug. I know your family in samu very well. We have some intermarital connections. my descr1ption of temnes is from my family members.In life we must be able laugh at ourselves, You cannot be serious all the time. If you are offended , I am sorry for that. You are not a thug because you support APC but you cannot discount the fact that there are thugs in the APC and SLPp for that matter.
From: Watasai Stone
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Date Posted: 18:56:01 12/10/07 ()
Email Address: laj201@aol.com
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Kamara lef am. Nar way nomo e know say nar true ar dae tok. Dem wan ya nor lek for tok tru.
From: watari
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Date Posted: 21:19:14 12/10/07 ()
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watasai stone en ti we nor dae eat mortal man.
From: Watasai Stone
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Date Posted: 16:47:02 12/11/07 ()
Email Address: laj201@aol.com
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I dotn either neither does anyone else in my family.
From: Watasai Stone
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Date Posted: 13:11:50 12/11/07 ()
Email Address: laj201@aol.com
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I dotn either neither does anyone else in my family.
From: Watasai Stone
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Date Posted: 13:11:38 12/11/07 ()
Email Address: laj201@aol.com
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I dotn either neither does anyone else in my family.
From: Ishmael Yillah
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Date Posted: 21:15:18 12/10/07 ()
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May be you cannot tell by my last name, but i am susu (soso). The only reason i am replying to your post is because your statements has a potential to cause havoc and fight in my country, sierra leone. If you have problem aginst temne or susu people, i suggest that you hang yourself. na election oh una loss nayi still day mona una. You bigots!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
stupid fool!!!!!!!!!!
From: Salone Boy
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Date Posted: 16:30:48 12/10/07 ()
Email Address: saloneboy@hotmail.co.uk
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Frankly people like you make me sick; it is apparent that the you have nothing better to do, little wonder you had the time to conduct your so called research.
From: young student
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Date Posted: 16:07:28 12/10/07 ()
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I am glad that we are all speakign up and we would not encourage any form of tribalism from any side. the leaders in all the communities should make sure that we do not encourage these tribalists. that research was meant to split us as a people. white racists used research liek these when amnerica was segregated. i am ashamed that we have people like this amongst us.
From: Albert Moinina
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Date Posted: 10:38:35 12/10/07 ()
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Where did you conduct your twisted research? In this forum everything is possible, with some twisted and tribalistic mind.
From: Chez Winakabs Europe
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Date Posted: 10:11:13 12/10/07 ()
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I sometimes do not understand the need for such. Anyone who understands cultural anthropology and ethnicity will explain that there is cross-tribal similarities amongst the people's of the Upper Nile and the mande. I sometimes love to be proud to be a Temne not because I think I am a better person but that I am able and opportuned to present the cultural beauty of the Temne whilst taking note of the beauty of the other tribes that make the whole so special We are a special people and as such should not look at our differences with prejudice.
From: okdok
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Date Posted: 13:06:05 12/10/07 ()
Email Address: okdok@yahoo.com
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MY KOROMA NAME IS MENDE BUT THROUGH LIBERIA,PUJUHUN TO BAGBO.
From: FACT
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Date Posted: 16:36:36 12/10/07 ()
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KOROMA name is typically from Noth and West. They either limbas, temnes, Mandigoes, etc.
From: okdok
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Date Posted: 21:26:27 12/10/07 ()
Email Address: okdok@yahoo.com
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i SURE YOU ARE RIGHT.I NEVER REALLY HAD TIME TO GO FAR INTO IT BUT HE DID SAY HIS MOM SPOKE SOMETHING SIMILER TO LIBERIAN MENDE
From: Mohamed A. Kamara
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Date Posted: 10:57:53 12/10/07 ()
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Chez indeed you made the Abdulai Conteh background correction, before i could. What is all this temne and mende rubbish anyway. I am a temne man, whose father was from sanda magbolontho in Port Loko. My paternal grandmother was a sanda foulah whose parents came from labeh in Guinea. I have relatives of lebanese descent based in Port Loko. I am married to a mende woman whose late father was mende and late mother a foulah. My son's mother is a creole. I have been telling myself that we have basically drowned that mindset somewhere in the atlantic ocean, but i notice that some people are still losing sleep over it.
From: nico
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Date Posted: 13:24:09 12/10/07 ()
Email Address: nicoleconsult@hotmail.com
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It is rather unfortunate that some people are still propelling the tribal prejudice. Like other forumites, I am a mixture of different cultures and backgrounds. My grandma was a vai from Liberia. My wife is an arab muslim. I am a christian. My sons are half arabs and half mende. My son's first cousins are half Temene and half Arab.
From: Londoner
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Date Posted: 10:06:59 12/10/07 ()
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Pedro,
Why do you have to hide behind the cloak of a fake academic endeavour to spew such a distasteful, obscene and nauseous piece. You should be ashamed of yourself! It was precisely such tribal incendiaries that ignited and fuelled the flames of genocide in Rwanda.
I belong to neither of these tribes but your so called research findings fills me with revulsion. The likes of you don't cherish the hard won peace we have in S/L today. You have a mind diseased, my friend!
Are you really a Sierra Leonean? Please say no!
From: Anthony Sisay
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Date Posted: 09:37:28 12/10/07 ()
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I think you forgot a few things: like who are the stone worshipers? What kind of water the Temnes use to cook cockeri (wiri wiri water or not?).
From: Mohamed A. Kamara
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Date Posted: 11:16:38 12/10/07 ()
Email Address: Saghinosoccerworld@yahoo.com
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Mr. Sisay, I am afraid you fell right into pedro's trap. You are suppose to be a smart man, who should recognize rubbish when he sees it. And not to dignify it by responding to it. Unfortunately he got under your skin easily, so much so, that you came out blazing with your own stereo-typical conclusions. If I didn't read your post, i wouldn't have known that most of the thugs in Sierra Leone are either from the temne tribe or mende tribe. As the saying goes, you learn everyday.
From: Anthony Sisay
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Date Posted: 11:33:37 12/10/07 ()
Email Address: anthonysisay@yahoo.com
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You were right sometimes one makes mistakes by responding to clowns. That's why I am apologizing to all those I might have hurt by that particular post.
From: Veteran Forumite
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Date Posted: 09:34:41 12/10/07 ()
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A nonsensical "research" from a typical Themne tribalist. Thank god the majority of the Themnes do not have your bigoted skull.
From: Anthony Sisay
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Date Posted: 09:47:10 12/10/07 ()
Email Address: anthonysisay@yahoo.com
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I applaud the way you went for the squirrel.
From: Albert Moinina
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Date Posted: 10:41:12 12/10/07 ()
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Tony,
From: Anthony Sisay
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Date Posted: 11:35:40 12/10/07 ()
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Albert, squirrels are smart thieves you know.
From: babbob
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Date Posted: 21:11:52 12/10/07 ()
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One could use WEASEL in place of squirrel since a weasel is known to be backstabber. (joking)
He wrote the same type of thrash before and a lot of people responded therefore, since the poster is a brat seeking attention, so he has posted another thrash.
From: Anthony Sisay
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Date Posted: 23:54:31 12/10/07 ()
Email Address: anthonysisay@yahoo.com
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Thanks for the advice.
From: KONOPADY
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Date Posted: 05:48:23 12/10/07 ()
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BELOW IS THE LIST OF DIPLOMATS AT THE SIERRA LEOENEAN EMBASSY IN LONDON UNDER THE SLPP GOVERNMENT. ALL BUT OE IS MENDE. THANKS BRA E FOR TALKING RICH ABOUT TRIBALISM UNDER APC
High Commissioner
H.E. Mr. Melvin H. Chalobah
Deputy High Commissioner Mr. James B. Allie
Minister-Counsellor /Head of Chancery
Mrs. Hawa J. Sumner
Counsellor
Mr. Sahr P. Demba
Counsellor
Mrs. Florence Bangali
1st Secretary/Consular Officer
Mrs. Josephine Marah
1st Secretary
Mr. Jonathan Las-Lamin
Financial Attaché
Mr. Yomba D. Fasuluku
Information Attaché
Mr. Sorie Fofana
Administrative Attaché
Mrs Elizabeth Sesay
From: nico
To: All
Date Posted: 06:59:12 12/10/07 ()
Email Address: nicoleconsult@hotmail.com
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Konopady
Not sure.
From: Ph.D
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Date Posted: 05:55:32 12/10/07 ()
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So now you want all of them fired????
From: KALOS
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Date Posted: 20:12:33 12/09/07 ()
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Some of us have supported EBK and APC during the campaign and of late accused the said EBK of been unwary for the
presidency or simply not expecting the tiara. However, it is an insurmountable leap to accuse him of gross ineptitude in
matters relating to executive appointments. Let me join Kabbs Kanu’s bandwagon; the president has done an excellent job
in the appointment process.
of SHEKITO is questionable when he writes:
President: you don’t need an official letter; his word is enough.”
very touching and flattering piece on this topic; here is part of KABBS KANU’S response:
the internet , with regards to a position that he said the President called him to offer him , many of you have been writing
and insinuating that I have been "Passed over" by the government for a position at State House. This is not true , as far as we
at COCORIOKO know , so far”.
From: Question
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Date Posted: 02:36:12 12/10/07 ()
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With due respect to President's appointee,I am curious to know if Apart from working as a reporter for a local newspaper, does Seikito have any other media experience????Has he ever appeared on Radio or TV???Did he ever make Press Releases???
From: Kidding
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Date Posted: 02:32:18 12/10/07 ()
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Please stop kidding us.It is done.
From: psychologist
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Date Posted: 20:33:08 12/09/07 ()
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Sheku Kallon is trying to mess up Kabs-Kanu's emotions here. I am surprised that Kabs fell for it by even replying to it. I think the slpp propaganda machine is afraid of shekito by the way they are playing this matter up. Watch shekito tear jj bloody mary and puawui in freetown pretty soon.
Kabs, dont allow this small slpp boys to mess you up. You are fit to be a full minister, not only press secretary. You dont know what plan the president has for you yet. Just take it easy and stay cool. God bless.
From: Psychologist2
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Date Posted: 00:09:04 12/10/07 ()
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You are a psychologist ? Are you sure you don't need to see a psychologist ? Sheku Kallon, like most of us, has great regard for Kabbs.How can you say he was messing up Kabs Kanu's emotions ? Sheku's endorsement of Kabbs is very important.Who would not respond to such adulation ? Mr.Psychologist, lef.
From: Kamara
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Date Posted: 21:00:55 12/09/07 ()
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Who is afraid of unreliable Shekito? stop dreaming. Bring him on. JJ Blood will clean his clock
From: Bonthe Pikin
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Date Posted: 02:06:58 12/10/07 ()
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BO LEH JJ BLOOD GO FEN WOKE....E DON FAIL SLPP, SLPP NOR NEED AM ANY MORE. WE DAE VOTE AM OUT ONCE WE READY SO IF E GEH SENSE MEK E DAE PAK OH. INFACT, NEWS IS THAT HE IS ALREADY SENDING APPLICATIONS EVERYWHERE
From: nico
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Date Posted: 06:13:53 12/10/07 ()
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I understand this JJ Blood came from Bonth, the birth place of the Margais. He told the SLPP party not to worry as Margai would not get a single seat in Bonth. People who make such statement has flawed judgement and I cannot trust them to accomplished anything good. They are not objective and are unable to substract their personal feelings from reality. A secretary General? My foot. Let him get a proper paid job for himself and stop pinching on the party funds.
From: nico
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Date Posted: 05:57:48 12/10/07 ()
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I think the so called JJ Blood is deluding himself to think that he will retain his position in the light of the party's dismal failure under his secretaryship. It is only logical that he either step down or be booted out for a new begining.
From: Alimamy Turay
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Date Posted: 10:22:20 12/11/07 ()
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Please be informed taht JJ Blood is not responsible for the downfall of SLPP. It is rather unfortunate that he took over at a time when everything was messy. Poor Guy! he had sacrificed his highly paid job out of ignorance on his side and deceit from Berewa. However I respect him a lot!!!
From: THE HONEST MAN
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Date Posted: 19:46:53 12/09/07 ()
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HONESTLY APC IS THE SAME PARTY AS EVER.MY BIGGEST DISAPOINTMENT IS WHAT THE SO-HAJA IS DOING WITH THE LIGHT BUSINESS.MR PRESIDENT,PLEASE GIVE ME FIVE WAYS HOW YOU CAN BE DIFFER FROM J S MOMOH.IF YOU DONT I WILL GIVE TEN WAYS HOW YOU ARE EQUAL TO J S MOMOH.
From: mohamed barrie
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Date Posted: 07:30:58 12/10/07 ()
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I am no SLPP, but if the news that is coming from makeni/kamabia that some APC thugs are attacking fulas and killing their herds, this just reminds me of the old APC. I hope and pray that this is not true.If it is true, The New APC should stop this right away. no politics, no spinning.
From: kamara
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Date Posted: 18:28:37 12/10/07 ()
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APC will never change. The core members of the party are thugs, they will never change . All they know is violence and Gbos Gbos. They are just jealous of the fula herders. They are too lazy to work. They just want to loot and steal because the current govt cannot fulfill its election promises to these thugs.
From: Watasai Stone
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Date Posted: 19:04:19 12/10/07 ()
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They should leave the Fula herders. THEY DID NOT DO NOTHING TO THE APC. They just too lek gboss gboss biznez!!!
