Subject: What record do you stand on PMDC?
From: Sengbe
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Date Posted: 21:31:44 11/18/06 ()
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As a grand ole' Party, the SLPP has a record to stand on - good or bad.
And of-course we know the Akartas' record - too dismal to think about unecessarily.
But what record does the new political PMDC stand on, and for, in order to convince SaLonBlia that they are for real?
What record do you stand on PMDC?
What goals and objectives in this record are you hoping to sell to the voters in Sa Lon so that you can displace my peeps in 2007?
How you plan to govern or rule so that a positive change is felt by all?
Surely yousalls don't think that the "Berewa/SLPP-is-corrupt" chorus is gonna chant them down in na Sa Lan during the voting process, do yousalls?
Yousalls gots to come with sometin betta than dat.
Especially since yousalls cannot produce the evidence to back-up your allegations.
So what record do yousalls stand for in the PMDC?
Do yousalls want a benevolent dictatorship and/or back to forgone days in na we Sa Lon?
We have a record to stand on in the SLPP; good or bad, we have a record that would enable the folks to tangibly gauge us objectively. Yours can only be subjective since you have no tangible physical record as a partisan newborn. This means that we have one up on yousalls.
What record does the PMDC stand on? Politically? Morally? Reputationally?
What have you initiated / done as a political entity that is self-induced with no outside influences, due to the novelty of this group, that is gonna be "sold" to the people of Sa Lon in order to secure their votes overwhemingly to oust the Palm Tree in 2007?
All we hear is, "Berewa/SLPP is corrupt" ,as a political mantra with no basis whatsoever due to the lack of prima facie evidence from the croaking voices that sing that mantra.
What yo record PMDC?
Subject: Re: What record do you stand on PMDC?
From: Albert Moinina
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Date Posted: 06:10:48 11/19/06 ()
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Please respond to "Life Under SLPP" posted by Mr. Iscandari.
Subject: Re: What record do you stand on PMDC?
From: Moijue
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Date Posted: 01:53:20 11/19/06 ()
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Why not read our manifesto since SLPP does not believe in one.
Marga has been telling us the programme of PMDC in a tour that has beaten that of ur SLPP
Subject: Re: What record do you stand on PMDC?
From: APC Man
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Date Posted: 02:11:47 11/19/06 ()
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Moijue,
Where can I find the manifesto you are referring to?
Thanks
APC Man
Subject: Re: What record do you stand on PMDC?
From: PA Javombo
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Date Posted: 07:42:31 11/19/06 ()
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www.pmdc4sl.org
Subject: WHAT MATTER IS SUBSTANCE
From: Albert Moinina
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Date Posted: 20:16:16 11/18/06 ()
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The recent discussion in this forum is focused on defining the acronys of the SLPP and PMDC. What real matters is the substance or lack of the political party and its leader.
Uganda, has the Lord's Resistance Army. They are killing, raping and involved in all kinds of atrocities and crimes in the name of the Lord.
If you are Sierra Leone People's PROBLEM, nothing can change that if you change your name to Sierra Leone Preposterous Poverty. lol
Subject: There are beautiful women in the world.
From: Bambay Lans Kamara
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Date Posted: 18:34:02 11/18/06 ()
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Listen!
Subject: RE: Ibrahim Foday Fofana From MUSA KALAWA
From: Musa Kal
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Date Posted: 11:06:08 11/18/06 ()
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HI' Fake Ibrahim, Fake Foday, Fake Fofanah.
This is my weekend, I am ready to take on U' like a Stupid BULL.
Come on my Brother from KARINA, say something stupid so we can get it hot today.
I saw your last posting when U' were using my name to post instead of your name. I guess your name is not worth a dime...huh that is why U' like using my name to post. OR do you like to decriminilize my, is that why U' are using it?
Com-on I am a idling this weekend......LONTA
Subject: LIFE UNDER THE SLPP
From: M. Alieu Iscandari Esq
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Date Posted: 10:56:53 11/18/06 ()
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Sierra Leone: U.S. Journalist Arrested, Released, Warned Not to Report On Disgruntled Young Labourers
Media Foundation for West Africa (Accra)
November 17, 2006
Posted to the web November 17, 2006
Elligh Mothershed, a visiting American journalist, was arrested at 6B Jannet Lane Kingtom in Freetown on 15 November 2006, on the orders of Alpha Timbo, minister in charge of labour and industrial relations.
The journalist was cautioned, released and asked to report to the minister later that day.
The MFWA-Sierra Leone source said Mothershed was arrested while he was in a meeting with some disgruntled youths who had returned from a mission in Iraq. He was warned to desist from interviewing the youths, who had gone to Iraq to work as labourers.
At the end of their mission, the youths were to be paid an amount of US$1,500 by their employer in Iraq through the Ministry of Labour. However, they claimed that the amount was too small, compared with those obtained by their colleagues from other countries.
Subject: Re: LIFE UNDER THE SLPP (For John Leigh)
From: M. Alieu Iscandari esq
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Date Posted: 11:05:33 11/18/06 ()
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So John assuming this story is true, does the Minister of Labor have any rights to order the arrest of a journalist who seeks to investigate the COCOUMONGERS in the SLPP or is this another Blatant abuse of Ministerial power, by our very own "toothless" Honorable Minister and I mean that literally. He got no teeth.
Subject: Re: LIFE UNDER THE SLPP (For John Leigh)
From: Albert Moinina
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Date Posted: 20:03:30 11/18/06 ()
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Iscandari, I like the word "COCOUMONGERS". Mr. Leigh and others have been very creative in creating new words, oh fulumunku lek we don lef behind in this game. LOL
Subject: Re: LIFE UNDER THE SLPP (For John Leigh)
From: moijue
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Date Posted: 01:55:35 11/19/06 ()
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this is part of the new REFORM/S that Berewa is bringing to mother SLPP.
Subject: Re: LIFE UNDER THE SLPP (For John Leigh)
From: Albert Moinina
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Date Posted: 04:27:35 11/19/06 ()
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Did he ever refer to the word "REFORM" of the Party during his two last visits? The man is all about CONTINUITY. This is not to say there are no good policies that should be continued, but he has woefully failed to distinquish between the good and bad. So if there is somebody who we can say is all KAPU KAPU POLICY, is Berewa.
I guess that is why SLPP has no MANIFESTO, so no one can say he promised a Mass Transit Railway in Freetown and Lungi. I will bet you, if, God forbid Berewa wins, he will become BEREWA MUMU.
Subject: Re: LIFE UNDER THE SLPP (For John Leigh)
From: M. Alieu Iscandari Esq
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Date Posted: 01:41:33 11/19/06 ()
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What I have noticed is that when it comes to issues that are as glaring as this one and which reflect the arbitrariness of life under the SLPP, all of the mouth pieces on this forum avoid these issues. My position is that a Minister of Labor has NO RIGHT to order the arrest of a journalist. It is a travesty of justice and an abuse of his ministerial position to order the arrest of a journalist just because that journalist dares to inquire into what appears to be another act of corruption by this government its agents and assigns.
Why should sierra leoneans be sent to Iraq in the first place is what beguiles me. Another more pressing issue is the amount of money that they are being paid to serve in a war zone which is a pittance particularly when other people from other nations make more than ten time that amount. It should not be a crime for an investigative journalist to ask questions more particularly so where these questions and inquiry raise issues germane to the corruption perception index which has saddled our beloved homeland.
whats more pressing is also the fact that the Minister oredred the arrested gentleman to REPORT to him. Why? Is the honorable minister now a law enforcement officer? Why does the Journalist need to report to him? Has the journalist been convicted or charged with any crime? Something is wrong here and it is of extreme importance that the SLPP flag bearer and present Vice President order an investigation into the facts as reported in the story. To do otherwise will send a signal loud and clear to the voting populace that this Government does not give a damn about the rights of the average sierra leonean, sells our labor for cheap, is willing to expose our people to danger zones such as the war in Iraq just so that some better placed people will make an extra buck.
If this government fails to order an investigation, then we now know what we are going to have to look forward to in the next few years if the SLPP government is voted in again. Man dem nor glady oh wit de way una day run tings nar we sa lone. I was waiting for people like CADMUS to address this story but alas they are no where to be found when these very stark TRUTHS about life under the SLPP party come out into the open.
Subject: Re: LIFE UNDER THE SLPP (For John Leigh)
From: Albert Moinina
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Date Posted: 04:19:32 11/19/06 ()
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My brother,lets wait until Monday and gauge their response. The net is usually quite during the weekends. I totally agree with you and I hope people who trump up the so called democracy brought by the SLPP government, forgetting that the first election was held under NPRC, would equally address the issue of press freedom as you articulated.
AL
Subject: WASCALLEH/BONGOWASS
From: KING LOGGY
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Date Posted: 08:50:21 11/18/06 ()
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I lost my cell phone and no longer have your number.
Please buzz me. Will be home all day today.
Subject: I don't support people, I support Ideas.
From: KING LOGGY
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Date Posted: 08:10:53 11/18/06 ()
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I supported him for the ideas he espoused then.
he has changed but my ideas have not changed, hence I cannot support him anymore. I don't support people, I support Ideas. I have been supporter of the SLPP since aged 10. I belived in the philosophy of the SLPP then.
But today's leaders of the SLPP have run away from that philosphy and the party is only as good as those who lead it.
I will do the same if PMDC does not deliver.
Like a researcher, I'll continue to change until I get it right.
Like one of the greatest America presidents, Ronald Raegan who changed from Democrat to Republican said "My loyalty is not to a party or person but my country."
I hope your question is answered.
(Pa Javombo)
Subject: Re: I don't support people, I support Ideas.
From: John E. Leigh
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Date Posted: 10:50:33 11/18/06 ()
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Forumites:
Please consider the follows arguments done in good taste by MR. JOHN BENJAMIN, ATTY. Alieu Iscandari and Mr. Albert Moinina:
1. “You support ideas? Then you should have supported Charles Taylor. Taylor's ULAA speech in Boston in the 1970's placed him in the forefront of revolutionary thinkers in the Liberian political spectrum" - JOHN BENJAMIN
2. “You Illogically conclusded that because Pa javombo supported people with IDEAS and not political parties, that he would have supported Charles Taylors ULAA speech
I kindda want to believe that Javombo is right on point here. His choice is based on the ideas that he associates with. When it becomes apparent to him that those ideas that he identiifed with are no longer supported by the leaders who espoused them then he leaves and looks for ideas in the greater market place of ideas which would be consonant with his. Nothing wrong with that.
In fact every one of us should be politiclly malleable to make changes as the political situation befits, as long as those changes are not for SELFISH ENDS.” - Atty. Alieu Isacandari
3. “Well said our learned lawyer.” – Albert Moinina
I am siding with MR. JOHN BENJAMIN on the above exchanges. I totally disagree with Messrs. Iscandari and Moinina because they failed to get MR. JOHN BENJAMIN’S essential argument. Set forth below is my own understanding of MR. BENJAMIN’S reasoning vis-à-vis his counters.
To me, Mr. Benjamin is advocating the following proposition:
‘Since Africa is full of brilliant conmen like Charles Taylor, et al, who are full of persuasive talk prior to the assumption of power but almost always descend to diabolic acts, despotism and become Baba Satanis at some point subsequent to their assumption of power (i.e. our “Despicable Characters”), it behooves us Sierra Leoneans not to fall for this so-call pre-election IDEAS crap again but to instead TIMELY focus (i.e. prior to voting) on the TRUE CHARACTER of those seeking to preside over us. Otherwise, we will all be in the same soup once again – people of a failed state suffering poverty, backwardness and lack of international respect.
‘This is so,' Mr. Benjamin argued, 'because in our African context a politician’s true character is controlling, not the brilliant but empty pre-election talk of politricians - no matter how convincing or eloquent his tricks! Talk is cheap. Good character is very scarce.
‘One cannot thus wait again for damage to first be done to our already over-suffering people and country before switching from brilliant IDEAS Dumbo Tombo Bangucrooks to GOOD CHARACTER, as PEACHTREE MAVOMBO’S DEN OF CRAP has advocated and supported by Atty. Iscandari and Mr. Moinina.
‘Rather, Sierra Leoneans will most likely suffer less and gain more if we make the correct decision on time: i.e. vote for the GOOD CHARACTER reform wing of the SLPP and never, never ever fall for brilliant Latinese, yap-yap, flunky remedial dunces that collectively amounts to nothing but a POMPOUS MOB OF DREADFUL COUKUMONGERS; because after 40-plus years of diabolical satanic despotism, it is clearly time for us to know better and do the right thing rather than continue to climb the PUKE MOUNTAINS of DESPOTIC CATASTROPHIES.’
I stand to be corrected by MR. JOHN BENJAMIN, ATTY. ALIEU ISCANDARI and Mr. ALBERT MOININA. Thank you. - JL
Subject: Re: I don't support people, I support Ideas.
From: Albert Moinina
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Date Posted: 19:58:42 11/18/06 ()
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MR. LEIGH WRITES: "it behooves us Sierra Leoneans not to fall for this so-call pre-election IDEAS crap again but to instead TIMELY focus (i.e. prior to voting) on the TRUE CHARACTER of those seeking to preside over us. Otherwise, we will all be in the same soup once again – people of a failed state suffering poverty, backwardness and lack of international respect."
I totally agree with you and that is what I will also encourage every Sierra Leonean to consider is making their decisions on which party or Presidential Candidate to vote for. Mind you Mr. Leigh, people considered to be very serious minded have accused Berewa of corruption, but I am not aware of such allegations being made against Charles Margai and Ernest Koroma by the same serious minded people some of us hold in high esteem and consider as role models.
MR. LEIGH WRITES: "Rather, Sierra Leoneans will most likely suffer less and gain more if we make the correct decision on time: i.e. vote for the GOOD CHARACTER reform wing of the SLPP..."
I would appreciate if you can tell us who is your Presidential Candidate representing the reform wing of the SLPP. BTW, is SLPP has two Presidential Candidates? The reason being, I don't consider Berewa as part of that wing. I know you are one of them, but definitely not Berewa unless you can show me that I am wrong.
Subject: Re: I don't support people, I support Ideas.
From: KING LOGGY
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Date Posted: 12:25:37 11/18/06 ()
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John, how can you tell whether Berewa is or is not a brilliant con man like Charles Taylor who is
"full of persuasive talk prior to the assumption of power but almost always descend to diabolic acts, despotism and become Baba Satanis at some point subsequent to their assumption of power?"
Subject: Re: I don't support people, I support Ideas.
From: John E. Leigh
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Date Posted: 15:58:55 11/18/06 ()
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-Your Majesty KING LOGGY:
You have properly asked me “….. how can you tell whether Berewa is or is not a brilliant con man like Charles Taylor”. I appreciate your intervention.
The short answer is I cannot really tell for certain how President Berewa is going to turn out.
I have based my choice of him for our next president on what I know about VP Berewa as well as my careful evaluation of the backgrounds of the other wannabes. I am predicting that of the four presidential candidates seeking to succeed Mr. Tejan Kabbah, VP Berewa is mostly likely – and by a very wide margin - the superior candidate.
I base this on the fact that I have known and dealt with him since 1992. Additionally, a Freetown in-law of mine who traces his lineage to Lamina Sankoh, a founder of the SLPP - knows Berewa very well since both resided in Bo years ago and who got Berewa and I together way before I started dealing with him in 1992.
VP Berewa and I have not always agreed on everything about our politics but he has been straight in dealing with me and doing so in a very reasonable and intelligent manner.
Second, Mr. Berewa is SLPP’S candidate. The others belong to either a party with a very bad public record of tribalism, poverty-spreading and cruel, dunce-like leadership or they are new parties, either without sufficient public record for one to evaluate or a party the public knows that it was set-up in secret, at the dead of night by a cabal of crooks and over-ambitious flunkies seeking to establish a benevolent dictatorship over an already abused population for one individual's benefit.
Berewa, on the other hand, is a very patient, non-arrogant individual.
Third, I have seen Berewa in action; I have seen him communicate with the public in difficult circumstances as well as observed how he is conducting his campaign for the presidency. He is carefully discussing the nitty-gritty of politics plainly, straightforwardly in a down-to-earth manner without any special eloquence.
He uses absolutely no Latinese! Further, he is helped in his campaign by people I personally consider as members of the reform-minded SLPP Third Force.
Fourth, whatever Mr. Berewa has achieved in life he has done so, on his own effort without depending on Papa’s clout - either to bail him out or put him unfairly above his fellow Sierra Leoneans on a favoritism basis. Mr. Berewa has a very high respect for teachers unlike the form four flunky boy.
Fifth, unlike one other candidate, Berewa has not sought to claim credit for my Third Force ideas. On the contrary, he is willing to consider them in the public interest and giving credit where credit is due.
All of the above situations still cannot convince me to state that I am 100% certain that Mr. Berewa will not turn out bad at some future point. Given the catastrophic state of our war-broken country, I await review of his Plan for Sierra Leone that I expect him to present and discuss during the campaign - along with his bio-data.
Finally, since you can help tell a man’s character by the company he keeps, I also await the public identities of those nearest him as the campaign progresses and also the identities of all those holding top positions in his administration come 2007.
I very much appreciate your inviting my opinion. Thank you. - JL
Subject: Re: I don't support people, I support Ideas.
From: KING LOGGY
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Date Posted: 07:44:25 11/19/06 ()
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Mr. Leigh:
That is, of course, a well balanced evaluation of Mr. Berewa and why you chose to support his candidacy. But you also utter the following:
"All of the above situations still
cannot convince me to state that I
am 100% certain that Mr. Berewa will
not turn out bad at some future point.
Given the catastrophic state of our
war-broken country, I await review of
his Plan for Sierra Leone that I expect
him to present and discuss during the
campaign - along with his bio-data".
Now, considering the subject at hand,
"I DON'T SUPPORT PEOPLE, I SUPPORT IDEAS",
it appears to me that even though you support Mr. Berewa based on known characteristics, you cautiously awaits "REVIEW OF HIS PLAN".
Now, does the word "PLAN" synonymous to "ideas"?
Why do you have to "await review of
his Plan" and not convince you to
"state that (you are) I am 100% certain
that Mr. Berewa will not turn
out bad at some future point"?
Subject: Re: I don't support people, I support Ideas.
From: Albert Moinina
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Date Posted: 20:29:29 11/18/06 ()
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"Second, Mr. Berewa is SLPP’S candidate." AGREE AND RESPECTED.
"The others belong to either a party with a very bad public record of tribalism, poverty-spreading and cruel, dunce-like leadership or they are new parties, either without sufficient public record for one to evaluate or a party the public knows that it was set-up in secret, at the dead of night by a cabal of crooks and over-ambitious flunkies seeking to establish a benevolent dictatorship over an already abused population for one individual's benefit"
Mr. Leigh, we all know where there is "public record of tribalism, poverty-spreading and cruel, dunce-like leadership". It has been amongst COCOUMONGERS (THANKS MR. ISCANDARI), but was displayed for the nation and the world to see in what we now all know to COMBENTION (THANKS MR. LEIGH) which is the main reason a good number ran away from the SIERRA LEONE PREPOSTEROUS POVERTY or substitute the poverty with PROBLEM.
Subject: Re: I don't support people, I support Ideas.
From: M. Alieu Iscandari Esq
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Date Posted: 11:02:19 11/18/06 ()
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John thanks for a good laugh this saturday morning. As you know "dem say teet nor day mooning" But today in my grief I found time to laugh.
Subject: Re: I don't support people, I support Ideas.
From: APC Man
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Date Posted: 18:32:02 11/18/06 ()
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Allieu,
I would like to extend my sympathy to you and your family for the loss of your uncle. May his soul rest in peace, and may God comfort you and your family at this difficult time.
Subject: Re: I don't support people, I support Ideas.
From: John E. Leigh
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Date Posted: 12:58:05 11/18/06 ()
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Dear Al:
On behalf of my entire family, I offer you our sympathy upon the untimely loss of your Uncle Sul. I am sure that if he had been strickened in the USA rather than back home he would have most likely survived and recovered fully.
Please let us take to good heart Mr. Albert Moinina's admonition of today: let us do what is genuinely right for SLeone by putting our country FIRST, not our individual political party.
Our sympathy once again. - JL
Subject: JOHN LEIGH AND SENGBE, THIS NOR ADD UP !!!
From: Albert Moinina (Fulumunkus are not what you thought)
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Date Posted: 04:41:46 11/18/06 ()
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Gentlemen, the two statements below nor gel ooh. So which is which? Or me comprehension very low? May be "awful people" have different meaning from "scumbags-lowlifers-precarious plunderers". Would you please explain the difference?
MR. SENGBE BIX AXE OF SLPP AND BEREWA SUPPORTER WRITES:
You see my friend, the SLPP, has a SOLID record to stand on, unlike the PMDC - the new political party on the block.
And you ask:
"...Could it also stand for.."Scumbags-Lowlifers-Plunderers-Precarious..."
The answer to that query is a big fat NO.
According to my mate, JEL, the "scumbags-lowlifers-precarious plunderers" you allude to, left the SLPP to form the PMDC. Thus, we are left with NONE of them in the SLPP. They are now in your camp, if your characterization is indeed true."
MR. JOHN LEIGH OF SLPP AND BEREWA SUPPORTER WRITES:
"Of course, we have some awful people in the SLPP. But so what? Most of the bad people in SLPP only flock there because they smell victory. Most members know genuine members from fair weather members. Even so, the human rights record of the SLPP Administration is good."
Subject: SHOW ME YOUR REFORM, OTHERWISE YOU ARE A SPENT FORCE
From: Albert Moinina
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Date Posted: 22:45:31 11/17/06 ()
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SHOW ME YOUR REFORM, OTHERWISE YOU ARE A SPENT FORCE
Until the SLPP LEADERSHIP show us that there is true, substantiated and meaningful reform taking place right now and specifically before the ELECTION to warrant a patriotic Sierra Leonean to re-assess the SLPP, I CALL ON ALL PATRIOTIC SIERRA LEONEANS TO DISMISS, IGNORE THE ENTIRE SLPP AS A FAILED POLITICAL ORGANISATION.
Ladies and Gentlemen, after almost 10 years in power the SLPP leadership is running on CONTINUITY of its policies on the eve of election whilst a few are vying for REFORM. An incumbent cannot and must not be elected based on promises of reform amongst a handful of individuals when the leadership is bent on CONTINUITY.
I appeal to all that we put our Country above our political parties. If and without a doubt, IF PMDC is elected and fails to deliver as promised and expected I assure you 100% as a pledge before Man and God that I shall withdraw my support and be a vocal critique of that government. My present assessment of the Candidates and ideology is that PMDC is trustworthy and most likely to deliver. In my considered opinion I will put Berewa to a distance 3rd, mind you not SLPP but Berewa. This may sound illogical, but the conclusion is I am not impressed with his leadership PERIOD. We have read excuses being put forward for his contribution or lack of to the running of the affairs of the Country, unfortunately the excuses are inexcusable.
SLPP promised but failed to deliver to my expectation and have no alternative but to withdraw my support and loyalty. Apart from the peace achieved, what else can the SLPP government show us as their achievement? My policy is I support progressive political parties and leaders. Please note that UN, EU, NGO, IMF, World Bank and other institutions will give a helping hand to any country like ours. Uganda has a disguised dictator, but the more this institutions love him. The mere presence of these institutions is my opinion is not an achievement to be claimed by any particular government.
Some of you may disagree, but if we cannot rule ourselves to usher in development and alleviate poverty in Sierra Leone it doesn¡¦t matter to me if we have MONKEYS from some jungle in South America ruling us if they can do the job. Thank God we don¡¦t have to go to that extent, because I truly believe in Charles Francis Margai and the PMDC to lead us to prosperity and not become beggars relying on UN, EU and NGO handouts the rest of our lives. When some few individual¡¦s bank accounts derived from plundering the country are several fold the size of our economy.
I also truly believe that there are individuals in our community capable of effectively leading us. But these have been marginalized by a few and are bent on doing the same with Interim Leader of PMDC Charles Margai.
Once again, I appeal to all to love Sierra Leone above and beyond SLPP, APC, PMDC and any other political party.
Subject: Re: SHOW ME YOUR REFORM, OTHERWISE YOU ARE A SPENT FORCE
From: Bambay Lans Kamara
To: All
Date Posted: 18:31:23 11/18/06 ()
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Greetings my brothers and sisters. Mr. Albert Moinina, heeding your appeal, "I appeal to all that we put our Country above our political parties," has prompted me to get involved in this dialogue. In which case, I am obliged to respond to the following: " Ladies and Gentlemen, after almost 10 years in power the SLPP leadership is running on CONTINUITY of its policies on the eve of election whilst a few are vying for REFORM. An incumbent cannot and must not be elected based on promises of reform amongst a handful of individuals when the leadership is bent on CONTINUITY."
Please allow me to question few things. Firstly, what is the S.L.P.P. continuing, taken into consideration that the heat of our war occurred when the S.L.P.P. was in power. The number of people that died during their tenure of office surpasses the total of people that died in the years ensuing 1996-2000. Taken into consideration the gravity of the war, the posibilities for the S.L.P.P not to take control of the situation during the said period, it is presumptive, if you will, to state therefore, that the S.L.P.P. had no alternative but to accept a peace deal. Otherwise, why the instrument or strategy adopted during the Togo Peace Accord was not implemented immediately they ascended power?
Secondly, everything that has been presented thus far as national development are instrumented by NGO's who after a reform measure that was framed, taken into consideration the failure of African and other Third World Countries leaderships to put the donated monies and other resources to proper use, considering that bad governance and unnecessary wars had ravaged most of these countries or poverty and starvation or some sufferings had befalling most of these countries, with Sierra Leone as no exception, it became of essence that these organizations, celebrities and other religious and governmental agencies around the globe, if you have been a constant contributor on the various forums, including this, since 1997, you would realize that I have been posting these information, decided to seize the opportunity to get involved so that what was and is donated for the peoples of these countries reach them without government mismanagement. I can still post these information if requested.
Viewing it from the perspective I am viewing, due to the information provided us, It is very important therefore, as advocates of the S.L.P.P. to bring evidence of ideas initiated by the government and how they put these ideas into practice by utilizing the resources derived from Sierra Leone for national development. This will clearly distinguish the party from the ones who are betting on reform. If we have evidences of the implementation of the ideas created by the S.L.P.P. to have produced the developmental projects, in my view, the parties who are vieing for power based on the precept of reform will have nothing to stand on because only a fool will see evidence and does not believe in it. However, it will be difficult for us to clearly see continuity when in fact, the projects that I have read about and seen so far are works of NGO's. The war has not been fully explained though we want to put it behind us. Besides there very many loop-holes, which I will not get into because the parties have their responsibilities.
In closing, I would like to remind you that not very many Sierra Leoneans can see this development as S.L.P.P. initiative as the country is full of NGO's and their vehicles run all over Sierra Leone. It is in that vain, I hope, the advocates of the party can shed light to clear, if it is, the misconceptions most of us hold.
I want to make it clear that I am not aligned with any party as of yet because my interest is our beautiful Sierra Leone and would cherish the day we have a leader who is ready to stake for the poor people as they are the ones that have been stolen from.
Once again, thank you for loving your country, our Sierra Leone.
Subject: Re: SHOW ME YOUR REFORM, OTHERWISE YOU ARE A SPENT FORCE
From: Albert Moinina
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Date Posted: 19:44:39 11/18/06 ()
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Mr. Kamara, I have always enjoyed your critique of issues. Please let us continue this fight IRRESPECTIVE OF WHICH GOVERNMENT WINS whether na PMDC, SLPP OR APC. No sacred cows. My brother, you are welcome to join PMDC which is committed to "pump oxygen into the dying lungs of Sierra Leone".
Take care and thanks for your contribution
Subject: Re: SHOW ME YOUR REFORM, OTHERWISE YOU ARE A SPENT FORCE
From: M. Alieu Iscandari Esq
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Date Posted: 11:12:10 11/18/06 ()
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Once again, I appeal to all to love Sierra Leone above and beyond SLPP, APC, PMDC and any other political party"
Open your ears Mr. Moinina and I hope this appeal does not fall on deaf ears including yours. You are right on point here brother. However, I cannot help but laugh at the reference to the Monkey from South america analogy. I have always thought that monkeys from south america have "black Palms" too and as we say in sa lon "monkey nor day lef him black han" be they from the jungles of south america or the tropical rain forests of sa lone. Hmmm just musing
Subject: Re: SHOW ME YOUR REFORM, OTHERWISE YOU ARE A SPENT FORCE
From: Albert Moinina
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Date Posted: 19:39:21 11/18/06 ()
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Mr. Iscandari, I agree with your conclusion that monkey nor dae lef ee black hand. But if den kin lef den black hand and do the job, ar go support them. Thank God we nor get for go to that extent:
Here is my complete statement:
"Some of you may disagree, but if we cannot rule ourselves to usher in development and alleviate poverty in Sierra Leone it doesn¡¦t matter to me if we have MONKEYS from some jungle in South America ruling us if they can do the job. Thank God we don¡¦t have to go to that extent, because I truly believe in Charles Francis Margai and the PMDC to lead us to prosperity and not become beggars relying on UN, EU and NGO handouts the rest of our lives."
Subject: Response for Mr. Mohamed A. Jalloh Re: How to help S/L
From: Bambay Lans Kamara
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Date Posted: 17:49:38 11/17/06 ()
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Greetings my brothers and sisters. Mr. Mohamed A. Jalloh, let me start by first of all, thanking you for responding, for the reciprocal gesture, and for the very interesting points that are the very medicine or the the right prescr1ption for our problems, if you will; thank you.
The key point that paraphrased your entire patriotic-orientation is berried right within your thank you note to me, where you stated:
"Thank you for your compliments. As I have stated here before, one can always tell a person with self-esteem -- the indispensable foundation for success in life -- by his/her ability to accord praise where it is due, and constructive criticism when it is warranted. Your actions here attest undeniably attest to your possession of self-esteem."
In continuation, I would like to emphasize that the possession of which, self-esteem, is why I have noticed the bond between you and I and many like-minded contributors here who are open and willingly ready to discuss issues regarding Sierra Leone, with whomever is discussion it, with no strings attached and hopping for no reward but the putting of our beloved country back on track. Such endeavors are grounded in self-esteem.
The reason I have singled-out the portion of the thank you note is basically an endeavor to continue addressing our problems that are rooted in the lack of self-esteem, which has been grossly misconstrued for Narcissism.
You stated in the third and forth paragraph thus: "As regards your question quoted above, in my humble opinion, the most lasting solution to the problems encountered by millions of S/Leoneans is to provide them as many of them as possible with the opportunity to become knowledgeable.
By that, I do not mean that they should be helped to become merely educated, because we have all seen the incalculable harm that merely educated (but not knowledgeable) S/Leoneans have done to our country -- starting with the Ph.D-laden cabinet of President Siaka Stevens of 1977. Those unpatriotic betrayers of our well-meaning efforts to secure positive change in our long pillaged country via our 1977 Fourah Bay College students-led protests against then-President Siaka Stevens, proved that education alone does not guarantee knowledge."
I certainly agree with you that we need knowledge to reverse Sierra Leone's situation. However, though the knowledge is available for the desired change yet, the ability to conceptualize what is learned, such as what is affecting our situation and what has arisen from it in consecutive years, this underlying or causative agents for these problems, if you will, are Crystal clear and the solution is out there for all to see but adopting the measures to ensure that the changes take effect has been difficult to embrace, by both leaders and some of the led, and the reason for this difficulty lies solely in the misconception or the inability to distinguish self-esteem from Narcissism.
Let me try to highlight this misconception, which you have vibrantly outlined in the following: "For a person to possess knowledge, his/her education must be accompanied with morality -- the ability to recognize right from wrong and the courage to choose to do only what is right, notwithstanding the consequences to himself/herself. Unless and until a sufficient number of our fellow S/Leoneans can be encouraged to become knowledgeable in that true sense, it would be impossible to stop the unpatriotic few among us from cowering or fooling the majority of S/Leoneans into unwisely entrusting them with the power to run the affairs of our perennially needy country.
Our task, then, as S/Leoneans is to contribute to the empowerment of as many of our compatriots as possible by doing whatever we can -- individually and collectively -- to increase their chances of becoming knowledgeable. This is the reason why I have spent the past 27 years publicly offering my ideas on how to improve our country's economy to as many S/Leoneans as possible, as more fully explained in the following exchange I had here last January:"
Narcissism, which has dominated the mindset of the majority, has caused the few who are willing to make the sacrifices needed to transform our society into morally endowed municipality, akin to that of the grat nations where imoral behaviors are scorned-upon by a system set-in-place that does not tolerate immoral acts. However, on our part, the immoral ones have seen their actions sang on newspapers, radio and television or in street Conners, while nothing is done to remedy their situation, has emboldened many others, even the few moral ones to follow or consider following suit. This has made it difficult for everyone.
The efforts you, the many selfless individuals who have been working tirelessly, both on this forum and outside this arena, at home and abroad, Sierra Leoneans and friends of Sierra Leone alike who are hoping for nothing in return for their sacrifices but the improvement of the lives of others, while the many you have mentioned here and their cohorts are stringently trying tooth and nail to disrupt human existence in our beloved country, Sierra Leone, is a clear distinction between Self-esteem and Narcissism that has prompted, on my part, a continuation of this dialogue besides a reciprocating motive.
In this regard, I will continue to shed light on the misconception that has emboldened the destructive and unnationalistic ones who take Narcissism to mean self-esteem.
"The term "self-esteem" is one of the oldest concepts in psychology, having been first coined by American psychologist and philosopher William James in 1890. It is one's mental perception of his qualities, not physical features. In addition, self-esteem is the third most frequently occurring theme in psychological literature and over 25,000 articles, chapters, and books refer to the topic[2]. Given such a long and varied history, it is not surprising to find three major types of definitions in the field, each of which has generated its own tradition of research, findings, and practical applications. The original definition presents self-esteem as a ratio that is found by dividing one’s successes in areas of life that are important to a given individual by the failures in them or one’s “success / pretensions” [3]. A problem with this approach is that making self-esteem contingent upon success means that it is inherently unstable because failure can occur at any moment [4]. In the mid 1960s Maurice Rosenberg and social learning theorists defined self-esteem in terms of a stable sense of personal worth or worthiness that can be measured by self-report testing. This approach became the most frequently used definition but now it is known that feeling good about oneself in healthy ways is difficult to differentiate from such things as narcissism. [5] Nathaniel Branden's (1969) short definition of self-esteem is “…the experience of being competent to cope with the basic challenges of life and being worthy of happiness”. This two-factor approach, as it has also been called, is a balanced definition that seems to be capable of dealing with limits of defining self-esteem primarily in terms of competence or worth alone.[6].
In Branden’s descr1ption (1969) self-esteem includes the following primary properties:
1. It is a basic human need, i.e., “…it makes an essential contribution to the life process”, “…is indispensable to normal and healthy self-development, and has a value for survival.”
2. For Branden, self-esteem is an automatic and inevitable consequence of the sum of an individual’s choices in using their consciousness.
3. He states that self-esteem is experienced as a part of, or background to, all of the individual’s thoughts, feelings and actions.
[edit] "
On the contrary, "Narcissism describes the character trait of self love.
The word is derived from Greek mythology. Narcissus was a handsome Greek youth who rejected the desperate advances of the nymph Echo. As a punishment, he was doomed to fall in love with his own reflection in a pool of water. Unable to consummate his love, Narcissus pined away and changed into the flower that bears his name, the narcissus.
Freud believed that some narcissism is an essential part of all of us from birth [1].
Andrew Morrison claims that, in adults, a reasonable amount of healthy narcissism allows the individual's perception of his need to be balanced in relation to others[2].
In psychology and psychiatry, excessive narcissism is recognized as a severe personality dysfunction or personality disorder, most characteristically Narcissistic Personality Disorder, also referred to as NPD.
The terms Narcissism, Narcissistic and Narcissist are often used as pejoratives, denoting vanity, conceit, egotism or simple selfishness. Applied to a social group, it is sometimes used to denote elitism or an indifference to the plight of others.
What can we do to change Sierra Leone is embedded clearly in your statement:
"Our task, then, as S/Leoneans is to contribute to the empowerment of as many of our compatriots as possible by doing whatever we can -- individually and collectively -- to increase their chances of becoming knowledgeable. This is the reason why I have spent the past 27 years publicly offering my ideas on how to improve our country's economy to as many S/Leoneans as possible, as more fully explained in the following exchange I had here last January:"
This is so true in that the Newspapers were and are of the impression that they were or are helping when they write about crook leadership while the leaders consider that to mean praise. By all measures, everyone including them was failing as manifested in the eleven-years brutal war. It was a "fowl in a hammuck' situation. Nobody, not even the leaders were at rest. Starting with the President downwards, were swinging left to right not knowing what to do or where to go that was safe. It was the lack of education, in that everyone wants a quicky while none was or is getting anywhere.
This time around, we have to take keen interest in the matters, do as much education as we possibly could because they have not proven worthy for the past forty or more years. As you rightly stated, "For a person to possess knowledge, his/her education must be accompanied with morality -- the ability to recognize right from wrong and the courage to choose to do only what is right, notwithstanding the consequences to himself/herself." They chose wrong because we can positively and emphatically show proof of the results of their actions. These examples are walking the streets of Sierra Leone with amputated arms, as orphans and the buildings are there to serve as living proof. So what is there they can tell us?
We must be resolute because we did nothing immoral but in so doing, we must embrace them and be careful how we impart this knowledge but we must impart it.
Once again, thank you for your time.
Subject: I AM BACK
From: BUN MANSARAY
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Date Posted: 17:01:58 11/17/06 ()
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BUN THE ORIGINAL IS BACK. THIS TIME IS FOR REAL
Subject: How do you define PMDC?
From: Big Axe Sengbe
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Date Posted: 13:05:52 11/17/06 ()
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It is Friday - TGIF - and according to JEL, of the progressive wing of the SLPP, the following interpretations of the acronym, PMDC, are in vogue:
"...Puerile Mistake for Despicable Characters;
"...Puello Mess for Dumbo Crooks..."
"...Parade of Munkus, Dumbos and Crooks..."
"...Poverty Masters For Developmental Collapse..."
In jest, according to Sengbe, PMDC stands for:
"...Pekin Margai Don Crase..."
Could it also stand for "Peons-Mice-Dogs-Cats" in representing the sore losers who brazenly harvested the palm kernels from our PALM TREE, and made brooms out of the straws of the palmately cleft frond to the utter dismay of the hungry throng during the bacchanal of their "sour-grape" initiation?
Could be.
Where then is the "positive change" they are constantly lying about in their outputs?
Oh PMDC!! una nor see nartin yaite. Una waite till we fordom pan una with we full weight.
Like father, like son. PNP, PMDC.
Where do the Akartas stand?
Nowhere to be seen or found after July, 2007.
Subject: Re: How do you define PMDC?
From: ok dok
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Date Posted: 18:56:08 11/17/06 ()
Email Address: okdok@yahoo.com
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I wonder if northerners like Dr. Karamoh Kabba would have like charlse margai if he was still SLPP. They always said in the past that the party was not a family property when charles was a member but now they are using him to distroy it.
Subject: Re: How do you define PMDC?
From: M. Alieu Iscandari Esq
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Date Posted: 11:15:23 11/18/06 ()
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Is karamoh Kabba a NORTHERNER?
Subject: Re: How do you define PMDC?
From: PA Javombo
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Date Posted: 19:44:50 11/18/06 ()
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NO. An Easterner.
Subject: Re: How do you define PMDC?
From: ok dot
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Date Posted: 13:55:44 11/17/06 ()
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How about the following interpretations of the acronym SLPP:
"...Sierra Leone Poverty Party.."
"...Spreading Lies Poverty & Pollution.."
"...Society of Liars,Poverty-Spreaders and Pick-Pockets..."
"...Solobee Loquacious Polliwog Purloiner..."
Could it also stand for.."Scumbags-Lowlifers-Plunderers-Precarious..."
Subject: Re: How do you define PMDC?
From: John E. Leigh
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Date Posted: 14:56:59 11/17/06 ()
Email Address: johnernestleigh@yahoo.com
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Dear Sengbe Big Axe:
No body will take ok dot seriously. ok dot he is shamelessly trying to steal the 'ok dok' moniker like his flunky group stole our bangah bunch. But don't mind them.
The public knows where the genuine Third Force is and who is the notorious flip-flopping alphabet-soup margo-margo, kapu-kapu splitter.
We all know who institutionalized poverty in Sierra Leone. We know the idiots from their flunky dunce argumentation, etc. Let them get ready for the real campaign and lets see how far their yap-yap talk regarding their Phony Money from Dumbo Confusionists will go. Cheers! - JL
Subject: Re: How do you define PMDC?
From: Sengbe
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Date Posted: 11:03:43 11/18/06 ()
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"...PUKE MOUNTAINS of DESPOTIC CATASTROPHIES..." JEL
Looking at the first letters above, I see PMDC all over the place.
Was that your intention, John?
Subject: Re: How do you define PMDC?
From: John E. Leigh
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Date Posted: 12:10:24 11/18/06 ()
Email Address: johnernestleigh@yahoo.com
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Dear Sengbe:
Regarding your inquiry below:
"'...PUKE MOUNTAINS of DESPOTIC CATASTROPHIES...'- JEL
Looking at the first letters above, I see PMDC all over the place.
