Subject: Concerning the preliminary voters statistics.
From: Cornelius Hamelberg
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Date Posted: 11:14:34 04/04/07 ()
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Just a preliminary first QUESTION: In Sierra Leone where in the absence of Swedish type IDs, identity theft is possible in the land of overwhelming Kamaras, Seisays, Bangas and Banguras:
Sometimes immigrant refugees in this country being questioned by the Immigration/ Refugee authorities lose credibility and are deemed to be liars or unreliable. All this because in response to questions about their residence (back home) where they lived, they have given multiple addresses, parents here, an Uncle there, and aunt, somewhere else all in their Golgotha wanderings. Such is extended- family life patterns in Sierra Leone (and much of Africa) during our very uncertain times, with the post-war traumas and the social upheavals that accompany such people displacements, with farms, mostly in the North in ruins, houses burned down, villages emptied and the villagers dispersed, some perhaps still in Guinea, the Gambia, Liberia , who knows, Ivory Coast. Living can be with a relative in Bo or Kenema or Freetown, but where are such itinerant people registered?
The Immigration/Refugee-Asylum authorities wonder come to the conclusion that someone is lying and that someone had better make up their mind as to exactly WHERE they lived. How can one man have so many addresses? The problem is that with the chaos and the humanitarian suffering imposed by war, people are constantly on the move and as Dylan sings (Chimes of Freedom) “Condemned to drift or else be kept from drifting.”
Just look at the Jewish Diaspora! Persecution follows the history of migrations.
When I was last in Sierra Leone (March 1970) the Freetown and Western Area population was below 400,000. So much has been said and written about overcrowding in Freetown and the Western area, the overstretching of the meagre municipal resources to meet the population needs in garbage clearance, potable clean water, electricity, housing accommodation and employment that one is shocked to read that the Western Area population is only 772,873 + 174,249. But that was 2004 census figures.
One thing is certain and everyone agrees about this certainty: that Freetown and the rural Western Area are overpopulated and should be de-stressed. The farmlands are mostly not in the Western Area and so that no one should go to bed hungry by 2008, some people will have to leave Freetown, where it is difficult to find gainful employment - and return to farming.
Assuming that the 2004 Census figures for Freetown and the Rural Western Area are accurate the question is: are some of the Western Area residents of no permanent or fixed abode in the Freetown/Western area, simultaneously registered to vote in the areas of origin and in provinces or are they simultaneously registered to vote Freetown/ Western Area which means that they are entitled to vote in more than one place?
As someone has enquired, What about Bonthe? Is that where the little muju-muju is going to take place?
Subject: Questions Vs Solutions
From: Tszyu
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Date Posted: 10:07:11 04/04/07 ()
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Fellows,
How come Sierra Leone does not boast of any young and dynamic presidential aspirant? All we see on the news is the entire old and recycled politicians. This is what is wrong in Africa, or is it an African mentally to always think the elders are always politically correct. The people of Sierra Leone lack basic education, health and food, and I have not heard any of these presidential candidates addressing these issues. It seems that they are all vying to be commander in chief so they can mess things up as their predecessor.
Secondly, how come we do no hear the outcome of many criminal maters that are in the courts, no conviction or acquittals. Is it as we will say in our local parlance “de case die”. What happen to the West Side Boys, What happened to the case against corrupted officials, How about some investigating journalism from your reporters in Sierra Leone.
Rev Kanu I do not know you personally, but I think your reporting sometimes is too one sided and not broadly base, do not interpret me incorrectly, under the circumstance you doing quite fine, but I always notice a ting of the FBC syndrome on your news paper. What we need is a medium that will disseminate the truth and is highly objective, not a forum were adults feel they can be reckless in throwing invectives at one another because their views are different. Does a third of the population of SL have internet access and are they literate enough to digest the consequences of their votes, the other third that posses a bit of this knowledge how much use are they making of it or are they easily swayed due to tribalistic sentiments or “area man mentality” and the remaining third the so called elites, and educated do they suffer from Mugabe Syndrome and are quite nonchalant to the well being of the country folks, because they can hoop, skip and prance when condition is not favorable to their well being. As a Rev I thing your gospel should be base on equal right and justice for all, even the dull and ignorant. Education is what the people of Sierra Leone need , someone to guide and teach them how to survive in life and to make good of God’s gift to them. How can a country of less than six million people and mineral wealth of more than five millions in revenue, NGO contributions and IMF multi loans, live in filth, lack of electricity, roads and highway that are death traps, scarcity of basic staple food shortage.
We are diverting our resource from the main issues that is pertinent to our growth, lets address those issue and men stop being boys and use that energy for a more positive approach to make our country, Sierra Leone once more the Athens of West Africa.
We do not need to blame anybody for our demise, let get up and start again. “It is to fall, but to fall with what grace”.
Stay Bless My People
Subject: Re: Questions Vs Solutions
From: truth
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Date Posted: 12:06:38 04/04/07 ()
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The reason for not having young presidential aspirants is because the whole is selfish and too individualistic. The few are were not adequately prepared due to impetuousness. My call is for all to start now and prepare to save our people. Let us form small groups of likeminded individuals that have a national agenda. let us start now and by 2012, our children will not ask us this question this writer (whom I presume to be young)has asked.
Subject: DEBATE IS WHAT WE NEED
From: BUFORD HWY
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Date Posted: 10:16:18 04/04/07 ()
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A POLITICAL DEBATE FROM OUR LEADERS IS WHAT WE NEED FOR OUR PEOPLE TO BEABLE TO KNOW WHO WILL BE THE BEST SUITED PERSON FOR THE HIGHEST OFFICE OF THE LAND.
Subject: Re: DEBATE IS WHAT WE NEED
From: concerned
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Date Posted: 10:48:44 04/04/07 ()
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BUFORD HWY.. Need help with direstions to Al'Hilal or farmer's Market. Need some meat and i am driving from birminghamon 20.
Subject: Re: DEBATE IS WHAT WE NEED
From: BUFORD HWY
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Date Posted: 11:08:23 04/04/07 ()
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Call AAA they can help you.KROGER is where I do my SHOPPING.
Subject: Re: DEBATE IS WHAT WE NEED
From: concerned
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Date Posted: 11:10:57 04/04/07 ()
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En windixie? So how de FULTON COUNTY? LITONIA?
Subject: Re: DEBATE IS WHAT WE NEED
From: BUFORD HWY
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Date Posted: 11:18:30 04/04/07 ()
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BUFORD HWY runs from FULTON,DEKALB,GWINNETT and HALL COUNTIES.So why ask me about LITHONIA when I do run THROUGH IT? LAUGH HEHEHEHEEE.
Subject: Re: DEBATE IS WHAT WE NEED
From: concerned
To: All
Date Posted: 11:43:05 04/04/07 ()
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Bra ar dae pull you leg nor mor..
Subject: Re: DEBATE IS WHAT WE NEED
From: BUFORD HWY
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Date Posted: 11:54:39 04/04/07 ()
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AR KNOW DAT. WIDIXIE DON CLOSE NA WE AREA.
Subject: Re: DEBATE IS WHAT WE NEED
From: BUFORD HWY
To: All
Date Posted: 11:26:06 04/04/07 ()
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I meant to write "do not run through it"
Subject: Order
From: Forum Administration
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Date Posted: 09:53:54 04/04/07 ()
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Please try to keep to the standards. New sentences as well as proper names including handles should begin with capital letters.
Subject: WHY IS JOHN LEIGH SO FULL OF HATE?
From: ASK HIM
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Date Posted: 09:47:51 04/04/07 ()
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Why do you HATE Charles margai so much?
Are you an insecure little guy?
Your hatred against Margai clearly shows. This is more than political opposition. Why are you so full of hate, little man?
This self-styled SLPP spokesman is so full of hate that he loses his own dignity whenever he talks about Charles Margai. Why are you so full of hate, little ugly man?
Subject: Re: WHY IS JOHN LEIGH SO FULL OF HATE?
From: Truth
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Date Posted: 10:13:02 04/04/07 ()
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I will not say it is hate - the two - Leigh and Margai - are one and the same. They are in a hurry for power and when they believe it is getting past them - they show irrationality.
Charles as a lawyer, never once joined or supported the organisation helping access to justice in Sierra leone. Leigh as a diplomat woefully failed our nation - Leigh failed to apply intelligence and tact in discharging his duty as an envoy. His crudeness lack of tact nearly caused us more trouble. I still watch his gangsteric gynastic gesticulations on CNN - the man makes me laugh all the time. Are these what our country is made of? Selfish and full of greed!! It is no hate they are alike and therefore have a problem - no attraction!
Subject: Re: WHY IS JOHN LEIGH SO FULL OF HATE?
From: It is Jealousy
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Date Posted: 09:49:59 04/04/07 ()
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John Leigh hates Margai because Margai fine pass am.
Subject: Re: WHY IS JOHN LEIGH SO FULL OF HATE?
From: LOW GRADE SAN SAN
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Date Posted: 11:44:09 04/04/07 ()
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E LEF PAN LEIGH OH OH EE LEF PAN LEIGH BABOO YEI OOOOH!!
Subject: Re: WHY IS JOHN LEIGH SO FULL OF HATE?
From: Afro National
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Date Posted: 12:10:22 04/04/07 ()
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Borbor, nar sing you make ar memba so!
YOU LEF ME PAN POOR, JOHN LEIGH, YOU GO FALLA MONEY MAN
NOW WAE AR DON GET (DI PMDC NOMINATION)
YOU SAY YOU WAN CAM BACK, LEIGH
ME NOR GO TAKE YOU AGAIN,
ME HEH EE YAE MAR MU SOR, JOHN LEIGH
EE LEF PAN YOU, OH OH OH (3 TIMES),
EE LEF PAN YOU, JOHN LEIGH, BABOO YAI OH
Subject: APC IS BROKE!!!!!!
From: Independent Man
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Date Posted: 08:41:32 04/04/07 ()
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Yaya, Alieu Iscandari, Pa Santigie, Alie Kamara, Abdulai Conteh, KDDA/EKUTAY Spokesman, Junior tribalists and all the and all APC Komanehs..... send money to APC now or else the party go don kpata Kpata .....lek den nor don don already. Hehehe APC is broke oh... den nor get sai for tiff oh....Natinal coffer day off den limit oh.....Yaya nor get 2 kobo for gee them oh.....Shaki day turn nar him grave oh.....
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Source: Awareness Times
APC faces financial crisis
According to media reports, news of financial difficulties is said to be filtering from the head office of the All People’s Congress—that the party is in complete dire straits of cash. In a bid to remedy the problem, leader of the party is reported to have made a clarion call to all supporters to find ways and means of generating funds for their campaign exercises. In that regard, it was agreed that a tune of three hundred million Leones should be raised. However, some members considered the amount to be exorbitant and that they might run into financial crisis if the elections were to be won by any other political party.
Subject: Re: APC IS BROKE!!!!!!
From: Truth
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Date Posted: 09:45:50 04/04/07 ()
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Too late to convince your voters that you are serious. Why did you have to wait until the elventh hour to find out you have cash crisis? Where is the APC National Campaign Fund? What about the money raised in/from Beirut? Please take our beloved nation, Sierra Leone, seriously. A party without a financial plan and strategy is doomed to fail in anything. last minute planning is a sign of unseriousness. You guys are not serious!!!
Subject: Re: APC IS BROKE!!!!!!
From: BUFORD HWY
To: All
Date Posted: 10:04:48 04/04/07 ()
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Truth,
Bra there you go again making FALSE RUMORS.Why don't you tell us WHEN,WHO and WHERE was that money raised?The NEW APC does not need any FOREIGN FINANCIAL AID to campaign,because the PEOPLE OF SALONE WILL SEE HER THROUGH COME JULY 28th.Unlike your SLPP party which has a JEWISH DIAMOND DEALER IN ATLANTA that is sponsoring her through the georgia chapter.BRA NA D WRONG TOPIC U DON PUT U HAND PER.AS SOON AS U ANSWER TO ME QUESTION,A GO BEGIN FOR TELL U STEP BY STEP HOW D PROCESS DAE WORK NA D ATL.
Subject: Re: APC IS BROKE!!!!!!
From: Truth
To: All
Date Posted: 11:50:53 04/04/07 ()
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BUFORD, my claims are not rumours. i am not in the habit of naming names when not in the proper forum to do so. I try to you intelligence and tact when dealing with matters of this nature.Do you recall the ssue was raised a few weeks ago and I told you that naming names may prempt justice - we have all contributed to making the culprits and their activities go underground.
Concerning the sudden change of plan by your party - to now ask your members and supporters at the eleventh hour for funds to campaign: Please sincerely answer these - Why is it now, the eleventh hour, your party heads are asking for financial? What message are you sending to them? Where did your party lay the fundraising plan? Where is the money in the APC National Campaign Fund? My friend, can your party be taken seriously when the real issue - finance - has not sown any aforethought plans? BUFORD, let us put Sierra Leone above party politics!! I understand your criticisms of our party - you are not correct about our current Election Fighting Funds - they are coming from members and supporters. If you will like to know what we will be spendng for the elction, I'll suggest you contact the PPRC asthey have a ceiling every party is allowed to spend. Individual spending is separate fro party spending. I am not qualified to comment on where the Rt. Hon. Berewa got your alleged spending power. However, I am aware that he has grown up sons and a daughter and these grown up children have friends and affinal links and these ties have support and friendly support groups to help him raise an individual campaign budget. Such is ingenious!! Berewa, has the party and the suppor networks and they have been working now for over two years to get to this point. You are a very wonderful individual and I am imploring you to come visit our organisational skills with the hope of enticing you to join us. LONG LIVE SIERRA LEONE! LONG LIVE SLPP!
Subject: Re: APC IS BROKE!!!!!!
From: BUFORD HWY
To: All
Date Posted: 09:45:28 04/04/07 ()
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Independent man,
This shows that the NEW APC is a party OF THE PEOPLE,FOR THE PEOPLE and BY THE PEOPLE.This party is been sponsor by the people of SALONE,but unlike your SLPP party which goes around spending OUR MONEY for every campaign stop that she makes.What is PA BEREWA annual SALARY? Do you have any idea how much money he spends for every stop? Did I hear you say LE 15,000,000 before he opens his mouth to speak? Where is that money coming from?Did you ever sit and ask yourself that,with all that money that he has been spending,if elected,don't you think that he will try to REIMBURSE himself plus INTEREST before taking care of our people? I WILL RATHER TAKE A PARTY THAT IS BEEN SPONSOR BY THE PEOPLE THAN TAKE A TIFF TIFF VICE PRESIDENT THAT IS SPENDING MORE THAN WHAT HE MAKES ANNUALLY.1982 elections DOES THIS NAME RING A BELL TO YOU (PA MORLAI SIDDON)?
Subject: Re: APC IS BROKE!!!!!!
From: Truth
To: All
Date Posted: 09:55:43 04/04/07 ()
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Too late to convince our people. Where was this plan mislaid? My friend, the people would have wanted APC to have commenced this strategy, if to be taken seriously. This is a laughable classic. Three months to the election, APC asking membes for money. How serious are you?
Subject: Re: APC IS BROKE!!!!!!
From: BUFORD HWY
To: All
Date Posted: 10:08:48 04/04/07 ()
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Bra Truth,
As a season politician,you of all SHOULD know that you should not DEFINE a book by its COVER.As the saying goes "NOR LOOK ME BY D LOOKING"
Subject: Re: APC IS BROKE!!!!!!
From: Oh Wai Oh Sai
To: All
Date Posted: 10:32:02 04/04/07 ()
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Yeh.. The truth is the TRUTH... three months and no money. APC What did you do with the money wae WARABA and ALIEU donate?
Subject: Re: APC IS BROKE!!!!!!
From: BUFORD HWY
To: All
Date Posted: 11:03:36 04/04/07 ()
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Message:
The Song goes like this
CHORUS
SIDON!ERNEST SIDON
SIDON!ERNEST SIDON
VERSE
U MAMA NOR GET AN
U FABUL DEN ALL NOR GET,
BO DOYA OONA LEF WE NA ERNEST
WE WANT.
Subject: Re: APC IS BROKE!!!!!!
From: LAW GRADE SAN SAN
To: All
Date Posted: 11:55:33 04/04/07 ()
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and it ends like this
LAY LAY LAY LAY LAY LAY LAY LAY LAY LAY LAY LAY LAY LAY LAY LAY LAY MARGAI FINE PASS LEIGH OOOH.
Stay bless my brother.
Subject: Re: APC IS BROKE!!!!!!
From: Gambler
To: All
Date Posted: 11:42:07 04/04/07 ()
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Bo you song nor sweet.. stay with your current career. Do not even think about a career change.
Una
Subject: Freetown Filthy
From: Freetown Boy
To: All
Date Posted: 06:45:40 04/04/07 ()
Email Address: bontilaynga@yahoo.com
Entered From: 210-54-69-204.dialup.xtra.co.nz at 210.54.69.204
Message:
JJ Blood was all over the place that SLPP had taken over the cleaning of Freetown, citing examples of USA where the federal govt took power from a state govt because of incompetence. That was a great deal, even though APC won the local elections in a filthier environment, and took over a filthy city. So what has happened to all the fanfare?
Subject: Re: Freetown Filthy
From: Gambler
To: All
Date Posted: 08:34:19 04/04/07 ()
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why don't you address your question to the "Mayor" FCC?
Subject: Re: Freetown Filthy
From: BUFORD HWY
To: All
Date Posted: 09:50:42 04/04/07 ()
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Message:
Why ask the Mayor when your SLPP party took that duty and handed it over to your GERMAN BUSINESS PARTERN.
Subject: Re: Freetown Filthy
From: larrylum
To: All
Date Posted: 08:48:16 04/04/07 ()
Email Address: larrylum2nice@yahoo.com
Entered From: 0x5733971a.virnxx18.adsl-dhcp.tele.dk at 87.51.151.26
Message:
it was a question i raised i'm not into your usual verbal insults here in this podium i only asked as a sincere citizen of our beloved country so that we move for the better and i'm not a politician. ok
Subject: Re: Freetown Filthy
From: daniel
To: All
Date Posted: 09:11:30 04/04/07 ()
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Where is the verbal insult in that question asked by the person? Com'on man ....The person refered you to the MAYOR OF FREETOWN.
Subject: Re: Freetown Filthy
From: larrylum
To: All
Date Posted: 09:31:07 04/04/07 ()
Email Address: larrylum2nice@yahoo.com
Entered From: 0x5733971a.virnxx18.adsl-dhcp.tele.dk at 87.51.151.26
Message:
hey daniel,
i heard u right but what actions have the authorities done to make sure that the city council is more effective and not just sitting there collecting city dues doing nothing.
Subject: Re: Freetown Filthy
From: daniel
To: All
Date Posted: 09:57:28 04/04/07 ()
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Message:
You know.. Our attitude towards trivialities out-weigh national interest...The mayor dae fet im assistant, de mayor dae fet the government...
Hornestly i was hoping that with APC in-charge of freetown, we will see an improvement buy Oooh Yah...
Subject: is there any hope
From: larrylum
To: All
Date Posted: 05:32:55 04/04/07 ()
Email Address: larrylum2nice@yahoo.com
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Message:
a friend of mine asked me if there is any hope for sierra leoneans come july 28th.this question has been there for ages since we decided to be independent that wordb hope died and i think everybody nows knows the monkey dunya syndrome which is why all parties are trying to buy the people's votes but mind u guys God is over there watching at those embezzling people's fund to their personal accounts abroad. we know u guys.
Subject: too disgusting
From: larrylum
To: All
Date Posted: 05:26:09 04/04/07 ()
Email Address: larrylum2nice@yahoo.com
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Message:
i got a mail from my friend today that freetown stinks with dirts all over the city.where are we going.why are presidential aspirants not putting some of these things in their manifestos instead puttin personal issues ahead of country.are we learning or dying
Subject: Re: LARRY THERE IS HOPE - READ PMDC MANIFESTO
From: Albert Moinina
To: All
Date Posted: 06:44:10 04/04/07 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
Mr. Larry,
You can read the PMDC Manifesto by clicking on the link below.
http://pmdc4sl.org/manifesto_of_pmdc_3.pdf
There is hope, it is not all hopeless.
Subject: Re: LARRY THERE IS HOPE - READ PMDC MANIFESTO
From: Independent Man
To: All
Date Posted: 08:29:51 04/04/07 ()
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Message:
Den say betteh, you say read our manifesto.
Nar manifesto we dae eat? Nar manifesto day go cxlean city or make the filty resident den lef for toway dorti nar street?
Bo Albert lef we with dumbo-tumbo manifesto.
Freetown dae smell because the one den way day day filthy. Den say nor troway dorti nar street, but people still dae do wan--- Like Emmerson said, den all nar SWEBEH den.
Go upline en go troway dorti nar street, you go see watin the chief den go do you and you family.
Bokotorko
Subject: Re: LARRY THERE IS HOPE - READ PMDC MANIFESTO
From: Albert Moinina
To: All
Date Posted: 10:19:43 04/04/07 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
MR. INDEPENDENT,
DO YOU REALLY READ POSTINGS BEFORE COMMENTING? PLEASE READ WHAT I RESPONDED TO. THANK YOU.
"why are presidential aspirants not putting some of these things in their manifestos instead puttin personal issues ahead of country.are we learning"
Subject: hi all
From: larrylum
To: All
Date Posted: 05:19:55 04/04/07 ()
Email Address: larrylum2nice@yahoo.com
Entered From: 0x5733971a.virnxx18.adsl-dhcp.tele.dk at 87.51.151.26
Message:
are we doing justice to ourselves by backbiting and raining insults.this sounds inmaturity taking into consideration the level of your intellectual status.i think it's high time we find a solution to all these PHD syndrome that has taken our country to such level. we should be learning now from post war countries by pushing forward and not listen to stories from megalomaniac plunderers.
Subject: For Cocorioko Newspaper
From: Independent Man
To: All
Date Posted: 01:56:25 04/04/07 ()
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Message:
Why do you refer to Dauda Tombo Bangura as Hon. Dauda Tombo Bangura?
Is he a member of parliament? Is is a Sierra Leonean diplomat?
I thought he is just another Munde Dumbo Tumbo Bangu-Crook of the PMDC. Please stop calling him an Hon.
Subject: Re: DRINK ORANGE AND NOT PALM WINE !!!
From: Albert Moinina
To: All
Date Posted: 02:46:45 04/04/07 ()
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Message:
My friend, you sounded like a DICTATOR. You seem to be angry for someone respecting people you don't like. This emotional politics game cannot be isolated from sound reasoning and respect. Paddy man cool down and stop drinking 'palm wine" from the palm tree. It is contaminated and unnecessarily making you angry for unjustified reasons
Drink orange juice or eat the fruit. It has vitamin C which is very good for your health. I have got
Subject: Re: DRINK ORANGE AND NOT PALM WINE !!!
From: Independent Man
To: All
Date Posted: 06:11:32 04/04/07 ()
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Message:
Albert,
You are missing my point.
Why is he being referred to as Hon???
He is not an elected parliamentarian or a diplomat. He is an ordinary Sa Lone citizen like you and me. That means they should simply call him Mr. Bangura.
Why do we give people titles they do not deserve. This is why politicians take us for a ride and take us for granted.
I remember Momoh being referred to as Dr J.S. Momoh? I don't recall him getting an honorary doctorate degree from anywhere.
We too lek for kiss up to politician dem. Soon someone trying to lay belle to Berewa go call am Docta Berewa. SA Lone we sorry.....
Subject: Re: DRINK ORANGE AND NOT PALM WINE !!!
From: Albert Moinina
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Mr. Independent Man,
Below is your answer in the same article. He was a parliamentarian.
"Mr. Dauda Tombo Bangura is not quite an unknown quantity .He was once a parliamentarian and sources said last night that he could gain national appeal and acceptabilty if sufficiently presented to the people when electioneering campaigns start ."
Subject: Re: DRINK ORANGE AND NOT PALM WINE !!! -Recycled Politicians
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I'm sure PMDC should look for politicians that are not recycled, don't get me wrong I have nothing against Mr. Dauda Tombo Bangura.
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" He was". It is not the same as "he is".
If you call him "HON" How come Maggai is not called "HON" since he was a meber of parliament under NUP-NPRC party?
The man is not a member of parliament. PMDC that will be the closest you will come to having someone in parliament come August 07.
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He still could be called honorable even though he is no longer in parliament. In the US, the media and the population still refer to Bob Dole as senator Bob dole or president clinton even when they no longer serve the country.
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I have received a complaint from Mr.Mohamed Allie Jalloh that somebody has been posting , using his name. We want to warn those posting fraudulently , using other peoples names, to desist. You will kill the forum by making it uninteresting.
Please govern yourselves or else we will start blocking IPs again.
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Kabs:
I hope you and your family are doing well. I have just been noticed that earlier yesterday, someone used my name to post on Cocorioko under the subject heading "Re: How many times must we tell you to leave Marda and Co. alone?." http://www.hwforums.com/2179/messages/24929.html et seq.
Would you kindly delete all such postings fraudulently bearing my name and advise the person(s) falsely signing his/her/their posting with my name to cease and desist from using my name under fraudulent circumstances?
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Rev. Kabs-Kanu, please ignore the post I sent under just now "Please Try to Understand What You Read." It was meant for For Sengbe too.
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That goes for Sengbe too. Someone has been using his real name to post ridiculous articles on this forum for several months now. And the culprit is suspected to be the complainant. Would you also warn "it" to desist from doing so in the case of Brother Sengbe?
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Subject: Elections and Coups in Sierra Leone, 1967
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Elections and Coups in Sierra Leone, 1967
Humphrey J. Fisher
The Journal of Modern African Studies, Vol. 7, No. 4. (Dec., 1969), pp. 611-636.
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The Journal of Modern African Studies, 7, 4 (1g6g), pp 61 1-36
Elections and Coups in
Sierra Leone, 1967
by HUMPHREY J. FISHER*
ON St Patrick's Day 1967 Sierra Leone went to the polls to elect
a new parliament. Four days later, on 21 March, Brigadier David
Lansana, head of the Sierra Leone army, seized power. After two
more days, on 23 March, Lansana was repudiated by a group of
senior army officers; this second coup was followed by the creation
of a National Reformation Council, including five army officers and
two senior police officials, which was to take control of the government.
Almost the last multi-party democracy in independent black Africa
had come to an end, cancelling the first peaceful change of government
through the ballot-box. Lansana's action was in some respects less
defensible than Ian Smith's U.D.I. in Rhodesia. Smith acted against
the presumed wishes of a majority of Rhodesians; Lansana acted
against the majority wish which had just been expressed. Smith did
not, within minutes of taking power, send troops to fire on protesting
crowds in the streets of the capital.
The establishment of the National Reformation Council did not
mark the beginning of a period of quiet in Sierra Leone's history.
On 18 April 1968 there was a third military coup, in which a group
of non-commissioned officers ousted the N.R.C. and shortly afterwards
restored civilian rule, installing Siaka Stevens, leader of the All People's
Congress, as head of a government which included four members of
the Sierra Leone People's Party. More than once during the later
months of 1968 Stevens felt obliged to take strong measures against
the threat of violence, and on 20 November he declared a state of
emergency. The conclusion of the story has yet to be written; it is,
however, much more than an academic exercise to analyse in some
detail the elections of 1967 and the two military coups which immediately
followed them.
The elections must be examined, in the first instance, in the light
of the history of the parliament which preceded them. After the general
election of 1962, the Sierra Leone People's Party (S.L.P.P.) formed
* Lecturer in African History and adviser to students, School of Oriental and African
Studies, University of London.
612 HUMPHREY J. FISHER
the largest single group in parliament, and its leader, Sir Milton Margai,
was confirmed in his position as Prime Minister. It has become a fairly
common practice in some of the new African states for a rural constituency
to elect a local man as an 'independent ', on the understanding
that after an election he would join whichever party had won, and
thus protect the interests of his constituent^;^ the S.L.P.P. in 1962
gained a majority when some twelve 'independents' joined it after
the election. Between 1962 and 1965 four members of the opposition
party, the All People's Congress (A.P.C.), also crossed the floor of the
House to reinforce the S.L.P.P., and the strength of the A.P.C. was
still further reduced, to 10 in a House of 74, when by an amendment
of the standing orders the rule that a member absent for 30 days
from the sittings of the House should vacate his seat was applied to
five A.P.C. members who had been sentenced to 12 months' imprisonment
for unlawful assembly. Their seats were declared vacant by the
Speaker on 29 September 1965, and were not subsequently filled.
The election of 1967 was mainly a contest between the government
party, the S.L.P.P., under Sir Albert Margai, who had succeeded
his brother, Sir Milton, after the latter's death in 1964, and the
opposition party, the A.P.C., under Siaka Stevens. The opposition
was extremely suspicious of the tactics of the S.L.P.P. in their efforts
to maintain a parliamentary majority, and the A.P.C. campaign did
not neglect the classic clarion-call, 'Throw the rascals out'.
This article has two purposes, archival and analytical. The archival
is to publish the texts of some statements broadcast at the time, which
I recorded. The analytical is to explore somewhat the election campaign
and the March coups, making two main points: first, that the elections
were genuine elections, in which the electors' votes were influenced
by their views on the real issues which were being debated, and in
which voters succeeded, despite electoral malpractices, in expressing
a desire for change; and secondly, that both the campaign and the
coups were influenced by the contagion of ideas from other African
states, particularly Ghana.
My sources are threefold: notes of conversations which I had and
meetings which I attended at the time; local newspapers; and broad-
See W. Arthur Lewis, Politics in West Africa (London, 1965), p. 22. In the 1967 elections
a number of independent candidates were disappointed competitors for S.L.P.P. nominations.
This did not necessarily damage their relationship with the party: indeed, Sir Albert
personally paid the Ł250 deposit for several such independents. But the action of four of
the successful independents, in offering to support an A.P.C. government (see below, p. 625),
shows that a prior commitment to one party did not prevent a subsequent switch to the other,
thus fulfilling the purpose which Professor Lewis remarks.
ELECTIONS AND COUPS IN SIERRA LEONE, 1967 613
casting recordings. The ready availability of these sources is in itself
significant. Sierra Leone was a free country. People usually spoke
openly, without fear. The newspapers were free. The only daily, the
Daily Mail, was (and is) an innocuous sheet, following the government
line when it could not avoid local politics altogether. Unity, the organ
of the S.L.P.P., was an irregular almost daily paper; The Sierra Leonean,
published by the Government Information Service, and the three main
opposition papers, We Tone, Think, and Shek-endeh, were weeklies.
Press control was exercised, as it would be in Britain, through libel
laws and other normal restraints, not through the special press laws
which the N.R.C. speedily intr0duced.l The main issues were debated
through public meetings and the press. Parliament, of less use as
a forum, was not entirely lifeless. Some debate was maintained by the
A.P.C. rump opposition, and especially by Siaka Stevens, its leader,
who ably exploited the opportunities of parliamentary discussion.
Question time was important, allowing S.L.P.P. backbenchers delicately
to voice dissatisfaction with government policy.
The position of the Sierra Leone Broadcasting Service (S.L.B.S.),
under the direct control of the Ministry of Information, was altogether
different. There were no party broadcasts or political discussions.
Meetings critical of government policy, such as that sponsored by the
Bar Association to protest against the draft republican constitution,
were neither announced nor reported on the radio. But the Prime
Minister's statement, accusing the opposition of complicity in planning
a violent military take-over in February 1967, was broadcast: day by
day, in many languages. After the elections of March 1967 there were
serious delays in reporting the results, and a message from the Governor-
General, Sir Henry Lightfoot-Boston, announcing Stevens' appointment
as Prime Minister, was suppressed. Both military coups used the radio
as their vehicle of communication :for several critical days Sierra Leone
was governed by radio announcement.
Such a situation gives the texts in this article particular importance.
It also suggests a serious imbalance between the traditional guarantees
of free expression, and the contemporary means of expression. The
traditional guarantees worked well enough for ordinary speech and
the press; they did not work at all for broadcasting freedom. Yet the
radio is now perhaps the most important single means of communication
in West Africa.
The Sierra Leonean (Freetown), 6 April 1967.
GI+ HUMPHREY 6. FISHER
ISSUES IN THE ELECTION CAMPAIGN
The unicameral parliament was dissolved on 14February 1967. Four
main issues-foreign policy, economics, the army, and electoral
procedures-dominated the subsequent campaign.
( I ) Foreign polig
Foreign policy was a-perhaps the-main issue : not only external
relations with this nation or that, but also the more important question
of ideological borrowing. How far should the example of another
state-in its constitution, judiciary, or whatever-be copied? or, conversely,
be taken as dire warning of what to avoid? Political discussion
in Sierra Leone referred to many states, as far afield as Sudan, Uganda,
Kenya, and Tanzania. But two states dominated the scene: Guinea,
particularly as far as ordinary foreign policy was concerned, and
Ghana, particularly for ideological borrowing.
First, Guinea. Officially, Sir Albert Margai and the President of
Guinea, SCkou TourC, were on friendly terms. When, in November
1966, the new Guinean charge' d'afaires arrived in Freetown, he and the
Sierra Leonean foreign minister exchanged pious hopes about the
two nations being a single people, sharing the same task and objectives.
Occasional superficial differences were inevitable-both sides explicitly
stated this-but these could be settled within the family.]
Opposition newspapers criticised this sort of harmony: Guinea's
sharp attacks on Houphouet-Boigny of the Ivory Coast hampered,
they said, the positive development of the Free Trade area, formally
comprising Sierra Leone, Guinea, the Ivory Coast, and Liberia. The
opposition also hinted at conflicting boundary claims between Sierra
Leone and G ~ i n e a . ~
This muted argument was catapulted to the front rank of election
issues early in February 1967, with Guinean troop movements on the
Sierra Leone frontier. This was the time of the Bangura coup, an
alleged attempt by senior army officers to murder both Sir Albert
Margai and Brigadier Lansana, the force commander. After several
days of uncertainty and rumour, Sir Albert made a broadcast on
8 February, explaining that he had, as a precautionary move, invoked
an agreement with Guinea, under which either country would, if
requested, aid the other against internal subversion. Neither the
existence of this agreement, nor its invocation in this particular case,
* DaiEy Mail (Freetown),23 November I 966.
a Shekpendeh (Freetown), I 7 December I 966 and I I February 1967.
had been announced or debated in parliament. The prospect of
Guinean military intervention aroused widespread dismay. This
episode, a serious tactical blunder by Sir Albert, strengthened the
A.P.C. case in the election. The S.L. Labour Congress proposed
appealing to both the Queen and the Security Council. One of the
few references to the Congo occurred at this time: Unip, the S.L.P.P.
paper, defended the Guinea troop movements, comparing them with
Sierra Leone forces serving with the United Nations there.l
In March, immediately after Lansana's take-over, Guinea-Sierra
Leone relations returned to fleeting prominence. Conakry radio
denounced the Governor-General as a lackey of British imperialism,
and his appointment of Stevens as British interference. Lansana's
initiative was praised, and Sierra Leoneans were urged to rally behind
Sir Albert, who, Conakry claimed, had won a renewed mandate at
the polls. After this, Conakry had little to say about Sierra Leone;
but SCkou Tourt did not attend the summit conference of 'radical '
leaders at Cairo at this time. He may have stayed at home to watch
the Sierra Leone situation more c10sely.~ In fact, there was never
much real common ground between Sir Albert and SCkou TourC.
Their attitudes towards traditional chiefs, for example, diverged
widely. Guinea had abolished ~hieftancy;b~u t Sir Albert carefully
exploited the authority of the chiefs, who were of vital importance to
him in the March elections.
Relations between the two countries are complicated by the numerous
Guinean emigrants to Sierra Leone, many attracted by opportunities
for digging or smuggling diamonds. Periodically the courts expel
individuals or small groups for illegal entry, but these are only an
infinitesimal proportion. Guinea tries to maintain links with the
emigrants. During the election campaign the opposition press recalled
reports that in 1962 the Guinean ambassador had addressed meetings
of Fula, Soso, and Mandingo people, urging them not to forget their
heritage in Guinea, and had been issuing Guinean passports and travel
documents and registering births; the Sierra Leone Government, it
was said, had at that time intervened to curb the ambassador's activities.4
But even then it was found that not all who had Guinean associations
wished to be actively reminded of them: some were refugees. My
impression is of an increasing proportion of refugees who cannot go
Unity (Freetown), 10 February 1967.
West Africa (London), 15 April 1967, p. 482.
J. Suret-Canale, 'La Fin de la chefferie en Guinte', in The Journal of Afrian History
(Cambridge), VII, 3, 1966.
Think (Freetown), I 2 February 1967.
616 HUMPHREY J. FISHER
back at all, or semi-refugees, who return intermittently but prefer
to spend most of their time abroad. To these people, the spectre of
Guinean military action may have been as frightening as to genuine
Sierra Leoneans.
This background of international tension is relevant in assessing
tribalism in the March elections, for much of the enmity arose between
the Fula, the main tribe with Guinean connections, and the A.P.C.
supporters, especially among the Temne.
Ghana was the second pivot of the foreign policy debate. After
Nkrumah's fall, Sierra Leonean attitudes to Guinea were inevitably
influenced by the interpretations placed upon events in Ghana. Opposition
papers stressed the difficulty of maintaining friendship simultaneously
with the new military regime in Ghana and with the Guinean
authorities, who were harbouring Nkrumah and allowing him to
br0adcast.l
Relations with Ghana were more significant in ideology, working
through direct example. During Nkrumah's ascendancy, there was
considerable effort by Sir Albert to emulate him, A committee was
established to consider how a one-party state might be introduced in
Sierra Leone. Opponents of the scheme took legal action to prove
the committee unconstitutional; the courts finally overruled this
objection, but meanwhile the committee did not function and popular
resentment against the one-party idea was stirred up. Sir Albert,
fearing to antagonise moderate elements, and warned by Nkrumah's
downfall in February 1966, allowed the one-party campaign to lapse,
and finally cancelled it on the same day as he announced the foiling
of the Bangura coup.
Perhaps partly as an alternative to the dying one-party proposals, the
S.L.P.P. introduced a draft republican constitution. This was done
in haste: no consultation with the opposition before the draft Constitution
of Sierra Leone Bill was published on 22 December 1966-
only a month between its publication and its discussion in parliament
-only a few hours for its passage there. The opposition, in protest,
refused to discuss the draft in parliament. The DaiEy Mail printed a
long series of articles mainly critical of certain parts of the draft and
of the speed with which it was being rushed through ~arliaments;t~il l
1 The violence of the clash between Ghana and Guinea was well illustrated by the arrest
in Accra on 29 October 1966 of Guinean diplomats on their way to an O.A.U. meeting;
cf. W. A. E. Skurnik, 'Ghana and Guinea, 1966-a case study in inter-Afirican relations',
in The Journal of Modem African Studies (Cambridge), V, 3, 1967. Sierra Leone was one of
the countries described by the Guinean Government as having adopted a 'helpful'attitude
in relation to this episode. a Daily Mail, 2-5, 9, 12, 14,and 19January 1967.
sharper criticisms found expression in other newspapers, at public
meetings and in memoranda from the Bar Association, the Fourah Bay
College staff, and 0thers.l The first and second readings and the
committee stage of the bill were taken in one day, 24 January 1967,
and it was given its third reading the following day.
Two features were particularly condemned: the method of appointing
the President, who, it was felt, would be too dependent on
the Prime Minister; and the position of the judiciary. This was a
particularly sore point following the swearing-in as acting chief justice,
in January 1967, of Gershon B. 0. Collier, former ambassador to the
United States and representative at the United Nations; the opposition
criticised the appointment of a man who had been an active politician
for eight years and a close associate of the Prime Minister.2 Ghana was
cited again: Sir Albert was said to have supported Nkrumah when
he had dismissed the Ghanaian chief justice and two other justices
and had ordered a retrial, after a Supreme Court verdict that went
against the Government's ~ i s h e sO. ~p position papers in Sierra Leone
argued that such tampering with the courts had been a main cause
of Nkrumah's downfall.*
There was little or no direct opposition to the principle of republicanism,
though privately there may have been a good deal of support
for the monarchy. People with long Colony connections still identified
themselves with England-some had followed reports of the London
blitz during World War 11, discussing it in terms of 'we' and 'us';
and many other people feared a republic, viewing its effects in Guinea
and Ghana. The army, after the coups, was divided between those
still loyal to the crown, and others, such as Lt.-Col. A. T. Juxon-Smith,
hoping for a republic. One serious article on the constitution, before
the elections, mentioned Gambia's unsuccessful attempt 'to shake off
the shackles of monarchical imperiali~rn'.T~h e new constitution never
came into effect; it had to be approved also by the new parliament,
after the election, and everything had changed before that parliament
met.
Some arguments for the one-party idea had contrasted Ghana,
apparently stable and united under Nkrumah, with Nigeria, torn by
factions. Opponents of the single party drew contrary lessons from
1 E.g. Unity,31 December 1966 and 7 January 1967; W e Yone (Freetown), 31 December
1966 and 4 February 1967; Shekpendeh, 21 January 1967; and Think, 22 January 1967.
W e Yone, 31 December I 966.
Ibid. 30 April 1966.
Shekjendeh,7 January 1967; W e Yone, 28 January 1967.
W e Yone, 31 December 1966.
618 HUMPHREY J. FISHER
Nigeria, saying that the disturbances in the Western Region there
arose not from inherent defects in the multi-party system, but from
Akintola's reluctance to allow democratic change.l After the military
take-over in Nigeria, yet another lesson could be drawn from Nigeria;
and it is said that in 1966 Colonel Gowon wrote to Colonel Bangura,
second-in-command in the Sierra Leone forces, explaining how the
army had been led to inter~ene.~
After Nkrumah's fall, the pro-government press in Sierra Leone paid
little attention to Ghana. In the Daily Mail, items slipped in mainly
by the back door, for example a report from London about a meeting
there of Ghana's creditor^.^ But the opposition press now dwelt at
length on Ghana, reproducing articles-such as one by Colonel Afrifa4
-and describing the official enquiries set up by the military government,
such as that of the Crabbe Commission into the National
Development CounciL5
In all this, Sierra Leoneans drew upon the experience of Ghana-
Sir Albert following Nkrumah's example in some of his policies, the
A.P.C. later pointing out the shortcomings. The parallel between the
two countries was not complete: the remedy adopted by opponents
of the rtgime in Ghana was a military take-over, while in Sierra Leone
it was democratic parliamentary opposition. But what was to prevent
the army in Sierra Leone from following the example of its opposite
number in Ghana, as politicians on both sides had done?