From: M. Alieu Iscandari Esq
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Date Posted: 15:57:33 12/09/07 ()
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Do not treat people with contempt, nor walk insolently on the earth. Allah does not love the arrogant or the self-conceited boaster. Be modest in your bearing and subdue your voice, for the most unpleasant of voices is the braying of the ass.
From: Mensa
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Date Posted: 01:50:11 12/10/07 ()
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Wow! This is a verse from the Holy Quran. May the Almighty continue to guide and protect you, Brother, bless you with more wisdom and reward you immensely for the good things that you do.
From: Anthony Sisay
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Date Posted: 23:21:42 12/09/07 ()
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Alpha,
Bo comot na ya (joke) you dae make lek say muslim get the ansewr to every tin but we contry dae beyen nor mor.
From: Seray-Wurie
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Date Posted: 20:27:12 12/09/07 ()
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Alpha,
We Jamaat Don Get Proper Alpha in the making...
Tenki Tenki'
Truely Allah like modesty
From: M. Alieu Iscandari Esq
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Date Posted: 07:18:30 12/10/07 ()
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Bra far from it I am not religious, I am spiritual and I see the value in the verses I post. These are sent to me by a brother I dont even know, but every one is poignant and I intend to live my life by these values.
From: Fen Plaba!
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Date Posted: 14:20:08 12/09/07 ()
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Results of a telephone poll I conducted over the past two months (after I was drunk, so don't ask me about no stastistical methods, paddy). It just shows that we Sierra Leoneans love ourselves. So pucker up and Kiiiiiiss! It's your birthday, baby. Ahem...
If you have to choose between Ernest Koroma and Satan for president, who would you choose?
SLPP: Ernest Bai Koroma (25%), Satan (55%), Bra Enviable (10%) Undecided (10%)
What would be your choice if Satan were a Mende?:
SLPP: Ernest Bai Koroma (8%), Satan (90%), Undecided (2%)
I
From: Kawusu
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Date Posted: 19:48:24 12/09/07 ()
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Korthor Fenplaba,
From: BRA ENVIABLE
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Date Posted: 15:42:01 12/09/07 ()
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I belong to the other side of the political isle in Sierra Leone, but I am unwilling to put Ernest Koroma in the same political pantheon with Satan as Fen Plaba's statistical poll did. I think Koroma is incomparably finer than the hellish evil Satan represents. My differences with Koroma are political. His failure to take the APC beyond the party's traditional, tribalistic zone, is what keeps irking me about a man that declared a "new era" in the life an abused country.
If Koroma transcends petty tribalism by breaking through the tight Makeini/Magburaka circle, I will condition myself to be optimistic about the APC. You cannot usher a new era by "trusting" mediocre cronies to run the affairs of state. Zainab Bangura, Alpha Kanu who so far sounds barely equipped for his job as Minister of Presidential Affairs, and Shekito, for example, are appointments made out of tribalistic loyalty. Given everything Sierra Leone has gone through, it is difficult to be hopeful about a "new era" when the state is taken over by tribal officialdom instead of professional propriety.
Stay fit, brother Fen Plaba.
From: Basco
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Date Posted: 22:44:27 12/09/07 ()
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I think Fen Plaba got it about right But for PMDC. If it is a straight fight between APC and Satans Hell Party his Stats will be stop on! SLPP is a Mende mans party. GO up cam dong!
From: SGK
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Date Posted: 13:14:49 12/09/07 ()
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BOB MARLEY
From: SGK
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Date Posted: 13:31:35 12/09/07 ()
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BOB Marley
From: SGK
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Date Posted: 13:25:44 12/09/07 ()
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BOB
From: Press
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Date Posted: 09:46:43 12/09/07 ()
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We are happy to with our president .He is one of the best leaders in Africa because all his promise has deadline attached.No 24 hours in Dec means Energy minister should be axed.No good communication or mumu pattern means we change information minister.We would like to see new ministers come new year as some of these JC ministers seem not to know their job.U can buy degree but you cant buy experience.Maybe they should have applied for voluntary job whilst staying abroad.
From: APC COMMUNICATION HANDICAP
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Date Posted: 09:35:04 12/09/07 ()
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APC COMMUNICATION HANDICAP
It is easy to tell a true APC man. Due to an inherent handicap, they always start their conversation with mammy cuss. It gets them in the mood. They could have all the salient points to drive home, BUT DEM JUST GET FOR BE NASTY ABOUT IT.
From: Fen Plaba!
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Date Posted: 13:04:30 12/09/07 ()
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REALLY???
From: Albert Moinina
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Date Posted: 04:12:13 12/09/07 ()
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This article is from the NEW PEOPLE.
DEBATE AND SPECULATION ON NEW STATE HOUSE PRESS SECRETARY LINGERS ON AS SHEKITO MAKES A BOLD CLAIM.
From: Na True
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Date Posted: 08:33:42 12/09/07 ()
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In the same way, Sapha Koroma, who supported APC with heavy finances, has been ignored, despite promises made to him.
From: mohamed Barrie
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Date Posted: 08:49:37 12/09/07 ()
Email Address: ncsneak@aol.com
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It amazes me when people talk about sanpha koroma.He should have no place in any administration.He is one of those who are responsible for the way things are in sierra leone today. He led the national development bank(NDB) to its demise.There are many more sierra leoneans who can do better than sanpha.To be blunt, he is nothing but a Thief. I hope we in this forum would stop bringing in names of shady characters such as sanpha koroma.
From: Press
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Date Posted: 09:24:40 12/09/07 ()
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We want well educated,experienced and corrupt free individuals to manned our economy.Kabs-Kanu is fit for the job and I am not happy that Shekito is given the job because of family ties.However giving positions should not be by how much you throw financially to the party.I heard someone mentioned JSK(Sampha Koroma) that will be the end of APC in power if given a public position.We are still waiting to see what Anti-Corruption will do with his case.We do not want corrupt people this time.I heard some of the ministers are now studying the job and trying to see the lopp holes to use to steal.
From: David Tam-Baryoh
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Date Posted: 01:57:13 12/09/07 ()
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Justice For All By 2012? His Excellency Is Wrong
Posted on Dec 7, 2007, 04:12
From: Fen Plaba!
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Date Posted: 13:24:58 12/09/07 ()
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Abdul Tejan Cole is one of the most honorable people I know. He is going to be a great Commish and will pursue all thieves with fairness and determination without fear or favor.
The only reason he would shut down his law firm is to avoid any conflict of interest. I hope that other top officials in the Judiciary stop the double dipping and the double standards that have made our courts an object of scorn and derision in West Africa.
Abdul's appointment to the ACC should be of serious concern to the future thieves and scalpers who see government service as a golden pavement to easy money. Believe me, you will be dragged to court if you attempt your banditry. Ernest really scored a home run with that appointment.
From: FMANSARAY
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Date Posted: 23:23:10 12/08/07 ()
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This President has a monumental task at hand. He assumed his position day one dealing with very difficult issues facing our nation. He is tackling the main problem that will have domino effect to jump start the economy.
Of good old Sierra Leone.
Become the most successful president sierra Leone has ever got. He is committed to the issues as well as the welfare of the people of Sierra Leone.
From: Error
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Date Posted: 08:59:52 12/10/07 ()
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You said:
"The President will accomplish his first Major goal of providing Regular electricity supply to the people of Sierra Leone in just 90 days"
From: How is Dr. Zubairu Kaloko doingh?
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Date Posted: 22:11:25 12/09/07 ()
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How is Dr. Zubairu Kalokoh doing? He was almost lynched by those graceless and defunct and hapless so
called journalists in Sierra Leone. He is going to be one of the better appointments that was gravely
underestimated.
From: Kamara
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Date Posted: 11:35:18 12/09/07 ()
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We all hope the president can deliver 24 hours of light as promised by Dec 20. This will greatly help the economy by reducing the cost of doing business. Based on EBK's track record so far , I have doubts that this will happen.
From: Sam
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Date Posted: 00:18:37 12/09/07 ()
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Two and a half million people!!!! Are you sure? I was under the impression we had about a million. Since the president is on a tear and can accomplish things, he can add developing upline ASAP so those who ran away from the rebel war can go back. Since development efforts if not centered, start in Freetown, EK will never be able to accomplish what he wants to do with that many people living a in city that should only be holding a quarter of that max.
From: Mohamed A. Kamara
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Date Posted: 12:30:59 12/09/07 ()
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Oh Sam we are on the way sir. Freetown is not even on the top or middle sections of the priority list. By GOD's GRACE RESILIENCE AND HARD WORK OF COURSE, our homeland's decated sons and daughters will make these trying times, look like an ancient past. You will see a new demagraphic of your fellow citizens, who are not loyal to any political party BUT TO THE WELL BEING OF THE STATE. And this is coming from an individual whose father was a founder member of the APC. My motivation is anger, in case you are wondering. I grew up in the 70s. Indeed, Sierra Leone was not absolute paradise back then, but man oh man, present conditions make it seem like that era earn the "Athens of West Africa" status. Sometimes it makes me wonder if it is the land where, many Nigerians Ghanaians Gambians South-Eastern Africans......just to name a few......did their initial collegiate studies. Very sad my brother. I will remind you again Sir. WE ARE COMING.
From: TO SAM ( SLPP BASTA PEKIN)
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Date Posted: 10:18:15 12/09/07 ()
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SAM YOU STILL DAE CUSS MAMMY CUSS, OR YOU TAKE BREAK FOR GO CHURCH.
HOW THE BROCKTON MASSACHUSETTS
YOU DOM TAKE SOME TEM FOR FINDOUT UDAT NA BASTA PEKIN????
BUY $2 PHONE CARD EN MAKE THE CALL.
ANYWAY AH DAE FEN TEM FOR GI YOU MORE CHANCE FOR CUSS FOR YOU PARTY.
AMERICA NOR CIVILIZE YOU YEAT.
From: POLITICAL
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Date Posted: 22:52:25 12/08/07 ()
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Awareness forum has been suspended for not paying bills. The pocket is drying up because the SLPP is out of power.
From: Fen Plaba!
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Date Posted: 23:21:34 12/08/07 ()
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YES!
From: Ronaldino
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Date Posted: 22:47:16 12/08/07 ()
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But the indegenes are poor? Where are all the guys we have been told have diamonds in DIAMINT bottles? Where is their show of wealth? And how come it is the Lebanese that live well above the average?
From: POLITICAL
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Date Posted: 22:57:31 12/08/07 ()
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Actually, diamonds are found all over the country. However, diamonds were first discovered in East and South and most of the mining concentrated there. Recently, diamonds and gold are even found in the north and west. There are illicit mining in every part of the country. This is a bad news for our environment. The rutile company has destroyed our environment and now huge companies are destroying our country in search of diamond.
From: Ronaldino
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Date Posted: 16:22:22 12/09/07 ()
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The question is why are there no rich Sierra Leonean Millionares who have profited from the mines? But Lebanese and Gambians can boast of dollar millionaires from kono diamonds!
From: Anthony Sisay
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Date Posted: 21:17:34 12/08/07 ()
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Follow the link below and see for yourself what's going on in Zimbabwe. ABUSE OF POWER.
From: Erica Adams
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Date Posted: 19:28:50 12/08/07 ()
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The concept of tribe is foreign to me, so I actually find myself becoming more interested whenever I read the posts about tribalism. Of course in a US context, we'd look at party affliation, but underneath it all we're Americans. One lesson I took from my college years was to not give my allegiance to a pary just because that's the way I always vote. The professor who started this discussion wanted us to think more broadly as black Americans because our tendency to align ourselves with the Democratic party has meant we end up not having much of a voice when there is a Republican president in office. The irony of this is that most blacks were once Republicans in the post-slavery era, but became alienated by the party and now really don't have much representation within it. I say all of this to ask is it really more about tribe or affliation. In the 21st century, is there room for tribal politics. I've said it before, but I'll say it again. Outside of the Sierra Leonean community, when was the last time someone asked you your tribe? One way to combat the tribalism that many are concerned about is to look at ways to encourage voters to align themselves more based on the agenda of the candidate. We have states that are more Democratic leaning and others that are more republican, what I think is different is that I don't think we have as many people who are loyal to a party no matter what they do or do not do. In addition to challenging EBK to appoint people to positions that better reflect the county's make up, I'm challenging Sierra Leoneans to consider aligning themselves less by their tribes and more by party politics.
From: kamara
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Date Posted: 11:55:47 12/09/07 ()
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Erica, Tribal politics is alive in the united States. You call it regionalism and ethnic block voting whilst we call it Trbalism. When was the last Presidential elections that the democrats won the south or the last time the republicans won 30% of the black vote. Why was in George Bush in such a haste to appoint the first hispanic attorney general, bypassing more qualified non hispanics?
Tribal,ethnic,cultural,lingual affiliation is human nation. It happens everywhere. All we can ask,is that We respect our differences and try to live peacefully.
From kosovo, rusia . middle east people are killing one another for differences.
From: Erica Adams
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Date Posted: 15:49:54 12/09/07 ()
Email Address: ericamonique82@hotmail.com
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Some of the issues you raised about regionalism and racial tribalism still go back to party politics. People tend to vote for candidates or parties because of the perceived benefits they will receive (campaign promises). I'm questioning whether the same is happening in Sierra Leone or are the party lines mostly drawn by tribal affliations. There has been a lot of discussion about how well the Republican party has hijacked the Christian conservative movement, but my understanding is that Jimmy Carter (a Democratice President) was the first candidate that openly discussed his born again Christian conservative background. The Republicans weren't the first, they were just the best in exploiting the term and that's why they do so well in the bible belt (South). In response to the Latino appointment, that's because the Republicans are heavily courting the Latino vote. They will only be able to attract them if they have agenda items that address their needs like immigration. Republicans have not done a good job of wooing blacks back into the fold, but I do believe as we become more upwardly mobile that party could become more attractive because they are notorious for giving tax advantages to the wealthy. I hope you did not take my questions about tribe and politics as an attack or put down, but I really do want to know what are the SLPP, APC, etc... alligences based on and what are the perceived benefits of these continued alliances.