Was that your intention, John?" - Sengbe
Not really. Just a mere coincidence that came naturally as I was writing.
You might notice also that most unsavory things in SLeone - e.g. such as SLeone's notorious alphabet-soup margo-margo, kapu-kapu splitter politrics - end up PMDC to create a POMPOUS MOB of DREADFUL CRAP.....
The selfish and dishonest way a cabal of harlot political opportunists went about setting up their flunky ownership party (for the purpose of realizing the birthright of just one flunky dunce); but without ever involving and seeking the counsel of the suffering general public at all, and sought instead to con the very suffering people by presenting their mombo dumbo tombo bangucrook, free-talking, pompous latinese, yap-yap fulumunku benevolent dictatorship bunch of harlot politricians and dubious lawyers, as the legitimate Third Force clearly means that if we mistake and take PMDC seriously, more despotism lay ahead for our too-often deceived people.
Please check the true CHARACTER of PMDC top crew. This bunch cannot constitute true reformers.
Thanks for asking. -JL
Subject: Re: How do you define PMDC?
From: Sengbe
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Date Posted: 16:37:22 11/18/06 ()
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You are quite welcome, massa.
"...POMPOUS MOB of DREADFUL CRAP..." - JEL
Bra John, I see PMDC again.
Nar so you creative?
Subject: Re: How do you define PMDC?
From: ok dok
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Date Posted: 18:51:11 11/17/06 ()
Email Address: okdok@yahoo.com
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He must be an APC or PMDC {FUNKY} to be stealing my handle.
Subject: Re: How do you define PMDC?
From: Moijue
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Date Posted: 15:54:57 11/17/06 ()
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Jel, dont worry u will be defending all you have written about Berewa so wait till 2007.
Subject: Re: How do you define PMDC?
From: John E. Leigh
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Date Posted: 10:54:47 11/18/06 ()
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Moijue, no problem. I will be ready to go for it. - JL
Subject: Re: How do you define PMDC?
From: ok dok
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Date Posted: 18:48:10 11/17/06 ()
Email Address: okdok@yahoo.com
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You will bite your finger and no blood will come out. Its going to be the last shock for your boss.
Subject: Re: How do you define PMDC?
From: Big Axe Sengbe
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Date Posted: 15:22:26 11/17/06 ()
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"...Phony Money from Dumbo Confusionists..." = PMDC, according to Bra JEL.
It is going to be very interesting in the season of the political campaigns.
Bra John is the man. The DUPPY CONQUEROR. He is dat BAAAAAAADDDDDDDDD.
They have come at him/us from ALL angles but he/we remain in the "standing-up position" while he/we floor them to the ground. In the process, this CONQUEROR is helping Webster out by creating/generating new words on a daily basis.
Javombo, is gonna be banished from Wonde Gboyama, back to Lithonia, GA, if he keeps being knocked out by John with such devastating body punches.
Anyway, Bra John, mek ar go na hose. Ar go torke to you later on the forum.
Subject: Re: How do you define PMDC?
From: PA Javombo
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Date Posted: 11:17:53 11/18/06 ()
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Sengbe,
If PICKIN MARGAI DON CRASE it is because of your
SIERRA LEONE PEOPLE'S PROBLEM. Ha Ha Ha Heee Heeeeeeeeee!!!!
I assure you that Bagbo will reject that problem.
Let me advise you my brother. Please stay away from making those deregatory remarks about Charles's dad.
Your "like father like son statement" .
Your Dad and mine like Charles's father were in Public service for more than four decades. They too must have had their own skeletons which they may not want peopple to judge their offsprings by.By running for the presidency of Sierra Leone, Charles is not doing anything different from what your dad and mine did when they ran for their respective positions or what you and I may do if we so chose to be chiefs in our different and neighboring chiefdoms.
You may not like his ideology but his father has nothing to do with it. You do not want people to judge you by what your dad did. You want to be judged by who you are.
We are in different political camps but that does not mean our relationship will change, hence my advise to you, small boy. :)-:).Some of us have information on your candidate's family. Yes it is nurture and not nature that moulds a man,s character but when they grow up they must be their own man/men. we have not brought your candidate's family in this becuase they have nothing to do with it. Our campaign is on Berewa and SLPP's record and not on Berewa's Dad's record. Just a piece of advice my brother. Your father and mine were the paramount chief representatives to the signing of the SLPP agreement. I have the Independence celebration video. (I can share it with you if you want it)
with me where you see them standing side by side.
Saty cool and blessed.
Before I forget, Bagbo and Wunde will soon be amalgamated and I'll be the chief. If you behave yourself I'll make you section chief of Limba. :)-):
Subject: Re: How do you define PMDC?
From: Sengbe
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Date Posted: 17:05:50 11/18/06 ()
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Pa J, when I refer to "Like father, like son: PNP, PMDC", I am NOT denigrating Charles's father at all. I am referring to the circumstances that allowed the APC to gain power for almost thirty years through the division created by that action in the '60's.
I know Sir Albert returned to the SLPP-fold in 1964 as leader of the party that he had shunned through political jealousy, and the same "sour-grape" mentality CFM is showing nowadays.
My fear is that the division created by the formation of the PMDC could possibly catapult the Akartas in reviving their dream of leading Sa Lon again - something that the folks on the ground do not want, based on their past dismal record, and the fact that they cannot even properly govern the municipality of Freetong in the two - three years the people voted them in to take charge of the FCC in protest against the policies of TK, I guess.
TK will be gone in seven months or so, I do not want his "ghost" to cast a shadow on the voters that would allow the Akartas to gain any in-roads that would in turn send us back to the wilderness through silly divisions that are not politically sound.
As I told you when you posted as Munda Tombo sometime ago, I would rather stay and fight than run in flight to form a party that does not have an agenda much different from ours.
Whom are you calling "small boy" No.21##? I am 1895, and if you ever make that mistake again, I will come down there to drill you in the bright sun.
Pump!!!
Dovo toti? Gbeh lovo toti?
Don't worry about Bagbo, and Wonde. They remain with the Palm Tree.
How can you become chief in this almagamation when you are PMDC? and our people are SLPP?
Poor Mendes in a Dark Country - PMDC.
Subject: Re: How do you define PMDC?
From: PA Javombo
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Date Posted: 19:26:53 11/18/06 ()
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Sengbe,
Who are the Akatas?
By the way the posting Munda Tombo was by your Bagbo/Bo school buddy whose # is in the 1900s
I am sure you know him.
With his permission I'll reveal his identity and will ask you to contact him. He'll be here for christmas from Salon
He is SLPP but we are still buddies.
I will still consider you for the section chieftaincy in an amalgamated wunde Bagbo with me as your paramount chief.
Subject: Re: How do you define PMDC?
From: Sengbe
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Date Posted: 19:41:38 11/18/06 ()
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Message:
APC = Akartas. I am quite sure you knew that.
Pa J, where is my copy of that old photo you were supposed to reprint. Bra, I need that picture for historical purposes. Please do me the favour of mailing my copy.
Have your telephone numbers changed? If not, I will call and give you the address to mail it to. I will definitely reimburse you for the expenses incurred.
I don't want to be your section chief. In time, I'd like to run the whole show in order to elevate our peoples from abject poverty. I will count on your support.
Subject: Re: How do you define PMDC?
From: PA Javombo
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Date Posted: 07:49:19 11/19/06 ()
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Message:
I'll try to do that Small Boy.
But all the Bagbo Tax is not enough for that picture.\
ha Hah ha
Subject: Re: How do you define PMDC?
From: Sengbe Big Axe
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Date Posted: 14:44:40 11/17/06 ()
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If our grand ole (SLPP) party is subject to any of the malapropisms / mischaracterizations / misrepresentations you have attributed to her in your response to this thread, why then did our man, TK, score resounding victorie - overwhelmingly - in TWO democratically conducted elections in ten years - considered free and fair by representatives of the international community - by our peoples?
Our folks are by no means stupid and immature. They know what's up.
You see my friend, the SLPP, has a SOLID record to stand on, unlike the PMDC - the new political party on the block.
And you ask:
"...Could it also stand for.."Scumbags-Lowlifers-Plunderers-Precarious..."
The answer to that query is a big fat NO.
According to my mate, JEL, the "scumbags-lowlifers-precarious plunderers" you allude to, left the SLPP to form the PMDC. Thus, we are left with NONE of them in the SLPP. They are now in your camp, if your characterization is indeed true.
Dem tiff we banga-bunch from we Palm tree,
ehn strip the leaf dem of dem straw
for make broom wae nor able sweep,
ehn use dem for mek dem symbol,
so Pollyanna, nar whodat nar the plunderer, purloiner, ehn polliwog?
Nar dem PMDC peeple dem oh!
Subject: Canadian Red Cross protects children in Sierra Leone from ma
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Attention News/Health Editors:
Canadian Red Cross protects children in Sierra Leone from malaria
OTTAWA, Nov. 17 /CNW Telbec/ - Canadian Red Cross is launching its sixth
and largest Preventing Malaria in Africa campaign, protecting all children in
Sierra Leone under five years of age from this deadly disease.
Between November 20 and 26, with support from the Canadian Red Cross,
over 4,000 volunteers from the Sierra Leone Red Cross will distribute 875,000
long-lasting insecticide-treated bed-nets, which will provide protection for
up to four years.
Although preventable and treatable, malaria is the leading killer of
African children under five - one child dies every 30 seconds. Life-saving
bed-nets are a proven and cost-effective way to prevent malaria.
"This malaria prevention campaign will make a huge difference in the
lives of families in Sierra Leone. When a mother puts her child to bed after a
long day often filled with struggle, she wants to know her child will be safe.
Now, when children in Sierra Leone sleep under a bed-net, they are going to be
better protected from malaria," said Jane McGowan, president of Canadian Red
Cross, who is visiting Sierra Leone from November 19 to 22.
Since 2003, with the generous support of the Canadian International
Development Agency (CIDA), the Canadian Red Cross Preventing Malaria in Africa
campaigns have distributed over 1.7 million bed-nets to Africa, potentially
saving the lives of over 69,000 vulnerable children.
"Bed-nets are a cost-effective strategy in fighting death and disease due
to malaria, especially in sub-Saharan Africa, which accounts for 90 per cent
of deaths worldwide," said the Honourable Josée Verner, Minister of
International Cooperation and Minister for La Francophonie and Official
Languages. "Canada is proud to partner with the Canadian Red Cross to help the
most vulnerable people access life-saving bed-nets."
With funding from CIDA, Canadian Red Cross has partnered with various
organizations to offer a four-step integrated child-survival program,
consisting of vaccinating children against measles, providing Vitamin A
supplements, deworming treatments, and providing bed-nets.
This initiative is a collaborative effort with CIDA, Sierra Leone Red
Cross, Sierra Leone Ministry of Health and Sanitation, International
Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, Swedish Red Cross, WHO,
UNICEF, and the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints.
Canadians wishing to make a financial donation may donate immediately
online, call 1-800-418-1111 or contact their local Canadian Red Cross office.
The 24-hour toll free line accepts Visa, MasterCard and American Express.
Cheques should be made payable to the Canadian Red Cross, earmarked "Malaria
Bed-Net Campaign" and mailed to Canadian Red Cross National Office,
170 Metcalfe Street, Suite 300, Ottawa, Ontario, K2P 2P2. Donations of goods
are not accepted.
The Canadian Red Cross is a member of the International Red Cross and Red
Crescent Movement, which includes the International Federation of Red Cross
and Red Crescent Societies, the International Committee of the Red Cross and
185 national Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies. The Canadian Red Cross
mission is to improve the lives of vulnerable people by mobilizing the power
of humanity in Canada and around the world.
For further information: or to arrange an interview with Canadian Red
Cross representatives in Sierra Leone or Canada, please call the Canadian Red
Cross media line at: (613) 740-1994
Subject: Berewa Opens Njala Laboratory in Sierra Leone
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Berewa Opens Njala Laboratory in Sierra Leone
By Awareness Times
Nov 17, 2006, 17:30
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It is generally accepted that one of the legacies that President Alhaji Dr. Ahmad Tejan Kabbah will be leaving behind for future generations of Sierra Leoneans is the Njala University which was inaugurated this year and today, November 17th 2006, President Kabbah’s hardworking Vice President, the Honourable Solomon Ekuma Berewa will continue to strengthen the Kabbah legacy in education with the opening of the brand new Biotechnology and Food & Nutrition Laboratory Complex at Njala University.
The modern Laboratory Complex which the SLPP’s Publicity Secretary, Hon. Victor Reider says reflects the Government’s continuous drive to rebuild the educational sector after decades of neglect and war has been built up at the University’s first Campus up at Moyamba in Southern Sierra Leone.
During the Inauguration of the Njala University this year, the President had reiterated his Government’s assurance of fulfilling its responsibility to provide within its capacity, the necessary financial and other forms of assistance in meeting the demands of the country’s tertiary educational system.
It could be recalled that during his speech at the recent launching of the Njala University’s 5-Year Strategic Plan, the Vice Chancellor, Professor Alghali stated that the Government of Sierra Leone has been enhancing excellence in education whilst noting that the projected cost of the 5-year plan for Njala University fell between the range of Le 18 Billion and Le 25 Billion.
Meanwhile, in a brief chat with the Vice President shortly before he left Freetown yesterday afternoon, Hon. Solomon Berewa told Awareness Times that he was confident that Sierra Leoneans know how hard himself, President Kabbah and the Sierra Leone People’s Party (SLPP) have been working to rebuild the educational sector in Sierra Leone all along the various stages from primary school to secondary school to tertiary University level.
The Vice President who had just returned from the dedication of the US Embassy Building up at Hill Station could barely catch his breath before his convoy headed back up for the provinces to ensure he arrived on time for the opening ceremony this morning.
"Sierra Leoneans know how hard President Kabbah and the SLPP have been working to ensure that as many of our children as possible get educated to as high a level as possible. This is why they are not allowing themselves to be fooled by disgruntled politicians who are promising the heavens to them and who yet have nothing to show as a track record."
On this provincial trip, the Honourable Vice President (who is the Acting President of Sierra Leone in the absence of President Kabbah who is currently out of the country), is also expected to visit both Kenema and Makeni. In Makeni, as Acting President of Sierra Leone which is a country that prides itself for its religious tolerance, he has been invited to join in at the Prayers Session at the Makeni Central Mosque whilst in Kenema, he will be warmly welcomed at the Induction Ceremony of the Knights of St. John at St. Paul’s Cathedral.
The Vice President is also expected to commission a large number of development projects on this tour. These include the Makeni Big Market and the Laying of the Foundation Stone up at the Makeni College Campus.
© Copyright by Awareness Times Newspaper in Freetown, Sierra Leone.
Subject: Re: Berewa Opens Njala Laboratory in Sierra Leone
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You can read the 5-Year Strategic Plan at the Website of Njala University:
www.nu-online.com
Subject: Keynote Address at the Opening of the National Conference On
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Keynote Address at the Opening of the National Conference On “Reviewing The Sierra Leone Prison Ordinance And Rules”
By Dr. Sylvia Olayinka Blyden
Nov 17, 2006, 17:36
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Keynote Speech by the Guest Speaker, Dr. Sylvia Olayinka Blyden at the Opening of the National Conference On “Reviewing The Sierra Leone Prison Ordinance And Rules” at the British Council on November 17th 2006.
Mr. Chairman,
Hon. Minister of Internal Affairs,
Secretary, Justice Sector Development Project,
Distinguished Members of the High Table,
Ladies and Gentlemen,
I am honoured and delighted to give the Keynote address and formally open this National Conference on the theme, “Reviewing the Sierra Leone Prisons Ordinance and Rules.”
Mr. Chairman,
A penal code can be defined as that portion of a state's laws that deal with defining the elements of particular crimes and specifying the punishment for each crime. In Sierra Leone, the Prisons Penal Code refers to the Sierra Leone Prison Ordinance and Rules and we are all here today to work towards drafting an alternative penal code for the Prison Service of the Republic of Sierra Leone.
In modern societies, one of the primary aims of imprisonment is not so much to provide punishment but to "repair" the deficiencies in the offending individual and return him or her as productive members of society. Education, work skills, deferred gratification, treating others with respect, and self-discipline are stressed. Younger criminals who have committed fewer and less severe crimes are most likely to be successfully remodelled in prisons.
However, there are the challenges of balancing the “repairing” of the individual with the need to maintain discipline amongst a large number of offenders; some of whom are repeat offenders with little moral compass.
Universally, the power given to prison wardens to be able to provide punishment for and maintain discipline amongst inmates can lead to severe abuse of the rights of these inmates under imprisonment and hence the important need to regularly have checks and balances placed upon those designated to guard over and maintain order in prisons around the world. This need resulted in the formation of Prison Reform Activists and Prison Reform organisations such as the Prison Watch – Sierra Leone.
The work of Prison Reform Activists is aimed at creating a just, humane and effective penal system. It is done by:
· inquiring into the workings of the system
· informing prisoners, staff, and the wider public
· influencing Parliament, government and officials towards reform.
Let me now give a short historical background to Prison Reform Activists. John Howard is now widely regarded as the founding father of prison reform, having travelled extensively visiting prisons across Europe in the 1770s and 1780s. Within Britain, prison reform was spearheaded by the Quakers, and in particular, Elizabeth Fry during the Victorian Age. Elizabeth Fry visited prisons and suggested basic human rights for prisoners, such as privacy and teaching prisoners a trade. Fry was particularly concerned with women's rights. In the United States Dorothea Dix toured prisons in the U.S. and all over Europe looking at the conditions of the mentally handicapped.
In Sierra Leone, Prison Watch was formed in 1996 to act as a focal point relating to all issues of detainees/prisoners and detention in Sierra Leone. It monitors human rights violations and abuse in detention centers throughout the country. And based on its observations, it has now come to the conclusion that Sierra Leone is all set for a review and redrafting of the Prison Ordinance and Rules of 1961.
The aim of drafting a new code for the running of our prisons must be to have a coherent set of codes that will fast forward us from the nineteenth century, into the twenty-first century.
As stated earlier, the aim of any Prison or Penitentiary Institution in a country is for the reformation and social rehabilitation of the offenders of law and order with the aim of transforming them into more responsible and useful citizens thereby contributing meaningfully to national development.
Mr Chairman, Ladies and Gentlemen, such a crucial transformation can only be made possible when the Prison Institution has rules which are of an absolute and fundamental character; fundamental rules which do not only serve as instruments for protecting and guaranteeing HUMAN RIGHTS but also as an essential element of good principle and practice in the treatment of prisoners and the management of Prison.
I sincerely take this opportunity at this juncture, to congratulate Prison Watch – Sierra Leone which has taken the initiative to review the Sierra Leone Prison Ordinance of 1961. Similarly, I must congratulate the Justice Sector Development Programme for supporting such a wonderful initiative.
Mr. Chairman, the present Prison Ordinance came into force on the 1st April 1961. It is therefore:
- Outdated
- Does not conform to modern day realities wherein some of its provisions date back to colonial times;&
- It seriously limits and infringes on the rights of the detainees and the staff.
As a Nation we must be aware that the Prison Institution has been very strategic in the security sector of this country. During this post conflict era, all stakeholders in the Prison Institution have a fundamental obligation to see to it that Prisons are safe for prisoners who are compelled to reside in them, especially those that are sent in as political detainees and have not been found guilty of any crime by a court of law.
I must also emphasise that the reviewing of these ordinances should also keep in mind that Prisons must also be safe for the staff who have to work in them. This can only be made possible when there are substantial improvements in the overall conditions of the prison system. From the Director of Prisons to the lowest ranking Prisons Officer should feel proud to wear the uniform of the Sierra Leone Prisons.
This will in turn produce a higher level of human security and the strengthening of the culture of HUMAN RIGHTS in Sierra Leone. Undoubtedly, it is most prudent that we achieve an improvement in the conditions of the Prison system by drafting a NEW PRISONS REFORM CODE. This code's success will be highly reliant on the Government and Prison Administration creating the necessary conditions for the implementation of modernised prison practice and principles.
Ladies and Gentlemen, since no prison system can achieve and maintain permanent perfection, drafting a NEW PRISONS REFORM CODE today should only be a beginning to what should ultimately be the creation of a continuous positive change in the general management of Prisons in Sierra Leone.
With these words, I have the singular pleasure to formally declare this National Conference open and I wish you all, peaceful and successful deliberations.
Subject: Partners in Education in Sierra Leone
From: Chad Finer
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I am a returned PCV (Kenema 1968-70) who recently has become
involved with a new and exciting organization trying to promote the
rebuilding of education in Sierra Leone. The group is called Partners for
Education for Sierra Leone, and is headquartered in Lebanon, New
Hampshire (P.O. Box 975 - Lebanon, NH 03766). Founded by two
women who have been to Sierra Leone to see first hand what has been
going on, Kelly Bidwell and Pamela J. Goss-Power are co-directors of
this newly started group. The organization is working with their
Freetown contact - the Reverend Elmer Macaulay - in order to organize
and fund school projects throughout the country. I have become a
member of the board of trustees of this worthy organization. Our first
project is started - the building of a new primary school at Rofutha
(near Lunsar) with future plans to expand and reestablish educational
opportunities in other areas of the country. Our board is broad based.
We are seeking both funding
as well as other support from those RPCVs who may be interested in
Supporting what is a worthy project to help with one aspect of getting
Sierra Leone back on its feet by investing in the education of its
children.
I would be happy to talk to anyone who might have interest in helping
out and I can be reached at finer@valley.net. Our two co-directors can
be reached at Partnersforeducation@gmail.com or by phone at Pam
Goss-Power 802-333-9208 or Kelly Bidwell 413-348-7376. This
organization is a nonprofit organization started with the purpose of
getting young children back on the road to a solid education. Please
consider helping out. Thank you. Donations can be sent to either of the
directors - please contact us if you have any questions or would like
more information. Thanks – Chad Finer
Subject: Re: Partners in Education in Sierra Leone
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Good job!!! It will be nice if a few of these loud mouths can send in a few $$$: imagine how far that will go! But no, they want to setup a lottery or be appointed Director of Finance.
Subject: STUDENTS RIOT IN SOLIDARITY WITH THEIR TEACHERS
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Students riot in solidarity with their teachers
Voinjama, Liberia - War-devastated Liberia's northern city of Voinjama came to a standstill on Thursday as hundreds of school pupils rioted for a second successive day in solidarity with school teachers striking over unpaid salaries.
An AFP correspondent saw the pupils dressed in uniform, armed with stones and clubs, destroy a police station, public buildings and vegetable markets.
Less than a dozen unarmed policemen watched helplessly as scores of pupils broke windows and doors, and tear documents at the town's
only police station.
The junior and high school pupils also burnt tyres to barricade streets in this main town of Lofa county, about 250km from the capital Monrovia.
A five-year-old boy standing next to his mother at the market was hit and wounded in the head by a stone hurled by the rioters and was rushed to hospital by United Nations peacekeeping forces in
the town.
UN Bangladesh peacekeepers later moved in stop to riots and restore order, lifting away the barricades on the streets.
Between 3 000 and 4 000 new teachers, hired by school authorities six months ago to fill in gaps left by the many teachers who quit the profession over low salaries of about $35 (about R250) per month, have yet to get their first pay
cheques.
The new teachers have been boycotting classes for a month.
Students' leader Ebenezer Kpehe said authorities "will have to understand that we are desperate."
"And we will use all possible means to make the government understand," he said.
"We are tired listening to all kinds of flattering stories from the government. It is not complicated to give money to some one who has worked for you," he added.
Liberia is just beginning to recover after 14 years of a brutal and destructive civil conflict during which government operations were neglected while funds were diverted to sponsoring the war.
Deputy Education Minister Hawa Kotchi recently said the replacement teachers would be paid as soon as their status is "regularised".
President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, who inherited a bloated and poorly paid civil service when she came to power in January, averted a nationwide strike by some 60 000 government workers in
April after she promised to pay off outstanding salary arrears in a year.
She accused the government of former president Charles Taylor of building up more than a year in arrears of civil servants salaries. - Sapa-AFP
Subject: HOW TO PROTECT S/LEONEANS FROM UNPATRIOTIC POLITICIANS
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Bambay Lans Kamara wrote on November 16, 2006:
"Greetings my brothers and sisters. Mr. Mohamed A. Jalloh thank you for your profound interest in Sierra Leone. ... But for the past twenty or more years you have lived in America, you are proud to contribute to America because the system makes it possible and effective for you to do so. You have the freedom and means to do so. You have become embroiled into the system so much so that your actions are of a refined and an educated American. Your education gives you the coutsy and ability to emulate good examples and live in good examples. However, not many Sierra Leoneans are that fortunate to understand American issues, issues about Sierra Leone and the world as most of us do. So it becomes a haculian task to effectively bring Sierra Leoneans unboard certain ideas especially, when they were brokendown before they even ventured out of Sierra Leone. There is jealousy, hate, malice, confusion, disbelieve, misunderstanding and misconceptions to name a few. ...
So if the question is WHAT CAN S/LEONEANS LIVING ABROAD DO FOR THEIR COUNTRY, my question instead of an answer would be, how can contributions Sierra Leoneans living abroad make, be meaningful to Sierra Leone?"
Bambay:
Thank you for your compliments. As I have stated here before, one can always tell a person with self-esteem -- the indispensable foundation for success in life -- by his/her ability to accord praise where it is due, and constructive criticism when it is warranted. Your actions here attest undeniably attest to your possession of self-esteem.
As regards your question quoted above, in my humble opinion, the most lasting solution to the problems encountered by millions of S/Leoneans is to provide them as many of them as possible with the opportunity to become knowledgeable.
By that, I do not mean that they should be helped to become merely educated, because we have all seen the incalculable harm that merely educated (but not knowledgeable) S/Leoneans have done to our country -- starting with the Ph.D-laden cabinet of President Siaka Stevens of 1977. Those unpatriotic betrayers of our well-meaning efforts to secure positive change in our long pillaged country via our 1977 Fourah Bay College students-led protests against then-President Siaka Stevens, proved that education alone does not guarantee knowledge.
For a person to possess knowledge, his/her education must be accompanied with morality -- the ability to recognize right from wrong and the courage to choose to do only what is right, notwithstanding the consequences to himself/herself. Unless and until a sufficient number of our fellow S/Leoneans can be encouraged to become knowledgeable in that true sense, it would be impossible to stop the unpatriotic few among us from cowering or fooling the majority of S/Leoneans into unwisely entrusting them with the power to run the affairs of our perennially needy country.
Our task, then, as S/Leoneans is to contribute to the empowerment of as many of our compatriots as possible by doing whatever we can -- individually and collectively -- to increase their chances of becoming knowledgeable. This is the reason why I have spent the past 27 years publicly offering my ideas on how to improve our country's economy to as many S/Leoneans as possible, as more fully explained in the following exchange I had here last January:
"In a message dated 1/9/2006 4:34:47 A.M. Eastern Standard Time, MohmJ writes:
Tamba Pessima writes on January 07, 2006:
"Thanks to all those who have contributed to this topic which i find very interesting and particularly Mr Jalloh, the IMF guru. all along i thought the IMF is a blessing to third world countries such as salone. now i kown their policies towards third world countries are a hindrance to our development."
Tamba Pessima:
Kindly accept my thanks for your kind sentiment, as well as for your intellectual and moral courage in duly, and openly, admitting to a change of mind when presented with evidence that you find convincing.
If only you were the president of SL, or, at least, if the leaders of SL had been -- and are -- as intellectually and morally courageous as you are, the lengthy, and entirely avoidable, suffering of our people would finally come to a long-overdue end!
Please be advised that my humble goal in spending so much time trying to inform my fellow Sierra Leoneans about the folly of the IMF's notorious policy of devaluation in the unsuited economies of African countries such as ours, is very simple, namely:
To ensure that no Sierra Leonean who occupies the leadership of our country would ever again be fooled by the IMF and allied foreign entities into impoverishing our country, and thereby cause our people needless untold suffering, due to ignorance of the true mission of the IMF and its cohorts.
Best regards,
Mohamed A. Jalloh"
Subject: Student killed in hit-and-run during party
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Student killed in hit-and-run during party
Sara Murray
Issue date: 11/15/06 Section: News
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Abioseh "Abby" Koroma sat over a white- and pink-iced cake, face half-hidden with plastic sunglasses - bawling because she was frightened by the talking baby doll she received.
It was one of the only photos in which her grin wasn't so large that it squished the rest of her face.
The photo, alongside others of Abby on her mom's lap with tiny pigtails, with her cousins when she was slightly older and at her high school graduation earlier this year, were of a happier time. Last night, family and friends gathered in her Greenbelt home to remember and mourn the 18-year-old freshman killed in a hit-and-run early Saturday morning.
As Koroma tried to cross Lanham Severn Road and Glenn Dale Road about 15 minutes from the campus in Glenn Dale, the Sierra Leone national who had just begun her first year in college was struck by an eastbound car that did not stop. Police responded at about 1:30 a.m. and found her lying on the ground with multiple injuries. She died hours later at a local hospital, Prince George's County police said.
Earlier that day, Koroma, a psychology major, had spent the day dancing around as usual, especially excited to go to a party Friday night, said Samata Hayes, a freshman psychology major and Koroma's best friend.
But when she and her boyfriend, Junaidu Savage, finally arrived, Koroma wanted to change her shirt in the car, Savage said. He offered to wait with her in the car that was parked across the street from the party, but she told him to go on without her.
On her way back across the divided street, Koroma managed to safely pass the part of the road for cars going downhill but was hit when crossing the side for uphill traffic, said Khadija Kamara, 20, Koroma's cousin.
"She was like three steps away from getting onto the grass area, and the car just hit her and flew her into the air and she landed head first," Kamara said.
"I knew it was her," Savage recalled, as he heard partygoers outside reacting to the incident. "The way I saw her I knew she wasn't going to make it."
He saw the ambulance take her away but was afraid to go with her. Instead he sunk to the floor of a nearby building and threw his cell phone to the ground, asking God why this had happened, he said. Then he went to the hospital where he sat until Koroma died.
Sitting on Koroma's couch Tuesday night, Savage wore an orange-beaded necklace with a matching earring attached to his belt loop. His finger glittered with an enormous gold ring with faux red gems - Koroma's accessories that he collected from the side of the road.
"These are the memories," he said. "I'm always going to keep this."
Born in Sierra Leone, Koroma moved to the United States about five years ago, where she attended Eleanor Roosevelt High School and met her best friend Hayes. Dubbed "ABeyonce" for a body shape similar to the pop star and her affinity for dancing anytime, anywhere, Koroma was constantly upbeat and few things managed to erase her smile.
"We've been together for so long, but I can honestly say it's only been a couple times that I've seen her really upset and that's only because I'm blood," her cousin Kamara said. "Any other friend or any other person would just say she's always laughing, she's always smiling 24/7."
When she began as a freshman at this university this year and snagged a desk job in the office of financial aid at UMUC, her normally huge smile grew even wider, Kamara said.
"She would call people and say 'I have a new job and it pays $9,' like it was so much money,'" Kamara said.
Koroma was trying to save money to buy a car but "she shopped a lot," Hayes said, so that's where a lot of her money went. During her free time, she often dragged Hayes and a camera off to the mall to take photos of her trying on clothes.
So it was fitting that the mall is where she first met Savage, who would become her boyfriend of three years. Her 19th birthday would have been Nov. 30, and she couldn't help telling all her friends that Savage had promised to take her on a cruise, he said.
"I was the last person she spoke to, the last person that touched her," he said. "Nobody feels right. Everybody just feels like they can't do nothin'."
And while her friends and family agreed that finding the driver could bring a sense of closure, there's nothing that can comfort them now that Koroma is gone.
"I pray to God that one day that person will sit down and realize what he did," Savage said.
"To just hurt someone and leave like that..." Hayes trailed off. "For me, I don't really care if they catch the person; I'll never have Abby back."
Police said the car was a silver, 1990s four-door sedan. It could have been a Honda Accord or a similar-looking foreign car with windshield and possible headlight damage. Witnesses are encouraged to call police at 301-731-4422.
Koroma's viewing is set for 5 p.m. Saturday at J B Jenkins Funeral Home in Landover. Her burial is scheduled for 11 a.m. Sunday at George Washington Cemetery.
Contact reporter Sara Murray at murraydbk@gmail.com.
Subject: EU hosts Africa talks
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EU ONLINE
EU hosts Africa talks
EU development commissioner Louis Michel is holding meetings with African leaders to discuss reform programmes for the continent.
On Wednesday Michel will meet leaders from 14 African states including Liberia, Nigeria and Sierra Leone.
The talks form part of a three day European commission conference aimed at persuading African officials to embrace EU reform policies.
Brussels is committed to providing more aid to African countries provided they speed up political reforms.
"We think there is no real development without governance," a European commission official explained.
Talks on Wednesday are also set to focus on ways to persuade European business to invest more in African projects.
"We think the Europeans have to show openly their business interest in Africa," a commission official told reporters.
The EU plans to increase its annual aid to Africa from €17 billion to around €25 billion by 2010.
Michel says €3 billion will be used as an incentive fund to spur reforms.
Subject: Green Goddess heading to Africa
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Date Posted: 01:11:03 11/17/06 ()
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BBC NEWS
Green Goddess heading to Africa
The shipment is being sent from RAF Scampton
A fleet of Green Goddess fire engines is heading to Sierra Leone from Lincolnshire as a donation to help the country's struggling fire service.
The 30 fire engines were being stored at RAF Scampton after being decommissioned by the government.
Sierra Leone only has a couple of fire engines to serve the entire country.
Hull City Council, which is twinned with Freetown in Sierra Leone, is arranging for the shipment of the fire engines to Africa.
Richard Skog, of Hull City Council, said: "We have a long-standing relationship with Sierra Leone and we hope these fire engines will boost their fire provision.
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"They are being shipped from Tilbury Docks in London to Freetown and they will be distributed by the Sierra Leone National Fire Force."
The Green Goddesses were used by the government during fire strikes to provide emergency cover.
Some of the 7.5 tonne machines, which have a top speed of 45mph, were sold on behalf of the Ministry of Defence in 2005 for between £3,500 and £7,500.
In the past, some farmers have purchased the fire engines to deal with stubble fires.
Subject: GHANA: Hospitals symbolic of the ill who visit
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GHANA: Hospitals symbolic of the ill who visit
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Korle Bu Hospital in Accra
ACCRA, 16 Nov 2006 (IRIN) - The third floor of the maternity block of Korle Bu Hospital is eerily quiet except for an occasional drip from a broken pipe. One woman ready to give birth is propped up on a stretcher next to a wet, moldy wall. Another groans while awaiting a caesarian as water pools beneath her bed. She looks up as a visitor passes and says, “I cannot stand the stench.”
Welcome to Ghana's leading state-run teaching and referral hospital, built in 1923 and once West Africa’s most prestigious medical complex. It is built on an area the size of five football fields. There are 16 specialised departments and diagnostic centers, plus various wards with a total of 1,600 beds.
Today much of the hospital is falling apart.
“We still have a colonial-style health delivery system which requires resources to meet modern international standards,” said Health Ministry spokesman Kofi Amponsah Bediako.
Conditions deteriorate
The government has increased funding to try to address the problems at Korle Bu and other hospitals around the country but public policy experts are concerned the money is not enough.
"The enormity of the infrastructure problem is such that it will need consistent and sustained investment," said Sulley Gariba, executive director of the Institute for Policy Alternatives, a Ghanaian public policy think-tank.
For example, at the five-story surgical block opposite the maternity ward, the elevator has not functioned since February. Its standby-generator broke down about the same time and has not been repaired.
One surgeon, who did not want to be named, told IRIN he recently performed emergency surgery on a woman when the lights suddenly went out.
“I had to abandon the operation," he said. "I used the light from my mobile phone to quickly stitch the patient up."
Conditions in other government-owned health facilities around the country are even worse. In Tamale, the main city in northern Ghana, corpses were left out on the grounds of the main hospital in October after the cooling system in the morgue broke down.
"We have been unable to repair the refrigerator using our internally generated funds," Daniel Tapang, the chief executive of the hospital, told IRIN.
After local residents complained about foul odors coming from the hospital, authorities decided they could no longer accept corpses, Tapang said.
"It was a difficult decision since we are aware of the health challenges for families left to find their own means of preserving the bodies before burial, but under the circumstances there was little we can do,” he said.
Patients give up
Health workers said fewer patents are going to government hospitals than before. Well-off Ghanaians go to private hospitals while missionary hospitals provide at least 30 percent of health care services around the country, according to data collected by the Institute for Policy Alternatives.
Yet even more people consult traditional healers. The institute found that only 43.8 percent of Ghanaians who fall ill ever consult a qualified medical practitioner.
Ghanaians complain not only about the poor service at state-owed health facilities but also about the high costs. Surgery ranges from a minimum of 3 million Ghanaian cedis (US $340) to 20 million Ghanaian cedis (US $2,267), far beyond what most people can pay.
The government set up an ambitious nation-wide health insurance scheme in 2004 with annual premiums as low as 72,000 cedis (US $8) a year. But two years later at least 17 million Ghanaians have still not bought into the scheme.
For many, not only is the cost of the premium not worth the service, but they find the associated paperwork and other requirements too difficult.
The government acknowledges that the system has flaws.
“We are not in any doubt that we have a serious problem to deal with," said Health Ministry spokesman Bediako.
Yet he also said that the government is coming up with solutions: “We are up to this task,” he said.
Some money, some hope
The government recently ramped up funding to rehabilitate hospital infrastructure. This year it budgeted 150 billion Ghanaian cedis (US $17 million), almost double the amount allocated in 2005 and three times the allocat1on in 2004.
The money is being funneled through the Ghana Health Service, an autonomous government agency, which "will focus on rehabilitation of existing facilities and only limited new development in the deprived, low access areas," according to the service’s five-year plan.
Donors believe the government still needs help. The European Union gave 55 million euros (US $71 million) for a national emergency accident centre at Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital in Ghana's second largest city, Kumasi.
In addition, the government said it plans to construct new paediatric and maternity blocks at the hospital, as well as a new nurses’ training college. This would make it the largest medical facility in the country, larger even than Korle Bu.
As for the flooding in Korle Bu's maternity block, plans have been underway to refurbish the ward for two years but nothing has happened. Now new plans are underway to refurbish the entire building, hospital spokesman Mustapha Salifu told IRIN.
“The proposal is currently under consideration. We hope construction will start soon,” he said.
Some are concerned that this plan, as well as other urgently need repairs, may not materialise.
"Only if funds are pumped into the health sector consistently for five years will we be able to talk about solving these problems," said Gariba, the head of the Institute for Policy Alternatives. "Civil society groups need to increase pressure on the government to make that commitment."
The matron at Korle Bu's maternity block, Naa Adorkor, took an IRIN reporter upstairs to see the source of the water leaks. She unlocked the door to a gushing sound and the sight of water shooting across the floor from a broken pipe. Putrid water filled the room, slowly seeping into the solid 100-year-old building and dripping down onto the floors below.
“This place is supposed to be a sterile area, a clean area," Adorkor said back in her office as water dripped next to shelves of drugs and medical equipment. "How can we allow babies to be born in this environment?”
Subject: Media Institutions Shut Down in Liberia; But Information Min
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Media Institutions Shut Down in Liberia; But Information Minister-designate Intervenes
11/16/06 - FPA Staff Report
Media Institutions Shut Down in Liberia; But Information Minister-designate Intervenes
Information Minister Dr. Lawrence Bropleh says media institutions failed to settle their tax arrears with government after they were notified by the Ministry of Finance.
Monrovia - The Ministry of Finance today closed several broadcast media institutions around Monrovia; but they were later reopened upon the intervention of the new Minister of Information-designate.
Coincidently, the action of the Ministry of Finance coincided with the takeover of Dr. Lawrence Bropleh as Liberia’s new Minister of Information Culture & Tourism-designate replacing Dr. Johnny McClain who resigned last week.
According to Dr. Lawrence Bropleh, media institutions failed to settle their tax arrears with government after they were notified by the Ministry of Finance. He told journalists that the Finance Ministry’s scheme was purely a tax collection initiative and not intended to muzzle the independent media.
“My understanding is that there are several media houses, radio stations, television stations that were in violation of paying their government taxes and the Ministry of Finance under the Deputy Minister for Revenue’s office had sent out 24-hour notification since November 3, 2006, to almost all the media institutions. Some were sent out on the 13th November in order for these stations to come in and pay their taxes and they did not respond and even did not acknowledge receipt of those notices. So the Ministry went out today and closed those institutions,” he narrated.
When quizzed as to whether it was indeed a revenue collection scheme or a purge, Minister Bropleh termed it as clearly collecting government’s revenue. “You know the country is coming out of war and we need to pay our taxes. Media houses as well as individual citizens and businesses all of us need to pay our taxes. When people do not pay their taxes then the Ministry of Finance has the enforcement regulations in order to make sure we all pay our taxes,” he said, emphasizing, “this was purely, on the part of the Ministry, trying to collect revenue. There was nothing else hidden in this agenda.”