(2) Economic problems
After foreign policy, came economic issues. Corruption was one.
The cause ce'libre of the campaign was a Cadillac car for the Prime
Minister, on which customs duty had been ~ a i v e dT. ~he big car is
both a status symbol, and, increasingly for the common man, a symbol
of oppression; one of the first acts of the military rCgime was to recall
all government cars from ex-ministers.
The chief economic issue was the precarious position of the S.L.
Produce Marketing Board, discussed at length in the press.7 This had
entered independence with substantial reserves, which were virtually
gone by 1966. The Board was often unable to pay salaries on time, or
to pay cash to farmers for produce of which it was the monopoly buyer.
Ibid. 4 February 1967. Cf.p. 636,below.
3 Daily Mail, 8 December 1966. * We Tone, 26 November 1966.
6 Ibid. 29 October and 5 November 1966.
6 Ibid. 29 October and 5, 19,and 26 November 1966;The Sierra Leonean, 17November
I966.
7 E.g. Shekpendeh, 17December 1966; We Tone, 26 November 1966.
The excessive spending was mainly on development projects which did
not show an immediate profit-or which might never show one at a1l.l
Considerable corruption was also alleged.
Falling agricultural production, particularly of rice, for the home
market was another economic issue. Sierra Leone, once an exporter
of rice, imported 36,000 tons in 1966.~A lthough census figures are
inadequate, it is believed that the population has remained fairly
steady, and that rice production has fallen, perhaps because of the
drift to the towns.
U~employment was also rising. The Clerical, Mercantile, and
General Workers' Union protested against unfair expatriate competition
in local jobs.3 In produce buying, however, Lebanese merchants had
been legally prohibited from the rice trade, in favour of Sierra Leoneans.
But the farmers were not altogether satisfied, and some protested that
formerly, when they used to sell to expatriate firms rather than to the
S.L.P.M.B., there were fewer delays in payment.
In November 1966 the International Monetary Fund approved a
stand-by arrangement whereby Sierra Leone might draw up to the
equivalent of $7.5 million within the next twelve months, to be repaid
over a period of three years. This I.M.F. assistance was not apparently
a political issue; the National Reformation Council, after the second
coup, said that the I.M.F. had 'saved our lives'. But the I.M.F.
insistence on severe economy measures, underlined by the presence
in the country of advisers from the I.M.F. and the World Bank, did
cause some an~iety.~ West Africa, well informed on Sierra Leone,
reported a Freetown rumour that the Fund's aid was conditional
upon an election early in 1967, to secure popular support for the
inevitable harsh economic mea~uresT.~h is was almost certainly untrue,
but it reveals how much the I.M.F. was thought to be influencing-or
interfering in-local affair^.^ In any case, an election had to be held
not later than August 1967, and Sir Albert may well have been
unwilling to introduce the stringent I.M.F. measures without one.
Conditions in the army provided another cause of dissatisfaction.
Early in 1966 a Forces Council was set up to handle promotions and
related matters, because of discontent with the methods of Lansana.
West Africa, 8 and 15April 1967. Daily Mail, 27 January 1967.
Unity,I I November 1966. Daily Mail, 7 November 1966.
West Africa, 8 April I 967.
A second stand-by arrangement on similar conditions, for the equivalent of $3.6 million,
became effective on I 7January I 968.
620 HUMPHREY J. FISHER
In February 1967 came the alleged plot, by several senior officers,
mainly of Temne origin, against Lansana and Sir Albert. The opposition
press, showing again its unusual talent for securing inside information,
published details of the allegations on 4 February;l the pro-government
press labelled this A.P.C. propaganda, designed to cause fear and
conf~sion.~ But on 8 February Sir Albert announced by radio that
plans for a coup had been uncovered, and that eight guilty officers had
been arrested, including Colonel Bangura, Lansana's deputy. It was
on the same occasion that Sir Albert invoked the military agreement
with Guinea.
During subsequent weeks it was repeatedly announced that the
arrested officers would soon be tried. But they never were, although
a secret preliminary inquiry was held, and it was alleged that negotiations
with Britain and other Commonwealth countries (including Canada),
to send judicial officers to conduct such a trial, were interrupted by
the coups. Many people believed there had never been a plot at all.
Sir Albert tried to profit from the Bangura plot. His broadcast,
frequently repeated, claimed that opposition comments 'could be
interpreted as blatant incitements to military personnel to overthrow
the government by force'. Whether or not the plot against Lansana
had actually existed, there was evidently continuing dissatisfaction in
the army and, when the Brigadier engineered the first coup after the
election, this dissatisfaction grew and became the main factor in the
second coup.
(4) Election procedures
The actual conduct of the elections was another issue in the campaign.
The opposition early voiced misgivings about the Electoral Commission's
impartiality;3 and Siaka Stevens protested against the appointment
of the acting chief electoral commi~sioner.A~n amendment to the
Electoral Provisions Act raised the deposit required of each candidate
to Le.500 (or L250). When nominations closed on 27 February six
S.L.P.P. candidates (including the Prime Minister) were returned
unopposed. In each case, opposition or independent nominations had
been disallowed for reasons which were widely condemned by critics
of the Government as frivolous. Writs were issued, and free courts
would probably have ordered new elections in all six constituencies.
We Tone, 4 February 1967.
a Unity, 4 February 1967.
We Yone, 5 November I 966.
Report of the Dove-Edwin Commission of Inquiry into the Conduct of the 1967 General Elections
in Sierra Leone and the Government Statement thereon (Freetown, 1 9 6 7 ) ~p. 7.
The Dove-Edwin Commission, set up later by the N.R.C. to enquire
into the election, called the unopposed returns 'a scandalY.l
It was over suspected irregularities on nomination day that violence
first flared up, particularly in Kono district, where a state of emergency
was declared. A.P.C. supporters were not invariably reluctant to use
questionable or violent methods against their opponents, especially
in districts where they were in a decisive majority; but inevitably the
Government had many more opportunities than the opposition for
malpractices of various kinds, and it was not in the A.P.C. interest
to give the Government an excuse for severity on a wide scale,
which would have enabled them to control the elections still more
firmly.
The paramount chiefs, and the way the S.L.P.P. used them, provided
another 'election conduct' issue.2 Most chiefs were government men;
in January 1967 a prominent Limba chief, who had been involved in
an anti-government demonstration, was deposed. Permission was
required from the local paramount chief before any election meeting
could be held in the province^.^ This sharply restricted A.P.C. opportunities
for such meetings.
There were many local issues as well-in Freetown, for example,
the Government's relations with the City Council (whose dissolution
was one of the first acts of the N.R.C.).4 The election as a whole,
however, was largely dominated by the four broader issues examined
above : foreign policy-including ideological borrowing-economic
affairs, the state of the army, and the conduct of the elections.
RELIGION AND TRIBALISM
Nigeria today reveals the dislocat1on which religious and tribal
conflicts can cause in national life. In Sierra Leone, with deeply rooted
tribal divisions and religious differences of great antiquity, similar
difficulties might be expected. Nevertheless, the absence of religious
conflict, at least, has been striking. Those who worship separately in
Freetown's numerous churches and mosques do so without apparently
feeling any disposition to quarrel with each other on that account.
Considerable space is given by the newspapers to the activities of all
Report of the Dove-Edwin Commission, para. I 7.
We Yone, 26 November 1966.
Public Order Act 1965, pt. IV, para. 24. Anyone who held a meeting against the wish
of the paramount chief, or who failed to comply with any conditions which he imposed,
was liable to a fine of up to Le.200 and 6 months in jail.
The Sierra Leonean, 6 April 1967.
622 HUMPHREY J. FISHER
religious denominations; in early 1967 an inspirational Muslim article,
under the general heading, 'Calling All Muslims', was appearing
every Friday in the Daity Mail, followed on Saturday by a Christian
homily, 'Our Weekend Meditation'.
In the party line-up the Mende, mass supporters of the S.L.P.P., are
among the most receptive of the interior peoples to Christianity, while
the Temne, on the A.P.C. side, have a long association with Islam.
But the Creoles, in a sense the A.P.C. Clite, are mainly Christian; the
Fula, prominent S.L.P.P. adherents, are Muslim. Within most tribes,
also, there are religious minorities: Muslim Mende or Creoles, or
Christian Temne. A local headmaster, describing how politicians do
not seem bound too much to one religious group or another, remarked,
'Politicians are not one-sided people.' But the absence of religious
strife did not mean that politicians did not seek religious support, or
that religious leaders expressed no political views. In fact, I heard
during the campaign more than one sermon with clear political
implications.
After the February coup-that-never-was, a thanksgiving service was
held in a Freetown park. It was announced: 'Dedicated and loyal civil
servants need have no fear to attend, since this act of prayer and praise
is one of national importance and will be so considered by the
authorities.' A Christian clergyman participated, with mammy-queens
leading the hymns in English and Mende, and several Muslim dignitaries.
The clergyman contrasted Freetown's peace with the violence of
Portuguese Guinea.1 Muslim religious support for the S.L.P.P. in such
matters as this thanksgiving came not from the staunchly orthodox Fula,
but rather from the Temne minority supporting the S.L.P.P. Many Fula
would have felt their faith degraded, had they thus expressed it for
essentially political purposes.
As for tribalism, there was a great gulf between the Colony settlers
and the Protectorate 'natives'. This was a main issue of the colonial
period, and the British ultimately left the Creoles, as it seemed, to be
swamped by the mass Protectorate vote.2 Dr D. J. R. Scott, writing
in 1960, thought that the Creole community, in defending their way
of life and standards of social judgment, faced the choice 'of dying in
the last ditch or aiding in the work of destruction by seeking favour
The minister read from the Bible, including the descr1ption of Christ as the only
begotten Son of the Father; approving were the amens of the congregation, just as for the
Qur'sn reading, including the affirmation that God neither begets nor is begotten.
a Cf. B. Keith-Lucas, 'Electoral Reform in Sierra Leone', in Political Studies (Oxford),
III, 1955, p. 98: 'Politically, the dividing line between the parties is approximately the same
as that between the Protectorate and the Colony.'
with their new masters'.l More recently, particularly under Sir Albert,
rivalry has grown between the two main interior groups, Temne and
Mende, encouraged partly by the preferment of Mendes in government
service-although at the time of the 1967 election a majority of senior
civil servants were still Creoles. The new breach helped somewhat to
heal the old: the A.P.C. victory in the March elections depended on
an alliance between the Colony and disillusioned elements in the
Protectorate, to use the old terms. Signs of division in Protectorate
solidarity had appeared as early as the tax 'strike' of 1955-6, which
ranged the discontented strikers against the 'chiefs' men'.2 Which is
more significant for the future?-the partial bridging of an old gulfwhich
many long thought utterly unbridgeable-or the strength of
Mende-Temne ten~ion?~
Mende-Temne relations need some qualification. There are probably
as many people-Creole, Limba, Loko, and others-who are neither
Mende nor Temne, as there are within either main group. The significance
of the tribal factor was further diminished because no tribe, with
the possible exception of the Konos, was a political unit.4 Again, the
violence in some areas during the 1967 elections was perhaps only
passively tribal, while actively it was political. Tribalism is latent,
needing some special stimulus. In this case, such stimuli included
tampering with nominations, stuffing ballot boxes (this was actually
done by the misuse of ballot papers), and holding up election results.5
The general atmosphere of malpractice led opposition supporters to
suspect that some Fula citizens of Guinea were voting. Had the
elections been fairer, tribal tension would have been less.
1 D. J. R. Scott, 'The Sierra Leone Election, May 1967', in W. J. M. Mackenzie and
Kenneth Robinson (eds.), Five Elections in Africa: a group of electoral studies (Oxford, 1960),
p. 191.
a Scott, op. cit. p. 193.
8 The too ready assumption that tribalism is the root of all evil has led to some absurdities
and inaccuracies. Afn'que contemporaine (Paris), 31, May-June 1967, pp. 19-20, calls Sir
Henry Lightfoot-Boston a Temne instead of a Creole, and says 10 of the 12 paramount
chiefs elected to parliament in March 1967 were Mende. In fact, only seven chiefs were
from the south, and some of these were of other tribes-Sherbro, Vai, or Gallinas.
* Cf. Scott, op. cit. p. I 73.
According to the Report of the Dove-Edwin Commission, para. 134: 'The whole of the
Government's arrangements for the 1967 elections was rigged and corrupt. At all levels,
before, during and after the elections this corruption was evident. They were determined
to use all means fair or foul to win and remain in office and if all failed to get Brigadier
Lansana to take over.' The publication of the Report, prefaced by a five-page 'Government
Statement', was delayed for over two months until 29 November. While criticising some
parts of it, the N.R.C. accepted the conclusion that the elections had been 'rigged and
corrupt '.
624 HUMPHREY J. FISHER
THE MARCH ELECTIONS
Voting took place on two days, on 17 March for the 66 ordinary
seats,l and on 2 I March for I 2 paramount chiefs, elected by traditional
and district councillors only. The elections of May 1957 had been
held on three separate days, because of the shortage of skilled administrative
staff to handle p01ling;~ there were no special seats for paramount
chiefs then. In the election of 1962 polling for the paramount
chiefs' seats had taken place before the ordinary constituency contests;
it is not clear why the order was reversed in 1967, although one
opposition newspaper had declared, in November 1966, 'The only
fair and honest way of deciding the outcome of the forthcoming general
elections is to hold the election of the ordinary constituency members
first.' Then 'the elections would have been decided and the elected
chiefs would give their support to the government of the day.'3 In fact,
violent controversy arose precisely because of the confusion over the
results of the elections, and the Governor-General did not even wait
for the paramount chiefs' elections before appointing Siaka Stevens
as Prime Minister.
On Saturday 18 March the 4 a.m. edition of the timid Daily Mail gave
the state of the parties as S.L.P.P. 11, A.P.C. 10. Deducting the six
uncontested S.L.P.P. seats, this was a surprising A.P.C. achievement.
Details were given for the 10 A.P.C. wins, but only for three of the
five S.L.P.P. victories, including two by independents reported to
have declared for the S.L.P.P. At 7.30 a.m. the Sierra Leone radio
announced S.L.P.P. 11, A.P.C. 6: something seemed to be awry in
their reports. By g a.m. the overwhelming A.P.C. victory in Tonkolili
district was a by-word on Freetown streets : 'Tonkolili I 7,000', people
people greeted each other with broad smiles. The local radio announcement
did not come until about 10.30 p.m.
The B.B.C. news at 7 p.m., relayed by the S.L.B.S., said that, with
all seats declared save two, the A.P.C. had a lead of two. Immediately
following, the Sierra Leone news said that the S.L.P.P. had 30 seats,
The addition of four new seats to the 62 in the previous parliament had been authorised
on 3 February, just before the dissolution, by the Electoral Provisions (Amendment) Act
1967. No general redistribution was attempted at this time, and there were still extreme
differences between the numbers of voters in the different constituencies. The votes actually
cast on I 7 March ranged from less than 2,000 in four constituencies in Sherbro or close to
Freetown, to around 20,000 or more in four other constituencies. This disparity does not
appear to have been markedly to the advantage of either party; in each of these quartets,
two seats went to the S.L.P.P. and two to the A.P.C. The constitution, para. 38(4), requires
the periodic review of constituency divisions.
Scott, op. cit. pp. 201-2. We Yone, 26 November 1966.
the A.P.C. 26, independents 2, with 8 results to come. Between 8 and
10 p.m. the S.L.B.S. closed down; its national news, at 10 p.m., did
not mention the elections at all. On Sunday 19 March the radio still
claimed that five results had not come in; one, an A.P.C. win in the
south (at Moyamba West), was so embarrassing that it was never
announced. The results of the French Somaliland referendum, which
took place a day later, were known in Sierra Leone before those of the
local elections.
The actual final results for the ordinary seats were, according to the
official report: S.L.P.P. 22 contested seats and 6 unopposed, A.P.C.
32 contested seats, and independents 6.l For the 6 unopposed S.L.P.P.
seats new elections might, under a new government, be ordered. Any
S.L.P.P. hopes of a majority relied upon the independents; on 21
March four of these wrote to the Governor-General to say that they
would support whichever party had a majority, but that they would not
in any case serve under Sir Albert.2
With inevitable uncertainties about the opinion of the electors in the
six constituencies where members were declared returned unopposed,
the voting strength of the parties in the country as a whole can only be
estimated. The figures published in the Daily Mail on 20 March,
before the announcement of the results in five constituencies (four
of which were subsequently reported as having returned A.P.C.
candidates), showed the total A.P.C. vote as 234,743, and the S.L.P.P.
214,771. The four elected 'independents ' who were said to have subsequently
declared for the S.L.P.P. received I 7, I 3I votes; two of these
were signatories to the letter of 21 March to the Governor-General.
Other independent candidates received 106,008 votes.3
On 2 I March, the day of the election of the paramount chiefs, the
Governor-General, Sir Henry Lightfoot-Boston, after an unsuccessful
attempt to arrange a coalition between the two parties, appointed the
A.P.C. Leader, Siaka Stevens, as Prime Minister.
Should he have waited for the paramount chiefs' results? It has
never been easy to define precisely the position of the chiefs in the
constitutional structure of Sierra L e ~ n eT.h~e Electoral Reform Commission
of 1954-popularly called the Keith-Lucas Commission-said
that this matter was not within its terms of reference. At the time a
considerable proportion of Protectorate members of the Legislative
Report of the Dove-Edwin Commission, para. 122.
a Ibid. annex E.
These figures appear also in West Africa, 8 April 1967,p. 477:
The constitution in force in 1967 appeared formally as the Sierra Leone (Constitution)
Order in Council, 1961,Statutory Instruments No. 741.
626 HUMPHREY J. FISHER
Council were paramount chiefs. The Rekori! however did suggestand
Keith-Lucas later claimed widespread Protectorate support for
this view1-that paramount chiefs should not be allowed to take part
in ordinary elections, either as voters or as candidates, for two reasons:
that the status and authority of chiefs might be damaged by electioneering
against their own subjects; and that a commoner contesting a seat
against his own chief would be at an immediate disadvantage and
might be vulnerable to later repercussions. Some form of separate
representation, unspecified, was re~ommendedT.~h e Government endorsed
the commissioner's view that paramount chiefs should be
excluded from ordinary elections and recommended special representation;
but the matter was left for subsequent de~ision.~
Certainly there was never any suggestion of reducing or undermining
the power of the paramount chiefs: the constitution recognises their
office 'as existing by customary law and usage' in one of the entrenched
provisions, which can be amended only by a two-thirds majority,
followed by the dissolution of parliament and another two-thirds
ma-jority. in the new H ~ u s e . ~
Subsequently 12 seats were allocated to the paramount chiefs, to be
filled by a special limited franchise. These seats are frequently mentioned
in legi~lation;n~o where is their party allegiance explicitly
defined, although the chiefs were not allowed to campaign under
political labels. It would no doubt be unreasonable to expect universally
accepted conventions of conduct to have emerged during the short
period that has elapsed since Sierra Leone attained independence; but,
according to an authoritative view, 'it is arguable that by constitutional
convention the Chiefs would support the Government, whatever the
part^'.^ In essence, the chiefs' seats appear to have been intended for
elder statesmen, above party strife. One chief, re-elected in 1967,
declared himself 'a representative of his district', as his responsibilities
had been explained to him originally. But of necessity most chiefs supported
the Government-if only through fear of dismissal-and in this
case the appointment of a Prime Minister might properly depend on the
balance of party strength among ordinary members alone.
The constitutional law concerning the Governor-General's action
Keith-Lucas, op, cit, p. 104.
a Report of the Electoral Re$om Commission (Freetown, 1g54), para. 49-52 and 58.
Statement of the Government of Sierra Leone on the Report of the Electoral Reform Commission
(Freetown, 1955), Sessional Paper No. 2 of 1955, para. 12.
Report of the Sierra Leone Constitutional Conference, 1960 (Freetown, 1960), para. 20 (k).
E.g. the Constitution, para. 30, and the Electoral Provisions Act 1962, pt. V.
6 H. W. R. Wade and H. L. Cryer (eds.), Annual Suruey of Commonwealth Law, 1967
(London, 1968).
is much clearer. Paras. 58(2) and 64(1) of the constitution empower
him to appoint as Prime Minister, 'in accordance with his own deliberate
judgment', that member of parliament 'who appears to him likely to
command the support of the majority of the members of the house'. In
this context, the Dove-Edwin Commission recalled that the appointment
of Sir Milton Margai as Prime Minister in 1962had not been questioned,
though the election of that year had not given any party an over-all
majority in the house, and concluded that the Governor-General's
interpretation of his powers on 2 I March had been entirely justified.l
On 4 February 1967 L. A. Camara Taylor, secretary-general of the
A.P.C., had written to Sir Henry, putting two questions: 'are the
votes of the I 2 Paramount Chiefs taken into consideration to determine
what Party has a majority, or are results of the election determined on
the basis of 62 (now 66) directly elected members?'; and were the
paramount chiefs, once elected, 'bound to side with the Party in
power', or were they 'free to opt for the Party of their choice'? Camara
Taylor sent a copy of this to Berthan Macaulay, the attorney-general,
who also took up the matter direct with Sir Henry Lightfoot-Boston,
adding his own view 'that the duty of the Governor-General is not to
determine what person has the support of the majority of the members
of the House. His duty is to determine what person is likely to command
the support of the majority of the members of the Hou~e.T'~h e official
reply from the Governor-General's office to the A.P.C. in effect repeated
this view, along with two other points also made by the attorney-general :
that paramount chiefs must be taken into account as members; and
that they were free to opt for the party of their ~hoice.~
This correspondence confirms what all the other available evidence
suggests, that the Governor-General has the right, even the duty, to
exercise his own judgment. He did so, and to disagree with his
decision is not at all to prove that he should not have done so. Even if
the Governor-General's critics had a legitimate grievance, that would
be far from demonstrating that military revolution was the proper way
to express it. The paramount chiefs' position is of secondary importance :
clearly the Governor-General could exercise no independent judgment
if their votes were regarded as conclusive; and their freedom to opt
for one party or another might, under certain circumstances, have
benefited the A.P.C.
Report of the Dove-Edwis Commission, pp. 16and 19. Wade and Cryer refute as 'baseless'
Lansana's accusation that the Governor-General had acted unconstitutionally; op. cit. p. 78.
Letter of 4 February 1967 from the Attorney General to the Governor-General.
Letter of 22 February 1967 from the Governor-General's Secretary.
628 HUMPHREY J. FISHER
THE LANSANA COUP-A TWO-DAY WONDER
Before I p.m. on 21 March, people in Freetown expected Stevens to
broadcast as Prime Minister at 5 p.m. The city was filled with jubilant
people and, from my limited observation, was peaceful, good-natured,
and orderly. Riot police and troops in battle dress guarding the
Governor-General's residence, with batons, wicker shields, fixed
bayonets, and sten guns, and the barricades marking off a wide
surrounding area all seemed incongruous. But inside, Lansana had
arrested the Governor-General, Stevens, and several cabinet ministers,
minutes after the swearing-in. Some time after 5 p.m. ammunition was
distributed to some of the troops round the State House, and to the
crew of a machine gun nearby. At 5.55 p.m. Lansana broadcast
a statement, of which only four minutes' advance notice had been
given. It was repeated in a slightly amended version at 10.15 p.m. The
following is a transcr1pt:
This is Brigadier David Lansana speaking, to all citizens of Sierra Leone.
There is widespread rumour, put out by the A.P.C., the All People's
Congress, that the Governor-General has appointed Mr Siaka Stevens as
Prime Minister. I want to assure the public that this rumour, if it is true, is
unconstitutional, because the election results have not yet all come in, and
at this very moment I am speaking, the election of paramount chiefs is
going on. No party has yet got a sufficient number to form an over-all
majority of the members of parliament. Only this morning, at about 10.30,
the Governor-General assured me that he would not proceed with the
appointment of a Prime Minister until he had had consultations on Wednesday
22 March. That is tomorrow. This rumour, being spread by the opposition,
is an attempt to ignore the constitution and seize power by force.
This, as I assured the Governor-General this morning, will lead to chaos
and civil war. As custodian of state securitv, ,, I have decided to protect the
constitution and maintain law and order. Therefore, from now on, we are
operating under martial law. I repeat, we are operating under martial law!
From now on, the army is in control, and will use all its power to see that
the constitution is not violated. I appeal to you all to remain calm. You will
be informed of further developments. In the meantime, I'm advising you,
those of you demonstrating in the streets, to disperse immediately. The last
thing we want in this country is bloodshed. ~ nif dyou disperse quietly, and
go back about your lawful business, there will not be bloodshed. I sincerely
hope to God you will follow this advice. Thank you all very much.l
The reference to the need to wait for the results of the election
suggests that Lansana hoped to marshal the 12 elected chiefs to give
The phrases omitted at 10.15 were insignificant, except that the last three sentences
were replaced by this: 'Please let us all avoid it, by remaining calm and waiting for the
results of the election. Thank you very much.'
ELECTIONS AND COUPS IN SIERRA LEONE, 1967 629
an S.L.P.P. majority and re-impose Sir Albert. Some time after 8 p.m.
that same evening, the radio began relaying the chiefs' results, quickly
and smoothly, in contrast to the delayed ordinary seats. One after
another successful candidate was reported as declaring himself (or
herself) an S.L.P.P. member, with only two exceptions, whose allegiance
was undeclared.
The Freetown crowds had not dispersed, and the army spent most
of the night clearing the streets. As the election results, interspersed
with dance music, were broadcast, firing continued in the city. I counted
some 35 shots in 15 minutes, at about I I p.m. Much of the firing
was in the air; estimates of fatal casualties ranged from 14 to 40 or
more. Demonstrators did not actually fight the troops; many road
blocks, however, were hastily erected, apparently because of rumours
that the army wished to take Stevens out of the city and kill him.
If Lansana was to succeed with his plan, he had to bring the M.P.s
together. The following announcement was broadcast on Wednesday
morning :
And now, here is a statement from the Force Commander. The Force
Commander, Brigadier David Lansana, requires the presence of all Members
of Parliament elected at the last general election today, Wednesday, the
22nd of March. It is not the wish of the Force Commander to do anything
that is unconstitutional. Therefore, Members of the present House of Representatives
are required to come down to Freetown, to discuss very important
matters in connection with the constitutional government of Sierra Leone.
On arrival in Freetown, M.P.s are requested to ring 6381, 6381, and ask
for Brigadier David Lansana, when they will be told about the time and
place of the meeting. And that's the end of this statement issued by the
Force Commander.
A further broadcast on Wednesday afternoon, imposing a curfew from
7.30 p.m. to 6 a.m., closed with these words, implying that M.P.s had
not responded well (as indeed they had not) :
All effort is being made to bring in a constitutional government by the
elected Members of Parliament, and this will be done as soon as all members
of the present House of Representatives co-operate with the security forces
to maintain this order. Once again, the Force Commander and the Commissioner
of Police wish to assure the nation that they don't want bloodshed
in this country, and that as soon as politicians can come together, there
will be a constitutional government for the nation. And that's the end of the
statement issued by the Force Commander and the Commissioner of Police.
In support of this, the commissioner himself, L. W. Leigh, broadcast
at 7.45 p.m. on Wednesday:
Members of the Sierra Leone police force. This is the Commissioner of
Police speaking. No doubt you heard the statement by the Force Commander
630 HUMPHREY J. FISHER
at 17.55 hours yesterday. As police officers, we have no alternative but to
fall in line. Therefore, from now on, until the situation is resolved, you are
ordered to remain at your posts, and continue your work as police bfficers.
You will receive your orders through me from the Force Commander.
That is all.
The commissioner's reluctant tone suggests hard bargaining behind
the scenes; it is said that relations between Lansana and Leigh had
been strained for some time. In fact, after Lansana's coup, Stevens
had telephoned the Reuter correspondent, to say that Leigh had
promised to support him. Another announcement, made about the
same time, urging civil servants to return to work, reflected anxiety
about a general strike.
Eater on Wednesday evening, Lansana broadcast again-his swan
song, though he did not know it. This broadcast, unlike the others,
was not repeated. He again advanced constitutional justification for
his action, but gave prominence now to tribalism as well:
On Saturday, the 18th of March, after the elections of the ordinary members
were over, and the country was waiting for the election of the twelve
paramount chiefs representing the districts, the state of the political parties
was: All People's Congress, A.P.C., 32, Sierra Leone People's Party, S.L.P.P.,
32, and independents, 2. It appeared that the results of the elections had
reflected not political opinions but tribal differences. This meant that
neither the Sierra Leone People's Party, nor the All People's Congress, had
a majority, because, as I have pointed out, the number of seats being 78,
32 on either side was less than the required majority of at least 40. Tension
was building up in the country, and as chief of state security I interviewed
the Governor-General on the 19th and 20th of March 1967, that is to say,
two days and one day before the other elections were held, and informed
him that a dangerous situation would be created if he made any appointment
when neither party had a majority, and the elections had still not been
concluded. He told me he did not intend to do anything unconstitutional,
and that he'd wait until the elections were over before he would decide, on
the basis of the results, which party had the support of the majority of the
members elected. This was in the presence of the Commissioner of Police.
I saw him again on the day of the chiefs' elections, and he informed me that,
despite the fact that neither had a majority and both were equal, again
I repeat 32-32, he proposed to make an appointment of Prime Minister.
I again informed him that I would not be able to contain any trouble that
might arise if he acted unconstitutionally. Two hours after my interview
with him, he decided to make an appointment, when neither party had
a majority, and elections were still in pr0gress.l
The end of this broadcast is missing from my recording; normally all announcements
were repeated many times, and such gaps could be repaired, but this one was not, perhaps
because Lansana's power was already waning.
THE SECOND COUP AND THE N.R.C.
The next day, 23 March, at 2 p.m., senior army officers deposed
Lansana, who had lasted not quite 48 hours. At 7.30 p.m. Major Blake
went on the air. Lansana's apologia had begun shifting from constitutionalism
to the need to avoid triba1ism.l Blake emphasised tribalism
much more, gave only passing attention to the constitution, hinted at
the economic justification, which was later to become more important,
and, rashly, promised not to investigate corruption-investigations
which, within a few days, were to become the military's main excuse.
Fellow citizens, this is Major Charles Blake speaking. You will recall
Brigadier Lansana's statement to you last night, in which he outlined the
irregularities surrounding the Governor-General's unconstitutional action
in the appointment of Mr Siaka P. Stevens. He also said that he, as custodian
of state security, had decided to protect the constitution, and to maintain
law and order,-and for this reason he had assumed control. Fellow citizens,
I want to make this quite clear, that we, the senior officers, did not intend
to impose a military government on the people of this our beloved country.
We have therefore agreed with the Force Commander, that, since the
election results have-demonstrated a clearlv tribalistic attitude of the
country, motivated and aggravated by the propaganda campaign of the
two parties, the safest and surest solution, for the benefit of our beloved
country, was to bring both parties to the conference table, to discuss the
establishment of a national government representative of every section of
the country. We, the senior officers, have since noticed that the attitude of
the Brigadier was not to bring about the creation of a national government,
but to impose Sir Albert Margai as the Prime Minister of this country. We,
the senior officers, dissociate ourselves with the Brigadier's line of action,
and in the interests of this country have no alternative but to divest the
Brigadier of control of this country.
The army and police are now in complete control. I appeal to all civil
servants, and to all citizens of our beloved country, to remain calm, and to
remain at their posts. I take the pledge to assure all my fellow citizens that
the army does not propose to take cognizance of the past, to mount exhaustive
enquiries into- the liberty and possessions of individuals, but to
turn a new page in the history of our beloved country. As an interim measure,
there shall be a National Reformation Council, comprising of the following:
Lt.-Col. A. P. Genda, hair man;^ Mr William Leigh has been invited
to be deputy chairman; Lt.-Col. A. T. Juxon-Smith; Major A. C. Blake;
D. Dalby, 'The Military Take-over in Sierra Leone', in The World Today (London),
August, 1967,p. 358, says that of the variety of patriotic motives advanced by Blake's military
junta the desire to suppress tribalism is the least plausible, tribalism never having presented
a very great problem in Sierra Leone. It is more than likely that the intervention of the
army, like the electoral malpractices which preceded it, stimulated tribal suspicions.
a Genda was replaced by Juxon-Smith as chairman before he had time to return to
Sierra Leone from the United States. Major Turay was not on the list first announced.
632 HUMPHREY J. FISHER
Major B. I. Kaisamba; Major S. B. Jumu; and Mr Alpha Kamara,
Assistant Commissioner of Police, has also been invited to become a member.
There shall also be a National Advisory Council to the National Reformation
Council, which will comprise of eminent civilians in the country. The nominations
of these civilians will be deliberated at the first sittin"g of the N.R.C.
As from this moment, the constitution is suspended, all political parties
are dissolved, and all political activity is prohibited. The Governor-General
is under house arrest. The Force Commander, and the leaders of the two
political parties, Sir Albert Margai and Mr Siaka P. Stevens, are in protective
custody. These people, and the detained officers now in Pademba
Road prison, will be released in due c0urse.l I want to assure you, my fellow
citizens, that they are all safe and well. You will be informed of developments
later on.
Assist us, my dear people, in these our finest hours, to show this country
to be a Sierra Leone that will be worthy of its historical reputation, and
a paradise for generations to come. Please remain calm. The normal life
of our community shall not be interrupted in any shape or form. In your
own interest, a dusk-to-dawn curfew, from 7 p.m. to 6 a.m., is imposed as
from today.
Were it not for the economic situation of this countrv,., and the present
tribalistic posture, and complete disunity among families and tribes, instigated
by political party doctrine, the army would not have embarked on
this line of action. I want to remind you, my dear people, that we are soldiers,
and want to remain soliders, and politics is not our mission. We will hand
over, back to the politicians, as soon as the situation becomes favourable.
The National Reformation Council will do all in its power to bring about
a civilian government in the shortest possible time. We therefore need
your co-operation.
I want to emphasise the point that we are still members of the Commonwealth,
and we continue to recognise the Queen as the head of the Commonwealth.
I appeal to all ambassadors to stay in the country, and the
National Reformation Council pledges to honour all international obligations
entered into by the previous government. I further want to assure you, my
dear people, that the National Reformation Council, in the course of its
administration, will not, I repeat will not, enhance the social standard of
its members. All officers will remain on their service pay and allowances,
and such allowances as their appointments in the Council shall require, and
shall be promoted as the establishment and other service [next word obscure]
shall determine. Thank you very much.
On Friday it was announced that the post of secretary to the
Prime Minister was abolished; but the holder, Peter Tucker, was
retained as secretary-general to the N.R.C. and head of the civil
The reference is to Bangura and his imprisoned colleagues of the February coup, who
provided some light relief. According to one story, the N.R.C. sent representatives to release
them from prison, but the officers refused liberation until they were formally and fully
exonerated. While the argument proceeded, many other prisoners escaped. Later the same
day I met heavily armed troops on patrol, and thought that mutiny had broken out-but
they were only looking for the escapees.
service. Seven papers, including Unity, We Tone, Shekfiendeh, and Think,
were suspended for a week. Pistols and revolvers were to be surrendered
to the police. Tucker's retention aroused fears lest the N.R.C., like
Lansana, was covering up for the S.L.P.P. The former secretary to the
cabinet and the economic adviser to the P.M. were also carried over.
This warning was given on Saturday 25 March:
The National Reformation Council heard with grave concern rumours that
are being spread by malicious people, who are anxious to revive the tribal
conflict which the Council is now trying to suppress, to the effect that certain
people have been allowed to remain in their posts after the Council has
taken over, and suggesting that this has been done for tribal reasons. The
public is hereby strictly warned that any further rumour of this nature, or
any other rumour that is likely to lead to strife or disunity in our community,
will be pursued to its source, and the persons responsible severely dealt
with. The Council wishes to take the opportunity to assure all civil servants
that it will not tolerate victimisation of any officer [i.e. civil servant] for
any past conduct in political matters. The posts announced so far are merely
a change of titles, to fit in with the functions and authority of the National
Reformation Council.
On Sunday 26 March arms regulations were further tightened, and
former ministers and their deputies were ordered to return government
cars and vacate government housing. This may have been the first
sign of the N.R.C.'s realisation of past political corruption.
On Sunday afternoon the 11 senior judges of Sierra Leone took
a new oath before the N.R.C., 'to support and uphold the Constitution
of Sierra Leone in accordance with the Administration of Sierra Leone
(National Reformation Council) Proclamation I 967 '.The Proclamation
suspended certain provisions of the constitution, authorised the N.R.C.
to suspend any others at any time and retroactively to 23 March, and
empowered the N.R.C. to detain anyone at will in the interests of
public order and safety. One judge, Sir Samuel Bankole-Jones, president
of the Court of Appeal hesitated:
Chairman, Commissioner of Police, before I take the judicial oath, I wish
to crave your indulgence to say just a few words. In the first place, I would
like to say how very grateful we are to the National Reformation Council,
for stepping in at the right moment, in order to avoid what might have been
chaos and bloodshed in this country. I was approached at some time by
members, and I gave my unstinted support. But what worries me today. . .
when I was first appointed a judge, I took the oath before the Governor-
General, representative of Her Majesty the Queen, and about two or
three hours ago I got a letter to come here to take the oath before the
National Reformation Council. I have no objection to that; but I am not
quite certain in my mind whether I am doing the right thing. I have not
634 HUMPHREY J. FISHER
advised myself, whether the suspension of the constitution, and the suspension
of the workings of the Governor-General, are things which, as a judge, one
ought to contribute to. But these are not normal times, and, as I say, I am
ready to subject myself, and give the utmost support to your Council. I will
only pray, and hope, that, having said that, section 6 of the Proclamation,
6(1), will not be thought [?I. ..I am sure it will not be. . .the National
Reformation Council will make an order against any person, directing
that he be detained, where it considers it necessary in the interests of public
order so to do. I am very serious about this, because as one of the ministers
of the rule of law, I think I ought to make this statement before I take the
judicial oath. And I am now ready, Mr Chairman, to take the oath.
Lt.-Col. Juxon-Smith returned from England on 28 March to become
chairman of the N.R.C. Two days later, when the Council had been in
existence for one week, he gave a long press conference, described as
a draft blueprint for the N.R.C. Only a summary and extracts can be
given here.l
Juxon-Smith began with an extended discussion of the Governor-
General's position, apparently giving Sir Henry six months' leave, but
not accusing him of unconstitutional action. Tribalism came next:
And one of the first statements I made, you know, what I tried to put across
was, to kill this question of tribalism. As far as I'm concerned, I mean, it's
dead, you know. I hope it'll never come alive again. Today, what I'm
going to do now is to give you a sort of funeral oration, you know, tribalism,
and to cremate it, and.. .and to bury it, you know, into, what I call into
a dark abyss, you know, and seal it for ever and ever, as the Bible says, for
ten thousand times ten thousand, upon thousands of thousands, and you
know, years, so it never arises in. . .in this country again. That will be the
object of the National Reformation Council.
Regionalism was also condemned, but corruption had now become
the chief enemy. One passage, among several, ran:
Within the last few years in Sierra Leone, we've had an unfortunate
experience in this country, of having in our midst, you know, what I'd like
to call a demonaic and hydra-headed monster, and that monster is bribery,
corruption, and nepotism, especially so in high places. That has been the
root cause of our trouble.
Economic orthodoxy was declared :
The I.M.F. agreement, which saved our lives, let me confess this, for this
nation has gone, you know, to the dogs, that will be rigidly adhered to as
long as I am member for finance. There will be no defection from me
whatsoever. We must demonstrate to the I.M.F. and to the world that we
can keep within the spirit of the agreement.
I have the transcr1pt, in nearly complete form, together with various other scr1pts not
reproduced in this article, and would be glad to make them available to any interested
student.
There was also a revealing passage on martial law:
The next.. .and this is a very important thing I must.. .I must talk on.
It has come to our notice that. ..people are planning trouble. Let me say
this now, that there is martial law in Sierra Leone. Perhaps it wasn't
explained to the populace what martial law means. It means that military
law is supreme to civil law, and that anybody who does any act or conduct
or neglect I?] which is. ..which is prejudicial to the interests of the state,
that person will be immediately court. ..will be immediately court-martialled,
the maximum sentence for which is death. And I'll have no scruples whatsoever
to confirm the sentence, because as commander-in-chief and head
of state it comes to me for confirmation. I will confirm it unstantaneously.
So, whoever it is, in Sierra Leone, wherever you may be, who is planning
trouble, let me warn you, in your interests and in the interests of. ..of your
. . .of your family, to go back to your house, or to your homes or to your
societies. . .Regardless of rank or station, regardless of personality, you will
be immediately. ..be immediately. ..apprehended, you will be tried by
court-martial, and you will be shot by a firing squad. That is what martial
law means. So, if you didn't know what it means, you now do, and there'll
be no excuse in the future. ..We give this out as a warning, so that the
world will not come back, you know, on us, and say. ..here are soldiers,
you know, shooting and killing their own people without having explained to
them what the significance of martial law is. It is a very serious state of affairs.
Other topics dealt with by Juxon-Smith included: the loyalty of the
army, the advisory council, religion, the judiciary, the Freetown
City Council, paramount chiefs (whose prestige was to be enhanced,
as natural rulers of the country), the civil service, the press, and state
secrets.
CONCLUSION
We may ask again, why did the army take over? In Lansana's case,
it was fairly clearly to restore Sir Albert, to accomplish what inefficient
election rigging had failed to do. The initial motives of the members
of the N.R.C. are less easily defined. The rapid succession of justifications
-the constitution, tribalism, corruption, economic problems-suggests
that the army itself did not know why it was in power. Juxon-Smith,
answering questions at Fourah Bay College, stressed again and again
that things looked different from the inside. Let me suggest two basic
factors prompting the army, one specific, one general.
The specific factor was the need to resolve internal tensions within
the army, which had been exacerbated by Lansana. There has been
a tendency in some quarters in recent years to look hopefully at military
coups through rose-tinted spectacles, apparently on the hypothesis
that military men are likely to be more high-minded and intelligent
636 HUMPHREY J. FISHER
than po1iticians.l At least in Sierra Leone it was more the army itself
than national politics that the N.R.C. coup was to reform.