From: Kamara
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Date Posted: 18:18:13 12/09/07 ()
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No, Erica I do not view your question as an attack. It is a very good and poignant one. Politics is the same everywhere.Most people join parties, support candidates and parties because of the perceived benefits. My father is from the North of Sierra Leone but my family have always been strong supporters of SLPP and would not be moved by tribal allegiance or money. I lived in New York for years; I saw the black and Hispanic coalition work together to elect Mayor Dinkins and other Progressive candidates and have seen cracks in that coalition when hispanics have favored one of their own over black candidates.
Erica , It is hard for republicans to win over 30% of the black vote, regardless of the increase in black wealth. The stigma of a black republican is strong for many blacks to bear. They would hide or not vote.
From: SGK
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Date Posted: 13:47:45 12/10/07 ()
Email Address: sheku-kamara@hotmail.co.uk
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Kamara,
So if for example, the S.L.P.P has a new leader with policies contrary to your beliefs and convictions, would you still support it just because your family have always been a strong supporter of S.L.P.P?
From: SGK
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Date Posted: 19:26:47 12/10/07 ()
Email Address: sheku-kamara@hotmail.co.uk
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Orkama,
Ha kin see say you nar die-hard s.l.p.p. man, way ee nor suppose for be so.
In my case, i would vote for the party of the candidate who convinced me of a better prosperity for the country.
Since mother Sierra Leone is more important than any party. This is what we call putting the country's interest first above any other party.
From: kam
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Date Posted: 18:22:41 12/10/07 ()
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I will not support APC. I will support SLPp and try to fight for a change within the party.. If the leader is truly democratically elected. I will support him. This was not the case with Berewa. If the leader is not democratically elected, I will withold my support for him but support the party. The party is bigger than any one party.
From: KING LOGGY
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Date Posted: 02:33:32 12/09/07 ()
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No one nation holds a monopoly in voter stratification.
While the concept of tribe is foreign to you, those driven by ecumenism may not.
From: Fen Plaba!
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Date Posted: 22:28:35 12/08/07 ()
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Erica, your sagacious posting is the kind of gem we troll the forum for. Alas; too bad we usually end up with a bunch of useless corrundums.
The dirty little secret of our society is the monstrosity of tribal politics which has bedevilled economic development, corrupted politics and fanned warfare.
There are people in Sierra Leone today who will never support APC or SLPP because of THE TRIBE. Even if Ernest rains manna from Heaven, there are some people who will never give him a chance because of his last name. The president, regrettably, did not help himself by selecting a heavily Northern flavored government. I believe he will rectify that later. However we must keep soldiering on, hoping that a change of attitude will eventually takes place. Cussing the President as a scallywag and a scoundrel every time he opens his mouth, regardless of the merits of his policies, is not really helpful. It's gonna take a lot of patient work but, if we keep at it, we will eventually wean ourselves from the breast of tribalism. I have faith in the goodness of the average Salonean despite the chicanery of our politicians.
Happy times are ahead Erica. We gotta keep smiling!
From: KING LOGGY
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Date Posted: 00:48:35 12/09/07 ()
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If there's so much bad tribal blood between the APC and the SLPP why is Fen Plaba anticipating "plaba" by supporting an APC/SLPP flavored tribal plaba?
From: Fen Plaba!
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Date Posted: 12:53:43 12/09/07 ()
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If there's so much bad tribal blood between the APC and the SLPP why is Fen Plaba anticipating "plaba" by supporting an APC/SLPP flavored tribal plaba
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Actually, I am hoping for peace, progress and unity as Temnes, Mendes etc dance the tango, fox trot and rumba in the APC, SLPP or PMDC camps without tribal scorn.
Unless we suppress base tribalism in our little neck of the wood called Sierra Leone, beds are gonna keep burning over there.
From: Mohamed A. Kamara
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Date Posted: 23:07:46 12/08/07 ()
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I have been hearing about the northernization of our nation's government, so much so that now, I can hear the same claim in my sleep. Okay let us assume that is the case, which i actually do not believe for an iota. PPPPLEEEAAASSSEEE Foxes with sour grapes in your mouths, get the same people who voted your incompetent government out, to show EBK's administration the exit in 2012; for discriminting against fellow citizens from the south-east. Until then, please sit tight and see what progress looks like. My parents are both from the north. Dad from Port Loko and my mother from Bombali. I am married to a beautiful and intelligent mende woman. Whose late dad was a mende and late mother a Foulah. Chocolate color bobs. I guess i missed the northernization bandwagon. GIVE IT A REST SORE LOSERS and lets get on with the business of nursing our homeland back to good health. DAMN!
From: Kamara
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Date Posted: 12:13:17 12/09/07 ()
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This has nothing to do with sore losers. SLPP was kicked out by the people because they did not deliver
the goods to the people's expectation. EBK has no obligation to hire anybody from South, If he does not want to.
impression of northernization or else APC will be booted in 2012. The president has formidable Spokesman in Alpha Kanu and other qualified ministers but nobody has been able to wake him
from his slumber. The election and innaugration is over. You are the real deal , deliver now.
From: Mohamed A. Kamara
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Date Posted: 17:11:06 12/09/07 ()
Email Address: Saghinosoccerworld@yahoo.com
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Among the pillars of democracy, is the right as a citizen of any given society to have a say in the affairs of the state, in addition to that of voting any elected official out of office, if the duties of his/her position are not competently executed or assertions not realised. Correct me if I am wrong, but i am quite sure that one of EBK's duties is not to unscrew indoctrinated views from any individual's brain or group of people for that matter. They are on their own with that mental disease. If the business of governance is being done efficiently wherein no individual's rights were being trampled on. Whatever priviledges are there for each and every member of the society to indulge in, are not being designated for a particular sect of the nation, EBK can appoint a cabinet of individuals just from his home town, for all i care. If any Sierra Leonean believes that what I mentioned above is not good enough for him/her, there is an opportunity coming up in 2012, to kick EBK and his administration out of office. Personally I think national reconciliation has been embarked on already without some of us realising it. If Sierra Leoneans who commited heinous crimes against innocent men women and children, are not being probed arrested tried in a court of law, and sentenced as mandated by the laws of the land, but instead are roaming about free; don't you think that we are indeed a conciliatory society enough? My borther, where is the spirit of working together for the well being of the state, an effort which should include you me and our fellow citizens, other than worrying about someone's personal craving to ride in a motorcade and flying a small national flag by the side of a car. Anyone who is losing sleep over it, can buy his/her own cars, hire a few bike riders and stick as many flags as he/she would like on the cars. As far as EBK's political experience goes, i hope he is not as experieced as Tejan Kabba or Berewa. If he is, LORD HELP US ALL. We will be going back to square one.
From: Kamara
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Date Posted: 18:28:42 12/09/07 ()
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You are right , EBK has the prerogative to hire who he wants , the cabinet could be from his household or hometown. The issue is whether it is tactical for a notion rebounding from civil war. The elections in 2012 will prove him wrong or right.
From: watari
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Date Posted: 22:49:55 12/08/07 ()
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man you said it all,i`ve not seen a slpp south/eastern person who does have bad blood for a northerner.do you know that the defeated slpp stack the civil service with their south/eastern people?
From: Ishmael Yillah
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Date Posted: 19:59:25 12/08/07 ()
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Well said Ms. Adams!!!!!!!!!!!!!
From: Brabanxx
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Date Posted: 13:09:51 12/08/07 ()
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Kortor Fen Pabla, we go way back. I know that the caption of this posting does ring a high clanging,jiggling, and loud bell. Both of us had once agreed and believed in the afforementioned caption-esprit de corps. Today I looked up the meaning of that caption once more. One of the the prints read thus:
esprit de corps;noun
Having said that Fen Pabla, let me tell you how one gets appointed to the positions. (i)The prezo knows people he wants; (ii)applications are accepted from interested parties; (iii)scouts submit the names of potential candidates. When PMDC submitted the names of their candidates for appointments the APC did not put a regional clause for their consideration. Please Fen Pabla appeal to our people from the South/East who have not been tapped yet to please apply for positions they deem fit and qualify for. I know that there is a need for a regional balance amongst APC. However, it's too early to paint HE EBK with your northern tilt brush.
From: Fen Plaba!
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Date Posted: 13:52:13 12/08/07 ()
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Esprit de Corps indeed Brabanxx! How can I forget that FBC SU Prez election rally that we agreed upon in your room in Solo Caulker! We fought a great fight, lost to Abdul Thorlu Gbla's Virtu movement, and sealed our friendship in granite.
I am hoping that the Southeasterners will apply for top level positions in the govt and that they will be given a fair shake. As I already said elsewhere on this forum, I believe that the president made an error in his initial appointments. He is not, however, the raging tribalist some are trying him to make him out to be. He is a sober person who understands that an inclusive govermment will bring untold blessings to all our people. A parochial government, on the other hand, will be an unmitigated disaster for Sierra Leone. We need someone to bind the nation's wounds and create policies for the country's progress and development. I believe EBK will eventually fit that bill and some of us will continue to support him as he works hard to do right by Sierra Leone. We must not forget that he has only been in State House for less than three months. He is gonna be just fine.
Light tiday, Bumbuna tumarah!
Osaaai, Owaaai!
From: SGK
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Date Posted: 12:33:38 12/08/07 ()
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take that
From: MORE FUN.
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Date Posted: 13:30:24 12/08/07 ()
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aaSRfbA5ECg
From: Fen Plaba!
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Date Posted: 13:19:50 12/08/07 ()
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Thanks SGK for the mellow music.
Enjoy the weekend.
From: SGK
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Date Posted: 12:31:24 12/08/07 ()
Email Address: sheku-kamara@hotmail.co.uk
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COLD PLAY
From: SGK
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Date Posted: 12:27:13 12/08/07 ()
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COLD PLAY
From: TALK TRUE.
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Date Posted: 12:03:58 12/08/07 ()
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WHY IS IT THAT NO ONE CARES TO MENTION THAT THIS WHOLE GENERATOR RENTAL WAS AN SLPP IDEA WHICH THEY DID NOT FOLLOW THROUGH WITH BECAUSE OF COST?
I WAS LOOKING UP ON THIS BELGIAN COMPANY (Global Trading Group) THAT GOT THE CONTRACT, BRA A DON GOOGLE DIS THING TEA ARARA NATIN NOR CAME UP. REMEMBER THE APC BELGIUM CONECTIONS IN THE MOMOH DAYS?
1. THE BELGIUM COMPANY WIN THE BID (TAKE THERE CUT), THEN PAY CATAPILER FOR BRING THE GENERATOR. (YOU SEE HOW THIS DAE GO SO FAR?
NOW I JUST READ THIS:
(The minister also took his time to give an update about the Bumbuna Hydro-electric power project. He said that the Italian contractors told the President that $32 million was needed to complete the project.The President asked whether Sierra Leone would have permanent electricity if the money was provided and the company replied in the affirmative. They said that the project could be completed by December 2008 or early 2009.)
SO WE NEED $32 MILL TO COMPLETE OUR OWN 50 MEGAWATTS BUT WE SPEND $32 MILL TO RENT 15 MEGAWATTS?
From: Sam
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Date Posted: 00:26:20 12/09/07 ()
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Another SLPP basta pikin I see. Get your facts bro instead of just/before criticizing. The money came directly from the World Bank not from our coffers. And GTC is established and have done work for the Gambian govt.
From: TO SAM
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Date Posted: 10:12:12 12/09/07 ()
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SAM YOU STILL DAE CUSS MAMMY CUSS, OR YOU TAKE BREAK FOR GO CHURCH.
HOW THE BROCKTON MASSACHUSETTS
YOU DOM TAKE SOME TEM FOR KNOW UDAT NA BASTA PEKIN????
From: TO SAM
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Date Posted: 10:09:47 12/09/07 ()
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SAM YOU STILL DAE CUSS MAMMY CUSS, OR YOU TAKE BREAK FOR GO CHURCH.
HOW THE MASSACHUSETTS BROCKTON
From: Sam
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Date Posted: 00:14:06 12/11/07 ()
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ah still de pan am pa. but church de call me. man get for reflect for di nu year
From: TALK TRUE
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Date Posted: 09:32:19 12/09/07 ()
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SLPP basta pikin??? You sure???
BRA (bstnma)(SAM)YOU NOR DAE ENTER DARK ROOM EN BEGIN COSS MAMY COSS. YOU NOR KNOW IF NAR YOU BROTHER DAE NAR THE OTHER SIDE.
CLASIC APC COMMUNICATION HANDICAP.
From: POLITICAL
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Date Posted: 22:40:47 12/08/07 ()
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I may be wrong and I'm willing to accept correction. I think the $32 million is from debt cancellation from the international community as a refund to the country. The international community stopped to give this money to the SLPP until after the election. What actually I had wanted you to argue is the domestic revenue that was collected from the country. Am I wrong?