Minister Bropleh said he negotiated with the Ministry of Finance’s Deputy Minister for Revenue Elfreda Stewart-Tamba to immediately open all of the affected media institutions closed down today and then give them 48 hours to settle their tax obligations to government, meaning that by 12:00 Monday afternoon, they are to go to the Ministry, either pay Government taxes owed or make suitable stipulation to pay.
“I did that because this Government is not concerned about shutting media houses down. This Government values the independent press,” Dr. Bropleh said, adding, “If there had been prior coordination with the Ministry of Information, we would have adverted this from happening,” he noted.
He admitted that Government depends on the media to rebuild this war ravaged country and will do noting to silence it. “The independent media needs to understand that the Ellen Johnson Sirleaf Government has no desire to hush the press. I’m here to defend the press and the press is also here to guide the government and work in collaboration to rebuild this country and disseminate credible information,” he said.
Minister Bropleh said he wants the media to be the watchdog for the Government, inform the Liberian people with integrity, veracity, as well as be available so as to work hand in hand. “If you do not disseminate credible information throughout this country and abroad, then all of our efforts on rebuilding this country would be in vain. I think the press is a key part of it. As the Minister of Information-designate, I cherish this and I will work in the interest of the press to try to rebuild our country,” said Minister Bropleh.
Some of those broadcast media institutions affected today included Crystal FM, Love FM, King’s FM, Sky FM, among others. They have since resumed normal broadcasting.
Subject: CHARLES MARGAI SPEAKS ABOUT HIS PAPA
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Charles Margai Speaks at Howard University
- Friday 17 November 2006.
“Twenty-five years ago, my father, Sir Albert Margai, second prime minister of Sierra Leone, gave a speech here in the Houston Hall of this great institution. He was then probably the only African leader in power who had lost elections to a political rival. He admonished the then government of Siaka Stevens to elevate the economic status of the poor or they would rise up to demand what they deserve.”
By Karamoh Kabba
The Interim Leader, Charles Margai(photo) of the People’s Movement for Democratic Change (P.M.D.C.) of Sierra Leone, who is on what party officials refer to as Trans-Atlantic Tour for Positive Change (T-AT for Positive Change) in the United States was honoured by Rizwan Pureshi,the Student Bar Association President and Joshua Senavoe, the President of the International Law Society to speak and take questions from students at the Houston Hall of the great historic institution of Howard University Law School in Washington DC recently.
The meeting was arranged by a former student of Howard University Law School, Ms. Yolanda Thompson, who is a Sierra Leonean American and the daughter of Raymond Bamidele Thompson, National Chairman of the PMDC Media Committee.Mr. Kurt L. Schmoke, the Dean of the Law School, who was in attendance, delivered the closing remarks.
Rizwan spoke briefly about Mr. Margai as a graduate of the University College of Dublin, Ireland, where he obtained a Bachelor of Civil Law (B.C.L.) degree, leader of the P.M.D.C. party of Sierra Leone, son of late Sir Albert Margai, the second prime minister of Sierra Leone, father of three children and added, “Mr. Margai is of a good pedigree.”
Joshua, the second speaker who introduced Mr. Margai, demonstrated remarkable knowledge of the decade-long rebel war in Sierra Leone and the judiciary system that he said “is controlled by the government.” He asked his fellow students to “imagine themselves with opposing views in a country in which the judiciary is controlled by the government” before he introduced the keynote speaker, Mr. Charles Margai.
After a brief history of Sierra Leone and its precise geographical locat1on on the world map, Mr. Margai, in a somber mood, reminisced that on a winter day of December 1980 his father gave a speech at the same Houston Hall, where he was now honored to speak.
“Twenty-five years ago, my father, Sir Albert Margai, second prime minister of Sierra Leone, gave a speech here in the Houston Hall of this great institution. He was then probably the only African leader in power who had lost elections to a political rival. He admonished the then government of Siaka Stevens to elevate the economic status of the poor or they would rise up to demand what they deserve.”
Mr. Margai told the students that the great grandfather on the maternal side of the champion of civil rights in the United States, late Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall was from Sierra Leone amidst thunderous applause.
“We have great historical links,” Mr. Margai told the students. “And I will ensure, when I become the next president of Sierra Leone come 2007 elections, that those links between us are strengthened through a student exchange program between the Howard University and the University of Sierra Leone,” he promised.
I was able to confirm Mr. Margai’s statement through a Howard University Law School student of the early 1980s, who was the then Student Bar Association President that, indeed, Sir Albert Margai gave a speech at the law school in December of 1980 before he died on December 18 of that same year. The former law student told me that Albert Margai was introduced to the students by late S.E. Darammy another Sierra Leonean. The former law student who is now a prominent Washington lawyer went on to recall Sir Albert Margai’s words; “He was a great fighter for economic parity for the poor,” he told me. “He articulated his foresight for Sierra Leone in that speech as follows; ‘If the government, (referring to the APC government of late Shiaka Stevens) ‘does not do something to elevate the lives of the have-nots,the poor, they would one day rise to demand from the have, the rich, their own share of the economy,’.
The old Lion retired to his home afterwards that winter, and died in his sleep on December 18, 1980,” he added. “His prophesy came through the decade-long rebel war that was characterized by the abduction and the forcible conscr1ption of children as warriors by rebels and the government - a gross human right crime against children on both sides,” he concluded.
And Mr. Charles Margai drew the students’ attention precisely on his father’s prediction of that winter day at Howard University when he linked that prophesy to the decade-long “...rebel war that was characterized by some of the most gruesome war crimes against humanity in recent history.” He spoke briefly of the unattended limbless Sierra Leoneans, whose limbs had been hacked off by machete wielding rebels that are now walking the streets of Sierra Leone.
In Richard Klukir’s book, “Simple Justice” I confirmed that Mr. Margai was right when he told the students that the late Chief Justice Thurgood Marshall, a graduate of the Howard University Law School and the first black Supreme Court Justice’s great grandfather on the mother side was from Sierra Leone.
Notable questions amongst many brilliant questions the students asked during question time, were two that stood out: “... What will be your position on the ongoing discussion on the all Africa citizenship for African Americans in Africa when you become the next president of Sierra Leone?” The student explained that he is interested in the discussion for African Americans to be citizens of Africa regardless of which country they may want to go because the African American should be able to have a home anywhere in Africa and also be able to help with the development programs of his/her country of choice.
Mr. Margai answered; “Thank God we are already ahead in that in Sierra Leone,” referring to the dual citizenship bill that has recently been passed in the Parliament of Sierra Leone. He stated that, “I am fully in support of dual citizenship for African Americans in Africa in a way that would not infringe on the nation"s sovereignty.” He stated that; “the P.M.D.C. government would streamline the procedure for acquiring dual citizenship to make it less cumbersome than is currently proposed.
The other question was about Mr. Margai’s position on women: the student asked what Mr. Margai will do about women who are the most marginalized people not just in Sierra Leone but also in many countries in Africa. Mr. Margai reassured the student without hesitation that women would make a third of his cabinet, and even more if more qualified and willing women come forth to sacrifice for public service to their country.
He stressed that his government will have zero tolerance for corruption and that “there will be no sacred cows in Sierra Leone as far as clamping down on corruption is concerned.” He reiterated on the point that “public service would become a sacrifice to serve and not to amass wealth through corruption.”
In his closing remarks, Mr. Kurt L. Schmoke told Mr. Margai; “We know your schedule as president would be very busy, but remember that we have extended an invitation to you to come back to Howard University Law School when you become the next president of Sierra Leone.”
Subject: Analyzing the Code of Conduct for Judicial Officers in Sierr
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Posted by Allieu Vandi Koroma on Nov 16, 2006, 15:00
The Chief Justice of the Republic of Sierra Leone, Hon. Dr. Ade Renner-Thomas, on the 15th September 2005, concurrently launched the Code of Conduct for Judicial Officers in Sierra Leone during the official launching of the Justice Sector Development Programme.
Prior to this time, there has been a conspicuous absence in the justice system of any written guidelines to help Judicial Officers in regulating their judicial and personal conduct. Moreover, apart from the provisions of the Constitution, Act No. 6 of 1991, governing the removal of Judges for misconduct, there is no formal machinery available to members of the public for the processing of complaints against Judicial Officers for alleged misconduct.
The purpose of this Code is to establish standards for ethical conduct of Judicial Officers. This initiative, though long over due, is however welcoming as the country is still in transition, consolidating the gains of reform after over a decade long war characterized by the collapse of state institutions with the Judiciary being one of the primary victims.
The need for reform in the justice sector in Sierra Leone cannot be over emphasized as it is very crucial in the post war recovery effort. The deviances in the justice system were created by years of political neglect and corruption. The Judiciary –which, prior to the war, barely existed in the provinces, and in Freetown was only accessible to those who had sufficient funds- was largely non-functional during the conflict.
The low salaries of personnel who worked in the judiciary meant that magistrates, lawyers and judges were easy targets for bribery, intimidation and/ or manipulation. Consequently, it became the machinery used by the political hierarchy to persecute their opponents, whether real or imagined. As such, the lack of faith in the system contributed in no mean measure in exacerbating the growing disenchantment among the populace which subsequently led to the armed conflict.
The Sierra Leone Judiciary comprise “...all Judges, Magistrates, Registrars, Justices of the Peace and other persons carrying out judicial functions in Sierra Leone”, conferred with the responsibility for adjudicating “all matters civil and criminal including matters relating to [the] Constitution, and such other matters in respect of which Parliament may by order under an Act of Parliament confer jurisdiction on the judiciary”.
In order to restore public confidence in the administration of justice; to enhance public respect for the judiciary; and to protect the reputation of individual Judicial Officers and the Judiciary as a whole, the judiciary is to be guided in their judicial functions.
Therefore, in the spirit of judiciously performing their duties, the Sierra Leone judiciary has taken the initiative to regulate itself by introducing a Code of Conduct for Judicial Officers.
As stated in the text, the Code of Conduct is not only designed to provide guidance to Judicial Officers in regulating judicial conduct, but also intended to offer Government operatives, legal practitioners and the general public the opportunity to better understand and complement the effort of the judiciary.
This piece, therefore, analyzes key provisions of the Code of Conduct vis-à-vis their applicability in Sierra Leone.
Judicial Independence
Judicial independence is a fundamental principle and prerequisite for the dispensation of justice in a democratic state. An independent, strong, respected and respectable judiciary is free from any form of political influence or interference by either the executive or legislative arm of government.
Judges must be free to decide a matter before them based on the facts presented and in accordance with the dictates of the law. Judges should be free from any extraneous influences, inducement, pressures, threats or interference, direct or indirect, internal or external or for any reason.
In addition, the Code of Conduct states that a Judicial Officer should also be free from influence by his judicial colleagues and that they are required to exhibit high standards of judicial conduct. These conditions enshrined in the Code of Conduct are also provided for in Sec 120(3) of the 1991 Constitution.
Despite these elaborate provisions, conditions inhibiting the independence of the judiciary still continue to exist. One such condition is the appointment and security of tenure of office of Judicial Officers.
Although sec 135(1) of the 1991 Constitution states that the President on the advice of the Judicial and Legal Service Commission and subject to Parliamentary approval shall have the power to appoint the Chief Justice and other judges of the superior court of judicature, sec136 provides that where the office of a High Court judge is vacant, the President may appoint a person who has held office as, or qualified for appointment as a judge of the superior court of judicature, even though he has already attained the retirement age or the age at which he shall vacate office.
Under the latter provision, there is no need to seek Parliamentary approval, having secured it once. This therefore leaves the judge at the pleasure of the President who has power to terminate his appointment at will. Since these contract judges only serve at the pleasure of the President- they do not have security of tenure of office- there is the likelihood that they cannot be totally independent in the discharge of their official duties.
In other words, in order to maintain his job, a judge may be tempted to succumb to the dictates of the President hence compromising his independence. The current protraction of the Omrie Golley trial is largely premised on this fact. Golley’s Defence Counsel, Charles Margai, has objected to the eligibility of the presiding Judge, Justice Samuel Ademusu. As a judge on contract, his tenure of office is highly contingent on the President’s prerogative and therefore, in Mr. Margai’s opinion, he (Ademusu) might easily subject himself to judicial manipulations from the Government in order to maintain his primary source of livelihood.
The Supreme Court is yet to sit on the matter as another motion has been filled against the Chief Justice, who should preside at the Supreme Court, not to participate in the process for discussing matter pending ruling outside court.
Equality
Equality before the law is a primary standard that evinces adherence to the principle of the rule of law. The Code of Conduct makes specific emphasis for Judicial Officers to regulate their demeanor so as to ensure equality of all persons in accordance with the law. The actions of a Judicial Officer, therefore, by words or conduct should not manifest any form of bias or prejudice towards any person or group of persons that would advantage or disadvantage him before the law. In addition to this, Section 15 of the 1991 Constitution clearly states that all persons in Sierra Leone are entitled to fundamental rights and freedoms regardless of race, place of origin, political opinion, colour, creed or sex and that all persons are equal before the law and are entitled, without any discrimination, to the same protection of the law.
Whilst these provisions are very glaring, there are a number of practices that militates the full adjudication of the law indiscriminately. A typical example of inequality before the law is the age qualification to become a juror. Whereas a man can become a juror at 21 years, a woman on the contrary must be 30 years.
This case distinctly contradicts gender equality for age qualification requirement of becoming a judicial officer in this respect.
In addition to this, the justice system in Sierra Leone does not provide equal opportunities for litigants. Whilst there is an office of a Director of Public Prosecution, there is no such provision for a Public Defender. This situation, therefore, does not offer equal opportunities for litigants to access justice.
Hence, many a time, accused persons are arraign before court with no legal representation contrary to the provisions of the 1991 Constitution. One such example is the case of three persons charged to court 29th September, 2006 for allegedly stoning an SLRTC bus and assaulting a Hughes security guard at Rokupa Estate in the East-end of Freetown. Whilst there were four persons prosecuting the matter on the one hand, the accused persons on the other could not boast of any Defence counsel.
Thus, the presiding Magistrate of Court No.1, Sam Margai, therefore asked them to cross-examine the witnesses from the dock where, because of lack of legal knowledge, almost implicated them further. A series of other rules and practices exist that inhibit the provision that yearns for equality before the law.
Impartiality and Impropriety
Justice itself cannot be applied without impartiality. As such, Judicial Officers have come under intensive public scrutiny to dispense justice fairly within the ambits of the law. Therefore, the Code of Conduct makes very clear projections as to how Judicial Officers need to dispose themselves in order for them to perform their duties free from a cynical eye. This revolves around their associations and the avoidance of favoritism, prejudice, independence, partiality and the misuse of their prestige in the performance of their functions as Judicial Officers.
Furthermore, the Code of Conduct 5.3a makes it abundantly clear that a Judicial Officer shall cease all partisan political activity involvement and shall refrain from conduct that might give rise to the appearance that he is engaged in political activity. Moreover, paragraph 5.3b clearly states that a Judicial Officer shall not attend a political gathering, political fund raising events, make speeches for a political organization, and contribute to political parties or campaigns.
However, despite these highly structured principles in the Code of Conduct, some Judicial Officers are yet to go strictly according to the letter. A case in point is the attendance of the opening of the Sierra Leone Peoples Party (SLPP) Western Area Branch office by the presiding Magistrate of Court No.1a, Adrian Fischer. It is important to note that this event happened just after Magistrate Fischer resumed duties after he was temporarily suspended by the office of the Chief Justice. He was accused of bringing the judiciary and the office of the Chief Justice into disrepute, gross dereliction of duty and abuse of office and insubordination and disrespect for lawful authority after he failed to submit on time documents relating to the inquest regarding the death of Harry Yansaneh, former acting editor of For di People Newspaper. It is presumed that, the verdict of the inquest which was issued against Hon. Dr. Fatmata Hassan, a member of Parliament for the ruling SLPP and others, did not go down well with some higher authorities. By attending a meeting of such a political party, even against the spirit and letter of the Code of Conduct, only shows that he was trying to mend fences at the expense of compromising judicial impartiality and impropriety. The million Dollars question here is: why did the Judicial Ethics Committee not institute any procedure against Magistrate Fisher for the alleged flouting of the Code of Conduct?
Conclusion
The transition period offers Sierra Leone a unique
opportunity to reform the various institutions crumbled by the war with the Judiciary, owing to its indispensability, being no exemption. The Sierra Leone Court Monitoring Programme (SLCMP), therefore, lauds the efforts of the Judiciary to institute minimum threshold to regulate its conduct in the form of issuing a Code of Conduct and in proposing for the establishment of a Judicial Ethics Committee.
The SLCMP holds the view that these guiding principles would serve as a mechanism for the attainment of a professional judiciary that is imperatively needed in Sierra Leone. However, living by these codes does not merely require stating them in a text; it also requires making provisions that will serve as deterrents to the conditions and practices that make Judicial Officers perform their duties unprofessionally as have been mentioned in the above paragraphs
Subject: EDUCATE THE KIDS, SLPP PART 2
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Tane and Kunike Barina Chiefdoms get schools
Posted by on Nov 16, 2006, 14:34
Tane and Kunike Barina Chiefdoms in the Tonkolili district have benefited from three new primary schools. The schools provided by government, through the National Commission for Social Action (NaCSA) are located at Mathonkara and Mange Bana in the Tane Chiefdom and Mamuri in the Kunike Barina chiefdom.
Commissioning the three primary schools, NaCSA’s Commissioner Kanja Sesay said the construction of the schools, deep in the rural part of Tonkolili, is a sign of Government’s commitment to provide basic social services for its citizens, noting that education is the foundation of a nation’s development.
He observed that people living in the rural areas were deprived access to education, a reason responsible for the country’s slow pace of development. Mr. Sesay stressed that Health and Education are the best investment of a responsible government. He called on the people of Tane and Kunike Barina Chiefdoms to make full use of the schools by sending their children to school.
Acting paramount chiefs of Tane and Kunike Barina chiefdoms, Pa Santigie Turay and Pa Eamsin Gbla commended government, through NaCSA, stating that the Commission has made them realize their development aspirations. They assured Commissioner Kanja Sesay of their chiefdom’s willingness to work with NaCSA field staff.
The Chiefs appealed for the road network to the various communities in the chiefdoms to be improved in order that goods and people can move freely.
Members of the two Project Management Committees said they had learnt a lot in Project Implementation and Management, which has enhanced their capacity to carry out other development activities in future. They gave assurances that the structures will be properly maintained by their Maintenance Management Committees.
The three councilors in the two Chiefdoms, Councilors Abdul Kamara, Aminata Conteh and D. Y. Koroma expressed gratitude to government for the ‘immense development activities undertaken in their various wards’.
They assured government of their support in every development effort, noting that the premium on education is an indication of commitment to alleviate poverty and bring literacy level to an unprecedented high level. They appealed for various other developments projects, including roads and health facilities.
NaCSA’s Northern Region Coordinator, Peter Bundu briefed the communities on the wide range of projects undertaken by NaCSA in the Tonkolili district and encouraged them to continue to work closely with NaCSA to fast track development in their areas.
The three school projects were implemented through NaCSA’s Community-Driven Programme (CDP), which empowers rural communities through the Direct Community Financing (DCF) to take ownership and control over their development aspirations.
Tonkolili district has benefited from one hundred and sixteen (116) multi-sectoral projects since 1996, with sixty-nine (69) in the last two years completed or at various stages of completion.
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SABABU EDUCATION PROJECT
Posted by on Nov 16, 2006, 15:23
SABABU EDUCATION PROJECT
Ministry of Education, Science and Technology
INVITATIOLN FOR BIDS (IFB)
National Competitive Bidding (NCB)
Date: 15 November 2006
Contract Identification No: CON/SP/NCB/02/11/06
IDA Grant No: H0200SL
Name: GOSL/IDA/ADB/Education Project
1. The Government of Sierra Leone has received a grant from the International Development Association and a loan and grant from the African Development Bank towards the cost of GOSL/IDA/Education Project and intends to apply part of the funds to cover eligible payments under the Contract for Civil Works in the Tonkolili District. Bidding is open to all bidders from eligible construction firms as defined in the Guidelines: Procurement under IBRD Loans and IDA Credits.
2. Concern Worldwide (hereinafter called the “Service Provider”) on behalf of the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology (MEST) now invites sealed bids from eligible bidders for the construction of the following Civil Works in the Tonkolili District.
Lot No. Chiefdom locat1on Name of School Descr1ption of Works Quantity Amount of Bid Security Required (Leones)
1 YONI Rochen Junction TDEC Rochen Junction a. 3 Classroom Blocks with Office and Store
b. 3 Compartment Block Ventilated Improved Pit Latrine
c. Hand Dug Water Well with Pump a. One (1)
b. Two (2)
c. One (1)
2,250,000 Leones
2 YONI Magbosie UMC Magbosie a. 3 Classroom Blocks with Office and Store
b. 3 Compartment Block Ventilated Improved Pit Latrine
c. Hand Dug Water Well with Pump
a. One (1)
b. Two (2)
c. One (1)
2,250,000 Leones
3 YONI Ronetta New Junior Secondary School Ronetta a. 3 Classroom Block.
b. Administrative Block
c. 3 Compartment Block Ventilated Improved Pit Latrine
d. Hand Dug Water Well with Pump
a. One (1)
b. One (1)
c. Two (2)
d. One (1)
4,000,000 Leones
4 MALAL MARA Masugbay EMS Masugbay a. 6 Classroom Blocks with Office and Store
b. 3 Compartment Block Ventilated Improved Pit Latrine
c. Hand Dug Water Well with Pump a. One (1)
b. Two (2)
c. One (1)
2,500,000 Leones
5 MALAL MARA Ropolongbana EMS Ropolongbana a. 6 Classroom Blocks with Office and Store
b. 3 Compartment Block Ventilated Improved Pit Latrine
c. Hand Dug Water Well with Pump a. One (1)
b. Two (2)
c. One (1)
2,500,000 Leones
6 MALAL MARA Rochen New Junior Secondary School Rochen a. 3 Classroom Block.
b. Administrative Block
c. 3 Compartment Block Ventilated Improved Pit Latrine
d. Hand Dug Water Well with Pump a. One (1)
b. One (1)
c. Two (2)
d. One (1)
4,000,000 Leones
7 KHOLIFA MABANG Mabang New Junior Secondary School Mabang a. 3 Classroom Block
b. Administrative Block.
c. 3 Compartment Block Ventilated Improved Pit Latrine
d. Hand Dug Water Well with Pump a. One (1)
b. One (1)
c. Two (2)
d. One (1)
4,000,000 Leones
Bidders may quote for one or more lots. Bidders quoting for an incomplete lot shall be considered non-responsive.
Completion period beyond six (6) months is not acceptable.
3. Bidding documents (and additional copies) may be purchased at Concern Worldwide Head Office, No. 22 Carlton Carew Lane (off Wilkinson Road) Thompson Bay, Freetown, Sierra Leone or at No. 2 Shamel Street, Magburaka, Tonkolili District, Sierra Leone for a non-refundable fee of One Hundred Fifty Thousand Leones (Le. 150,000.00). Interested bidders may obtain further information at the same address.
4. Bids shall be valid for a period of Ninety (90) Days after Bid Opening and must be accompanied by a Bid Security of the form and amount indicated in the table above and shall be delivered to Concern Worldwide, No. 2 Shamel Street, Magburaka, Tonkoluili District, Sierra Leone on or before 10:00A.M. on 15th December 2006. Bids will be opened on the same day at 11:00 A.M. on the same locat1on in the presence of bidders or bidders representatives who wish to attend.
5. A Pre-bid Conference will be held at 9:00 A.M. on 27th November 2006 at the Concern Worldwide, No 2 Shamel Street, Magburaka, Tonkolili, Sierra Leone. Bidders who have not attended any pre-bid conference for the project are strongly advised to attend.
THE BID SECURITY SHALL BE IN THE FORM OF A BANK GUARANTEE
Subject: JL, PA JAVOMBO IS PEACHTREE
From: John Benjamin
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Date Posted: 19:43:32 11/16/06 ()
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Dear John Leigh,
It seems as if your opponenets cannot defeat you. They have resorted to using false handles here to abuse you. Look at theis old man, probably in his late 50's to early 60's, Pa Javombo using the handle PEACHTREE to abuse you.
These guys are losers. You are doing a great job in destroying them. Pa Javombo bet dog nar cline town.. Hey Peachtree Javombo you don don kpata kpata. So you sef mix pan dis norshi norshi. Hehehehehe Javombo is senile.
Subject: Re: JL, PA JAVOMBO IS PEACHTREE
From: John E. Leigh
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Date Posted: 14:47:13 11/17/06 ()
Email Address: johnernestleigh@yahoo.com
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Dear Mr. Bengamin:
Pa Javombo Peachtree has a typical PMDC background: lying, chicken flunky, deception, flip-flopping and not very intelligent. Just read his typical argumentation.
Genuine Third Force people have no time for such lying liars. They belong with PMDC's disbarred lawyers, harlot politicians and alphabet soup. Let them continue lying if they truly believe that lying will get them what they want.
Thank you for bursting Pa Javombo's shameless flip-flopping with monikers by abusing the rules - that dog eater. - JL
Subject: Re: JL, PA JAVOMBO IS PEACHTREE
From: PA Javombo
To: All
Date Posted: 11:30:11 11/18/06 ()
Email Address:
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"Dog eater"?
But John, Ain't no Chineese or Korean.
John you called SLPP govt. kalo kalo, tiffi tiff, undemocratic and so on. Today that same SLPP govt. with the same people who are the Kalo kalos is now the "best" party in our country.I wonder how you can do the same thing many times and expect a different result.It is because of your honesty then that made people like us leave the SLPP. You were right then and wrong now. If you are not filp-flopper, then I wonder what you are.
Subject: Re: JL, PA JAVOMBO IS PEACHTREE
From: John E. Leigh
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Date Posted: 12:47:59 11/18/06 ()
Email Address: johnernestleigh@yahoo.com
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Dear Pa Javombo Peachtree:
Congratulations! I am happily relieved to hear that your are not a dog-eater. The Clinetown story was sickening. Now I feel better.
But who told you that Chinese and Koreans are dog eaters? Its not true!
Regarding the SLPP, please understand my reasoning:
1. Merely because I criticized the SLPP Administration, does not mean I should spilt my party and tarry with phooolumunkus.
2. There is a reform wing within the SLPP that appears to have taken my criticisms to heart.
3. It is this SLPP reform wing I am associated with, not the present SLPP Administration. I am pressing the SLPP reform group to accept the Third Force ideas I am associated with.
4. Moijue is most skeptical about the good intentions of the SLPP wing I claim is the reform group. But I say I will rather be used and then dumped by the reform wing first than split and join any other Third Force.
5. As previously explained, I have a greater claim to the Third Force than the harlot opportunists who are trying to split my SLPP reform group by setting up the PMDC and deliberately excluded the public from its organization but instead populated their grouping with Mombo Tombo Dumbo Bangucrooks, Bamidisbarred, Fulumunkus Flunky Argumentators, Frog Doctors, Rubbish Writers, Short-tempered Dunce Poverty Alleviators, Parity Currency fixers, and Yesmen for the sole benefit of one Benevolent Dictator full of coukumonger crap.
6. In all of this, I remain faithful to each and every single criticism of the status-quo that I have writen about. And I am committed to work for their acceptance in practice by the entire SLPP. Such will take time and lots of attention.
7. The real flip-floppers are those who practice opportunistic alphabet-soup politrics: SLPP, PNP, APC, NUP, UNPP, PDP, GA-UNPP, CUPP = PMDC or PA MUNKU DUMBO COUKUMONGER.
Thanks for your non-dog-eating attention. I am grateful. - JL
Subject: PA JAVOMBO BUSTED
From: JOHN BENJAMIN
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Date Posted: 19:40:41 11/16/06 ()
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Even old senile Javombo, former John Ben admirer, is now using handles to attack John Leigh. Javombo is now using dirty tricks to score points. God is greeat. the man exposed himself. hashahahahahaha.
Posted by Peachtree on November 16, 2006 at 19:26:25:
In Reply to: Re: Leigh A Big Contributor To PMDC posted by Pa Javombo on November 16, 2006 at 14:59:50:
Mammy Javombo,
Your divorce is on the way. Reason failure to read and comprehend.I rather sleep on the couch than to be near you. I wrote ;
"I am one of the first to condemn that GOVT....."
Have you ever seen or heard anyone condemn his/her hero?
Posted by MAMMY JAVOMBO on November 16, 2006 at 15:23:54:
In Reply to: Re: Leigh A Big Contributor To PMDC posted by Pa Javombo on November 16, 2006 at 14:59:50:
You are sleeping on the couch tonight. This is the punishment you get for disobeying me.
Can you please tell me why salone was the last kaka(last on the list) country on the HDI index from 1991 till 1996 when your heroes where in power?
Subject: Re: PA JAVOMBO BUSTED
From: Pajvombo
To: All
Date Posted: 20:13:32 11/16/06 ()
Email Address:
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Boy/Girl
You got it wrong.
I always use my handle.
Subject: Re: PA JAVOMBO BUSTED
From: John Benjamin
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Date Posted: 20:15:38 11/16/06 ()
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Yeah right. Even when the truth is looking at you, you run away from it. You have been busted. Why did you respond as PEACHTREE. Just accept the fact that you are part of the dirty trick game here. I am going to tell MAMMY JAVOMBO to file for divorve as soon as possible.
Subject: Sierra Leone for Sierra Leoneans; bad idea!
From: Bambay Lans Kamara
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Date Posted: 16:49:38 11/16/06 ()
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Justice, this has a been a notion I have heard many Sierra Leoneans grumble about. But I am here to say that the idea of Sierra Leone for Sierra Leoneans, in the context you and the ones I heard grumbling taking it, is a bad idea for the development of a nation; that is any nation.
America, Russia, Great Britain, China, Japan to name a few are great because they employ the services and knowledge of people from other nations who wish to adopt their nations as their own countries.
Time there was when towns and villages in Sierra Leone were booming with business; life was good in these towns and villages, and for Sierra Leone because you had people from different parts of the world visit or reside in these towns and villages who brought with them business and new ideas that were essential for the use and or consumtion of people within these towns and villages. But today, and we can not holy and soly blame this on the war, these towns and villages have become bare, dull with no vibrant economy that is comparable to the days I mention earlier. So I believe, as I have seen it hapen in America, that as long as people can make meaningful contributions to our nation, their services must be welcomed.
To help you understand, as many people, even in America who are unaware of certain policies and have not kept their noses peeled to know about essentials hapenings in the countries hyrachy, go about grumbling the same idea because their eyes have been and are fixed on little people within a certain circle. Which will not help them understand opportunities that avail the country in the use of the services of people even if they were not born in that country.
America is great because they feel differently. Differently in that they can employ the serveices of people as long as they are legal and abide by the law.
You can see this in the following:
Let me give you a brief background of people who were not born in America but have played great roles in the America Hisatory, which is why America is what it is today. You always hear it said in T.V.and Radio, America is a nation of Immigrants. This is so true because her history is grounded in Immigrants.
As I said I will start with Madeleine Korbel Albright (born Marie Jana Korbelová on May 15, 1937) served as the 64th United States Secretary of State. She currently serves as the Mortara Distinguished Professor of Diplomacy at the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University.
Madeleine Albright was nominated by President Bill Clinton on December 5, 1996, as Secretary of State. After being unanimously confirmed by the United States Senate 99-0, she was sworn in as the 64th Secretary of State on January 23, 1997 Albright was the first female Secretary of State.
Madeleine Albright was born Marie Jana Korbelová in Prague, Czechoslovakia (now the Czech Republic), and raised Roman Catholic by her parents, who had converted to Catholicism from Judaism in order to escape persecution. She has a brother, John, who later became an economist. Madeleine was the French version of "Madlenka", a Czech nickname given by her grandmother. Albright adopted the new name when she attended a Swiss boarding school. Albright is the daughter of a diplomat — her father, Josef, served in the Czech diplomatic service. Her brother said, "Madeleine had a special relationship with our father, partly because she followed so closely in his footsteps." Later in life, she joined the Episcopal Church USA.
In 1939 the Korbel family fled to London after Bohemia and Moravia were annexed by Germany. That may have saved her life, as many of her Jewish relatives in Czechoslovakia were killed in the Holocaust, including three of her grandparents [1].
She and her parents fled again when the Communists assumed power over Czechoslovakia, moving to the United States of America in 1948. Once settled there, Josef became the founding dean of the Graduate School of International Studies at the University of Denver. Korbel later taught future Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice. [2] In Madam Secretary, Albright wrote of how her mother told her that Rice was her father's favorite student. At Josef's funeral, Rice gave the family a piano in the memory of Korbel.
Albright attended school in Switzerland and Denver, and later majored in political science on a scholarship at Wellesley College in Massachusetts. She became a U.S. citizen in 1957. After Wellesley graduation in May 1959, she married Chicago newspaper journalist Joseph Medill Patterson Albright, whom she had met working a summer job with the Denver Post.
They had three daughters, twins Anne and Alice, and Katie. When the twins were born six weeks prematurely, Albright took a course in Russian as a distraction. By the end of their hospital stay, she was fluent in the language. While raising her family, she earned a Ph.D. in Public Law and Government from Columbia University
Next is Henry Kinsinger.
Henry (Alfred) Kissinger Biography (1923– )
Political scientist and public official, born in Fuerth, Germany. He fled the Nazis to New York City with his parents in 1938. Even before he became professor of government at Harvard (1962–71), his book Nuclear Weapons and Foreign Policy (1957) had gained him national attention, and he served occasionally as adviser to presidents Eisenhower, Kennedy, and Johnson. As special national security adviser, National Security Council executive secretary (1969–71), and secretary of state (1971–6), he was chief architect of foreign policy in the Nixon and Ford administrations, emphasizing realpolitik and detente with China and the USSR, and negotiations between Arabs and Israelis. Although he had been a ‘hawk’ in pursuit of the war in Vietnam, he received the Nobel Peace Prize (1973) for his role in the Vietnam ceasefire. Following revelations of his role in secret bombings in Cambodia, illegal wiretaps, and covert Central Intelligence Agency operations in Chile and elsewhere, his reputation suffered, but he retired to a lucrative career as a lecturer and consultant. He headed a bipartisan committee on Central America for President Ronald Reagan (1983), and in later years he appeared occasionally on television as a commentator on world affairs. He returned to his earlier role as a student of political history with such works as Diplomacy (1994).
Another is Albert Einstein.
Albert Einstein was born in Germany in 1879. He enjoyed classical music and played the violin. One story Einstein liked to tell about his childhood was of a wonder he saw when he was four or five years old: a magnetic compass. The needle's invariable northward swing, guided by an invisible force, profoundly impressed the child. The compass convinced him that there had to be "something behind things, something deeply hidden."
Even as a small boy Albert Einstein was self-sufficient and thoughtful. According to family legend he was a slow talker, pausing to consider what he would say. His sister remembered the concentration and perseverance with which he would build houses of cards.
Albert Einstein's first job was that of patent clerk.
In 1933, he joined the staff of the newly created Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey. He accepted this position for life, living there until his death. Einstein is probably familiar to most people for his mathematical equation about the nature of energy, E = MC2.
Another is Arnold Schwarzenegger Biography (1947– )
US film actor, born near Graz, SE Austria. He took up body-building at the age of 14, winning several Mr Universe and Mr Olympia titles, then starred in a body-building documentary, Pumping Iron (1977). He had various small film roles before he was cast in Stay Hungry (1976), for which he received a Golden Globe as best newcomer. In the 1980s he became established as the leading figure in a new genre of muscular action films, beginning with Conan the Barbarian (1982) and Conan the Destroyer (1984), which became increasingly technological and violent with The Terminator (1984) and Total Recall (1990). Later films include the comedy Twins (1988), Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991), Last Action Hero (1992), Batman and Robin (1997), and Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines (2003). He became an American citizen in 1983. A staunch public supporter of the US Republican Party, in 2003 he successfully ran for governor of California."
The contributions these would made to America would not have been possible had the idea was America for Americans in the sense you mean it.
There are host of Scientist, Doctors, Astronaughts that I can give that have made tremendous contributions.
The question is, what contributions have you, I made to America? So I say, what contributions you have made to Sierra Leone that has helped in shaping the Sierra Leonean life is what is important not were they were born. If they adopt Sierra Leone as our country and abide by the laws of Sierra Leone, our responsibility as citizens of Sierra Leone is to respect the Sierra Leonean laws and do not take the laws into our hands, and allow the law to take its cause. This is why we send people to parliament (the Senate and Congress) to see that we are not taken advantage of by making laws that will deal with people: citizens or non-citizens alike who break the law. We are to respect the law. That is who a responsible citizen is. If they foreigners can make meaningful contributions to our nation but we cannot and failed to, why ask anything about them!
Let it go and be the best you can be by using the resources provided by Sierra Leone. We should pray that these resources are at our disposal if we are ellegible to use them.
Subject: Re: Sierra Leone for Sierra Leoneans; bad idea!
From: Abdul Kamara
To: All
Date Posted: 18:32:37 11/17/06 ()
Email Address: yawbeko@comcast.net
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Good job my brother. Sierra Leoneans need to read your piece and learn to embrace other nationals as long as they are operating within the laws of Sierra Leone. You have made the point, but I guess a lot of people are not even going to read your piece; because you are not pulling anybody down, but merely stating the facts. I bit, there would have been over hundred hits on your piece if it was pulling fellow Sierra Leoneans down . Thank you for the good work and keep it up.
Subject: JAVOMBO: FROM NUP TO PMDC
From: JOHN BENJAMIN
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Date Posted: 15:08:55 11/16/06 ()
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Old senile Javombo,
I thought you wre once a great admirer of NPRC turned SLPP Finance minister John Ben? Were you not campaigning for this man and the NUP to be elected as president in 2002? Again, why doo you always align yourrself with losers? Why are you a flip-flopper? Today NUP, tomorrow PMDC. Mumbo Tumbo senile Javombo is not a serious man.What do you now make of your one time hero, John Ben?
Subject: Re: JAVOMBO: FROM NUP TO PMDC
From: Pa Javombo
To: All
Date Posted: 19:15:27 11/16/06 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
I supported him for the ideas he espoused then.
he has changed but my ideas have not changed, hence I cannot support him anymore. I don't support people, I support Ideas. I have been supporter of the SLPP since aged 10. I belived in the philosophy of the SLPP then.
But today's leaders of the SLPP have run away from that philosphy and the party is only as good as those who lead it.
I will do the same if PMDC does not deliver.
Like a researcher, I'll continue to change until I get it right.
Like one of the greatest America presidents, Ronald Raegan who changed from Democrat to Republican said "My loyalty is not to a party or person but my country."
I hope your question is answered.
Subject: Re: JAVOMBO: FROM NUP TO PMDC
From: John Benjamin
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Date Posted: 19:22:24 11/16/06 ()
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You support ideas? Then you should have supported Charles Taylor. Taylor's ULAA speech in Boston in the 1970's placed him in the forefront of revolutionary thinkers in the Liberian political spectrum. Do not be easily fooled by what people say. They only say these things to get elected. Why did your hero John Benjamin change? Does this mean you supported a candidate that lacks credibility or any sound morals? Are you not concerned about the characters of these individuals? You support ideas? Even the RUF had ideas, and in face value they looked good. No wonder your gneration ended up giving us Siaka Stevens.
He used to same technique to fool my fellow countrymen. Ideas my foot. You cnnot fool some of us by saying things just to get vote Your heroes do not believe in these "ideas", they are only fooling the people.
Subject: Re: JAVOMBO: FROM NUP TO PMDC
From: Pa Javombo
To: All
Date Posted: 20:10:01 11/16/06 ()
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I may have supported those ideas, but the sooner they had diverted from them as indeed was the case of the two groups you mentioned I would have moved away from them. I registered as a Democrat in the US for what they stood for then. When I found out that they were paying lip service to what they espoused I changed to Republican.
My current Governor was the floor leader for a Democratic Gorvernor but changed party and contested against the very Governor and won in a state that have not had a Republican Governor in 150 years.
In the midst of the Democrat revolution that Gorvenor won with lanslide. And because of his leadership my state the one time yellow Democrat state is now solid Republican one party state. Governor, Lt. Gorvernor, Secretary of State,House, senate are all Republican controlled.
My friend the world is changing and we must change with it. No party loyalty
Subject: Re: JAVOMBO: FROM NUP TO PMDC
From: Albert Moinina
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Date Posted: 20:01:29 11/16/06 ()
Email Address:
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"Taylor's ULAA speech in Boston in the 1970's placed him in the forefront of revolutionary thinkers in the Liberian political spectrum"
But today is 2006 and what Taylor may have said some 30 years ago may be completely different from what he executed during the rebel war. Mr. Benjamin, the logic link is missing.
Subject: Re: JAVOMBO: FROM NUP TO PMDC
From: John Benjamin
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Date Posted: 20:11:43 11/16/06 ()
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The logic link is not missing. Taylor gave a speech at ULAA conference, and most people thought that he had brilliant ideas. He was nutured by ULAA then as one of those with excellent ideas to transform Liberia. Well the rest is history, as we all know what happened. The story here is that we should not just support people because of what they say they will do. This is not enough. Politicoians including your hero will say anythingg to get elected.