The general factor was ideological borrowing, particularly from
Ghana. Professor W. Arthur Lewis has said of the one-party system,
'political institutions are contagious '.2 More recently, we have witnessed
a similar contagion in military coups. In Sierra Leone this contagion
affected not only army officers. One of the most prominent and
respected civilians in the country told the N.R.C., the day after they
took power, that he had been in touch with General Ankrah and the
Nigerian rtgime for the previous six months, and that Sierra Leone could
profit from their experience; these views apparently carried considerable
weight with Juxon-Smith at this stage. Even the political opposition
had toyed with such ideas: on 22 October 1966 an article in We Tone
had suggested that it might be a good thing, in order to avert financial
disaster, to suspend the constitution and have a period of army direction.
Sierra Leone, swept away by the ideological epidemic, was content
to copy. Had the army supported the Governor-General, had Sir Albert
admitted defeat, Sierra Leone would have copied no one, and might
have set an example for Africa.
On 22 March 1967 Colin Legum, broadcasting on Lansana's coup, commented that
the army might in such political crises play a useful role.
a Lewis, op. cit. p. 88.
Subject: SLPP IS AGAINST ANTI-CORRUPTION
From: Albert Moinina
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Date Posted: 23:31:17 04/03/07 ()
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PREVIOUSLY POSTED BY CHIEF BOMBORLAI. MILLION REASONS TO THROW THE CORRUPT SLPP PARTY OUT OF EXISTENCE.
Posted by Chief Bomborlai on April 03, 2007 at 11:39:19:
SLPP-controlled Parliament completes destruction of ACC
News - National
Monday, 02 April 2007
After nearly three years, a parliamentary select committee investigating certain aspects of expenditure at the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) has recommended curtailing the power of the commissioner and his deputy. The new definition of the Commission should, also, now make ‘provision for the relevance of other staff in the decision making process.?br>
The report also recommends that, ‘Parliament calls the attention of the ministry of finance?to ‘lapses?in budgetary allocat1on to the ACC; a further audit of accounts to what it referred to as ‘excess?in the use of government subventions; an investigation into payments for promotional articles on Sierra Leone in the French newspaper Le Economiste? investigation into duplicated payments to local newspapers and unauthorised publications.
Regarding the support to the ACC from the UK’s department for international development and cooperation (DFID), the Committee’s recommendation amongst others includes; that the total amount of the department’s support to the ACC for fiscal year 2004, be communicated to the ministry of finance and a further investigation into the ‘credibility of the exchange rate?of the British Pound to the Leone as declared by DFID, which the committee notes ‘is far lower than the official exchange rate declared by the Bank of Sierra Leone?in the period under review.
The decision to investigate the ACC was sparked off in part, when in a discussion programme, the then commissioner Val Collier, stated frankly among other things that parliamentarians are more interested in hustling and jostling for contracts than making laws and doing the business of State which they are paid for.
A string of carefully choreographed statements then followed. Firstly, it was President Kabbah decrying the ACC and especially the Commissioner for the policy of naming and shaming corrupt activities. The Speaker of Parliament also waded in to the onslaught by publicly calling for the ACC commissioner to be ‘thought a lesson for his attack?on ‘honourable?members of parliament. Others within the ruling SLPP were also openly calling for the ACC Commissioner to go.
As the attacks were going on, the ACC was targeting high-profile cases as demanded by the benchmarks set by the international community. There was a strong case of misappropriation of approximately $2million US Dollars lodged with the Attorney General against President Kabbah’s blue-eyed boy, minister of tourism Okere Adams, who was by then minister of marine resources. Vice-president Solomon Berewa’s protég?MIK Bayoh was also in the claws of the ACC for stealing billions of leones in government contracts. The touchy Port Forklift case was, finally, been sent to court.
Then, Parliament gave the go-ahead in April 2004 for an inquiry into ‘aspects of expenditure by the ACC, and as a deflective tactic on an apparent witch-hunt, the National Fire Force, for the fiscal year 2004. A 15-man committee was set up headed by, ironically, an opposition member from the All People’s Congress, (APC) party Ibrahim Sesay. Three years later, after intense probing and the sacking of Val Collier, which a keen observer of the ACC say was part of the motive for the inquiry, the committee was unable to find the smoking gun to nail Collier.
In the committee’s report, which the chairman will deliver to Parliament soon, Sesay is expected to say among other things that, the definition of the Commission gave enormous power to the Commissioner. That, he will say, might explain Collier’s ‘unauthorised and questionable activities?as vote controller, like the use of excess funds from the ACC’s budget of 2004 to purchase an official vehicle from source, and refurbishing and equipping the Bo office of the Commission and the payments for promotional and publicity in local and international newspapers; hence the recommendation to diminish the authority of the Commissioner.
This action by parliament our political commentator says will further weaken the power of the Commissioner and effectively the Commission, which has already gone to wrack and ruin because of the political shenanigans that has embroiled it. ‘They have achieved their purpose, which was to remove Collier and render the Commission ineffective. This is just the final nail on the coffin of the ACC.?br>
Watch this space for our editorial and more on the sorry episode of an institution that was expected to have laid the golden goose for the country’s development but which has been thrown to the dogs. Also coming soon, why DFID has decided to pull the plugs on the ACC.
Subject: JOHN LEIGH - YOU DISGUST ME!!
From: Truth
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Date Posted: 17:40:09 04/03/07 ()
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Your despicable condescending attitude disgusts me! I once thought you can be a role model to some of us but your unsoberliness points to one who is loosing form. You are an escroque!! Persona non grata!!
Subject: Re: JOHN LEIGH - YOU DISGUST ME!!
From: Truth be Told
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Date Posted: 20:30:32 04/03/07 ()
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Are you sure you know what Persona non grata means?
Subject: Re: JOHN LEIGH - YOU DISGUST ME!!
From: Truth
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Date Posted: 02:28:00 04/04/07 ()
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In the diplomatic sense it means every state has a right to refuse to accept a particular diplomatic agent, whether on the ground of his personal character or of his previous record.- PERSONA GRATA
In this sense, I am implying that Mr. Leigh is not an individual of good character and therefore should not be given ant position of trust or wanted in any high office of state concerns. Call it a colloquial!
Subject: Re: JOHN LEIGH - YOU DISGUST ME!!
From: Gambler
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Date Posted: 08:39:53 04/04/07 ()
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In non-diplomatic usage, calling someone persona non grata is to say that he or she is ostracized from a person or group, so as to be figuratively nonexistent...
So are you saying that JOHN LEIGH IS NON-EXISTENT IN THIS FORUM? the man is busy whipping your A-- and you are saying he is non existent..
Porroort Mbo Seyoooh..
Subject: Re: JOHN LEIGH - YOU DISGUST ME!!
From: Teacher
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Date Posted: 08:52:45 04/04/07 ()
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That is not the meaning of persona non grata. Think beefore -- not after -- you write.
Subject: Re: JOHN LEIGH - YOU DISGUST ME!!
From: concerned
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Date Posted: 09:27:18 04/04/07 ()
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Teacher, Teacher, Teacher....
Did you pass your O'Levels?
Subject: Re: JOHN LEIGH - YOU DISGUST ME!!
From: curious
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Date Posted: 09:14:01 04/04/07 ()
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Aye.. teacher. Check the post again en read am properly... There is a wod NON-DIPLOMATIC en get your dictionary...
Usai you dae teach?
Just curious.....
Subject: Re: JOHN LEIGH - YOU DISGUST ME!!
From: Correction
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Date Posted: 09:29:29 04/04/07 ()
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Teacher is right. If John Leigh is a persona non grata, that does not imply that he is non-existent.
What it means is that Leigh is not welcome in the company of the person or group which declared him persona non grata. That has nothing to do with Leigh being non-existent, as .
curious, you need to learn to take correction. you can learn a lot from this forum, but only if you are willing to take correction. Kapish?
Subject: Re: JOHN LEIGH - YOU DISGUST ME!!
From: Gambler
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Date Posted: 09:51:00 04/04/07 ()
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Aye bo how unu dae fet over me english so? Aye man good. Let me paste this definition again for y'all: "In non-diplomatic usage, calling someone persona non grata is to say that he or she is ostracized from a person or group, so as to be figuratively nonexistent..."
Did you see the continuation after the nonexistent........?
A lek wae unu dae bout ade...hehehehehe...
Again JoHN LEIGH IS AN A watch your mouth WHOPPER
Subject: Opposition peace talks deadlocked
From: KROOBAYDOG
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Date Posted: 16:09:03 04/03/07 ()
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Opposition peace talks deadlocked
Friday’s welcomed peace talks aimed at reconciling the feuding factions in the opposition All Peoples Congress Party (APC) have reportedly ended in deadlock. The collapse of the talks came in the wake of four demands made by the anti-Ernest Koroma faction, championed by Mohamed L. Bangura, which the APC Leader rejected. These include giving the chairmanships of the Symbol Awarding Committee, the National Campaign and that Hon. Ernest Koroma should relinquish his position as National Chairman and Leader of the Party.
These were rejected by the Ernest Koroma faction on the basis that rather than removing, they intended to expand the membership of the National Advisory Committee of the party as implied in the demands above. The peace talks ended abruptly amidst confrontations, reports New Vision. The breaking news is also carried in several tabloids which include The News, For di People, The Exclusive and the Spark.
Subject: Re: Opposition peace talks deadlocked
From: John E. Leigh
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Date Posted: 17:06:30 04/03/07 ()
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Forumites, after studying and analyzing the APC's dispute, I can say confidently that there isn't going to be any viable APC settlement because the issue is tribal hegemony rather than the Micky Mouse matters fronted before mediators or discussed in the papers.
The REAL unspoken issue is this:
The leaders of an 8% tribe is in control. Having tasted sovereign power, they are not going to give up leadership of the APC to the 30% tribe that underights the APC - no matter what. They are legitimately afraid to be relegated to an inferior polical position as prior to the founding of the APC.
On the other hand, the leaders of the 30% tribe believe their tribe is far more englightened or civilized or whatever than the 8% tribe. Besides, it is hightime that they, the 30% tribe, lead. After all, they founded the APC and invited Siaka Stevens a purported 8% tribesman to be the APC leader.
Unfortunately, Stevens gave the leadership to successor to the 8% tribe.
The 8% tribemen after after been notorious marginalizers during they stint in power are now afraid of being marginalized themselves if they make the mistake of surrendering APC leadership to the 30% tribe.
Already the SLPP has made tremendous inroads in the territory occupied by the 30% tribe. Also, nationalistic members of the 8% tribe are already in the SLPP. These trends will continue quietely until parliament is dissolved. At which time, I expect the trend to the SLPP to be much steeper.
I have many friends in those two groups and they have confided in me as to what is truly going on.
People all over SLeone realize that SLPP is a collegial party with original thinkers, and not a one-manic party of brain-dead foolumunkus, fahlahmahkahtah flunkies and dunces!
Thank you. JL.
Subject: Re: Opposition peace talks deadlocked
From: M. Alieu Iscandari Esq
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Date Posted: 10:53:12 04/04/07 ()
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foolumunkus, fahlahmahkahtah
ENGLISH ONLY PLEASE
Subject: Re: Opposition peace talks deadlocked
From: Truth be Told
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Date Posted: 20:32:12 04/03/07 ()
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This forum has turned a once respected being into a laughing stock. Sad.
Subject: Re: Opposition peace talks deadlocked
From: Independent Man
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Date Posted: 00:50:48 04/04/07 ()
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Seems to me that you are the laughing Stock.
LOL
Subject: Re: Opposition peace talks deadlocked
From: Fact
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Date Posted: 20:04:17 04/03/07 ()
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Only a fool would think about tribal hegemony in the 21st century. what is important is the philosophy guiding a party and who the leadership are. the present apc is full of progressives from all the tribes. eddie turay, kamal, bangura and the other idiots do not represent or speak for the temne. in fatc eddie is loko. the whole thing is great nonsense. however ernest must make concessions and try end this circus immediately. of course the slpp goons will work overtime to keep the apc divided.
Subject: Re: Opposition peace talks deadlocked
From: M. Alieu Iscandari Esq
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Date Posted: 10:56:13 04/04/07 ()
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Thanks for rebutting that Nonsense analysis from those who are in fact the INVINCIBLE HAND that guides the dissent within the APC, which is the SLPP.
Subject: APC Peace talks hit the rocks
From: APC
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Date Posted: 16:04:32 04/03/07 ()
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APC Peace talks hit the rocks
The peace talks that were ongoing between the disputed factions in the All Peoples Congress over the weekend hit the rocks when the Honourable Ernest Koroma’s faction rejected all the points and demands made by the M L Bangura faction.
According to the media it is clear that both sides have already taken strong positions and have expressed their desire to go back to the Political Parties Registration Commission (PPRC). It should be noted that Justice Warne, Chairman of the PPRC had already sat on the matter at Supreme Court level as one of the five judges that unanimously ruled that Ernest Koroma “forged” the constitution. However the Supreme Court did not impose any penalty that would have disqualified anyone from contesting future elections but then the Court had ruled that the amended 2002 constitution of Koroma was illegal and he must therefore revert to the 1995 constitution.
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Subject: Re: APC Peace talks hit the rocks
From: Independent Man
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Date Posted: 00:48:25 04/04/07 ()
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Why did awareness times and Cocorioko report that they already reached an agreement last week?
Worwor Gongolee Journalism????
You decide.
Subject: Re: APC Peace talks hit the rocks
From: DBK
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Date Posted: 00:33:39 04/04/07 ()
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Bra Alieu en Bra Waraba watin happen?
Subject: WHAT'S UP WITH SENGBE AND MOHAMED JALLOH?
From: ENJOYMENT PEEPER
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Date Posted: 15:01:13 04/03/07 ()
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Sengbe and Jalloh are always challenging each other over who knows more. By the way, who is the TOUGHEST intellectual on this forum?
Sengbe and Mohamed Jalloh are always fighting battles. I hear Jalloh hates PHD holders. Jalloh says Sengbe's English sounds like he {Sengbe} did not pass the O'Level in English? What's up with these two? Who is the heavy weight intellectual on this forum?
Subject: Halifax-based officer helping to keep peace in Sierra Leone
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Date Posted: 14:53:41 04/03/07 ()
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'There's always the risk of civil war here' 1
Halifax-based officer helping to keep peace in Sierra Leone
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JENNIFER TAPLIN
The Daily News
DEFENCE - He's a Haligonian far from home.
But Petty Officer First Class Steven Smith feels a tremendous sense of accomplishment every time he watches a Sierra Leonean ship head out to sea.
Working with an international contingent, Smith is training members of the country's small navy to help them get back on their feet.
Power is just now being restored to some streets as the people of this West African nation recover from a bloody civil war.
Between 1991 and 2002, tens of thousands of people were killed and millions were displaced.
The Maritime Wing of Republic of Sierra Leone Armed Forces (RLSAF) now patrols its coast, fining illegal fishing boats and hunting for drug smugglers.
"I get good job satisfaction. We're training them, and the next day I come back and I see they're doing the things that I've trained them (to do)," Smith said in a phone interview.
"It's nice to know when you see the ships sailing out of the harbour that it's safe to go to sea. It gives you a sense of accomplishment.
"When you see them bringing in an illegal fishing trawler, I feel good about it."
Money for fleet
Just recently, the Maritime Wing was given the right to keep 10 per cent of the fines for illegal fishing. Smith said they're going to use that money to maintain the small fleet.
They were given a patrol boat from the Chinese and three cutters from the Americans.
They also use small boats at each of the four operating bases around the coast.
Smith, 47, arrived in Sierra Leone in December and will be home to his family in June.
Born in Scotland and raised in Ontario, Smith has been stationed in Halifax for the past 20 years.
He misses home, but he'd gladly stay for six more months.
The people are friendly, Smith said, but cautiously waiting to see the outcome of elections in July. Some are worried the civil war may not be over.
Risk of danger
"Everything is peaceful so far, but anything can flare up at a moment's notice," Smith said. "There's always a possibility (for civil war) here. They're very nice people, but they get very passionate about politics for some reason."
At perhaps a bad time, the military is downsizing.
There are about 15,000 soldiers in the armed forces - 200 in the Maritime Wing - but the government can't afford it, Smith said.
They're looking to cut back to 10,000.
The UN peacekeeping mission in Sierra Leone ended in 2005, leaving support groups, such as an International Military Advisors Training Team (IMATT), to help out. IMATT is British-led, along with Americans, a Nigerian, a Jamaican and 11 Canadians, including Smith.
"Our main goal was to pull out of here by 2010, but it looks like it's been pushed back until 2012," Smith said.
"The reason for this is we're not here for a long time, we're just here to train them and once we've done our job, then we can pull out."
jtaplin@hfxnews.ca
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Mike Dent from now working in Egypt writes: I'm heartened by the comments from PO Smith. I spent 3 yrs in Sierra Leone from 1999-2002 and established the IMATT. The country does need to address the issue of the size of the armed forces and has been putting it off since 2002 but nevertheless they have done extremely well since the civil war ended. I don't actually believe there is a risk of another civil war but there is a need for the international community to continue to support the efforts of the govt with more aid. All Sierra Leone's problems could be resolved by investing just a small percentage of what is being spent each week in Afghanistan and Iraq!
Subject: The Use Of Krio for Kabs and Team.
From: LOW GRADE SAN SAN
To: All
Date Posted: 15:01:34 04/03/07 ()
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You might as well ban me from your forum because i am not going to allow you to MUZZLE me from writing in one of my own local lingos. This is a sierra leonean DISCUSSION forum and as you may be aware some of us are not intellectually inclined to read or write in English but can easily comprehend what ever is written in krio. And in the spirit of fairness we should be allowed to write in any of our local lingos.if you cannot read and understand my writing in KRIO you are left with two options. you can choose to skip my post or employ an interpreter because i am not hiding anything.
Children born outside Sierra Leone may have parent or family to interpret for those who do not speak or understand KRIO. For us to continue to communicate in Krio may inspire them to be proud of the language and want to learn it. To give in to your demands for all communicationation to be in English puts our language at risk of being lost or only understood by very few people. I DO NOT WELCOME THIS ATTACK ON MY LANGUAGE.
I am having a good debate with ambassador Leigh and he has responded point by point to all my krio without complaining about it to me personally and i do respect him for that. SO PLEASE MR ADMIN OONA TRY DAE WIT OONA ENGLISH
Subject: Re: ENGLISH ONLY
From: John E. Leigh
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Date Posted: 16:15:26 04/03/07 ()
Email Address: johnernestleigh@yahoo.com
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I really do not need your respect. Keep it for your party leader. Besides, you are not a native Krio speaker. Your Krio is ponderous as if learned off public thoroughfares in SLeone.
Next, please note that in the future, I will respond only to inquiries presented in certifiably good English and provided it does not concern a subjectmatter that I have already stated I have had my last say on.
Lastly, this Forum is private property. The owner has set his policy re the language he wants used in this forum bearing in mind the specific purposes he has in mind for this facility and its intended audience. He wants only Sierra Leone's official language in use here.
That is the language I am going to use because I want to reach exactly the same audience targeted by the owner and because I respect the private property rights of the owner and the trouble he has to go through with, day in and day out.
If you do not like the official language policy of this forum, please establish your own forum and make your on rules to achieve your own objectives. Those who wish to participate can join you in the various languages you permit.
But please do not defy the owner; impose your own benevolent dictatorship upon him and expect me to follow your disrespectful and ungrateful conduct. Such would never happen. You are wasting your time if you expect me to join you in defying the owner. Thank you and goodbye. - JL
Subject: Re: The Use Of Krio for Kabs and Team.
From: I Support You
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Date Posted: 15:20:04 04/03/07 ()
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The forum is initiated for the benefit of all Sierra Leoneans so they could keep in touch with news at home and abroad. That said, contributors should be entitled to submit their news in a more universal language that they fill comfortable to use, in this sense, the krio language. foreigners who want to read our columns should start using the krio dictionary.
Subject: Re: The Use Of Krio for Kabs and Team.
From: Forum Administration
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Date Posted: 21:20:49 04/03/07 ()
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LOW GRADE SAN SAN, your handle is ironically metaphoric of the ingredients comprising the components of your mental constitution, and your contribution reminiscent of the altitude upon which the bearing of the mediocre mind operates.
Even after downgrading what used to be "The Athens of West Africa" to what is now depictive of some village in Timbuktu, the Sa Lone man has still to learn that the syndrome of "either I get it or nobody does", has no place in today's democracy, if we are to build a better tomorrow for our children.
There is no doubt in my mind that it was this very syndrome that prompted the mass killings, maiming, torture and rape of innocent men, women and children, while the AFRC/FRUF ragtag spent the rest of their energy and resources burning homes, and properties they couldn’t carry on their backs during the mayhem days.
Fortunately for us, there is still among us a minority of men and women who would rather use their talents and resources in making pro bono sacrifices for the community than do like the rest of you; destroy what other are working hard to put together.
Just as the respected ambassador said, this forum is a private property intended for the free use of everyone, including non Sierra Leoneans.
It has survived all forms of attacks and cyber terror and risen to become a crossroad for information, kowledge and ideas.
Rules set here are meant not as a medium of curbing your enjoyment but rather a choice made by the proprietors to secure the smooth running of the forum while maintaining decent standards as representatives of our nation in the global cyber community.
The owners and administrators are merely making community sacrifices to serve you, and are doing so out of their own expenses using talents no-one is paying them for.
If however you do not feel comfortable with the rules,
you are encouraged to shop around for krio forum where you needs can be better met or create your own.
As good ole grannies would say, “There are many churches besides St. George’s Cathedral.”
Subject: Re: The Use Of Krio for Kabs and Team.
From: LOW GRADE SAN SAN
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Date Posted: 11:38:02 04/04/07 ()
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“There are many churches besides St. George’s Cathedral.”
FA
I took your advice, shopped around and I could only find one church "Our Lady Of NINJA REBELS" on Saybanah Street. I was tempted to go there but was told by my friend BOY LEIGH that the vicar of that church is SYLSTER BLOODYN who only gives raw meat and blood for communion. I have therefor decided to stay put, keep my Krio mouth shut, and continue praying to see the day when our church will be open to all regardless of our local language.
Thank You
Subject: Re: The Use Of Krio for Kabs and Team.
From: Forum Administration
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Date Posted: 12:17:15 04/04/07 ()
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Be good, LOW GRADE SAN SAN.
Subject: Re: The Use Of Krio for Kabs and Team.
From: daniel
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Date Posted: 11:44:37 04/04/07 ()
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you make ar laugh...tha was a good one.
Subject: PMDC
From: Soko Kabia
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Date Posted: 13:05:49 04/03/07 ()
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If Dr. Soko Kabia is still interested in the running mate position, I think he is the best choice for Charles Margai because as a son of the late bai koblo pathbana of lunsar and madam ella koblo gulama of moyamba, he will bring in not only northern voters, but also those from the south. what do you guys think? is dauda tombo a better choice? i am not a pmdc member, just inetersted in what's going on.
Subject: Re: PMDC
From: Independent Man
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Date Posted: 01:53:00 04/04/07 ()
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Cocorioko reports that he will likely select Munde Dumbo Tombo Bangura. And may I add: Bangu-Crook!!!!!
Hehehehehehehehe
Subject: Re: PMDC
From: Truth
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Date Posted: 16:55:24 04/03/07 ()
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Soko is a big boost for PMDC. He cuts across the tribalistic rivalry> As SLPP, his choice to join PMDC whilst is elder brother, Obai, is SLPP is a sad conundrum.
Subject: Re: PMDC
From: Moyambaism
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Date Posted: 14:11:12 04/03/07 ()
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thats means, the PMDC is a MOYAMBA PARTY....Just check the makeup....
Subject: SLPP COMPLETES THE DESTRUCTION OF ACC
From: Chief Bomborlai
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Date Posted: 11:39:19 04/03/07 ()
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SLPP-controlled Parliament completes destruction of ACC
News - National
Monday, 02 April 2007
After nearly three years, a parliamentary select committee investigating certain aspects of expenditure at the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) has recommended curtailing the power of the commissioner and his deputy. The new definition of the Commission should, also, now make ‘provision for the relevance of other staff in the decision making process.’
The report also recommends that, ‘Parliament calls the attention of the ministry of finance’ to ‘lapses’ in budgetary allocat1on to the ACC; a further audit of accounts to what it referred to as ‘excess’ in the use of government subventions; an investigation into payments for promotional articles on Sierra Leone in the French newspaper Le Economiste’; investigation into duplicated payments to local newspapers and unauthorised publications.
Regarding the support to the ACC from the UK’s department for international development and cooperation (DFID), the Committee’s recommendation amongst others includes; that the total amount of the department’s support to the ACC for fiscal year 2004, be communicated to the ministry of finance and a further investigation into the ‘credibility of the exchange rate’ of the British Pound to the Leone as declared by DFID, which the committee notes ‘is far lower than the official exchange rate declared by the Bank of Sierra Leone’ in the period under review.
The decision to investigate the ACC was sparked off in part, when in a discussion programme, the then commissioner Val Collier, stated frankly among other things that parliamentarians are more interested in hustling and jostling for contracts than making laws and doing the business of State which they are paid for.
A string of carefully choreographed statements then followed. Firstly, it was President Kabbah decrying the ACC and especially the Commissioner for the policy of naming and shaming corrupt activities. The Speaker of Parliament also waded in to the onslaught by publicly calling for the ACC commissioner to be ‘thought a lesson for his attack’ on ‘honourable’ members of parliament. Others within the ruling SLPP were also openly calling for the ACC Commissioner to go.
As the attacks were going on, the ACC was targeting high-profile cases as demanded by the benchmarks set by the international community. There was a strong case of misappropriation of approximately $2million US Dollars lodged with the Attorney General against President Kabbah’s blue-eyed boy, minister of tourism Okere Adams, who was by then minister of marine resources. Vice-president Solomon Berewa’s protégé MIK Bayoh was also in the claws of the ACC for stealing billions of leones in government contracts. The touchy Port Forklift case was, finally, been sent to court.
Then, Parliament gave the go-ahead in April 2004 for an inquiry into ‘aspects of expenditure by the ACC, and as a deflective tactic on an apparent witch-hunt, the National Fire Force, for the fiscal year 2004. A 15-man committee was set up headed by, ironically, an opposition member from the All People’s Congress, (APC) party Ibrahim Sesay. Three years later, after intense probing and the sacking of Val Collier, which a keen observer of the ACC say was part of the motive for the inquiry, the committee was unable to find the smoking gun to nail Collier.
In the committee’s report, which the chairman will deliver to Parliament soon, Sesay is expected to say among other things that, the definition of the Commission gave enormous power to the Commissioner. That, he will say, might explain Collier’s ‘unauthorised and questionable activities’ as vote controller, like the use of excess funds from the ACC’s budget of 2004 to purchase an official vehicle from source, and refurbishing and equipping the Bo office of the Commission and the payments for promotional and publicity in local and international newspapers; hence the recommendation to diminish the authority of the Commissioner.
This action by parliament our political commentator says will further weaken the power of the Commissioner and effectively the Commission, which has already gone to wrack and ruin because of the political shenanigans that has embroiled it. ‘They have achieved their purpose, which was to remove Collier and render the Commission ineffective. This is just the final nail on the coffin of the ACC.’
Watch this space for our editorial and more on the sorry episode of an institution that was expected to have laid the golden goose for the country’s development but which has been thrown to the dogs. Also coming soon, why DFID has decided to pull the plugs on the ACC.
Subject: PMDC LEADER
From: Gambler
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Date Posted: 10:24:16 04/03/07 ()
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Is Charles Maggai a compulsive gambler?
According to sources in BO, the PMDC leader and friends( Seiwo, Anthony, ETC) will converge in the evenings at Maggai's, house by electricity, for a night of gambling.
My questions: 1. Do we want a Tongohbalay, or Dice player as the President of Sierra Leone?
2. Is this a Moral Issue and needs to be discussed..
Subject: Re: PMDC LEADER
From: Mani
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Date Posted: 13:50:20 04/03/07 ()
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Is Berewa a chain smoker? Do you want a health hazard/risk to rule a nation that is so much in desperate need of a healthy, energetic leader ?
Subject: Re: PMDC LEADER
From: John E. Leigh
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Date Posted: 14:53:46 04/03/07 ()
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Mr. Mani:
VP Berewa is not a chain smoker at all. He has either cut down or cut out his cigarette smoking for sometime now.
Clearly, the country needs a health, energetic leader. And Berewa is in top form. I have seen him on numerous occasions. On the road he is up at 6:00 AM latestest and by 7:00 AM he is receiving his staff and finalizing arrangements for the day's events.
He is thereafter on his feet and or busy doing his work until late in the day. On the road with him, I clocked him as up until and active until 1:00 AM only for him to get up at 6:00 AM for another long day ahead.
He stands erect when delivering his speeches, he has lost weight and he is a most active individual.
I carefully looked at all these matters before I wrote endorsing his candidacy. And he is still conducting himself in a most active way.
Mr. Koroma of the APC is in apparent great shape.
I can't say the same for the other fellow who while he was an APC MP suffered a road accident during which he foot was broken in several places. And he obtained all his primary medical treatment locally only.
Rumors but no proof have it that that his foot is bothering him. And he is known for sure to limp.
I hope this is helpful. -JL
Subject: Re: PMDC LEADER
From: Pendahun, Penda Dr.
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Date Posted: 15:52:50 04/03/07 ()
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But how about that stinkingf Penda dont you smell it when you are around him?
Subject: Re: PMDC LEADER
From: John E. Leigh
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Date Posted: 16:21:11 04/03/07 ()
Email Address: johnernestleigh@yahoo.com
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No, doctor, he has no such condition. It is a mere invention by flunkies and disappointed political harlots. Sorry!. -JL
Subject: Re: PMDC LEADER
From: Chief Bomborlai
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Date Posted: 12:15:51 04/03/07 ()
Email Address: Chiefbomborlai@yahoo.com
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John Leigh/ Gambler,
Sierra Leoneans, especially those in Bo know Margai long and well enough, as such do not require your version on him. Festus Seiwoh ( former Principal- Bo School) and Pa Anthony are household names in Bo, and known friends of Charlie. We would have taken you guys more seriously if you had said all these things against Charlie when he was in the slpp. Charlie can be a pick-pocketer, WE GO VOTE FOR AM!!!!! - Chief B
Subject: Re: PMDC LEADER
From: real
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Date Posted: 14:08:28 04/03/07 ()
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Chief B.. I do not think Pa Anthony hanged out with Charles, probably one of his three sons...de one thgat was Chairman Bo Town Council...thats who hanged out with charles...
Subject: Re: PMDC LEADER
From: John E. Leigh
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Date Posted: 12:26:40 04/03/07 ()
Email Address: johnernestleigh@yahoo.com
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Dear Chief B:
I will never suggest that you don't vote for your man but if you and I know he is a pick-pocket, I would advise against your voting for him. A successful democracy requires that sound voting choices be made every time.
At this point, all I am doing is help with voter education. If you have any information on Mr. Margai's gambling - especially the frequency and amounts gambled, if any, do please let me know. Thank you very nuch. -JL
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PS: Pa Anthony is gone to his home in Pujehun District. He is SLPP. -JL
Subject: Re: PMDC LEADER
From: Pendahun, Penda Dr.
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Date Posted: 15:56:09 04/03/07 ()
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And if you have any informastion on his festering decubitus sore foot, I mean Berewahs sore foot, Please let us know so that wer can educate the voters on what kinds off ailments that their potential president has.
Did I hear you say da man im Penda smell lek rotten eagg
Subject: Re: PMDC LEADER
From: John E. Leigh
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Date Posted: 16:23:03 04/03/07 ()
Email Address: johnernestleigh@yahoo.com
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No, I never said any such thing. Please control your imagination, doc. - JL
Subject: Re: PMDC LEADER
From: seven eleven
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Date Posted: 16:02:02 04/03/07 ()
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Bewapi, One ya one ya. Bo den say nar so Maggai kin call de number dem...Bo de man en one pan de friend dem fet all...
Around six nar evening dem people dem gather en dae gamble.
Subject: Re: PMDC LEADER
From: John E. Leigh
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Date Posted: 11:38:46 04/03/07 ()
Email Address: johnernestleigh@yahoo.com
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I have heard those rumors myself in Freetown, Bo and in Kenema. At this stage, I classify them as mere rumors. But my staff is investigating the said rumors for the proof I need to go public. -JL
Subject: Re: PMDC LEADER
From: LIAR, LIAR ,PANTS ON FIRE
To: All
Date Posted: 11:42:43 04/03/07 ()
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John Leigh you are a pathalogical liar. Why do you hate margai so much. Becos ee fine pass you?
Subject: Re: PMDC LEADER
From: John E. Leigh
To: All
Date Posted: 12:04:41 04/03/07 ()
Email Address: johnernestleigh@yahoo.com
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Dear Mr. LIAR, LIAR, PANTS ON FIRE:
What you narrow-mindedly call 'hate', I call Necessary Voter Education.
SLeone Voters ought to know the true background of those who want the country's government to be turned over to them for their management.
Why is such necessary? Because Sierra Leone is a very fragile society, a land of extreme suffering amidst God-given riches and where one single individual can make a whole lot of a difference.
The population are looking for leaders who can address national political, social and economic issues legitimately for the people's own benefit. On the other hand, our politicians are full of tricks.
Hence, we must carefully choose our leaders by knowing exactly who they are via a microscopic analysis of their individual backgrounds involving those areas that might impact on their stewardship.
Please do not get emotional! I think it is the fair thing to do; I think it is the proper thing to do and I know it is doable. Thank you. -JL
Subject: Re: PMDC LEADER
From: M. Alieu Iscandari Esq
To: All
Date Posted: 15:58:47 04/03/07 ()
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"our politicians are full of tricks".
Just this include your party leadeer and candidate for the presidency?
Subject: Re: PMDC LEADER
From: John E. Leigh
To: All
Date Posted: 16:29:04 04/03/07 ()
Email Address: johnernestleigh@yahoo.com
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Al: you know my already stated policy for critiquing my party: no critcisms 12 months prior to an election and when victorious, no criticism for my automatic 12 months of honeymoon after swearing in.
Besides, I do not have a "party leadeer". Or you can read my statement as having intended to read:
"most of our politicians are full of tricks". Thanks. -JL
Subject: Re: PMDC LEADER
From: M. Alieu Iscandari Esq
To: All
Date Posted: 11:14:58 04/04/07 ()
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I am wondering whether your statement that you do not have a party leader speaks to the misspelt word or does it give us an indication that you dont consider Berewah to be the leader of the party that you support being the SLPP.
Subject: Re: PMDC LEADER
From: charles lef
To: All
Date Posted: 12:08:20 04/03/07 ()
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Bra Leigh..
Charles Maggai is a Gambler. If this was not true, the PMDC would have jumped on this issue, but as you can see they are shocked and dumbfounded.....
Subject: Re: PMDC LEADER
From: John E. Leigh
To: All
Date Posted: 13:46:54 04/03/07 ()
Email Address: johnernestleigh@yahoo.com
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Thank you very much. My staff is investigating the matter back home. -JL
Subject: Re: We all Play giamble nar school
From: Shoot Two Bob
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Date Posted: 16:03:34 04/03/07 ()
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John I heard from people that knew you in high school that you were a very good rackler yourself. They said that you were an ex[pert at gbeck dice where your fives dont move any anywhere.
Any Dissoh?
Fo Shilling dae ya so call me befoe play?
"Fo Shilling"?
"Loss 6 shilling"
"After Point"
Wapi....Crab you dog"
Subject: Re: We all Play giamble nar school
From: John E. Leigh
To: All
Date Posted: 16:41:47 04/03/07 ()
Email Address: johnernestleigh@yahoo.com
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Dear Mr. Shoot Two Bob:
I will respond to that part of your posting written in English. I won't read the rest because I am a very slow reader of Krio and I am now running out of time.
As a schoolboy, I was very physical - soccer, criket, and hand-tennis. But when I was in late primary school and I believed early secondary school I betted on tennis ball soccer that went like this: each bettor would stay in a makeshift goal as a goalkeeper and would try to save as many out of six kicks from (from something like a penalty area) scoring as possible from the other bettor; the roles would then be revised. The bettor scoring the hightest number of goals won.
We betted pennies and my kicks were fantastic. It was fun. I won some and lost some.
However, I was never a bettor (or a compulsive gambler)as an adult - like some slapper of his principal appears to be accused of.
Thanks for the inquiry. - JL
Subject: Re: PMDC LEADER
From: curious
To: All
Date Posted: 12:03:27 04/03/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 67.63.2.157
Message:
he is a Gambler. de man bin dae play tongohbaylay with festus seiwoh--Former Bo school Principal.
Subject: Re: PMDC LEADER
From: fact
To: All
Date Posted: 12:34:44 04/03/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: cache-ntc-ad04.proxy.aol.com at 207.200.116.198
Message:
maybe he is doing it for fun, not for money. if true, he should stop immediately.
Subject: COCORIOKO IS TOO LOVABLE TO BE UNJOURNALISTIC
From: BRA ENVIABLE
To: All
Date Posted: 10:15:59 04/03/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: cache-rtc-ae10.proxy.aol.com at 152.163.101.14
Message:
As usual, the PDL has written and dispatched a statement published by COCORIOKO. After reading the PDL statement, I thought it necessary to write and tell Kabs Kanu that while freedom of speech affords every man the chance to express opinions, it is the editor's duty to rinse a letter of grammatical impurities before going to press. In this case, the PDL statement was given front page coverage, a journalistic decision that requires an editor to fussily "preen" a piece of writing for clarity and grammatical correctness. Apparently, COCORIOK pays little attention to that journalistic task. On the other hand, an editor reserves the right to consign a poorly-written letter to the trash can if making corrections proves strenuous.
COCORIOKO has become a well-known Sierra Leonean staple. It has eliminated the communication blackout that once existed between diasporan Sierra Leoneans and the homeland. Opinions expressed in chat rooms should not be edited. However, a story given front page prominence deserves the editor's journalistic touch. If that sounds laborious, the story should be treated with the kind of jocularity that sends it to the dustbin. The men at the PDL are political illiterates, and giving them space without journalistic supervision is equal to putting a suckling babe behind the wheels of a fast car.
Subject: Re: COCORIOKO IS TOO LOVABLE TO BE UNJOURNALISTIC
From: KABS KANU
To: All
Date Posted: 20:35:34 04/03/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: cache-dtc-aa14.proxy.aol.com at 205.188.116.18
Message:
I am sorry I am not able to respond to many of your concerns now because I am very busy.Apart from the hard job of updating this paper everyday I am attending a 3-day seminar and workshop that ends tomorrow.It started om Monday and it is 8 hours sessions daily.
COCORIOKO is a full-fledged newspaper , albeit an online newspaper.There are print and online newspapers in today's world. I do not understand the distinction Johnny tried to create. COCORIOKO has all the features and ingredients of a newspaper.
That said, I agree with you that some caution has to be exercised with publishing articles from the organization called PDL. As a paper set up to serve you, we have to listen to your concerns and suggestions, especially ones that are legitimate and made in good faith.
I have despatched a letter to PDL that much as we want to be democratic and we want to give everybody and every organization a chance, we will not be part of deliberate distortions and wild claims made without regard to their authenticity or truth.
I have told them that we are sorry that we cannot carry their press releases again because we want to maintain credibility.
We are glad that they will not say we did not give them a chance. We did but they violated trust with their wild and unsubstantiated claims capable of destroying the credibility of papers that publish them.
I have also told them that we have made a thorough investigation and we have discovered that the Alimamy Sankoh associated with the organization is the same Alimamy Sankoh once associated with the RUF and as such we do not want to have any business with him. We did not want to assume and made the investigation to clear our own side that whatever decision was made was based on facts not emotions.
Subject: Re: COCORIOKO IS TOO LOVABLE TO BE UNJOURNALISTIC
From: Albert Moinina
To: All
Date Posted: 22:59:27 04/03/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 218.248.0.180
Message:
Good point raised by Bra Enviable. Kabs your response shows how mature and accomodating you are. Keep the good work and thanks a million times for making Cocorioko successful place with your positive outlook.
Subject: Re: COCORIOKO IS TOO LOVABLE TO BE UNJOURNALISTIC
From: Johnny
To: All
Date Posted: 14:52:42 04/03/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: ln1-27-6l5m491.gsu.edu at 131.96.89.157
Message:
Good points, Bra Enviable.
But this is not a real news paper. This is an online paper. Kabs do not have time for that.
Subject: Re: COCORIOKO IS TOO LOVABLE TO BE UNJOURNALISTIC
From: And So what?
To: All
Date Posted: 15:50:49 04/03/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: ln1-27-6l5m491.gsu.edu at 131.96.89.157
Message:
Just because it's an online paper does not mean nonsense should be published in it.
Subject: How many times must we tell you to leave Marda and Co. alone
From: KABS KANU
To: All
Date Posted: 22:57:31 04/02/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: ac90ea3e.ipt.aol.com at 172.144.234.62
Message:
GUYS, I have told you over and over and over and over that Marda Mustapha is not Sia Tiyaama. I have a letter that Sia sent to me introducing herself.
I dont want to hear anything that I am naive. None of you has any credible evidence to prove your assertions. Remember, the fact that some of you think he is Sia does not make it so.
Since Marda is not a contrinutor to this forum and he is not a public figure whose performance gives us the right to scrutinize him on this forum, we will delete any more articles written against Marda, Patrick Muana and those who are not members of this forum. In all sincerity, it is not fair to attack people who are not members of the forum. I am not a member of certain forums and will take exception if I am needlessly attacked there.
I am not worried about Mardas threats. I know my legal rights.However, he has a right to object to being attacked on this forum because he is not a member. Please take note that we will try to avoid unnecessary palaver by deleting articles about non-public figures who are not members of the forum. MODERATOR, PLEASE HELP ME IN THIS QUEST.
READ MARDAS COMPLAINT ;
Kabs,
Once again, you are allowing people to use your forum to insult me even though you know I am not a contributing member of your forum. Let me also remind you that when you allow people to use your forum to insult and defame people with reckless abandon you are responsible because you provided the space for the smear and allowed the culprits to mask their identity. This is the last time I am calling your attention to such peurile attack on my person.