From: BRA ENVIABLE
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Date Posted: 11:54:08 12/08/07 ()
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As debates fly back and forth over President Koroma's presidential style, one cannot fail to see the political weakness in Sierra Leone's new head of state. President Ernest Koroma may have good intentions for the country he leads, but his poor social skills are dangerously opposed to the goals he may want to achieve. Less than three months into the presidency, the man has shown that he is hidebound by a stiff style that makes him unable to reach out to people from a different tribal background. The word "trust" has been used to defend the president's tribalistic taste, and on every occasion Koroma is excused for singularly employing "people he TRUSTS," one sees weakness rather than strength in this president. The president's job descr1ption requires him to hold together a unitary state of many tribes that should be led and protected by the powers of the presidency. The ability to "trust" a specific segment of the population means Ernest Koroma himself cannot be ENTRUSTED with the task of leading a nation fractured by years of war. Since there was no tribal victor in the civil war, a skillful, post-war president must preside over a nation that sees him as the magnet of national unity. Apparently illiterate in the mixing of tribal chemistries, Ernest Koroma has shown that he does not have the social skills needed to promote our national oneness.
From: Hassan Kamara
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Date Posted: 21:16:25 12/09/07 ()
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BRA ENVIABLE,
I have on several occasion watch with interest on your tribalistic POSTINGS. Your postings are nothing more than to spark chaos in our beloved country. Where were you when the defeated SLLP was asking Sierra Leoneans for SLPP PARTY MEMBERSHIP CARDS before securing government jobs, where were you when the TEKLOMA ASSOCIATION and your SOUTH/EASTERNERS were funelling funds to the RUF, Where were you when you SOUTH/EASTERN CABAL in the likes of the JONNIES instigated the military to remove the legitimate government. My advice is to wait and see if the President fail to provide what is needed for his people before you start condemning him. I know you are doing nothing but to campaign for your SOUTH/EASTERN CABAL to secure jobs in the administration so that they can use their position to destroy the good intention of the President. As intelligent as you are i expect you to make meaninful contributions to our country rather than to ignite fire. I hope you and your Sama Banya are not planning another REBEL WAR in the country. In one of Sama's article, he mentioned going to BURKINAFASO, the headquarter of the rebel movement.
From: Frank killow
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Date Posted: 13:42:05 12/10/07 ()
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Hassan,
From: LOW GRADE SAN SAN
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Date Posted: 04:45:41 12/09/07 ()
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From the appointments of Sheka Tarawallie to Zainab Bangura, it is now known that Ernest Koroma is socially illiterate, and therefore incapable of being comfortable around Sierra Leoneans without a northern lineage.
From: Anthony Sisay
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Date Posted: 17:26:23 12/08/07 ()
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Exactly, in as much as I would have voted for the man if I was in Sierra Leone, his first moves as president have actually let me down. I have lost all my trust in him. As a nation I think we have just made a big mistake by letting him in and I just hope that come 2012 he will be kind enough to allow a free and fair election.
From: fmansaray
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Date Posted: 23:20:33 12/08/07 ()
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LET THERE BE LIGHT AND THERE WAS LIGHT.
This President has a monumental task at hand. He assumed his position day one dealing with very difficult issues facing our nation. He is tackling the main problem that will have domino effect to jump start the economy.
Of good old Sierra Leone.
Become the most successful president sierra Leone has ever got. He is committed to the issues as well as the welfare of the people of Sierra Leone.
From: fmansaray
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Date Posted: 23:19:38 12/08/07 ()
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LET THERE BE LIGHT AND THERE WAS LIGHT.
This President has a monumental task at hand. He assumed his position day one dealing with very difficult issues facing our nation. He is tackling the main problem that will have domino effect to jump start the economy.
Of good old Sierra Leone.
Become the most successful president sierra Leone has ever got. He is committed to the issues as well as the welfare of the people of Sierra Leone.
From: ok dot
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Date Posted: 15:14:47 12/08/07 ()
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Bra Jamba Smoker,
From: fact
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Date Posted: 15:12:16 12/08/07 ()
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why all this noise about shekito? Kabbah made Kanja Daramy his spokesman and you did not cough.
From: fact
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Date Posted: 15:06:52 12/08/07 ()
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"The ability to "trust" a specific segment of the population means Ernest Koroma himself cannot be ENTRUSTED with the task of leading a nation fractured by years of war. Since there was no tribal victor in the civil war, a skillful, post-war president must preside over a nation that sees him as the magnet of national unity. Apparently illiterate in the mixing of tribal chemistries, Ernest Koroma has shown that he does not have the social skills needed to promote our national oneness. "
From: Blitz
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Date Posted: 12:21:22 12/08/07 ()
Email Address: unikad5@yahoo.com
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BRA ENVIABLE wrote "The word 'trust' has been used to defend the president's tribalistic taste, and on every occasion Koroma is excused for singularly employing 'people he TRUSTS,' one sees weakness rather than strength in this president."
From: Fen Plaba!
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Date Posted: 12:39:11 12/08/07 ()
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Socially illiterate, Ernest most definitely is not!
Yes, the president is having a rough start by being foolishly unrepresentative in his cabinet selections. I chalk this to rookie jitters and the sycophantic singing birds in his posse.
Where you have already prematurely coffined his presidency after three short months, I still have tremendous faith in the man and his ability to rise above this initial setback and do great things for the country. It has just been three months, Bra E, three months! Let's hold our fire and allow him space to lead.
From: Erica Adams
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Date Posted: 10:45:14 12/08/07 ()
Email Address: ericamonique82@hotmail.com
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Reading the posts on this forum, I was reminded of a theory my husband and I were recently exposed to called the Crazy Cycle. Basically this means doing the same thing and expecting different results. Things remain the same in our lives until someone is willing to do things differently. EBK has said he is willing to do things differently for the sake of Sierra Leone, but before he can get properly adjusted to his new position, he has be criticized at every turn. I read on this forum recently that his inexperience is showing. I don't think he ever presented himself as an experienced president. Realistically, any of us who have every taken on a new position have had to learn our job as time went on. Even if we went into a parallel position, we still needed to learn about the new organizational climate and dynamics of the new institution. In reading the appraisals about the new president, I have become more and more convinced that many on this forum are addicted to the problems of Sierra Leone. It's a pervasive mindset or spirit you might say that continues to keep a resource rich nation at the bottom of development indexes. Even though I don't care for George Bush or many of his policies, I love America. I didn't vote for him, but I support him because at this point the future of America rest in his hands. I take comfort that in spite of my displeasure with him, I know there is an authority higher than him and so no matter what George Bush does he does not have the final say in what ultimately happens in this country. Many of you would do well to stop glorifying the problems Sierra Leone has and letting go of the past wrongs that have happened. I would choose to help lift up EBK and do whatever possible to hold him accountable to his word and all the promises he has made to improve Sierra Leone. One of the things many of you fail to do is respect the position he holds regardless of your like or dislike for him. Most of you have bosses you dislike, but because of the paycheck your jobs offer; you have no problem showing respect for the position he/she has. If you didn't, you wouldn't be there for long.
From: Anthony Sisay
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Date Posted: 19:12:59 12/08/07 ()
Email Address: anthonysisay@yahoo.com
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Erica Adams,
I don't quite agree with you. I think people on this forum are doing some thing that has never been done before. We are criticizing the president and telling him that tribalism will drag the country back to war; that he must find out the human resources at hand and delegate jobs appropriately; that he must do the right thing at the very beginning. We are backward because we have been lying dormant most of the time (I don’t mean this in any violent way).
From: Erica Adams
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Date Posted: 19:42:51 12/08/07 ()
Email Address: ericamonique82@hotmail.com
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There is not a problem with critizing, but for the most part that is all people on this forum do. Leading up to the elections and right after, people were more solution oriented. I haven't seen that for some time now.
From: Anthony Sisay
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Date Posted: 20:48:37 12/08/07 ()
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Erica, I don't want to keep our valuable time arguing about whether EBK is doing the right thing or not, the fact is that he has started wrongly, period!
From: Erica Adams
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Date Posted: 21:18:25 12/08/07 ()
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You brought the comparison when you asked if Powell and Rice were from the same tribe as Bush, I was simply replying.
From: Anthony Sisay
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Date Posted: 01:34:01 12/09/07 ()
Email Address: anthonysisay@yahoo.com
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Erica,
From: SGK
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Date Posted: 05:53:59 12/09/07 ()
Email Address: sheku-kamara@hotmail.co.uk
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Orsesay,
Ha lek some of you crase radical views ranging from religion, race,tribe to social.
Ha lek this one especially, "How other president appoints their inner circle in Africa does not interest me because it has no credibility, they are designed to fail, and otherwise we will not be having failed states all over the place. We have to design our own model that works best for our country."
However, ar go still remain nar me poh man and sa lone party(A.P.C) as of now till ah see wetin dem go do for the contri en for the pipul dem.
From: Anthony Sisay
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Date Posted: 08:37:26 12/09/07 ()
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SGK,
A nor hate APC at all. I just think say we for start for help we sef now so dat we contry go go befoe. And I wish the president for do well for unite us rather than divide us.
From: Mohamed A. Kamara
To: All
Date Posted: 13:07:02 12/09/07 ()
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Mr. Sisay we will like to be in good hands, like getting an "ALL STATE" insurance policy, after EBK has destroyed the country. PPPLLLEEEAAASSSEEE run for the 2012 presidential election. We could surely use your expartise in all aspects of governance. With the kind of energy for nitpicking you seem to possess, don't waste it now. According to you, it is a foregone conclusion that EBK will fail, complementary to the tribal path you believe he has taken. Once again please conserve that hype now to deliver us from the nightmare, come 2012. The could use an asset like you.
From: Anthony Sisay
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Date Posted: 17:25:33 12/09/07 ()
Email Address: anthonysisay@yahoo.com
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Mr. Kamara,
From: KKW
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Date Posted: 16:21:13 12/08/07 ()
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I think that the fact that he is being criticized ceaselessly is a good thing. It can be frustrating, even annoying, but it is an inevitable consequence of true democracy. Somewhere in this cacaphony of sound, the president hears the voice of his people and maybe, just maybe, potential excesses may be held in check.
From: Anthony Sisay
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Date Posted: 19:16:14 12/08/07 ()
Email Address: anthonysisay@yahoo.com
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You got it right there bro.
From: Mensa
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Date Posted: 12:03:37 12/08/07 ()
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Thumps up for your guide to a realistic interpretation of current political events, Sis! It's always prudent to dilute our intensive critiscism of President Koroma with a little dose of realism. I'm quite certain that your input above is not designed to win Prezo any political sympathy. Rather, it's a plea to fellow forumites to give the man a chance. I think I can join you on that one, if only your husband won't be jealous, of course.
From: Candid Opinion
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Date Posted: 12:28:02 12/08/07 ()
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Bo una lef..
I wonder how much more he needs to be an experience politician..Especially in Sierra Leone where politics and national life is concentrated around siaka steven street...We too small for Ernest for be leader of APC for 5 years and be clueless..
Except you all want to be hyprocrites..
KOROMA's PROFESSIONAL LIFE?? Almost born with a silver spoon
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He attended Fourah Bay College, in Freetown, from which he graduated in 1976. After graduating, Koroma taught briefly at the St. Francis Secondary School in Makeni and then joined the Sierra Leone National Insurance Company in 1978. In 1985, he joined the Reliance Insurance Trust Corporation (Ritcorp), and in 1988, he became Managing Director of Ritcorp, remaining in that position for 14 years.
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Why is it not the best and biggest and why is it not the giant in the west african market..?
Run salone like a business?????
What about the BUSINESS YOU RAN FOR 14 years???
And some people critisize Dr Sama Banya?
E look lek this bombali borbor get power just lek momoh..
Na Uda gee Koro power? Nah god..
Or Koro sidom saful, dem take poer go gee am, mama yea..
From: Kawusu
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Date Posted: 08:38:10 12/08/07 ()
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"Our president needs to transition from being a leader of one faction of the APC to becomng a true national leader." Fenplabla
Merry christmas and Happy New Year for that factual statement. Has EBK stopped roaming the West African Sub-region with his trademark red tie?
From: Fen Plaba!
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Date Posted: 09:31:45 12/08/07 ()
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"U see komaneh Fenplabla the difference between you and EBK is that you went to Bo School, ate Bo School Kondoh and romanced those beautiful SouthEastern girls"
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Pa Komaneh Kawusu,
Nar word you tok so! Bo School, Paris Block D. First girlfriend in Form One: xxxxxx Wai, QRS girl. Introduced to me at the St. Andrews sports meet by my buddy Charles Lebbie's girlfriend, also from QRS. O the days of sweet innocence...
When I was in school, Bo School and Boys School were rivals. I really oughta be opposing EBK based on that history. However, I believe that this man has a good heart. I am hoping that he will correct the rubbish demographics of his cabinet and make it fully representative of all Sierra Leoneans. I applaud the electricity and other developments and will laud the govt efforts in this regard.
I however, cannot in good conscience, support a government that sidelines an important segment of our society. All my history, from Bo School to FBC and abroad, I have always been an enthusiastic proponent of integration and unity. I am hoping that the president will rectify this iniquitius perfidy to Southeasterners in his cabinet and policy advisory council within a few months. I really want this president to succeed wildly for Sierra Leone...Multitribal, multi ethnic Salone!
From: Sabanoh
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Date Posted: 17:40:12 12/08/07 ()
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"U see komaneh Fenplabla the difference between you and EBK is that you went to Bo School, ate Bo School Kondoh and romanced those beautiful SouthEastern girls"
From: Fen Plaba!