Pa Peachtree Javombo supported John Ben because he thought John had good ideas. Did he look at this man as a whole to lend him his support for the presidency in 2002? Look mate, we just do not buy sugar coated vibes from flip-flopping, mumbpo tumbo dumbo, you dae yae, you dae yander politricians anymore
Subject: Re: JAVOMBO: FROM NUP TO PMDC
From: M. Alieu Iscandari Esq
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Date Posted: 12:27:54 11/17/06 ()
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"You support ideas? Then you should have supported Charles Taylor. Taylor's ULAA speech in Boston in the 1970's placed him in the forefront of revolutionary thinkers in the Liberian political spectrum"
This is where I think that the logical thread is missing. You Illogically conclusded that because Pa javombo supported people with IDEAS and not political parties, that he would have supported Charles Taylors ULAA speech. You first had to lay a foundation that he infact heard Charles Taylors purported speech, then go on to the conclusion that he should have supported charles taylor assuming he had heard the speech which you fail to establish here.
I kindda want to believe that Javombo is right on point here. His choice is based on the ideas that he associates with. When it becomes apparent to him that those ideas that he identiifed with are no longer supported by the leaders who espoused them then he leaves and looks for ideas in the greater market place of ideas which would be consonant with his. Nothing wrong with that.
In fact every one of us should be politiclly malleable to make changes as the political situation befits, as long as those changes are not for SELFISH ENDS.
Subject: Re: JAVOMBO: FROM NUP TO PMDC
From: Albert Moinina
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Date Posted: 21:48:25 11/17/06 ()
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Well said our learned lawyer.
Subject: FORGET JALLOH, JOIN LEIGH'S COMPANY
From: KING LOGGY
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Date Posted: 13:27:00 11/16/06 ()
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dunces, flunkies, form four drops-outs, Irish Bar Oral finals, san-san boys, bike drivers, Shellmingo car wash boys, harlot politicians, disbarred lawyers, Bangucrooks, despicable characters, alphabet-soup flip-floppers [SLPP, PNP, APC, NUP, PDP, CUPP, UNPP, GA-UNPP, etc.]
Subject: Liberia: Students join teachers' strike
From: JOHNSON-SIRLEAF THE SAVIOUR
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Date Posted: 12:46:32 11/16/06 ()
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Liberia: Students join teachers' strike
Thu. November 16, 2006 06:59 am.
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Hajarah Kizza
(SomaliNet) Liberia's students have joined the teachers of Liberia in a boycott of classes after Liberia's government failed to pay salaries of Liberia's teachers.
"Our teachers have put the chalk down because the government has not paid them.
"So if we cannot go to school, no government worker will go to work," students' spokesperson Ebenezer Kpehe told media in Liberia.
The student's strike has attracted mostly junior and high school students who have taken to the streets in Liberia's city of Voinjama. Liberia's teachers on average earn $35 per month
Liberia lost many teachers to other better paying sectors. This forced Liberia's government to order for a fresh recruitment of teachers in Liberia. It is these fresh recruits that have not been paid.
"These people are replacements. So we are trying to regularise their status before paying them. As soon as that problem is resolved we will be paying all arrears to these teachers so that this matter can be put to rest," Liberia's Deputy Education Minister, Hawa Kotchi said.
Students from Liberia's Voinjama town have attacked privately founded schools in Liberia. "If we cannot have classes, then the others students also should not go to class," Kpehe told reporters.
Subject: A PATRIOTIC BU$INESS VENTURE
From: KING LOGGY
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Date Posted: 11:55:16 11/16/06 ()
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Subject: LESSONS IN REMEDIAL EDUCATION FOR JOHN LEIGH: LESSON THREE
From: Mohamed A. Jalloh
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Date Posted: 02:44:20 11/16/06 ()
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John Leigh wrote on November 13, 2006:
"Mr. Mohamed Jalloh is obviously emotionally hurt and desperately trying to drag others into his no-win camp in a crude attempt to avoid proving his FRAUD and CLUELESSNESS, etc. charges by harping on extraneous matters."
Mr. Leigh:
Today's lesson in your remedial education is about the two words highlighted in your clearly porous opinion quoted above which plainly pose familiar problems of comprehension for you.
Mr. Leigh, the definition of fraud -- as any good lawyer would confirm for you -- is the use of false pretences for profit or to obtain an unfair advantage over another person or entity. Once you understand that simple definition, you should be able to finally understand the very simple point that I clearly set forth in my relevant published articles, namely:
That by falsely representing to the SL government that devaluation would solve the balance of payments problem of SL, and thereby inducing the clueless government to enter into an agreement with it in 1979 that continues to earn it enormous profit via the loans accompanying the agreement, the IMF and its enabling sister institution, the World Bank, committed fraud against the government and the people of SL.
But to understand that very simple point, one has to FIRST understand the meaning of fraud -- and of cluelessness. Hopefully, you do now.
Subject: Re: LESSONS IN REMEDIAL EDUCATION FOR JOHN LEIGH: LESSON THREE
From: Sorry Heart
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Date Posted: 13:04:39 11/16/06 ()
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Folks, I don't know about you, but whenever I read the debate between John Leigh and Mohamed Jalloh, I feel pain for Leigh. I mean, how much pain can one man take at the hands of Jalloh before he realizes he is overmatched in the brains depatrtment? It is quite painful to watch as Mohm Jalloh completely demolishes John Leigh from every angle -- English, economics, and now the law!
Before now, Leigh challenged Jalloh to prove that he had told Pa Javombo that he (Leigh) was an expert in English. Jalloh did just that, when he quoted Leigh's words (that Leigh had tried to hide). Then Leigh challenged Jalloh to prove his 27-year old charge of fraud by the IMF. This morning, MohmJ again proved it, teaching Leigh in the process not only the economics of devaluation but also the law of fraud. And Leigh says he is an economist and a lawyer!!!!
Mr. Leigh, even if you don't feel pain, please sorry for us who feel the pain for you. Stop challenging Jalloh. You are no match for his cutting logic, as Critical Thinker once told you the last time you made the mistake of challenging Jalloh. Lonta.
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Subject: Today's Analysis
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Date Posted: 22:17:10 11/15/06 ()
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Subject: Leigh A Big Contributor To PMDC
From: Peachtree
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Date Posted: 20:25:16 11/15/06 ()
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According to John Leigh only Flunkies, Dummies San San boys etc. are memebers of the PMDC but a Havard law graduate was introduced to us as the legal adviser to the PMDC. A flunky institution John Leigh will only dream of. But what is amazing is that a Leigh, a medical Doctor who somebody told me
is John Leigh's nephew was the largest single financial contributor to Charles's campaign while Charles was in Atlanta.John may now want to say that he is not related to this gentle MD because of his association with Charles.
John is the MD too a Fulnky and at the same time a Leigh?
Subject: Re: Leigh A Big Contributor To PMDC
From: John E. Leigh
To: All
Date Posted: 12:51:03 11/16/06 ()
Email Address: johnernestleigh@yahoo.com
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Dear Forumites:
A chicken moniker user misstates my position by falsely proclaiming that: “According to John Leigh only Flunkies, Dummies San San boys etc. are memebers of the PMDC.”
I have never said such. I have said that there are remedials, dunces, flunkies, form four drops-outs, Irish Bar Oral finals, san-san boys, bike drivers, Shellmingo car wash boys, harlot politicians, disbarred lawyers, Bangucrooks, despicable characters, alphabet-soup flip-floppers [SLPP, PNP, APC, NUP, PDP, CUPP, UNPP, GA-UNPP, etc.] in PMDC. But that does not mean that there are zero decent, educated or brilliant people supporting or sympathetic to your flunky political grouping.
It seems to me that lots of the smarter PMDC people in the Diaspora have not been inside Sierra Leone for many years and depend mostly on our gongorlee wohwoh lie-lie RUF ninjas press in the internet for news back home. They may also not understand the enormity of the destruction caused by the war, the AFRC junta and the corrupt/inept governments – civilian and military - that preceded or coincided with the war.
Besides, many youths have returned to the SLPP from PMDC when they found out that “John Leigh, Dr. James Jonah and Chief Sam Norman” remain in the SLPP and not behind the flunky political kapu-kapu party as the public was repeatedly misled.
Erroneous repeat conclusions such as Moniker [Mk.] Peachtree’s above statement are behind my very low opinion of the PMDC leadership and its followership. PMDCers expressing themselves in the media appear to me as very quick to rush to erroneous conclusions based on flunky argumentation, leaving me with no choice but to believe that they are indeed of remedial flunky backgrounds.
Take another erroneous conclusion by Mk. Peachtree: “but a Harvard law graduate was introduced to us as the legal adviser to the PMDC. A flunky institution John Leigh will only dream of.” Harvard is NOT a flunky organization at all. It is a first rate University.
But who says that every Harvard graduate is first rate? Do you know the fail ratio of Harvard law graduates at US state bar examinations? I simultaneously passed two different state bar examinations (Massachusetts and New York) on the first sitting and my passing score was so high, it qualified me for automatic exemptions in virtually every US state bar exam. At the same time, numerous Harvard graduates failed to pass their bar exams.
Why then would I dream of another law school when I passed long ago and Harvard Law School graduates flunked their bar exams? Stop exposing your remedial thinking process!
Besides, do you really know the character of your neophyte legal adviser? Please ask those who were associated with him in the Defense of Children NGO before you start running your mouth! I say again that many despicable characters populate your flunky political grouping of Bangucrooks and flunkies.
The concluding logic you presented in your posting confirms my low opinion of PMDC supporters as puerile dunces.
Like someone not terribly smart, you arrogantly wrote: “But what is amazing is that a Leigh, a medical Doctor who somebody told me
is John Leigh's nephew was the largest single financial contributor to Charles's campaign while Charles was in Atlanta.John may now want to say that he is not related to this gentle MD because of his association with Charles.”
Please tell me, Mk. Peachtree what really is amazing about a Nephew Leigh who is allegedly financially helping his political choice and his alleged Uncle Leigh who is supremely smashing counter-attacking PMDC attackers and defending his own political choice? Do you think ‘family politics’ should be the law or custom of the land? You think the lack of ‘wan-word’ between uncles and nephews is amazing?
Do you know that the Leighs have been spread over long years in various political groupings back home? Do you think that merely because someone paid for another’s education therefore that beneficiary must forfeit his freedom of choice to politically support whomsoever he wishes to support?
Why would I want to say I am not related to a genuine family member merely because he has financially supported someone whose politics I have no respect for? Mombo-tombo-dumbo-munku dunce thinking is certainly endemic within a certain flunky political group.
Lastly, you’ve asked me a question that confirms your reliance on rubbish argumentation as follows: “John is the MD too a Fulnky and at the same time a Leigh?”
Why should I automatically conclude that a Dr. Leigh who allegedly financially supported a Puerile Mistake for Despicable Characters; or a Puello Mess for Dumbo Crooks or a Parade of Munkus, Dumbos and Crooks or Poverty Masters For Developmental Collapse, etc. is also a flunky? Do you believe in automatic ‘guilt by association”? I do not! Different people make different choices.
Mk. Peachtree, please keep your Simple Simeon flunky dunce argumentation inside your political grouping, a group apparently populated by what I consider remedial daft attackers based upon their dunce writings. Thank you very much. – JL
Subject: Re: Leigh A Big Contributor To PMDC
From: Peachtree
To: All
Date Posted: 15:12:11 11/16/06 ()
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John Leigh wrote
" Do you believe in automatic ‘guilt by association”? I do not! Different people make different choices."
Did John really write this?
Why then do you think that those who prefer to join other political parties not of your choice are dumb becuse you think the leader of that party is below you and dumb. Is that no guilt by association?
Is this guy for real?
Has he been reading what he has been writing to make such a statement.?
Thank God only SLPP (well Berewa) can accomodate such a guy.
Now I know why this guy's own familly (he claims to have in my home town of Bo) cannot even nominate him to be a dog catcher. A president? Keep dreaming boy.
Subject: Re: Leigh A Big Contributor To PMDC
From: John E. Leigh
To: All
Date Posted: 14:25:10 11/17/06 ()
Email Address: johnernestleigh@yahoo.com
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Mk. Pa Javombo/Peachtree wrote:
“Why then do you think that those who prefer to join other political parties not of your choice are dumb becuse you think the leader of that party is below you and dumb. Is that no guilt by association?”
RESPONSE: Please try and comprehend my postings first before you start running your underdeveloped mouth.
I have never written that people are dumb just because they prefer to join other political parties not of my choice and/or because the leader of their political party is below my level of achievement and is dumb.
First, merely because I conclude that someone’s life achievements to date are inferior to mine does not mean I have concluded that such an individual is dumb or a dunce or a flunky remedial daft. He may simply have not applied himself to life’s opportunities or his arrogance (or some other conduct) might have impeded his progress. Besides, some people are just late bloomers.
Second, merely because someone belongs to a political party I think is a Puerile Mistake For Despicable Characters does not mean that every single member, supporter or sympathizer of that Puello Mess For Dunces and Crooks is dumb, stupid, flunkyish or is a remedial dunce full of stupidity. No, no, no! I am not saying such at all.
What I am saying is that the repeated use of flunky dunce argumentation in attacking me; frequent Simple Simeon erroneous conclusions; running one’s mouth before understanding the point at issue – like the situation in this case; the quick resort to insults, rudeness and cheek when flunking a debate and/or wasting time and space with rubbish “solutions” render my attackers – and only in my opinion – as dumb and as real Mumbo Tombo Dumbo Munku, phoooluumuunkuus Bangucrooks.
In conclusion, your attacking people are dumb in my view not because of any guilt by association but because of their individual writings. Understand?
Now is your time to join your fellow flip-floppers and enjoy the alphabet soup of your dunce politics: SLPP, PNP, APC, NUP, PDP, UNPP, GA-UNPP and PMDC, you Munda Mundo Tombo Dumbo Munku Dunce. Thank you very much. - JL
Subject: Re: Leigh A Big Contributor To PMDC
From: Check Your Facts
To: All
Date Posted: 13:17:56 11/16/06 ()
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"I simultaneously passed two different state bar examinations (Massachusetts and New York) on the first sitting and my passing score was so high, it qualified me for automatic exemptions in virtually every US state bar exam. At the same time, numerous Harvard graduates failed to pass their bar exams."
Is this true, John Leigh? If it is, then please tell us your 'so high' passing score.
Subject: Re: Leigh A Big Contributor To PMDC
From: Leigh the O Level English Flunky
To: All
Date Posted: 13:12:29 11/16/06 ()
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"Erroneous repeat conclusions such as Moniker [Mk.] Peachtree’s above statement are behind my very low opinion of the PMDC leadership and its followership."
So, John Leigh, even though you admit ytou don't know who Peachtree is, you still imply that he is a member of the PMDC leadership and its followership? What sense does that make, Mr. Leigh? Have you become so crazy with envy of the far more successful Charles Margai and his party that you have lost all your senses?
Look at you killing the English language by talking about "the PMDC leadership and its followership." Don't you know that there is no word in the English language like followership? No? Well, fool fool Leigh, it is high time you knew it! HahahahahaHehehehehe
Subject: Re: Leigh A Big Contributor To PMDC
From: Now you are talking
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Date Posted: 08:28:14 11/16/06 ()
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BUFORD HWY writes:
"According to John Leigh only Flunkies, Dummies San San boys etc. are memebers of the PMDC but a Havard law graduate was introduced to us as the legal adviser to the PMDC."
Chances are our Havard law graduate friend sees an opportunity to enrich himself by associating with those Flunkies, Dummies San San boys etc. Ha ha ha ha ha!
Subject: Re: Leigh A Big Contributor To PMDC
From: BUFORD HWY
To: All
Date Posted: 10:30:28 11/16/06 ()
Email Address: unisak@yahoo.com
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Now you are talking,
Please take a good look at my posting.
Subject: Re: Leigh A Big Contributor To PMDC
From: John E. Leigh
To: All
Date Posted: 12:37:57 11/16/06 ()
Email Address: johnernestleigh@yahoo.com
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Dear Mk. Buford HWY:
Please note that the Leighs do not blindly follow others. Fahlahmarkarta is anathema to the Leighs’ ways of doing things.
The Leighs do not have a tradition of extending political or charitable support on the basis of blind ethnic or family affinity. Most Leighs are highly educated internationally. So, each Leigh makes his or her decisions, regardless of the choices made by other Leighs and non-Leighs.
Anyway, I thank you for your free advice. - JL
Subject: Re: Leigh A Big Contributor To PMDC
From: BUFORD HWY
To: All
Date Posted: 09:21:48 11/17/06 ()
Email Address: unisak@yahoo.com
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Leigh,
Leigh replied "Please note that the leighs do not blindly follow others" A BO U SEF.In as much as your statement might be right to some extent,it will be better for you to follow the footstepe of your nephew since he is thinking about the welfare of the people of salone and their sufferings,whilst you are here in the US serving your own self interest. For a person who took and passed the Massachusett and New York's Bar exam simultaneously,you must be one dumb lawyer.The word "simultaneous" means "occuring,happening,existing,or done at the same time".SO EXCEPT IF U NAR WITCHMAN WAY GO DAE NAR BOSTON AND NEW YORK NAR D SAME TEHM.Now i see why your people did not even waste their votes on you.
Subject: Re: Leigh A Big Contributor To PMDC
From: John E. Leigh
To: All
Date Posted: 14:05:55 11/17/06 ()
Email Address: johnernestleigh@yahoo.com
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Mk. BUFORD HWY CHICKEN wrote:
“A BO U SEF.In as much as your statement might be right to some extent,it will be better for you to follow the footstepe of your nephew since he is thinking about the welfare of the people of salone and their sufferings,whilst you are here in the US serving your own self interest.”
RESPONSE: My public record in the service of our country speaks for me. If you are so sure of your man, please have him disclose his own Sierra Leone public service record for us to evaluate it. Your just making a conclusory statement means nothing to me.
The Buford chicken next wrote:
“For a person who took and passed the Massachusett and New York's Bar exam simultaneously,you must be one dumb lawyer.The word "simultaneous" means "occuring,happening,existing,or done at the same time".SO EXCEPT IF U NAR WITCHMAN WAY GO DAE NAR BOSTON AND NEW YORK NAR D SAME TEHM.”
RESPONSE: You do not understand. You are one of those dunce rote learners that have made Sierra Leone education in recent times notorious for the mechanical ‘vomiting’ of what one memorizes or reads without applying any intelligence to understand what the information truly means. Hence, I have developed a rough attitude towards Mombo Tombo Dumbo Munku dummies, flunkies and remedial dunces.
For your information, in reference to ‘taking two states’ bar exams simultaneously’, the meaning in intelligent thinking circles is this: the bar exam taker, sat to the bar exams in two separate states during the same bar exam calendar 3-day period.
In my case, I took the Massachusetts portion of the bar exam in Day One. After completing that exam, I flew that day to Albany, NY from Boston and on Day Two I took the New York State portion of the bar exam. After taking the New York State portion of the exam, I flew back to Boston that same Day Two. On Day Three, I took the multi-sate bar exam in Boston.
Most Harvard graduates took only one bar exam and some flunked even their single state bar exam. I passed both Mass and NY supremely!
In future, please try to use the intelligence God gave you to help you reason smartly instead of frequently running your mouth mechanically like the obsolete generator machines that the APC, NPRC and AFRC left behind for the SLPP to replace. You are supposed to be an intelligent being, not a dunce flunky mechanical idiot. Think, think, think!!! Dumbo Tombo Munku!!
Please note that I will henceforth not respond to any dunce postings from you. Thank you. - JL
Subject: Re: Leigh A Big Contributor To PMDC
From: Blind Follower
To: All
Date Posted: 13:14:33 11/16/06 ()
Email Address:
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"Please note that the Leighs do not blindly follow others."
Then, judging by your blind following of the dumb Solomon Berewa, the Leighs must blindly follow their shadow!
Subject: Re: Leigh A Big Contributor To PMDC
From: John E. Leigh
To: All
Date Posted: 14:13:50 11/16/06 ()
Email Address: johnernestleigh@yahoo.com
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Mk. Chicken Blind Follower wrote: "Then, judging by your blind following of the dumb Solomon Berewa, the Leighs must blindly follow their shadow!"
My support for Mr. Berewa is based on facts - well-researched - and analysis. His record shows that he is far more intelligent than either of the two other presidential candidates, one of whom is a form four flunky trying to hijack the Third Force as a means to realize his birthright to lead dunces.
Please go enjoy your Campbell's Alphabet Soup!
Thanks. -JL
Subject: Re: Leigh A Big Contributor To PMDC
From: Pa Javombo
To: All
Date Posted: 14:59:50 11/16/06 ()
Email Address:
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Leigh wrote:
"His [Berewa] record shows that he is far more intelligent than either of the two other presidential candidates....."
If intlliegence is Sierra Leone's savoir we would have been saved long time ago. We have had many of them. Remeber the cabinet of 77? By John's standard they may not be intelligent but there were more PHd holders than any cabinet we have ever had in Salon. Well you know what those intelligent people did to the country.Such is Berewa's intelligence that Sierra Leone will be better without.
We are looking for honest and dedicated people. People who can take our country from the current everything that is bad (courtesyof Berewa &co)
John is forgetting that there was a govt, the NPRC before the SLPP. I am one of the first to condemn that govt not because they did not do any good but because of the way they shot their way to power and their human rights record which by the way is not much different form the SLPP. But when you look at John's SLPP record today those "devils" become saints.
The not much intlligent boys (by John's standard) took over at the time when there was no electricity in Sierra Leone but within days people were getting electricity. Freetown was dirty when they took over but became clean during their rule.Civil servants and teachers who were not paid satrted getting their saalries and on time
Remember folks these guys took over at the hieght of the war in Sierra Leone and we all know the govt they deposed. It is this same govt. some 15 years later that is blamed for SLPP failures.
So what magic did the khaki boys have that they were able toprovde services during wartime that John's SLPP cannot provide during peacetime.
Subject: Re: Leigh A Big Contributor To PMDC
From: John E. Leigh
To: All
Date Posted: 14:18:32 11/17/06 ()
Email Address: johnernestleigh@yahoo.com
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Mk. Pa Javombo/Peachtree wrote:
“If intlliegence is Sierra Leone's savoir we would have been saved long time ago. We have had many of them. Remeber the cabinet of 77? By John's standard they may not be intelligent but there were more PHd holders than any cabinet we have ever had in Salon. Well you know what those intelligent people did to the country.”
RESPONSE: You’ve made many mistakes with your above statement! First, you are confusing ‘intelligence’ with ‘knowledge’. They are two distinct phenomena. Rote learning may lead to an accumulation of knowledge but lack of intelligence to help one understand the true meaning of the accumulated knowledge means that the accumulated knowledge cannot be put into practice.
Second, ‘intelligence’ can save Sierra Leone but such intelligence but be backed by relevant knowledge and must be applied for the public good. APC Siaka Stevens was a highly intelligent man. But he was also widely known as Baba Satani! Sir Milton was intelligent and he applied his knowledge properly but did not live long enough! Even so, our country gained under Sir Milton’s SLPP leadership. Many ordinary Sierra Leoneans I met across our land over the years – North, South, East and West - struck me as highly intelligent. But they are lacking in knowledge and in resources.
Third, I remember aspects of the 1977 cabinet under Siaka Stevens and I have explained the significance of this before but not fully. I will do so now. First, the PhD knowledge is most valuable if the knowledge gained is relevant to the job appointed to. An official with a PhD in marine biology will not be good practicing law if he has no legal education. In 1977 there were significant knowledge-job mismatches.
Next, it is preferable that the president must be the most educated, the most intelligent and the highest achiever in his cabinet. If the president’s background is inferior to his subordinates in an African context, the likely result as was the case in Sierra Leone, would be low productivity from the subordinates because some leaders may not allow brilliant underlings to outshine them, even innocently.
A poorly educated leader may even want to choke the careers of higher educated and the more intelligent younger officials or most likely behave like Baba Satani. On the other hand, an intelligent boss will permit his underlings to flourish.
In conclusion, a form four flunky political leader would be a very poor role model for our pupils and a huge frustration for our teachers.
Hence, I am very serious about leadership qualifications come 2007. And I have made it plain that I will not work under someone I lack respect for or I deem to be an inferior achiever. Such an individual can never lead me or ever hope to benefit from my working for him. It is not going to happen, period!
Mk. Pa Javombo/Peachtree further wrote:
“I am one of the first to condemn that govt not because they did not do any good but because of the way they shot their way to power and their human rights record which by the way is not much different form the SLPP. But when you look at John's SLPP record today those "devils" become saints.”
RESPONSE: The NPRC did not shoot their way to power. The APC government of Gen Momoh fled when some NPRC members came to Freetown to negotiate for wages and war supplies.
My own objection to the NPRC is because their backgrounds were too thin for necessary political leadership and the junior boys were getting into a situation that could only lead to disaster.
Further, the NPRC human rights record was catastrophic. 26 ordinary law-abiding Sierra Leoneans were arrested on flimsy rumors and executed in cold blood in January 1992 on the orders of one or more of the coup mongers. No one was ever prosecuted for such an atrocious crime by a member of illegal occupiers of the government. Also, NPRC principals raped most females they fancied.
When I was in Washington, ex-NPRC principals sought to support the AFRC junta as a means to get back into government.
How can you in good conscience compare this human rights record with that of the SLPP?
Of course, we have some awful people in the SLPP. But so what? Most of the bad people in SLPP only flock there because they smell victory. Most members know genuine members from fair weather members. Even so, the human rights record of the SLPP Administration is good.
Pa Javombo/Peachtree next asked thus:
“So what magic did the khaki boys have that they were able toprovde services during wartime that John's SLPP cannot provide during peacetime.”
RESPONSE: Please do not compare the NPRC pre-war situation with a post-war situation the SLPP has to contend with. Thanks. - JL
Subject: Re: Leigh A Big Contributor To PMDC
From: Peachtree
To: All
Date Posted: 19:26:25 11/16/06 ()
Email Address:
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Mammy Javombo,
Your divorce is on the way. Reason failure to read and comprehend.I rather sleep on the couch than to be near you. I wrote ;
"I am one of the first to condemn that GOVT....."
Have you ever seen or heard anyone condemn his/her hero?
Subject: Re: Leigh A Big Contributor To PMDC
From: MAMMY JAVOMBO
To: All
Date Posted: 19:37:25 11/16/06 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: ac202-054.resnet.stonybrook.edu at 130.245.202.54
Message:
Hahahah
sp Peachtree is Javombo. Busted
Subject: Re: Leigh A Big Contributor To PMDC
From: MAMMY JAVOMBO
To: All
Date Posted: 15:23:54 11/16/06 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: ac202-054.resnet.stonybrook.edu at 130.245.202.54
Message:
You are sleeping on the couch tonight. This is the punishment you get for disobeying me.
Can you please tell me why salone was the last kaka(last on the list) country on the HDI index from 1991 till 1996 when your heroes where in power?
Subject: Re: Leigh A Big Contributor To PMDC
From: LIE MAN
To: All
Date Posted: 15:05:02 11/16/06 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: ac202-054.resnet.stonybrook.edu at 130.245.202.54
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Pa Javombo, as a teacher during the NPRC regime, teachers were not paid regurlarly. You are lying about that. Infact Christiana Thorpe as Education minister faced three national strikes by teachers for lack of payment of salaries. WAEC results were not published several times because teachers ere on strike. Is it not that same savviours like Harry Will, Emmanuel Grant and your so called Ambassador at larger MUMBO TUMBO Bangura9who was a delegate at SLPP convention in 2002) not part of your PMDC? What is the difference?
Subject: Re: Leigh A Big Contributor To PMDC
From: Interpreter
To: All
Date Posted: 13:46:13 11/16/06 ()
Email Address:
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You say to Leigh, "Then, judging by your blind following of the dumb Solomon Berewa, the Leighs must blindly follow their shadow!"
Check this out: So, the dumb John Leigh follows the equally dumb Solomon Berewa, but the Havard graduate Leigh follows the equally smart lawyer Charles Margai!
Man, you are so right about fool man John Leigh --he does follow his own shadow (fool Berewa)!
Subject: Re: Leigh A Big Contributor To PMDC
From: John E. Leigh
To: All
Date Posted: 14:26:08 11/16/06 ()
Email Address: johnernestleigh@yahoo.com
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Message:
Mk. Interpreter:
It is not smart of you to attempt to run before you know how to walk. Please get your facts right before trying to engage in flunky dunce argumentation. It is not logical. Thank you. - JL
Subject: Re: Leigh A Big Contributor To PMDC
From: Probability
To: All
Date Posted: 09:06:48 11/16/06 ()
Email Address:
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"Chances are our Havard law graduate friend sees an opportunity to enrich himself by associating with those Flunkies, Dummies San San boys etc."
Chances are you are a fool who does not see an opportunity to enrich his poor education by associating his thoughts with sense. Hehehehehahahaha
Subject: Re: Leigh A Big Contributor To PMDC
From: Steven N Rogers
To: All
Date Posted: 13:20:50 11/16/06 ()
Email Address:
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Chances are that the John Leighs of this world will never see any good coming out of anything that they are very much opposed to. The Harvard graduate in question was my former schoolmate who has an impeccable academic record and high moral integrity and has chosen a political path based solely on his personal and independent conviction and not one that is premised on the ideologies of political spent-forces such as …(you know yourself). A young man who has traversed through the perils of academia from a region that has been grossly abused and misused by the John Leighs of this world, and who has darkened the walls of one of the finest institutions of learning with such distinguished profession deserves only our approbation, to say the least. Any conscious (or unconscious) attempt to pull him down, would only further expose the extent to how low the Leighs of this world can go, in attempting to wet and resurrect their insatiable, nefarious and doom-spelled poli (tri) cal appetite. For many Sierra Leonean politicians, the least said, the better.
Subject: Re: Leigh A Big Contributor To PMDC
From: John E. Leigh
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Date Posted: 14:21:18 11/16/06 ()
Email Address: johnernestleigh@yahoo.com
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Please just go and ask those who are familar with the Defence of Children NGO that was handed down to him.
- JL
Subject: Re: Leigh A Big Contributor To PMDC
From: Steven Rogers
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Date Posted: 18:36:43 11/17/06 ()
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John Leigh: I tried to do some research on Pa. Momo and this is the first thing I saw. i still believe that he deserves our utmost congratulation. As a matter of fact, he is the only sierra leonean with such prestigious international accolade at such a very young age: What do u think?
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24 February: A Sierra Leonean lawyer and children's rights advocate has been named one of five winners of this year's Reebok Human Rights Award. Mohamed Pa-Momo Fofanah witnessed first-hand the horrors of Sierra Leone's civil war. He saw children forced to become combatants and commit violent crimes against their neighbours. And he decided to do something about it. In 1998, after being admitted to the bar, he joined the Sierra Leonean office of Defence for Children International, and provided free legal counsel to young people who were arbitrarily detained and arrested, and to children who had suffered abuse and rape. He also worked to reform the juvenile justice system and to ensure children's rights in the judicial process. In 2001 he was one of the founders of the Lawyers Centre for Legal Assistance (LAWCLA), which offers free legal assistance to poor and vulnerable victims of human rights abuses. "In a country that has been ravaged by war, human rights atrocities, a collapsed economy and a fractured government, Pa-Momo is dedicated to the relentless pursuit of children’s rights and stands as a beacon of hope for Sierra Leone’s youth," Reebok said in announcing the award. Reebok, which is better known as a retailer of sports shoes, has presented the award each year since 1988 to human rights activists 30 years old or younger who have made significant contributions to human rights causes through non-violent means. The award comes with a $50,000 grant from the Reebok Human Rights Foundation to allow the winners to further their work. Since its inception, the award has gone to 76 activists in 35 countries. Fofanah is the first Sierra Leonean to win.
Subject: Re: Leigh A Big Contributor To PMDC
From: John E. Leigh
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Date Posted: 11:05:47 11/18/06 ()
Email Address: johnernestleigh@yahoo.com
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Dear Mr. Steven Rogers:
Thank you very much for the initial digging but your work is not yet done.
Please find out how your man reacted to the $50,000 award to the NGO (not to him personally) as well as what your man attempted to do with the award money.
Meanwhile, thank you very much for your nice piece of work so far. I am grateful. - JL
Subject: Re: Leigh A Big Contributor To PMDC
From: Patriot
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Date Posted: 13:30:03 11/16/06 ()
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"Any conscious (or unconscious) attempt to pull him down, would only further expose the extent to how low the Leighs of this world can go, in attempting to wet and resurrect their insatiable, nefarious and doom-spelled poli (tri) cal appetite. For many Sierra Leonean politicians, the least said, the better."
What do you expect from an unpatriotic flunky like John Leigh? No hole is too low for him to sink as he grovels shamelessly for power fron the Berewa and kabba. Thats the same Berewa he called corrupt. The same Kabba he called corrupt. The same Kabba he bribed more than $10,000 to buy an mabassadorship obver much more qualified but non-crooked salonemen. The sasme Berewa he is now probably bribing for a post in a pipedream SLPP regime, so that he can try to recoup his "sweh" money with which he tried to buy his nomination for SLPP presidential candidate.
This man JohnLeigh has no shame or love for his own country.
Subject: Re: Leigh A Big Contributor To PMDC
From: Truth hurts
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Date Posted: 09:23:37 11/16/06 ()
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Heeeeehahaha
Subject: Re: Leigh A Big Contributor To PMDC
From: BUFORD HWY
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Date Posted: 06:46:25 11/16/06 ()
Email Address: DELUNIFU@YAHOO.COM
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Peachtree,
This nephew of John Leigh is the same medical Doctor who donated a large sum of money to the APC ga fundraising/townhall meeting.So Leigh a word of advise to you is to join/follow the foot steps of your nephew who is looking out for the interest of the people of salone by donating his money and expertise to the parties with the best ideas.U SAI U NA SENCEMAN,GO LEARN FROM YOU PIKIN WAY KNOR TO FLUNKY.
Subject: 'Graft ministers' return in Kenya
From: MUMBO TUMBO DUMBO MUNKU BANGCROOK
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Date Posted: 14:53:55 11/15/06 ()
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BBC NEWS
'Graft ministers' return in Kenya
Kiraitu Murungi was justice minister during the alleged scam
Two Kenyan ministers who resigned after corruption allegations nine months ago have been reinstated in their old jobs.
George Saitoti and Kiraitu Murungi are both close allies of President Mwai Kibaki who came to power in 2002, pledging to fight graft.
Mr Saitoti resigned after being linked to Kenya's Goldenberg affair, but a court later cleared him of wrongdoing.
Mr Murungi resigned after a tape allegedly showed him trying to block an inquiry into the Anglo Leasing affair.
This scandal during Mr Kibaki's rule involved contracts worth hundreds of millions of dollars being awarded to fictitious firms for items such as hi-tech passports.
A secret recording - heard by the BBC - allegedly showed Mr Murungi, previously justice minister, asking John Githongo, Kenya's former chief anti-corruption investigator, to slow down an inquiry into Anglo Leasing.
Former Finance Minister David Mwiraria also resigned after his name was linked to the scandal.
The Kenya Anti-Corruption Commission recommended Mr Mwiraria and others be charged over the Anglo Leasing scandal, but Mr Murungi was not on the list, prompting calls for his reinstatement.
Mr Githongo has accused the president of doing nothing over the Anglo Leasing scam.
The so-called "Goldenberg affair" - Kenya's biggest ever scandal which pre-dates Mr Kibaki's administration - involved huge sums of public money in a bogus gold and diamond export operation.
Mr Saitoti served as vice-president and finance minister in the previous administration under President Daniel arap Moi before switching sides.
Subject: WHAT CAN S/LEONEANS LIVING ABROAD DO FOR THEIR COUNTRY?
From: Mohamed A. Jalloh
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Date Posted: 07:42:09 11/15/06 ()
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[The following exchange is presented here, courtesy of SALONEDiscussion@yahoogroups.com, in the continuing effort to empower fellow S/Leoneans by sharing with them ideas that have the potential to improve the welfare of millions of our compatriots -- if they are duly implemented by either the government and/or the people of SL. The name of my correspondent is cited here with his prior permission].
--- In SALONEDiscussion@yahoogroups.com, MohmJ@... writes on Nov. 15, 2006:
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> In SALONEDiscussion@yahoogroups.com, amadu.massally@gmail.com wrote on 10/24/2006:
"We had decided to do a sweepstakes as part of the overall strategy to drive potential voters to register and we had thought about Le 1MM for the 14 relevant districts will appear attractive enough and since this falls out of the scope of the grant in principle and timing, we have decided to raise funds privately. But how is the rest of the Diaspora going to be involved?"
Amadu:
As you can see, I have finally worked my way to your three week-old question, with apologies for the unavoidable delay. With your kind indulgence, I have also adopted a more focused title for our ensuing discussion, in order to reflect more closely the theme of your characteristically action-oriented patriotism.
Before addressing the fundamental question you raised in your posting which I have adopted as the title of this thread, kindly permit me to suggest an enhancement to your proposal to launch a lottery aimed at boosting registration for the 2007 elections in SL. If your goal is to ensure that as many S/Leoneans as possible actually vote in the elections, stopping only at providing them with an incentive to register to vote would fall short of your objective if they choose not to vote once the registration raffle has produced a winner(s). Accordingly, the project would make much more of a difference in getting S/Leoneans to take meaningful part in the elections next year if you focus the sweepstakes on voting -- and not just on registration to vote.
Now to your question: "We had decided to do a sweepstakes as part of the overall strategy to drive potential voters to register and we had thought about Le 1MM for the 14 relevant districts will appear attractive enough and since this falls out of the scope of the grant in principle and timing, we have decided to raise funds privately. But how is the rest of the Diaspora going to be involved?" [Emphasis added].
My answer: If you want people to do something, you are most likely to succeed if you answer the "WFMI" (radio) question that they need answered before deciding whether to participate in your activity. For those who are not familiar with that question, it is: What's in it for me? So, in this case, you need to persuade S/Leoneans abroad that they stand to benefit directly from participating in efforts to finance the enhancement of democracy in SL. So, how can you do this? There are several approaches you could take with varying chances of success.
At one extreme, you could appeal to the patriotism of S/Leoneans to motivate them to donate money to help finance voter registration and get-out-the-vote efforts. While that would succeed in motivating action-oriented patriotic S/Leoneans to donate to your cause, the reality is that too few would answer the call. As you accurately noted: "Everyone wants Sierra Leone "fixed", but not everyone is willing to make the sacrifice(s) to see it happen."
Which leads to the other extreme -- appealing to the self-interest of S/Leoneans. Consider this question: How many S/Leoneans do you know who would walk away from an opportunity to lawfully receive, say, $1,000 in exchange for $1? I know of none. You probably know of none, either. Which suggests the solution to the problem you identified when you wrote:
"So far 4 of us (Brian Conton, Cecil CJ John, Amara Kuyateh and I) have pledged $500 each. We need approximately $4,667 and another $1,000 for other incidentals. Do the elections still mean anything to you and your friends? What about the rest of YOU guys listening in? If so, we need assistance both in financial and human resources. Financial contributions and / or helping us in Freetown if you go to Sierra Leone over the Christmas holidays, will go a long way."
So, what is the solution to the problem of raising the approximately $6,000 your organization needs? My humble answer: Do a sweepstakes for S/Leoneans resident right here in the Diaspora! As few as one thousand S/Leoneans is all it would take to raise the $6,000 you need and offer a $1,000 prize for participants in the lottery who would each be able to buy a raffle ticket priced at $7 each.
Equivalently, with 2,000 S/Leoneans, the raffle ticket price would drop to $3.50 per paticipant.
Or, with 3,000 S/Leoneans, the raffle ticket price would drop even further to $2.33.
Or, with 6,000 S/Leoneans, the raffle ticket price would drop much further to $ just over one dollar -- an eminently affordable $1.17!
Do you see how this simple concept can be used to generate a lot of much-needed money for patriotic causes in SL -- by varying the size of the prize(s) and the price per raffle ticket, depending on the number of participants in the raffle?
It would be instructive to learn your reaction (and those of our friends here) to my humble suggestions set forth above.