Marda
--
The lion may be the king of the jungle
but he knows not to stand in the path of elephants
Subject: Re: How many times must we tell you to leave Marda and Co. alone
From: Nutmeg
To: All
Date Posted: 12:24:29 04/03/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 208.41.8.154
Message:
Once upon a time, on a forum called "cocorioko" where everyone can choose to be anonimous, there was so much life and chaos that the editor decided to make grand rules for the "effective running of the forum'. These rules included the following:
1. No more mammy cuss
2. No mention of Maarda Mustapha and Patric Muana - because they " are not contributors of the forum"
3. Sia Tiyaama is all of a sudden a woman and has written a personal letter to the editor - therefore Sia Tiyaama should be referenced as "sHe" going forward.
4. All contributors must only write to say hi and only nice words about each other.
All of a sudden the forum became quiet.Because there was nothing else to write about. Forumites were still grappling with how to say nice words on the forum without. The forum became so quiet that the first contributor after two days only came in to find out where everybody else is. Life in the forum became non-existent because there was nothing new. As soon as the editor decided to suspend the rules for a brief moment, all hell let loose. Ratings were at an all time high.
Nutmeg
Subject: Re: How many times must we tell you to leave Marda and Co. alone
From: Pa Javombo
To: All
Date Posted: 08:29:36 04/03/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 209.214.214.3
Message:
I have been in peeperdom and will go back
after this.
Kabs, Sia Tiyaama is not a person.
The person who wrote you that letter
caliming to be Sia Tiyaama is a farud.
My investigations have shown that there was a student
at FBC in the 90s who used to write under that pen name and that student my investigation further revealed is now in the US. I am not going to name names here.
Sia Tiyaama is a Mende phrase that person is using
Which means in Krio
"Ruban Nar den face"
Kabs, I know you know Mende enough to break that code.
Look at the words closely
Sia Tiyaama and not Sia Tiyama.
Subject: Re: How many times must we tell you to leave Marda and Co. a
From: Jimmy Kandeh
To: All
Date Posted: 06:33:28 04/03/07 ()
Email Address: jkandeh@richmond.edu
Entered From: ppp065007.richmond.edu at 141.166.65.7
Message:
Kabs:
How do you become a member of this forum? I know Marda surfs this forum, which is really open to all, and anyone can post on Cocorioko using a pseudonym. The fact that some people prefer not to use their real names makes it almost impossible to tell who's on this forum and who is not. I am sure you don't know the real identities of all the pople participating on this forum. Are you saying someone like Muana (I don't read his trash anymore) can post his personal insults on the main page but he cannot be mentioned/attacked on this forum? I'm a tad confused by the rules of engagement. Please clarify.
Subject: Re: How many times must we tell you to leave Marda and Co. alone
From: A Case of Do as I Say, Not As I Do?
To: All
Date Posted: 06:17:22 04/03/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: slip-proxy2.safepages.com at 205.208.227.28
Message:
Funny how Marda Mustapha, one of the most notorious of the extremely puerile gang of defamers on Leonenet, has suddenly realized that defamation is immoral and illegal.
As the Bible says, beware the Pharisees ...
For Marda Mustapha, the more relevant quote from the Bible is: You reap what you sow.
Subject: Re: How many times must we tell you to leave Marda and Co. a
From: Cornelius Hamelberg
To: All
Date Posted: 09:23:33 04/03/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: c-208472d5.01-32-73746f42.cust.bredbandsbolaget.se at 213.114.132.32
Message:
Marda belongs to the I-MF of TAMU, not to our real - the real LEONENET....
Do not defame Pharisees.
The Bible belongs to the Pharisees and the Pharisees belong to the Bible.
Let there be freedom to speak
Subject: Re: How many times must we tell you to leave Marda and Co. a
From: The undertaker
To: All
Date Posted: 12:11:15 04/03/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 208.41.8.154
Message:
Exciting to hear this ...Maarda is not on this forum, but yet he knows that they are writing stuff about him on this forum. Good question Jimmy - the membershop to this forum is as loose as the Nigerian confederation. By the way, we George Bush and Kabba are not on this forumm either. So please remove all postings relating to them. Infact I am not on this forum either. I am just writing to make a case...so please delete all postings partaining to me. I will tell you when ever they mention my name, because my name kleep changing like Maarda.
The undertaker
Subject: Re: How many times must we tell you to leave Marda and Co. alone
From: Leonenetter
To: All
Date Posted: 08:48:27 04/03/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: slip-proxy2.safepages.com at 205.208.227.28
Message:
What is funnier, given the kuss-kass between Maarda Mustapha and PK Muana on one side and Jimmy kandeh on the other, is that all three of them, together with Kandeh's sidekick, the ill-informed self-styled intellectual, Ibrahim Abdullah, were members of the notorious gang of childish defamers on Leonenet.
Their current disgraceful public falling out, complete with their usual name-calling, I think, is a case of malicious, vicious liars falling out. Truly, the immoral charlattans are reaping what they so maliciously sowed, like you said.
Subject: Re: How many times must we tell you to leave Marda and Co. alone
From: Mohm Jalloh
To: All
Date Posted: 11:05:36 04/03/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 70.237.0.17
Message:
What we have here is an incomprehending charlattan, Mohamed A Jalloh, who characteristically and unwittingly displaced, much to the chagrin of long suffering Cocorioko forumites, to patently drag himself into any fracas-- and his wilful refusal to learn -- that anytime intellectual giants like Muana and Kandeh's names are mentioned, he throws a tantrum and wave his wand, reminding us about his BANGA days at SLPMB. BEGONE!
Subject: Re: How many times must we tell you to leave Marda and Co. alone
From: Edmund Koker
To: All
Date Posted: 11:16:51 04/03/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: dialup-4.153.210.218.dial1.atlanta1.level3.net at 4.153.210.218
Message:
Actually, what we have is a so-called Ph.D, Edmund Koker, that continues io show why he needs to go back and retake GCE "O" level English that he has obviosuly failed many times.
Koker: Is incomprehending an English word? Or is it a Mende version of the proper English word, uncomprehending? Hehehehehehehe, Oh fululoo ph.d.
Subject: Re: How many times must we tell you to leave Marda and Co. alone
From: Mohm Jalloh
To: All
Date Posted: 11:40:48 04/03/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 70.237.0.17
Message:
The joke's on you, Mohamed Jalloh, because it is quite evident, that we were quoting you, when you not so eloquently wrote: "What we are all witnessing in the rude, crude, tribalistic displays of the perennially incomprehending charlattan, is that there is no limit to the low depths to which a rude, crude and tribalistic churl afflicted with a chronic inferiority complex can descend. "
You can't even see your handwriting on the wall even when it hits you between your eyes.
Subject: Re: How many times must we tell you to leave Marda and Co. alone
From: Edmund Koker
To: All
Date Posted: 11:51:10 04/03/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: dialup-4.153.210.218.dial1.atlanta1.level3.net at 4.153.210.218
Message:
The joke is on you, Edmund Koker. Those of us who know the erudite Mohamed jalloh know that he could not make such an elementary mistake. How do we know?
Unlike you who failed to pass GCE "O" Level English, despite being allowed several attempts, I know from being a fellow student at St. Edward's Secondasry School when its O level class set a record for the most Division one passes with distinction in Sa Lon, that Mohamed Jalloh earned the highest possible grade in GCE "O" Level English. And he shows it with his unmatched command of the Englsih language.
So, you see how the joke is on you, Mr. never understanbd anything you read, Edmund Koker, the English vocabulary illiterate?
PHD Edmund Koker you too fool. Hahaheehehehehehahahah
Subject: Re: How many times must we tell you to leave Marda and Co. a
From: Mohmnet
To: All
Date Posted: 20:36:11 04/03/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: cpe-66-74-85-95.socal.res.rr.com at 66.74.85.95
Message:
The evidence is here for all and sundry
http://www.hwforums.com/2179/messages/24709.html
A distinction at Edwards and a first class at FBC do not make you infallible. Show some humility, please. and WHAT HAVE YOU DONE LATELY
Subject: Re: How many times must we tell you to leave Marda and Co. alone
From: concerned
To: All
Date Posted: 12:06:17 04/03/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 67.63.2.157
Message:
Yeh he failed English but he does not work in a Nursing Home....Who dae laf now....
Subject: Re: How many times must we tell you to leave Marda and Co. alone
From: The Truth
To: All
Date Posted: 12:12:24 04/03/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: dialup-4.153.210.218.dial1.atlanta1.level3.net at 4.153.210.218
Message:
But that is because nursing homes don't employ people who can't speak English! So. PHD Edmund Koker does not qualify!
Subject: Re: How many times must we tell you to leave Marda and Co. alone
From: Bo go lap
To: All
Date Posted: 13:18:58 04/03/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 70.237.0.17
Message:
Why is Mohm so obsessed with his betters? If he is so qualified an economist, how come he hasn't published anything save for that We Yone article and letter to the editor rubbish at Washington Post? The guy is an intellectal lightweight and fraud. Nobody should pay him any attention. Nonsense grammar and many commas and words like "patently" and "unwittingly" do not make you a good writer.
Subject: Re: How many times must we tell you to leave Marda and Co. alone
From: curious
To: All
Date Posted: 13:57:22 04/03/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 67.63.2.157
Message:
The same guy that got schooled on Macro-Economics by an Erudite applied Economist.
E know who ar dae talk bout.
Subject: Re: How many times must we tell you to leave Marda and Co. a
From: Waraba
To: All
Date Posted: 03:26:58 04/03/07 ()
Email Address: Saigobe@lanset.com
Entered From: adsl-67-125-22-234.dsl.pltn13.pacbell.net at 67.125.22.234
Message:
Kabs Kanu,
Please publish Sia's letter to you. And also publish her photo. Are you sure it is not Mariama Massaqoui became
Sia?
Waraba
Subject: Re: How many times must we tell you to leave Marda and Co. alone
From: Albert Moinina
To: All
Date Posted: 01:05:18 04/03/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 218.248.0.180
Message:
I totally agree with you Kabs Kanu. All we know these twisted and crooked articles, from my personal opinion, are written by Sia and she is supposed to be a lady. Thanks for clarifying that it is a HE.
In any event, let us not make guesses and thereby falsely accuse the innocent. The real issue is not the person writing but what he or she is writing. Let us address issues. Attack tit for tat, word for word but leave the person alone.
LET THE SLPP OPPONENTS DEAL WITH THE ISSUES THAT ARE BEING FABRICATED, TWISTED, POUNDED, COOKED, MOULDED, BAKED, AND PROPAGATED TO OUR HUNGRY PEOPLE (STOMACH WISE AND FOR INFORMATION).
Kabs and Others, let us remember that Ruwandan massacre was ochestrated by highly educated people. Mr. Sia has to be brought down to his knees by exposing his lies and that is what I will encourage all to do.
Subject: Re: How many times must we tell you to leave Marda and Co. alone
From: Albert Moinina
To: All
Date Posted: 01:03:49 04/03/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 218.248.0.180
Message:
I totally agree with you Kabs Kanu. All we know these twisted and crooked articles, from my personal opinion, are written by Sia and she is supposed to be a lady. Thanks for clarifying that it is a HE.
In any event, let us not make guesses and thereby falsely accuse the innocent. The real issue is not the person writing but what he or she is writing. Let us address issues. Attack tit for tat, word for word but leave the person alone.
LET THE SLPP OPPONENTS DEAL WITH THE ISSUES THAT ARE BEING FABRICATED, TWISTED, POUNDED, COOKED, MOULDED, BAKED, AND PROPAGATED TO OUR HUNGRY PEOPLE (STOMACH WISE AND FOR INFORMATION).
Kabs and Others, let us remember that Ruwanda massacre was ochestrated by highly educated people. Mr. Sia has to brought down to his knees by exposing not himself but his lies and that is what I will encourage all to do.
Subject: 'BLOOD DIAMOND' AND NIGER DELTA
From: Cornelius Hamelberg
To: All
Date Posted: 20:28:10 04/02/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: c-208472d5.01-32-73746f42.cust.bredbandsbolaget.se at 213.114.132.32
Message:
'BLOOD DIAMOND' AND NIGER DELTA
What do we have in common with big brother Nigeria?
Surprise yourself by writing SIERRA LEONE in the space for search: today, 672 hits.
Apart from this (put on your headphones):
http://www.africamasterweb.com/poetry.html
( if we don’t make it to South Africa in 2010, most fans will be supporting, Nigeria, Cameroon, Ghana, Ivory Coast, Egypt, and hope that the cup stays in Africa for another 50 years, to the despair of the Dutch, British, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, German, French, leagues. That’s football. Africa is united about that: the cup should stay in Africa.
In both countries , an election coming up and when I read this” going to the polls to elect a new (recycled) government in few weeks” I thought of the continuity of the SLPP vs. a new beginning by those who have never held the whip before or steered a ship before.
I don’t see why old APC should be haunting anybody in 2007 Sierra Leone. It’s not the same people or the same dominant personalities. Surely you don’t think that the soft and modest Ernest Bai Koroma is going to hang his army chief of staff, his minister of information, his minister of Finance and his own Francis Minah, and run the economy down to the ground or re- institute the Si do you?
Of course if APC won a clear majority Ernest Bai could always invite some of the talented in SLPP to join his government. Should PMDC do well, many talented (not just heng -an- dae) will jump out of the bushes to serve.
Key post: Finance. Who?
Health:?
Alpha Wurie is trying with education but needs more money.
Subject: Re: 'BLOOD DIAMOND' AND NIGER DELTA
From: Cornelius
To: All
Date Posted: 20:40:01 04/02/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: c-208472d5.01-32-73746f42.cust.bredbandsbolaget.se at 213.114.132.32
Message:
Correction: I meant to write:
Surely you don’t think that the soft-spoken and modest Ernest Bai Koroma is going to hang his army chief of staff, his minister of information, his minister of Finance and his own Francis Minah, and run the economy down to the ground or re- institute the Si do you?
Subject: WE LACK ARDENT PROSPECTIVE CANDIDATES!
From: Truth
To: All
Date Posted: 14:51:14 04/02/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: host81-158-206-35.range81-158.btcentralplus.com at 81.158.206.35
Message:
During the last week, I have been fortunate to speak to a number of prospective candidates from the SLPP< APC and PMDC. I am appalled that all aprties are lacking in ardent politicians having the interest of the nation at heart. Some of you will say why not you? I am stuck, my dear fellows. I am in a catch 22 situation. Can we help spice up our prospective candidates? Sierra Leone needs candidates with a potential and the committment to the development of our people and nation.
From the people I spoke to, their interests is paramount.
Subject: Re: WE LACK ARDENT PROSPECTIVE CANDIDATES!
From: Albert Moinina
To: All
Date Posted: 22:34:53 04/02/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 218.248.0.180
Message:
Please provide us details of your conversation and names of these individuals. You will be doing your country a honorable service if you give us information on candidates. I believe this should extend to all of us who have access to these people and/or information about them. The focus should not only be on the Presidential Candidates but those vying for parliament. Those with shady background need to be exposed whether they are sitting in the orange tree, hiding behind the sun or under the palm tree intoxicated with poyo (power).
Thank you.
Subject: "BLACK IMMIGRANTS COLLECT MOST DEGREES."
From: Bambay Lans Kamara
To: All
Date Posted: 14:28:49 04/02/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: ws-lib254.lib.csus.edu at 130.86.14.95
Message:
Greetings my brothers and sisters. I am delighted to repost this thread because it is a discussion of significance to the socio-economic development of Africans in the Diaspora and the continent of Africa at large. Hoping that everything will show in the thread in originality, stay tune for my view of the matter.
Subject: Re: "BLACK IMMIGRANTS COLLECT MOST DEGREES."
From: Cornelius Hamelberg
To: All
Date Posted: 17:26:29 04/02/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: c-208472d5.01-32-73746f42.cust.bredbandsbolaget.se at 213.114.132.32
Message:
Some stray thoughts. Hope they hit home.
Just imagine if we were all professors, then nobody would tell you in the middle of a discussion, “I am a professor you know” – I’m sure that they seldom say that to their own professors or Imams. Africans are not stupid oh, it is just that those who know a little more and should help their less able brothers (even teach them) quarrel even with their peers, about who the Oyibo thinks is better, and who the Oyiobo has confirmed by sometimes giving him/her all they can give: a good education/ best degrees. Yes, some, like Philip Emeagwali came out top of the class. He too talks about it. (B-d)
As has been pointed out so many times on this forum, Africa is suffering from a massive brain drain.
Africans ( may be anti-Toubab etc) but just love to stretch their legs in the West, and criticise and preach from Western citadels sometimes boasting about how much they are contributing to the intellectual ( and scientific developments in Oyiboland - you know the whole story: from San-San boy sans opportunity, to dokta of philosophy in everything and you don’t expect him – and Madam – and the kids, to return to private electric generators, and substandard hospital care – so they are doctoring and engineering in Chicago instead – more Ethiopian and Nigerian doctors in the city than in all Ethiopia or any of the big towns in Nigeria.
If all the people mentioned in the statistics were to arrive by plane, not just sporadically on one of their touristy state visits, the continent would take off. Of course there are serious and dedicated ones like Sengbe, who is only where he is to develop science, and with a little bit of luck and sufficient dedication (and not just to those shipments) he could bag the Nobel Prize in Chemistry and then lead the SLPP to more glory. So there are people of good, better and even nobler intentions. That’s why they are there, year after year of personal remittances back home, the dream of returning still beating in their hearts. (Who would contest against Kofi Annan for the presidency of Ghana if he wanted it as badly as Berewa wants to wear the presidential cap in Sierra Leone? Kofi Annan would have been too soft from the Ghana that Jerry Rawlings took care of during the years he unflinchingly dedicated himself to the task. It ain’t easy brother, even if you laid yourself on the cross some would still criticise you. One advantage in making the “most capable” bid is that unlike the professers of political science he could say to them (to, e.g. Jimmy Kandeh, “I have some practical experience, I was Secretary –General of the United Nations for ten years.” Some of the management skills that Kenday Kamara could be proud of. Wondering which at the Makeni Conbention would like to be president of Africa? Certainly not Mugabe.
Kabbah said something close to that I read one of the Sierra Leone Newspaper sheets, in Amara’s Refugee office at the top of the Library in Burnt Oak, “Kabbah controlled a UN budget of billons and not a cent was missing!”
Good thing: Like Ayi Kwei Armah, he too he returned.
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&rlz=1B2RNFA_enSE205SE208&q=+Chinese+brain+drain
You remember when Mao put some of the academics in the rice paddies, so that they got some grime under their fingernails and got to understand where all the rice comes from?
China too had a slight brain drain period which the Chinese authorities are successfully reversing. I suppose that if you were a China man or wo0man, you would have much to be prod about, and the idea of China progressing ensures more to be prod of.
It could be as easy as this:
http://www.china.org.cn/english/education/205377.htm
Chinese Ministry of education:
http://www.moe.edu.cn/english/international_2.htm
Subject: Re: "BLACK IMMIGRANTS COLLECT MOST DEGREES."
From: Bambay Lans Kamara
To: All
Date Posted: 17:54:14 04/02/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 216.190.22.152
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Cornelius Hamelberg thank you for the rebutal. America or Europe is not forcing any one out of their countries. Their countries force them out by their policies and practices. Some of us come here learn all the books but what we get is formal education yet, live in our traditional lifestyle and thinking. We have to make the change and not contribute to it.
Subject: Re: "BLACK IMMIGRANTS COLLECT MOST DEGREES."
From: Bambay Lans Kamara
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Date Posted: 16:07:33 04/02/07 ()
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"Posted by Mohamed A. Jalloh [cache-mtc-aa04.proxy.aol.com at 64.12.116.8] on March 29, 2007 at 08:19:25:
[The following posting is presented here, courtesy of SALONEDiscussion@yahoogroups.com, in the continuing effort to empower fellow S/Leoneans by sharing with them information that would help them further develop the indispensable ingredient for success -- self-esteem. The name of the contributor is presented here by his prior permission.]
--- In SALONEDiscussion@yahoogroups.com, "Amadu Massally" amadu.massally@... writes on March 29, 2007:
BLACK IMMIGRANTS COLLECT MOST DEGREES,
BUT AFFIRMATIVE ACTION IS LOSING DIRECTION
By Clarence Page
Chicago Tribune
March 18, 2007
WASHINGTON -- Do African immigrants make the smartest
Americans? The question may sound outlandish, but if you were judging by statistics alone, you could find plenty of evidence to back it up.
In a side-by-side comparison of 2000 census data by
sociologists including John R. Logan at the Mumford Center, State University of New York at Albany, black immigrants from Africa averaged the highest educational attainment of any population group in the country, including whites and Asians.
For example, 43.8 percent of African immigrants had
achieved a college degree, compared with 42.5 of Asian-
Americans, 28.9 percent for immigrants from Europe, Russia and Canada and 23.1 percent of the U.S. population as a whole.
That defies the usual stereotypes of Asian-Americans as the only "model minority." Yet the traditional American narrative has rendered the high academic achievements of black immigrants from Africa and the Caribbean invisible, as if that were a taboo topic.
Instead, we should take a closer look. That was my reaction in 2004 after black Harvard law professor Lani Guinier and Henry Louis Gates Jr., chairman of Harvard's African-American studies department, stirred up a black Harvard alumni reunion with questions about precisely where the university's new black students were coming from.
About 8 percent, or about 530, of Harvard's undergraduates were black, Gates and Guinier said, but somewhere between one-half and two-thirds of the black students were "West Indian and African immigrants or their children, or to a lesser extent, children of biracial couples."
If we take a closer look, I said at the time, I bet we'd find that Harvard's not alone. With all of the ink and airwaves that have been devoted to immigration these days, black immigrants remain remarkably invisible. Yet, their success has long followed the patterns of other high-achieving immigrants.
Now comes a new study that finds a consistent pattern of Ivy League and other elite colleges and universities boosting their black student populations by enrolling large nmbers of immigrants from Africa, the West Indies and Latin America.
Immigrants, who make up 13percent of the nation's college-age black population, account for more than a fourth of black students at Ivy League and other selective universities, according to the study of 28 colleges and universities. The authors of the study, published recently in the American Journal of Education, included Douglas S. Massey of Princeton University and Camille Z. Charles at the University of Pennsylvania. The proportion of immigrants was higher at private institutions, 28.8 percent, than at the public colleges, where they comprised 23.1 percent of enrollment.
Are elite schools padding their racial diversity numbers with black immigrants who do not have a history of American savery in their families? This development immediately calls into question whether affirmative action admission policies are fulfilling their original intent.
But, as Walter Benn Michaels, a professor of English at the University of Illinois at Chicago, writes in his book "The Trouble With Diversity," the original intent of affirmative action morphed in the 1970s from reparations for slavery into the promotion of a broader virtue: "diversity."
Since then, it no longer seems to matter how many of our colleges' black students have slavery in their families. It only matters that they're black.
That said, I don't begrudge black immigrants or any other high-achieving immigrants for their impressive
achievements. I applaud them. I encourage more native-born American children, particularly my own child, to take similar advantage of this country's hard-won opportunities.
But I also think we need to revisit the question of
diversity. Unlike our system of feel-good game-playing, we need to focus on the deeper question of how opportunities can be opened to everyone who was left behind by the civil rights revolution. We tend to look too often at every aspect of diversity except economic class.
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Clarence Page is a member of the Tribune's editorial board.
E-mail: cptime@aol.com"
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"There are those that look at things the way they are, and ask why? I dream of things that never were, and ask why not.
~ Robert F. Kennedy"
Greetings again my brothers and sisters. Mr. Mohamed A. Jalloh thank you for this post and all who contributed to it. Before I give my view with regards to the subject, I would like to make reference to the meaning and the significance of education. Considering the fact that every universities in the United States of America has anywhere from four to ten lecturers and most high schools have Teachers from Africa. thus signifies the relative roles Africans have played to improving "education" in America. This, for most schools started since the 1960's and for Florida State University the proprietor was an African, a Sierra Leonean to be specific. You can get that information when you read the web page of Amistad Revolt at http://www.sierra-leone.org. Therefore, I must say honestly that I am proud that statistics have revealed this information but my question has always been, whether or not we who call ourselves educated are really educated? Especially in the context of economic development for Africans in the Diaspora and all forms of developments in the continent as a whole in comparison to other nationalities? How has our education impacted others in the Diaspora and at home when wars are the order-of-the-day in Africa, when economic degradation is part of accepted community healthy living, when we cannot educate ourselves to unite to make a difference in the communities we reside both politically and other wise, when according to the following quote by Saloneman posted at at 64.26.98.90] on March 29, 2007 at 10:09:58: "This is great for Africans in America. To tell you the truth, it is the racists in this country that need to read this more than Africans. I am the only black person in our office. When I saw this post this morning, I emailed it to all the other here. I will wait to see if they start treating me like they do the Asians around here from now on."
The above statement significantly says a lot about our education and there are clear examples to manifest whether or not we are educated and how this education has been or has not been significant to us as a people.
I would cherish the idea to go to go the references I made mention of.
What is education?
Natural learning environments inspire a burning desire to learn, the key to a productive lifestyle.
What is education, knowledge in basic skills, academics, technical, discipline, citizenship or is it something else? Our society says only academic basics are important and that is based on collecting knowledge without understanding its value. How about the processing of knowledge, using inspiration, visionary ambitions, creativity, risk, ability to bounce back from failure, motivation? Most education institutions don’t consider these skills. These skills are associated with understanding the value of knowledge. There is a huge disconnected gap and this is a problem for high school students in particular.
Thomas Edison, Henry Ford and many other super achievers never finished grade school. They succeeded because they knew how to research, collect information for a selected project and process knowledge. Classroom environment does not work that way, it focuses on the collection of knowledge without a clear purpose, other than high-class grades. If the purpose does not motivate, other than to please the teacher, then there is nothing to process outside of memorizing answers for test. The typical student is academic challenged while being motivation starved. Lack of motivation is lack of knowledge processing skills. The typical college graduate will have a professional skill that supplies life’s basic needs, that’s all.
What is education? The answer is, all elements in the opening paragraph and more, relate to education and all should be considered. This would be ideal and sounds good, but "all" is not possible where performance must be measured. Only what can be measured will be selected and the measuring tool is the written test. Anyone who does not have the ability to put clear thoughts on paper is labeled a failure. All natural skills, including knowledge processing, does not count. The fact is, what is exercised grows stronger, what is ignored stays dormant. The classroom exercises the collection of academics, leaving all other natural skills in the closet.
Test does not measure intelligence or ability, it does not measure how the mind processes information, how motivating experiences develop persistence, or how the mind sorts out instincts, opinions, evaluations, possibilities, alternatives. Knowledge by itself has no value, it is like a dictionary filled with words. Words by themselves have no value, it is the process of stringing them together that gives them value. How they are strung together determines the level of value. Now our education system is becoming a system that memorizes the dictionary. When students have memorized selected knowledge, then they will be given a one-day test, based on dictionary knowledge, which will influence employment opportunity for the rest of their life. Natural skills are not considered. Is this how America became the worlds' economic leader? NO! Knowledge only has value when used with a process and process in an artificial environment is not predictable or measurable.
Achievers in life use inspiration and motivation to overcome barriers. Teaching to the test does not inspire or motivate anyone, memorizing does not inspire a love to learn, in fact, it does just the opposite, it turns off the desire to learn. Education’s goal should be to develop a love to learn that stays with students throughout a lifetime. Education should be a lifetime experience, not limited to the youth years.
Educators are switching to test because there is a crisis in education of their own making and society wants measurable results. This pressure is passed on to political leaders who base political decisions on what is measurable, which is academic test and test are based on acceptance of the status quo. Ever student must now accept the status quo and be an academic intellectual or be labeled a failure. Natural talent and knowledge processing skills does not count. Students receiving the failure label are growing in numbers and percent, all because the system measures selected knowledge on a one day standardized paper test.
Consider the parent who is having a problem with a word processor. On their own, they can’t solve the problem. They have been collecting knowledge for years, but their knowledge processor is in hibernation. With any new gadget, someone has to teach them, they can’t figure it out for themselves. Their thirteen-year-old boy comes to the rescue. He has limited knowledge, but he knows how to processes available information. He explores the word process problem until he finds a solution. He is not unusually smart, this is a teenager’s natural approach to finding solutions.
All young children have a natural talent for creative process of information. It’s during the teen years that natural creative processing is replaced with the status quo. The status quo memorizes knowledge and forgets how to process it. In the classroom, memorizing is what counts. Standardized test reinforces the status quo. It kills creative processing ability. Status quo attitudes will follow them into adult life where they will have to ask their children for help.
Today, the education has a new tool on the market. Behavior control drugs. Any student who refuses to accept the status quo is labeled a troublemaker and will be drugged. The student now behaves in the classroom with glassy eyes and school officials receive high performance ratings. The student may get passing grades and land a job with a comfortable wage, but that will be all. Teenage dreams of great ambitions are gone.
Fact: Self-made millionaires are not "A" students in the classroom. The way they process knowledge is in conflict with classroom priorities. The self-made millionaire has a vision, then he researches specific knowledge, applies intuitive knowledge and process all the elements, searching for a workable solution. Finding alternative ways to do common tasks makes millionaires. The secret is vision, research and processing, not pre stored knowledge.
The typical employer wants employees with dictionary knowledge, not visionaries. They want employees who follow orders, are willing to do repetitive tasks, be happy with a limited role, and accept the status quo. Repetitive tasks' is efficiency and this is where profits are made. Also, the status quo prevents the exposure of blunders by leaders. Too many blunders and profits disappear. In a status quo environment visionaries become bored quickly and soon receive the troublemaker label by offering alternatives or exposing blunders, sometimes leading to dismissal, yet, their ideas increase efficiency and create new sources of profits for the company. In the long haul, visionaries are the one’s who make above average wages no matter what their formal education level. The education system now has the tools to kill off this type of person, behavior control drugs! As these students move into the workforce, status quo and blunders will kill off the typical business.
What can be considered a quality education? A quality education is custom design that addresses the unique abilities of each student and has a positive emotional experience. Custom education evaluates natural talent and how the student learns. This is why home schooled students out perform classroom students. Parents learn what works and does not work, then focus on what works. With this method, students develop a love to learn and learning becomes a lifelong process.
What type of education environment, do you think, will produce consistent winners?
Note: As I write this, e-learning is becoming an education model that the present system cannot compete with. It is focusing on what motivates rather than what the system thinks is good for students. It is also leaving out politicians, textbook industries, testing companies, and unions. These forces are now fighting back, trying to maintain a system that is in their interest, not the students. At this time, they are focusing on standardized test, which seems to be a last ditch effort to maintain the status quo." (Captain Bob)
Let me continue with:
Philosophy of Education: Philosophy of Teaching, Learning, and Instruction
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What is the Philosophy of Education?:
The Philosophy of Education deals with how children should be educated, what they should be educated in, and what the ultimate purpose of education should be for society. This is an often neglected field of philosophy and, when it is addressed, it tends to only be in educational programs designed to train teachers — in this context, it is a part of pedagogy, which is learning how to teach. For religious theists, the philosophy of education can often be tightly integrated with theology and religious indoctrination in order to instill religious values, doctrines, and commitment at a young age.
Why Should Atheists Care About the Philosophy of Education?:
The Philosophy of Education doesn't touch upon as many subjects relevant to atheists as other branches of philosophy, but it does involve a couple of important issues. For many religious theists, religious education is an indispensable part of the learning process because religions is necessary for instilling values and morals. Many would like to see this happen in public schools, believing that their religion should be taught as a basis for social order. Atheists typically oppose such measures, but this can be done on a firmer basis if one has a better understanding of what education is all about.
Why is the Philosophy of Education Important?:
How and why a society educates its children will be dispositive for the following generations and long-term political health. In other words, we define our society and the society of our future by how and why we educate the young. Do we want our children to be educated for democracy or consumerism? Should children learn by rote memorization or through creative problem solving? Does school exist to teach values or skills for use in the job market? Because these decisions will affect the course of society for decades to come, the questions asked are as important as those found in any other branch.
Questions Asked in the Philosophy of Education:
What should people learn?
How should people learn?
What is the purpose of education?"
Here also is another explanation of the philosophy of education:
Philosophy of education
Main article: Philosophy of education
The philosophy of education is the study of the purpose, nature and ideal content of education. Related topics include knowledge itself, the nature of the knowing mind and the human subject, problems of authority, and the relationship between education and society. At least since Rousseau's time, the philosophy of education has been linked to theories of developmental psychology and human development.
Fundamental purposes that have been proposed for education include:
1. The enterprise of civil society depends on educating young people to become responsible, thoughtful and enterprising citizens. This is an intricate, challenging task requiring deep understanding of ethical principles, moral values, political theory, aesthetics, and economics, not to mention an understanding of who children are, in themselves and in society.
2. Progress in every practical field depends on having capacities that schooling can educate. Education is thus a means to foster the individual's, society's, and even humanity's future development and prosperity. Emphasis is often put on economic success in this regard.
3. One's individual development and the capacity to fulfill one's own purposes can depend on an adequate preparation in childhood. Education can thus attempt to give a firm foundation for the achievement of personal fulfillment. The better the foundation that is built, the more successful the child will be. Simple basics in education can carry a child far.
[edit] The nature, origin and scope of knowledge
Main article: Epistemology
See also: Data, Information, Knowledge, Wisdom, Self-realization, and Ability
A central tenet of education typically includes “the imparting of knowledge.” At a very basic level, this purpose ultimately deals with the nature, origin and scope of knowledge. The branch of philosophy that addresses these and related issues is known as epistemology. This area of study often focuses on analyzing the nature and variety of knowledge and how it relates to similar notions such as truth and belief.
While the term, knowledge, is often used to convey this general purpose of education, it can also be viewed as part of a continuum of knowing that ranges from very specific data to the highest levels. Seen in this light, the continuum may be thought to consist of a general hierarchy of overlapping levels of knowing. Students must be able to connect new information to a piece of old information to be better able to learn, understand, and retain information. This continuum may include notions such as data, information, knowledge, wisdom, and realization.
[edit] Psychology of education
Main article: Educational psychology
Educational psychology is the study of how humans learn in educational settings, the effectiveness of educational interventions, the psychology of teaching, and the social psychology of schools as organizations. Although the terms "educational psychology" and "school psychology" are often used interchangeably, researchers and theorists are likely to be identified as educational psychologists, whereas practitioners in schools or school-related settings are identified as school psychologists. Educational psychology is concerned with the processes of educational attainment in the general population and in sub-populations such as gifted children and those with specific disabilities.
Educational psychology can in part be understood through its relationship with other disciplines. It is informed primarily by psychology, bearing a relationship to that discipline analogous to the relationship between medicine and biology. Educational psychology in turn informs a wide range of specialities within educational studies, including instructional design, educational technology, curriculum development, organizational learning, special education and classroom management. Educational psychology both draws from and contributes to cognitive science and the learning sciences. In universities, departments of educational psychology are usually housed within faculties of education, possibly accounting for the lack of representation of educational psychology content in introductory psychology textbooks (Lucas, Blazek, & Raley, 2006).
[edit] Economics of education
[edit] Education and economic growth
If we look at a sorted list of nations with the highest level of secondary schooling we would notice these to be the richest countries in the world, based on GDP per capita. High rates of education are essential for countries to achieve high levels of economic growth. In theory poor countries should grow faster than rich countries because they can adopt cutting edge technologies already tried and tested by rich countries. But economists argue that if the gap in education between a rich and a poor nation is too large, as is the case between the poorest and the richest nations in the world, the transfer of these technologies that drive economic growth becomes difficult, thus the economies of the world's poorest nations stagnate.
[edit] Sociology and politics of education
Main article: Sociology of education
The sociology of education is the study of how social institutions and forces affect educational processes and outcomes, and vice versa. By many, education is understood to be a means of overcoming handicaps, achieving greater equality and acquiring wealth and status for all (Sargent 1994). Learners may be motivated by aspirations for progress and betterment. Education is perceived as a place where children can develop according to their unique needs and potentialities (Schofield 1999). The purpose of education can be to develop every individual to their full potential. However, according to some sociologists, a key problem is that the educational needs of individuals and marginalized groups may be at odds with existing social processes, such as maintaining social stability through the reproduction of inequality. The understanding of the goals and means of educational socialization processes differs according to the sociological paradigm used.
[edit] Developing countries
According to The Borgen project, 115 million children lack access to education. In developing countries, the number and seriousness of the problems faced are naturally greater. People are sometimes unaware of the importance of education, and there is economic pressure from those parents who prioritize their children's making money in the short term over any long-term benefits of education. Recent studies on child labor and poverty have suggested that when poor families reach a certain economic threshold where families are able to provide for their basic needs, parents return their children to school. This has been found to be true, once the threshold has been breached, even if the potential economic value of the children's work has increased since their return to school. Teachers are often paid less than other similar professions.
A lack of good universities, and a low acceptance rate for good universities, is evident in countries with a relatively high population density. In some countries, there are uniform, overstructured, inflexible centralized programs from a central agency that regulates all aspects of education.
* Due to globalization, increased pressure on students in curricular activities
* Removal of a certain percentage of students for improvisation of academics (usually practised in schools, after 10th grade)
India is now developing technologies that will skip land based phone and internet lines. Instead, India launched EDUSAT, an education satellite that can reach more of the country at a greatly reduced cost. There is also an initiative started by a group out of MIT and supported by several major corporations to develop a $100 laptop. The laptops should be available by late 2006 or 2007. The laptops, sold at cost, will enable developing countries to give their children a digital education, and to close the digital divide across the world.
In Africa, NEPAD has launched an "e-school programme" to provide all 600,000 primary and high schools with computer equipment, learning materials and internet access within 10 years.
Private groups, like The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, are working to give more individuals opportunities to receive education in developing countries through such programs as the Perpetual Education Fund.
An International Development Agency project called naabur.com, started with the support of American President Bill Clinton, uses the internet to allow co-operation by individuals on issues of social development.
[edit] Internationalisation
Education is becoming increasingly international. Not only are the materials becoming more influenced by the rich international environment, but exchanges among students at all levels are also playing an increasingly important role. In Europe, for example, the Socrates-Erasmus Programme stimulates exchanges across European universities. Also, the Soros Foundation provides many opportunities for students from central Asia and eastern Europe. Some scholars argue that, regardless of whether one system is considered better or worse than another, experiencing a different way of education can often be considered to be the most important, enriching element of an international learning experience (Dubois et al. 2006).
[edit] philosophy of education:"
Taking the above into consideration, I will then ask, though proud that the statistics reveals thus, yet I would like to parralel the significance of such education to the devidence enjoyed by other nationalities in the Diaspora/ United States specifically and their countries or continents of origin. India for example is enjoying democratic process, their education is relevant to enhancing development for their country and encouraging foreign businesses thereby improving the Gross Domestic Productivity and the welfare of their people. We just move from a ten to eleven years brutal war and the socio economic situaion is slumbering but are we educated enough to pinpoint the causative agents and eradicate them or are the very practices still prevalent? What are our participation in the AFFIRMATIVE ACTION or against the principles of the Affirmative Action and how is that a factor affection the drifting that the affirmative action is taking?
If an educated person cannot asses a situation that involves a government, the International community based on the significance of the Rule of Law, International chatters and how such must and should be applicable to all? How can one be considered educated when thinking abstractly is difficult therefore depends on guessing to find the answer. This is as a result memorizing to pass tests and acquire degrees rather being educated (learning.)
"Jean Piaget [ʒɑ̃ pjaˈʒɛ] (August 9, 1896 – September 16, 1980) was a Swiss philosopher, natural scientist and developmental psychologist, well known for his work studying children and his theory of cognitive development. According to Ernst von Glasersfeld, Jean Piaget is also "the great pioneer of the constructivist theory of knowing"[1].
Piaget, by André Koehne
Piaget was born in Neuchâtel in the French-speaking part of Switzerland. His father, Arthur Piaget, was a professor of medieval literature at the University of Neuchâtel. Piaget was a precocious child who developed an interest in biology and the natural world, particularly molluscs, and even published a number of papers before he graduated from high school. In fact, his long career of scientific research began when he was just eleven, with the 1907 publication of a short paper on the albino sparrow. Over the course of his career, Piaget wrote more than sixty books and several hundred articles. Piaget received a Ph.D. in natural science from the University of Neuchâtel, and also studied briefly at the University of Zürich. During this time, he published two philosophical papers which showed the direction of his thinking at the time, but which he later dismissed as adolescent work. His interest in psychoanalysis, a strain of psychological thought burgeoning at that time, can also be dated to this period.
He then moved from Switzerland to Grange-aux-Belles, France, where he taught at the school for boys run by Alfred Binet, the developer of the Binet intelligence test. It was while he was helping to mark some instances of these intelligence tests that Piaget noticed that young children consistently gave wrong answers to certain questions. Piaget did not focus so much on the fact of the children's answers being wrong, but that young children kept making the same pattern of mistakes that older children and adults did not. This led him to the theory that young children's thought or cognitive processes are inherently different from those of adults. (Ultimately, he was to propose a global theory of developmental stages stating that individuals exhibit certain distinctive common patterns of cognition in each period in their development.) In 1921, Piaget returned to Switzerland as director of the Rousseau Institute in Geneva.
Although there is no general theory of cognitive development, one of the most historically influential theory was developed by Jean Piaget, a Swiss Psychologist (1896-1980). His theory provided many central concepts in the field of developmental psychology and concerned the growth of intelligence, which for Piaget, meant the ability to more accurately represent the world, and perform logical operations on representations of concepts grounded in the world. The theory concerns the emergence and acquisition of schemata—schemes of how one perceives the world—in "developmental stages", times when children are acquiring new ways of mentally representing information. The theory is considered "constructivist", meaning that, unlike nativist theories (which describe cognitive development as the unfolding of innate knowledge and abilities) or empiricist theories (which describe cognitive development as the gradual acquisition of knowledge through experience), it asserts that we construct our cognitive abilities through self-motivated action in the world. For his development of the theory, Piaget was awarded the Erasmus Prize. Piaget divided schemes that children use to understand the world through four main stages, roughly correlated with and becoming increasingly sophisticated with age:
Concrete operational stage
The Concrete operational stage is the third of four stages of cognitive development in Piaget's theory. This stage, which follows the Preoperational stage, occurs between the ages of 7 and 11 years and is characterized by the appropriate use of logic. Important processes during this stage are:
Decentering - where the child takes into account multiple aspects of a problem to solve it. For example, the child will no longer perceive an exceptionally wide but short cup to contain less than a normally-wide, taller cup.