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Wetin?!!! Sabanoh, I was a Towei Bomba in the dining hall. When they clang that bell at meal time, I was usually off to the races. The Towei (binch) had tiny black bugs in it that only a true Bo School Boy could chop without retching.
Do you know what we used to watch over the hospital fence? Ah the raging hormones of teenagers! There used to be a hospital toilet just across the fence by the Auditorium building. I guess the toilet was filthy because some of the women used to raise their 'kupays' to tinkle outside by the wall, not knowing that dozens of hot, prying teenage eyes were surreptitiously eying them. Mr Johnson couldn't understand why his boring math class was so popular...until one day when one chap was caught, and he spilled the beans. Our voyeurism came to an abrupt end. The biggest blokes in school 'po-poed' us and we were each given a double dozen with a rattan cane and suspended for two weeks. My father was outraged by my behaviour and landed another dirty dozen on my backside when I went home with the ignominy of a school suspension. That cured the 'look-look' epidemic once and for all.
From: Ishmael Yillah
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Date Posted: 11:47:10 12/08/07 ()
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According to relaible soueces, the president appoints the people the he really trusted to help him expedite the beautification of our country. However, he has an intention to reshuffle his cabinet and bring in more mendes, konos and kissi after 2012 elecctions. Mr. Koroma is not stupid to allow his opponents in his cabinets to sabotage the good plan he has set for the country during the first term of his administration. Please let's give more time to get a clear grip of power before you start to judge him.
thanks,
ishmael yillah
From: nico
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Date Posted: 10:10:12 12/08/07 ()
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Fenplaba
This I believe would eventually yield political dividend for the APC as long as it also maintain it popularity in west and north.
From: ishmael Yillah
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Mr. Nico!
How do you expect EBK to utilize any south-easterners in his government if almost none of them supported his party? (except Bonth shebro)Don't you that is a recipe for his failure? I personally do not believe that his cabinet his biased aginst the south and east because almost all his supporters are from the north or northern traders who have migrated to the south and east. Take for instance, Hindolo Trye a southener who is a strong supporter of EBK and presently he is one of the ministers in his cabinet. Mr. koroma can still bring the people of the east and south onboard through social incentives and infrastructural development without appointing people that might use anything at their disposal to undermine his government to help SLPP win 2012 elections.
From: Fen Plaba!
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One of the things that I have come to admire about you, Bra Nico, is the honesty and freshness of the ideas you bring to the national debate. That is why I read your postings religiously.
Indeed EBK has a great opportunity to unite the country in a tangible way....he can still do it if he genuinely makes every region in Sierra Leone stakeholders in his government's success. There are so many worthy patriots, from the South East, in the Diaspora who are eager to serve the country, regardless of party affiliation, if asked. I also know a lot of Krios who would be ready to leave their well-paying jobs abroad to serve their country. As you correctly noted the president can accomplish this noble feat without a need to illicitly romance those recycled politicians who have given the country so much grief. Forget the Sama Banyas, JB Daudas and others. Bring in fresh faces.
Also as you cogently stated, embracing the sons and daughters of the Southeast will be a strategic move. It is just smart politics, Ernest....Duh!
You are a great Sierra Leonean, Nico. Enjoy the Saturday.
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Liberia's ex-President Gyude Bryant has been arrested over charges that he embezzled some $1m while in office. Police detained him after he failed to appear in court to answer the charges.
Mr Bryant, who headed the country during a transitional phase after the end of the 14-year civil war in 2003, was charged in February.
He denies the charges. As he was being taken to the main prison, he said that he was being rewarded with detention for restoring peace and democracy.
President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf took office last year after winning elections on a pledge to fight graft.
He had been free on bail.
From: okdok
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Date Posted: 05:14:59 12/08/07 ()
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As i can see in the rader,serious tention is building up in our beloved country due to the happenings right now from election.I know some people will never admit but APC members might even confuse the president before its too long since he is not doing what they want I am sorry for the president but this not a load he might carry for long.
From: Fen Plaba!
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Date Posted: 06:01:03 12/08/07 ()
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Most of the tension is not from the people Okdok. This 'tension' is from the well-orchestrated propaganda from a bunch of bitter SLPP internet tappers who have never accepted that their party was democratically defeated. As Samba Poyo-Buli and Isata Patch-Granat await, with bated breath, the electrification of Freetown after all these years in the SLPP darkness, they are not even listening to the irritating mosquito hum of the SLPP in their ear.
It's just three months my people since EBK was voted in! The President will hopefully get his act together, with regards to a more representative government, and go on to be a great president.
My advice to my SLPP brithers is simple. You will not score kudos from the people by spewing slander and vitriol against EBK. You can't just be Senators No. Tell the people what you would do different...offer an alternative. Immovable opposition to everything APC will not get you back in power. No coup or bush war will put you in State House either. It's the ballot box baby, the ballot box!
From: Kamara
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Date Posted: 06:43:15 12/08/07 ()
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The tension will come from people when EBK does not deliver. The Sierra leonean electorate is very impatient, it will kick out any person that does not deliver. The diaspora on the internet have a false sense of importance,they have no say on the outcome of the politics in Sierra Leone. The people there do not want us around, they will take your dollar or Euro donations, trust me, they do not want you around. Those APC fanatics in New Jersey and the U>S who are masquerading as if they were responsible for the APC victory are fooling themselves. How many jobs slots have been offered to these stalwarts.
From: nico
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Date Posted: 09:22:20 12/08/07 ()
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Kamara:
From: Kamara
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Date Posted: 12:10:58 12/08/07 ()
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As I said folks back home want the diasporan monies but not them competing for their jobs or positions. APC diasporans candidates won because the party was in a building up phase, they needed candidates that could finance themselves unlike SLPP where the party members back home were entrenched in their positions. The true test is if the same amount and % of APC diasporan candidates will win 2012. MY guess is no, as the APC party MPs will be entrenched in the system and try to frustrate competition from abroad.
From: Fen Plaba!
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Date Posted: 07:35:39 12/08/07 ()
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As long as the opposition is within the rule of law and doesn't incite the guns to blaze again, hey, it's all good. My problem is with all the irresponsible and immature pronouncements by some SLPPers who are finding the opposition benches too hard for their butts. For the life of me, I cannot understand why SLPP would rant in opposition to the reelectrification of Salone, with some cockamamie story of corruption. To the average Sierra Leonean, it sounds as if -excuse the cliche- SLPP is indeed the enemy of progress.
The sad thing about our politics is that our people back home are more sophisticated in their politics than the uncouth variety practised by diasporans in the West. Africans just seem to love their tribal politics abroad!
From: Candid Opinion
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Date Posted: 11:42:54 12/08/07 ()
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Bo lef we bo..
The corruption charges did not eminate from SLPP quarters..You miss road..Haja Half half been a bazzi errand gyal was not made up by SLPP cyber mortalman bo..
And I am thinking that was an irresponsibly planted story, especially since EBK is now coming out with statements like "Rice is a political Commodity" and knowing that he was aware that the rice was disposed in a candid way and said nothing..
Crooks in APC does not need a microscope to find..
Reading 1 salone paper online a day (well other than the APC's Sun a set times published by REVO) you would get a glipmse of the common mans wohala under the BURNING RED SUN....
I wonder what it will be called this time around.??
Any guesses..?
From: kamara
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Date Posted: 08:36:01 12/08/07 ()
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The truth is the sierra leoneans in the diaspora are irrelevant to the outcome of the elections back home.They will not refuse the few dollars we donate. there are wealthier people back home who could singlehandedly sponsor these parties.They do not need or genuinely want us back there. Thus most us in the diaspora spend our time pontificating on the internet as we are unable to abruptly leave and utilize our talents in sierra Leone.
From: BLOCK WHO ?
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I have investigated the whole thing and I can tell you'all for a fact that Alpha Kanu was quite right. No Press Secretary has yet been appointed at State House. What is annoying me about this new regime is that it is also becoming a mumu government like the SLPP. If Minister of Presidential Affairs says one thing and a common citizen contradicts him, making even the President not to look good, why is the government not coming out to clarify ? Why is Shekito's statement not being confirmed or refuted, if it is untrue , as some of us know ? Did EBK talk to him privately and refuse to tell the ministers of Presidential Affairs and Information ? What are his reasons ? Shekito's explanation that Executive President can do what he likes makes the President look bad in our democracy, especially when he has been appointing everybody through the right channel .I know EBK and Shekito and can bet my life that he did not call Shekito to make him Press Ssecretary of State House. I trust EBK's integrity more than Shekito's . What is so special about Shekito that EBK would breach his integrity on his account ? State House, can we hear from you ? Who is the Press Secretary of State House ? Besides, if State House is smart, they will find something wrong with what Shekito is doing, like exposing a confidential discussion between him and the President, if it is true . Will Shekito be telling the world about any discussion he has with the President ? This whole thing smells fishy .
From: Yes
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EOM
From: Fen Plaba!
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Date Posted: 05:38:42 12/08/07 ()
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Block Who,
This behaviour of the government's in this messsy saga is indeed depressing. I don't know Shekito from Sokoto but I do no that it is a breach of protocol for him to blab about his 'appointment' to the world before an official announcement. My beef with all this is that the reputation of a good man of God has beeen soiled and held up for ridicule even though he never made any prior comment about the PS job.
I am not going to blame the Information Minister about any Mumuism. As Shekito said, the buck stops with El Presidente. He can put an end to this clownish saga, if he chooses to, with an official announcement. By the way, why do we even need a Press Secretary at State House? Why can't the Minister of Information just do the job himself? All he does is run around trying to set policy for newspapers, that routinely ignore him, and a wretched network of radio stations.
SLPPers, forgetting their own wretched past, are pointing fingers gleefully at EBK. Shioor. Una lef we ya!
From: Kamara
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Date Posted: 06:48:50 12/08/07 ()
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Forget about SLPP, They are out of power. We are just seeing the inexperience of the Govt. The govt has to bring press savy people in who can spin for it. The govt has been silent on everything. Attacks on foreigners and relatives of SLPP members. No word.
From: Fen Plaba!
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Date Posted: 07:51:35 12/08/07 ()
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I agree with you Kamara. I really hope this president gets his act together. Some of his initial moves have disappointed some of us, his supporters. I will still give him a chance to correct mistakes and move the country forward. Our president needs to transition from being a leader of one faction of the APC to becomng a true national leader. Those who love the president should scream through his coterie of sycophants and let him know that, for the sake of the country, he needs to make a vigorous effort to include more Southeasterners in the government. There are thousands of more-than-competent professionals from the Southeast who are ready to serve their country. Some of us will continue to scream about that until this accursed imbalance is corrected. EBK, you can still be a great president but you gotta take care of this Cabinet thingy...
From: Candid Opinion
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Oga fen plaba..
That we are dis----- appointed with this bombali passe..
APC sheemee needs a few days out in the sun to dry..
I hear he said YEA instead of NEA when the matter was drawn up for discussion in parliament..
From: Fen Plaba!
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Date Posted: 11:30:06 12/08/07 ()
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Alright Candido,
The Northern Posse thing....We are in sad agreement about that. However I still believe that the Electricity thing, The Christiana Thorpe business, the Libyan RESS saga are all propaganda souped up in the SLPP propaganda lab. If anything factual is presented to show APC complicity, believe me, I will be a ferocious Pit Bull on the attack. I will help raise the biggest stink about it until the ACC takes proper action. But for now, I will give the president the benefit of the doubt and let him do his job.....uniting the peole and bringing much needed progress.
By the way, I had forgotten about Judge Ito....Bra, nar encyclopedia you dae kerr nar you ade?
From: Candid Opinion
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Date Posted: 11:56:16 12/08/07 ()
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Electricity think was started by standard times..
Thats is hardly a SLPP propaganda outlet..
Any sensible human would ask why this much ariobo attitude towards citizens calling for results to be published..?????
And why the fishy website cancellation????
It smells like fish, that all we are saying..
Its up to Christian TopUp to make it clear that yes its fish, but its frozen.. not rotten..
Is that too much to ask of a government employee?? Especially when ITS ALL ABOUT A DEMOCRATIC ELECTION (Well until election don..Now its, you ungrateful bastards, why ask after the fact).
That one you are astronomically off course..
Standard times editor should be getting the Ministry of Information Job...That story was a APC plant..
I wonder why he is not sitting good with EBK these days. That story and its timing came from above..
From: Sierra Express Media
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Date Posted: 00:21:21 12/08/07 ()
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7 December, 2007
Police Named in Lebanese Money Laundry Scandal
From: JJ Blood
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Date Posted: 23:49:11 12/07/07 ()
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Mr. President, You Missed the Point
From: Salone Boy
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Date Posted: 19:11:25 12/08/07 ()
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JJ Blood thanks for the lecture but it appears to me that you are the one who is missing the point. I must hasten to add that I have absolutely no interest in Sa Leone party politics; never have and never will be. All I pray for is a better Sierra Leone. The APC cannot take any lessons from you or your party since you failed to prove yourselves to the people of Sa Leone. I have great respect for you as you taught me in Bo School but I think you and your party have to do some soul searching and see where you guys went wrong; lets face it there is no use crying over spilled milk.
From: Fen Plaba!