Sincerely,
Moh'm
--- In SALONEDiscussion@yahoogroups.com, "Amadu Massally" 50+ free stations, for all your moods Yahoo! Mail Try the all-new Yahoo! Mail Beta Y! Messenger Send up to 1GB of files in an IM. Subject: Re: WHAT CAN S/LEONEANS LIVING ABROAD DO FOR THEIR COUNTRY? Message: Subject: Re: WHAT CAN S/LEONEANS LIVING ABROAD DO FOR THEIR COUNTRY? Message: Subject: Re: WHAT CAN S/LEONEANS LIVING ABROAD DO FOR THEIR COUNTRY? Message: Subject: Re: WHAT CAN S/LEONEANS LIVING ABROAD DO FOR THEIR COUNTRY? Message: Subject: Re: WHAT CAN S/LEONEANS LIVING ABROAD DO FOR THEIR COUNTRY? Message: Subject: Re: WHAT CAN S/LEONEANS LIVING ABROAD DO FOR THEIR COUNTRY? Message: You like many other vibrant Sierra Leoneans have devised succent ideas but because these ideas are not received and grounded in patriotism, they have failed and or are bound to crumble because they are currently struggling to even survive. So as the question is "WHAT CAN S/LEONEANS LIVING ABROAD DO FOR THEIR COUNTRY?" I can think of nothing, at this point, and with the level of patriotism, that Sierra Leoneans can effectively do that will be sustainable, fruitful and meaningful if the "what is in it for me idea?" is not taught to a point where, when it is consumed, conceptualized and fully embraced, there will be no more sufferings or asking Sierra Leoneans living abroad the question, "what can you do for your country," because they will ask the question: "why am I not responsible enough to play a role in my nation's development?" We say American is great, Britain is great (sorry, she is called Great Britain,) because they ask themselves long ago, what can I do for my country? As John F. Kennedy once said, "ask not what your country can do for you but ask, what can I do for my country." So what is in it for me idea considerably contradicts that notion of the American and all we call great, in that they ask, what is in it for my country? So if the question is WHAT CAN S/LEONEANS LIVING ABROAD DO FOR THEIR COUNTRY, my question instead of an answer would be, how can contributions Sierra Leoneans living abroad make, be meaningful to Sierra Leone? It is good to make a contribution but it is meaningful to make a contribution that will be meaningful and inviting to make some more. When I have the opportunity I will re-post the index of foreigners living in the Diaspora and you will see the contributions each member in the indivual countries make to theier countries and the development gap and why. But the why could be simply answered by saying that the level of patriotism in Japan, China, India for instance is higher than it is in Sierra Leone years ago or now. India for example is challenging First World Countries in technology and many other developmental areas considering years ago Idia was strugling in political matters. Nonetheless, their democracy is ranking higher, which invites investments from their nationals and foreign Entrepreneurs. Their democratic practices is inviting, which helps students to return with ideas knowing that these ideas would help them and their country but most importantly, their country. They live and uses words from informed people of national origins, people like Mahatma Ghandi. Tell me onething a Sierra Leonean leader said that is philosophical that all Sierra Leoneans can pride themselves with. Sierra Leone must stop the idea of quick fixes, embark on rebuilding the gap between their compatriots abroad and at home. Journalists must stop this idea of policing the country, to educate themselves and other nationals about the significance of patriotism. I can assure you that had they done their job properly, the government, the politicians and other investors or nationals would change their views on the development of Sierra Leone viz corrupt lines and embark on realistic ventures. We have to start seeing examples of honest and charismatics in our nationals lives that will revert the breakdown of our support-system that has given rise to the question "WHAT CAN S/LEONEANS LIVING ABROAD DO FOR THEIR COUNTRY?" Once again, thank you for your suggestions, which is also a way of giving reason for Sierra Leoneans to participate in nation-building if it is handled with the nation in mind and done appropriately without any corruption to revart the break-down in the faith in nationalism. Subject: Re: WHAT CAN S/LEONEANS LIVING ABROAD DO FOR THEIR COUNTRY? Message: So if the question is WHAT CAN S/LEONEANS LIVING ABROAD DO FOR THEIR COUNTRY, my question instead of an answer would be, how can contributions Sierra Leoneans living abroad make, be meaningful to Sierra Leone?" Thank you for your compliments. As I have stated here before, one can always tell a person with self-esteem -- the indispensable foundation for success in life -- by his/her ability to accord praise where it is due, and constructive criticism when it is warranted. Your actions here attest undeniably attest to your possession of self-esteem. As regards your question quoted above, in my humble opinion, the most lasting solution to the problems encountered by millions of S/Leoneans is to provide them as many of them as possible with the opportunity to become knowledgeable. By that, I do not mean that they should be helped to become merely educated, because we have all seen the incalculable harm that merely educated (but not knowledgeable) S/Leoneans have done to our country -- starting with the Ph.D-laden cabinet of President Siaka Stevens of 1977. Those unpatriotic betrayers of our well-meaning efforts to secure positive change in our long pillaged country via our 1977 Fourah Bay College students-led protests against then-President Siaka Stevens, proved that education alone does not guarantee knowledge. For a person to possess knowledge, his/her education must be accompanied with morality -- the ability to recognize right from wrong and the courage to choose to do only what is right, notwithstanding the consequences to himself/herself. Unless and until a sufficient number of our fellow S/Leoneans can be encouraged to become knowledgeable in that true sense, it would be impossible to stop the unpatriotic few among us from cowering or fooling the majority of S/Leoneans into unwisely entrusting them with the power to run the affairs of our perennially needy country. Our task, then, as S/Leoneans is to contribute to the empowerment of as many of our compatriots as possible by doing whatever we can -- individually and collectively -- to increase their chances of becoming knowledgeable. This is the reason why I have spent the past 27 years publicly offering my ideas on how to improve our country's economy to as many S/Leoneans as possible, as more fully explained in the following exchange I had here last January: "In a message dated 1/9/2006 4:34:47 A.M. Eastern Standard Time, MohmJ writes: Tamba Pessima writes on January 07, 2006: Tamba Pessima: Kindly accept my thanks for your kind sentiment, as well as for your intellectual and moral courage in duly, and openly, admitting to a change of mind when presented with evidence that you find convincing. If only you were the president of SL, or, at least, if the leaders of SL had been -- and are -- as intellectually and morally courageous as you are, the lengthy, and entirely avoidable, suffering of our people would finally come to a long-overdue end! Please be advised that my humble goal in spending so much time trying to inform my fellow Sierra Leoneans about the folly of the IMF's notorious policy of devaluation in the unsuited economies of African countries such as ours, is very simple, namely: To ensure that no Sierra Leonean who occupies the leadership of our country would ever again be fooled by the IMF and allied foreign entities into impoverishing our country, and thereby cause our people needless untold suffering, due to ignorance of the true mission of the IMF and its cohorts. Best regards, Mohamed A. Jalloh" Subject: Sierra Leone is for Sierra Leoneans Message: Subject: For Moderator Message: I must first and foremost, try to streamline the difference in our (you In continuation, let me say based on the fact that the U.S. Government The U.S. Government, the entire U.S. Government, which comprises You are from Sierra Leone. I expected you to think far better than you What most of you did not take into consideration is: what can I learn Who are you emulating, is what makes you who you are or want to be. Subject: Sierra Leone: Destruction On Freetown Estimated At $796 Mill Message: Print This Page November 14, 2006 Tanu Jalloh A public lecture organized by the office of the Vice President in collaboration with the UN development agency, UNDP Friday estimated destruction during the January 6, 1999 invasion of Freetown at US$796 million. The revelation was made by outgoing World Bank Country Representative, James Sackey at the Miatta Conference Hall, Brookfields where he delivered a paper on the Sierra Leone economy: the challenges and prospects. "The destruction of the city affected the cultural systems, basic discipline of the economy and provided the opportunity for complete change. The war destroyed the export sector and this was very important when we discuss the economy between the periods of 1991 to 2001, especially considering the fact that cities depend to a large extent on trading," he explained. Meanwhile, the Minister of Finance, John Benjamin said US$44 million is almost been sourced, following a successful meeting with donors, to undertake major development projects on the pipeline and for the rehabilitation of the seaport, airport and the Makeni/Matotoka highway. Subject: Work begins on Martin Luther King memorial Message: Subject: Statement to United States Congress. Message: Subject: RULLING BY THE SUPREME COURT OF SA LONE/ BIRIWA Message: It could have meant any of the above. But to confuse the poor people, they have decided to phrase it that way leaving us to figure out the rest. can some body say Amen....Lonta Subject: Re: RULLING BY THE SUPREME COURT OF SA LONE/ BIRIWA Message: You need help. Try to understand the ruling before you open your mouth. Ay borbor Dummy, dis fonfanfool dohn passmark. You are a waste of space. Subject: JEL ACCUSES MOIJUE OF TRIBALISM? Message: U of all people ACCUSING me of TRIBALISM? Subject: Re: JEL ACCUSES MOIJUE OF TRIBALISM? Message: Please be advised that I am not accusing you of tribalism at all or at this time. ‘Tribal affinity’ is not tribalism. Tribal affinity is supporting your fellow tribesman willy-nilly - whether he is good or bad, sound or unsound, genius or dunce, flunky or success, etc. On the other hand, ‘tribalism’ comprises conduct wherein members of one tribe gang up against members of another tribal(s) for the purpose of excluding, exploiting and/or oppressing them for the excluder/exploiter/oppressor tribe’s benefit, ala APC KDDA Supremes, or including a token few, ala APC ekutay wanword. I had only ‘tribal affinity’ in my mind when reading through and responding to the heavyweight questions you constantly pelted me with. Please also note that I used the word “probably” in raising the tribal affinity issue with you thus: “Is this the leadership you are promoting for your people? Aren’t you concerned by now that your support, probably based on tribal affinity, might have gone too far, Moijue?” This approach means I am unsure, puzzled and concerned about your motivation behind your support for the PMDC despite the heavy baggage weighing down the alphabet-soup flip-flopper [SLPP to PNP to SLPP to APC to SLPP to NUP to SLPP to NUP to SLPP to PMDC] (i) who thinks he can kapu the Third Force via yuki-yuki, kalo-kalo means, as previously described, in fulfillment of his birthright dreams; and who (ii) surrounds himself with flip-flopping alphabet-soup [SLPP, APC, SLPP, PDP-Sorbeh, UNPP, GA, CUPP, PMDC] despicable crooked opportunists (iii) to help him cut out the key individual – me - behind the creation of the Third Force. At the same time, you are heavily attacking me for working for genuine Third Force reforms within his and your former party. I would have preferred your not attacking me for my decision not to split my party and thus risk allowing the tribalist opposition to waltz into power. I simply don’t understand your logic! To me PMDC is at best, nothing but a Puello Mess for Dunce Candidates. At worst, it is a Puerile Mistake for Despicable Characters. It could also stand for Parity for Mister Dunce Confusionist“s” to help him alleviate poverty immediately at FAKIA PMDC so that everyone there may immediately afford his/her own can or bottle of imported soft drink for immediate consumption and thus alleviate their chronic poverty instantaneously. But in case you don’t care for the inappropriate “s” in ‘Confusionst“s”’ above, how about his “Parade of Munkus, Dumbos & Crooks” not wanted by the people in their genuine Third Force grouping? My point is why do you waste your time and effort with that birthright alphabet-soup flip-flopper? Is it because you are from the same tribe? Or is it the result of ‘family politics’ like some of the others around him? If not, for what other reason? Please help me. I am confused. Having studied the background of our presidential candidates, I am convinced that your man will never be able to help you and others develop as I suspect he himself is not yet fully developed and his notorious arrogance does not appear conducive to helping others. With him, it’s ‘me, me, me’ at all cost. Further, if you are not careful you may be associated in the public's mind - long after July 2007 - with attempted Third Force hijackers, lawyers double-disbarred for stealing client funds and lying about their fraud, hold-up crooks, political harlots, remedials, Congo-foe poverty alleviators, Frog Doctors, Munda Tombo Dumbos Munkus Bangucrooks and assorted flunkies. Or, are you PMDCers deliberately using those despicable characters now only to ditch and dump them later - as you suspect Berewa is going to do to me after July 2007? Would this be right? Please help me understand the reasoning behind your politics. Even with all of the above explanation, please accept my apologies if at any time you were convinced I was alleging tribalism against you. Thank you. - JL Subject: Re: JEL ACCUSES MOIJUE OF TRIBALISM? Message: Subject: Re: JEL ACCUSES MOIJUE OF TRIBALISM? Message: Thanks for the affirmation. I have not accused Moijue of tribalism. Moijue must be over-reacting, probably looking for some sympathy from 'old' SLPP colleagues. He must be getting homesick after kecking to PMDC! I will explain everything to him at my earliest convenience. Suffice it to say that 'tribal affinity' is not 'tribalism' at all. Thank you again. - JL Subject: Re: JEL ACCUSES MOIJUE OF TRIBALISM? Message: Subject: THE BIRIWA case and the James Internation Decision. Message: The James International case is one of Contractual matter and I promise you will be very bored if I should go into even the slightest detail except if you are a Lawyer.But it shows how important our Judicial system is working today. The second case, the BIRIWA case is a constitutional matter dealing with Administrative Law. My advise to these people is that the Supreme Court is our Highest Court. We must respect their decision especially when that decision seem to be correct. Stop making this a political issue, dont bring the JUdges into Politics. The SLPP Government has been VINDICATED in this matter. Thank God for Freedom of the Judiciary. That is why you must vote SLPP to keep the Judiciary free and independent. Subject: Re: THE BIRIWA case and the James Internation Decision. Message: When something goes wrong with respect to fairness in the discharge of the government's responsibility where do the people go to contest unfavorable decisions by the government? you guessed it. They go to the government itself. If that government is not fair what then must the people do? I think they have the right to go to the supreme court for a judgement on the manner of handling Chieftaincy elections. For as you know, the Sierra Leone constitution prescribes for the government to conduct itself in a manner that ensures fairness in all its activities. I think that it is this connecting aspect of the constitution that the Supreme court left out perhaps for political reasons when they declared that they had no jurisdiction on the issue of tribal law. How can you expect that the Supreme court will not consider the issue of fairness in the governments exercise of its duty to conduct chieftaincy elections. That is nonesense to me. Subject: Re: THE BIRIWA case and the James Internation Decision. Message: If a stranger from Guinea is imposed as Chief in Kenema what would you do? Please tell me. Subject: Re: THE BIRIWA case and the James Internation Decision. Message: In Reply to: Re: THE BIRIWA case and the James Internation Decision. posted by PPa Javombo on November 14, 2006 at 19:07:38: What would you say about the Kai Kais of Pujehun who have become Paramount Chiefs? What about the Jah family, etc, etc dotting the mende landscape as paramount chiefs? Were these people not fullahs? Paramount Chieftaincy has evolved all over sierra leone over the years to the extent that many chieftaincy houses are in fact an amalgam of early and later arrivals, to put it simplistically. Even in Biriwa chiefdom, the KALAWA family, known also as KONTEH were originally Sankaran mandingoes known as KONDEH. Ethnolinguistically, the name KALAWA is the mandingo word for the 'retreat of marabouts into seclusion' to pray for a cause. The KALAWA-KONTEH family/families were therefore mandingo clans who had arrived much earlier in places like Bumban and Kamabai before their cousins, the SHERIFF, KAMARA and others. KAMARA, KONTEH, MANSARAY, etc, belong to the Malinke Clan, meaning that these were people who came from MALI and then into Guinea and eventually to present day Sierra Leone for one reason or the other. Once in Sierra Leone they settled in the savannah grassland areas to look after their herds of sheep and goats, carry out subsistence farming and trade. The later arrivals who had imbibed Islam before migrating to the south from Mali and Guinea came with islamic influences and converted some of their cousins into islam. Biriwa people have been together for ages and have had inter-marriages that now blur the boundaries between them. Let no politics divide a people that have always been one and the same. May peace, love and harmony reign in Biriwa and all over Sierra Leone. Subject: Re: THE BIRIWA case and the James Internation Decision. Message: So, don't try to be tribalistic because you were originally mandingo. Only that your own forebears travelled from Mali and then to Guinea and finally to Sierra Leone much much earlier than your mandingo cousins. This is a fact of history. In fact your migratory journey is not yet even complete as you yourself have been the first generation migrant to North America in your family line. The journey of life as it happened over the ages is not yet complete. It is a dynamic process and who knows where the ALIE FORMEH KAMARA family tree would have extended to in another fifty years? So, ma man, stop blowing hot and cold over a human trend you have no control over. Accept the Sheriffs and the other mandingo brothers and sisters with whom you went to school in Biriwa as you would your own. Afterall. what is the difference between Patrick Sheriff, Saidu Charm, Foday Bokum, Sorie Kennedy Conteh, Foday Kamara, Bolo Kamara, etc? Subject: Re: THE BIRIWA case and the James Internation Decision. Message: If you come from a bonafied ruling house and have a right to contest for Paramount Chief, then you are a Limba. According to recent census, the population distribution of the varius tribes in Biriwa is as follows: Limbas 90%, Mandingoes 5%, Fullahs 3%, Lokos and other's 2%. Subject: Re: THE BIRIWA case and the James Internation Decision. Message: If the British colonialists had allowed the Sheriffs of Biriwa to contest chieftaincy in 1952 and 1958, and if they had contested under every regime up to 1995 under the NPRC, who are we to say the Sheriffs cannot now contest? Instead we use the Kabbah factor as a blackmail. When did Kabbah become president of sierra leone? In 1952, 1958, 1963, 1974, 1986 or 1995? Ma man, don't allow tribalism to blur your reasoning. Subject: Re: THE BIRIWA case and the James Internation Decision. Message: Show me how the Sherriffs belong to the ruling house in Biriwa? By the way according to recent statistics Limbas comprise 90% of the population and Mandigoes 5% and the remainder 5% includes the Lokos. Subject: Re: THE BIRIWA case and the James Internation Decision. Message: Subject: Re: THE BIRIWA case and the James Internation Decision. Message: Subject: Re: THE BIRIWA case and the James Internation Decision. Message: Subject: Re: THE BIRIWA case and the James Internation Decision. Message: Subject: Re: THE BIRIWA case and the James Internation Decision. Message: Paramount Chieftaincy has evolved all over sierra leone over the years to the extent that many chieftaincy houses are in fact an amalgam of early and later arrivals, to put it simplistically. Even in Biriwa chiefdom, the KALAWA family, known also as KONTEH were originally Sankaran mandingoes known as KONDEH. Ethnolinguistically, the name KALAWA is the mandingo word for the 'retreat of marabouts into seclusion' to pray for a cause. The KALAWA-KONTEH family/families were therefore mandingo clans who had arrived much earlier in places like Bumban and Kamabai before their cousins, the SHERIFF, KAMARA and others. KAMARA, KONTEH, MANSARAY, etc, belong to the Malinke Clan, meaning that these were people who came from MALI and then into Guinea and eventually to present day Sierra Leone for one reason or the other. Once in Sierra Leone they settled in the savannah grassland areas to look after their herds of sheep and goats, carry out subsistence farming and trade. The later arrivals who had imbibed Islam before migrating to the south from Mali and Guinea came with islamic influences and converted some of their cousins into islam. Biriwa people have been together for ages and have had inter-marriages that now blur the boundaries between them. Let no politics divide a people that have always been one and the same. May peace, love and harmony reign in Biriwa and all over Sierra Leone. Subject: WILL IT WORK IN FREETOWN? Message: The citizens of Monrovia, Liberia's capital, have been called upon to dig into their pockets and begin shouldering the financial responsibility of taking care of their city, and Liberians living abroad are asked to contribute at least $1.00 US a month towards the new Waste Management Plan unfolded for the cleaning up of Liberia's capital. The World Bank has offered US$7M for the Plan. Subject: BEREWA IS INDEED HEAVY WEIGHT. EVEN HIS STATEMENTS ARE Message: "....Berewa then told the audience that Sierra Leonean teachers are paid on time every month to the point where some teachers are now refusing to take their salaries because they have enough money in their hands..." This is the "BEST" record to run on that will send SLPP to its rightful place in the very near future. Subject: Re: BEREWA IS INDEED HEAVY WEIGHT. EVEN HIS STATEMENTS ARE Message: A senior secondary school teacher who prefers anonymity has questioned the rational behind the minister of education's decision to pay them their salaries before time, arguing that the government is doing that to gain the favour of the teachers for the upcoming elections. The teacher also commented on back-logs for teachers that have still not been paid and pointed out that some of their colleagues have taught for three years without receiving a single cent, and totally condemned such act by the ministry of education stating that the affected teachers also have their families to maintain. "Why should the government open so many junior secondary schools in the country without considering the plight of teachers?" the teacher asked. Another senior teacher at the Government Model Secondary School (GMSS) also expressed similar opinions and called on his colleagues to put up their thinking caps, and as he put it, "they should not fool us with money for their political gains." However, some of the secondary school teachers who spoke to this paper confirmed that they are grateful to the government for paying their salaries on time, noting that the minister of education, science and technology is a hard-working man who is dedicated to the welfare of teachers. They however appealed to the education minister to consider the plight of their colleagues who have not been paid for a long time. Subject: Re: BEREWA IS INDEED HEAVY WEIGHT. EVEN HIS STATEMENTS ARE Message: Subject: DAASEBRE OTI BOATENG RE-ELECTED Message: -GNA- | Posted: Friday, November 10, 2006 The UN Statue establishes ICSC “ for the regulation and coordination of the conditions of service of the United Nations common system”. It provides for a 15- member Commission, with a full time Chairman and Vice-Chairman, all appointed by the General Assembly “in their personal capacity as individuals of recognized competence who have substantial experience of executive responsibility in public administration or related field, particularly in personnel management”. They are appointed for four 0year terms and may be reappointed. Since becoming a member of the International Civil Service Commission in 2003, Daasebre Oti Boateng has made significant contributions to the Commission’s deliberations. These encompass the review and rationalization of the common system allowances and benefits, monitoring the pilot study and broad banding pay-for-performance, base floor salary considerations and other issues. He has particularly played an influential role on matters relating to statistics and post adjustment questions His inputs also help to ensure that decisions of the Commission reflect the Africa viewpoint. Subject: Leading Internet Television Broadcaster Expands Message: Leading Internet Television Broadcaster Expands By: Marketwire TORONTO -- (MARKET WIRE) -- 11/13/06 -- JumpTV Inc. (AIM: JTV) (TSX: JTV) (www.jumptv.com), the world's leading broadcaster of ethnic television over the Internet, announced it has signed an exclusive Internet-broadcast agreement with the Sierra Leone Broadcasting Service (SLBS) from the Republic of Sierra Leone. SLBS is the # 1 channel in Sierra Leone, airing television programming that includes local news, movies, documentaries and talk shows. Douglas Ames, vice president of JumpTV's Africa group commented, "This partnership is the first time SLBS will be offered outside of the country, creating a conduit for the approximately 1.5 million Sierra Leoneans living in the diaspora, the majority of whom currently reside in London, Toronto and New York, to stay connected to their homeland." Kashore Wellington, director general of Sierra Leone Broadcasting Service said "JumpTV is a pioneer in providing ethnic television over the Internet and is an ideal partner to help SBLS reach Sierra Leoneans living outside of their native land." Kaleil Isaza, president and chief executive officer of JumpTV International stated, "JumpTV's proven technology provides channel partners like SLBS the means to reach a larger audience, increase revenues and establish a global media brand." Isaza continued "JumpTV now boasts over 10 leading channels from sub-Saharan Africa, many of which are not carried by cable and satellite providers outside of Africa." SLBS will be individually priced at US$9.95 per month when launched commercially and will likely be part of a bundle of African channels at a later date. The Sierra Leone Broadcasting Service contract was signed subsequent to the Company's September 30, 2006 quarter end disclosure. JumpTV now has 235 channels under license. About JumpTV JumpTV (AIM: JTV) (TSX: JTV) is the world's leading subscr1ption-based broadcaster of ethnic television over the Internet. With over 230 channels from 65+ countries, JumpTV delivers its subscribers full-screen news, sports and entertainment content on a real-time basis from all corners of the globe. JumpTV has subscribers from over 80 countries who view channels on the JumpTV online network via high-speed Internet connections on their home computers, laptops, Internet-enabled televisions and mobile phones. Forward looking statement Certain statements herein may constitute forward-looking statements, including those identified by the expressions "may", "will", "should", "could", "anticipate", "believe", "plan", "estimate", "potential", "expect", "intent" and similar expressions to the extent they relate to the Company or its managements. These statements reflect the Company's current expectations and are based on information currently available to management. These forward-looking statements are subject to a number of risks, uncertainties, assumptions and other factors that could cause actual results or events to differ materially from current expectations, including the matters discussed under "Risk Factors" contained in the Company's prospectus (admission document) dated August 1, 2006. These forward-looking statements are made as of the date hereof, and the Company assumes no obligation to update or revise them to reflect new events or circumstances. This document is available on the KCSA Worldwide Website at www.kcsa.com Subject: Supreme Court declares Biriwa case null and void Message: The Supreme Court on Friday 10 November has ruled against the Limbas of Biriwa Chiefdom saying the National Electoral Commission has nothing to do with Paramount Chieftaincy elections, Concord Times reports. The ruling came about after Dr. Sorie Kennedy Conteh and four others representing the Limbas of Biriwa Chiefdom filed a writ of summons at the Supreme Court contesting the election that was held by the Local Government Ministry sometime this year. The Presiding Judge, Chief Justice Ade Renner Thomas in his 46-minutes ruling said that the relief sought by the plaintiff’s counsel, J.B Jenkins-Johnston is null and void; therefore the court cannot properly interpret them. The Presiding judge in his words said NEC is responsible to conduct Presidential and Parliamentary, Local Government and public elections and that NEC is under no constitutional duty to conduct chieftaincy elections. He further said he does not think that the court has the right to listen to the relief sought by the plaintiff’s counsel. Chief Justice Renner Thomas recommended that Parliament draft legislation stating the legality and responsibility of NEC in conducting paramount chieftaincy elections. Subject: Re: Supreme Court declares Biriwa case null and void Message: Injustice for one is injustice for all. No one should sit back and be silent. The contract with government was not meant for the later to interfere with local administration in ways that bastardize it. Governments have come and gone and for sure there have been irregularities in the conduct of Chieftaincy elections but obviously not in this magnitude. What next will the government do when we run our own business? Kill us? Subject: Re: Supreme Court declares Biriwa case null and void Message: This is the same man who usually copies articlles from that paper and post it here because the articles are in favor of his political party. You are a shameless character, and just like that former thieving coward Apc Tiff man Formeh Kamara, you are a disgrace to salone. Subject: Re: Supreme Court declares Biriwa case null and void Message: I would not waist my time with you idiot. Subject: Re: Supreme Court declares Biriwa case null and void Message: Hahahaha. waist? Please we don't want you to "waist" your time. We do not want to smell that trash. Heheheheheh. Borbor, tiff minister pikin bet dog nar cline town. Hewheheheheheheehehehe. Roast goat, Roast goat Subject: Re: Supreme Court declares Biriwa case null and void Message: Again, go and read the verdict of the court. I do not care about tribes, and for God's sake, stop been backward, you worwor idiot.May be you should check the library of congress over the weekend and read portions about salon'e chieftaincy to see that the Sheriffs have been contesting paramount chieftaincy elections from time in memorial. Again, go and read the court's verdict before you start making a fool of yourself. You are a backward, crude and worwor idiot. Subject: Re: Supreme Court declares Biriwa case null and void Message: You must be a Mandingo hiding under a different name. Who is a fool? Use your proper name so that every one will know who you are. I will let the public judge who the fool is. You are obviously not well brought up. Subject: Re: Supreme Court declares Biriwa case null and void Message: Ask your deputy bank governor in salone, Mohamed Fofana, he will tell you about me. we grew up togrther. You are a coward, and the people of alone do not care whether you agree with the verdict or not. The court has spoken. Damn fool.hehehehee Subject: Re: Supreme Court declares Biriwa case null and void Message: Why are you so blind to realities? No matter what party you belong to insane and insensitive governance is something to decry. Dont you think so? Subject: Re: Supreme Court declares Biriwa case null and void Message: It is the responsibility of the provincial sevretary. Just go check out cap 60 of the provinces act. The court has spoken, and the people of salone are ready to move on. It is only people like you who are trying to get those poor and in nocent folks in salone to cause havoc. Subject: Re: Supreme Court declares Biriwa case null and void. SAD Message: IBRAHIM, by your last name I can tell you are from KARANA. However, can you point out some of the lot of sense you claim the supreme court must have made to be lot of sense for you? Remember also, don't you think Kabba is doing this to avoid the path of Charles Taylor, you Know the special court is waiting for him so he can face justice for most of the atrocities and reckage he brough to our country. As a result, he is looking for political footsteps to secure his safe retirement from power by paving the way through croocked means for the SLPP. remember, he can play uke-uke tricks or run but he cannot escape it.......LONTA Subject: Re: Supreme Court declares Biriwa case null and void. SAD Message: You sound like a very big idiot. What are you talking about? You are a pathetic lonely fool, whose existence is a threat to humanity. Why can't you go back to your rat hole to join your fellow brutes?You are a sorry excuse for a human being. What a pitythat you were mistakenly created by satan. Subject: Re: Supreme Court declares Biriwa case null and void. SAD Message: Is the truth difficult to comprehend? I know you IDIOT will shamelessly reply on this one. Subject: Re: Supreme Court declares Biriwa case null and void. SAD Message: Subject: Re: Supreme Court declares Biriwa case null and void. SAD Message: The question was, explain to us in your own words how the rulings of Biriwa Chieftancy make sense? however you fail to respond but instead resulted into your barbaric, low life misguided and stinking ass to pollute people's mind. Again as I earlier said, if you don't have a better input, cease from blogging. you rubbish.....LONTA Subject: Re: Supreme Court declares Biriwa case null and void. SAD Message: I am not here to educate a dummy like you. Go read it and ask your lawyer friends to help you out. The issues were very clear, and only if you stop to be a big dummy then you will understand it. You hopeless waste of space. I will deal with this man. Nonsense thing. Subject: Re: Supreme Court declares Biriwa case null and void. SAD Message: If this happened to be one of these Government offices, bet your ass I/we will expose your stinking self and also pressure the government to displace you or who ever is responsible for this computer that allow your sorry dunky head to use it to talk rubbish instead of doing government work....LONTA Subject: Re: Supreme Court declares Biriwa case null and void. SAD Message: Subject: Re: Supreme Court declares Biriwa case null and void. SAD Message: Subject: Re: Supreme Court declares Biriwa case null and void. SAD Message: You are lucky I am about to leave for work, I would have expose your rubbish and nacked self....LONTA Subject: Re: Supreme Court declares Biriwa case null and void. SAD Message: May be you are a stranger. That is why you have taken sides against the limbas. This act of the government really hurts but it is not going to go away. Now we shall see what the government will do. Subject: Re: Supreme Court declares Biriwa case null and void. SAD Message: Subject: Review of Media Reports Message: 13 November - Review of Sierra Leone Media Reports UN officials visit PPRC Officials of the United Nations and the Political Parties Registration Commission (PPRC) have held a meeting on how to expedite the activities of the PPRC for the smooth conduct of the 2007 elections. During the discussions according to Sierra News, the Chairman of the Commission, Mr. R.A. Caesar, informed the UN team about their activities and the progress they have made so far. He called on the United Nations to provide logistic assistance to the PPRC to expand their activities into the provinces so as to effectively monitor the activities of Political Parties in the lead up to the 2007 elections. The head of the UN delegation Mr. Grey Jennes assured them of the United Nations continued support to achieve their aims and objectives. Political parties to sign new code of conduct The Spark reports that representatives of the political parties will sign the recently adopted code of conduct for political parties on 23 November 2006 at the House of Parliament. Making the disclosure, the Registrar of the Political Parties Registration Commission, Kemoh Mansaray is cited as saying that once the document has been signed, it becomes binding on all registered political parties, and that any party that violates the code of conduct will face the consequences. The code of conduct aims at ensuring a level playing field in the electoral process leading up to the 2007 polls. UNDP host Finnish JournalistsA United Nations Country Group (UNCG) press release was published by Awoko and the Spectator on the visit to Sierra Leone of journalists from Finland. During their visit the eleven person team will meet with the Executive Representative of the Secretary General, Mr. Victor Angelo, government officials and civil society. The journalists will be briefed by UN specialists on the elections and the key development issues such as the justice sector reform, the refugee situation in the country and also security matters. The team will visit a UNDP sponsored prison and refugee camp in Moyamba, Bo and other projects in the north of the country. The team will also have an interactive session with journalists and will meet with researchers at the University of Sierra Leone working on development and refugee issues. The trip serves as part of a training course UNDP is offering to of journalists to raise awareness about its work. Swedish delegation to visit MRU A United Nations Country Group (UNCG) press release is published verbatim by Awoko and Standard Times regarding a Swedish International Development Assistance (SIDA) delegation visit to the Mano River region from 12 to 18 November 2006. The purpose of the mission is to assess projects funded by SIDA under their programme of emergency assistance to post conflict countries. The delegation will meet with government officials, development partners and undertake visits to various project sites in Sierra Leone. Sources from UNDP disclosed that the field visit will start from Freetown and include Bombali, Tonkolili, Kambia, Bo, Kenema and Pujehun, before crossing to Liberia. WHO gets new director general A front page story in the Sierra News reports that Dr. Magret Chan has been appointed Director General of the World Health Organisation (WHO). According to a release from the WHO country office in Sierra Leone, Dr Chan was nominated by the Executive Board of WHO and her appointment has been confirmed by the World Health assembly. In her acceptance speech, Dr Chan said she will focus on six key issues during her tenure, these are; health development, security, capacity building, information and knowledge, partnership and performance. The Director General disclosed plans to set up a global health observatory to collate and disseminate data on priority health problems. The WHO release on the New Director General of the WHO was also published in The Spectator. UNCG holds forum for journalists The New Vision reports that the United Nations Communications Group (UNCG) has held its second Development Forum session for Journalists at the British Council Auditorium in Freetown, to educate them about the upcoming Consultative Group Meeting in Freetown on the implementation of the Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper. Giving a talk on the PRSP, outgoing World Bank Country Manager, James Dr James Sackey described it as national development plan that has a long-term vision and that the contributions and pledges made by Donors are meant for several projects under the PRSP. Mohamed Sidie Sheriff, Communication Associate of the World Bank in the country, presented a paper on the PRSP and the Consultative Group Meeting, geared towards facilitating accurate media reportage on the two related issues. Supreme Court declares Biriwa case null and void The Supreme Court on Friday 10 November has ruled against the Limbas of Biriwa Chiefdom saying the National Electoral Commission has nothing to do with Paramount Chieftaincy elections, Concord Times reports. The ruling came about after Dr. Sorie Kennedy Conteh and four others representing the Limbas of Biriwa Chiefdom filed a writ of summons at the Supreme Court contesting the election that was held by the Local Government Ministry sometime this year. The Presiding Judge, Chief Justice Ade Renner Thomas in his 46-minutes ruling said that the relief sought by the plaintiff’s counsel, J.B Jenkins-Johnston is null and void; therefore the court cannot properly interpret them. The Presiding judge in his words said NEC is responsible to conduct Presidential and Parliamentary, Local Government and public elections and that NEC is under no constitutional duty to conduct chieftaincy elections. He further said he does not think that the court has the right to listen to the relief sought by the plaintiff’s counsel. Chief Justice Renner Thomas recommended that Parliament draft legislation stating the legality and responsibility of NEC in conducting paramount chieftaincy elections. Subject: The Sa Lone Supreme Court Speaks: on the BIRIWA Election Message: Email this article IN THE SUPREME COURT OF SIERRA LEONE (ORIGINAL JURISDICTION) IN THE MATTER OF SECTION 124(1) AND SECTION 127(1) OF THE CONSTITUTION OF SIERRA LEONE ACT NO.6 OF 1991 AND IN THE MATTER OF THE ELECTION FOR THE OFFICE OF PARAMOUNT CHIEF OF BIRIWA CHIEFDOM, BOMBALI DISTRICT IN THE NORTHERN PROVINCE OF THE REPUBLIC OF SIERRA LEONE, HELD ON THE 12TH AUGUST 2006 BETWEEN: (1) DR. SORIE KENNEDY CONTEH (2) ALBERT CONTEH (3) PRINCE AMADU KALAWA (4) SALIFU MANNAH KALAWA (5) ALHAJI KINGKOMA CONTEH (6) FODAY BABA CONTEH - PLAINTIFFS A N D (1) THE MINISTER OF LOCAL GOVERNMENT AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT - 1ST DEFENDANT (2) THE PROVINCIAL SECRETARY, NORTHERN PROVINCE - 2ND DEFENDANT (3) DR. ISSA M. SHERIFF - 3RD DEFENDANT 22C EAST BROOK STREET FREETOWN. (4) THE ATTORNEY-GENERAL AND MINISTER OF JUSTICE - 4TH DEFENDANT (5) THE NATIONAL ELECTORAL COMMISSION - 5TH DEFENDANT CORAM: HON. JUSTICE A.R.D. RENNER-THOMAS - CHIEF JUSTICE HON. JUSTICE SIR JOHN MURIA - J.S.C. HON. MRS. JUSTICE V.A.D. WRIGHT - J.S.C. HON. JUSTICE MR. M.E.T. THOMPSON - J.S.C. HON. MS. JUSTICE U.H. TEJAN-JALLOH - J.A. J.B. JENKINS-JOHNSTON ESQ. FOR THE PLAINTIFF F.M. CAREW ESQ., Attorney-General, OSMAN KANU Esq and ALIMAMY SESAY Esq. for the Defendants JUDGMENT DELIVERED THE 10th DAY OF NOVEMBER, 2006. RENNER-THOMAS, C.J. This is an action commenced by an Originating Notice of Motion dated 14th September, 2006 invoking the original jurisdiction of the Supreme Court of Sierra Leone pursuant to Sections 124(1) and 127(1) of the Constitution, Act. No.6 of 1991. The reliefs claimed by the Plaintiffs are the following:- “(1) A Declaration that any Election for the Office of Paramount Chief as provided for in Section 72(5) of the Constitution, IS A PUBLIC ELECTION, the conduct and supervision of which is the responsibility of the 5th Defendant herein, as provided by Section 33 of the said Constitution of Sierra Leone. (2) A Declaration that the Election for the Office of Paramount Chief of BIRIWA CHIEFDOM, Bombali District in the Northern Province of the Republic of Sierra Leone conducted by the 1st and 2nd Defendants on the 12th August 2006 as a result of which the 3rd Defendant was purportedly declared to be Elected as the PARAMOUNT CHIEF of BIRIWA CHIEFDOM was conducted in contravention of Section 72(5) and Section 33 of the Constitution of Sierra Leone, and is therefore INVALID, NULL AND VOID. (3) Consequent upon (2) above, FOR A Declaration that the Office of Paramount Chief of BIRIWA Chiefdom, Bombali District, in the Northern Province of Sierra Leone IS VACANT. (4) (i) A Declaration that by Native Law and Custom and by tradition, any person who does not belong to a Ruling House is not eligible to contest for and be elected as Paramount Chief of any Chiefdom in Sierra Leone. (ii) A Declaration that DR. ISSA M. SHERIFF not being a member of any of the Four(4) Established Ruling Houses of BIRIWA Chiefdom, Bombali District, Northern Province of Sierra Leone is not eligible to contest for the Office of Paramount Chief of the said BIRIWA Chiefdom. (5) For An Order that an Election to the office of Paramount Chief of BIRIWA Chiefdom, Bombali District in the Northern Province of the Republic of Sierra Leone shall be conducted and supervised by the 5th Defendant in accordance with Section 33 of the Constitution of Sierra Leone on a date to be determined by the 5th Defendant herein. (6) For Any Further or other Orders or directions as may be considered giving effect to, or enabling effect to be given to the declarations and orders heretofore made. (7) That the Costs of this Action shall be paid by the 1st, 2nd and 3rd Defendants, such Costs to be taxed.” In addition to the affidavit of Dr. Sorie Kennedy Conteh, the first Plaintiff herein, sworn to on the 14th day of September, 2006 and filed together with the Originating Notice of Motion Counsel for the Plaintiff was given leave by the Court to rely also on the joint affidavit of the second to sixth Plaintiffs inclusive sworn to on the 6th day of October 2006 and filed herein. On the 29th day of September 2006 the Statement of the Plaintiffs Case was filed together with the affidavit as required by Rule 90 (2) of the Rules of the Supreme Court, Constitutional Instrument No.1 of 1982. On the 10th day of October 2006, Osman Kanu, State Counsel as Solicitor for all the five Defendants herein filed a Statement of the Defendants case accompanied by the requisite affidavit pursuant to Rule 92 (2) of the said Rules of the Supreme Court. A date was fixed for the hearing and arguments commenced on the 19th day of October 2006 and were concluded on the 20th day of October 2006. Though both the Plaintiffs and the Defendants did give an indication that they might be calling witnesses at the hearing no such witnesses were called. Put briefly, the case for the Plaintiffs, as I understand it, is (1) that any election for the office of a Paramount Chief is according to Section 33 of the Constitution, Act No.6 of 1991 is a public election should therefore be conducted and supervised by the fifth defendant, the National Electoral Commission. (2) that as the election held by the first and second Defendants, the Minister of Local Government and Community Development and the Provincial Secretary, Northern Province, on the 12th August 2006 as a result of which the third Defendant, Dr. Issa M. Sheriff, was elected to the Office of the Paramount Chief of Biriwa Chiefdom in the Bombali District in the Northern Province of the Republic of Sierra Leone was not conducted in accordance with the provisions of the said Section 33 of the Constitution, the said election should be declared invalid, null and void and the office of the Paramount Chief of the said Biriwa Chiefdom should therefore be declared vacant. The Plaintiff also challenged the eligibility of the third defendant to be a candidate in the said election and seek an Order of the Court directing the fifth Defendant thereafter to conduct the said elections in accordance with Section 33 of the Constitution. The short answer of the Defendants to the Plaintiffs’ case, as could be gleaned from the Statement of the Defendants’ Case is first, that the election of a Paramount Chief is not a public election as envisaged by Section 33 of the Constitution and that the conduct of such an election is not governed by Sections 33 and 72(5) of the Constitution. Though not raised as part of their case, during the course of his argument, the Attorney-General on behalf of the five Defendants contended that this Court could not grant the several reliefs sought in the Originating Notice of Motion in its original jurisdiction He was allowed to raise this issue which was outside the Case for the Defendants as filed because this Court is of the view that the question as to whether the original jurisdiction had been properly invoked is one which even if not canvassed by any of the parties the Court, suo moto, can properly raise and dispose of as a matter of law. Indeed, in my view, this issue of the original jurisdiction is one which must be dealt with as a preliminary issue because if the Court comes to the conclusion that it lacks original jurisdiction to grant the several reliefs sought it would not even go into the merits of the case no matter how convincing the arguments in favour may be ex facie. (See Issa Hassan Sesay & Ors v. The President of the Special Court for Sierra Leone, SC 1/2003, judgment delivered the14th day of October 2005 and Hinga Norman v. Sama Banya, SC 2/2005, judgment delivered the 31st day of August 2005, both unreported ) The procedure adopted by this Court in the Issa Sesay v.Special Court for Sierra Leone case was to examine each relief prayed for by the plaintiff separately and individually with a view to establishing whether there was any basis for invoking the Courts original jurisdiction to grant the said relief. Where the Court comes to the conclusion that it lacks jurisdiction the proper course is not to dismiss the whole action but to have the action struck out to the extent that the Court lacks jurisdiction