Reversibility - where the child understands that numbers or objects can be changed, then returned to their original state. For this reason, a child will be able to rapidly determine that if 4+4 equals 8, 8-4 will equal 4, the original quantity.
Conservation - understanding that quantity, length or number of items is unrelated to the arrangement or appearance of the object or items. For instance, when a child is presented with two equally-sized, full cups they will be able to discern that if water is transferred to a pitcher it will conserve the quantity and be equal to the other filled cup.
Elimination of Egocentrism - the ability to view things from another's perspective (even if they think incorrectly). For instance, show a child a comic in which Jane puts a doll under a box, leaves the room, and then Jill moves the doll to a drawer, and Jane comes back. A child in the concrete operations stage will say that Jane will still think it's under the box even though the child knows it is in the drawer.
[edit]Formal operational stage
The formal operational stage is the fourth and final of the stages of cognitive development of Piaget's theory. This stage, which follows the Concrete Operational stage, commences at around 11 years of age (puberty) and continues into adulthood. It is characterized by acquisition of the ability to think abstractly and draw conclusions from the information available. During this stage the young adult functions in a cognitively normal manner and therefore is able to understand such things as love, "shades of gray", and values. Lucidly, biological factors may be traced to this stage as it occurs during puberty and marking the entry to adulthood in Physiology, cognition, moral judgement (Kohlberg), Psychosexual development (Freud), and social development (Erikson). Some two-thirds of people do not successfully complete this stage, and "fixate" at the concrete operational stage.[1]
Challenges to Piagetian stage theory
Piagetians accounts of development have been challenged on several grounds. First, as Piaget himself noted, development does not always progress in the smooth manner his theory seems to predict. 'Decalage', or unpredicted gaps in the developmental progression, suggest that the stage model is at best a useful approximation. More broadly, Piaget's theory is 'domain general', predicting that cognitive maturation occurs concurrently across different domains of knowledge (such as mathematics, logic, understanding of physics, of language, etc). However, more recent cognitive developmentalists have been much influenced by trends in cognitive science away from domain generality and towards domain specificity or modularity of mind, under which different cognitive faculties may be largely independent of one another and thus develop according to quite different time-tables. In this vein, many current cognitive developmentalists argue that rather than being domain general learners, children come equipped with domain specific theories, sometimes referred to as 'core knowledge', which allows them to break into learning within that domain. For example, even young infants appear to understand some basic principles of physics (e.g. that one object cannot pass through another) and human intentionality (e.g. that a hand repeatedly reaching for an object has that object, not just a particular path of motion, as its goal). These basic assumptions may be the building blocks out of which more elaborated knowledge is constructed."
But what is important to note is that not all humans can reach the fourth stage.
I used Piajet's theory because after thorough observation and my involvement with "the educated" I have come to be more bewildered by the action of some of them who cannot distinguish reality from fiction and who are brave to call another college graduate a failure and participate to make their fictional theories a reality to fool the world's population including the educated. Where is ethics, morality, sincerity that which education is to impart.?
By and large, I am enthralled to participate in this discussion.
Subject: Re: "BLACK IMMIGRANTS COLLECT MOST DEGREES."
From: Cornelius Hamelberg
To: All
Date Posted: 17:46:33 04/02/07 ()
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Just imagine if we were all professors, then nobody would tell you in the middle of a discussion, “I am a professor you know” – I’m sure that they seldom say that to their own professors or Imams. Africans are not stupid oh, it is just that those who know a little more and should help their less able brothers (even teach them) quarrel even with their peers, about who the Oyibo thinks is better, and who the Oyiobo has confirmed by sometimes giving him/her all they can give: a good education/ best degrees. Yes, some, like Philip Emeagwali came out top of the class. He too talks about it. (B-d)
As has been pointed out so many times on this forum, Africa is suffering from a massive brain drain.
Africans ( may be anti-Toubab etc) but just love to stretch their legs in the West, and criticise and preach from Western citadels sometimes boasting about how much they are contributing to the intellectual ( and scientific developments in Oyiboland - you know the whole story: from San-San boy sans opportunity, to dokta of philosophy in everything and you don’t expect him – and Madam – and the kids, to return to private electric generators, and substandard hospital care – so they are doctoring and engineering in Chicago instead – more Ethiopian and Nigerian doctors in the city than in all Ethiopia or any of the big towns in Nigeria.
If all the people mentioned in the statistics were to arrive by plane, not just sporadically on one of their touristy state visits, the continent would take off. Of course there are serious and dedicated ones like Sengbe, who is only where he is to develop science, and with a little bit of luck and sufficient dedication (and not just to those shipments) he could bag the Nobel Prize in Chemistry and then lead the SLPP to more glory. So there are people of good, better and even nobler intentions. That’s why they are there, year after year of personal remittances back home, the dream of returning still beating in their hearts. (Who would contest against Kofi Annan for the presidency of Ghana if he wanted it as badly as Berewa wants to wear the presidential cap in Sierra Leone? Kofi Annan would have been too soft for the Ghana that Jerry Rawlings took care of during the years he unflinchingly dedicated himself to the task. It ain’t easy brother, even if you laid yourself on the cross some would still criticise you. One advantage in making the “most capable” bid is that unlike the professers of political science he could say to them (to, e.g. Jimmy Kandeh, “I have some practical experience, I was Secretary –General of the United Nations for ten years.” Some of the management skills that Kenday Kamara could be proud of. Wondering which at the Makeni Conbention would like to be president of Africa? None of them has such an ambition. Outside of Sierra Leone?
Certainly not Mugabe.
Kabbah comes something close to that I read one of the Sierra Leone Newspaper sheets, in Amara’s Refugee office at the top of the Library in Burnt Oak, “Kabbah controlled a UN budget of billons and not a cent was missing!”
Good thing: Like Ayi Kwei Armah, he too he returned.
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&rlz=1B2RNFA_enSE205SE208&q=+Chinese+brain+drain
You remember when Mao put some of the academics in the rice paddies, so that they got some grime under their fingernails and got to understand where all the rice comes from?
China too had a slight brain drain period which the Chinese authorities are successfully reversing. I suppose that if you were a China man or woman, you would have much to be proud about, and the idea of China progressing ensures more to be proud of.
It could be as easy as this:
http://www.china.org.cn/english/education/205377.htm
Chinese Ministry of education:
http://www.moe.edu.cn/english/international_2.htm
Subject: Re: "BLACK IMMIGRANTS COLLECT MOST DEGREES."
From: Bamaby Lans Kamara
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Date Posted: 16:31:42 04/02/07 ()
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There are three types of education: Formal, Non-formal and In-Formal. The statistic only reveals the Formal education.
Men are uneducated especially when they think that once they have acquired this "education" that no other person will because they are endowed with the God-given-right to be educated and no one else has that right. Particularly forgetting that life is a process and they too went through a process and that they should and must not by any shape or form and by any standard serve as a stumbling block but live live by the pre-requisites of educational principle, which is to shine for others to see and not turn the darkness to blind others from such acquisition. Education, regardless who posses it must be valued particularly by those who should know what it is worth. The educated not the degree holder values education because his purpose was to learn (acquire knowledge to make a difference) and not only to memorize to pass exams but not to be able to think abstractly. Guessing is the inability to gather information, process and analyze it to come to solution-oriented conclusion.
Education the acceptance of the truth regardless of how it is said to change. Which the inability to accept means a resistance to change. Early Men, the Pre-Renaissance found life difficult and created more difficulty for others because they were resistant to change and therefore did not embrabce change. Are we educated so why can't we change and why the many problems we create for others. Education ushers civilization.
Subject: Re: "BLACK IMMIGRANTS COLLECT MOST DEGREES."
From: Kohtoh Kamal
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Date Posted: 16:54:45 04/02/07 ()
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This is nonsense: the same people who question whether Obama is black enough raise these silly non-issues. Jews came here from Europe and because they were white they became the most educated and lead the nation's universities and other institutions. No one questioned their whiteness.
Subject: Re: "BLACK IMMIGRANTS COLLECT MOST DEGREES."
From: Cornelius Hamelberg
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Date Posted: 10:22:30 04/03/07 ()
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“ Jews came here from Europe and because they were white they became the most educated and lead the nation's universities and other institutions.”
BECAUSE THEY WERE WHITE?
What nonsense. You know the population of the US?
First of all they worked hard at their studies and had to face all that anti-Semitism.
Read Irving Howe’s memories of Jewish immigration to America.
First of all many came from Russia, did not speak # English like you and had to begin at the beginning like other immigrants from the non-English speaking world, the I-talians , other Poles, Germans, Swedes( Mostly Minnesota).
Jewish culture has always placed great emphasis on education as good capital.
I looked through “The Jewish Almanac” 1980 edition and note that and early as 1980, a good percentage of the students at University were Jewish. In that edition of the Almanac, pages 479-482 gives a break down of the number of Jewish students enrolled at 74 of the major North American colleges and Universities. On average I’d say about 20% of the student population.
“The official seal of Yale University includes two Hebrew words “URIM Ve- thummim” which translate as light and truth….:
As I have been saying for the past four years on Sierra Leone Fora, Muhammad BUHARI is my man!
You ask not what your country can do for you but what you can do for your country. Here is a very good idea from Atiku. It could be adopted by those who want to reverse the brain drain and tap the scattered potentials of the country, Sierra Leone.
Subject: The Use of Krio
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We encourage forumites to stick to the official language of our country to make our contributions comprehendible to everyone.
Subject: IN DEFENSE OF KABS-KANU: WHY KANU WON'T BAN JOHN LEIGH.
From: Santigie Gibril
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Date Posted: 13:54:53 04/02/07 ()
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Some forumites have lashed out at the good Reverend in the wake of his banning of the moniker “Father Corbett”. Some have even accused of double standard behavior – Kabs will ban “Father Corbett” but won’t ban John Leigh, especially when John Leigh had uttered that Charles Margai once slapped Father Lambe of CKC.
Folks, Father Corbett and Father Lambe occupy a special place in the hearts of CKC alumni. The two were responsible for transforming CKC into the academic giant that it was before the war. Two of our presidential candidates – Solomon Berewa and Charles Margai were nurtured by these two great men and would not take it lightly either if they found someone using the names Father Corbett and Father Lambe in a dishonorable fashion. This was precisely what the moniker “Father Corbett” was doing that drew the wrath of Kabs-Kanu another proud CKC alumnus.
With regards banning John Leigh, true Leigh’s performance on this forum has been a disappointment to many. His debut was marked with fanfare as it was expected that he would lead the debate on International Relations, International Politics and Economic Development. But ‘oya’ the man has never risen beyond the level of school kid. Why in the world would a 69 year old man be stuck with arguments about form four exams or GCE ‘O’ Level exams, simply because he was denied leadership of the Third Force? This exercise in foolishness and immaturity is precisely the reason why Washington does not take many African diplomats seriously? It also points to a pattern of poor decision making on the part of president Kabbah who would not take time to properly check the background of a candidate before appointing him to such a coveted position as Ambassador to America. Sierra Leone abounds with talent that could make us proud. We do not need Cartoon Characters that would only tarnish our country’s image overseas.
Having said that, it is prudent to mention that despite John Leigh’s kindergarten behavior on a forum that has worldwide readership, he still posts with his name. Leigh has also never been involved in the exchange of mammy-cusses or in using anybody else’s name in a dishonorable manner. Furthermore, Leigh draws opponents who are ready to thrash him at any opportuned time. This is good for Cocorioko’s ratings. So from the perspective of Kabs-Kanu, why bother if Leigh is not breaking the rules of the forum?
Subject: Re: IN DEFENSE OF KABS-KANU: WHY KANU WON'T BAN JOHN LEIGH.
From: John E. Leigh
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Date Posted: 15:22:05 04/02/07 ()
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Santigie Gibril is still smarting from the wacking the AFRC coupligans took from the SL Embassy is DC. But he should please note that that contest is over and the ARFC was evicted. In fact, Johnny Paul is on the run.
We are now on something else and I write now as a private citizen, not a government official.
Mr. Gibril should note that this Forum is populated by many kiddies, unfair people suffering from staunted cultural backgrounds and some very poorly educated personalities who seek to argue above their skill level. Hence, one has to debate at their appropriate level to make them properly understand the other side of the coin.
My style is to rise or sink to whatever level the situation requires to teach attackers in a manner they can understand. Obviously, attackers mightly dislike my style simply because it devastates them in a manner similar to the style I used to help defeat the AFRC, the RUF and Charles Taylor.
Next, I am in this Forum reluctantly: to defend my name against unreasonalble attacks as well as explain the facts as I know them on issues important to me.
As such I have no interest in initiating discussion on subjects Mr. Gibril thinks I ought to be involved in such as International Relations, International Politics and Economic Development, etc.
However, when such matters have cropped tangentally into debates I am involved in, I have addressed them coherently as the situation requires. I do not believe it is me to tell people what matters they ought to debate in this Forum.
So rather than rushing to speak for Rev. Kanu, Mr. Gibril ought to have got his facts rights instead of making erroneous conclusuions and assume excuses he has no factual bases for. He is also wrong about my age. I am younger than he thinks. Besides, it is none of Mr. Gibril's business.
The names banned from this forum are justified because of the well known abuses they frequently engage in despite warnings and there is no other lesser way to have such abusers improve on their conduct. My own approach is never to engage them or to cut them off permanently at the appropriate time.
As for the Third Force debate, I prefer what is happening right now inside the SLPP rather than what pretenders are trying to sell to people like Mr. Gibril. Thank you.
Subject: Re: IN DEFENSE OF KABS-KANU: WHY KANU WON'T BAN JOHN LEIGH.
From: Onliner
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Date Posted: 16:46:43 04/02/07 ()
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John Leigh, you will go down as a hero in the hearts of manyrational thinking Sierra Leoneans as well as non-Sierra Leoneans.
Looking in the rear mirrow at the dark days of the misrule of the AFRC - RUF tyranical combo, there wouldn't have been a stronger, louder, and more patriotic clearer voice to represent the voice of the people.
You told it the way it was, and described the situation in a manner unlike what the IC was used when dealing with the usual yuki yuki Sa Lone politician, and in a manner unfamiliar to the average Sa Lonean.
The average Sa Lonean is a two tongued hypocrite discracefully afraid of taking a stance when it comes to issues of integrity because his/her "eat here, eat there" mentality allow no room for rational decisive thinking.
He/she is what your classic poda-poda driver would term as "money don baby lay" - an opportunist, in other words.
Subject: Re: IN DEFENSE OF KABS-KANU: WHY KANU WON'T BAN JOHN LEIGH.
From: Talk Sense
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Date Posted: 06:30:49 04/03/07 ()
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John Leigh may have been a "hero" 10 years ago to people like you during the AFRC-RUF misrule.
But, does that make the same John Leigh a hero now, 10 years later, when he has become the same two-mot penknife, selfish opportunist who is now supporting the very same Solomon Berewa he called corrupt last year -- in the hope of collecting a similar payoff from berewa as that which he collected in 1996 from Berewa's benefactor, President kabba, who gave Leigh an ambassadorship to the USA in exchange for Leigh's $10,000 bribe to the same corrupt SLPP that Leigh now shamelessly supports?
Talk sense, man -- even if you are talking about yourself. John leigh is a hero today only to unpatriotic, selfish poortunists like him who would say and do anything to ruin their own country -- as long as it serves their own puny selfish interests.
Subject: Re: IN DEFENSE OF KABS-KANU: WHY KANU WON'T BAN JOHN LEIGH.
From: John E. Leigh
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Date Posted: 11:10:17 04/03/07 ()
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Some flunkies specialize in downgrading the good name of others without any rational justification.
Fortunately, theirs is a minority viewpoint. Yet they persist in their hopeless trash talk. Now, please consider the matter of some detractor who calls himself Talk Sense when he is fact talking rubbish and ignoring the plain truth.
First, I talk about myself only when posting under my own name. In fact, I have never used monikers in this forum, not even once. So if Talk Sense is a moniker crook, he should not judge others according to his low standards.
Next, 10 years ago few people knew me. So how could I have been a hero then as this chicken moniker abuser has declared? For your information, I did not begin to come into prominence until late May/June 1997, less than 10 years ago and it took a while longer for people to judge me and appreciate the value of my work.
Third, late May/June 1997 was just the beginning. I continued until well into 2002 properly and effectively advancing the national interest, helping to kick out the tribal coupligan Foot of State and his cabal as well as their blood-stained ally, the RUF. Thereafter, we brought back into our country from exile our duly-elected government - a FIRST in Africa.
Fourth, that was not all. We decisively beat back the January 1999 ARFC/RUF invasion of Freetown, bringing genuine peace, international assistance and much more to benefit my country.
Fifth and as previously stated, my effective work for SLeone continued until well into 2002 and the consequences of that work are still around benefiting our country. For example, Taylor is facing trial and his plight will make other sovereign immunity head-of-state beneficiaries think twice before they support another RUF-AFRC carnage or plunder a weaker country.
Sixth, many little benefits also abound from my six-year tenure. For example, today at the DC embassy crooks are no longer regularly eating consular fees willy-nilly - if indeed crooks are still posted there. A tighter security system for issuing visas and renewing passports are now in place - thanks to my initiative in cleaning up the place and the SLPP administration implementing effective reforms.
Finally, upon entering the embassy premises today, you are unlikely to be assaulted by ogeeree and other pungent aromas as was tolerated before my time. And so on and on - my innovations were endless.
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After my DC tenure, I helped create the much-talked about Third Force body of ideas in a series of fear-no-foe write-ups and talks at private gatherings around the world and in in-country. Those who now are hell-bent to steal something I helped create and donate it to a conniving, tribal slapper-colleague who never once articulated even a single paragraph in writing on Third Force establishment, are terribly upset that they are unable to use me for their political benefit as they had foolishly concluded.
They also now know that they won’t be able to ever to use me even in a billion years. So, it’s an endless campaign of sour grapes on their part as partly reflected in the sour-grapes’ posting I am now responding to.
Rather than allow myself to be used, I deliberately chose instead to make yet another generous donation to my party by throwing my considerable Third Force credentials 100% behind my party, thus infuriating remedial-dunce, crookish political opportunists.
For your information, those that I have rejected as political associates, without any rational arguments or factual justification on their part, assumed that I automatically belong to their flunkey, one-manic, secretive political grouping of junior tribalists and crookish political types.
The sole basis of their persistent claim is a most flimsy one: i.e. because I was an intense public critic of what I perceived as wrongs within the SLPP-backed administration, I belong to their opportunistic group of brain-dead, underdeveloped, chops-licking political souls.
I have tried to explain to their cyberspace attackers that in successful democratic countries other ways to resolve pre-convention rivalries, other than cut and run and set up flunkey, foolumunku fahlahmahkahtah political parties, have proved successful and are quite common. But they do not understand!
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Regarding the washout issue of my bold series of generous political donations in 1995/96, beginning at the very commencement of the first multi-party elections in 30 years when SLPP had nothing and when its electoral prospects were dubious, old embassy thieves have repeatedly and unsuccessfully tried to interpret my pro-democracy generosity according to their corrupt cultural viewpoint: if they exercise their authority by taking bribes, they assume others must be bribers.
Those thieves and their heavy, hard-drinking buddies have been proven wrong again and again; but since they lack other issues against me, they are left with no choice to resurrect defeated accusations that first surfaced in 1996 when I began busting their offensive gang.
In 1995 when I made my initial $10,000 donation (that was merely one of several other generous donations) to my hard-pressed party, SLPP was poverty-stricken and its electoral prospects very dubious in light of its 30 years in the political wilderness.
Few were willing to risk their money under the then circumstances but I wanted a party I had known to be a party of nation-builders to be elected and to insure that the opposition party of nation-wreckers, poverty-spreaders and supreme tribal marginalizers is defeated.
So I paid up. And my donation was to SLPP’s National Executive Council through Rev. Dumber, party chairman. If it was a bribe, I would have waited until the party’s presidential candidate won and I would have given it to the decision-maker on jobs – something I never did and would never-countenance.
Ever since I busted the crooked embassy gang, those thieves and losers with their friends, certain relatives and other beneficiaries have refused to grow up. So, in their view everything associated with JL cannot be good. Hence, they supported the RUF/AFRC coupligan regime of blood-stained barbarians and savages in opposition to the duly-elected government.
Those RUF/AFRC coupligans, their supporters, sympathizers, friends and relatives also behave likewise: i.e. everything JL does is automatically bad.
Hopefully, the time may come when such selfish types will learn to accept the truth and atone for their long-running parasitic crimes against the poor people of SLeone.
In the meantime, heavy political donations are been made today in connection with the July 2007 poll. As many people are aware, a brand new party is been heavily funded mostly by a few individuals.
What would Dumbo Talk Sense say if people refuse to help financially support their political parties? Has Talk Rubbish ever donated to any cause? Or does he think it is crazy to help fund democracy in a poverty-stricken country? Has he ever owned $10,000 at any time? Let him keep his answers to himself. I have no interest hearing from him again.
Thank you very much and goodbye.-JL
Subject: Re: IN DEFENSE OF KABS-KANU: WHY KANU WON'T BAN JOHN LEIGH.
From: Fact
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Date Posted: 13:17:04 04/03/07 ()
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The reason why john leigh is supporting Berewa ( a man he detests) is because he is afraid of what may happen to him if the pmdc/apc wins. he is afraid his enemies will go for his throat. that's the bootomline , forget every thing else.
Subject: Re: IN DEFENSE OF KABS-KANU: WHY KANU WON'T BAN JOHN LEIGH.
From: John E. Leigh
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Date Posted: 13:56:49 04/03/07 ()
Email Address: johnernestleigh@yahoo.com
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Mr. Fact, you are quite wrong.
First, I do not detest VP Berewa at all. I have a better respect for him than for any of his rivals.
Second, pmdc/apc will never win.
Third, regardless of who wins, I intend to execise all my citizenship rights.
Below is my statement, dated May 22, 2006, explaining my choice of VP Berewa over his apc/pmdc competition.
Thank you. -JL
PRESS BRIEFING STATEMENT BY JOHN E. LEIGH
JOHN LEIGH SUPPORTS SOLOMON BEREWA FOR PRESIDENT
Ladies and Gentlemen of the Press:
Thank you for accepting my invitation to attend this Press Briefing.
I hope each one of you will report fully and accurately to all your numerous readers and listeners, respectively, the relevant remarks made here today.
I am holding this briefing to inform all my fellow citizens of Sierra Leone and all my friends and well wishers abroad that I am supporting Vice President Solomon Berewa for the office of the President of Sierra Leone beginning in 2007 in succession to President Tejan Kabbah.
I support VP Berewa as our next President because I believe he is the most qualified candidate among those currently vying for the presidency. In my experience, Mr. Berewa is known to be far more experienced, far more educated, far more able, and far more good-intentioned than any other candidate contesting with him.
I know Mr. Berewa to be nationalistic, not tribalistic. Mr. Berewa is known to me as a mature leader free from petulance, political selfishness and rash actions. In fact, he is quite deliberative.
BEREWA WILL MOVE SIERRA LEONE FORWARD
I believe that when elected, Solomon Berewa will pursue policies and implement practices to improve international affairs, promote economic development, protect our institutions, advance women's rights and institute law reforms.
While one candidate has already announced that he prefers to impose a dictatorship up on us but ONLY under his so-called benevolent leadership, VP Berewa seeks genuine democracy. And while another opposition candidate will most certainly impose a harsh tribal hegemony upon us, I believe Mr. Berewa will strive for efficient, responsible, representative government composed of highly trained, experienced and good-intentioned officials in order to move the country forward regardless of gender, tribe, region, or religion.
Mr. Berewa has personally assured me that considerable attention and resources will be concentrated in waging a war against poverty; food insufficiencies; improving Sierra Leone's image and respect worldwide and in uplifting the lives and the general wellbeing of our people.
Under his leadership, I expect that laws that discriminate against women and hinder their advancement will be repealed or reformed as would laws that criminalized libel. No more jail time for Sierra Leone journalists.
I believe that many more qualified people from all regions of our country will be more willing to work with VP Berewa for the advancement of Sierra Leone than for any of his rivals.
I BELONG ONLY TO THE SLPP
As the leader of the SLPP, Mr. Berewa heads the one political party in Sierra Leone that belongs to all its members equally and which possesses a culture of internal democracy – the very culture I personally live by.
This is in sharp contrast to the situation in the two other political parties that are either owned by one man; or very new with no tract record; or monopolized in a significant way by members of one single tribe as evidenced by the disproportionate numbers of top officials and cadets – civilian, police and military – that they appointed from only a few chiefdoms in only one province in their pre-war governments.
I learned recently that one immature politician and his close supporters have been telling his membership falsely that Dr. James Jonah and I are with him in his new party; and that we might even be contesting for the leadership of his party. This is talking rubbish, nonsense. That man's party is a one-man affair and a useless dictatorship and was set-up to improperly confiscate the much talked about Third Force.
I am a member of the Sierra Leone Peoples Party and will so remain. I know that that are some serious internal problems within the SLPP. However, I have no intention of leaving my party and joining any of the other two parties - let alone take part in a phony leadership contest in a new party of dictatorship. I plan to continue to seek reforms from within the SLPP.
Dr. Jonah retains his friendship with President Tejan Kabbah, the SLPP President of Sierra Leone. From what I know of him, I can tell you that Dr. Jonah is unlikely to participate in any political venture predicated on vexation and dynastic ambition and whose leadership, from its public acts, oozes immaturity.
At any rate, I do not speak for Dr. Jonah. I am only giving you my views in light of the persistent rubbish talk that he and I will be contesting the leadership position in one of the new parties.
PLEASE GIVE BEREWA YOUR FULL SUPPORT
I appeal to all the people of Sierra Leone who believe in what I stand for to join me in supporting Mr. Solomon Berewa for President and in vigorously campaigning for him with me so that he will most certainly become our next President in 2007.
SLPP WANTS YOU TO REJOIN YOUR PARTY
I appeal to all those SLPP members who have left the party to join new-fangled opportunistic parties to please return to your SLPP home and join me in helping to make our party more democratic and stronger. Long after the 2007 elections have come and gone, SLPP will be around ready to help you.
No one can say the same thing for a one-man, new party born in vexation and grounded in vaulting personal ambition. Nor can one put any hope in a party whose mind-bogging, long, bad record in office, notorious tribalism, poverty-generating practices and narrow mindedness will keep it from winning national elections in the foreseeable future because large numbers of people suffered grievous wrongs under their power.
PLEASE JOIN ME TO FIGHT TRIBALISM
As we Sierra Leoneans get closer to each other; learn better from each other, sensible people will realize that there is no place for tribalism in our country's future. We will all come to understand that either we all must advance and prosper together or we will all fall together!
I therefore appeal to my Northern brethrens who truly abhor tribalism and who seek genuine democracy, justice and development to forthwith cross-over en-mass into the SLPP and join me there in helping to make the SLPP a truly democratic and much stronger national party so that we will continue to advance our country's interest for the benefit of each one of us.
Thank you for your kind attention.
Dated in Freetown, May 22, 2006
And
Respectfully submitted
By:
John E. Leigh, Member, Sierra Leone Peoples Party
Subject: Re: IN DEFENSE OF KABS-KANU: WHY KANU WON'T BAN JOHN LEIGH.
From: Fan of John Leigh
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Date Posted: 11:37:10 04/03/07 ()
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John Leigh, I do not support those who say you are a corrupt selfish ppolitician. But, at the samew time, I do not support politicians who speak out of both ends of their mouths.
You accuse talk Sense of sdpecializing in downgrading the good name of others wihout rationalization. But you are the one who is guilty of that crime.
Check out your rationalization-lacking statement you just made. You said that Talk Sense's opinuion that you are a selfis, corrupt opportunist is a minority view, without giving us your rationalization for saying that. How do you know that? Have you done an opinion poll? Did it include san san boys or just SLPP apologists?
Tell us Mr. leigh, otherwise, include yourself among those who you look down upon.
Subject: Re: IN DEFENSE OF KABS-KANU: WHY KANU WON'T BAN JOHN LEIGH.
From: John E. Leigh
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Date Posted: 11:49:04 04/03/07 ()
Email Address: johnernestleigh@yahoo.com
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I assess the validity (and the size) of the opposition to me by who is making it. If an AFRC, RUF, PMDC and embassy thieves are making the allegation, my conclusion is obvious.
Opinion polls are impracticable for me to do. So, I do what sensible people do under like circumstances: make educated guesses.
By the way, you are not my fan. You are a disappointed would-be abuser of others and you are very unhappy with the political stance I have carved for myself.
You are also weak, unsure of yourself and not particularly bright. Hence your frequent use of chicken soup monikers and your support for a dunce political grouping. Thank you. -JL
Subject: Re: IN DEFENSE OF KABS-KANU: WHY KANU WON'T BAN JOHN LEIGH.
From: Fan of John Leigh
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Date Posted: 11:57:29 04/03/07 ()
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John Leigh, you continue to commit the same crime you accuse your critics of. If you have no ground for making statements, say so. better still, don't make them, like any serious lawyer would advise you.
I can't see Charles Margai making statements without rationalization like you do all the time.
My advise leigh is: grow up. Only children talk without thinking. And you have stopped being a child more than 50 years ago. Lonta
Subject: Re: IN DEFENSE OF KABS-KANU: WHY KANU WON'T BAN JOHN LEIGH.
From: John E. Leigh
To: All
Date Posted: 12:18:22 04/03/07 ()
Email Address: johnernestleigh@yahoo.com
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Any serious lawyer will tell you that he is well-trained and experienced in adducing reality from mountains of lies and fiction and rubbish.
As is common knowledge, most facts tend to be hidden behind close doors.
So, just as juries accept analyses in reaching verdicts, objective voters do likewise in choosing candidates to vote for or for rejection.
Lastly, and in your instant case, there is no factual foundation whatsoever for you to use the chicken soup moniker - Fan of John Leigh - that you insist on using. No jury in this forum will agree with you that your moniker represents the truth. Thank you and goodbye. -JL
Subject: Re: IN DEFENSE OF KABS-KANU: WHY KANU WON'T BAN JOHN LEIGH.
From: LAWYER
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Date Posted: 09:01:12 04/04/07 ()
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Any serious lawyer will tell you that he is well-trained and experienced in adducing reality from mountains of lies and fiction and rubbish -- SAYS JOHN LEIGH
JL, what is rubbish is your verbal and mental indsicipline, like someone told you yesterday. Exhibit One: You talk about 'adduce reality." To me, that's nonsense, because reality is, by definition, already existing with us, and is present righht with us. So, how can one 'adduce' it?
are really a lawyer, John Leigh?
Subject: Re: IN DEFENSE OF KABS-KANU: WHY KANU WON'T BAN JOHN LEIGH.
From: Fam of John Leigh
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Date Posted: 12:58:41 04/03/07 ()
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jOh Leigh, you must stop making the same mistake over and over and over again (as Rev. kabs kanu would put it). When would you stop making statements fow which there is no chance of a basis in fact.
Look at this you wrote: "As is common knowledge, most facts tend to be hidden behind close doors."
How do you know that, Leigh? sometimes I can see why you never became a successful lawyer -- too much indiscipline in thought and speech spells doom even for a good lawyer -- befoe a r say fehkek lawyer lek you.
Subject: Re: IN DEFENSE OF KABS-KANU: WHY KANU WON'T BAN JOHN LEIGH.
From: John E. Leigh
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Date Posted: 17:24:53 04/02/07 ()
Email Address: johnernestleigh@yahoo.com
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Thank you very much. -JL
Subject: Re: IN DEFENSE OF KABS-KANU: WHY KANU WON'T BAN JOHN LEIGH.
From: Truth
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Date Posted: 16:08:17 04/02/07 ()
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Mr. Leigh, you give yourself too much faux praises. You are a human being so desperate that what comes out of your mouth when challenged is obscenity.
"...attackers mightly dislike my style simply because it devastates them in a manner similar to the style I used to help defeat the AFRC, the RUF and Charles Taylor." How convenient for you to claim such! Your poor reasoning is incapable of upsetting one's stance!
You forget that the children of today become the adults of tomorrow. You have no sense, sorry to say this to you. Titus 2:2 "Let the ageable men be sober". Be sober and respect diversity. If children or kiddies (as you call them) come on the forum, find a more plausible way to communicate with them. Your infantile behaviour is akin to your kiddies on the forum. Who is a child, Mr. Leigh?
Subject: Re: IN DEFENSE OF KABS-KANU: WHY KANU WON'T BAN JOHN LEIGH.
From: Samura
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Date Posted: 21:23:35 04/02/07 ()
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I wonder if Hon. John Leigh would have gotten the support of the SLPP supporters in the "conbention" in
Makeni and subsequently voted to power as new president in Sierra Leone come July elections 2007; he would have been a tolerable and accommodating to critics? I see this man to be controversial and undiplomatic to simple issues. If you don't allow gossips, criticism and facts in your daily life, I suggest you stay put because Sierra Leone today is quite different from your opportuned days. Despite the hardships and poverty, those kids you left in the sixties and seventies are more attuned to reality than what your perception dictates.
Subject: Re: IN DEFENSE OF KABS-KANU: WHY KANU WON'T BAN JOHN LEIGH.
From: John E. Leigh
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Date Posted: 11:32:41 04/03/07 ()
Email Address: johnernestleigh@yahoo.com
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Dear Mr. Samura:
Please do not confuse my point-for-point rebuttal style as indicative of intolerance towards criticisms.
My style is pure thoroughness.
For your information, I do not mind fair criticisms at all. In fact, many criticisms have helped me improve myself and I valued them very much. The bottom line is no one is perfect.
However, lies and certain rubbish talk must be responded to because a certain portion of our population is unsophisticated. Hence, they believe everything in print or on the radio, including lies, fake quotes, deliberately distorted photos, and invented conduct and misconduct, etc.
I have glanced through articles and photos in cocorioko and postings in this forum that were based entirely on lie-lie reporting by SL newspapers. If you have been following postings in this forum, you would have seen some of them. The lies I do not like and if significant, I must counter them.
So please do not concluded that I hate fair criticisms. Thank you. -JL
Subject: Re: IN DEFENSE OF KABS-KANU: WHY KANU WON'T BAN JOHN LEIGH.
From: Truth
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Date Posted: 17:27:06 04/03/07 ()
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How much help have we given to make this new being - John Leigh. I am happy that you are meeting us half-way - keep it up!!
Subject: Re: IN DEFENSE OF KABS-KANU: WHY KANU WON'T BAN JOHN LEIGH.
From: John E. Leigh
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Date Posted: 17:17:27 04/02/07 ()
Email Address: johnernestleigh@yahoo.com
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Look at you, poor pathethic thing, not even understanding a simple statement from my last posting that you choose to harp on. Yet you want to argue and be taken seriously! It is not going to happen.
For your information, my reference to "kiddies" in response to Mr. Gibril's assault, has nothing to do with actual children. I was talking instead about childlike behavior.
It is a reference to adults like you who can't debate like serious people yet you wish to participate as equals with your superiors. You attack recklessly and improperly, not even understanding what the main point is and using flunkey dunce arguments. And when you are caught and you get smacked, you complain like kiddies and begin to talk trash like spoilt ones!
Thus, nothing I wrote in the posting you responded to would justify your commenting thus:
"You forget that the children of today become the adults of tomorrow. You have no sense, sorry to say this to you. Titus 2:2 "Let the ageable men be sober". Be sober and respect diversity. If children or kiddies (as you call them) come on the forum, find a more plausible way to communicate with them."
The kiddies I have in mind are underdeveloped adults who, like Peter Pan, lived for many years but he was always a boy for he never grew up - and not what you have now misconstrued and wrote about.
If you want people to show patience with you, you ought to be more careful and accept the plain fact that tit-for-tat, fire-for-fire are legitimate counter-attack tactics.
Also, use your true name in your postings when attacking specific individuals who post under their names rather than hide behind chicken monikers to insult others or play dirty tricks.
If you wish to use moninkers, then behave yourself and present your case disperssionatelty. I have no patience for someone using monikers to abuse others or lie or talk trash on important issues or drag my name into it.
In my experience, the best response to persistent dunce argumentation from adults who want to play big shot but lack the intellectual capacity is fire-for-fire rough-ups - like I am doing to PMDCers. I have found such to be highly effective to get people like you to improve your education and conduct or disappear into the sunset.
This is my final posting with you and others on this subject using similar agumentation. Thank you. -JL
Subject: Re: IN DEFENSE OF KABS-KANU: WHY KANU WON'T BAN JOHN LEIGH.
From: Truth
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Date Posted: 17:33:36 04/03/07 ()
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o me you are a nonentity!! A person full of vain promises of rich rewards with nothing copming forth. aside thjis forum, you are not a match for me. I have never said such to a fellow human but you are one person i such much disrespect for your condescending attitude. Someday, somewhere - we will meet and you will know the real Truth!! Build every castle in the air. You disgust me!!!
Subject: Re: IN DEFENSE OF KABS-KANU: WHY KANU WON'T BAN JOHN LEIGH.
From: fact
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Date Posted: 15:34:41 04/02/07 ()
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Who is this santigie gibril? A diplomat like john leigh?, a former work mate at the salone embassy in washington?
Subject: Re: IN DEFENSE OF KABS-KANU: WHY KANU WON'T BAN JOHN LEIGH.
From: curious
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Date Posted: 16:05:17 04/02/07 ()
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NO a REBEL AFRC Diplomat....Den dae comot nar do small small...
Subject: EXCLUSIVELY FOR SIA TIYAAMA
From: BRA ENVIABLE
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Date Posted: 10:07:24 04/02/07 ()
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Sia,
You have the right to spike your propaganda campaign against the PMDC. However, propaganda is prettier when a propagandist is in control of the levers of lies and distortion. In your case, the disjointed nature of your lies is so dismissible that you could be more credible being an open liar than a pretentious writer of propaganda. After reading the latest nonsense dispatched to COCORIOKO, I was tempted to liken you to a child fidgeting with a spigot as the tap runs. Without doubt, Sierra Leone as a country should not be reduced to a plaything as implied in the whimsicality of the nonsense written on COCORIOKO's front page. I have no intention to question your patriotism. However, when a liar lies with such animated desperation as you do, claims to patriotism are brought to nought by the liar's own tongue.
The width of the latest rubbish you heaped on COCORIOKO is too funny to warrant a point-by-point rebuttal. All I can do is remind you about a much bigger constituency, which is the Sierra Leone you claim to love through unashamed lies. Last but not least, I am willing to have a face-off with you once the blinkers of a "Drag Queen" are removed from your face. I am much more comfortable debating with men that are consciously manly.
Subject: Re: EXCLUSIVELY FOR SIA TIYAAMA
From: Albert Moinina
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Date Posted: 10:50:39 04/02/07 ()
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Such rubbish propaganda will just hurt the SLPP the more. Let deaf and blind Grand Ma Sia continue. Don't waste your precious time.
Subject: Re: EXCLUSIVELY FOR SIA TIYAAMA
From: BOB MARLEY
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Date Posted: 10:10:51 04/02/07 ()
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hehehehe, jamba don begin woke. Jamba brain piece of crap. Son of a jamba man/woman. Jamba dey woke oh, jamba dey woke. Jamba boy oh, jamba boy oh. Jamba brain don cam oh, jamba brain don cam.
Subject: Re: EXCLUSIVELY FOR SIA TIYAAMA
From: Mrs Sia Tiayaama
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Date Posted: 10:25:43 04/02/07 ()
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me man nor balance de tok. De man write good ehn proper english ehn e engage you pan you bad english. nwo you done begin de same tin way you kin do na leonenet. nor to jamba bizness di. na about u rubbish. now you na bob marley, ah know say de next tem, you dae say you na Ziggy marley Mr Sia Maarda Tiayaama Musafa. Bo gbehpehmi. Respond My Arizona Phd.
Honesty
Subject: Re: EXCLUSIVELY FOR SIA TIYAAMA
From: sia the gay basted
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Date Posted: 14:39:42 04/02/07 ()
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sia bastapha tiyaama nar bisexuall wae wan komot from the closet. nar so then gay basted then kin do wae den wamn for komot in the open.nar woman closs fos den dae begin for werr,den,den change den name.if den name nar christopher, den dae begin call densef chresie,if den nar patrick den dae call denself pat.but sia bastapha nor geh mind werr woman closs komot nar doe becos we go kill am with beat nar we sa.lone community so nar woman underwear ee dae werr. Any man wae gee imself woman name nar basta homosexuall.den butter waise am for help am write ee phd thesisse nar dat mek ee nor sabi write good english.enti ee dae deny sae ee nor to sia bastapha tiyaama nar ee community college ar geh for go buss ee ass den we go know oodat nar the real sia bastapha. leh ee wait nar im wan go geh aids job nar tong. because ee nar hiv positive en ee nor able pay medical insurance nar america so ee wan go tong for geh free medical.ar go fix am up proper.me nor geh natin for lose oh so ready oh you basta pikin.