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Date Posted: 07:04:26 12/08/07 ()
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JJ Blody Mary,
I am really touched by the copious crocodile tears in your self-serving piece. I will like to congratulate SLPP, with all your wonderful Development Economists, for wickedly underdeveloping Sierra Leone during your party's rapacious reign. I bet you my last Crawo Mondoh that if you go to any of the hopeless ghettoes in Freetown, that your party's bankrupt policies helped create, and tell them about SLPP glory days, they will tie you up like a hog and flog you with a Koboko till you apologise for the outrageous corruption of your party that brought the country to its knees.
Did I hear you just cynically blame the APC for the increase in the price of rice and transportation in the few months they have been in power? My Mans, why don't you be candid with the people and tell them that these increases are the SLPP chickens coming home to roost. You guys messed up and the country is now paying the price.
Your criticism of the president, in stacking his cabinet with Northerners at the expense of Southeasterners, is quite valid and correct. I agree with you 100% that the president must realize that he is no longer the leader of a faction of the APC but the leader of the whole country. His government must reflect the regional demographics of the country.
However, will you be honest and tell everyone that the SLPP also purged Northerners from government positions and padded the rolls with a cabal from the SouthEast? Will you kindly inform us all that you cynically appointed Southeasterners with Northern-sounding names to the Cabinet to fudge the process and fool people that you guys were all inclusive? Will you look Sierra Leone and promise never to engage in tribal politics again?
And as a Public Service exercise, are you willing to join forces with the Secretaries General of APC and PMDC and educate Sierra Leoneans at home and in the Diaspora about the evils of tribal politics?
From: Kamara
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Date Posted: 07:36:00 12/08/07 ()
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Fen plaba, The elections are over and SLPP was defeated. let us deal with APC's performance so far. The party in power gets the credit when things go well and takes the blame when things go badly.
From: babbob
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Date Posted: 10:23:00 12/08/07 ()
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Deliver, deliver, deliver...........
From: Sia
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Date Posted: 13:30:12 12/08/07 ()
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Bra you tok sense. we are blaming the president who has just been in power for lessthan 2 months. why can't we give him at least 12 months to prove his mettle. we gave slpp 14 years and we can't give EBK 12 months. what an unreasonable manner to behave.
From: Fen Plaba!
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Date Posted: 07:55:05 12/08/07 ()
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December 20 then...
I can't wait for my people to turn on the switch in my Baffa in Grassfield.
Let there be light...
From: TO FEN PLABA.
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Date Posted: 08:57:23 12/08/07 ()
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I cannot help but suspect that you are a paid APC propagandist on this forum. I do not care what the topic is or what the time of day is, this Fen Plaba guy is out there doing his job.
Bra, you nor get wok for do.
Readers; just take a look, he is all over the place. On all topics, on the same side.
I do not care what side you are on but we are all now feeling the Le 90,000.00 for a bag of rice and all the other APC characteristic problems. If APC rules Saudi Arabia petrol price will double and become scarce. Think about that.
From: Fen Plaba!
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Date Posted: 09:10:27 12/08/07 ()
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"I cannot help but suspect that you are a paid APC propagandist on this forum. I do not care what the topic is or what the time of day is, this Fen Plaba guy is out there doing his job".
Let's rock Servo!
From: Candid Opinion
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Date Posted: 09:54:13 12/08/07 ()
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Bra you nor go gee me small tin.?
From: Fen Plaba!
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Date Posted: 10:39:39 12/08/07 ()
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Morning O Candido,
I don't know about those positions in Sierra Leone, Bra. De Kaffa too small. I hear that a Security Guard here makes more honest money than a Minister back home. I need to make a little bit more money here...Gotta fund the college accounts of two small children.
You know how it is in this place. Money bocu nar check en small nar bank. I wouldn't want to be one of those returnees who stealthily slide their fingers into the country's backpocket....Astafulai 7 tem!
From: Candid Opinion
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I hear you mate..
ZERO corruption starts at home..
Edward Kargbo used to be a truck driver, well his kids went to skool with british royalty..
Same with YT sesay and SUMA... so yo usee.. you might be selling you pikins short..
From: TO FEN PLABA.
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Date Posted: 09:50:43 12/08/07 ()
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Me na Honest man. I eat my words back. I just read your posting "MY GIANT SUPPORT FOR ERNEST BAI KOROMA!” and it shows that at least for ones you were on the other side.
Remember, APC is now the government, not the SLPP. We judge the APC not against the SLPP but in line with what they said they would do, and what as a government is supposed to do. If we have to bring the SLPP back into discursion, we would have to bring back the Siaka Stevens/Momoh APC in the mix.
DEM KILL DOG BEFO DOG FOR MEK DOG KNOW SAY DIE DAY.
Remember the flamboyant Septimus KaiKai in 1996? Propaganda has its limits.
From: Fen Plaba!
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Date Posted: 10:48:20 12/08/07 ()
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Yes Bra, love of party should not get in the way of duty to country. My support for the APC is in no way dogmatic. We will call them on their mistakes and hope that they correct their ways. To do otherwise is dishonest and sycophantic. All of us need to hold our respective parties to the noble ideals of Sierra Leone: Unity, Freedom and Justice. God bless you sir and enjoy your Saturday.
From: Kamara
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Date Posted: 08:20:49 12/08/07 ()
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You better have light by Dec 20, if not that is when you will see the irresponsible opposition making noise. I hope the electricity is long term. I saw street lights in Freetown in July. Do not know happened to them
From: Candid Opinion
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Date Posted: 09:56:29 12/08/07 ()
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I hear "alledged" the presidents brother was seen with some copper cables for make cold pot...so maybe thats why light don go fus..
From: Fen Plaba!
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Date Posted: 11:40:01 12/08/07 ()
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Allegations, Shallegations!
Wan Tay yeh!
Candido, you know this is another dastardly SLPP propaganda.
From: Candid Opinion
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Date Posted: 12:07:34 12/08/07 ()
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Propaganda, Total banga!
SLPP propaganda outlet..?
The whole newspaper is RED..
From: Fen Plaba!
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Date Posted: 13:01:18 12/08/07 ()
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One thimg about us APCers, we do not control the opinions of all and sundry within the party. We criticize and condemn ourselves but end up uniting at the last minute. SLPP on the other hand has a boot camp mentality. You step out of order and you have to do 100 push ups for the drill sergeant. Remember what happened to Charles Margai? He challenged party orthodoxy and he was booted out.
Anyway, Awoko may be red but they do allow red and green journalists to show their penmanship..
I still smell SLPP propaganda. ACC where art thou?
From: David A Jabati Jnr
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Date Posted: 23:39:09 12/07/07 ()
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Friday, 07 December 2007
Aggrieved police personnel in the Sierra Leone Police (SLP), The Exclusive has been reliably informed, are planning a protest geared towards expressing their dismay over certain burning issues in the Force.Prominent among the issues of concern raised by the personnel and for which they have resolved to down tools is a recent memo from the Inspector General of Police, Acha Kamara which calls for the immediate abortion of studies currently being undertaken by some personnel as a way of upgrading themselves.According to the aggrieved police personnel, the IG has categorically stated that whatever courses they are pursuing is illegal as it is not approved by the Management and that whatever papers or qualifications they come out with will not be recognized by the same. The victims have argued that their studies have not in any way affected their official duties."We just want to upgrade ourselves. At the end of the day, the Force and the entire country stand to benefit. By right, we are supposed to be granted study leave but for the past three years we have been deprived of that facility. Some of us have paid so much money in our different institutions and it is frustrating to know that our efforts, money and energy have all gone in vain," said one angry officer who pleaded anonymity.Other issues the angry officers raised with The Exclusive are poor conditions of service and their general welfare."We have been making a monthly contribution of Le4,000 to the Medicare Scheme which was designed to take care of our medical needs and that of our spouses. It is however sad to say that we have never realized the benefit of our contribution to the scheme. The Police Hospital at Kingtom is a death trap. The best medicine you can find there is Panadol," another disgruntled police officer lamented.Strike actions and threats of it have become a new vogue in Sierra Leone in recent time and until the government probes into these affected institutions and where necessary, effect a general overhaul of the management, the whole system will one day crumble. With the police towing the line of strikers, many Sierra Leoneans would wonder where this nation is heading for.
From: Anthony Sisay
To: All
Date Posted: 20:24:27 12/07/07 ()
Email Address: anthonysisay@yahoo.com
Entered From: pcd278115.netvigator.com at 203.218.68.115
Has anyone seen Wiri Wiri lately? I have not seen him since our last conversation. Can anyone tell me when he was last spotted? I warned him about HIV, has he come down with the disease?
From: Wiri Wiri
To: All
Date Posted: 21:40:40 12/07/07 ()
Email Address:
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Yep! Wiri Wiri is alive and kicking. I wonder what an engineer like you know about HIV. For your information, HIV is the acronym for "Human Immuno-Deficiency Virus". It is the name of a living thing, not a disease. You know, it is nice to be well rounded. Being a mathematical giant but absolutely oblivious of all other important things in life is more dangerous than being an illiterate like me. Please read a standard science text book or just pick up the newspaper and discover the connection between HIV and whatever the disease you were alluding to. I will leave it up to you to discover the information yourself ( we call it "inquiry" in education).
From: Anthony Sisay
To: All
Date Posted: 00:15:35 12/08/07 ()
Email Address: anthonysisay@yahoo.com
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Wiri Wiri,
From: labo labo
To: All
Date Posted: 21:32:17 12/07/07 ()
Email Address: abu@aol.com
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tony , i hope you did not creat wiri wiri. to labo about your sabi sabi. have you started packing your bag. man saleone need bookman dem lek una. nar waytin nar you price.
From: Anthony Sisay
To: All
Date Posted: 00:30:07 12/08/07 ()
Email Address: anthonysisay@yahoo.com
Entered From: pcd172037.netvigator.com at 203.218.17.37
If the president nor call me a no dae go no sai. The worst tin wae you go do to yousef is for go wanting to help and den you are completely ignored and left na Alice the Wonderland.
From: babbob
To: All
Date Posted: 00:52:12 12/08/07 ()
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Forum history shows that Mr. Anthony Sisay has been telling diaspoarans to go back home and help. But now, I read that He NEEDS SPECIAL INVITATION FROM THE PRESIDENT IN ORDER TO RETURN HOME.
From: Anthony Sisay
To: All
Date Posted: 01:09:48 12/08/07 ()
Email Address: anthonysisay@yahoo.com
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"Should I take anything Mr. Anthony Sisay says on this forum as Gospel?"
From: LABO LABO
To: All
Date Posted: 16:20:52 12/08/07 ()
Email Address: ASMU@AOL.COM
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TONY ARE SAYING BECAUSE YOU ARE FROM THE SOUTH SALEONE WOULD NOT USE YOUR EDUCATION ? MY TAKE ON THIS IS ,IT DID NOT MATTER IF YOU FROM THE SOUTH EAST NORHTWEST AS LONG AS YOU CAN HELP DEVELOP SIERRA LEONE THAT`S WHAT MATTERS.BY THE WAY THE PAST GOVERNMENT VALUE EDUCATION, WHAT DID THEY DO FOR EDUCATION ? TONY ARE SURE YOU EN ME GO DEA NAR WE EARLY 40`S .LEH WE PUT SLPP EN APC ASIDE EN HEP SALEONE. ME NAR PROUD APC MAN BUT WE HAVE TO GO BEYOND PARTY LINES FOR OUR LESS FORTUNATE KIDS IN SALEONE. BRA WIRI WIRI DAE E READY FOR KICK B...T
From: Anthony Sisay
To: All
Date Posted: 17:50:22 12/08/07 ()
Email Address: anthonysisay@yahoo.com
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Labo Labo,
We all want to help but you got to be recognized in the first place. The president has not made any move to know the wealth of human resources he has in the country.
From: Anthony Sisay-with the link
To: All
Date Posted: 19:36:13 12/07/07 ()
Email Address: anthonysisay@yahoo.com
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As far as I can see, SL was not born yesterday or 11 years ago. A lot of people on this forum are blaming everything on the SLPP regime for the backwardness of the country and yet when we were studying abroad on government scholarship, under the APC government even our $32 per month allowance was far fetched--in fact the government still owe me over $2,000.
From: Fen Plaba!
To: All
Date Posted: 07:14:22 12/08/07 ()
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At least, APC gave you a scholarship to study abroad. Free ticket to come abroad and an allowance to boot..
Me yone, no scholargoat. Hustle and Goree nar FBC, Granat and pamine moni for scrape tikit for cam ya so.
From: Bailor
To: All
Date Posted: 02:56:53 12/08/07 ()
Email Address:
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Dem say Davidson Nicol!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
From: Ronaldino
To: All
Date Posted: 22:29:34 12/07/07 ()
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What are you grumbling about? How come you got a scholarship? Have you paid the govt back? You should be grateful. plus you should have found a part time job to help ease your financial probs. How ungrateful are you!
From: Anthony Sisay
To: All
Date Posted: 00:54:44 12/08/07 ()
Email Address: anthonysisay@yahoo.com
Entered From: pcd172037.netvigator.com at 203.218.17.37
Well I think you are missing the main point here. If you can correctly answer the following question I will respond to your queries:
From: Ronaldino
To: All
Date Posted: 13:17:42 12/08/07 ()
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Jus shut up ! You ungrateful wretch! You do not know how lucky you are. Adi nor you wan bluff say You bin get scholarship!
From: Anthony Sisay
To: All
Date Posted: 17:59:50 12/08/07 ()
Email Address: anthonysisay@yahoo.com
Entered From: pcd172117.netvigator.com at 203.218.17.117
Ronaldo,
You are a total disgrace to yourself, your relative and even to your own country. If you cannot see any logic in someone else's posts then don't surface on this forum again.