to grant some or all of the reliefs sought. I am still convinced that this is the right approach and for reasons which will soon become apparent I intend to adopt it in the instant case. In the instant case, the Plaintiffs seek to rely on sections 124(1) and 127(1) of the Constitution as the basis for invoking this courts original jurisdiction. In the Hinga Norman case (supra) this Court made a distinction between the legal effect of the provisions of section 124(1) and those of section 127(1) of the Constitution. The essential distinction is that whereas the provisions of section 124(1) are substantive vesting exclusive original jurisdiction in the Supreme Court in matters of interpretation and enforcement of the Constitution those of Section 127(1) are purely procedural setting out the requirements for and manner in which the Constitution may be enforced by this Court. The test to be applied where the original jurisdiction is invoked to interpret or enforce provision of the Constitution was thus stated by me in my Judgment in the Hinga Norman case (supra). “The first test is that the Plaintiff seeking to invoke the original jurisdiction must be able to point to some provision any provision of the National Constitution that is to be enforced or interpreted. The next test is to show in addition, what act or omission makes it necessary for the provision to be enforced. The third test in my opinion, is an alternative to the second test. The Plaintiff must show that an interpretation of the particular provision of the National Constitution identified under the first test is required as a matter of law.” In the Issa Sesay case when dealing with the test for invoking the original jurisdiction of this Court for the purposes of interpretation of a substantive provision of the Constitution I cited the above dicta and reemphasized my view in the following words. “Let me repeat what I stated in the Hinga Norman case in the passage cited earlier in this judgment i.e. in order to invoke this Court’s original jurisdiction under Section 124(1) of the Constitution the plaintiff must satisfy this Court that the interpretation sought is required as a matter of Law, for example, to clarify any ambiguity or to determine the legal effect of a provision” I may add that this Court will not allow its original jurisdiction to be invoked to interpret a provision of the Constitution in a purely hypothetical case or where original jurisdiction to try the subject matter of the dispute is vested in some other Court and there is only a likelihood that the need for interpretation might arise in the course of the trial in that other Court. In the latter case, the jurisdiction of the other court to try the matter is not ousted merely because a question of interpretation of a provision of the Court is likely to arise in the course of the trial. Section 124 (2) of the Constitution expressly provides for such a situation by stipulating that where a question of interpretation or even enforcement of a provision of the Constitution arises “in any proceedings in any Court, other than the Supreme Court that Court shall stay the proceedings and refer the question of law involved to the Supreme Court [not in its original jurisdiction I may add] for determination;” I now turn to the test to be applied where the original jurisdiction of this Court is invoked to enforce compliance with a provision of the Constitution. The factual circumstances in which this could be done are spelt out in three separate sections of the Constitution. First, there is Section 28 which allows this Court’s original jurisdiction to be invoked where it is alleged that there has been a violation of Sections 16 to 27 inclusive of the Constitution. Next, pursuant to Section 171 (15) the original jurisdiction of this Court could be invoked where it is alleged that any enactment is inconsistent with any provision of the Constitution. Thirdly, the original jurisdiction of this court could be invoked pursuant to Section 127 (1) where it is alleged that a statute or its content or any thing done under the authority of that or any other statute is in contravention of a provision of the Constitution. Clearly, Sections 28 and 171 (15) are not applicable in the instant case and are not invoked by the Plaintiffs herein. In contrast, the Plaintiffs rely squarely on the provisions of Section 127(1) and by implication on those of Section 127(2) for the declarations sought in the Originating Notice of Motion. For purposes of clarity I shall reproduce Section 127 of the Constitution in full. It states as follows:- “(1) A person who alleges that an enactment or anything contained in or done under the authority of that or any other enactment is inconsistent with, or is in contravention of a provision of this Constitution, may at any time bring an action in the Supreme Court for a declaration to that effect (2) The Supreme Court shall, for the purpose of a declaration under subsection (1), make such orders and give such directions as it may consider appropriate for giving effect to, or enabling effect to be given to, the declaration so made. (3) Any Person to whom an order or direction is addressed under subsection (1) by the Supreme Court shall duly obey and carry out the terms of the Order or direction. (4) Failure to obey or to carry out the terms of an order or direction made or given under subsection (1) shall constitute a crime under this Constitution”. In the Hinga Norman case (Supra) I stated that it is important to remind oneself that the provisions of Section 127(1) of the Constitution are only applicable in the limited factual circumstances which I set out as follows:- “Where- (1) any person alleges that any enactment is inconsistent with or in contravention of provision of the…… Constitution [that] person may then invoke the Original jurisdiction conferred upon this Court by Section 124(1) for a declaration based on Section 171(15) of the……. Constitution that to the extent of the inconsistency the said enactment is null and void; (2) any person alleges that anything contained in an enactment is inconsistent with or is in contravention of any provision of the….. Constitution. That person may also invoke the original jurisdiction of this Court conferred by Section 124(1) for a similar declaration as under (1) above; and (3) any person alleges that anything done under the authority of an invalid enactment or any enactment is inconsistent with or in contravention of the Constitution. That person may equally invoke the original jurisdiction of this Court conferred by Section 124(1) for a similar dedaction as under (1) and (2) above.” Thus, in the case of Ngandi T.A.Sokoyama v. The Attorney-General and Minister of Justice (SC 1/2005, judgment delivered the 6th day of September 2006, unreported) this Court held that its original jurisdiction had been properly invoked to enable it grant a declaration that the provision contained in the Provinces Act, Cap 60 of the Laws of Sierra Leone, 1960, as amended which required a plaintiff to seek the consent of the Attorney-General before bringing an action to challenge the validity of an election of a Paramount Chief was inconsistent with Section 133 (1) of the Constitution and was therefore null and void. Section 133(1) of the Constitution provides that: “Where a person has a claim against the Government that claim may be enforced as a right by proceedings taken against the Government for that purpose, without the grant of a fiat or the use of the process known as petition of right”. Having thus set out the circumstances in which the original jurisdiction of this Court could be invoked I shall now proceed to examine the several reliefs claimed by the Plaintiffs in the instant case to ascertain whether they could properly be granted by this Court in its original jurisdiction. The first relief sought is a declaration that any election for the office of Paramount Chief as provided for in Section 72(5) of the Constitution is a public election; the conduct and supervision of which is the responsibility of the fifth defendant herein as provided by Section 33 of the said Constitution. To be able to decide whether or not this relief could properly be granted by this Court in its original jurisdiction it is in my opinion necessary as a matter of law and based upon what I said above first to decide whether this Court ought to interpret Sections 33 and 72(5) of the Constitution and secondly based on the outcome of such interpretation determine whether the factual circumstances of this case is covered by the provisions of Section 127 (1) of the Constitution For the reasons already stated above, I hold that this Court cannot properly refuse to exercise its original exclusive jurisdiction to interpret the provisions of Section 33 and 72(5) of the Constitution in the circumstances of the instant case and I shall now proceed to do so. Section 33 of the Constitution provides as follows:- “Subject to the provisions of this Constitution, the Electoral Commission shall be responsible for the conduct and supervision of the registration of voters for, and of, all public elections and referenda and for that purpose shall have power to make regulations by statutory instrument for the registration of voters the conduct of Presidential Parliamentary or Local Government elections and referenda, and other matters connected therewith including regulation for voting by proxy.” Counsel for the Plaintiffs urged this Court to hold that as long as an election could properly be defined as a public election it becomes the responsibility of the Electoral Commission to conduct and supervise that election. Based upon the definition he culled from the Oxford Concise Dictionary he urged this Court to conclude that any election for the office of Paramount Chief is a public election and therefore to be conducted and supervised by the Electoral Commission. On the other hand, the Attorney-General, on behalf of the Defendants contended that the term “public election” in Section 33 of the Constitution cannot possibly be referable to the election of Paramount Chiefs as this was not the intention of the legislature which, in contrast to the express reference to Presidential Parliamentary, Local Government Election and referenda, made no reference to elections of Paramount Chiefs. He went on to argue that such elections are governed by customary law and usage as provided for in Section 5 of the Provinces Act, Cap 60 of the Laws of Sierra Leone, 1960 as amended. As stated above, Counsel for the Plaintiffs made reference to the Concise Oxford Dictionary to ascertain the meaning of the term “public”. I must here state that whereas recourse may properly be had to a dictionary or other work of reference to ascertain the meaning of a term used in an enactment the dictionary cited should be “well-known and authorized” (see Marquis of Camden v IRC [1914] 1KB 641 of 647, CA per Cozens-Harding M.R). Besides, the Court remains free to reach its own conclusion as to the legal meaning of a word based on other considerations. Indeed, it is most essential in the process of statutory interpretation to bear in mind the fundamental distinction between the literal meaning of a term or an enactment and its legal meaning. This distinction between literal meaning and legal meaning according to Benion on Statutory Interpretation “lies at the heart of the problem of statutory interpretation” (see Statutory Interpretation by Francis Benion, 3rd edition at p.343). The function of the court as interpreter of an enactment is to determine the legal meaning of the enactment, that is the meaning that correctly conveys the legislative intention. Therefore, the main object in construing an enactment is to ascertain the intention of Parliament as expressed in the enactment considering it as a whole and in its context. For this reason, the legal meaning may or may not correspond to the grammatical or literal meaning. How then do we arrive at the legal meaning? According to Halsbury’s Laws of England the legal meaning: “is arrived at by applying to the enactment taken with any other relevant and admissible material, the rules, principles, presumptions and canons which govern statutory interpretation. These may be referred to as the interpretative criteria or guides to legislative intention”.(See Halsbury’s Laws of England, 4th edition, vol. 44(1), para. 1373) In the next paragraph it is stated further that: “If on an informed interpretation there is no real doubt that a particular meaning of an enactment is to be applied, that meaning is to be taken as its legal meaning. If there is a real doubt, it is to be resolved by applying the interpretative criteria” (Halsbury’s, supra para 1374). In the instant case, each party is contending for a different legal meaning of the enactment contained in Section 33 of the Constitution. As it is put in Halsbury’s Laws of England “when the relevant interpretative factors do not all point one way it is necessary for the Court to assess their respective weights and determine which of the opposing constructions, on balance, it favours” (Halsbury, supra, para 1378) (see also dicta of Lord Reid in Mansell v Olins [1974] 1 All E.R 16 at 18, [1974] 3 WLR 835 at 837, HL, and those of Donalson M.R in Nancollas v Insurance Officer [1985]. In the light of the facts of the instant case what then are the relevant interpretative criteria applicable and what are the guides or interpretative factors weighing in favour or against such application. The first criteria applicable in my view is what is commonly referred to in the authorities as the plain meaning rule. According to Counsel for the Plaintiffs the word “public” used to define election is capable of one meaning only i.e. the opposite of private affecting the community as a whole or a portion of the community. Based on this definition Counsel for the Plaintiffs contended that an election for a Paramount Chief is a public election and therefore falls within the category of elections envisaged by Section 33 of the Constitution. Let me hasten to say that there are several factors which raise a real doubt in my mind as to whether that meaning of the word public is the one intended by the legislature when it enacted section 33 of the Constitution. First, the opening words or Section 33 i.e. “subject to the provisions of this Constitution” point to the fact that the Section should not be read and construed in isolation but in the light of any other related provisions of the Constitution that may narrow or limit its meaning and operation. In my view, this is exactly what Section 72 of the Constitution does particularly Section 72(5) which provides that: “Subject to the provisions of this Constitution and in furtherance of the provisions of this Section Parliament shall make laws for the qualification, election, powers, functions, removal and other matters connected with Chieftaincy”. The clear intention of Parliament, in my opinion, to be gleaned from Section 72(5) is that Parliament is to enact special provisions dealing inter alia with the elections of Paramount and other Chiefs. In contrast, if it was the intention of Parliament that the regime established by Section 72 was to be read together with or be dependent on that to be found in Section 33, which deals with other public elections named therein, the draftsman would have used appropriate wording such as “without prejudice to the provision of Section 33” to qualify the provisions of section 72. Another interpretative criteria which is applicable to the instant case is that relating to the construction of general and particular enactments. Prima facia, a general enactment should receive a general construction. Thus “public elections” in Section 33 of the Constitution should cover all elections that fit into that category. However, the fact that general words are used in an enactment is not in itself conclusive reason why every case falling literally within them should be governed by those words and the context may indicate that they should be given a restrictive meaning. In the instant case, Section 33 is a general enactment whereas Section 72 is a particular enactment dealing only with Chieftaincy matters. According to Halbury’s Laws of England: “Whenever there is general enactment in an Act which, if taken in its most comprehensive sense would overrule a particular enactment in the same Act, the particular enactment must be operative, and the general enactment must be taken to affect only the other parts of the Act to which it may apply properly”. (supra. para 1486). This distinction is also recognized in the maxim generalia specialibus non derogant. Another interpretative criteria that is relevant in the instant case is the linguistic canon which states that expressio unis est exclusio alterius (to express one thing is [by implication] to exclude another). This principle is applied in particular where a formula, such as “public elections” in the instant case, which in itself may or may not include a certain class is accompanied by words of extension or exception naming only some members of that class the remaining members of the class being taken to be excluded from the formula. In this case, I hold the view that words Presidential, Parliamentary, Local and referenda are words of extension accompanying the formula ‘public elections” utilized by the draftsman without any specific definition of the same and thus by implication excluding others of the same or similar class.. Finally, the fact that Parliament reserved to itself in Section 72(5) the right to make laws for the qualifications, election, powers, and other matters connected with Chieftaincy as opposed to leaving it to the Electoral Commission to regulate the conduct and supervision of Chieftaincy election by statutory instrument as under section 33 leaves me in no doubt that Parliament did not intend to have paramount Chieftaincy elections subsumed within the category of public elections dealt with in the context of Section 33of the Constitution. Having reached this conclusion, I do not think it is necessary for me to go further and consider whether this Court could properly make the declaration sought as the first relief in the Originating Notice of Motion.. The declaration sought as the second relief is as follows; “that the Election for the Office of Paramount Chief of BIRIWA CHIEFDOM, Bombali District in the Northern Province of the Republic of Sierra Leone conducted by the 1st and 2nd Defendants on the 12th August 2006 as a result of which the 3rd Defendant was purportedly declared to be Elected as the PARAMOUNT CHIEF of BIRIWA CHIEFDOM was conducted in contravention of Section 72(5) and Section 33 of the Constitution of Sierra Leone, and is therefore INVALID, NULL AND VOID” I shall deal first with the contention that the conduct of the said election by the first and second Defendants was a violation of Section 33 of the Constitution. Having held that the said election was not a public election within the meaning of that Section it follows that it should not have been conducted and supervised in accordance with the provisions of the said section which stipulates inter alia that the Electoral Commission was to be responsible for the conduct and supervision of the registration of voters and vested it with powers for that purpose to make regulations not only for the registration of voters but also for the conduct of elections mentioned therein I take judicial notice of the fact that the Electoral Commission has never made any regulations, by statutory instrument or otherwise for the registration of voters or the conduct of Paramount chieftaincy elections. From the affidavit evidence before this Court it is common ground that the person responsible for the revision of the list of Chiefdom Councilors who are the electors in such election is the Provincial Secretary. For all the above reasons I am unable to hold that the conduct of the said election by the first and second Defendants was in contravention of section 33 of the Constitution. The declaration sought could therefore not be granted by this Court in its original jurisdiction. Though it is apparently not the case, I am obliged to consider whether the allegation that conduct of the said election by the first and second defendant was indeed in contravention of Section 72(5) . This is so because if it could be established that there was a violation of any provision of the Constitution involved in the process then the Plaintiffs could properly invoke the provisions of Section 127(1) to have this Court declare the said election is invalid, null and void. I shall once more set out the exact words of Section 72(5) of the Constitution for emphasis and clarity. The Section merely provides that: “Subject to the provisions of this Constitution and in furtherance of this Section, Parliament shall make laws for the qualification, election, powers, functions removal and other matters connected with Chieftaincy”. With the greatest respect to Counsel for the Plaintiffs, I fail to see how the first and second Defendants could be said to have acted in any way in contravention of the above provision. The present position of which this Court is obliged to take judicial notice is that since the enactment of the Constitution no law has been made by Parliament as stipulated by Section 72(5). Even if such law had been enacted by Parliament and the conduct of the Defendants complained of in the instant case had been a contravention of the provisions of such law it would not have been tenable to argue that they would thereby have violated the provisions of Section 72(5) of the Constitution so as to invoke the original jurisdiction of this Court t o deal with the said contravention. For the above reason, the declaration sought as the second relief could not be made by this Court. Since the declaration sought as the third relief is a consequential one dependent on the second declaration which this court has already declined to make, it follows that it could not properly be made and the invitation to make it is hereby declined. I now turn to the two declarations sought as the fourth relief in the Originating Notice of Motion which read as follows: “(i) A Declaration that by Native Law and Custom and by tradition, any person who does not belong to a Ruling House is not eligible to contest for and be elected as Paramount Chief of any Chiefdom in Sierra Leone. (ii) A Declaration that DR. ISSA M. SHERIFF not being a member of any of the Four(4) Established Ruling Houses of BIRIWA Chiefdom, Bombali District, Northern Province of Sierra Leone is not eligible to contest for the Office of Paramount Chief of the said BIRIWA Chiefdom.” Counsel for the Plaintiffs has not been able to point to any provision of the Constitution which would serve as the basis for the making of these declarations by this Court in its original jurisdiction. Indeed, this is not surprising because it is not the Constitution that governs the question of eligibility to contest for and be elected as a Paramount Chief of any Chiefdom in Sierra Leone. It is a matter that is governed partly by customary law and partly by statute, the relevant statute being the Provinces Act Cap 60 as amended. This, until such time as Parliament acts in accordance with its mandate contained in Section 72(5) of the Constitution by enacting a new law to govern the question of eligibility. There is nothing in Cap 60 which makes it incumbent on this Court to ensure compliance with its provisions by invoking its original jurisdiction. I hold that the said declarations sought as part of the fourth relief in the Originating Notice of Motion could not be made by this Court in its original jurisdiction. Finally, the fifth relief is for an Order that an election to the office of Paramount Chief of Biriwa Chiefdom shall be conducted and supervised by the 5th defendant in accordance with Section 33 of the Constitution on a date to be determined by the defendant herein. Before proceeding to examine the question whether or not this Order ought to be made as a matter of law I wish to examine the state and effect of the available affidavit evidence. This discloses that the 5th Defendant was at some stage invited by the Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Local Government and Community Development, according to the express words contained in Exh “M” attached to the affidavit in support of the Originating Notice of Motion sworn to by the first Plaintiff, to “put in place modalities for the said elections”. This request was declined for reasons stated in the said Exh “M” signed by the chairperson, Chief Electoral Commissioner. I need not enquire into the validity of the reasons advanced by the Electoral Commissioner because, based upon the conclusion I reached above after a proper construction of Section 33 of the Constitution, I am of the view that the Electoral Commission was under no constitutional duty to be responsible for the conduct and supervision of the said election. There is no doubt that based on the available evidence the Commission has a role to play in the process of electing Paramount Chiefs. I am not sure what is the legal basis of this role but I am satisfied it does not derive from the provisions of Section 33 of the Constitution. This situation could be contrasted with that relating to the presidential election. Apart from Section 33 which makes the Electoral Commission expressly responsible for the conduct and supervision of such an election there is Section 45 which not only designates the Chief Electoral Commissioner the Returning Officer for the election of a President but the Section also expressly vests original jurisdiction in this Court to hear and determine any question which may arise relating to the conduct of the said election. In the instant case, I am of the view that this Court cannot make the said Order sought in its original jurisdiction for the same reasons that it cannot make the declarations sought that the election of the third Defendant is void or that the office of Paramount Chief of Biriwa Chiefdom is vacant or that the third Defendant was not eligible to contest the said election. In short, this is not the appropriate forum to have these matters determined. I hereby decline to make the Order sought. In view of this Court’s lack of original jurisdiction to make the several declarations and Order sought in the Originating Notice of Motion for the reasons stated above, I hereby make the following Orders: (1) That the Originating Notice of Motion herein dated 14th September 2006 is hereby struck out; (2) Each party is to bear its own costs of this action. ....................................................................... Hon. Justice Dr. Ade Renner-Thomas - Chief Justice ....................................................................... ....................................................................... ....................................................................... ........................................................................... CERTIFIED TRUE COPY Subject: Re: The Sa Lone Supreme Court Speaks: on the BIRIWA Election Message: Subject: Re: The Sa Lone Supreme Court Speaks: on the BIRIWA Election Message: Ofcourse one cannot argue with the Judgement of a full Supreme Court Justices.However, with due respect,there are one or two areas that one would have sought clearification.But because one has not had sight of the Applicants arguements in detail,It is not possible to say more. Subject: BEREWA IS LIGHT YEARS AHEAD OF PMDC, APC RIVALS Message: Facts are the traditional SLPP bases remain virtually intact as they were prior to elections in 1996 and there is no indication there will be a shift from that paradigm even by end of 2007. The APC is caught between generational enthusiasm and deep-rooted party cleavages and infighting both inside and outside the arenas of courtrooms. Tribal divisionism has not made the impasse any easier. Margai's PMDC still has to find its feet outside the immediate inner-circle comrades and family of its interim leader. To remain without proper functioning structures several months to elections shows the light-heartedness of the party's state of preparedness as a force to reckon with. Many see it as a potential spoiler of SLPP votes in certain areas but not significant to do harm. Margai's record of joining other parties as he did in 1996 by joining the NUP without consequence is said to have characrized him as ineffectual when his intent is to dilute SLPP support rather than to mount a campaign he can be sure to carry. The main opposition platforms have not come up with anything new whether in terms of ideas or stated positions and goals. It would appear that the opposition leaders have satisfied themselves only with the general chorus of corruption from which they cannot totally extricate themselves. Listen to Charles Margai defending the legitimacy of contracts awarded to his own wife and close friends by his own ministry which were not tedered competitively. You'd begin to wonder about the sanity of transactions under this man's nose as minister where he wielded enormous authority and control. Think about Ernest Koroma's romance with late Jamil Sahid Mohamed's business empire into which he was recruited as insurance officer and how he inherited one of the companies (RITCORP) owned by the latter under very dubious circumstances. Think about Ernest Koroma's open romance with the wives of people like Dr Harry Will and Steve Bio. What moral and ethical fibre and conclusions can we draw from these brazen examples of public misconduct? Berewa stands at a respectful distance from these two political rivals, whose experience put together cumulatively in private as well as well public service cannot match his. There are light years between them, scientifically speaking. But it makes for a good and vibrant democratic culture and ethos when we observe the supports, campaigns and arguments put forward on their behalf. As a country emerging from war it points to a good future where political positions can be discussed and debated rather than resorting to intimidation and violent conduct. Let's hope we can build on this. Subject: Re: BEREWA IS LIGHT YEARS AHEAD OF PMDC, APC RIVALS Message: Can you give some clarification on your claims for better understanding on the above? Thanks. Subject: Re: BEREWA IS LIGHT YEARS AHEAD OF PMDC, APC RIVALS Message: "Think about Ernest Koroma's romance with late Jamil Sahid Mohamed's business empire into which he was recruited as insurance officer and how he inherited one of the companies (RITCORP) owned by the latter under very dubious circumstances. Think about Ernest Koroma's open romance with the wives of people like Dr Harry Will and Steve Bio. What moral and ethical fibre and conclusions can we draw from these brazen examples of public misconduct?" also of brazen example of public misconduct by your former Boss Strasser who was alleged to have an open Romance with Frank Kargbo's Wife... Karmoh Abrahms you are just another Recycled Politician in the Making...But Believe me there is no place for you in Berewa's Government! Subject: Re: BEREWA IS LIGHT YEARS AHEAD OF PMDC, APC RIVALS Message: Can you give some clarification on your claims for better understanding on the above? Thanks. Subject: Re: BEREWA IS LIGHT YEARS AHEAD OF PMDC, APC RIVALS Message: Subject: Re: BEREWA IS LIGHT YEARS AHEAD OF PMDC, APC RIVALS Message: Subject: Re: BEREWA IS LIGHT YEARS AHEAD OF PMDC, APC RIVALS Message: Subject: Re: BEREWA IS "NOT"LIGHT YEARS AHEAD OF PMDC, APC RIVALS Message: "At this moment we can not afford to elect the wrong people to sensitive positions". QUESTION: Subject: LESSONS IN REMEDIAL EDUCATION FOR JOHN LEIGH -- LESSON TWO Message: Which begs a familiar question: Is John Leigh ever going to write a sentence in English that makes sense? Sadly, the familiar answer is, no -- as attested to by the nonsensical sentence he wrote and which is quoted above. As always, let us proceed to set forth the particularities of the nonsense evident in Mr. Leigh's latest culprit statement. Mr. Leigh wrote in pertinent part: "... alleviating poverty in SLeone cannot be done in isolation with countries similarly situated in dealings with the IMF." So, what sense does that phrase make? Is Mr. Leigh saying that "... alleviating poverty in SLeone cannot be done in isolation?" If so, how can an act which "cannot be done in isolation" (i.e., by one country, in this case) be done with other "countries situated in dealings with the IMF?" The answer: It can not -- because, by definition, anything done in isolation by one country can NOT be done with other countries. But, of course, no one expects John Leigh -- a gentleman who, sadly, has copiously demonstrated here his difficulties with English comprehension -- expects him to actually know that. Which leads us, regrettably, to an inescapable conclusion, namely: That despite his empty boast to Pa Javombo about his illusory prowess as an expert in English, our failed politician, John Leigh, is clearly also a failed English language student. Specifically, in this instance, Mr. Leigh is clearly vocabulary-challenged. To simplify that simple conclusion for Mr. Leigh, that means that he does not yet understand the meaning of the very simple words that he insists upon using in his consequently nonsensical writings. Which begs the final dispositive question that conclusively exposes John Leigh as a pretender to being educated, viz. How can a man who has consistently demonstrated that he is incapable of writing a sensible sentence be taken seriously when he claims to be an expert in the English language? As for the same linguistically-challenged individual posturing as an economist ["When Mr. Jalloh submits proofs - and not bald allegations or hot temper or insults - I stand ready to pick his proposal apart, point-for-point, and help to bring to an end 27 years of trash writings."], well, that is even more comical than his slightly less ridiculous claim to being a expert in English! As always, inn the interest of accuracy, I will duly adduce the evidence thereof -- in the next installment of the current remedial education series designed to encourage overly boastful slow learners of English and economics to finally get up to speed on the elementary concepts of those respective disciplines: Lessons in Remedial Education for John Leigh -- Lesson Three. Subject: Re: LESSONS IN REMEDIAL EDUCATION FOR JOHN LEIGH -- LESSON TWO Message: “That despite his empty boast to Pa Javombo about his illusory prowess as an expert in English, our failed politician, John Leigh, is clearly also a failed English language student. Specifically, in this instance, Mr. Leigh is clearly vocabulary-challenged. To simplify that simple conclusion for Mr. Leigh, that means that he does not yet understand the meaning of the very simple words that he insists upon using in his consequently nonsensical writings.” Mr. Jalloh is wrong again. Below is the true situation. In Reply to: Re: PA JAVOMBO Vs. JOHN LEIGH re LATIN "Pa Javombo wrote: "John, LEIGH replied as follows: “Dear Pa Javombo: Thank you for bringing this discussion to a timely end. But lest you believe I criticized the quality of your English Language skills, I hereby wish to explain that my reference to “the childish style and poor quality of your writing” referred to the rudeness, insults and cheek” you relied on to make an impossible case then and now above rather than to you non-English professor writing skills. Again, I very much appreciate your terminating this discussion. Goodbye and thank you. – JL” Where have I ever written about my “illusory prowess as an expert in English” in my discussions with Pa Javombo? Mr. Mohamed Jalloh is obviously emotionally hurt and desperately trying to drag others into his no-win camp in a crude attempt to avoid proving his FRAUD and CLUELESSNESS, etc. charges by harping on extraneous matters. I know that misery certainly loves company. I also know that the solution in this discussion is for our Mr. Jalloh to focus on proving his allegations, not talking trash about his English Language skills. Thanks. - JL Subject: Re: LESSONS IN REMEDIAL EDUCATION FOR JOHN LEIGH -- LESSON TWO Message: I could discern his shallowness after his second article on this forum about a year ago. Please allow him to wallow in his self-induced "superiority complex". The guy is a stupid fool - big time. We all know this. Let it [him] be. Subject: Re: LESSONS IN REMEDIAL EDUCATION FOR JOHN LEIGH -- LESSON TWO Message: You have correctly anticipated my already made-up decision to cease dealing with someone who repeatedly alleges fraud and cluelessness his superiors but avoids defending 27 years of warnings with such clichés as ‘it is a truism’ ‘which begs the inescapable question’, ‘which begs the dispositive question’ ‘illusory’ ‘illogical’ argument and ‘the dispositive question is’ etc. So far nothing this flip-flopper writes is ‘dispositive’ of anything or ‘inescapable’ to note, except his cuokumonger scatter brain begging for attention and praise from equally ignorant people using monikers. Nothing in his recent spate of replies would lead me to exchange postings with him or even read the postings of a flip-flopper who flips from one chicken moniker into another while either praising himself, or heaping insults, cheek, rudeness and flunky dunce argumentation on those who mistakenly thought they could have a responsible debate with your short-tempered, Mr. Cuokumonger know-it-all-dumbo. Thank you very much for your timely advice. - JL Subject: Re: LESSONS IN REMEDIAL EDUCATION FOR JOHN LEIGH -- LESSON TWO Message: And yet, in a brazen display of dishonesty, you accuse me of being "short-tempered," in a transparent ruse to avoid answering my tough questions about you and the like-minded Berewa who had similarly run away from a debate with the APC's Ernest Koroma and the PMDC's Charles Margai earlier this year. . In Reply to: Re: WAS SIR ALBERT REALLY A FAILED LEADER posted by John E. Leigh on November 03, 2006 at 13:4:32: John Leigh writes on November 03, 2006: Which, of course, begs the questions that expose Leigh as not just a failed lawyer and a failed politician, but, sadly, also a failed wannabe economist. Those questions are: QUESTION #1: Can the allegation that "numerous other countries are in the same soup" prevent any country from changing the exchange rate of its own currency? (a) If so, why was that not able to prevent the IMF from fooling the clueless government of SL to devalue the Leone in 1979? (a) (1) Or, does the much more clueless John Leigh want us to believe that there were NO "numerous other countries [] in the same soup" as SL in 1979 when the SL government successfully manipulated the exchange rate of the Leone by devaluing it? (b) If not, why could the SL government easily achieve a "manipulation of the exchange value of the LEONE" in 1979, and yet the same SL government can not do so in 2006? (b)(1) Or, does the dunce-lawyer-turned-dumb-wannabe-economist want us to believe that the SL government's manipulation of the Leone in 1979 by devaluing it, at the behest of the IMF, was not really a "manipulation of the exchange value of the LEONE," at all?" QUESTION #2: Can the flunky-lawyer-cum-failed politician-turned-wannabe-economist ever write a sentence that makes any sense? Of course, no one who is by now familiar with the flunky-lawyer-cum-failed politician-turned-wannabe-economist's shameful, cowardly habit of running away from questions that expose his inability to make sensible statements, expects him to answer the above questions. After all, as is the case in regard to the questions about his slightly less clueless hero, Vice President Berewa, which he ran away from, the flunky lawyer and failed politician knows that answering the above simple questions would also expose him as a third consecutive failure in life -- as a flunky wannabe economist. [END EXCERPT] BTW, Mr. Leigh, the definition of fraud -- as any good lawyer would confirm for you -- is the use of false pretences for profit or to obtain an unfair advantage over another person or entity. Once you understand that simple definition, you should be able to finally understand the very simple point that I clearly set forth in my relevant published articles, namely: That by falsely representing to the SL government that devaluation would solve the balance of payments problem of SL, and thereby inducing the clueless government to enter into an agreement with it in 1979 that continues to earn it enormous profit via the loans accompanying the agreement, the IMF and its enabling sister institution, the World Bank, committed fraud against the government and the people of SL. Subject: Re: LESSONS IN REMEDIAL EDUCATION FOR JOHN LEIGH -- LESSON TWO Message: Joker, you mean you can read -- and understand -- English? Boy, if that is true (and that's a big "if" judging by your dense statement) you've come a long way from the rude, crude, tribalis suffused with a deep inferiority complex that Jalloh exposed here repeatedly in the pasyt year. Perhaps you can tell us how you "could discern his shallowness after his second article on this forum " when a year later, Jalloh showed that you still were incapable of reading and understanding English. More likely, though, you would pull a Koker on us -- pick up and run away from the truth about your poor scholarship and rude manners! In that case, let us bid you now a familiar "kekway" ggodbye! Subject: Re: LESSONS IN REMEDIAL EDUCATION FOR JOHN LEIGH -- LESSON TWO Message: Mr. Leigh: The very obvious answer -- which no one who is familiar with your copiously demonstrated difficulties with English comprehension would expect you to see -- is found in your own following words you hurled at Pa Javombo here four days ago: Of course, Mr. Leigh, in order to understand that you were implying (falsely) that you are an expert in English (i.e., comprehension and composition), you must first understand the meaning of the following words -- expert, comprehension, composition, and imply). Which means, of course, that there is little hope that you will ever understand what you actually wrote -- and which, naturally, you now desperately seek to disavow, having been exposed as a pretender to expertise in English! Subject: Re: LESSONS IN REMEDIAL EDUCATION FOR JOHN LEIGH -- LESSON TWO Message: I wrote as follows: "Thus, Mr. Jalloh should understand that alleviating poverty in SLeone cannot be done in isolation of countries similarly situated in dealings with the IMF. In such a case where all such countries demand the same treatment of upgrading currency values to parity, where will all the money come from to IMMEDIATELY ALLEVIATE the poverty in all these countries? Who will manage such funds? Under what conditions? You then decided to confuse my statement by cutting off my statements above when you distorted it in your quote below in order to make your uncomfortable position more tolerable: “So, what sense does that phrase make? Is Mr. Leigh saying that "... alleviating poverty in SLeone cannot be done in isolation?" If so, how can an act which "cannot be done in isolation" (i.e., by one country, in this case) be done with other "countries situated in dealings with the IMF?" The answer: It can not -- because, by definition, anything done in isolation by one country can NOT be done with other countries." You missed the whole point despite your boast about your excellence in the English Language. What I am telling you in my quoted statement above is this: One cannot do for one particular country - say SLeone - without doing the same for each and every country similarly situated in privity of contract with the IMF/World Bank. Thus if SLeone is proven to have been defrauded by IMF and the World Bank, the individual(s) or organization(s) or country or countries with the consequent liability and ability to fund the Jalloh-proposed foreign exchange parity between the $ and the LEONE will have the same liability to do parity likewise for all the other appropriate countries’ currencies. Thank you for your attention. - JL Subject: Re: LESSONS IN REMEDIAL EDUCATION FOR JOHN LEIGH -- LESSON TWO Message: Mr. Leigh: I was hoping to allow you obviously needed time to understand your errors of English composition before progressing to use your hopefully new-found ability to comprehend simple English sentences to remedy your difficulties in economics. Alas, in your desperate, but futile, haste to revise your erthswhile opaque statement that I had earlier shown to make no sense, you have now stumbled into a new minefield -- desperately making assumptions which have no basis in fact. As usual, kindly permit me to walk you through your latest characteristic errors of reasoning, by duly seeking your answers to the following dispositive questions, namely: 1. Where did you get the idea that the foreign exchange required to finance an exchange rate of the Leone at par with the U.S. dollar will come from proceedings for recovery on grounds of fraud by the IMF and the World Bank based on "privity of contract with the IMF/World Bank?" 2. Is the IMF or the World Bank the only source of foreign exchange available to SL? (a) If so, how do you explain the fact that SL had ample foreign exchange before the IMF and the World Bank, respectively, ever entered into their first agreement with the SL government? (b) If not, what sense does it make for you to assume that the only source of foreign exchange required to finance the exchange rate parity [not "foreign exchange parity" -- a phrase that makes no sense in this context] between the Leone and the dollar is the IMF and/or the World Bank? Do you now see clearly what I mean when I say that you are incapable of writing any sentence that makes sense? Subject: Re: LESSONS IN REMEDIAL EDUCATION FOR JOHN LEIGH -- LESSON TWO Message: Picking on little inconsequential nuances in how we communicate in an environment that has become more permissive with the usage of words and idioms, inhibits rather than facilitates communication and the exchange and sharing of knowledge and views. We shall be making more friends if we can communicate properly without any intention to denigrate and ridicule. The purpose of communicating is to be understood. Any enhancement or embellishment over and above that is redundant, so to speak. We see many redundancies displayed here in postings on this forum but the idea is not to put down anybody because of an omission or commission of the correct usage of syntax, paradigm or grammar. Let's be polite to one another. Afterall, it pays to be friendly and polite in our interactions. Subject: Re: LESSONS IN REMEDIAL EDUCATION FOR JOHN LEIGH -- LESSON TWO Message: A sentiment with which I totally agree. I also believe that we should offer advice to those who need it, according to their need. So, since you may not have seen the need exhibited in the following writing, I respectfully invite you to comment upon it, particularly in regard to your understanding of the purpose of knowledge quoted above emphasizing: "that we can all share in and participate without feeling molested and put down." "In that case, I was very dismissive of the dunce, flunky questioning and told him off every time, every where - " -- John Leigh writing here on Nov. 1, 2006, under the title, "A Flunky Flip-Flopper." Questions for you: 1. Do you regard the above diatribe as seeking to "enlighten others and bring to bear upon our environment something that we can all share in and participate without feeling molested and put down?" (a) If so, how do you reconcile the above display of rudeness by John Leigh with your proffered "purpose of knowledge?" (b) If not, did you offer Leigh sorely-needed advice about the "purpose of knowledge?" Subject: WHO IS CHARLES F. MARGAI? BY KARAMOH KABBA Message: Subject: "NOT TO ALL MENDE MAN NA SLPP" SAYS BEREWA Message: ANGRY SLPP MAN TAKES STRONG EXCEPTION TO MARGAI'S CLAIMS http://www.cocorioko.net/ Mr. Lebbie stated that the PMDC and all those screaming their heads off for the party in New Jersey lacked a constituency in Sierra Leone .Fuming, he told the Editor of this newspaper on the phone : "Ask some of them when last they went to Sierra Leone ? Some of them are from Kailahun, from where I also hail, and they have not been there since they came to the USA three decades ago .So where do they have the constituency to win an election ? " he went on. "These guys are just opportunists ", he railed. Lebbie refuted Charles Margai's claims that the PMDC will sweep the South/East ." Where will the mende man be for this to happen, ? " he asked ."The mende man for his SLPP ! ! ! You think he will leave his SLPP and vote for the PMDC ? " he further enquired .He asked the Editor : "You are from the North. Do you think your Temne people will leave the APC and vote for another party ? " MR. BEREWA, CURRENT VP AND SLPP PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE ONCE SAID "NOT TO ALL MENDE MAN NA SLPP". GOING BY YOUR FLAG BEARER, MR. LEBBIE YOU ARE COMPLETELY WRONG. ME NA MENDE MAN BUT BY ALL MEANS WANT FOR SEE THE BACK OF SLPP AND SO ARE NUMEROUS OTHERS. Subject: Re: "NOT TO ALL MENDE MAN NA SLPP" SAYS BEREWA Message: Subject: Re: "NOT TO ALL MENDE MAN NA SLPP" SAYS BEREWA Message: Please leave TRIBE out of Sa lone Politics.When people go to the polls in July 2007, they will remember who has brought them Security thus far, who is maintainig the Rule of Law in Sierra leone,and who is protecting their Democratic rights.Finally they would want to know where their next bread and butter is coming from...only SLPP can answer these questions, Sierra leoneans will know only SLPP will gaurantee their security, so Sierra leoneans will vote for what is right come 2007 soohie yepeea!...Faambui luumah! Subject: Re: "NOT TO ALL MENDE MAN NA SLPP" SAYS BEREWA Message: Subject: Re: "NOT TO ALL MENDE MAN NA SLPP" SAYS BEREWA Message: Subject: Re: "NOT TO ALL MENDE MAN NA SLPP" SAYS BEREWA Message: Subject: Re: "NOT TO ALL MENDE MAN NA SLPP" SAYS BEREWA Message: So My country First, I just want to expose their hypoccrisy about their non-tribalistic lies. Subject: Re: "NOT TO ALL MENDE MAN NA SLPP" SAYS BEREWA Message: Are you really being TRUTHFUL or is this another SLPP smokescreen by its favorite internet defender. Think oh Think your credibility ios at stake here. Subject: Re: "NOT TO ALL MENDE MAN NA SLPP" SAYS BEREWA Message: To the best of my knowledge, and I am willing to be corrected, SLPP has never had what you and I would call 'A Mende Leader'The Margais are not Mendes, neither is Kabbah. In 2007, those who still believe that Sierra leone's Problem has anything to do with tribe are seriously misguided. Look at the current SLPP adminstration, and the so called Mende members of the cabinet,would you honestly (I have known you to be honest on this forum so don't let me down now)say that it was Mende influenced? The poor Mende people have had a lot of bad name and have 'carried the can' as they say, for the SLPP which has never been Justified. I would think BEREWA(south) as president, Momodu koroma(north) as VP and John Leigh(western) as Foreign Minister would be a good regional ditribution of power in Sa Lone.? Would you agree with me on this,Alieu? I dont want to lose my credibilty that is why I will condem what is Bad in the SLPP and Praise what is good. Fortunately/unfortunately, at the moment the good outweights the bad. Please let some one give me some real evidence of wrong doing within the SLPP and I will do what is in the best interest of Sa Lone,...Help to expose them. Subject: Re: "NOT TO ALL MENDE MAN NA SLPP" SAYS BEREWA Message: Subject: Re: "NOT TO ALL MENDE MAN NA SLPP" SAYS BEREWA Message: So can you identify any aspects of the SLPP that YOU would consider BAD? BTW you answeered my question above where you stated that the Margais are not mendes. In my ignorance I had always thought that they were. Foolish me. Subject: Re: "NOT TO ALL MENDE MAN NA SLPP" SAYS BEREWA Message: When I went to school, I was told that the 'MENDE' was a different tribe from the 'SHABROS' which the Margais are..I may have misunderstood,which wuould mean I am the foolish one. About the bad of the SLPP, I am still thinking, they are so few. Subject: Re: "NOT TO ALL MENDE MAN NA SLPP" SAYS BEREWA Message: Subject: Re: "NOT TO ALL MENDE MAN NA SLPP" SAYS BEREWA Message: Subject: Re: "NOT TO ALL MENDE MAN NA SLPP" SAYS BEREWA Message: Subject: Response to the Moderator. Message: Subject: Re: Response to the Moderator. Does not affect Sierra Leone? Message: Subject: REMEDIAL EDUCATION FOR JOHN LEIGH -- LESSON ONE Message: Mr. Leigh: I see you are slowly learning the rules of proper etiquette, as your like-minded partisan was once memorably admonished on this forum after a particularly shameful display of rudeness. In the hope that your rare avoidance of name-calling, albeit in only two sentences, is not an aberration, kindly permit me to point out the fatal flaw in your above-quoted statements. First, you arrive at a conclusion, namely: "Thus, Mr. Jalloh should understand that alleviating poverty in SLeone cannot be done in isolation with countries similarly situated in dealings with the IMF." Thereafter, you ask: "In such a case where will the money come from to IMMEDIATELY ALLEVIATE the poverty in all these countries?" Do you see the fatal error of reasoning in that sequence? No? Well, then, let me help you out. You see, Mr. Leigh, one does not arrive at a conclusion and then ask a question relating to the conclusion! That is akin to putting the cart before the horse. To simplify that statement for you in the probably vain hope of increasing the chance that you will finally understand it, please witness the following analysis: If, as you question suggests, you do not know "where will the money come from to IMMEDIATELY ALLEVIATE the poverty in all these countries," how can you know that "alleviating poverty in SLeone cannot be done in isolation with countries similarly situated in dealings with the IMF?" The answer: You can not! And we know that you can not by the very best evidence -- your own voluntarily-written words. My humble advice to you is simple enough: If, as your difficulties in constructing a coherent argument make plain, you need lessons in elementary economics, all you need to do is ask me to offer them to you -- as I have been doing freely to countless people who have been reading my easily understandable indictment of the IMF and the World Bank for their transparently fraudulent actions in SL over the past 27 years. However, Mr. Leigh, your request must be both decorous and sufficiently humble -- as befits a slow mature student coming to a youthful teacher for remedial lessons in economics, as well as in how to construct logical arguments. If, and when, you can bring yourself to set aside your notorious predilection for rudeness, I would be happy to consider your hopefully humble and polite request to remedy the yawning gaps in your education. The choice is up to you. As regards your empty boast ["When Mr. Jalloh submits proofs - and not bald allegations or hot temper or insults - I stand ready to pick his proposal apart, point-for-point, and help to bring to an end 27 years of trash writings."], please don't make me laugh! You pick apart my writing? How is that possible when, as I have shown here consistently -- including the analysis of your latest incoherent statements above -- you are incapable of writing sensibly? My final advice to you, Mr. Leigh, is that you should spend less time abusing people, and more time learning the elementary rules of English composition before attempting to evaluate any writing in English. You can start by consulting a good dictionary. There, you will finally learn that the word, "proofs" that you used in your sentence quoted in the immediately preceding paragraph is nonsensical. For your benefit, that means it makes no sense at all -- as your writings never make any sense. Here is a hint to help you distinguish between the word you misused ("proofs") and the word you should have used ("proof"): When someone submits proof to support his/her thesis, that remains his/her proof no matter the number of articles he writes about the same subject. In short, Mr. Leigh, you should now know that in the context of proving the validity of one's submission, there is no such thing as submitting "proofs." The correct expression is: submitting proof. Please remember that so that you do not continue assassinating the English language in blissful ignorance -- and comical arrogance. In closing, it is clear that given your difficulty with English comprehension, particularly with understanding the meaning of the word, "proof," no one expects you to recognize that each and every one of my published articles contain proof of each and every one of my theses posited therein. If, and when, you finally understand the meaning of the word, "proof," you will then realize that there is no need for "Mr. Jalloh [to] submit[] proofs (sic)," as you blissfully claimed in unwitting error. Hopefully, you will then also realize that my articles are already in the public domain awaiting your suicidal boast "to pick [my] proposal apart, point-for-point, and help to bring to an end 27 years of trash writings." As we say back home: "Blama, Blama, look Milkilow." For your benefit, that means, what are you waiting for, Mr. Leigh? Let the fun begin and we will then see whether you have finally learnt how to write a sentence that makes sense! Subject: Re: REMEDIAL EDUCATION FOR JOHN LEIGH -- LESSON ONE Message: Here is the other junk you wrote: “As regards your empty boast ["When Mr. Jalloh submits proofs - and not bald allegations or hot temper or insults - I stand ready to pick his proposal apart, point-for-point, and help to bring to an end 27 years of trash writings."], please don't make me laugh! You pick apart my writing? How is that possible when, as I have shown here consistently -- including the analysis of your latest incoherent statements above -- you are incapable of writing sensibly?”