Subject: Elections and other Matters
From: Jimmy Kandeh
To: All
Date Posted: 06:47:31 04/02/07 ()
Email Address: jkandeh@richmond.edu
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For those interested in reading a sample of what I have published on elections and politics in SL, and to correct any distortion of my scholarship, please see the following:
(1) "Sierra Leone's Post-Conflict Elections of 2002," (Journal of Modern African Studies, Vol. 41, No. 2, 2003, pp. 189-216)
(2) "Transition Without Rupture: Sierra Leone's Transfer Elections of 1996," (African Studies Review, Vol. 41, No. 2, 1998, pp. 91-111)
(3) "In Search of Legittimacy: The 1996 Elections," in Ibrahim Abdullah (ed.), Between Democracy and Terror: The Sierra Leone Civil War (Dakar: Cordesria, 2003)
(4) "Perspectives on Twenty-Five Years of Elections in Sierra Leone," in Fred Hayward (ed.), Elections in Independent Africa (Boulder: Westview Press, 1987)
(5) "Criminalization of the RUF Insurgency in Sierra Leone," in Cynthia Arnson and I. william Zartman (eds), Rethinking the Economics of War: The Intersecttion of Need, Creed and Greed (Washington DC: Woodrow Wilson Center Press, 2005)
(6) "Ethnicity and Nattional Identity in Sierra Leone," in Ricardo Laremont (ed.), Borders, Nationalism and the African State (Boulder: Lynne Rienner, 2005)
(7) "Politicization of Ethnic Identities in Sierra Leone," (African Studies Review, Vol. 35, No. 1, 1992, pp. 81-99)
(8) "Ransoming the State: Elite Origins of Subaltern Terror in Sierra Leone," (Review of African Political Economy, No. 78, 1999, pp. 349-366
(9) "Sierra Leone: Contradiictory Class Functionality of the Soft State," (Review of African Political Economy, No. 55, 1992)
(10) "Civil-Military Relations in West Africa," in Adekeye Adebajo and Ismail Rashid (eds), West Africa's Security Challenges (Boulder: Lynne Rienner, 2004)
(11) "What Does the Militariat Do When it Rules: Military Regimes in The Gambia, Sierra Leone and Liberia (Review of African Political Economy, No. 69, pp. 387-404
(12) "Unmaking the Second Republic: Democracy on Trial," in Ibrahim Abdullah (ed. ), Between Democracy and Terror (Dakar: Cordesria, 2003)
I also have a book, Coups From Below: Armed Subalterrns and State Power in West Africa (New York: Palgrave, 2004), which has a chapter on SL.
While my work as a student of politics does not make me an authority or an "intellectual," I can at least pass for a "mid grade san san" with an informed perspective on events in our homeland.
I plan on sending two more write-ups to this forum before the elections: (1) Reconfiguring State Power in Sierra Leone (2) How the South was Lost. You all have a blessed week.
Subject: Re: Elections and other Matters
From: BRA ENVIABLE
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Date Posted: 13:39:55 04/02/07 ()
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JIMMY, Allow me to salute your intellectual prowess.
Subject: Re: Elections and other Matters
From: Watch Out for Mohamed Jalloh
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Date Posted: 10:53:02 04/02/07 ()
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Jimmy,
Mohamed Jalloh nor lek Salone Ph.Ds oh. Watch, e go can start for discredit U. Di man di jealous Ph.D holders bad.
Subject: Re: Elections and other Matters
From: Edmund Koker Too Fool
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Date Posted: 15:33:11 04/02/07 ()
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Edmund Koker, nar so you fool? Amos tem di man don tell you say nor to you PHD make ee kine pull you know-what nar doe -- nar you fool wae you fool!
Bo, me man, oos tem you go understand dat simple tin dae? Lef fool, di man go lef for expose you, ee lek you still geh PHD.
Subject: Re: Elections and other Matters
From: Referee
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Date Posted: 06:58:52 04/03/07 ()
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I agree with you. One thing I have noticed about Mohamed Jalloh is that he doesn't pay attention to soneone's title. He only zeroes in on what the person writes or does. If he feels it is nonsense, he will say so, no matter what the person's title is. He will also praise someone's posting if he thinks it makes sense -- even if the person has a title like Ph.D.
To me it makes no sense for Edmund Koker, as you say, or anyone else to say that Mr. Jalloh disagrees with people only because those people have a ph.D. If you look at the Cocorioko archives, you will see that what I just said is true, that Mr. Jalloh disagrees with any nonsense -- whether it is written by someone claiming a Ph.D. or someone with no degree.
Mr. jalloh has disagreed with many, many people on this forum who have nver claimed to have a Ph.D -- So, it is sheer desperation to claim that he only disgrees with Ph.D. holders. Anyone who has read his postings knows that to be a big fat lie from a particular person he has many times exposed as being very stupid, despite that person's claim that he has a Ph.D.
Subject: Re: Elections and other Matters
From: African studies Prof
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Date Posted: 10:05:38 04/02/07 ()
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So Jimmy Usef nar African Studies Prof.. PMDC African Studies Prof parading as a Political Analyst...
By the way were you in Moyamba?
Subject: Re: Elections and other Matters
From: Honesty
To: All
Date Posted: 09:48:17 04/02/07 ()
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You do not need to send more. This is enough to shut up the pundits. we are awaiting their response (PK Muana and Dr. Sia Maarda Tiayaama Mustapha). We expect them to respond in kind - samples of their publication etc etc - not another amateur "rebuttal". Thanks brother.
Subject: Re: Elections and other Matters
From: Salia Koroma
To: All
Date Posted: 14:07:51 04/02/07 ()
Email Address: salia@hotmail.com
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Are you a better judge than PK and Marda of Dr. Kandeh's scholarship? Were it an excellent scholarship would he not have made full professor by now? Ask him how long he has been an Associate professor, a rank held on average six years in ANY discipline.
Subject: Re: Elections and other Matters
From: Professor
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Date Posted: 14:22:47 04/02/07 ()
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it takes several years to attain full professorship in any standard university in the US, even if you have published in hundreds of journals, my dear. That Jimmy has attained an associateship is, in itself, an achievement. So an average of six years, to quote you rightly, is a farce. But then, it depends on the type of university - but not the top notch US universities where Jimmy happen to find himself.
Subject: Re: Is Septimus Kaikai a fraud?
From: Jimmy Kandeh
To: All
Date Posted: 06:14:26 04/03/07 ()
Email Address: jkandeh@richmond.edu
Entered From: ppp065007.richmond.edu at 141.166.65.7
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Professor:
Yu dae wase powda pan kondo. If the SLPP types really care about qualifications, all they need to do is look at Septimus Kaikai's CV, which I read (got a copy from parliament through a contact) on my last trip to FNA.
First, the man calls himself a professor although he never finished his doctorate. He lists ABD (All but Dissertation) as his highest qualification but this is not a degree. It simply means you have finished course work but you still have to write and defend a dissertation. Most graduate programs will have you re-sit your prelim. (comps.) exams if your dissertation is not written and defended within five years. Septimus NEVER wrote or defended a dissertation and you cannot be a professor in the US without a PHD.
You cannot even be an assistant professor in the US without a PHD (this may happen in the UK but not in the US). ABDs and non-doctorate holders entering the academy are Instructors, not professors. Our adjunct ABDs are instructors, not professors.
Besides, Septimus taught at a non-degree granting community college in Maryland and does not have a single publication in a scholarly journal. Yet he goes around calling himself a professor even though he never finished his PHD or wrote any scholarly piece anywhere.
I don't know why people are fixated with titles. You do not need a doctorate to be a person of substance but it seems like some people without the degree have a preference for a title they never earned. Our country has had numerous cases of individuals with fake qualifications (Shamsu Mustapha comes to mind) and CVs designed to fool our people.
In short, Septimus never bothered to do what it takes to become a professor. Calling himself a professor only makes him a fraud.
Subject: Re: Elections and other Matters
From: Salia Koroma
To: All
Date Posted: 18:40:55 04/02/07 ()
Email Address: salia@hotmail.com
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You do not know what you are talking about. He is a failed academic who is looking for a way out by becoming a minister.
Subject: Re: Elections and other Matters
From: True say tok me
To: All
Date Posted: 18:15:42 04/02/07 ()
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Thanks professor..it cant be better put. I know that was Dr. Sia Maarda Tiyaama Mustapha now impersonating Salia Koroma the musician. He has a mercurial character which changes according to the situation. All I know is that Jimmy is well accomplished and there are yardsticks to measure that - and publications by reputable publishing houses are just examples. If Maarda cannot publish, he might as well perish - its the golden rule.
Subject: LOW GRADE SAN SAN GO NAR ARISTOCRAT JOHN LEIGH EE BABOO YEI.
From: LOW GRADE SAN SAN.
To: All
Date Posted: 09:37:06 04/02/07 ()
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MR JOHN SABI BUT KNOW NATIN LEIGH,
LEH WE JUS GO THRU THE SEQUENCE OF YOU LABO AGAIN EH SEE OODAT EE BRAIN DAE SUFFER FROM ANALYTICAL UNDER-DEVELOPMENT SYNDROME.
NAR THIS KOR YAYAH TELL YOU.
John Leigh:
You licked your vomit(denounced Kabbah) but you back in the SLLP cessspool. You are an awful memtor.
Yaya Fanusie
THEN YOU REPLY WIT THIS.
Dr. Fanusie:
You are brain dead. For someone who lives in America, you are extremely hard of learning.
Did not Senator McCain chestise Gov. George Bush pre-convention? YES! Did not George Bush Snr. Chestise Ronald Reagan calling Reagan's economic recovery trickle-down plan "Voodoo Economics?" pre-convention.JL
AT THIS POINT AR BUTT IN WIT THIS
Ah but McCain nor ever call George Bush Jr.CORRUPT en DISHONEST during en after the primary. You tell we sae BEREWA DISHONEST en CORRUPT before en after the "CONBENTION"
But George Bush Snr nor ever accuse Reagen of VOODOO pratice.E NOR TORK SAE BUSH GEE DELEGFATE DEM BITTER KOLA,RED RAW BEEF FOR EAT EN BLOOD FOR DRINK EN SWEH PAN BEFOR DEN GO ALLOW DEM FOR GO VOTE. YOU TELL WE SAY NAR SO BEREWA DO
NOW LISTEN TO YOU EINSTEIN BRAIN LAHBO LAHBA
The problems inside Sierra Leone are not similar to those in America. Therefore, you can't afford to be mechanical in your comparisms.JL
SO WHY CALL AM BRAIN DEAD EN GEE AMERICA AS AN EXAMPLE IN THE FIRST PLACE? WAE YOU VERY WELL KNOW SAE WATIN YOU TELL WE BOT BEREWA, KABBA EN YOU SLPP PARTY OFFICIAL THEM, NOR GEH ANY SIMILARITY OR NATIN FOR DO WIT WAETIN HAPPEN INSAI THE REPUBLICAN PARTY NAR AMERICA.
But condemning one's intra-party rival's plan in America as voodoo economics is as serious as leveling corruption charges on a SLeone rival.JL
BOY LEIGH, YOU MEAN BUSH SNR REFERRING TO REAGAN EE ECONOMIC PLAN AS VOODOO ECONOMICS IS AS SERIOUS AND DISRESPECTFUL AS YOU CALLING YOU POLITICIAL RIVAL FROM THE SAME PARTY AS CORRUPT, DISHONEST EN YUKIE YUKIE PORSIN? BOY, BEREWA MAY AS WELL MAKE YOU EE RUNNING MATE. ME NOR TO ECONOMIST OR POLITICAL SCIENTIST BUT AR THINK SAE WAETIN BUSH SNR TELL REAGAN NOR SERIOUS EN DISRESPECTFUL LEK WAETIN YOU TELL WE ABOUT SA. LEONE'S VICE PRESIDENT. IF THAT WAS THE CASE THEN TRUS ME, BUSH FOR DON GEH A REAL ROLLICKING OR POSSIBLY KICKED OUT OF THE PARTY. BUT AGAIN AS YOU RIGHTLY SAY THE SLPP FULL OF YUKIE YUKIE SO AR NOR SURPRISE YOU GET AWAY WIT WAETIN YOU TORK ABOUT YOU RIVALS EN PARTY IN GENERAL. HOW MUCH DOLLAR YOU QUISS NAR THE CHAIR OF THE FRIENDS OF SOLO BE EE HAN THIS TIME ROUND? OH SA.LONE WE SORRY FOR TRUE. MAN GO EVEN CALL WE LOW GRADE SAN SAN HUMAN BEINGS EN TURN ROUND GE WE POYO EN "ZAKIETOMBOI" THEN WE STIILL CLAP FOR AR.MORNEH!!
Analytical under-development is really a big problem with some people.JL
NOR YOU GEH ANALYTICAL UNDER-DEVELOPMENT SICKNESS. BECOS YOU JOHN "EINSTEIN SHUWEN SHUWEN ARISTOCRAT" LEIGH NAR THE FIRST SIERRA LEONEAN POLITICIAN WAE LOOK SO LOW ON YOU YONE KONTRYMAN THEM EN CALL THEM LOW GRADE SAN SAN HUMAN BEING SIMPLY BECOS THEM EXERCISE THEM FREEDOM OF CHOICE. NO POLITICIAN NOR EVER COMMIT DER KIND POLITICAL SUICIDE NAR SA.LONE YET. EVEN MOMOH WAE DEN SAE EE BEN BIG FOOL NOR EVER CRAISE TORK THAT. THEN YOU DAE TORK BOT ANALYTICAL UNDER-DEVELOPMENT? AR JOS HOPE SAE BEREWA GO KEEP YOU INSAI EE CAMPAIGN TEAM BECOS ANY TEM YOU OPIN YOU MOT AR DAE RUB ME HAN EN SECRETLY GREENE.
YOU YERI WAETIN KOR YAYAH TELL YOU? EE SAY:
John, You are politically inept. The examples you cited and as low grade San San pointed out to you were policy differences not differences rooted Character Defects.
Yaya Fanusie
THANK YOU KOR YAYAH.
Subject: Re: LOW GRADE SAN SAN GO NAR ARISTOCRAT JOHN LEIGH EE BABOO YEI.
From: John E. Leigh
To: All
Date Posted: 14:46:21 04/02/07 ()
Email Address: johnernestleigh@yahoo.com
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Message:
PMDC LOW GRADE SAN SAN (LGSS) wrote as follows:
“SO WHY CALL AM BRAIN DEAD EN GEE AMERICA AS AN EXAMPLE IN THE FIRST PLACE? WAE YOU VERY WELL KNOW SAE WATIN YOU TELL WE BOT BEREWA, KABBA EN YOU SLPP PARTY OFFICIAL THEM, NOR GEH ANY SIMILARITY OR NATIN FOR DO WIT WAETIN HAPPEN INSAI THE REPUBLICAN PARTY NAR AMERICA.”
JL replies:
You don’t seem to understand! First, it takes you days to come up with another under-develop dunce reply which confirms that you are truly heard of learning.
Second, I never used the phrase “low-grade san-san boys”. My own choice was “San-San boys and low-grade noisemakers”. Please get you facts right if you wish to rebut properly. Thank you.
Third, my choice of words in my descr1ption of PMDC supporters do not reflect the reasons you have chosen to ascribe to my words.
For your information, I gave examples from America because we can still learn a lot from the USA’s pre-and-post convention situations despite the lack of identical standards between our two countries in many areas of human endeavor. It is mere showing how political rivalries are resolved in another, far more successful country.
However, great care and INTELLIGENCE must be applied to avoid analytical errors that would arise from Simple Simeon comparisons of events in America to seemingly similar events in SLeone.
My main point which you still have not got is this: there are other post-convention solutions other than splitting a fundamentally good party such as the SLPP and establishing a foolumunku fahlahmahkahtah rubbish party in pursuit of dynastic dreams following pre-convention rivalries and I gave some of the examples of these that abound in successful democracies such as the USA.
Flunkey republics can and should learn from successful societies.
If you are unable to understand the above explanation, then you ought to upgrade your underdeveloped comprehension of your country’s official language on your own arrangement not involving me as I won’t respond to more flunkey’ talk from you.
LGSS: “……BECOS YOU JOHN "EINSTEIN SHUWEN SHUWEN ARISTOCRAT" LEIGH NAR THE FIRST SIERRA LEONEAN POLITICIAN WAE LOOK SO LOW ON YOU YONE KONTRYMAN THEM EN CALL THEM LOW GRADE SAN SAN HUMAN BEING SIMPLY BECOS THEM EXERCISE THEM FREEDOM OF CHOICE.”
JL: Your interpretation is rubbish. First, “low grade san san human being” is your own choice of words. My own was “San-san boys and low grade noisemakers”. And the reason I chose that descr1ption was not because I looked down on anyone.
My choice of words was based on the simple fact that the supporters you dunce PMDCers choose to rely on to supposedly propel your form four foolumunku fahlahmahkahtah flunkey one-manic party of remedial dunces, disbarred, disrobed and defrocked tiff-tiff lawyers and dumbo-tombo bangucrooks are non-influential people like san-san boys, Shell Mingo carwash boys and low-grade noisemakers, etc. who do not have the clout to influence anyone including other san-san, carwash boys and noisemakers, etc.
In my experience, Sierra Leoneans tend to take advice from people they consider their seniors, and not from like sufferers because asking a san-san boy to advise another san-san boy re political, social and economic development is like asking the blind to lead the blind.
Thus, calling a spade a spade is not looking down on anyone. Nor was it the result of people merely exercising their freedom of choice as you have erroneously concluding, and something you and your dunce group have being proclaiming for over 13 months since I first identified your uninfluential noisemaker base. My descr1ption was in fact telling it like it is. [Please see my article below in response to your Dr. Baimba Kamara].
When have your seen san-san boys and noisemakers ever successfully persuaded others to cross-over to your flunkey alphabet soup grouping?
Incidentally, a lot of san-san, carwash boys and bike-drivers have drifted back to the SLPP because they realized they had been lied to and misled by your kalo-kalo, yuki-yuki group that repeatedly linked Dr. James Jonah, Chief Sam Norman and JL to your flunkey foolumunku fahlahmahkahtah form four slapper party.
LGSS: “NO POLITICIAN NOR EVER COMMIT DER KIND POLITICAL SUICIDE NAR SA.LONE YET. EVEN MOMOH WAE DEN SAE EE BEN BIG FOOL NOR EVER CRAISE TORK THAT.”
JL: It is not a political blunder at all to accurately define the lack of influential supporters PMDC flunkies are hopelessly banking on for electoral success. It is precision bombardment that took the wind out of PMDC’s slapping sails. Your party's legs were also rendered wobbly.
Numerous copies of that my leaked e-mail were made and circulated in the country by SLPP party offices all over and it gave me good, free publicity for months while discouraging and depressing harlot opportunists and dunces within PMDC ranks and exposing the absence of intelligent people within PMDC.
Lastly, if Josephine Momoh is your idol for the proper exercise of discretion, we are not surprised at all. My wish is for you dunces to learn everything from his record and see how far it will take you from last place position behind APC.
LGSS: “THEN YOU DAE TORK BOT ANALYTICAL UNDER-DEVELOPMENT?”
JL: Yes. You are clearly dense and hard of learning. How apt was my descr1ption but you poorly educated dunce won’t get it. So, let sleeping lie.
LGSS: “AR JOS HOPE SAE BEREWA GO KEEP YOU INSAI EE CAMPAIGN TEAM BECOS ANY TEM YOU OPIN YOU MOT AR DAE RUB ME HAN EN SECRETLY GREENE.”
JL: Good for you. I hope your wishes will come true - you low-grade writer and one devoid of the basic comprehension of simple English.
LGSS: “YOU YERI WAETIN KOR YAYAH TELL YOU? EE SAY:”
JL: What he said is for dunces like you to suck up, lock, stock and barrel. People like me do not look up to your yayah for anything good or intelligent. But, of course, dumbo-tombos are free to worship him just as you have implied!
I am now closing this chapter. You are just too thick! Good bye and good luck with your remedial schooling on comprehension, you Mr. LOW GRADE SAN SAN. Thank you. - JL
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Below is how I handled the san san boys, low grade noisemakers issue about a year ago in response to allegation from Mr. Baimba Kamara. Accept the truth and stop your lies about the meaning of my words and stop looking for a non-existent straw. Thank you. -JL
THANKS DR. BAIMBA KAMARA, BUT PLEASE WAITE A MINUTE ……….!
© John E. Leigh
My attention has been directed to a broadside against me by Dr. Baimba Kamara of Houston, Texas and published in the March 10, 2006 edition of THE INDEPENDENT. While I sincerely thank Dr. Kamara for the many kind sentiments he expressed about my record, I do not believe that he had a thorough understanding of my original message.
Dr. Kamara’s comments were in response to an e-message from me to members of an internet discussion group that was illicitly leaked to the press by one or more members of the said group. In my e-message, I argued that a recent Evening Scoop news report that boasted that three born-again ex-Kammajors have disclosed a plot to assassinate Mr. Charles Margai, the interim leader of the newly formed PMDC political party, is pure fiction completely devoid of any factual foundation.
I argued that from what I learned during a recent month-long tour in the interior of our country, there would be no reason whatsoever for any of Mr. Margai’s political rivals to engage in any assassination plot against him as Mr. Margai’s political stature threatens none of his rivals in the on-going contest for the presidency of Sierra Leone sufficiently enough to warrant any such plotting. Dr. Kamara apparently mistook this observation to mean that I am claiming that Mr. Margai is not an important political factor in our country. Dr. Kamara is in error as I was arguing in relative, not absolute, terms.
Next, in making my case against an assassination plot, I portrayed certain of PMDC’S supporters/sympathizers as mostly non-influential, low grade noisemakers - such as San-san boys, bike drivers, carwash boys (i.e. especially those inhabiting the Shellmingo area of Bo town), ex-RUF combatants, etc. I identified these groups NOT because of any lack of respect for them but because some are indeed PMDC’S street supporters and because they are relatively powerless to influence other voters to a level that would constitute a serious enough threat to any of his rivals that would warrant any assassination plot.
Unfortunately, Dr. Kamara also took offence to this objective portrayal of PMDC’S visible, noisy support base as indicating that I denigrate and do not respect the majority of Sierra Leoneans who are poor. Nothing could be further from the truth.
My reference to low grade noisemakers has nothing to do with denigrating anyone or disrespecting any soul - not least of whom are those honest laboring people struggling to make a living against man-made difficulties. My reference to such classes of people was merely to explain the political powerlessness of much of PMDC’S visible support base in the scheme of things in our country for the sole purpose of establishing that the Evening Scoop’s assassination plot is a mere fiction as the PMDC does not appear to me as a significant political threat warranting anyone of Mr. Margai’s rivals to want to kill him.
Further, I never made any reference to market men or women, nor called anyone “hoodlums” as Dr. Kamara incorrectly ascribed to me. And I wholeheartedly agree with Dr. Kamara that people earning their living honestly are good people, who are important to the success of our society but who our government has badly let down – a situation that I have repeatedly railed against in writing and in speech and will continue to do so.
I also answer in the affirmative Dr. Kamara’s proposition that such people deserved and ought to be helped by our government. I respectfully assure Dr. Kamara that I truly respect these people and empathize with them. Nevertheless, these hardworking people are not powerful enough for their groups to have been able to elevate Mr. Margai to a position where he becomes a political threat, sufficiently threatening to any of his rivals so that one of them might have plotted his assassination as reported by the Evening Scoop last Wednesday.
Moreover, I would like Dr. Kamara and his PMDC’S supporters to understand that in our country, market men and women, traders, farmers and many people are influenced more by authority figures with power, patronage and resources to distribute, than by those I have identified as powerless to help their own communities. Such is the plain fact whether one likes it or not.
The above are the points I was trying to make in my leaked e-mail to establish the fact that there is no likelihood whatsoever that the Evening Scoop assassination plot report is accurate. Portraying the facts as I see them does not mean that I am disrespecting any one or saying that Mr. Margai is not important or of zero political threat, etc.
In addition, the fact that I sought to prove that the Evening Scoop report is untrue does not mean that I “have suddenly diverted my good cause of fighting for the rights of our people or that Sierra Leone has two John Leighs” as Dr. Kamara inquired. I am merely stating that the Evening Scoop assassination plot story is pure fiction for the reasons stated in my leaked e-mail.
I would like to assure Dr. Kamara that I am the sole John Leigh in Sierra Leone who, for as long as I live, will remain true to my record as an unyielding fighter for the legitimate rights of all our the people by encouraging the development of civilized standards of good governance in our homeland.
As for Dr. Kamara’s interpretation that I concluded that Mr. Margai is not a political factor in Sierra Leone, I would like the good doctor to please understand that my statements cannot be interpreted in isolation but should be read in the context in which they were written. My considered conclusion was that Mr. Margai ‘is not a political factor in Sierra Leone sufficiently important to warrant any of his political rivals plotting his assassination as reported by the Evening Scoop recently’.
Of course, Mr. Margai is a political factor in his own right but not a political factor with a stature important enough to warrant an assassination plot against him as reported by the Evening Scoop.
With regard to Dr. Kamara’s inquiry regarding who, as between Mr. Margai and I, is a bigger political factor in Sierra Leone today, I can say that Mr. Margai is certainly the bigger political factor because he is actively campaigning for the presidency while I am not. I only sought to run for my party’s leadership position nearly six months ago. And, poor me, I am now merely on the sidelines evaluating other opportunities in and out of politics.
But who is or is not the bigger political factor presently is not the real issue. In fact, I care nothing about such comparisons. The point I stated was that based on the knowledge I gained during my month-long provincial tour in Sierra Leone last month, Mr. Margai is not a big enough political factor sufficient to warrant any one of his rivals attempting to assassinate him as reported by the Evening Scoop.
As for the Makeni ConBention, Dr. Kamara was not the only one bruised by the happenings there and the damage inflicted on the SLPP membership and our country. I have already written an extensive report about the scandalous farce that was Makeni. Please feel free to review my report in www.changesierraleone.org. I stand squarely behind that writing.
In the meantime, I want to take this opportunity to thank Dr. Kamara for his concerns and sympathy about my then situation at Makeni. I am grateful for his kindness. He was not alone in his suffering. Many others have reached out to me on this same matter.
In reading my report about the Makeni Event of September 3 & 4, 2005, Dr. Kamara will no doubt discover that I was not double crossed by the SLPP at all. He will also understand the reasons why I was not nominated. And had he been living in Sierra Leone at the relevant time, he would have experienced the fact that for about a month or so after Makeni, the atmosphere throughout the SLPP heartland and most of the country was one of sorrow, consternation and anger at the Makeni politrics similar to the atmosphere at the funeral for a key family member who suddenly died prematurely.
As we all know, the outrages at Makeni were partly responsible for the establishment of the PMDC. I chose to remain in the SLPP and fight it out rather than run away like a few others. My basic culture is never to cut and run like Mobutu’s gendarmes. My culture is to stay and fight regardless of personal benefits or losses because I am after what is right and proper for society at large rather than seeking benefits for myself and my family.
In response to Dr. Kamara’s remaining questions, there is no doubt that Mr. Margai is a true Sierra Leonean and that every Sierra Leonean has the right to contest for the presidency – and I never implied otherwise. All I said in my private e-message was that the Evening Scoop’s article about a purported assassination plot against Mr. Margai can not be based on facts for the reasons I enumerated.
In sum, it seems that some PMDC supporters are shocked and upset to learn that I do not share their optimism regarding the purported political threat which their leader poses to his rivals. But there is no need for PMDC supporters to get hysterical, or rush to publish allegations lacking in facts. Instead, they ought to be patient and rejoin me in the progressive wing of the SLPP so we may reform our Party to its true Glory!
Thank you.
Subject: Re: LOW GRADE SAN SAN GO NAR ARISTOCRAT JOHN LEIGH EE BABOO YEI.
From: LOW GRADE SAN SAN.
To: All
Date Posted: 15:07:48 04/03/07 ()
Email Address:
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JL replies:
You don’t seem to understand! First, it takes you days to come up with another under-develop dunce reply which confirms that you are truly heard of learning.
BOY LEIGH,
AR NOR RICH OR IDLE LEK YOU WAE DAE PLAY WITH KEY BOARD 24/7 DAE WRITE FOOLISH. AS YOU KNOW AR GEH CHEKA EN SHOBLE FOR PLAY WIT. FOR GO DIG EN WASS GRAVEL. AR GEH FOR WOK FOR ME LIVING AR NOR GEH $ 10.000 FOR BRIBE ANYBODY OR POLITICAL PARTY FOR JOB.
In my experience, Sierra Leoneans tend to take advice from people they consider their seniors, and not from like sufferers because asking a san-san boy to advise another san-san boy re political, social and economic development is like asking the blind to lead the blind.
YOU MEAN SENIORS LEK THE VP BEREWA? THE MAN WAE YOU TELL WE SAE EE CORRUPT, DISHONEST EN YUKIE YUKIE? YOU MEAN SENIORS LEK YOU, JOHN LEIGH WAE TELL WE SAY YOU PARTY CORRUPT EN DAE ALWAYS PLAY YUKIE YUKIE KALBA KALBA POLITICS THEN TURN BACK EN EAT YOU YONE WORD? YOU MEAN SENIOR LEK YOU WAE LOOK EE KONTRY MAN THEM PEE EN CALL THEM LOW GRADE SAN SAN HUMAN BEINGS? YOU MEAN YOU WAE TELL WE NAR YER SAE YOU SEF KIN BE CORRUPT EN YOU GEH PRICE? YOU MEAN ABASS CHERNOH BUNDU THE MAN WAE YOU SLPP CALL TIFF MAN EN EVEN TELL WE ABOUT EE FAMILY TREE? YOU MEAN SAMA BANYA MAN WAE NOR EVER WIN GENERAL ELECTION? YOU MEAN JBD A FORMER MEMBER OF THE POVERTY SPREADING EKUTAY WAE YOU KIN ALWAYS TELL WE BOT? BO JOHN LEF ME YER WITH YOU SENIOR LAHBO LAHBOH. YOU SLPP NOR GEH ANY CREDIBLE SENIOR WAE LOW GRADE SAN SAN HUMAN BEING GO TAKE ADVISE FROM. OONA NONE NOR ABLE TAKE WE OUT FROM ECONOMIC BONDAGE.BRING ODER WAN BECOS WE TOO SMART FOR LEH YOU FOOL WE WITH YOU SENIOR GARBAGE.
When have your seen san-san boys and noisemakers ever successfully persuaded others to cross-over to your flunkey alphabet soup grouping?
ALWAYS. BUT YOU PROBLEM IS YOU NOR GO EVER ABLE FOR CONNECT WITH THEM SO YOU NOR GO EVER KNOW IF THEN DAE BRING ANY BODY ON BOARD. BTW WHEN YOU EVER TAKE PART PAN ACTIVE POLITICS LEK FOR CONTEST EN WIN.OR AS FRONT LINE CAMPAIGNER FOR YOU PARTY? NEVER!! NAR BEHEN DEN DAE OLLWAYS KEEP YOU BECOS YOU NAR EMBARRASSMENT TO YOU SELF EN YOU PARTY. NAR OONA KIND SHAKI BIN DAE CALL BARBAH. BECOS YOU SABI OH BUT YOU NOR KNOW NARTIN BOT POLITICS NAR SA. LONE.
Incidentally, a lot of san-san, carwash boys and bike-drivers have drifted back to the SLPP
LIE LIE LIE LEIGH LAIR !! NAR ONLY A MORON LEK YOU. WAE YOU GO LOOK LOW ON EN CALL AM LOW GRADE SAN SAN HUMAN BEING GO TURN EN KAM BACK OOSAI YOU DAE, BECOS YOU QUISS SMALL TIM NAR EE HAN. YOU REALLY NOR GET A CLUE ABOUT SA. LONE POLITICS.GO ASK SAMA BANYA, JOE JACKSON,SUNNY MARK SNR, SANUSIE MUSTAPHA EN JOHN KARIMU DEN GO TELL YOU SAE NOR TO WAE MAN DECLARE FOR YOU ON BEHALF OF EE AREA GO MEK YOU WIN AN ELECTION. BUT ENTI YOU NAR EXPERT "BORBOR PAIN" PAN SA. LONE POLITICS.
It is precision bombardment that took the wind out of PMDC’s slapping sails. Your party's legs were also rendered
PRECISION BOMBARDMENT? OOSAI YOU INVENT DAR WAN FROM? WAE YOU NOR GEH BASE. YOU HENG LEK MAN WAE DAE SPACE.YOU MEAN POLITICAL EMBARRASSMENT? BECOS NAR THAT YOU DAE OLLWAYS GET. YOU DAE ONLY SURVIVE AS A POLITICAL CHINCH BY POLITICAL APPOINTMENT. WITHOUT SLPP YOU NAR NATIN JOHN.IF YOU NOR BELIEVE ME CONTEST A SEAT AS AN INDEPENDENT EN TEST YOU POPULARITY. NAR SO HONOURABLE PEOPLE LEK KAI SAMBA PRINCE WILLIAMS FS ANTHONY EN BREWAH THEM BIN DO FOR PROVE SAY THEM GEH POLITICAL BASE. WIT OLL YOU SENSE EN YOU BOOK YOU NOR GO EVIN GET YOU DEPOSIT BACK. OH AR FORGET YOU INSIGNIFICANT PAN SA. LONE POLITICS ANYWAY.
Numerous copies of that my leaked e-mail were made and circulated in the country by SLPP party offices all over and it gave me good, free publicity for months while discouraging and depressing harlot opportunists and dunces within PMDC ranks and exposing the absence of intelligent people within PMDC.
NAR IM YOU TELL WE SAE BEREWA DAE PAN HECTIC CAMPAIGNING. YOU SAE EE DAE LEF FREETONG FROM FRIDAY EN RETURN ON SUNDAYS EN THE TRIPS KIN REALLY BE TIRING FOR AM. WITH THIS KIND OF PUBLICITY AS YOU SAY YOU TRASH GEH NAR SA.LONE AR BIN FEEL SAY OONA FOR DON PUT THE CHAMPAGNE ON ICE EN DAE WAIT NOW FOR THE RESULT. OONA NOR FOR DAE YERGBA WAN AT OLL. MIND YOU, YOU LEADER GET 298 OF THE SLPP CONBENTION VOTES.MEANING EE GEH TOTAL SUPPORT NAR THE SOUTH EN EAST THE HOME OF SLPP. SO WHY YOU MAN DAE EVIN BOTHER FOR GO OPIN SMALL BRIDGE WAE NOR EVIN LONG REACH WAN FOOT? YOU GO SABAH. LISTEN BOY LEIGH YOU NOR ABLE WRITE NARTIN WAE GO MAK ANY IMPACT PAN POLITICS NAR SA. LONE BECOS YOU NAR BARBAH YOU SABI OH BOT YOU NOR KNOW NARTIN.
Lastly, if Josephine Momoh is your idol for the proper exercise of discretion, we are not surprised at all.
BOY LEIGH, AR HONESTLY BELIEVE SAE YOU NOR BRIGHT.NAR BAGER BARGER YOU JOS DAE TORK. LISTEN TO WAETIN AR SA. AR SAY "EVEN MOMOH WAE DEN SAE EE BEN BIG FOOL NOR EVER CRAISE TORK THAT" SO OOSAI YOU KOMOT WIT MOMOH NAR ME IDOL? YOU SEE WAE THEN KIN TELL YOU SAE YOU CRAISE.
JL: Good for you. I hope your wishes will come true - you low-grade writer and one devoid of the basic comprehension of simple English.
YOU GO SEE IF THE ELECTION GEH FOR BE HAVERD OR OXFORD DEBATE. YOU SO DAFT THAT YOU NOR EVIN KNOW THE POLITICS OF THE AREA OOSAI YOU GROW UP. GO ASK PROFESSOR KAMARA FORMER PRINCIPAL OF NJALA UNIVERSITY COLLEGE WAE LEARN BOOK PAS YOU BY FAR EE GO TELL YOU WAETIN HAPPEN NAR YONIBANA. OR GO ASK DER BORBOR HARDING WAE TELL YOU FOR LOCK YOU MOT EN SIDOM NAR BO. EE GO TELL YOU OODAT WHIP AM 1986. OR GO ASK KERRY NAR USA EN WILLIAM HAGUE NAR UK DEN GO TELL YOU THE BALANCE. SOMETEM YOU FEEL SAE NAR THAT OONA OLL SLPP POLITICS WE DAE PAN WAE THEN THEY BRING OONA FROM NO WHERE EN WRITE SLPP NAR OONA BACK THEN WE PEOPLE THEN VOTE OONA IN. NEVER AGAIN. WE KNOW OODAT BIN DAE WITH WE. EN GUESS WHO? WE FORM FOUR LAWYER.
L: What he said is for dunces like you to suck up, lock, stock and barrel. People like me do not look up to your yayah for anything good or intelligent. But, of course, dumbo-tombos are free to worship him just as you have implied!
BOY LEIGH ME NAR WAN LOW GRADE SAN SAN HUMAN BEING WAE NOR GO EVER WORSHIP ANY BODY.ME NOR TO THEM YOU KIND EDUCATED SLPP MAN THEM WAE YOU DAE QUISS $10.000 NAR THEN HAN FOR LEH THEN WORSHIP EN GEE YOU JOB. AR REFER TO KOR YAYAH, FOR SHOW HOW YOU FOOL EN HOW YOU ARGUMENT NOR HOL WATER. EN IF WE GO BY WAETIN ONE OF YOU SLPP ECONOMICS BOOK MAN BY THE NAME OF MR MANNAH TELL WE, KOR YAYAH SABI BOOK PAS YOU BECOS EE GEH PHD WAE YOU NOR GET.
I am now closing this chapter.
WE NOR EVIN BEGIN THE ACKNOWLEDGEMENT PAGE YET YOU DON JUMP TO CHAPTER. NOR RUN YET ENTI YOU SAY YOU GEH MISSILE FOR BOMBARD TRUS ME AR GEH PLENTY SAN SAN FOR RAM NAR YOU ARISTOCRAT BABOO YEI.
Below is how I handled the san san boys, low grade noisemakers issue about a year ago in response to allegation from Mr. Baimba Kamara. Accept the truth and stop your lies about the meaning of my words and stop looking for a non-existent straw. Thank you. -JL
SAVE THAT FOR YOU SLPP SENIORS THEM BECOS AR NOR INTERESTED IN YOU ROTO RATAH.
Subject: Re: Elections and other Matters
From: Albert Moinina
To: All
Date Posted: 07:25:15 04/02/07 ()
Email Address:
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Keep up the good work. Your calling a spade a spade will never be received well by some. Some would want us to compare oranges with palm tree "banga" to distort and twist the facts. Such as compare old APC with SLPP.
My conclusion, even if all other political opponents are worthless the SLPP is no different. To my consideration they are recklessly and irresponsibly worthless. This fact at least has to be said. Lonta.
Subject: Re: Elections and other Matters
From: BRA ENVIABLE
To: All
Date Posted: 09:03:31 04/02/07 ()
Email Address:
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I agree with your excellent observation, Mr. Moinina.
There is no way the SLPP can be expected to do anything new they couldn't do all these years. The PMDC can be misrepresented by every form of trite propaganda, but it remains an unalterable truth that the SLPP and its veteran corrupt mogul, Berewa, are not, will never be, the solution Sierra Leone's malaise.
Subject: Shame on you
From: Sia Tiyaama
To: All
Date Posted: 05:43:42 04/02/07 ()
Email Address: bontilaynga@yahoo.com
Entered From: 210-54-67-86.dialup.xtra.co.nz at 210.54.67.86
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I advise Jimmy Kandeh not to respond to Sia Tiyaama's article because it is full of nonsense and grammatical rubbish. Marda Mustapha is a disgrace to PhD holders. Now I believe what Mohamed Jalloh said: "PhD is not a sign of intelligence, it simply means you have been in school long enough to write a long essay". That is what Marda Mustapha has professed. May be he needs to take another look at himself and stop calling himself a docta.
Marda Mustapha's problem is he wants to satisfy PATRICK MUANA at all costs, so he writes rubbish without acknowledging the consequences. Better still, he could send the article to PK to proofread. I don't agree with PK on his issues but you can't take away from him his knowledge of the Queen's language.
Subject: Re: Shame on you
From: Cornelius Hamelberg
To: All
Date Posted: 10:25:20 04/02/07 ()
Email Address:
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Sia,
Mostly corrected)
Just a little applied psychology here and after this I will make peace between Sengbe and Mohammed Jalloh: just watch. It will start with a ceasefire, which can be extended indefinitely till they both kick the bucket.
“Marda Mustapha is a disgrace to PhD holders.”
You seem to think of “PhD holders” as a uniform class of beings. Some are Mende & SLPP and intensely bonded through the Porro sojourn and therefore it is fully understandable that
“Marda Mustapha's problem is he wants to satisfy PATRICK MUANA at all costs, “– yes quite naturally, they are brothers of the flesh (same genetic pool for Themnes) with common vital interests to uphold. At least I have observed a little of the “I concur” syndrome which is an essential part of their Friendship Association, and firmly cements it – like the old Sierra Leone Parliament which was always alive during the bullish tenancy of the burly and deep-voiced Sir Albert Margai. When it was time to vote for a motion, some of the SLPP backbenchers would have managed to fall fast a sleep in the heat, just after all that Jackie Tombo and palm wine, would be shaken back to life and first thing they’d do is shoot their hands up in support, though they had missed the debate and couldn’t tell what time of day or night it was, where they were or what was happening.
My Jamaican friend Paul has told me that when two people are fighting (e.g. Israel & their Palestinians) or a local feud in Trench Town, no matter what, you are on your friends side; it doesn’t matter who started the fight or who abused who’s mother or jazzed up who’s wife – (thou shalt not commit adultery) you back your friend all the way (this, he severely expressed because of my sympathy for those who are the Palestinian people. I think that he is much more neutral.)
Sharon vowed he would never shake hands with Arafat and never did. Well, look at John E. Leigh, not that Leigh and Berewa are enemies: after he was robbed, he dutifully fell in line (party discipline) and saluted his boss, Berewa. He could have been one of those sleepers and have to be woken up to vote for Berewa. – who we are to suppose he would have voted for in the convention (if not for himself, truly - he said- “the most capable” of being best president of Sierra Leone. We can be sure that he would not have voted for Hon. Charles Margai. It would have been enough just sitting in the same room, their lungs sucking up equal amounts of oxygen so that they could both survive as one SLPP. And what makes matters worse is that he is now rearing his head as head of PMDC and not as Berewa’s messenger boy or his tail.
The best job he ever had was that episode of glory for him as a VIP, cock-tail parties, and diplomatic aura on his visiting card. Now he goes on State visits and “tours” of Sierra Leone. If Berewa would give him back the job, well, for that per4haps you too would like to be his lap dog?
The motto still is:” Ask what you can do for your country”
And you expect him to criticise Tejan Jalloh? No! Leigh has to lay low.
Then there are the lukewarm or the easily hopeful like Darboh, who says that he was so easily fooled.
Well as Pa Kabbah says, (individually & nationally) SEVEN NATIONAL VALUES. How do they apply to you and me and how do we apply them to Marda, PK, Professor Jimmy Kandeh, Mr. Darboh the defector…..