From: Ronaldino
To: All
Date Posted: 22:35:13 12/08/07 ()
Email Address:
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You Moaning ungrateful SLPP baskit! After accepting a scholarship from the APC and have bettered yourself, you now turn around and stab the government in the back. How many scholarships did SLPP hand out? And would any of the student get an allowance when John Ben and Co have eaten all the money? You rotten so and so!!
From: Anthony Sisay
To: All
Date Posted: 01:51:15 12/09/07 ()
Email Address: anthonysisay@yahoo.com
Entered From: pcd172117.netvigator.com at 203.218.17.117
You appear jealous and heavy hearted. I ask a few questions and all you could do is come up with some childish responses.
From: Ronaldino
To: All
Date Posted: 16:28:13 12/09/07 ()
Email Address:
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Heh mista Wanks, bo den don try sen you go fus world en pay you school fee but nor able sen money for you all tem en you di complain? Wit me wan air line ticket en wan year school fee at 21 years old. I have never looked back!
From: Anthony Sisay
To: All
Date Posted: 19:33:59 12/07/07 ()
Email Address: anthonysisay@yahoo.com
Entered From: pcd278115.netvigator.com at 203.218.68.115
As far as I can see, SL was not born yesterday or 11 years ago. A lot of people on this forum are blaming everything on the SLPP regime for the backwardness of the country and yet when we were studying abroad on government scholarship, under the APC government even our $32 per month allowance was far fetched--in fact the government still owe me over $2,000.
From: Sam
To: All
Date Posted: 18:07:30 12/07/07 ()
Email Address:
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Re the Shekito issue, I hope you are laughing at the basta pikin mamy *#&#& dem(Don't you dare edit me, I didn't curse:)) that are trying to make this an issue. We don't know that you were even vying for the job and I'm sure you already know who got the job. So those that are now saying you got screwed or are throwing vitriol, just ignore them. Let me remind them for you, you already, weeks ago praised Shekito by calling him a capable and wonderful (I forget your exact quote) candidate for the job.
From: Block Who ?
To: All
Date Posted: 01:59:12 12/08/07 ()
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I strongly believe from my investigations that Kabs was given the job. I think Kabs can solve this puzzle by just coming out to say this and then everybody will see the whole thing going on as a hoax. 4 different people were promised the same job, I have learnt. The same job was promised to Lansana Fofana of BBC, Richard Margao of the BBC , Kabs Kanu and now Shekito.Did all of the first 3 people turn down the job ? This is where a statement by Kabs is necessary.
From: Freetong Pikin
To: All
Date Posted: 17:12:37 12/07/07 ()
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The 10 Biggest Web Annoyances
Aggravation factor: 58 percent
From: Amadu Jorgor
To: All
Date Posted: 17:05:14 12/07/07 ()
Email Address:
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I am calling on my fellow citizen to show some dignity and stop the (bad hart) towards Kabs. It bothers me to see my compatriots making callous, iniquitous, mean-spirited statements about a brother whose only sin is to provide us a forum to spew hate. Why do we (Sierra Leoneans) enjoy afflicting emotional pain on others? As far as I know he never said he is vying for the job, as least not on this forum. Even if he did, he has the right, duty, and responsibility to serve his country. More so, he is qualified and can be a superb press secretary, in my opinion. I have nothing against Mr. Tarawalli, Deputy Minister of Information, Minister of Labor, Deputy Minister VP’s office, Ambassador to the US, or any other appointee for that matter, but some of these appointments lives much to be desired. Granted, it is the president’s prerogative to appoint whosoever he deems fit, but it is also my right to say what I think of his judgment. I was impressed with Ernest as a candidate, but now I have some doubts. Most of his appointments are, frankly, disappointing. Some of these people are outright dubious and inept to say the least.
Also, I am neither a Southerner nor an Easterner, but I share the view that he should have given more positions to people from the East and South. The northern domination of government is not borne out of tribalism (I don’t think); rather it manifests that Ernest is unprepared, shortsighted and lack of political maturity. I was surprise at the President’s show of extempore when he was declared the winner. Fanatics (I am his supporter, for now) can spin it anyway they want, but the fact remains that he was not ready to form a government; he did not handle his first task in office well. To be fair on Mr. President, we need to give him some time, at least 100 days, for him to prove his mettle. I think he is a good man and he has Sierra Leone at heart, but isn’t that what we said about Joseph Saidu Momoh? By the way, until we hear from State House, the position of press secretary is still open. Kabs, you may or may not be appointed press secretary, but I think you are destined for greater thing ahead. Not that you need my advise, nonetheless, I will admonish you to ignore your detractors; keep supporting the APC, as long as you believe in them, but objectively criticize them when they falter. Keep the faith.
From: nico
To: All
Date Posted: 15:59:20 12/07/07 ()
Email Address: nicoleconsult@hotmail.com
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Just what is there to think about? Asks Dr. Sama Banya
By Dr Sama Banya
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Since Mr. Ernest Bai Koroma was declared President, a lot of ambitious people have been stepping over each other to attract his attention for reasons which must be obvious. There are those who claim President Koroma was the first person they intimated of their intention to relocate in Britain; then the Moscow-trained man of God who compares the President with the young David in the Book of Samuels.
From: Candid Opinion
To: All
Date Posted: 16:10:19 12/07/07 ()
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Pauwei comes out swinging..
The ole meh still have a few bites..
He clarified his position and makes mincemeat of all the "teenagers"..
From: fact
To: All
Date Posted: 20:01:53 12/07/07 ()
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Sahr Musa Yamba is NOT a teenager, Puawui. Sahr will soon hit you again where it hurts. Wait and see.
From: nico
To: All
Date Posted: 05:41:47 12/08/07 ()
Email Address: nicoleconsult@hotmail.com
Entered From: 82-35-143-136.cable.ubr03.enfi.blueyonder.co.uk at 82.35.143.136
Candid:
From: nico
To: All
Date Posted: 16:42:27 12/07/07 ()
Email Address: nicoleconsult@hotmail.com
Entered From: 82-35-143-136.cable.ubr03.enfi.blueyonder.co.uk at 82.35.143.136
I am a critic of Puawei but I am the first to give him credit for writing his views, although I believe it will impact negatively on the SLPP.
From: Jack
To: All
Date Posted: 18:00:53 12/07/07 ()
Email Address:
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My friend, give it to the old man. He still has the "testicular fortitude" to put it to those "teenagers".
Say what you may but Puawai always backs his case with evidence even if it just a name or an event.
From: KABS KANU
To: All
Date Posted: 14:58:31 12/07/07 ()
Email Address:
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I have told the Moderator and Forum Police not to delete your postings on this non-issue of the Press Secretary stuff because it means nothing to me. Nowhere did I ever write that I had been appointed. You it who have been speculating all along here about it.
From: Chairman himself
To: All
Date Posted: 14:56:34 12/07/07 ()
Email Address: fmansaray@aol.com
Entered From: pool-71-187-64-127.nwrknj.fios.verizon.net at 71.187.64.127
On behalf of all of us at Cocorioko, I am again appealing to all forumites to honor our Editor in Chief request. Zipppppppppppppppppppo
From: CHAIRMAN HIMSELF
To: All
Date Posted: 14:52:30 12/07/07 ()
Email Address: fmansaray@aol.com
Entered From: pool-71-187-64-127.nwrknj.fios.verizon.net at 71.187.64.127
On behalf of all of us at Cocorioko, I am again appealing to all forumites to honor our Editor in Chief request. Zipppppppppppppppppppo
From: Candid Opinion
To: All
Date Posted: 14:03:36 12/07/07 ()
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Not a day goes by now without some breaking news about the new governments double dealing or instances of blatant HYPOCRICY....
Tell diplomats one thing, en the citizens another..
He has not owned up on his side of the libyan rice saga..
He has not come out with a clear statement on what went down with that fake assasination attempt..
He promised the country an inclusive goverment and turned around and gave us a bombali passe...
Immmmmmmm.. wait.. ..
Immmmmmmmmmmm......
okay.. well december 21 nor dey far..
Who has not fessed up about the Hajj money till this date..?
From: Eddie Grant
To: All
Date Posted: 14:30:22 12/07/07 ()
Email Address:
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You posting make no sense my friend. Have you short of things to talk about?
From: Candid Opinion
To: All
Date Posted: 14:37:34 12/07/07 ()
Email Address:
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Well you bifocals nor focus fine.. or you get apolo...?
oose wan?
Is it the man in the mirror?
From: Anthony Sisay
To: All
Date Posted: 20:18:47 12/07/07 ()
Email Address: anthonysisay@yahoo.com
Entered From: pcd278115.netvigator.com at 203.218.68.115
Nor men Eddie, sonteh e dae pa collect de small small tips, wae tin mona na in e go wan tuk.
From: Eddie Grant
To: All
Date Posted: 15:33:14 12/07/07 ()
Email Address:
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Your bla bla talk has no base whatsoever. You've always being posting in cryptic manner but never make clear point about the subject.
From: Candid Opinion
To: All
Date Posted: 15:55:27 12/07/07 ()
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Cna yuo raed tihs? Olny 55 plepoe out of 100 can.
i cdnuolt blveiee taht I cluod aulaclty uesdnatnrd waht I was rdanieg. The phaonmneal pweor of the hmuan mnid, aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it dseno't mtaetr in waht oerdr the ltteres in a wrod are, the olny iproamtnt tihng is taht the frsit and lsat ltteer be in the rghit pclae. The rset can be a taotl mses and you can sitll raed it whotuit a pboerlm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe. Azanmig huh? yaeh and I awlyas tghuhot slpeling was ipmorantt!
I dont have to prove nil.. i am not seeking office..
Name me one of the promises el presedente has kept..
And dont you point fingers at me..
I did not start this APC SLPP thing..
What about the people from the south and east?
Not people?
First contract has stains and fingerprints allover it..
He is not showing integrity by keeping silent about the Nyuma saga, nor about the Libyan rice saga..
Laws are been trampled by thugs from each and every corner..fing..
Why is it when its your side, no one should ask questions..? Or its considered malice..
Or tainted with malice..?
From: Jack
To: All
Date Posted: 18:07:56 12/07/07 ()
Email Address:
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Candid O, do yah ar dey becg for Eddie.Period.
From: Eye
To: All
Date Posted: 13:59:57 12/07/07 ()
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Kabs-Kanu for know sae nar God gee Shekito power. I know he published Shekito's trash to show how competent Shekito is . However Alpha Kanu sae Kabs nor entertain am betteh so e nor go fight d case. This new APC want expensive gifts. Kabs-Kanu for don go take one Hirepurchase jeep en gee to Alpha Kanu as gifts.
From: Idiot
To: All
Date Posted: 03:00:59 12/08/07 ()
Email Address:
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You call this position - A POWER.May God save our Country from power hungry people
From: KABS KANU
To: All
Date Posted: 14:45:50 12/07/07 ()
Email Address:
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I have always wanted to serve my people and always committed in the fight for justice. However I am now sick and ashamed as I was dumped.Alpha Kanu promised me the job and I do respect him. EBK wants to be a dictator but I want him to know that he is playing with fire. I will expose him soon about the rice issue and how his in-laws were involved in the NPA cable theft.I am going to remove Christiana Thorpe photo from my site and start writing about how APC rig the election.
From: SANTOS
To: All
Date Posted: 14:53:51 12/07/07 ()
Email Address: santos@aol.com
Entered From: host86-146-130-39.range86-146.btcentralplus.com at 86.146.130.39
ME EYE OPEN WIDE, WIDE, WIDE, WIDE, ME EASE OPEN WIDE WIDE, WIDE, WIDE, EVEN ME NOSE SELF DE SMELL, SMELL, SMELL, SMELL.
From: The Guy next door
To: All
Date Posted: 13:43:05 12/07/07 ()
Email Address:
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Gents. what is the correct information here? Hours ago, in a meetimng with NJ APC members the Minister of Presidential affairs informed all that the position (Press Sec.)has not been filled and giving his position as a Minister of... he will have prior knowlege of the selection and subsequent appointment of a candidate for the job. yet, we see pictures of fairwell dinner, speech and now an article by Shekito published by a news paper claiming the contrary.
From: SHABBA
To: All
Date Posted: 21:44:23 12/07/07 ()
Email Address:
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Una sef, una blo now – e duso way una shit na uba mordenlaw em pala. Whatever happened with regards to this Press Secretary job is done and over with, so the continued “ moko” is just being insensitive to the feelings of other parties involved – not insinuating anything here. Genuine questions could and need to be asked, but asking in order to make taunt about the whole fiasco is tantamount to torment. After all, we are all one “HAPPY” family here on this forum, and when one of our own “seem” to be faced with ... (do not know what to call it), lets either be understanding to the sensitivity of the situation and respect the individuals wishes, or just be quiet and not insinuate things.
From: Press
To: All
Date Posted: 13:54:34 12/07/07 ()
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I think the position has already gone and EBK was impressed to see lots of white folks around Shekito.I think Kabs-Kanu published Shekito's article to show the trash way Shekito will be writing for the president.
From: Candid Opinion
To: All
Date Posted: 13:45:21 12/07/07 ()
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Sylvia, lef for laugh..
From: Eddie Grant
To: All
Date Posted: 15:43:04 12/07/07 ()
Email Address:
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I wish you behave as your name suggests but it is the complete opposite, you're never candid.