- Mr. Mohamed A. Jalloh I have already demolished your ill-advised, pompous attack on the presidential candidate of my choice as again set forth below to refresh readers mind. If you think I have not demolished your ill-advised attack on Mr. Berewa with your fake compliments and trite phrases such as: ‘it is a truism’ ‘which begs the inescapable question’, ‘which begs the dispositive question’ and ‘the dispositive question is’ etc., then please let’s move on and forget about your tiresome words and phrases but instead concentrate on your economics and legal learning. Accordingly, I now stand ready to do another demolition job on your 27 years of idiot writings pushing your congofoe economics. As promised above, below is my initial demolition job on you. This job forced you to flip-flop around several chicken monikers, afraid or ashamed to use your real name, as well as getting agitated and blowing your top. If you keep cool, you might do a better job proving your point – if at all such is possible. Thank you. – JL ===================================================== Dear Mr. Jalloh: First, I do not really need you to commend me for anything, certainly not when you seek to use my own words to insult the individual I have endorsed as my personal choice for our next president. And for the future, please note that the last thing I need is a phony commendation. Second, I have not engaged in “correctly discerning Mr. Berewa's” so-called “lack of character” in his allegedly “keeping silent”. Please do not jump and rush to erroneous conclusions foolishly. And please, never attempt to speak for me. Please go ahead and do your analyses without appearing to put words in my mouth. Thank you very much. For your information, I have posted in this forum on more than one occasion that Mr. Berewa has spoken out publicly about his plans for his forthcoming presidency and has also publicly responded to issues the public is unhappy about. I traveled with him in Kaffu Bullom and Lokomasama chiefdoms, Port Loko Town, Lunsar and to other towns in Port Loko District and in several chiefdoms and towns in Kono District in May 2006. VP Berewa said repeatedly in public during that trip that in effect that Rome was not built in a day; that enormous damage and destruction were inflicted upon the country by the AFRC, RUF and by previous governments and that the SLPP government admits that not everything it has done has turned out right. So, he repeatedly declared, those good things done by President Kabbah, he will continue. Those plans, policies and programs that did not pan out, he will discontinue. In addition, he’ll introduce new plans, policies and programs to advance the public interest when elected. What more do you want him to say or do? Criticize the government in public? Have a public fight or disagreement with President Kabbah? Condemn President Kabbah’s leadership publicly? Chastise him? Crucify his president? Have you ever heard the phrase which says something like: “discretion is the better part of valor”? For your information, our country is much too weak and nervous for us to import the on-going Nigerian situation in which the president and his VP are in each other’s hair (or throats?). Next, please note that the current SLPP government has committed no atrocities of any type whatsoever against anyone, certainly not against the people of Sierra Leone. It was the RUF, the AFRC and opportunistic criminals that committed atrocities against our people - raping, maiming, burning, cutting, slashing pregnant bellies, killing, plundering and imposing pennilessness, wretchedness and despair on a large portion of our population. SLPP seeks to heal those wounds. Additionally, there is not a single flaw in my contention that Sierra Leone has a Presidential system of government in place and that the responsibility and authority to govern is Mr. Kabbah’s, and Mr. Kabbah’s alone; not Mr. Berewa’s. Mr. Berewa is merely the VP to the incumbent president. And it is the president who is in charge and who calls the shots every single time when on duty. When not on duty within Sierra Leone, Mr. President leaves instructions on governance to Mr. Berewa. And it is Mr. Berewa’s duty to faithfully carry out those instructions without any fuss. Mr. Berewa is available to work but only under the supervision and authority of President Kabbah. He is not on his own. He is not an independent agent. His principal is Mr. Kabbah. And that simple fact is the dispositive issue on this matter and not the rubbish you are seeking to peddle in cyberspace. What more do you want me to say about our presidential system of government? Moreover, nothing I have said so far is illogical in any way, shape or form, as you have arrogantly boasted. What is illogical is in fact your Simple Simeon argumentation as follows: “…………Which begs the dispositive question that lays bare your illogical position, viz. (Jalloh 3.) “Mr. Leigh, are you telling us that V.P. Berewa has "absolutely nothing to do with the current SLPP Admin?" My response to the above rubbish introductory statement is as follows: the only thing laid bare dispositively is your ignorant, wasteful questionings and illogical conclusions. My response to your point 3 above is set forth below. (Leigh 3.) I have never told you or anyone anything about VP Berewa having "absolutely nothing to do with the current SLPP Admin". I have, in fact, said repeatedly that Mr. Berewa is the VP in the current SLPP Administration. All this is in the public domain. There is not a single “O” Level student in Sierra Leone who does not know by now that Solo-B is our VP. Clearly, your question here is not intelligent at all. It is superfluous and a complete waste of my time! Next, you’ve posited with yet another unnecessary question, thus: (Jalloh 3 (a)) “If so, is the current SL government in which Mr. Berewa is Vice President not an SLPP government?” (Leigh 3 (a)) Your “If so” is not so! Here you are again with another dunce question. You are wasting my time with your series of frivolous, superfluous questions. Please cease and desist from your boring, irrelevant questionings. I am tired of them. The information you seek is clearly in the public domain and I have never said anything to the contrary. How could I? Why waste people’s time asking tombo-dumbo questions when the answers are obvious? You’ve continued to persist, foolishly pressing for the kill which, of course, is not going to happen. Thus: (Jalloh 3 (b)) “If not, how can Mr. Berewa not be responsible for the atrocities committed, without objection from him, by the SLPP government of which, by your explicit admission, he is a faithful second-in-command -- when your own standard for escaping liability for the SLPP administration is that YOU "have absolutely nothing to do with the current SLPP Admin?" My uppercut knockout punch to your above biscuit-chin of flunky dunce argumentation and your tombo-dumbo question is as follows in four parts: (Leigh (b)) PART 1: First, not a single atrocity has ever been committed by the current SLPP government, let alone “atrocities” as you have falsely alleged again - and very boastfully so. You are overreaching in your excessive exaggerated accusations. Please go check your dictionary and look up the word ATROCITY. Then match it with any specific provable act of the current SLPP government that you deem matched the definition of ATROCITY and publish it in this forum for all to see. PART 2: Mr. Berewa is free to object to wrong-headedness but he does not have to do so in public. How do you know that Mr. Berewa has never made his opinions on public matters known to Mr. Kabbah in private, behind close doors? You are frequently just too reckless in rushing to jump to stupid conclusions, willy-nilly. PART 3: I have not set any “standard for escaping liability for the SLPP administration” for myself or for any other individual as you have boastfully arrogated to yourself. I merely submitted to Mr. Alie Formeh Kamara the plain fact that I am not a part of the current Kabbah Administration. This fact is not a standard. It is a fact in the public domain. Go check and find out how standards are set or established before wasting the precious time of forumites. PART 4: Last but not least, I have made no explicit admission that Berewa is “a faithful second-in-command” as you categorically and falsely stated. He might very well be, but here again you are foolishly jumping once more to a needless conclusion. Mr. Berewa’s official state position and his official relationship with President Kabbah are in the public domain. Someone like me does not have to admit to anything about Mr. Berewa’s status or his official relations or relationship with Mr. Kabbah. All are public knowledge! Certainly, I do not have to ‘explicitly admit’ to any of the boring rubbish you constantly dish out in cyberspace and in the local press. Thank you very much. Goodbye. - JL Subject: Re: REMEDIAL EDUCATION FOR JOHN LEIGH -- LESSON ONE Message: Mr. Leigh: As I have clearly advised you, if you wish to be taught the rudiments of economics, you must adopt a posture of decorum and humility reflecting your status as a slow, mature student seeking remedial education from a youthful teacher. That means, Mr. Leigh, that you must restrain yourself from indulging in your instinctive predilection for insults, name-calling, and other manifestations of boorishness. The, and only then, would you have achieved the necessary mental state for me to educate you in the principles of elementary economics. Assuming that you will not relapse into your natural habitat, kindly permit me to start your very long road toward total remediation of your surprisingly poor education by correcting your terminology: The term you blissfully keep repeating -- "foreign exchange parity between the $ and the Le" -- is entirely nonsensical. For your benefit, that means, it makes no sense -- as all of your writings make no sense. In order to understand the nonsense underlying your quoted phrase, it is sufficient that you understand the meaning of the terms, foreign exchange, exchange rate, and the key differences between them. Your lesson, then, Mr. Leigh, is to come back with a definition for those two terms and the difference between them. Thereafter, I will lead you through a step-by-step understanding of my simply-written articles in the probably vain hope that you will finally see that each and every one of them contain requisite proof of any and every theses that I posit therein. But first, you must do your homework. After all, as the good book says: Charity begins at home. Subject: Re: REMEDIAL EDUCATION FOR JOHN LEIGH -- LESSON ONE Message: Here is what you have avoided doing as suggested: “…all you need to do is ask me to offer them [elementary economics lessons] to you -- as I have been doing freely to countless people who have been reading my easily understandable indictment of the IMF and the World Bank for their transparently fraudulent actions in SL over the past 27 years.” Mr. Mohamed A. Jalloh. But instead you wasted time dogging the issue with this rubbish: “You can start by consulting a good dictionary. There, you will finally learn that the word, "proofs" that you used in your sentence quoted in the immediately preceding paragraph is nonsensical.” Mr. Mohamed Jalloh My response to your above remarks is as follows: Please don’t waste my time with your irrelevancies in your long phooolish (yes, your condition calls for a ‘ph’ not an “f”; and an extra “o”) dissertation re “proof” vs. “proofs” in your clumsy attempt to dodge the real issue. All you have done so far is waste our time with one single letter: “s”! Is that the way we debate issues in the forum? It is clear from the totality of my posting that what I asked of you is to produce the evidence or substantiation or just plain produce a credible explanation to back up your repeated indictments of the IMF/World Bank for FRAUD on their dealings with Sierra Leone and your ‘indictments’ of SLeone leaders for what your repeatedly term CLUELESSNESS and so on. Do you think you know the true meaning of the word INDICTMENT? Do you think Siaka Stevens never had a clue regarding his dealings with the IMF/World Bank during the long period of his reign? (Now, please don’t write another dunce dissertation to explain that “reign” only pertains to royalty!). Please show me the evidence you have relied upon to make repeated the allegations I have savaged. Do you think you are ever going to be as intelligent as Siaka Stevens was? Again, do please substantiate your allegations against the IMF/World Bank, SL leaders, etc. in this matter or forget about engaging me in any further discussion with you and your sympathetic flip-flopping monikers. Thank you. - JL Subject: Re: REMEDIAL EDUCATION FOR JOHN LEIGH -- LESSON ONE Message: Mr. Leigh: What is abundantly clear from your above-quoted statement is that either you have not read my articles containing a clearly laid out case against the IMF for its fraudulent act in foisting a devaluation on SL that it knew (or should have known) had a zero chance of curing SL's balance of payments deficit, or that, if you have read them, you have predictably failed to understand their contents. My advice to you should be familiar by now from my earlier posting here today: "If, as your difficulties in constructing a coherent argument make plain, you need lessons in elementary economics, all you need to do is ask me to offer them to you -- as I have been doing freely to countless people who have been reading my easily understandable indictment of the IMF and the World Bank for their transparently fraudulent actions in SL over the past 27 years. If, and when, you can bring yourself to set aside your notorious predilection for rudeness, I would be happy to consider your hopefully humble and polite request to remedy the yawning gaps in your education. The choice is up to you." Subject: Moijue & Moinina: THE TRUTH Message: Your postings below represent press public relations crap. Mr. Margai's resignation was accepted before it was submitted upon his threat to resign because he was seeking the realization of his birth right through Kabbah and was refused. That is the first person report I got directly from the horse's mouth and related to me around the country. Hence, your Mr. Margai actually resigned from the SLPP and was not re-admitted until March 2006. You have to have got yours from our gongorlee reporters. But why are you so childist about whether someone is fired or resigned from a government whose record provoked a a so-called Third Force which you and your men are stealthily trying to steal? The distinction is not important. What is controlling are the underlying facts. Africa is - and has been - full of bad leaders, i.e. Mobuto, Amin, Taylor, Mogabe, Moi, Sankoh, etc. who have sacked, and some of whom even killed good people for any or no good reason because they have the power to do so and can get away with it. Favoritism and nepotism are quite common. So, given the same set of facts, bad leaders react differently to different people. Please do not depend on the rote learning common in our society to frequently take things at surface value. Always seek to find out what the underlying facts are. Thank you. Please lets call off debate on this matter at this point. I am grateful. Thank you very much. - JL 1. Posted by Moijue on November 11, 2006 at 15:17:47: : Safety and Security Minister Charles Margai resigned Tuesday following a request by President Kabbah that the minister clarify reports he had stated his intent to quit the cabinet and contest the leadership of the ruling Sierra Leone People's Party. According to a press release issued from State House, the matter came to a head on Sunday when Kabbah wrote to Margai requesting clarification on the issue within 24 hours, before the convening of Tuesday's National Security Council meeting. Following the minister's reply, which was not made public, Kabbah met with Margai and, according to the statement, told him that the reports would "have a negative impact on the aid Sierra Leone was receiving from abroad," since donors might conclude that the country was still unstable. Margai then tendered his resignation. 2. Posted by Albert Moinina on November 11, 2006 at 19:31:42: Subject: Re: Moijue & Moinina: THE TRUTH Message: 2. Posted by Albert Moinina on November 11, 2006 at 19:31:42: Subject: Re: Moijue & Moinina: THE TRUTH Message: Subject: Dr. BAIMBA KAMARA vs. John Leigh Message: One shameless moniker-abuser amongst us, in various postings in this forum under an assortment of monikers, has accused me as follows in one of his postings yesterday: This individual is one of those who does not know what truly constitutes 'flip-flopping, even with all the developing stories in the media arising out of the recent US Congressional elections - let alone understand my debate with Dr. Baimba Kamara. Reproduced below is my response to Dr. Kamara's attack against me that was published in a newspaper back home for those of you who might not be aware of its existence. If in the future I chose to ignore flunky moniker abusers or group some together and summarily deal with them, please understand. No more attention to stupid rubbish. Thank you for your attention.- 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. 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
>
> Mr. Jalloh: In response to your quest for the Think Tank evolution I would
> like to inform you that the exercise has been stalled because we are
> currently working on two major events (in addition to other extra-curricular
> stuff):
>
> The proposal for the possible funding from a National Endowment for
> Democracy (NED) grant to assist with the expenses to be incurred for the
> voter education and election monitoring activities. This has been a
> challenging exercise, especially being that there have been some
> coordination with other potential partners. But I am confident that with
> the involvement of the dynamic youth groups (YSLI and YLSL), in conjunction
> with expertise from Brian Conton and Abdul Iscandari who did this last time
> around, and Dr. Shekh Kamara who will be leading the grant-proposal-writing,
> we may be able to pull it off collectively. We had decided to do a
> sweepstakes as part of the overall strategy to drive potential voters to
> register and we had thought about Le 1MM for the 14 relevant districts will
> appear attractive enough and since this falls out of the scope of the grant
> in principle and timing, we have decided to raise funds privately. But how
> is the rest of the Diaspora going to be involved?
>
> So far 4 of us ([Names Redacted] and I) have
> pledged $500 each. We need approximately $4,667 and another $1,000 for
> other incidentals. Do the elections still mean anything to you and your
> friends? What about the rest of YOU guys listening in? If so, we need
> assistance both in financial and human resources. Financial contributions
> and / or helping us in Freetown if you go to Sierra Leone over the Christmas
> holidays, will go a long way. I think the political parties should find
> some interest in this and as long as it does not incriminate us as partisan
> we will be willing to work with them in some capacity. But Sierra Leoneans
> cannot afford to sit back and just hope that the best person wins. And then
> wait to criticize the government from the luxury of our Diaspora homes while
> the masses (your brothers and sisters) continue to suffer. We need to take
> meaningful action now. Everyone wants Sierra Leone "fixed", but not
> everyone is willing to make the sacrifice(s) to see it happen. I am a bit
> disappointed with some of the leading organizations in the Diaspora (both
> here and in the UK) because developing Sierra Leone goes over and beyond
> Annual fund-raising dances, awards, and other la-di-da stuff. It is in
> events that have implications like NATIONAL ELECTIONS, that organizations
> and individuals alike, should step up to and make a lasting difference.
> This is ow we separate the doers from the talkers...
>
> In addition to that, we (The Sierra Leone-Gullah Heritage Association) have
> the big event down in South Carolina on November 10 and 11 specifically and
> we have been actively closing action items with a team of dedicated members
> that have been working now for months behind the scenes. I hope you are
> gearing up to give your DAD talk in front of 2 to 3 hundred Sierra Leoneans
> and Gullahs on Friday, November 10 at our Transatlantic Red Rice Luncheon
> (where the Gullahs will cook their red rice alongside our jollof rice... and
> we will do it buffet style). Other notable events during that weekend will
> include the symposium in which Sierra Leone is the only country featured,
> and at this event we have been promised the key to Beaufort, South Carolina
> by Mayor Bill Rausch, who is also interested in making Sierra Leone and
> South Caroilina (or Beaufort and Freetown on a smaller scale) sister
> states. On Saturday morning, we will lead the Annual Parade in typical
> Sierra Leonean fashion... Goombay, Gorboi, and other masqueraders as
> appropriate.
>
> However, once the moratorium ends (on November 13) after completing these 2
> HUGE activities, we would resume with the think tank initiative. But do we
> even have others interested in doing this? It seems like only you and I
> have the burning desire to get this done, although we have heard from others
> like Nkechi Agwu (why not have another one instead of a monopoly -
> competition is good), John Musa (creating a tank that works in concert with
> the GOSL), and Akindele Decker (who is in line with our thinking). So what
> do you think, Moh'm? I am definitely ready to rock and roll and if we can
> get some thing in place like we have DAD now poised to blossom by the end of
> the year... 2006 would have been good for this Salone Discussion Forum! As
> you know already, we have identified the following 3 themes: Politics,
> Economics, and Philanthropy as the leading ones that the think tank would
> incubate around. But we have to plan, plan, plan... "
>
> So once we get ourselves squared with the time management deal, we will lend
> ourselves to this other important aspect of Sierra Leone's development. I
> am with you, bra!
>
> "Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend."
> *~ Laertius Diogenes *
>
> Cheers,
> Amadu Massally
>
>
>
> From: onemohm MohmJ@...
> Date: Oct 21, 2006 11:23 AM
> Subject: [SALONEDiscussion] Re: [ Part 3]: HOW TO TRANSFORM DEBATE INTO
> POLICY IN SIERRA LEONE
> To: SALONEDiscussion@yahoogroups.com
>
> Amadu:
>
> In accordance with my promise here last month, please find hereunder part
> three of our contribution towards the assemblage of ideas that would form
> part of the raw material for the maiden publication of our proposed think
> tank. In this installment, representing our November 11, 2005, discussion of
> devaluation and how reversing its pervasive adverse impact on SL's economy
> could lift millions of our fellow S/Leoneans out of poverty, the discussants
> were Jonathan M. Rose, Karamor Kabba, and myself.
>
> Kindly let us know how your compilation of the other material, including the
> proceedings at the SL Network seminar held in November last year at Howard
> University here in Washington, D.C., is progressing.
>
> Bets regards,
>
> Moh'm
>
>
> --
> "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
>
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From: Saloneman
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Date Posted: 11:54:39 11/15/06 ()
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Mohm, you ideas are so simple and yet so effective, when tyou come to think about it, that one wonders why our foolooloo politicians haven't used them to help our people. Keep up the good work, my brother. One fine day salone will get a leader who is smart enough to surround himself with people like you who have the knowledge to lift salone people out of their 50-somethin years poverty.
From: talk true
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Date Posted: 18:29:21 11/15/06 ()
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Nothing brother but to stay and write nonesense about the hard work others are doing home
From: Saloneman
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Date Posted: 02:27:31 11/16/06 ()
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Tell me, my brother, what hard work you say 'others are doing home' that produces no light, no water, no jobs, and no hope?
From: talk true
To: All
Date Posted: 10:30:23 11/16/06 ()
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If you can please tell me your true name i will tell you more.
From: Saloneman
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Date Posted: 11:43:35 11/16/06 ()
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'If YOU can please tell me YOUR true name i will tell YOU (mine).'
From: Bambay Lans Kamara
To: All
Date Posted: 15:07:17 11/16/06 ()
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Greetings my brothers and sisters. Mr. Mohamed A. Jalloh thank you for your profound interest in Sierra Leone. I find your suggestions very intriguing. They are absolutely meaningful. Statistically, this idea will help the organisation in question in their endeavors to start a project. But I hessitate to say that it will thrive for a time but like many other organizations, without certain other key elements, the organization, not the idea, will fail.
Mr. Mohamed A. Jalloh you are an American citizen though born, raised and educated in Sierra Leone, first degree and earned your MBA in America. But for the past twenty or more years you have lived in America, you are proud to contribute to America because the system makes it possible and effective for you to do so. You have the freedom and means to do so. You have become embroiled into the system so much so that your actions are of a refined and an educated American. Your education gives you the coutsy and ability to emulate good examples and live in good examples. However, not many Sierra Leoneans are that fortunate to understand American issues, issues about Sierra Leone and the world as most of us do. So it becomes a haculian task to effectively bring Sierra Leoneans unboard certain ideas especially, when they were brokendown before they even ventured out of Sierra Leone. There is jealousy, hate, malice, confusion, disbelieve, misunderstanding and misconceptions to name a few.
There was a point where I posted the index of achievements foreign nationals living abroad have made in the Diaspora, in which Sierra Leone is close to last in this index.
Americans and the British do believe that for a successful individual, there is a determination on his part to succeed and most importantly, there is a formidable support-system, which Sierra Leone lacks. Sierra Leone does not have a support system, which is why we are almost least in the world economic index and our Diasporas Achievement index is about the last from the bottom.
We have gold, we have diamond, which time there was when diamond was finding us instead of we finding her, in that, when it rained people found diamonds on the ground instead of digging for or mining it. Yes we do receive millions of dollars from donor countries and humanitarian organizations but these are not our support-systems. Our support-systems broke-down when our credibility became a questionable issue. Our support system broke-down when the politics of the-day became an enemy affair. Our support-system broke-down when the nationals of the country became skeptical as to whether they should be loyal to the country or not. Our support-system broke-down when the citizens of that country started mistrusting one another. Our support-system broke-down when the law was not the supreme but the persons.
The answer to that question lies not only in Sierra Leoneans living abroad but both the ones at home and abroad.
From: Mohamed A. Jalloh
To: All
Date Posted: 05:56:23 11/17/06 ()
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Bambay Lans Kamara wrote on November 16, 2006:
"Greetings my brothers and sisters. Mr. Mohamed A. Jalloh thank you for your profound interest in Sierra Leone. ... But for the past twenty or more years you have lived in America, you are proud to contribute to America because the system makes it possible and effective for you to do so. You have the freedom and means to do so. You have become embroiled into the system so much so that your actions are of a refined and an educated American. Your education gives you the coutsy and ability to emulate good examples and live in good examples. However, not many Sierra Leoneans are that fortunate to understand American issues, issues about Sierra Leone and the world as most of us do. So it becomes a haculian task to effectively bring Sierra Leoneans unboard certain ideas especially, when they were brokendown before they even ventured out of Sierra Leone. There is jealousy, hate, malice, confusion, disbelieve, misunderstanding and misconceptions to name a few. ...
Bambay:
"Thanks to all those who have contributed to this topic which i find very interesting and particularly Mr Jalloh, the IMF guru. all along i thought the IMF is a blessing to third world countries such as salone. now i kown their policies towards third world countries are a hindrance to our development."
From: Justice
To: All
Date Posted: 04:48:38 11/15/06 ()
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The fact is loyalty to a society is hinged on the birth of our progenitors.Sadly, our Country is being plagued by aliens whom have questionable traits in giving Sierra Leone a decent bill of health.
Naturally man is created to inherit the earth and to replenish it. But, it is extended in our individual settings and abodes. So it is against the law of nature to settle pig in a lion's den.
Sierra Leoneans ought to choose betweeen disloyalty and esprits de corps. In Siaka Stevens era, we saw his ability to bring every Sierra Leonean together. He did not allow any foreign alien to pawn Sierra Leone.
He courted with all and sundry but there was a stop pit for foreign derived politicians to sit at important positions of government.
My concern is the way and manner at which half Sierra Leoneans are having important positions in the Country. It is not bad to embrace those whom Parents are not full blood Sierra Leoneans but, it is bad to give them positions of trust that will endanger the Country's ability to grow securedly.
We do not need the likes of Tejan Kabah to rule Sierra leone any longer. Sierra Leone needs to embrace original sons and daughters. We do not want an indivisible leader who will heap untold hardship and sufferings in the land. After his tenure, he will take a flight. I am sad that the people of Sierra Leone are not having any decency to vote for her true sons and daughters.
From: Bambay Lans Kamara
To: All
Date Posted: 18:54:38 11/14/06 ()
Email Address:
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Greetings my brothers and sisters. Moderator, this was the mistake you
were making. But all along, I have ignored you and people like you who
were of the mindset that they would do anything, intending to belittle
me, because they are or were of the impression that the world can not
sing, praise an individual, particularly if he or she is Black, especially if
he is an African, if he has not done anything wrong. But this is where
you missed the point.
and the ones who are accustomed to disrespecting people's) thinking.
Let me start by saying that I have been constantly talking about the
United States though I know the singing and talking involves about two
hundred-eighty (280) countries. But why do I constantly talk about the
United States, if you may ask. I am legal Permanent Resident of the
United States. Which means that I have signed a legal contract between
the United States Government and I, to abide by all their Laws, so that
they in turn to protect me from harm or anything that is in violation of
the Laws (the Constitution, which I made mention of the other day,)
and any breach of such laws within the United States is the
responsibility of the government of the United States to see that things
go according to what is stipulated within that constitution. So this is
why I constantly make mention of the U.S.
is powerful nonetheless, they are not powerful than the law and are
doing everything they could to ensure that these laws are abide by.
Therefore, if you see me ignoring every Jack and Jill who put forward a
rude behavior, I am mindful of the fact that ignorance has consumed
the world and when an issue as the one concerning me arises whereby,
the entire world is involved many are poised to demonstrate their
mental capacity, their upbringing and views they have held for years
but have have not taken time to investigate the authenticity of such
views, the legality of such views. Thieves go to action when no one is
looking and so, as you have noticed, people who have been
accustomed to doing wrong, exploiting people, killing or attempting to
kill people (murderers,) con artists will put that into action; as you have
seen in the many actions perpetrated against me. Why is that is
because, as many prisons are full yet, there are many out there who are
not caught, who have been blood sucking other people particularly,
when these people are weak, they always take advantage of such weak
and desolate people.
Black and White cannot engage themselves in petty pursuit: say get
jealous because an individual gets media attention. Anyone who thinks
that does not know a thing about America and especially Capitalist
system for what it was coined. When I use words here, it is befitting to
look them up. The word Lassez fair, the underlining word behind
Capitalism is why America is proud of their system. This is why, I am
saying that if anything, American government can be proud that an
individual from another continent came to America and gained the
entire world's attention in fame. But don't you think they have a better
reason beyond fame for making me popular but gave me Green Card?
have done on this forum though I have constantly used the word,
Democracy, the Rule of Law, Capitalism, the Cold War, the American
War of Independence, the American Civil War. For you and anyone who
had been thinking that the whole thing about me was intended to
disrespect me, whether they are U.S. Citizens by birth or Naturalized
Citizen, these citizenship status should be taken from them because
they do not qualify to be U.S. Citizens. To become a U.S. Citizens for
foreigners who wish to, they are required to know the U.S. History and
everything I have mentioned are areas, where questions are asked to
make one eligible for citizenship in the U.S. of A. Why did most people
take allegiance to the Flag of the U.S? One is saying that they respect
and will observe all laws of the U.S. and will honor and cherish
everything that the U.S. stands for. Is mod action one of the Laws?
from what I hear and see. Anything one has heard or seen for the first
time is a learning process. But as many have failed to know about
America and the World around them, due basically because they do not
wish to learn, has caused these people not to think of the: "what I can I
learn from this." I am sure you have been watching from Charlottesville
to Sierra Leone to California (my first stop in California, Sacramento,
California being a huge State,) and you seen the difference between
fast learners, slow learners and no learners. The difference has been
remarkable. There are those who have been copying the wrong things
in their entire life. That difference you have seen too. This idea of
copying from others from different groups of individuals and those
who copy from pre-mentioned and the ones you mostly see in prison
and even when they come out of prison as free men, the tendency for
them to go there continuously is great. On the other hand, there are
those who learn from good examples, these are the ones who become
the Bil Gates, the Presidents George Washntons, the Doctor Curtis-
Thomases, the Ambassadors, the Astronauts, the Teachers, the Priests,
the philanthropists to name a few.
I will pray for you to see God and any of the Prophets of your chosen to
be your saviour so that you will not represent a Forum that was once
called a Christian forum into blaspheme.
I am not angry at you. I live you to your God to Judge you. But know
that I will and shall never be afraid of you but I have respected you and
please accept that.
May God guide your steps and copy Him first then you will see the
difference between a fake and a real. May God forgive you.
I am unable to read over.
Have you not through it all been able to know the truth about all the
lies, selfishness, self-imposition and even how certain people cannot
think beyond the ordinary? Keep watching, you will see how disgrafull
people have been living in their lives. Take it from me; not all that
gliters is gold. Understand. Get it!
Thi hi!
From: Musa Kalawa
To: All
Date Posted: 17:34:28 11/14/06 ()
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Sierra Leone: Destruction On Freetown Estimated At $796 Million
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From: Bambay Lans Kamara
To: All
Date Posted: 17:10:43 11/14/06 ()
Email Address:
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Ed Pilkington in New York
Tuesday November 14, 2006
The Guardian
The three towering figures in American history - George Washington, Thomas Jefferson and Abraham Lincoln - were joined by a fourth yesterday when ground was broken for a national memorial to the civil rights leader Martin Luther King.
King's family, including daughters Yolanda King and Bernice King joined Bill Clinton, African-American television personalities and civil rights activists to mark the start of construction of a $100m (£52m) memorial in honour of the man who led resistance to the segregationist laws of the south.
From: Bambay Lans Kamara
To: All
Date Posted: 17:06:47 11/14/06 ()
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Going down memory lane.
From: Musa Kal
To: All
Date Posted: 13:24:02 11/14/06 ()
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The phrase "Null and Void" as ruled by the so- supreme court justices of Sierra Leone, means having no force, binding power, or validity.
From: Ibrahim Fofana
To: All
Date Posted: 13:32:45 11/14/06 ()
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Kalawa Fakey,
From: Moijue
To: All
Date Posted: 12:12:37 11/14/06 ()
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JEL: Aren’t you concerned by now that your support, probably based on tribal affinity, might have gone too far, Moijue?
I rest my case, really you HAVE LOST THE PLOT.
From: John E. Leigh
To: All
Date Posted: 16:28:35 11/15/06 ()
Email Address: johnernestleigh@yahoo.com
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Dear Moijue:
From: CADMUS
To: All
Date Posted: 06:50:29 11/15/06 ()
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NGO John.... I know Moijue to be many things...but tribalistic he is definitely not.
From: John E. Leigh
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Date Posted: 15:48:32 11/15/06 ()
Email Address: johnernestleigh@yahoo.com
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Dear CADMUS:
From: Moijue Emmanuel KaiKai
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Date Posted: 13:57:55 11/15/06 ()
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THANK U CADMUS
From: CADMUS
To: All
Date Posted: 11:34:56 11/14/06 ()
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The Supreme Court in Sierra leone has delivered Judgements in two important cases in Sierra leone in as many days.
Lawyers have been very laconic in reacting to it on this forum, However we have had a great wave of censorious reaction from the others.
You can only criticise such decision if you can cite legal authorities in support, but no one has so far done so.
LAAWA YE PIA
From: Alie Formeh Kamara
To: All
Date Posted: 12:14:26 11/14/06 ()
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You are so wrong. The supreme court only addressed the issue of jurisdiction as it relates to the conduct of Chieftaincy elections. Accordingly, it argued that the constitution gives the Government not NEC the authority to conduct Chieftaincy elections. Following that determination, all related requests where denied.
The Supreme court avoided all other related aspects of the case under the grounds that it has no original jurisdiction because they involve tribal laws.
Reasonable people can dissagree even with the Supreme courts decision as you would hopefully read in my rebuttal.
To say that the SLPP has been vindicated is a gross mistatement of facts. Let me help you understand the politics involved. Government reserved for itself the power to conduct Chieftaincy elections. It also gave itself the power to create a list of eligible voters.
From: Alie Formeh Kamara
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Date Posted: 12:18:53 11/14/06 ()
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Now answer me this question- If a Limba man is imposed as Chief in Bo will you be happy? What will mendes do? Be honest. Tell me.
From: Pujehun
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Date Posted: 08:04:10 11/16/06 ()
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Posted by Pujehun on November 15, 2006 at 07:09:46:
From: Alpha Alie
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Date Posted: 07:37:16 11/15/06 ()
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Alie Formeh Kamara,
Your name "Alie" is certainly not Limba. It is Malinke or mandingo derived from Arabic by your mandingo forebears who had imbibed Islam. Your surname "Kamara" is another malinke or mandingo name.
From: Alie Formeh Kamara
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Date Posted: 12:26:57 11/15/06 ()
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I am defending Limbas right to the Chieftaincy.
From: Alpha Alie
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Date Posted: 04:50:04 11/16/06 ()
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What's your source? It must be skewed, according to my information. Are all limbas in Biriwa entitled to chieftaincy claims? Are all mandingoes in Biriwa entitled to become paramount chief? The answer is NO.
From: Alie Formeh Kamara
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Date Posted: 11:21:03 11/16/06 ()
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You obviously did not understand the logic in my statement.
From: PPa Javombo
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Date Posted: 19:07:38 11/14/06 ()
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Alie,
Honestly, not in my chiefdom.
That "chief" will not live to see the next day.
Let me give you a simple example.
Recently a company in the Mende land appointed a Krio as their community relations officer. All hell was let loose by that community on the grounds that the community relations officer was not a Mende.
The company had no choice but to rescind the Krio man's offer. Today, an engineer who is supposed to be practicing his technical trade is now community relations officer of that company.
And you talk about a Limba been a chief in Mende land?
That question in itself will have your head on a plate.