• Resourcefulness
• Excellence
• Tolerance
• Good neighbourliness
• Generosity
• Honesty
• Self-esteem
http://www.statehouse.sl/seven-val-nov11.html
Subject: Re: Shame on you
From: Cornelius Hamelberg
To: All
Date Posted: 09:54:53 04/02/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: c-208472d5.01-32-73746f42.cust.bredbandsbolaget.se at 213.114.132.32
Message:
Sia,
Just a little applied psychology here and after this I will make peace between Sengbe and Mohammed Jalloh: just watch. It will start with a ceasefire, which can be extended indefinitely till the both kick the bucket.
“Marda Mustapha is a disgrace to PhD holders.”
You seem to think of “PhD holders” as a uniform class of beings. Some are Mende & SLPP and intensely bonded through the Porro sojourn and therefore it is fully understandable that
“Marda Mustapha's problem is he wants to satisfy PATRICK MUANA at all costs, “– yes quite naturally, they are brothers of the flesh (same genetic pool for Themnes) with common precious interests to uphold. At least I have observed a little of the “I concur” syndrome which is an essential part of their Friendship Association, and firmly cements it – like the old Sierra Leone Parliament which was always alive during the bullish tenancy of the burly and deep-voiced Sir – Albert Margai. When it was time to vote for a motion, some of the SLPP backbenchers would have managed to fall, fast a sleep in the heat, just after that Jackie Tombo and palm wine, would be shaken back to life and first thing they’d do is put their supporting hands up, though the couldn’t tell what time of day or night it was, where they were or what was happening.
My Jamaican friend Paul has told me that when two people are fighting (e.g. Israel & their Palestinians) or a local feud in Trench town, no matter what, you are on your friends side; it doesn’t matter who started the fight or who abused who’s mother or jazzed up who’s wife – you back your friend all the way (this, he severely expressed because of my sympathy for those who are the Palestinian people.)
Sharon vowed he would never shake hands with Arafat and never did. Well look at John E. Leigh, not that Leigh and Berewa are enemies: after he was robbed, he dutifully fell in line (party discipline) and saluted his boss, Berewa. He could have been one of those sleepers and was woken up to vote for Berewa. – who we are to suppose he would have voted for in the convention (if not for himself, truly - he said- the most capable of being best president of Sierra Leone. We can be sure that he would not have voted for Hon. Charles Margai, it would have been enough just sitting in the same room, their lungs sucking up equal amounts of oxygen so that they could both survive as one SLPP. And what makes matters worse if that he is rearing his head as head of PMDC and not as Berewa’s messenger or his tail.
The best job he ever had was that episode of glory for him as a VIP, cock-tail parties, and diplomatic aura on his visiting card. Now he goes on State visits and “tours” of Sierra Leone. If Berewa would give him back the job, well, for that per4haps you too would like to be his lap dog?
And then you expect him to criticise Tejan Jalloh? No! Leigh has to lay low.
Then there are the lukewarm or the easily hopeful like Darboh, who says that he was so easily fooled.
Well as Pa Kabbah says, (individually & nationally) SEVEN NATIONAL VALUES. How do they apply to you and me and how do we apply them to Marda, PK, Professor Jimmy Kandeh, Mr. Darboh the defector…..
• Resourcefulness
• Excellence
• Tolerance
• Good neighbourliness
• Generosity
• Honesty
• Self-esteem
http://www.statehouse.sl/seven-val-nov11.html
Subject: Re: Shame on you
From: Albert Moinina
To: All
Date Posted: 07:37:47 04/02/07 ()
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The best thing is not to read the RUBBISH whosoever is writing. I read his articles once or twice and decided not to read it anymore because the facts are twisted, crooked and full of lies. Yes, we are all entitle to 'sell' political parties or candidates we support, but Granda Ma Sia has lost her sight and hearing senses.
May God help her not to fall in a diamond pitch in her neglected Kono by the SLPP she calls ANGELS. Thank God we do not have kimberlite mining, but I guess some of those pits can be very deep and dangerous. I do not how I can get this message to Sia being that you are blind and deaf before you leap to your death.
Subject: Re: Shame on you
From: honesty
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Date Posted: 09:53:22 04/02/07 ()
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I dont have problem reading articles written by people who are trying to distort the fact. I hate attempting to read an article by someone who cannot write well even when writing the about truth.
Subject: Where is Hilton Fyle ?
From: KABS KANU
To: All
Date Posted: 20:47:31 04/01/07 ()
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Somebody wants to talk urgently to Hilton Fyle . Could somebody kindly contact him and ask him to communicate ?
Thank you very much.
Subject: "Father Corbett " banned from this forum
From: KABS KANU
To: All
Date Posted: 19:20:45 04/01/07 ()
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The individual called Father Corbett has been banned from this forum. His views were not representative of a priest .I attened CKC an I am very, very proud of that school and indebted to it. I will not allow anybody to come here and denigrate one of our priests.
CKC had some of the finest , disciplined, committed and holy priests in all Sierra Leone and there was a Father Corbett , though a decade or more before I attended the school. For this reason, I will preserve the honor of the name and ban the individual using it from this forum.
He can come back if he uses another name.
Subject: Re: "Father Corbett " banned from this forum
From: Yaya Fanusie
To: All
Date Posted: 23:43:29 04/02/07 ()
Email Address: Saigobe@lanset.com
Entered From: adsl-67-125-22-234.dsl.pltn13.pacbell.net at 67.125.22.234
Message:
Kabs Kanu,
I totally support your decision.
Yaya Fanusie
Subject: Re: "Father Corbett " banned from this forum
From: JC
To: All
Date Posted: 05:36:47 04/02/07 ()
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Sound more like a personal problem.
Subject: Re: "Father Corbett " banned from this forum
From: LOW GRADE SAN SAN
To: All
Date Posted: 09:43:24 04/02/07 ()
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Sound more like a personal problem.
EITHER THAT OR KABS NAR BIAS MAN WAE DAE PRACTISE SELECTIVE JUSTICES. BECOS NAR YER WE OLLL SEE JOHN LEIGH LIE PAN CHARLES MARGAI EN FATHER JEREMIAH LAMB WAE EE TORK SAE CHARLES MARGAI SLAP FATHER LAMB EN IM THE KABS NOR TORK NARTIN.
AR JOS HOPE SAE WAE AR GEH FOR ADVANCE PAN LEIGH EN DANCE DER EE CRAISE MAN DANCE WIT AM KABS NOR GO BLOCK ME POST EN BAN ME. BECOSE AR SWEH TO ME POROH WAE AR JOIN NAR IM THE KABS AR GO TURN TO.
SO LEH THE CASE WAM
Subject: Ekutay wants to stage a coup
From: Julius Cesar
To: All
Date Posted: 10:27:28 04/01/07 ()
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Since Johnny Paul Koroma is still around somewhere, the A.P.C. have a plan to stage a coup and execute all cabinet ministers and senior officials of the S.L.P.P.
Vice president Berewa and your party you have been warned.
Et you Acha? The commissioner has been leaking state secrets to the A.P.C.
Subject: Re: Ekutay wants to stage a coup
From: Bella Barrie
To: All
Date Posted: 04:32:41 04/02/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: adsl-wan-217-154-29-181.mistral.co.uk at 217.154.29.181
Message:
Julius, Please stop spreading unnecessary rumors to create tension in the run up to election; we don't need any old tactics. Free and Fair election is the key and 'MAY THE BEST PARTY BE VICTORIOUS'
Mohamed Bella Barrie
Subject: Re: Ekutay wants to stage a coup
From: Yaya Fanusie
To: All
Date Posted: 13:09:14 04/01/07 ()
Email Address: Saigobe@lanset.com
Entered From: adsl-75-17-56-248.dsl.pltn13.sbcglobal.net at 75.17.56.248
Message:
Julius,
You must be the criminal mind that came up with the rumour in 1967 that APC planned to kill Mendes after the 1967 Elections.
Please stop.
Yaya Fanusie
Subject: Re: Ekutay wants to stage a coup/ I THINK IT'S THE REVERSE
From: GBANGBANI
To: All
Date Posted: 11:14:38 04/01/07 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
This is a reverse accusation of such. You already know APC has clearly worn the presidential & Parliamentary election even well before the up coming July 28th pooling day.
If by all means there is going to be a run-up to the said election, it will be between APC & PMDC. So this whole idea is a scare tactics that will help create further instability.
Subject: Re: Ekutay wants to stage a coup/ I THINK IT'S THE REVERSE
From: Cornelius Hamelberg
To: All
Date Posted: 12:08:13 04/01/07 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
Now dear GBANGBANI,
If someone heard Berewa reporting to Kabbah:
" You know SLPP has clearly won the presidential & Parliamentary election even before the July 28th pooling day?"
Irrespective of what the Pa replied my conclusion would be that the voter register had been suitably fixed and what can be rigged, rigged.
In my part of Nigeria in 1983, the people were already dancing about NPN Magic by 2 p-m , long before the polling ended...
Subject: Re: Ekutay wants to stage a coup/ I THINK IT'S THE REVERSE
From: Cornelius Hamelberg
To: All
Date Posted: 12:10:32 04/01/07 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
When it came to counting, they threw away the extra ballots....
Subject: Re: Ekutay wants to stage a coup/ I THINK IT'S THE REVERSE
From: Cornelius Hamelberg
To: All
Date Posted: 12:01:26 04/01/07 ()
Email Address:
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Re your wishful prophecy ( do ya noh go gee dem bad luck ya) " You already know APC has clearly worn the presidential & Parliamentary election even well before the up coming July 28th..."
They usually do, try it on to see if it fits before they wear it....
Subject: BREAKING NEWS---- SOLO B IS DEAD
From: bigger
To: All
Date Posted: 06:06:54 04/01/07 ()
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Entered From: ac8dd361.ipt.aol.com at 172.141.211.97
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UNCONFIRMED REPORT FROM APRIL FOOL CLAIMS THAT SOLO B DIED LAST NIGHT FROM A ROAD ACCIDENT.APPARENTLY,HIS JEEP WAS INVOLVED IN A HEAD ON COLLUSION WITH CHARLES MARGAI'S NAVIGATOR AT MOYAMBA JUNCTION.
CHARLES ESCAPED UNHURT AND IN A PRESS CONFERENCE THIS MORNING,HE TENDERED HIS RESIGNATION AS LEADER OF THE PMDC AND REIGNITED AND REGISTERED HIS INTEREST IN AN IMMEDIATE CONTEST FOR SLPP LEADERSHIP.
AS A RESULT OF THE ABOVE,MOIJUE KAIKAI COMMITED SUICIDE IN PUJEHUN WHERE HE WAS CAMPAINING ON PMDC VALUES AND COLUMBA BLANGO IS HEADING FOR THE GOLA FOREST TO LEAD A WELL ARMED RUF GROUP AGAINST WHATEVER FORM OF GOVERNMENT IN SIERRA LEONE AFTER THE 28TH OF JULY 2007
Subject: Re: BREAKING NEWS---- SOLO B IS DEAD
From: Cornelius Hamelberg
To: All
Date Posted: 09:49:38 04/01/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: c-1e1271d5.01-32-73746f42.cust.bredbandsbolaget.se at 213.113.18.30
Message:
you are one sick muth a
Subject: JOHN LEIGH IS NOT PATROTIC
From: TEE
To: All
Date Posted: 03:16:12 04/01/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: 82-35-199-175.cable.ubr01.camd.blueyonder.co.uk at 82.35.199.175
Message:
I will not waste my precious breath and time to discuss with John Leigh. He is blind when it comes to supporting SLPP. He will never admit the faults or failures of Berewa as a vice prsident or SLPP as a party. HE put party before country. I asked him the other day, what he feels about the issue of Tejan Jalloh, in trying to get his relatives to America and claiming them to be his children. Tejan is representing Sierra Leone in America and if he does something like that, what will the world think of Sierra Leone as a nation and Tejan Jalloh as an ambassador, and of course the SLPP as a party that condon corruption. If John Leigh was patrotic he should have giving he ernest opinion on this, as a former ambassador to America. I an sorry if you didn't read the posting, if not can I pls know your take on this.
Subject: Re: JOHN LEIGH IS NOT PATROTIC
From: DUMMY
To: All
Date Posted: 16:43:27 04/01/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 64.128.100.182
Message:
Indeed John Leigh is not "PATROTIC". You big dummy. You cannot even spell the word. You na dummy. Why can't you go to school to improve yourself? John should be happy that he is not "PATROTIC". You are the only "PATROTIC" Sierra-Leonean I know.
Subject: Re: JOHN LEIGH IS NOT PATROTIC
From: TEE
To: All
Date Posted: 01:14:34 04/02/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: 82-35-199-175.cable.ubr01.camd.blueyonder.co.uk at 82.35.199.175
Message:
I hope you had never made an error while typing. You are some of the empty vessels who make the loudest noise.
Subject: Re: JOHN LEIGH IS NOT PATROTIC
From: FOOL
To: All
Date Posted: 14:17:19 04/01/07 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
Did you read what the british embassy said about neville's allegations? You are a dumb ass, for spreading lies on STJ? Stop yout lies and go get a life.
Subject: Re: JOHN LEIGH IS NOT PATROTIC
From: TEE
To: All
Date Posted: 15:28:16 04/01/07 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
these allegation were not made by neville. These were made by individuals who know the individuals and know about the matter. Their names were made know, thier institutions were they study.
Subject: Re: JOHN LEIGH IS NOT PATROTIC
From: TEE
To: All
Date Posted: 15:22:57 04/01/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: 82-35-199-175.cable.ubr01.camd.blueyonder.co.uk at 82.35.199.175
Message:
You are the fool, are we talking about britain or America. You are an idiot.
Subject: Re: JOHN LEIGH IS NOT PATROTIC
From: FOOL
To: All
Date Posted: 15:44:35 04/01/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 64.128.100.182
Message:
No, you are the idiot. You sound like a complete fool. The idiot claimed that the british embassy did the same thing for the man 4 or 5 years ago. The embassy lambasted the hopeless Neville.This same idiot claimed that annie lansana was denied a visa o the state, and it turned out to be false. Only fools like you who like to spread rumors about others see any sense in those allegations. And you dare question someboby's patrirism? Why did God make a fool like you Sierra-leonean?
Subject: Re: JOHN LEIGH IS NOT PATROTIC
From: TEE
To: All
Date Posted: 15:50:01 04/01/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: 82-35-199-175.cable.ubr01.camd.blueyonder.co.uk at 82.35.199.175
Message:
u are a complete idiot and a waste in sierra leone. you guys god knows which planet you came from, dont really accept any wrong done by you party and its members. what you guys should do is criticise you party and government for the betterment of your country. see the state of that country.
Subject: Re: JOHN LEIGH IS NOT PATROTIC
From: SLPP member
To: All
Date Posted: 03:48:02 04/01/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: host86-129-166-61.range86-129.btcentralplus.com at 86.129.166.61
Message:
I dont think, I will go to the extent of calling him unpatriotic.He is just jealous, and in the process of expressing, he will not mind hurting anyone.
His problem is,everyone knows, he is just a very very ordinary member of the Party, yet he will make all kind of funny statements,in defense of the Party - a self appointed Spokesman.
Subject: APPOINTMENT OF THREE JUDGES UNCONSTITUTIONAL
From: Blyden Jenkins Johnston
To: All
Date Posted: 01:43:12 04/01/07 ()
Email Address:
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APPOINTMENT OF THREE JUDGES UNCONSTITUTIONAL” - Blyden Jenkins Johnston
According to Blyden Jenkins Johnston, the fact that the three judges appointed did not present themselves before the Appointments Committee of parliament as stipulated in Section 135 (2), undermines the very legality of the appointment of the three temporary judges.
Blyden Jenkins Johnston, in questioning the validity of the press release circulated by the Bar Association Executive, noted among other things that there was no consensus of the opinions and views of members of the Association before the press release was circulated.
Three judges were recently appointed on a temporary basis as the Chief Justice argued that there was need to recruit more judges in an effort to fast track trials in the court system.
But Blyden Jenkins Johnston noted last night “it is my submission that on such an important issue, the executive of the Bar Association cannot presume to speak for the entire membership of the Association, when it must be clear to you that there are divergent views within the Association, this being a serious constitutional matter, which is open to several and fundamentally different interpretations. And this also being a matter in which the general public has shown considerable interest.”
Blyden Jenkins Johnston continued “I profoundly disagree with the views expressed in the Press Statement issued on behalf of the Sierra Leone Bar Association (of which I have been a member since 1994) for the reasons stipulated.”
The erudite lawyer quoted Section 135 (2) of the State Constitution which stipulates, “The other judges of the Superior Court of judicature shall be appointed by the President by warrant under his hand, acting on the advice of the Judicial and Legal Service Commission and subject to the approval of Parliament.”
Lawyer Blyden Jenkins Johnston, also quoted Section 120 (4) of the State Constitution which stipulates, “the Judicature shall consist of the Supreme Court of Sierra Leone, The Court of Appeals and the High Court of Justice which shall be the superior court of records of Sierra Leone and which shall constitute one Superior Court of Judicature.”
He further submitted that reading Section 120 (4) and Section 135 (2) of the State Constitution together, it becomes clear that the Supreme Court of Judicature should be viewed as one and indivisible as Section 135 (2) actually refers to ALL the other judges of the Supreme Court of Judicature and not some of the judges of the Superior Court of Judicature, as he submitted further by the mandatory position of Section 135 (2) of the State Constitution equally applies to all judges of Superior Judicature, be it permanent, part-time or full time, or temporary appointment.
He extended his argument, that since every judge is a judge under the State Constitution, the three temporary judges appointed recently should have submitted themselves to Parliament for screening and approval, as he emphasized, “at any level of the Superior Court of Judicature a judge who is taking up appointment for the first time, aught to be approved by Parliament in accordance with Section 135 (2).”
Blyden Jenkins Johnston who had earlier disagreed with the Supreme Court ruling which suggested that the Attorney General and Minister of Justice can occupy office without going through Parliamentary screening was in itself a bad precedent as all Ministers including the Attorney General and Minister of Justice aught to be screened and approved by Parliament before taking office as provided for in the State Constitution.
He asked a rhetoric questioned when he noted, “yesterday it was the Attorney General and Minister of Justice and today it is judges, where will it end?”
Blyden Jenkins Johnston’s argument is that the appointment of the three judges in question even if only as temporary judges is incomplete because section 135 (2) has been ignored in the process of appointing them.
He stated that the case of the Attorney General and Minister of Justice, when an appointee to that office was shielded from going to the Parliament for screening and approval was already a bad precedent and the appointment of judges without being screened by Parliament after being appointed for the first time is equally a violation of Section 135 (2) of the State Constitution.
Subject: Re: APPOINTMENT OF THREE JUDGES UNCONSTITUTIONAL
From: YADA WILLIAMS
To: All
Date Posted: 14:19:08 04/01/07 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
Sierra Leone Bar Association makes statement on judicial appointments
By Bar Association of Sierra Leone
Mar 22, 2007, 22:57 Email this article
FIAT JUSTITIA
The Bar Association wishes to make the following statement in relation to the appointment of three Judges on a temporary basis.
On 2nd March, 2007 The Honourable the Chief Justice, swore into office three new Judges. MR. Justice N. C. BROWNE-MARKE and MR JUSTICE E. E. ROBERTS were sworn in as Justices of the Court of Appeal; and MRS. JUSTICE SEY, a Gambian with Sierra Leonean ancestry, was sworn in as a Judge of the High Court. All three Judges were appointed by His Excellency the President on the advice of the Judicial and Legal Service Commission, in accordance with the provisions of Section 136(4) of the Constitution of Sierra Leone,1991.
The Bar Association welcomes the appointments, and expresses its pleasure that all three appointees are Sierra Leoneans whether by birth or otherwise. Mrs Justice Sey, apart from descending from Sierra Leonean parents, also studied at the University of Sierra Leone in the 1970s. The Association is pleased that the Justice Sector Development Project – JSDP - (which funds the appointments of the Judges, has, unlike other donors, accepted that there are well qualified Sierra Leoneans practising in Sierra Leone, who are fit and proper persons to be employed as Judges on the same conditions as other commonwealth lawyers.
The Association has taken note of the concern expressed in some quarters, especially in the local press about the constitutionality of the appointments. The Association wishes to point out at the outset, that if there had been the slightest doubt in its corporate mind, that the appointments were not made in accordance with the provisions of the Constitution, it would have been in the forefront in the fight to challenge the same, as has been the case in the past. It would have done so notwithstanding that one of the appointees was, until 1st March 2007 the incumbent President of the Association. In 2002, the Association challenged the appointment of Mr. Eke Halloway as Attorney-General & Minister of Justice and the we were not deterred by the fact that he was President of the Association at the time. The Association however notes with concern that no adverse comment was made by critics when Section 136 was first used by the President in the appointment of a Commonwealth Judge, the Honourable Sir John Muria, as a Justice of the Supreme Court in May 2006.
The appointments were made pursuant to Section 136 (2) in the case of Mrs Justice Sey; and 136(4) in the cases of Mr. Justice Browne-Marke and Mr. Justice Roberts respectively. It appears to the Association that the misconception as to whether Judges could be appointed without the approval of Parliament, is related to the failure to distinguish between the provisions of Section 135 and the said Section 136 of the Constitution.
Section 135 states the general position, that is, that President shall appoint Judges by Warrant under his hand, subject to the approval of Parliament. The public would note that he does so on the advice of the Judicial and Legal Service Commission. Judges appointed under this provision, cannot have their appointments revoked as in the cases of Judges appointed under Section 136. The Tenure of office of Judges appointed under Section 135 is protected by the provisions of Section 137 of the Constitution. They hold office during good behaviour. They may retire at the age of 60 years; but they must retire at the age of 65 years. They can only be removed from office for inability to perform the functions of their office, or for misconduct in accordance with the provisions of Section 137 (4) to (7). Their appointment cannot be revoked. Judges appointed under Section 136 are not so protected.
It is the view of the Association that Sub-sections 136(2) & (4) make provision for situations not covered by Section 135. It clearly gives the President power to appoint Judges where “….a Judge is unable to perform the functions of his office, or if the Chief Justice advises the President that the state of business in the High Court (or the Court of Appeal and the Supreme Court in Sub-section (4) so requires…” He does so in accordance with the advice of the Judicial and Legal Service Commission, and no other authority. If the Legislature had intended that Judges appointed under this provision should first be approved by it, the Constitution would have stated this in the same clear terms as in Section 135. Where certain restrictive words are used in some part of a Statute, and not in others, the inescapable inference to be drawn is that there is a difference in the provisions. Where certain words, or certain criteria have been clearly omitted in a Statute, it is reasonable to assume that the omission was intentional. Parliament would never have passed into law Section 136 of the Constitution if its intention had been that Judges could only be appointed under the provisions of Section 135.
The appointment of these Judges is for a stated period of 4 months; this also accords with the provisions of Section 136(3) & (5). In addition, their remuneration will not be a charge on the consolidated fund, as JSDP has undertaken to make provision for that purpose.
We hope this statement will help clear the air, and reassure our fellow countrymen, that stand firm on all issues concerning our Constitution.
YADA WILLIAMS
PRESIDENT (PRO TEM)
Subject: Re: APPOINTMENT OF THREE JUDGES UNCONSTITUTIONAL
From: FACT
To: All
Date Posted: 15:47:06 04/02/07 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
yada, yada, yada.
Subject: QUESTION FOR MR. JOHN LEIGH
From: PEEPER
To: All
Date Posted: 20:06:13 03/31/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: cache-rtc-ae10.proxy.aol.com at 152.163.101.14
Message:
I am a constant peeper, and I love this forum.
Why is the word convention written as "ConBention" when people talk about? What is the story behind that?
I also asked this forum the other day why "moniker" is used to mean a handle on this forum?
What is the explanation behind that?
Subject: Re: QUESTION FOR MR. JOHN LEIGH
From: John E. Leigh
To: All
Date Posted: 22:09:38 03/31/07 ()
Email Address: johnernestleigh@yahoo.com
Entered From: cache-rtc-ae10.proxy.aol.com at 152.163.101.14
Message:
PEEPER:
Your inquiry is best addressed to the Rev. Kabs Kanu, the KEEPER of this forum. I regret I can't help you at this time. Thank you very much. -JL
Subject: Victor Sylver is a disgrace to journalism
From: Independent Media Commission
To: All
Date Posted: 15:30:00 03/31/07 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
You think his own newspaper is just to attack Culture Shaw ? He can't write on anything else? And this political season with so much news? I am sick.I want to poojust thinking about this. Shame on Victor for making Sierra Leone a laughing stock online. Look at all the interesting and educative websites from other countries. Isn't there somebody to advice this fool that he is making himself more of a clown than Seaga Shaw a villain ? Whenever he updates his paper, you read nothing but Seaga Shaw . What a jerk.
Subject: Re: Victor Sylver is a disgrace to journalism
From: Observer-2
To: All
Date Posted: 11:04:54 04/01/07 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
I think Peter Andersen, owner of the online directory "Sierra Leone Web" should send a warning letter to Victor to stop his hate journalism or face removal from the directory.He is giving Sierra Leone Web a bad name. Over to you Andersen.
Subject: Re: Victor Sylver is a disgrace to journalism
From: crase man
To: All
Date Posted: 16:41:04 03/31/07 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
Yeah, this is the guy, this Victor Crase Man, that once said Kabs-Kanu is having an affair with his wife! can you imagine that?
Subject: Re: Victor Sylver is a disgrace to journalism
From: Cornelius Hamelberg
To: All
Date Posted: 20:32:28 03/31/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: c-1e1271d5.01-32-73746f42.cust.bredbandsbolaget.se at 213.113.18.30
Message:
The poor chap must have been having a nightmare
Subject: xxxxxxxccccc
From: xxxxxxxxxxxx
To: All
Date Posted: 15:23:28 03/31/07 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
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Subject: SENGBE IS NOT MORE CLEVER THAN MOHAMED JALLOH
From: Father Corbett
To: All
Date Posted: 06:47:06 03/31/07 ()
Email Address:
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Mohamed Jalloh was an A student in school. I dont see where Sengbe is more clever than Jalloh. The possession of a PH.D does not tell much about a person's academic ability. There are people without PHDs who have contributed more to this world intellectually than PH.Ds.There are PH.Ds who are intellectual fools . Human value, human dignity and human contribution to society are what matters.
Subject: Re: SENGBE IS NOT MORE CLEVER THAN MOHAMED JALLOH
From: Teacher
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Date Posted: 09:04:47 03/31/07 ()
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Hey Sengbe, were you a C student in school? Inquiring minds want to know. And, no fibbing -- we can check academic records, you know!
Subject: Re: SENGBE IS NOT MORE CLEVER THAN MOHAMED JALLOH
From: Amadu Conteh
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Date Posted: 08:51:01 03/31/07 ()
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Sengbe is an example of what Shaki used to say: Nar sense mek book, nor to book make sense. The guy is so shallow I wonder how he could claim to have passed any exam for which thinking was required. I suppose it just goes to show that what someone said about Ph.D.'s is true -- if someone spends long enough time at a university, he more than likely will eventually leave with a Ph.D., no matter how unintelligent he is.
Sengbe who I am made to understand is actually Edmund Koker is a prime example of that.
Subject: Re: SENGBE IS NOT MORE CLEVER THAN MOHAMED JALLOH
From: Ph.D
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Date Posted: 10:52:56 03/31/07 ()
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So bra go get dis PH.D nor befoe U get hart attack.
Subject: Re: SENGBE IS NOT MORE CLEVER THAN MOHAMED JALLOH
From: Kapu Sense
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Date Posted: 12:31:50 03/31/07 ()
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Den say intelligence you say Ph.D.
Subject: Re: SENGBE IS NOT MORE CLEVER THAN MOHAMED JALLOH
From: CKC
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Date Posted: 08:49:00 03/31/07 ()
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Please, if you are using the name 'Father Corbett' make sure you write without making silly grammatical errors. Father Corbet was a highly educated and respected man. One of the founders of the legendary CKC. So please have some respect for this great man by displaying a certain level of literacy on this forum.
There is nothing like 'more clever' in english. 'Cleverer' is the correct word, dummy.
Subject: Re: SENGBE IS NOT MORE CLEVER THAN MOHAMED JALLOH
From: DUMBER THAN DUMB
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Date Posted: 08:56:00 03/31/07 ()
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"There is nothing like 'more clever' in english. 'Cleverer' is the correct word, dummy."
You are the dummmy twice over.
To begin with, "more clever" is an equivalent expression to "cleverer." That means either expression can be used in place of the other.
Secondly, the correct usage is "English," not "english." Did you miss that at CKC?
Subject: Re: Jalloh, U don Crase for true
From: More Clever??
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Date Posted: 10:51:03 03/31/07 ()
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More Clever???? Hehehehehehehehahahahah!!!!!
Subject: Re: Jalloh, U don Crase for true
From: Edmund Koker, You Fool Too Mus!
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Date Posted: 12:37:21 03/31/07 ()
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CKC english? Nor kill we with laugh! You nor go pass go take da GCE O Level English wae den say you bin fail two tem? Hahahaha heheheheheh, Oh fululuwae noh know say ee fool lek soos!
Subject: Why is Victor Sylver so envious of Seaga Shaw ? ( And party
From: Newspaper Reader
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Date Posted: 05:51:26 03/31/07 ()
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After months without updating his blog, Victor Sylver is back ,and guess who the whole edition is devoted to ? Ibrahim Seaga Shaw. While Victor was working as an underpaid bus driver in London and being used as a temporary by BBC, Seaga Shaw attended Sorbonne and achieved a PH.D. Is that what is getting Victor Sylver so jealous that he will dedicate a whole issue of Sierra Herald to Shaw ?
Victor Sylver was those boys in Sierra Leone who was not serious about learning. While Seaga Shaw, Gbanabome etc were busy learning, Sylver was playing TONKOBALAY in the streets. Now it has come back to haunt him.While he is a bus driver in London, these men are professionals wearing three-piece suit to work. Poor Victor. He cannot bear the disparity and now look at what he is doing ?
Victor, Seaga did not stop you from learning book. The gates of the universities and colleges are wide-open. Leave him alone .Or did he screw your You-know-who too?
Subject: Re: Why is Victor Sylver so envious of Seaga Shaw ? ( And party
From: court cases
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Date Posted: 06:43:05 03/31/07 ()
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Many people are waitng for Victor to go to freetown so that they can lock him up for his libellous nonsense.Three of them are Sylvia Blyden,Retired General Tarawalie, and George Gelega-King, president of the special court.
these are people sylver has crudely attacked in his paper without giving them the opportunity to respond just as he has never given shaw chance to state his own side of the story as any professional journalist would have done.
sylver should note that people are keeping all these libellous articles. 100 days for tiff man, one day for masta ose. K ,,,,long so tay ee go cut.
Subject: Re: Why is Victor Sylver so envious of Seaga Shaw ? ( And party
From: Father Corbett
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Date Posted: 06:49:33 03/31/07 ()
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Does this Victor chap have a resentment for the people he is attacking ?
Subject: Re: Why is Victor Sylver so envious of Seaga Shaw ? ( And party
From: court cases
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Date Posted: 07:04:06 03/31/07 ()
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Journalism has nothing to do with resentment. Give the other side a chance to respond, no matter how much you hate them. Sylver never does that; that's his problem.
Subject: Re: Why is Victor Sylver so envious of Seaga Shaw ? ( And party
From: Father Corbett
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Date Posted: 07:05:38 03/31/07 ()
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Did they do the things he is accusing them of ?
Subject: Re: Why is Victor Sylver so envious of Seaga Shaw ? ( And party
From: court cases
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Date Posted: 07:14:20 03/31/07 ()
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If he had given them chance to respond, the reader would make his/her judgment.
Subject: Re: Why is Victor Sylver so envious of Seaga Shaw ? ( And party
From: BBC
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Date Posted: 07:43:01 03/31/07 ()
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Father Corbett, Victor Sylver is very evil, envious and vindictive .I suggest that Seaga Shaw and Gbanabome and all others he is defaming should retaliate .After all, Victor Sylver was a dropout in Sierra Leone. I wonder whether he had 0-levels. BBC does not check these things.I know people who have been BBC correspondents who did not finish high school. But it is left with Shaw and others to write too and put Victor in his right place.
Subject: Re: Why is Victor Sylver so envious of Seaga Shaw ? ( And party
From: court cases
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Date Posted: 14:49:32 03/31/07 ()
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But you dont fight with a mad man, would you? waste of time.
Subject: Re: Why is Victor Sylver so envious of Seaga Shaw ? ( And party
From: Father Corbett
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Date Posted: 15:23:25 03/31/07 ()
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But he is spoiling your name. He seems to have nothing else to write about but you people so you have to get him quiet. Sometimes, only a harsh response does it.
Subject: JOHN LEIGH BREAKS HIS OWN RULE
From: Albert Moinina
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Date Posted: 04:15:01 03/31/07 ()
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In previous response to Yaya, Mr. Leigh wrote:
Dr. Fanusie:
You are brain dead. For someone who lives in America, you are extremely hard of learning.
Did not Senator McCain chestise Gov. George Bush pre-convention? YES! Did not George Bush Snr. Chestise Ronald Reagan calling Reagan's economic recovery trickle-down plan "Voodoo Economics?" pre-convention. YES! Did any of the loosers in those contests flee their party and established a foolumunku fahlahmahtah party or join the opposition? NO
Is it not common for rivals within a particular political party to criticize and condemn the other only to get together post-convention?
Is helping uniting your party licking vomit? Man you are underdeveloped despite your long years in the West. -JL "
MOININA'S COMMENTS:
Mr. Leigh, you break your own 'rule' that says THOU SHALL NOT COMPARE AFRICAN POLITICS (SIERRA LEONE IN PARTICULAR) WITH THAT OF THE WEST (USA).
Mr. Leigh there is a million mile difference between what you cited above and your support for Berewa to which I completely accept your 'rule'. The difference is between leadership capabilities and credibility. Berewa can have all the qualifications in excess comparable to the tower of babel, what he lacks is, put diplomatically, "HE CANNOT BE TRUSTED", in some crude quarters it is called "tiffy tiffy jangolico".
Mr. Leigh, Fulumunkus can sometimes see the difference. If they can, I am completely baffled why you can't see the difference or choose to completely ignore it.
Subject: Re: MOININA MISTAKES
From: John E. Leigh
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Date Posted: 13:34:20 03/31/07 ()
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Mr. Moinina:
You guys are hard of understanding. What's the matter? Third World under-development psychosis?
For your information, my stated argument for learning from the West does not preclude relevant comparisms that are done intelligently rather than mechanically.
In the particular matter at hand, please tell forumites what is inappropriate with the examples I have cited. Or show me the exact context in which I applied the rule you claimed I enunciated earlier. I will then explain its non-mechanical meaning. Thank you very much.
Meanwhile, please note that in democratic societies, it is standard practice for rivals to fight it out pre-convention, and then put their differences aside post-convention in the interest of party unity as previously explained. This political culture has helped bring stability and prosperity to all such countries.
Hence, most stable countries have only two or three or so political parties, not much different in standards from each order when in government. Such has produced a favorable climate for economic and social advancement.
Thought not yet in existence in SLeone, such a culture is even more desirable in backward societies in order to avoid the existence of multiple political parties, instability and poverty. Thus, compromise is essential even more so in building stable democratic institutions in under-developed societies.
We cannot always insist on doing things “my way only or I’ll leave”. Nor can we take lightly the establishment of new parties as PMDC has done: secretly, one-manic ownership, populated with harlot politicians and other dubious characters; with the whole arrangement designed specifically to insure the successful double-cross of all genuine Third Force reformers for the benefit of the one-manic owner.
Setting off to set-up your own one-manic ownership party each time a conBention or convention does not go your way is a prescr1ption for instability and the establishment of multi-faros, rubbish parties with narrow membership base and maniacal agendas that generate poverty, hopelessness and violence.
Even the PMDC splitter-leader recognizes the truth and danger of such a possibility when Mr. Dynastic Slapper pleaded at the PMDC convention in Bo earlier this month for those on the losing side of votes for party positions not quit his flunkey political grouping and set up their own alphabet soup party of dunces and tombo-dumbo-foolumunkus.
Unlike the situation in developed societies and because the differences in quality and policy output between political parties in backward societies could be as vast as the difference between night and day, it is imperative that intra-party rivals strive to avoid splitting a fundamentally sound political party such as the SLPP.
Now please consider the vast differences in the reputations of political parties in our own small country. The differences are vast. It is thus common for one party to have a reputation exactly opposite of the other - a phenomenon uncommon in civilized societies.
Here now is a summary of political parties’ reputations in SLeone: nation-builders vs. poverty-spreaders; Inclusion vs. marginalization; Foreign Investment attracters vs. Foreign Investment expellers; serious-minded public servants vs. wasteful, greedy Ekutay frolickers.
Last but not least, one party believes in competition open to every member vs. another that believes in dynastic ownership and decision-making monopoly; One populated by intelligent people vs. the other populated by dunces, remedials, drop-out flunkies, and dumbo-tombo-dubious types; and humble, successful achievers vs. arrogant slapping under-achievers.
Comparisms aside, why would one belonging to a nation-building, all-inclusive, investment-attracting, and achieving political party want to split his party and allow a poverty-spreading party of tribalistic frolicking marginalizers or a dynastic party of complaining junior tribesmen and morons waltz into power given the urgent and extensive work that needs to get done in SLeone?
Just to fulfill your undeserved dreams; or provide another shot at tribal power grab?
Thank you for your attention. -JL
Subject: Re: JOHN LEIGH CHANGES RULES
From: Albert Moinina
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Date Posted: 20:49:00 03/31/07 ()
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Mr. Leigh,
You have criticized almost every opponent who tries to make comparisons of the western democracy with ours. Now you say I am hard of understanding because I point out not only breaking your own rule, but the difference between the two realities.
Once again your cited example of lack of leadership and that of CREDIBILITY AND INTEGRITY are millions are apart, I maintain my views.
Mr. Leigh, I believe that you are a very intelligent man notwithstanding our disagreements. You are trying hard to drum beat Margai's alleged weaknesses as leader. Well although we don't understand sometimes and probably most times, we do understand we equally have the right to drum beat our opponent's CREDIBILITY AND INTERGRITY and we are doing just that. That is democracy.
Take care
Subject: Re: JOHN LEIGH BREAKS HIS OWN RULE
From: Father Corbett
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Date Posted: 06:30:42 03/31/07 ()
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And it is uncharitable to call another person underdeveloped .
Subject: Re: JOHN LEIGH BREAKS HIS OWN RULE
From: Saloneman
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Date Posted: 03:50:40 04/01/07 ()
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Rev Father,
Mr Leigh just didnot call Albert underdeveloped, but in a way he is implying about Sierra Leoneans.
Ofcourse he is exceptional.
Subject: RE: So There are things Some African State Should Proud Of?
From: musa Kalawa
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Date Posted: 02:25:59 03/31/07 ()
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Mmegi/The Reporter (Gaborone)
March 27, 2007
Posted to the web March 27, 2007
Gaborone
Botswana has been put in the top 10 performing stock markets in the world where there are high returns on investment in equities.
The recent edition of The Motley Fool quoting reputable Birinyi Associates, a US money management and research firm, puts Botswana at position seven in the top 10 performers in 2006. However, Tim Hanson, writing for the publication, revealed that it was harder to think of the list because most of the countries are a surprise pack since investors are always looking at the first world stock markets.
For example, US investors are always looking at the Dow Jones that crossed 12,500 in 2006, although it just gained 16 percent in 2006.
"While that's an impressive number on the surface, it's abysmal when compared with the rest of the world's equities", said The Motly Fool about Dow.
In the surprise list, top of list is Peru with 168 percent rate of return, second is Venezuela with 156 percent, third is Vietnam by 145 percent and number four is China with 121 percent rate of return.
Russia is at number five at 92 percent, Costa Rica 6th with 77 percent followed by Botswana at 74 percent and Croatia at 61 percent. Serbia & Montenegro take position nine with 58 percent and Morocco at number 10 with a rate of return of 57 percent.
According to records, the value of shares traded on the Botswana Stock Exchange (BSE) in 2006 was P414.7 million and the number of shares traded in the same year was 87.2 million.
The Domestic Companies Index (DCI) share price index grew by 74 percent in 2006.
Subject: reform or PRESERVATION OF KABBAH'S LEGACY
From: Albert Moinina
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Date Posted: 01:45:10 03/31/07 ()
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Berewa talks on running mate
Addressing hundreds of SLPP supporters, Vice President Solomon Berewa asked them to ginger themselves up to win forthcoming presidential and parliamentary elections. He reportedly told them that the issue of running mate would depend on Godˇ¦s infinite guidance ˇV that whosoever God directed him to appoint would be acceptable to the party and the nation as a whole. Solomon Berewa solicited togetherness in order to win the elections, so that he would carry on with President Kabbahˇ¦s legacy. He maintained that the appointment of a running mate would be a time of his own choosing.
YES, THERE IS REAL 'REFORM' TAKING PLACE TO PRESERVE AND CONTINUE THE LEGACY OF KABBAH.
Subject: Re: reform or PRESERVATION OF KABBAH'S LEGACY
From: John E. Leigh
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Date Posted: 13:40:16 03/31/07 ()
Email Address: johnernestleigh@yahoo.com
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Kabbah's legacy has many positive aspects. But lets face it, my Third Force writings demonstrate that additional things need to be done for our people and country.
Please do not always take political speeches at face value. There are other dynamics at work - virtualy always. Kindly watch the campaign unfold. Thank you. - JL
Subject: Re: reform or PRESERVATION OF KABBAH'S LEGACY
From: Jimmy Kandeh
To: All
Date Posted: 06:13:54 03/31/07 ()
Email Address: jkandeh@richmond.edu
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Albert:
It's called doublespeak (preservation/reform), another hallmark of leadership insincerity and disconnection from popular currents. Who in their right minds would want a continuation of Kabba's legacy? Little wonder the disaffected and alienated majority are defaulting to the PMDC and APC.
Subject: Re: reform or PRESERVATION OF KABBAH'S LEGACY
From: Salia Koroma
To: All
Date Posted: 10:21:52 04/01/07 ()
Email Address: salia@hotmail.com
Entered From: smith2250.apsc.vt.edu at 128.173.64.123
Message:
You have two problems with your arguments:
1. You are a man who has a disfunctional relationship with his wife and family;
2. You have been unable to reach the pinnacle of your profession asa career Associate professor.
Now why will you be considered an authority on anything except failure?