From: Candid Opinion
To: All
Date Posted: 15:56:40 12/07/07 ()
Email Address:
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Nah meleh....????
Whas ur beef mate...?
From: Cotton Tree Yuba
To: All
Date Posted: 56.651.410net 12/07/07 ()
Email Address:
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Here we go again hiring people on tribal merits and not
what they can deliver. Who is this Shekito guy that no one knew anything about?
From: The guy next door
To: All
Date Posted: 13:51:08 12/07/07 ()
Email Address:
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Candid O, a beg boo a too fine for be Sylvia, plus a no want skirt.
From: Candid Opinion
To: All
Date Posted: 14:08:27 12/07/07 ()
Email Address:
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Kidding...
Depends on how moss omorley you drink and what time of night it is...
From: Press
To: All
Date Posted: 13:36:48 12/07/07 ()
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I think Kabs-Kanu should collect the money he spent on Alpha Kanu .Gifts and expensive dinner was not enough to knockout Shekito from the President appointment.I think another job is coming out soon and Sylvia Blyden will knockout Kabs-Kanu.
From: Candid Opinion
To: All
Date Posted: 13:39:04 12/07/07 ()
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He was just welcoming a brother to his adopted hometown.. Its an african tradition to welcome guests as royalty...
Nothing wrong with that..
From: BRA ENVIABLE
To: All
Date Posted: 13:32:22 12/07/07 ()
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After all the chaos that only reminded me of a presidential household in disarray, Sheka Tarawallie has emerged as the secretarial aide-de-camp to President Koroma. From a Public Relations perspective, the road to Sheka Tarawalli'e job was tarred with too many layers of confusion and self-debasing contradictions. First, the unofficial newsreel at State House positioned Sheka for a job at our diplomatic mission in The People's Republic of China. When the grapevine swelled with rumors about Sheka Tarawallie's impending assignment to the Press Secretaryship at State House, the Minister of Presidential Affairs reportedly told COCORIOKO that he does not have foggiest idea about Sheka's secretarial ascendance. If anything, the Minister enlivened his authority by saying that such an appointment can only be done in concert with his office. As if to add an act in a State House drama that was embarrassingly becoming intractable, Sheka Tarawallie chose to announce his new job on COCORIOKO's front page. The official channels advertised by the primly Minister of Presidential Affairs were apparently disregarded when, according to Sheka, the President called on the phone to give him his secretarial plum. The chaos are too much for a job that demands orderliness!
Sheka's march to power has been marked by so much chaos that I will never be shocked to know that the new Press Secretary "accidentally" wrote a memo when a felicitous communique was needed. How able is Sheka Tarawallie?
From: Fen Plaba1
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Date Posted: 13:28:33 12/07/07 ()
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I support Ernest with all my heart because I believe he will bring tangible progress and development that we would never have realized under the SLPP kleptocratic Incompetency. I will continue to support this government.
However, I must register my disappointment at two very stupid mistakes our president has made. I hope these are just rookie mistakes which will be soon corrected.
I hope the president straightens out the kinks in his administration. i hope to continue to support this good man as he works to solve the country's problems.
Everybody, have a great weekend.
From: Candid Opinion
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Date Posted: 13:37:06 12/07/07 ()
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2) I think the appointment of the Press Secretary debased the process. It was crude, cruel, lacked dignity and was ignominous. It was frankly embarassing for the Minister of presidential affairs to be saying one thing and the President to be whispering something else to an exiled journalist in London.
I hope the president straightens out the kinks in his administration. i hope to continue to support this good man as he works to solve the country's problems.
Everybody, have a great weekend.
Yaya Khan is a lying skyamp and while in the presence of REV Kanu, this is all the yellow bellied man can say..
From: Karamoh Kabba
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Date Posted: 13:00:24 12/07/07 ()
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Sierra Leone has no rose for Thorpe
Opinion - Commentary
Written by Karamoh Kabba
Friday, 07 December 2007
Of course, for a woman of her caliber and resolve she expects no bouquet of roses for conducting the much-contested 2007relatively free of violence general elections and a runoff between two historic bitter rivals; the Sierra Leone People�s PartySLPP) and the All People�s Congress (APC). It is not surprising that Christiana Thorpe, the Chief Commissioner for the National Electoral Commission in Sierra Leone, finds herself the subject of much heated post-elections debates amongst winners, losers and umpires.
http://www.christian-monitor.org/cms/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=443&Itemid=36
From: BRA ENVIABLE
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Date Posted: 12:59:16 12/07/07 ()
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After all the chaos that only reminded me of a presidential household in disarray, Sheka Tarawallie has emerged as the secretarial aide-de-camp to President Koroma. From a Public Relations perspective, the road to Sheka Tarawalli'e job was tarred with too many layers of confusion and self-debasing contradictions. First, the unofficial newsreel at State House positioned Sheka for a job at our diplomatic mission in The People's Republic of China. When the grapevine swelled with rumors about Sheka Tarawallie's impending assignment to the Press Secretaryship at State House, the Minister of Presidential Affairs reportedly told COCORIOKO that he does not have foggiest idea about Sheka's secretarial ascendance. If anything, the Minister enlivened his authority by saying that such an appointment can only be done in concert with his office. As if to add an act in a State House drama that was embarrassingly becoming intractable, Sheka Tarawallie chose to announce his new job on COCORIOKO's front page. The official channels advertised by the primly Minister of Presidential Affairs were apparently disregarded when, according to Sheka, the President called on the phone to give him his secretarial plum. The chaos are too much for a job that demands orderliness!
Sheka's march to power has been marked by so much chaos that I will never be shocked to know that the new Press Secretary "accidentally" wrote a memo when a felicitous communique was needed. How able is Sheka Tarawallie?
From: fact
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Date Posted: 20:08:17 12/07/07 ()
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How capable is Bra Enviable for a job in Sierra Leone? You say you dont know Shekito but yet you are already insulting him. you will know the man soon.
From: Kawusu
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Date Posted: 13:17:47 12/07/07 ()
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QUESTION: How qualified is Sheka for this job?
ANSWER: Being a native of Koinadugu, Bombali or
Magburaka, instantly makes you a candidate
for a plummy job in Koroma's New Era.
From: Brabanxx
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Date Posted: 11:25:28 12/07/07 ()
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I read this article on the message board of the Patriotic Vanguard. I thought it was interesting and worthy of your perusal, so I have copy/paste same to this forum.
Ngor Jeff and others,I want to give you a piece of advice.You do not have to take up every issues because it is an article that attacks someone from your party or region.
From: MrCullinan
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Date Posted: 13:55:19 12/07/07 ()
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To: BRABANXX, I agree with your post except on a few points. Regional and ethnic sentiments began many decades before Sir Albert came into power. Also the political class of the 80's, 90's, and 2000's are not to be trusted as well. The expression is; "stick my/our neck out". If President Koroma and the new Govt. is the beginning of a new system that remains to be seen. I agree completely with: "one country, one people". The people must unite and work together as a unified national group towards realizing their common goals.
From: Saidu Daphay Turay, MIP, MSA,, Doctoral Candidate
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Date Posted: 11:06:52 12/07/07 ()
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There is a saying in the African Parlance, "you tell a ripe corn by its looks." Since Shekito starts using online media to solicit job from EBK, he is photos had been clamored by white folks from London, the only black woman among is his foreign Rwandese woman. Now, been a press secretary to the president if we can go by his assertions, will the black press have access to the president in matters of national interest? We have known typical Sierra Leoneans like Shekito respecting pigmentation and foreigners and neglecting their own kith and kin.
From: Wiri Wiri
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Date Posted: 22:01:14 12/07/07 ()
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Absolute crap from Saidu Daphay Turay. This posting of yours is very disappointing. Because Shekito is seen in the company of a few white folks does not in any way define who he is. What the heck do you mean by " We have known typical Sierra Leoneans like Shekito respecting pigmentation and foreigners and neglecting their own kith and kin". This is bull coming from you. You must be a doctoral candidate of "myopia". You should be ashamed of yourself.
From: Saidu Daphay Turay, MIP, MSA,, Doctoral Candidate
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Date Posted: 07:27:55 12/08/07 ()
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"Wiri, Wiri"
From: Another Curtis?
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Date Posted: 13:26:20 12/12/07 ()
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My friend there are many amongst us here with numerous post graduate degrees and good paying jobs, who are not showing off what we have done educationally. You must have Low self esteem and do believe that the only way that you will be getting any credence is to say that you are a "doctoral candidate" WHO GIVES A RATS ASS.
From: mansher
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Date Posted: 20:10:42 12/07/07 ()
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Those are his work mates.
From: Kawusu
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Date Posted: 10:53:58 12/07/07 ()
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We may all have our political differences but PLEASE, PLEASE, it is very unfair to keep TORMENTING a private citizen when he has requested to have his privacy on a particular issue. Some of us in the opposition may disagree with Kabs-Kanu on a lot of issues but the fact remains that the man is a good and respectable man. So, please let this issue of Shekito/Kanu rest.
From: KABS KANU
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Date Posted: 10:57:49 12/07/07 ()
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Infact, there is no Shekito/Kanu thing. Those close to me know this. The sooner we all just accept this and move on, the better.
From: BUFORD HWY
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Date Posted: 12:51:31 12/07/07 ()
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One thing that I know for sure is for you to LOOSE some of that big belly(smile).The world and Salone in particular needs you,so Bra nar for go see jenny for da belleh dae.Nor falla FODAY en azziz Nabe for dae out of shape.
From: NJ..Turnpike
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Date Posted: 13:15:40 12/07/07 ()
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Lef the man na good living. E ge wife way dea cook sober Jackitomboi and Jolabattea.
From: Press
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Date Posted: 10:09:47 12/07/07 ()
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Cocorioko has being the first paper to give correct information about APC. I wonder why our President decided to dump him.For sae nar true sae Ernest don start im changey pattern.
From: Respectful
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Date Posted: 03:05:00 12/08/07 ()
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I have immense respect for Rev Kabs Kanu, and hence will desist to mention his name in the context of Press Secretary.Suffice to say that,Seikito -whether age wise, experience wise,qualification wise,calibre wise or IQ wise is no match for the Reverend.
From: KABS KANU
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Date Posted: 10:32:10 12/07/07 ()
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We are presently providing publicity for the APC not because we want anything from them.We are promoting them because we believe that they have good plans for Sierra Leone. If they offer me anything and I like it, I will take it. However, Cocorioko's publicity for APC does not hinge on positions. Ernest Koroma is my man and I have great confidence that he will change Sierra Leone for the better. Position or no position, we will continue to publicize their goals and activities.
From: Candid Opinion
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Date Posted: 10:41:49 12/07/07 ()
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Kabs, i think if you come out with a honest and clarifying statement about this whole shekito/Kanu thing.. it will die a natrual death..
So far, all we are gettign is rumors and deflections..
From: nico
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Date Posted: 14:00:12 12/07/07 ()
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I think Kabb has displyed dignity since the speculation unearth about EBK's appointment of his press secretary. Kabb has not show any eagerness or made any statement on this forum to suggest that he was activively lobbying or was in contention for the said position. Even if Kabb had privately lobbied, he did not exhibited this and I think that is more in tune with normalcy.
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Date Posted: 14:08:30 12/07/07 ()
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From: Yongawo
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Date Posted: 10:25:59 12/07/07 ()
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That is 'POLITRICKS' for u my brother. As the RED SUN FOLLOWERS continue to say there are still more positions yet to be occupied. KABS WILL STILL HAVE THE LAST LAUGH. Remember he is asking all and sundry to respect his privacy. He is now a private man.I have elected to make No further comments on this.
From: Kapusense
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Date Posted: 10:24:14 12/07/07 ()
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D president nor gee Kabs-Kanu d position cos e sae e nor sabi do business.E believe sae Shekito nar good business man en promoter.
From: Saidu Daphay Turay
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Date Posted: 10:46:16 12/07/07 ()
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What will Rev. Kabs Kanu lose to be a press secretary if what this forum is speculating is true or boisterous Sheka Tarawallie is telling the world about an appointment which I believe is the first of its kind in his life time. Well, we have category of people in our world-those who make noise about achievements and those who do things silently without been noticed. The likes of Sheka Tarawallie in my opinion and deduction if given the job as press secretary will be arrogant, intolerant to views about EBK's faults if criticized-then where will Sierra Leone be again if intolerance starts creeping in?
From: kamara sesay
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Date Posted: 09:56:10 12/07/07 ()
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There are reports that ACC has Case files on five APC ministers who failed to deliver on a series of contracts that they signed with the SLPP government.
One in particular owes the Government Billions of Leones....
From: Eddie Grant
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Date Posted: 14:37:47 12/07/07 ()
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BULL KAKA from the APC/Northern/Makeni President.
From: Fen Plaba!
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Date Posted: 12:48:42 12/07/07 ()
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Ahem...Kamara,
And how many files does the ACC have on SLPP government ministers? 10...a dozen?
I am hoping that the SLPP does not start crying WITCH HUNT when the fire really starts to roil in the kitchen.
Let's go ACC, let's go!
From: Ronaldino
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Date Posted: 22:19:29 12/07/07 ()
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Where did Kanjie get his money?
Where did John karimu get his money?
John ben, Tejan Kabba(Conakry Hotel) etc,etc
From: Press
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Date Posted: 10:11:44 12/07/07 ()
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This would be the first test to see if Anti-Corruption can bite the fingers that is used to feed him.
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