From: ALPHA SAIDU BANGURA
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Date Posted: 12:00:57 11/15/06 ()
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Pa Javombo,within your right mind,do you believe that a company in mende country must not appoint a krio man as community relations officer?Is it something you should be proud of?Do you think that your tribe must be a qualification for you to hold any office in Sierra Leone? I thank God, I was born and bred in Freetown where this high level of nonsense will never occur.For example in Freetown,I saw a susu man duly elected temne tribal headman (chief) and he peacefully served till his death.
It is time for us to educate our people on the need for all Sierra Leoneans to work together inorder for us to push our country forward.
Let us forget about tribe,region or religion.Let us all work as ONE PEOPLE IN ONE COUNTRY.
From: BUFORD HWY
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Date Posted: 07:24:22 11/16/06 ()
Email Address: unisak@yahoo.com
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Saidu wrote "i thank god, i was born and bred in freetown where this high level of nonsense will never occur",woooooo I am shocked.Saidu I was born and raise in freetown where your so call nonsense will not occur,but this is the same city where your party (SLPP)is destroying the lifes of our people.We know the cyber world is accessible to us,but please think before you start to fill this space,don't be so narrow minded like your so call leader.
From: Pa javombo
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Date Posted: 19:39:30 11/15/06 ()
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Saidu,
Please read my posting again.
From: Pujehun
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Date Posted: 07:09:46 11/15/06 ()
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What would you say about the Kai Kais of Pujehun who have become Paramount Chiefs? What about the Jah family, etc, etc dotting the mende landscape as paramount chiefs? Were these people not fullahs?
From: FREETOWNIAN
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Date Posted: 10:53:07 11/14/06 ()
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FRONTPAGE AFRICA
At a meeting yesterday, Monday, Nov. 13, at City Hall, the City Mayor, Ophelia Hoff Saytumah unveiled a plan which calls for taxing all Monrovia citizens to identify with the city's new Waste Management Plan. President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf was at the meeting and told the gathering "we are ashamed" to drive by heaps of garbage in the city.
Under the new Action Plan, each head of household will be required to pay a monthly fee of $100.00 Liberian dollars. Each market stall pay a monthly fee of LD 50.00. The plan calls for all members of the formal business sector and institutions to pay a minimum monthly fee of 1,000.00 LD or a yearly 12,000LD for basic services and residential homes a minimum monthly fee of LD500.00 or yearly $LD6,000.00.
Vehicle owners are all required to pay something for city pollution and "friends living abroad to contribute $1.00 US each month or $12.00 US to assist in the recovery of Monrovia."
There is an urgent need to meet the daily disposal of several million tons of garbage and the City Mayor revealed that the World Bank has offered $7 million U.S. Dollars towards the cleaning up and waste management of Monrovia.
Monrovia is punctuated by a plethora of villages which grew into suburbs and some into slums. They include West Point, Slip Way, Chugbor, Gaye Town. There are about half a million people living in the city and it is estimated that about 300,000 city dwellers of Monrovia living abroad.
Meanwhile, Deputy Finance Minister-designate for Administration, Sayiga Tarkpah Eugene Peabody has pledged to liaise wikth the Cash Management team (GEMAP) at Finance to improve the functions of the ministry in the interest of the Liberian People.
Mr. Peabody was answering journalists yesterday following his appointment by President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf to the Finance Ministry. He replaces Mr. Francis Karpeh who has been sent to the Ministry of Economic Planning. Eugene takes to the Ministry a wealth of experience in administrative and financial management.
He once served as Manager of Liberia/Libyan Holding Company which operated Pan African Plaza and the Union Glass Factory before the war.
From: Albert Moinina
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Date Posted: 01:43:49 11/14/06 ()
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STATEMENT MADE BY BEREWA IN ONE OF HIS RECENT TRIPS TO AMERICA:
From: Albert Jambai
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Date Posted: 07:16:59 11/14/06 ()
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Sierra Leone: Teachers Complain for Receiving Salaries On Time
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Standard Times (Freetown)
June 12, 2006 Posted to the web June 13, 2006
Santigie Kamara
From: M. Alieu Iscandari Esq
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Date Posted: 06:03:04 11/14/06 ()
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My friend Toegoendo Sagbah did he really say that? hahahhhahahahahhohohohohohohehehehehehe stupidness.
From: OK
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Date Posted: 22:27:19 11/13/06 ()
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DAASEBRE OTI BOATENG RE-ELECTED
MEMBER OF INTERNATIONAL CIVIL SEVICE COMMISSION
The General Assembly of the United Nations has re-elected Daasebre (Professor ) Oti Boateng, Omanhene of New Juaben Traditional Area as a Commissioner of the International Civil Service Commission (ICSC) for a second consecutive term of four years with effect from 1st January 2007.
In the election for the two Africa vacancies on the Commission, Daasebre Oti Boateng polled 158 votes out of 183 followed by Mr. Kingston Papie Rhodes of Sierra Leone with 125 votes while the incumbent Chairman of the Commission, Mr. Mohsen Bel Hadj Amor of Tunisia had 99.
From: JAMESON ARUNA
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Date Posted: 10:07:41 11/13/06 ()
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JumpTV Signs Exclusive Partnership With the # 1 Television Channel in Sierra Leone
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From: JAMESON ARUNA
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Date Posted: 09:45:30 11/13/06 ()
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Supreme Court declares Biriwa case null and void
From: Alie Formeh Kamara
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Date Posted: 07:53:56 11/14/06 ()
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SAD isn't it. Hopefully my rebuttal will be published.
Stay tuned. This is a sad day for Sierra Leone.
From: SUPREME COURT
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Date Posted: 08:01:42 11/14/06 ()
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Having you read the ruling given by thye supreme court? Did you understand it? Please try to read and comprehend that ruling before you make a fool of yourself. It is very funny that you are not saying that Standard Times is a trashy newspaper on Cocotioko's front page.
From: Alie Formeh Kamara
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Date Posted: 08:12:16 11/14/06 ()
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If you are a Mende would you be happy for a Limba to be crowned Chief in Bo?
From: COMEDIAN
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Date Posted: 08:21:11 11/14/06 ()
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"I would not waist my time with you idiot."--Formeh
From: SUPREME COURT
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Date Posted: 08:19:17 11/14/06 ()
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I do not care about Mende or Limba. It is just that backward animals like you are bloodty hypocrites. Just like your thieving father, you were here a couple of weeks ago pasting articles from Standard Times newspaper because they were sympathetic to your political party. All of a sudden, Formeh the son of a tiff Kamara is now saying standard Times is a trashy pape, and you even stated that no wonder these papers are been dragged to court everyday. You guys never see anything wrong as long as it serves your purpose, and its sympathetic to your political party. You are a coward and a fool. Damn idiot.
From: Alie Formeh Kamara
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Date Posted: 08:29:24 11/14/06 ()
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I read the verdict and I dont agree with it.
What is amazing is how rude you are. I would not allow my self to follow your path. By the way, I am not ugly.
From: SUPREME COURT
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Date Posted: 08:35:16 11/14/06 ()
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Hahahahahaa. I got the fool. I am now a mangigo? heheheheh. Now, you are a tribalist. I am Ibrahim Foday Fofana from Tonkolili district.
From: Alie Formeh Kamara
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Date Posted: 08:41:39 11/14/06 ()
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When you see attrocities commited, what do you do? Shut your mouth?
From: Ibrahim Foday Fofana (Supreme Court)
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Date Posted: 08:50:05 11/14/06 ()
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No, sir. The supreme court has spoken. It makes a lot of sense to me. So all this noise that you people were makeing about the government vilated the constitution was fake. NEC has no business in conducting Chieftaincy elections.
From: Musa Kal
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Date Posted: 09:16:48 11/14/06 ()
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No, sir. The supreme court has spoken. It makes a lot of sense to me.
From: Ibrahim Foday Fofana
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Date Posted: 09:43:19 11/14/06 ()
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Musa,
From: Musa Kal
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Date Posted: 10:19:17 11/14/06 ()
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Why so much insult? why even in the first place?
Only a swine loving bastard "KUFAR" like you will reply and fail to answer questions instead result to using curse words on people.
Is your cochlea not not doing it work properly, or not fail to send impulse/signal to your dumb and empty skull.
If you are not civilize, just shutup and vacate this site........LONTA
You BASTA PIKIN> Next time answer the question first before opening your mouth full of rubish. You WAL-DEE-WALA-DAA.
From: Ibrahim Fofana
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Date Posted: 10:46:03 11/14/06 ()
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No, it is fools and shameless idiots like you that are threatening the existence of this world. You are a despecable character that is the worth a dime. You shameless coward. You are a very stupid fool. Go and jump na samba gutter. Musa Fake Kalawa bet dog nar monkey bush. You hopeless fool.
From: Musa Kal
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Date Posted: 11:53:18 11/14/06 ()
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A sad day for me. To come accross a worthless element like Ibrahim Fofana as per say.
Go do some work or find something to do. well I guess, what will one expect from a looser like this fruitless brat like this one I am dealing with today.
From: Ibrahim Fofana
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Date Posted: 11:57:52 11/14/06 ()
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Look at this wretch kalawa calling me names. You are a shameless trash. The Biriwa ruling makes a lot of sense. Fools like you will not accept it as long as it did not go your way.
From: Musa Kal
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Date Posted: 13:08:23 11/14/06 ()
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I guess it's pass five (5) O Clock huh... Your sorry ass is out of the poor Sierra Leone Government office. I am going to be there (Freetown) for Christmas. before going, I will trace the origin of this IP less address through your host chasae.
From: Ibrahim Fofana
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Date Posted: 14:52:06 11/14/06 ()
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For any abusive language that comes out of your filthy mouth, I will deal with you squarely. You stinking son of a low lifer. Hopeless wrtech. Musa Kalawa is a wretched human being. Damn idiot.
From: Ibrahim Fofana
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Date Posted: 14:49:17 11/14/06 ()
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Hehehehe. Bra, I am not i salone. I am based in New York city(manhatan), and I work for a financial instituion(Goldman Sachs).You see how dumb you are? You are a pathetic son of a gun. You are a worthless wretch and your existence is a threat to civilization. You good for nothing dog.
From: Musa Kal
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Date Posted: 12:18:27 11/14/06 ()
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I know you sitting your ass into one of this N'KODDOS office space, running government bills/funds.
I can tell by you not having an IP address. here U' go. "Posted by Ibrahim Fofana on November 14, 2006 at 11:57:52:"
Skunks like you are only there to help bring the nation of sierra leone down. SATAN will pay you all for that, you Litch and vaccum skulled IDIOT
From: Alie Formeh Kamara
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Date Posted: 11:42:31 11/14/06 ()
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Look man. stop joking. You dont see no one else witing on this issue. Not even SLPP supporters. I respect them for that. This issue is sad to the core. It is a recipe for disaster. There is no way on earth that the Limbas are going to accept the Mandingo strangers to rule them in Limba land.
From: Ibrahim Fofana
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Date Posted: 11:46:59 11/14/06 ()
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Formeh, stop acting like your thieving APC dad. I do not care if SLPP supporters are not reacting. I am a citizen of salone, and I am making my comments. Idf ee hart you, go die. The supreme court has ruled on a case, and this man is talking about disaster. Shame on you. You stick your stupid self in the United state, while you are calling for chaos in salone. You shameless, worthless human being.
From: JAMESON ARUNA
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Date Posted: 09:44:27 11/13/06 ()
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Review of Media Reports
13 November 2006 | PIO/UNIOSIL
[Disclaimer: Excerpts below are from print media and news agency dispatches. UNIOSIL cannot vouch for the accuracy of the media reports].
From: APC Man
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Date Posted: 09:18:50 11/13/06 ()
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The "Biriwa Judgement" delivered by the Supreme Court of Sierra Leone last Friday November 10th 2006
By Supreme Court of Sierra Leone
Nov 13, 2006, 10:45
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Hon. Justice Sir John Muria - J.S.C.
Hon. Mrs. Justice V.A.D. Wright - J.S.C.
Hon. Mr. Justice M.E.T. Thompson - J.S.C.
Hon. Ms. Justice U.H. Tejan-Jalloh - J.A.
REGISTRAR SUPREME COURT
From: M. Alieu Iscandari Esq
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Date Posted: 20:00:05 11/13/06 ()
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Appears to be an en banc court seating here, but what is not clear is whether or not this was a majority opinion and also whether there is a dissent to this opinion. I would love to read the dissenting opinion if any. Interesting reading and reasoning, although the logical thread was at first fuzzy.
From: CADMUS
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Date Posted: 10:00:01 11/13/06 ()
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Interesting reading, this Judgement.
From: Arthur Abrahams
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Date Posted: 08:30:01 11/13/06 ()
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A keen observer of Sierra Leone's contemporary political history will not find it difficult to discern that the current trends in that country's geopolitical dynamics indicate a more than average leaning towards an SLPP re-emergence following elections in 2007.
From: Musa Kal
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Date Posted: 02:51:18 11/14/06 ()
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"how he inherited one of the companies (RITCORP) owned by the latter (Jamil)under Very dubious circumstances"
From: Monkey By Party
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Date Posted: 20:20:10 11/13/06 ()
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Dr Abrahams Wrote
Reminds me of your very good Friend John Benjamin who helped hijack another of jamil's enterprises NCR under "dubious circumstances" and it makes me think
From: Musa Kal
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Date Posted: 02:48:32 11/14/06 ()
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"how he inherited one of the companies (RITCORP) owned by the latter (Jamil)under Very dubious circumstances"
From: Justice
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Date Posted: 16:54:01 11/13/06 ()
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Nothing new in your hotch-potch statement. It is all about being supportive to a system that does not produce and you unashamedly talked about someone else's infidelity in which you do practise.Who would not want to buy shares in Jamil's company and if possibly hold the property.
I am sure your allegation is spurious and misleading. The man you say was duped owed the people of Sierra Leone!
The incumbent bet is to coerce the voters and stuff the ballot box with stolen vote cards.Two thirds of the people in the Western area go to bed hungry. And today, there are about two million Sierra Leoneans in Freetown alone and sixty percent of them are eligible to vote. They have endured years of blackhout, no water, poor health, hheap of rubbish on the streets, etc, etc.
In The North, like, Freetown, the people feel the same. Thousands of their sons and daughters were killed and executed by the Kabbah SLPP government.
The South/east have lost their influence in the decision making of the SLPP. One of their own is languished in Prison.The PMDC stands to break the stigma that the people in that region only trust thh SLPP.
Those three regions overall will cast a vote of sixty to seventy percent in a nation wide elections. Mr Abrahams, tell me how will your projection give a Berewa victory ?
From: Abdul Kamara
To: All
Date Posted: 15:59:36 11/13/06 ()
Email Address: yawbeko@comcast.net
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This is the first time I have ever read a well written analysis of the political situation in our country.I therefore thank Mr. Abrahams. I hope I gave you the correct title, because as I am responding and reflecting on your name at the same time, I am tempted to think that you are Dr. Arthur Abrahams formerly of FBC. Whoever you are thank you and I do hope all Sierra Leoneans will emulate your example irrespective of their political affiliation. Have a wonderful week.
From: ALPHA SAIDU BANGURA
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Date Posted: 09:43:59 11/13/06 ()
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Mr.Abrahams,Thanks very much for outlining the vast differences between the leaders of the SLPP,APC and PMDC.I hope and pray that all of us in this forum will understand the points you made in your posting.
I will onces again appeal to every Sierra Leonean to properly examine each and every candidate for public office inorder to make sure that we elect people with a clean proven record and positive results in public offices.
At this moment we can not afford to elect the wrong people to sensitive positions.
GOD BLESS SIERRA LEONE AND ITS PEOPLE.
From: Musa Kal
To: All
Date Posted: 02:22:21 11/14/06 ()
Email Address: muskalawa@yahoo.com
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P/l. see below.
1. Don't you think you should have listed other
options, Like in people?
2. Don't you think in today's political arena of
Sierra Leone, it is almost impossible for one not
to be stained?
3. Don't you think it will be better to elect a
leader who is less stain (corrupt) than the others?
4. And also, Dont you think light years has not yet
being archieve by scientist, there fore it is just
a science fiction?
5. Therefore, do you think BEREWA could be an
imagination president come 2007, and not
necessarily fact of being a real one?
6. Don't you think BEREWA had a lot of mishap he
owes the people of Sierra Leone as VP?
7. Do you think he is fit or unfit to even had acted
as VP in the first place?
8. Don't you think his contribution of LE 200,000,000
to youth is not really his sweat moneys?
9. Don't you think it is the beginning of UKE-UKE
trick?
10.Will you or will not act as a disclaimer for this
man "BEREWA" because of future political favors?
I/We are waiting for Your Answers:
From: Mohamed A. Jalloh
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Date Posted: 08:24:10 11/13/06 ()
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John Leigh wrote on November 12, 2006 : "Thus, Mr. Jalloh should understand that alleviating poverty in SLeone cannot be done in isolation with countries similarly situated in dealings with the IMF."
From: John E. Leigh
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Date Posted: 19:52:10 11/13/06 ()
Email Address: johnernestleigh@yahoo.com
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Mr. Jalloh wrote:
You just don't get it.
I have never told you I am an English professor.
My goal here is to tell you how hopeless, frustrated
and know nothing pig you are. I am happy you got the message without me writing it in "proper English".
I will not waste my time with a looser like you and this is the last time you are going to hear from me.
Again John you can go to Hell!"
From: Jallow
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Date Posted: 12:36:33 11/14/06 ()
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John, why are you wasting your precious time arguing with this Jalloh fellow?
From: John E. Leigh
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Date Posted: 17:36:57 11/15/06 ()
Email Address: johnernestleigh@yahoo.com
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Dear Mr. Jallow:
From: Mohamed A. Jalloh
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Date Posted: 02:23:52 11/16/06 ()
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Mr. Leigh:
Leaving aside the compulsive insults, name-calling, nonsensical vocabulary("flunky dunce," "cuokumonger,"), and brazen lies in support of your marginally less clueless hero, Solomon Berewa, what have you really contributed to this forum?
Answer: Nothing but more of the same boorishness. Take, for example, your response to my initial reply to you seeking your answers to my questions about Mr. Berewa. Instead of duly answering my questions, you sought to evade them by feigning offense at me for commending you for accurately discerning Berewa's failings, albeit without realizing it, or, much less, intending to. Worse still, you launched into your usual orgy of insults, name-calling, and illiterate assemblage of words which are not found in any good dictionary. And then you showed us that your display of rudeness, dishonesty, illiteracy, and Berewa-worshipping was not accidental -- by boasting about how you "told [me] off everywhere and every time" because, as you put it, you don't need a "fake compliment" from me because I had "attacked [your] leader" you had chosen to support.
As I was obliged to remind you when you first directed the same compulsive rudeness that you have gratuitously shown towards your obvious intellectual and professional superior, Charles Margai -- such wanton displays of indecorum do not become a gentleman. Indeed, they do not become an educated person, be he a gentleman or otherwise. If you were still a child, one could excuse your compulsive addiction to ill-manners as part of your still evolving training in etiquette. But at your age -- fast approaching 70 -- you are far from being a child.
Which begs the question: Why would an old man who is short of his 70th birthday by only a few years act like a child of 7 in a public forum?
It is a question that no one familiar with your pathetic public record of wanton immorality expects you to answer. For, as you have repeatedly shown here, you prefer to wallow in insults, name-calling, illiterate expressions, nonsensical arguments, and false allegations, rather than answering questions.
You can always prove me wrong -- by answering the following questions that you have been running away from for nearly two weeks, probably for fear of exposing your inflated ego and megalomaniac self-delusions to the cold reality that your are no more knowledgeable in economics than you have shown yourself to be in politics:
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Posted by Mohamed A. Jalloh on November 03, 2006 at 15:42:45:
"I say with confidence that there is absolutely no reasonable way in which our massive, virtually wall-to-wall poverty can be immediately alleviated, certainly not by one man's dunce manipulation of the exchange value of the LEONE - when numerous other countries are in the same soup."
But to understand that very simple point, one has to FIRST understand the meaning of fraud -- and of cluelessness. Hopefully, you do now.
From: Joker Koker
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Date Posted: 14:05:50 11/14/06 ()
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"I could discern his shallowness after his second article on this forum about a year ago."
From: Mohamed A. Jalloh
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Date Posted: 21:24:35 11/13/06 ()
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John Leigh writes on November 134, 206:
"Where have I ever written about my “illusory prowess as an expert in English” in my discussions with Pa Javombo?"
John Leigh wrote to Pa Javombo on November 09, 2006 at 16:16:02:
"Perhaps, you might want to consult with the more serious members of your party in this forum, such as Messrs. Albert Moinina and Moijue Kaikai, to help you with English comprehension and composition."
From: John E. Leigh
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Date Posted: 19:47:35 11/13/06 ()
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Dear Mr. Jalloh:
From: Mohamed A. Jalloh
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John Leigh writes on November 13, 2006:
"What I am telling you in my quoted statement above is this: One cannot do for one particular country - say SLeone - without doing the same for each and every country similarly situated in privity of contract with the IMF/World Bank. Thus if SLeone is proven to have been defrauded by IMF and the World Bank, the individual(s) or organization(s) or country or countries with the consequent liability and ability to fund the Jalloh-proposed foreign exchange [sic] parity between the $ and the LEONE will have the same liability to do parity likewise for all the other appropriate countries’ currencies."
From: Gabriel Matturi
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The purpose of knowledge is to enlighten others and bring to bear upon our environment something that we can all share in and participate without feeling molested and put down.
From: Mohamed A. Jalloh
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Date Posted: 09:30:11 11/13/06 ()
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Gabriel Matturi writes on November 13, 2006:
"The purpose of knowledge is to enlighten others and bring to bear upon our environment something that we can all share in and participate without feeling molested and put down."
From: Albert Moinina
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Date Posted: 04:52:37 11/13/06 ()
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THIS IS EXTRACTED FROM AN ARTICLE IN RESPONSE TO A CRITIQUE TITLED:
CRITIQUING THE CRITIQUE
Karamoh Kabba
As an insider, let me assume the position of surrogacy to answer the following question "WHO IS CHARLES MARGAI?" But first, I will draw some attention to your forgetfulness: How could someone; "Charles Margai made a name for himself as a successful lawyer. Practicing mostly in the hinterlands of Sierra Leone, Charles built himself a population of professional following." And then according to our oral traditionalist historian; "Obviously during the reign of the APC, Charles could have practiced law only for which he had secured a considerable training in England, and practice he did, at low ebb."
Charles Margai is not just the subject of your illogical analysis: He was born as Charles Francis Margai in Bonthe Town, Bonthe District, on August 19, 1945 to a Sierra Leonean father and mother, Sir Albert Michael Margai, second prime minister of sierra Leone, who earned the title Sir Albert of African for his strong democratic principles and Madam Musu Momoh. He is married to Mrs. Vivat E. H. Margai with three children.
Charles Margai attended the St. Edwards Primary School in Freetown, Christ the King College ( C.K.C.) in Bo and Black Rock College in Dublin, Ireland. He went on to the University College, Dublin, Ireland and obtained a Bachelor of Civil Law degree (B.C.L.). On July 27, 1971 he was called to the Irish Bar (B.L.) of King's Inns Dublin, Ireland.
He served as a law officer in the Law Officers Department in Sierra Leone for about a year before he started his private legal practice from 1973-1998. He was the minister of Internal Affairs in the government of Sierra Leone from 1998-2002. He resigned and resumed private legal practice. Charles Margai was president of the Sierra Leone Bar Association and Member of the West African Bar Association from 2004-2005. He has served as an SLPP parliamentarian and legal defense counsel for the Kondewa Defense Team in the Special Court of Sierra Leone in between.
Under his interim leadership of the PMDC, he has made a newly formed political party ready for elections in about eight months from its formation. And notably, there is no gap in Margai's schooling days and work history that is not filled by some fruitful undertaking in his entire life. Once he finished law school, returned to Sierra Leone to tough it out throughout even during the war.
From: Albert Moinina
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From: Chief Bomborlai
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Date Posted: 20:59:50 11/12/06 ()
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Albert,
You are not a lone mendeman, anxious to see the back of slpp, myself and hunderds of thousands of our tribesmen and women are with you in this struggle.
GOD willing, PMDC will prevail.
From: CADMUS
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Date Posted: 07:55:50 11/13/06 ()
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SLPP is THE SIERRA LEONE PEOPLES PARTY.It is exertly what it says no more no less.
The party for all Sierra leoneans. it is so and always has been.
It is not a Mende Party, It was not formed by exclusively Mende People.It has never had a Mende Leader untill now...Berewa.
From: ALPHA SAIDU BANGURA
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Date Posted: 10:27:55 11/13/06 ()
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Cadmus,Please,permit me to add a few points to the good points you rightly made.Only people who do not have any thing to offer to Sierra Leone and its people,talk about tribes.
Our SLPP party emanated from a merger of many political movements, primarily to bring the peoples of Sierra Leone together.
Since its founding, the SLPP has always been a melting pot for everybody,and we will continue to keep it at that point forever.
From: Pa Javombo
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Date Posted: 22:53:08 11/13/06 ()
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But that is not what I hear from the SLPP supporters.
Their fear of the PMDC is that there will be a split vote in the South east thus giving advantage not to the APC but the Northerners. They have already concluded that the APC is for the North and the SLPP South East.
Now tell me that is not tribalistic.
From: My Country First
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Javombo it reduces you in the eyes of those who are in support of you and respect you, when you respond to every kunumunu slpp tonto on this forum particularly the last one you just responded to. If anything he is reflective of the emptyness of the Slpp.
From: Pa Javombo
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Date Posted: 15:45:02 11/14/06 ()
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My country First,
My goal here is to set the record straight.
I have not met one who will tell me that Berewa will make a good leader They say they don't even like or trust that Berewa can be any different but then they say if they leave the party,the "Northereners" will take over. Majority of them tell me they have not forgotten what the APC did to the South East. That tells you where their loyalty lies. Their tribe or the country.
How soon they forget that Minah of the "Dogbousui" fame was not form the North. Besides the people they are so afraid of are all now in their party.
From: M. Alieu Iscandari Esq
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Date Posted: 08:00:47 11/13/06 ()
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It is not a Mende Party, It was not formed by exclusively Mende People.It has never had a Mende Leader untill now...Berewa.
From: CADMUS
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Date Posted: 09:44:46 11/13/06 ()
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My Brother Alieu,
Pretending to, or appearing to be Mende has been convenient as a political tool for these people, but the reality is different.
From: Pa javombo
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Date Posted: 23:19:04 11/13/06 ()
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Camdus,
I don't know what characteristics defines ones tribe.
Do you consider our children born in the West as part of our tribe even though they do not speak the language or appreciate the culture?
The Margais, the anglicised name for the Margay family settled in Bonthe for commecial purpose. I don't know of anyone in the family that speaks any other language other than Mende. Kabbah was born in pendembu the hub of the Mende land. Speaks more Mende than his so called madingo. By the way how would you describe him as a Northerner when ifact his family just settles there later in life.
Did you say Momodu Koroma is from the North?
Momodu was born in the Jaima Bongor chiefdom and my geography tells me that is in the South. He grew up in that area, went to school and worked there till he got inot politics.He is a registerd voter not in the north but in the South.Had this tribal correctness in the VP bid not come no one would have assocaited Momodu with the North. What makes him a Northerner when he does not even speak any Northern language or know the customs of that region?
Did you say John Leigh for Foreign Minister?
Ha Ha Ha Heeeeeeeeeeeee!!
But wait a minute. On what ground is John Leigh a Westerner?
But then under the SLPP a square peg can be put in a round hole. Sama Banya became foreign Minister in the SLPP govenment Abbas Bundu is now the most honest man in Sierra Leone and Suma is the man who saved the SLPMB.
Wow! Wow!
From: M. Alieu Iscandari Esq
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Date Posted: 14:26:09 11/13/06 ()
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I dont want to lose my credibilty that is why I will condem what is Bad in the SLPP and Praise what is good. Fortunately/unfortunately, at the moment the good outweights the bad.
From: CADMUS
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Alieu,
From: M. Alieu iscandari Esq
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Date Posted: 13:55:39 11/14/06 ()
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tell us about the few that you have thought about Cadmus. This is not rocket sciience my friend. I know that you are an honest man and will tell the truth
From: APC Man
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Date Posted: 21:41:34 11/12/06 ()
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Chief B,
PMDC will not win the presidency next year. This will be followed by the party's disintegration in 2012 when Charles will want to be the flag bearer again - against the will of the party members.
APC will win, followed by SLPP in second place and UNPP in third. PMDC will get less votes compared to JPK's party.
From: Chief Bomborlai
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Date Posted: 22:26:13 11/12/06 ()
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APC Man,
Your projection is merely a wishfull thinking. I sought confort from the fact that we both agree that slpp cannot win. Let us leave the rest to posterity.
From: Bambay Lans Kamara
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Date Posted: 16:32:48 11/12/06 ()
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Greetings my brothers and sisters. Moderator,
Reverend and I discussed the issue, which was understandable by all, as my explanation was justifiable because I was the one who requested the post to be deleted, in that when I do wrong, I am civilized enough to apologize for it.
Where were you when someone, probably you, insulted my mother? What moderation steps did you take to appease those who were offended, because I was not as I already know the mental level here? We are, or should I say I am, in a Democratic country, where your threats do not mean a thing; as far as I am concerned. Particularly, when you do not serve your duties accordingly. The most read! Take it that whatever does not constitute integrity is bogus. Take that from me.
The word mod·er·a·tor (md-rtr) Pronunciation Key
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One that arbitrates or mediates.
One who presides over a meeting, forum, or debate.
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I was born in 1961 and have two children: one with a Caucasian American and the other with an African. You can only scold me if I have violated rules of the forum, which are hardly observed here because you are not doing your work appropriately. Where were you when some one obnoxiously insulted my mother? What statements did you make regarding that? Was it you, Moderator? Nonetheless, I was civilized enough not to respond on impulse and even when I responded, I made sure the person and I will not be measured in the same insanity or integrity level as I have refused to be measured in the same thinking level with the many self-inflicted disgrace many have subjected themselves in the name of manipulate public views into sadism, unmindful of what actually is involved in what they psychotically ego-centralized. But you deleted my response instantly. Did you or did you not do so?
Was posting of the White House website such of putting you in your right place in that you were gallivanting here, trying to make-believe that you were the ones running the show unmindful of the Rule of Law?
I bring more to this forum than she does for me. Besides, there are hundreds of Sierra Leonean forums that I have been contributing to and can continue contributing to, that are not prejudicial but are are more appreciative. So I have nothing to loose; for your education. Your loss not mine.
Do not talk to me as though I owe you something or I am your child or I am gaining benefits from this forum. If anything, you are the one jealous of me, as it is of no secrete, than I am of you. So I have nothing to loose parting your company. As I know you would wish to see me vanish as you have made several efforts to convolute the air to your dismal bereavement that is comical.
What brought about the Stern warning after you had done me wrong by deleting my response to the insult perpetrated against me, regarding which you altered no statements, after deleting the White House Website and the CIA Employment website that could have been valuable to many here? But how would you know it's value to Sierra Leoneans when you do not know that Sierra Leoneans work for agencies such as the CIA? Well, I know people from my town that have and are working in areas like that. I presumed, as I know that information of that nature would help some Sierra Leoneans who do not busy themselves poking their noses into other's businesses but are opening their eyes on global issues as oppose to only Sierra Leone and Sierra Leone Community issues, which is why you are doing things that you are unaware are mostly disgraceful to you. But then you would like to be seen as a key player in matters that involve the entire world.
Who made you a moderator? I simply asked questions. All I required were answers, which you can not deliver.
Where were you when someone, probably you, insulted my mother? What moderation steps did you take to appease those who were offended, because I was not, as I already know the mental level here?
Since the Reverend and I discussed the issue have I posted anything of the such? What is wrong with posting a website about the White House and the F.B.I. that you deleted three times and came-up with a statement stating: "This forum is brought to you by COCORIOKO, Sierra Leone's biggest and most widely-read newspaper online. It was set up to give you the opportunity to discuss matters of supreme importance affecting our country." It was based on that statement that I asked the questions, as I realized that you are unaware that whatever affects the White House affects Sierra Leone directly, and that the world being a Global Village, our: America, and Sierra Leone and the United Nations, efforts and endeavors are intertwined. But at last, some of us think in isolation.
I also found out that you are unaware that there is an F.B.I in Sierra Leone, which directly affects Sierra Leone. The fact remains that your vision of things that affect Sierra Leone are things made in Sierra Leone or talks about fighting and maiming in Sierra Leone or how monies can be embezzled when I take a global view that affects Sierra Leone directly or indirectly for I know that whatever affects any part of the world affects Sierra Leone. If there is war in Iraq and there is oil shortage, that will affect Sierra Leone because it will reduce the amount of barrels produced daily and oil producing countries : Saudi Arabia 265.3
2 Iraq 115
3 Kuwait 98.8
4 Iran 96.4
5 United Arab Emirates 62.8
6 Russia 54.3
7 Venezuela 47.6
8 China 30.6
9 Libya 30
10 Mexico 26.9
11 Nigeria 24.1
12 United States 22
13 Algeria 12.7
14 Norway 10.1
15 Indonesia 9.7
16 Angola 9
17 Brazil 8.5
18 Oman 5.8
19 Canada 5.6
19 Qatar who produce the various barrels of oil will be short, will hyke oil price that our people have to pay higher. It will increase transport cost by air or road that will affect Sierra Leone greatly. But you are unmindful of that scenario.
We are not of the same mind frame because you are putting just you in a picture where the entire world is to fit-in while I am considering a broad-base agenda in uplifting Sierra Leone as I did in war that I played no role to start, which for you to be grateful to God and do what he asked, you wanted to follow Satanic ways, when I believe in His Goodness, knowing that I am armed with the most powerful tool: the truth that you can never take from me because you are guided by Satan. Correct me if I am wrong so that I bring out information that will make you droll. I personally put you in the same place with the stranger who stole hundred dollars from me for a laptop computer. You are one and the same because you all have the same motivation: dubiety..
Which is why this forum has been involved in many non-direction argument and has not done nothing that will produce concrete results. As a Moderator, one has to be informed and positively-minded, who directs the affairs of a forum to produce positive results instead of steadily policing the forum, where you side some over the other or others. Rather you should have been interjecting in discussions, shedding light on issues, where contributors have a hick-up and put forward suggestions for a positive change and to put them at ease to follow a direction. You as a Moderator should serve as the example every contributor can and should emulate when they realize your sincerity, just-mindedness and efficacy. But you seem not to understand your duties but instead policing the forum when in fact, you are not an amiable vanguard. But why is Sierra Leone the way she is, the deserving ones are not given the opportunity to do the right thing while those hooed into serve in these places that do not know what they do, continue to do wrong and then have the tenacity to want to look-down on the superior-minded and positive, action-oriented ones who can lead in the right direction.
I do not have time to read over.
From: Bambay Lans Kamara
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Date Posted: 17:32:14 11/12/06 ()
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How would you know busy calling people failures among all these? I wonder what they have been thinking about such funny name-callings.
Moderator, we have left Sierra Leone. We left Sierra Leone long time ago. We are in America now were the law is supreme and Bill Gates is a Bilionaire ($58 billion dollars every year. He would laugh when you try to portray one he respects,who went to college and is trying, one whom the entire world celebrated a failure. Stop it because you will look and sound funny. Do you know what working at State House means?
Do you know what the U.S. say the U.S. Constitution is sacred?
You are a society man and knows how sacred you hold your society. The U.S.takes their Constitution more sacred than you take your society rules. Take it from me. Do not play with it and if anyone tries to, tell them, to watch out. It is supreme in the U.S. and so is any other Western European Constitution. They are sacred to them though our constitution is not to most of us, including some who are put in positions.
I am valuable here and I know it. Don't let me think otherwise.
A word to the wise.
From: Mohamed A. Jalloh
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Date Posted: 15:18:37 11/12/06 ()
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John Leigh writes on November 12, 2006 : "Thus, Mr. Jalloh should understand that alleviating poverty in SLeone cannot be done in isolation with countries similarly situated in dealings with the IMF. In such a case where will the money come from to IMMEDIATELY ALLEVIATE the poverty in all these countries?
From: John E. Leigh
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Date Posted: 20:02:59 11/13/06 ()
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Mr. Jalloh:
What you have to do now to get me going is to produce the evidence backing up your FRAUD CHARGES against the IMF/World Bank and your mouthful of allegations against SL Leaders, etc. - not to mention your puzzling flunky argumentation about instantaneously alleviating poverty by giving away – bomfee - a windfall of money to the Sierra Leone population via your dumbo-tombo ruse of foreign exchange parity between the $ and the Le. You will soon learn that your trash talk is no solution to our country’s deep set problem of grinding, widespread, age-old poverty.
From: Mohamed A. Jalloh
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Date Posted: 20:47:40 11/13/06 ()
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John Leigh writes on November 13, 2006:
"What you have to do now to get me going is to produce the evidence backing up your FRAUD CHARGES against the IMF/World Bank and your mouthful of allegations against SL Leaders, etc. - not to mention your puzzling flunky argumentation about instantaneously alleviating poverty by giving away – bomfee - a windfall of money to the Sierra Leone population via your dumbo-tombo ruse of foreign exchange parity between the $ and the Le. You will soon learn that your trash talk is no solution to our country’s deep set problem of grinding, widespread, age-old poverty."
From: John E. Leigh
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Date Posted: 19:58:15 11/13/06 ()
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Dear Mr. Jalloh:
From: Mohamed A. Jalloh
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Date Posted: 20:58:44 11/13/06 ()
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John Leigh writes on November 13, 2006:
"It is clear from the totality of my posting that what I asked of you is to produce the evidence or substantiation or just plain produce a credible explanation to back up your repeated indictments of the IMF/World Bank for FRAUD on their dealings with Sierra Leone and your ‘indictments’ of SLeone leaders for what your repeatedly term CLUELESSNESS and so on."
However, Mr. Leigh, your request must be both decorous and sufficiently humble -- as befits a slow mature student coming to a youthful teacher for remedial lessons in economics, as well as in how to construct logical arguments.
From: John E. Leigh
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Date Posted: 13:35:46 11/12/06 ()
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Gentlemen:
8 January 2002
In Reply to: JEL: THE TRUTH FOR U posted by Moijue on November 11, 2006 at 15:17:47:
KAPU KAPU POWER BY KABBAH. IT IS NOT SIMILAR TATICS HE USED IN KAPU KAPUING POWER FOR BEREWA? MONKEY NOR DAE RUNAWAY FROM IM BACK HAND.
"According to a press release issued from State House, the matter came to a head on Sunday when Kabbah wrote to Margai requesting clarification on the issue within 24 hours, before the convening of Tuesday's National Security Council meeting. Following the minister's reply, which was not made public, Kabbah met with Margai and, according to the statement, told him that the reports would "have a negative impact on the aid Sierra Leone was receiving from abroad," since donors might conclude that the country was still unstable. Margai then tendered his resignation."
From: Moijue
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Date Posted: 16:06:19 11/12/06 ()
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JEL, STOP FIGHTING AGAINST THE FACT.I am trying to lay hands on the original letter from Kabba but for now accept the fact and read on again: Safety and Security Minister Charles Margai resigned Tuesday following a request by President Kabbah that the minister clarify reports he had stated his intent to quit the cabinet and contest the leadership of the ruling Sierra Leone People's Party. According to a press release issued from State House, the matter came to a head on Sunday when Kabbah wrote to Margai requesting clarification on the issue within 24 hours, before the convening of Tuesday's National Security Council meeting. Following the minister's reply, which was not made public, Kabbah met with Margai and, according to the statement, told him that the reports would "have a negative impact on the aid Sierra Leone was receiving from abroad," since donors might conclude that the country was still unstable. Margai then tendered his resignation.
In Reply to: JEL: THE TRUTH FOR U posted by Moijue on November 11, 2006 at 15:17:47:
KAPU KAPU POWER BY KABBAH. IT IS NOT SIMILAR TATICS HE USED IN KAPU KAPUING POWER FOR BEREWA? MONKEY NOR DAE RUNAWAY FROM IM BACK HAND.
"According to a press release issued from State House, the matter came to a head on Sunday when Kabbah wrote to Margai requesting clarification on the issue within 24 hours, before the convening of Tuesday's National Security Council meeting. Following the minister's reply, which was not made public, Kabbah met with Margai and, according to the statement, told him that the reports would "have a negative impact on the aid Sierra Leone was receiving from abroad," since donors might conclude that the country was still unstable. Margai then tendered his resignation."
From: John E. Leigh
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Date Posted: 16:14:40 11/12/06 ()
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Thanks very much, Moijue and good night. - JL
From: John E. Leigh
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Date Posted: 12:16:29 11/12/06 ()
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Dear Forumites:
"Next, you abused on Dr. Baimba Kamara. You cvqalled him all kinds of names, too. His "crime?" Merely supporting margai's PMDC, which is not a crime to anyone but you, Leigh. ASfetr you had told us that Margai is inferior to you becasuse he failed form four, according yo you, now you tell us that you had told Baimba that Margai is more imporant than you becos he is a presidential aspirant. So, was he not that when you called him flunky, remedial, etc? You, leigh are a real flip=flopper!"
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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.