Subject: Re: reform or PRESERVATION OF KABBAH'S LEGACY
From: the truth
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Date Posted: 18:46:49 04/02/07 ()
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This sounds like Maarda Sia tiyaama always attaching people's personal life. So Maarda you are saying that you have a very good relationship with your wife?
Subject: Re: reform or PRESERVATION OF KABBAH'S LEGACY
From: Albert Moinina
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Date Posted: 01:46:23 03/31/07 ()
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CULLED FROM AWARENESS TIMES
http://news.sl/drwebsite/publish/article_20055124.shtml
Subject: For Yaya Fanusie
From: Albert Moinina
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Date Posted: 00:44:57 03/31/07 ()
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I meant to thank you instead. Ah taya me brother. tenki tenki for u advise. Leh we see how John go respond. As ar kin say ar wish every issue had a mathetical solution. Twist en turn nor dae. E either right or wrong. But politics, hmmmmm e look leh say e kin go million ways.
Subject: Anybody tried to confirm Don Webb's death?
From: Forum Veteran
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Date Posted: 23:00:58 03/30/07 ()
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Don Webb,we are hearing, died of diabetes after he had one leg amputated. Did anybody find out ? He was one of us.
Subject: For John Leigh: IS BEREWA TRUSTWORTHY?
From: Albert Moinina
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Date Posted: 22:20:08 03/30/07 ()
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When will John Leigh tell us Berewa can now be trusted, not in comparison with the other Presidential Candidates but as an INDIVIDUAL STANDING ON THE STAGE COMPETING WITH NO ONE BUT HIS CREDIBILITY? IF YES, WHY?
Thank you.
Subject: Re: For John Leigh: IS BEREWA TRUSTWORTHY?
From: John E. Leigh
To: All
Date Posted: 13:54:54 03/31/07 ()
Email Address: johnernestleigh@yahoo.com
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When dealing with me, you cannot ignore reality as you wish. Absolutely no hypotethicals in this matter. You must squarely face the issue confronting the voters of Sierra Leone.
There are certain citizens running for president in succession to Tejan Kabbah. People have to make a choice from three or four people. Tribal voters close their eyes and vote for fellow tribsemen. Relative do likewise.
Objective voters, on the other hand, are compelled to compare and contrast the qualities of each candidate with his rivals.
Berewa is definitely far more trustworthy in my estimation than all of his presidential rivals combined.
Here with is my full statement setting forth reasons for preferring VP Berewa over his competition:
PRESS BRIEFING STATEMENT BY JOHN E. LEIGH
JOHN LEIGH SUPPORTS SOLOMON BEREWA FOR PRESIDENT
Ladies and Gentlemen of the Press:
Thank you for accepting my invitation to attend this Press Briefing.
I hope each one of you will report fully and accurately to all your numerous readers and listeners, respectively, the relevant remarks made here today.
I am holding this briefing to inform all my fellow citizens of Sierra Leone and all my friends and well wishers abroad that I am supporting Vice President Solomon Berewa for the office of the President of Sierra Leone beginning in 2007 in succession to President Tejan Kabbah.
I support VP Berewa as our next President because I believe he is the most qualified candidate among those currently vying for the presidency. In my experience, Mr. Berewa is known to be far more experienced, far more educated, far more able, and far more good-intentioned than any other candidate contesting with him.
I know Mr. Berewa to be nationalistic, not tribalistic. Mr. Berewa is known to me as a mature leader free from petulance, political selfishness and rash actions. In fact, he is quite deliberative.
BEREWA WILL MOVE SIERRA LEONE FORWARD
I believe that when elected, Solomon Berewa will pursue policies and implement practices to improve international affairs, promote economic development, protect our institutions, advance women's rights and institute law reforms.
While one candidate has already announced that he prefers to impose a dictatorship up on us but ONLY under his so-called benevolent leadership, VP Berewa seeks genuine democracy. And while another opposition candidate will most certainly impose a harsh tribal hegemony upon us, I believe Mr. Berewa will strive for efficient, responsible, representative government composed of highly trained, experienced and good-intentioned officials in order to move the country forward regardless of gender, tribe, region, or religion.
Mr. Berewa has personally assured me that considerable attention and resources will be concentrated in waging a war against poverty; food insufficiencies; improving Sierra Leone's image and respect worldwide and in uplifting the lives and the general wellbeing of our people.
Under his leadership, I expect that laws that discriminate against women and hinder their advancement will be repealed or reformed as would laws that criminalized libel. No more jail time for Sierra Leone journalists.
I believe that many more qualified people from all regions of our country will be more willing to work with VP Berewa for the advancement of Sierra Leone than for any of his rivals.
I BELONG ONLY TO THE SLPP
As the leader of the SLPP, Mr. Berewa heads the one political party in Sierra Leone that belongs to all its members equally and which possesses a culture of internal democracy – the very culture I personally live by.
This is in sharp contrast to the situation in the two other political parties that are either owned by one man; or very new with no tract record; or monopolized in a significant way by members of one single tribe as evidenced by the disproportionate numbers of top officials and cadets – civilian, police and military – that they appointed from only a few chiefdoms in only one province in their pre-war governments.
I learned recently that one immature politician and his close supporters have been telling his membership falsely that Dr. James Jonah and I are with him in his new party; and that we might even be contesting for the leadership of his party. This is talking rubbish, nonsense. That man's party is a one-man affair and a useless dictatorship and was set-up to improperly confiscate the much talked about Third Force.
I am a member of the Sierra Leone Peoples Party and will so remain. I know that that are some serious internal problems within the SLPP. However, I have no intention of leaving my party and joining any of the other two parties - let alone take part in a phony leadership contest in a new party of dictatorship. I plan to continue to seek reforms from within the SLPP.
Dr. Jonah retains his friendship with President Tejan Kabbah, the SLPP President of Sierra Leone. From what
I know of him, I can tell you that Dr. Jonah is unlikely to participate in any political venture predicated on vexation and dynastic ambition and whose leadership, from its public acts, oozes immaturity. At any rate, I do not speak for Dr. Jonah. I am only giving you my views in light of the persistent rubbish talk that he and I will be contesting the leadership position in one of the new parties.
PLEASE GIVE BEREWA YOUR FULL SUPPORT
I appeal to all the people of Sierra Leone who believe in what I stand for to join me in supporting Mr. Solomon Berewa for President and in vigorously campaigning for him with me so that he will most certainly become our next President in 2007.
SLPP WANTS YOU TO REJOIN YOUR PARTY
I appeal to all those SLPP members who have left the party to join new-fangled opportunistic parties to please return to your SLPP home and join me in helping to make our party more democratic and stronger. Long after the 2007 elections have come and gone, SLPP will be around ready to help you.
No one can say the same thing for a one-man, new party born in vexation and grounded in vaulting personal ambition. Nor can one put any hope in a party whose mind-bogging, long, bad record in office, notorious tribalism, poverty-generating practices and narrow mindedness will keep it from winning national elections in the foreseeable future because large numbers of people suffered grievous wrongs under their power.
PLEASE JOIN ME TO FIGHT TRIBALISM
As we Sierra Leoneans get closer to each other; learn better from each other, sensible people will realize that there is no place for tribalism in our country's future. We will all come to understand that either we all must advance and prosper together or we will all fall together!
I therefore appeal to my Northern brethrens who truly abhor tribalism and who seek genuine democracy, justice and development to forthwith cross-over en-mass into the SLPP and join me there in helping to make the SLPP a truly democratic and much stronger national party so that we will continue to advance our country's interest for the benefit of each one of us.
Thank you for your kind attention.
Dated in Freetown, May 22, 2006
And
Respectfully submitted
By:
John E. Leigh, Member, Sierra Leone Peoples Party
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Subject: Re: For John Leigh: IS BEREWA TRUSTWORTHY?
From: Yaya Fanusie
To: All
Date Posted: 22:34:59 03/30/07 ()
Email Address: Saigobe@lanset.com
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Brother Albert,
You are wasting your time because words like trustworthy, honesty, Trust, credible, reliable, wholesome, ethical, moral, dependable are all meamingless to John leigh and Berewa.
Subject: Re: For John Leigh: IS BEREWA TRUSTWORTHY?
From: Cornelius
To: All
Date Posted: 23:08:01 03/31/07 ()
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Coz Yaya,
Kusheh Oh!
Ow una dae boat di man so
You must admit thathe is dedicated to his cause.
Now please say something nice....
Subject: Re: For John Leigh: IS BEREWA TRUSTWORTHY?
From: Albert Moinina
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Date Posted: 00:38:43 03/31/07 ()
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Thank you Brother Albert for the above, you may be right after all. However, I still want to give John the last chance on this issue. He has defended his support for Berewa despite his previous criticism on the basis of pre and post convention stance. All I want to know is how the credibility of someone, in this instance Berewa, may have changed between pre and post convention. My principle is that if someone is not credible he cannot be credible until he has proven himself to be so. May be Berewa has proven to be trustworthy. If this is the case with convincing evidence, I am prepared to re-evaluate my political stance.
Subject: Re: For Yaya Fanusie: IS BEREWA TRUSTWORTHY?
From: Albert Moinina
To: All
Date Posted: 00:41:01 03/31/07 ()
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I meant to thank you. Ah taya me brother. tenki tenki. Lah go enjoy the weekend pa.
Subject: For Dr. Curtis -Thomas
From: Knice
To: All
Date Posted: 21:34:58 03/30/07 ()
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Dr. Thomas:
I just returned from the 'African Economic Forum' at Columbia University and I want to thank you for bringing it to our attention. I have attended many forums on African economies, and I have participated in a few. I can tell you without hesitation that this Columbia event is the best of breed that I have been honored to witness.
My only disappointment dear Doctor is that I assumed you would be there and I was looking forward to meeting you. I looked and looked at every name tag, several times over, and none spelled Dr. Charles Curtis Thomas. In fact in an audience of some three hundred people there was only one other Sierra Leonean besides me. I don't know what to make of such gross under representation in a metropolis that is home to hundreds of Sierra Leoneans.
Subject: Re: For Dr. Curtis -Thomas
From: ronsho
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Date Posted: 05:56:28 03/31/07 ()
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why do you want to meet Curtis? Bo lef di man.
Subject: Re: For Dr. Curtis -Thomas
From: Madam Korkor
To: All
Date Posted: 08:14:05 03/31/07 ()
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Message:
Sierra Leoneans only love pleasure
Subject: Re: For Dr. Curtis -Thomas
From: Yaya Fanusie
To: All
Date Posted: 22:40:35 03/30/07 ()
Email Address: Saigobe@lanset.com
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Message:
Knice,
Dem bin go plenti dey if nah bi 50th birthday party, baby showers, or graduation party. Den noh bisin pan important ting dem.
how about a snopsis of the forum?
Subject: Re: For Dr. Curtis -Thomas
From: Kanfori Sorie Koroma
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Date Posted: 22:50:25 03/30/07 ()
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And the doctor himself was not there ? How weird.
Subject: Half of the rigging of elections already done by SLPP
From: Kanfori Sorie Koroma
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Date Posted: 21:23:06 03/30/07 ()
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You guys are sitting here thinking that an election is going to take place.You are fools. Only SLPP thieves and cheats registered to vote and they will get the votes. I wonder why none of you, with all your degrees ,are realizing that rigging the voters registration is the same as rigging the elections .SLPP and Berewa will have to be forcibly removed or no way.
Subject: Re: Half of the rigging of elections already done by SLPP
From: Hafhaf
To: All
Date Posted: 12:56:55 04/02/07 ()
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If they have already done half the rigging, we have half more left-go and do it.
Subject: Re: Half of the rigging of elections already done by SLPP
From: Independent Man
To: All
Date Posted: 01:19:44 03/31/07 ()
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You sound like a KDDA/EKUTAY SWEHBEH.
When you smell defeat you start accusing others of fraud. What a shameless act!!!
SLPP does not need to rig the elections. The opposition in Sa Lone is so useless and so politically inept that they can be defeated any day of the week.
They have absolutely nothing to offer the people except to criticise SLPP.
Why would anyone want to entrust our country to known poverty spreaders and abitious empty headed clowns with dictatorial tendencies?
Subject: Re: Half of the rigging of elections already done by SLPP
From: John E. Leigh
To: All
Date Posted: 11:58:37 03/31/07 ()
Email Address: johnernestleigh@yahoo.com
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Independent Man:
You've said it right again. Thank you very much.
Indeed, the opposition is on their usual C/Y/A (cover your ass)contingency planning session. Having seen the mood of the country becoming increasingly pro-SLPP because the people are not interested in another 26 years of poverty spreaders and marginaliers over their heads, nor do they wish to experiment with known dumbos, tombos, munkus and bangucrooks; especially a group under empty leadership, the KDDAs/Ekutays and their remedial flunkey allies continue to articulate possible excuses to explain away their anticipated electoral failure once the vote numbers are in beginning after the polls close in July 28.
I registered in Freetown early this month. I also observed registration activities in all three provinces shortly thereafter. In my opinion, the process was openly transparent, the capacity was about 95% adequate, the management was efficient under Sierra Leonean standards and the whole endeavor was absolutely free for all citizens regardless of party or tribe or religion or gender.
There was one problem area, however; namely, some registration centers in the Southern and Eastern Provinces were at times up to fourteen miles' distance from certain SLPP heartland communities. Some people complained that it was a deliberate anti-SLPP move by the Election Commission. But I saw it differently: the number and locat1on of registration centers in the South and East reflected the limitation of Commission resources as well as the commissioners best independent judgment.
So, instead of complaining idly and on the basis of ignorant suppositions, SLPP area offices hired vehicles to transport interested party members to the centers nearest them. It was time-consuming, inconvenient and expensive, but SLPP workers did the job needed to be done.
Those complaining in this forum are most likely citizens who have not set foot in their villages for years and probably believe that blowing hot air will make for a successful C/Y/A policy. No way, Jose! -JL
Subject: Re: Half of the rigging of elections already done by SLPP
From: Ali Baba
To: All
Date Posted: 21:40:35 03/30/07 ()
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That is so true. I have that feeling the elections are almost over after the registrations
Subject: BRA CORNIE: IT'S FRIDAY NITRO!
From: KING LOGGY
To: All
Date Posted: 20:38:25 03/30/07 ()
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Message:
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Subject: Re: BRA CORNIE: IT'S FRIDAY NITRO!
From: Sengbe
To: All
Date Posted: 13:20:28 04/01/07 ()
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Message:
Awilo Longomba (son of Vicky Longomba of OK Jazz fame)produced this dvd (Mondongo)about two years ago. Are you guys only seeeing it now - on youtube.com?
For me this is old stuff.
Stay current my friends, stay current!!
I'd like to recommend "Benediction Tous Ensemble" by Chancelier Desi Mbwese & Planet Elegance Band - 2cd's and 1 dvd in the same package. It was produced about two months ago. Very good.
I hope to recieve a new shipment next week. I will post my recommendations at that time.
Stay current, my friends.
Subject: Re: BRA CORNIE: IT'S FRIDAY NITRO!
From: Cornelius
To: All
Date Posted: 08:50:24 04/02/07 ()
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Let me hasten to add – (no offence meant by the tons) that I do admire the professor’s taste.
I talked to Dr. Dynamite a few weeks ago and he is badly in need of updating about the –current scene.
Among the musical Sierra Leoneans that I know, it’s Stanley Fraser for his Afro- Cubana bugaloo, pachanga, charanga, Joseph Carpenter – yes my Honours English classmate and now Clerk of the Sierra Leone parliament, for his Chubby Checker Twisting Matilda dance steps – ( can you here him saying “ those were the days” and more recently – for love of Congo Music ( just as Kofi Sammy was honoured by the people of Aba, for their love of Ghana music) Soulay Daramy, a good man ( Mr. Kabbah’s chief of protocol and where ever the boss is you will find him in the picture, so he must also be doing some body-guarding) and then there Ali Badara ( who I baptised BAD).
But Dr. Konouwah, have you listened to SONNY BOBO – (Igbo guy, Warrior tradition but with a marked Congo rhythm section)?
Well, after so many weekends at the White House in Owerri, so would you, I know Igbo Music , the way you know Ami Kallon, I know warrior, dig Osadebe, but this Sonny Bobo ( nice surname ) , still, at first I couldn’t believe my ears. Sonny Bobo!
After which seeing is believing and I hope that you are now a master of your own guitar…..
AS for the great Yoruba music, Apala, the Juju and the Fuji
Ah Sengbi, if you get to Abeokuta - or even Ondo State, you will never return to America (where you are used to the little hip
Hopping…….
Subject: Re: BRA CORNIE: IT'S FRIDAY NITRO!
From: Cornelius Hamelberg
To: All
Date Posted: 08:45:31 04/02/07 ()
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Let me hasten to add – (no offence meant by the tons) that I do admire the professor’s taste.
I talked to Dr. Dynamite a few weeks ago and he is badly in need of updating about the - Cubana dance steps, Joseph Carpenter – yes my Honours English classmate and now Clerk of the Sierra Leone parliament, for his Chubby Checker Twisting Matilda dance steps – ( can you here him saying “ those were the days” and more recently – for love of Congo Music ( just as Kofi Sammy was honoured by the people of Aba, for their love of Ghana music) Soulay Daramy, a good man ( Mr. Kabbah’s chief of protocol and where ever the boss is you will find him in the picture, so he must also be doing some body-guarding) and then there Ali Badara ( who I baptised BAD).
But Dr. Konouwah, have you listened to SONNY BOBO – (Igbo guy, Warrior tradition but with a marked Congo rhythm section)?
Well, after so many weekends at the White House in Owerri, so would you, I know Igbo Music , the way you know Ami Kallon, I know warrior, dig Osadebe, but this Sonny Bobo ( nice surname ) , still, at first I couldn’t believe my ears. Sonny Bobo!
After which seeing is believing and I hope that you are now a master of your own guitar…..
AS for the great Yoruba music, Apala, the Juju and the Fuji
Ah Sengbi, if you get to Abeokuta - or even Ondo State, you will never return to America (where you are used to the little hip
Hopping…….
Subject: Re: BRA CORNIE: IT'S FRIDAY NITRO!
From: Cornelius
To: All
Date Posted: 08:04:43 04/02/07 ()
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Message:
" a new shipment" sounds like you are expecting a few tons of da music.....
By the way, who plays on Kamajor's cassette "SLPP" - you know the one that introduces Dr. Prince Harding, and the rest of the SLPP crew (of those days.
We'll try to stay current Senghor....not just Congolese
A Psalm for the rev....
Subject: Re: BRA CORNIE: IT'S FRIDAY NITRO!
From: Cornelius Hamelberg
To: All
Date Posted: 08:47:00 04/01/07 ()
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Message:
Thanks a lot King Loggy
I wonder how Sahr T and professor Sengbe are enjoying the little Congo hip-hopping and shaking the thing.
Sengbe says ( boastfully) that he is a little hardened to all the ass-wagging & hopping taking place right in front of his face, just because he is used to it, but I doubt him......with his CDs direct from the manufacturers Paris & Brussels, and his neckties from London, shoes from Brazil, sapeur suits from Rome, cigars from Zimbabwe, books from Cambridge, himself up there in North Carolina praising Samba Pieh and all SLPP people
( Sir Albert Margai was the patron Saint of AKPATA Jazz which was led by Sondayway. What about Emerson and Dad Saj's psalms railing about 28th July...
Sengbe, tonite's THE NIGHT & no one should forget to burn all the chametz
I’m going to listen to “Wenhamo NDEWE Nhamo” by JONAH MOYO & DEVERA NGWENA before reading any more about Mugabe's next round with Morgan Tsvangirai
Subject: Re: BRA CORNIE: IT'S FRIDAY NITRO!
From: Cornelius
To: All
Date Posted: 09:12:38 04/01/07 ()
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Message:
N.B. If you are missing the glorious 70s thru 80s, then Tanzania Congo still features that Congo Saxo. In e.g. “Swahili Rumba” by Golden Sounds band….
that's the only place left where you can find it, and of course still in Brazza...do you remember ”Bridge over the Congo" ?
Papa Noel has played with two Cuban (2 CDs). AFRICA MUST UNITE and I think that it's time for him to join force with Sheku Diabate ( they can both be Romantic in an Afro-Cubana Wachi wara and Mandinka Bembeya sort of way ... in that case what should we expect? Not dombolo fire but some more Minuet Dancee
ah!
Subject: Re: BRA CORNIE: IT'S FRIDAY NITRO!
From: Sengbe
To: All
Date Posted: 13:07:48 04/02/07 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
Eh Bra Cornie!! Nar for ticliss ahm small normor pan music u go see how ee day show-off ee vast knowledge about ahm - I mean ALL genres.
Bra Cornie I have taken some notes about the artists you have introduced to us on this forum in these articles of yours. I will try to get their music - the ones I do not have in my collection.
"...do you remember ”Bridge over the Congo"?...
Is that a question? Of-course I do - from Bo School days.
Subject: Re: BRA CORNIE: IT'S FRIDAY NITRO!
From: ST/
To: All
Date Posted: 21:26:26 03/31/07 ()
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Message:
Great Stuff.
Reminds me of "Africa highlife"
Broadcast from 5-7pm gmt from Ivory Coast.
Back in the day.
Which coincided very nicely with my happy hour.
Well ok, hours.
ST/
Subject: Re: BRA CORNIE: IT'S FRIDAY NITRO!
From: Cornelius
To: All
Date Posted: 22:33:15 03/31/07 ()
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Message:
Top Werrason and top berahs
Subject: A MUST WATCH?
From: KING LOGGY
To: All
Date Posted: 17:01:14 03/30/07 ()
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Message:
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Subject: WAT D FOX NOR GEH D GARPE E SAY EE SAWA
From: DR CHARLES CURTIS_ THOMAS RN, MD ,MASTER OF NONE
To: All
Date Posted: 16:45:56 03/30/07 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
THIS MESSAGE IS FOR THE SELF KNOW BASTARD WHOM THEY JUST KICKED OUT OF A GIRLFRIEND"S HOUSE IN COLLEGE. DIS MAN NOR GEH FIX ABODE, PAN ALL E 33YRS NA AMERICA SO SO BIG TALK, NOR WONDER WAY IN WEF EIB EN WASE NA DOE, DIS PA YA NOR SERIOUS
Subject: MOH'M DIALLO ET LES DOCTEURS DES PHILOSOPHIES DE SALONE
From: Le Professeur du Sorbonne, France
To: All
Date Posted: 13:06:27 03/30/07 ()
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Message:
The trust of this posting is my revelation, based on careful observation, of Mohamed Jalloh’s overt antagonistic and rude attitude toward Sierra Leonean Ph.Ds. and other highly educated individuals.
Let’s take a look at some of our nation’s illustrious sons that Jalloh had labeled unintelligent and gone on to throw garbage in their faces all in the name of a fundamental and inherent jealousy on the part of Jalloh of people with superior intellects relative to his (Jalloh’s) own:
Sengbe Konouwah, Ph.D
Micro-Econ, Ph.D
Ed Smith, Ph.D
John Mannah, Ph.D
Patrick Muana, Ph.D
John Leigh, MBA, JD
My long observation from the deck of peeperdom can confirm that Jalloh has always been the instigator of the fights that he had with the gentlemen/monikers mentioned above. The fuel that drives these fights, in my opinion, has everything to do with Jalloh’s own inherent intellectual insecurity and its accompanying low self-esteem – Jalloh only has an MBA from little known Washington State University. At 51, it may be too lake to go for a Ph.D or JD.
Ph.Ds, MDs, JDs and LLBs rule the world. They are considered the brain power that keeps the engine of scientific and technological progress running. Jalloh does not fall in this category and therefore feels left out. And to make matters worse, he does not feel he is getting the respect and recognition that he deserves. But respect and recognition for what? What intellectual contributions has Jalloh made to his field? A few disjointed and poorly written opinion pieces that continue to rot away in the archives of thrashes like ‘We Yone’ and ‘Awareness Times’? Please.
Jalloh’s “celebrated” “research”, “How to Alleviate Poverty in Sierra Leone” published as usual by ‘We Yone’ and ‘Awareness Times’ suggests that a benevolent Sierra Leonean leader can immediately halt the poverty of his people by abitrally equating the value of the leone to the dollar. In this essay (not a research paper by any standard), which John Leigh has long and correctly dismissed as a dunce, Kothor Jalloh has no role for the demand and supply of leones in the world market. Furthermore, the productive capacity of Sierra Leone’s economy has nothing to do with the determination of exchange rates. But this is truly representative of Jalloh’s world of porous reasoning and sycophancy.
A man with a super bloated ego that keeps getting nourishment from those with minimal understanding of the science of economics on this forum, Jalloh has gone on to label himself “Sierra Leone’s leading economist” – a slap in the face of a country whose sons and daughters continue to bulldoze their ways through some of the world’s most prestigious Economics Ph.D programs. But this is Moh’m Jalloh, a classic example of a sycophant and a crazy egoist who craves for continous public notoriety. Watch, he is going to blame Sengbe or John Leigh for this piece. The problem is, Jalloh simply cannot put a halt to his obsession with learned Sierra Leoneans.
Subject: Re: MOH'M DIALLO ET LES DOCTEURS DES PHILOSOPHIES DE SALONE
From: Speakinf Nonsense
To: All
Date Posted: 07:27:39 03/31/07 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
You must be out of your mind. Look, both Jalloh and Sengbe do not hide under handles, much as they are at variance. Both men often used their real names when posting here. Besides, having a Phd is a matter of choice; it does not make you more wiser, either. So it is nonsensical for somebody to be jealous of a Phd holder. Does the Phd put bread and butter in your mouth? It is no, for most individuals with Phds in the diaspora. If you think I'm lying, then do some research and tell me your result. I'll be the first to admit I'm wrong.
Subject: Re: EDMUND KOKER -- ITS YOUR IGNORANCE, NOT YOUR PH.D!
From: SELF-DELUSION
To: All
Date Posted: 14:24:27 03/30/07 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
Edmund Koker (if that is real name), please take your deep inferiority complex and your unhealthy obsession with Sa Lon's leading economist to those who share your multiple intellectual and social deficiencies.
We are not interested in your rudeness or your tribalism or your inferiority complex -- or your legendary inability to understand the simplest things.
So you will never understand a very obvious fact: It is your crudity, rudeness, tribalism and notorious inability to understand anything you read which are your eternal problems -- not any Ph.D. or M.B.A. or LL.B., or G.C.E. "O" Level you may claim to have.
BTW, please don't try to write English sentences. Your grammar is still stuck below the proficiency of a G.C.E. "O" Level English student. Lonta.
Subject: Re: EDMUND KOKER -- ITS YOUR IGNORANCE, NOT YOUR PH.D!
From: Sengbe
To: All
Date Posted: 14:31:49 03/30/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 198.85.62.235
Message:
Una see?
OBSESSION! OBSESSION!! OBSESSION!!!
Shallow jalloh don crase for true.
I did NOT write that piece.
I will just ignore you from now on.
You very stupid fool.
Subject: Re: EDMUND KOKER -- ITS YOUR IGNORANCE, NOT YOUR PH.D!
From: Concerned for Senbbe
To: All
Date Posted: 07:53:07 03/31/07 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
Sengbe, you very well know Jalloh do not use handles to attack you. I also will vouch on your behalf that you use your real Segbe name too when you go on your attacks. If I were you, I will ignore these different handles which individuals often attributed to either you or Jalloh. If I am dumb in all things, this is one thing I am certain about: you and Jalloh are not afraid to use your actual names in your postings.
Subject: Re: Sengbe, Take it Easy, Bro
From: Le Professuer du Sorbonne, France
To: All
Date Posted: 15:07:33 03/30/07 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
I knew Jalloh was going to accuse as the writer of this piece. Dis norto jes obsession nar crase di man don crase for true. Nar for admit am nar kissy crase yard.
Subject: Re: Sengbe, Take it Easy, Bro
From: Look Who's Talking (to Himself)
To: All
Date Posted: 15:27:11 03/30/07 ()
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Message:
Edmund Koker, naturally (given your limitless capacity for incomprehension), you would be the last to understand that talking to yourself is the surest sign of your expanding lunacy.
Subject: Re: EDMUND KOKER -- ITS YOUR IGNORANCE, NOT YOUR PH.D!
From: Wait a minute!
To: All
Date Posted: 14:46:13 03/30/07 ()
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Message:
"I did NOT write that piece."
Does that mean you now finally admit that Sengbe and Edmund Koker are one and the same cowardly rude, and crude tribalist?
Do you need a lawyer to vet your self-incriminatory rants?
Subject: Re: EDMUND KOKER -- ITS YOUR IGNORANCE, NOT YOUR PH.D!
From: BeBEHAVE YOURSELF
To: All
Date Posted: 14:38:49 03/30/07 ()
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Message:
Edmund Koker, please have someone translate the following into a language you could finally understand:
Rudeness is not a substitute for reason.
Subject: PLEASE DO NOT LET SIERRA LEONE FALL INTO ANOTHER WAR
From: Bella Barrie
To: All
Date Posted: 03:42:36 03/30/07 ()
Email Address: mbarrie@gmail.com
Entered From: adsl-wan-217-154-29-181.mistral.co.uk at 217.154.29.181
Message:
PLEASE DO NOT LET SIERRA LEONE FALL INTO ANOTHER WAR
Sierra Leone has undergone a bloody war which has seen hundreds of thousands people killed; are we forgetting so soon? Up till now the real course of the war is yet to be determined. People might think ‘GREED’ is the main cause, while others might say it is because of DIAMONDS; however, everyone might agree that it is the ‘Innocent people that have nothing to do with it that have lost their lives’
July 28 2007 is the polling day for Sierra Leone, the day when all citizens of Sierra Leone that are eligible to vote will express their rights to vote.
Is this the case? Or will this be the case? These are a few questions that every citizen of this nation would like to ask. The answer lies with politicians but will they ever give us the answers. My answer is ‘NO’.
My advice to this nation is we don’t want any more wars, no tribalism, no killings of innocent civilians; all we want is a free and fair election.
Is the WEST watching? Now is the time the West can play an active role to avoid another disaster. As a concerned citizen I am paying close attention to what is currently going on to this small West African nation.
The Citizens of this country plead to the west ‘PLEASE DO NOT LET SIERRA LEONE FALL INTO ANOTHER WAR’ we do not want to see anymore killings, suffering or displaced people.
This message is not only for the WEST but also for all POLITICAL LEADERS in the country.
From
Mohamed Bella Barrie
Subject: Re: PLEASE DO NOT LET SIERRA LEONE FALL INTO ANOTHER WAR
From: Yaya Fanusie
To: All
Date Posted: 11:33:39 03/30/07 ()
Email Address: Saigobe@lanset.com
Entered From: adsl-75-20-220-91.dsl.pltn13.sbcglobal.net at 75.20.220.91
Message:
Brother Barrie,
I support fully your views and sentiments. So long as we stay active civic wise, the elections will be Free and Fair and violence free. All of us must support the police as they execise their duties lawfully. We must respect our police. We must assist them to maintain law and order.
Let us mobilize domestic and foreign forces to ensure that the elections is fair and free.
I expect the APC and PMDC to conduct their political activities in a lawful and peaceful manner. And I expect the SLPP government to act lawfully. Respect the LAW. I can assure you that the citizens are not going to be victims any more.
Yaya Fanusie
Subject: Re: PLEASE DO NOT LET SIERRA LEONE FALL INTO ANOTHER WAR
From: Political Analyst
To: All
Date Posted: 05:56:03 03/30/07 ()
Email Address:
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Total ignorance.War did not take place,because of greed or diamonds.Read TRC carefully and read between the lines.
Subject: Re: PLEASE DO NOT LET SIERRA LEONE FALL INTO ANOTHER WAR
From: Bella Barrie
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Date Posted: 07:47:09 03/30/07 ()
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This is for 'Political Analyst'. Please read before commenting. READ READ READ and understand....
"Sierra Leone has undergone a bloody war which has seen hundreds of thousands people killed; are we forgetting so soon? Up till now the real course of the war is yet to be determined. People might think ‘GREED’ is the main cause, while others might say it is because of DIAMONDS; however, everyone might agree that it is the ‘Innocent people that have nothing to do with it that have lost their lives’......."
Subject: The Race to Complete Bumbuna Hydro...Resettlement Units Comp
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Date Posted: 21:15:00 03/29/07 ()
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The Race to Complete Bumbuna Hydro...Resettlement Units Complete Survey
Posted by Thomas Kargbo on Mar 29, 2007, 21:17
STANDARD TIMES
If the present concern of, and energy already expended and continues to be expended by, the World Bank, the Government of Sierra Leone, Project Implementation Unit (PIU), Techsult and partners, and the two resettlement units located at Bumbuna and Fadugu towards the actualization of the Bumbuna Hydro Election Project is anything to countenance, then Sierra Leoneans would soon heave a sigh of relief regarding the availability of electricity supply, which has eluded them for quite some years now.
This is because the above institutions and units are working round the clock to make certain all those villages and household heads that would be directly affected when the chiefdom is flooded in April 2007 are completely relocated and compensated for lost lands, farms crops and trees like piassava, cocoa, mango, improved mango and palm oil, palm oil, kola trees pineapples and guava, etc.
As a result, the two resettlement units stationed in both Bumbuna and Fadugu recently carried out a two-week survey to ensure that those lands, villages and family heads are the direct beneficiaries as put forth by the 2004 survey.
With the completion of the recent survey, it emerged that four (4) villages on both sides of the Seli and Thawokolo Rivers fall below the shoreline and as such its inhabitants have to be relocated to new communities. They include Kamaboney, Mathombe and Kamasilon in Diang chiefdom and Kasaloba in Kasumko chiefdom.
Incidentally, no village would be relocated in Kalansogoia chiefdom.
In spite of that, Katene, a village in the latter chiefdom agreed to host the settlers from Mathombe village and have already done so when they offered the settlers five acres of land to build ten houses.
Work has already started at the various sites in both Diang and Kalansogoia chiefdoms.
As already stated the World Bank, the Government of Sierra Leone, Techsult and partners are ever determined to see through the BHEP, and consistent with this they are sworn to leave no pebble unturned.
This was significantly registered on Sunday 18/03/07 when a meeting was convened at Bumbuna to thrash out emerging constraints and to further allay the fears of the people affected by the project to ensure that nothing environmentally hazardous is left unattended.
In attendance were officials from the PIU including Dr. C.J. Thomas, Pa Vandi, George Khoryama, Mr. Barrie and others.
BHEP consultant Mr. Mustapha Karbo, World Bank representative Dr. Maria Cruz, paramount chief of Kalansogoia chiefdom Mr. Moore-Turay , Area Manage Bumbuna, Councilor Madam Nancy Thalan-Turay, APC’s Musu Kandeh, Charles Mambu, Human Rights activists and representatives of both SAP and LAIR.
Others included ninety-seven (97) PAPs from Katene Mathombe (settlers), Kakutan, Kamassaypayna, Kathoina, Kathengben, Kassasi, Kadala Kameral and Kasokiral/Regbema, etc.
The PAPS are made up of the village Resettlement Committee members and household heads who will lose land and farm crops after the dam would have been flooded. The meeting itself and participants were guided by the limited time before the start of relocating the PAPS and the subsequent flooding of the dam.
Concerns raised by PAPS from Kadala, Kawunkulu and Kasasi ranged from the possibility of turning their villages into islands, losing new farms lands and the economic trees therein and others.
BHEP consultant, Mr. Mustapha R. Kargob was reassuring when he informed the PAPS that the project goes beyond three years and that any environmental hiccups would always be addressed even after fifty years.
In essence the environmental impact of the dam on PAPS and villages would always be the concern of environmentalists and subsequent governments, not excluding the present one.
With regards the initial constraints that faced the RU office at Bumbuna, which bordered on labour in the site marked for Mathombe settles, the paramount chief of Kalansogoia chiefdom wasted no time in committing village heads in the aforementioned villages to do all in their power to provide the requisite labour (to be paid for) that would fast-track the completion of the building of houses for Mathombe settlers.
As at present several workers have flooded Katene from various villages to earn a living from the building of bricks, fetching sand and concrete and all other building accessories.
Human Rights activist Charles Mambu reminded the PAPS about their absolute right to benefit from whatever compensation packages budgeted for them. In this regard, he urged them not to hesitate in channeling their grievances through his many offices in the twelve districts of Sierra Leone.
Both SAP and LAIR representatives explained to the PAPS about the improved farming methods and commercial activities they would benefit from after the relocat1on exercise. Such activities would enable them live sustainable lives as they seek to reconcile themselves into their various new communities.
What mostly thrilled and wet the appetite of the PAP is when the World Bank representative Dr. Maria Cruz informed them that compensation package would be paid a month after the relocat1on and settling of those PAPS whose villages would surely be immersed in water with the flooding of the dam.
Pursuant to the sensitive nature of the relocat1on, compensation and final resettlement process, the concerned institutions inter alia mentioned endevoured to explain to the people affected by the BHEP what the whole exercise entails.
They did so mindful of the tenets of transparency, where choice is key.
Firstly, the settler has an unlimited latitude in her/his choice of whereto be resettled, albeit the consent of the host community is crucial.
Settlers also have the choice of remaining within a particular section of the chiefdom they have been inhabiting. Here again the host community has a decision to make. If it is consented the settler would chose to be resettled away from the shoreline.
It must be slated that al the host communities receiving settlers from both banks of the Seli and Mawokolo Rivers have demonstrated an open house.
Charles Mambu’s human rights concerns translate the following
a) Sacred sites slated for relocat1on should be paid for. This also takes into consideration where such sites are to be relocated.
b) Economic trees highlighted, which an individual or community would lose attract compensation.
c) No costs for land lost except for crops and economic trees within the land.
Referencing all these developments and concerns for the BHEP and the PAPS, one is convinced that sooner than later Sierra Leoneans should cast into the basket those harrowing moments that are consistent with no electricity supply.
Resettlement Units Complete Survey
The Resettlement Units (RU) of Bumbuna Hydro Electric Project (BHEP) deployed in Bumbuna and Fadugu have recently conducted a two weeks rapid survey of people and villages affected by the construction of the project. This survey follows the 2004 survey with the expressed aim of ensuring that villages and people would not be directly affected by the transmission lines and the flooding of the dam are not missed out in the relocat1on and compensation exercises.
On the right sides of both the Searle and Mawoloko Rivers in Kalansogoia and Kasunko Chiefdoms respectively, Mr. Thomas Moore-Turay covered the survey while Mr. Alimamy Y. Mansaray, the Area Manager of the Fadugu end of the dam covered the left side of both aforementioned rivers.
Notable in the findings of both teams is that four villages, including Mathombe, Kamahoney, and Kamasilon in Diang chiefdoms fall directly below the shore line.
Inevitably their inhabitants would have to be relocated in other host communities. Ksoloba in Kasunko chiefdom also fell below the shore line.
To ensure that the settlers do not face serious difficulties as and when they are relocated, agreements were signed by both the host communities (including the village heads and a member of the Village Resettlement Committee) and the settlers. The agreement details the willingness of the host community to provide land for the settlers to live in, in addition to farming lands for the latter.
Besides the stated agreements, the Project Implementation Unit (PIU), the World Bank and respective consultants like Techsult and BCOM are working tirelessly to ensure compensation packages are promptly paid to all household heads and families losing lands and crops owing to the flooding of the dam a month after the relocat1on exercise. Some of the crops and economic trees targeted include kola, palm oil, improved palm oil and mangoes, bananas, guava, kola trees and pineapples etc.
Subject: BLOW TO PMDC AS ONE OF PARTY'S MOST OUTSPOKEN MEMBERS QUITS
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Date Posted: 21:06:18 03/29/07 ()
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BLOW TO PMDC AS ONE OF PARTY'S MOST OUTSPOKEN MEMBERS QUITS
Abdul Hashim Daboh, one of the most outspoken members of the opposition People's Movement For Democratic Change ( PMDC) delivered a stunner today when he announced that he had quit the party he helped to publicize on the World Wide Web and in newspapers in Sierra Leone.
Daboh, who described himself as a foundation member of the PMDC , sent COCORIOKO a resignation letter that was replete with grave criticisms of the leadership stle of the party's Presidential Candidate , Mr. Charles Margai. READ :
Phone: 07929944563
Mail: Gboyama@yahoo.co.uk
To Mohamed Bob Mansaray
Chairman- PMDC Pennsylvania / Delaware
CC: The National Executive- North America PMDC
Mr. Chairman;
I am writing this with a heavy heart, but also confirmed in the belief that this is the right thing to do. The emergence of the PEOPLES MOVEMENT FOR DEMOCRATIC CHANGE (PMDC), and its rapid rise to be a strong contender in the leadership contest in Sierra Leone , has brought hope to many within and without Sierra Leone . Its inception into the political arena has undoubtedly been a cause of hope for many in the long-suffering nation.
Indeed the PMDC has demonstrated a strong desire and capacity to fill the THIRD FORCE gap, making it a beacon of hope for many people in Sierra Leone . It certainly has generated hope in the resurrection of our highly challenged nationhood and pride in us as a people worthy of our place among others in the world.
It was in this vein, and enamoured personally by Charles Margai’s public rhetoric against public corruption, the chronic lack of transparency and probity in public affairs in Sierra Leone , that I decided to play an active role in pioneering the PMDC in North America especially. I had an unvarnished trust in Charles Margai’s leadership, however untested that leadership was; I wholeheartedly believed that he would provide an honest leadership for the country, leading to durable and positive change in the lives of our people. Since then I and most of you have made tremendous and selfless contributions in time, money and effort to make the PMDC a viable political force.
However, events in the past year have not been as promising as I had envisaged. In the first instance, the leadership of Charles Margai is troubling. I have come to the conclusion, based on what I have seen and heard of his leadership style, that he cannot make a good president. He has demonstrated a tendency to be autocratic, intolerant and probably just as corrupt a leader as those now in power at the moment. In fact some of his actions make the ‘evil’ Berewah /Kabbah gang appear moderate by comparison. I think that Charles Margai is simply not prepared to assume the mantle of national leadership of the Sierra Leone we all may have envisaged under a tenable leadership. Any mistake by anyone to make him President will almost certainly cause distress to many of his country men and women, and probably trigger instability and violence in the country.
As well as this realisation, I have been most troubled by the absolute reticen